Emily Boyer
Morning Music HostWe’re thrilled to introduce Emily Boyer, our new morning classical host. Emily is a musician, music educator and passionate music advocate. Best of all, she’s a lifelong classical public radio listener!
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Want to skip the stress of airline travel? Instantly touch down in Italy with music by Felix Mendelssohn. He loved his time on the sunny shores of the Mediterranean, and he shares that joy in his Symphony #4, “Italian”. -
Her Voice is a recent album by oboist Theresa Delaplain. She carries us into the complex emotional world of Clara Schumann expressed in her Three Romances. -
“In like a lion, out like a...” well, even in shifting March weather, spring is officially here! Celebrate the first day of spring with music, including Robert Schumann’s boisterous Symphony #1, "Spring”. -
Antonin Dvorak almost didn’t write his celebrated Cello Concerto. He doubted the cello’s potential. It turns out his concerto unleashes the cello’s capabilities, and we’ll hear it today on the anniversary of its premiere. -
Have you heard the birds singing? Signs of spring! You can hear them in music, too. Listen for signs of warmer days ahead in The Birds by Ottorino Respighi. -
Where are the women who write music? All around us! Let’s listen to what American women have to say in music this week on America 250, The American Experience, including Joan Tower’s Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman #1. -
When artists reveal their musical influences, sometimes their answers are surprising. Igor Stravinsky, who’s known for forward-thinking 20th century music, cites rich, romantic melodies by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky as his inspiration in The Fairy’s Kiss. -
“Hiraeth” is a Welsh word for the longing you feel for a time or place you can never revisit. Pianist Isata Kanneh-Mason draws on family ties to Wales in achingly beautiful music she named Hireath performed by all seven of the Kanneh-Mason siblings. -
Woot! Spring break! Even if you’re not relaxing on a Florida beach, you can still enjoy a spring break escape. Hear Clara Schumann’s postcard from her travels in Souvenir from Vienna. -
Are you a middle child? Reliable, flexible, sometimes overlooked? Then you have a lot in common with the viola. Hear the middle member of the string family in the spotlight in the Sonata by 20th century viola virtuosa, Rebecca Clarke.
