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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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Most composers who wrote Requiems, went for the dramatic. Gabriel Faure took a different approach, which many feel to be more appropriate. See what you think as we look at the Faure Requiem this Sunday.
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Jazz meets classical: it was a daring concept, and success was mixed. We’ll look at some of this music on this Sunday’s program.
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WFIT Studios - Fall Fund Drive 9/27/16Very happy to share this with you folks. It was not long after this night our dear friend Larry passed away suddenly on February 19th 2017.
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In 1928, Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill teamed up to produce The Threepenny Opera. This week we’ll have some of the original cast members performing their roles in historic period recordings of nearly a hundred years ago.
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Closer to horoscopes than to Hubble telescopes, Gustav Holst wrote The Planets as a look at the astrological significance of our solar system neighbors.
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Back a hundred or so years ago, before the radio, the phonograph and other such devices, a parlor piano was a source of amusement for some. If two players were available, duets were often played. We’ll look at some of these keyboard duets this week.
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I recently came across an interview I did on WFIT 10yrs ago with former US Congressman, Co-founder of the band ORLEANS, and my friend, John Hall. We discussed the No-Nukes concerts, and the tragedy at Fukushima that had happened just weeks before in Japan.
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We conclude two series this week with the final of Bach’s six cello suites, recorded by Pablo Casals in 1936, and another of Aaron Copland’s American West pieces. And then we’ll hear a most unfamiliar version of a most iconic piece of American music.
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It’s Russian music, but Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture pairs so well with fireworks that we Americans like to borrow it for our Fourth of July festivities. Before you head out to watch the skyrockets, hear the Czar’s cannons on Mozart’s Attic this Sunday. There’s plenty of time before it gets dark.
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Aaron Copland — a city boy — made a name for himself with music evocative of the American West. It’s a romanticized West, of course it is, but we’ll look at one of the first of his “oater-ballets,” Billy the Kid, this Sunday, and we’ll hear a couple of the others in upcoming weeks as well.