WCPE's Programming: Summer Highlights




 



WCPE presents

Mozart at Noon, Every Day in June
This feature will replace our usual Tranquil Tune at Noon during the entire month of June. Offered for your enjoyment will be a wide range of Mozart compositions (e.g., concertos, sonatas, and symphonies). You can check out our Web site at theclassicalstation.org at the end of May to get a sneak preview of upcoming works. WCPE Spring Highlights

An Americana Weekend — July 3–4
We will have a plethora of great classical music “from sea to shining sea” during the celebration of Independence Day, featuring U.S. composers and performers (both native and adopted), plus patriotic favorites. We also remember the 184th anniversary of the deaths of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson (two of our Founding Fathers and the second and third Presidents, respectively), both of whom died just a few hours apart on July 4, 1826.

Bastille Day — July 14
Cries of “Vive la France!” ring out across the nation in celebration of the beginning of the modern nation-state of France on July 14, 1798. You’ll be able to enjoy the music of French composers and performers throughout this historic day. Vive la France!

Women’s Equality Day — August 26
Established in 1971, Women’s Equality Day commemorates the passage of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which granted women the right to vote beginning in 1920. On this day, WCPE focuses on women composers, conductors, and performers—a wealth of great classical music!

Cinema Classics Weekend — August 15–16
Some classical works will be forever linked with a favorite film. Who can forget the hypnotic space ballet to “The Blue Danube” in Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey? Some have been written just for the screen, like the last two items. We have so many works from which to choose for a weekend of music from films; it will be a sort of stroll down memory lane. We’ll hear such notable classical works as:

  • J. S. Bach’s Keyboard Concerto no. 3, featured in Love Story
  • Carl Orff’s “O Fortuna” from Carmina Burana, featured in such movies as Cheaper by the Dozen, Natural Born Killers, and The Bachelor
  • Franz Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2 in C-sharp Minor in Delirious, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, and Shine
  • Leo Delibes’s “Flower Duet” from Lakmé in The American President, Tomb Raider, The Cradle of Life, and Meet the Parents
  • George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, featured in Fantasia 2000 and Manhattan
  • Korngold’s score to Captain Blood
  • John Williams’s “Hymn to the Fallen” from Saving Private Ryan

Make some popcorn and settle in for a great weekend of listening!

Metropolitan Opera
You’ll find a full schedule of the 2009 –2010 Metropolitan Opera Broadcast Season here on the site soon! Please join WCPE for this unique tradition of live broadcasts, every Saturday afternoon.