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Music Highlights for Wed., 5/14/08
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WSHU Classical Music
Airs weekdays on WSHU-FM
9 a.m. - 1 p.m., hosted by Kate Remington
Haydn got pretty annoyed with his London audiences dropping off to sleep during his concerts. He devised a surprising way to keep his audiences awake, and you can find out what it was this morning.
1 - 4 p.m., hosted by Lauren Rico
Beethoven wanted a wider audience for his piano sonatas, so at the urging of his publisher he arranged one of them for string quartet. You can enjoy it this afternoon.
8 - 10 p.m., hosted by Kate Remington
Get fired up this evening with a performance of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony conducted by the hot young Venezuelan, Gustavo Dudamel, who takes over the Los Angeles Philharmonic next year.
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CLASSICAL
FOLK & OTHER
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Sunday Baroque features Baroque and early music written before 1750.
This week: Even though the baroque era ended in the middle of the 1700s, there is a steady stream of new recordings of baroque music. Sometimes they feature old favorite, but there’s also newly discovered music being recorded for the first time ever. You hear these “discoveries” regularly on Sunday Baroque, and this week is no exception – you can audition a new world premiere recording of Concertos by Johann Fasch.
Every week on Sunday Matinée, host David Bouchier puts a different spin on classical music.
This week: George the first of England scarcely spoke a word of English, but his patronage made Haydn the most famous musician in the land. Every composer in those days needed a patron, preferably a royal patron, Sunday Matinee will focus on music written for (and sometimes by) European royalty from the 17th century to the 20th.
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