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Classical Discoveries
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CELEBRATING 25TH YEAR ON THE AIR

The Coronavirus crisis has forced WPRB to cancel all live broadcasts effective March 16. Live broadcasts have been partially resumed with the DJ's presenting programs from their home studios.

Untill WPRB reopens, Classical Discoveries will present a weekly three hour program broadcasted from home each Wednesday from 7:00 till 10:00am.

MP3 Sound Files will be available after the broadcast on https://www.mixcloud.com/

Wednesday, February 02, 2022 from 7:00 till 10:00

Here is alist of some of the works and composers to be presented:

Program will be announced

Playlist and MP3 File https://www.mixcloud.com/(*available after the broadcast)

Here is alist of some of the works and composers to be presented:
Shushtar (version for eight Violoncellos) by Azerbaijani composer, Franghiz Ali-Zadeh (1947- )
Vallja e malit “Dancing Mountain” (2017) by Czech composer, Sylvie Bodorova (1954- )
Rumbling Gears for harpsichord (2015/2021) by Italian composer, Silvia Colasanti (1975- )
Mad Rush by American composer, Philip Glass (1937- ) - aired in honor of the composers 85th birthday on January 31
Concerto for Cello and string orchestra, Op. 76. “Act of Contrition” (2021) by Spanish composer, Jorge Grundman (1961- )
Adam & Eve by American composer, Bunita Marcus (1952- )
Aflame for mixed choir a cappella (2015) by English composer, Ivan Moody (1964- )
Burning Meditation by Japanese composer, Somei Satoh (1947- )
Plus music by Dosia McKay, Jan Sandström, Michael Vincent Waller
and more as time allows

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Wednesday, January 26, 2022 from 7:00 till 10:00

Some composers presented in this edition:
Barbara Benary (1946-2019)
Elizabeth Brown (1953- )
Lou Harrison (1917-2003)
Lydia Kavina (1967- )
Fabian Svennson (1980- )
Sir John Tavener (1944-2013)
Yoichi Togawa (1959- )
Peeter Vähi (1955- )
Plus music by Alan Hovhaness, Raimo Kangro, David Sanders, Vivi Vassileva
and more as time allows

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Some composers presented in this edition:
Khachatur Avetisyan (1926-1996)
Holt-Schermerhorn (2010) by American composer, Christopher Cerrone (1984- )
Henry Cowell (1897-1965)
Brent Michael Davids (1959- )
Erberk Eryilmaz (1989- )
Molly Joyce (1992- )
Erik Lotichius (1929- 2015)
William Susman (1960- )
Anne Vanschothorst (1974- )
Plus music by Justyna Kowalska-Lasoń, Albena Petrovic, Bill Whitley and more

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THE NEGRO SPEAKS OF RIVERS Part 4

Some composers presented in this edition:
Samuel Akpabot (1932-2000)
Bill Banfield (1961- )
Don Byron (1958- )
Valerie Coleman (1970- )
Daniel Kidane (1986- )
Undine Smith Moore (1904-1989)
Hale Smith (1925-2009)
Irene Britton Smith (1907-1999)
Plus music by Quincy Hilliard, Evelyn Simpson-Curenton, Julian Work plus more as time allows

Playlist and MP3 File https://www.mixcloud.com/(*available after the broadcast)
Check other programs devoted to music by black composers

Some composers presented in this edition:
Adrienne Albert (1941- )
Paweł Łukaszewski (1968- )
Wojciech Łukaszewski (1936-1978)
Beth Mehocic (1953-2021)
Boris Papandopulo (1906-1991)
Stephan Thelen (1959- )
Urmas Sisask (1960- )
Plus music by Jorge Grundman, Alan Hovhaness, Marcin Tadeusz Lukaszewski, Dale Trumbore,
plus more

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THE NEGRO SPEAKS OF RIVERS Part 3

Tuesday, January 11, 2022 - from 7:00 till 10:00am

Some composers presented in this edition:
Ahmed Al Alabaca (1984- )
Reynard Burns (1946- )
Roque Cordero (1917-2008)
Julian Joseph (1966- )
Thierry Pécou (1965- )
Howard Swanson (1907-1978)
Shirley J. Thompson (1958- )
Errollyn Wallen (1958- )
Julius P. Williams (1954- )
Plus music by Michael Abels, Dolores White plus more

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Wednesday, January 05, 2022 - from 7:00 till 10:00am

Some composers presented in this edition:
American composer, Matthew Aucoin (1990- )
French composer, Fabrice Bollon (1965- ) - American composer, Peter Fischer (1956- )
American composer, Amanda Harberg (1973- )
American composer, Edward J. Hines (1951- )
Armenian composer, Ashot Kartalyan (1985- )
American composer, Chelsea Komschlies (1991- )
Polish composer, Dariusz Przybylski (1984- )
American composer, James Ricci (1954- )
Plus music by Kerrith Livengood, Dalit Warshaw and more Playlist and MP3 File at: https://www.mixcloud.com/MarvinRosen/ (*available after the broadcast)

THE NEGRO SPEAKS OF RIVERS Part 2

Tuesday, January 04, 2022 - from 7:00 till 10:00am

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VIVA 21ST CENTURY - 24-HOUR - 50/50 - INTERNATIONAL EDITION - 2021 - 24-HOUR LIVE FROM HOME WPRB RADIO BROADCAST

Friday, December 30th at 10:00am until 10:00am Saturday, December 31st 2021

Some composers presented in this edition:
Daniel Dorff, Ross Edwards, Carlotta Ferrari, Kenneth Fuchs, Stefania de Kenessey, Žibuoklė Martinaitytė, Robert Moran, Gene Pritsker, Sunleif Rasmussen, Alex Shapiro, Kim Sherman, Kile Smith, Alexander Tchaikovsky, Chinary Ung, Pamela Z, Alexis Alrich, Armando Bayolo, Kinan Azmeh, Matthew Coleridge, Stacy Garrop, Stanley Grill, Stale Kleiberg, Rebecca Dale, Laura Kaminsky, Grainne Mulvey, Stephen Shewan, Heather Niemi Savage and many more.

