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.

It's wedding season again, and that sets the theme for Sunday Matinee this week - a program about Musical Marriages. Mendelssohn was delighted with his marriage. but Berlioz was not. Bach, Wagner and Rossini were all married twice. Beethoven, of course, stayed single all his life, so we won't be hearing from him. Join David Bouchier to hear the happy and sad stories of great composers and their marriages, plus some great music.

Among the highlights (Subject to change):

  • Felix Mendelssohn: Wedding March from A Midsummer Night's Dream
  • Giuseppe Verdi: Grand March from Aida
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Overture to Don Giovanni
  • Felix Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto for String Orchestra in d
  • Richard Wagner: Bridal Chorus from Lohengrin
  • Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantata No. 29, "We Thank Thee Lord"
  • Antonin Dvorak: String Quartet No 12 in F "American"
  • Igor Stravinsky: Berceuse from "The Firebird"
  • Georges Bizet: Petite Suite Jeux d'enfants
  • Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 4 (adagietto)
  • Franz Joseph Haydn: Trumpet Concerto in E flat
  • Cesar Franck: Le Chasseur Maudit
  • Claude Debussy: Petite Suite
  • Hector Berlioz: Beatrice and Benedict (overture)
  • Bedrich Smetana: The Bartered Bride (overture and dances)
  • W.S.Gilbert & Sir Arthur Sullivan: Brightly Dawns our Wedding Day (from The Mikado)
  • Percy Grainger: The Merry Wedding
  • Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Wedding Dance from Swan Lake
  • Jean Sibelius: Wedding March
  • Edvard Grieg: Wedding March from Peer Gynt
  • Gioacchino Rossini: The Marriage Contract
  • Camille Saint-Saens: Wedding Cake Caprice Waltz
  • Robert Schumann: Fantasie in C

Join David Bouchier for <%=pageTitle%> 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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