Sunday afternoons are special on WSHU. Every week, David Bouchier puts a different spin on classical music - anecdotes about the great composers, poetry, musical history, and even musical jokes. Sunday Matinée may explore the hidden links between music and literature, composers' letters, music for a special season of the year, or music designed to make you think. Whatever the theme, David Bouchier gives classical music a new dimension on Sunday afternoons.

Music and art are said to be mirrors of their times. Does that mean we can draw some parallels between them? What does Debussy have in common with Monet for example, or Mendelssohn with Constable? Why does Vivaldi remind you of a baroque cathedral, while some twentieth century composers make you think of Jackson Pollock? Sometimes the answer is obvious, sometimes not. This week, on an 'encore edition' of Sunday Matinée, we'll take a tour through two centuries of great music, from classical to modern, and see what artists were doing when this music was being created.

Among the highlights (subject to change) :

  • Antonio Vivaldi: Winter from The Four Seasons
  • Franz Joseph Haydn : Symphony No. 85 ("The Queen")
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Don Giovanni, Act II
  • Stephen Paulus: The Winged Victory (narration with music)
  • Antonin Dvorak: In Nature's Realm Overture
  • Ludwig Van Beethoven : Symphony No. 6 in F ("Pastoral")
  • Frederic Chopin : Etude No. 13 in A-flat ("Aeolian Harp")
  • Franz Liszt : Annees de Pelerinage (selections)
  • Giuseppe Verdi : Aida (Grand March from Act II)
  • Camille Saint-Saens : The Spinning Wheel of Omphale
  • Modest Mussorgsky : Pictures at an Exhibition
  • Johannes Brahms : Symphony No. 2 in D
  • Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky : 1812 Overture
  • Leo Delibes: Lakme (Flower Duet)
  • Giacomo Puccini : Tosca (Vissi d'arte)
  • Stephen Paulus: The Birth of Venus (narration with music)
  • Felix Mendelssohn : Midsummer Night's Dream (overture)
  • Claude Debussy : Images (selection)
  • Paul Hindemith: Mathis der Mahler

Join David Bouchier for Music and Art on Sunday Matinee, from 1 till 6, right after Sunday Baroque, only on WSHU and WSUF.

This program is produced in the Long Island Studio of WSHU & WSUF, on the campus of Suffolk County Community College in Selden, New York.

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