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Labor Day Classical Music Tribute on WWFM

As Americans, we work hard, and frequently for too little compensation. This afternoon on WWFM, I’ll be playing selections to honor the integrity of the American worker for Labor Day. We’ll hear Aaron Copland’s “John Henry” and John Alden Carpenter’s construction worker ballet, “Skyscrapers.”

We’ll also have uplifting works in celebration of the American spirit, including Walter Piston’s Symphony No. 4 and Elie Siegmeister’s “American Sonata.” Picnics and the great outdoors will also be a recurring theme, with pieces like John Corigliano’s “Gazebo Dances” and A.J. Weidt’s “Sweet Corn.”

So go ahead, crack open a cool one and enjoy yourself. You’ve earned it. It’s back to the mines tomorrow. Hard times come again no more, from 4 to 7 p.m. EDT, on WWFM – The Classical Network and at wwfm.org.

September 5, 2016
Labor Day Movie Music on WWFM

Heigh ho! I’m pleased to announce that “Picture Perfect” will return to WWFM The Classical Network with music from movies appropriate for the Labor Day weekend. We’ll hear hard-working selections from “The Molly Maguires” (by Henry Mancini), “Modern Times” (by Charlie Chaplin and David Raksin), “Metropolis” (by Gottfried Huppertz) and “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” (Frank Churchill and Larry Morey). Tune in, as home from work you go, this Friday evening at 6 EDT, on WWFM – The Classical Network or at wwfm.org.

September 2, 2016
Picture Perfect Returns Labor Day Weekend

Only minutes left until the return of “Picture Perfect!”

I hope you’ll join me for music from movies appropriate for the Labor Day weekend, including “The Molly Maguires” (by Henry Mancini), “Modern Times” (by Charlie Chaplin and David Raksin), “Metropolis” (by Gottfried Huppertz) and “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” (by Frank Churchill and Larry Morey).

The mediator between head and hands must be the heart! Join me at 6 p.m. EDT on WWFM – The Classical Network and on wwfm.org.

September 2, 2016
Ponchielli Perlman and Rediscovered Mozart

Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh…

Today is the birthday of Amilcare Ponchielli. It’s possible you may not know his name, but you certainly know his music, thanks to Allan Sherman and Walt Disney.

Join me this afternoon at 4:00 sharp for his most famous piece, “The Dance of the Hours” from the opera “La Gioconda.” We’ll also have a chance to hear his charming Quartet for Winds with Piano.

Then in the 5:00 hour, among our featured works, we’ll have the so-called “Odense” Symphony, which generated a lot of buzz in the 1980s, when the rediscovered piece (uncovered in Odense, Denmark) was thought to be the creation of one Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

We’ll also celebrate the birthday today of Itzhak Perlman. At some point during the late afternoon, I would like to play his recording of Karl Goldmark’s Violin Concerto in A Minor. I don’t think it has been heard on the station for a little while. We’ll also enjoy a Brahms violin sonata in the 6:00 hour.

But it will be a riot of ostriches, elephants, gators, and hippopotami to begin, as I’ll be doing the heavy lifting from 4 to 7 p.m. EDT, on WWFM – The Classical Network and at wwfm.org.

August 31, 2016
Elgar Shelley and the Spirit of Delight

“Rarely, rarely, comest thou, Spirit of Delight!”

Sir Edward Elgar prefaced the score to his Symphony No. 2 with that quotation, lifted from a poem by Shelley.

I hear you, Sir Edward.

We’ll have a chance to listen to the symphony, among other selections today, between noon and 4 p.m. EDT, on WWFM – The Classical Network and at wwfm.org.

August 30, 2016

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