Jay Lamy (Jayski)
Mozart's Attic HostOriginally from central Massachusetts, Jay has called the Space Coast home for more than 30 years. He began his association with WFIT in the late '90s as a dumpster diver for office furniture in response to a broadcast plea for a new chair from a frustrated disc jockey. (WFIT has come a long way since.)
Soon he was answering phones during fund drives, doing other odd tasks about the station, and later taking on the job of sending out thank-you gifts and premiums to new and renewing members.
Tune in for Mozart's Attic Thursday nights from 10 pm until midnight.
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We’re going to hear a pair of piano concerti this Sunday by two Hungarian-born composers whose slightly overlapping lifespans covered a stretch of nearly 140 years — years from the height of the Hapsburg Empire to the tumultuous times of the last century.
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The Silk Road was a network of trade routes spanning the Eurasian land mass and in use for more than 2,000 years, cross-fertilizing cultures from Europe to the Orient and most everything in-between. We’ll touch on just a fraction of the music from the Silk Road on this week’s program.
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Unlike Antonio Vivaldi’s famous Four Seasons, Franz Josef Haydn's Oratorio The Seasons looks at the passage of the year from the perspective of the country folk in an allegorical portrayal of a year well spent and a life well lived.
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This week we’re going to look at some of George Friedrich Handel’s “other” music. He was, after all, the most important composer working in Great Britain in the 18th century — no one-hit wonder he -- so let’s stop for a bit and listen to some "Handel Besides The Messiah."
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Franz Schubert, the archetypal starving artist, never got to hear some of his greatest works — and which of them could be greater than his Ninth Symphony? We’ll hear his Great C Major Symphony as our featured work this Sunday.
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Antonio Vivaldi's The Four Seasons has become among the best-loved and most-recorded works of the 18th century, and we’ll hear it this Sunday, along with some more of the music of the Red Priest of Venice.
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Jean-Philipe Rameau was a contemporary of Bach, Handel, and Scarlatti, but a distinctive ornate French flair sets his orchestral music apart from the others.
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This Sunday’s program will be the 500th Mozart’s Attic, an opportunity to look back at some of the music that you listeners have said you liked over the nearly-ten-years of this endeavor. Some of the choices might be as expected, but there have been a couple of surprises too.
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We’re going to hear everybody’s favorite battle piece, the 1812 Overture, this Sunday, but then we’re going to follow it with another musical account of battle: Sergei Prokofiev’s movie score for Sergei Eisenstein’s epic film, Alexander Nevsky.
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We’re going to look at some Scottish, or at least Scottish-inspired, music this week. We’ll start with the fruits of Felix Mendelssohn’s famous hike to the Hebrides, and then we’ll hear some music with genuine Caledonian roots.
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We have no long ballet tradition in this country: the first professional companies didn’t set up shop until well into the 20th century. American composers soon proved themselves up to the task of writing music for the dance. We’ll look at the work of three of them and the music they created.
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As a protégé of Brahms, Antonin Dvorak had a noteworthy resume in Europe when he was tapped to run a philanthropic conservatory in New York in 1892. What Dvorak heard in the New World represented a wholly new direction for American composers, and gave us a couple of timeless masterpieces to boot.