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WWUH Program Guide for
May and June 2013
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Spring has finally arrived and summer is just around the corner on WWUH
We are so glad that you, our listeners have been so generous over the years so we can continue to come to your on your radio or over the internet. We love to fill your day with hours of interesting music and talk on your alternative radio station! Thanks again for helping to keep WWUH on the air! We continue our Celtic Concert Series but it will be on "vacation" over the next 2 months. Steve will update us all when the next concerts are scheduled starting in July. We will be bringing you the Bushnell Summer Jazz Series live on the radio starting on July 8th. Tune in and hear some really cool live jazz, more information will come to you in the next issue of the guide. We will continue to present the best in alternative programming for you every day.You can find out what is playing by going to our program grid at WWUH weekly program grid.
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Dear WWUH Listener
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WWUH Classical Programming -
May and June 2013
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
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May
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Wed
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Lalo: Symphony in G Minor; Johann Kerll: Delectus Sacrarum Cantionum; Schumann: Piano Quintet in E Flat Major; Soler: Sonata No. 99; Reicha: Wind Quintet in D Minor
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A. Scarlatti: Cantata Pastorale; Mart�n y Soler: Divertimento for Wind Octet #3 in B Flat; Lumbye: Champagne Galop; Ziehrer: Wiener B�rger Op 419; Noskowski: The Steppes; Tobani: A Trip to Coney Island; Cliffe: Violin Concerto in d; Rawsthorne: Street Corner Overture; Arnold Black: Envoi; Verdi: Rigoletto Prelude; Classical Happy Hour Lebrun: Oboe Concerto #1 in d; Schumann: Symphony #3 in E flat Op. 97 "Rhenish".
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Host's choice
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Sun
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5
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Rachmaninoff: Russian Easter Vesper Mass, Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom
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Mon
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Music From Russia.... Scriabin: Piano Music; A. Tcherepnin: Piano Concerto #6; Shostakovich: Symphony #6
Drake's Village Brass Band... Black Dyke Band - A Russian Festival
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Tue
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David Diamond: Clarinet Quintet; Carlo Giorgio Garofalo: Violin Concerto; D. Scarlatti: a set of keyboard sonatas
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Wed
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Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 2 in C Minor, "Little Russian"; Pauline Viardot-Garcia: Songs; Chopin: Mazurkas; Delius: Double Concerto for Violin, Viola, and Orchestra; von Dittersdorf: Sinfonia Concertante in D for Double Bass, Viola, and Orchestra
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Palestrina: Motets; Schaffrath: Gamba Sonata in G, Trio in B flat; Paisiello: Keyboard Concerto #8 in C; R�ntgen: Serenade for Winds in A Op. 14; De Boeck: Dahomeyan Rhapsody; Wagner: Faust Overture; Verdi: La Traviata Preludes
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Host's choice
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Sun
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12
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Wagner: Die Feen
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Mon
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Music From France...Messiaen: Poems pour Mi; Dutilleux: Ainsi la Nuit; Poulenc: Aubade; Saint-Saens: Symphony #3 "Organ"; Roussell: The Spider's Feast
Drake's Village Brass Band... Maurice Andre - La Belle Epoque
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Tue
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Cyril Scott: Clarinet Quintet; Szymanowski: Violin Concerto No. 2, Op. 61; D. Scarlatti: a set of keyboard sonatas
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Wed
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Zelenka: Simphonie a 8 Concertanti in A Minor;
Jacques-Martin Hotteterre: Suites; Debussy: Images; Chausson: Concerto for Violin, Piano and String Quartet; Janacek: Piano Sonata
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Thu
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New Releases. A Sampling of New Acquisitions from the WWUH Library
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Host's choice
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Sun
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Mascagni: Cavalleria Rusticana; Leoncavallo: Pagliacci
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Mon
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20
