We made it! 500 donations achieved! We’ve crossed the finish line of this year’s Bach 500! Thank you for your generous support of WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org. Lots more Bach on the way, free of fundraising interruptions.
Enjoy the music on this lovely spring day, and get on to the important business of Sunday brunch, a winning combination of Bach and pancakes!
It’s the final morning for the WWFM Bach 500! Make a donation now, and this afternoon enjoy an all-Bach “Sounds Choral” at 2 pm and an all-Bach “Sunday Opera,” featuring three of his cantatas (since Bach wrote no opera), and more, at 3 pm EDT.
Of course, you’re getting all-Bach this morning, as well, but the fundraising will stop as soon as we cross the finish line of 500 contributions in any amount.
Consulting the membership thermometer on the station’s homepage, I see we’ve got just over 50 donations to go. If you haven’t contributed in a while, and you enjoy the service, and you can afford to so, please commit to whatever you can. Even $20 pushes us that much closer to the goal.
Again, we are looking for numbers of participants in this one, not dollar amounts. Once we reach 500 contributions, fundraising ends, and then we’re on to just Bach’s music.
Looking forward to that victory lap soon! Have a cup of coffee, then enjoy the “Coffee Cantata.” Your contribution keeps us in beans. Call now at 1-888-232-1212, or join us online at wwfm.org.
Thank you for your support of WWFM – The Classical Network, and happy birthday, Bach!
Drivers, start your engines!
If you haven’t heard yet, the Bach 500 is underway.
March is “Bach Month” on The Classical Network. In celebration of the anniversary of the birth of Johann Sebastian Bach (on March 21st, 1685), we’re looking for 500 listeners to step up and make a donation IN ANY AMOUNT. You set the level. When we reach 500 donations, we’ll tally in the funds from our Bach Pot – contributions solicited in advance from some especially ardent supporters – and, best of all, we’ll be able to cancel fundraising on Bach’s birthday and enjoy just his music.
You can do your part to make that happen by calling us during business hours at 1-888-232-1212, or by donating online anytime at wwfm.org. While you’re over there, at the website, you can monitor our progress by consulting our Bach 500 membership thermometer. You don’t have to worry about blowing our engines. Your donation is like a blast of nitrous oxide, but we’re definitely built for speed.
PLEASE NOTE: This year, the Big Day actually falls on a Saturday, so we will celebrate with a full day of Bach on Friday, March 20.
To keep us mindful, this afternoon I’ll be offering hourly reminders, harnessed to a short work of Bach; then another work in some way related – for example, one of the Preludes and Fugues of Dmitri Shostakovich (influenced by the “Well-Tempered Klavier”) – followed by something related to the related material, which ideally will have nothing at all to do with Bach, like a Glazunov symphony (Glazunov was a Shostakovich mentor). That will keep it varied, while still getting the message out there.
First, it’s another Noontime Concert, today featuring Tableau Vivant. The ensemble will present a program titled “Telemann in Paris.” Two of Georg Philipp Telemann’s “Paris” Quartets will flank a sonata by Michel Blavet.
The concert is another brought to us by Gotham Early Music Scene, or GEMS. GEMS is a non-profit corporation that supports and promotes artists and organizations in New York City devoted to Early Music. Free lunchtime concerts are held at the chapel of St. Bartholomew’s Church, 325 Park Avenue, in Midtown Manhattan, every Thursday at 1:15 p.m. To learn more about these and other GEMS events, look online at gemsny.org.
It’s music by Bach, from the time of Bach, inspired by Bach, and totally unrelated to Bach.
Please support it, and help us to cancel fundraising on March 20, by joining the Bach 500. We’re looking for your contribution in any amount at 1-888-232-1212 or wwfm.org.
Then enjoy the music. It’s Bach’s world; we just live in it, from 12 to 4 p.m. EST, on WWFM – The Classical Network.
Well, we made our goal and wrapped up fundraising around 1:00 this afternoon. Thank you again for being there for us for the past 37 years. It’s because of loyal contributors just like you that we are able to keep doing what we do best – that is to say, share the world’s great music – with the kind of passion and commitment you’ve come to expect from The Classical Network.
I hope you’ll join me this afternoon to reap the rewards of your generosity. We’ll celebrate the birthdays today of Johann Friedrich Fasch, Eugene Ormandy, Ignace Paderewski and Carl Maria von Weber, among others, from 4 to 7 p.m. EST.
All in all, a very nice mix, if I do say so myself, for an overcast November afternoon. Pat yourself on the back and cozy in for the kind of music you’ve made possible. Thank you again for keeping us strong at WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org.
Hats off to our listener-members!
It’s an afternoon of thrills and suspense!
I hope you’ll join us on The Classical Network, as David Osenberg and I sprint to meet another member challenge – today in the amount of $2000.
If we reach $2000 in listener donations, BEFORE 6:00 EST, we’ll get to tally in an ADDITIONAL $2000 toward our fall fundraiser. In other words, that’s a TOTAL OF $4000. Anything you contribute toward the $2000 is DOUBLED. $40 becomes $80… $50 becomes $100… You know the drill.
To get in on the action and really make a difference, please call us before 6 p.m. at 1-888-232-1212, or join us online at wwfm.org.
We’re chipping away at this campaign, and by the end of this afternoon, if we’re successful, we should be in position to wrap things up on Monday morning.
Don’t forget, for a contribution of $200, you can pick up an invitation to our Gathering of Gratitude Gala, which will be held at the Mercer County Community College Conference Center, on the West Windsor campus, next Friday (St. Cecilia’s Day), from 6 to 9 p.m. That invitation is good for you and a guest. There will be food, there will be drink, there will be scintillating conversation with our hosts. And there will be music, lots of music.
Our hope is to always be able to bring you plenty of music, but it’s only possible with the support of our generous listeners. When’s the last time you’ve contributed? Has it been a while? Why not toss us a few bucks? Your bones are doubled.
Once we’ve met this challenge (hopefully), we’ll all be able to kick back and enjoy music by Bernard Herrmann composed for the master of suspense, Alfred Hitchcock, on this week’s “Picture Perfect.”
The Herrmann-Hitch partnership, of course, yielded such classics as “Vertigo,” “North by Northwest” and “Psycho.” We won’t be hearing any of those. Instead, we’ll have less frequently-heard music written for some of their other collaborations – “Marnie,” “The Trouble with Harry,” “The Wrong Man,” “Torn Curtain” and “The Man Who Knew Too Much.”
The suspense is killing us! Help us meet this goal! Call us now at 1-888-232-1212, or contribute online (before 6 p.m., please!) at wwfm.org.
Thank you for your support of WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org!!
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