I'm delighted to report that tonight's Choral Showcase on #WETAClassical will feature women composers, including Florence Price (Song of Hope), and female artists generally. There's also a musical surprise, and not the Haydn kind, either. Tune in or stream at 9 p.m. EDT.
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Medieval depiction of the abbess and composer Hildegard of Bingen writing as she receives divine inspiration.
Tonight #ChoralShowcase on #WETAClassical marks #InternationalWomensDay by featuring a woman composer, Hildegard of Bingen, and women artists. Tune in or stream at 9 p.m. EDT to hear Sequentia, Anonymous 4, and Trio Mediaeval. #HildegardVonBingen #WomensHistoryMonth
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On this final Sunday of February, WETA Classical's Choral Showcase features Sergei Rachmaninoff's Vespers (All-Night Vigil). Steven Fox conducts The Clarion Choir. Tune in or stream at 9 p.m. #ChoralShowcase #Rachmaninoff #WETAClassical
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The Evening Angel by Alexandre Cabanel
As always, #WETAClassical will broadcast and stream Choral Showcase at 9 p.m. Tonight Bill Bukowski features Faure's Requiem, opening those doors to Paradise, and a work from the Baroque era that was almost lost, Missa pro Defunctis by Pierre Bouteiller. weta.org/fm/features/...
Angels Entertaining the Holy Child (painting by Marianne Stokes)
Heavenly! On #WETAClassical, tonight's Choral Showcase theme is Christmas Around the World, and Bill Bukowski will be offering music from an array of artists, composers, cultures, and eras. Tune in or stream beginning at 9 p.m. #ChoralShowcase #Christmas
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Painting of the Nativity at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
@lindaclassical.bsky.social, it was such a pleasure to hear “Bring a Torch, Jeanette, Isabella” by the Arturo Delmoni Quartet earlier. I look forward to the #WETAClassical #Chanukah, #Advent, and #Christmas musical selections every holiday season.
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Mary in a Rose Garden by Martin Schongauer
Tonight on WETA Classical, Choral Showcase is devoted entirely to Benjamin Britten's choral works for the season: A Boy Was Born, Saint Nicholas, and A Ceremony of Carols. Tune in or stream beginning at 9. #Britten #ACeremonyOfCarols #ChoralShowcase #WETAClassical
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Sunlight streaming onto a path in the woods in autumn. Photo credit: Sven Lachmann from Pixabay.
Tonight's #ChoralShowcase on #WETAClassical features Gustav Mahler's Symphony of a Thousand, which takes its text in part from a Latin hymn and in part from Goethe's Faust. Tune in or stream beginning at 9 p.m. EST.
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Tonight's #ChoralShowcase on #WETAClassical features first Zoltan Kodaly's Missa Brevis and then Antonin Dvorak's Mass in D Major, Op. 86. I can't wait to hear them in succession. Tune in or stream at 9 p.m. EST. #Dvorak #Kodaly #ChoralMusic #SundayNight
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A field of red poppies and the following quote from a poem by Robert Laurence Binyon: “At the going down of the sun and in the morning we will remember them.”
Tonight’s #ChoralShowcase on #WETAClassical remembers those lost in World War I. The Clarion Choir will sing Kastalsky’s Memory Eternal to the Fallen Heroes, and the London Symphony Chorus will perform The Spirit of England by Elgar. Tune in or stream at 9 p.m. EST.
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A woodland path in autumn with the sun streaming down
On this All Souls’ Day, WETA Classical’s Choral Showcase is devoted to Giuseppe Verdi’s Requiem Mass. Gianandrea Noseda conducts the London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus. Tune in or stream at 9 p.m. EST.
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#AllSoulsDay #WETAClassical #ChoralShowcase #Verdi #Requiem
Don't miss tonight's Front Row Washington on #WETAClassical: Tenor Lawrence Brownlee will be singing Robert Schumann's Dichterliebe and Tyshawn Sorey's Cycles of My Being.
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Tonight's #ChoralShowcase on #WETAClassical is purely the works of Ralph Vaughan Williams. Tune in or stream at 9 p.m. EDT for Serenade to Music, the Mass in G, Five Mystical Songs, and Toward the Unknown Region. #VaughanWilliams #CorydonSingers
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Interior of the cathedral at Lucca, Italy (credit: Rudy and Peter Skitterians from Pixabay)
Tonight's #ChoralShowcase on #WETAClassical is purely Italian: First up is Giacomo Puccini's Messia di Gloria, plus choruses from Madama Butterfly and Turandot. Then there's the Regina Coeli from Pietro Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana. Tune in or stream at 9 EDT.
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The newest episode of Classical Breakdown is on Beethoven’s 3rd Symphony, Eroica!
It remains one of my favorites from him, the second movement is just out of this world. Let me know if you have a favorite moment 🎶💜 #wetaclassical
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Tonight’s #ChoralShowcase on #WETAClassical will feature Messa Paschale (Easter Mass) by the Benedictine abbess Chiara Margarita Cozzolani, a native of Milan who wrote sacred and secular works during the Baroque era. Tune in or stream at 9 p.m. EDT. #WomenComposers
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Rest on the Flight into Egypt by Gerard David (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.)
I treasure #WETAClassical each day and make a point of sharing #ChoralShowcase previews Sunday nights. Tune or stream at 9 p.m. EDT to hear music of the #Renaissance, specifically Josquin des Prez, Johannes Ockeghem, Cipriano de Rore, and Jean Lhéritier. weta.org/fm/features/...
A field of poppies at sunset
On tonight's #ChoralShowcase on #WETAClassical: #MusicInMemoriam. The works: Martinu's Field Mass and Skylark's Clear Voices in the Dark, blending Poulenc's Figure Humaine and songs of the Civil War. Tune in or stream.#MemorialDay
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The Annunciation by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
So wonderful to have WETA FM's Choral Showcase devoted entirely to Advent and Christmas music tonight. Most unexpected selections so far: seasonal choral works by Felix Mendelssohn.
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#Advent #ChoralShowcase #WETAClassical
Non-work-related (except that it is playing in the background as I work now) - just sharing my appreciation for #WETAClassical 90.9 FM and the beautiful #music they broadcast 24/7/365. Hope they join over here on @bsky.app soon. Here's to #PublicRadio! weta.org/fm/playlists
