WBJC, 91.5 FM, Maryland's Classical Music Station

11/09/2022

As we greet the news of Maryland's history-making Governor-elect, we look back to Wes Moore's BookNotes interview on WBJC, 91.5 FM, Maryland's Classical Music Station:
https://www.wbjc.com/2020/host-blogs/wes-moores-five-days-on-booknotes/

11/07/2022

More from WBJC’s Portugal tour!
Photo credit: Richard Miles

11/07/2022

It’s Monday and time to get your requests for this Friday’s Listener’s Choice.

11/06/2022

WBJC’s tour of Portugal Part II!

11/06/2022

WBJC’s tour of Portugal!
Pics by Richard Miles

11/05/2022

Click on the link to a conversation Kati Harrison had with guitarist Grisha Goryachev about his 8:00 PM concert tonight at UMBC under the auspices of The Baltimore Classical Guitar Society!

https://www.wbjc.com/2022/wbjc-programs/interviews/a-passion-for-flamenco/

11/05/2022

As we head into the midterm elections on Tuesday, it’s worth noting that the French Revolution resulted in only 10 years of democracy! Listen to JHU historian, Laura Mason, talk about the hidden part of that story on BookNotes.
https://www.wbjc.com/2022/host-blogs/a-cautionary-tale-for-democracy-on-booknotes/

11/04/2022

Irresistible Friday fun 😬

11/04/2022

Even though Judith is out this week (with Kati and Abhinn kindly subbing), this being the first weekend of November, there will still be BookNotes on Friday at 5:15pm and Saturday 10am, as JHU historian Laura Mason talks about The Last Revolutionaries and the struggle for democracy.

10/31/2022

Good morning! I’m looking forward to playing your requests on Listener’s Choice on the 1st Friday of November 2022!

10/31/2022

10/29/2022

"I don’t want to give in and settle for some specialty. I don't want to spend my life as Toscanini did, studying and restudying the same fifty pieces of music. It would bore me to death.
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I want to conduct 🎶. I want to play the piano 🎹. I want to write for Hollywood 🎥. I want to write symphonic music 🎻. I want to keep on trying to be, in the full sense of that wonderful word, a musician. I also want to teach. I want to write books and poetry ✏. And I think I can still do justice to them all. But I can’t do them all at once.
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I have to learn to do one at a time, and to give it all my strength until I’ve done it right. Mozart, Mendelssohn, Bach, Haydn -- they were all performers and conductors as well as composers, and they did a lot of other things too. Only then, there was time."
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💬 Leonard Bernstein, 1957
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[📸Leonard Bernstein by Al Hirschfeld, 1958; © The Al Hirschfeld Foundation. More info: www.AlHirschfeldFoundation.org.]
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One of music’s great multitaskers

10/28/2022

10/24/2022

It’s time to submit your requests for the last Listener’s Choice of October 2022! 🎃

10/22/2022

Everything from Barbara Kingsolver’s retelling of David Copperfield to a memoir from Paul Newman on BookNotes Review this month.
https://www.wbjc.com/2022/host-blogs/booknotes-review-october-2022/

10/21/2022

Fall being the traditional time for new releases, we are spoiled for choice on BookNotes Review this month. Please join us for some highlights at 5:15 pm Friday/10 am Saturday!

10/21/2022

Mozart Monument, Vienna

10/21/2022

Listen below as Steven Isserlis gives wonderful insight into some of the pieces he and Connie Shih will play on the Shriver Concert series this Sunday.
https://www.wbjc.com/2022/wbjc-programs/interviews/cellist-steven-isserlis-plays-the-the-piatigorsky-memorial-concert/

10/20/2022

I—that would be Judith—love following the the trials and triumphs of British cellist Steven Isserlis on Twitter, and it’s my pleasure to interview him about his upcoming recital. Please join us at 5:15pm today/Thursday.

10/19/2022

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10/18/2022

Here‘s the link to the numbers/the breakdown/everything you want to know about our Fall Fund Drive, courtesy Membership’s Diana Ross. Again, THANK YOU!
https://www.wbjc.com/2022/wbjc-news/fall-drive-wrap-up-3/

10/17/2022

Thanks for your support during WBJC’s pledge drive! I’m happy to get your requests for this Friday’s Listener’s Choice!

