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Well-Tempered Wireless with Chris Felcyn

We're LIVE at the Max!

Vladimir Ashkenazy on WRCJ

At the invitation of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, The Well-Tempered Wireless will be returning to the atrium of the Max Fisher Music Center for another live origination on Friday, May 23rd. While we're producing our regular show live amidst a throng of orchestra Hall concert goers, Vladimir Ashkenazy_(pictured)will be conducting the DSO in Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 with pianist Lukás Vondrácek. Also on the DSO program will be Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition."

Meanwhile, back on the radio, our midday entrée will feature a landmark recording of Maestro Ashkenazy from his earlier day job as a pianist in the Rachmaninoff Second. Will Vladimir stop by before the concert to chat with us? Will he bring a recipe with him? Will the donuts hold out this time?

Tune in and find out, Friday morning May 23rd beginning at 10am, when the Well Tempered Wireless returns to the Max, live, on 90.9 FM.

Film Classics with Jack Goggin

Film Classics 05/18/08 (1/2 hour show) from 6-6:30PM

THINGS TO COME

A half-hour edition this week so we can bring you the monthly "Artifacts" program from our friends at the Arts League of Michigan at 6:30. In that 30 minutes, however, we should have time for some highlights from one of the great scores of the 1930's: "Things to Come" by Sir Arthur Bliss, written for a movie adaptation of the futuristic novel by H. G. Wells and directed by William Cameron Menzies. We'll be listening to a recording from the mid 70's with the National Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Bernard Herrmann, who of course knew more than a little about film music, and who was a great admirer of this score. Read more.

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