Discover Classical

09/30/2025

On today's ArtsFocus, Larry Coressel speaks to director Josh Aaron McCabe about "The Game's Afoot," currently on stage at Wright State University School of Fine and Performing Arts: Theatre.

https://www.discoverclassical.org/artsfocus.htm

ArtsFocus is supported by The Dayton Art Institute.

09/29/2025

Springfield Symphony Orchestra (SSO) conductor and music director Peter Stafford Wilson will show his versatility in the upcoming 2025-2026 season. He’s scheduled programs with themes with everything from Mozart to Bugs Bunny, spinning a beloved opera in a new direction and incorporating visuals t...

09/28/2025

This week's cantata is part of Bach's first cycle from 1723: BWV 138. A somewhat experimental work, Bach juxtaposes a series of recitatives, in which the Christian despairs of his life, with three stanzas of an anonymous chorale that speak of faith in divine deliverance. This structure foreshadows many of his later chorale cantatas. Aaron Mood presents Bach Cantatas today at 12:03pm. Find a link to the English translation at our website: https://discoverclassical.org/program.php?p=bach

09/28/2025

Some music is best known by a nickname. Today at 2:00 on Theme and Variations, you’ll hear examples by Ludwig van Beethoven, G. F. Handel, Joseph Haydn, Felix Mendelssohn, W. A. Mozart and Antonio Vivaldi.

09/27/2025

Dinu Lipatti was a Romanian pianist who was active in the first half of the 20th-Century. A child prodigy, Lipatti was expected to have a long performing career ahead of him, but by his mid-20s he began to suffer from a chronic illness, which limited his work. Ultimately diagnosed as Hodgkin's disease, Lipatti succumbed to the illness in 1950, at age 33. We'll hear Lipatti perform two Waltzes from Chopin's Opus 69. Aaron Mood presents Retro Recordings, Saturday at 12:03pm, with support from America's Packard Museum.

09/26/2025

Dayton Opera's season begins in November with Bizet's masterpiece Carmen, followed by a comical double bill: Shawn E. Okpebholo's The Cook-Off and Lee Hoiby's Bon Appetit in February. Countertenor John Holiday takes the stage in April, and the season concludes in May with Gershwin's Porgy and Bess. You can hear a season preview Saturday at 10am and Sunday at 8pm on Discover Classical's Live & Local, presented with support from the Wright State University School of Fine and Performing Arts: Music with additional funding from the Ohio Arts Council.

https://discoverclassical.org/program.php?p=livelocal

Dayton Performing Arts Alliance

09/25/2025

Join me this coming weekend, September 27 & 28, 2025, for our weekly smorgasbord of guitar delights!
The program streams Saturday at 6 PM EDT (2200 GMT) and Sunday morning at 9 AM EDT (1300 GMT).
Listen online at Discoverclassical.org and in western Ohio at FM 88.1, 89.9 and 89.1.
Music from the instrument held closest to the heart!

09/25/2025

Dmitri Shostakovich
(1906-1975) Russian composer (The Gadfly; The Nose), was born in St Petersburg, Russia

09/24/2025

This week on Discover Classical's ArtsFocus, Shayna McConville gives an update on the Rosewood Arts Center, and Jerry Smith discusses an exhibition at the The Dayton Art Institute called Wonders in Color.

https://www.discoverclassical.org/artsfocus.htm

ArtsFocus is supported by The Dayton Art Institute

Play Kettering

09/21/2025

From the writings of Martin Luther through the era of "Lutheran Orthodoxy," the problem of sin was regularly compared to a physical illness. Unsurprisingly then, the appointed Gospel for August 29th, 1723, in which Christ heals ten lepers, naturally leant itself to this juxtaposition. In this week's cantata, Bach set a libretto by Johann Jacob Rambach in which he compares sinners to the ten lepers described in Luke, chapter 17. Aaron Mood hosts Bach Cantatas today at 12:03pm.

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Listen to Bach Cantatas on Discover Classical