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As the days grow shorter and the air gets warmer you can count on WWUH to provide you with a great line up of interesting and eclectic programming. Listen for special summer programming on Monday Classics. Hear the amazing Circus Fire Documentary again on July 6th at 1pm. Listen to live jazz from Bushnell Park as we present the Monday Night Jazz series again this year. And we will continue to present the best in live celtic music in with more live more great Celtic concerts. You can find out what is playing by going to our program grid : WWUH weekly program grid.

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Linda Ransome/Don DePalma Ensemble with Tiny Joe Eleazar

photo by Maurice D. Robertson

 Circus Fire Memorial Park, Hartford, CT

WWUH will be airing the widely acclaimed documentary on the
Hartford Circus Fire (produced in house by WWUH volunteer
Brandon Kampe) at 1pm on Friday, July 6th, the 68th
anniversary of the tragedy.  For more information about the fire, click on the link below:

 Girsa - Playing on July 20th

           Our June concerts were amazing and July promises to be equally good!! It was standing room only for The Teetotalers on 6/1/12; we had to turn some folks away! (I warned you it was unlikely there would be tickets at the door for this unique event.) The trio played for almost THREE HOURS and no one went home early! Comas means "power" in Irish and this multi-national quartet certainly provided a tremendous dose of that during their concert on 6/29/12. I hope you were there to be "energized!"

            Our July concert features the third appearance of Girsa (which means "young girls" in Gaelic), the all female ensemble who just keep getting better as the years roll by. They'll be here July 20th, 2012 at 7:30 in the Wilde Auditorium, at the University of Hartford.

            Girsa is an octet from Pearl River, New York, an exciting all star ensemble of young women who create spirited Irish music, song and dance. "They look like angels, play like demons and sing like larks" said the organizers of the Kansas City Irish Festival. "They're frighteningly talented" said Joanie Madden, leader of Cherish the Ladies. And not coincidentally, reviewer Eileen Condon said of Girsa, "It's like Cherish the Ladies reproduced!"

            The eight members of Girsa are steeped in Irish music and cultural tradition. They have studied with gifted teachers, the cream of New York's Irish traditional musicians. Many are daughters of Irish immigrants and musicians. They have represented the United States in the ceili band competition at the All Ireland Fleadh Cheoil and some of the girls have won individual titles.

            The Girsa line up comprises sisters (Maeve and Bernadette Flanagan, Kristen and Emily McShane) and their childhood friends (Pamela Geraghty, Deirdre Brennan, Margaret Dudasik and Blaithin Loughran). They possess a rare bounty of four talented singers, Pamela, Deirdre, Emily and Margaret who share the vocals equally. All the band members have a primary instrument, but one of the hallmarks of their performances is their ability to switch off with one another. Margaret and Bernadette will also put down their instruments to show off their step dancing talents!

            In their early days, it was easier to find opportunities to play together: house concerts, graduation parties, sessions with visiting Irish musicians in someone's living room and birthday parties within their extended family. It didn't matter what the excuse, they were always excited by what they could do together musically.

            Now that they are in college, the chances to perform together are much less frequent and more difficult to arrange. Long hours of driving and giving up school vacations are typically necessary. Peer pressure has kept the girls in schools in the greater NY area; none of them wants to be "lost", too far away to meet the others to join in the fun.

            These are intelligent, spirited young women with great affection for one another as well as their familial and community roots. Earle Hitchner, reviewer for The Wall Street Journal and Irish Echo, describes their commitment to their fellow band members and the Irish music they so ably perform: "Irish traditional music welcomes performers of all ages who respect it's history, cultural continuity and communal vitality. The members of Girsa understand this. You can see it in their faces and their posture as they perform with heart, joy and pride."

            As the years have passed and the girls have gained experience as professional musicians, they have grown in cohesiveness, confidence and risk taking. Their choice of material for performances has expanded AND Maeve Flanagan has begun to write tunes for the band to call their own. Some in the know say she could be Irish America's next stand out tunesmith , following in the foot steps of Liz Carroll and others.

