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.

Autumn arrives officially on Saturday. The days are getting shorter, squirrels are busily storing nuts away, and everything in nature is preparing for winter. So here's an appropriately autumnal selection of music on Sunday Matinée - harvest festival celebrations, pastoral fantasies, Grieg's autumn overture, some mock Morris dances by Gustav Holst, and lots more nostalgic music to get us in the mood for this nostalgic season.

Among the highlights (Subject to change):

  • Lawrence Ashmore: Autumn (from "Four Seasons: English Folk Songs")
  • Johannes Brahms: Clarinet Quintet in b (2nd mvt.)
  • Percy Grainger: Harvest Hymn
  • Aaron Copland: Rodeo - Corral Nocturne
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: String quartet #17 "The Hunt"
  • Dmitri Shostakovich: "Age of Gold" Suite
  • Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony #6 "Pastoral"
  • Ottorino Respighi: Poeme Autumnale
  • Frederic Chopin: Prelude No. 15 "Raindrop"
  • Antonin Dvorak: In Nature's Realm (Overture)
  • Antonio Vivaldi: Autumn (from The Four Seasons)
  • Guiseppe Verdi: Autumn from I Vespri Siciliani
  • Emmanuel Chabrier: Suite Pastorale (selection)
  • Edvard Grieg: Autumn Overture
  • Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky: The Seasons - September
  • Sir Edward Elgar: Sospiri
  • Eugenie Rocherolle: Autumn Nocturne
  • Leo Sowerby: Comes Autumn Time
  • Hubert H. Parry : An English Suite
  • Carl Goldmark: Rustic Wedding Symphony (selection)
  • Manuel de Falla: Miller's Dance from The Three Cornered Hat
  • Louis Spohr: Symphony No. 9 in b "The Seasons" (Autumn)
  • Gustav Holst: Morris Dance Tunes
  • Mercer/Prevert/Kosma: Autumn Leaves


Join David Bouchier for *The Music of Autumn* 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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