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Music of Paul Dukas to celebrate his 156^th birth anniversary

Luigi Nono: La lontananza nostalgica utopica future (Believe it or not – I learned of both the composer and the work at an art gallery!)

Tuukkanen: Serenata Giocosa; Zemlinsky: Trio in d for for Clarinet, Cello & Piano; Dimmler : Clarinet Concerto in B; From Courthouse to Court Musician: George Frideric Handel: Water Music, Organ Concerto No. 5 in F.

Dvořák: Bagatelles for 2 Violins, Cello & Harmonium, Op. 47; Shostakovich: Symphony No.5 in D Minor, Op. 47; Ravel: String Quartet in F; Haydn: Missa in tempore belli, 'Paukenmesse'

Canteloube: Hymne dans l'aurore, Bailero; Arnold: Beckus the Dandipratt Overture, Four Scottish Dances; Michael:Parthia; Wellesz: Persisches Ballett; Ferguson : Piano Concerto Op. 12; From Courthouse to Court Musician: Franz Schubert: Symphony No. 5.

Music of Neil Burton Rolnick to celebrate his 74^th birthday

Monday Night At the Movies – 80^th Anniversary

Hanson: Merry Mount Suite; Beecke : String Quartet in G; Bertini: Nonet Op. 107; From Courthouse to Court Musician: Georg Muffat: Armonico Tributo: Sonata

Halloween music - Philip Glass: Dracula and poems of Edgar Allen Poe

SUNDAY OCTOBER 3RD Massenet, La Navarraise, Bartok, Bluebeard's Castle  This month's lyric theater programming gets under way with a double bill of short masterpieces. First, comes Jules Massenet's La Navarraise (1894), which in two brief acts sets forth a tragic tale of love in wartime. The scene is the Basque Country in Northern Spain at the time of a nineteenth century Spanish internal conflict. Amid all the bloodshed of battle "The Girl from Navarre" commits a murder for the love of her soldier boy. Going back to the 1960's we had two recordings of  La Navarraise in our WWUH classical music record library. I chose the one on a single 1975 RCA Red Seal LP for broadcast on Sunday, September 18, 1988. It featured American mezzo Marilyn Horne as the girl and tenor Placido Domingo as the young soldier. Our station acquired a 2018 Warner Classics compact disc release of this opera which stars tenor Roberto Alagna as Sargeant Araquil opposite soprano Aleksandra Kursak as Anita. Alberto Veronesi directs the Opera Orchestra of New York and the New York Choral Ensemble. Massenet's orchestral scoring for La Navarraise is very colorful and calls for various special effects. The opera opened in London to much applause, but enthusiasm for it dwindled every time it reappeared on stage in the years leading up to World War One. The great Geraldine Ferrar had it revived one last time at the Met in 1921 as a vehicle for her vocal artistry. Like so many other Massenet operas, this one passed into oblivion thereafter. You listeners can now rediscover the beauty and passion of Massenet's Episode Lyrique, a little gem of the French operatic heritage. The new CD recording was originally scheduled to go over the air on Sunday, January 27, 2019. Its broadcast had to be postponed until this Sunday.

   Bela Bartok's one and only opera is called in his native language A kekszakallu herceg vara, but it is known to the world as Bluebeard's Castle (1918) and is the composer's musically expressionistic rendering of Perrault's fairy tale. Bartok's colleague Zoltan Kodaly is quoted as saying it is "sixty minutes of dramatic intensity." Once regarded as unperformable, it's now considered a twentieth century classic. Bartok did not want his creation to be taken at the level of a simple minded story about a monstrous ladykiller. Like Adonis of ancient legend, Duke Bluebeard is a lover who suffers. For such a dark and difficult work Bluebeard's Castle has been fairly frequently recorded. I've aired four different interpretations of it on disc going back to 1984. The most recent one I broadcast on Sunday, May 9, 2010 and I present it again today. It was issued through LSO Live, the proprietary label of the London Symphony Orchestra, and was recorded in state-of -the-art twenty first century sonics live in performance in 2009 at the LSO's home venue, the Barbican auditorium, with Valery Gergiev directing. Bass baritone Willard White is Bluebeard. His latest wife Judith is mezzo Elena Zhidkova. Sung in the original Hungarian.