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Lutoslawski: Funeral Music, Symphony #1; Britten: Sinfonia da Requiem; Carter: Night Fantasies
Drake's Village Brass Band... Gaudete Brass - Chicago Moves Part
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Tue
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Handel: Concerto Grosso in D Major; Mozart: Sonata for pianoforte and violin in Eb Major; Chaminade Piano Trio No. 2 in a Minor; Bernstein: On the Waterfront; Faure: Piano Quartet in g Minor; Distler: Eleven Small Piano Pieces; Berlioz: King Lear Overture; Bizet: Danses pour harpe et orchestra; Villa-Lobos: A Prole do Bebe
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Dvorak: Symphony No. 5; Dufay: Mass for St. Anthony Abbot; Chaminade: Piano Pieces; Hummel: Grand Sonata in A for Cello and Piano; Dowland: Lute Pieces
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Thu
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Moscheles: Concertante for Flute & Oboe in F, Piano Concerto #3 Op 58; Louis Glass: Symphony #5 in C Op 57 "Svastika"; Lie: Concerto Piece for Violin and Orchestra; Barrios Mangor�: Guitar Music; Rubbra: Symphony #5 in in B Flat Op. 63; Francaix: Piano Concertino, Tema con Variazioni for Clarinet and Piano; Hill: Tholos; Barnett: Hodie
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Fri
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Host's choice
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Sun
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26
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Faure: Requiem; Haydn: Missa in Tempore Belli: Durufle: Requiem
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Mon
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27
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Memorial Day Special... Carter: Holiday Overture; J. P. Johnson: Drums, A Symphonic Poem; Gould: Foster Gallery; Grofe: Grand Canyon Suite
Drake's Village Brass Band... Williams: American Journey; Gould: West Point Symphony
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Tue
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Bernard Herrmann: Clarinet Quintet; Kurt Weill: Violin Concerto; D. Scarlatti: a set of keyboard sonatas
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Wed
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Shostakovich: Symphony No. 2; Heinrich Isaac: Missa La Spagna; Cherubini: String Quartet No. 4; Zemlinsky: String Quartet No. 2; Donizetti: Flute Concertino in C Minor
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New Releases. A Sampling of New Acquisitions from the WWUH Library
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Host's choice
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June
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Sun
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2
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Graun: Montezuma
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Mon
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Land of the Mountain and Flood, Scottish Orchestral Music... Maccunn: Land of the Mountain and Flood Overture; Wallace: Sir William Wallace, Symphonic Poem #5; Mackenzie: Burns - Scottish Rhapsody #2; Chisholm: Piano Concerto #1 " Piobaireachd; Macmillian: The Confessions of Isobel Gowdie
Drake's Village Brass Band... Betnzon: Chamber Music for Brass
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Tue
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Robert Simpson: Clarinet Quintet; Julius R�ntgen: Violin Concerto in F# minor; D. Scarlatti: a set of keyboard sonatas
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Anton Rubinstein: Symphony No. 3; Francisco Guerrero: Missa Super Flumina Babylonis; Prokofiev: Cello and Piano Sonata, Op. 119; Hyacinthe Jadin: Sonata No. 2, Op. 4; Sibelius: Five Pieces for Piano
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Servais: Souvenir de Spa Op. 2; Stainer: How Beautiful Upon the Mountains, I Saw the Lord; Siegfried Wagner: Sehnsucht;. Khachaturian: Violin Concerto, Spartacus - excerpts; Persichetti: Symphony #6 Op. 69 "Symphony for Band"; Hamilton: Sonata Notturna; Andriessen: Overture to Orpheus; Rhodes: Divertimento for Small Orchestra; Wright: Lizard Belly Moon; Classical Happy Hour Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade Op. 35
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Host's choice
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Sun
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Beethoven: Fidelio
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Mon
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Rostropovich Plays Britten, Lutoslawski and others Drake's Village Brass Band... Wynton Marsalis - Baroque Music for Trumpets
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Antheil: Violin Sonata #4; Liszt: A Faust Symphony; Haydn: String Quartet in f, Op. 20, #5; Schubert: Mass #5
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Roussel: Symphony No. 2, Op. 23; Tchaikovsky: Piano Trio in A Minor; Francois Devienne: Symphonie Concertante for Flute and Bassoon: Nikolai Kasputin: Piano Sonata No. 15, Op. 127; Kodaly: Psalmus Hungaricus
