Request Programs

You’re the music director.

The Saturday Evening Request Program has been a tradition here at The Classical Station going back to the times when we played vinyl. Hosts like Frosty Clark and Joe Purcell got most of your requests via telephone. Now, 98% of your requests come in online via the website or the app. That works very well because we can see when we need more requests to fill up Allegro! or As You Like It. Ten or twenty years ago, we crossed our fingers and hoped that enough requests would come in. Amazingly, they always did! The other trend which is so heart-warming to all of us here at The Classical Station is the number of requests that come from listeners living in other parts of the country and abroad.

All Request Friday was the last Friday of the month for many years. Because that program became so popular, we decided to make every Friday an All Request Friday. Initially, we thought that we would come up short of pieces, but that didn’t happen. We typically have too many!

Your requests run the gamut too, from the familiar staples of the classical music repertoire like Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture and Pachelbel’s Canon in D to dozens of less familiar but very beautiful works, such as a Tyberg symphony or an aria from a Handel opera. Your tastes are wide-ranging.

Haydn Jones

Word of mouth is always our best advertising. So, please let your family and friends know that they can ask us to play their favorite piece of classical music on the Saturday Evening Request Program or on All Request Friday.

• All-Request Friday airs every Friday from 10:00 a.m. until 8:00 p.m. Eastern
• The Saturday Evening Request Program airs every Saturday from 6:00 p.m. until midnight Eastern. Haydn Jones is your genial host.

We may not be able to play your request because we may not have the rights and broadcast permissions to do so. If we don’t have the piece in our library, we will substitute a similar work by the same composer.

Because our request programs are very popular and fill up quickly, we encourage you to submit your requests as soon as possible.