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It's a new year and music continues to take the spotlight on Boomers Paradise every Monday from 1-4 pm on WWUH 91.3 FM and wwuh.org.

We will start the year off with our continuing look back 50 years at albums released each month starting with January. Since we're still in the winter time mode will also delve into song titles about fire, ice, water, earth and sky.

Next up is exploring harmony, which we we could use a lot more of along with song titles featuring numbers and streets, roads, avenues, etc.

We will again visit Boomers digital jukebox followed by song titles of, what else, music and song, another round of Billboard Top 40 One Hit Wonders, rock songs featuring the sitar, some more harmony and what we call the six degrees of The Byrds.

We end the month going further back in time to the period of 1964-1966 when AM radio was king, song titles with love, life and living and colors."

This is just January so there's much more ahead in 2023 so please tune in each week to Boomers Paradise and your host, The Turtle Man.

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Strauss, Die Fledermaus, Vaughn-Williams, Hodie

Seasons 1 – Glass: The Hours; Holst: Dances for the Morning of the Year; Carr: Fo The ur New Seasons; Bennett: Zodiac

Drake’s Village Brass Band-Canadian Brass - Vivaldi/Frackenpohl: The Four Seasons

Holzbauer: Concerto for Flute; Richard Franck: Fantasie No. 1; Moscheles: Piano Concerto No. 4 in E; Mozart: Piano Sonata No. 18 in D; Vienna Philharmonic New Year’s Day Concert 2022

What's New?: A Sampler of Notable CD Releases from 2022, Part 4

From Courthouse to Court Musician: Pietro Mascagni: Cavalleria Rusticana: Mamma, quel vino, Intermezzo; Lawes: Zadok the Priest; Converse: Endymion's Narrative; Medtner: Piano Concerto No. 3 in e minor, Op. 60 'Ballade'; Roslavets: Dances of the White Maidens; Tillis: Motherless Child

Remembering Alexander Gretchaninov

Rossini, La Gazza Ladra

The Seasons 2 – R. Panufnik: Four World Seasons; Vasks: Four Seasons

Drake’s Village Brass Band – Wisconsin Brass Quintet – Stevens: A Symphony for Brass Quintet (The Seasons)

Zumsteeg: Cello Concerto; Vivaldi: Manchester Sonata in C RV754; Rachmaninoff: Piano Sonata No. 2; Von Shacht: Symphony in e flat; Braga Santos: Symphonic Variations; Korngold: Suite for 2 violins, cello & piano

Rossini: Selections from L’Italiana in Algieri; Concerto No. 2 for 2 Clarinets in E-Flat Major; Selections from Guillaume Tell & Selections from Vallace (Italian Alternate Version of Guillaume Tell). Offenbach: Overture to Les Brigands, Concerto militaire   for Cello and Orchestra & Orphée aux enfers (Orpheus in the Underworld): Ballet Pastoral. Reynaldo Hahn: Selections from Ô mon bel inconnu, String Quartet No. 1 in A Minor, La dame aux camelias: Christoyannis, Tassis; Serenade & Le bal de Beatrice d'Este. Leo Deibes: Le roi l'a dit (Overture); Saint-Saens: Violin Concerto No. 1 in A Major, Op. 20; Massenet: Suite for Orchestra No. 5, "Scenes napolitaines"; Charles Marie-Widor: Symphony No. 2 in A, Op. 54

From Courthouse to Court Musician: Joseph Marx: Symphonic Night Music; Duphly: Harpsichord Works; Troyer: Ghost Dance of the Zunis; Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari: Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 26; Smit: Suite of Piano Pieces.