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Antonin Vranicky: Symphony in c, Sextet in G;Eberl: Piano Trio in B Op. 8 #2; Poldini: Dancing Doll; Ch�vez: Symphony #2 "Sinfon�a India"; Kayser: Symphony #2; Peaslee: Nightsongs; Rakowski: Etudes #51-54; Wramage: La Tristesse Durera
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Host's choice
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Telemann: Flavius Bertaridus
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Mon
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American Orchestral Music - Diamond, Moore, Porter, Koussevitzky, Dello Joio and others
Drake's Village Brass Band... Mark Hetzler, Trombone - American Voices
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Jean Francaix: Clarinet Quintet; Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Violin Concerto; D. Scarlatti: a set of keyboard sonatas
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Pleyel: Symphony in F Minor; Webern: 4 Pieces for Violin, Piano, and Cello; Apolinary Szeluto: Violin Sonata in D Major; Theodor Kirchner: Nocturne, Op. 73, No. 12; Jacques Duphly: Menuets
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Kraus: Piano Sonata in E Flat, Symphony Fun�bre in c "Trauer"; Viola Concerto in C; Offenbach: Concerto Militaire; Mozart: Violin Sonata in F K. 377; Wagner: Tanhauser - Overture and Venusbergmusik; Verdi: I Vespri Siciliani Overture
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Host's choice
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Sun
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Tippett: The Midsummer Marriage
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Mon
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Monday Night at the Movies... The Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra
Drake's Village Brass Band... Canadian Brass - High, Bright, Loud and Clear
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Bach/Busoni: Chaconne; Shostakovich: Preludes and Fugues; Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras No. 1; Mendelssohn: Prelude and Fugue; Ravel: Piano Trio; Poulenc: Aubade; Elgar: Orchestral Miniatures; Strauss: Lieder
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Beethoven: Symphony No. 4; Liszt: Piano concerto No. 2 in A Major; Langlais: Two Chorale Preludes;
Louis-Antoine Dornel: Suites; Rubbra: String Quartet No. 3
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New Releases. A Sampling of New Acquisitions from the WWUH Library
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Host's choice
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Glanville-Hicks: Sappho
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Blue Monday
9 PM to midnight
Hosted by Bart Bozzi
Tune in to Blue Monday during May and June for the following features:
Featured Artist
May 6 Magic Slim (1937 - 2013)
May 13 Lil' Ed & The Blues Imperials
May 20 Travis Haddix
May 27 John Primer
May 31 Peach
June 3 Alvin Lee (1944 - 2013)
June 10 Davis Coen
June 17 Roy Rogers
June 24 Debbie Davies
Back to the Roots
May 6 Rhythm & Blues
May 13 Boogie Woogie
May 20 Texas Blues
May 27 Jump Blues
June 3 Delta Blues
June 10 Kansas City Blues
June 17 Chicago Blues
June 24 Louisianna Blues
Tune in as we also go back in my blues history, featuring a cut I aired 20 and 10 years ago on my weekly blues shows previously aired on Overnight Blues and Blue Monday.
Join us as we explore the diverse and interesting world of "the blues" every Monday night at 9 PM on WWUH's long running blues show, "Blue Monday."
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WWUH Scholarship Fund
In 2003 WWUH alums Steve
Berian, Charles Horwitz and Clark Smidt helped create the WWUH
Scholarship Fund to provide an annual grant to a UH student who is
either on the station's volunteer Executive Committee or who is in a
similar leadership position at the station. The grant amount each year
will be one half of the revenue of the preceeding year. To
make a tax deductable donation either send a check to:
WWUH Scholarship Fund
c/o John Ramsey
Univ.
of Hartford
200 Bloomfield Ave.
W. Hartford, CT 06117
Or call John at 860-768-4703 to arrange
for a one-time or on-going donation via charge card. If you would
like more information please contact us at [email protected].
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Do you like live music?
Well..we have live music!
A Listener Supported Community Service of the University of Hartford - Information call: 860-768-4703
DATE PERFORMER VENUE TIME
July 20 Paul McKenna Band Wilde Auditorium 7:30 pm
November 22 Comas Wilde Auditorium 7:30 pm
Shows are added all the time, check wwuh.org for up to date information.
Doors open 30 minutes prior to show time. UH student ticket price for most shows: $10.
All shows in Wilde are general admission; Millard & Lincoln seats are reserved.
Tickets go on sale 2 months before the event and are ONLY available from the
University of Hartford Box Office.
Tickets, if available, are placed on sale at the venue one hour before show time the night of the show.
