Archive for the ‘WBJC Programs’ Category
12-14-24 Music in Maryland takes a Messiah Break!
Tis the season and tis Messiah season! I love Handel’s Messiah and I love playing the Beecham version of Messiah every year on WBJC! I see no reason why this tradition shouldn’t continue. So sit back and enjoy the fabulous Beecham Messiah recorded in 1959. PLAY DATE: Sat, 12/14/2024 6:00 PM 114 George Frederich Handel […]
12-24-24 Face The Music Listings!
This week composer/pianist John Bowen visits us from Chicago and we pay tribute to tuba player the late Ed Goldstein who adds his usual magic as we re-run an oldie but a goodie for the holidays! PLAY DATE: Sat, 12/14/2024 5:00 PM 9398 Johann Sebastian Bach Nun Freut Euch, Liebern Christen, G’MeinDG/Archiv 4835022 SOLO Vikingur […]
Toccata listings for 12/15/25
On tonight’s program, some holiday harpsichord music, and an Italian piano concerto. thanks for listening, and enjoy! 6:01 PM 50135 Edwin McLean, arranger A Baroque Christmas Alienor 1207 SOLO Elaine Funaro, harpsichord 20:26 C 1 4-14 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 6:24 PM 21081 Giuseppe Martucci Piano Concerto No. 1 in d Naxos 570931 COND Francesco La Vecchia […]
Thursday 12/12/24 Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
11:00 PM MARTINU: Thunderbolt P-47 PROKOFIEV: Piano Concerto No. 3 MUSSORGSKY: Pictures at an Exhibition Petr Popelka, conductor; Yulianna Avdeeva, piano
Holiday chills & thrills at Everyman
As a savory option to contrast the barrage of typical holiday sweets, Baltimore’s Everyman Theatre is presenting another in their ongoing tradition of murder mysteries to liven up our winter playgoing. This time, it’s a classic locked-room whodunit by the Queen of Crime herself, Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None–as originally adapted for the […]
Wednesday 12/11/24 European Broadcasting Union!
11:00 PM Tchaikovsky in Berlin: Stravinsky, Bartók, and Tchaikovsky Maria Dueñas shines in Béla Bartók’s darkly beautiful Violin Concerto No. 2 with conductor Elim Chan. The Berlin Radio Symphony rounds out the program with works by Igor Stravinsky and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. ORCHESTRA Berlin Radio Symphony CONDUCTOR Elim Chan SOLOIST Maria Dueñas, violin […]
Tom Stoppard’s Leopoldstadt at Shakespeare Theatre
Tom Stoppard’s deeply personal play Leopoldstadt is on at the Shakespeare Theatre Company in D.C. until December 29th. I spoke with the director Carey Perloff from her home in San Francisco.
Tuesday 12/10/24 Chicago Symphony Orchestra
11:00 PM Harding Conducts The Planets Daniel Harding conducts Schumann’s Overture to Manfred and Holst’s The Planets, and the Chicago Symphony Chorus joins for Brahms’s Schicksalslied. Plus, former Music Director Sir Georg Solti leads in a 1997 recording of Stravinsky’s Symphony of Psalms featuring the Chicago Symphony Chorus. Robert Schumann Overture to Manfred, […]
Monday 12/09/24 New York Philharmonic
11:00 PM Conductor: Alan Gilbert Lyadov: The Enchanted Lake Tchaikovksy: Selections from Swan Lake Shostakovich: Symphony No. 10
Emotion as Industry on BookNotes
Tracy Dimond is following up the publication of four chapbooks of poetry with her first full-length poetry collection, Emotion Industry. She’s my guest on BookNotes this month.
