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September, the favorite child of New England with the weather you wait for all year. What better way to enjoy it than by tuning in every Monday from 1-4 PM to Boomers Paradise with your host, The Turtle Man.

We kick off the month to step back 50 years to hear tracks from albums released in September 1972. Since September is the early start to foliage changes we'll also feature songs that have a color in their title.

Next we'll do some alphabet rock followed by another spin of jukebox selections.

We end the month by taking a little road trip around the country with songs about states.

So we have a little bit of everything and hope it makes your September an even better one.

Remember, it's music for your life.

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Antonio Montanari: Concerto grosso in A; Michael Haydn: Concerto for Flute; Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 22; Humperdinck: Dornroshen (Sleeping Beauty); Walton: Portsmouth Point Overture

Music to celebrate Labor Day

Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Labor Day Program - Joshua Rifkin – Rags and Tangos; V. Thomson: Filling Station Ballet; Copland: Rodeo- Complete Ballet; I. Fine: Violin Sonata; Barber: String Quartet Op. 11

Drake’s Village Brass Band… Wynton Marsalis – Carnaval with Donald Hunsberger and the Eastman Wind Ensemble

Franz Ignaz Beck: Symphony No. 1 in D; Karol Rathaus: Symphony No. 3; J. S. Bach: English Suite No. 2; Holbrooke: Horn Trio; Braga Santos: Sinfonietta

Johann Sigismond Kusser: Apollon enjoué: Overture No. 2 in B-flat major; Johann Sigismund Weiss: Oboe Sonata in E-Flat major; Fortunato Chelleri: 6 Sonate di Galanteria: Sonata No. 1 in G minor; Fortunato Chelleri: Symphony nouvelle No. 1 in D major; J. S. Bach: Cantata for the 12th Sunday after Trinity, "Lobe den Herren, den mächtigen König der Ehren", BWV 137; Mozart: Piano Quintet in E-Flat major, K. 452; Reicha: Octet, Op. 96; Richard Wetz: Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 40 (1924); Ivor Gurney: Songs.

Franz Josef Haydn: Symphony No. 22 in E flat; Fitzenhagen: Ballade; Arensky: Symphony No. 2; Tchaikovsky: Ballade; Frank Martin: Cello Concerto; Grieg: Piano Concerto

David Macbride in Memoriam

Gounod, Romeo et Juliette 

A Color Symphony –Takemitsu: Green for Orchestra; Carpenter: Water Colors: Watkins: Five Movements in Color: Bliss: A Colour Symphony; Ellington: Black, Brown and Beige; Torke: Ecstatic Orange

Drake’s Village Brass Band… Colors and Contours with music of Gershwin, Bassett, Buckley, Tichelli

Haydn: Symphony No. 23 in G; Pietro Nardini: Concerto for violin in G, Op 2 No. 1; Clara Schumann: Piano Concerto; Raff: Symphony No. 3 “Im Walde”; Schoenberg: Pelleas and Melisande; Clara Schumann: Selection of songs for tenor and baritone

His Majesty presents selections from the Channel Classics, Orange Mountain, ORFEO and CORO labels.

We’re going to an art show! Two (or maybe three) perspective on the “Pictures at an Exhibition”

Number 9 for the 9th month

von Reznicek, Donna Diana

A Vaughan Williams 150 Tribute – Phantasy Quartet, On Wenlock Edge, Concerto in C for Two Pianos and Orchestra, Job – A Masque for Dancing

Drake’s Village Brass Band… Vaughan Williams for Band

Cristiano Lidarti: Concerto for Violin in C; Radu Paladi: Piano Concerto; York Bowen: Viola Sonata No. 2; Ludvig Norman: Symphony No. 3; Brahms: Clarinet Trio in A; John Fernstrom: Songs of the Sea; Nikolai Kapustin: Piano Sonata No. 2

Host’s Choice

Bassoons, guitars and a Finale Grande

What’s that you’re playing? [Music written for instruments not typically found in your symphony orchestra]

Vivaldi, Argippo

Ingram Marshall in Memoriam – Fog Tropes, September Canons, Peaceable Kingdoms; Prokofiev: Piano Concertos 3 & 4 with John Browning; Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition – Orchestrations compiled by Leonard Slatkin

Drake’s Village Brass Band – Hindemith Brass Sonatas for Horn, Trombone and Alto Horn

Boccherini: Cello Concerto in G; Haydn: Symphony No. 24 in D; Goetz: Piano Concerto No. 2; Cyril Scott: Piano Trio No. 2; John Fernstrom: Symphony No. 12; Verdi: Capriccio for Bassoon & Orchestra; Karlowicz: Episode at a Masquerade

Johann Sigismond Kusser: Apollon enjoué: Overture No. 2 in C major; Johann Sigismund Weiss: Oboe Sonata in G minor; Fortunato Chelleri: 6 Sonate di Galanteria: Sonata No. 2 in F major; Fortunato Chelleri: Symphony nouvelle No. 2 in C major; J. S. Bach: Cantata for the Feast of St Michael and All Angels, "Es erhub sich ein Streit", BWV 19; Mozart: Serenade No. 12 in C minor, K. 388; Reicha: Piano Trio in D minor, Op. 101, No. 2; Richard Wetz: Requiem in B minor, Op. 50; Walter Kaufmann: Violin Sonata No. 2, Op. 44.

Steve returns with selections from the new additions to the WWUH Classical Library.

