Archive for February 11th, 2023
Silver Anniversary at WBJC! 🍾🥂🎉🎶
Today, even though I haven’t been on the air with you—this being a Saturday—I am celebrating my quarter-century with WBJC! I like to tell the story of when I was in the process of immigrating from Africa to America and I had this seemingly outlandish fantasy of being a classical music DJ somewhere on […]
Vocalise 2-11-23
8:00 PM Giacomo Puccini Madama Butterfly: “Un Bel Di” RCA/BMG 68883 COND Oliviero de Fabritis ORCH Rome Opera Orchestra SOLO Leontyne Price, soprano 8:06 PM George Frederich Handel Semele: “Where’er You Walk” DG/Archiv 453480 COND Sir Charles Mackerras ORCH Scottish Chamber Orchestra SOLO Bryn Terfel, baritone 8:13 PM Giuseppe Verdi Il Trovatore: “D’amor sull’ ali […]
Playlist: Feb/11/23
8:47 PM Leonard Bernstein — Candide Conductor: Leonard BernsteinEnsemble: London Symphony OrchestraJune Anderson, sopranoJerry Hadley, tenorDG/Archiv, 463598 8:26 PM Johannes Brahms — Neue Liebeslieder Walzer Opus: 65Conductor: Robert ShawRobert Shaw Festival SingersJohn Wustman, pianoNorman Mackenzie, pianoTelarc, 80326 8:18 PM Antonin Dvorak — Rusalka: “O Lovely Moon” Conductor: Sir Charles MackerrasEnsemble: Czech Philharmonic OrchestraRenee Fleming, sopranoLondon, […]
