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 Baltimore 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! 1 from the editor march calendar 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 Erich Kunzel 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