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Mark is WBJC's morning host. His full bio can be read here.

Jun. 16 2013

06/16/13 – Toccata Rundown

By Mark Malinowski | Posted in Host Blogs, Toccata | Comments Off on 06/16/13 – Toccata Rundown

PLAY DATE: Sun, 06/16/2013 6:00 PM            48235           Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck     Fantasia on b-a-c-h in d                Thorophon  2047 SOLO Stefan Hussong,accordion 11:56    C  1 1-1 6:13 PM            23332           Ferenc Erkel                  Sarolta                                 M Polo/HK  223318 SOLO Istvan Kassai, piano 13:32    C  1 6-8 6:26 PM            1290           George Gershwin               Piano Concerto in F                     London     14091 […]

Jun. 09 2013

06/09/13 – Toccata Rundown

By Mark Malinowski | Posted in Host Blogs, Toccata | Comments Off on 06/09/13 – Toccata Rundown

6:00 PM Sergei Rachmaninoff           Russian Rhapsody (first version)        London     444845 SOLO Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano SOLO Andre Previn, piano 9:01   C  2 4-4 6:13 PM Johann Sebastian Bach         Toccata & Fugue in F BWV 540            Cedille    9000006 SOLO David Schrader, organ 12:53    C  1 8-9 6:25 PM Frank Bridge                  Quintet for Piano,2 Violins,Viola,Cello ASV        678 ORCH […]

Jun. 02 2013

06/02/13 – Toccata Rundown

By Mark Malinowski | Posted in Host Blogs, Toccata | Comments Off on 06/02/13 – Toccata Rundown

6:00 PM Giulio Regondi — Morceau de Concert,”Les Oiseaux” Opus: 12 Douglas Rogers,concertina Julie Lustman,piano Bridge, 9039 6:16 PM Erich Wolfgang Korngold — Piano Sonata No.2 Key: E Opus: 2 Ilona Prunyi, piano M Polo/HK, 8223384 6:40 PM Franz Joseph Haydn — Piano Concerto No. 9 Key: G Conductor: Robert Stankovsky Ensemble: Camerata Cassovia Chang […]

May. 23 2013

This week on “Toccata.”

By Mark Malinowski | Posted in Host Blogs, Toccata | Comments Off on This week on “Toccata.”

I hope you can join me for “Toccata,” this Sunday.  In addition to music for 2 Pianos by Adolf Busch, and a Magnificat for organ by Scheidemann, I’ll feature a 1955 recording of Heitor Villa-Lobos conducting The French National Radio Orchestra with Pianist Felicia Blumental in his Piano Concerto No. 5.  He dedicated the work […]

May. 23 2013

Why do we need this word?

By Mark Malinowski | Posted in Host Blogs | 2 Comments

Foodie.  It has become a popular term, ever since Paul Levy and Ann Barr’s book “The Official Foodie Handbook.”  They coined the term. What is a “foodie?”  Basically, someone who likes food.   What?  WHO DOESN’T LIKE FOOD?  Seriously.  Actually, a “foodie” likes to be defined as someone who likes to try different foods, and experience […]

May. 21 2013

The leash…

By Mark Malinowski | Posted in Host Blogs | 1 Comment

I’m halfway in to work this morning, and realize I left my cell phone (or as they are now called–“smart” phones) on the charger in the living room.  Panic.  Oh, no, I don’t have my phone.  I actually looked at my watch and tried to figure if I had enough time to turn around and […]

May. 05 2013

05/05/13 – Toccata Rundown

By Mark Malinowski | Posted in Host Blogs, Toccata | 2 Comments

PLAY DATE: Sun, 05/05/2013 6:00 PM            48231 Girolamo Frescobaldi          Toccata Sesta (Secondo Libro)           MSR        1334 SOLO SooHwang Choi, organ 5:51   C  1 1-1 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 6:05 PM            14294 Girolamo Frescobaldi          Toccata quarta (Secondo Libro)          MSR        1334 SOLO SooHwang Choi, organ 5:35   C  1 2-2 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 6:15 PM            21216 Johannes Brahms               Souvenir de la Russie  Op 151           […]

Apr. 28 2013

04/28/13 – Toccata Rundown

By Mark Malinowski | Posted in Host Blogs, Toccata | Comments Off on 04/28/13 – Toccata Rundown

6:00 PM            7739 Sergei Prokofiev              Sarcasms  Op 17                         MCA        10155 SOLO Oleg Volkov,piano 12:11    C  1 5-9 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 6:16 PM            47239 Herbert Sumsion               Intermezzo                              Naxos      550773 SOLO Donald Hunt, organ 5:59   C  1 17-17 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 6:21 PM            47240 Herbert Sumsion               Ceremonial March                        Naxos      550773 SOLO Donald Hunt, organ 3:47   C  1 18-18 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 6:28 PM            […]

Apr. 15 2013

Birthdays

By Mark Malinowski | Posted in Host Blogs | Comments Off on Birthdays

This past weekend, we lost a couple of great musicians.  sir Colin Davis, longtime conductor of the London symphony orchestra (in fact, it’s longest-term music director) died at the age of 85, and Adolphe Herseth, long time principal trumpet for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and considered one of the finest trumpeters in America died at […]

Oct. 19 2012

How ’bout them Tigers!

By Mark Malinowski | Posted in Host Blogs | 1 Comment

Yesterday, the Detroit Tigers completed a 4-game sweep of the slumping NY Yankees, and won the American League Pennant, and an 11th trip to the fall classic, the World Series.  Being a native of Detroit, I was ecstatic about the victory, not only because I wanted to see the Tigers in the Series, but I […]

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