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 Matinee 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. Coming soon: Composers Meet Critics, and Listen to Your Mother. Whatever the theme, David Bouchier gives classical music a new dimension on Sunday afternoons.

Everyone seems to be on the move at this time of year. So Sunday Matinee this week is all about the mechanics of travel - an afternoon of music that celebrates every form of transportation from the horse to the humble bicycle, not forgetting the perambulator.

Among the highlights:

PERPETUAL MOTION x 3

  • Johann Strauss II: Perpetual Motion
  • Francis Poulenc: Trois Mouvements Perpetuels
  • Nicolo Paganini: Perpetual Motion

    • WALKING AND RUNNING

  • Frederick Delius: A Walk to Paradise Garden
  • George Gershwin: Promenade
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams: "I Have Trod the Upward and Downward Slope" (from "Songs of Travel")
  • Gustav Mahler: Symphony No.4 (final movement)
  • Vangelis: Chariots of Fire (film music)

    • HORSES AND RIDING

  • Franz Joseph Haydn: String Quartet No. 74 "The Rider"
  • Richard Wagner: Ride of the Valkyries
  • Hector Berlioz: Harold in Italy
  • Alexander Borodin: In the Steppes of Central Asia

    • SEA AND SHIPS

  • Felix Mendelssohn: Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage
  • Sir Arthur Sullivan: HMS Pinafore (selection)
  • Claude Debussy: En Bateau
  • James Horner: Titanic (movie music - selection)
  • Sir Henry Wood: British Sea Songs
  • Luigi Boccherini: Sonata for Violin and Cello in D
  • Maurice Ravel: A Ship on the Ocean

    • FIRST WHEELED VEHICLE AND BICYCLE

  • James Alden Carpenter: Adventures in a Perambulator
  • John Williams: ET "Bicycle Race: (film music)

    • TRAINS

  • Richard Rodney Bennett: Murder on the Orient Express (film music)
  • Arthur Honegger: Pacific 231

    • FLIGHT AND SPACE

  • Gustav Holst: The Planets - Mercury
  • James Horner: Apollo 13 (film music, selection)

    • ON THE ROAD - DRIVING MUSIC

  • John Adams: Short Ride in a Fast Machine
  • Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1
  • Aaron Copeland: Appalachian Spring (excerpt)


    • Join David Bouchier for *Music on the Move* 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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