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WWUH Classical Programming
September / October 2008
By Keith Barrett
	Sunday Afternoon at the Opera ~ Sunday 1:00 pm to 4:30 pm
	Evening Classics ~ weekdays 4:00 pm to 7:00/8:00 pm
	Drake's Village Brass Band ~ Monday 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm
	September
	
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 Mon  | 
 1  | 
 
					Gould: Symphony #2 "On Marching Tunes"; Paragon Ragtime Orchestra Plays the Entertainer and Others; Macdowell: Suite #1 "Indian"; Gershwin: Lady Be Good  | 
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 Tue  | 
 2  | 
 Alfred Newman: film scores from Beau Geste and the Hunchback of Notre Dame; Sir Michael Tippett: Symphonies #1 and #2  | 
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 Wed  | 
 3  | 
 
					Britten: A Ceremony of Carols; Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5; Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto;  | 
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 Thu  | 
 4  | 
 Steve’s Favorites: Handel: Concerti Grossi, Op. 6 #1-6;Rachmaninov: Preludes Op. 32; Bruckner: Motets; Classical Happy Hour. Bach: Brandenburg Concerto #2; Mozart: Les Petits Riens; Milhaud: Le Boeuf Sur Le Toit.  | 
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 Fri  | 
 5  | 
 Music to celebrate a wedding anniversary and John Cage’s birthday  | 
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 Sun  | 
 7  | 
 Schönberg: Gurrelieder  | 
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 Mon  | 
 8  | 
 
					American Symphonic Poems and Orchestra Songs 1- Music of Farewell, Griffes, Hadley and Thomspon; Hailstork: Symphony #3  | 
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 Tue  | 
 9  | 
 
					Ramsoe: Brass Quartet #2; Sibelius: Symphony #1;  | 
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 Wed  | 
 10  | 
 
					Nielsen: String Quartet No. 1; Vivaldi: Gloria;  | 
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 Thu  | 
 11  | 
 Fasch: Overture in D; Kuhlau: Elf Hill Overture, Flute Quintet #1; Maier: Motets; Somers: Suite for Harp and Chamber Orchestra, Fantasia for Orchestra; Part: Speigel im Spiegel; Diabelli: Serenata Concertante Op. 105.  | 
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 Fri  | 
 12  | 
 Music of Arnold Schoenberg  | 
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 Sun  | 
 14  | 
 Puccini: Tosca  | 
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 Mon  | 
 15  | 
 
					American Symphonic Poems and Orchestra Songs 2- Music of Herbert, Parker, Carpenter, Harris and Foote; Hailstork: Symphony #2  | 
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 Tue  | 
 16  | 
 Max Steiner: score from They Died with Their Boots On; Sir Michael Tippett: Symphonies # 3 and #4  | 
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 Wed  | 
 17  | 
 Britten: Piano Concerto in D; Schubert:: Symphony No. 3; Bach: Cantatas; Hummel: Trumpet Concerto  | 
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 Thu  | 
 18  | 
 Keiser: Hercules and Hebe Suite; Walther: Organ Music; Guerrero: Missa Super Flumina Babylonis; Musical Mystery Melody – The Clarinet. Lord Berners: Nicholas Nickleby Suite; Benjamin: Jamaican Rumba; Labor: Clarinet Quintet in D Op.11.  | 
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 Fri  | 
 19  | 
 Jean & Kenneth Wentworth play music  | 
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 Sun  | 
 21  | 
 Gounod: Romeo et Juliette  | 
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 Mon  | 
 22  | 
 
					Vaughan Williams: Sinfonia Antartica; Stravinsky: The Soldier's Tale; Glass: Itaipu  | 
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 Tue  | 
 23  | 
 Larsson: Quattro Tempi; Davidoff: Cello Concerto #1;Debussy: String Quartet; Liszt: A Faust Symphony  | 
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 Wed  | 
 24  | 
 Monteverdi: Madrigals; Britten: String Quartet No.1; Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 5; Prokofiev: Alexander Nevsky Suite  | 
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 Thu  | 
 25  | 
 Saint-Saens: Piano Concerto #4; Beethoven: String Trio Op.9 #1; Korngold: String Sextet; Liszt: At the Grave of Richard Wagner; Berg: String Quartet Op. 3; Glazunov: Piano Concerto #1; Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream; Debussy: Violin Sonata in g; Chaminade: Piano Trio #2.  | 
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 Fri  | 
 26  | 
 Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts – The 1st Performance in Philharmonic Hall  | 
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 Sun  | 
 28  | 
 Donizetti: Gemma di Vergy  | 
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 Mon  | 
 29  | 
 
					Crumb: The River of Life - American Songbook 1; Bruckner: Symphony #7  | 
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 Tue  | 
 30  | 
 Graupner: Suite for Strings in Eb, GWV 429; Boccherini: Quintet No. 1 in Dm for Guitar and Strings, G445; Arnold: Symphony No. 1; Rubbra: Viola Concerto; Grieg: Ballade in the Form of Variations on a Norwegian Folk Song, in G minor, op.24; Röntgen: Suite aus Jotunheim; Hummel: Piano Trio No. 7 in Eb, Op. 96; Bach: Missa Brevis in F, BWV 233  | 
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 October  | 
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 Wed  | 
 1  | 
 Mozart: Symphony No. 40; Britten: String Quartet No. 2; Dvorak: Stabat Mater; Dvorak: Symphony No. 6  | 
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 Thu  | 
 2  | 
 Telemann: Overture in e “L'Omphale"; Tuma: Partita in c, Sinfonia in B Flat; Almeida: Lamentations of Jeremiah; Classical Happy Hour. Haydn: Concerto for 2 Horns in E Flat; Beethoven: String Quartet in F Op. 18 #1; Leighton: Symphony for Strings.  | 
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 Fri  | 
 3  | 
 The rich music of Steve Reich  | 
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 Sun  | 
 5  | 
 Tippett: The Knot Garden  | 
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 Mon  | 
 6  | 
 
