WHRB 95.3 FM
September, 2010
Below are a few highlights from WHRBs broadcasts
during September, 2010.
We will be publishing a
full Program Guide for October-November, and we may also make adjustments or
additions to this schedule, so be sure to check back.
Our weekday schedule is Jazz from 5 am to 1
pm,
Classical Music from 1 pm to 10 pm, Rock from 10 pm to 5 am.
Saturdays: Blues from 5 am to 9
am. Hillbilly at Harvard is
normally heard from 9 am to 1 pm, as it will be until October, when football
season returns to traditional Saturday scheduling.
On Saturdays without
football, Classical Music is heard from 1 pm to 9 pm;
when there is a football
game, Classical Music starts after the game and goes until 9 pm, with The
Darker Side from 9 pm.
Sundays:
Blues from 7 am to 11 am, The Memorial Church services at 11 am, News at 12:30
pm, Sports at 1 pm, Classical Music to midnight
(Sunday Night at the
Opera from 8 pm on).
Sunday, September 5
8:00 pm SUNDAY
NIGHT AT THE OPERA
Oscar Straus: Die lustigen Nibelungen; Volkert, Nowak, Gantner, Khler, Cologne Radio Chorus and Orchestra (Capriccio)
Straus (with Johann Strauss Sr. and Jr.): Les Trois Valses; Delair, Desailly, Blareau, chorus, orchestra (French Decca/Universal)
Monday, September 6
7:00 pm SPECIAL CONCERT
Music with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra conducted in 1946 by Belgian Desire Defauw (b. September 5, 1885):
Stravinsky: Fireworks
Franck: Rdemption, symphonic poem
Respighi: Gli Uccelli (The Birds)
Music conducted by Sir Henry Wood, with the Queens Hall Orchestra except as noted:
Nicolai: The Merry Wives of Windsor, Overture (1925, reissued on Pearl LP)
Mendelssohn: Incidental Music to A Midsummernights Dream, Overture, Op. 21 (1925, reissued on Pearl LP)
Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius, exc.; Brunskill, Jones (live performance issued by the Elgar Society)
Elgar: Enigma Variations (British Decca 1935 - Pearl)
Music from the 1994 Last Night of the Proms; A. Davis, BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus (Teldec)
Tuesday, September 7
8:00 pm ROYAL CONCERTGEBOUW ORCHESTRA
IN CONCERT
Daniel Harding conducting.
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 27 in B-flat, K. 595; Lars
Vogt, piano
Bartk: Divertimento for Strings
Dvorak: The Golden Spinning Wheel
Thursday, September 9
8:00 pm SAN
FRANCISCO SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA IN CONCERT
Michael Tilson Thomas conducting.
Ligeti: Lontano
Poulenc: Concerto in d for Two Pianos and Orchestra; Katia
and Marielle Labque
Prokofiev:
Symphony No. 5 in B-flat, Op. 100
Sunday, September 12
11:00
am MEMORIAL CHURCH SERVICE
Preacher: The Reverend Dr. Dorothy A. Austin, Sedgwick Associate Minister in The Memorial Church and Chaplain to the University. Music includes Lodovico Viadanas Exsultate Justi and Adrian Battens O Sing Joyfully.
8:00 pm SUNDAY
NIGHT AT THE OPERA
Ponchielli: La Gioconda; Caball, Carreras, Manuguerra, Giaiotti, Payne, Nave, Lopez-Cobos, Grand Thtre de Genve (1979)
Monday, September 13
7:00 pm SPECIAL CONCERT
Janacek: Incidental music to Schluck und Jau; Mackerras, Czech Philharmonic Orchestra (Supraphon)
Bernhard Heiden (1910-2000): Variations for Piano; Tocco (Gasparo)
Mark Lothar (1902-85): Musik des Einsamen, Op. 67; Fischer-Dieskau, Lothar, members of Munich Philharmonic Orchestra (EMI LP)
Reinhard Schwarz-Schilling (1904-85): Partita for Orchestra; Peters, Philharmonia Hungarica (Camerata LP)
Josef Suk (1874-1935): Summer Tale, Op. 29; Mackerras, Czech Philharmonic Orchestra (Decca)
Nielsen: Symphony No. 5; Schmidt, London Symphony Orchestra (Unicorn)
Tuesday, September 14
8:00 pm NETHERLANDS
RADIO CHAMBER PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA AT THE CONCERTGEBOUW
Jaap van Sweeden conducting.
Tchaikovsky: Suite No. 4 in G, Op. 61
Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini, Op. 43;
Enrico Pace, piano
Ravel: Ma Mre loye
Thursday, September 16
8:00 pm SAN
FRANCISCO SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA IN CONCERT
Michael Tilson Thomas conducting.
Knussen: Symphony No. 3, Op. 18
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in d, Op. 125; Erin Wall,
soprano, Kendall Gladen, mezzo-soprano, Garrett Sorensen, tenor, Alastair
Miles, bass, San Francisco Symphony Chorus
Saturday, September 18
6:30 pm HARVARD FOOTBALL AT NIGHT!
