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By 1804, Beethoven’s formidable output of piano music had slowed considerably. His one sonata of that year was the very short No. 22.He had other things up his sleeve, and one of those was the watershed Eroica Symphony. we’ll hear it this Sunday night — and we’ll hear that short sonata as well, as we work our way through the entire cycle of the Beethoven sonatas. -
It was 1783 and Mozart was living in Vienna. He planned a visit with his new wife, back home to Salzburg, where it must have seemed that everyone was mad at him.
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1802 was a portentous year in Europe, and it was tempestuous for Beethoven as well.
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What a year, but we haven’t given up. We are pleased to announce the return of our Garage Band Contest.
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We’ve been working our way through the Beethoven piano sonatas over the past few months, and this week we’re up to Number 14, the famous Moonlight Sonata.It was written in 1801, and that was a big year for the thirty-year-old transplant to the big city of Vienna. Audiences were taking notice, and patrons were commissioning works. There was a troublesome ringing in his ears, but maybe that would go away.
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A legend in folk music radio, Rich Warren, host of WFMT’s iconic The Midnight Special since 1983, is passing the baton to Marilyn Rea Beyer, the fourth…
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Join WFIT-FM to hear One Small Step: Courageous Conversations Across A Growing Divide from NPR and StoryCorp. Our nations is divided. One Small Step is an…
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Due to the Coronavirus, WFIT has postponed our announcement of the winner of this year’s Garage Band Contest. We understand this will be a major…
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The holiday tradition continues. Writer David Sedaris reads from his "Santaland Diaries," recounting his time spent working as a Macy's department store elf named Crumpet.
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Sunday December 226 pm: Mozart's AtticNo Rudolph, no Frosty, no bells' jingle jingleIn Mozart’s Attic we hope some thing’llMake your Sunday eve…
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Many Americans may have forgotten that Veterans Day began as a commemoration of World War I veterans. NPR's Kathleen Rushlow remembers her grandfather, who served in the 12th Machine Gun Battalion.
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The Florida Roundup Broadcast on WFIT at 6 pm Fridays. To listen live, call in and participate you can stream the show Fridays at noon on WLRN or WJCT…
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We're starting of with music from the German Baroque this week, and of course we'll include J.S. Bach, but we'll also look at some composers who might be…
