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Great Sacred Music

This week Great Sacred Music will feature music by Sir Michael Tippett, Johann Christian Bach, Richard Strauss and Herbert Murrill in Hour 1.

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WCPE's 'Preview!'

Sunday March 9th at 6PM EST

This Sunday on Preview, two new releases featuring two classic symphonies.

First, we’ll hear Georges Bizet’s Symphony in C, composed when Bizet was just 17 years old but never performed during his lifetime. This new recording features Martin West leading the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra. And from their latest release, Michael Tilson Thomas conducts the San Francisco Symphony in a live performance of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 2.

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Sunday, March 9th, 2014

This Sunday on WCPE's Wavelengths we observe the anniversary of the birth of Samuel Barber with a performance of his Knoxville: Summer of 1915 sung by Dawn Upshaw.

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The Metropolitan Opera Announces the 2014-15 Season

The Met’s 2014-15 Season Will Feature 26 Operas, Including Three Met Premieres, In Six New Productions and 18 Revivals!

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WCPE CD of the Month
for February at Quail Ridge Books & Music

Renee Fleming calls her latest album "Guilty Pleasures" simply because these are songs that she loves to sing. And that joy is evident from the first note. This is not just a collection of opera arias, but also includes some of her favorite art songs by composers including Canteloube, de Falla and Berlioz, plus the Flower Duet from Delibes' Lakme (with mezzo-soprano Susan Graham) and the perennial favorite, "Danny Boy".

Maybe these will become some of your "guilty pleasures" as well.


— William Woltz, Music Director
The Classical Station, WCPE







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Born This Week

  • 24 Monday
    Jirí Belohlávek 1946
  • 25 Tuesday
    Enrico Caruso 1873
    Jesús López-Cobos 1940
  • 26 Wednesday
    Antonin Reicha 1770
    Frank Bridge 1879
  • 27 Thursday
    Hubert Parry 1848
    Marian Anderson 1897
    Mirella Freni 1935
    Gidon Kremer 1947
  • 28 Friday All-Request Friday
    Jean-Baptiste Arban 1825
    Gioachino Rossini 1792 (observed)




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