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07/21/2025

Get ready for a day of live music, picnicking, and fun when Bill Knowlton’s Bluegrass Ramble Picnic returns for its 52nd year! On Sunday, Aug. 3, Dwyer Memorial Park in Little York, NY will transform into a bluegrass paradise with stunning lakeside views.

Join us for this beloved tradition—the longest-running bluegrass music festival in New York, Pennsylvania, and New England! Learn more at https://bit.ly/3OecH9T.

07/20/2025

Tonight on the Bluegrass Ramble, the monthly visit fromTom Wilson and Border Bluegrass from Kingston, Ontario. And, from the 2024 Bluegrass Ramble Picnic, Bill has music from Joe LaMay & Sherri Reese, and the Lonesome Road Ramblers.

Bill Knowlton's Bluegrass Ramble is heard every Sunday at 9:00pm on WCNY Classic FM. Don't want to wait? You can listen at 6:00pm on WCNY Community FM. Tune in on your HD radio to HD1 (Classic FM) or HD3 (Community FM) at 91.3 WCNY-FM Syracuse, 89.5 WUNY-FM Utica, or 90.9 WJNY-FM Watertown/Kingston. Or stream on wcny.org

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07/20/2025

Do you have a favorite classical piece? WCNY Classic FM wants to hear from you! Browse our extensive list and select your favorites to help shape the Top 40 Listener Favorites countdown. Don’t see your top picks? No problem! Use the write-in section to add them!

Vote now at www.wcny.org/top-40, and be sure to tune in on Monday, Sept. 1 at 8 a.m. to hear the results on Classic FM.

07/20/2025

Join hosts Joey Nigro and Jim Battaglia, along with Super-Producer John Nilsen, for an hour filled with the best in Italian music! Tune into Ciao today. You can even sing along!

You can hear Ciao! every Sunday at noon on WCNY Classic FM, with an encore broadcast at 5pm on WCNY Community FM. Tune in on your HD radio to HD1 (Classic FM) or HD3 (Community FM) at 91.3 WCNY-FM Syracuse, 89.5 WUNY-FM Utica, or 90.9 WJNY-FM Watertown/Kingston. Or stream on wcny.org.

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07/19/2025

From Teatro Regio in Turin, Italy, it is the second in a trio of operas about the life and love of actress Manon Lescaut! This week, "Manon" by Jules Massenet, starring Ekaterina Bakanova as Manon, and conducted by Evelino Pido.

Tune in at 1pm today!

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07/18/2025

What's coming up today on The All Request Hour? Join us at 1 PM today and hear for yourself! Make your requests at 888-333-4999 or at wcny.org/fmrequests throughout the week, then listen every Friday at 1:00 PM when host Adam Fine plays as many as he can fit into an hour!

Today's requests:

Russian Traditional, arr. Grigor Lvovsky: Cherubic Hymn (Moscow Liturgic Choir; Father Amvrosy, cond.)

Ludwig van Beethoven: Violin concerto in D Major, Op. 61 (Itzhak Perlman, violin; Berlin Philharmonic Orch.; Sir Daniel Barenboim, cond.)

John Philip Sousa, arr. Keith Brion: Semper Fidelis (Washington Winds; Keith Brion, cond.)

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07/18/2025

Legendary tenor Nicolai Gedda is the subject of a 100th birth anniversary salute on WCNY Classic FM's "Opera Encore", on Saturday, July 19th at 3:48 PM EDT ! Marie Lamb presents this sweet-voiced and versatile artist in music of Adolphe Adam, Gioachino Rossini, Giacomo Puccini, Georges Bizet, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, and Vincenzo Bellini. You'll hear Gedda with such co-stars as Maria Callas, Victoria de los Angeles, Dame Janet Baker, and (for a few seconds!) Beverly Sills. You're invited to join us for the celebration of a tenor whose operatic career lasted from 1951 to 2003!

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07/17/2025

What a treat to have the folks from The Covey Theater Company in the studios with us! Take a listen to our conversations about their production of Sondheim's "Into the Woods" - we talked about the theater space, the intricate music, and the fun in the performance.

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07/16/2025

Did you catch today's conversation with Linda Chesis from Cooperstown Summer Music Festival and Peter Winograd from the American String Quartet? We had a great conversation about the festival, the concert, and some very special memories. You can listen here: https://tinyurl.com/mr3mjv7j

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    The American String Quartet returns to the Cooperstown Summer Music Festival, and the concert is sure to be outstanding! We spoke to Peter Winograd, violinist with the quartet, along with Festival founder and artistic director, Linda Chesis. They talked about the music, the venue, and shared s...

07/13/2025

Coming up on the Bluegrass Ramble, host Bill Knowlton features a recording from a 1947 radio broadcast with brothers Earl and Bill Bolick, the Blue Sky Boys. Plus the top 15 bluegrass albums, courtesy of the July issue of Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine. And of course music by Kubick's Rubes and The Atkinson Family from their performances at the 2024 Bluegrass Ramble Picnic.

Bill Knowlton's Bluegrass Ramble is heard every Sunday at 9:00pm on WCNY Classic FM. Don't want to wait? You can listen at 6:00pm on WCNY Community FM. Tune in on your HD radio to HD1 (Classic FM) or HD3 (Community FM) at 91.3 WCNY-FM Syracuse, 89.5 WUNY-FM Utica, or 90.9 WJNY-FM Watertown/Kingston. Or stream on wcny.org

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07/13/2025

Connie Francis has been in the news! Why? A song she didn’t even remember recording has caught fire online! Today on Ciao, a look at the contributions of one of the most successful and influential singers of the 20th century. This show will also feature some of hits of pop/rock Italian Americans who reigned at a time…to borrow a Wall St. Journal book review headline…”when Italians ruled the airwaves.”

You can hear Ciao! every Sunday at noon on WCNY Classic FM, with an encore broadcast at 5pm on WCNY Community FM. Tune in on your HD radio to HD1 (Classic FM) or HD3 (Community FM) at 91.3 WCNY-FM Syracuse, 89.5 WUNY-FM Utica, or 90.9 WJNY-FM Watertown/Kingston. Or stream on wcny.org.

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07/13/2025

Tonight at 11pm is another week of Tomorrow's Choices Today. Season 2 of A Curious Ear begins with music that asks us to be "the keeper of memories, the holder of dreams. "

We will hear Raven Chacon's "Voiceless Mass," Mary Kouyoumdjian's "Silent Cranes," Shiva Feshareki 's "Aetherworld", and Tyshawn Sorey's "Requiem for a Plague."

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