SHALL WE DANCE

Some composers presented in this edition:
Seóirse Bodley (1933- )
Adriana Isabel Figueroa Manas (1966- )
Douglas Moore (1893-1969)
Gregory Rose (1948- )
Jiří Teml (1935- )
Livia Teodorescu-Ciocanea (1959- )
and more

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THE NEGRO SPEAKS OF RIVERS Part 1

Tuesday, December 28, 2021 - from 7:00 till 10:00am

Some composers presented in this edition:
Adolphus Hailstork (1941- ), Chad E. Hughes (1977- ), Ulysses Kay (1917-1995), Jessie Montgomery (1981- )
Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson (1932-2004)
Zenobia Powell Perry (1908-2004), Florence Price (1887-1953), Daniel Bernard Roumain (1970- ), William Grant Still (1895-1978), George Walker (1922-2018), Gregory T.S. Walker (1961- ), Olly Wilson (1937-2018)
plus more

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CHRISTMAS IN AMERICA

Some composers presented in this edition:
Alan Hovhaness (1911-2000), Sarah Wallin Huff,
David Kraehenbuehl (1923-1997), Frank La Rocca (1951- ), Libby Larsen (1950- ), Walter Saul (1954- ), Joshua Shank (1980- ), Conrad Susa (1935-2013)
Adolphus Hailstork, Thomas Juneau, Dan Locklair, Luna Pearl Woolf and others

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CHRISTMAS AROUND THE WORLD

Some composers presented in this edition:
Judith Bingham (1852- ), Ross Edwards (1943- ), Laura Jekabsone (1985- ), Kassiani (ca. 810-ca. 865), Jaroslav Krček (1939- ), Einojuhani Rautavaara (1928-2016), Paul Ruders (1949- )r, Urmas Sisask (1960- ), Juan Garcia de Zespedes (ca. 1619-1678), Maciej Malecki, Vytautas Miškinis, Jean Mouton
plus more

Playlist and and MP3 at: https://www.mixcloud.com/(*available after the broadcast) Art: Nativity from Henry VIII - Book of Hours

A MEDIEVAL, RENAISSANCE AND BAROQUE CHRISTMAS

Some composers presented in this edition:
Anonymous, Christoph Bernhard (1628-1692), Cristofaro Caresana (ca. 1640-1709), Chiara Margarita Cozzolani (ca.1602-1677), Tarquinio Merula (1594-1665), Thomas Tallis (c. 1505-1585), Giuseppe Valentini (1680-1759), Sulpitia Cecis, Clemens Non Papa, Jacek Różycki, Johann Heinrich Schmelzer and others

Playlist and and MP3 at: https://www.mixcloud.com/(*available after the broadcast) Art: Nativity from Bedford Hours - Paris c.1410

Some composers presented in this edition:
Jean Ahn (1976- ), Becky Llewellyn (1950- ), Santa Ratniece (1977- ), Michael White (1931- ), Anthony Paul De Ritis, Harold Farberman, Sophie Hutchings, Johann Johannsson, Salomon Rossi, and Mary Ellen Childs, Daniel Bernard Roumain (1970- ), Steve Reich (works based on the music of Stephen Sondheim). plus more as time allows

Playlist
MP3 Files at: https://www.mixcloud.com/

Some composers presented in this edition: Lee Actor (1952- ), Henry Cowell (1897-1965), Martin Hebel (1990- ), Lou Harrison (1917-2003), Frank Horvat (1974- ), Julia Perry (1924-1979), Christine Southgate (1978- ), Sebastian Vergara (1978- ),
Mauricio Arias-Esguerra, Bill Banfield, Louis W. Ballard, Jennifer Bellor, Diane Berry, Jay Anthony Gach, Chen Yi and others

Playlist
MP3 Files at: https://www.mixcloud.com/

MUSIC FOR YOUR STOMACH

Some composers presented in this edition:
American composers: Arthur Bloom (1964- )
, Greg Danner (1958- ), Ken Field (1953- ) , Philip Glass (1937- ), Bevan Manson, Elizabeth Panzer, Marga Richter (1926-2020), Joshua Rosenblum (1963- ), Rick Sowash (1950- ), Dan Welcher (1948- ),
Australian composer, Elena Kats-Chernin
Chinese/American composer, Bright Sheng (1955- )
Plus music by Marc Antoine-Charpenntier, Nick Didkovsky, Chiel Meijering,
and others

Playlist and MP3 File *(available after the broadcast for 2 weeks)
You can also listen at: https://www.mixcloud.com/

Some composers presented in this edition:
American composer, Victoria Bond (1945- )
American composer, Margaret Brouwer (1940- )
American composer, Richard E. Brown (1947- )
American composer, Michael Daugherty (1954- )
American composer, Alan Hovhaness (1911-2000)
Canadian composer, Alison Yun-Fei Jiang (1992- )
Byzantine-Greek composer, Kassiani (ca. 810-ca.865)
American composer, Arnold Rosner (1945-2013)
Ukrainian composer, Valentin Silvestrov (1937- )
Serbian composer, Alexandra Vrebalov (1970- )
and more

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Wednesday, October 27, 2021 from 7:00 till 10:00

The program was totally devoted to music by one of Lithuanian’s greatest composers who passed away on September 29, 2021.

