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10/16/2025

Such a joy to catch up with Ovidiu Marinescu and Mădălina-Claudia Dănilă from Trio Casals, who are coming to the Chamber Music Society of Utica to open their 85th season. You can check out the full interview right here: https://tinyurl.com/yc2t8d3d

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Trio Casals     The Chamber Music Society of Utica opens it's 85th Season with a concert by Trio Casals. We had a chance to catch up with cellist/founder Ovidiu Marinescu and pianist Mădălina-Claudia Dănilă to talk about the concert, the programs, and the joys of live performance.   More abou...

10/16/2025

We're excited to announce our Classic FM Music Educator Award Honoree for September. Please join us in congratulating Amy Cirmo from Fayetteville-Manlius Central School District! 🎉

Stay tuned for details on when we’ll be airing a performance by one of her incredibly talented ensembles on Classic FM. Learn more about the Music Educator Award at https://bit.ly/4hgQOCQ.

10/15/2025

It was great to catch up with Victor Vallo to talk about the concerts coming up with both the Syracuse Chamber Orchestra and the Auburn Chamber Orchestra in the next two weekends. If you missed any of our chat, you can catch it right here:

https://tinyurl.com/4p7z83pk

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Victor Vallo, conductorSyracuse Chamber Orchestra   It's a busy time for Maestro Victor Vallo as he prepares for not one, but two chamber orchestra concerts in the next two weeks. This weekend it's "Folk Songs & Dances" with the Syracuse Chamber Orchestra, and next weekend "Symphony Spectaculars" w...

10/13/2025

Fall in love with Palestrina in honor of his birthday! Barry Torres from Schola Cantorum of Syracuse stopped into the studios to talk about the upcoming concert, and how he found a new appreciation for Palestrina's music. Our complete conversation - including a performance from the ensemble - is available here. https://tinyurl.com/fpuc96aa

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10/12/2025

Tonight on the Bluegrass Ramble, Bill Knowlton celebrates the birth anniversary of Uncle Dave Macon. Plus, music from Larry Efaw and the Bluegrass Mountaineers at the Music of the Mountains Festival in Summersville, WV in 2011.

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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10/12/2025

Today on Ciao, clips from interviews over the years. You'll love our chat with chef Nick Stellino about the development of his show. Also, Neil Sedaka in his first American interview recorded in Italian!

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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10/11/2025

Coming up at 1:00 today on Saturday Opera, from the 2025 Salzburg Festival - Handel’s Giulio Cesare. It is perhaps one of Handel’s most popular operas, interpreting the story of Julius Caesar and Cleopatra’s first meeting. The choir in this performance is the Salzburg Bach Choir, directed by Michael Schneider. Emmanuelle Haïm leads Baroque ensemble Le Concert d’Astrée.

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10/10/2025

Tune in today at 1:00pm for the All Request Hour! Listeners tell us about the music they want to hear online at wcny.org/fmrequests or by calling 888-333-4999. Then every Friday at 1pm, we play your requests!

Coming up today:

Pyotr Turchaninov: Cherubic Hymn (Novospassky Monastary Choir; Iguman Mitrofan, director)

Sergei Prokofiev: Symphony No. 1, Op. 25 "Classical" (National Orchestra of France; Lorin Maazel, conductor)

Pablo de Sarasate: Concert Fantasy on Bizet's "Carmen" Op. 25 (Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin; Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra; James Levine, conductor)

Arnold Schoenberg: Six Pieces for Piano Four Hands (Dana Muller & Gary Steigerwalt, piano)

George Gershwin: Cuban Overture (Dallas Symphony Orchestra; Andrew Litton, conductor)

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10/10/2025

Saturday, October 11th at 4:12 PM Eastern Time, join us on WCNY Classic FM for "Opera Encore"! This week, our featured artist is Giuseppe DeLuca, pictured here in one of his great roles, Figaro in "The Barber of Seville". Legendary conductor Arturo Toscanini called him "absolutely the best baritone I ever heard". He was certainly one of the top baritones of the 20th century, and was a mainstay at the Met for 20 years! DeLuca sang from the 1890s to the 1940s in opera, recitals, and many recordings. He also created roles in operas by Cilea, Puccini, and more. You can hear him in music of Verdi, Cilea, and Rossini, as well as a short speech from his 1947 New York farewell recital. He's also in duets with his friend Enrico Caruso and soprano Amelita Galli-Curci.

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10/08/2025

It was a pleasure to catch up with Guillaume Pirard and Sarah Chandler from the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra today. Missed the conversation? Catch it here, and find out all about "Northern Lights" this weekend.

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Karen Ouzounian, cello   The Cayuga Chamber Orchestra kicks off it's orchestral concerts with "Northern Lights," and guest artist Karen Ouzounian, cello. Music Director Guillaume Pirard and Executive Director Sarah Chandler spoke to host Diane Jones about the concert, the music, and the outreach ha...

10/04/2025

The wine is flowing a little too freely, and two young men enter into a risky (and risqué) bet: Each will try to seduce the other’s fiancée. Hijinks ensue, with dashing disguises, outrageous flirting, and, of course, wedding bells—but we won't say who ends up together! Join us today at 1:00pm for the LA Opera production of Mozart's "Cosi fan tutte" on Saturday Opera!

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10/03/2025

Just two works to share on today's All Request Hour - but what great works they are! Submit your requests throughout the week at wcny.org/fmrequests or by calling 888-333-4999, then listen every Friday at 1pm for the All Request Hour.

Today's music includes:

Felix Mendelssohn: Allegro Brilliante, Op. 92 (Cyril Smithe & Phyllis Sellick, piano)

P.I. Tchaikovsky: Piano Trio, Op. 50 "To the Memory of a Great Artist" (Beaux Arts Trio)

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