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To listen live, tune in to WRUW at 91.1 FM in Cleveland, or streaming in real time on wruw.org.

A weekly, two-hour radio program from 2013-2023, that aired Mondays, 2:00 - 4:00 PM, North American eastern time: featuring classical music you won't hear on mainstream stations. Hosted by Eric Charnofsky, Senior Instructor in the Department of Music at Case Western Reserve University, "Not Your Grandmother's Classical Music" features works outside of the mainstream, including transcriptions, arra

ngements, unusual instrumental combinations, hard-to-find recordings, and rarely heard compositions. You can also listen to a weekly archive of the program at http://wruw-stream.wruw.org/archives/56/not-your-grandmothers-classical-music.mp3

27/02/2024

Not Your Grandmother's Classical Music was a radio program from January, 2013 through August, 2023. Thank you for supporting the program and WRUW-FM in Cleveland.

05/09/2023

Here is the archive broadcast of the final edition of Not Your Grandmother's Classical Music, at least for now:

03/09/2023

Dear Fans of Not Your Grandmother's Classical Music:

This radio program will be on hiatus going forward and will not be part of the WRUW fall semester schedule per the programmer's choice. I need to devote more time to professional engagements and will be taking a break from the show, but hope to be back in the future. Note that this Monday, September 4th, you can hear classical music I've curated during the usual time slot, but starting the following week, the new schedule will not include this program.

Thank you for listening and supporting NYGCM this past decade +!

Sincerely,

Eric Charnofsky

27/08/2023

Tomorrow on Not Your Grandmother's Classical Music:

Jane Antonia Cornish: Beyond the Sky (string quartet/electronics)
Ferdinand Ries: Piano Sonata in F minor
Ernest Gold: Songs of Love and Parting (soprano/orchestra)
Alec Wilder: Serenade for Winds
Michael Leese: Self-Portrait in 69 Shades of Gray (chamber ensemble)

+ selections from the album "Handel Goes Wild"
+ the programmer's own composition, Four Characters for flute and piano

Tune in from 2-4 p.m. eastern daylight time, Monday, August 28th. Listen in Cleveland on 91.1 FM (WRUW) or to the live stream from everywhere via the link below.

20/08/2023

Everything is set for tomorrow's edition (program #510) of Not Your Grandmother's Classical Music. The show airs live from 2-4 p.m. eastern time on Monday afternoon, and you can listen from absolutely anywhere via the live stream. (link below)

The program for Monday, August 21st:

- Howard Hanson: Lux Aeterna (viola and orchestra)
- Chen Yi: Sound of the Five (string quintet)
- Franz Liszt: Grand Duo Concertant (violin and piano)
- Eugène Bozza: Andante et Scherzo (saxophone quartet)
- Ned Rorem: Seven Motets for the Church Year (choir)
- Anton Webern: Piano Quintet
- John Corigliano: Gazebo Dances (piano duet)

13/08/2023

Wanted: Listeners to Not Your Grandmother's Classical Music to tune in tomorrow (Monday) afternoon to enjoy a program of interesting and unusual music!

Date/Time: Monday, August 14th, 2-4 p.m. EDT

Program:

Ruth Crawford: Diaphonic Suites 1 (flute) and 2 (bassoon/cello)
Daniel Lentz: River of 1,000 Streams (piano)
Richard Honoroff: Symphony #1
Samuel Barber: Capricorn Concerto (flute/oboe/trumpet/orchestra)
Béla Bartók: Duets for two violins, played on the nyckelharpa
+ arrangements of instrumental music by J.S. Bach, Edward Elgar, and Aram Khachaturian for multi-track solo voice

How to Listen: 91.1 FM in Cleveland, or via the live stream link below.

Reward: Enjoyment, Enrichment, Enlightenment!

06/08/2023

Tomorrow is Monday, and that means Not Your Grandmother's Classical Music is coming your way, available for listening around the world! The program for August 7th:

Karel Husa - Five Poems (woodwind quintet)
Sergei Rachmaninoff - 3 Russian Songs for Chorus and Orchestra
Albert Glinsky - Toccata-Scherzo (violin and piano)
Maurice Ravel - Le Tombeau de Couperin, arr. for brass quintet
Bohuslav Martinů - Symphony No. 4
Julia Wolfe - Oxygen, for 12 flutes

Tune in from 2-4 p.m. eastern daylight time and hear this fascinating and unusual music along with informative commentary.

30/07/2023

The July 31st edition of Not Your Grandmother's Classical Music (program #507) is ready to go for tomorrow! Two of the featured performers / recording artists will include James W. Iman and Johanna Cox Pennington! The program airs live from 2-4 p.m. eastern time on WRUW-FM, and is accessible via a live stream at the link below.

The program for Monday, July 31st:

- Jacques Hétu: Trio for Oboe, Violin, and Piano
- Avner Dorman: Mandolin Concerto
- Mara Gibson: Folium cubed (soprano saxophone)
- Jenny Beck: Stand Still Here (piano)
- Sylvius Leopold Weiss: Partita in D minor (lute)
- Virgil Thomson: Symphony on a Hymn Tune
- Roland Barrett: Dreams (oboe and piano)

23/07/2023

Celebrating Ernest Bloch on his birthday tomorrow, with special music on Not Your Grandmother's Classical Music! The program will include:

- Ernest Bloch: Visions and Prophecies (transcribed for piano)
- Hannah Lash: Leander and Hero (woodwinds)
- Johanna Selleck: Spindrift (harp)
- Carlos Chavez: Third Symphony
- Chen Yi: Woodwind Quintet No. 3
- Frank Bridge: There is a willow grows askant a Brook (arr. for viola and piano by B. Britten)

Listen in for any and all of this weekly program, Monday afternoon, 2-4 p.m. eastern daylight time!

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16/07/2023

Music by Peter Schickele will highlight tomorrow's edition ( #505) of Not Your Grandmother's Classical Music, in celebration of the composer's 88th birthday! (and no, there will not be any PDQ Bach on the program this time) Other featured composers will include Beethoven, Verne Reynolds, Julius Benedict, and Gregg Wramage. Tune in Monday afternoon, 2-4 pm eastern time, to 91.1 FM in Cleveland or the live stream link below:

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09/07/2023

Not Your Grandmother's Classical Music explores some unusual music tomorrow afternoon! The program for Monday, July 10th will include:

- Elizabeth Austin: To Begin (brass quintet)
- Louis Aubert: Le Tombeau de Chateaubriand (symphonic poem)
- Philip Glass: How Now (piano)
- Gerhard Stäbler: Californian Dreams (accordion)
- Carl Orff: Eight Pieces for Two Violins
- J.S. Bach: Suite No. 5 for Solo Cello (transcribed for double bass)

Tune in from 2-4 p.m. EDT to hear all of this along with informative commentary!

02/07/2023

Tune in to Not Your Grandmother's Classical Music on Monday afternoon, July 3rd, for some great music! Composers include Morton Gould, Arthur Foote, Aaron Copland, Leoš Janáček, John Philip Sousa, and Kristin Kuster.

The show airs live on Monday, 2-4 p.m. eastern.

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Hosted by Eric Charnofsky, Instructor in the Department of Music at Case Western Reserve University, "Not Your Grandmother's Classical Music" features works outside of the mainstream, including transcriptions, new music, unusual instrumental combinations, hard-to-find recordings, and rarely heard compositions. To listen live, tune in to WRUW at 91.1 FM in Cleveland, or streaming in real time on wruw.org. You can also listen to a weekly archive of the program at listen.wruw.org/archives/?time=1583175600 .