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.
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?