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From WSHU's daytime and evening classical programs, Kate Remington and Lauren Rico give you a heads-up on some of the best music they've selected.

Classical Music Highlight: Musical Poetry

It’s been called “an immortal poem in which life and death come face to face." Was it by Whitman? Perhaps Emily Dickinson… or Pablo Neruda? Actually, this prose has notes rather than words as an expressive medium. Franz Liszt could convey an image in sound as vivid as any penned in letters. Poetic verses by Liszt today on Afternoon Classics when we enjoy a reading of Les Preludes.

For more than 20 years, Lauren has demystified classical music for her audiences by taking it off a dusty old pedestal and putting it into a modern context. She lives on Long Island with her husband and two punky schnauzers.