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July brings hot and sometimes sultry weather forcing you to slow down your pace. A perfect time to relax and enjoy some music each Monday from 1-4 PM here on Boomers Paradise with your host, The Turtle Man.

The July 4th holiday period starts the month off with songs from albums released this month back in 1973 along with song titles referencing fire, ice, water, earth and sky as well as song titles with numbers.

From there we do a digital juke box selection with a wide variety of artists and song tempos.

We then travel across the globe for tunes from artists from Australia and New Zealand and song titles about money.

We then wrap the month up with what what we call Nordic Love Songs, Billboard Top 40 One Hit Wonders and song titles with references to colors.

There are five Mondays in July so you'll get plenty of music Monday afternoons with The Turtle Man

Tune in each week and tell your friends and family about all the great programming on WWUH.

All of this can be heard each Monday from 1-4 PM on Boomers Paradise with your host, The Turtle Man on WWUH 91.3 FM and wwuh.org where music is your friend."

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Mazzoli & Vavrek, Proving Up, Gordon, Acquanetta

Gouvy: Piano Trio No. 2 in a, op. 18; Wallace: Prelude to The Eumenides; Labitzky: Karlsbad Waltz, Op. 107; Sophie Friederike Wilhelmine: Flute Sonata in a minor; Janácek: Lachian Dances

An All American Fourth - Buck: Festival Overture on the Star Spangled Banner; Cowell: American Melting Pot; Crawford-Seeger: 19 American Folk Songs; Gershwin: An American in Paris; Gould American Ballads

Drake’s Village Brass Band - Jenkins: American Overture for Band; Bilik: American Civil War Fantasy; Bennett: Suite of Old American Dances

James Paisible: Suite in C major for oboe band; Pierre Danican Philidor: Neufiéme Suitte in E minor, Op. 2; Georg Philipp Telemann: Sonata for Flauto dolce and B.c. in D minor, TWV 41:d4, Essercizii Musici, Solo No. 4; Georg Philipp Telemann: Trio for Flauto traverso, Cembalo obligato, and B.c. in A major, TWV 42:A6, Essercizii Musici, Trio No. 4; Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantata for the 4th Sunday after Trinity "Ein ungefärbt Gemüte", BWV 24; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Clarinet Concerto in A major, K. 622; Anton Reicha: Wind Quintet No. 24 in B-flat major, Op. 100, No. 6;

Hector Berlioz: Les nuits d'été, Op. 7 ;

Arthur Honegger: Pastorale d'été

Maichelbeck: Die auf dem Clavier spielende Caecilia, Op. 1: Sonata No. 2; Rust: Partite for Violin Solo in d minor; Matiegka: Variations on Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser, Op. 7; Zelenski: Piano Concerto in E Flat Major, Op. 60; Nepomuceno: Suite Antiga, Op. 11; Jaques-Dalcroze: Sancho Panca: Overture; Eisler: Variationen uber ein marschartiges Thema, "Der lange Marsch".

Remembering Leo Sowerby

Offenbach, Fantasio

Mozart: Piano Sonata No.1 in C K279; Von Weber: Piano Concerto No. 1; Schubert: Symphony No. 1; Rautavaara: Garden of Spaces; Lalo: Violin Concerto No. 4

Schoenberg: String Quartet #4; Diaghilev 150 - Falla: Three Cornered Hat; Mennin: Symphony #6; Griffes: Piano Sonata