            Take a tip from acclaimed Irish fiddler Brain Conway who says "Their music is exquisite! These young ladies have a refreshing sound that shows a deep abiding respect for the tradition." Your next chance to see Girsa is Friday, July 20th at 7:30 in the Wilde Auditorium. Tickets can only be purchased from the University of Hartford Box office, open Monday-Friday, 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM. Call 1-800-274-8587 or 860-768-4228. On line purchases can be made at www.hartford.edu/hartt.

            There will be no WWUH/ Celtic Airs benefit concerts in August or September, so make sure you don't miss Girsa. It will be your last chance to get a dose of live Irish traditional music, close to home, until October!!

            Celtic Airs, now entering it's 20th year on air, can ONLY be heard Tuesday mornings 6:00-9:00 AM on WWUH, 91.3 FM or on your computer at wwuh.org. Thanks very much for listening and for your support of WWUH, my program and the concert series over the years.

                                                                                                Steve Dieterich

                                                                                                Producer/ host of Celtic Airs

 Website for Girsa

WWUH Classical Programming -

July and August 2012

Sunday Afternoon at the Opera... Sundays 1:00 - 4:30 pm

Evening Classics... Weekdays 4:00 to 7:00/ 8:00 pm

Drake's Village Brass Band... Mondays 7:00-8:00 pm

Featured Artist

July 2                                   Fleetwood Mac

July 9                                   Jerry McCain (1930-2012)

July 16                                 Catfish Keith

July 23                                 Tinsley Ellis

July 30                                 Omar & The Howlers

August 6                               Peter Green

August 13                             Louisiana Red (1932-2012)

August 20                             Big Jack Johnson                                                                        

August 27                             Lou Ann Barton

Back to the Roots

July  2                                    West Coast Blues

July 9                                     Classic Women Blues Singers

July 16                                    British Blues

July 23                                    Detroit Blues

July 30                                    Memphis Blues    

August 6                                 Rhythm & Blues  

August 13                               Boogie Woogie

August 20                               Texas Blues

August 27                               Jump Blues

Thursday Evening Classics

Composer Birthdays

May and June 2012

Presented by Steve Petke

July 5

SUNDAY July 1st

Bizet,Carmen Across the nation it's pops concert time,thinking of those large outdoor music events that culminate in Fourth of July fireworks displays.Any good popular classics concert has got to have numbers from Georges Bizet's Carmen (1875),which is probably the single most popular opera of all time.The last time Carmen was aired on this program was on Sunday,October 10,1999.You heard a classic 1964 stereo recording on RCA Victor vinyl discs.It was made in Vienna with Herbert Karajan conducting the Vienna Philharmonic and Vienna State Opera Chorus. The American diva Leontyne Price starred in the title role.Several fellow luminaries from New York's Metropolitan Opera sang with her,notably tenor Robert record label,CSO Resound.The two-CD CSO release of the Verdi Merrill.The Met has delved into its audio archives and has been issuing to the public many of its historic airtapes of live performances.These radio broadcast reel-to-reels have been digitally reprocessed for issue in compact disc format through Sony Classical.Carmen was taped live in performance in monaural sound on February 16,1952.Soprano Rise Stevens is heard as the tragic gypsy girl,opposite tenor Richard Tucker as Don Jose.Fritz Reiner directs the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus.The 1952 Met Carmen appeared in 2011 on two CD's in Sony's "Met Opera" series.

Sunday July 8th       

Offenbach,Orphee aux Enfers Bizet's Carmen is emormously popular,to be sure,but it's a tragedy that is perhaps out of keeping with the expected,lightweight,vacation-season lyric theater fare.We get back to comedy this Sunday with the French opera bouffe,also enormously popular,that set the standard for all comic operas/operettas to follow:Orphee aux Enfers ("Orpheus in the Underworld,"1858).I have broadcast it twice before.The first time was on Sunday,July 8,1984,when I presented it on really old 33 1/3 rpm vinyl discs.The 1948 recording might not even have been in high fidelity sound.Rene Liebowitz conducted the Paris Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus,with a cast of Parisian singers.Then on Sunday,July 9,2000 came a sonically excellent 1997 stereo/digital recording made live in performance at the Opera National de Lyon.Heard in star capacity as Euridice was the eminent soprano Natalie Dessay.EMI originally issued Orphee on two CD's in1998,and made it available to the public again in 2011 in its "EMI Classics" series.The Opera de Lyon production retained Offenbach's original comic conception of the work as first presented to the Parisian public in 1858.There is also Offenbach's 1874 reworking of the score into a less comic fantasy piece.Several popular numbers from the 1874 version were incorporated into the Opera de Lyon staging.