SUNDAY OCTOBER 10TH Mayr, Le Due Duchesse It was a German composer, Johann Simon Mayr, who brought Italian opera from the eighteenth into the nineteenth century. Born in Bavaria in 1763, Mayr was a little younger than the Austrian Mozart and a little older than the Rhineland native Beethoven. He long outlived both of them, passing away in 1845. Mayr's career was spent entirely in Italy. He Italianized his name. His operas continued to be performed in Italy and elsewhere in Europe up to circa 1850. For a while his works rivaled in popularity those of Rossini. It is therefore hard to believe how Mayr's operas could be so completely forgotten. Now in the twenty first century a conductor from Bavaria, Franz Hauk, has championed the cause of Mayr's music. He has already recorded three of Mayr's sacred oratorios, released through the Naxos label. In 2017 Naxos came out with Hauk's recorded interpretation of Telemaco (1797), an opera seria in the style of Gluck. That recording I broadcast on Sunday, November 12 of that same year. Mayr also composed works in the genre of the Italian opera buffa. IN 2016 Naxos issued the world premiere recording of Amore non soffre opposizioni (Love Will Not Tolerate Opposition," 1810). I broadcast this comic work on Sunday, August 5, 2018, with Hauk conducting. The Naxos Mayr series continues with an opera semiseria: Le Due Duchesse (The Two Duchesses," 1814). The young Rossini would soon start composing things in this genre, like La Gazza Ladra (1817). The semi-serious Italian opera of that period was largely romantic drama, combining conflict with some comic elements, leading up to a happy ending. To this genre Mayr contributed his setting of a chivalric story set in medieval England, involving the hunting down of wolves and the arrival at the last moment of a message which brings on King Edward's forgiveness for one and all. Naxos released the world premiere recording of Le Due Duchesse in 2020. Franz Hauk plays the harpsichord and conducts the Concerto de Bassus (a period instrument chamber orchestra), the Simon Mayr Chorus and Members of the Bavarian State Opera Chorus, with a cast of eleven vocal soloists.

SUNDAY OCTOBER 17TH Gounod, La Reine de Saba I told you listeners how "you dunno Gounod like I know Gounod!" when I presented the world premiere recording of the original 1859 version of his world famous Faust on Sunday, June 20 of this year. That dark opera comique, with spoken dialog, has quite a different effect on the ear than the later French grand opera we all know too well. Remember that Charles Gounod wrote twelve operas and some of them were not such big hits. There's a recording of his first opera Sapho (1851) that I presented on Sunday, June 13, 1999. Then there's Gounod's bloody thriller, his second opera La Nonne Saglante (1854) that went over the air at Halloweentide on the last Sunday of October, 2011 in its world premiere recording for the German cpo record label, with the performing forces of Theater Osnabruck. Now along comes the world premiere on disc of Gounod's third opera La Reine de Saba, "The Queen of Sheba," in its restored five-act 1863 version. This is Gounod's first attempt at lavish grand opera following in the footsteps of Meyerbeer and his Robert le Diable (1831). Such a full restoration would include the requisite ballet sequence in Act Four. The Queen of Sheba, here called Balkis, a woman of legendary beauty, is betrothed to King Soliman (Soloman), but when she arrives in Jerusalem for the nuptials she promptly falls in love with the architect of Soliman's monumental Temple. She attempts to put off the wedding, with tragic results. You won't get to see the grand onstage spectacle of La Reine de Saba, but you will certainly hear its musical score in all its glory, as Gil Rose conducts the Odyssey Opera Orchestra and Chorus. The recording was made in 2018 at Jordan Hall in Boston for release through the BMOP Sound label on three CD's in 2021. Starring as Queen Balkis is soprano Kara Shay Thomson.

