Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin
Monday through Friday, 7 to 8pm on WXXO-FM 91.5, WXXY 90.3, WXXO-FM/HD1 and online at wxxiclassical.org
Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin is a daily radio program that delves into a wide assortment of topics in classical music. Each five-program series builds off a single theme ranging from composer biographies to explorations of various cultures, musical styles, and time periods.?
Detailed playlists for each program are available at the full Exploring Music program site.
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Rhapsodies came to be based on popular and folk melodies, and composers in the 19th century began writing Rhapsodies for chamber music and large-scale nationalistic orchestral epics.
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Bill has been thinking a lot about Ukraine lately, so he created this new week exploring its music and storied history.
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Stories of history, forbidden love, folk tales and fantasy have often inspired composers. We'll hear the results in a two-week exploration.
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Known for helping to develop the symphonic form, French composer Hector Berlioz lived a dramatic and colorful life.
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From the early Greeks to synthesizers, host Bill McGlaughlin, we'll follow the story of the keyboard - it's more than just pianos.
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Music, like any language, has its jokes, witticisms, and puns. This week Bill explore all this musical buffoonery!
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