WWFM - The Classical Network

11/04/2025

Is your furbaby as big a fan of The Classical Nework as you are? For the next few hours, we're holding a "Pet Challenge" as we try to match $3,800 in donations from some of our generous supporters.
Make a donation in their honor online or call 888-232-1212 and tell us your pet's name, and how and when they listen (you can write that in the Comment section if you are donating online).

This is A Tempo host Rachel Katz's cat Tzeli. She loves hanging out when Rachel is doing some work at home, and listens (we assume) to the radio when Rachel is at work and away.

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10/31/2025

Happy Halloween!! Michael Kownacky has brewed up an afternoon of absolutely devilish music from 4 - 6 pm. Our treats of seasonal music include pieces about devils, witches, and a few ghosts thrown in for good measure, including a few haunted waltzes, a polka, and more.

At 8 pm, we welcome back our friends at Princeton Symphony Orchestra, with guests So Percussion, for our concert broadcast.

We hope your weekend is filled only with treats, no tricks! And of course if you'd like to toss a treat our way to help get us through this scary time for public radio, you can always donate at https//wwfm.org. Thank you!!!

Halloween is looming on the horizon, and we hope you’ll join us on Friday for some devilishly good music for the season. Join Michael Kownacky from 4 – 6 p.m. for a playlist that’ll hopefully help you get ready for the evening ahead. Our evening of seasonal music includes pieces about devils, ...

10/30/2025

We are absolutely ecstatic to announce that for the third time, one of our programs has received the American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers (ASCAP) Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Award for broadcast in concert music - our very own amazing Sounds Choral!!!! Congratulations to producer David Osenberg, and all the hosts who were part of our 2024 broadcast year: Ryan Brandau, Jason Max Ferdinand, Jacqueline Horner-Kwiatek, Christopher Jackson, James Jordan, Amanda Quist, Steven Sametz, Deborah Simpkin-King and Ethan Sperry! Their musical selections are always enlightening and convey so much about the choral repertoire.

You can hear Sounds Choral every Sunday at 2 pm, with an encore broadcast Tuesdays at 3 pm at https://wwfm.org.

https://www.ascap.com/press/2025/10/10-30-deems-taylor-virgil-thomson-awards

The winners of the 56th annual ASCAP Foundation Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Awards for outstanding books, articles, liner notes and broadcast programs on the subject of music give fans, readers and scholars rich new insights on legends of pop, film, jazz, country, concert music and more.

10/21/2025

A great program coming up at 3 pm - especially if you have children you'd like to introduce to choral music. Christopher Jackson shares 'spooky' choral works on Sounds Choral. Listen at https://wwfm.org

Today at 3 p.m. on WWFM - The Classical Network, our Artistic Director and Conductor Christopher Jackson joins Sounds Choral for a special Halloween-themed episode!

Christopher will share some of his favorite “spooky” choral pieces—music he calls “a great way to get young people interested in the sound worlds of choral music.” The program also includes a choral storytelling of Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid.

If you’d like to introduce the young people in your life to the magic of choral music, don’t miss this special broadcast!

10/10/2025

The Allentown Symphony Orchestra takes the stage tonight on our Monday evening concert broadcast. Tune in a 8 pm at https://wwfm.org

📻🎶 TONIGHT at 8 PM on WWFM - The Classical Network! Hear the Allentown Symphony Orchestra, directed by Diane Wittry - Conductor, in a concert from April 2025.

This packed concert featured not only the well-known Tchaikovsky’s 5th, but also former Schadt String Competition winner Gaeun Kim performing Aulis Sallinen’s Cello Concerto, and Clarice Assad’s incredibly creative Frankenstein, a dramatic composition made up of contributions stitched together.

Listen online here: https://www.wwfm.org/

10/05/2025

We're excited to announce our newest addition to our Sounds Choral hosts - conductor Harold Rosenbaum, who leads the The New York Virtuoso Singers. Tune in today at 2 pm and Tuesday at 3 pm.

Conductor Harold Rosenbaum, founder and conductor of The New York Virtuoso Singers, joins Sounds Choral's panel of rotating hosts this Sunday (10/5 at 2 pm, with a rebroadcast Tuesday 10/7 at 3 pm).

09/30/2025

If you missed this Sunday, the encore broadcast is on now! Listen at wwfm.org.

⭐ THIS SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 28! ⭐

At 2 p.m. Eastern this Sunday, Ryan Brandau hosts Sounds Choral on WWFM - The Classical Network (89.1 FM or livestream at wwfm.org). His program is Palestrina@500: the Composer and His Influence. Musical examples will come from a recent concert of the same name, given by Brandau's professional ensemble, Res Facta.

Immerse yourself in a curated selection of motets and mass movements from the 16th to the 19th centuries, revel in the unmistakable beauty of Palestrina’s pristine polyphony, and explore the way his singular style influenced composers from Bach to Brahms, Bruckner, and beyond.

09/25/2025

Our Princeton Organ Recital series returns for a new season. Victoria Shorokhova performs Carillon de Westminster by Louis Vierne, Andante Sostenuto Symphony No. 9 “Gothique,” Op. 70 by Charles-Marie Widor, Scherzo, Op. 2 by Maurice Duruflé, and Finale from Symphony No. 2, Op. 20 by Louis Vierne. Tune in at 12:30 pm today! Princeton University

09/01/2025

Happy Labor Day! At the station we have been busy getting ready for a Fall filled with great music. We kick off our new season of The Classical Network in Concert tonight at 8 pm with this wonderful concert by the New Jersey Symphony from its Edward T. Cone Composition Institute. Four new, unique and enchanting works by talented young composers from around the U.S. and the U.K. make up the program, along with a work by institute director Steve Mackey. Tune in at 8 pm tonight, and catch the encore Saturday at 2 pm.

https://www.wwfm.org/show/the-classical-network-in-concert/2025-08-31/nj-symphony-showcases-works-from-composition-institute

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This broadcast Monday (9/1) features music by the four talented emerging composers who participated in this year's Cone Composition Institute - Max Eidinoff, Hannah Ishizaki, Nicola Knorr and Claire Cope.

08/15/2025

The Bach Choir of Bethlehem wrapped up its summer season of Bach at Noon in Allentown, PA this past Tuesday with a program that included works by Bach and Purcell. If you missed our live broadcast or would like to enjoy it again, you can hear an encore presentation today at 6 pm at https://www.wwfm.org. They'll be back in their main home at Central Moravian Church in Bethlehem beginning next month, and you can hear their monthly performances live on the second Tuesday of each month.

Also today, Between the Keys, hosted by Jed Distler marks what would have been the 100th birthday of pianist Aldo Ciccolini with some of his recordings, including music by Beethoven, Mozart, Albeniz, Chopin, Saint-Saëns, and Satie.

All this wonderful unique and exclusive programming is made possible only through listener support. Make your contribution today to keep it on the air at https://wwwfm.secureallegiance.com/wwfm/WebModule/Donate.aspx?P=DEFAULT&PAGETYPE=PLG&CHECK=vOU2bz5JCWmgCDbf53nm9ezWDeZ%2beA1M.

08/07/2025

Cadenza launches a four-week special series spotlighting So Percussion as the ensemble celebrates its 25th anniversary. Each week in August, host David Osenberg will chat with one of the musicians - today's show kicks off the series with a chat with Adam Sliwinski. These episodes will be two hours each. You can hear the show Thursdays at its regular time of 3 pm and Saturdays one hour earlier than usual - also at 3 pm. Listen at https://wwfm.org.