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WFIT's Local News Update June 6, 2025 AM

It’s a holiday season tradition on Mozart’s Attic to air a complete performance of Handel’s Messiah, and this year we’ll hear George Solti conducting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus on Sunday, Dec. 6, immediately following All Things Considered.

Napoleon didn’t get much respect — not musically. This Sunday we’ll hear from three composers — Beethoven, Haydn, and Tchaikovsky — who regarded his reverses with satisfaction and weren’t shy about trumpeting (excuse the pun) their delight at his misfortunes.

When is a prelude not a prelude? When it doesn’t lead to something else? Apparently not. Chopin, Rachmaninoff, Gershwin, Scriabin, and other composers wrote heaps of preludes that are actually preludes to nothing. We’ll look at some of these this week in a program of preludes.

WFIT Local & State News – November 6, 2025 AM

Police are still not saying what motivated the gunman who walked into a crowded Aurora, Colo., movie theater and opened fired. Suspect James Holmes, 24, was apprehended immediately after the attack. Until recently, he was a grad student studying neuroscience.

Louisville, Kansas, Indiana and Gonzaga are the No. 1 seeds in the four regions of the NCAA Division I men's basketball championship. Now it's time to start picking your winners if you're a college basketball fan.