This Week at The Classical Station

Photo: Dale Marie Muller, Roberts, Montana

"The Dance of the Flowers" by Loretta Del Palazzo. From our Virtual Art Exhibit.

From our Virtual Art Exhibit: "The last rose of summer" by Alice Brown May.

"Marsh Splendor" by James Melvin. Inspired by Johann Pachelbel’s Canon in D minor. From our Virtual Art Exhibit.

Artwork: "Angels in Flight" by Wanda Holloway. From our Virtual Art Exhibit.

Listener-supported & volunteer-powered since 1978. Photo: Ian B. Kennedy, Venice, Florida

Untitled by Ray Martin. Inspired by "Ode to Joy" by Beethoven. From our Virtual Art Exhibit

Yuja Wang: "Classical music is far from boring - it has all the blood, energy, the sinister dark side, rhythm that rock music has, and all the refined, subtle sensuality that one can ask for." Photo: Kevin Collins, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons

Gustavo Dudamel: "It's not that people don't like classical music. It's that they don't have the chance to understand and to experience it."  Photo: Dale Marie Muller, Roberts, Montana

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." Photo: Ian B. Kennedy,  Venice, Florida

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." Photo: Ian. B. Kennedy, Venice, Florida

Virgil Thomson: "The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish"...Source: azquotes.com   Photo: Ian B. Kennedy, Venice, Florida

Photo by Ian B. Kennedy, Venice, Florida Igor Stravinsky: "Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all . . . music expresses itself." Source: Britannica.com

Photo: "Afternoon Rain in Provence" by Gary Farlow In their words: On composing Messiah, Handel is said to have remarked (1741): "I did think I did see all Heaven before me and the great God Himself." Source: GFHandel.org

If you're alive, you have all the experience necessary to understand classical music. Michael Tilson Thomas Source: Wise Sayings Photo: Ian B. Kennedy, Venice, Florida