Caspar Othmayr was a theologian and composer of the early Protestant church. His 1549 Tricinia in pias offers a selection of musical virtues that address eight vices. The Dryades Consort uses this for a program celebrating both the vices and virtues. While Othmayr’s music provides the foundation, the consort pulls from other contemporary sources. There’s a significant […]

New Jazz & Blues Releases — 11/30/2021 New Jazz Releases: Steven Bernstein’s Millennial Territory Orchestra – Tinctures In Time (Royal Potato Family): “Tinctures in Time is the first original music Bernstein has ever written for the MTO, which from the beginning had exclusively been a vehicle for his arrangements of other people’s songs, from Count […]

This volume features two Advent and two Christmas cantatas by Georg Philipp Telemann. The difference between these liturgical seasons has blurred over time. But in the 1700s there was a clear difference. Advent was the season anticipated the birth of Christ — hopeful, but waiting. Christmas marked the arrival of Christ, and the twelve days […]

November is the eleventh month. And so the Classics a Day team opted to make eleven the month’s then. The challenge is to post works that are numbered 11 in some fashion, either an opus number, a series number, or even a suite number. It turns out that there’s a lot of great music associated […]

Miss Tess, in town for a concert at The Front Porch, will stop by The Stage at WTJU Friday afternoon, December 3, around 1:30 for a special session which will live video stream at WTJU’s Facebook page and YouTube channel.  It will then air at a later date on Folk & Beyond (heard Thursday afternoons […]

The Jon Spear Band will stop by The Stage at WTJU Thursday, December 2, at 9pm for a special TWO hour performance and chat with the Juddermeister about their new album, B-Side Of My Life, out December 3. Besides listening to this concert on WTJU (91.1 FM, streaming at wtju.net/player), you can video stream it […]