Alex Arbaugh (Sun-Dried Opossum) will pull into Offbeat Roadhouse Friday night, January 21, for a concert which will also be broadcast on WTJU. This is a free event, open to all. Masks are required for all attendees.  You can also listen to Offbeat Roadhouse on the radio (91.1 FM) or on-line, and even video stream it at WTJU’s Facebook […]

For January 2022 the Classics a Day Team decided to go back a century. The challenge this month is to post classical works associated with the year 1922. It can be a composition that was completed,  published, or premiered that year. It can even be a work recorded for the first time in 1922. It […]

Israeli musician Ira Klein will stop by WTJU Wednesday afternoon, January 19, to go track by track through his new EP, Invisible Treasure during Something New. Something New is heard Wednesday afternoon from 4-7pm (est) at 91.1 FM and online at wtju.net.

The two things I like best about this release are 1) Sharon Kam’s playing, and 2) the program. The playing — Sharon Kam is a world-class performer. Listening to her play is always a joy. Her clarinet has a rich, dark tone that’s never muddy in the lower register. And her upper register is equally […]

Musically, Marianna Martines was always in good company. She took keyboard lessons from Haydn. Metastasio — opera librettist and Poet Laureate of the Austrian Empire — was a close family friend. She played four-hand piano sonatas with Mozart. In her lifetime, she was highly regarded as a pianist, a singer, and a composer. This release […]

Johann Wilhelm Hertel is classed today as a transitional composer. He was active in the mid-1700s and wrote in the Empfindsamer Stil. The idea behind this “emotional style” was to express natural emotion. This was a departure from the formalized — and focussed — emotional expression of the Baroque. From the Empfindsamer Stil, Classical Era composers would go […]