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A 25-year veteran of public media, Yasko said he is excited to grow the community connections that have been a hallmark of WFIT for decades.
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Alex Harris brought is soulful stylings to WFIT for a chat with Steve. He finished up with an acapella version of Lose My Religion. Alex talks about how important education and giving back to the community are to him, his family, and meeting Aretha Franklin.
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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).
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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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When the Pilgrims left Southampton in 1620, they left behind a thriving European musical scene. Not that the Pilgrims listened to much music; actually they tended to frown on it. But just for fun, we’ll listen to some of the tunes they might have heard if they had been listening — which they weren’t.
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William Shakespeare has fired the imaginations of many composers -- so many that we can only scratch the surface of musical works inspired by the Bard of Avon in a single program. But scratch it we shall this Sunday with a multi-national look at scenes from Shakespeare in music, as interpreted by six different composers. Hearken thee at six o’clock.
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Henryk Gorecki’s Symphony No. 3 was one of those out-of-left-field million-seller CDs when a recording with Dawn Uphaw, David Zinman,and the London Sinfonietta was released in 1992. The work was scorned by several critics, but it obviously fell on many a receptive ear too. You can decide for yourself on this Sunday’s program.
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In 1972, Calvin Hampton transcribed Pictures at an Exhibition for organ, and we’ll hear that this Sunday. Bring your best loudspeakers to the Attic this week.
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We have a special live performance recording of the Verdi Requiem this week. Vedri, of course, was first and foremost an opera composer. One would expect his Requiem to be dramatic, and Verdi does not disappoint.
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We lighten it up a bit this week, going back to the 1878 London comedy stage with a complete performance of Gilbert & Sullivan’s HMS Pinafore, in which love conquers all (or mostly all) on board the most preposterous ship in the Royal Navy.
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Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg sought to bring the music of his homeland into the central European mainstream that dominated so much of the 19th-century musical scene. He wasn’t entirely successful, but a few of his works quickly became concert stage favorites. We’ll hear one of them, the A minor Piano Concerto, on this week’s program.
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The premiere of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony was a rare immediate triumph for the composer, ending with the cheers of the audience. We’ll hear Herbert von Karajan’s reading with the Berlin Philharmonic -- one of the great recordings of this iconic work — on this Sunday’s program.
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We’re going way back in time this Sunday with music that is Medieval or that has Medieval roots, beginning with the Monks of Santo Domingo de Silos and their sleeper best-seller CD of Gregorian chants released nack in 1994.
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The Siena Pianoforte was salvaged from a Tel Aviv dump after having been used as a hive for bees, a chicken coop, and maybe even a smokehouse for sausages. Of such tales are legends made — some of them might even be true!