Happy St. Nicholas Day!

Coming up on WWFM at 4:30 p.m. EST, it’s “The Miracle of Saint Nicholas” by Joseph-Guy Ropartz. Ropartz, a native of Brittany, and a pupil of Jules Massenet and César Franck, focuses on the infamous Nicholas legend in which three boys are slain by a butcher, and chopped up and pickled in brine, with the aim of passing them off as ham. Nicholas restores the youths, and the butcher repents. The story would later be set by Benjamin Britten, as part of his cantata, “Saint Nicholas.”

‘Tis the season, on WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org.