The Morning Show 6-10a Monday – Friday
Dr. Dave’s Drive Time Elixir 3-7p Monday – Friday
WRCJ’s Program Director, Dr. Dave Wagner, is a lifelong Detroiter and well-known as an organist, pianist and music educator. He brings his vast musical knowledge and wry sense of humor to our morning airwaves with traffic and weather updates and his famous 7:15a “Sousalarm.” He returns weekday afternoons to ease your drive home with a mix of lighter classics and orchestrated popular tunes.
I wish to thank Dave Wagner for acknowledging Mykola Leontowych as the composer -arranger of popular the Carrol of the bells (Shchedryk) , several times today. It is particularly fitting and touching, because of the composer’s tragic death in 1921.. As you probably know, Leontowych was murdered by a KGB (Cheka) agent, at his fathers home, during Christmas holidays. Talk of the irony..
Thank you for all the beautiful music on this radio station. I couldn’t survive ,in this town, without it. I wish the entire WRCJ team a wonderful, safe and Happy Holidays. a long-time listener and supporter, Luba Kytasta
Sure thing Luba, our Music Director Jack Goggin scheduled that for Mykola Leontovych’s birthday today. Thank you for the holiday wishes and the support. Happy Holidays to you!
Love your show, long time listener and I haven’t heard but one Christmas Carol. I’ve always looked forward to this time of year and I was never disappointed. I am hoping the upcoming schedule will continue to celebrate the season with the beautiful music your listeners are accustomed to and appreciate.
Good morning Dave,
I’m a long time listener, and have always Loved your shows. My wife has not been that much interested in classical music until recently. One morning, I think last week, during your show, we heard the Brandenburg Concerto #3 in G. She loved it! Although I have a couple of synthesizer versions in my library, I do not have a good orchestral version. I could not find it listed in the published play list for that day, and was hoping you could provide info on the CD, so that I can obtain a copy for her.
Thanks
Hello Timothy, it looks like we most recently played #3 on Nov.1 which was performed by the Taverner Players conducted by Andrew Parrott. It was an EMI CD set and it looks like this: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Brandenburg-Concerti-1-6-Bach/dp/B00000DNLM
Dave, what was the name of the piano concerto wih Helene Grimaud this morning around 9:00 to 9:45?
Hello Bill, that was Piano Concerto #2 In c Op18 by Rachmaninoff.
If possible could you please play the music from the final scene of “dialogues of the Carmelites “
Understanding it is based on an actual event leaves me numb at the end the piece.
Hello David, it looks like we don’t have that one in the music library unfortunately. But yes, the events that scene is based on are quite terrible.
Could you play liebestraum no 3
You may want to tune in Wednesday the 16th in the 6pm hour…
Dave any chance you will broadcast Mozart’s Don Giovanni opera? I was hoping to go but financially can’t afford.
You are in luck William! Indeed we are. That will be on October 19th starting around 7pm.
At around 7:35AM today you were playing something by Gabriel Faure. What is the title of this music? Thank you!
Hello Laura, that was Faure’s “Pelléas et Mélisande” Suite, Op. 80 performed by the Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by James DePriest.
what is the cello interlude that is played at the conclusion of your afternoonshow?
Hello Donald, Dr. Dave’s closing music is J.S. Bach’s Solo Cello Suite No. 3 in C Major (BWV 1009) – Bourrees performed by Charles Curtis on the tableau from the album “An Imaginary Dance”. You can take a look at that cd here: http://www.amazon.com/Bach-Imaginary-Dance-Charles-Curtis/dp/B004TB6G3Q
First off, the morning show with Dave Wagner has been a part of my morning commute for at least the past year and I love his commentary and wit almost as much as the music. Thank you for such a wonderful show! This morning, some time between 7:30 and 8:30, he played some kind of Balkan folk music and he mentioned the album and artist but I can’t remember what it was. It was lively and beautiful and I would love to listen to more. Is there any way you can find out and tell me what it was? Thank you!
Thank you Ethan! The piece you mention sounds like “Ta Xyla/Cecen Kizi” performed by Hesperion XXI from their cd called “Balkan Spirit”. Here is the cd: http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/album.jsp?album_id=984124
I believe you played a folk song yesterday morning around 8:00, perhaps Wayfaring Stranger? Could you possibly give some more details about the song and the artist?
Hello C, yes that was from the CD “Gloryland” by the Anonymous 4. Marsha Genensky did the vocals.
This morning, 6-26-2019, you played a choral piece which from afar sounded like folk music or perhaps a spiritual. The only words that I picked up on was “Cumberland Gap”. It was intriguing and beautiful! Would you kindly let me know what that piece was. My ancestors made their way into Kentucky via the Cumberland Gap.
Hello Nancy, yes Dave added that in. Cumberland Gap was the last part of “An American Folk Medley” sung by Chanticleer on their album “Wondrous Love”.
Ludovico Einaudi’s “Primavera” perhaps should be titled “Thiefavera”-
Sounds like counterfeit pastiche to me…
Simon And Garfunkel’s “Parsley, Sage, Rosemary & Thyme”, the intro from Seal’s “Kiss From A Rose”, throw in a little Rick Wakeman’s intro to “Morning Has Broken” and maybe a bit of “Carol of the Bells, cover it all with schmaltzy keyboard arpeggios and shazam! Schlock casserole…
[Don’t get me wrong- I love WRCJ’s programming, but this piece seems out of place]
Uh oh. We will have to bring up those songs you mention and do a comparison…
About a week ago you played “she moves through the fair” are you able to look up and say which version you played?
Hello Jane, on the morning of June 14th we played a version sung by The King’s Singers from their cd called “Watching the White Wheat”.
Thank you! I love listening in the morning.
On a recent program you played the trumpet voluntary, which reminded me of Peter Sellers long ago plagiarising it to spoof a rock song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXxMvu8Bl_w
Ah yes, the Trumpet Voluntary comes up from time to time. That Peter Sellers, what a goofball.
Hello Suzanne, we will send this along to Dr. Dave. Maybe our other listeners here will offer suggestions too?
always enjoy your show, whether morning or afternoon. one question: mat is the piece the classical broadcast closes at 7 p.m.
oh, and my wife wants to know: whence the music – any music you play? LPs? CDs? a big machine loaded with 200,000 hrs of classical music? an anonymous symphonic orchestra squeezed into a 60 square foot recording booth?