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Here is a list of some of the works and composers to be presented:
Columbian composer, Mauricio Arias-Esguerra (1984- )
Italian composer, Cristian Carrara (1977- )
American composer, Chick Corea (1941-2021)
English composer, Tansy Davies (1973- )
American composer, Amanda Harberg (1973- )
Australian/American composer, Douglas Knehans (1957- )
Estonian composer, Jaan Rääts (1932-2020)
English/American composer, Godfrey Winham (1934-1975)
Plus music by René Eespere, Claudia Francesca Rusca, Philip Herbert, Erkki-Sven Tüür,
and more

Playlist and MP3 File *(available after the broadcast for 2 weeks)
You can also listen at: https://www.mixcloud.com/MarvinRosen/

Wednesday, October 13, 2021 from 7:00 till 10:00

Playlist. Audio File will not be available for this broadcast but you can listen to an archived program of an interview I presented with Arnold Rosner in August, 2009 on WPRB on
M-XCLOUD

Some composers presented in this edition:
Uruguayan/American composer, Sergio Cervetti (1940- )
French composer, Françoise Choveaux (1953- )
Canadian composer, Jan Järvlepp (1953- )
Scottish composer, James MacMillan (1959- )
Swedish composer, Karin Rehnqvist (1957- )
American composer, Elaine Ross (1966- )
Turkish composer, Ferit Tüzün (1929-1977)
Latvian composer, Peteris Vasks (1946- )
Plus music by Balduin Hoyoul, Hanna Kulenty, Frank James Staneck, Jacobus Vaet and others

Playlist
You can also listen to the music files at: https://www.mixcloud.com/MarvinRosen/

Some composers presented in this edition:
Canadian composer, Maya Badian (1945- )
American composer, Richard Carr
American composer, Henry Cowell (1897-1965 )
Lithuanian composer, Bronius Kutavicius (1932- )
Swiss composer, Marguerite Roesgen-Champion 1894-1976)
Canadian composer, Peter-Anthony Togni (1959- )
Estonian composer, Peter Vähi (1955- )
American composer, Gwyneth Walker (1947-)
Plus music by: Paul Carr, Paul Mac, Santiago Kodella, Carel Rosier, plus others

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Some composers presented in this edition:
Italian composer, Ignazio Albertini (1633-1685)
American composer, Bill Banfield (1961- )
English composer, Jane Antonia Cornish (1975- )
American composer, Aaron Jay Kernis (1960- )
American composer, Olivia Kieffer
Lithuanian composer, Giedrius Svilainis (1972- )
Portuguese composer, Luis Tinoco (1969- )
Plus music by Adolphus Hailstork, Komitas, Paul Mac, John Metcalf, Beata Moon, Roxanna Panufnik, Jacek Różycki, Daniel Bernard Roumain and others as time permists

Please note!
effective today you can access the MP3 Files via M-XCLOUD.

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Wednesday, September 15, 2021 from 7:00 till 10:00

Some composers presented in this edition:
American composer, Frank Ferko (1950- )
American composer, Michael Gandolfi (1956- )
Polish composer, Mikołaj Górecki (1971- )
English composer, Francis Grier (1955- )
Finnish composer, Kirmo Lintinen (1967- )
English composer, Elis Pehkonen (1942- )
American composer, Joseph Schwantner (1943- )
Greek composer, Mikis Theodorakis (1925-2021) (Aired in memory of the composer who passed away on September 2)
American composer, Joan Tower (1938- )
Plus music by Ian Frederick, Lou Harrison, Marion von Tilzer and others

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Some composers presented in this edition:
American composer, Alan Hovhaness (1911-2000)
Hungarian composer, Béla Kovács (1937- )
British composer, Paul Lewis (1943- )
American composer, Robert Moran (1937- )
Russian composer, Alexander Raskatov (1954- )
American composer, Arnold Rosner (1945-2013)
Italian composer, Salmon Rossi (ca. 1570-1630)
Ukrainian composer, Joachim Stutschewsky (1891-19982)
Polish composer, Romuald Twardowski (1930- )
American composer, John Zorn (1953- )
American composer, Meira Warshauer (1949- )
Polish composer, Mieczysław Weinberg (1919-1996)
Plus music by Avraham Caceres, Judith Shatin, Deborah Thurlow, Leonora Duarte and others if time aliowes

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SHEPHERD OF ISRAEL

Other programs of Jewish Inspirations

Tuesday, August 31, 2021 from 7:00 till 10:00am
Wednesday, September 01, 2021 from 7:00 till 10:00am

Some composers presented in this edition:
Awatovi for oboe bassoon and piano (2012) by Daniel Baldwin (1978- )
Nancy Bloomer Deussen (1932-2019)
Kenneth Fuchs (1956- )
Alan Hovhaness (1911-2000)
Dan Locklair (1949- )
Beth Mehocic (1953- )
Mathew Rosenblum (1954- )
Christopher Rouse (1949-2019)
Clare Shore (1954- )
Leo Sowerby (1895-1968)
Kile Smith (1956- )
James Kimo Williams (1950- )
and others as time permits

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*(available after the broadcast for 2 weeks)

AMERICAN MUSIC FESTIVAL Part 2
Wednesday, September 01, 2021 from 7:00 till 10:00

Some composers presented in this edition:
Elizabeth Alexander (1962- )
Beth Anderson (1950- )
Doug Bielmeier
Henry Cowell (1897-1965)
Julianna Hall (1958- )
Kristin Kuster (1973- )
Missy Mazzoli (1980- )
Robert Moran (1937- )
Paul Moravec (1957- )
Harry Partch (1901-1974)
Carlton Wilkinson
Bill Whitley
and others as time permits

