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WCPE Great Nicknames Weekend
TheClassicalStation.org: Fun With Aliases
Wake Forest, N.C. (November 13, 2012) —WCPE Music Director William Woltz announces a weekend-long extravaganza celebrating Great Classical Nicknames, November 17, 18, 2012. Throughout this two-day festival, WCPE will share music with alternate titles. On Saturday you may request your favorite nicknames here.
“From the Earth to the moon and the trip around it,” says Woltz. “Music nicknamed and inspired by love, affection, heads of state, travel, our solar system and the universe.”
17 Saturday
- 8:00 a.m. Beethoven: Piano Concerto no. 5 in E-flat (Emperor)
- 10:00 a.m. Mendelssohn: Symphony no. 3 in A Minor (Scottish)
- 12:00 p.m. Mozart: Symphony no. 41 in C (Jupiter)
- 2:00 p.m. Dvorák: String Quartet no. 12 in F (American)
- 3:00 p.m. Schumann: Symphony no. 1 in B-flat (Spring)
- 4:00 p.m. Nielsen: Symphony no. 4 (The Inextinguishable)
- 5:00 p.m. Chopin: Etude in A Minor (Winter Wind)
18 Sunday
- 7:00 a.m. Prokofiev: Symphony no. 1 in D (Classical)
- 11:00 a.m. Haydn: Symphony no. 94 in G (Surprise)
- 1:00 p.m. Weber: “Invitation to the Dance”
- 2:00 p.m. Tchaikovsky: Symphony no. 2 in C Minor (Little Russian)
- 3:00 p.m. Beethoven: Piano Sonata no. 14 in C-sharp Minor (Moonlight)
- 4:00 p.m. Hanson: Symphony no. 2 (Romantic)
- 5:00 p.m. Mozart: Piano Concerto no. 26 in D (Coronation)
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