This Week at The Classical Station
by Chrissy Keuper
Saturday and Sunday, 5-6 April 2025
Weekend!
Our Spring Membership Drive winds up this weekend (Sunday at 9pm) with fantastic music AND appeals for your continuing support. We are proud to be your home for Great Classical Music and to be a listener-supported radio station; with your assistance, we’ve been on the air since 1978 and we hope to be broadcasting into the infinite future. ‘
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Saturday:
Our fundraising will pause from 12-2pm ET for nothing but music with Peggy Powell, including Saturday On Point at 1pm ET and Leo Delibes’ ballet Sylvia.
Join Haydn Jones at 6pm ET for the Saturday Evening Request Program (Don’t worry: All-Request Friday will return next week).
Here’s the playlist; make requests & dedications for next week.
Sunday:
This week’s Great Sacred Music features Kammerchor Stuttgart performing The Seven Last Words of Our Savior on the Cross by Josef Haydn; part of George Frideric Handel’s Messiah performed by the English Concert and Choir, with Trevor Pinnock conducting; and many more sacred favorites. Join us at 8am ET, right after Sing for Joy.
And tune in at 6pm ET for Preview! with Tom Hayakawa, featuring a whole show of recordings from 2024, including works for the lute by Renaissance composer Hans Judenkönig; preludes and fugues by Johann Sebastian Bach; a string quartet by Florence Price, and more.
Thursday, 3 April 2025
We’re still at it, asking you for your support in our endeavor to make everything Better With Music.
Call: 877-556-5178
Donate online or through the app (Google / Apple)
Join us for Thursday Night Opera House, Membership Drive style! Dr. Jay Pierson and guests will play some favorites from the opera canon starting at 7pm ET. Come sample the drama, the comedy, and the fabulous music performed by the world’s most renowned orchestras and singers.
Monday, 31 March 2025
Welcome to the new week, All! We can make it Better With Music.
Our Spring Membership Drive is in full swing, and we’re asking you to support The Classical Station and great classical music with a donation of any amount.
We appreciate you!
AND…
Today we’re playing Break the Announcer! It’s a tradition here at The Classical Station for announcer Andy Huber to match your donations, and today he’s doing it ALL DAY LONG (until 10pm ET or he goes broke, whichever comes first). Give Andy the chance to double your donations!
On this date in classical music history:
Erich Walter Sternberg, c. 1935. (Kaplansky Photo Studio, Tel Aviv – Courtesy nli.org.il)
It’s the birthdate of music icons Johann Sebastian Bach (1685) and Joseph Haydn (1732), and also the birthdate of German-born Israeli composer Erich Walter Sternberg in 1891 in Berlin. Sternberg started out studying law and graduated with a law degree from Kiel University (1918) before beginning studies in composition and piano in Berlin. He moved to Palestine in 1932 as one of many Jewish musicians fleeing Germany. Just a few years later (1936), he and Bronisław Huberman founded the Palestine Symphony Orchestra (now the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra), and Sternberg also promoted the Palestine chapter of the International Society for Contemporary Music. He was also a guest lecturer at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Sternberg’s compositions were influenced by Johannes Brahms, Richard Strauss, Max Reger, Paul Hindemith, and Arnold Schoenberg, as well as Jewish and Yiddish musical motifs; among his best-known works are his String Quartet No.2; his vocal work, Yishtabakh; and his symphonic variations Shneim-Asar Shivtei Yisrael (The Twelve Tribes of Israel).