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Every Monday at 8 is Monday Night at the Symphony on WCPE, the classicalstation.org. It’s where we bring you 2 hours of performances of one world-class orchestra. Tune in this coming Monday and enjoy works presented by the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, based in Bamberg in Bavaria, Germany.

Monday Night at the Symphony on 89.7 FM in the RTP Area of North Carolina, or from anywhere at theclassicalstation.org.

— Dave Bryant

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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While Pine has built a reputation on performing the more exciting, blood-pumping, foot- stomping parts of the classical repertoire, this new mother appears to have made a seamless transition from rocking a violin to cradling a newborn. Taking quiet moments to research the genre, Pine found no extant catalogue of the many lullabies composers worldwide had written for her instrument. She collected more than one hundred and fifty works and chose the selections for the album on “musical merit” alone. Violin Lullabies, which is dedicated to Pine’s daughter, includes several world premieres along with many traditional favorites to soothe the spirit.

Brahms Lullaby: Rachel Barton Pine

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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

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