10/16/2022

You helped us reach and exceed our Fall Fundraising goal—thank you for your support, and on with the music! 🎶 🎼 🎵

10/16/2022

With Mark—happily—back on the air and Abhinn on board, WBJC is returning to its former schedule of Morning Drive with Mark 5—10 AM | Midday with Dyana 10 AM—3 PM | Afternoon Drive with Judith 3—8 PM | Evening 8—11 PM with Abhinn. We look forward to being with you on 91.5 FM.

10/16/2022

WBJC’s newest announcer, Gavin Witt, pitching during our three-day Fall Fund Drive. Thank you for your support!

10/15/2022

But please don’t stop the pledges coming in for our Fall Find Drive! Although we have a special hour for you on Sunday morning, Saturday is the last day of our autumn pledge drive, so please either call 410.585.0123 or pledge online at www.WBJC.com. And thank you.

10/14/2022

Octobass kind of sounds like a Bond villain’s name, but isn’t it cool to look at?

The octobass of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra. It typically plays one octave below the double bass. This rare bowed strong instrument was first built around 1850 in Paris by the French luthier, Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume. Because of the extreme fingerboard length and string thickness, the musician plays it using a system of levers and pedals. The levers serve to engage metal clamps that are positioned above the neck at specific positions. These clamps act as fretting devices when the performer presses the levers. In addition to the Paris instrument, octobasses exist in the collections of the Musical Instrument Museum in Phoenix, Arizona and the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. In October 2016, the Quebec company Canimex donated the octobass shown here to the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, which is now the only orchestra in the world to own one.

10/12/2022

The mezzo-soprano, Frederica von Stade, is in town this week at the invitation of Towson University's Music Department. What a privilege to speak with her! Please join us here:
https://www.wbjc.com/2022/wbjc-programs/interviews/frederica-von-stade-at-t-u-music/

10/10/2022

Many thanks to everyone who helped shorten the WBJC Fall membership drive! Also please give me your requests for Friday’s Listener’s Choice. 😎

10/09/2022

October’s BookNotes features Baltimore-Washington area violinist, teacher, and debit author, Brendan Slocumb.
https://www.wbjc.com/2022/wbjc-programs/interviews/a-violin-conspiracy-on-booknotes/

10/08/2022

Have we posted this before? 🐈‍⬛🎶

10/07/2022

Violinist, teacher, and debut author, Brendan Slocumb, is my guest on BookNotes this month, 5:15pm Friday and 10am Saturday.

10/07/2022

When I started my MFA in Creative Writing & Publishing Arts, the first course, Creativity, explored music, visual art, nature, sound, etc. before we got to writing. South African artist, William Kentridge, is doing something similar from another perspective! JK

10/06/2022

https://www.wbjc.com/2022/wbjc-news/buy-back-a-day-from-the-fall-pledge-drive/

We are getting closer and closer to buying back an entire day of regular programing from WBJC's Fall Membership Drive! We are less than $10k away from the $60k buyback goal! The deadline is October 10th! You can help by making a secure pledge right now at WBJC.com, and thank you!

10/06/2022

BookNotes peeps!
“… an extremely honest writer who is not afraid to confront the hard truths.”

10/03/2022

I’m looking forward to getting your requests for this upcoming Friday’s Listener’s choice.😎

10/01/2022

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09/28/2022

Cleveland Orchestra receives a virtually priceless gift: A one-of-a-kind manuscript of Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 written in composer’s own hand

Ever wanted to know what Gustav Mahler's handwriting looked like? His handwritten manuscript of The Resurrection Symphony has been gifted to the Cleveland Orchestra!

The gift by German media magnate Herbert Kloiber makes the Cleveland Orchestra the only orchestra in the world to own a Mahler manuscript.

09/27/2022

09/27/2022

Legendary composer John Williams has been awarded a knighthood, in one of the final honorary awards approved by the late Queen Elizabeth II.