March • April • May Quarter Notes WCPE Radio, The Classical Station • Spring 2020

Cinema Classics Spring Membership Drive In the Gardens of Spain Back to the Baroque Primarily Piano table of contents

WCPE Daily Schedule Quarter Notes® Meet Your Host...... 1 Weekdays WCPE’s member magazine From the Editor...... 2 Vol. 42, no. 1 12:00 Sleepers, Awake! with Sherman Wallace March Calendar...... 3 midnight WCPE’s mission is to expand the community of Classical music lovers by sharing Classical music with everyone, 5:30 a.m. Rise and Shine with Phil Davis Campbell everywhere, at any time. We entertain, educate, and April Calendar...... 4 engage our audience with informative announcers, 10:00 a.m. Classical Café with Charles Holloway programs, and publications. We strive to make it easy to May Calendar...... 5 appreciate and enjoy Great Classical Music. 9:00 a.m.– Final Friday of each month: 10:00 p.m. All-Request Friday Editor: Christina Strobl Romano Spring Highlights...... 6 Designer: Deborah Cruz As You Like It with Nick Robinson 1:00 p.m. Printer: Chamblee Graphics Mondays This Quarter 4:00 p.m. Allegro with Dick Storck WCPE Staff My Life in Music, Renaissance Fare...... 8 5:30 p.m. 5:30 waltz Monday Night at the Symphony...... 9 Deborah S. Proctor...... General Manager 7:00 p.m. Mondays through Wednesdays and & Chief Engineer Meet Your Host: Opera House...... 10 Fridays: WCPE Concert Hall with Andy Phil Davis Campbell.Network Broadcasting Director* Phil Davis Campbell Huber, Charles Holloway, Warner Bob Chapman...... Opera House Host Sundays This Quarter Hall, Larry Hedlund, Bruce Matheny, Gregg Cockroft...... Facilities Engineer How long have you been an announcer at Great Sacred Music...... 11 Christopher Scoville, Mark Schreiner, Adrienne DiFranco...... Accounting/Member Services WCPE? I bet you’ve seen lots of changes and a variety of volunteer hosts Preview...... 12 John Graham...... Director of Engineering over the years. When I arrived at The Thursdays: WCPE Opera House with Charles Holloway...... Announcer and Producer Wavelengths, and Bob Chapman Classical Station in 1992, we broadcast only Michael Hugo...... Announcer in our local area in central North Carolina. Peaceful Reflections...... 13 8:00 p.m. Mondays: Monday Night at the Symphony Haydn Jones...... Announcer We are now at 100,000 watts and broadcast- with Andy Huber, Charles Holloway, and a Rob Kennedy...... Social Media Director*; Program Listings...... 14 variety of hosts Great Sacred Music host ing around the world via the web, satellite, 10:00 p.m. Music in the Night with Bob Chapman, Dan McHugh...... Director of Member Services* and mobile app. It seems changes take place Thank-you Gifts...... 16 Mike Huber, Bo Degnan, Claire Huene, Mary Moonen...... Business Support almost every day. and Traffic Manager Lately We’ve Read Dave Stackowicz, Tony Waller, and a How did you get involved in broadcast- variety of hosts Susan Nunn...... Member Services; Mozart in Paris Web Team Coordinator ing? While at college, I was a host at our Saturdays By Frantz Duchazeau...... 28 Jane O’Connor...... Acting Volunteer Coordinator small radio station. At only 5 watts, it was 12:00 Sleepers, Awake! with Haydn Jones Stu Pattison...... Data Services the start of the fire inside to pursue a broad- WCPE Education midnight Nan Pincus...... Music Library Assistant casting life. I went on to study radio and Fund News...... 29 6:00 a.m. Weekend Classics with Lyle Adley-Warrick, Nick Robinson...... Announcer television at broadcasting school in Boston. Christina Strobl Romano...... Publications Editor Helen Halva, Peggy Powell, Joyce Kidd, Do you have a background in music per- Primarily Piano Weekend...... 29 and a variety of volunteer hosts Dick Storck...... Network Operations Director* Sherman Wallace...... Announcer formance? By 6, I began to learn the piano Classical Community...... 30 6:00 p.m. Saturday Evening Request Program with and by 11 switched to the trumpet. I took Haydn Jones William Woltz...... Music Director* *This staff member is also an announcer. part in many high school concerts and play Classical Events and Sundays Promotional Partners...... 31 ©Copyright 1978–2020, WCPE Radio, Raleigh, NC. productions; Classical Music was the main 12:00 Sleepers, Awake! with Michael Hugo All rights reserved. All material disseminated by WCPE, part of spring and winter concerts. Thanks to midnight including compilations, is copyrighted or used under so many hours of practice, I was also in the What You're Saying...... 32 application regulations. 6:00 a.m. Weekend Classics with Chuck Till and a Colts Marching Band before the variety of hosts Allegro; As You Like It; Classical Cafe; Quarter Notes; Rise team left Baltimore. and Shine; Sleepers, Awake!; TheClassicalStationand The 7:30 a.m. Sing for Joy with Bruce Benson Classical Station; and WCPE are registered or pending Have you seen any concerts by different 8:00 a.m. Great Sacred Music with Rob Kennedy trademarks or service marks of WCPE. musicians around the world? Which ones stand out in your memory? I was able 11:00 a.m. Weekend Classics with Greysolynne WCPE Hyman, Helen Bowman, Claire Huene, P.O. Box 828 to travel to Italy and throughout Europe On the cover: Dan Poirier, Naomi Lambert, Bruce Wake Forest, NC 27588 and was excited to see Aida at the Castel Huffine, and a variety of volunteer hosts 800.556.5178 Sant’Angelo in Rome, Italy. Join us for Primarily Piano 6:00 p.m. Preview! with Steve Thebes, David Jeffrey Membership: [email protected] Is there anything else your listeners might from May 9 to 10. Smith, and a variety of hosts Editor: [email protected] enjoy knowing about you? Being the host Photo of Lars Vogt copyright 9:00 p.m. Wavelengths with Ed Amend Website: theclassicalstation.org of Rise and Shine at The Classical Station Neda Navaee. 10:00 p.m. Peaceful Reflections with Ed Amend and our Classical Conundrum is such a joy and honor each day!

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Our founder and general manager, Deborah 1 Sunday 17 Tuesday St. Patrick’s Day Proctor, likes to say that every member Frédéric Chopin 1810 18 Wednesday makes a difference in community radio— Lorraine Hunt Lieberson 1954 every single member is important. This Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov 1844 spring, we ask our community of Great 2 Monday Nobuko Imai 1943 Classical Music lovers to remember what sets Bedřich Smetana 1824 James Conlon 1950 (70th birthday) WCPE, The Classical Station, apart from Celedonio Romero 1913 19 Thursday Spring begins other radio stations. 3 Tuesday Myung-Wha Chung 1944 We don’t just play Great Classical Music 24 4 Wednesday 20 Friday Spring Membership Drive hours a day, 7 days a week. You listen to us Antonio Vivaldi 1678 Sviatoslav Richter 1915 for the special programs that are unique to Bernard Haitink 1929 21 Saturday WCPE—Monday Night at the Symphony, 5 Thursday Renaissance Fare, Opera House, and Great J.S. Bach 1685 (335th anniversary Arthur Foote 1853 of birth) Sacred Music, to name a few. Every quarter You can decline a thank-you gift if you Heitor Villa-Lobos 1887 Modest Mussorgsky 1839 we feature programming events and theme would rather divert 10 percent of your dona- Barry Tuckwell 1931 Artur Grumiaux 1921 weekends, and we know how much you tion to the WCPE Education Fund, which Richard Hickox 1948 1935 (85th anniversary love our all-request programs on Fridays awards grants to nonprofit organizations 6 Friday of birth) and Saturdays. committed to music education in North All-Request Friday Lorin Maazel 1930 (90th anniversary 22 Sunday Every issue of Quarter Notes brings you Carolina. Read about what’s new with this of birth) Hamish MacCunn 1868 programming highlights starting with pages wonderful program on page 29. 7 Saturday 23 Monday 6 and 7. This spring, you’ll enjoy a bonanza Have you been to our website lately at of events including Cinema Classics, In the TheClassicalStation.org? We stream online Maurice Ravel 1875 Franz Schreker 1878 Gardens of Spain, Back to the Baroque, and at the “Listen Now” link, and you can find 8 Sunday Daylight Saving Time begins 24 Tuesday Primarily Piano! And, of course, keep an eye exciting new content in Preview, Podcasts, CPE Bach 1714 Byron Janis 1928 on the listings starting on page 14 for your and Conversations under Features. You can Alan Hovhaness 1911 25 Wednesday favorite pieces. find us on the FM dial at 89.7 in central Pepe Romero 1944 Arturo Toscanini 1867 Keep your subscription going by continuing North Carolina, and because there is always 9 Monday a live host here, you can call us any time at Béla Bartók 1881 to be a member of the Great Classical Music Samuel Barber 1910 Zdeněk Košler 1928 family! From March 20 through 29, we ask 919.556.5178. Thomas Schippers 1930 26 Thursday for your continued financial support during 10 Tuesday our Spring Membership Drive. We provide Pierre Boulez 1925 (95th anniversary membership benefits like your subscription Pablo de Sarasate 1844 of birth) to Quarter Notes and a specially chosen selec- 1915 Kyung-Wha Chung 1948 tion of thank-you gifts, including logo gear Christina Strobl Romano 11 Wednesday 27 Friday as well as CDs and DVDs. See what we’re Editor of Quarter Notes 12 Thursday Vincent d’Indy 1851 offering this spring on pages 16 and 17. Thomas Arne 1710 Ferde Grofé 1892 Mstislav Rostropovich 1927 13 Friday All-Request Friday 28 Saturday 14 Saturday Rudolf Serkin 1903 Georg Philipp Telemann 1681 Help The Classical Station get the 1804 29 Sunday

Membership Drive off to a great weekend 15 Sunday 1902

cinema classics cinema classics E. Power Biggs 1906 Eduard Strauss 1835 start by encouraging others to match 30 Monday 16 Monday your donation of $300 or more. 31 Tuesday For more information, please call Roger Norrington 1934 Teresa Berganza 1935 (85th anniversary Franz Josef Haydn 1732 Member Services at 919.556.5178. of birth) Claus Peter Flor 1953

