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September • October • November Quarter Notes WCPE Radio, The Classical Station • Fall 2020 Brothers and Sisters Great Ballet Days Armchair Travelers Weekend Fall Membership Drive Great Nicknames 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. 3 12:00 Sleepers, Awake with Sherman Wallace WCPE’s mission is to expand the community of classical September Calendar.................3 midnight music lovers by sharing classical music with everyone, 5:30 a.m. Rise and Shine with Kristine Bellino everywhere, at any time. We entertain, educate, and October 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 November 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 Fall Highlights .........................6 Designer: Deborah Cruz 1:00 p.m. As You Like It with Nick Robinson Printer: Chamblee Graphics Mondays This Quarter 4:00 p.m. Allegro with Dick Storck My Life in Music, Renaissance Fare .......8 WCPE Staff 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: Concert Hall with Andy Huber, Dean Baldwin .............National Business Dev’t. Director Kristine Bellino Charles Holloway, Warner Hall, Larry Kristine Bellino .............................Host of Rise and Shine Sundays This Quarter Hedlund, Bruce Matheny, Mark Schreiner, Bob Chapman ........Host of Thursday Night Opera House What attracted you to The Classical and a variety of volunteer hosts Gregg Cockroft ...................................Facilities Engineer Great Sacred Music ...........................11 Station? First attracted as a listener, I Adrienne DiFranco ........... Accounting/Member Services Preview .............................................12 Thursdays: Thursday Night Opera House enjoyed the station with my children every with Bob Chapman Elizabeth Elliott .............................Host of Classical Café John Graham .............................Director of Engineering morning on the way to school. Wavelengths, and 8:00 p.m. Mondays: Monday Night at the Symphony Charles Holloway ..........................Writer and Producer* Peaceful Reflections .......................13 with Andy Huber, Charles Holloway, and a Michael Hugo ................................................Announcer How did you get involved in broadcast- variety of hosts Haydn Jones ..................................................Announcer ing? From an early age, I knew that I loved Program Listings ....................14 Rob Kennedy ............................Social Media Director*; Music in the Night with Tony Waller, a dozen occupations. Broadcasting encom- 10:00 p.m. Host of Great Sacred Music Mike Huber, Bob Chapman, and a variety Thank-You Gifts ....................17 Joyce Kidd .....................................................Announcer passed most of them. of hosts Dan McHugh ...................Director of Member Services* What is your favorite genre of music? Lately We’ve Read Saturdays Mary Moonen ..................Underwriting Dev’t. Director; Music in Vienna: 1700, 1800, 1900 Traffic Manager Who are some of your favorite compos- 12:00 Sleepers, Awake with Haydn Jones Susan Nunn .........................................Member Services; ers and artists? My playlist is all over the By David Wyn Jones ......................28 midnight Web Team Coordinator place—Eminem and Busta Rhymes, Sinatra, Jane O’Connor ................ Acting Volunteer Coordinator 6:00 a.m. Weekend Classics with Lyle Adley-Warrick, Vivaldi, Mario Lanza and Enrico Caruso, WCPE Education Helen Halva, Peggy Powell, Joyce Kidd, Stu Pattison .................................................Data Services Fund News ............................29 Nan Pincus ...............................Assistant Music Director Ryan Montbleau, and Jimmy Durante. My and a variety of volunteer hosts mom exposed us to variety (her favorite was Nick Robinson ...............................Host of As You Like It Classical Community .............30 6:00 p.m. Saturday Evening Request Program with Christina Strobl Romano .................Publications Editor Rachmaninoff), so we grew up loving it all. Haydn Jones Dick Storck ......................Network Operations Director; Classical Events and Host of Allegro Have you seen much music by different Sundays Sherman Wallace.......................... Host of Sleepers Awake musicians around the world? My favorite Promotional Partners .............31 12:00 Sleepers, Awake with Michael Hugo William Woltz .......................................Music