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August brings us to the depths of summertime where the weather slows the pace of life down. This is a perfect time to relax in the shade with a cool drink and listen to some tunes. That's what you'll find each week this month on Boomers Paradise, Mondays from 1-4pm here at WWUH with your host, The Turtle Man.

As with each first Monday of the month we'll start August out with tracks from albums released 50 years ago in August 1973 along with a continued review of Steve Winwood's extensive music catalogue and an even further look back to a fertile time in rock and roll, the years 1964-1966.

Next we tap into more music representative of "Torch songs", a new song title theme of "give" and "take" and another dip into the world of musical riffs.

We'll then change course and return to "A Flock of Byrds" and a song title themes around "strange", "stranger" and "strangest".

Finally, we end the month once again traveling the song title themes of "streets, "roads", "highways" and other "avenues" of surface travel."

You won't find music like this anywhere else but here on WWUH 91.3 FM and wwuh.org. You're never alone when you listen to music.

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Antheil: Violin Sonata #3; Siegmeister: Piano Sonata #1 “American”; Gould: American Symphonettes; Britten: An American Overture; Antheil: Symphony #3 “American”; Foss: American Landscapes for Guitar and Orchestra

Drake’s Village Brass Band “American Treasures” U.S. Air Force Band of Washington D. C.

James Paisible: Prelude No. 4 in G minor; The Queen's Farewell; Pierre Danican Philidor: Douxiéme Suitte in D major/minor, Op. 2; Georg Philipp Telemann: Suite for solo cembalo in C major, TWV 32:3, Essercizii Musici, Solo No. 6, and Trio for Flauto traverso, Viola da gamba, and B.c. in B minor, Trio Sonata, TWV 42:h4, Essercizii Musici, Trio No. 6; Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantata for the 8th Sunday after Trinity, "Erforsche mich, Gott, und erfahre mein Herz", BWV 136; Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Violin Sonata in G minor, H. 542.5 (attrib. to J.S. Bach, BWV 1020); George Frideric Handel: Selected arias; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Sonata No. 1 in C major, K. 279; Johannes Brahms: Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op. 115; Cecile Chaminade: Callirhoé, suite de ballet, Op. 37; Béla Bartók: Piano Concerto No. 3, Sz 119.

Kühnel: Sonata à 2 in e minor; Junker: Keyboard Concerto in B-Flat Major; Lauro: Cuatro valses venezolanos; New Additions to the WWUH Librar

Charles Wuorinen's Violin Concerto and Percussion Quartet; Music of William Schuman

Herbert, Naughty Marietta, Vives, Bohemios

Haydn: Piano Trio in C; Koechlin: The Seven Stars Symphony; Richter: Sinfonia a Quatro in B flat

Debussy: Preludes, Book 1; Diaghilev 150 – Chopin: Les Sylphides; Rossini: La Boutique fantastique (The Magic Toyshop); Stanley Drucker clarinet, In Memoriam

Drake’s Village Brass Band Brasstacular Live! – Celebrating 35 Years, River City Brass Band

Johann Nepomuk Hummel: Mathilde von Guise, Op. 100; Gioachino Rossini: La pietra del paragone (The Touchstone), Act II; John Field Piano Concerto No. 6 in C Major, H. 49; Franz Berwald: Wettlauf (Foot-Race); Charles Lecocq: La fille de Madame Angot: Overture; Heinrich Proch: Deh! torna mio bene, Op. 164, "Air and Variations"; Franz JosephStrauss: Nocturne for Horn and Piano, Op. 7; Mikhail Glinka: Serenata on themes from Gaetano Donizetti’s “Anna Bolena” in E-Flat Major; Henri Vieuxtemps: La fiancée de Messine, Act III: Scene de ballet (arr. M. Majkusiak for orchestra; Giovanni Pacini: Il contestabile di Chester, Part I: Trio; Isaac Albeniz: Barcarola, Op. 23, "Barcarolle catalane; Georges Bizet: 20 Melodies, Op. 21 (excerpts); Antonio Pasculli: Gran Concerto su temi dell'opera I vespri siciliani di Verdi for Oboe and Piano; Edouard Lalo: Piano Trio No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 7; Franz von Suppe: Fortune's Labyrinth (Irrfahrt um's Gluck); Ottorino Respighi: Fantasia slava for Piano and Orchestra, P. 50; Edvard Grieg: 2 Melodies, Op. 53; Antonin Dvorak: The Golden Spinning-Wheel, Op. 109, B. 197

Praetorius: Motets; S. Arnold: Macbeth incidental music; Fry: Niagara Symphony; Noordt: Recorder Sonata in g minor, Op. 1 No. 4; Gibbs: Nightfall, Miniature Dance Suite; Turk: Sonata No. 1 in a minor; Moore: Farm Journal; Glazunov: Raymonda Suite, Op. 57a; Kancheli: Bridges to Bach.

