- 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
WCPE's Programming
The Metropolitan Opera
Saturdays through May 11
The Met continues weekly live broadcasts
from Lincoln Center and includes three
Verdi operas and a complete presentation of
Wagner’s Ring cycle in celebration of both
composers’ bicentennials in 2013.
March is Women’s History Month
From the medieval meditations of Hildegard
von Bingen to the 21st century voices of
Jennifer Higdon, Barbara Harbach, and Joan
Tower, we’ll highlight female composers and
performers this month.
In the Gardens of Spain Weekend
March 9–10
The Renaissance-era choral settings of
Victoria; the romantic guitar of Tárrega; the
flamenco-inspired ballet of de Falla; plus
music of Albéniz, Granados, and Rodrigo:
enjoy an exotic musical feast from Iberia.
WCPE Spring Membership Drive
March 11–24
Your financial support helps WCPE share
Great Classical Music with listeners everywhere.
Make your tax-deductible gift at
theclassicalstation.org, or mail your silent
pledge to WCPE Radio, PO Box 897, Wake
Forest, NC 27588.
Passover
March 25
WCPE airs a special program of
music at 6:00 p.m. ET to mark the
beginning of Passover at sundown.
Easter
March 31
Rob Kennedy celebrates “Easter Triumph!
Easter Joy!” on Great Sacred Music, beginning
at 8:00 a.m. ET.
Back to the Baroque Weekend
April 20–21
Glorious music of Bach, Vivaldi, Handel,
Buxtehude, Purcell, and Corelli, plus our
70th birthday celebration for conductor and
period-performance specialist John Eliot
Gardiner on April 20.
Primarily Piano Weekend
May 11–12
The piano is a self-contained orchestra,
with a wide range of pitch and dynamics
and a tremendous capacity for expression.
We’ll hear classic performances by Arthur
Rubinstein and Van Cliburn, plus some of
today’s most exciting young performers.
Memorial Day Weekend
May 25–27
It’s a long weekend saluting American composers
and performers, with patriotic music
on Monday to remember those who have
given their lives for our country.
All-Request Fridays
March 29, April 26, May 31
You’re the music director from 9:00 a.m.
to 10:00 p.m. Eastern time. Submit your
advance requests at theclassicalstation.org,
or call WCPE at 919.556.0123 on the
morning of the request program. And don’t
forget our weekly feature, the Saturday
Evening Request Program, beginning at
6:00 p.m. ET.
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