Leo Brouwer (1939—) has written scores for over one hundred films, conducted several major orchestras, and helped define numerous modern musical movements. He was born in Havana, the grandson of well-known Cuban pianist, teacher, and composer Ernestina Lecuona. He debuted at age 17 as a classical guitarist and soon began composing etudes, chamber works, and […]
Programming
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WorldView Episode 03: Amy Marcy Beach
Eighteen-year-old American pianist Amy Marcy Beach had a growing audience in both the U.S. and Germany when she was forced to transition towards composition. Though she had always considered herself a performer, Beach quickly became one of the most respected American composers of her time—and was the first American woman to publish a full length […]
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Ukrainian classical music on WTJU and Charlottesville Classical
On March 9, WTJU host Ralph Graves programmed exclusively Ukrainian music for Classical Prelude and Classical Sunrise. Classical music in Ukraine dates back to the era of Haydn and Mozart. And this programming by no means represents every classical Ukrainian composer of the past 300 years. Listen here: Ukraine’s history as a country is complex. At times, […]
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WorldView Episode 02: The Butterly Lovers
He Zhanhao and Chen Gang were grad students at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music when they co-wrote The Butterfly Lovers Violin Concerto fourteen years after World War Two, ten years after the founding of the People’s Republic of China, and four years into the war in Vietnam. It tells a timeless story of love and […]
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WorldView Episode 01: Florence Beatrice Price
In 1933, Frederick Stock and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra performed Symphony in E Minor by Florence Beatrice Price, making her the first woman of African descent to have a full length symphony performed by a major American orchestra. Price completed the work in 1932, more than three decades after she wrote her first composition. Price […]
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Look, Up in the Sky!
Check out the latest films on your streaming service, or go to the movies (remember that?) and you’ll find that a lot of the fare is about the adventures of guys and gals in tights, saving the world (or universe) from the latest dire straits. But it wasn’t always that way. Superheroes were just kid’s […]
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WorldView debuts on Charlottesville Classical, Mon Feb 28
How many classical composers do you know by name? How many of those are from Asia? Africa? Australia? Greetings all! My name is Hinke Younger, and I am proud to present a new show, WorldView, on Charlottesville Classical from WTJU. WorldView features composers from everywhere in the world—with the exception of Western Europe. Tune in […]
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The Apprenticeship of John Williams
If you weren’t tuned in to the world of film music in the 1970s, the blockbuster score for 1977’s Star Wars was a revelation. But to those in the know, the work was no surprise – John Williams had been a growing presence in the world of film and television music for some years. As […]
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More than Spaghetti Westerns – The Legacy of Ennio Morricone
A commission from an old schoolmate catapulted him to stardom in the world of film music, but the legacy of Ennio Morricone’s scores for Sergio Leone’s “man with no name” trilogy wasn’t how Morricone saw himself. The score for A Fistful of Dollars (1964) was unlike anything that had been heard in a western. Full […]