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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This month host Bill McGlaughlin takes us to the pinnacle of Beethoven's greatest works during the later years of his life Beethoven at Parnassus, Part I & II (2-weeks,4/17 & 4/24)
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Women performers and composers go back as far as the history books, and Bill McGlaughlin will explore a millennium of women in music, Mar 6-10 at 7pm.
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From Schoenberg to Mahler and more, Bill McGlaughlin explores the works that require huge numbers of musicians and long periods of time.
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Legend has it that, during the singing of the “Hallelujah Chorus,” King George II stood when he heard the words “King of kings…” to honor Jesus, the Messiah, and that that audience followed out of respect for King George. Scholars say there is no viable research to show that this actually happened.
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Musical prodigies in composition and performance, from Mozart to violinist Julia Fischer - on Exploring Music
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Best known for The Lark Ascending, Ralph Vaughan Williams wrote nine symphonies, operas, film scores and was an avid collector of English folk songs.
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Artist Henry Botkin was the first cousin of composer George Gershwin, and this is Botkin's painting of the composer in 1930. In the late 1920's Gershwin began taking painting lessons from Botkin and became fascinated with painting, even considering giving up music so that he could devote himself completely to painting.
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The legendary artistic partnership of Robert Schumann and Johannes Brahms in the first of a two-week exploration of great pairs. (Weeks of Aug 15 & 22 @ 7pm)