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March in New England has always been a transitional month from winter to spring. Here at Boomers Paradise with your host, The Turtle Man we can help you enjoy the move to nicer weather.

As is the custom we we start the month with a look back 50 years to songs on albums released in March 1973 and we also introduce a new theme to the program, "Power Ballads".

We then once again pump the quarters into the digital jukebox with an eclectic mix of artists and songs. As part of our spring 2023 fund raiser we'll have a wide selection of tunes to remind you why WWUH is important and ask for your financial support so we can continue our mission as your public alternative radio station.

You can hear all of this each March Monday from 1-4PM on Boomers Paradise with your host, The Turtle Man on WWUH 91.3 FM and wwuh.org.

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J. S. Kusser: 6 Overture Suites "Festin des muses", Orchestral Suite No. 4 in C major; G. P. Telemann: Trio Sonata in G Minor, TWV 42:g12; Anna Bon di Venezia: Flute Sonata in D major, Op. 1, No. 4; Tarquinio Merula: Canzoni overo sonate concertate per chiesa e camera, Book 3, Op. 12, selections;

Johann Daniel Pucklitz: Ach, Gott und Herr, wie gross und schwer; J. S. Bach: Cantata BWV 211 "Schweigt stille, plaudert nicht" (Coffee Cantata); J. S. Bach: Sonata No. 3 for Violin and Keyboard in E major, BWV 1016;

W. A. Mozart: Piano Sonata No. 13 in B-flat major, K.333/315c; Anton Reicha: Wind Quintet No. 19 in F major, Op. 100, No. 1; Dora Pejacevic: Piano Concerto in G Minor, Op. 33.

From STEM to Staccato: Alessandro Marcello. MacFarren: Robin Hood Overture; Briccialdi: Il Carnevale di Venezia, Op. 77; Smetana: My Country - The Moldau; Kurt Weill: Kleine Dreigroschenmusik; Blitzstein: Children's Dances; Romero: Los Maestros; Stevens: Sinfonietta, Op. 10; Simpson: Energy; Rands: Danza Petrificada; Welcher: Zion

Last week it was all symphonic; this week, as promised, we will relax in the chamber

Elgar, The Light of Life, Boyce, David's Lamentation

B. Weber: Fantasy for Piano, Serenade for Strings; Diaghilev 150 – Handel/Beecham: The Gods Go A’Begging Ballet Suite; Satie: Mercure; Mennin: Symphony #3

Drake’s Village Brass Band – Storyteller Justin Benavidez Tuba

Graupner: Trumpet Concerto; Haydn: Symphony No. 31; Ravel: Piano Concerto; Rameau: Keyboard Suite in e minor; Khatchaturian: Symphony No. 2

Giovanni Paisiello: Nina, o sia La pazza per amore: Overture; M. Haydn: Clarinet Concerto in A Major; Ernst Schlader: Salzburger Hofmusik; Vivaldi: Griselda, RV 718: Act III: Recitative: Passo, Roberto amar? (Costanza) - Aria: Ombre vane, ingiusti orrori (Costanza); Abbé Georg Joseph Vogler: Symphony in G Major; Johann Simon Mayr: La Passione: Overture; Concerto de Bassus; Rossini: Eduardo e Cristina: Scena, Act II: Nel misero tuo stato (Chorus) – Recitative: Ah! Chi sa dirmi (Eduardo) – Aria/Cabaletta: La pietà che in sen serbate … Come rinascere vi sento in core (Eduardo and Chorus)

From STEM to Staccato: Josef Strauss. Myslivecek: Octet No. 2 in E flat major; Kastner: Sextuor; Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition; Luigini: Ballette Egyptien, Op. 12; Ohlsson: Berceuse; Barber: Violin Concerto; Schilling: Canzona on "Christ ist erstanden"; Clyne: Dance.

In the Reeds - woodwinds have a blast

Verdi, Nabucco

Falkenberg: The Moons Symphony; Decaux: Clairs de Lune; Debussy: Suite Bergamasque

Drake’s Village Brass Band Donald Hunsburger Conducts the Tokyo Kosei Wind Orchestra

Kalinnikov: Serenade for Strings; Anton Steffan: Piano Concerto; George Lloyd: Symphony No. 3; Wetz: Violin Concerto; Saint-Saens: Cello Concerto No. 1

Spotlight on the DACAPO label out of Denmark, with primary focus on some of its most prominent composers and ensembles

From STEM to Staccato: Alexander Borodin. Monk: Abide with me; Del Tredici: Farewell; New Additions to the WWUH Library

Music of the Emerald Isle

Monteclair, Jepte

Celebrating the Start of Spring – Debussy: Printemps; Milhaud: Printemps; Diaghilev 150 – Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring; Vasks: Cukoos’ Voice (Spring Elegy)