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1 Wednesday April Fools’ Day 16 Thursday 1 Friday All-Request Friday 16 Saturday Armed Forces Day Ferruccio Busoni 1866 Federico Mompou 1893 Hugo Alfvén 1872 Andrew Litton 1959 Sergei Rachmaninoff 1873 Dennis Russell Davies 1944 Walter Susskind 1913 17 Sunday 2 Thursday 17 Friday All-Request Friday 2 Saturday Erik Satie 1866 Franz Lachner 1803 Artur Schnabel 1882 Alessandro Scarlatti 1660 Sándor Végh 1912 3 Friday All-Request Friday Gregor Piatigorsky 1903 Hans Christian Lumbye 1810 Dennis Brain 1921 Adolphus Hailstork 1941 Valery Gergiev 1953 Paul Crossley 1944 Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco 1895 Cristina Ortiz 1950 (70th birthday) 3 Sunday 18 Monday Victoria Day, Canada

(125th anniversary of birth) back to the baroque weekend 18 Saturday Garrick Ohlsson 1948 Virgil Fox 1912 Karl Goldmark 1830 Franz von Suppé 1819 Clifford Curzon 1907 4 Saturday 4 Monday Leopold Stokowski 1882 19 Tuesday Vladimir Jurowski 1972 Jean Guillou 1930 (90th anniversary Emil von Řezníček 1860 Gennadi Rozhdestvensky 1931 20 Wednesday 5 Sunday Palm Sunday of birth) Enrique Bátiz 1942 21 Thursday Louis Spohr 1784 19 Sunday spain weekend 5 Tuesday in the gardens of in the gardens Cinquo de Mayo Herbert von Karajan 1908 Murray Perahia 1947 Maurice André 1933 1869 Heinz Holliger 1939 6 Monday Yan Pascal Tortelier 1947 Agustín Barrios 1885 22 Friday All-Request Friday André Previn 1929 20 Monday Cyprien Katsaris 1951 1813 Pascal Rogé 1951 John Eliot Gardiner 1943 6 Wednesday

23 Saturday memorial day weekend 7 Tuesday 21 Tuesday 7 Thursday Robert Casadesus 1899 Randall Thompson 1899 Alicia de Larrocha 1923 Johannes Brahms 1833 John Browning 1933 Leif Ove Andsnes 1970 (50th birthday) Stanley Ritchie 1935 (85th birthday) Peter Tchaikovsky 1840 8 Wednesday 24 Sunday Passover begins at sunset 22 Wednesday Earth Day 8 Friday All-Request Friday Giuseppe Tartini 1692 Giuseppe Torelli 1658 Paul Paray 1886 Karl Stamitz 1745 (275th anniversary Hans-Martin Linde 1930 (90th birthday) Adrian Boult 1889 Ethel Smyth 1858 of birth) 25 Monday 9 Thursday Yehudi Menuhin 1916 Louis Moreau Gottschalk 1829 Memorial Day observed Jukka-Pekka Saraste 1956 9 Saturday 26 Tuesday Antal Doráti 1906 Franz Welser-Möst 1960 (60th birthday) Jerzy Maksymiuk 1936 Vlado Perlemuter 1904 23 Thursday Carlo Maria Giulini 1914 10 Friday Good Friday/All-Request Friday 10 Sunday 27 Wednesday Ruggero Leoncavallo 1857 Mother’s Day Yefim Bronfman 1958 weekend Jean-Marie Leclair 1697 Jacques Halévy 1799 24 Friday All-Request Friday piano primarily 11 Saturday Ani Kavafian 1948 Joachim Raff 1822 John Williams (guitarist) 1941 Jean-Joseph Mouret 1682 11 Monday 28 Thursday 25 Saturday Alberto Ginastera 1916 Anatol Liadov 1855 Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau 1925 (95th 12 Sunday Easter 26 Sunday William Grant Still 1895 (125th anniversary of birth) Josef Lanner 1801 27 Monday anniversary of birth) 29 Friday All-Request Friday Jean-François Paillard 1928 Friedrich von Flotow 1812 12 Tuesday Isaac Albéniz 1860 Montserrat Caballé 1933 Sergei Prokofiev 1891 Jules Massenet 1842 Erich Korngold 1897 13 Monday 28 Tuesday Gabriel Fauré 1845 Karl Münchinger 1915 30 Saturday William Sterndale Bennett 1816 Yoav Talmi 1943 13 Wednesday John & Richard Contiguglia 1937 29 Wednesday Arthur Sullivan 1842 Gustav Leonhardt 1928 Zoltán Kocsis 1952 14 Tuesday Thomas Beecham 1879 Jane Glover 1949 31 Sunday Paavo Berglund 1929 1895 (125th 14 Thursday Julian Lloyd Webber 1951 anniversary of birth) Otto Klemperer 1885 Marin Marais 1656 Mikhail Pletnev 1957 Zubin Mehta 1936 Alan Marks 1949 Louise Farrenc 1804 Alisa Weilerstein 1982 30 Thursday 15 Friday All-Request Friday 15 Wednesday Franz Lehár 1870 Claudio Monteverdi 1567 Neville Marriner 1924 Robert Shaw 1916 Michael William Balfe 1808 Lars-Erik Larsson 1908 Anne Akiko Meyers 1970 (50th birthday) 4 5 spring highlights spring highlights

By Nan Pincus Back to the Baroque Memorial Day Weekend April 18–19 May 23–25 The Metropolitan Opera During the time of the musical Baroque, An extended weekend celebrating American Saturdays through May 9 from 1600–1750, Western music reached composers and performers, with lots of The Met continues with weekly live broad- levels of harmonic complexity and instru- patriotic music on Monday to honor the casts from Lincoln Center, including a new mental virtuosity never known before. We’ll men and women who have given so much production of Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman explore this fascinating period through some for our country.

(March 14) and Puccini’s Tosca (April 11). Robertphoto: Bruce Duncan of the best-known works by Bach, Handel, The Met’s Mary Jo Heath is your host. and Vivaldi, plus enchanting lesser-known All-Request Fridays and Saturday pieces by Telemann, Albinoni, Purcell, Evening Request Program Buxtehude, the Scarlatti family, and more. Women’s History Month The Classical Station now gives you two March Primarily Piano weekly opportunities to ask for your From Hildegard von Bingen (born 1098) Classical music favorites. Every Friday is May 9–10 to Florence Price (born 1887) to María now All-Request Friday, from 9:00 a.m. Huld Markan Sigfúsdóttir (born 1980) This weekend we’ll feature the instrument until 10:00 p.m., and the Saturday Evening and her contemporaries, this March we so often described as an interlocutor, a lover, Request Program continues every Saturday and a friend. We’ll hear some of today’s will celebrate female composers of Classical Elmer Bernstein featured during from 6:00 p.m. until midnight. Submit your music as well as ground-breaking perform- Cinema Classics brightest and best players, including Igor advance requests at TheClassicalStation.org, ers. We’ll have a special focus on today’s Levitt, Víkingur Ólafsson, Lars Vogt, and or call WCPE at 919.556.0123. composers during WCPE’s Wavelengths, Xiayin Wang, plus the established masters of Sundays at 9:00 p.m. ET. Spring Membership Drive the 20th century including Mitsuko Uchida, March 20–29 Maurizio Pollini, and Byron Janis. Your financial support helps WCPE share Great Classical Music with lis- Featured during Primarily Piano teners everywhere. Make your gift at TheClassicalStation.org, or mail your silent pledge to WCPE Radio, PO Box 828, Wake

photo: Lilja Birgisdóttir photo: Forest, NC 27588.

In the Gardens of Spain Broede Felix photo: April 4–5 Spanish music invites us to enjoy the beauty of the Iberian landscape. Sunshine and bright colors, Moorish castles, passionate

folk dances, and Classical guitar make a & Sony Classical Hohenberg Gregor photo: unique and memorable experience. With María Huld Markan Sigfúsdóttir featured music of Tárrega, Rodrigo, de Falla, Albéniz, Leif Ove Andsnes Igor Levitt during Women’s History Month Granados, and more—we’ll bring you a great weekend celebrating the music of Spain! Cinema Classics March 14–15 Passover April 8 Filmmakers know that audiences respond to Ari Magg photo: WCPE airs a special program of music at what they hear as well as what they see. The 6:00 p.m. ET to mark the beginning of rich tradition of music in film comprises both Passover at sunset this day.

Classical works included in beloved mov- Decca & Justin Pumfrey photo: ies and music written specifically for films. With composers such as Max Steiner, Elmer Easter Bernstein, Hans Zimmer, and John Williams, April 12 we’ve got the makings for a great weekend Celebrate with Rob Kennedy, host of Great Mitsuko Uchida Víkingur Ólafsson celebrating the music of the silver screen! Sacred Music, beginning at 8:00 a.m. ET. 6 7 mondays this quarter mondays this quarter

My Life in Music showcases professional March musicians who share stories about their 2 Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra careers and their work. Interwoven with 9 Royal Scottish National Orchestra the conversations are musical selections 16 Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra which illustrate their talking points. Join 23 Show your support during WCPE’s Spring us on the first Monday of each month at By William Woltz Membership Drive 7:00 p.m. Eastern and again the follow- Mondays at 8:00 p.m. (Eastern) First Mondays at 7:00 p.m. ing Sunday at 5:00 p.m. This quarter our 30 Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Second Sundays at 5:00 p.m. guests are artist manager Andrew Ousley, Every Monday on The Classical Station, we (All times Eastern) conductor Philip Cave, and baritone spend a couple of hours featuring a great April With host Rob Kennedy Sherrill Milnes. orchestra in classic performances from our 6 Philharmonic music library. 13 London Symphony Orchestra In the coming weeks, we’ll hear from some 20 Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra of Europe’s finest orchestras along with 27 Symphony Orchestra American favorites including the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony, May Los Angeles Philharmonic, and, on Memorial photo: David White David photo: photo: Bob Barkany photo: photo: Dario Acosta photo: Day, the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra. 4 Atlanta Symphony Orchestra 11 Bamberg Symphony Orchestra Be sure to listen each week as we spotlight the world’s best orchestras on Monday Night 18 French National Orchestra at the Symphony. 25 St. Louis Symphony Orchestra photo: Dilip Vishwanat photo:

