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Bach Birthday Bash & 500 Supporter Challenge

All right, the college had a delayed opening this morning on account of yesterday’s snowfall, but today is the day! Join us for a belated birthday bash for Johann Sebastian Bach.

It will be all-Bach for the remainder of the day, with occasional pauses for us to remind you that we are trying to wrap up our Bach 500 challenge. We’re looking for 500 of you to step up and make a contribution in any amount. Once we reach 500 contributions, we cease our fundraising, and we can all just kick back and enjoy Bach’s music. We’re just about halfway there. Keep The Classical Network strong with your contribution!

Head over to the website, wwfm.org, and click on the “donate now” tab over to the right of the screen, beneath the membership thermometer. The thermometer is also a handy way for you to track our progress. Make that mercury rise by contributing online, or call us at 1-888-232-1212.

Thank you for your support of WWFM – The Classical Network. It’s because of the generosity of listeners just like you that we’ll be able to continue to bring Bach to the future.

March 22, 2018
Marlboro Music Festival: Casals & Hindemith

This week on “Music from Marlboro,” we’ll sample from two authorized recordings made at the Marlboro Music Festival and issued commercially on Columbia Records and Sony compact disc.

Legendary cellist Pablo Casals was affiliated with the Marlboro festival for the last 13 years of his life, from 1960 to 1973. We’ll hear Casals conduct Marlboro musicians in one of the orchestral suites of Johann Sebastian Bach. It was Casals who, at the age of 13, rediscovered Bach’s cello suites in a thrift shop in Barcelona. His 1939 recordings established the works as cornerstones of the modern repertoire. Casals’ loving, humanistic interpretations of Bach’s orchestral works (as well as those of Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn, and Schumann) form a remarkable capstone to an enviable career.

We’ll also listen to Paul Hindemith’s Octet for Winds and Strings, composed in 1957-1958. The work is scored for clarinet, bassoon, French horn, violin, two violas, cello, and double bass. Played by an impromptu group of eight talented Marlboro musicians, it’s as fine a performance of the piece as you’re ever likely to hear.

I hope you’ll join me for “Music from Marlboro,” this Wednesday evening at 6:00 EDT, on WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org.

Marlboro School of Music and Festival: Official Page

August 23, 2017
Good Friday Music on The Classical Network

Good Friday will be full of great music on The Classical Network.

At 12:00 EDT, we’ll hear a performance of Johann Sebastian Bach’s “St. John Passion,” live from Trinity Wall Street in New York City. The Choir of Trinity Wall Street will be joined by New York Baroque Incorporated, Wen Yang artistic director. David Osenberg will be your host for this special three-hour broadcast.

I’ll be along at 4:00 to share a glorious recording of Leopold Stokowski conducting the “Good Friday Spell” from Wagner’s “Parsifal.” We’ll also hear symphonies for Passion Week by Haydn and Paul Creston. Adolphus Hailstork’s “Sonata da Chiesa,” inspired by his fascination with cathedrals, will span a variety of moods, from mystery to exultation.

At 6:00, “Picture Perfect” will focus on “Lives of the Saints,” with selections from “The Song of Bernadette” (by Alfred Newman), “Saint Joan” (Mischa Spoliansky), “A Man for All Seasons” (Georges Delerue), and “Quo Vadis?” (Miklos Rozsa).

We’ll get a start on the Easter weekend with intimations of hope and renewal on WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org.

April 14, 2017
Bach Concerts at Princeton Seminary This Weekend

This weekend will be bookended by two concerts of music by Johann Sebastian Bach. Princeton Theological Seminary’s Miller Chapel will resound with the complete Leipzig Chorales, presented by students of Westminster Choir College of Rider University on Friday at 7:30 p.m. Then the Dryden Ensemble will perform a selection of sublime cantatas at the same venue on Sunday at 3 p.m.

The Dryden program is one of many that had to be rescheduled thanks to Winter Storm Jonas, which threw the region into chaos and had the effect of silencing area music-making.

For its annual Bach Cantata Fest, the group will present an assortment of recitatives and arias, including selections from Cantata 36, “Schwingt freudig euch empor” (“Soar joyfully upwards”); Cantata 78, “Jesu, der du meine Seele” (“Jesus, You, who my soul”); and Cantata 159, “Sehet, wir gehn hinauf gen Jerusalem” (“Behold, let us go up to Jerusalem”). Also featured will be the complete Cantata 82, “Ich habe genug” (“It is enough), sung by guest baritone William Sharp.

The Dryden ensemble performs on period instruments. The Westminster organ concert will include student singers.

Find out more about both events in my article in today’s Trenton Times:

http://www.nj.com/times-entertainment/index.ssf/2016/02/classical_music_westminster_ch.html

February 19, 2016
William Scheide Princeton Philanthropist Dies at 100

I learned last night of the death of William Scheide, who passed yesterday morning at the age of 100. Scheide was as generous as he was long-lived. He shared his abiding love for music, of course, especially that of Johann Sebastian Bach, of whom he was a respected interpreter and scholar; but he was also active in social causes, fighting against poverty, disease, hunger, ignorance and discrimination. He touched many, many lives in the Princeton area and beyond.

This article, which was posted on Planet Princeton yesterday, merely scratches the surface:

Princeton Philanthropist William H. Scheide Dies at 100

My sympathy to his family and friends.

PHOTO: William Scheide (center) with the Bach Aria Group he founded. Clockwise, from left, Eileen Farrell, Julius Baker, Robert Bloom, Paul Ulanowsky, Jan Peerce, Norman Farrow, Bernard Greenhouse, Maurice Wilk and Carol Smith

November 15, 2014

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