Chicago jazz trio The Joe Policastro Trio will pull into Offbeat Roadhouse Friday night, January 24, from 8-9 for a concert which will also be broadcast on WTJU. Sure you could listen to Offbeat Roadhouse on the radio (91.1 FM) or on-line, and even video stream it, but concerts always sound better with you as part of the studio audience.  Offbeat Roadhouse takes place each […]

This release is special in two ways. First, it marks the centenary of Mieczyslaw Weinberg’s birth in 1919. Second, it’s the debut recording of the East-West Chamber Orchestra. The combination is magic — we get phenomenal performances of some phenomenal music. The East-West Chamber Orchestra has been the in-house ensemble for the Yuri Bashmet International […]

The Classics a Day team noted that the new year is comprised of two twenties — double digits. So the theme for January 2020 is to post other examples of double digits found in classical music. Prolific composers are a good place to start. But I found a few surprises among composers with very small […]

C. Burrows will stop by WTJU Tuesday afternoon, January 21, around 4:30 for a visit with Alice during Around This Town.  He is celebrating the release of his new album, Noche Oscura.

Aboriginal artist Joe Guymala still stop by WTJU Thursday afternoon, January 23, at 4:30 for a visit with Folk & Beyond host Peter Jones.  In addition to being a talented musician, he is also a world renowned painter who has two shows hanging at the University of Virginia; one at the Rotunda and the other […]

Emil Nikolaus von Reznicek was primarily an opera composer. Two of the three suites in the release have their origins on the stage. Nevertheless, they show that Reznicek was quite comfortable writing for the concert hall. The Karneval Suite “in an older style” was extracted from Reznicek’s two-act opera Gondoliere des Dogen. The drama’s set in the […]