Tickets for all shows are available from the University Box Office:
860-768-4228 or 1-800-274-8587
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Thursday Evening Classics
Composer Birthdays
May and June 2013
Presented by Steve Petke
May 2
1377 Oswald von Wolkenstein
1660 Alessandro Scarlatti
1729 (Baptism) Florian Johann Deller
1752 Ludwig August Lebrun
1754 Vicente Mart�n y Soler
1810 Hans Christian Lumbye
1817 Zikmund Michal Kolesovsky
1843 Carl Michael Ziehrer
1846 Zygmunt Noskowski
1855 Theodore Tobani
1857 Frederic Cliffe
1859 Eug�ne d'Harcourt
1861 Maurice Emmanuel
1903 Oivin Fjeldstad
1904 Georgi Dimitrov
1905 Alan Rawsthorne
1906 Maurice Thiriet
1911 Lillian Rambach
1915 Jan Hanus
1923 Arnold Black
1932 Malcolm Lipkin
May 9
1740 Giovanni Paisiello
1814 Adolph Von Henselt
1829 Ciro Pinsuti
1833 Boleslaw Dembinski
1846 Nikolai Soloviev
1855 Julius R�ntgen
1865 August de Boeck
1892 Eric Westberg
1930 Wolfgang Bottenberg
1936 Bruce Mather
May 16
1822 Eduard Hille
1828 Johann Baptist Wilhelm Meyer Lutz
1850 Arthur Henry Mann
1857 Juan Morel Campos
1858 Hanus Trnecek
1858 Frank Lynes
1876 Charles Hunter
1880 Irene Wieniawska Poldowski
1893 Paul Amadeus Pisk
1897 Walther Geiser
1926 Jan Zimmer
1929 Osmo Uolevi Lindeman
1931 Donald James Martino
1938 David Chaitkin
1941 Maurice Weddington
1963 Andre Van Haren
May 23
1644 Thomas Eisenhut
1696 Johann Caspar Vogler
1737 Louis Francois Chambray
1741 Andrea Lucchesi
1756 Nicolas-Joseph Hullmandel
1759 Antonio da Silva Leite
1794 Ignaz Moscheles
1831 William Oscar Perkins
1843 Pedro Miguel Marques y Garcia
1851 Antoni Stolpe
1864 Louis Glass
1871 Sigurd Lie
1885 August�n Barrios Mangor�
1901 Edmund Rubbra
1902 Mark Lothar
1906 Hellmuth Christian Wolff
1911 Boris Kremenliev
1912 Jean Francaix
1919 Bulent Arel
1934 Robert Moog
1941 Jackson Hill
1941 Roderik De Man
1949 Carol Barnett
1971 Maka Maya Virsaladze
May 30
1201 Thibaut IV, Count of Champagne and Brie, King of Navarre in Troyes
1578 (Baptism) Valentin Dretzel
1797 Johann Christian Lobe
1808 Joaquim Casimiro
1835 Thomas Martin Towne
1844 Louis Varney
1853 Karl Fritjof Valentin
1883 Riccardo Zandonai
1887 Gino Tagliapietra
1912 Lydia Auster
1913 Cedric Thorpe Davie
1925 Claude Prey
1932 Pauline Oliveros
1932 Seppo Antero Yrjonpoika Nummi
1953 Anne Lebaron
1959 Mehmet Aktug
June 6
1661 Giacomo Antonio Perti
1722 (Baptism) Adrien Trudo Sale
1735 (Baptism) Anton Schweitzer
1804 Petter Conrad Boman
1807 Adrien Francois Servais
1815 Francesco Antonio Norberto Pinto
1819 William Howard Glover
1840 Sir John Stainer
1856 Bruno Oscar Klein
1869 Siegfried Wagner
1891 Istvan Kardos
1893 Ludovic Feldman
1894 Sabin V Dragoi
1902 Avraham Daus
1903 Aram Khachaturian
1905 L�szl� Halasz
1910 Toshitsugu Ogiwara
1915 Vincent Persichetti
1920 Robert Comrie Turner
1922 Iain Hamilton
1924 Serge Nigg
1929 Boguslaw Schaffer
1936 Dwight Winenger
1939 Louis Andriessen
1940 Phillip Rhodes
1960 Mary C. Wright
June 13
1592 Tobias Michael
1627 Fidel Molitor
1701 Angelo Antonio Caroli
1736 Henryk Klein
1757 Christian Ludwig Dieter
1761 Antonin Vranicky
1765 Anton Eberl
1775 Antoni Henryk Radziwill
1824 Julius Eichberg
1829 Antonio Zamara
1843 Adolph Neuendorff
1846 Frederick Woodman Root
1863 Josef Venantius Von Woss
1869 Eduard Poldini
1875 Max D' Ollone
1899 Carlos Ch�vez
1902 Oliviero de Fabritiis
1903 Philipp Kutev
1905 Xian Xinghai
1919 Leif Kayser
1927 Knut Wiggen
1930 Richard Peaslee
1938 David Rakowski
1951 Liz Phillips
1970 Gregg Wramage
1980 Simone Santi Gubini
June 20
1585 (Baptism) Lazaro Valvasensi
1730 Nonnosus Madlseder
1756 Joseph Martin Kraus
1819 Jacques Offenbach
1861 Arthur Whiting
1883 Giannotto Bastianelli
1899 Anthon Van der Horst
1900 Ernest White
1914 Friedrich Zipp
1928 Robert Satanowski
1931 Arne Nordheim
1934 Cornel Taranu
1938 Nikolay Avksentevich Martinov
June 27
1718 Wenzel Raimund Pirck
1745 Johann Nepomuk Went
1789 Friedrich Silcher
1805 Napol�on Coste
1805 Stephen Elvey
1812 John P. Hullah
1819 Carl Albert Loeschhorn
1821 August Conradi
1833 Vladislav Ivanovich Zaremba
1850 Jacob Adolf Hagg
1859 Mildred Hill
1885 Arthur Harmat
1898 Tibor Harsanyi
1908 Hans De Jong
1909 Gianandrea Gavazzeni
1910 Karel Reiner
1911 V K Narayana Menon in Kerala
1916 Hallvard Olav Johnsen
1922 George T. Walker
1931 Alojz Srebotnjak
1931 Ryszard Kwiatkowski
1932 Hugh Wood
1942 John McGuire
1946 Daria Semegen
1946 Janice Gitech
1946 Ruth Schonthal
1947 Jack Gallagher
1953 Daniel Asia
1957 Koen Dejonghe
1958 Magnus Lindberg
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Sunday Afternoon at the Opera
