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 coming week in France Bastille Day will be celebrated - the French equivalent of the Fourth of July. On Sunday Matinee today we will mark the 217th anniversary of the French Revolution with an afternoon of sparkling French music, and music inspired by French landscapes and cities.

Among the highlights (subject to change):

  • La Marseillaise (arr. Berlioz, sung by Sylvia McNair & Richard Leech)
  • Hector Berlioz: March to the Scaffold from Symphonie Fantastique
  • Offenbach: Gaité Parisienne
  • César Franck: Symphonic Variations
  • Charles Gounod: Ballet Music from Faust
  • Emmanuel Chabrier: Joyeuse Marche
  • Camille Saint-Seans: Symphony No. 3 "Organ Symphony"
  • Gabriel Fauré: Dolly Suite
  • Georges Bizet: Symphony in C
  • Jules Massenet: Meditation from Thais
  • Ernest Chausson: Poème
  • Claude Debussy: Peitite Suite
  • Eric Satie: Gymnopedie # 1
  • Maurice Ravel: Introduction and Allegro
  • Darius Milhaud: La Cheminée de Roi René
  • Francis Poulenc: Sonata for Flute
  • Frederic Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 2


Join David Bouchier for *The Music of France* 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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