Sunday July 15th

Handel , Il Pastor Fido Pastoral,bucolic lyric theater music redolent of the beauties of Nature in Summertime always finds a place in my programming for the month of July.Il Pastor Fido ("The Faithful Shepherd," 1712) was the second opera Handel wrote for London audiences after his highly successful opera seria,Rinaldo (1711).Handel conceived this operatic pastorale on a more intimate scale than Rinaldo.It didn't do nearly as well as its predecessor in its short initial run at the Queen's Theatre.Handel subsequently expanded upon his score for Il Pastor Fido and revived the Arcadian stage entertainment,now including a Terpsichore dance sequence,in 1734.The world premiere recording of the 1712 ur-version came out earlier this year on two CD's courtesy of Harmonia Mundi USA.David Bates directs the period instrument ensemble La Musica Nuova.There are six vocal soloists.

Sunday JULY 22ND

Mozart,Cosi Fan Tutte In the genre of the Italian opera buffa,Mozart's Cosi Fan Tutte ("Thus Do They All,"1790),is doubtless the most perfect example.By "perfect" this must mean the classic symmetry of the composition and its unfailing melodiousness.Certainly,it possesses the perfect buffo libretto provided by Mozart's frequent collaborator Lorenzo da Ponte.Cosi Fan Tutte has been frequently recorded.One of the best interpreters of eighteenth century, music,John Eliot Gardiner recorded Cosi  in `1992 at the Teatro Communale in Ferarra,Italy,leading his own English Baroque Soloists,playing period instruments,and the voices of the Monteverdi Chior.(Curiously,none of the six vocal soloists are Italian.)Gardiner essayed all the famous Mozart operas on recording dates between 1990 and '95,and in various recording venues.All these operas were issued separately in CD jewelcases.Deutsche Grammophon has reissued them in an eighteen-CD boxed set.Cosi Fan Tutte takes up three silver discs.Appendixed to the third disc is an alternative aria/;terzetto fro Guglielmo,Fernando and Alonzo.

 SUNDAY JULY 29th

Gilbert and Sullivan,The Very Best of...The comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan always figure in the Summertime programming mix.Usually I present an entire operatic work from the G & S canon.This time I draw upon a two-CD Decca compilation,issued in 2011,that allows us to survey the whole canon,as it was recorded in stereo sound between 1960 and '73.The Very Best of Gilbert and Sullivan offers a generous sampling from eleven of the great lyric comedies we know and love.The performers are the original D'Oyly Carte Opera Company and chorus,as opposed to the New D'Oyly Carte company formed in 1988.From 1948 onwards the original company was overseen by founder Richard D'Oyly Carte's granddaughter Bridget,who held the troupe to the highest artistic standards.Conductors Royston Nash,Isadore Godfrey and Sir Malcolm Sargent expertly handled Sullivan's orchestral scores,as realized in the pit by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra,the New Symphony Orchestra  of London or the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House,Covent Garden.So many illustrious Savoyards are heard in these classic recordings:John Reed,Mary Sansome,Kenneth Sandford,Valerie Masterson,just to name just a few.I'll throw in a few surprises from other recordings of Sullivan's lesser known lyric theater music.

