WCNY Radio

12/28/2025

Let's end 2025 with a great look back at The Bluegrass Ramble, as Bill Knowlton looks ahead to a fantastic 2026 - and more great music to share with you. This week, Bill has some old time classics, along with selections from the live CD, Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver: Live in Prague, Czech Republic.

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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12/28/2025

You can hear Ciao! online at www.wcny.org/radio every Sunday at noon by clicking on WCNY Classic FM, with an encore broadcast at 5pm on that same page by clicking on WCNY Community FM. Or 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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12/27/2025

Coming up today at 1:00pm, it's “Handel at the Met” – with excerpts from historic Met performances featuring singers like Marilyn Horne, Samuel Ramey, Jon Vickers, and Kiri te Kanawa. And we’ll celebrate the 300th anniversary of Handel’s Rodelinda with highlights featuring Renée Fleming. Don’t miss “Handel at the Met” – Saturday, on the Robert K. Johnson Foundation-Metropolitan Opera International Radio Network.

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12/26/2025

Sometimes we get a request for a large work - and today on the All Request Hour, we're able to play one of those for you. Tune in at 1pm to hear this incredible masterpiece (plus one!)

Stephen Foster: Some Folks (Robert Shaw & the Robert Shaw Chorale)

Hector Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique (Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique; Sir John Eliot Gardiner, conductor)

Make your requests all week long at 888-333-4999, or online at wcny.org/fmrequests. Then listen every Friday for the All Request Hour.

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12/26/2025

You're invited to "Party Hearty", our annual year-end show, with Natalie Dessay, Peter Dawson and lots of other beloved singers on "Opera Encore" Saturday, December 27th at 3:05 PM EST on WCNY Classic FM! Also here to ring in the New Year will be Shirley Verrett with Alfredo Kraus; Dame Nellie Melba; Jerry Hadley and Thomas Hampson; the inimitable (thank goodness!) Florence Foster Jenkins, by request of WCNY's own Bill Knowlton; Regina Resnik; Giulietta Simionato and Ettore Bastianini; Fritz Wunderlich; Wilma Lipp with Renate Holm, Walter Berry, and Rudolf Schock; Montserrat Caballé with Carlo Bergonzi; Kathleen Ferrier (recorded live at a party!); Tito Schipa with Mafalda Favero; Renee Fleming and jazz pianist Brad Mehldau; Frederica von Stade; Rodney Gilfry; Peter Dvorsky with Richard Novak; Louise Homer; Dame Joan Sutherland; Robert Merrill; and Beverly Sills! All the best for 2026 from all of us at WCNY Radio!
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12/25/2025

Make WCNY Classic FM part of your Christmas celebrations, with great music all day long. Join host Diane Jones live from 6am until noon today as she shares holiday music from across the centuries. And we stay close to home with three outstanding programs from 3pm until 7pm from Syracuse and Rochester.

Thank you for listening, today and every day. And Happy Holidays from the WCNY Radio team - Bruce, Marie, Adam, Spencer, Chris, Joel, Stephanie, Genevieve, and Diane.

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12/25/2025

Make WCNY Classic FM part of your Christmas celebrations, with great music all day long. Join host Diane Jones live from 6am until noon as she shares holiday music from across the centuries. And we stay close to home with three outstanding programs from 3pm until 7pm from Syracuse and Rochester.

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12/24/2025

Good morning, and welcome to Christmas Eve on WCNY Classic FM! Coming up at 10am, start the holidays with the live broadcast of A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols from Kings College - Cambridge. Then enjoy specials all day long to lift your holiday spirits!

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12/19/2025

Something old, something new, and something for the holiday season - it's all coming up at 1pm today on the All Request Hour!

Make your requests any time at 888-333-4999 or online at wcny.org/fmrequests. Then listen every Friday at 1pm to hear what you - and other listeners - asked to hear.

Coming up today:

Beethoven: An die ferne Geliebte, Op. 98 (Douglas Jimerson, tenor; Ruth Locker, piano)

Leopold Mozart: Cassation: "Toy Symphony" (I Solisti di Zagred; Antonio Janigro, conductor)

Emma Lou Diemer: Aria & Scherzo (Philip Ficsor, violin; Emma Lou Diemer, piano)

George Gershwin: Cuban Overture (Chicago Symphony Orchestra; James Levine, conductor)

Traditional: The Twelve Days of Christmas (Elmer Iseler Singers; Canadian Brass)

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12/19/2025

Tenor Jan Peerce and soprano Lise Davidsen are two of the artists you'll hear in "Christmas and Chanukah with Opera and Concert Stars on Saturday, December 20th at 3:00 PM EST on WCNY Classic FM, on "Opera Encore". We'll also hear selections by Rosa Raisa with Giulio Crimi; Marian Anderson; Robert Merrill; Mario Lanza with Harpo Marx, Jessye Norman; Renata Tebaldi; Gwen Catley; selections from Handel's "Messiah" with Louise Homer, Marian Nowakowski, Marian Anderson and Kathleen Ferrier; Beverly Sills; Lawrence Tibbett; Richard Tucker; John McCormack; Enrico Caruso; Ernestine Schumann-Heink; Renee Fleming and Kelli O’Hara; Dame Kiri Te Kanawa; Renata Tebaldi; and Luciano Pavarotti!
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12/18/2025

The Syracuse Orchestra is gearing up for their weekend of Holiday Pops music - and we caught up with Principal Pops Conductor Sean O'Loughlin to find out more about the concert, the guest artists, and the life of a touring conductor.

Listen to the complete interview here: https://tinyurl.com/b9r8fa2m

WCNY

12/18/2025

Another great interview! Bruce Campbell from DeWitt Community Church stopped in to talk about the Messiah sing-a-long this weekend - and a reminder that proceeds from that event are going to support WCNY! Take a listen here for all the details: https://tinyurl.com/mrx8vhb2

    The DeWitt Community Church is hosting a Messiah Sing-a-long, and the public is invited to join in this event. Music Director Bruce Campbell stopped into the studios to talk about the music, the soloists, and why the folks at DeWitt have generously stepped up to contribute the funds for this e...