SUNDAY OCTOBER 24TH Haydn, Armida It was only last month when I aired an opera by the same name in its French form, Francoeur's Armide. In the eighteenth century there were so many operas that bore this name about the beautiful sorceress/princess, or named after the noble knight Rinaldo who loved her. Opera librettists spun off so many variants of the basic story derived from the epic poem by Tasso. I last presented Haydn's 1784 take on the story way back on Sunday, September 20, 1987. It's been more than four decades since the PHILIPS label gave us a recorded cycle of the long neglected operas of Joseph Haydn on stereo LP's. The Hungarian conductor Antal Dorati took part in the PHILIPS Haydn opera series, leading the Chamber Orchestra of Lausanne. The 1979 recording featured American soprano Jessye Norman in the title role. She was a truly magnificent Armida, but mezzo Cecelia Bartoli has equalled or outdone her in a recording made live in performance in 2000 in Vienna's Musikverein hall. It benefits by the participation of the musicologist/conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt and the pioneering period instrument ensemble he founded, the Concentus Musicus Wien. Teldec reissued this historically-informed Armida in 2013 in its revived "Das Alte Werk" line. Writing for Fanfare magazine (March/April, 2001issue) reviewer Bernard Jacobson states unequivocally, "This is a fascinating opera, fascinatingly played, vividly recorded and stunningly sung by Bartoli et al. ...we are unlikely to be given a better recorded performance in decades."

SUNDAY OCTOBER 31ST Bielawa, Vireo: The Spiritual Biography of A Witch's Accuser It's Halloween Sunday 2021, so an opera about witches would certainly be appropriate. Yes, there are certainly self-styled witches or Wicca people today: those who follow the ancient European-derived pagan nature religion. But for centuries before our time there were women so designated against their will and persecuted by the state authorities. In olden times the persecutors (or accusers) were priests in service of the Christian faith. By the late nineteenth century the accusers had become doctors of medicine, and in the twentieth century the doctors were psychiatrists. In traditional Christian terms there was possession by the Devil. Then came the medical disorder called hysteria. Sigmund Freud's classic study Dora:An Analysis of a Case of Hysteria (1901) springs to mind. Female hysterics were given to what used to be called "fits" and hallucinations. In Lisa Bielawa's opera Vireo (pronounced VER-ee-oh, with the accent on the first syllable) is a misfit girl visionary who, among other rebellious behaviors, boldly kisses other girls. In the opera she bounces through time between Vienna in 1893 and France in 1590, when the Catholic Church was conducting a wholesale purge of witches. Lisa Bielawa (b. 1968) is a vocalist/composer and the daughter of a composer. She got her start touring with the Philip Glass Ensemble in the 1990's. Her made-for-television opera Vireo (2015) won ASCAP's 47th annual Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Multimedia Award for 2015. Vireo was intended for broadcast through the streaming program of KCET Los Angeles. The opera production involved a multiplicity of performing groups, among them the famed Kronos Quartet and ACME, the American Contemporary Music Ensemble. Vireo is singer Rowen Sabala. Vireo the opera was released on two audio compact discs plus a video CD through Orange Mountain Music, which is the proprietary label of Philip Glass.

From The Turtle Man

October is a transition month between good weather and "that which will not be mentioned". Boomer's Paradise on Mondays from 1-4 PM has just what you need get you through this transition. We'll start off with music from albums released in October of 1971 and given the the type of weather at this time of year we'll introduce you to songs about rain, fog and snow. We'll then move on to a smorgasbord of musical artists. We'll also revisit the Billboard Top 40 One Hit Wonders and song titles about colors which kind of goes with the fall foliage. So tune and relax

Mondays 1-4pm

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