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Support Classical Music on WWFM This Summer

For many, the first day of summer signals a season of relaxation, more time spent outdoors, perhaps even a vacation or two. But for those of us in public radio, June means it’s almost the end of our fiscal year!

Help us help YOU by enabling the widest range of great classical music on the radio and hopefully more community engagement in the coming year, with your donation today. Your contribution in any amount helps us to set our budget for 2022-23.

Give us a call, send in your renewal check, or make a commitment online. Then be sure to have your radio, phone, or other electronic device with you this summer, so that you can listen with greater involvement, knowing that you’ve done your part to ensure the continued presence of classical music in your community.

Call now at 1-888-232-1212 or donate online at wwfm.org. Make the opportunity to enjoy the finer things over the coming weeks: a portable chair, a cold beverage, a good book, some fine weather, and a lots of quality music.

Happy summer, and thank you for your continued support of WWFM The Classical Network!

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June 21, 2022
Korngold’s Much Ado Premiere on The Lost Chord

This Sunday night on “The Lost Chord,” on Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s birthday, enjoy highlights from the world premiere recording of his complete incidental music for the 1920 Max Reinhardt production of Shakespeare’s “Much Ado About Nothing.”

Formerly one of Vienna’s most astounding prodigies, Korngold went on to achieve international celebrity as a composer for Warner Bros. in the 1930s and ’40s. His introduction to Hollywood was by way of Reinhardt’s 1935 film of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.”

For this recording, a 2013 Toccata Classics release, the music for “Much Ado” was performed for the first time in its entirety since 1933. Musicians of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts are conducted John Mauceri.

To quote the Bard, “Is it not strange that sheep’s guts could hail souls out of men’s bodies?” Strike up, pipers! It’s “Much Ado About Korngold,” this Sunday night at 10:00 EDT, on WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org.

May 29, 2022
Easter Bliss Ryelandt Josquin & Mass

Soon all the guests will have left, and all the dishes will be cleaned. Time to pop a couple of malted eggs, or to pour yourself a malt scotch, and to wrap up your Easter in inspiring fashion, with the Symphony No. 4 by the devout Belgian composer Joseph Ryelandt.

Ryelandt’s symphony, completed on the very eve of World War I, concludes with a triumphant statement of the Credo from the Catholic Mass. Then stick around for a Credo setting by the Franco-Flemish composer, of some four centuries earlier, Josquin des Prez.

Enjoy these two spiritual discoveries rooted in the Mass. That’s “Creative Spirit,” this Sunday night at 10:00 EDT, on “The Lost Chord,” on WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org.

April 17, 2022
Elmer Bernstein A Centennial Celebration

April 4 would have been the 100th birthday of Elmer Bernstein. Over a career that spanned some 50 years, Bernstein scored dozens of film and television projects, many of them now classics.

This week on “Picture Perfect,” sample his versatility with selections from just a few of them, including “The Magnificent Seven” (1960), “The Age of Innocence” (1993), “Stripes” (1981), and “To Kill a Mockingbird” (1962).

In all, Bernstein was nominated for 14 Academy Awards, but claimed the Oscar only once, fairly early on, for his work on “Thoroughly Modern Millie” (1967), of all things. His final nomination was for his very last score, for “Far from Heaven” (2002). Bernstein died on August 18, 2004 at the age of 82.

Elmer will have you glued to the radio, on “Picture Perfect,” music for the movies, this Saturday evening at 6:00 EDT, on WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org.

PLEASE NOTE: If you were hoping to hear some of Bernstein’s music for “The Ten Commandments” (1956), tune in next week, as we anticipate Passover with selections from Biblical epics from the Old Testament!

April 2, 2022
Silent Film Music This Sunday Night

This Sunday night on “The Lost Chord,” we’ll travel back in time to pretend the Academy Awards never happened, by revisiting the silent era and enjoying concert music inspired by some of its biggest icons – including Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin, and Rudolph Valentino.

We’ll hear “Valentino Dances” by Dominick Argento, “Cinema” by Louis Aubert, and a selection from the “Seven Stars Symphony” by Charles Koechlin. As a bonus, the hour will conclude with a charming encore, in the form of one Chaplin’s own compositions.

The personalities are still big – it’s the pictures that got small, on “Silents Are Golden,” this Sunday night at 10:00 EDT, on WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org.

March 27, 2022

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