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.

Spring officially arrived this week, on March 20. This is the best, the most optimistic season of the year, when everything begins afresh, and anything seems possible. Poets and composers have always celebrated Spring with special enthusiasm, and so should we. This week, Sunday Matinée presents a whole afternoon of joyful Springtime classics - from Delius to Aaron Copland, and including a superb performance of Beehoven's glorious Ninth Symphony, with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus.

Among the highlights (subject to change):

  • Frederick Delius : On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring
  • Louis-Claude Daquin: Le Coucou
  • Leroy Anderson: The First Day of Spring
  • Ludwig Van Beethoven : Violin Sonata No. 5 in F "Spring"
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams: Lark Ascending
  • Aaron Copland : Appalachian Spring
  • Alexander Glazunov: The Four Seasons - Spring
  • Josef Suk: Toward a New Life
  • Edvard Grieg : Two Elegiac Melodies: The Last Spring
  • Antonio Vivaldi : Four Seasons - Spring
  • Ottorino Respighi : The Birds
  • Karl Goldmark: In Springtime Overture
  • Ludwig Van Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 ("Choral")
  • Frank Bridge: Spring Song
  • Felix Mendelssohn: Spring Song
  • Jean Sibelius: Spring Song
  • Giuseppe Verdi: Spring from I vespri siciliani
  • Rick Sowash: Spring, from Piano Trio #1
  • Giuseppe Verdi: Spring from I vespri siciliani
  • Robert Schumann: Symphony No. 1 in B-flat "Spring"


Join David Bouchier for The Music of Springtime 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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