SUNDAY  August 5th

Haydn,Lo Speziale,Live aus der Semperoper:The Lehar Gala from Dresden.More opera buffa this Sunday from another famous Austrian composer of the classical period.Lo Speziale ("The Apothecary,"1768) was composed for the inauguration of the new private opera house on the Eszterhazy estate in Hungary.(Many of Haydn's operas were subsequently performed in the public theaters of Vienna.)This delightful comic work was the one that gave the other Haydn operas an undeservedly bad reputation.Lo Speziale languished in obscurity until 1895,when Robert Hirschfeld rewrote Haydn's score and translated its libretto into German,titling it Der Apotheker.Hirschfeld's mediocre and disfigured version of the opera was produced in several places in Central Europe into the early twentieth century.Even the Vienna Choir Boys performed it much to the opera's detriment.Memory of their saccharine treatment retarded the revival of all of Haydn's lyric stageworks for decades thereafter.Haydn scholar H. C. Robbins-Landon restored Haydn's original,not-quite-complete score and saw to its publication in critcal edition.As a consequence Lo Speziale has been performed and recorded in the later twentieth century.The Hungarian state record label Hungaroton issued it in1978 on stereo vinyl platters.Taped in Budapest,it was essayed by a cast of four native Hugarian singers backed by the Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra,conducted by Gyorgy Lehel.Hungaroton reissued Lo

Speziale in 2009 on a single compact disc.Sung in Italian.
     Keep Vienna in mind as you listen to operetta from the Silver Age of the Viennese light opera tradition,that second period in the early twentieth century when Hugarian composers like Emmerich Kalman and Franz Lehar were in the ascendant.It was the native Viennese conductor Clemens Krauss (1893-1954) who in 1940 began the tradition  of the New Year's Day concerts of the dance music of the Strauss dynasty-music from operetta's Golden Age.Christian Thielemann built upon Vienna's longstanding tradition when in 2010 he conducted the Staatskapelle Dresden in that city's first New Year's Eve concert,which included generous selections from the works of Franz Lehar (1870-1948).It was so successful that in 2011 Thielemann decided to go with Lehar again.Lehar had a certain Dresden connection.In 1912 he conducted one of his own operettas at Dresden's Central Theater,and his tenor of choice Richard Tauber,the man for whom he wrote so many wonderful melodies,began his singing career at the Dresden Opera.The venue for the 2011 Lehar gala was Gottfried Semper's opera house.The concert was broadcast worldwide and recorded for Deutsche Grammophon.Thielemann picked three internationally acclaimed singers with expertise in operetta,sopranos Angela Denoke and Ana Maria Labin,who are joined by tenor Piotr Beczala.The orchestra is joined by the Saxon State Opera Chorus.Live aus der Semperoper:The Lehar Gala from Dresden came out on a single DG silver disc.

SUNDAY AUGUST 12TH

Campra,Le Caraval de Venise I normally would not program an opera of the the French baroque at this time of year,since so many of them are tragedies lyriques.Andre Campra (1660-1744),successor to the great Lully,composed his share of them.Campra's  Carnaval,however,is in the the more progressive sub-genre he created,the opera-ballet,with plenty of dance sequences,In these curiously comic stageworks mythological subjects and characters are treated with ironic glee.Campra cleverly crafted Le Carnaval de Venise (1699) as an opera-within-an -opera.He contrasts the Lullian French style with the Italian opera seria.The two lead characters,attending the famed Venetian public celebrations,duck into a theater where a performance of an operatic tragedy Orfeo nell'Inferi is in progress,sung in Italian language.What I presume is the world premiere recording of Le Carnaval de Venise came out through the Spanish label Glossa in 2011 on two compact discs.French baroque specialist Herve Niquet directs the chorus and orchestra of Le Concert Spirituel,a musical organization he founded in 1987.The orchestra is a period instrument outfit,and according to Fanfare magazine's reviewer Barry Brenesal,it's first rate.So are the half dozen vocal soloists."...this is one of the best releases in Glossa's series of French Baroque opera," (Fanfare,Jan/Feb,2012 issue).

