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Winter 2020–21 December • January • February Quarter Notes WCPE Radio, The Classical Station • Winter 2020–21 Beethovenfest Top 100 Russian Romantics Mozart Madness Simply Strings table of contents WCPE Daily Schedule Quarter Notes® Meet Your Host: Meet Your Host .......................1 Weekdays WCPE’s member magazine Tony Waller Home Sweet Home .................2 Vol. 42, no. 4 12:00 Sleepers, Awake with Sherman Wallace How long have December Calendar .................3 midnight WCPE’s mission is to expand the community of classical music lovers by sharing classical music with everyone, you been an 5:30 a.m. Rise and Shine with Kristine Bellino everywhere, at any time. We entertain, educate, and announcer at January Calendar .....................4 engage our audience with informative announcers, WCPE, and what 10:00 a.m. Classical Café with Elizabeth Elliott programs, and publications. We strive to make it easy to February Calendar ...................5 appreciate and enjoy Great Classical Music. attracted you 9:00 a.m.– Final Friday of each month: to The Classical Winter Highlights ....................6 10:00 p.m. All-Request Friday Editor: Christina Strobl Romano Designer: Deborah Cruz Station? I’ve been 1:00 p.m. As You Like It with Nick Robinson Printer: Chamblee Graphics regularly on the air Mondays This Quarter 4:00 p.m. Allegro with Dick Storck since April 2019. My Life in Music, Renaissance Fare .......8 WCPE Staff When I moved Monday Night at the Symphony ............9 5:30 p.m. 5:30 waltz Deborah S. Proctor ..........................General Manager & to central North 7:00 p.m. Mondays through Wednesdays and Chief Engineer Carolina, I discov- Opera House .........................10 Fridays: Concert Hall with Andy Huber, Dean Baldwin .............National Business Dev’t. Director ered that it is better than the typical concert Charles Holloway, Warner Hall, Larry Sundays This Quarter Kristine Bellino .............................Host of Rise and Shine music radio station. Hedlund, Bruce Matheny, Mark Schreiner, Bob Chapman ........Host of Thursday Night Opera House Great Sacred Music ...........................11 Christopher Scoville, and a variety of Gregg Cockroft ...................................Facilities Engineer How did you get involved in broadcasting, Preview .............................................12 volunteer hosts Adrienne DiFranco ........... Accounting/Member Services and do you have any exciting stories to Thursdays: Thursday Night Opera House Elizabeth Elliott ............................Host of Classical Café; Wavelengths, and share with us from your experiences? with Bob Chapman Music Library Assistant Peaceful Reflections .......................13 John Graham .............................Director of Engineering In prepping for an upcoming show, I like 8:00 p.m. Mondays: Monday Night at the Symphony Charles Holloway ..........................Writer and Producer* researching an anecdote or factoid that with Andy Huber, Charles Holloway, and a Met Broadcast Schedule .........15 Michael Hugo ................................................Announcer enhances the listener’s experience. variety of hosts Haydn Jones ..................................................Announcer 10:00 p.m. Music in the Night with Tony Waller, Rob Kennedy ........................ Host of Great Sacred Music What is your favorite genre of music? Who Program Listings ....................17 Mike Huber, Bob Chapman, and a variety and Digital Content Creator are some of your favorite composers and Joyce Kidd .....................................................Announcer 250th Anniversary of of hosts artists? I am a huge classical music fan. Dan McHugh ...................Director of Member Services* Beethoven’s Birth ...................28 Saturdays Mary Moonen ..................Underwriting Dev’t. Director; My favorites are the 19th century lyrical Traffic Manager 12:00 Sleepers, Awake with Haydn Jones romantics, led by Dvořák. My interest spans Lately We’ve Read Susan Nunn .........................................Member Services; the gamut from the 20th century’s Respighi midnight Web Team Coordinator Rough Ideas and Copland to the baroque Samuel Scheidt. 6:00 a.m. Weekend Classics with Lyle Adley-Warrick, Jane O’Connor ................ Acting Volunteer Coordinator By Stephen Hough ........................29 Helen Halva, Peggy Powell, Joyce Kidd, Stu Pattison .................................................Data Services Do you have a background in music per- and a variety of volunteer hosts Nick Robinson ...............................Host of As You Like It Classical Community .............30 Christina Strobl Romano .................. Publications Editor formance? I’m an orchestral percussionist 6:00 p.m. Saturday Evening Request Program with Dick Storck ......................Network Operations Director; as a member of two amateur community Classical Events and Haydn Jones Host of Allegro orchestras. I studied unofficially at a conser- Promotional Partners .............31 Sundays Sherman Wallace.......................... Host of Sleepers Awake vatory during my teen years. William Woltz .......................................Music Director* 12:00 Sleepers, Awake with Michael Hugo *This staff member is also an announcer. Tell us about your travels. Have you seen What You're Saying ...............32 midnight ©Copyright 1978–2021, WCPE Radio, Raleigh, NC. many concerts by different musicians 6:00 a.m. Weekend Classics with Chuck Till and a All rights reserved. All material disseminated by WCPE, around the world? Which ones stand out variety of hosts including compilations, is copyrighted or used under in your memory? My career as a con- application regulations. 7:30 a.m. Sing for Joy with Bruce Benson sultant moved me around the country and Allegro; As You Like It; Classical Cafe; Quarter Notes; Rise enabled me to catch the first performance of 8:00 a.m. Great Sacred Music with Rob Kennedy and Shine; Sleepers, Awake!; TheClassicalStationand The Dvořák’s seldom-performed Fifth Symphony Classical Station; and WCPE are registered or pending 12:00 p.m.. Weekend Classics with Greysolynne at two major concert venues. Hyman, Naomi Lambert, Bruce Huffine, trademarks or service marks of WCPE. Jay Pierson, and a variety of volunteer WCPE Is there anything else your listeners might On the cover: hosts P.O. Box 828 enjoy knowing about you? There is no Midori Gotō, featured 6:00 p.m. Preview with David Jeffrey Smith, Wake Forest, NC 27588 truth to the rumor that when I’m alone at 800-556-5178 on Beethovenfest Steve Thebes, and a variety of hosts the station doing Music in the Night that 9:00 p.m. Wavelengths with Ed Amend Membership: [email protected] I enhance the on-air music by playing Photo by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders. Editor: [email protected] “air timpani.” 10:00 p.m. Peaceful Reflections with Ed Amend Website: theclassicalstation.org 1 home sweet home december calendar Well, we are coming to the end of the year, 1 Tuesday 16 Wednesday beethovenfest after a most unusual drive—thank you very Rudolf Buchbinder 1946 Ludwig van Beethoven 1770 (250th much for helping us make this another vic- 2 Wednesday anniversary of birth) tory. This drive was the first time which we Zoltán Kodály 1882 John Barbirolli 1899 have really had a captive audience because Trevor Pinnock 1946 Maria Callas 1923 of the pandemic. Before, we had to try to 17 Thursday time the drive to get around sports games, 3 Thursday Domenico Cimarosa 1749 state fairs, and other events which would José Serebrier 1938 Arthur Fiedler 1894 have lessened listenership and participation 4 Friday All-Request Friday 18 Friday All-Request Friday because of the influence of alternate activi- Hamilton Harty 1879 ties. But not this time! We’ve gotten many Edward MacDowell 1860 Metropolitan Opera comments on three primary topics: Edmond de Stoutz 1920 5 Saturday broadcasts begin William Boughton 1948 The first theme is “Thank you for being there Francesco Geminiani 1687 19 Saturday through all of this.” We are thrilled to hear Vítězslav Novák 1870 Fritz Reiner 1888 from listeners who have a new love of classi- José Carreras 1946 William Christie 1944 cal music and those who have rediscovered it Krystian Zimerman 1956 Deborah S. Proctor 20 Sunday during this time. General Manager 6 Sunday Mitsuko Uchida 1948 The next theme is “Thank you for not talk- Nikolaus Harnoncourt 1929 ing about the virus and the ills of the world Henryk Górecki 1933 21 Monday Winter begins over the radio.” We made the conscious 7 Monday Pearl Harbor Remembrance Zdeněk Fibich 1850 of the partner stations who simulcast our decision not to focus on the pandemic, or Michael Tilson Thomas 1944 programming are helping untold multitudes Pietro Mascagni 1863 anything depressing for that matter, over the András Schiff 1953 get through this mess a little bit more easily. Daniel Chorzempa 1944 air. We prefer to be a refuge from the ills of 22 Tuesday Thank you for supporting and sharing Great 8 Tuesday the world. Carl Friedrich Abel 1723 Classical Music with the world without cost Jean Sibelius 1865 Giacomo Puccini 1858 The final theme is “I’ve been listening a or obligation to those who need it. Manuel Ponce 1882 lot more at home.” This increase has been James Galway 1939 23 Wednesday Thank you for being there for us, as we con- noticed when we look at our listenership 9 Wednesday Zara Nelsova 1918 tinue to be there for you. Claudio Scimone 1934 report. We are often now in the top ten Émile Waldteufel
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