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Winter 2019–20 December • January • February Quarter Notes WCPE Radio, The Classical Station • Winter 2019–20 The Metropolitan Opera Beethovenfest Russian Romantics Mozart Madness Simply Strings table of contents WCPE Daily Schedule Quarter Notes® Meet Your Host .......................1 Weekdays WCPE’s member magazine Home Sweet Home .................2 Vol. 41, no. 4 12:00 Sleepers, Awake! with Sherman Wallace December Calendar .................3 midnight WCPE’s mission is to expand the community of Classical music lovers by sharing Classical music with everyone, January Calendar .....................4 5:30 a.m. Rise and Shine with Phil Davis Campbell everywhere, at any time. We entertain, educate, and engage our audience with informative announcers, February Calendar ...................5 10:00 a.m. Classical Café with a variety of hosts programs, and publications. We strive to make it easy to appreciate and enjoy Great Classical Music. Winter Highlights ....................6 9:00 a.m.– Final Friday of each month: 10:00 p.m. All-Request Friday Editor: Christina Strobl Romano Mondays This Quarter Designer: Deborah Cruz As You Like It with Nick Robinson 1:00 p.m. Printer: Chamblee Graphics My Life in Music, Renaissance Fare .......8 4:00 p.m. Allegro with Dick Storck Monday Night at the Symphony ............9 WCPE Staff 5:30 p.m. 5:30 waltz Opera House .........................10 Deborah S. Proctor .....................General Manager & 7:00 p.m. Mondays through Wednesdays and Chief Engineer Sundays This Quarter Fridays: WCPE Concert Hall with Andy Meet Your Host: Phil Davis Campbell ............... Network Broadcasting Great Sacred Music ...........................11 Huber, Charles Holloway, Warner Director Preview ............................................. Hall, Larry Hedlund, Bruce Matheny, Bob Chapman ............................... Opera House Host Chas Holloway 12 Christopher Scoville, Mark Schreiner, Gregg Cockroft ..............................Facilities Engineer How long have you been an announcer Wavelengths, and and a variety of volunteer hosts Adrienne DiFranco ......Accounting/Member Services Peaceful Reflections .......................13 Thursdays: WCPE Opera House at WCPE, and what attracted you to John Graham ........................Director of Engineering with Bob Chapman The Classical Station? My wife and I Deborah Proctor presented Stanley Ray Hoffman ................................Announcer moved from California to North Carolina 8:00 p.m. Mondays: Monday Night at the Symphony Chas Holloway ...................Announcer and Producer with North Carolina Award ...12 with Andy Huber, Charles Holloway, and a a year and a half ago. I was curious about Michael Hugo ...........................................Announcer variety of hosts who owned the giant antenna next to our Met Broadcast Schedule .........14 Haydn Jones .............................................Announcer neighborhood and discovered it was WCPE, 10:00 p.m. Music in the Night with Bob Chapman, Rob Kennedy ........................ Social Media Director*; Program Listings ....................16 Michael Hugo, Mike Huber, Bo Degnan, Great Sacred Music host The Classical Station. I’m a lifelong Classical Claire Huene, Joe Johnston, Dave Dan McHugh ..............Director of Member Services* music fan and decided to volunteer in Conversations and Podcasts ...28 Stackowicz, and a variety of hosts Mary Moonen ..........................Business Support and January 2019. I later was hired! The Triangle WCPE Education Saturdays Traffic Manager area is a remarkable and creative place. The Susan Nunn ....................................Member Services; Fund News ............................28 Sleepers, Awake! with Haydn Jones music scene here is one of the best I’ve seen 12:00 Web Team Coordinator midnight anywhere in the U.S., and The Classical Lately We’ve Read Jane O’Connor ........... Acting Volunteer Coordinator Station is one reason. I’m having a blast The Karl Muck Scandal 6:00 a.m. Weekend Classics with Lyle Adley-Warrick, Stu Pattison ........................................... Data Services Helen Halva, Peggy Powell, Joyce Kidd, Nan Pincus ........................... Music Library Assistant broadcasting and creating content. The tal- By Melissa D. Burrage ...................29 and a variety of volunteer hosts ent at the station is also remarkable. Nick Robinson ..........................................Announcer Classical Community .............30 6:00 p.m. Saturday Evening Request Program with Christina Strobl Romano ......Director of Publications Do you have a background in music? I Classical Events and Haydn Jones Dick Storck ................Network Operations Director* produced Classical music in the 1990s Sherman