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Music From Movies 2-12-22
7:00 PM Burt Bachrach South American Getaway from “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” Angel/EMI 56981 ORCH Cellists of the Berlin Phil. 7:06 PM Nino Rota Romeo and Juliet: Love Theme Telarc 80168 COND Erich Kunzel ORCH Cincinnati Pops Orchestra 7:11 PM Joseph Haydn Piano Trio No.25 […]
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 […]
2-18-23 Music in Maryland
Accordion soloist Hanzhi Wang did a recital for the Candlelight Concert Society in October of 2019. We are delighted to broadcast the concert. She will be returning to Candlelight on 2/25/23! If you would like more information…Candlelight Concerts.org!
02-11-23 Music in Maryland. Marin Returns to Baltimore!
Maris Alsop returns to Baltimore next weekend to play Mahler’s Symphony # 1. We also have a performance of the suite from Weill’s Lady in the Dark with the Bournemouth Symphony and Prokofiev’s 5th Symphony with the Sao Paulo Orchestra.
Toccata listings for 2/12/23
On tonight’s program, an organ prelude and fugue by Mendelssohn, an organ prelude and fugue by Bach arranged for piano by Busoni, and piano concerto by a Polish pianist, composer and teacher. Thanks for listening, and enjoy! 6:00 PM 1701 Felix Mendelssohn Prelude & Fugue in c Erato 88112 SOLO Marie-Claire Alain, organ Marie-Claire 7:38 […]
Lila Rose Kaplan’s THE MAGICIAN’S DAUGHTER at Spooky Action Theater
Earlier, I had the welcome opportunity to chat briefly with playwright Lila Rose Kaplan, whose intimate but magical, profound but wonderfully mischievous new play, The Magician’s Daughter, will have a free public reading on Monday, February 13th at 7pm at Washington, DC’s Spooky Action Theater. We chatted about the play’s origins out of a silent […]
Music From Movies 2-05-22
7:00 PM Maurice Jarre Witness: Building the Barn Silva 1047 COND Paul Bateman ORCH City of Prague Philharmonic 7:06 PM James Horner Field of Dreams (Selections) Telarc 80468 COND Erich Kunzel ORCH Cincinnati Pops Orchestra 7:12 PM Elmer Bernstein The Great Escape: Theme Denon 75288 COND Elmer Bernstein ORCH […]
Vocalise 2-04-23
8:00 PM Giacomo Puccini Tosca: “Vissi D’Arte” CBS/Sony 80468 COND Kurt Herbert Adler ORCH Metropolitan Opera Orchestra SOLO Leontyne Price, soprano 8:05 PM Aaron Copland Old American Songs CBS/Sony 60899 SOLO William Warfield, baritone SOLO Aaron Copland,piano 8:32 PM Francis Poulenc Gloria for soprano, chorus, & orchestra DG/Archiv 427304 COND Seiji Ozawa ORCH Boston Symphony […]
2-4-23 Music in Maryland Mendelssohn Fundraiser Thank You!
Why not celebrate Mendelssohn’s birthday and say thank you for all the amazing support we received during our short three day drive! PLAY DATE: Sat, 02/04/2023 6:00 PM 22738 Johann Sebastian Bach Solo Harpsichord Concerto in d BWV 974 (DG/Archiv 4835022 SOLO Vikingur Olafsson, piano 9:58 C 1 30-32 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 6:11 PM 15882 Felix Mendelssohn […]
