My heartfelt thanks to all of you who helped make our end-of-the-fiscal-year fund drive a success. In a breathtaking, record-breaking sprint into the home stretch, you helped propel us across the finish line at $80,000. Thank you for closing the budget gap and allowing us to look ahead to another year of great music. If you didn’t have a chance to get in on the action, you can always give WWFM – The Classical Network a push forward by contributing anytime at wwfm.org. Again, thank you for all that you do.
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Support Classical Music on WWFM Donate Now
This is it. The final day of The Classical Network’s end-of-the-fiscal-year fund drive. We are still a long, long way from $80,000. Can you help us out? If you don’t want to do it for the music, the creative programming, the specialty shows, the local hosts, or the enrichment of the community, won’t you do it for yourself?
If you love classical music, and it is important to you to be to be able to hear it on your radio, computer or phone, please consider tossing us a few bucks. Can you spare $10 or $20 a month? Or even $5? As with a good many things in life, the more you put into it, the more you stand to get out of it.
There may be other outlets for classical music, in terms of satellite, webstreaming or downloads, but you will be very hard pressed to find anything like our unique mix. We are passionate, we are committed, we are personable, we are thrifty, we are resourceful, and, when we can afford it, we are local.
If, like so many others, you consider WWFM – The Classical Network your home for great music, help keep us secure by calling 1-888-232-1212, or by making a contribution online at wwfm.org. Thank you so much for anything that you can do. Your gift is a gift to us all – the station, the music, the musicians, and listeners alike. We are gratified and so fortunate to be able to share music, and to enhance the quality of so many lives.
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Support Classical Music Keep Mahler Alive
“A symphony must be like the world,” Gustav Mahler famously proclaimed. “It should embrace everything.”
In a world of financial reality, it is impossible not to embrace the need to raise money. Help keep the music of Mahler and others accessible by supporting WWFM – The Classical Network. As we approach the end of our fiscal year, we thank you for everything that you do to sustain the beautiful music that you love. Call us today at 1-888-232-1212, or contribute online at wwfm.org.
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Support WWFM Classical Radio Keep Classical Music Alive
That’s great, Maria, but those of us in public radio need the dough in order to broadcast your recordings. Please take this opportunity to support WWFM – The Classical Network. Call 1-888-232-1212 or make your gift online at wwfm.org.
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Celebrating Carlos Chávez Birthday Today
¡Feliz cumpleaños, Carlos Chávez!
Join me this afternoon on The Classical Network, as I celebrate the birthday today of Mexico’s foremost composer and conductor. In the wake of the Mexican Revolution, Chávez (1899-1978) appeared like Quetzalcoatl, the creator-deity of Aztec lore, to forge a distinctive sound in Mexican music.
He became director of the Orquesta Sinfónica Mexicana, the country’s first permanent symphony orchestra. He was appointed director of the National Conservatory of Music. Later, he served as director-general of the National Institute of Fine Arts. At the same time, he formed the National Symphony Orchestra, which supplanted the old OSM.
In 1937, he conducted the world premiere of “El Salón México,” the work which essentially launched Aaron Copland into the mainstream.
Chávez himself was one of the first exponents of Mexican nationalism in music, writing ballets on Aztec themes. His most famous work is probably the Symphony No. 2, composed in 1935-36. Known as the “Sinfonia India,” it is based on melodies by indigenous tribes of northern Mexico.
The percussion section originally included a large number of traditional Mexican instruments, including the jicara de agua (half of a gourd inverted and partly submerged in a basin of water, struck with sticks), güiro, cascabeles (a pellet rattle), tenabari (a string of butterfly cocoons), a pair of teponaxtles, tlapanhuéhuetl, and grijutian (a string of deer hooves).
However, when the score was published, the composer sensibly substituted the nearest equivalents commonly used by most orchestras, though he requested that the originals be employed wherever possible. We’ll hear the work this afternoon in the 3:00 hour.
At noon today, The Classical Network will continue its partnership with Gotham Early Music Scene (GEMS), with a concert from Saint Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church in midtown Manhattan. The program of “Italian Jewels” will feature Nina Stern, recorder, Jeffrey Grossman, harpsichord, and Stephanie Corwin, bassoon, in music by Giovanni Battista Fontana, Tarquinio Merula, Arcangelo Corelli, and Antoniio Vivaldi.
It’s music from the Old World and the New, from 12 to 4 p.m. EDT, on WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org.
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