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 holiday weekend on Sunday Matinee we have a transatlantic tribute to some great European musicians who brought their genius to America. Antonin Dvorak came here in 1893, and was inspired to write his masterpiece, The New World Symphony. Many other great conductors, composers and performers came to visit or to settle in the New World during the 19th and 20th centuries, including Tchaikovsky, Korngold, Stravinsky and Rachmaninoff..

Among the highlights (subject to change):

  • Igor Stravinsky : Jeu de Cartes
  • Antonin Dvorak : Symphony No. 9 "From the New World"
  • Anton Rubinstein: Barcarolle No. 5
  • Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky : Piano Concerto No. 3
  • Johann Strauss II : Blue Danube Waltz
  • Erich Korngold : Violin Concerto in D
  • Gustav Mahler : Symphony No. 5 - adagietto
  • Darius Milhaud: Scaramouche
  • Sergei Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2 in c
  • Benjamin Britten : Simple Symphony
  • Sigismond Thalberg: Musical Pensées (selection)
  • Jean Sibelius: The Oceanides
  • Enrique Granados: Valses Poeticos
  • Frederick Delius : Florida Suite
  • Camille Saint-Saens: Septet (selection)


Join David Bouchier for *Europe Comes to America* 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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