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.

August 26 is National Women's Equality Day, celebrating women's achievement of the right to vote in 1920. There was a time when women were excluded from just about everything, including music. But that never stopped them. Now women composers and performers have achieved international recognition. Sunday Matinée this week celebrates the achievements of women in music, as composers and performers, from Hildergard of Bingen in the 1100s to Anne Akiko Meyers in the twenty first century.

Among the highlights (Subject to change):

• Hildegard von Bingen: Canticle from "11,000 Virgins"
• Marianne von Martínez: Sinfonia in C
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Piano Sonata No. 7 in C (Alica de Larrocha)
• Felix Mendelssohn : Violin Concerto in d, first movement (Anne Akiko Meyers)
• Joan Tower, Clocks (Sharon Isbin, guitar)
• Maddalena Sirmen : Quartetto No. 2 in B-Flat major
• Alessandro Scarlatti: Gia il sole dal Gange and Se Florindo e Fedele (Cecilia Bartoli, mezzo-soprano)
• Franz Joseph Haydn : Trumpet Concerto in E-flat (Bibi Black, trumpet)
• Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel: Overture
• Giacomo Puccini: Visi d'arte from Tosca (Kiri Te-Kanawa)
• Lili Boulanger : Un Matin de Printemps
• Traditional: Four Courtly Love Songs (Anonymous Four)
• Florence Price: Cotton Dance
• Grazyna Bacewicz: Stained Glass Window
• Louise Farrenc: Trio for Piano, Flute and Cello - final movement
• Georges Bizet: Jeux d'enfants (selection) ((Katia & Marielle Labeque, piano)
• Sergei Rachmaninoff: Vocalise (Nina Kotova, cello)
• Clara Schumann : Piano Concerto in a (Angela Cheng, piano)
• Gwyneth Walker: An American Concerto
• Eugenie Rocherolle: Souvenirs be Paris Waltz
• Germaine Taillferre: Concertino for Harp and Orchestra (Gillian Benet, harp)
• Amy Beach: Cello Sonata
• Jules Massenet: Meditation from Thaïs (Ann Sophie Mutter)

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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