Andrew Ousley Philip Cave Sherrill Milnes Artist manager Conductor Composer St. Louis Symphony Orchestra March 2 April 6 May 4

other popular groups playing music of the tunes there are about this most popular Renaissance period. Tune in Monday, March season of the year. We will play music 9, at 7:00 p.m. for music of the royal courts that accompanies the traditional dancing photo:

of Europe. Listen for the repeat broadcast around the May pole. Be sure to tune in on Wood Teresa Sunday, May 15, at 5:00 p.m. Monday, May 11, at 7:00 p.m. Also listen for the repeat broadcast on Sunday, May 17, Second Mondays at 7:00 p.m. Renaissance Fare in April celebrates the at 5:00 p.m. Third Sundays at 5:00 p.m. beauty and hope of Easter time and spring. (All times Eastern) Join us for our April edition on Monday, Listen to Renaissance Fare on the second With host George Douglas April 13, at 7:00 p.m. Listen for the repeat Monday of each month at 7:00 p.m. on broadcast on Sunday, April 19, at 5:00 p.m. WCPE, TheClassicalStation.org, with a Renaissance Fare in March will concentrate repeat broadcast on the following Sunday at on the music of the great kings! We’ll hear During Renaissance Fare in May we will 5:00 p.m. recordings by Early Music New York, the surely be thinking, “Summer is a-coming.” Folger Consort Folger Consort, the Baltimore Consort, and It’s amazing how many great Renaissance 8 9 opera house sundays this quarter

April 2 Delibes’s Lakmé March 1 Indian Brahmin priest Nilakantha (Van Bach: Motet BWV 227 Dam) kills British officer Gérald (Kunde), Sowerby: The Throne of God who’s been having an affair with the priest’s March 8 daughter Lakmé (Dessay). Bach: St. Luke Passion BWV 246 April 9 Wagner’s Parsifal Poulenc: Stabat Mater A foolish young man, Parsifal (Hofmann), March 15 gains wisdom through compassion and Bach: Cantata BWV 54 brings healing to Amfortas (Van Dam), Haydn: The Seven Last Words of Christ Leo Sowerby Thursdays at 7:00 p.m. (Eastern) leader of the Grail Knights. With host Bob Chapman March 22 April 16 Rossini’s Semiramide Massenet’s Don Quichotte & Spring Membership Drive Assur (Rouleau), who helps Semiramide March 5 Leigh’s Man of La Mancha (Sutherland) murder her husband, wants March 29 Great Sacred Music Aging knight Quichotte (Ghiaurov) and to marry the queen, but she’s attracted to Spring Membership Drive Sundays at 8:00 a.m. (Eastern) his squire Sancho (Bacquier) woo the Arsace (Horne)—who turns out to be her With host Rob Kennedy lovely Dulcinée (Crespin) in Massenet’s April 5 own son. (From the Ruocchio Archives.) April 26 1895 opera. The 1965 Broadway version of Bach: Cantata BWV 182 Cervantes’s classic novel features Domingo, April 23 Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmélites Boccherini: Stabat Mater Bach: Cantata BWV 112 Caplet: Le Miroir de Jesus Patinkin, and Migenes. An emotionally unstable Blanche de la Force April 12 (Dubosc) enters a Carmelite convent seeking March 12 Blitzstein’s Regina May 3 peace. Against the background of the French Bach: Cantata BWV 4 A bleak picture of upper-class American MacMillan: Edinburgh Te Deum Bach: Cantata BWV 12 Revolution, she and other nuns willingly go Haydn: Paukenmesse life at the turn of the last century in a small to the guillotine. April 19 Southern town, Regina exposes how greed Bach: Cantata BWV 42 May 10 can destroy a family. Ciesinski, Ramey, April 30 Mozart’s Die Entführung aus dem Serail Handel: La Resurrezione Bach: Cantata BWV 166 Rieux, and Greenawald sing principal roles. Belmonte (Schreier) rescues Konstanze Gawthrop: How Beautiful Upon the Mountains (Auger), Blondchen (Grist), and Pedrillo March 19 Gounod’s Faust (Neukirch) from a Turkish harem despite May 17 Faust (Domingo) sells his soul to the devilish roadblocks of Osmin (Moll). Bach: Cantata BWV 86 Méphistophélès (Ghiaurov) in return for a Lloyd Webber: Requiem love affair with Marguerite (Freni). (From May 7 Giordano’s Andrea Chénier the Ruocchio Archives.) During the French Revolution, the poet May 24 Chénier (Del Monaco) rebukes Maddalena Bach: Cantata BWV 11 March 26 Spring Membership Drive (Tebaldi) for scorning love. Later, they fall Tyberg: Mass in G Bob Chapman and Rob Kennedy play arias, in love, but her former boyfriend Gérard May 31 ensembles, and choruses as you pledge your (Bastianini) denounces Chénier. support for the WCPE Opera House. André Caplet Bach: Cantata BWV 218 May 14 Puccini’s Il Trittico Brahms: A German Requiem Scotto, Domingo, and Wixell star in Il Tabarro; Scotto is Suor Angelica; and Gobbi, Cotrubaș, and Domingo head the cast in Gianni Schicchi. May 21 Donizetti’s Don Pasquale Sponsors of Great Sacred Music Pasquale (Bruscantini) wants to marry to Great Sacred Music is made possible by our listeners and the following people and organizations: prevent nephew Ernesto (Winbergh) from All Saints Anglican Church James H. Lazenby Claude and Sarah Snow inheriting his estate. Malatesta (Nucci) sug- Raleigh, NC Fearrington Village, NC Chapel Hill, NC gests his sister Norina (Freni), who’s in love The Chapel of the Cross Dr. Jerry Grise Fred Walters with Ernesto. (From the Ruocchio Archives.) Chapel Hill, NC Cary, NC Raleigh, NC May 28 Weill’s Street Scene University Presbyterian Church William Marley David Crabtree Chapel Hill, NC Raleigh, NC Raleigh, NC A story of everyday life in a tenement, culminating in murder and the Dr. Alfred Goshaw Thomas Nutt-Powell Chapel Hill, NC Boston, MA Renata Scotto decision of the heroine (Barstow) to seek a Dr. and Mrs. Harold Chapman William Raper of Trinity Concepts better life elsewhere. Macon, GA Raleigh, NC 10 11 sundays this quarter sundays this quarter Preview!

Sundays at 6:00 p.m. ET Sundays at 9:00 p.m. (Eastern) With hosts Steve Thebes and With host Ed Amend photo: Sussie Ahlburg photo: David Jeffrey Smith Born in Bulgaria and raised in London, By Rob Kennedy Dobrinka Tabakova writes music that draws Every Sunday evening from 6:00 to upon both eastern and western European 9:00 p.m. Eastern, The Classical Station traditions. Her works have been commis- presents Preview, a program featuring Zebulon Highben, conductor sioned by numerous organizations, including new Classical recording releases. From the Royal Philharmonic Society and BBC symphonies to vocal music, from ballet to Radio 3, and her 2013 album String Paths was nominated for a Grammy Award. chamber music, we sample new interpreta- Dobrinka Tabakova tions of familiar music, as well as newer Join The Classical Station on Sunday, March music. A regular feature of Preview is an 8, as we celebrate the music of Dobrinka interview at approximately 7:00 p.m. We Tabakova on Wavelengths. It’s part of our Wavelengths brings you the best in contempo- speak with performing musicians and larger feature of contemporary female com- rary Classical music, featuring works from the composers from around the world. If you posers during Women’s History Month. mid-20th century through today. miss the interview on a Sunday evening, remember that you will find many of our

interviews on the Conversations page on Studio Photography Tam Teresa photo: our website, accessible in the Features sec- Juliana Soltis, cellist tion at theclassicalstation.org. This spring our guests will include conductor Zebulon Highben, cellist Juliana Soltis, and violin- ist Rachel Barton Pine. We also offer a look at upcoming events here in our local area. Central North Carolina is home to dozens of orchestras, bands, choral Sundays at 10:00 p.m. ET societies, and instrumental ensembles of Lisa Marie Mazzucco photo: With host Ed Amend all kinds. Contact our Production team at [email protected] to have your Following Wavelengths, WCPE brings organization’s event added to our Classical you two hours of music intended to Arts Calendar. Rachel Barton Pine, violinist help you unwind from the week that’s ending and prepare for the one ahead. Peaceful Reflections is a thoughtful, relaxing mix of orchestral, chamber, choral, and organ works, a perfect way to end a Sunday evening. Want to listen to Classical music on your smart phone? The free WCPE Radio app plays nothing but Great Classical Music, 24 hours a day. You can hear the music Don’t forget to like our Facebook pages! you love on The Classical Look for Quarter Notes as well as Station everywhere you go! WCPE The Classical Station.

