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Marlboro Music Lives On WWFM

Just because the summer festival is over doesn’t mean that the music goes away. Representative musicians from Marlboro tour throughout the year.

This week on “Music from Marlboro” we’ll hear performances from two concerts given at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. Jennifer Johnson Cano, Mezzo Soprano, will appear in Ottorino Respighi’s “Il Tramonto” (“The Sunset”) for vocalist and string quartet, on a text of Shelley, recorded in 2010. Then violinists Joseph Lin and Judy Kang, violist Richard O’Neill, and cellist David Soyer will perform Claude Debussy’s String Quartet in G Minor, from 2002.

The program will open with Maurice Ravel’s “Introduction and Allegro” for harp, flute, clarinet and string quartet, captured at the Marlboro Music Festival’s Persons Auditorium in July of 2010.

I hope you’ll join me for another “Music from Marlboro,” this Wednesday evening at 6:00 EDT, on WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org.

Marlboro School of Music and Festival: Official Page

August 30, 2017
Rediscovering Sir George Dyson’s Lost Symphony

Sir George Dyson, an exact contemporary of Sir Arnold Bax, was enough highly regarded that he was honored with a knighthood in 1941; but, sadly, who knows his music today, especially in the United States – this despite the fact that his son, the physicist and mathematician Freeman Dyson, is professor emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and his grandson, also George Dyson, is an author and historian of technology who lives in Washington state?

Join me this afternoon for Sir George’s Symphony in G, composed in 1937 and out of circulation since the late ‘40s. The piece was revived and recorded for the first time by Richard Hickox in 1994. Hear it, among my featured works, between 12 and 4 p.m. EDT, on WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org.

August 29, 2017
Marlboro Music Festival: Casals & Hindemith

This week on “Music from Marlboro,” we’ll sample from two authorized recordings made at the Marlboro Music Festival and issued commercially on Columbia Records and Sony compact disc.

Legendary cellist Pablo Casals was affiliated with the Marlboro festival for the last 13 years of his life, from 1960 to 1973. We’ll hear Casals conduct Marlboro musicians in one of the orchestral suites of Johann Sebastian Bach. It was Casals who, at the age of 13, rediscovered Bach’s cello suites in a thrift shop in Barcelona. His 1939 recordings established the works as cornerstones of the modern repertoire. Casals’ loving, humanistic interpretations of Bach’s orchestral works (as well as those of Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn, and Schumann) form a remarkable capstone to an enviable career.

We’ll also listen to Paul Hindemith’s Octet for Winds and Strings, composed in 1957-1958. The work is scored for clarinet, bassoon, French horn, violin, two violas, cello, and double bass. Played by an impromptu group of eight talented Marlboro musicians, it’s as fine a performance of the piece as you’re ever likely to hear.

I hope you’ll join me for “Music from Marlboro,” this Wednesday evening at 6:00 EDT, on WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org.

Marlboro School of Music and Festival: Official Page

August 23, 2017
Cool Classics for a Hot Summer Day

With projected heat index values of 103, we’ll attempt to keep our cool today with soothing thoughts of summer and summery diversions. We’ll have vacation music, music inspired by leisurely pursuits, water music, images of fountains, and aural evocations of perfumed breezes wafting through gently swaying greenery. Join me on this lazy afternoon for some languid classics, from 12 to 4 p.m. EDT, on WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org.

August 22, 2017
Solar Eclipse Classical Music Playlist

If anything, once we’ve all damaged our retinas trying to view today’s solar eclipse, we’ll have developed a heightened appreciation for our remaining, unimpaired sense of hearing. Bask in the warm afterglow of today’s syzygy by joining me on The Classical Network for a playlist curated from a wide repertoire of works inspired by the sun, the moon, and the heavens.

Highlights will include “Hymn to the Sun” from Pietro Mascagni’s opera “Iris,” ballet music from Jacques Offenbach’s operetta “Voyage to the Moon,” Kenneth Fuchs’ horn concerto, “Canticle to the Sun,” reflective of St. Francis of Assisi’s appreciation of Brother Sun and Sister Moon, and George Frideric Handel’s “Total Eclipse” from the oratorio “Samson.” There will also be musical responses to the mythological figures of Apollo (the sun god), Helios (the personification of the sun), and Phaeton (Helios’ son, ill-equipped to handle his father’s blazing chariot).

Make us the bright spot of your day, as we celebrate the eclipse, from 4 to 7 pm EDT, on WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org.

August 21, 2017

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