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Early Music Month Festival Broadcast

March is Early Music Month. Join me this afternoon on The Classical Network for the first of two Noontime Concerts featuring highlights from the 2016 Guild for Early Music Festival.

Each year, the festival is held at Grounds For Sculpture, the not-for-profit sculpture garden, museum, and arboretum, located in Hamilton, NJ. This year’s festival will take place on the two stages of the Seward Johnson Center for the Arts, with possible supplementary performances held outdoors by strolling musicians, weather permitting, this Sunday, March 18, from 12:30 to 5:30 p.m. To find out more about this year’s Early Music Festival by the Guild for Early Music, look online at guildforearlymusic.org.

Or tune in: I’ll be joined today by Judy Klotz and Patricia Hlafter and on Friday by John Burkhalter and Janet Palumbo – all Guild musicians and board members – as co-hosts for music from the Medieval through Classical Periods. The fun begins today at noon.

Following today’s broadcast concert, stick around for a complete performance of “The Canterbury Pilgrims,” George Dyson’s choral music masterwork inspired by Chaucer’s “The Canterbury Tales.” Take a pilgrimage back in time from noon to 4 p.m. EDT, on WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org.

Early Music America

March 13, 2018
Movie Music Oscars Special on The Classical Network

“You see, this is my life. It always will be. There’s nothing else. Just us, the cameras, and those wonderful people out there in the dark. All right, Mr. DeMille, I’m ready for my close-up!”

Join me (and Norma Desmond) this Friday afternoon on The Classical Network as we mark the 90th anniversary of the Academy Awards with a SPECIAL THREE-HOUR BROADCAST celebrating the history of music in the movies. Hear selections from all five of this year’s nominees for Best Original Score, alongside music from some of the best-loved and most-honored movies of all time – including “The Godfather,” “Star Wars,” “Titanic,” “The Lord of the Rings,” “Lawrence of Arabia,” “Ben-Hur,” and “Gone with the Wind.”

The music IS big; it’s the PICTURES that got small. The playlist will be positively cinematic, this Friday from 4 to 7 p.m. EST, on WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org.

March 2, 2018
Classical Music Birthdays & Listener Appreciation

Unusually for me, I’ll have the conn this Thursday afternoon on The Classical Network. And what an assortment of birthdays to observe! Georges Auric, Jean Langlais, Michael Praetorius, Robert Fuchs, Friedrich Ernst Fesca, John Adams, Christopher Rouse, and Harold Arlen. Of course I’ll have a few other surprises along the way.

Where else are you going to find an afternoon playlist made up of music by these composers? Remember, it’s all made possible because of listeners just like you.

It’s Sustaining Member Appreciation Week at The Classical Network. I hope you will consider making a monthly commitment to the station in the form of an automatic charge to your credit card or bank account for whatever amount you decide. It could be $5, $10, $20 – you fix the amount. The donation will continue, once a month, until you tell us to stop. This will save us paperwork, it will save us man hours, and it will save us from losing revenue during the period after which a traditional, yearly membership will have lapsed. You can cancel or change your sustaining membership at any time.

We also encourage those of you who are already sustaining members to consider bumping up to the next level. If you’re already committed to $5 a month, do you think you can bump it up to $10? I mean, you’ll be abstaining from something during Lent anyway. Think about it – for the price of a doughnut and a coffee, you could double a $5-a-month investment in The Classical Network. You’d be strengthening the classical music service you love – and it’s a lot less fattening (Shatner).

Call us now at 1-888-232-1212, or visit our website at wwfm.org and click on the “We love our Sustaining Members” link at the top of the page, or the Valentine over to the right.

Thank you to all of you who have kept us strong over the past 35 years. I hope you’ll join me today – as a sustaining member – for another stimulating and uplifting playlist, from 4 to 7 p.m. EST, on WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org.

February 15, 2018
Black Marble Opera on The Classical Network

Marble is the new black, on today’s Noontime Concert on The Classical Network.

The violin duo of Jörg-Michael Schwarz and Karen Marie Marmer, collectively known as Black Marble, will perform a program titled “Opera for Two,” consisting of works by Jean-Marie Leclair, William Shield, Emanuele Barbella, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Schwarz and Marmer are co-directors of the popular Baroque ensemble REBEL (pronounced Re-BEL), named for French master Jean-Féry Rebel. “Black Marble” is an amalgam of the performers’ last names (Schwarz is German for “black,” and Marmer is Dutch for “marble”). The duo appears courtesy of the Midtown Concerts series presented by Gotham Early Music Scene (GEMS).

The concert was recorded on September 21, 2017, at St. Bartholomew’s Church, 50th Street and Park Avenue, in Midtown Manhattan, where free concerts are held every Thursday at 1:15 p.m. This Thursday, Les Soûls d’amour will present a program titled “Love and War,” exploring the many ways in which the trials of war and travails of love intersect and collide. You’ll find a complete schedule of lunchtime performances at midtownconcerts.org.

In addition, GEMS presents evening concerts. The Boston-based Lorelei Ensemble will perform music spanning the centuries from the Medieval Era to contemporary Americana, this Friday at 7:30 p.m., at the Church of St. Luke in the Fields, 487 Hudson Street (just south of Christopher).

The Ensemble Origo and UConn Collegium Musicum will perform a program of sacred Bach cantatas, this Saturday at 8, at Good Shepherd-Faith Presbyterian Church, 152 West 66th Street.

And the Bach Choir of Holy Trinity and Bach Orchestra will perform on Sunday afternoon at 5, at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, 3 West 65th Street.

Gotham Early Music Scene is a non-profit corporation that supports and promotes artists and organizations in New York City devoted to early music – music of the Middle Ages, Renaissance, Baroque, and early Classical periods. For more information and GEMS’ events calendar, look online at gemsny.org.

It’s a concert for all the marbles, with winners guaranteed, this Tuesday at 12:00 EST, on WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org.

Rebel: Ensemble for Baroque Music

February 6, 2018
Accordion Concert Preview on The Classical Network

If the accordion is your thing – or even if you think it’s not – I hope you’ll join me this Wednesday afternoon on The Classical Network for a visit from Robert Young McMahan.

McMahan, who is on the faculty of The College of New Jersey, is one of the foremost authorities on the instrument. He’ll drop by to talk about an upcoming concert that will take place this Saturday at Mayo Concert Hall in the TCNJ Music Building titled “Bellows and Bows: A Potpourri of Chamber Works for Violin, Cello, and Accordion.” The 8:00 program will include works by Lukas Foss, Johan Halvorsen, George Kleinsinger, Edward McQuire, Alberto Acosta Ortega, Mátyás Seiber, Jaroslav Vanĕc̆e, Heitor Villa-Lobos, and McMahan himself.

We’ll also get a taste of the accordion’s striking sonorities when applied to the classical repertoire. Join us for music and a brief conversation this afternoon at 4:00. It will certainly lend variety to a projected Schubert birthday celebration, from 4 to 7 p.m. EST, on WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org.

January 31, 2018

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