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*(available after the broadcast for 2 weeks)

Some composers presented in this edition:
New Zealand composer, Claire Cowan (1983- )
French composer, Ida Gotkovsky (1933- )
German composer, Dirk-Michael Kirsch (1965- )
Czech composer, Zdeněk Lukáš (1928-2007)
American composer, Russell Peck (1945- 2009)
Canadian composer, Ann Southam (1937-2010)
Canadian composer, Peter-Anthony Togni (1959- )
Plus music by: Firminus Caron, Mariusz Dubaj, Christopher Gibbons, Guillaume de Machaut, Piet Swerts and others as time permits

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Some composers presented in this edition:
New Zealand composer, Claire Cowan (1983- )
French composer, Ida Gotkovsky (1933- )
German composer, Dirk-Michael Kirsch (1965- )
Czech composer, Zdeněk Lukáš (1928-2007)
American composer, Russell Peck (1945- 2009)
Canadian composer, Ann Southam (1937-2010)
Canadian composer, Peter-Anthony Togni (1959- )
Plus music by: Firminus Caron, Mariusz Dubaj, Christopher Gibbons, Guillaume de Machaut, Piet Swerts and others

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*(available after the broadcast for 2 weeks)

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Some composers presented in this edition:
American composer, Mary Ellen Childs (1957- )
Irish composer, Donnacha Dennehy (1970- )
American composer, Lou Harrison (1917-2003)
Japanese composer, Hikaru Hayashi (1931-2012)
Persian composer, Aminolah Hossein (1908-1983)
American composer, Lance Hulme (1960- )
Lithuanian composer, Justė Janulytė (1982- )
Estonian composer, Raimo Kangro (1949-2001)
Plus music by: Alissa Firsova, Trisutji Kamal, Paul Mealor, Johann Heinrich Schmelzer and others as time permits

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Some composers presented in this edition:
Mexican composer, Charles Daniels (1985- )
American composer, Daron Hagen (1961- )
American composer, Barbara Harbach (1946- )
American composer, Jennifer Jolley (1981- )
Polish composer, Dariusz Przybylski (1984- )
Faroese composer, Sunleif Rasmussen (1961- )
Canadian/American composer, Heather Schmidt (1974- )
Bulgarian composer, Dobrinka Tabakova (1982- )
Canadian composer, Peter-Anthony Togni (1959- )
Plus music by: Dan Forrest, Hildegard von Bingen, Ludwig Senfl
and others if time permits

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Tuesday, August 10, 2021 from 7:00 till 10:00

Some composers presented in this edition:
American composer, Lee Actor (1952- )
American composer, Curt Cacioppo (1951- )
Brazilian composer, Radames Gnattali (1906-1988)
American composer, Julie Mandel (1944- )
Russian composer, Vladimir Martynov (1946- )
Plus music by: Priscilla Alden Beach, Betsy Jolas, Max Nagl, Cristina Spinei
and others

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*(available after the broadcast for 2 weeks)

Wednesday, August 04, 2021 from 7:00 till 10:00

Some composers presented in this edition:
British composer, Charlotte Bray (1982- )
American composer, Daniel Dorff (1956- )
American composer, Ryan Anthony Francis (1981- )
Australian composer, Peggy Glanville-Hicks (1912-1990)
American composer, Pierre Jalbert (1967- )
English composer, David Hackbridge Johnson (1963- )
Danish composer, Martin Lohse (1971- )
American composer, Hannah Rice
Turkish composer, Ferit Tüzün (1929-1977)
Estonian composer. Pärt Uusberg (1986- )
y Japanese composer, Yuko Uébayashi (1958- )
German/Bulgarian composer, Viva Vassileva (1994- )
American composer, Nina C. Young (1984- )
and others if time allows

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Some composers presented in this edition:
American composer, Adrienne Albert (1941- )
Australian composer, William Barton (1981- )
Australian composer, Graeme Koehne (1956- )
Canadian composer, Regent Levasseur (1962- )
Finnish composer, Kai Nieminen (1953- )
Canadian composer, Tawnie Olson (1974- )
American composer, Gabriella Smith (1991- )
Hungarian composer, Roland Szentpali (1977- )
Plus music by Daniel Goode, Wang An-Ming, Mille. Duval
and others

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Some composers presented in this edition:
American composer, Henry Cowell (1897-1965)
American composer, Nickitas Demos (1962- )
Canadian composer, Vivian Fung (1975- )
American composer, Paul Reale (1943- )
South African composer, Hans Roosenschoon (1952- )
Russian composer, Alexander Wustin (1943-2020)
Plus music by Daniel Blanchet, Anna Cederberg-Orreteg, Roxanna Panufnik, Arvo Pärt
and others

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*(available after the broadcast for 2 weeks)

Special program in memory of the Greek/American composer, Dinos Constantinides, who passed away this past Tuesday, July 20 at the age of 92.

