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Bach’s Birthday: Celebrate with WWFM and the Bach 500

That time Bach met Frederick the Great – what a ball they had.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdmcabpiGYU

Only five days left until March 21st – Bach’s birthday! We at WWFM – The Classical Network would love to celebrate by sharing Bach’s music on that day, all day. But in order for us to do so, we need 500 altruistic music lovers to help make it happen.

Every March, we pitch the “Bach 500.” We request that 500 listeners step up and make a contribution IN ANY AMOUNT. When we reach that goal of 500 contributions, we immediately shut our pie holes and start spinning the platters like nobody’s business. No more talk of filthy lucre. Only pure enjoyment of some of the most transcendent music ever written.

In order to make this paradisal vision a reality, we need to have those 500 contributions in hand by March 21st. So if you’ve received a renewal notice in the mail, get your check in that return envelope and send it back to us ASAP! We’d like it to count toward this important goal.

Of course, you can contribute ANYTIME over the weekend at our website, wwfm.org. Click on “Donate.” You can also monitor our progress there by watching the mercury rise in the giant thermometer on the right side of the page. We’ve got a fever, and the only prescription is Bach!

Thank you in advance for your generosity, and here’s hoping that Thursday is a day of music, and not some bastardized version of a celebration interrupted by tiresome fundraising . Bach deserves more than that, and so do you!

Note to self: don’t use words like “pie hole” and “bastardized” in front of the king

March 16, 2019
Bach 500 Donations Needed Support Classical Music

Johann Sebastian Bach’s two wives may have borne him twenty children; but their pains were as nothing next to the protracted labor of this year’s Bach 500. We are still pushing – in part because of last week’s snowstorm, which delayed fundraising – toward our ultimate goal of 500 donations.

If 500 listeners to The Classical Network step up and contribute in any amount, we will stop with the solicitations and return to uninterrupted music. We are now to the point that we need just a little over 60 donations to wrap up this campaign. For you, it will mean less talk and more music; for us, it will mean $15,000 in challenge money for the station.

Have you become one of the 500? Your contribution doesn’t have to break the bank. $10 or $20 counts as much as $100 or $200 toward the quota. Of course, we always hope you can be as generous as you can. Do it today at our website, wwfm.org – click on “donate now,” beneath the membership thermometer – or call 1-888-232-1212.

I’d be especially appreciative if we could reach the 500 BEFORE I have to go on the air today. Wouldn’t it be nice to enjoy just music, from 4 to 7 p.m. EDT? I think so. You can help make it happen. Thank you for your support of WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org.

March 26, 2018
Bach 500 Support Classical Music & Skip the Fundraiser

Perhaps you’re a little tired of hearing about Bach by now.

If you don’t know what I’m talking about, The Classical Network is heading into the homestretch on its annual “Bach 500.” In case you haven’t caught any of the pitches over the past weeks, if we can persuade 500 listeners to donate to the station IN ANY AMOUNT, we will cancel the on-air fundraiser we’ve got planned for March 21st – Bach’s birthday – and instead kick back and enjoy a celebratory day of just Bach’s music.

Have you become one of the 500 yet? It doesn’t take much. Kick in ten or twenty bucks, and you’ll be counted toward the total. Of course, if you can go higher, that’s even better! Do it now, at our website, wwfm.org (look under the membership thermometer at the right of the page), or call during regular business hours at 1-888-232-1212.

To get you in the spirit, among the featured recordings I’ve selected for today’s afternoon commute, from 4 to 7 p.m. EDT, will be some Bach-related music by Max Reger and a characteristically superb performance of some Bach keyboard music by the great Romanian pianist Dinu Lipatti.

By all means, enjoy these musical offerings, but trust me when I say they will be that much more enjoyable once you’ve made the commitment to become one of the 500. Thank you for your support of WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org!

March 19, 2018
Classical Music Thanks & Hamish MacCunn Birthday

Thanks to all of you who helped us along this month on the “Bach 500” (and I did see some of your names on the computer screen yesterday). We’re still a little shy of the desired 500 contributions, so if you haven’t given yet, it’s not too late. Remember, you set the amount. It doesn’t matter how much you pledge, just that we receive 500 donations, from listeners just like you. Call during regular business hours, at 1-888-232-1212, or support us any time at wwfm.org. Again, thank you for all that you do for The Classical Network!

For today, we move beyond Bach, with musical stops in Scotland, as we celebrate the birthday of Hamish MacCunn, and Finland, as we observe the anniversary of the birth of Tauno Pylkkänen. We’ll also have music by Pulitzer Prize winner Joseph Schwantner, a selection from the Requiem of musical theatre superstar Andrew Lloyd Webber, and some musical jokes courtesy of Gerard Hoffnung.

Join me today, from 4 to 7 EDT, to hear what your support hath wrought, on WWFM – The Classical Network and at wwfm.org.

Gerard Hoffnung and two of his creations

March 22, 2017
Happy Birthday Bach Celebrate & Support WWFM

Happy birthday, Bach!

The day of reckoning is upon us. Join us as we celebrate Bach’s music and attempt to restock the station’s larder for another season.

Our annual “Bach 500” was designed to encourage 500 listeners just like you to support us in any amount. Once we hit 500 contributions, we will be able to tally in additional money, solicited in advance, from the “Bach Pot,” and then we can all just kick back and enjoy the music.

As a show of thanks, The Classical Network will present a free concert made up of Bach cantatas and organ works, performed by musicians from New York’s Trinity Wall Street. These are the same musicians you enjoy every Monday afternoon on “Bach at 1.” The concert will take place tonight at Miller Chapel on the campus of Princeton Theological Seminary. The program will be broadcast live at 8 p.m., so if you plan to go, please arrive no later than 7:50.

In the meantime, join us for music and membership, today from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. I’ll be sharing the air waves and programming duties from noon to 3:00 and again from 6:00 to 8:00. I’ll also be manning the board in the studio for the duration of the concert.

We hope you’ll be as generous as you can, but please do donate in whatever amount. Like you, we all prefer Bach to fundraising!

Call now at 1-888-232-1212, or contribute online at wwfm.org. Thank you, as always, for your support of Bach, Beethoven, Britten, and all the rest, on WWFM – The Classical Network.

March 21, 2017

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