June • July • August Quarter Notes WCPE Radio, The Classical Station • Summer 2020 Something New at Noon WCPE’s 42nd Anniversary Cinema Classics Weekend table of contents WCPE Daily Schedule Quarter Notes® Meet Your Host .......................1 Weekdays WCPE’s member magazine Home Sweet Home .................2 Vol. 42, no. 2 12:00 Sleepers, Awake! with Sherman Wallace June 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 July Calendar ...........................4 engage our audience with informative announcers, 10:00 a.m. Classical Café with Elizabeth Elliott programs, and publications. We strive to make it easy to August 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 Summer 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 Monday Night at the Symphony ............ 5:30 p.m. 5:30 waltz Deborah S. Proctor .............................. General Manager 9 & Chief Engineer 7:00 p.m. Mondays through Wednesdays and Meet Your Host: Opera House .........................10 Fridays: Concert Hall with Andy Huber, Dean Baldwin ......................................National Business Charles Holloway, Warner Hall, Larry Development Director Elizabeth Elliott Kristine Bellino .....................Outreach and Promotions* Sundays This Quarter Hedlund, Bruce Matheny, Christopher How long have you been an announcer at Scoville, Mark Schreiner, Phil Campbell ...............Network Broadcasting Director* Great Sacred Music ...........................11 WCPE? I’m new to The Classical Station, and a variety of volunteer hosts Bob Chapman ............Thursday Night Opera House Host Preview .............................................12 Gregg Cockroft ...................................Facilities Engineer but I’ve long admired it for being responsive Thursdays: Thursday Night Opera House Wavelengths, and Adrienne DiFranco ........... Accounting/Member Services to listeners and thoughtful in its selection with Bob Chapman Peaceful Reflections Elizabeth Elliott ................................. Classical Café Host of music. I also love that it makes the music .......................13 Mondays: Monday Night at the Symphony 8:00 p.m. John Graham .............................Director of Engineering with Andy Huber, Charles Holloway, and a available through so many platforms, like Program Listings ....................14 Charles Holloway ....................Announcer and Producer variety of hosts apps and streaming, and I’m excited to take Michael Hugo ................................................Announcer part in new media projects like podcasting. Lately We’ve Read 10:00 p.m. Music in the Night with Bob Chapman, Haydn Jones ..................................................Announcer Sounds Like Helicopters Mike Huber, Bo Degnan, Claire Huene, Rob Kennedy ............................. Social Media Director*; How did you get involved in broadcast- Dave Stackowicz, Tony Waller, and a Great Sacred Music Host ing? I started in college radio in 1996. I’ve By Matthew Lau ..........................28 variety of hosts Dan McHugh ...................Director of Member Services* worked in a variety of formats, but this is my Mary Moonen ..... Underwriting Development Director; Promotional Partner Saturdays personal favorite. Traffic Manager Spotlight ................................29 12:00 Sleepers, Awake! with Haydn Jones Susan Nunn ....Member Services; Web Team Coordinator What is your favorite genre of music? Who midnight Jane O’Connor ................ Acting Volunteer Coordinator are some of your favorite composers and Classical Community .............30 Stu Pattison .................................................Data Services 6:00 a.m. Weekend Classics with Lyle Adley-Warrick, artists? I’m married to a music critic, and Helen Halva, Peggy Powell, Joyce Kidd, Nan Pincus .................................Music Library Assistant Classical Events and our kids perform music and theater, so our and a variety of volunteer hosts Nick Robinson ...............................................Announcer Promotional Partners .............31 Christina Strobl Romano .................. Publications Editor lives are full of music of every kind. But I 6:00 p.m. Saturday Evening Request Program with particularly love mid-century jazz and any- Haydn Jones Dick Storck ..................... Network Operations Director* What You're Saying ...............32 Sherman Wallace............................................Announcer thing composed for strings. Sundays William Woltz .......................................Music Director* Is there anything else your listeners might Donor Spotlight 12:00 Sleepers, Awake! with Michael Hugo *This staff member is also an announcer. In Memoriam enjoy knowing about you? I love to see midnight ©Copyright 1978–2020, WCPE Radio, Raleigh, NC. live music everywhere I go. There’s just Mary Ann Brown .........................32 All rights reserved. All material disseminated by WCPE, 6:00 a.m. Weekend Classics with Chuck Till and a something so special about the energy of a variety of hosts including compilations, is copyrighted or used under application regulations. live musical performance: from watching 7:30 a.m. Sing for Joy with Bruce Benson Allegro; As You Like It; Classical Cafe; Quarter Notes; Rise the traditional Hawaiian music that accom- 8:00 a.m. Great Sacred Music with Rob Kennedy and Shine; Sleepers, Awake!; TheClassicalStationand The panies the hula dancers in Hawaii, singing Classical Station; and WCPE are registered or pending along to traditional Irish music in a pub in 12:00 p.m.. Weekend Classics with Greysolynne trademarks or service marks of WCPE. Hyman, Helen Bowman, Claire Huene, Dublin, grooving to blues in Chicago, or On the cover: Dan Poirier, Naomi Lambert, Bruce WCPE dancing to jazz on a New Orleans street. Huffine, and a variety of volunteer hosts P.O. Box 828 And nothing beats a night at the symphony! Join us for Something New at Noon Wake Forest, NC 27588 every day in June. 6:00 p.m. Preview! with Steve Thebes, David Jeffrey 800.556.5178 Smith, and a variety of hosts Membership: [email protected] Photo of Solomiya Ivakhiv 9:00 p.m. Wavelengths with Ed Amend Editor: [email protected] Correction: On page 8 of the spring issue, the credit Stephanie Brauer 10:00 p.m. Peaceful Reflections with Ed Amend photo of Sherrill Milnes was incorrectly captioned Website: theclassicalstation.org “Composer” rather than “Baritone.” 1 home sweet home june calendar Continuing the Music 1 Monday 18 Thursday One of the important gifts we offer at Mikhail Glinka 1804 Eduard Tubin 1905 WCPE, The Classical Station, is the solace Richard Goode 1943 19 Friday All-Request Friday Frederica Von Stade 1945 and quiet respite of Great Classical Music. Johann Stamitz 1717 This takes a great deal of dedication, both (75th birthday) 20 Saturday from our supporters and my devoted staff. 2 Tuesday Summer begins Edward Elgar 1857 Jacques Offenbach 1819 During this challenging time, we decided to Ingrid Haebler 1929 limit our spring membership drive personnel 3 Wednesday André Watts 1946 to our “regulars” rather than our extended 4 Thursday 21 Sunday Father’s Day family of volunteers, who usually do most of Cecilia Bartoli 1966 the heavy lifting. There was good reason not J.C.F. Bach 1732 to bring more people into the station than 5 Friday All-Request Friday Khatia Buniatishvili 1987 absolutely necessary. We were occasionally Martha Argerich 1941 22 Monday asked: “Why are you fundraising at a time 6 Saturday Étienne-Nicolas Méhul 1763 like this?” The answer was, “So we can pay Aram Khachaturian 1903 23 Tuesday our bills!” Deborah S. Proctor General Manager 7 Sunday Carl Reinecke 1824 I must say, all went fairly well. We did not Georg Szell 1897 24 Wednesday publish a desired goal and had decided to Philippe Entremont 1934 Pierre Fournier 1906 hold the budget constant. We needed to raise Neeme Järvi 1937 $385,000, and we raised $299,267. With data to help them use our programming Jaime Laredo 1941 25 Thursday the devotion of our staff and listeners and better, such as station identification cue-tone 8 Monday 26 Friday All-Request Friday with the support of our members, we have data, backhaul requirements if used, links to Leopold Koželuh 1747 them, publicity for them on our nationwide Tomaso Albinoni 1671 had a good start into 2020. We are encour- Claudio Abbado 1933 aged all the more to do our best to bring you broadcast stream, and more! Any radio or Robert Schumann 1810 27 Saturday this beautiful music around the clock, as we cable system anywhere in the world may Emanuel Ax 1949 have done since 1978! use our programming as long as individual 9 Tuesday Samuel Sanders 1937 jurisdictional legalities and requirements Many college radio stations are having to Otto Nicolai 1810 28 Sunday are followed. It can be received via Internet curtail operations because school has moved Carl Nielsen 1865 Thomas Hampson 1955 or Ku-Band “small dish” satellite in North to remote learning. Did you know that these Albéric