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Music to celebrate Labor Day

Spears, Fellow Travelers, Blitzstein, The Cradle Will rock, No For An Answer

Reicha: Wind Quintet Op. 88 No. 2; Bartok: Piano Concerto No. 1; Handel: Suite No. 8 in f minor; Simpson: Symphony No. 6; Nielsen: Violin Concerto

Johann Friedrich Fasch: Ouverture and Fuga for two oboes, bassoon, strings & B. c. from Overture Suite in D minor FaWV K:d4;

Thieme: Sonata a 8 in C Major; Danican-Philidor: Symphony No. 27 in G Major; Cabezon: Doulce memoire, Susane un jur; Camilleri: Malta Suite; Kapp: Symphony No. 2; Waldteufel: Estudiantina, Op. 191.

Classical music goes ambient

Delibes, Lakme

Praetorius: Motets; S. Arnold: Macbeth incidental music; Fry: Niagara Symphony; Noordt: Recorder Sonata in g minor, Op. 1 No. 4; Gibbs: Nightfall, Miniature Dance Suite; Turk: Sonata No. 1 in a minor; Moore: Farm Journal; Glazunov: Raymonda Suite, Op. 57a; Kancheli: Bridges to Bach.

Cherubini: Médée: Overture; Bache: Piano Concerto in E Major, Op. 18; Michael Haydn: Symphony No. 19 in D Major

Smetana, The Devil's Wall

Holzbauer: Symphony in A; Mozart: Vesperae de Domenica; Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 2; R. Strauss: Symphonica domestica; Litvinovsky: Pinocchio

Mennin: Symphony #8; The American Project – Yuja Wang Piano; Walking in the Dark – Julia Bullock Soprano;Drake’s Village Brass Band - National Brass Ensemble – Diefied Part 1 Music of Strauss, J. Bingham and Sandoval

Host’s choice

Holst: Suite No. 1 for Military Band Op. 28 No. 1, The Planets, Op. 32; Francoeur: Suite in D Major.

Mozart , Le Nozze di Figaro 

Diaghilev 150 – Schmitt: La Tragédie de Salomé, Op. 50; Herrmann: Wuthering Heights Suite; Drake’s Village Brass Band – National Brass Ensemble -Diefied Part 2 -Wagner music from the Ring (begins early)

Host’s Choice

First performance anniversaries: Shostakovich’s 14^th & Dun’s Crouching Tiger

SUNDAY AFTERNOON AT THE OPERA

SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 3RD Spears. Fellow Travelers, Blitzstein, The Cradle Will Rock, No for an Answer, excerpts I like to present some sort of "labor opera" on the Sunday of the Labor Day holiday; that is, something that reflects upon some aspect of the American labor force. Well, what if you held a government job in Washington in the bad old days of the anti-communist "Red Scare" and the so-called "Lavender Scare" , and you were trying to keep a same-sex relationship your personal secret? "Fellow Travelers" was the term applied to leftists in the McCarthy Era of the 1950's. Gregory Spears' Fellow Travelers (2016) sets forth in music a gay love story in a particularly perilous time.The opera is based on the novel by Thomas Mallon. Curiously, as Fellow Travelers was in rehearsal in June of 2016 the Pulse Club massacre of gay men had just taken place. Cincinnati Opera commissioned the work and premiered Fellow Travelers in that same month. Its world premiere recording was made live-in-performance. Mark Gibson conducts the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, with singing cast.

   Fellow Travelers is a twenty first century operatic take on a sad chapter in twentieth century American history. American lyric theater composer Marc Blitzstein (1900-1962) had to live through that period. For Blitzstein it was the triple whammy: he was a Jew, a commie and a homosexual. The first complete cast recording of a Broadway musical was not Rogers & Hammerstein's Oklahoma in 1944. It was Blitzstein's The Cradle Will Rock, a "labor" musical, made in 1938 with the composer himself accompanying his cast on piano and narrating the story. That world premiere electric recording in monaural sound has been digitally reprocessed from 78rpm discs for issue on a British Pearl CD in 1998. This historic recording was last broadcast on this program on Sunday, September 3, 2000. Opera Saratoga revived Cradle in 2017, employing Blitzstein's own 1937 orchestrated version of the score. You'll get to hear excerpts from the Bridge CD release of Cradle, which I broadcast in its entirety on the Labor Day Sunday, September 1, 2019. The Pearl CD has excerpts from No for an Answer (1946), Blitzstein's self-styled "American Opera," featuring a young Leonard Bernstein on piano.

SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 10TH Delibes, Lakme The hint for this Sunday's programming comes from one of    Robert E. Smith's installments of "Your Box at the Opera." On Sunday, September 6,1985 I rebroadcast some of the airtapes of his "Your Box at the Opera" installments- one in particular which originally went over the air on WTIC-AM on March 9,1969. I was granted access to exclusive tape cassette recordings residing in UHart's Allen Memorial Library of the Julius Hartt College of Music. These half-hour radio shows about opera singers were hosted by a now historic figure in the history of local radio broadcasting. Mr. Smith reviewed a recording of soprano Joan Sutherland's voice in the title role in Leo Delibes' Lakme (1883), as issued on LP under the London label here in the US. Many great singers have used "The Bell Song" from Lakme as a vehicle for their vocal artistry. Sutherland the diva assoluta went so far as to revive the entire opera. This opera had hitherto gone unsung for a long time. It had been favorably received at its premiere at the Paris Opera Comique. It remained standard repertoire in France thereafter, but not so on the international operatic scene in the twentieth century. In Lakme Leo Delibes reached the apex of his career as a composer. He's better known for his ballet music for Coppelia and Sylvia. Delibes also wrote a string of successful French musical comedies. Some French music critics of his day thought he was Offenbach's true successor. Lakme. however, is a lyric tragedy with an exotic setting,and Delibes' music expresses its exoticism. Its scoring is sensuous, a thing of rare beauty like a tropical flower for the ear to hear in its entirety. Lakme herself is a kind of Madame Butterfly of the Indian subcontinent. For true love she commits suicide by partaking in a draught of poison. In my broadcast of Lakme on Sunday, November 8, 1987 I presented Sutherland opposite tenor Alain Vanzo as Gerald, with Sutherland's husband Richard Bonynge conducting the Monte Carlo Opera Orchestra and Chorus. Lakme received a new recorded treatment in 1997, this time with the highly esteemed Natalie Dessay in the title role. Michel Plasson directs the Orchestra and Chorus du Capitole de Toulouse. Also heard as Nilakantha is tenor Jose Van Dam. EMI issued this latter-day Lakme on two compact discs in1998. 

SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 17TH Smetana, The Devil's Wall Called Certova Stena in Czech, this was Bedrich Smetana's eighth and last opera, which was not well received at its premiere in 1882. Some considered it the work of a madman. Amazingly, Smetana had been stone deaf for years before he wrote it. He had already brought forth two operas also without being able to hear a note of them. The story of this opera he took from Bohemian legend: how the Devil tried to stop the founding of a monastery in the Bohemian Forest by damming up the headwaters of the river Moldau. The devil Rarach is an opera buffa villain, and romance is tangled up in the plot. The Devil's Wall is suffused with that same wonderful, melodious, pictorial quality to be found in Smetana's famous tone poem Ma Vlast. Way back on Sunday, July 15, 1984 I aired the three LP set that Supraphon, the old Soviet-era Czechoslovak national record label issued in 1962 in early stereo sound, with Zdenek Chalabala conducting the Prague National Theatre Chorus and Orchestra. I broadcast it twice again on Sundays in September of 1994 and 2006. This LP recording, I have discovered, is quite rare and remains as a little audio gem residing in our WWUH classical music record library. As far as I can ascertain, it is the one and only recording of this work, and it has never been reissued on compact disc. All the more reason to let you listeners enjoy it a fourth time today.

SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 24TH Mozart, Le Nozze di Figaro I have regularly featured historic recordings, and once again on this occasion I will be presenting one that originated at Glyndebourne. When it was first recorded in festival production there in 1935, Mozart's Cosi Fan Tutte (1790) was virtually unknown on the operatic stage, as were so many of the Mozart operas, with the possible exception of Don Giovanni, which had occasionally been performed in the nineteenth and earlier twentieth centuries. Way back on Sunday, December 27,1987 I broadcast the Seraphim LP reissue of the monaural 78 rpm recording of  Cosi with Fritz Busch conducting. In 1934 the wealthy English blueblood John Christie opened to the public the newly built opera house on his ancestral estate at Glyndebourne, Sussex not far South of London. Christie was committed to the revival of Mozart's neglected operatic masterworks. His wife soprano Audrey Mildmay sang in early Glyndebourne productions of them. Summer festivals at Glyndebourne became a fixture on the international opera scene. I next broadcast Don Giovanni (1787) as it was taped at the 1955 Festival, which RCA Victor picked up for release stateside on mono hi-fi LP's (Sunday, October 14, 1990). Then came a digitally remastered CD issue in early stereo sound of Le Nozze di Figaro (1786), made live-in-performance at the 1962 Festival. Silvio Varviso directed the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Glyndebourne Chorus. And what a distinguished international singing cast for its time! Italian soprano Mirella Freni is Susanna, the Turkish Leyla Gencer was the Countess, and Swiss Edith Mathis took on the breeches role of Cherubino. French baritone Gabriel Bacquier portrayed Count Almaviva. Figaro was the American Heinz Blankenburg. Glyndebourne Enterprises, Ltd. released the 1962 "Marriage of Figaro" in digitally reprocessed sonics on three silver discs in 2008. I last presented this classic old recording on Sunday, December 14, 2008 and do so a second time this afternoon. 

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