The Well-Tempered Wireless 11a-4p Monday – Friday
The Listening Room 10a-noon Sundays
Detroit native Chris Felcyn is an amateur pianist who engages listeners with his casual, but always informative, comments on the music. His weekday afternoon show features longer pieces along with features such as his Midday Entrée, BirdNote, and Composers Datebook. On Sunday mornings, Chris stretches out with a Detroit-flavored mix of classical and jazz. Be sure to check out our “In-Studio Guests” section, as Chris is one of the best musical interviewers on the radio.
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Arnold Bax piece Tintagel played on 6-14-18
Mr. Felcyn, you described the piece as being composed by Arnold Bax after his visit to Tintagel in Scotland! Have to inform you that Tintagel is in Cornwall – the other end of the UK!
However, the piece was quite lovely thank you!
Oops! Well at least you liked the music!
Love your show and all of RCJ — from he beginning. And QRS for years before. But writing to quibble with your opinion on pronunciation of Jean Francaix. How can some Parisian woman be more of an expert on how a man pronounces his name than the man himself?????
Maybe his parents pronounced it that way. Maybe he changed the pronunciation as an “artiste” — in the way that young people frequently change the more plebian spellings of their names — or the pronunciation (how many ways have you heard Andrea pronounced? And Lord help you if you get it wrong! Maybe he did it for whimsey, or as you suggest, to confound radio announcers who were reluctant to say “sex” over the air. (Seems to have gotten to you on that one! ) Maybe he did it to be “different” –to get publicity, to promote his compositions. In any event, he says it’s X so I say we should too!
Hello Sharala, that’s one of the more complicated names. The consensus in the office is that it’s pronounced Fran-sex but the air hosts have other ideas.
I enjoyed hearing you and Judy Adams together again. This inspired my donation to WRCJ today. I have been a fan of Judy Adams since the Morphogenesis days. Thank you for providing my afternoon sound track.
No problem Brian, thanks for the financial support!
Heard you announce selections by George Antheil the last couple days. He put out a great autobiography entitled “Bad Boy of Music”, which includes the account of his time in Hollywood as a composer
but did you know he was also an inventor, sharing a patent with Hedy Kiesler Markey for radio communications “to provide a method of secret communication which is relatively simple and reliable in operation, but at the same time is difficult to discover or decipher” … for remote control of things like torpedoes? Came in really handy after its issuance June 10, 1941. Oh, and Ms. Karkey was better known as Hedy Lamarr.
Don’t stop the music!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hi Craig, no we didn’t know that. That book may be of interest to our Film buff Jack Goggin. (Who by the way just added that Antheil cd to our music library)
Thank you for straightening out the pronunciation of Alicia de la Rocha’s name. The ch is pronounced as in “chair” and not as in “rock.” By the way, the n in Habanera is a regular n. There is no word pronounced as “Habañera” in Spanish (or French).
Thanks Gonzalo, we try our best.
HI Chris! I too am from the “old neighborhood” in Hamtramck. Nice to hear the 2 Polish kolendy. I did not know the title of the first but knew the melody and like you I was not familiar with the second. It was interesting to hear them arranged by the brilliant John Rutter who I am beginning to listen to and really appreciate lately. Glad you mentioned that the Schubert Piano Trio was used in the movie Barry Lyndon. I loved that movie. Wesolych Swiat!
Well we’re happy we could help you discover some new Polish music as well as explore the music of Rutter.
Really enjoyed today’s 5-hour journey through the annals of classical music; what a feat for Mr. Felcyn, the boffins, and staff, and what a treat for people wanting a comprehensive overview of the fabulous content one hears every day on this radio station! Kudos to all who made this celebration of musical art possible for listeners, and a sincere Thank You from this one listener!
Hi Tamara, great! We’re glad you really liked it! Thanks for the kind words.
Could you please tell me the name and artist who performed a song on your show on Wednesday, 9-20-17, at 3:10pm. I believe he was playing a concertina. The song was charming. Thank you for your time and consideration with this song. Take care, Sue
Hello Susan, we had a harp sonata at 3:10 so maybe it was the piece a little before that called Antonia which featured an accordion which may have sounded like a concertina. Here is a link to that cd: http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/Playlist?source=WRCJ&date=201709201500
Thank you so much!!!! The link you sent me was the right one!!! Your music in the afternoon just fills my soul! Take care.
Something is not working correctly from the station. Voices are not comning through (Muffled) so they can be heard but music comes through FINE!! 8/17/17 all day!! My radio is on 24-7 so doesn’t get touched or changed; thus, I conclude the problem is at your end. Thanks for checking!
Hello Virginia, no it’s not your radio, there seems to be some sort of glitch with our night time programming. Our engineers are looking in to it. Thanks for the note.
Whoa! I’m loving the Shostakovich #15.
Thanks for playing the deep cuts from beyond the normal (for me) canon.
I’m a computer programmer in Madison WI who listens out of fondness for my hometown.
Thanks for all you do 🙂
Hi Evan, glad you like it. Thanks for listening all the way from Wisconsin!