Kate Remington
Classical Music Program HostBorn in Madison, Wisconsin, Kate Remington received a degree in piano performance and mass communication from the University of Wisconsin. Her first radio position was with Wisconsin Public Radio, which included a wildly successful request program on Saturday mornings. She then moved to Chicago to join the fledgling nationally-distributed, Beethoven Satellite Network, originating from WFMT. Then Kate set out for Vermont Public Radio, to become the chief announcer there. In Vermont Kate met her husband, Dick Roberts, and that's where their son, Sam was born. Kate and her family relocated to Fairfield to join WSHU in December of 2000, and was WSHU's Music Director from 2002 to 2023.
In 2024, Kate and her husband, Dick Roberts, retired in Oregon, close to their son Sam.
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This is the last day I’ll be filling in for Emily, and it’s been so much fun! Today we’ll hear how Beethoven was an early adopter of technology, as he put the new fangled metronome in his Symphony No. 8. Listen on 91.1, 107.5, and our music stream. -
Richard Strauss had a life long love of the sound of the French horn, and today we’ll enjoy the Second Concerto performed by Barry Tuckwell. Listen on 91.1, 107.5, and our music stream. -
Happy Monday to you! We’ve got a train journey lined up for today—a trip on the Blue Goose, with composer Kevin McKee as our tour guide. -
The Mississippi River has inspired composers as diverse as Jerome Kern and Morton Gould. Today Florence Price takes us for a river cruise, all the way down to New Orleans, on 91.1, 107.5, and our music stream. -
So many of the pieces we enjoy were written for a specific performer, and today we’ll enjoy a sonata Brahms wrote for a very gifted clarinetist on 91.1, 107.5, and our music stream. -
It’s always refreshing to hear classical music in an unexpected context, but hearing Haydn’s Trumpet Concerto in the series Squid Game, was definitely NOT on my bingo card! We’ll enjoy it today in its more natural habitat, on 91.1, 107.5, and our music stream. -
Today we’ll hear how guitarist Paul Galbraith fills up a space with his instrument by amplifying it with a gorgeous resonating wooden box. He’ll perform some Bach for us, and we’ve got lots of other great music as well. Listen today on 91.1. 107.5, and our music stream. -
Happy Monday to you! We’ll hear how Sibelius nudged Finland a little closer to independence with his Karelia Suite. Listen today on 91.1, 107.5 and our music stream. -
Emily Boyer is in Ireland, and Kate Remington is back to fill in! Emily will be here in spirit today. We’ll hear her performing Orchard Sunset, written for her by Russell Nadel. Listen today on 91.1, 107.5, and our music stream. -
Tchaikovsky couldn't find just the right sort of melody from 18th Century France, so he wrote his own for his Variations on a Rococo Theme. We'll enjoy them during our music this evening beginning at 8 p.m. on 91.1 and 107.5 FM and our music stream.