Drake’s Village Brass Band - River City Brass Band - Concert in the Park

Johann Simon Mayr: Lauso e Lidia: Overture; Concerto de Bassus; Hauk, Franz; Ferdinando Carulli: Petit concerto de societe for Guitar and Orchestra, Op. 140; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Il re pastore, K. 208, Act II: L'amero, saro costante: Adler, Peter Herman; Friedrich Ernst Fesca: Symphony No. 3 in D Major, Op. 13; Beermann, Frank; Vincenzo Bellini: I Capuleti e i Montecchi: Ouverture; Mazzola, Enrique; Giacomo Meyerbeer: Il crociato in Egitto, Act 2 (Scena – Alternative Aria); Rara Emilie Mayer: Notturno in D Minor, Op. 48; Antonin Dvorak: Serenade, Op. 44; Mikhail Glinka: Capriccio brillante on the Jota aragonesa “Spanish Overture No. 2”; Arthur Foote: Piano Pieces, Op. 18; Florence Price: 5 Negro Folksongs in Counterpoint; George Gershwin: 3 Preludes; Samuel Barber: Cello Sonata, Op. 6; Leonard Bernstein: Music for 2 Pianos; Bedrich Smetana: Tajemstvi (The Secret): Overture; Franz Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 3 in E-Flat Major, S125a; Gaetano Donizetti: Les martyrs, Act II: Ballet Music; Jules Massenet: Orchestral Suite No. 1, Op. 13

Norgard: Symphony No. 3; Skoryk: Hutsul Triptych, The High Pass: Melody; New Additions to the WWUH Library.

Benjamin Britten's Spring Symphony; music of Unsuk Chin

Vives, Dona Franciscita, Torroba, Luisa Fernanda

Mozart: Piano Sonata No. 2 in F K280; Emil Sauer: Piano Concerto No. 1; Orff: Cantuli Carmina; Amy Beach: Romance for Violin & Piano

Antheil: Violin Sonata #1; Bolcom: Violin Sonata #2; Rachmaninoff - Selections from A Window in Time, from the composers Piano Rolls; Diaghilev 150 - Stravinsky Chant du Rossignol (Song of the Nightingale), Renard -A Burlesque Story in Song and Dance

Drake’s Village Brass - River City Brass Band - Polished Brass

"In Midsummer, we'll continue to tactfully chip away at the glorious Harmonia Mundi label, revealing its innermost beauty."

Jones: 10 Church Pieces for the Organ with 4 Anthems: Piece No. 9; Severac: Pastoral Suite for Flute & Orchestra, Op. 13b; Sommer: Piano Trio in E-Flat Major New Additions to the WWUH Library

Mexican composers take the stage

Shankar, Sukanya

Franz Joseph Haydn: Piano Trio in C; F. X. Richte: Sinfonia a Quatro in B flat; R. Strauss: Burlesque for Piano and Orchestra; Schubert: Symphony No. 2; Gordon Getty: Annabel Lee; Mortwn Lauridsen: Les chasons des roses

R. Max Morath in Memoriam - The Ragtime Man;

Gershwin: Catfish Row - Symphonic Suite from Porgy and Bess; Grofe: Grand Canyon Suite; Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez

Drake’s Village Brass Band - Empire Brass on Broadway

Thomas Morgan: Ouverture in G minor for oboe band; Pierre Danican Philidor: Dixiéme Suitte in G major/minor, Op. 2; Georg Philipp Telemann: Sonata for Oboe and B.c. in B-flat major, TWV 41:B6, Essercizii Musici, Solo No. 5; Georg Philipp Telemann: Trio for Flauto dolce, Violin, and B.c. in A minor, TWV 42:a4, Essercizii Musici, Trio No. 5; Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantata for the 7th Sunday after Trinity [Trinity 7] "Ärgre dich, o Seele, nicht", BWV 186;Ludwig van Beethoven: Cello Sonata No. 4 in C major, Op. 102, No. 1; Anton Reicha: Clarinet Concerto in G minor;

Clémence de Grandval: Oboe Concerto, Op. 7; Gerald Finzi: Earth and Air and Rain, Op. 15

Host’s Choice.

