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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As the weather gets warmer, I think of music for wind instruments, which were essential outdoor entertainment. Clean off the patio furniture, put on your sunglasses, and get in the spirit with a quartet for wind instruments by Gioachino Rossini! -
We’re enjoying the playful side of classical music this April Fools' Day, including Richard Strauss’s consummate trickster, Till Eulenspiegel, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s A Musical Joke. -
French composer Cecile Chaminade developed an avid fan base in the United States with amateur pianists, especially women who came out to see her perform live on tour. Get in on the action with Chaminade’s Rigaudon and Arabesque. -
When Tan Dun moved from Hunan, China to attend Central Conservatory in Beijing, he felt homesick. Eight Memories in Watercolor is the first piece he wrote in his new school, expressing his feelings like a painter who works before the water dries. -
Do you go somewhere special when you want to get your creative juices flowing? Edward MacDowell escaped to his home in New Hampshire to compose, and now it’s a retreat center for artists of all types. You can take a rejuvenating retreat with MacDowell’s Second Piano Concerto. -
Transcription is an art. It’s not just playing something written for one instrument on a different instrument, it’s finding new ways to draw out nuances in the composer's language. Clara Schumann’s Romances for violin get a bold new expression on horn. -
Mélanie Bonis’s parents forced her into a marriage with a widower 25 years older. Music was really her love, and after that relationship ended, she composed under the name Mel to disguise her identity as a woman. -
Barbara Harbach is multi-talented. We’ll hear orchestral music she wrote, and a set of Bagatelles by Antonin Dvorak where she’s playing a unique instrument: the harmonium. It adds a special, reedy sound. -
American composer Rain Worthington taps into music as movement. Her violin duo A Dance of Two pulls you in, with flowing turns and subtle energy. -
It’s the first day of spring and music is blooming! Spring from Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, flower-inspired music from Scotland, and the First Symphony by Robert Schumann evokes a spring awakening!
