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Sunday Baroque "Beautiful music well performed" Sunday Baroque is easy for anyone to enjoy and habit forming! Sunday Baroque is produced by WSHU Public Radio.

Fresh and inviting, upbeat and inspiring, Sunday Baroque is a weekly radio program featuring beloved and appealing music composed in the baroque era (1600-1750) and the years leading up to it. The music may be centuries-old, but it's the perfect antidote for the stress and distractions of our modern lives, so you can relax and recharge for the week ahead. Hundreds of thousands of listeners across

the United States hear Sunday Baroque on their local public radio stations, and countless more listen online across the globe. Host Suzanne Bona offers a huge variety of beloved and appealing music performed by the world's finest musicians on a wide variety of instruments.

🎶 Sunday Baroque is here each week because your local public radio station makes it possible.But with federal funding no...
20/07/2025

🎶 Sunday Baroque is here each week because your local public radio station makes it possible.

But with federal funding now cut, they’re counting on YOU to help keep the music on the air.

Sunday Baroque is part of your Sunday ritual, so don’t wait—🚨make a sustaining gift to your station today. Your support matters now more than ever!

Johann Sebastian Bach’s 2nd orchestral overture usually features the flute. But a few years ago, after extensive researc...
19/07/2025

Johann Sebastian Bach’s 2nd orchestral overture usually features the flute. But a few years ago, after extensive research, some musicians proposed their theory that Bach more likely featured the OBOE in his original version of that composition. You’ll hear that alternate version of the 2nd Orchestral Suite by Bach on Sunday Baroque this week.

https://sundaybaroque.org/playlist-2025-07-20/

🎶 Love waking up to Sunday Baroque? Your local public-radio station relies on federal funding to pool resources and secu...
13/07/2025

🎶 Love waking up to Sunday Baroque? Your local public-radio station relies on federal funding to pool resources and secure the music-streaming rights that make it all possible.

The Senate votes on that funding next week. Take 30 seconds now to keep the music playing: https://protectmypublicmedia.org 🎧

Take a stand for the local stations and programs you love.

Bastille Day is a BIG occasion in France – it commemorates the storming of the Bastille prison, contributing to the star...
12/07/2025

Bastille Day is a BIG occasion in France – it commemorates the storming of the Bastille prison, contributing to the start of the French Revolution. The dramatic historic event affected musicians, too, since many were employed by the French royalty that was booted out! Celebrate BASTILLE DAY with music by composers who were active in France in the 17th and 18th centuries on Sunday Baroque this week.
https://sundaybaroque.org/playlist-2025-07-13/

On this Independence Day holiday weekend, Sunday Baroque is celebrating some of the terrific musical ensembles across th...
06/07/2025

On this Independence Day holiday weekend, Sunday Baroque is celebrating some of the terrific musical ensembles across the United States. Some highlights include Houston-based Mercury Baroque … Philadelphia’s Tempesta di Mare early music ensemble … and New York’s Orchestra of St. Luke’s. It’s on Sunday Baroque this 4th of July weekend.

https://sundaybaroque.org/playlist-2025-07-06/

🎶 Every note you hear on public radio—whether it’s a beloved symphony, a new discovery, or a weekend favorite like Sunda...
29/06/2025

🎶 Every note you hear on public radio—whether it’s a beloved symphony, a new discovery, or a weekend favorite like Sunday Baroque—is made possible in part by public funding.

Support from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting helps stations license and share music, pay musicians fairly, and keep locally curated broadcasts on the air.