Your Lyric Theater Program
With Keith Brown
Programming Selections for
May and June 2013
SUNDAY MAY 5TH
Rachmaninoff,Russian Easter Vesper Mass,Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom Due to the old,unreformed calendar to which Eastern Orthodox Christendom continues to adhere,Orthodox Easter falls on this Sunday.Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943) is known to the world at large as a piano virtuoso,but he also composed two classics of Russian Orthodox liturgical music for a capella chorus.The Vespers,Op. 37 (1915) I have broadcast many times at Eastertide over the past three decades,but Rachmaninoff's Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom,Op. 31 (1911) is unknown to the airwaves.The difference between these works is for the Liturgy Rachmaninoff wrote his own folklike melodies;for his Vespers for Easter Eve he drew upon ancient Russian ecclesiastical chants.The Austrian record label Capriccio has paired Opus 37 and 31 in a three-CD set,issued in 2009.The recording was made in 1994 in the St.Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in Sofia,Bulgaria.Georgi Robev directs the Bulgarian National Choir.
SUNDAY MAY 12TH
Wagner,Die Feen ("The Fairies") This is Wagner's first opera,completed in 1833 but never performed in his lifetime.(Wagner suppressed it.) Its first production was mounted at Munich in 1888,with a few stagings to follow in the twentieth century.A few recordings of it have been made.The one I aired on Sunday,May 5,2002 originated with the 1998 production at the Teatro Communale of Cagliari,Italy.It was released under the Italian Dynamic label in a three-CD package.Frankfurt Opera in Germany produced Die Feen in concert version rather than as Wagner envisioned it to be staged,with monumental,spectacular changes of scenery,from a fairy garden,to a wild,rock-strewn wasteland,to an awesome deep chasm in the netherworld,and to a fairy palace in the clouds.This is German mystical romamtic opera on the grand scale,taking its models from Weber's Oberon or E. T.A. Hoffmann's Ondine.The new Frankfurt Opera recording of Die Feen came out this year on three compact discs courtesy of the German Oehms Classics label.
SUNDAY MAY 19TH
Mascagni,Cavalleria Rusticana,Leoncavallo,Pagliacci I return this Sunday to Sony Classical's ongoing series "The Metropolitan Opera" derived from the audio archives of the Met.These are airtapes of live broadcasts of onstage performances.The old reel-to-reels have been digitally mastered for compact disc to the public.They preserve for posterity the voices of singers from what some consider the Golden Age of opera singing."Rustic Chivalry" and "Clowns" are two verismo warhorses of the repertoire that have often been staged back-to-back.They were given together at the Met on April 11,1964.Nello Santi directs the Metropolitan Opera orchestra and chorus.Two American star singers at the Met from that period are heard in the Mascagni one-acter:soprano Eileen Farrell as Santuzza,opposite tenor Richard Tucker as Turiddu.In Leoncavallo's work it's Italian tenor Franco Corelli,cast as Canio,who gets to belt out that worldfamous lament,"Laugh,clown..!"
SUNDAY MAY 26TH
Faure,Requiem,Haydn,Missa in Tempore Belli,Durufle,Requiem Here it is the Sunday before Memorial Day,and I find that I haven't got any specifically American lyric theater music to present in commemoration of those Americans who died fighting in wars,especially the American Cival War,to which the holiday was originally dedicated.What I can offer this time around are two requiem masses for the dead,and a"Mass in Time of War." The Requiem of Gabriel Faure (1845-1924) is much better known today in its fully orchestrated version of 1901.The original 1893 version was scored for a chamber ensemble consisting of pairs of woodwinds,horns and trumpets,three trombones,harp,timpani and organ.The 1893 score had to wait until the year 2009 to receive its premiere recording through the French Na�ve label.Laurence Equilbey leads Accentus,the choral group she founded ,together with members of the National Orchestra of France and two vocal soloists.Faure admitted that,while it is a setting of the Roman Catholic Mass for the Dead in Latin,his approach was quite ecumenical and as well suited to the concert hall as the church. Nor is this gloomy music to accompany the threat of a Last Judgement awaiting the dear departed.Faure's Requiem doesn't deal with death's terror.It is a great lullaby expressing confidence in a blissful eternal rest.