Director* performances are usually along a streetscape, What You're Saying ...............32 midnight *This staff member is also an announcer. with a beverage and baguette in hand, 6:00 a.m. Weekend Classics with Chuck Till and a ©Copyright 1978–2020, WCPE Radio, Raleigh, NC. ingesting the performance of someone play- A Word From Our variety of hosts All rights reserved. All material disseminated by WCPE, ing the guitar, violin, or overturned buck- including compilations, is copyrighted or used under Membership Director ............32 7:30 a.m. Sing for Joy with Bruce Benson application regulations. ets on cobblestone. The smells, acoustics, everything about open air performances is 8:00 a.m. Great Sacred Music with Rob Kennedy Allegro; As You Like It; Classical Cafe; Quarter Notes; Rise and Shine; Sleepers, Awake!; TheClassicalStationand The enchanting to me. Weekend Classics with Claire Huene, 12:00 p.m.. Classical Station; and WCPE are registered or pending Greysolynne Hyman, Naomi Lambert, Is there anything else your listeners might trademarks or service marks of WCPE. Bruce Huffine, Jay Pierson, and a variety enjoy knowing about you? Mine is an of volunteer hosts WCPE interesting life, and I continue to learn. One P.O. Box 828 Preview with David Jeffrey Smith, On the cover: 6:00 p.m. Wake Forest, NC 27588 of the best compliments that I ever received Steve Thebes, and a variety of hosts 800-556-5178 was from a colleague, Bill Keeler, who once Katia and Marielle Labèque, Wavelengths with Ed Amend told an interviewer that if he had to be stuck featured on Brothers and Sisters. 9:00 p.m. Membership: [email protected] in a foxhole with someone, he would want 10:00 p.m. Peaceful Reflections with Ed Amend Editor: [email protected] Photo by Umberto Nicoletti. it to be me. My goal in life is to be a great Website: theclassicalstation.org mom and a good foxhole buddy. 1 home sweet home september calendar The world is so different since I wrote you 1 Tuesday 15 Tuesday last that it is very difficult for me to come Johann Pachelbel 1653 Bruno Walter 1876 up with anything substantial or meaning- Engelbert Humperdinck 1854 Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos 1933 ful which I feel would be appropriate, other Seiji Ozawa 1935 (85th birthday) Jessye Norman 1945 (75th anniversary than to thank you for your support of the Leonard Slatkin 1944 of birth) beautiful music which you are helping us to 2 Wednesday 16 Wednesday give to others. 3 Thursday Hildegard von Bingen 1098 We have received many phone calls and letters of thanks over the recent past tell- Pietro Locatelli 1695 17 Thursday 4 Friday All-Request Friday Saverio Mercadante (baptized) 1795 ing us that we seem to be one of the few ballet days great good things which have not changed. The Anton Bruckner 1824 Charles Griffes 1884 Classical Station remains a safe harbor and Darius Milhaud 1892 All-Request Friday, beautiful oasis to help listeners during these 5 Saturday 18 Friday Rosh Hashanah begins at sunset stormy times, and I thank you for your role J.C. Bach 1735 Anna Netrebko 1971 in keeping this important service running Giacomo Meyerbeer 1791 19 Saturday without interruption. Deborah S. Proctor Amy Beach 1867 Kurt Sanderling 1912 During the last recession, some of our General Manager Eduardo Mata 1942 20 Sunday supporters apologized to us saying that Marc-André Hamelin 1961 they could not maintain their prior level of 6 Sunday 21 Monday support. We thanked them for their past Gustav Holst 1874 difficult hours before that, others became weekend labor day Yevgeny Svetlanov 1928 help and offered to extend subscriptions new supporters, and many current support- Joan Tower 1938 22 Tuesday Autumn begins to Quarter Notes, our program guide and ers increased their level of help. 7 Monday Labor Day Henryk Szeryng 1918 member magazine, to all who were unable to renew at that time. We told them that they Allow me to once more thank you for shar- Jean-Yves Thibaudet 1961 23 Wednesday were there for us before, and we would be ing this gift of Great Classical Music with so 8 Tuesday 24 Thursday there for them now. All they needed to do many others, near and far. Antonin Dvořák 1841 John Rutter 1945 (75th birthday) was to get in touch with us and let us know; Most sincerely, Christoph von Dohnányi 1929 25 Friday All-Request Friday their past support made them deserving. Peter Maxwell Davies 1934 Jean-Philippe Rameau 1683 We would like to make that same offer 9 Wednesday Dmitri Shostakovich 1906 again, today,