- 05/23 ACO Names Bermel Artistic Director
- 05/21 How to Entice People to the Symphony
- 05/19 Young, Yes; Youthful, Sometimes
- 05/19 Levine Commands Carnegie Hall
- 05/14 Take me out to the … opera?
- 05/13 BBC Proms reports record opening day ticket sales
- 05/07 N'Dour, Saariaho share Polar Music Prize
- 04/26 World Premiere of major new opera Dulce Rosa
- 04/26 EMI Classics and Virgin labels to disappear
- 04/19 Conrad Tao signs exclusively to EMI
- 04/18 Conductor Becomes First Woman to Lead Britain's Proms Finale
- 04/15 Still Searching for the Promised Land
- 04/15 Sir Colin Davis remembered
- 04/14 Sir Colin Davis dies
- 04/13 Stradivarius trees
- 04/13 Stravinsky puts a Spring in your step
- 04/10 SPCO deal brings relief, smiles
- 04/05 Have Some Fun
- 04/04 Montreal without Nagano?
- 04/03 It Takes Brass
- 04/03 Composer, educator Robert Ward dies
- 04/01 Vienna opera director collapses during performance
- 03/26 A foghorn, brass bands and 50 ships
- 03/26 Wigmore Hall, London: Viktoria Mullova, Paolo Giacometti
- 03/21 Rise Stevens, Mezzo-Soprano Star of ‘Carmen,’ Dies at 99
- 03/19 No Secret Formula to Music
- 03/15 Titanic bandmaster's violin found
- 03/13 Vivaldi Boosts Mental Vitality
- 03/11 Beginner's Etiquette Guide: Ballet & Opera
- 03/10 Written on Skin – review
- 03/03 Marie-Claire Alain, Master of the Organ
- 03/03 Barber of Seville; Emerson Quartet
- 02/27 Van Cliburn Dies
- 02/24 Mahan Esfahani – review
- 02/24 Wolfgang Sawallisch, 1923-2013
- 02/15 Britten’s War Requiem
- 02/11 Classical Grammy Awards
- 02/08 Oregon Symphony's James DePreist Dies
- 02/07 Warner Music Group Buys EMI
- 02/04 Work performed for the first time in 400 years
- 01/30 S.F.S.: The Rule of Spain and Britain
- 01/25 BBC Radio 3 - 'The Choir'
- 01/25 Quatuor Diotima – review
- 01/18 Royal Opera House- The Minotaur – review
- 01/14 Carolina Ballet: Lynn Taylor-Corbett
- 01/14 NC H.I.P.* Music Festival
- 01/11 WCPE Announcers: Top CD Picks of 2012
- 01/03 Royal Opera Live
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This week on Great Sacred Music
This Sunday Great Sacred Music features music for Memorial Day. You can hear the Choirs of Riverside Church and St. Ignatius Loyola Church in New York as well as St. Paul's Church, K Street, Washington, DC sing music by T. Tertius Noble, William Byrd and others in Hour 1.
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WCPE's 'Preview!'Sunday May 26th at 6PM EST
Camille Saint-Saens composed his only sonata for oboe and piano in 1921, the final year of his life. This week on WCPE's Preview! we'll hear oboist Colin Maier performing this brightly lyrical, romantic work.
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Wavelengths for Sunday, May 26, 2013
This week on WCPE's Wavelengths we'll commemorate a milestone in the history of Western music -- the premiere of Igor Stravinsky's "The Rite of Spring", which took place 100 years ago this week.
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May WCPE CD of the Month at Quail Ridge Books & Music
Rachel Barton Pine: Violin Lullabies“My first exposure to music was not at a concert. It was not on the radio. It was the sound of my mother’s voice as she sang a lullaby to me, just as her mother had sung to her, and her mother before her.” — Rachel Barton Pine
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The Classical Station 2012 Finalist for Best Nonprofit Radio Station!Thank you for supporting WCPE 89.7 FM!
Born This Week
- 21 Tuesday
Maurice André 1933
(80th anniversary of birth)
Heinz Holliger 1939- 22 Wednesday
Richard Wagner 1813
(200th anniversary of birth)- 23 Thursday
Alicia de Larrocha 1923
(90th anniversary of birth)
John Browning 1933
(80th anniverary of birth)- 24 Friday
Paul Paray 1886
Hans-Martin Linde 1930- 26 Sunday
Vlado Perlemuter 1904- 27 Monday Memorial Day observed
Jacques Halévy 1799
Joachim Raff 1822
Online playlists
"What was that beautiful piece of music??" Find out now by browsing through a week's worth of playlists!
Meet the Announcer
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WCPE's Member Magazine
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