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March Featured Works 10:00 p.m. Mendelssohn-Hensel: “March” from 10:00 a.m. Ravel: Mother Goose Ballet 11 Wednesday The Year All programming is subject to change. For a 11:00 a.m. Rossini: to William Tell 9:00 a.m. Ponchielli: “Dance of the Hours” from complete list of a specific day’s music, go to 3 Tuesday 12:00 p.m. Ravel: “Pavane for a Dead Princess” La Gioconda TheClassicalStation.org. 9:00 a.m. C. Schumann: Piano Concerto 1:00 p.m. Metropolitan Opera 10:00 a.m. Mendelssohn: Symphony no. 5 in A Minor (Reformation) 5:00 p.m. Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin 1 Sunday 10:00 a.m. Haydn: Symphony no. 94 in G (Surprise) 12:00 p.m. Debussy: “Clair de Lune” 8 Sunday 7:00 a.m. Chopin: Barcarolle in F-sharp 12:00 p.m. Bach: Orchestral Suite no. 3 in D 2:00 p.m. Medtner: Piano Concerto no. 2 7:00 a.m. C.P.E. Bach: String Symphony in C 9:00 a.m. Bach: Motet no. 3 (Jesu, Meine Freude) 2:00 p.m. Price: “Dances in the Canebrakes” in C Minor 9:00 a.m. Bach: St. Luke Passion 10:00 a.m. Sowerby: The Throne of God 3:00 p.m. Telemann: Overture in B-flat 3:00 p.m. Prokofiev: Lieutenant Kijé Suite 10:00 a.m. Poulenc: Stabat Mater 12:00 p.m. Chopin: Piano Sonata no. 3 in B Minor 7:00 p.m. Alfvén: Swedish Rhapsody no. 1 7:00 p.m. Mozart: Oboe Concerto in C 1:00 p.m. Brahms: in D (Midsummer Vigil) 12:00 p.m. Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez 8:00 p.m. Schumann: Symphony no. 2 in C 2:00 p.m. Farrenc: Clarinet Trio in E-flat 8:00 p.m. Beethoven: Piano Concerto no. 1 in C 1:00 p.m. Hovhaness: “Prayer of St. Gregory” for 9:00 p.m. Beethoven: Symphony no. 6 in F Trumpet and Strings 3:00 p.m. Chopin: Piano Concerto no. 1 in E Minor 9:00 p.m. Brahms: Horn Trio in E-flat (Pastoral) 2:00 p.m. E. Mayer: Piano Trio in B Minor 4:00 p.m. Smyth: Serenade in D 10:00 p.m. Higdon: “Amazing Grace” 10:00 p.m. Beach: Violin Sonata in A Minor 3:00 p.m. C.P.E. Bach: in A Minor 5:00 p.m. Chopin: Ballade no. 1 in G Minor 4 Wednesday 12 Thursday 4:00 p.m. Boccherini: Guitar Quintet no. 4 in D 9:00 p.m. Lieberson: “Love, Love, the Clouds 9:00 a.m. Arne: Symphony no. 3 in E-flat 9:00 a.m. Vivaldi: Lute Concerto in D (Fandango) Went up the Tower of the Sky” from 10:00 a.m. Mozart: Symphony no. 38 in D (Prague) 10:00 a.m. Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition Neruda Songs 5:00 p.m. My Life in Music 12:00 p.m. Harbach: Jubilee Symphony 12:00 p.m. Lili Boulanger: Prelude in D-flat 2 Monday 9 Monday 2:00 p.m. Vivaldi: Four Seasons 2:00 p.m. Mozart: Symphony no. 35 in D (Haffner) 9:00 a.m. Mozart: Clarinet Concerto in A 9:00 a.m. Chopin: Piano Concerto no. 2 in F Minor 3:00 p.m. Wagner: Siegfried Idyll 3:00 p.m. Falla: Four Dances from The Three- 10:00 a.m. Smetana: Overture and Dances from 10:00 a.m. Barber: “Adagio for Strings” Cornered Hat 7:00 p.m. Beach: Piano Trio in A Minor The Bartered Bride 12:00 p.m. Chaminade: “Carnival Waltz” 5:00 p.m. Wagner: “Entry of the Guests at 8:00 p.m. Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto no. 2 in 12:00 p.m. Sanz: Suite Española 2:00 p.m. Mendelssohn: Symphony no. 4 Wartburg” from Tannhäuser C Minor 2:00 p.m. Chaminade: “Fairy Tales” in A (Italian) 7:00 p.m. Opera House 9:00 p.m. Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D 3:00 p.m. Smetana: String Quartet no. 1 in E 3:00 p.m. C. Schumann: Three Romances 10:00 p.m. Mendelssohn-Hensel: String Quartet Minor (From My Life) (orchestrated) 5 Thursday for Piano in E-flat 5:00 p.m. Paradis: “Sicilienne” 9:00 a.m. Roellig: Horn Concerto in D 5:00 p.m. Barber: Overture to The School 13 Friday 10:00 a.m. Sullivan: Incidental Music from For Scandal 7:00 p.m. My Life in Music 8:00 a.m. Suppé: “Light Cavalry” Overture Shakespeare’s The Tempest 7:00 p.m. Renaissance Fare 8:00 p.m. Smetana: Má Vlast 9:00 a.m. All-Request Friday 12:00 p.m. Villa-Lobos: “Gavota-Choro” from 8:00 p.m. Barber: Symphony no. 1 9:00 p.m. Tchaikovsky: Capriccio Italien 10:00 p.m. Farrenc: Nonetto in E-flat Brazilian Popular Suite 9:00 p.m. Dvořák: Violin Concerto in A Minor 1:00 p.m. Respighi: Suite no. 3 from Ancient Airs 10:00 p.m. Hildegard von Bingen: “O Felix Anima” 14 Saturday and Dances 8:00 a.m. E. Bernstein: Suite from To Kill 10 Tuesday 2:00 p.m. Delius: In a Summer Garden, a Rhapsody a Mockingbird 9:00 a.m. Bach: Brandenburg Concerto no. 6 3:00 p.m. Farrenc: Piano Trio no. 1 in E-flat 9:00 a.m. Dukas: Sorcerer’s Apprentice in B-flat 6:00 p.m. Mozart: Horn Concerto no. 3 in E-flat 10:00 a.m. Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue 10:00 a.m. Saint-Saëns: Carnival of the Animals 7:00 p.m. Opera House 11:00 a.m. Rodgers: Five Selections from 12:00 p.m. Debussy: Prelude to the Afternoon of Victory at Sea photo: Lisa-Marie Mazzucco photo: 10:00 p.m. Foote: Suite in E for Strings a Faun 12:00 p.m. Jóhannsson: The Theory of 6 Friday 2:00 p.m. Sarasate: Carmen Fantasy Everything Suite 8:00 a.m. Strauss II: Artists’ Life 3:00 p.m. Elgar: Nursery Suite 1:00 p.m. Metropolitan Opera 9:00 a.m. All-Request Friday 6:00 p.m. Mendelssohn-Hensel: Capriccio 4:00 p.m. Williams: “Marion’s Theme” from in A-flat 10:00 p.m. Tchaikovsky: Melancholy Serenade, Raiders of the Lost Ark op. 26 7:00 p.m. Kabalevsky: The Comedians, Suite 5:00 p.m. John Powell: How to Train Your for Orchestra 7 Saturday Dragon, Selections 8:00 p.m. Mozart: Symphony no. 25 in G Minor 7:00 a.m. Haydn: Symphony no. 6 in D (Morning) 15 Sunday Anne Akiko Meyers b. 1970 9:00 p.m. Weber: Grand Duo Concertante for 8:00 a.m. Ravel: Noble and Sentimental Waltzes 7:00 a.m. Barry: Suite from The Lion in Winter (50th birthday) Clarinet and Piano 9:00 a.m. Farrenc: Piano Quintet no. 1 in A Minor 14 15 thank-you gifts thank-you gifts

CD #1: Coffee and Classical CD #6: Bach: The Six Partitas Spring Membership Drive 2020 Take some time for yourself and enjoy Pianist Angela Hewett’s performance WCPE is pleased to offer the following selection of thank-you gifts when you make a dona- this great collection of relaxing classics of these old musical friends is inspired tion to support Great Classical Music on WCPE. All members also receive a subscription to by Bach, Mozart, Saint-Saëns, Chopin, by her lifelong love of Bach and is a joy Quarter Notes. Learn more about the benefits of membership at THeClassicalStation.org. and more. to hear. CD #2: Baltimore Consort: CD #7: Duruflé: Complete Choral Works For a $50 donation The Food of Love The Houston Chamber Choir performs ··Maroon writing pen with stylus Subtitled “Songs, Dances, and Fancies a glorious program of music by Maurice for Shakespeare,” this esteemed early Duruflé, reflecting both his meticulous For a $60 donation music ensemble perform delightful craftsmanship and his love for the choral (or $5/mo. sustainer) musical gems dating from 16th to 17th heritage of his French homeland. ··Car magnet, blue with white logo century England. CD #8: Berlioz: La Damnation de Faust ··Stainless-steel bottle opener CD #3: Sheku Kanneh-Mason: Elgar Tenor Michael Spyres and mezzo- For a $100 donation baseball cap Award-winning cellist Kanneh-Mason soprano Joyce DiDonato lead a stellar ··WCPE insulated grocery tote, cobalt blue For a $180 donation masters Elgar’s monumental Cello cast in Berlioz’s dramatic masterpiece. (or $15/mo. sustainer) Concerto in E Minor and brings his lyri- John Nelson conducts the Strasbourg cal touch to an endearing set of minia- ··16-oz. stainless insulated bottle, blue Philharmonic and Gulbenkian Choir. tures as well. Sir Simon Rattle leads the ··CD #8: Berlioz: La Damnation de Faust (Three discs.) London Symphony Orchestra. ··DVD #1: Puccini: Madama Butterfly CD #9: L’Archibudelli Play Beethoven CD #4: Respighi: Roman Trilogy For a $200 donation As we gear up for the 250th anniversary JoAnn Falletta leads the Buffalo ··Day dedication, four times on the day of Beethoven’s birth, consider this com- you choose Philharmonic Orchestra in Respighi’s pilation of chamber works performed by orchestral masterpieces: The Pines of one of the 20th century’s premier string For a $240 donation Rome, Fountains of Rome, and Roman trios and its guests. (Five discs.) (or $20/mo. sustainer) Festivals. Exuberantly played and soni- DVD #1: Puccini: Madama Butterfly ··CD #9: L’Archibudelli Play Beethoven cally stunning. Albanian soprano Ermonela Jaho is Cio- For a $300 donation CD #5: Holst: The Planets Cio-San in this stunning Royal Opera t-shirt (or $25/mo. sustainer) Michael Stern leads the Kansas City House production, with Music Director ··Sport Challenger umbrella Symphony in this best loved suite by Antonio Pappano demonstrating his spe- For a $120 donation Gustav Holst, along with the composer’s cial affinity for the music of Puccini. (or $10/mo. sustainer) ballet music from The Perfect Fool. ··Maroon baseball cap ··WCPE T-shirt, maroon (sizes M, L, XL, XXL) ··Tomahawk 5-inch flashlight ··Choose one of the following CDs: ··CD #1: Coffee and Classical ··CD #2: Baltimore Consort: The Food of Love umbrella ··CD #3: Sheku Kanneh-Mason: Elgar ··CD #4: Respighi: Roman Trilogy For a $500 donation ··CD #5: Holst: The Planets ··Monthly on-air acknowledgment For a $150 donation For a $1200 donation ··CD #6: Bach: The Six Partitas (or $100/mo. sustainer) ··CD #7: Duruflé: Complete Choral Works ··Weekly on-air acknowledgment 16 17 program listings (march) program listings (march/april)

