Searching through my saved photos for some WWFM – The Classical Network memories. Here are four of many. Help us celebrate 40 years with your donation of $40 (or more) at 1-888-232-1212 or online at wwfm.org. Thank you for everything you do to support the music we love to share.
CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT: cueing up a symphony by Janis Ivanovs; group hug with Bill Zagorski and Rachel Katz; between membership pitches with Michael Kownacky; New Year’s hijinks with Carl Hemmingsen
Since the COVID tsunami broke across central New Jersey, I have not been able to get in to the station to upload webcasts from my two specialty shows, “Picture Perfect” and “The Lost Chord.” So for months, the most recent shows archived on the WWFM website dated from around St. Patrick’s Day – or roughly the time I began cultivating my coronabeard.
That now has been remedied, to some extent, thanks to production manager Rachel Katz, who has been working from home, but, every once in a while, has had to don the hazmat suit in order to enter the college and ensure everything continues to fire as it should. Searching for and uploading audio from my overcrowded folder takes time, as does making sure that all the settings are correct, so that the material can be accessed from the WWFM website.
Rachel has also been instrumental in ensuring that encore broadcasts of “Picture Perfect” and “The Lost Chord” have continued at all, as I have been sending her lists of shows in five-week increments, and again, it is she who has been hunting them down and loading them into the system.
Most of June (excluding this past weekend) is now available on the station’s webcast page, as is all of May. As far as I can tell, there are only a few weeks – the last two of March, and a couple in April – that are still missing.
To listen to the shows, follow the links below, select the one you’d like to hear, and click on the “listen” button.
PICTURE PERFECT
https://www.wwfm.org/programs/picture-perfect-ross-amico
THE LOST CHORD
https://www.wwfm.org/programs/lost-chord-ross-amico
Again, many thanks to Rachel!
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We understand that times are tough, but any little bit helps. Our survival, and to what degree we are able to rebuild, depends to large extent on the dedication and generosity of our listener-members.
Thank you, as always, for your ongoing support of WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org!
So as not to conflict with “Picture Perfect,” Rachel Katz has adjusted the afternoon start time of her new segment, “On a Positive Note.” “On a Positive Note,” which made its debut yesterday, is a daily six-minute segment spotlighting musicians who are sharing their music and lifting spirits as we “shelter in place.” The segment will now air on weekdays at 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. EDT. A positive solution! Listen today on WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org. (“Picture Perfect” begins at 6.)
WWFM’s Rachel Katz, host of “A Tempo,” is launching a new feature, “On a Positive Note,” a daily six-minute segment spotlighting musicians who are sharing their music and lifting spirits as we “shelter in place.” “On a Positive Note” can be heard at 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. EDT, on WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org.
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