Riccardo Muti goes heavy, Carmen Dragon provides a light interlude

Gilbert & Sullivan, Patience

Corelli: Concerto grosso, Op. 6 No. 8; Mozart: Piano Sonata in F K284 “Durnitz”; Henri Herz: Piano Concerto No. 7 in b minor; Taneyev: Concert Suite (for violin and orchestra)

SUNDAY AFTERNOON AT THE OPERA

SUNDAY JULY 2ND Mazzoli & Vavrek, Proving Up, Gordon, Acquanetta Lyric theater programming for the Fourth of July holiday weekend certainly calls for American opera. The two twenty first century American operas featured this Sunday cast a shadow upon the American dream. Proving Up (2018) is the product of the collaboration between Missy Mazzoli (b. 1980), NYC-based composer-in-residence at the Mannes College of Music, and Canadian librettist Royce Vavrek. You could say Proving Up is a "sodbusters' opera" about a German immigrant family of homesteaders trying to eke out a living on the plainsland of Nebraska in the 1860's. In Karen Russell's original short story, as in its operatic treatment, the Zegner family's homesteading dream turns into a living nightmare. Proving Up was co-commissioned by Washington National Opera and Opera Omaha (Nebraska). It was first produced at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC during the 2017-18 season. The original cast recording of Proving Up is derived from the Opera Omaha production of 2018. Christopher Rountree conducts the International Contemporary Ensemble with a cast of six singing characters. Proving Up was issued on a single CD in 2020 through the German Pentatone Music label.

   Michael Gordon's Acquanetta (2005) deals with the beautiful Hollywood B-movie actress of the 1940's who went by that name. When she died in obscurity in 2004 her New York Times obit never gave her real name: Mildred Davenport. She was a woman of mystery to begin with. She lived the Hollywood dream, then suddenly disappeared from the Hollywood scene, leaving behind a cult classic, Captive Wild Woman. Acquanetta the opera focuses on a scene from that flick. Michael Gordon (b. 1956) is one of the founders of the Bang on a Can music collective based in NYC. Hartford's own double bass player Robert Black is a longtime member of this innovative contemporary music ensemble, but he's not playing among the six fellow members who recorded Acquanetta, along with the Choir of Trinity Wall Street. Acquanetta herself is Mikaela Bennett, one of four vocalists involved in the live recording of the chamber version of the opera made during the 2018 Prototype Festival. Daniela Candalleri directs the ensemble and singing cast. Acquanetta was released in 2019 on a single CD by Cantaloupe Music.

SUNDAY JULY 9TH Offenbach, Fantasio Viennese operetta actually arose from the mid nineteenth century French opera comique. Jacques Offenbach (1819-80), a German by birth, became the prolific master composer in that Gallic genre by the 1850's. So many of these light operas, first produced in Paris, went directly to the operatic stage in Vienna. The composer himself is quoted as commenting, "I write my music in Paris, but it's in Vienna that I hear it played." Orphee aux Enfers ("Orpheus in the Underworld," 1858) is certainly his most famous work in the French opera bouffe mode. But "Orpheus" is a zany satire, somewhat removed from the true French comic opera. Offenbach's classic creation in that line is Fantasio (1872). Not that Mousset and Nuitter's libretto is any less frivolous than what you'd expect from the genre. Fantasio is a young student who disguises himself as a jester, and in so doing manages to gain the love of a princess. The title role was originally taken by a female mezzo, Celestine Galli-Marie, who would shortly go on to become the first Carmen in Bizet's immortal tragic opera. Offenbach's complete score for Fantasio was pieced together from widely scattered and fragmentary source material. The world premiere studio recording, complete with spoken word dialog in French language, was released on two compact discs in 2014 by Opera Rara, the British company dedicated to recovering, restoring, recording and performing the forgotten operatic heritage of the nineteenth century. Sir Mark Elder directs the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment (period instruments) and Opera Rara Chorus, with a cast of British singers. I last broadcast this Opera Rara release on Sunday, July 19, 2015.

