I’m only just getting around to it myself, but I hope you’ll consider supporting some worthy charitable causes before the end of the year. Giving Tuesday is a good reminder and a great excuse, since many of the donations being made today are being matched. And I’m sorry, Giving Tuesday should be for charity, and not for everyone who feels like they deserve a cut of the pie. Thanks for sparing a thought for those in need.
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The second half of Thanksgiving is giving. I hope, if you’re in a position to do so, you will donate to a charitable cause of your choice this Giving Tuesday. And I especially hope you will remember all the animals who, for good or for ill, are subject to man’s whims. Wherever you decide to give, may it be to a cause that tries to make the world a better place, or a kinder one.
It’s December 3, and we’re still feeling the aftershocks of Thanksgiving – and also perhaps the gravitational pull, a little bit, of Christmas.
It is the season of giving, and on this Giving Tuesday, The Classical Network will salute a number of non-profit organizations that continue to make a difference in our community. WWFM hosts will conduct brief interviews throughout the day, from 10:15 a.m. to 5 p.m., with representatives from the following:
HomeFront (10:15 a.m.); SAVE, A Friend to Homeless Animals (11 a.m.); Trenton Music Makers (2 p.m.); Womanspace, Inc. (3:30 p.m.); Princeton Senior Resource Center – PSRC (4:15 p.m.); and Trenton Area Soup Kitchen (5 p.m.)
Tune in to learn more and see how you, too, can lend a helping hand.
Of course, we’ll also serve up ample helpings of music along the way. Today’s Noontime Concert is a kind of Early Music Advent program. The Salisbury Four will present “The Soft Complaining Flute,” with selections from the 16th and 17th centuries. The program was presented last December, as part of the Midtown Concerts series, hosted by Gotham Early Music Scene, or GEMS, at the chapel of St. Bartholomew’s Church, 325 Park Avenue, in midtown Manhattan. Free concerts are held at St. Bart’s every Thursday at 1:15 p.m.
GEMS supports artists and organizations in New York City devoted to Early Music. You can learn more and view a complete schedule by visiting the events calendar at gemsny.org.
Following today’s concert broadcast, and in between interviews, I’ll be peppering my playlist with music of love, thanks, and concern for our fellow human beings, including Michael Abels’ “Global Warming” (the title inevitably suggests climate change, but the music itself celebrates the coming together of the world’s diverse cultures), Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 15 in A minor, Op. 132 (its third movement is inscribed by the composer, “Holy song of thanksgiving of a convalescent to the Deity”), and Aaron Copland’s suite from “The Tender Land” (with its song of thanks, “The Promise of Living”).
In addition, apropos of our visit from Trenton Music Makers, we’ll hear “The Music Makers” by Sir Edward Elgar.
You don’t have to give ‘til it hurts. It actually feels pretty good.
Giving makes the world a better place. Consider offering your time and support to those in our community who make it their mission to help others.
Music is hope. It’s consolation, and it’s inspiration. It’s the gift that keeps on giving, from 12 to 4 p.m. EST, on WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org.
I was joined in the studio at WWFM – The Classical Network by some most articulate guests on this Giving Tuesday – Susan Hoskins of Princeton Senior Resource Center – PSRC (bottom left photo) and Joyce Campbell of Trenton Area Soup Kitchen – representatives of organizations that make important differences in our community. Food, fellowship, self-confidence, and hope. The world would be a bleaker place for many without the heroic efforts of non-profits like these. They should not be taken for granted!
To mark Giving Tuesday, The Classical Network will salute a number of non-profit organizations that continue to make a difference in our community. WWFM hosts will conduct brief interviews throughout the day, from 10:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., with representatives of the following: SAVE, A Friend to Homeless Animals (10:30 a.m.), Joan Dancy & PALS – People with ALS Foundation (11:30 a.m.), TASK – Trenton Area Soup Kitchen (2:15 p.m.), Princeton Senior Resource Center – PSRC (3:15 p.m.), HomeFront – Helping Families Break the Cycle of Poverty (4 p.m.), Trenton Music Makers (5 p.m.), and Good Grief, Inc. – Putting the GOOD in GRIEF (6 p.m.). Tune in to learn more and to see how you, too, can lend a hand.
Of course, we’ll also enjoy ample helpings of great music along the way, including a Noontime Concert from Concerts on the Slope. “Voices of Latin America” will feature “Á Tres Voces” by Cuban-born composer Tania León (who is Slopes’ composer-in-residence) and “Fuego de ángel” by Puerto Rican-born composer Roberto Sierra. Also on the program will be the Symphony No. 2 by Ludwig van Beethoven – a composer who had very strong notions about the brotherhood of man – in a rarely-heard version for piano trio. Concerts on the Slope is a chamber music series presented at St. John’s Episcopal Church in Brooklyn.
Following the broadcast concert and between interviews, I’ll be peppering my playlist with music of love, thanks, and concern for our fellow human beings, including Beethoven’s “Bundeslied,” Peter Ilych Tchaikovsky’s “Ode to Joy” (yes, you read that correctly), Aaron Copland’s “The Promise of Living,” and Alan Hovhaness’ Symphony No. 11 “All Men Are Brothers.”
Music is the gift that keeps on giving, from 12 to 4 p.m. EST, on WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org.
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