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This week we begin a short cycle of the Book One Piano Preludes of Claude Debussy, twelve little impressionist vignettes from the end of the Gilded Age. Then we return to the series of the complete Mozart symphonies, a project we began last July.

Conductor Charles Munch was a champion of Hector Berlioz’s music, and his recording of the Symphonie Fantastique, made in 1954, remains one of the most hignly regarded readings of that work to this day. We’ll hear it (and some other historic recordings as well) on this Sunday’s program.

WFIT-FM welcomed Peyton Derrick from local band Mangrove for a conversation and a live performance. Mangrove with be live at the Space Coast Music Festival on the Against The Grain stage on Saturday November 5th.

We’ll look at some music from the time of the Pilgrims this week. There’s no music OF the pilgrims; they brought no musicians with them, but back in Europe it was the High Renaissance, and we’ll hear some of the music from 1620 (or thereabouts) this Sunday night.

We’ll look at some music from the time of the Pilgrims this week. There’s no music OF the pilgrims; they brought no musicians with them, but back in Europe it was the High Renaissance, and we’ll hear some of the music from 1620 (or thereabouts) this Sunday night.

This week finds us at Number 21 in our chronology of the 41 symphonies of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; we’re over the hump in a project begun last July.

Ludwig van Beethoven’s birthday is probably December 16. We’ll celebrate it this Sunday with an all-Beethoven program to mark the occasion with some of the best-known notes in all of music…… And maybe a couple of oddities as well.

It’s a December tradition on Mozart’s Attic: A complete performance of Handel’s Messiah as interpreted by a different recording each year.

We go back as far as the 11th century for a telling of the Christmas Story in music of the Middle Ages in an imaginative collection realized by the Waverly Consort to open this week’s program.