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Secret Byrd

July 2, 2023, 11:00 am

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Performances marking the 400th anniversary of the death of William Byrd, a Catholic at the pinnacle of the musical world of Protestant England.

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William Byrd: Fantasia a 6, T 391
Fretwork
William Byrd: Consort Songs
Harmonia Mundi – HMU907383
4:15

William Byrd: “O Lord, make thy servant Elizabeth”
Stile Antico
The Phoenix Rising
Harmonia Mundi – HMU 857572
3:11

William Byrd: “Why Do I Use My Paper, Ink and Pen?”
Stile Antico and Fretwork
Tune Thy Musicke to Thy Hart
Harmonia Mundi – HMU807554
3:18

William Byrd: Mass in Five Voices
Gesualdo Six
William Byrd: Mass
Hyperion Records
22:00

William Byrd: “Ye Sacred Muses”
The King’s Singers, Fretwork & Patrick Dunachie
Tom and Will
Signum Classics – SIGCD731
3:18

Sir James MacMillan: “Ye Sacred Muses”
The King’s Singers, Fretwork & Patrick Dunachie
Tom and Will
Signum Classics – SIGCD731
7:04

William Byrd: Galliard a 6
Fretwork
William Byrd: Consort Songs
Harmonia Mundi – HMU907383
1:34

 


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Juneteenth: Remembrance and Celebration

June 19, 2023, 10:00 pm

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Black Liberation African American Flag. Pan-African flag

A special program commemorating the emancipation of enslaved Black Americans

Playlist

Remembrance

William Grant Still: And They Lynched Him on a Tree: No. 6 They Left Him Hanging
VocalEssence Ensemble Singers & Orchestra

William Grant Still: Darker America
American Symphony Orchestra

Margaret Bonds: The Negro Speaks of Rivers
Darryl Taylor, tenor; Maria Corley, piano

Undine Smith Moore: Before I’d Be a Slave
Maria Corley, piano

Celebration

George Walker: Folk Songs for Orchestra I. Going to lay down my sword and shield
Cleveland Chamber Symphony

Regina Harris Baiocchi: ‘Hold Out for Joy’
Picasso Ensemble

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: African Suite: Danse Nègre
London Symphony Orchestra

Adolphus Hailstork: ‘Shout for Joy’
The Aeolians


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Father’s Day Requests

June 18, 2023, 12:00 pm

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Celebrate Father’s Day with WFMT. Honor the father or father figure in your life with a spoken dedication and musical request.

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Season Finale: Music and Conversation with Randall Goosby

June 7, 2023, 8:00 pm

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Violinist Randall Goosby sits with his instrument on a black couch against a tan background

The American violinist comes to WFMT to share his new album—a collaboration with Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Philadelphia Orchestra that showcases violin concertos by Max Bruch and Florence Price.

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All selections feature violinist Randall Goosby.

Florence Price: Violin Concerto No. 1 in D
I. Tempo moderato
Philadelphia Orchestra
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor

William Grant Still: Suite for Violin and Piano
II. Mother and Child
Zhu Wang, piano

Xavier Foley: Shelter Island
Xavier Foley, double bass

Max Bruch: Violin Concerto No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 26
III. Finale: Allegro energico
Philadelphia Orchestra
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor

Price (rr. Jim Gray): Adoration 
Price: Violin Concerto No. 2
Philadelphia Orchestra
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor


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War Letters

May 29, 2023, 8:00 pm

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For this Memorial Day, Live From WFMT presents War Letters, an award-winning documentary WFMT created in 2001. The program was inspired by Andrew Carroll’s bestseller, War Letters: Extraordinary Correspondence from American Wars. Pulitzer prize-winning author Studs Terkel joins WFMT’s Lisa Flynn to share the most personal remembrances of war: letters sent home from the front by American soldiers, all of …


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