3:00 p.m. Arnold: Four Irish Dances 8:00 p.m. Brahms: Piano Concerto no. 1 6:00 p.m. Brahms: Academic Festival Overture 7:00 p.m. Stanford: Irish Rhapsody no. 1 in D Minor 7:00 p.m. Opera House 8:00 p.m. Beethoven: Piano Concerto no. 5 in 9:00 p.m. Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé, Suite no. 2 10:00 p.m. Grandval: Romance and Gavotte E-flat, op. 73 (Emperor) 10:00 p.m. Hildegard von Bingen: “Ave Generosa” 3 Friday 9:00 p.m. Duff: Echoes of Georgian Dublin 31 Tuesday 8:00 a.m. Chopin: Étude in A-flat (The 10:00 p.m. Balfe: “Marble Halls” from The 9:00 a.m. Tchaikovsky: Symphony no. 3 Shepherd Boy) Bohemian Girl in D (Polish) 9:00 a.m. All-Request Friday photo: Dan Steinberg for LAOpera Dan Steinberg photo: 18 Wednesday 10:00 a.m. Haydn: Cello Concerto no. 2 in D 10:00 p.m. Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Three 9:00 a.m. Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio Espagnol 12:00 p.m. Handel: Concerto Grosso in G Mediterranean Preludes 10:00 a.m. Liszt: Les Préludes 2:00 p.m. Price: Concerto in One Movement 4 Saturday James Conlon b. 1950 (70th birthday) 11:00 a.m. Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante in E-flat 3:00 p.m. Haydn: Symphony no. 101 in D (Clock) 7:00 a.m. Falla: Seven Spanish Folksongs 12:00 p.m. Chaminade: “Spanish Serenade” 5:00 p.m. Beach: “From Blackbird Hills” 8:00 a.m. Rodrigo: Fantasia for a Gentleman 2:00 p.m. Zemlinsky: Symphony no. 1 in D Minor 7:00 p.m. Grieg: Holberg Suite 10:00 a.m. Haydn: The Seven Last Words of our 9:00 a.m. Glinka: “Memory of a Summer Night Savior on the Cross (Choral Version) 3:00 p.m. Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade 8:00 p.m. Haydn: Symphony no. 92 in G (Oxford) in Madrid” 12:00 p.m. Gershwin: An American in Paris 7:00 p.m. Debussy: Games 9:00 p.m. Tchaikovsky: Variations on a 10:00 a.m. Granados: Romantic Scenes Rococo Theme 1:00 p.m. Bach: Toccata and Fugue in D Minor 8:00 p.m. Rimsky-Korsakov: Suite from The 11:00 a.m. Moszkowski: Spanish Dances, Book 1 Golden Cockerel 10:00 p.m. Haydn: String Quartet in C (Emperor) 2:00 p.m. Williams: Three Pieces from 12:00 p.m. Malats: “Serenata Española” 9:00 p.m. Tchaikovsky: Symphony no. 2 in C Schindler’s List April Featured Works 1:00 p.m. Metropolitan Opera Minor (Little Russian) 3:00 p.m. Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique 3:00 p.m. Granados: Allegro de Concierto All programming is subject to change. For a 19 Thursday 4:00 p.m. Williams: Suite from Star Wars, Episode complete list of a specific day’s music, go to 4:00 p.m. Breton: Salamanca (Symphonic Poem) VII: The Force Awakens 8:00 a.m. Strauss II: “Emperor Waltz” TheClassicalStation.org. 5:00 p.m. Falla: Nights in the Gardens of Spain 5:00 p.m. Renaissance Fare 9:00 a.m. Beethoven: Triple Concerto in C 5 Sunday 16 Monday 10:00 a.m. Harbach: Frontier Fancies for Violin 1 Wednesday 7:00 a.m. Victoria: “O vos Omnes” and Orchestra 8:00 a.m. Strauss II: “Perpetual Motion 9:00 a.m. Mendelssohn: Symphony no. 3 in 9:00 a.m. Bach: Cantata 182 (Himmelskornig, sei 12:00 p.m. Bach: Brandenburg Concerto no. 4 in G (a Musical Joke)” A Minor (Scottish) Willkommen) 10:00 a.m. Dvořák: Symphony no. 8 in G, op. 88 2:00 p.m. Mozart: Symphony no. 39 in E-flat 9:00 a.m. Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto no. 3 in D Minor 10:00 a.m. Boccherini: Stabat Mater, op. 61 12:00 p.m. Rusby: “Underneath the Stars” 3:00 p.m. C. Schumann: Piano Trio in G Minor 10:00 a.m. Handel: Water Music 12:00 p.m. Glinka: “Jota Aragonaise” 2:00 p.m. Prokofiev: Symphony no. 1 in D 5:00 p.m. Ravel: “The Fairy Garden” 12:00 p.m. Holst: Ballet Music from The 1:00 p.m. Turina: Danzas Fantasticas (Classical) 7:00 p.m. Opera House Perfect Fool 3:00 p.m. Beethoven: Symphony no. 2 in D 10:00 p.m. I.B. Smith: Sonata for Violin and Piano 2:00 p.m. Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme 6:00 p.m. Mozart: “Voi Che Sapete” from Le March 20–29 of Paganini Nozze de Figaro Spring 2020 Membership Drive 3:00 p.m. Weber: Clarinet Concerto no. 1 7:00 p.m. Schubert: Sonatina in D Call 800.556.5178 in F Minor 8:00 p.m. Haydn: Symphony no. 104 in D 7:00 p.m. P.D.Q. Bach: 1712 Overture (London) WCPE is listener-supported Classical 8:00 p.m. Rachmaninoff: Symphonic Dances 9:00 p.m. Schumann: Symphony no. 3 in radio. Please do your part to help E-flat (Rhenish) continue this vital service. 9:00 p.m. Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E Minor 10:00 p.m. Higdon: “Legacy” 30 Monday 10:00 p.m. Busoni: “Berceuse Élégiaque” 17 Tuesday 8:00 a.m. Smetana: “Dance of the Comedians” from The Bartered Bride 2 Thursday 8:00 a.m. Black: “Reeling” from Laments and Dances from the Irish 9:00 a.m. Grieg: Suite no. 2 from Peer Gynt 9:00 a.m. Dvořák: Scherzo Capriccioso Donate your used car or 9:00 a.m. Stanford: Symphony no. 3 in 10:00 a.m. Beethoven: Symphony no. 7 in A 10:00 a.m. Mozart: Piano Concerto no. 21 in C other vehicle to WCPE. 12:00 p.m. Chaminade: “Valse-Caprice” F Minor (Irish) 12:00 p.m. Rossini: Overture to Cinderella All donations are tax-deductible. 10:00 a.m. Field: Piano Concerto no. 1 in E-flat 2:00 p.m. Bizet: Symphony in C 1:00 p.m. D’Indy: Symphony on a French Find out more by calling 12:00 p.m. Traditional: “Irish Tune from 3:00 p.m. Mozart: Serenade no. 13 in G (Eine Mountain Air County Derry” Kleine Nachtmusik) 2:00 p.m. Bach: Orchestral Suite no. 2 in B Minor 877.927.3872. 2:00 p.m. Sullivan: Symphony in E (Irish) 7:00 p.m. Telemann: Don Quixote Suite 3:00 p.m. Lachner: Suite no. 7 in D Minor 18 19 program listings (april) program listings (april)

2:00 p.m. Albéniz: “Fête-Dieu à Seville” 6:00 p.m. The Passover Story 10:00 a.m. MacMillan: The Edinburgh Te Deum 3:00 p.m. Falla: Homenajes 7:00 p.m. Tartini: Sonata in G Minor 12:00 p.m. Lanner: “The Suitors” 4:00 p.m. Sarasate: Gypsy Airs (The Devil’s Trill) 1:00 p.m. Haydn: Symphony no. 100 in G 5:00 p.m. Albéniz: Suite Española 8:00 p.m. Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D (Military)

9:00 p.m. Schubert: Piano Quintet in A (Trout) 2:00 p.m. Tchaikovsky: Suite from Swan Lake Julia Wesely photo: 6 Monday 10:00 p.m. Brahms: Intermezzo in A, op. 118, no. 2 3:00 p.m. Telemann: Concerto in F for Thee 9:00 a.m. Mozart: Quintet in E-flat for Piano Violins from Tafelmusik and Winds 9 Thursday 4:00 p.m. Dvořák: American Suite 10:00 a.m. Saint-Saëns: Piano Concerto no. 2 in 9:00 a.m. Grieg: Three Orchestral Pieces from G Minor Sigurd Jorsalfar 5:00 p.m. My Life in Music 12:00 p.m. Ireland: A London Overture 10:00 a.m. Dvořák: Slavonic Dances, op. 72 13 Monday 2:00 p.m. Bach: Violin Concerto no. 1 in A Minor 12:00 p.m. Handel: Largo from Xerxes 8:00 a.m. Albinoni: Trumpet Concerto in B-flat 3:00 p.m. Brahms: Symphony no. 4 in E Minor 1:00 p.m. Medtner: Piano Concerto no. 3 9:00 a.m. Bennett: Piano Concerto no. 4 Franz Welser-Möst b. 1960 in E Minor in F Minor 7:00 p.m. My Life in Music (60th birthday) 8:00 p.m. Prokofiev: Lieutenant Kijé Suite 2:00 p.m. Copland: Appalachian Spring 10:00 a.m. Beethoven: Clarinet Trio in B-flat 3:00 p.m. Brahms: Variations on a Theme 12:00 p.m. Grainger: “Children’s March: Over the 9:00 p.m. Sibelius: Lemminkäinen and the 9:00 p.m. Brahms: Symphony no. 1 in C Minor Maidens of Saari by Haydn Hills and Far Away” 10:00 p.m. Brahms: String Quartet no. 3 in B-flat 5:00 p.m. Bach: Brandenburg Concerto no. 2 in F 2:00 p.m. Schubert: Sonata in A Minor 16 Thursday 7:00 p.m. Opera House (Arpeggione) 8:00 a.m. Wagner: Prelude to Act 1 of Die 7 Tuesday 10:00 p.m. Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme 3:00 p.m. Mozart: Symphony no. 41 in (Jupiter) Meistersinger von Nürnberg 9:00 a.m. Beethoven: Piano Concerto no. 3 of Thomas Tallis 6:00 p.m. Grainger: A Lincolnshire Posy 9:00 a.m. Bach: Concerto in D Minor for Violin in C Minor 7:00 p.m. Renaissance Fare and Oboe 10:00 a.m. Dvořák: Symphony no. 5 in F 10 Friday 8:00 p.m. Mozart: Piano Concerto no. 27 in B-flat 10:00 a.m. Mozart: Piano Concerto no. 23 in A 12:00 p.m. R. Strauss: Waltzes from Der 8:00 a.m. Mozart: Violin Sonata in C, K. 303 9:00 p.m. Brahms: Symphony no. 3 in F 12:00 p.m. Handel: “See, the Conquering Rosenkavalier 9:00 a.m. All-Request Friday Hero Comes” 2:00 p.m. Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto no. 2 10:00 p.m. Tchaikovsky: “April (The Snowdrop)” 14 Tuesday 2:00 p.m. Dvořák: Serenade in D Minor for Winds in C Minor from The Seasons 8:00 a.m. Falla: “Ritual Fire Dance” 3:00 p.m. Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet Fantasy 3:00 p.m. Schumann: Symphony no. 3 in E-flat 11 Saturday 9:00 a.m. Chopin: Andante Spianato and Grand Overture (Rhenish) 7:00 a.m. Holst: St. Paul’s Suite Polonaise in E-flat 4:00 p.m. Mozart: Overture to The Magic Flute 7:00 p.m. Mozart: Piano Concerto no. 24 8:00 a.m. Handel: Concerto Grosso in B-flat 10:00 a.m. Grieg: Symphonic Dances in C Minor 7:00 p.m. Opera House 9:00 a.m. Respighi: “Spring” from Three 12:00 p.m. Tchaikovsky: “Pezzo Capriccioso” 8:00 p.m. Bach: Concerto in D Minor for 10:00 p.m. Mompou: Canción y Danza no. 5 Botticelli Pictures 2:00 p.m. Nielsen: Symphony no. 2 (The Two Violins 17 Friday 10:00 a.m. W.F. Bach: Sinfonia in D Minor Four Temperaments) 9:00 p.m. Chopin: Piano Sonata no. 2 3:00 p.m. Lalo: Cello Concerto in D Minor 8:00 a.m. Addinsell: “Warsaw Concerto” in B-flat Minor 11:00 a.m. Beethoven: Piano Sonata no. 8 in C Minor (Pathétique) 7:00 p.m. Mussorgsky: Night on Bald Mountain 9:00 a.m. All-Request Friday 10:00 p.m. Milano: Three Fantasias for Lute 12:00 p.m. Mouret: First Suite of Symphonies 8:00 p.m. Dvořák: Cello Concerto in B Minor 10:00 p.m. Hailstork: Two Romances for Viola and 8 Wednesday Chamber Ensemble 1:00 p.m. Metropolitan Opera 9:00 p.m. Tchaikovsky: Symphony no. 5 9:00 a.m. Elgar: The Wand of Youth, Suite no. 1 5:00 p.m. Ginastera: “Dance of the Delightful in E Minor 18 Saturday 10:00 a.m. Tchaikovsky: Symphony no. 1 in G Young Girl” 15 Wednesday 7:00 a.m. Purcell: Suite from Abdelazar Minor (Winter Dreams) 12 Sunday 9:00 a.m. Bach: Orchestral Suite no. 3 in D 8:00 a.m. Couperin: Concert Pieces 12:00 p.m. Tartini: Violin Concerto in A Minor 7:00 a.m. Billings: “Easter Anthem” 10:00 a.m. Mendelssohn: Symphony no. 4 9:00 a.m. Buxtehude: Trio Sonata in D 2:00 p.m. Mozart: Symphony no. 29 in A 9:00 a.m. Bach: Cantata 4 (Christ Lag in in A (Italian) 10:00 a.m. Bach: Brandenburg Concerto no. 3 in G 3:00 p.m. Brahms: Serenade no. 1 in D Todesbanden) 12:00 p.m. Vaughan Williams: English Folk 11:00 a.m. Telemann: Concerto in E-flat for Two Song Suite Horns from Tafelmusik 2:00 p.m. Brahms: Serenade no. 2 in A 12:00 p.m. Lalande: “First Caprice” Where can you hear specialty programming like Opera House, Great Sacred 3:00 p.m. Dvořák: Symphony no. 7 in D Minor 12:30 p.m. Metropolitan Opera Music, and Renaissance Fare? Great Classical Music presented by 7:00 p.m. Elgar: Enigma Variations 4:00 p.m. Handel: Music for the Royal Fireworks knowledgeable announcers...here at The Classical Station. 8:00 p.m. Mozart: Symphony no. 40 in G Minor 5:00 p.m. Bach: Violin Concerto no. 2 in E 20 21 program listings (april) program listings (april/may)