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Some composers presented in this edition:
American composer, Mary Jeanne van Appledorn (1927-2014)
English composer, Alexander Campaign (1984- )
Columbian composer, Luis Carlos Figueroa (1923- )
Australian/British composer, Sadie Harrison (1965- )
Canadian composer, Vincent Ho (1975- )
Estonian composer, Mihkel Kerem (1981- )
Icelandic composer, Kjartan Sveinsson (1978- )
plus music by Clarice Assad, Jo Kondo, Natasa Paulberg, Matheo Romero
and others

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Tuesday, July 20, 2021 from 7:00 till 10:00

Some composers presented in this edition:
South Korean composer, Sung Hong (1973- )
Latvian composer, Imants Kalniņš (1941- )
American composer, Stefania de Kenessey
American composer, Scott McAllister (1969- )
American composer, Arnold Rosner (1945-2013)
South African/German composer, Isak Roux (1959- )
Lithuanian composer, Gintaras Sodeika (1961- )
Japanese composer, Somei Satoh (1947- )
Japanese composer, Yoichi Togawa (1959- )
Plus music by Andrei Eshpai, Philip Glass, Cindy McTee
and others

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*(available after the broadcast for 2 weeks)

Some composers presented in this edition:
Fabrice Bollon (1965- )
Hanna Kulenty (1961- )
Galina Grigorjeva (1962- )
Aldo Kumar (1954- )
Suor Leonora d’Este (1515-1575)
Étienne Moulinié ( 1599-1676)
Miloš Raičkovich (1956- )
Timo Steiner (1976- )
Bradford Blackburn, Clifford Crawley, Kamran Ince, Marcelle Soulage
and others

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Some composers presented in this edition:
Timo Andres (1985- )
Grażyna Bacewicz (1909-1969)
Jakub Ciupinski (1981- )
Ida Gotkovsky (1933- )
Alan Hovhaness (1911-2000)
Lauri Porra (1977- )
Ana Sokolović (1968- )
Bill Whitley
Julia Wolfe (1958- )
Plus music by Peter Lieuwen, Maria Xaveria Perucona, Gao Ping and others

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Wednesday, July 07, 2021 from 7:00 till 10:00

Some composers presented in this edition:
Johanna Doderer (1969- )
Andrzej Dziadek (1957- )
Sally Greenaway (1984- )
Lubica Maric (1909-2003)
Scott Pender (1959- )
Kareem Roustom (1971- )
Jake Runestad (1986- )
Roberto Sierra (1953- )
Valentin Silvestrov (1937- )
Jacobo da Bologna, Andreas Hakenberger, Tomas Luis De Victoria and others

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Tuesday, July 06, 2021 from 7:00 till 10:00

Some composers presented in this edition:
Louis Andriessen (1939-2021)
Alan Jones (1935- )
Peter Van Zandt Lane (1985- )
Lisa Meridan-Skipp (1972- )
Teresa Procaccini (1934- )
Natalia Rojcovscaia-Tumaha (1982- )
Christine Southworth (1978- )
Andrea Tarrodi (1981- )
Zhen Chen, Donnacha Dennehy, Dave Walther and others

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Classical Discoveries presents two days special: AMERICA'S UNDERDOGS FOR THE FOURTH

Each year the final Classical Discoveries program before or on July 4th is devoted to American Music.
This year the focus will be on America’s Underdogs: Living composers, Women composers, black composers, composers born in other countries that became naturalized productive citizens and America's rightful owners: American Indians.

Some composers presented in this edition:
Marian Borkowski (1934- )
Markus Brönnimann (1968- )
Jacobus Clemens non Papa (1510-1555)
Ting Ho (1946- )
Robert Cyr (1952- )
Carl Orff (1895-1982)
Laura Pettigrew (1954- )
Gabriel Prokofiev (1975- )
Luis Humberto Salgado (1903-1977)
Véronique Vella
John Woolrich (1954- )
Peter Zagar (1961- )
and others

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Tuesday, June 22, 2021 from 7:00 till 10:00

Some composers presented in this edition:
Glenn Buhr (1954- )
John Franek (1996- )
Peggy Glanville-Hicks (1912-1990)
Daniel Goode (1936- )
Halvor Haug (1952- )
Gao Hong (1964- )
Takuma Itoh (1984- )
Žibuoklė Martinaitytė (1973- )
Kelly-Marie Murphy (1964- )
Ofer Pelz (1978- )
Larry Pruden (1925-1982)
Heather Schmidt (1974- )
and others

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Wednesday, June 16, 2021 from 7:00 till 12:00

Some composers presented in this edition: Boudewijn Buckinx (1945- )
Linda Robbins Coleman (1954- )
Stacy Garrop (1969- )
Magnús Blöndal Jóhannsson (1925-2005)
Tālivaldis Ķeniņš (1919- 2008)
Jonathon Kirk
Odaline de la Martinez (1949- )
Joanne Metcalf (1958- )
Avet Terterian (1929-1994)
Plus sections by Emily Doolittle. Atli Petersen, Peeter Vähi and others

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Some composers presented in this edition:
Lauren Bernofsky (1967- )
Erberk Eryilmaz (1989- )
Qigang Chen (1951- )
Vivian Fung (1975- )
Vladimir Godar (1956- )
Justė Janulytė (1982- )
Raimo Kangro (1949-2001)
Tania León (1943- )
Marc Mellits (1966- )
Anna Segal
Frances White (1960- )
Arnold Griller, Stanley Grill, Lance Hulme, Urmas Sisask, Neil Stipp
and others if time allows

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Some composers presented in this edition:
Silvia Colasanti (1975- )
Matthew Coleridge (1980- )
Anthony Paul De Ritis (1968- )
Ewa Fabiańska-Jelińska (1989- )
Hanna Kulenty (1961- )
Paul Lansky (1944- )
Paweł Łukaszewski (1968- )
Matt McBane (1979- )
Christopher Tyler Nickel (1978- )
Andriy Igorovich Sovetov
and Tomaso Cecchini, Jane Antonia Cornish, Ludovico Einaudi, Gaspare Torelli and others.

