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Strings Music Festival Steamboat on WWFM

Once again, we’re off to a Rocky start. But that’s not necessarily a bad thing, when you consider we’re talking about the Rocky Mountains and the Strings Music Festival Steamboat Springs, CO.

On today’s Noontime Concert on The Classical Network, enjoy highlights from a recital given by Cliburn silver medalist Kenny Broberg. The program will include César Franck’s Prélude, Fugue et Variation, Op. 18; Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 24 in F major “À Thérèse;” and Bach’s Toccata in C minor, BWV 911. We’ll also hear pianist Benjamin Hochman perform Bach’s French Suite in G major, BWV 816.

The Strings Music Festival is a summer series that presents music of the highest quality in a picturesque mountain setting. Each year, a genre-spanning lineup is performed by classical musicians from the nation’s top orchestras and chart-topping contemporary artists, all of whom appear in an intimate 569-seat pavilion nestled at the base of the mountains around Steamboat Springs.

This summer will mark Strings’ 32nd season. The festival’s nearly 60 events will embrace orchestral and chamber music, instrumental soloists, world music, blues, jazz, rock, a youth and family series, and free community programs.

The opening classical concert will take place on June 22 and will feature Wagner’s “Siegfried Idyll,” Grieg’s “Holberg Suite,” and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 4. The orchestra will be conducted by Michael Sachs. For more information and a complete schedule, look online at stringsmusicfestival.com.

Following today’s concert broadcast, stay tuned for more mountain music. Among the featured works will be Carter Pann’s “Slalom” – inspired by a family skiing trip to Steamboat Springs!

Go tell it on the mountain. We’ll present quite a range, from 12 to 4 p.m. EDT, on WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org.

June 11, 2019
American Music for Independence Day & WWFM Support

Get a jump on Independence Day with The Classical Network, as we rustle up a full playlist of American music to help enliven this fourth day of our end-of-the-fiscal-year membership campaign. We have only until Saturday at 11:59 p.m. to meet our goal of $70,000. So please, step lively and help us achieve our mini-goals and challenges, because we really need to stay on track and raise this money!

For your contribution of $70, we’d be delighted to send you a CD of a recreation of a 1930s-style radio broadcast from the Strings Music Festival of Steamboat Springs, CO. World-class musicians, drawn from some of the country’s great orchestras (including those of Cleveland, Los Angeles, and Atlanta), perform music by George Gershwin (“Rhapsody in Blue”), Jerome Kern, Vernon Duke, and more. Sportscaster Verne Lundquist serves as master of ceremonies. The program is introduced by the speaking voice of Gershwin himself.

The orchestral arrangements are by masters of their art, including Nelson Riddle and Herbert Spencer, who was John Williams’ right-hand man when working on the scores to “Star Wars,” “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” “E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial,” and so many others, until his death in 1992.

The CD was produced in-house and is available exclusively through The Classical Network.

Help us to preserve an oasis against the homogeneous clangor and insipid prattle of commercial FM radio. We are listener-supported. Our freedom to excel is made possible by YOU. It’s our patriotic duty to keep classical music strong in America! Call now, at 1-888-232-1212, or donate online at wwfm.org. We’ll be earning our stars and stripes – and hopefully Benjamins – until 7 p.m. EDT, on WWFM – The Classical Network. Thank you for your support!

June 28, 2018
Support Classical Music & Get Cool Perks

By this point of the membership campaign, I think everyone could use a stiff drink. Why not enjoy it in style?

For your contribution of $35, WWFM The Classical Network is now offering these snazzy wine vests, designed and created by Professor Barbara Behrens of Mercer County Community College (home base to The Classical Network). Behrens is a longtime supporter of the station.

Bump up your contribution to $100, and in addition we’ll toss in our in-house produced CD of a recreation of a 1930s-style radio broadcast from the Strings Music Festival of Steamboat Springs, CO. World-class musicians, drawn from the some of the country’s great orchestras (including those of Cleveland, Los Angeles, and Atlanta), perform music by George Gershwin (“Rhapsody in Blue”), Jerome Kern, Vernon Duke, and more. Sportscaster Verne Lundquist serves as master of ceremonies. The program is introduced by the speaking voice of Gershwin himself.

The bottle vests will be offered starting at 3 p.m. Join Michael Kownacky and me for Happy Hour at 4, when we’ll be serving up platters of musical aperitifs to help enhance the mood, including David Shire’s “Sonata for Cocktail Piano.”

Then stick around for a special membership edition of “Music from Marlboro” at 6, including chamber music performances by Jonathan Biss, Lara St. John, Yo-Yo Ma, Mitsuko Uchida, and others, from the legendary Marlboro Music Festival.

It’s all made possible through the contributions of our listener-members. If you haven’t joined us yet, the party’s underway. Donate now by calling 1-888-232-1212 or online at wwfm.org. Thank you for supporting WWFM – The Classical Network.

June 27, 2018
Steamboat Springs Strings Festival on The Classical Network

You might say this afternoon will get off to a Rocky start. But that’s not necessarily a bad thing, when you consider we’re talking about the Rocky Mountains and the Strings Music Festival Steamboat Springs, CO.

Today’s Noontime Concert on The Classical Network will be drawn from two separate programs from last year’s festival, including a Baroque celebration, with works by Handel (the Concerto Grosso in G major, Op. 6, No. 1) and Neruda (the Trumpet Concerto in E-flat Major), and a Czech chamber music concert, including works by Smetana (the Duo for Violin and Piano “From My Homeland”) and Martinu (the Trio in F major for Flute, Cello and Piano).

Strings Music Festival presents music of the highest quality performed by some of the world’s finest musicians in stunning Northwest Colorado. This summer will mark Strings’ 31st season, which will include nearly 60 events, with 32 concerts and free community programs. The season will begin this weekend. The opening orchestra concert will take place on June 23. For more information and complete concert listings, look online at stringsmusicfestival.com.

This Friday at 8 p.m., The Classical Network will present “Rhapsody in Blue, Live and On the Air: George Gershwin in Steamboat Springs,” a recreation of a radio broadcast concert of the 1930s, with the Strings Festival Orchestra led by Loras John Schissel and special guest host sportscaster Verne Lundquist. On the program will be music by Gershwin – including “Rhapsody in Blue” with soloist Wendy Chen – Jerome Kern, Vernon Duke, and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov.

Following today’s concert broadcast, stay tuned for another tribute to conductor Gennady Rozhdestvensky, who died on Saturday at the age of 87. We’ll hear a complete performance of Tchaikovsky’s “The Sleeping Beauty,” presented live with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, from 1979.

That’s a lot of Beauty. Join me for this embarrassment of riches, from 12 to 4 p.m. EDT, on WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org.

June 19, 2018

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