19 Sunday 2:00 p.m. Bach: Keyboard Concerto no. 1 11:00 a.m. Strauss, R.: Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry 10:00 p.m. Ravel: Sonate Posthume for Violin 7:00 a.m. C.T. Pachelbel: Magnificat in D Minor Pranks and Piano 9:00 a.m. Bach: Cantata 42 (Am Abend aber 3:00 p.m. Schubert: Symphony no. 5 in B-flat 12:00 p.m. Bizet: Carmen Suite no. 1 29 Wednesday Desselbigen Sabbats) 6:00 p.m. Thompson: “Alleluia” 1:00 p.m. Metropolitan Opera 8:00 a.m. Sullivan: Overture to The Mikado 10:00 a.m. Handel: La Resurrezione 7:00 p.m. Copland: El Salón México 5:00 p.m. Beethoven: Symphony no. 5 in C Minor 9:00 a.m. Brahms: Violin Concerto in D 12:00 p.m. Bach: Italian Concerto in F 8:00 p.m. Schumann: Concert Piece in F for Four 26 Sunday 10:00 a.m. Beethoven: Symphony no. 4 in B-flat Horns and Orchestra 1:00 p.m. Telemann: Overture in D from 7:00 a.m. Higdon: “A Quiet Moment” 12:00 p.m. Handel: “Arrival of the Queen of Sheba” Tafelmusik, Part II 9:00 p.m. Beethoven: Quintet in E-flat for Piano 9:00 a.m. Bach: Cantata 112 (Der Herr ist Mein 2:00 p.m. Dvořák: Violin Concerto in A Minor 2:00 p.m. Handel: Organ Concerto in B-flat and Winds Getreuer Hirt) 3:00 p.m. Respighi: The Birds 3:00 p.m. Vivaldi: Four Seasons 22 Wednesday 10:00 a.m. Caplet: “The Mirror of Joy” from The 5:00 p.m. Rossini: Overture to Semiramide 4:00 p.m. Albinoni: Oboe Concerto in D Minor 8:00 a.m. Torelli: Sinfonia in C Mirror of Jesus 7:00 p.m. Grieg: In Autumn 5:00 p.m. Renaissance Fare 9:00 a.m. Bruch: Violin Concerto no. 1 in G Minor 12:00 p.m. Strauss II: “Students’ Joy” Waltz 8:00 p.m. Mahler: Symphony no. 1 in D (Titan) 10:00 a.m. Mozart: Symphony no. 32 in G 1:00 p.m. Dvořák: Symphony no. 9 in E Minor 20 Monday 9:00 p.m. Mozart: Piano Concerto no. 17 in G (From the New World) 9:00 a.m. Schumann: Symphony no. 4 in D Minor 12:00 p.m. Williams: “Adventures on Earth” from E.T., the Extra-Terrestrial 2:00 p.m. Brahms: Piano Concerto no. 2 in B-flat 30 Thursday 10:00 a.m. Weber: Clarinet Concerto no. 2 in E-flat 1:00 p.m. Wagner: Overture to Rienzi 3:00 p.m. Sibelius: “Finlandia” 8:00 a.m. Lehár: “Merry Widow Waltz” 12:00 p.m. Handel: Overture to Berenice 2:00 p.m. Handel: Faithful Shepherd Ballet Suite 4:00 p.m. Chopin: Grand Fantasia on Polish Airs 9:00 a.m. Mozart: Flute Concerto no. 1 in G 2:00 p.m. Haydn: Trumpet Concerto in E-flat 3:00 p.m. Smyth: Overture to The Wreckers in A 10:00 a.m. Beethoven: Symphony no. 1 in C 3:00 p.m. Beethoven: Symphony no. 3 in 5:00 p.m. Grieg: Suite no. 1 from Peer Gynt 12:00 p.m. Verdi: “Va, Pensiero” from Nabucco E-flat (Eroica) 7:00 p.m. Mozart: Symphony no. 38 in D (Prague) 2:00 p.m. Tchaikovsky: Symphony no. 4 7:00 p.m. Sibelius: Karelia Suite 8:00 p.m. Smyth: Concerto for Violin, Horn, 27 Monday and Orchestra in F Minor 8:00 p.m. Mendelssohn: Symphony no. 5 8:00 a.m. Flotow: Overture to Martha 3:00 p.m. Copland: Billy the Kid Ballet Suite (Reformation) 9:00 p.m. Debussy: La Mer (The Sea) 9:00 a.m. Prokofiev: Symphony no. 1 5:30 p.m. Lehár: “Gold and Silver Waltz” 9:00 p.m. Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition 10:00 p.m. Wagner: Prelude to Act 1 and “Love- in D (Classical) Death” from Tristan and Isolde 7:00 p.m. Opera House 10:00 p.m. Poulenc: Trio for Piano, Oboe, 10:00 a.m. Mendelssohn: Incidental Music from and Bassoon 23 Thursday A Midsummer Night’s Dream 10:00 p.m. Brahms: “How Lovely is thy Dwelling Place” 8:00 a.m. Bach: “Sheep May Safely Graze” 12:00 p.m. Fauré: Suite from Masques et 21 Tuesday Bergamasques 9:00 a.m. Beethoven: Piano Concerto no. 4 in G May Featured Works 9:00 a.m. Vivaldi: Violin Concerto in E Minor 2:00 p.m. Beethoven: Piano Sonata no. 15 10:00 a.m. Bizet: Children’s Games (Il Favorito) in D (Pastoral) All programming is subject to change. For a 12:00 p.m. Saint-Saëns: “Havanaise” 10:00 a.m. Mozart: Piano Concerto no. 25 in C 3:00 p.m. Prokofiev: Piano Concerto no. 3 in C complete list of a specific day’s music, go to 2:00 p.m. Holst: The Planets TheClassicalStation.org. 12:00 p.m. Praetorius: Dance Suite from 7:00 p.m. Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf Terpsichore 3:00 p.m. Schubert: Selections from Rosamunde 8:00 p.m. Beethoven: Symphony no. 7 in A 1 Friday 6:00 p.m. Leoncavallo: “Vesti la Giubba” from 9:00 p.m. Respighi: The Fountains of Rome Pagliacci 8:00 a.m. Alfvén: Swedish Rhapsody no. 1 10:00 p.m. Prokofiev: “Autumnal Sketch” (Midsummer Vigil) 7:00 p.m. Opera House 9:00 a.m. All-Request Friday 10:00 p.m. Telemann: Quartet in E Minor for Flute 28 Tuesday and Strings 9:00 a.m. Berlioz: Harold in Italy 10:00 p.m. Debussy: Sonata for Flute, Viola, and Harp 24 Friday 10:00 a.m. Mendelssohn: Hebrides Overture 2 Saturday 8:00 a.m. Bach: Prelude from Lute Suite in E 12:00 p.m. Purcell: Trumpet Tune and Air photo: Harald Hoffman / DG Harald photo: 7:00 a.m. A. Scarlatti: Sinfonia no. 2 in D 9:00 a.m. All-Request Friday 2:00 p.m. Haydn: Symphony no. 45 in F-sharp Minor (Farewell) 8:00 a.m. Mozart: Horn Concerto no. 3 in E-flat 10:00 p.m. Albéniz: “Asturias” 3:00 p.m. Barber: “Adagio for Strings” 9:00 a.m. Borodin: Symphony no. 2 in B Minor 25 Saturday 7:00 p.m. Strauss II: Tales from the Vienna Woods 10:00 a.m. Telemann: Whimsical Symphony 7:00 a.m. Haydn: London Trio no. 3 in G 8:00 p.m. Saint-Saëns: Violin Concerto no. 3 in 11:00 a.m. Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique 8:00 a.m. Bach: Brandenburg Concerto no. 6 B Minor 12:00 p.m. Weber: Grand Duo Concertante for in B-flat 9:00 p.m. Brahms: Double Concerto for Violin and Clarinet and Piano Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau b. 1925 9:00 a.m. Mendelssohn: Octet in E-flat Cello in A Minor 1:00 p.m. Metropolitan Opera (95th anniversary of birth) 10:00 a.m. Mozart: Piano Concerto no. 22 in E-flat 22 23 program listings (may) program listings (may)

