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.

On Sunday Matinée this week we'll hear how national pride has been expressed through the music of different cultures. In the nineteenth century composers like Chopin started to weave folk-themes into their concert works, and patriotic composers like, Mussorgsky, Grieg, Sibelius and Copland created a whole new genre of national music. It's a whole afternoon of glorious, bombastic and just plain beautiful music dedicated to the homelands of the composers.

Among the highlights (Subject to change):

  • Traditional: Yankee Doodle
  • Bedrich Smetana: Ma Vlast (Vlatava & Bohemia's Forests)
  • Franz Liszt: Fantasia on Hungarian Folk Themes
  • Antonin Dvorak: Slavonic Dances
  • Giuseppi Verdi: Nabucco (Hebrew Slave Chorus)
  • Edvard Grieg: Holberg Suite
  • Chen Gang & Ho Zhan Hau: Butterfly Lover's Violin Concerto
  • Muzio Clementi: Symphony No. 3 "The Great National"
  • Jean Sibelius: Finlandia
  • Hector Berlioz (arr.): La Marseillaise
  • Bela Bartok: Six Roumanian Folk Dances
  • Sir Edward Elgar: Pomp and Circumstance March No. 5
  • Aaron Copland: Appalachian Spring
  • Modest Mussorksky: Night on the Bare Mountain
  • Manuel de Falla: Nights in the Gardens of Spain ("Distant Dance")
  • Frederic Chopin: Etude op. 10 No. 12 "Revolutionary"
  • Benjamin Britten: Suite on English Folk Tunes (selection)
  • Robert Schumann: Four Folk Pieces
  • Camille Saint Saens: Rhapsodie d'Auvergne
  • William Grant Still: Symphony No. 1 "Afro American"
  • Joaquin Rodrigo: Spanish Dance

Join David Bouchier for *Music of My Country* 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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