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WWFM End-of-Year Fundraiser On Now

This is it! Our end-of-the-fiscal year fundraiser is underway! Thrill to a different programming focus every day this week – women in music, for example, and American music, and something we’re calling “We Wednesday” – as together we work to shore up the station’s finances. We need your help so that we can continue to do what it is we do so well, undiminished. We’ll dazzle the ear, even as we celebrate our members, partners, and community.

Make your donation now at 1-888-232-1212 or online at wwfm.org. We’re willing to perform quadruple somersaults in order to keep bringing you the music you love. But we’re counting on you to be there for us. The spangled and leotarded staff of WWFM – The Classical Network thanks you for your support!

June 25, 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
Remembering Gennady Rozhdestvensky on WWFM

When I woke this morning, I was wholly prepared to celebrate an interesting assortment of musical birthdays during my air shift this afternoon. Then I learned that conductor Gennady Rozhdestvensky died over the weekend. The legendary conductor was 87 years-old. I’m still processing the information, but I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised if a lot of the playlist will be devoted to his memory. Tune in from 4 to 7 p.m. EDT, to WWFM – The Classical Network or wwfm.org.

PHOTO: Rozhdestvensky living the healthy lifestyle with Dmitri Shostakovich

June 18, 2018
WWFM’s Top Classical Music Countdown

The tumblers fall into place, the planets align. We are on the verge of achieving total syzygy.

This is it – the final day of The Classical Network’s “Play It Again” personal playlist membership campaign. From the 88 playlists (1,100 entries) submitted by WWFM hosts, partners, and listeners, these are the pieces of music that received the most votes. If you were to translate it into a Venn diagram, the “union” would be enormous.

We already know the “bottom five” of the top 40, as we wrapped up yesterday afternoon with music from Leonard Bernstein’s “West Side Story” (#40), Johann Sebastian Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 (#39), Maurice Ravel’s “Daphnis et Chloe” (#38), Igor Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring” (#37), and Franz Schubert’s String Quintet in C major (#36). We’ve just begun today’s final countdown with Antonin Dvorak’s Symphony No. 8 (#35).

Keep in mind that this our earnest attempt to engage you in end-of-the-fiscal-year fundraising. Whether you participated in this personal playlist project, or you are someone who enjoys the stimulating mix of music we present each and every day, it’s up you, as a listener, whether or not you choose to support it. We hope that you will be moved to do so.

Whether it be $200 or $20, your contribution goes directly into our fuel tank. We can only travel as far as our listeners allow. Won’t you be one of those who share our passion and commitment? Join us today at 1-888-232-1212, or online at wwfm.org.

Together we reach for the stars, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. EDT. Fill your Friday with glorious music beloved by us all, on WWFM – The Classical Network.

June 1, 2018
Memorial Day Music on The Classical Network

It looks like it’s turned out to be a gray picnic day in the Trenton-Princeton area. Nonetheless, I’ll be on hand this afternoon at The Classical Network to help lend a little color to your Memorial Day.

I hope you’ll join me for music of reflection, sacrifice and hard-won victory, as we remember those who gave everything so that we could enjoy the leisure and security of days like today, on which we relax and share food with friends and family.

Some of the selections will be Memorial Day specific, honoring our war dead; some will be classics composed during World War II; some will be works written for the U.S. military; and some will be more generalized nostalgic throwbacks to an idealized American past.

Tune in, remember, and give thanks, this afternoon from 4 to 7 p.m. EDT, on WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org.

May 28, 2018

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