Next comes a quite different setting of the Latin Mass,composed during the period of the Napoleonic Wars and in the high classical vein.Joseph Haydn's Missa in Tempore Belli (1796) is one of a succession of masses that are truly symphonic in character.This particular one,no. 9 in C major,is known in English as the "Mass in Time of War" and in German as the Paukenmesse or "Mass with the Timpani Drums."Haydn's music for his "war mass" certainly isn't gloomy.In large part it's jubilant victory music.This Haydn mass has a considerable discography.The recording I'm drawing upon comes from a 100 CD compilation of the classical master's works issued in 2009 through the Dutch label Brilliant Classics.The release of the compilation coincided with the two hundredth anniversary of Haydn's death.I have broadcast rare recordings of Haydn's much neglected operas from this same collection.In the Brilliant Haydn Edition the "Mass in Time of War" occupies a single disc,number 41.Hans Gillesberger conducts the Vienna Chamber Choir and Orchestra,with four vocal soloists.
The afternoon's program is rounded out with a requiem by another French composer,Maurice Durufle (1902-86).He was primarily an organist who wrote music only very sparingly.His Requiem op. 9 (1947) is scored for organ,orchestra,chorus and soloists.The music is based entirely upon Gregorian chant,and the mood created by the interwoven strands of plainsong is darker than Faure's requiem.The Choir of Magdalen College,Oxford is well versed in choral works of this sort.They are joined the English Sinfonia,all the singers and players directed by Bill Ives.A 2008 CD release from Harmonia Mundi USA.
SUNDAY JUNE 2ND
Graun,Montezuma This is one of the most singular operas of the entire eighteenth century.Carl Heinrich Graun (1703-59) was primarily a composer of operas at the court of King Frederick the Great of Prussia.The king himself provided the Italian language libretto for Montezuma (1755).It was the most politically radical operatic text of its time.Frederick was completely in sympathy with the conquered Aztecs and their hapless leader.The king shows an unashamedly anti-Christian bias.Montezuma appears never to have been performed anywhere outside of Berlin,yet the opera made its mark on musical posterity.Its score was published way back in 1904,long before the modern revival of interest in baroque music.Montezuma even had a few revival performances in the twentieth century.Excerpts from it were set forth on a Decca LP circa 1968.The 1992 CD recording issued by Capriccio was its world premiere of the entire opera on disc.(Well,one aria has been edited out.)Unlike his contemporary J. S. Bach,Graun was a musical progressive.His music for Montezuma prefigures many aspects of the "reform operas" of Gluck.Capriccio has given us Graun's masterpiece the best possible recorded treatment.Johannes Goritzki directs the Deutsche Kammerakademie,an excellent chamber orchestra,but not a period instrument ensemble.The instrumentalists are joined by the Kammerchor Cantica Nova and vocal soloists.Capriccio reissued Montezuma in 2011 on two compact discs.That reissue is what you'll be listening to today.You last heard the first issue of the CD's on Sunday,September 25,2005 and prior to that on Sunday,February 12,1995.
SUNDAY JUNE 9TH
Beethoven,Fidelio You've been hearing a lot of historic recordings from the Met.Now listen to a recording made a half century ago at the famous Royal Opera House,Covent Garden.Fidelio was taped live-in-performance on the opening night of its run there,February 24,1961,with the renouned Beethoven interpreter,Otto Klemperer on the podium.Fidelio (1814),Beethoven's one and only opera,was Klemperer's operatic calling card; he directed it whenever he could in opera houses all over the world.The opening night audience and critics alike were ecstatic over Klemperer's 1961 Covent Garden Fidelio.The London press had already praised the 1957 Klemperer cycle of Beethoven symphonies with the Philharmonia orchestra.Klemperer got everything he wanted out of the Covent Garden orchestra and opera chorus,and the singing cast rose to the occasion as well.The distinguished Austrian soprano Sena Jurinac had never sung the role of Leonora before.She put in a passionate and absolutely convincing portrayal of the opera's heroine.Tenor Jon Vickers portrayed Leonora's imprisoned husband Florestan.Also heard as the jailor Rocco is the German basso Gottlob Frick.The Klemperer Fidelio was broadcast over BBC Radio and has been preserved in BBC's audio archives.BBC licensed their airtapes of Fidelio for release in 2003,in digital upgrade from the original early stereo sound,on two compact discs through the Testament label.