Drake’s Village Brass Band – Ida Gotkovsky: Symphonie de Printemps

Buchner: Concerto in f minor for Flute & Orchestra; Rathaus: Symphony No. 2; Barber: String Quartet; Walton: Façade – An Entertainment; Mussorgsky: Selections from The Nursery

Host’s Choice

From STEM to Staccato: Edward German. Selle: Two Motets; Sperger: Symphony in F Major; Taubert: Piano Concerto No. 2 in A major, Op. 189; Minkus: Don Quixote – Prologue; Reubke: Scherzo in d minor; Wieniawski: Piano Concerto in g minor, Op. 20; Gigout: Scherzo; Schreker: Festwalzer und Walzerintermezzo; Vecsey: Valse triste; Bush: Consort Music; Nyman: The Piano - The Heart Asks Pleasure First

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Mendelssohn, Paulus

Diaghilev 150 – Sauget: La Chatte (The Cat); The Wild Sound of the 20’s – 1923, Music of Toch, Weill, Krenek, Bartok

Drake’s Village Brass Band- English Folk Songs – Frederick Fennell Conducts the Tokyo Kosei Wind Orchestra

Vivaldi: Violin Concerto in e minor RV273; CPE Bach: Flute Concerto in G, Wq169; Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 25; Raff: Symphony No. 2; Haydn: Symphony No. 32; Wetz: Kleist Overture

J. S. Kusser: 6 Overture Suites "Festin des muses", Orchestral Suite No. 5 in B-flat major; Pierre Danican Philidor: Quatriéme Suitte in A minor (Op. 1, No. 4); Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel: Sonata 1 for oboe, violin, horn & b. c.; Anonymous (Johann Georg Pisendel?): Trio for oboe, violin & b. c. in G minor;

Tarquinio Merula: Canzoni overo sonate concertate per chiesa e camera, Book 3, Op. 12, selections; Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre: Pièces de Clavecin (1687), Suite No. 1 in D minor; G. P. Telemann: Ich will den Kreuzweg gerne gehen, TWV 1:884; G. P. Telemann: Jesus liegt in letzten Zügen, TWV 1:983; Helene de Montgeroult: Piano Sonata in F minor, Op. 5, No. 2; Anton Reicha: Wind Quintet No. 20 in D minor, Op. 100, No. 2; Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra, BB 123

From STEM to Staccato: Walter Piston. Cabezon: Diferencias; Traetta: Armida Overture; Smith: Invincible, The Star-Spangled Banner; Wilms: Symphony in c minor, Op. 23; Sulzer: Adon Olom

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SUNDAY AFTERNOON AT THE OPERA

SUNDAY MARCH 5TH Elgar, The Light of Life, Boyce, David's Lamentation The programming for this second Sunday in Lent offers you inspirational choral music in the English choral tradition. Edward Elgar's The Light of Life (1896) is the immediate predecessor of his masterpiece The Dream of Gerontius (1900). The music clearly looks forward to Gerontius and Elgar's two New Testament oratorios, The Apostles (1903) and The Kingdom (1906). The Light of Life (or Lux Christi as Elgar preferred to call it) recounts the story of Jesus' restoration of the blind man's sight, as taken from the Gospel according to St. John. Elgar originally composed this lengthy cantata for the Worcester Festival, the choral singing festival held in his hometown in the English West Country. As recorded in Liverpool for EMI in 1980, Sir Charles Groves leads the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and Liverpool Philharmonic Choir, with vocal soloists soprano Margaret Marshall as the Mother of the Blind Man, contralto Helen Watts as the Evangelical Narrator, tenor Robin Leggate as the Blind Man and baritone John Shirley-Quirk as Jesus. First issued on LP in 1981, EMI reintroduced the recording in 1993 on a single compact disc in its "Classics" line. The LP issue I broadcast first on Sunday, April 12,1998, followed by the CD reissue on Sunday, March 29, 2009. I draw upon the single silver disc reissue again in this Sunday's presentation.

   George Frideric Handel was not the only one in England to write choral music in the grand baroque fashion. Handel was born in Germany, but William Boyce (1711-79) was a native Englishman, who was arguably the best of Handel's younger contemporaries in London to write in the oratorio genre. You have heard his Solomon (1739) on Sunday, May 12, 1996. A similar choral ode of shorter duration is David's Lamentation over Saul and Jonathan (1736), with a libretto based on verses from the first chapter of the Old Testament Second Book of Samuel. A revised version of this work intended for performance in Dublin in 1744 appeared on disc in 2000 courtesy of the UK label ASV in its Gaudeamus line. MHS, the defunct Musical Heritage Society, picked it up for distribution in the US. Graham Lea-Cox directs the Hanover Band of period instrumentalists, joined by the Choir of New College, Oxford. There are five vocal soloists. Appended to this single ASV compact disc release are additional tracks of music from the 1736 version of David's Lamentation as it was first performed before London's Apollo Society. This is the world premiere recording of the mini-oratorio. I last broadcast it on Sunday, March 11, 2001.