Playlist and MP3 File
*(available after the broadcast for 2 weeks)

Some composers presented in this edition:
Beth Anderson (1950- )
Halim El-Dabh (1921-2017)
Kenneth Fuchs (1956- )
Jennifer Higdon (1962- )
Alan Hovhaness (1911-2000)
Neil Rolnick (1947- )
Arnold Rosner (1945-2013)
91919 (2020) by Kamala Sankaram (1978- )
Binorie Variations by Tom Scott (1912-1961)
Spiral III by Chinary Ung (1942- )
Plus music by Stephen Gryc, Tania Leon, David Maslanka, Mona Lyn Reese, Julius P. Williams and others

Some composers presented in this edition:
Frank Horvat (1974- )
Peter Machajdik (1961- ) - aired in honor of the 60th birthday of the Indra Rise (1961- )
Andrew Rudin (1939- )
Alex Shapiro (1962- )
Alexander Tchaikovsky (1946- )
Andris Vecumnieks (1964- )
Ester Mägi (1922-2021)
Philip Blackburn, Linas Rimša, María Huld Markan Sigfúsdóttir, Pamela Z and others

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Classical Discoveries presents: In The Year of The Ox - Part Two
WPRB Radio tribute to Asian American Composers in observance of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month

Some composers presented in this edition:
Chiayu (Taiwan, 1975- )
Pei-lun Vicky Chang (Taiwan, 1966- )
Shih-Hui Chen (Taiwan, 1962-
Yuanlin Chen (China, 1957- )
Texu Kim (Korea, 1980- )
Mari Kimora (Japan, 1962- )
Tonia Ko (Hong Kong, 1988- )
Bun-Ching Lam (China, 1954- )
Dai-Keong Lee (China, 1915-2005)
Lei Liang (China, 1972- )
Beata Moon (Korea, 1969- )
Huang Ruo (China, 1976- )
Karen Tanaka (Japan, 1961- )
Chinary Ung (Cambodia, 1942- )

Playlist.

Tuesday, May 18, 2021 from 7:00 till 109:00

TREASURES OF EARLY MUSIC

Some composers presented in this edition:
Marco Antonio Centorio (c.1600-1638)
Marc’Antonio Ingegneri (c. 1535/36-92)
Andrzej Siewiński (fi. 1725)
Johannes Tinctoris (c.1435-1511)
Jan Dismas Zelenka (1679-1745)
Giovanni Croce, Orlando Gibbons, Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, Kassiani, Antonio Montanari,
and others

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Classical Discoveries presents: In The Year of The Ox - Part One
WPRB Radio tribute to Asian American Composers in observance of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month

Some composers presented in this edition:
Paul Chihara (Japan, 1938- )
Gao Hong (China, 1964- )
Thomas Oboe Lee (China, 1945- )
Lei Liang (China, 1972- )
Zhou Long (China, 1953- )
Narong Prangcharoen (Thailand, 1973- )
Juri Seo (Korea, 1981- )
Bright Sheng (China, 1955- )
Chou Wen-Chung (China, 1923-2019)
Chen Yi ( China, 1953- )
plus music by Phyllis Chen, Asako Hirabayashi, Betty Anne Wong and others, if times allowed

Playlist
Other programs devoted to music of Asia

Wednesday, May 05, 2021 from 7:00 till 10:00

Some composers presented in this edition:
Julius Aglinskas (1988- )
Alexis Alrich (1955- )
Dace Aperane (1953- )
Jennifer Bellor (1983- )
Reena Esmail (1983- )
Maria Granillo (1962- )
Dorothy Hindman (1966- )
Mario Kuri Aldana (1931-2013)
Benjamin Rimmer (1993- )
Alejandro Basulto, Peter Facer, Ola Gjeilo, Suor Leonora d’Este (Lucrezia Borgia’s Daughter), Juan de Lienas, James Primosch and more

Playlist

Some composers presented in this edition:
Svjetlana Bukvich (1967- )
Julius Eastman (1940-1990)
Tine Surel Lange (1989- )
Red Shift by American composer, Lois V. Vierk (1951-)
Krzysztof Penderecki (1933- )
Some Satoh, Agnieszka Stulgińska
and others if times allowed

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Wednesday, April 28, 2021 from 7:00 till 10:00

75th birthday of Latvian composer, Pēteris Vasks (April 16, 1946) Included will be:
Dona Nobis Pacem, The Fruit of Silence (2013) and Viatore for string orchestra (2001)
Some composers presented in this edition:
Eleanor Alberga (1949- )
Gareth Farr (1968- )
José Serebrier (1938- )
Cristina Spinei (1984- )
Adrienne Albert, T. Patrick Carrabré, Gayaneh Chebotarian, Ross Edwards, Komitas
and others, if times allowed

Playlist and MP3 File
*(available after the broadcast for 2 weeks)

Some composers presented in this edition:
Robert Carl (1954- )
Ēriks Ešenvalds (1977- )
Alan Hovhaness (1911-2000)
Kassiani (ca. 810-ca. 865)
Philip Glass (1935- ) and Robert Moran (1937- ) (PercussionArrangement)
Jakub Polaczyk (1983- )
Lior Rosner
Jeannot Sanavia (1962- )
Niklas Sivelov (1968- )
Paweł Szymański (1954- )
plus music by Cyprian Bazylik, Nahla Farouk Mattar, Samantha Sack, Maria Huld Markan Sigfúsdóttir, Francesco Scarlatti and others

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SPRING WPRB MEMBERSHIP DRIVE - Thursday, April 08, 2021 - 7:00am - until Saturday, April 17, 2021

CLASSICAL DISCOVERIES FUND DRIVE EDITION
Wednesday, April 14 from 7:00 - 10:00am

Dear Friends of Classical Discoveries!
The Annual Membership Drive is coming to WPRB starting April 8 at 7:00am and will last through April 17, 2021.

WPRB is a student run station that consists of a voluntary staff of students and community DJ's like me, and is not funded by Princeton University (they provide us the operating space).
WPRB does not receive funds from other sources. Your donations will be used for the station's operating costs.

