For those of you who can’t get enough of my interviewing skills, today is your lucky day.
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 at the top of most every hour, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., with representatives of the following: HomeFront (9 a.m.), SAVE, A Friend to Homeless Animals (10 a.m.), Breast Cancer Resource Center (11 a.m.), Trenton Area Soup Kitchen (12 p.m.), D&R Greenway Land Trust (2 p.m.), Womanspace, Inc. (3 p.m.), Mercer Street Friends (4 p.m.), Trenton Community Music School (5 p.m.), and Centurion Ministries (6 p.m.). Tune in to learn more and see how you, too, can lend a hand.
I’ll also be joined in-studio by a special guest, flutist Mimi Stillman, as we present today’s noontime concert, “Dolce Suono Ensemble Goes to the Opera.” The program, which was performed live at Philadelphia’s Trinity Center for Urban Life this past September, will be made up of selections which, in one way or another, are connected to the opera, with works by Weber, Bellini, Meyerbeer by way of Frédéric Chopin and Auguste Franchomme, Carlisle Floyd, Donizetti, Bizet by way of François Borne, and Léo Delibes. There will even be an aria from Bach’s “St. Matthew Passion.” Featured performers will include, in addition to Stillman, soprano Sarah Shafer, cellist Nathan Vickery, and pianist Charles Abramovic.
After the concert, I’ll share Bruno Walter’s cherished, late-career recording of Beethoven’s “Pastoral” Symphony, a personal favorite, which concludes, appropriately enough, with a song of thanksgiving.
Join us for Giving Tuesday, all day long. I’ll be with you from noon to 4 p.m. EST, on WWFM – The Classical Network and at wwfm.org.