WRTI Spotlight

Sunday, January 1

4 to 6 pm

WRTI presents the Vienna Philharmonic's annual concert with the Vienna Boys Choir, recorded earlier in the day, featuring the lively and nostalgic music from the vast repertoire of the Johann Strauss family and their contemporaries.

This popular annual tradition is heard in over 50 countries as the Philharmonic sends the world a New Year's greeting in the spirit of hope, friendship, and peace. The 2012 concert is led by the Latvian conductor Mariss Jansons.

Your Favorite New Jazz Releases of the Year

December 26th to 29th

9 pm to midnight

Join Maureen Malloy as she brings you the 100 songs that made the biggest splash on our weekly, listener-generated WRTI Hot 11 Countdown during 2011. Take a trip back through the year to hear the tunes you voted for and listened for every Monday night. The complete list of the Jazz Hot 11 Top 100 Jazz Tunes of 2011 will be available for you to view on Friday, December 30th - check back!

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Five Questions to Test Your Beethoven Knowledge

Five Questions to Test Your Beethoven Knowledge

Monday, December 5 to Friday, December 9

Gustav Mahler famously remarked that the symphony "must be like the world - it must embrace everything." This explains those disjunct themes delightfully butting against each other in his symphonies. What is often forgotten is that he said this to disagree with Jean Sibelius, who told Mahler that every part of a symphony must have a logical, ruthless interconnection with every other part. Not the world, replies Sibelius: a symphony is like the earth.

Program:

Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)

As a sommelier, my job is to pair wines with a guest's dinner - to find the perfect wine that speaks to that guest, but also matches the flavors and textures of a dish from my chef. I fell into the world of wine while trying to build my first career; before I ever picked up a decanter professionally, I spent my evenings delving into the works of Mahler, Stravinsky and Reich as a professional percussionist.--From Sommelier Aaron Sherman for NPR

Five Questions to Test Your Beethoven Knowledge

Monday, December 5 to Friday, December 9

Get ready for a Thanksgiving day filled with the sounds of American music during classical hours. We'll play a traditional array of works by American composers, including Copland, Gershwin, Bernstein, and more. On November 25th, and 26th you'll hear music written and/or performed by some of the leading musical families of the past 300 years. Join us!

From the Bach family, the Scarlatti family, the Viennese Strausses, the Jarve family of conductors and others, it will be a great family event.

Happy Thanksgiving from all of your friends at WRTI.