SUNDAY JUNE 16TH
Telemann,Flavius Bertaridus One of the single most prolific composers in the history of music.Georg Phillipp Telemann (1681-1767) wrote at least seventeen operas among literally thousands of other compositions.When Telemann began composing for the stage there was scarcely any German opera at all.He tried his hand at comic opera in the Italian buffa style,but adapted for the nascent German lyric theater in Hamburg.His opera Der Geduldige Sokrates ("Patient Socrates"),first performed at Hamburg's Gansemarkt theater in 1721,couldn't quite break free of its Italian model.Hamburg audiences still insisted on hearing some Italian arias interspersed throughout the German language recitatives,vocal numbers and choruses.I have broadcast Der Geduldige Sokrates on Sundays in 1984,'89,'93 and '96.I had two different recordings of it to work from.These four presentations were augmented by one broadcast of a short comic intermezzo of Telemann's,also partly in German,partly in Italian language.Pimpinone (1725) went over the air on Sunday,July 16,2000.Flavius Bertaridus (1729) also premiered in Hamburg's "Goose Market" opera house.This one was modeled on "serious" Italian opera,the baroque opera seria,its theatrical action derived from history and dealing with the displaced king of the Langobards and how he regained his throne.Flavius Bertaridus was revived onstage in 2011 for the "early music" festival at Innsbruck,Austria,in co-production with the Hamburg State Opera.A period instrument orchestra from Turin in Italy,the Academia Montis Regalis,was called in for the festival.Alessandro de Marchi directed the orchestra and the choir of the Academia,with an international cast of vocal solists.The world premiere recording of Telemann's Flavius Bertaridus came out in 2012 through Deutsche Harmonia Mundi.On three generously timed CD's this opera is so long I will just barely be able to accommodate it in my allotted timeslot,so my usual theme music,introductory remarks and synopsis reading must be sacrificed to give you Telemann's music in its entirety.If you think you remember hearing the earlier part of this opera back on Sunday,February 10th,you're quite right.My broadcst had to be cut short on very short notice due to WWUH's coverage of a tournament game of the University of Hartford women's basketball team.This rescheduled broadcast I'm confident will have no such interruption.
SUNDAY JUNE 23RD
Tippett,The Midsummer Marriage Sir Michael Tippett's The Midsummer Marriage (1955) is a modern reinterpretation of the ancient pagan solstice myth about the union of opposites.As with all his other dramatic works Tippett wrote his own libretto for his solstice opera.General acceptance of such a strange,dream-like work as viable lyric theater was a long time coming.In terms of the psychology of dreams,and the archetypal figures that arise from our collective unconscious,this is the most Jungian of all operas.The Midsummer Marriage was recorded in 1970 following its staged production at Covent Garden,with Sir Colin Davis conducting the orchestra and chorus.Originally released through the PHILIPS label on stereo LP's,the recording came back into circulation as a Lyrita two-CD set.I presented the Lyrita reissue of The Midsummer Marriage on Sunday,May 28,2000.You hear the opera today on three vintage vinyl discs.
SUNDAY JUNE 30TH
Glanville-Hicks,Sappho Peggy Glanville-Hicks (1912-90),Australian by birth,lived and wrote music in the U.S. and in Greece,where her spirit was really most at home.Her opera derived from ancient Greek myth Nausicaa premiered at the 1961 Athens Festival.The esteemed Greek- American mezzo Teresa Stratas sang the title role.Excerpts from Nausicaa I broadcast on Sunday,May 25,1986 on CRI LP's and again on Sunday,June,June 23,1996 in CRI's CD reissue.Another wacky little opera of hers,The Transposed Heads (1953) went over the air on Sunday,June 20,2004.Peggy G-H's largest scale operatic effort was Sappho,commissioned by San Francisco Opera in 1963,but (curiously) turned down for actual staged production.The composer adapted the libretto herself from Lawrence Durrell's Sappho:A Play in Verse (1950).Almost nothing is known of the life of the sixth century BC poetess from the isle of Lesbos.Renouned she certainly was in her own day;we know her only through fragments of her verse as quoted by other authors.Sappho's wisps of lyricism continue to echo through the halls of Western literature right down to the present.Durrell's play explores the conflict between the inner life of Sappho's poetic imagination and the world of action swirling around her.The world premiere recording of Glanville-Hicks grand opus was released through the British label Toccata Classics in 2012 on two compact discsThe opera was recorded in the auditorium of the Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon,Portugal.Jennifer Condon conducts the Orquestra Gulbenkian and Coro Gulbenkian,with six vocal soloists.
The Sappho recording was loaned for broadcast from the private record collection of Rob Meehan,former classics deejay here at WWUH and a specialist in the alternative musics of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.Thanks once again as always to Kevin O'Toole,operations director at our station,for his guidance in preparing these notes for cyber-publication.
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The WWUH Alphabetical Menu of Programs
Accent on Jazz - "The sounds of surprise," from the great African-American tradition of improvised music. Tuesday-Friday 9:00pm-midnight.
