Archive for August, 2013
WBJC BOOTH APPEARANCE
WBJC will have a booth at the 33rd Annual Baltimore Summer Antiques Show, returning to the Baltimore Convention Center, August 22nd -25th. Produced by the Palm Beach Show Group, the show attracts knowledgeable collectors and respected dealers from around the world, some who travel from as far as Dubai, Brussels and Beijing. The Baltimore […]
Dawn on the Trail
Mark Malinowski’s cycling meditations on the WBJC website have inspired me to get back on my bike again. The other big push has been the new, and still under construction, bike path that runs from Woodberry to Cylburn Arboretum in Baltimore City. I have never been a morning person, but this beautiful forested path makes […]
WBJC Choral Hour 8-11-13
8:00 AM Charles Gounod — St. Cecilia Mass Conductor: Georges Pretre Ensemble: Radio France Philharmonic Orch and Chorus Barbara Hendricks, soprano Laurence Dale, tenor Jean-Philippe LaFont, baritone Angel/EMI, 47094 8:47 AM Sir Charles Villiers Stanford — Morning Service (1909) Key: C Opus: 115 Conductor: Christopher Robinson Ensemble: Choir of St. John’s College Christopher Whitton, organ […]
Playlist: Aug/11/13
8:19 PM Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky — Violin Concerto Key: DOpus: 35Conductor: Vasily PetrenkoEnsemble: Royal Liverpool PhilharmonicHilary Hahn, violinDG/Archiv, 14698 8:00 PM Dmitri Shostakovich — Moscow-Cheryomushki Opus: 105Conductor: Riccardo ChaillyEnsemble: The Philadelphia OrchestraLondon, 452597 6:34 PM Vaclav Trojan — Fairy Tales–Concerto for Accordion Conductor: Clark RundellEnsemble: BBC National Orch. of WalesKsenija Sidorova, AccordionChamps Hil, 55 6:00 […]
8-10-13 Face The Music Listings!
This week Face the music panelists were John Bowen from Emanuel Episcopal, David Donovan from Pratt Library Fine Arts and Jed Gaylan from the Hopkins Symphony. I think we liked The Lark Ascending best of all. Here are the listings, hope you enjoyed the show. 5:00 PM 127 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Piano Concerto No. 27 […]
08/17/13 – CINDERELLA – 1:00pm
Los Angeles Opera CINDERELLA by Gioachino Rossini Sung in Italian In her impoverished stepfather’s castle, a kindhearted girl dreams of escaping the tyranny of her vain stepsisters. When the prince announces that he will choose his bride at a glamorous ball, she seizes the opportunity to take control of her own destiny. Rossini’s warmhearted retelling of the […]
Playlist: Aug/10/13
8:47 PM Gioacchino Rossini — Duetto buffo di due gatti Elisabeth Soderstrom, sopranoKerstin Meyer, mezzo-sopranoJan Eyron, pianistBis, 17 8:42 PM Gustav Mahler — St. Anthony of Padua’s Sermon to the Christianne Stotijn, mezzoJulius Drake, pianoBBC, 297 8:39 PM Giacomo Puccini — Madama Butterfly: Humming Chorus (Act 2) Conductor: Tullio SerafinEnsemble: Saint Cecilia OrchestraSaint Cecilia ChorusLondon, […]
Duetto Buffo di due Gatti
Here is a preview of this Saturday’s Zoological Vocalise for 8-10-13. These are just my cats not Elisabeth Soderstrom and Kerstin Meyer who sing Rossini’s fabulous kitty duet 🙂 8:00 PM Franz Schubert: Die Forelle SOLO: Fritz Wunderlich, tenor SOLO: Hubert Giesen, piano DG/Archiv: 435145 8:02 PM […]
Stereo, but in a different way
This late nineteen-fifties Emerson model 908 table radio received stereo broadcasts years before the current FM multiplex stereo standard was adopted. Some AM&FM broadcast stations were starting to experiment with stereo broadcasting by using their AM signal for the left channel and their FM for the right, or vice-versa. This radio allows you to listen […]
Playlist: Aug/09/13
11:15 PM Franz Joseph Haydn — Harmony Mass Conductor: Sigiswald KuijkenEnsemble: La Petite BandeChamber Choir of NamurSandrine Piau, sopranoMonika Groop, mezzo-sopranoChristoph Pregardien, tenorHarry van der Kamp, bassRCA/BMG, 77337 11:07 PM Franz Schubert — Marche militaire no. 1 Key: DOpus: 51Leslie Howard, pianoHyperion, 66951 10:39 PM Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov — The Golden Cockerel: Suite Conductor: Mikhail PletnevEnsemble: […]
