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.

In fourteen hundred and ninety-two Columbus sailed the ocean blue, and discovered the Bahamas which he believed to be India. To honor this brave but confused navigator we have a whole afternoon of beautiful music inspired by great voyages, the ocean, ships, storms and happy landfalls.

Among the highlights (Subject to change):

  • Anonymous: "I have seen the world map..." (Italian song, 1492)
  • Frank Bridge : Sea Suite: Seascape
  • Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 17 in d "The Tempest"
  • Georges Bizet : The Pearl Fishers: au fond du temple
  • Richard Rogers: Victory at Sea Suite
  • Antonin Dvorak: Symphony No. 9 in e "From the New World"
  • Percy Grainger : Molly on the Shore
  • Antonio Vivaldi: Violin Concerto No. 5 "La Tempesta di Mare"
  • Benjamin Britten: Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes
  • Felix Mendelssohn: Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage Overture
  • Georg Friedrich Handel: Water Music (air and hornpipe)
  • Claude Debussy : La mer
  • Maurice Ravel : Une barque sur l'ocean
  • Sir Arthur Sullivan : Overture to HMS Pinafore
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams : Sea Songs - Quick March
  • Nicolai Rimsky Korsakov: Scheherazade - The Sea and Sinbad's Ship
  • Sir Edward Elgar: Sea Pictures: "In Haven" and "Where the Corals Lie"
  • Tamezo Narita: Song of the Seashore
  • Hideaki Yashima: Song of the Seashell
  • Luigi Boccherini: Sonata for Violin and Cello in D (final movement)
  • Jean Sibelius : The Oceanides
  • Sir Arnold Bax: On the Sea Shore
  • Claude Debussy: Petite Suite - En bateau
  • Alexander Glazunov: The Sea
  • Edward MacDowell: Sea Pieces (selection)


Join David Bouchier for *Music of the Sea* 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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