Waltzing through three-fourths of the year in ¾ time

SUNDAY AFTERNOON AT THE OPERA

Programming for the month of September, 2022 

SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 4TH Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz I would normally program a work of musical Americana on the Sunday of the Labor Day holiday weekend. Longtime listeners to this radio show know that I include spoken word plays like those of Shakespeare in my concept of lyric theater. Everybody loves the famous 1939 Hollywood movie The Wizard of Oz starring the ingenue Judy Garland as Dorothy. (It's actually the second film version. The 1925 silent movie featured the comedy team of Laurel and Hardy.) The 1939 film follows the original story pretty closely. Only certain details are different in the book. Dorothy gets to wear the ruby slippers in the movie. In the book they are silver shoes. Either way, the footwear is magical. But the movie completely eliminates the fragile porcelain people of the dainty china country. The Land of Oz as Baum imagined it possessed remarkable diversity. There's a Naxos Audiobooks version of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz that gives the listener substantially the whole book as first published in 1900. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was so enormously successful that young readers begged for more, so Baum went on to write a long series of Oz books which were published up to 1920. The audio presentation of that first classic Oz storybook has Liza Ross as the reader, her voice augmented by sound effects and passages of music at certain junctures.

SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 11TH Gounod, Romeo et Juliette Charles Gounod (1818-93) vies with Guiseppe Verdi as the alltime most popular opera composer. Faust in its original 1859 Comedie Lyrique version I broadcast on Sunday, June 10,2021 (Palazzetto Bru Zane CD's/Rousset/Les Talens Lyriques). The 1869 grand opera revision of Faust became an international hit. The Met mounted so many productions of Faust people dubbed the Met the "House of Faust." Gounod's Romeo et Juliette (1867) was also enormously popular, and it's been frequently recorded. I have broadcast it in one or another release on disc four times on this program: Sundays in 1985,1988, 2010 and most recently on Sunday, April 14, 2013. On that last occasion I made use of one of Sony Classical's CD releases of broadcast airtapes made live in performance at the Metropolitan Opera. The mono or early stereo sound on these old tape reels from the Met's archives was digitally remastered for compact disc issue in the early twenty first century. This particular release documents a performance of Romeo et Juliette given on February 1, 1947. These old tapes captured for posterity what some consider to be the Golden Age of opera singing in the first half of the twentieth century. Emile Cooper conducted the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus. The incomparable Swedish tenor Jussi Bjorling is heard as Romeo opposite Brazilian soprano Bidu Sayao as Juliet, a role in which she specialized. To the delight of audiences, Bjorling and Sayao were frequently paired in Met productions in the 1940's. Savor this historic 1947 Romeo and Juliette a second time this afternoon.

SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 18TH von Reznicek, Donna Diana Baby Boomers are old enough to remember the opening music of the TV series "Sargeant Preston of the Yukon." It was the effervescent overture to Donna Diana (1894) by Emil Nikolaus von Reznicek (1860-1945). On its own the overture to this comic opera was frequently played in pops concerts and heard on the radio, too. The opera itself, although wildly popular all over Central Europe early in the twentieth century, is nowadays virtually unknown. Reznicek wrote several light operas, also now all forgotten, but the Donna Diana overture has secured him a noche in music history. He was a considerable composer. In addition to operas, he wrote four symphonies. The greatest symphonist of the era, Gustav Mahler, respected von Reznicek's talents and promoted his music. Mahler conducted the 1898 Vienna premiere of Donna Diana. The story of this opera is similar to Shakespeare's play The Taming of the Shrew, only transferred to the Spain of Don Quixote. It concerns a beautiful but cold-hearted senorita. The best case for von Reznicek's comic opera has been made in a live recording of a stage revival of Donna Diana at the Kiel Opera in 2004. Ulich Windfuhr conducts the Kiel Opera Chorus and Kiel Philharmonic Orchestra. I last broadcast what I presume is the world premiere recording of Donna Diana for the German cpo record label on Sunday, July 24, 2005.

SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 25TH  Vivaldi, Argippo We commonly think of Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) as a violin virtuoso who wrote hundreds of concertos for the violin and other instruments. He's famous for "The Four Seasons" concertos in particular. Yet for much of his career as a composer Vivaldi wrote opera. In fact, he was one of the single most prolific composers of Italian opera in the history of music. He once boasted that he wrote at least ninety four of them! The boast seems to be not far at all from the truth. There are about two dozen Vivaldi operas that survive musically complete, or nearly complete, another couple of dozen or so of which major portions are extant, plus fragments of a couple of dozen more. In addition, we know that he composed other operas for which the scores have gone missing. He ghost wrote several entire operas for other composers and contributed arias to other men's works. And he wrote pasticcios, ie. composite operas with his own music interspersed with arias taken from various colleagues. Argippo (1730-32) is a specimen of this hybrid genre. Vivaldi's name does not officially appear on a surviving Argippo score. We do know he wrote an Argippo entirely with his own music for productions in Vienna and Prague, but that Argippo is lost. Vivaldi rewrote that work, inserting into it arias by Pescetti, Hasse, Porpora, Galeazzi, Fiore and Vinci, and seems to have sold the whole package to an opera impressario in Darmstadt in Germany, where the manuscript was discovered in 2011. Piles of Vivaldi manuscripts have been preserved in the Italian National Library in Turin. World premiere recordings have been made of Vivaldi operas from this collection, issued through the French Naive record label in its long ongoing series, The Vivaldi Edition. The Argippo pastiche is the latest release in the series (Volume 64, 2019). Fabio Biondi conducts the period instrument players of Europa Galante, with a cast of five singers. Vivaldi's Argippo is an example of the fashionable oriental exoticism in eighteenth century Italian opera. There are other similar operas dealing with the Grand Mogul, the Emperor of India. Furthermore, the "Mogul" nickname has been attached to a couple of Vivaldi's concertos.

Keith Brown

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