Host’s Choice

Machover, Death and The Powers,Du Yun/Vavrek, Angel's Bone

A Celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day – Samantha Ege, Piano – Black Renaissance Women; Marsalis: Symphony #2 Blues Symphony

Drake’s Village Brass Band The Horn Club of Los Angeles – Color Contrasts

Veracini: Overture No. 5; Biber: Sonata VII; Mendelssohn: Concerto for Violin, Piano & Orchestra; Raff: Symphony No. 10; Pfitzner: Cello Concerto in a minor; Shostakovich: Fugue in B sharp minorl

The untameable cosmos of Harmonia Mundi will be lovingly investigated with merciful Rembrandtian light.

From Courthouse to Court Musician: Heinrich von Herzogenberg: Piano Quartet in B flat major, Op. 95; Weldon: Sett of Ayres in D; Blacher: Orchestral Variations on a Theme by Paganini, Op. 26; Schwartz: Timepiece 1794 – Clockwise; Nordgren: Summer Music, Op. 34l

Chinese New Year begins on Sunday

Graupner, Antiochus und Stratonica, Acts One and Two.

Diaghilev 150 – Tcherepnin: Narcisse et Echo; Tovey: Stream of Limelight

Drake’s Village Brass Band Bramwell Tovey for Brass

CPE Bach: Flute Concero in d minor; William Mason: Selections for piano solo; Stanford: Piano Trio No. 2; Haydn: Symphony No. 27; Roussel: Symphony No. 4; Radu Paladi: The Little Magic Flute; Holst: St. Paul’s Suite

What's New?: A Sampler of Notable CD Releases from 2022, Part 4

From Courthouse to Court Musician: Wenzel Thomas Matiegka: Guitar Sonata; Hayes: Organ Concerto in G Major; Benson: Daughter of the Stars, "A Reminiscence on Shenandoah"

Composers new to me: Zdenek Fibich

Graupner,Antiochus und Stratonica, Act Three,Schubert, Winterreise

Rautavaara: Lost Landscapes; Diaghilev 150 – Stravinsky: Petrouschka; Dukas: La Peri

Drake’s Village Brass Band The Horn Club of Los Angeles – New Music for Horns

Mozart Serenade K239 “Serenata Notturna”; Stenhammar: Piano Concerto No. 2; Haydn: Symphony No. 28; Glass: Four Movements for two Pianos; Zygmunt Noskowski: Symphony No. 2; Francaix: Le roi nu

SUNDAY AFTERNOON AT THE OPERA

Programming for the month of January 2023 

SUNDAY JANUARY 1ST Strauss, Die Fledermaus, Vaughn-Williams, Hodie Just as Handel's Messiah oratorio has been linked to Christmas, so the ebullient Viennese operetta Die Fledermaus (1874), with its grand ball in the second act, harmonizes perfectly with New Year's Eve festivities. Then there's the hangover third act with its association with New Year's Day. Also associated with the January First holiday is the annual concert given in the hall of the Musikverein in Vienna, which features the music of "The Waltz King," Johann Strauss,Jr. That live broadcast from Radio Austria goes out worldwide to lovers of operetta everywhere. Die Fledermaus is the most famous example of the genre from its Golden Age, and it's Strauss' undoubted masterpiece. It's been much recorded, and over four decades of lyric theater broadcasting I have presented a number of fine and often historic recordings of it available on disc, like the gala 1960 recording in early stereo sound with Herbert von Karajan conducting the Vienna Philharmonic and Vienna State Opera Chorus. That original Decca recording in Pristine Audio CD reissue went over the air on New Year's Day Sunday of 2017. Of even greater historic interest is the 1950 monaural taping, with the native Viennese conductor Clemens Krauss leading the same illustrious orchestra and chorus. It was Krauss who in 1940 began the tradition of the New Year's Day radio concerts. Decca's CD reissue of the 1950 Clemens Krauss Fledermaus I broadcast previously, not at the New Year, but on Sunday, August 22,1993. It includes the beautiful singing voice of soprano Hilde Gueden as Rosalinde. She would reprise the role a decade later for Karajan in his masterful and echt Viennese interpretation. Also singing in the 1950 Krauss recording are the now historic voices of tenors Julius Patzak as Eisenstein and Anton Dermota as Alfred. There's almost no spoken dialog in this old mono recording, shortening its length of airplay so as to permit broadcast of an additional seasonal favorite of mine in its hour-long entirety: Ralph Vaughn-Williams' Hodie Christrmas cantata (1954), in the 1964 stereo recording for EMI, with Sir Adrian Boult directing the musical forces.

