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- 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
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- 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
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- 03/10 Written on Skin – review
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- 03/03 Barber of Seville; Emerson Quartet
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- 02/15 Britten’s War Requiem
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- 01/25 Quatuor Diotima – review
- 01/18 Royal Opera House- The Minotaur – review
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WCPE Armchair Travelers Weekend
TheClassicalStation.org Celebrates National Themes
Wake Forest, N.C. (October 3, 2012) —WCPE Music Director William Woltz announces a weekend-long extravaganza celebrating Great Classical Music around the world October 13, 14, 2012. Throughout this two-day festival, WCPE will share music representing various national themes. On Saturday you may request your favorite travelogue music here.
“So many places to visit, so little time,” says Woltz, who is also co-host of Allegro. “We’ll go around the world in two short days, bringing you the music and sounds of places that have inspired composers for centuries”!
13 Saturday
- 8:00 a.m. Alfvén: Swedish Rhapsody no. 1 (Midsummer Vigil)
- 10:00 a.m. Handel: Music for the Royal Fireworks
- 12:00 p.m. Copland: “Dance of Jalisco” from Three Latin American Sketches
- 1:00 p.m. Tárrega: “Recuerdos de la Alhambra”
- 3:00 p.m. Offenbach: Gaîté Parisienne
- 4:00 p.m. Respighi: The Fountains of Rome
- 5:00 p.m. Sibelius: Finlandia
14 Sunday
- 7:00 a.m. Borodin: In the Steppes of CentralAsia
- 11:00 a.m. Coleridge-Taylor: Symphonic Variations on an African Air
- 1:00 p.m. Nelson: “Savannah River Holiday”
- 2:00 p.m. McEwen: “Scottish Rhapsody” (“Prince Charlie”)
- 3:00 p.m. Ibert: Escales (Ports of Call)
- 4:00 p.m. Strauss II: “The Blue Danube”
- 5:00 p.m. Smetana: “Vysehrad” from Má Vlast
WCPE’s 24/7 live broadcast of Great Classical Music, 24 Hours A Day can be accessed around the globe in several ways; on-line streaming in multiple formats, including IPv6, small dish home satellite reception, local cable television systems and traditional radio broadcasting. A complete list of the ways WCPE is available with instructions for cable and satellite reception can be found at: http://theclassicalstation.org/listen.shtml.
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