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Pennsylvania Centre Orchestra Season Preview

Posted by Kristine A. on 09/15 at 01:20 PM

Join us Friday at 12 noon on WPSU-FM for a Pennsylvania Centre Orchestra Season Preview on WPSU, with music by Tchaikovsky, Beethoven, Mozart and more.

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Classical Music Friday, August 26 on WPSU-FM

Posted by Kristine A. on 08/26 at 10:01 AM

Join us Friday at 12 noon for a special hour-long preview of the Centre for the Performing Arts 2011-2012 Season at Penn State!

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Classical Music Thursday, August 25 on WPSU-FM

Posted by Kristine A. on 08/24 at 02:16 PM

Highlights of Thursday’s classical music from 9:00am to 3:00pm on WPSU include Mozart’s Quintet for Piano and Winds, hauntingly beautiful music by Peter Maxwell Davies, and Handel’s Harp Concerto.

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Classical Music Wednesday, August 24 on WPSU-FM

Posted by Kristine A. on 08/23 at 05:37 PM

Highlights of Wednesday’s classical music from 9:00am to 3:00pm on WPSU include Three Preludes for orchestra by Claude Debussy, a Mozart Symphony, and a Keyboard Concerto by Bach.

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Classical Music Tuesday, August 23 on WPSU-FM

Posted by Kristine A. on 08/22 at 02:39 PM

Highlights of Tuesday’s classical music from 9:00am to 3:00pm on WPSU include a Beethoven Symphony and a beautiful late-romantic harp concerto.

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Classical Music Tuesday, August 9 on WPSU-FM

Posted by Kristine A. on 08/08 at 12:20 PM

Tuesday, between 9:00am and 3:00pm on WPSU-FM, you’ll hear some of Handel’s Water music, the Piano Concerto No. 5 by Camille Saint-Saens, Haydn’s “Hunt” Quartet, and the Courtly Dances from “Gloriana” by Benjamin Britten.  Join us Tuesday for that and much more!

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Classical Music Friday, August 5

Posted by Kristine A. on 08/04 at 05:07 PM

Friday’s classical music highlights on WPSU include: an orchestral suite from the opera “The Tender Land” by Aaron Copland;  the Concerto in D Minor for Two Violins by Bach; a Piano Quintet by Johann Nepomuk Hummel;  and the Symphony No. 2, subtitled “Mysterious Mountain”, but American composer Alan Hovhaness.  Join us for that, and and much more, Friday from 9 to 3 on WPSU-FM.

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Altoona Symphony Season Preview on WPSU-FM

Posted by Kristine A. on 08/23 at 11:24 AM

Brooke Welsh, Executive Director of the Altoona Symphony joins us for a look ahead to the upcoming season of concerts by the Altoona Symphony Friday, August 27th at 12 noon on WPSU-FM.

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A Music at Penns Woods Preview on WPSU-FM

Posted by Kristine A. on 06/09 at 12:57 PM

Join us Friday at 12 noon for an hour-long preview of the Music at Penns Woods 2010 concert season!

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CLASSICAL MUSIC Friday, January 29th

Posted by Kristine A. on 01/28 at 05:33 PM

Highlights of Friday’s classical music on WPSU-FM include the Guitar Concerto No. 1 by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco;  “In the Steppes of Central Asia” by Alexander Borodin; the double violin concerto by J.S. Bach; and Tchaikovsky’s “Capriccio italien”.  Join us for the music from 9:00am to 3:00pm Friday on WPSU-FM.

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CLASSICAL MUSIC Thursday, January 14, 2010

Posted by Kristine A. on 01/13 at 01:36 PM

Thursday on WPSU-FM, join us to hear Beethoven’s “Moonlight” piano sonata;  Aaron Copland’s “Appalachian Spring”; the Symphony No. 103 by Franz joseph Haydn, and a British concerto for tuba and orchestra That’s Thursday from 9:00am to 3:00pm, on WPSU-FM>

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Classical Music Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Posted by Kristine A. on 01/11 at 06:55 PM

Join us for music by Monteverdi, Bernstein, Mozart and more, Tuesday on WPSU-FM.

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Classical Music Friday, January 8, 2010

Posted by Kristine A. on 01/07 at 11:17 PM

Friday’s classical music on WPSU-FM will include pianist Van Cliburn playing music by Frederic Chopin, as we observe the composer’s bicentennial this year.  We’ll also hear Beethoven’s Symphony No. 1 played with period instruments by the London Classical Players, and music by American composers William Grant Still and Alan Hovhaness.  Join us for that and much more from 9:00am to 3:00pm Friday on WPSU-FM.

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WPSU-FM Pays Tribute to a Bradford Legend

Posted by Kristine A. on 11/25 at 12:11 PM

One of operas greatest stars, mezzo-soprano Marilyn Horne,  was born 75 years ago in Bradford, PA.  Earlier this year, her friends, many of the greatest stars in opera today, got together to honor her with a special concert.  Friday afternoon, WPSU-FM will bring you CELEBRATING MARILYN HORNE, a gala concert for her 75th birthday, and the 15th anniversary of the Marilyn Horne Foundation.  The concert is hosted by Fred Child of Performance Today and Margaret Juntwait of the Metropolitain Opera radio broadcasts.  You can hear the program Friday afternoon, beginning after the noon news on WPSU-FM.
If you’d like a sneak peak at the music on the show, read on!

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CLASSICAL MUSIC Tuesday, November 24th, 2009

Posted by Kristine A. on 11/23 at 12:37 PM

Classical music for Tuesday on WPSU includes the Symphony No. 1 in B-flat by Robert Schumann, known as his “Spring” symphony;  Beethoven’s String Quartet in F-minor, Op. 95, played by the Tokyo String Quartet;  and “Brazilian Impressions” by Ottorino Respighi.  Join us for that and more, Tuesday from 9:00am to 3:00pm on WPSU.

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