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Mozart Anniversary Broadcast on WWFM

Mozart, take me away!

I’m getting ready to hit the air waves with more Mozart – an assortment of symphonies, concertos, operas, orchestral, choral, vocal, chamber and instrumental music – in honor of the 264th anniversary of his birth.

Along the way, we’ll hear selections performed by violinist Jaap Schröder and hornist Barry Tuckwell, both recently deceased, and a recording of Christopher Hogwood playing a clavichord that once actually belonged to the composer.

If you enjoy the programming, please support it, with your contribution at 1-888-232-1212 or online at wwfm.org.

As an added incentive, this time around we’re offering, among our thank you gifts, a 2-CD set, “Quiet Time: The Music of Mozart,” available for your donation of $60.

At 7:30 tonight, I’ll be manning the board for a special broadcast of Westminster Choir’s Homecoming Concert, coming your way live from Princeton University’s Richardson Auditorium. David Osenberg will be your host for that. Then I’ll be back, following the concert, with more music until 10:00 EST.

Forget your cares with Wolfgang. Grab your shades and join the Wolf Pack, on WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org. Thank you for your support!

January 27, 2020
Westminster Choir Celebrates 100 Years

Every year at this time, Westminster Choir returns, following an extensive tour, to reunite with the Princeton community through its annual Homecoming Concert. What makes this year stand apart is that the choir really is going home.

To mark the 100th anniversary of the founding of the ensemble, in addition to its tour of the western United States – with stops in Seattle, Boise, Salt Lake City, and Garden Grove and La Jolla, California – and its traditional concert at Princeton University’s Richardson Auditorium, the choir will travel to Westminster Presbyterian Church, in Dayton, Ohio, where it was founded in 1920.

That pilgrimage will take place in April. The same program, presented under the title “Appear and Inspire,” will be sung at Richardson Auditorium, on Monday, January 27, at 7:30 p.m. Westminster’s director of choral activities, Joe Miller, will conduct.

If you can’t make it to the hall, the concert will be simulcast over WWFM – The Classical Network at 89.1 FM and online at wwfm.org.

Learn more about it, including a condensed history of the choir, the foundation of Westminster Choir College, and some of its very impressive credentials, in my article in this week’s U.S. 1 Newspaper – PrincetonInfo, out today.

https://princetoninfo.com/westminster-choir-celebrates-100-years/

January 22, 2020
Westminster Choir Homecoming Concert Tonight

When you’ve got a nasty cold, all you want to do is come home. It’s rather fortunate for me, then, that tonight will be WWFM’s annual broadcast of Westminster Choir’s Homecoming Concert. The program will be heard live, coming your way from Princeton University’s Richardson Auditorium, starting at 7:30 p.m.

Joe Miller will lead the world-renowned Westminster Choir of Westminster Choir College in works of Ēriks Ešenvalds, Ted Hearne, Dan Messé, and Claudio Monteverdi, as well as a selection of traditional American folk songs and spirituals. I’ll be sticking around a little later than usual to man the board and to provide the fill music, following the concert, up until 10 p.m.

You can listen to a preview of the program with Joe Miller and founding “Sounds Choral” host Marjorie Herman here:

https://www.rider.edu/events/westminster-choir-homecoming-concert-2019

Of course, I’ll be spinning the platters, as usual, beginning this afternoon at 4 p.m. I hope you’ll join me as I observe the birthday anniversaries of Johann Ernst Bach, Frederic Lamond, Vittorio Rieti, Arthur Rubinstein, Sir John Tavener, and Gregor Joseph Werner.

And I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised if we also hear music by William Alwyn, Johann Sebastian Bach, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Franz Liszt, Ottorino Respighi, and Camille Saint-Saëns, with a couple of send-offs to organist Jean Guillou and composer Michel Legrand, both of whom died over the weekend.

I’ll be sure to have plenty of tissues and lozenges on hand. I invite you to come home to great music, from 4 to 10 p.m. EST, on WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org.

January 28, 2019
Westminster Choir Homecoming Concert Live Tonight

Owl be hanging out a little later than usual tonight on The Classical Network, as owl be manning the board for a live broadcast of Westminster Choir’s Homecoming Concert from Richardson Auditorium on the campus of Princeton University. On the program will be Frank Martin’s Mass for Double Choir, Gyorgy Ligeti’s “Lux Aeterna,” Randall Thompson’s “Alleluia,” and more. Joe Miller will direct. The concert will commence at 7:30 p.m.

Beginning at 4:00, and to take us up to the start of the simulcast, owl be presenting the usual afternoon mix, peppered with ample birthday anniversaries. Owl also do the “fill” following the concert, until 10 p.m. Sure, it will be a long shift, but all in all, I’d say it will be worthy of your interest. Owl be seeing you, between 4 and 10 p.m. EST, on WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org.

January 22, 2018

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