WFCR to air Sunday concerts from Tanglewood
WFCR 88.5 FM will begin carrying live concerts from Tanglewood, the summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra on July 5.
The broadcasts will air Sunday afternoons from 2-5 p.m. from July 5 through August 30 on 88.5FM and throughout the Berkshires on WFCR’s five translator stations: 101.1 FM (Adams/North Adams), 98.7 FM (Great Barrington), 98.3 FM (Lee), 93.9 FM (Pittsfield), and 96.3 FM (Williamstown).
The season opens with a concert performance of Stravinsky’s revolutionary “Rite of Spring” conducted by James Levine, who returns for his fifth summer at Tanglewood as music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. The program also includes Brahms’ “Violin Concerto,” with German violinist Christian Tetzlaff as soloist. Other highlights of the season include violinist Joshua Bell with Max Bruch’s “Concerto No. 1” (July 12), a program dedicated to Mozart’s last three symphonies conducted by Levine (July 19), and cellist Yo-Yo Ma playing Shostakovich (Aug. 9).
“For classical music fans of all types, from the most serious to the most casual, Tanglewood is America’s number one summer destination,” says WFCR music director John Montanari. “This summer's Sunday lineup has lots of great things in store, and I’m very pleased that we can help folks all over the area enjoy them, wherever they happen to be.”
WFCR’s Sunday broadcasts of “A Prairie Home Companion” and “From the Top,” preempted by the Tanglewood broadcasts, will resume on Sept. 6.
Beginning on July 7, WFCR will make one of its digital radio streams, WFCR-2, an all classical service, giving classical music fans uninterrupted access to classical music 24 hours a day, seven days a week. WFCR’s other HD channel, WFCR-1 will maintain its current schedule, which is identical to 88.5 FM. WFCR-1 and WFCR-2 can be heard on an HD radio and streaming at wfcr.org.
July 5, 2009.
E-mail story to a friend
Printer-friendly version
/more weekly bulletin/