SUNDAY JULY 16TH Vives, Dona Francisquita, Torroba, Luisa Fernanda Zarzuela is the popular musical theater genre of Spain, not unlike our American musical comedy. Amadeo Vives (1871-1937) was one of the most prolific of zarzuela composers. Dona Francisquita (1923) is considered his masterpiece. It was also enormously popular. In the years immediately following its premiere in Madrid this classic work was performed at least five thousand times throughout the Spanish-speaking world. The nineteenth century Spanish style of operetta flourished right up to the time in the 1930's of the Franco dictatorship, whose repressive regime seems to have crushed the life out of the genre. So many of the treasures of the zarzuela remained unknown internationally until the release of two musically complete recordings of Dona Francisquita, one for the Audivis Valois label, another for Sony Classical, both coming out in 1994. The Sony Classical recording benefits by the incomparable voice of superstar Mexican tenor Placido Domingo. All the musical numbers are contained on Sony's two CD's, but next to none of the spoken dialog. This will be the third time I have broadcast Vives' full length, three-act comic opera, what the Spaniards call genero grande. I last aired the Sony Classical discs on Sunday, August 3, 2008.

   Luisa Fernanda (1932) by Federico Moreno-Torroba (1891-1982) comes at the end of the zarzuela tradition. This particular work received more than a thousand performances before the Spanish civil war. Torroba's score is filled with lovely melodies and stirring dances. William Jarvis of the Jarvis Conservatory in Napa, California rendered the libretto of Luisa into English for his staged adaptation. It was recorded live in 1997 in the performance space at the Old Lisbon Winery in downtown Napa, with a cast made up of American singers. They sing in the original Spanish, but a bit of the spoken dialog is heard in Jarvis' English translation. The musically complete Luisa Fernanda is accommodated on one very generously timed compact disc. I last broadcast Luisa Fernanda on Sunday, August 9, 1998.

SUNDAY JULY 23RD Shankar, Sukanya My concept of lyric theater is inclusive enough to embrace at its perimeter the genre of "world music" or maybe "classical/folk crossover," where Western art music merges with the ancient musical traditions of the East- of Asia, or to be more exact, the Indian subcontinent. My last foray into this particular subgenre was on Sunday, July 22, 2007, when I presented A. R. Rahman's Bombay Dreams (2002) in its London Records recording as produced by Andrew Lloyd Webber. Bombay Dreams, however, is in a pop theater music style quite removed from Ravi Shankar's Sukanya (2017), his only opera, which the master sitar player began to write at age ninety and which remained incomplete at the time of hisdeath in 2012. His musician daughter Anousha Shankar and David Murphy completed both the musical score and libretto. Murphy is a student of violin virtuoso Yehudi Menuhin, who back in 1967 collaborated with Ravi in the ground-breaking West Meets East LP. Sukanya is coincidentally the name of Ravi's wife, but that is also the name of a Hindu princess, who according to the old story must make the critical choice of the right husband, as watched over by two look-alike demigods. The twin spirits consult the Hindu goddess of love in their inquiry into true human love. Ravi Shankar's Sukanya was recorded live in performance in 2017. David Murphy conducts the London Philharmonic Orchestra, joined by the BBC singers, a cast of six vocal soloists and an ensemble of five instrumentalists playing the classical Indian string and wind instruments, and tabla drums.

SUNDAY JULY 30TH Gilbert & Sullivan, Patience This is the Summer Sunday I usually reserve for a recording of one of those classic English Victorian comic operas. This time around you get G & S with all of Gilbert's witty dialog, so this is a truly complete recorded presentation of something from the G & S canon. Patience (1881) is a musical satire on the Victorian Aesthetic movement of artists and writers which included Oscar Wilde. Every generation has its share of artsy poseurs. Twenty first century listeners ought to recognize modern counterparts to the two pretentious poets Reginald Bunthorne and Archibald Grosvenor. Patience goes out to you in the 1986 CD reissue of a vintage recording originally issued on Decca/London stereo LP's in 1961 with the renowned D'Oyly Carte Opera Company. Isidore Godfrey conducted the D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus and New Symphony Orchestra of London. Professional performers of the G & S canon are often referred to as Savoyards, after the Savoy Theatre in London, impresario Richard D'Oyly Carte's opera house, where so many of the immortal British operettas were first performed. Patience was the first of them to be produced there in the company's new home. Patience is a personal favorite of mine that I've programmed four times before over four decades doing this show. I last broadcast it on Sunday, July 28, 2013.  

    

Keith Brown

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