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3/2 — For the fourth Sunday in Lent we’ll
focus on coming events in the Christian calendar
with Beethoven’s Christ on the Mount of
Olives, Bach’s Cantata 56, “I will gladly carry
the cross” and Vivaldi’s Stabat Mater.
3/9 — Samuel Barber was born on March 9,
1910. We’ll observe his life and music along
with Via Crucis (The Way of the Cross) by
Franz Liszt.
3/16 — We’ll honor Passion or Palm Sunday
with Cipriano de Rore’s St. John’s Passion and
Arvo Pärt’s “Passio.”
3/23 — Celebrate Easter Sunday with Bach’s
Cantata No. 4, the finale of Mahler’s
Resurrection Symphony and much more
glorious music of the season.
3/30 — Please tune in if you’re curious about
Ave Maria, WCPE’s newest CD compiled by
Great Sacred Music host Ken Hoover! We’ll
feature beautiful settings of Ave Maria.
4/6 — Support Great Sacred Music! Hear
selections from a CD set that includes the St.
Matthew Passion and St. John Passion among
others. Essential Choral Classics offers a great
introduction to the choral tradition with
music by Mendelssohn, Mozart, Brahms
Mahler and others.
4/13 — Great Sacred Music favorites include
Schubert’s Mass in G, Bach’s Toccata and
Fugue in D minor, Randall Thompson’s
Alleluia, Franck’s Panis Angelicus and more.
4/20 — We’ll observe the season of Passover
and Holocaust Remembrance Day this
Sunday with music by Joseph Achron, Darius
Milhaud, Harry Davidson and others.
4/27 — This Sunday is Easter in the Orthodox
churches. We will observe it with
Rachmaninov’s setting of the Liturgy of St.
John Chrysostom, complete with chants.
5/4 — This coming week we celebrate the
births of Johannes Brahms and Peter
Tchaikovsky, both born on May 7, albeit in
different years. Hear Brahms’ A German
Requiem and Tchaikovsky’s setting of the
Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom.
5/11 — A memorable Mother’s Day will include
Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater, Faure’s Requiem and
Stotts’ Music In My Mother’s House.
5/18 — A Primarily Renaissance program
includes works by Victoria, Josquin and Byrd.
5/25 — Memorial Day will be commemorated
with Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem,
considered by many to be the crowning choral
masterpiece of the twentieth century.
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