Wallace.......................................Announcer Promotional Partners .............31 Sundays and worked with the largest independent William Woltz ..................................Music Director* Sleepers, Awake! with Michael Hugo Classical music distribution company in What You're Saying ...............32 12:00 *This staff member is also an announcer. midnight the U.S. at the time. The biggest project ©Copyright 1978–2020, WCPE Radio, Raleigh, NC. Donor Spotlight: Weekend Classics with Chuck Till and a I produced was the complete Beethoven 6:00 a.m. All rights reserved. All material disseminated by WCPE David L Parrott .........................32 variety of hosts is copyrighted or used under application regulations. Piano Concertos by the English Chamber Orchestra with Gustavo Romero on piano. 7:30 a.m. Sing for Joy with Bruce Benson Allegro; As You Like It; Classical Cafe; Quarter Notes; Rise and Shine; Sleepers, Awake!; TheClassicalStation and The Is there anything else your listeners might 8:00 a.m. Great Sacred Music with Rob Kennedy Classical Station; and WCPE are registered or pending enjoy knowing about you? Check out our trademarks or service marks of WCPE. On the cover: 11:00 a.m. Weekend Classics with Greysolynne new podcast, called Cadenza! It’s a news- Hyman, Helen Bowman, Claire Huene, WCPE A scene from Glass’s Akhnaten Dan Poirier, Naomi Lambert, Bruce magazine–style show about the Classical P.O. Box 828 music scene. It appeals to Classical music with Durham, NC, native Anthony Huffine, and a variety of volunteer hosts Wake Forest, NC 27588 lovers of all types—amateur musicians, aca- Roth Costanzo in the title role. 6:00 p.m. Preview! with Steve Thebes and 800.556.5178 David Jeffrey Smith demics, professional musicians, and anybody See pages 14–15 for the full Membership: [email protected] who appreciates great music. It’s an enter- Met Opera broadcast schedule. 9:00 p.m. Wavelengths with Ed Amend Editor: [email protected] taining, educational showcase for the talent Photo by Richard Hubert Smith/ 10:00 p.m. Peaceful Reflections with Ed Amend Web site: theclassicalstation.org we have here at The Classical Station. English National Opera 1 home sweet home december calendar beethovenfest It’s time we had a party! 1 Sunday 16 Monday We began broadcasting in the middle of July, Rudolf Buchbinder 1946 Ludwig van Beethoven 1770 1978—so we’ve been bringing you music for 2 Monday Zoltán Kodály 1882 Trevor Pinnock 1946 over forty-one years! It’s about time for us John Barbirolli 1899 to celebrate with an open house and invite Maria Callas 1923 17 Tuesday you to visit our station in the northeast part 3 Tuesday Domenico Cimarosa 1749 Arthur Fiedler 1894 of Wake County, between Wake Forest and José Serebrier 1938 Rolesville, North Carolina. 18 Wednesday 4 Wednesday Edward MacDowell 1860 As I write this, we are repainting the walls Hamilton Harty 1879 and sprucing up the building. As I look at Edmond de Stoutz 1920 5 Thursday our calendar, it seems that we should hold William Boughton 1948 our open house on one of the first weekends Francesco Geminiani 1687 19 Thursday Vítězslav Novák 1870 of December. Although it actually will be Fritz Reiner 1888 José Carreras 1946 our forty-second year, why not celebrate the William Christie 1944 (75th birthday) Krystian Zimerman 1956 fortieth year? 20 Friday Deborah S. Proctor 6 Friday You will see some impressive things, like the Mitsuko Uchida 1948 General Manager Nikolaus Harnoncourt 1929 shadow of the 1,200-foot tower. The tower (90th anniversary of birth) 21 Saturday Winter begins needs eighty-five acres for all the twenty-seven Henryk Górecki 1933 Zdeněk Fibich 1850 guy wires. The ground acts like the dial of Membership Drive. Your donations keep Pearl Harbor Remembrance Michael Tilson Thomas 1944 a giant sundial, and the tower acts like the this station going and growing and allow 7 Saturday Metropolitan Opera broadcasts begin (75th birthday) gnomon—and because the tower is so tall, you András Schiff 1953 us to make Great Classical Music available Pietro Mascagni 1863 can stand in the field at the edge of the tower’s to all public-service partner stations. Your Daniel Chorzempa 1944 (75th birthday) 22 Sunday Chanukah begins at sunset shadow and actually see it moving past you! help enables us to share our programming 8 Sunday Carl Friedrich Abel 1723 You might notice that you hear the call Giacomo Puccini 1858 without cost to these stations, and they can Jean Sibelius 1865 letters WCPE less; we say “The Classical stay on the air during overnights, weekends, Manuel Ponce 1882 23 Monday Station” so that listeners to our partner radio and school breaks. James Galway 1939 (80th birthday) Zara Nelsova 1918 stations hear only their local station’s call
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