4:00 p.m. Rachmaninoff: Symphonic Dances 3:00 p.m. Schubert: Symphony no. 8 in B Minor 2:00 p.m. Beethoven: Piano Sonata no. 14 in 5:00 p.m. Lumbye: “Carnival Joys” (Unfinished) C-sharp Minor (Moonlight) 7:00 p.m. Bach: Brandenburg Concerto no. 5 in D 3:00 p.m. Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto no. 3 3 Sunday 8:00 p.m. Saint-Saëns: Symphony no. 3 in C in D Minor 7:00 a.m. Dett: Barcarolle (Morning) Minor (Organ) 4:00 p.m. Milhaud: Scaramouche, Suite for 9:00 a.m. Bach: Cantata 12 (Weinen, Klagen, 9:00 p.m. Dvořák: Serenade in E for Strings Two Pianos Sorgen, Zagen) 5:00 p.m. My Life in Music 10:00 a.m. Haydn: Missa in Tempore Belli 7 Thursday 11 Monday 12:00 p.m. Haydn: Symphony no. 96 in D (Miracle) 8:00 a.m. Tchaikovsky: “Coronation March” 9:00 a.m. Liadov: Polonaise in C 1:00 p.m. Dvořák: Piano Concerto in G Minor 9:00 a.m. Brahms: Symphony no. 2 in D 10:00 a.m. Still: Symphony no. 1 (Afro-American) 2:00 p.m. Bach: Orchestral Suite no. 4 in D 10:00 a.m. Tchaikovsky: Suite from Sleeping Beauty 12:00 p.m. Bach: “Sleepers, Awake!” 3:00 p.m. Telemann: Trumpet Concerto no. 2 in D 12:00 p.m. Brahms: Academic Festival Overture 2:00 p.m. Liadov: Eight Russian Folk Songs 4:00 p.m. Saint-Saëns: Carnival of the Animals 2:00 p.m. Tchaikovsky: Symphony no. 6 in B 3:00 p.m. Still: Miniatures for Oboe, Flute, 5:00 p.m. Widor: Toccata from Symphony no. 5 in Minor (Pathétique) and Piano F Minor for Organ Cristina Ortiz b. 1950 (70th birthday) 3:00 p.m. Brahms: Piano Concerto no. 1 7:00 p.m. Renaissance Fare 4 Monday in D Minor 8:00 p.m. Dvořák: Symphony no. 8 in G 8:00 a.m. Řezníček: Overture to Donna Diana 9:00 a.m. Hummel: Clarinet Quartet in E-flat 6:00 p.m. Tchaikovsky: 1812 Overture 9:00 p.m. Schumann: Symphony no. 1 in B-flat 9:00 a.m. Beethoven: Piano Concerto no. 1 in C 10:00 p.m. Brahms: Clarinet Quintet in B Minor (Spring) 10:00 a.m. Schumann: Grand Sonata no. 3 in F Minor 10:00 a.m. Glazunov: Ballet Scenes 8 Friday 10:00 p.m. Still: Romance 12:00 p.m. Bizet: Carmen Suite no. 2 12:00 p.m. Schubert: Impromptu in A-flat 8:00 a.m. K. Stamitz: Clarinet Concerto no. 3 12 Tuesday 2:00 p.m. Řezníček: Serenade for Strings 2:00 p.m. Mozart: Symphony no. 31 in D (Paris) in B-flat 9:00 a.m. Fauré: Dolly Suite 3:00 p.m. Fauré: Suite from Pelléas et Mélisande 3:00 p.m. Dvořák: The Golden Spinning Wheel 9:00 a.m. All-Request Friday 10:00 a.m. Massenet: Le Carillon 7:00 p.m. My Life in Music 5:00 p.m. Gottschalk: “The Union” 10:00 p.m. Gottschalk: “Falling Leaves” 12:00 p.m. Telemann: Trumpet Concerto no. 1 in D 8:00 p.m. Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto no. 1 in 10:00 p.m. Larsson: A Winter’s Tale 9 Saturday 2:00 p.m. Massenet: Alsatian Scenes B-flat Minor 15 Friday 7:00 a.m. Schumann: Theme and Variations in 3:00 p.m. Fauré: Suite from Masques et 9:00 p.m. R. Strauss: Death and Transfiguration E-flat (Ghost Variations) Bergamasques 8:00 a.m. Bach: “Ave Maria” 10:00 p.m. Finzi: Five Bagatelles for Clarinet 8:00 a.m. Mozart: Piano Concerto no. 20 5:00 p.m. Fauré: “Pavane” 9:00 a.m. All-Request Friday and Strings in D Minor 7:00 p.m. Liszt: Piano Concerto no. 1 in E-flat 10:00 p.m. Corigliano: “Lullaby for Natalie” 5 Tuesday 9:00 a.m. Chopin: Fantasie in F Minor (Triangle) 16 Saturday 9:00 a.m. Copland: El Salón México 10:00 a.m. Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme 8:00 p.m. Beethoven: Symphony no. 2 in D 9:00 a.m. Sousa: “Hail to the Spirit of Liberty” 10:00 a.m. Elorduy: Dos Acuarelas of Paganini 9:00 p.m. Fauré: no. 1 in C Minor 10:00 a.m. Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending 12:00 p.m. Barrios: “Julia Florida” 11:00 a.m. Ravel: Piano Concerto in G 13 Wednesday 11:00 a.m. Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto no. 2 2:00 p.m. Moncayo: “Huapango” 12:00 p.m. Weber: “Invitation to the Dance” 8:00 a.m. Sullivan: Overture to H.M.S. Pinafore in C Minor 3:00 p.m. Ponce: Sonata Mexicana 1:00 p.m. Metropolitan Opera 9:00 a.m. Mozart: Symphony no. 34 in C 12:00 p.m. Hayman: “Servicemen on Parade” 5:00 p.m. Márquez: “Danzón no. 2” 4:00 p.m. Beethoven: Piano Sonata no. 8 in C 10:00 a.m. Debussy: Prelude to the Afternoon of 2:00 p.m. Schumann: Symphony no. 2 in C Minor (Pathétique) 7:00 p.m. Chávez: “El Trópico” a Faun 3:00 p.m. Wagner: “Wotan’s Farewell” and “Magic 5:00 p.m. Chopin: Piano Concerto no. 1 8:00 p.m. Ponce: Concierto del Sur 12:00 p.m. Strauss II: “Accelerations” Fire Music” from Die Walküre in E Minor 9:00 p.m. Mendelssohn: Piano Concerto 2:00 p.m. Wagner: “Forest Murmurs” 4:00 p.m. Bruch: Violin Concerto no. 1 in G Minor in A Minor 10 Sunday 3:00 p.m. Sullivan: Incidental Music from 5:00 p.m. Sousa: “The Stars and Stripes Forever” 7:00 a.m. Schumann: “Arabeske” in C 6 Wednesday Shakespeare’s The Tempest 17 Sunday 9:00 a.m. Bach: Cantata 166 (Wo Gehest du Hin?) 9:00 a.m. Mozart: Symphony no. 25 in G Minor 7:00 p.m. Sullivan: Cello Concerto in D 7:00 a.m. Satie: Gymnopédies no. 1 10:00 a.m. Gawthrop: How Beautiful Upon the 10:00 a.m. Beethoven: Violin Sonata no. 5 8:00 p.m. Bach: Violin Concerto no. 2 in E 9:00 a.m. Bach: Cantata 86 (Wahrlich, Wahrlich, Mountains in F (Spring) 9:00 p.m. Mendelssohn: Symphony no. 3 Ich Sage Euch) 12:00 p.m. Bach: Partita no. 1 in B-flat 12:00 p.m. Walton: Suite from in A Minor (Scottish) 10:00 a.m. Lloyd Webber: Requiem 1:00 p.m. Schubert: Fantasia in C 2:00 p.m. Grieg: Piano Concerto in A Minor 14 Thursday 12:00 p.m. Haydn: Sinfonia Concertante in B-flat (Wanderer Fantasy) 8:00 a.m. Beethoven: Leonore Overture no. 2 1:00 p.m. Mozart: Horn Concerto no. 2 in E-flat 24 25 program listings (may) program listings (may)

