This Week at The Classical Station

Yo-Yo Ma: "Music has always been transnational; people pick up whatever interests them, and certainly a lot of classical music has absorbed influences from all over the world."

Michael Tilson Thomas: "Classical music is a wonderful 1200 year-old tradition that witnesses everything that it has meant and what it means right now to be human."

Leopold Stokowski: "A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence."

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: "A painter paints his picture on canvas. A musician paints his picture on silence."  

Igor Stravinsky: “Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.”

Robert Schumann: “To send light into the darkness of men’s hearts – such is the duty of the artist.”

Joseph Haydn: “There was no one near to confuse me, so I was forced to become original.”

J.S. Bach: "I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well."

Giacchino Rossini: “Nothing primes inspiration more than necessity.”

Giacomo Puccini: "Inspiration is an awakening, a quickening of all man's faculties, and it is manifested in all high artistic achievements."

“To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.” - Leonard Bernstein

"If we understood the world, we would realise that there is a logic of harmony underlying its manifold apparent dissonances." – Jean Sibelius

"Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius." Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Strike up the tabret and play the shawm with George Douglas on Renaissance Fare, Monday at 7 p.m. and Sunday at 5 p.m.

We observe the festivals of Passover and Easter this week. Western Wind graces our Passover program on Wednesday, April 8 at 6 p.m. Great Sacred Music celebrates Easter on Sunday, April 12 with Mozart's Coronation Mass, Hector Berlioz' Te Deum, and more.