In need of exercise, and now exorcism: Please support WWFM – The Classical Network. We only have until 7:00 to make our goal and wrap up this important end-of-the-fiscal-year campaign. Already there are some here who seem to be on the verge of signing human parchment. Make your tax-deductible gift now at 1-888-232-1212, or contribute online at wwfm.org. Thank you, from the very bottom of our souls!
Category: Daily Dispatch
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Reformation Music & Halloween Fun on WWFM
Okay, so maybe Halloween is not for everyone.
Today’s Noontime Concert on The Classical Network will commemorate the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation, which was sparked on October 31, 1517, when Martin Luther nailed his “Ninety-five Theses” to the door of All Saints’ Church in Wittenberg. To mark the occasion, we’ll share a program presented in Princeton last month by the Kinnara Ensemble, featuring works by Luther, César Franck, Thomas Tallis, Johann Sebastian Bach, Johannes Brahms, and Hugo Distler.
Following that, Michael Kownacky will join me at 1:00. Be forewarned, the two us are feeling rather… diabolical. We’ll be force-feeding you musical candy corn until David Osenberg returns to the air waves at 4 p.m, on this, the final day of our Fall Membership Campaign. We need to wrap up this drive, in the black, by 7:00. Until then, we are very definitely “in the red” – as in scarlet.
It’s music of the sacred and the profane, on this October 31, here on WWFM – The Classical Network. Please support us at wwfm.org or by calling 1-888-232-1212.
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Classical Music Halloween & Reformation Drive
The airwaves will resound with shrieks of horror and mad laughter – and not just because it’s Halloween.
Today is the last day of The Classical Network’s Fall Membership Campaign. We’re all getting a little punchy, so if you haven’t supported us recently, please do so now, before it’s too late! It’s the end of our fiscal year, and we need your help to put us in the black.
The sooner we meet our goal, the sooner we can devote the day to uninterrupted music, including some of the larger symphonic poems and suites on spooky themes. In the meantime, we will do our best to keep you entertained with bite-sized works – tricks or treats dealing with ghosts, ghouls and witches. So the gibbering madness won’t be restricted to our on-air hosts.
On today’s Noontime Concert, we’ll commemorate the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation. It was on this date in 1517 that Martin Luther allegedly nailed his “Ninety-five Theses” to the door of All Saints’ Church in Wittenberg. To mark the occasion, we’ll share a program presented in Princeton last month by the Kinnara Ensemble, featuring works by Luther, César Franck, Thomas Tallis, Johann Sebastian Bach, Johannes Brahms, and Hugo Distler. More information about the choir, including its new CD, “Provenance,” may be found at its website, kinnaraensemble.org.
Now is your time to howl! Join us in membership. Help us to wrap up our fall campaign and make this drive a success by calling 1-888-232-1212, or by leaving a few bones at wwfm.org. You are our life’s blood. Thank you for doing your part to support spellbinding music on WWFM – The Classical Network.
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Support Classical Music on WWFM
Raising money for public radio can sometimes seem like pulling teeth. Help us reach our goal of $46,000 by calling 1-888-232-1212, or making your tax-deductable contribution online at wwfm.org. Then stay tuned, between 4 and 7 p.m. EDT, for music by Sir William Walton, Peter Warlock, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Antonio Vivaldi, Giacomo Puccini, Camille Saint-Saëns, Jean-Philippe Rameau, Agustin Lara, Manuel Ponce and more. Four out of five dentists recommend WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org.
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Halloween Night French Music Ravel Debussy Alkan
Ah! ce que j’entends, serait-ce la bise nocturne qui glapit, ou le pendu qui pousse un soupir sur la fourche patibulaire?
This Sunday night on “The Lost Chord,” we’ll have three works suitable for Halloween, all of them by French composers.
Sir John Gielgud will join pianist Gina Bachauer for recitations of weird and sinister poems by Aloysius Bertrand, to preface the three movements of Maurice Ravel’s “Gaspard de la Nuit” (Gaspard of the Night).
Claude Debussy was enthralled by the writings of Edgar Allan Poe, which he knew through translations by Charles Baudelaire. At the time of his death, he left incomplete sketches for two operas after Poe stories – “The Fall of the House of Usher” and “The Devil in the Belfry.” We’ll hear fragments of the former, conducted by Georges Prêtre.
Finally, we’ll listen to the third of the “Etudes in Minor Keys,” subtitled “Scherzo Diabolico,” by Charles-Valentin Alkan. Alkan, a sometimes neighbor of Chopin and Georges Sand, shared a home with his illegitimate son, two apes and a hundred cockatoos. Franz Liszt is alleged to have commented, “Alkan had the finest technique I had ever known, but preferred the life of a recluse.”
Best known is the legend surrounding the circumstances of his death: while reaching for a copy of the Talmud, which was positioned on a high shelf, the bookcase let go and crushed Alkan beneath it. It’s been suggested that he really collapsed while in the kitchen, but when the legend becomes fact, print the legend.
I hope you’ll join me for “Jacques o’ Lanterns” – lurid music by French composers for Halloween – this Sunday night at 10:00 EDT, on WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org.
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