SUNDAY JANUARY 8TH Rossini, La Gazza Ladra The magpie is a European bird resembling a crow that has a chattering, screeching call and a curious habit of  flying off with small shiny objects. "The Thieving Magpie" was the title given to a French melodrama about a humble servant girl who was sentenced to death for a theft she did not commit. The mischievous birdie screeches out the girl's name in accusation. In the end it's revealed that the magpie was the culprit. "The Thieving Magpie, or The Servant Girl of Palaiseau" was enormously popular in Napoleonic times. In short order the play was adapted for the operatic stage. Gioacchino Rossini set it to music to an Italian language libretto as La Gazza Ladra (1817). Rossini's operatic version of the story has the obligatory happy ending with some comic and folksy touches added, hence the Italians thought of it as an opera semiseria. Rossini's music for La Gazza Ladra is admired today for its pathos, giving more weight to the serious over the buffa components of that hybrid genre. This particular Rossini opera is a personal favorite of mine, which I'm pleased to present again in the same Naxos CD release I drew upon for my broadcast of Sunday, October 11, 2015. La Gazza Ladra was recorded live in performance at the twenty first Rossini in Wildbad Summer Festival in 2009. The recording was co-produced by Southwest German Radio on location in Bad Wildbad, Germany. Alberto Zedda leads an orchestra brought in for the production from the Czech Republic, the Virtuosi Brunensis, who hail from the city of Brno or Brunn in what was once the province known as Moravia. Zedda prepared a new critical edition of Rossini's score for "The Magpie." The Classical Chamber Choir of Brno also took part in the musical proceedings. There's an international cast of vocal soloists. There's an older recording of "The Magpie" made in Pesaro, the composer's home town, in 1989 at the Rossini Opera Festival. The Sony Classical CD release features the voices of soprano Katia Ricciarelli and Samuel Ramey, with Gianluigi Gelmetti conducting the Symphony Orchestra of Radio Italy Turin. That "Magpie" went over the air on Sunday, April 28, 1991, and was subsequently rebroadcast.

SUNDAY JANUARY 15TH Machover, Death and the Powers, Du Jun/ Vavrek, Angel's Bone Today;s programming falls into the category of "the latest recordings of operas of our time," which I always mention in the introduction to this show. Both of the operas on the bill are products of the twenty first century. Angel's Bone (2016) is emphatically a work of political art. It is an outcry against human trafficking and child exploitation. This is the second opera by Chinese composer Du Yun (b. 1977, Shanghai,1977), written in collaboration with Canadian librettist Royce Vavrek and realized in performance in cooperation with the Choir of Trinity Wall Street,NYC and National Sawdust. Angel's Bone won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in music. It was premiered during the 2016 PROTOTYPE Festival in Manhattan. The world premiere recording came the following year and was issued on a pair of compact discs through VIA RecordsThe music of Tod Machover (b. 1953),"America's Most Wired Composer," has been featured on this program twice before. There was his sci-fi opera Valis (1987), based on the writing of Philip K. Dick, which was aired on Sunday, September 16, 1990, followed by Resurrection (1999), based on Tolstoy's book of that name, on Sunday, January 26, 2003. Death and the Powers, released on CD through BMOP Sound in 2021, is another work of operatic science fiction, with four robot singing characters. I'll let the reviewer of this recording, Fanfare's Andrew Desiderio, fill you in: "Death and the Powers concerns billionaire Simon Powers...who, facing his own mortality, decides to make himself immortal by uploading his being into The System, which he created for that purpose. A meditation on life and death, real experiences and virtual experiences, family, human relationships, the ethics of technology, etc., it's The Makropoulos Affair, Faust, The Tempest, and R.U.R. rolled into one..." (Fanfare,July/August, 2022). Gil Rose conducts the Boston Modern Orchestra Project. Starring as Simon Powers, or the Robot Leader, is baritone James Maddalena.

