Hanukkah begins at sunset. Get ready for the eight-day Festival of Lights. This Sunday night on “The Lost Chord,” I hope you’ll join me for music on Jewish themes and by Jewish composers, including “Aspects of a Great Miracle” by Michael Isaacson, “Three Hassidic Dances” by Leon Stein,” and “The Klezmer Concerto” by Ofer Ben-Amots. Enjoy your fill of light and latkes, on “Pieces of Eight,” this Sunday night at 10:00 EST, on WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org.
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Pianist Poizat on The Classical Network Today
When you tune in to The Classical Network this afternoon at 4:00 EST, you’ll be able to enjoy a conversation with François-Xavier Poizat, pianist. Poizat will perform a recital of works by Liszt and Ravel at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall this Sunday at 7:30 p.m. We’ll also hear selections from his new album, “PianOrchestra 2,” on the ARS Produktion label.
Then I hope you’ll stick around, as we’ll celebrate the birthdays today of composers Jean-Baptiste Lully and Ferdinand Ries (a Beethoven pupil); pianist, composer, and one time director of the Saint Petersburg Conservatory, Anton Rubinstein; guitarist Celin Romero (of Los Romeros fame); and Spanish polymath and movie star José Iturbi.
At 6:00, it will be a special “Music from Marlboro,” as musicians from the famed chamber music retreat band together under legendary artists Leon Fleisher and Pablo Casals for performances of orchestral works by Hindemith and Beethoven.
There will be much versatility in evidence, between 4 and 7 p.m. EST, on WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org.
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Giving Tuesday on The Classical Network
To mark Giving Tuesday, The Classical Network will salute a number of non-profit organizations that continue to make a difference in our community. WWFM hosts will conduct brief interviews throughout the day, from 10:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., with representatives of the following: SAVE, A Friend to Homeless Animals (10:30 a.m.), Joan Dancy & PALS – People with ALS Foundation (11:30 a.m.), TASK – Trenton Area Soup Kitchen (2:15 p.m.), Princeton Senior Resource Center – PSRC (3:15 p.m.), HomeFront – Helping Families Break the Cycle of Poverty (4 p.m.), Trenton Music Makers (5 p.m.), and Good Grief, Inc. – Putting the GOOD in GRIEF (6 p.m.). Tune in to learn more and to see how you, too, can lend a hand.
Of course, we’ll also enjoy ample helpings of great music along the way, including a Noontime Concert from Concerts on the Slope. “Voices of Latin America” will feature “Á Tres Voces” by Cuban-born composer Tania León (who is Slopes’ composer-in-residence) and “Fuego de ángel” by Puerto Rican-born composer Roberto Sierra. Also on the program will be the Symphony No. 2 by Ludwig van Beethoven – a composer who had very strong notions about the brotherhood of man – in a rarely-heard version for piano trio. Concerts on the Slope is a chamber music series presented at St. John’s Episcopal Church in Brooklyn.
Following the broadcast concert and between interviews, I’ll be peppering my playlist with music of love, thanks, and concern for our fellow human beings, including Beethoven’s “Bundeslied,” Peter Ilych Tchaikovsky’s “Ode to Joy” (yes, you read that correctly), Aaron Copland’s “The Promise of Living,” and Alan Hovhaness’ Symphony No. 11 “All Men Are Brothers.”
Music is the gift that keeps on giving, from 12 to 4 p.m. EST, on WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org.
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Dada Music at the Movies Concert
Check all rationality at the door. Coming up on today’s Noontime Concert: “Dada at the Movies” – music by Erik Satie, Darius Milhaud, and George Antheil – with pianist Guy Livingston, on WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org.
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Classical Music Double Surnames on WWFM
This afternoon on The Classical Network, to mark the birthdays of composer Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov and conductor David Lloyd-Jones, I’ve assembled a hefty playlist of musicians with double-barreled surnames.
We’ll marvel at the creative capacity of back-loaded and bottom-heavy artists like Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Sigfrid Karg-Elert, Julian Lloyd Webber, Peter Maxwell Davies, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Wilhelm Peterson-Berger, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe, Camille Saint-Saëns, Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, Federico Moreno Torroba, Ralph Vaughan Williams, and Heitor Villa-Lobos.
It’s music-making so epic, it cannot be encapsulated in a single name. Double your pleasure, from 4 to 7 p.m. EST, on WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org.
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