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 summer vacation time, and the dictionary defines "vacation" as "A period of rest and freedom." Most people like to leave the laptop and the cellphone and home, and get right away from their daily routines and responsibilities. But some just can't stop working. When Beethoven took a vacation in Heiligenstadt in 1802, he wrote a long despairing testament about his deafness, and also composed his remarkably cheerful Symphony No. 2. Camille Saint-Saens composed his popular Piano Concerto No. 5 on a trip down the Nile in Egypt. Many of the great composers did their best work on vacation, and on Sunday Matinee this week we'll hear what inspired them, and listen to the music they created. Join David Bouchier for Composers on Vacation

Among the highlights:

  • Johannes Brahms : Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Op. 56
  • Camille Saint-Saens : Concerto for Piano No. 5 in F
  • Ludwig Van Beethoven : Symphony No. 2 in D
  • Bohuslav Martinu : Sonata No. 1 for flute & piano
  • Franz Joseph Haydn : Symphony No. 104 in D major
  • Felix Mendelssohn : Symphony No. 4 in A ("The Italian")
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Symphony No. 39 in E-flat
  • Darius Milhaud : La Cheminee du Roi Rene
  • Johannes Brahms : Symphony No. 2 in D
  • Georg Phillip Telemann : Quartet No. 12 in e


Join David Bouchier for *Composers on Vacation* 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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