SUNDAY AUGUST 19TH

Massenet,Don Quichotte This would otherwise be the Sunday reserved for a sentimental operetta by Lehar,but I have something more comic,indeed satiric in nature to delight you listeners,with its own special tearjerking element as well.Massenet wrote the title role of his next-to -last opera Don Quichotte (1910) expressly for the distinguished Russian bass Feodor Chaliapin,who considered his characterization of Cervantes' immortal knight errant second only to that of Czar Boris Godunov in Mussorgski's opera of that  name.Nicolai Ghiaurov,the distinguished basso from Bulgaria,was recorded in the comic role in 1979 for Decca/London.You heard the London CD reissue of Don Quichotte on Sunday,September 24,1995.Listen today to the Italian basso Feruccio Furlanetto's take on the Don as recorded in May,2011 in the Concert Hall of the famed Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg,Russia.Valery Gergiev directs the Mariinsky orchestra.The Mariinsky Academy of Young Singers served as the chorus.The rest of the cast is composed of Russian vocalists.This St. Petersburg Don Quichotte was issued to the public on two compact discs

through the Mariinsky's own label.Sung in French.  
 

SUNDAY AUGUST 12TH

Campra,Le Caraval de Venise I normally would not program an opera of the the French baroque at this time of year,since so many of them are tragedies lyriques.Andre Campra (1660-1744),successor to the great Lully,composed his share of them.Campra's  Carnaval,however,is in the the more progressive sub-genre he created,the opera-ballet,with plenty of dance sequences,In these curiously comic stageworks mythological subjects and characters are treated with ironic glee.Campra cleverly crafted Le Carnaval de Venise (1699) as an opera-within-an -opera.He contrasts the Lullian French style with the Italian opera seria.The two lead characters,attending the famed Venetian public celebrations,duck into a theater where a performance of an operatic tragedy Orfeo nell'Inferi is in progress,sung in Italian language.What I presume is the world premiere recording of Le Carnaval de Venise came out through the Spanish label Glossa in 2011 on two compact discs.French baroque specialist Herve Niquet directs the chorus and orchestra of Le Concert Spirituel,a musical organization he founded in 1987.The orchestra is a period instrument outfit,and according to Fanfare magazine's reviewer Barry Brenesal,it's first rate.So are the half dozen vocal soloists."...this is one of the best releases in Glossa's series of French Baroque opera," (Fanfare,Jan/Feb,2012 issue).

SUNDAY AUGUST 26TH

Delius,A Village Romeo and Juliet This will be the eighth time over three decades of opera broadcasting when I will be presenting the best known opera of Frederick Delius (1860-1934),the one that is regarded as his masterpiece A Village  Romeo and Juliet (1907).Every year on the last Sunday of August I feature one of Delius' six operas because I believe his impressionistic musical style so beautifully evokes the lazy,hazy end of Summertime.For a fifth time I return to the 1973 EMI recording with Meredith Davies leading the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and John Alldis Choir.First I worked from the old Angel/EMI LP's,the original stateside release.Then I presented the better quality vinyl reissue through EMI in its HMV Greensleeve line.After that came the CD transfer of this wonderful recording which came out in 2002 through EMI Classics.EMI brought it out a second time on two compact discs in 2011.I draw upon that latest CD reissue in today's broadcast.The singers put in what critics consider the definitive portrayals of their roles in Delius' setting of Gottfried Keller's story about the ill-fated love shared by a Swiss peasant boy and girl.Heard as Sali is tenor Robert Tear,opposite soprano Elizabeth Harwood as his beloved Vrenchen.The mysterious Dark Fiddler is baritone John Shirley-Quirk.There will be time remaining this late Summer afternoon for other recordings of Delius' large scale compositions for orchestra and chorus,notably Sea Drift (1903),his setting of the verse of Walt Whitman.(That,too,is a Delian masterpiece.) A special feature of my Delius program for this year will be his songs,some of them never previously recorded,as set forth in Volume One of The Complete Delius Songbook.British baritone Mark Stone interprets them,with Stephen Barlow accompanying him on piano.217 Records released Volume One in 2010 with the blessing of the Delius Society.217/Stone Records is an independent label specializing in alternative rock,jazz and spoken word.It is headquartered in Ashford,Connecticut.

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