Its time for our annual “Classical Bluegrass”

Rossini, Il Turco in Italia

Baur: A cello sonata; R. Strauss: Burlesque; R. Stohr: :Symphony No. 1

Cecile Licad- American Noctures #1; Rachmaninoff: Symphony #3, Isle of the Dead; Mennin: Symphony #7 in One Movement “Variations Symphony”

Drake’s Village Brass Band Red, White and Brass – Canadian Brass and Friends

Host’s choice

Porpora: Cello Concerto in G Major; Mertz: Bardenklange, Op. 13 (selections); Benoit: Charlotte Corday Overture; Tomasi: Divertimento Corsica; Chasins: Three Chinese Pieces.

Film scores by Elmer Bernstein

Johann Strauss, Waldmeister

Boccherini: Guitar Quintet ; Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 27; Schubert: Symphony No. 3; Francaix: Le roi nu; Tchaikovsky: Suite No. 3

Chavez: Piano concerto; Surinach: Acrobats of God; Sierra: Symphony #3 “La Salsa”

Drake’s Village Brass Band Sing Sing/Sing! Music with No Strings Attached – Brass Band of Battle Creek

Host’s choice

Amner: Oboe Concerto in c minor; Dubois: Piano Concerto No. 2 in f minor; Napravnik: Concerto Symphonique in a minor Op. 27; Heiden: Alto Saxophone Sonata; Bentzon: 7 Little Pieces, Op. 3; Paulus: The Road Home.

Music to celebrate the life of Leonard Bernstein or host’s choice

Delius, Fennimore and Gerda

Locatelli: Violin Concerto in A; Saint-Saens: Piano Concerto No. 2; Franck: Violin Sonata; Schubert: Symphony No. 5; Vaughn Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis

Tuesday Night at the Movies Tiomkin: Dial M for Murder; Herrmann: The Man Who Knew Too Much with The Storm Clouds Cantata by Arthur Benjamin; Rota: War and Peace Suite

Drake’s Village Brass Band – A Hollywood Spectacular Music of Miklós Rózsa

Gottfried Finger: Ouverture in F major; Anna Bon di Venezia: Flute Sonata in C major, Op. 1, No. 1; Georg Philipp Telemann: Sonata for Violin and B.c. in A major, TWV 41:A6:, Essercizii Musici, Solo No. 7, and Trio for Recorder, Viola da gamba, and B.c. in F major, TWV 42:F3, Essercizii Musici, Trio No. 7; Josquin des Prez: Inviolata, integra et casta es; Vicente Lusitano: Inviolata, integra et casta es; Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantata for the 12th Sunday after Trinity, "Geist und Seele wird verwirret", BWV 35; George Frideric Handel: Selected arias; Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Violin Sonata in C minor, Wq. 78, H. 514; Ludwig van Beethoven: 12 Variations on Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen from Mozart's Die Zauberflöte in F major, Op. 66; Mélanie Bonis: Suite en forme de valses; Paul Hindemith: Violin Concerto. ______________________________________________________________

SUNDAY AFTERNOON AT THE OPERA

SUNDAY AUGUST 6TH Herbert, Naughty Marietta, Vives, Bohemios The music of the popular American lyric theater always figures in my mix of Summertime lyric theater programming. The "March King" John Philip Sousa (1894-1932) wrote American operetta quite successfully. His most popular operetta, El Capitan (1895) got an airing on this program from Zephyr CD's twice before on Sundays in 1999 and 2016. Victor Herbert (1859-1924) also helped to transform the European operetta into the uniquely American musical. Herbert's Naughty Marietta (1910) was a gigantic hit. Oscar Hammerstein commissioned a "a creole comic opera" for his Manhattan Opera company. The plot of Naughty Marietta is pretty slender, with confusing romantic entanglements, and it all seems pretty damned brainless today. But Herbert's musical score has one hit number after another. Naughty Marietta was so popular it was adapted in 1935 into an MGM movie starring cinematic singing icons Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy. The first-ever musically complete recording of Herbert's reconstructed Eileen (1917) was made in 1997 by Ohio Light Opera. I broadcast the Newport Classic CD release of Eileen on Sunday, August 3, 2003. Now it's the turn for the reconstructed complete original score of Naughty Marietta. A concert version of all this music was performed and recorded in 1990 at the Baird Auditorium of the Smithsonian museum in Washington, DC (Sousa's hometown). The musical resources were under the direction of James R. Morris. The Smithsonian finally released this vintage recording to the public in CD format in its American Musical Theater Series (Harbinger Records, 2021). Keep listening for excerpts from Herbert's 1914 musical The Only Girl as performed by Light Opera of New York (Albany Records CD, 2015).

