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THE 9th annual Josie Music Awards has nominated WFIT's Guitar Trax host Brian Tarquin & Heavy Friends: “Brothers in Arms” in 4 different categories including Album of the Year (Instrumental). -
The Artist/WFIT’s Steve Yasko talks with Robert Jon from Robert Jon & The Wreck about the band’s song writing process, an upcoming live album and their March 18th show at the King Center.
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The cold (by our standards) winter weather gave us a chance to catch up on the plethora of new music releases. Enjoy a playlist of some of our favorites from the month of January.
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We are airing special holiday programming on HD1 and HD2 from Christmas Eve through New Years day. Thanks for listening and sharing your holiday season with your friends at WFIT!
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Let WFIT’s Thanksgiving specials set the mood for your holiday. Tune in or stream these holiday specials. -
THE 8TH ANNUAL JOSIE MUSIC AWARDS has nominated WFIT's Guitar Trax host Brian Tarquin as Musician of the Year (Guitarist) and Music Producer of the Year.
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April brought an extended spring, at least by Florida standards, and also some great new music. Here's a playlist of some of our favorites.
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Tune in to Future Echoes Sunday April 24th at 9:00 p.m. for an interview with Florida Tech's Brendan Steffens about his new album The Outer Planets.
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Dmitri Shostakovich’s Seventh Symphony, written largely in Leningrad during the 842-day siege of World War II, is pure defiance. Until a few weeks ago, it was a piece of history. Now, suddenly, it seems timely and appropriate.
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Two versions of a story that’s thousands of years old, and you can take your pick this week on WFIT.
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It’s easy for us to look back to the days of Bach and Handel and close that period off as the end of the Baroque era, and then to focus on the mature Mozart and Haydn — and then Beethoven — as the start of something wholly new. This week we’ll look at some of the music that bridged the ages of these giants: works from the Mannheim School, the Galants, and the other pre-classicists.
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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.
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We don’t know why Franz Schubert left his Eighth Symphony unfinished 200 years ago. The reasons are probably quite commonplace, but coupled with the composer’s tragic life story the tale has grown greater than the sum of its parts in the public imagination.
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Before leaving his hometown of Salzburg, Mozart wrote the first of his three great masses, the only one he actually finished, the Coronation Mass in C major. We’ll hear it this Sunday.