🎻 Love the music? Help protect it: ProtectMyPublicMedia.org

Khari Joyner is a Renaissance man … AND he’s a man very much of our time. The talented cellist has multiple degrees in m...
28/06/2025

Khari Joyner is a Renaissance man … AND he’s a man very much of our time. The talented cellist has multiple degrees in music AND math. He loves baroque music AND he’s a champion of contemporary works. He’s also a philanthropist who uses his musical gifts to support several charitable organizations. You can hear him give a gorgeous performance of 17th century cello music on Sunday Baroque this weekend.

https://sundaybaroque.org/playlist-2025-06-29/

26/06/2025

A composer, educator, and innovator — Matthew Suttor is driven by the question "Can creativity be taught?" He explores the edge of music, tech, and AI. From Yale to global stages, his work inspires creativity and reimagines how we teach, collaborate, and compose. He joins Suzanne on Sunday Baroque Conversations. Listen wherever you get your podcasts.

🎻 From Suzuki lessons in North Carolina to the Pulitzer Prize for Music — Caroline Shaw’s journey is as bold and beautif...
23/06/2025

🎻 From Suzuki lessons in North Carolina to the Pulitzer Prize for Music — Caroline Shaw’s journey is as bold and beautiful as her sound. The Grammy-winning singer, violinist, composer, and producer shares how public radio, her mom, and a love of collaboration shaped her creative path. 🌈🎶

Hear Suzanne’s conversation with Caroline Shaw now. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.

https://sundaybaroque.org/caroline-shaw/

🎻 Classical music has a home on public radio — but it doesn’t happen by accident.The Corporation for Public Broadcasting...
22/06/2025

🎻 Classical music has a home on public radio — but it doesn’t happen by accident.

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting and NPR provide essential support that keeps classical music on the air. They help stations license music, broadcast concerts, and ensure that curated and hosted music programming can thrive.

This funding ensures that whether you live in a city, a small town, or somewhere in between, you have access to performances that educate, inspire, and uplift.

🎶 If you value classical music on public radio, now’s the time to speak up.

👉 Visit ProtectMyPublicMedia.org to learn more and take action.
Protect My Public Media

June is “National Rivers Month” – an occasion to focus on the environmental health and importance of rivers. This weeken...
22/06/2025

June is “National Rivers Month” – an occasion to focus on the environmental health and importance of rivers. This weekend you’ll hear some of Georg Philipp Telemann’s music celebrating the Alster River in Hamburg, and 17th century melody that was used as the basis for a VERY famous 19th century composition about a river. It’s on Sunday Baroque this weekend.

https://sundaybaroque.org/playlist-2025-06-22/

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Sunday Baroque’s Story

On September 6, 1987 I hosted my first radio program! It was a local show on WSHU Public Radio in my hometown of Fairfield, Connecticut and the manager there entrusted me with the responsibility and privilege of being a radio announcer despite my complete lack of experience. Armed with my newly minted degree in music, I had never even set foot in a radio station before that week, and it was truly seat-of-the-pants learning. "Sunday Morning Baroque" was born on that day. It was a 90 minute "filler" program between two network shows, airing from 8:30-10am, and the only instructions given were to "play baroque music." When I opened that microphone for the first time, it was terrifying and thrilling. If only there were a tape of those first few shows! It changed my life.

Listeners like you responded enthusiastically, and Sunday Morning Baroque lived and grew and expanded on WSHU. On September 6, 1998 -- eleven years to the day later -- the newly renamed "Sunday Baroque" was launched as a national program on four pilot stations in addition to WSHU: WGUC Cincinnati, KBAQ Phoenix, WETA Washington, DC, and WUSF Tampa. Today, more than 170 stations across the United States broadcast the program to hundreds of thousands of listeners, and Sunday Baroque is still growing as we continue to welcome new stations and new music lovers.

Reflecting on these 30 amazing years, it's clear that listeners like you are the core of our success and growth by every measure. Your calls, letters, emails, and Facebook interactions have provided encouragement, feedback, motivation, guidance and inspiration. You have touched my heart with your countless stories of how the music on Sunday Baroque has entertained, comforted, inspired, amused, and illuminated you in some way. You played the music for your family, and now your kids tell me they grew up listening to the program! And your financial support of Sunday Baroque on your local public radio station has literally made it all possible.