The Spanish Hour
Mondays, 10 to 11 pm on WXXO-FM 91.5, WXXY 90.3, WXXO-FM/HD1 and online at wxxiclassical.org
Meet the people of the Spanish-speaking world through their music. The Spanish Hour with Candice Agree presents recorded performances featuring Iberian and Latin American composers, conductors and performers. Host Candice Agree combines her musical training from the Eastman School of Music with her training in Spanish and Catalan language to present works from the Iberian Peninsula, the Americas, Mexico, and the Caribbean from the Middle Ages through the 21st century.
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Spain has intrigued many composers. Candice Agree looks at works by Maurice Ravel, Claude Debussy, Emmanuel Chabrier, and Franz Liszt. -
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Considered by the Catalans as the most romantic day of the year, Sant Jordi Day (or International Book and Rose day) is a day when traditionally men give women a rose and women give men a book. But things have changed and since it is such a special day, today everyone receives a rose and a book; parents give their children a book and a rose, and friends give each other a rose. -
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Considered one of the world’s best lyrical tenors in the second half of the twentieth century, Alfredo Kraus' most famous character was the role of Werther in Jules Massenet’s opera of the same name. -
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