Nan Macmillan will reflect on lots of things this Wednesday afternoon, August 12, around 5:30  (est) in celebration of her new EP, August and the In Between.  She might even play a few live for us, so don’t miss Something New, heard each Wednesday afternoon from 4-7 right here on WTJU (91.1 FM, streaming at […]

Last month the Classics a Day team made #BlackLivesMatter the theme. Systemic racism in classical music has limited exposure to composers of color. So for August, the team opened up the focus even further.  #WeWriteSymphonies is a hashtag used by composers of color, and it seems like a logical extension of #BlackLivesMatter. For my contributions […]

This release is the third recording of Torbjörn Iwan Lundquist symphonies by Sterling, and the fourth overall of his music. The two symphonies here both have unusual origins. Lundquist wrote a work for the Kroumata Percussion Ensemble in 1976. The project inspired him to do something larger, using the ensemble. The result was his eighth […]

This is the final volume in Naxos’ series of Zdenek Fibich orchestral works. It includes the last of his three symphonies, as well as orchestral music from three of his operas. Fibich completed his third symphony in 1898, just two years before his death. The work is ambitious, with a “darkness-to-light” premise that keeps the […]

As I continue to explore the highways and the byways of the classical repertoire, I find that every country has its national treasure. Sometimes, as with Antonin Dvorak, that treasure is shared with the world. Norway’s treasure, David Monrad Johanson hasn’t been — so far. Johansen is Norwegian, but his taste is cosmopolitan. Mixed in […]

With a century of recorded jazz behind us, where is the music today? This Friday, August 7, WTJU debuts a new weekly radio show to answer that question: Jazz at 100 Today! The program will guide listeners through the current jazz scene with a historical lens – each Friday, 9 – 10 a.m on 91.1 […]