Classical Music with Cheryl Willoughby
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Monday June 30, 2008
Morning Classics
Starting Monday morning off with an "Alleluia"! It's Haydn's Symphony #30, along with a Vaughan Williams setting of Shakespeare, and a stop in old Russia with the Odessa Balalaikas.
Friday June 20, 2008
Morning Classics
Cheers to the Midsummer holiday/Summer solstice!
Thursday June 19, 2008
Morning Classics
This morning, the Prelude to Verdi's "La Traviata" - that's the opera being performed this weekend in two shows by Green Mountain Opera. Info at www.greenmountainoperafestival.org .
Wednesday June 18, 2008
Morning Classics
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Tuesday June 17, 2008
Morning Classics
In the spirit of partnership this morning, Andras Schiff joins the Chamber Orch. of Europe for a Bach keyboard concerto - and it's soprano Mady Mesple with the Paris Orchestra, in the lovely aria from the Villa Lobos Bachianas Brasileiras #5. It's easy to be a member at VPR, and your support is vital to our operations. Please pledge today, click on "Support" above.
Monday June 16, 2008
Morning Classics
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Friday June 13, 2008
Morning Classics
Music's most famous Triskaidekaphobic was Arnold Schoenberg...superstitious, and terrified every time a Friday the 13th came around. For this Friday the 13th we'll hear "Sunrise" from his Gurrelieder, along with Bach's chorale "Sleepers, awake!"
Thursday June 12, 2008
Morning Classics
Ravel's "Jeux d'eau" ("Water games"), Bernstein's "Make Our Garden Grow"...VPR Classical looks to the natural world for inspiration this morning, on the first day of the Green Membership Drive!
Wednesday June 11, 2008
Morning Classics for Web Wednesday
We'll make a stop at "The Spider's Banquet" this morning, and continue on to Spain for the "Tarantelas" (literally, "Tarantulas"), a traditional stamping dance. It's Web Wednesday on VPR - don't get caught, make a pledge at VPR.NET today and help support the great programming!
Tuesday June 10, 2008
Morning Classics
If you're a fan of 1930s movies like "Anthony Adverse" and "The Prince & The Pauper"...you've already heard some of the Korngold Violin Concerto, a piece stitched together with themes from those film scores. This morning we'll hear the rest.
Monday June 9, 2008
Morning Classics
"Merry it is while summer lasts" - and, "Summer is a-comin' in" - two
songs for a June morning! In the 9am hour, a listener request for the
Mozart Clarinet Concerto.
Thursday June 5, 2008
Morning Classics
Musical birdsongs for a summer morning...Carl Nielsen's Flute Concerto, JC Bach's "Birdcatcher" Overture, and the green-feathered birdcatcher himself: Papageno sings his introduction aria "Der Vogelfanger, bin ich ja", from Mozart's "The Magic Flute"
Wednesday June 4, 2008
Morning Classics
Prokofiev imitates Haydn, while Beethoven and Tchaikovsky are channeling Mozart...what's the world coming to?!
Tuesday June 3, 2008
Morning Classics
Gershwin's "Summertime" for a June morning, and Mozart's homage to the city that embraced him AND his music: the "Prague" Symphony #38
Monday June 2, 2008
Morning Classics
As we welcome the first Monday of June...two languid songs by Frederick Delius, "To be sung of a summer night on the river"
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