					The Truth About Russian Dancers; Golijov: Oceana; Crumb: Unto the Hills; American Songbook 3  | 
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 Tue  | 
 7  | 
 George Whitefield Chadwick: Symphony #3 in F major; Samuel Barber: Medea's Meditation and Dance of Vengeance  | 
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 Wed  | 
 8  | 
 
					Ockeghem: Mass; Britten: String Quartet No. 3;  | 
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 Thu  | 
 9  | 
 Mattheson: Overture in F; Mendelssohn: String Quartet in a Op. 13; H. Praetorius: Motets; Saint-Saens: Suite Algerienne, La Muse et Le Poete, Cello Sonata #1; Rautavaara: Fiddlers Op. 1, Canto I; Sierra: Memorias Tropicales; Hiller: Piano Concerto #1.  | 
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 Fri  | 
 10  | 
 Classical music goes ambient with “The European Suite”  | 
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 Sun  | 
 12  | 
 Verdi: I Masnadieri  | 
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 Mon  | 
 13  | 
 
					Read Thomas: Gathering Paradise; Hartke: Symphony #3; Bruckner: Symphony #8  | 
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 Tue  | 
 14  | 
 Shostakovich: Piano Concerto #1; Sibelius: Symphony #2; Dvorak: String Sextet in A, Op. 48; Mozart: Missa Solemnis  | 
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 Wed  | 
 15  | 
 Britten: Excerpts from Death in Venice; Hummel: Cello Sonata; Faure: Violin Sonata; Haydn: String Quartet, Op. 76, No. 2  | 
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 Thu  | 
 16  | 
 Zelenka: Miserere; Pelikan: Missa Sancti Adalberti; Doppler: Fantasie Pastorale Hongroise; Erkki Sven Tüür: Insula Deserta; Linde: Suite Boulogne Op. 32; Hiller: Piano Concerto #2; Rabl: Clarinet Quartet in E Flat Op.1.  | 
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 Fri  | 
 17  | 
 Wynton Marsalis – a ballet and a string quartet  | 
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 Sun  | 
 19  | 
 Handel: Solomon  | 
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 Mon  | 
 20  | 
 
					Happy Birthday Mr. Ives... Ives: Three Orchestral Sets; Songs; Music of Ruggles, Cowell and Harrison  | 
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 Tue  | 
 21  | 
 Malcolm Arnold: Clarinet Concerto #1, op 20 and some early Halloween celebratory music  | 
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 Wed  | 
 22  | 
 Palestrina: Missa Viri Galilaei; Stravinsky: Petrushka Suite; Haydn: String Quartet, Op. 76, No. 3; Bernstein: Symphony No. 1  | 
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 Thu  | 
 23  | 
 Dall’Abaco: Concerti Op. 5 #1-3; Absil: Flemish Rhapsody; De Monte: Motets; Gideon: Symphonia Brevis; Rorem: Songs, Flute Concerto; Sacco: Meditation #1, Flying Saucer Overture; Goodman: Montségur Suite; Hiller: Piano Concerto #3.  | 
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 Fri  | 
 24  | 
 Contemporary Chamber Music For Dance of Luigi Zaninelli  | 
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 Sun  | 
 26  | 
 Weber: Der Freischütz  | 
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 Mon  | 
 27  | 
 
					Monday Night at the Movies...Selections from the Chandos Movies Series - Music by Vaughan Williams/ Lambert/ Shostakovich and others  | 
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 Tue  | 
 28  | 
 Rameau: Ballet Suite from Abaris ou les Boréades; Brahms: String Quintet No. 1 in F, Op. 88; Arnold: Symphony No. 2; Leighton: Veris Gratia Suite, Op. 9; Mozart: Serenade No. 13 ("Gran Partita") in Bb for Winds, K361; Ariosti: "Stockholm" Sonata No. 8 in Dm for Viola d'Amore; Bach: Missa Brevis in A, BWV 234  | 
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 Wed  | 
 29  | 
 
					Messiaen: Turanglila Symphonie; Penderecki: A Polish Requiem (Excerpts); Schubert: Lieder;  | 
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 Thu  | 
 30  | 
 Avison: Concerti Grossi Op.6 #4-6; Purcell: Music in Amphitryon and The Old Batchelor; Tallis: Sacred Choral Music; Warlock: Serenade for the 60th Birthday of Frederick Delius, Songs, Capriol Suite; Alan Bush: Summer Valley; Carwithen: Suffolk Suit; Elgar: Piano Quintet; Alwyn: Overture to a Masque; Sterndale Bennett: Piano Concerto #1.  | 
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 Fri  | 
 31  | 
 Halloween music - Philip Glass: Dracula and R. Strauss Death and Transfiguration  | 