As always, there will be minimum talking and plenty of wonderful new music.

Playlist

Some composers presented in this edition:
Stanley Grill (1953- )
Grahame Harris
Karl Jenkins (1944- )
Zibuoklė Martinaitytė (1973- )
Pēteris Plakidis (1947-2017)
Jaan Rääts (1932-2020)
Sunleif Rasmussen (1961- )
plus music by Axel Borup-Jørgensen, Hyunjung Byun, Henry Cowell, Heather Niemi Savage, Amin Sharifi
and others

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CLASSICAL DISCOVERIES will present a memorial tribute to Polish composer, Krzysztof Penderecki (November 23, 1933- March 29, 2020)

Also check out my newest blog, Krzysztof Penderecki - My Window to the Avant-Garde.

Playlist

Other playlists devoted to Polish composers

CLASSICAL DISCOVERIES 18TH ANNUAL "IN PRAISE OF WOMAN" - 2021 - American Women Composers - Part 5

Classical Discoveries presents the first program of the annual series In Praise of Woman - devoted to music written by women

Some composers presented in this edition:
Margaret Bonds (1913-1972), Ľubica Čekovská (1975- ), Vanessa Lam (1968- ), Kerrith Livengood (1981- ), Bianca Maria Media (1661?-1732/33), Victoria Poleva (1962- ), Deon Nielsen Price (1934- ), Mirjam Tally (1976- ), Lois Vierk (1951- ), Carlotta Ferrari, Kassiani, Miho Kawasaki, Eleni Lomvardou, Martha Mooke, Violaine Prince, Cristina Spinei, Andrea Tarrodi and others

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CLASSICCLASSICAL DISCOVERIES 18TH ANNUAL "IN PRAISE OF WOMAN" - 2021 - Part 4

Some composers presented in this edition:
Beth Anderson (1950- ), Claude Arrieu (1903-1990), Emma Lou Deemer (1927- ), Beth Denisch (1958- ), Leonara Duarte (1610-1678), Alissa Firsova (1986- ), Elena Firsova (1950- )
Hanna Kulenty (1961- ), Ana Milosavljevic (1977- ), Gráinne Mulvey (1966- ), Errollyn Wallen (1958- ), Francesca Campana, Emily Doolittle, Agnes Dzodtsoeva-Bashir, Ellen Mandel and Gabriela Ortiz and others

Playlist
*(available after the broadcast for 2 weeks)

Some composers presented in this edition:
Adrienne Albert (1941- ), Elizabeth R. Austin (1938- ), Lauren Bernofsky (1967- ), Jennifer Higdon (1962- ), Cynthia Miller (1950- ), Florence Price (1887-1953- ), Marga Richter (1926-2020), Jennifer Ricciardi (1980- ), Alex Shapiro (1962- ), Shelly Washington (1991- ), Rain Worthington (1949- ), Stacy Garrop, Julie Giroux, Stefania de Kenessey, Judith Shatin, Kim Sherman and others

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CLASSICAL DISCOVERIES 18TH ANNUAL "IN PRAISE OF WOMAN" - 2021 - American Women Composers - Part 3

CLASSICAL DISCOVERIES 18TH ANNUAL "IN PRAISE OF WOMAN" - 2021 - Part 2

Some composers presented in this edition:
Frøy Aagre (1977- ), Jennifer Bellor (1983- ), Johanna Doderer (1969- ), Hyo-shin Na (1959- ), Jennifer Jolley (1981- ), Nora Morrow, Geraldine Mucha (1917-2012), Athina Pavlaki-Pirounia (1974- ), Alicia Terzian (1940- ), Eve de Castro Robinson, Maija Einfelde, Gao Hong, Jurgita Mieželytė, Asha Srinivasan, Dobrinka Tabakova, Ayanna Witter-Johnson and others

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Wednesday, February 24, 2021 from 7:00 till 10:00

CLASSICAL DISCOVERIES 18TH ANNUAL "IN PRAISE OF WOMAN" - 2021 - Part 1

Some composers presented in this edition:
Grażyna Bacewicz (1909-1969), Gina Biver (1960- ), Galina Grigorjeva (1962- ), Melissa Hui (1966- ), Jocelyn Morlock (1969- ), Caroline Szeto (1956- ), Jeanne Zaidel-Rudolf (1948- ), Isidora Žebeljan (1967-2020), Joanne Metcalf, Andrea L. Reinkemeyer, Dilorom Saidaminova, Rosanna Scalfi Marcello and others

Playlist

Some composers presented in this edition:
Bun-Ching Lam (1954-), Chen Yi (1953- ), Rihards Dubra (1964- ), Imants Kalniņš (1941- ), Žibuoklė Martinaitytė (1973- ), Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson (1932-2004), Dan Visconti (1982- ), Zhou Long (1953- ), Chinary Ung, Tania León, Santa Ratniece, Valentin Silvestrov, Jan Van der Roost and others

Playlist

Some composers presented in this edition:
Grażyna Bacewicz (1909-1969), Corrina Bonshek (1977- ), Henry Cowell (1897-1965), Brent Michael Davids (1959- ), Emily Doolittle (1972- ), René Eespere (1953- ), Mark Lackey (1966- ), Sophia Serghi (1972- ), Marco Antonio Centorio, Susan T. Nelson, Krzysztof Penderecki, Francesco Scarlatti and others

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Some composers presented in this edition:
Jacobus de Kerle (1531/32-1591), Juan de Lienas (c. 1600-1654), Alan Hovhaness (1911-2000), David Maslanka (1943-2017), Ann Millikan (1963- ), Georgs Pelēcis (1947- ), Jaan Rääts (1932-2020), Jórunn Viðar (1918-2017), Luigi Battiferri, Margaret Bonds (arr.), Leonora Duarte, Florence Price, Giovanni Valentini, and others