SUNDAY MARCH 12TH Verdi, Nabucco On the third Lenten Sunday you'll hear one of the greatest, most famous of Biblical operas still very much in the repertoire since its premiere in 1842. Nabucco is a milestone in Giuseppe Verdi's career as a composer. Oberto (1839) was an encouraging success on the boards at La Scala, but his second opera Un Giorno di Regno (1840) was a flop. Verdi vowed never again to write for the lyric stage. The impressario Merelli prevailed upon the young Verdi to try one more time. The result was a work of genius not to be equalled until perhaps Luisa Miller (1849) or perhaps Rigoletto (1851). Nabucco is actually the contraction of the name Nebuchadnezzar. The libretto of the opera is drawn from episodes in the Old Testament dealing with the Babylonian captivity of the Hebrew nation. Tito Gobbi sings in the title role of the ill-fated King of Assyria. He's been called the greatest Italian baritone of all time, and his dramatic interpretations of Verdi's male characters have never been surpassed. In 1966, when he was at the height of his powers, he recorded Nabucco for Decca/London. Lamberto Gardelli led the Vienna Opera Orchestra and Chorus of the Vienna State Opera. I have previously broadcast Nabucco from these three London stereo LP's on Sundays in September of 1988 and April of 2010.

SUNDAY MARCH 19TH Monteclair, Jephte Lenten programming proceeds with a baroque opera on a Biblical subject: Jephte or "Jephtha" (1732) by Michel Pignolet de Monteclair (1667-1737). Monteclair was one of several brilliant composers of the generation following Lully to improve upon the Lullian model of French opera. Monteclair's music for his only tragedie lyrique contains plenty of innovative instrumental coloration, plus charming dance numbers. Monteclair's Jephte clearly exerted an influence on the most brilliant composer coming at the end of the age of the baroque: Jean-Philppe Rameau. It was due to the success of Jephte that Rameau decided rather late in life to launch his own career in opera with his first lyric tragedy, Hippolyte et Aricie. Conductor William Christie decided to go back to the first version of Jephte of 1732, as opposed to later revisions of the score. He leads the players of Les Arts Florissantes, which he founded to enable the authentic performance of the music of the French baroque. Jephte was recorded in 1992 for the French Harmonia Mundi label. I last broadcast the HM discs on Sunday, March 13,1994. The story of the Hebrew military leader Jephtha is taken from the Old Testament Book of Judges. Jephtha's tragic predicament involving his daughter bears a close resemblance to the ancient Greek story about Agamemnon and the sacrifice of Iphigenia.

SUNDAY MARCH 26TH Mendelssohn, Paulus Felix 'Mendelssohn-Bartholdy completed two oratorios, Elias or Elijah (1846) and Paulus or St.Paul (1836). Elijah is much better known and has a considerable discography. At Easter of 1996 I broadcast a Telarc CD recording of it with Robert Shaw leading the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus. The earlier work, Paulus is Mendelssohn's successful experiment in combining the eighteenth century oratorio traditions of Bach and Handel with the new romantic style of the nineteenth century. It was Mendelssohn who revived the Bach St.Matthew Passion at Berlin in 1829 and in so doing began the general revival of J. S. Bach's music in modern times. Mendelssohn was consciously trying to follow in the master's footsteps. On Easter Sunday of 2002 I presented the Chandos CD release of Paulus with the late Richard Hickox conducting the BBC National Chorus and Orchestra of Wales. (A Musical Heritage Society release in the US.) Thereafter, on March 14, 2010 came another recording of Paulus issued through Hanssler/Profil in 2008, like the Telarc recording, sung in the original German. I return to the Chandos/MHS recording as my offering on this fifth and last Sunday of Lent.

    

Keith Brown

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Farmington Valley Symphony OrchestraThe Farmington Valley Symphony Orchestra will join forces with the choirs of St. John's Episcopal Church, 679 Farmington Ave., West Hartford for a concert featuring the "Requiem in D Minor" by Gabriel Faure on Sunday, Mar. 5 at 3:00 p.m. FVSO Music Director Jonathan Colby will conduct the performance with St. John's Director of Music and Organist Scott Lamlein playing organ. There is no admission cost for the concert, but free-will donations will be accepted. For more information, please go to the FVSO web site: www.fvso.org or call 800-975-FVSO.

The 73 year old New Britain Symphony Orchestra is a professional orchestra which presents several concerts each season in the Greater New Britain area, performing works from all periods in a wide range of musical styles. In addition to its full orchestra concerts under the direction of Music Director and Conductor, Toshiyuki Shimada, including a free concert for children, members of the orchestra perform in various free chamber music concerts