Hungry for stimulating music and entertainment? As always, The Classical Network offers up a banquet of vittles for your weekend delectation.
Pianist Orli Shaham will be guest host for this week’s “From the Top.” “From the Top,” of course, is a weekly program dedicated to celebrating young, classically-trained musicians. Hard to believe this show has now been around for 20 years! “From the Top” will air today at 12 p.m. EST on wwfm.org. You can also hear it at https://www.fromthetop.org/show/nprs-from-the-top-portland-me-show-380/
Shaham has no shortage of experience working with young folk. She has brought her popular “Baby Got Bach” program to Princeton several times. Shaham will return in the spring with “Bach Yard,” an interactive program for kids, at Richardson Auditorium on March 14. For more information, visit babygotbach.org.
As one who has been picking his way through “The Pickwick Papers” (what’s Christmas without 800 pages of Charles Dickens?), I also want to thank Ted Otten and Michael Kownacky for putting together what promises to be another lively and entertaining show, on this week’s “The Dress Circle – Public Radio Dedicated to the Performing Arts.” “Going to the Dickens, Part the First” will present numbers from stage and musical adaptations of Dickens’ evergreen stories and novels. Thank you very much! “The Dress Circle” will air on Sunday at 7 p.m. EST.
And in case you’re curious, I’ll be presenting highlights from Jaromir Weinberger’s “Schwanda the Bagpiper,” a Czech folk opera for the young at heart, on “The Lost Chord,” Sunday at 10 p.m. I know you’re wondering what else it possibly has to offer beyond the famous Polka & Fugue!
Please, suh… I want some more. Further listings available at wwfm.org. Sate yourself with a balanced diet of great musicmaking on WWFM – The Classical Network!