Chris Felcyn presents occasional features -- EXCLUSIVES -- that you can hear only on WRCJ 90.9 FM during his "Well Tempered Wireless," weekdays 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.  Give them a listen!

Chamber Music at the Scarab Club, January 21, 2010

Listen now as composer David DiChiera talks about his Souvenir d'Arras, prior to its premiere at Chamber Music at the Scarab Club.  Cellist Nadine Deleury joins the conversation which took place during Chris Felcyn's Well Tempered Wireless program.

The Dearborn Symphony, November 11, 2009 

Go behind the scenes with Chris Felcyn as Conductor Kypros Markou describes the upcoming all-Polish concert of the Dearborn Symphony Orchestra to be held Friday night,  11/13/09, at the Ford Community and Performing Arts Center in Dearborn. Included are excerpts of the Overture to “Halka” by Moniuszko and “Stanislav and Anna Oswiecim” by Karlowicz, recorded in rehearsal earlier this week.
 

The Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival - June 18, 2009 (3:31)

Hear an exclusive preview of pianist Jeremy Denk with members of the Harlem Quartet, Matt Albert from eighth blackbird and Craig Rifel from the DSO rehearsing the finale to Bach’s Piano Concerto No. 1. The piece will be performed Saturday, June 20, at 8 p.m. at the Seligman Performing Arts Center as part of the Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival.
 

The Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival - June 11, 2009 (10:38)

Violinist Ani Kavafian and pianist Pei-Shan Lee rehearse Felix Mendelssohn’s Sonata for Violin and Piano in F major. Recorded in the Refectory of Kirk in the Hills in Bloomfield Hills, where Ani and Pei-Shan were preparing for their concerts as part of the 2009 Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival.

The Scarab Club - Music for Two - May 29, 2009 (5:08)

A preview of the season finale concert of the Scarab Club Chamber Music Series featuring Andrew Wu on violin and Leonardo Soto on marimba, rehearsing “Legal Highs” by David Jones.

The Scarab Club is located at 217 Farnsworth right behind the DIA. Concert begins at 7pm Sunday, May 31st.

2009 Grammy Roundup - 2/9/09 - (5:26)

Hear comments from this year's Grammy Award winners including WRCJ friends Hilary Hahn, John Corigliano, Paavo Jarvi and others.

02/05/09 Dearborn Symphony (6:00)

Go behind the scenes as The Dearborn Symphony prepares for their February 6th concert at The Ford Community and Performing Arts Center.  Maestro Kypros Markou describes the program, and you'll hear the opening minute of Shostakovich’s Festive Overture and the finale to Prokofiev’s 3rd Piano Concerto with pianist Gleb Ivanov (dang, he’s good!).

12/18/08 DSO Civic Orchestra (4:55)

Highlighting the December 13th Orchestra Hall concert of the Detroit Symphony Civic Orchestra conducted by Leonard Slatkin. This excerpt features Novi Middle School eighth grader Hikari Nakamura at the piano in maestro Slatkin’s arrangement of Christmas music for piano and strings.

10/30/08 DSO Civic Orchestra (12:05)

The Detroit Symphony Civic Orchestra performs Felix Mendelssohn’s Hebrides Overture conducted by Peter Oundjian.

10/23/08 Scarab Club (8:10)

The finale to Wilfred D’Indy’s Piano Trio with Mary Siciliano, piano, Velda Kelly, violin, and Nadine Deleury, cello.

10/15/08 DSO (6:07)

Composer/conductor Bright Sheng works out with the DSO performing excerpts from his Nanking, Nanking and Tibetan Swing.

10/13/08 DIA (9:08)

A sneak peek at the Monet to Dali exhibition at the Detroit Institute of Art with MaryAnn Wilkinson, DIA Curator of European Art and unrehearsed reactions on the spot from gallery goers. 

10/09/08 BBSO (4:04)

Charles Greenwell conducts the Birmingham-Bloomfield Symphony Orchestra in an excerpt from Robert Schuman’s Symphony No. 3 

10/08/08 DSO (6:56)

Gunther Herbig rehearses the Detroit Symphony in excerpts from Carl Maria von Weber’s Overture to Oberon and the finale to Max Bruch’s Violin Concerto No. 1 with Beijing violinist Tian Wa Yang.