   Last month I devoted an entire afternoon of programming to the zarzuela, the popular lyric theater genre of Spain, akin to European operetta and not unlike the American musical comedy. Bohemios (1904), by Amadeo Vives (1871-1932) dates from the same period as Naughty Marietta, and enjoyed a similar big success. Its story is based on the same French novella by Henri Berger that inspired Puccini's La Boheme, only it's a romantic comedy throughout, with no tragic ending, no Mimi dying of consumption. Bohemios was recorded musically complete in 1993 for release through the French Audivis Valois label. Like the Smithsonian's Naughty Marietta recording, Bohemios lacks spoken word dialog. Antoni Ros Marba conducts the Orquesta Sinfonica de Tenerife with the Coro Polifonico de la Universidad de la Laguna, and seven vocal soloists.

SUNDAY AUGUST 13TH Rossini, Il Turco in Italia Although they weren't much impressed with it, the first night audience in Milan naturally regarded Gioacchino Rossini's Il Turco in Italia (1814) as the obvious sequel to his highly popular L'Italiana in Algieri from the previous year. True, there are some similarities to be found in these masterworks of the Italian opera buffa. But Rossini wrote all new music for "The Turk in Italy." He borrowed nothing from "The Italian Girl in Algiers," or any of his previous operas (unusual for him). "The Turk" played all over Europe, then fell out of the repertoire in the mid nineteenth century. The great Maria Callas sang the role of Fiorilla to thunderous acclaim in Rome in 1950 and again in Milan in 1955. I have featured recordings of "The Turk" on Sundays in August of 1987, 1997, 2006, and most recently the Urania CD release of a 1958 mono airtape of an RAI Radio Italy broadcast from Milan starring soprano Graziella Sciutti (Sunday, August 7, 2022). That recording unfortunately worked from an old score corrupted with cuts, extrapolations and inaccuracies. The recording made in 1997 in Milan's Giuseppe Verdi Hall presents us with the musically complete opera, restoring Rossini's own revisions and the secco recitatives as given in the critical edition published by the Rossini Foundation of Pesaro, the composer's birthplace. Roberto Chailly conducts the orchestra and chorus of the famed Teatro alla Scala. Mezzo Cecilia Bartoli takes on the soprano role of the Italian girl Fiorilla, opposite baritone Michele Pertusi as Selim the Turkish prince. A 1998 Decca/Polygram release on two silver discs.

SUNDAY AUGUST 20TH Strauss, Waldmeister Mention the word "operetta" and automatically we all think Viennese operetta, especially the music of "The Waltz King" Johann Strauss,II and his immortal Die Fledermaus, or maybe also "The Gypsy Baron"- works of the Golden Age of Viennese operetta in the second half of the nineteenth century. Strauss wrote a dozen operettas, actually, and recordings of these lesser known Viennese light operatic works have gone over the air on this program over the years, especially on Sundays in August. Waldmeister (1895) premiered at Vienna's prestigious Theater an der Wien and was a considerable success. Composer Johannes Brahms and the eminent music critic Eduard Hanslick attended on opening night. Both of them admired this operetta. Numbers from the score were extracted and turned into popular dance tunes. In the twentieth century the work was broadcast from Berlin during the pre-Nazi era of the Weimar Republic. The plotline of Waldmeister bears some resemblance to Fledermaus. The world premiere recording of Waldmeister (ie. "Forest Master") was made in Sofia, Bulgaria for release through Naxos Records in 2021. Dario Salvi leads the Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus, with a cast of eight vocal soloists.

SUNDAY AUGUST 27TH Delius, Fennimore and Gerda Every Summer on the last Sunday in August I broadcast one of the six operas of Frederick Delius (1862-1934) because Delius' exquisitely impressionistic style of music is so evocative of the lazy, hazy end of Summertime- especially in its depiction of Nature in the fulness of the harvest season. I have aired Delius' last opera Fennimore and Gerda (1919) five times before in my complete broadcast cycle ,year by year, of them all. For the story of Fennimore and Gerda Delius drew upon Danish literature. He conceived a series of musical depictions of two episodes in the life of the writer Niels Lyhne as related by the nineteenth century poet/novelist Jens Peter Jacobsen. Fennimore and Gerda is a tale of unfaithfulness in love and the numbing loss of an artist's creative powers. The score is absolutely lovely, as Delius' music always is, but the staging of this opera is problematic, more like a film in its abruptly changing scenes. Delius' operas are perfectly suited for radio broadcast because radio facilitates the theater of the imagination without need of cinematic treatment. Delius fashioned his own German language libretto for the opera's premiere. A young friend of the composer, Philip Heseltine, prepared the English language version, the one EMI taped in 1976, with Meredith Davies conducting the Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Chorus. The distinguished Swedish soprano Elizabeth Soderstrom is featured as Fennimore, supported by a cast of top notch English singers of the mid twentieth century. This classic recording, originally issued on Angel/EMI LP's, was released on a single compact disc in 1997. Following Fennimore and Gerda, keep listening for a recording of Delius' choral masterpiece Sea Drift (1904), his setting of the poetry of Walt Whitman, also perfect for broadcast during the late Summer vacation season, when people head for the Long Island or Cape Cod seashore.

Keith Brown

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