Come to an Orgy®

No, not chez vilaine fille—but on WHRB, the best radio station in the universe, which broadcasts at 95.3 FM in the Boston area and webcasts at www.whrb.org worldwide.

As previously announced here, WHRB’s major spring Orgy® is Mozart, kicking off on Monday, 8 May at 11h00. (All times are UTC -4 hours.) The WHRB Program Guide notes:

WHRB’s Mozart Orgy® is to our knowledge the only [broadcast] presentation of virtually every note of his music, and in chronological order. Again to our knowledge, this has been done only twice before anywhere in the world, by WHRB, in 1986 and 1991 (the last “Mozart Year”).

Other classical Orgies® include:

2 May at 09h00: Tomás Luis de Victoria
4 May at 13h00: Paul Sacher
5 May at 13h00: Thomas Linley, Jr.
5 May at 18h00: Guido Cantelli (a vilaine fille favorite)
20 May at 13h00: Marta Argerich
25 May at 16h00: Joaquín Rodrigo
26 May at 17h00: Harold Shapero
27 May at 13h00: Dame Joan Sutherland
28 May at 13h00: Rudolf Kolisch and Kolisch Quartet
29 May at 13h00: Gerard Grisey and Tristan Murail
30 May at 13h00: Duparc and Dukas
31 May at 05h00: Britten and Pears
1 June at 08h00: Gerald Finzi and Howard Ferguson
3 June at 13h00: Antal Dorati

There’s lots of other great music to be heard: jazz, rock, blues, you name it.

The WHRB Program Guide is available in PDF format here.

Comments

[Henry Holland]

Oooohhh....Murail and Grisey, that's an orgy I would be glad to attend. Thanks for the info; it's perfect, because it's on Memorial Day so I can listen to it at home and not scare my coworkers.

[Lisa Hirsch]

Mozart, Schmozart, the one I care about is Harold Shapero. They ought to interview him! He's a hoot.

[Robert Gable]

Thanks for pointing it out again this year. I won't listen to all the Mozart of course...