All Night Show - Alternative, progressive music. Stay up late and FIND OUT! Every night 3:00-6:00am.
Alternative Radio - Interviews and speeches from alternative sources and alternative information, produced by David Barsamian. Monday 12 noon-1:00pm.
Ambience - Music that blends electronic and acoustic styles, borrowing from many cultures, from dream rock, to deep space, quiet contemplation and ambient dance. Sunday 9:00am-1:00pm.
Blue Monday - The world of blues from country to R&B. Monday 9:00pm-midnight.
Carosello Musicale Italiano - Italian music and news. Saturday 5:00pm-7:00pm.
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Counterspin - Learn how to talk back to your radio and TV! Critical views of mainstream media, produced by Fairness and Accuracy in Media (F.A.I.R.). Tuesday 12:30pm-1:00pm.
Cultura E Vida - Portuguese programming. Saturday 7:00pm-9:00pm.
Culture Dogs - A look at contemporary media, movies, videos, etc. Sunday 8:00pm - 9:00pm
Evening Classics - Classical music by composers from Albinoini to Zelenka, styles ranging from Gregorian Chant to the modern twentieth century. Weekdays 4:00pm-7:30/8:00pm.
Explorations - Every week Dr. Michio Kaku gives us new insight into the world of science. Sunday 4:30pm-5:00pm.
FM on Toast - A wide variety of acoustic music ranging from folk to bluegrass. Sunday and weekdays 6:00am-9:00am.
Free Speech Radio: A daily (Mon - Fri) news program with alternative sources from around the world.Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday 8:00-8:30pm, Thursday at 7:30pm and Friday at 7:00pm.
Gay Spirit - Greater Hartford's only gay news program featuring contemporary issues, music, and special guests. Thursday 8:30pm-9:00pm.
Geetanjali -. Geetanjali plays a variety of music from the subcontinent -classical, contemporary, devotional and Bollywood music. The show'shosts provide narrative both in English and Hindi. Friday from 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Gothic Blimp Works - Alternative rock music including pop, progressive, experimental, reggae, punk, urban, blues...and more. Every night midnight-3:00am.
Greatest Show From Earth - Esoteric space rock from psychedelic to progressive, with a side of electronics. Need we
say more? Broadcast via the T.E.L./T.A.N. V27X Transfleet Repeater Probe, the last analog frontier. Sunday 9:00pm-midnight.
Making Contact - A program about activists and social change. Tuesday 8:30pm
Morning Jazz - Music from diverse aspects of the jazz tradition from the big bands to fusion to avant-garde. Weekdays 9:00am-Noon.
New Focus - Alternative news and views presented by Mike DeRosa. Friday 12N-12:30pm. And Wednesday at 8:30pm.
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New World Notes - New perspectives on American Government, foreigh policy, media and culture in a variety of genres, produced by Ken Dowst. Tuesday 12noon.
911 Wake Up Call - Exploring the issues surrounding the 911 attacks. Thursday 12:30pm
Rock 'N Roll Memory Machine - The Hartford Courant calls it the best oldies show in the area. Memories, music and trivia from the golden days of rock 'n roll. Sunday 6:00pm-8:00pm.
Saturday Morning Polka Madness - Polkas! Saturday 6:00am-9:00am, requests welcome
Soapbox - Interviews with progressive authors and activists, host Rob Tyrka. Thursday 12:00noon-12:30pm.
Street Corner Serenade - Music from the '50's "do-wop" era, and more. Saturday 1:00pm-3:00pm.
Sunday Afternoon at the Opera - Selections from the Operatic repertory ranging from Baroque to twentieth century. Sunday 1:00pm-4:30pm.
Super Sabado -Salsa - from '70's classics to current faves - and greetings, in Spanish. Saturday 3:00-5:00pm.
Synthesis - Alternative rock from all genres featuring new releases, rarities, imports, and international artists. Including electronic, dance, fusion, funk, pop, reggae, experimental...... Weekdays 1:00pm-4:00pm.
Tevynes Garsai - Lithuanian programming. Sunday 5:00pm-6:00pm.
This Way Out - The international gay and lesbian news magazine. Thursday 8:00pm-8:30pm.
TUC Radio - From San Francisco: a show about the global village and the global pillage. Friday at 12:30pm.
UH Radio Bluegrass - The best of bluegrass, with occasional live performances by area bluegrass musicians. Saturday 9:00am-1:00pm.
Voices of our World - Views from the 2nd and 3rd world on life in the real world. Monday at 8:30pm.
West Indian Rhythms - Reggae, soca and more from Jamaica, T & T and beyond. Saturday 9:00pm-12midnight.
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Thanks for reading our on-line WWUH Program Guide, we look forward to sending you updates and information to make your listening more enjoyable and interesting.
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