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.

This Sunday April 15 will be behind us, which is a great relief. Many of the great composers of the past didn't worry about taxes because they never earned any money. But some did very well out of their music. Wagner was deeply in debt as a young man, but he became the Bill Gates of 19th century opera. Mozart proverbially died penniless, but that's not really true. Join David Bouchier for a program about this eternally fascinating subject, Music and Money this week on Sunday Matinee.

Among the highlights (subject to change):

  • Ludwig van Beethoven: Rage over a lost Penny
  • Johann Strauss II: Treasure Waltz
  • Franz Joseph Haydn: Piano Concerto No. 11 in D
  • Muzio Clementi: Symphony No. 2 in D
  • Aaron Copeland: The Heiress (suite)
  • Vassily Kalinnikov: Symphony No. 1
  • Charles Ives: The Unanswered Question
  • Luigi Cherubini: Medea (Overture)
  • Felix Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 5 in d "Reformation"
  • Jules Massenet: Scènes pittoresques
  • George Frideric Handel: Water Music Suite No. 2 in D
  • Johannes Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Haydn
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No. 41 "Jupiter" (finale)
  • Antonio Salieri: Rich for a Day
  • Edward Elgar: Enigma Variations
  • Richard Wagner: Rienzi Overture
  • Richard Strauss: Sinfonia Domestica (excerpt)
  • Josquin des Prez: Faute de l'argent (for want of money)


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

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