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Programming Subject to Change Without Notice
Programmer’s Picks This month, listen to the Morning Program each weekday for selections by Black composers curated and presented by WFMT Host LaRob K. Rafael. Among others, composers Omar Thomas, Jonathan Bailey Holland, and Steve Wallace will be featured.
Black Music Spotlight
The Chineke! Orchestra at the BBC Proms
The Orchestral Works of Florence Price
The first professional orchestra in Europe to be made up of majority Black, Asian, and ethnically diverse musicians celebrates Black composers of British, African, and African-American heritage in this concert conducted by Kalena Bovell.
Maestro John Jeter, Music Director of Fort Smith Symphony in Arkansas, joins Oliver Camacho in a conversation about diversity in classical music and the galvanizing orchestral works of Florence Price, including the Mississippi River Suite.
Weekdays at 8:30 am
Tuesday, January at 8:00 pm
Tuesday, February 22 at 8:00 pm
Tuesday 1 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore including news & weather on the hour between 6:00 am and 9:00 am; Carl’s Almanac at 7:30 am; and Black Music Spotlight at 8:30 am. Traditional Chinese Gong Xi Fa Cai (Happy New Year) – Brandon Cheng, vc. WFMT. [00:41] 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, including New Releases this hour, Daily Excursion at 11:00 am, Music in Chicago at 12:00 pm, and the Afternoon Masterwork at 2:00 pm. Johann Sebastian Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D Major, BWV 1050 – Berlin Academy for Ancient Music. Harmonia Mundi HMC-901634/5. [18:55] 11:00 Franz Liszt Mephisto Waltz No. 1 (Dance at the Village Inn) – Philadelphia Orch/ Eugene Ormandy. CBS MLK-39450. [11:25] 12:00 Sergei Prokofiev Overture on Hebrew Themes, Op. 34 – Michel Lethiec, cl; Evgeny Kissin, p; Moscow Virtuosi/Vladimir Spivakov, v. RCA 60370-2. [9:03] 1:00 Ludwig van Beethoven Andante favori in F, WoO 57 – Alfred Brendel, p. Philips 438472-2. [9:02] Benjamin Britten Simple Symphony, Op. 4 – Orpheus Chamber Orch. DG 423624-2. [17:43] 2:00 Richard Strauss Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks, Op. 28 – London Sym Orch/Claudio Abbado.
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DG 410518-2. [14:46] Late Afternoon Music with Candice Agree, including The Unrush Hour at 5:00 pm. Erich Wolfgang Korngold Much Ado About Nothing, Op. 11: Suite – Minería Sym Orch/ Carlos Miguel Prieto. Naxos 8.570791. [16:05] Teresa Carreño La fausse note, Op. 39 – Clara Rodríguez, p. Fundación MMG FD2522002237. [4:17] Franz Schubert Symphony No. 7 in E major, D. 729 – Munich Symphony Orchestra/ Kevin John Edusei. Solo Musica SM-339. [33:38] Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Pacific Overtures I. In part one of a two-week series, Bill explores music from lands around the Pacific Rim, beginning with Australia and New Zealand. WFMT Presents: I, Too, Sing America: Music in the Life of Langston Hughes – Host Terrance McKnight dives into the songs, cantatas, musicals, and librettos that flowed from Hughes’s pen. The hour-long program also details Hughes’s collaboration with William Grant Still and their 15-year struggle to see their opera Troubled Island become a reality. A production of WQXR. Evenings with Kerry Frumkin Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center: Beethoven: Trio in C minor for Piano, Violin, and Cello, Op. 1, No. 3; Schumann: Quartet in E-flat major for Piano, Violin, Viola, and Cello, Op. 47 Evenings with Kerry Frumkin
All prerecorded music on WFMT is provided by the Richard and Mary L. Gray Music Library.
Most live performances on WFMT are broadcast from the Fay and Daniel Levin Performance Studio.
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Wednesday 2 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore including news & weather on the hour between 6:00 am and 9:00 am; Carl’s Almanac at 7:30 am; and Black Music Spotlight at 8:30 am. 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, including New Releases this hour, Daily Excursion at 11:00 am, and the Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert at 12:15 pm. Malcolm Arnold English Dances, Op. 27 – Philharmonia/ Bryden Thomson. Chandos CHAN-8867. [8:40] 11:00 Giovanni Benedetto Platti Oboe Concerto in G minor – Ann-Kathrin Brüggemann, ob; Freiburg Baroque Orch/ Gottfried von der Goltz. Aparté AP-262. [12:13] 12:15 Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts: Violinist Geneva Lewis and pianist Sahum Sam Hong perform Clara Schumann’s Three Romances, Op. 22, Gabriel Fauré’s Après un rêve, and Claude Debussy’s Violin Sonata live from Seventeenth Church of Christ, Scientist, Chicago. 1:00 Music for the Afternoon, including the Afternoon Masterwork at 2:00 pm. Leonard Bernstein West Side Story Concerto for string quartet and orchestra – Harlem Quartet; Chicago Sinfonietta/Mei-Ann Chen. Cedille CDR-90000141. [25:47] Robert Nathaniel Dett Inspiration Waltzes – Clipper Erickson, p. Navona NV-6013. [6:08] 2:00 Johannes Brahms Violin Concerto in D, Op. 77 – Hilary Hahn, v; St. Martin’s Academy/Sir Neville Marriner. Sony SK-89649. [40:25] 3:00 Late Afternoon Music with Candice Agree, including The Unrush Hour at 5:00 pm. Johann Sebastian Bach Clavier Concerto No. 1 in D minor, BWV 1052 – St. Martin’s Academy/Murray Perahia, p. Sony 82429-2.
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[20:37] Ronn McFarlane On the Heath – Ronn McFarlane & William Simms, l’s. Dorian DSL-92111. [8:34] Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart String Quartet No. 17 in B-Flat, K. 458, Hunt – Emerson String Quartet. DG 427657-2. [25:52] Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Pacific Overtures I. In part one of a two-week series, Bill explores music from lands around the
In the Spotlight
Langston Hughes
WFMT Presents: I, Too, Sing America Born on February 1, 1901, Langston Hughes, became an icon of the Harlem Renaissance. Hughes’s written works wedded a fierce dedication to social justice with his belief in the transformative power of the word. But he was also a music lover, and some of the works he was most proud of were collaborations with composers and musicians. Terrance McKnight hosts an hourlong special that includes recordings of select pieces of Hughes’s musical works, some of which were never performed again in their entirety after their original production.
Tuesday, February 1 8:00 pm