SUNDAY JANUARY 22ND Graupner, Antiochus und Stratonica, Acts One and Two I have showcased recordings of the operas of the French baroque frequently of late, drawing upon the many recent CD releases of the works of Lully and his successors. This Sunday I turn to the lyric theater music of the German baroque. The most important opera house in Germany during that period was in Hamburg at the Gansemarkt or "Goose Market." So many of the best German composers of the early eighteenth century wrote music for this theater: Keiser, Mattheson, et al. The young Handel got his start in opera at the Goose Market. Another young composer, a contemporary of Handel, Johann Christoph Graupner (1683-1760) got his start, like Handel, as a harpsichordist there circa 1707-09. Graupner composed at least five operas for the Goose Market before moving on, also like Handel, to a career elsewhere. Graupner turned down the position of Kantor at Leipzig, a church job which eventually went to J. S. Bach, who was forbidden under contract to write opera. If Bach ever wrote opera, his operatic style would have sounded very much like Graupner. Or you could say Graupner's style of baroque opera bears a resemblance to the church cantatas of Bach. Successful on the stage at Hamburg was Graupner's Antiochus und Stratonica (1708?), a melancholy romance set in the ancient Alexandrine Near East around Damascus. The story centers upon a sickly young hero, prince Antiochus, who is beset by quack physicians. His only true cure is found in his love for his widowed father's new wife Stratonica. Opera-goers at the Goose Market were so enamoured of Italian operatic models they demanded some Italian language arias even in the midst of a German language libretto. They also expected some comic relief. There's a disaffected lowlife character named Negodorus (think Papageno) who provides his tongue-in-cheek commentary on the action. It's a convoluted, difficult theatrical act to follow. The best case has been made for Antiochus und Stratonica by the singers and players of the Boston Early Music Festival, who staged it in 2009. BEMF recorded it in 2020, not in Boston but in Bremen in Germany for Radio Bremen in unstaged broadcast studio performance. Stephen Stubbs and lutenist Paul O'Dette jointly directed the musical proceedings. The German cpo label released Antiochus und Stratonica on three compact discs.

SUNDAY JANUARY 29TH Graupner, Antiochus und Stratonica, Act Three, Schubert, Winterreise Broadcasting Graupner's opera poses the same problem I encounter with the operas of Wagner. Antiochus und Stratonica is too long in airplay to fit into the alotted three-and-a-half-hour timeslot for one lyric theater program, so I am forced to spread the complete presentation over two consecutive Sundays. Following the third and final act of Graupner's opera, keep listening for Franz Schubert's immortal song cycle Winterreise (1827) in a recording which I last presented on Sunday, January 16, 2011. Like Die Schone Mullerin (1823), "Winter's Journey" is Schubert's setting of a collection of short lyric poems by his short-lived contemporary, the Gertman poet Wilhelm Muller (1794-1827). Muller's little lyrical gems beg for musical treatment. Schubert's wonderful Lieder preserve this poet's otherwise obscure verse for posterity. Schubert put his very soul into these songs. Not long before his own untimely death at age thirty one he sang the entire song cycle himself for a group of his close friends. He shocked them with the portrayal of the step-by-step collapse of the human personality, leading to hallucination, madness and despair. The Winter Wanderer is left longing for the peace to be found only in the grave. Winterreise is one of the single most profound tragedies in Western musical art. Hear it again on this wintry Sunday afternoon in a 2010 Harmonia Mundi CD release, with tenor Werner Gura accompanied by Christopf Berner playing a nineteenth century pianoforte.

Keith Brown

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