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Classical Music Birthday Party This Afternoon

This afternoon on The Classical Network, it will be a veritable clown car full of birthday anniversaries, as we celebrate the artistry of composers William Billings (the Early American tanner), Felix Draeseke (a protégé of Liszt), Bernhard Molique (admirer of Spohr), and Ivan Jirko (the Czech psychiatrist), conductors Charles Dutoit and Alfred Wallenstein, and pianists Shura Cherkassky and Yundi Li.

So much music, so little time. We’ll be handing out gifts like so many cream pies, from 4 to 7 p.m. EDT, on WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org.

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October 7, 2019
Dutoit Celebrated with Ma & Dragons

Sacre bleu! Charles Dutoit is 80 years-old!

Join me this afternoon as we celebrate the Swiss-born conductor by sampling some of his very fine recordings, including music by Ravel and Roussel. We’ll also hear a piano concerto by the German romantic Felix Draeseke, on his birthday anniversary. Yo-Yo Ma turns 61 today; can’t forget him. And we’ll acknowledge Willing Billings, who was a tanner by trade, but became a composer of incendiary anthems during the American Revolution.

All that, beginning at 4:00 EDT, on WWFM – The Classical Network and at wwfm.org.

Then stick around for “Picture Perfect” at 6. This week the focus will be on music from movies about dragons. We’ve a fire in our belly today! Watch out for a more complete write-up later on this afternoon.

PHOTOS (clockwise from left): Dutoit, Billings, Draeseke, and Ma

October 7, 2016

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