Harvards new tradition of having the first game of the
season at night; Harvard vs. Holy Cross.
(Next weeks game will also be at night, since Brown seems to want to
begin a similar tradition.)
Sunday, September 19
11:00
am MEMORIAL CHURCH SERVICE
Preacher: The Reverend Robert J. Mark, McDonald Fellow in The Memorial Church; Co-Pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, Waltham, Massachusetts. Music includes Giovanni Gabrielis Jubilate Deo and Monteverdis Cantate Domino.
8:00 pm SUNDAY
NIGHT AT THE OPERA
Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini; Ford, Claycomb, Lukas, Hawlata, Maltman, Groop, Norrington, Middle Germany Radio Chorus of Leipzig, Stuttgart Radio Orchestra (Hnssler)
Monday, September 20
7:00 pm SPECIAL CONCERT
Preview of the upcoming performance of Handels Alexanders Feast by Emmanuel Music under their new Artistic Director, Ryan Turner, at 8 pm, Friday, September 24 (pre-concert lecture 7pm; tickets/info: 617-536-3356, www.emmanuelmusic.org.)
The Vlach Quartet was formed in 1949 and gave their last concerts thirty-five years ago, in 1975. We will hear some of their finest recordings.
Beethoven: String Quartet from Op. 18 (TBA) (Praga)
Beethoven: String Quartet No. 7 in F, Op. 59, No. 1 (Parliament LP)
Dvorak: String Quartet in E-flat, Op. 51 (Artia LP)
Mozart: Symphony No. 39 in E-flat, K. 543; Walter, Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra (September 8, 1950)
Tuesday, September 21
8:00 pm ROYAL
CONCERTGEBOUW ORCHESTRA
IN CONCERT
Mariss Jansons conducting.
Wagner: Tannhuser,
Overture
Wagner: Gtterdmmerung, Siegfrieds Rhine Journey, Siegfrieds Funeral Music
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 10 in e, Op. 93
Thursday, September 23
8:00 pm SAN
FRANCISCO SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA IN CONCERT
Peter Oundjian conducting.
Mozart: Die Zauberflte, K. 620, Overture
Szymanowski: Sinfonia Concertante for Piano and Orchestra;
Emanuel Ax, piano
Strauss, R.: Burleske in d for Piano and Orchestra; Ax
Tchaikovsky: Francesca da Rimini, Op. 32
Saturday, September 25
5:30 pm HARVARD FOOTBALL AT NIGHT!
The second and final night game of this football season: Harvard at Brown. (Next week, Harvard football returns to its normal time during daylight hours on Saturdays — WHRB airtime next Saturday will be 11:30 am.)
Sunday, September 26
11:00
am MEMORIAL CHURCH SERVICE
Preacher: The Reverend Javier Viera, Minister for
Outreach and Development, Christ Church, New York City. Music includes Morning Prayer by
Daniel Gawthrop and Henry Harry T. Burleighs setting of My Lord, What a
Morning.
Monday, September 27
7:00 pm SPECIAL CONCERT
Preview of the upcoming Boston Musica Viva season with conductor Richard Pittman (first concert: 8 pm Friday October 1, with soloist Pamela Dellal, Tsai Performance Center at Boston University, 685 Commonwealth Avenue; tickets/info: 617-354-6910, www.bmv.org.)
Music performed by harpsichordist Igor Kipnis (September 27, 1930-January 23, 2002), a former Program Director of WHRB.
Music conducted or played by Richard Bonynge, who turns 80 on Wednesday (b. September 29, 1930). Includes vocal music with his wife, soprano Joan Sutherland (Bonynge at the piano as well as conducting), and more.
Maillart: Les Dragons de Villars, Overture; Bonynge, London Symphony Orchestra (London LP)
Maillart: Les Dragons de Villars, arias; Tourangeau, Bonynge, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande (London LP); Fritz Wunderlich (September 26, 1930-September 17, 1966) (DG)
Other music sung by Wunderlich.
Tuesday, September 28
8:00 pm NETHERLANDS
RADIO PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
AT THE CONCERTGEBOUW
Vasily Petrenko conducting.
Franssens: Grace; Yvette Bonner, soprano
Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D, Op. 61; Leonidas Kavakos,
violin
Prokofiev: Alexander Nevsky, Op. 78; Irina Tschistjakova,
mezzo-soprano, Netherlands Radio Choir
Thursday, September 30
8:00 pm SAN
FRANCISCO SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA IN CONCERT
Fabio Luisi conducting.
Strauss, R.: Don Juan, Op. 20
Saint-Sans: Introduction and Rondo capriccioso for Violin
and Orchestra, Op. 28; Joshua Bell, violin
Ravel: Tzigane; Bell
Schmidt: Symphony No. 4 in C