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Wednesday, January  27, 2021, 7:00 till 10:00 - Home Edition

Some composers presented in this edition:
Guillaume Connseeson (1970- ), Aftab Darvishi (1987- ), Sven Grünberg (1956- ), Molly Kien (1979- ), Jeppe Moulijn (1972- ), David Post (1949- ), Daniel Rhode (1988- ), Veronique Vaka (1986- ), Rain Worthington (1949- ), Christopher Duncan, Jēkabs Jančevskis, Alexander Knaifel, Marcus Paus, Ylva Skogand and others

Playlists and due to technical problem sound file will be not available this weeke note

VIVA 21ST CENTURY - 24-HOUR - 50/50 - INTERNATIONAL EDITION - non-marathon part 3

Wednesday, January  20, 2021, 7:00 till 10:00 - Home Edition

Some composers presented in this edition:
Gloria Coates (1938- ), Johanna Doderer (1969- ), Amanda Harberg (1973- ), Hannah Kendall (1984- ), Weronika Ratusińska (1977- ), Kile Smith (1956- ), Evan Premo (1985- ), Noam Faingold, Carlotta Ferrari, Ola Gjeilo, Gonzalo Grau, Ted Hearne, Michael John Trotta, Sławomir Zamuszko, and others

Playlists

Wednesday, January  13, 2021, 7:00 till 10:00 - Home Edition

Some composers presented in this edition:
Victoria Bond (1945- ), Alexandra Du Bois (1981- ), Rosemary Duxbury (1964- ), Andreas Hepp (1969- )
, Pierre Jalbert (1967- ), Debra Kaye (1956- ), Paolo Marchettini (1974- ), Missy Mazzoli (1980- ), Martijn Padding (1956- ), Kaija Saariaho (1952- ), Mona A. Ahdab, Rosemary Duxbury Ēriks Ešenvalds, Edna Alejandra Longoria, Bushra El-Turk and others

Playlists

VIVA 21ST CENTURY - 24-HOUR - 50/50 - INTERNATIONAL EDITION - non-marathon part 1

Wednesday, January  06, 2021, 7:00 till 10:00 - Home Edition

Some composers presented in this edition:
Jenny Brandon (1977- ), Stanley Grill (1953- ), Sarah Wallin Huff, Laura Sgroi (1986- ), Kate Whitley (1989- ), Karim Al-Zand, Robert Butts, Diana Čemerytė, Sadie Harrison, Robert Strobel, Lawren Brianna Ware and others

Playlists

SHALL WE DANCE

Some composers presented in this edition:
Ge Gan-Ru (1954- ), Georges Gurdjieff, (1877-1949)/Thomas de Hartmann (1885-1956), Howard Hersh (1940-), Gabriel Kaczmarek (1986- ), Sima Wolf, and more

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VIVA 21ST CENTURY - 24-HOUR - 50/50 - INTERNATIONAL EDITION - 24-HOUR LIVE FROM HOME WPRB RADIO BROADCAST
Playlists and MP3 Files *(please note: sound file will be available after the broadcast for 4 weeks)

Sunday, December 27th at 12:00 noon until 12:00 noon Monday, December 28th, 2020

Some composers presented in this edition:
Adrienne Albert, Dace Aperane, Ayala Asherov, Gina Biver, Bruce Babcock, Sylvia Bodorova ,Chen Yi, Jakub Ciupinski, Dorothee Eberhardt, Ross Edwards, Reena Esmail, Kenneth Fuchs, Nina Grigoryan, Mario Grillo Jennifer Higdon Martin Hebel, Douglas Knehans, Dirk-Michael Kirsch, Matija Krecic, Jonathan Leshnoff, Vladimir Martynov, Ella Macens, Peeter Machajdik, Zibuokle Martinaityte, Joanne Metcalf, Kate Moore, Alyssa Morris, Fabian Muller, Grainne Mulvey ,Mark Mellits, Robert Moran, Eric Nathan, Gabriel Prokofiev, Andrea Reinkemeyer, Huang Ruo, Andrew Rudin, Alex Shapiro, Caroline Shaw, Valentin Silvestrov, D.J. Sparr, Niklas Siverlov, Kat Souponetski, William Susman, Roland Szentpali, Erkki-Sven Tuur, Peters Vask, Anne Vanschothorst, Errollyn Wallen, and Shelly Washington.

Stories about the Marathon in the papers and internet

CHRISTMAS IN AMERICA

Playlist and MP3 File
*(available after the broadcast till December 24, 2020)

CHRISTMAS AROUND THE WORLD

Composers presented in this edition:
Anonymous Medieval Spain, Otmar Mácha (1922-2006), Paweł Łukaszewski (1968- ), Urmas Sisask (1960- )
plus music from the following countries:
Australia, Canada, England, France, Germany, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Mexico, Nigeria, Norway, Romania, Soouth Africa, USA and others

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Wednesday , December 23, 2020 from 7:00 till 10:00 - Live From Home Edition

A MEDIEVAL, RENAISSANCE AND BAROQUE CHRISTMAS

Lesser known music before 1750

Composers presented in this edition:
Christoph Bernhard (1628-1692), Cristofaro Caresana (c 1640-1709), Joan Baptista Comes (1582?-1643), Tarquinio Merula (1594-1665), John Sheppard (c. 1515-1558), Pietro Verdana (c. 1600-1643), Jan Dismas Zelenka (1679-1745), Josquin DesPrez, Claudio Merulo, Marcin Mielczewski, Angelo Ragazzi and others

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Art: Nativity from Bedford Hours - Paris c.1410

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