2:00 p.m. Handel: Suite in F from Water Music 5:00 p.m. Bernstein, arr. Penaforte: West Side 28 Thursday 3:00 p.m. Balakirev: Chopin Suite Story Suite for Piano Trio 9:00 a.m. Rossini: Overture to Semiramide 7:00 p.m. Schumann: Scenes from Childhood 25 Monday 10:00 a.m. Balakirev: Symphony no. 1 in C 8:00 p.m. Brahms: Violin Concerto in D 8:00 a.m. Sousa: “The Stars and Stripes Forever” 12:00 p.m. Schubert: “The Erl-King” 9:00 p.m. Wagner: Siegfried Idyll 9:00 a.m. Copland: Appalachian Spring 1:00 p.m. J. Stamitz: Trumpet Concerto in D 10:00 p.m. Mozart: Rondo in A Minor 10:00 a.m. Dvořák: Symphony no. 9 in E Minor 2:00 p.m. Mozart: Clarinet Quintet in A (From the New World) 21 Thursday 3:00 p.m. Beethoven: Symphony no. 6 11:00 a.m. Williams: “Hymn to the Fallen” from in F (Pastoral) 9:00 a.m. Haydn: Trumpet Concerto in E-flat Saving Private Ryan 5:00 p.m. Mendelssohn: Overture to A 10:00 a.m. C.P.E. Bach: Oboe Concerto in B-flat Pierre Boulez b. 1925 12:00 p.m. Sousa: “Semper Fidelis” Midsummer Night’s Dream 12:00 p.m. Dvořák: “Carnival Overture” (95th anniversary of birth) 2:00 p.m. Paine: Symphony no. 1 in C Minor 10:00 p.m. Schubert: “The Passing Bell” 1:00 p.m. Liszt: Fantasy on Hungarian 3:00 p.m. “Taps” and “America the Beautiful” Folk Themes 29 Friday 4:00 p.m. Williams: “Summon the Heroes” 2:00 p.m. Debussy: Suite Bergamasque 2:00 p.m. Tchaikovsky: Variations on a 8:00 a.m. Mussorgsky: “Dance of the Persian 3:00 p.m. Satie: “The Dreamy Fish” Rococo Theme 7:00 p.m. Gershwin: An American in Paris Slaves” from Khovanshchina 4:00 p.m. Franck: Symphonic Variations 3:00 p.m. R. Strauss: Concerto in D for Oboe and 8:00 p.m. Hanson: Symphony no. 2 (Romantic) 9:00 a.m. All-Request Friday 5:00 p.m. Renaissance Fare Small Orchestra 9:00 p.m. Hayman: “Servicemen on Parade” 10:00 p.m. Albéniz: Three Selections from Suite Española 18 Monday 5:00 p.m. Copland: “An Outdoor Overture” 10:00 p.m. Keller: “Hymn of Peace” 10:00 p.m. Chopin: Nocturnes, op. 62 9:00 a.m. Mozart: Piano Concerto no. 27 in B-flat 26 Tuesday 30 Saturday 10:00 a.m. Bizet: Symphony in C 22 Friday 9:00 a.m. Brahms: Serenade no. 1 in D 9:00 a.m. C.P.E. Bach: Cello Concerto in B-flat 11:00 a.m. Schumann: Concert Piece in F for Four 8:00 a.m. Wagner: Prelude to Act 3 of Lohengrin 10:00 a.m. Chopin: Piano Sonata no. 3 in B Minor 10:00 a.m. Schumann: Symphony no. 3 in E-flat, op. 97 (Rhenish) Horns and Orchestra 9:00 a.m. All-Request Friday 12:00 p.m. Bach: “Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring” 12:00 p.m. Gershwin: Lullaby for Strings 12:00 p.m. Offenbach: Overture to Orpheus in 10:00 p.m. Wagner: Prelude to Act 1 of Parsifal 2:00 p.m. Haydn: Symphony no. 85 in B-flat the Underworld (The Queen) 1:00 p.m. Dvořák: In Nature’s Realm 23 Saturday 2:00 p.m. Chopin: Piano Concerto no. 2 in F Minor 3:00 p.m. Ravel: Noble and Sentimental Waltzes 2:00 p.m. Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto no. 4 in 8:00 a.m. Mozart: Piano Sonata no. 12 in F G Minor 3:00 p.m. Goldmark: Rustic Wedding Symphony 7:00 p.m. Bach: Orchestral Suite no. 2 in B Minor 9:00 a.m. Chadwick: Rip Van Winkle Overture 3:00 p.m. Rimsky-Korsakov: “Procession of the 7:00 p.m. Holst: Second Suite in F 8:00 p.m. Mendelssohn: Symphony no. 4 10:00 a.m. Dett: Magnolia Suite Nobles” from Mlada 8:00 p.m. Saint-Saëns: Piano Concerto no. 2 in in A (Italian) 12:00 p.m. Dvořák: American Suite 4:00 p.m. Brahms: Symphony no. 2 in D G Minor 9:00 p.m. Beethoven: Piano Sonata no. 23 in F 9:00 p.m. Debussy: Images for Orchestra 1:00 p.m. Schumann: Humoreske Minor (Appassionata) 5:00 p.m. Mozart: Violin Concerto no. 3 in G 2:00 p.m. Grofé: Grand Canyon Suite 19 Tuesday 27 Wednesday 31 Sunday 3:00 p.m. O’Connor: Americana Symphony, 9:00 a.m. Handel: Suite from Il Pastor Fido 7:00 a.m. Thompson: “Alleluia” 9:00 a.m. Hummel: Trumpet Concerto Variations on Appalachia Waltz 10:00 a.m. Bruch: Scottish Fantasy for Violin 9:00 a.m. Bach: Cantata 74 (Wer Mich Liebet, der 10:00 a.m. Bizet: L’Arlésienne Suite no. 1 4:00 p.m. Amram: Theme and Variations on Red and Orchestra Wird Mein Wort Halten) 12:00 p.m. Schubert: Impromptu in E-flat River Valley for Flute and Strings 12:00 p.m. Vivaldi: Trumpet Concerto in B-flat 10:00 a.m. Brahms: A German Requiem 2:00 p.m. Haydn: Cello Concerto no. 1 in C 5:00 p.m. Copland: Music for Movies 2:00 p.m. Grieg: Holberg Suite 12:00 p.m. Farrenc: Clarinet Trio in E-flat 3:00 p.m. Tchaikovsky: Symphony no. 1 in G 24 Sunday Minor (Winter Dreams) 3:00 p.m. Raff: From Thuringia 1:00 p.m. Haydn: Symphony no. 94 in G (Surprise) 7:00 a.m. Paulus: “Hymn for America” 7:00 p.m. Wagner: Overture and “Venusberg 7:00 p.m. Dvořák: Othello 2:00 p.m. Brahms: Symphony no. 3 in F 9:00 a.m. Bach: Cantata 111 (Was Mein Gott will, Bacchanale” from Tannhäuser 8:00 p.m. Rimsky-Korsakov: Suite from The Tale 3:00 p.m. Grieg: Lyric Suite das G’scheh Allzeit) 8:00 p.m. Dvořák: Slavonic Dances, op. 46 of Tsar Saltan 4:00 p.m. Farrenc: Piano Quintet no. 2 in E 10:00 a.m. Tyberg: Mass no. 1 in G 9:00 p.m. Beethoven: Symphony no. 8 in F 9:00 p.m. Mozart: Symphony no. 36 in C (Linz) 5:00 p.m. Marais: “The Bells of St. Genevieve” 12:00 p.m. Chadwick: Symphonic Sketches 10:00 p.m. Debussy: “Isle of Joy” 1:00 p.m. Still: Symphony no. 1 (Afro-American) 20 Wednesday 2:00 p.m. Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue Were you a first-time donor in the spring of 2019? 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Mozart in Paris By Dan McHugh realize their dreams of studying music. You can help to make their dreams come true, By Frantz Duchazeau Instrument Donation and receive a tax receipt. SelfMadeHero, 94 pages Program Gently used instruments in working condi- A review by R.C. Speck The Classical Station is excited to announce tion, or with minor repairs needed, are being accepted. We are especially interested Historical graphic novels can be evocative that we are expanding the Education Fund to include an instrument donation program! in trumpets, flutes, clarinets, French horns, conduits to the past. Comic artist and writer trombones, violins, violas, cellos, and saxo- Frantz Duchazeau gives us just this with his The purpose is to make donated instruments available to students in music education phones and accept other Classical instru- wonderful graphic novel Mozart in Paris. ments for band or orchestra. Translated to English in 2019, Mozart in programs and nonprofit organizations in Paris tells the story of the six months Mozart North Carolina. For more information about the Education spent in the French capital with his mother Over the last ten years, the Education Fund Fund, or to inquire about donating your when he was twenty-two. has awarded more than $80,000 in grants instrument, please contact Dan McHugh, Membership Director, at 919.556.5178 or Disillusioned with his employment in to numerous music education nonprofits in North Carolina. In addition to grants that by e-mail at [email protected]. Salzburg, young Mozart had high hopes Arrangements for pickup will be made on a in Paris, which he hadn’t visited since his support music lessons, concerts, and scholar- ships, we hope that the instrument donation case-by-case basis. q days as a child prodigy. Baron von Grimm he puts late-eighteenth century Paris on dis- program will help even more students to introduces him to high society in Paris, but play on every page. He treats us to exquisite- Mozart quickly learns that his music does ly drawn views of its busy streets, its gardens, not suit Parisian tastes very well. He also its estates, its waterways. He renders lighting finds that his lack of social refinement has and shadow impeccably as well. This visual We will also hear the virtuosic playing become an impediment to his success. He depiction is one of the advantages of graphic Primarily Piano Weekend of some of history’s greatest pianists, becomes caught up in the political strife of novels over literature, and Duchazeau makes By Nan Pincus such as Glenn Gould, Sviatoslav Richter, the French music world—making perhaps the most of it in Mozart in Paris. more enemies than friends—all the while Lara Downes, best known as a master Martha Argerich, Van Cliburn, and eking out a living on small commissions Most strikingly, Duchazeau gives us a interpreter of American melodies, is also Alicia de Larrocha, whose work inspired and lessons. Duchazeau also chronicles how glimpse of what was going through Mozart’s a European-trained pianist with expres- today’s musicians. q Mozart had to deal with his mother’s failing mind with what I would call psychological sive enunciation of Classical masterpieces. health as well as his crush on Aloysia Weber license. Along with flashbacks to Mozart as Her 2019 album For Love of You: Clara in far-away Munich. a young prodigy, Duchazeau often invites and Robert Schumann was a standout that same prodigy to the present to reflect of the year, illuminating a creative and Duchazeau compiled much of his narrative on the life of Mozart the man. Duchazeau romantic partnership that has fascinated through Mozart’s correspondences with his presents images of Leopold towering over listeners of Classical music for generations family, giving the graphic novel an epistolary the city to emphasize his gigantic influence through nuanced performances of Clara Shervin Lainez photo: feel as the narration often quotes directly over his son. Mozart’s genius is also depicted Schumann’s Three Romances and Robert from letters and covers the bitter disagree- graphically. When composing or playing Schumann’s Piano Concerto in A Minor ments the young composer had with his music, his boundless creativity often finds and Fantasiestücke. father Leopold back in Salzburg. Duchazeau representation in flashes of geometric forms Lara Downes During this year’s Primarily Piano includes all the love and longing as well, and in peculiar coloring. through Mozart’s letters, reveals exactly how Weekend, we will feature Lara Downes’s unstable and treacherous the life of a young Mozart in Paris is unique in that it seems For Love of You and her 2020 series musical genius could be back then. to be as much about Paris as it is about Florence Price: Piano Discoveries, which Mozart. And through the medium of the follows from her celebrated 2016 record- Duchazeau also makes his story a period graphic novel, Duchazeau makes both ing of Price’s “Fantasie Nègre” no. 1. piece in every sense of the word. From the equally fascinating. q The weekend will also include other

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