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 Labor Day weekend, and millions of students are heading back to school or college. But Mozart scarcely ever went to school, Beethoven barely learned enough arithmetic to add up a grocery bill, and the education of Johannes Brahms consisted largely of playing piano in seedy bars. This week on Sunday Matinée we explore the unorthodox ways in which the great composers were and were not educated.

Among the highlights (Subject to change):

• Modest Mussorgsky: Polonaise
• Ludwig van Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. 3
• Antonio Vivaldi: Violin Concerto No.8
• Edward Elgar: Serenade for String Orchestra
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Clarinet Concerto
• Felix Mendelssohn: Piano Concerto in g
• Jean Sibelius: The Oceanides
• Camille Saint-Saens: Symphony No. 3 "Organ"
• Franz Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 55 "The Schoolmaster"
• Robert Schumann: Piano Quintet in E-flat (scherzo)
• Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio Espagnol
• Alexander Borodin: String Quartet No. 2 (nocturne)
• Hector Berlioz: Beatrice & Benedict (overture)
• Clara Schumann: larghetto from Three Fugitive Pieces
• Antonin Dvorak: Songs My Mother Taught Me 4
• Richard Wagner: Lohengrin (overture to Act 1)
• Johannes Brahms: Symphony No. 4

This program is produced in the Long Island Studio of WSHU & WSUF, on the campus of Suffolk County Community College in Selden, New York.

This page and its contents are copyright WSHU-FM, Fairfield, CT., and David Bouchier.