Discover Classical

01/19/2025

"Western classical music and Hindustani classical music come together in our concert hall," says Neal Gittleman, conductor of the Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra. Listen to Discover Classical tonight at 8pm for a work by Reena Esmail's called My Sister's Voice that features a Hindustani soprano singing with an operatic soprano. The program also includes Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade and Debussy's Clouds and Festivals.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvN7dI-sYf0

Artistic Director and Conductor Neal Gittleman shares insights around the programming selected for the second concert of the 2022–2023 Masterworks Series– Co...

01/19/2025

Today at 2:00, Theme and Variations invites you to travel back two centuries for music composed in 1825 by Ludwig van Beethoven, François-Adrien Boieldieu, F***y Mendelssohn, Gioachino Rossini, Franz Schubert and Carl Maria von Weber.

01/18/2025

From Twin Peaks to his films to his own recording career, the director understood how much sound mattered — not only to the audience, but to the characters in his stories.

01/18/2025

The Springfield Symphony Orchestra - OH celebrates women composers this Saturday at 10am on Discover Classical's Live & Local. Anna Shelest performs Clara Schumann's Piano Concerto and Cecile Chaminade's Konzerstuck, and the program also includes works by Margaret Brouwer and Alice Mary Smith. Live & Local is supported by the Wright State University School of Fine and Performing Arts: Music with additional funding from the Ohio Arts Council.

https://discoverclassical.org/program.php?p=livelocal

01/17/2025

There were Discover Classical shirts all around during Shaun Yu's interview with Dayton Drama Queens. Our President and CEO talked with Josh Stucky and Philip Drennen about the history of the station, and how you can discover classical music too!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3irHeYB-QM

Join your favorite Dayton Drama Queens, Josh Stucky and Philip Drennen, in a captivating episode of Dayton Drama Queens, as they sit down with Shaun Yu, Pres...

01/17/2025

WDPG 89.9 FM is off the air for an antenna upgrade. This is a planned outage that will last for several days. You can still listen to Discover Classical over the radio on WDPR 88.1 FM and WUSO 89.1 FM, and through our Web site

https://discoverclassical.org/listen-live.asp

and our online stream

https://wdpr-ice.streamguys1.com/live

Another option is to listen to Discover Classical through our mobile app, available for free through the

Apple App Store
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/discover-classical/id1437993226

and Google Play
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.publicmediaapps.daytonPR&pli=1

Thanks for your patience. We look forward to sharing the new and improved WDPG with you soon.

01/17/2025

Although the forecast predicts a cold finale to January, Discover Classical looks forward to sharing listeners' warm sentiments about the important individuals and events in their lives through these upcoming Honorary Days.

01/13/2025

After 30 years of faithful broadcasting, our WDPG 89.9 FM antenna in Greenville will be replaced, resulting in a stronger, clearer signal. Installation may start as early as January 17 and should last a week. During that period, WDPG will go off the air for extended periods of time. You can still listen to Discover Classical on the radio at WDPR 88.1 FM and WUSO 89.1 FM, online at discoverclassical.org, or through our mobile app, available for free from the

Apple App Store
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/discover-classical/id1437993226

and Google Play
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.publicmediaapps.daytonPR&pli=1

If you have any questions, please call the station at (937) 222-9377 or email [email protected]. Thanks for your patience and we look forward to sharing the new and improved WDPG with you soon.

01/12/2025

John Kurokawa was the soloist in Reena Esmail's Clarinet Concerto during a 2022 concert by the Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra called "East Meets West." Listen tonight at 8pm on Discover Classical's Concert Night.

https://discoverclassical.org/program.php?p=concert

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dM3dD2fN_8

Listen to Concert Night on Discover Classical

01/12/2025

Today at 2:00, Theme and Variations brings you the first of two programs paying tribute to musicians who died in 2024. The composers represented are Leslie Adams, Péter Eötvös, Alexander Goehr and Peter Schickele. The performers are Jodie Devos, Seiji Ozawa, Michael Murray, Ewa Podleś and Maurizio Pollini.

01/10/2025

The Dayton Philharmonic Principal String Quartet and friends performed Brahms and Schubert in an intimate afternoon of chamber music at the Dayton Art Institute. You can hear that concert this Saturday at 10am on Discover Classical's Live & Local, supported by the Wright State University School of Fine and Performing Arts: Music with additional funding from the Ohio Arts Council.

https://discoverclassical.org/program.php?p=livelocal

01/09/2025

Join me this coming weekend, January 11 and 12, 2025, for our weekly smorgasbord of guitar delights!
This great music can be heard twice: Saturdays at 6 PM EST (2300 GMT) and again Sunday morning at 9 AM EST (1400 GMT).
Listen online at discoverclassical.org and in western Ohio at FM 88.1, 89.9 and 89.1.
Music from the instrument held closest to the heart!

01/08/2025

Congratulations to Dr. William Henry Caldwell, a recipient of the Ohio Arts Council's Governor's Award for the Arts in recognition of his work in Community Development and Participation in the arts across the state. Dr. Caldwell is an educator and vocalist, conductor and choral director, recording artist and church musician, as well as a board member at Discover Classical and several other arts organizations. He will receive the award during a ceremony in Columbus on May 28.

01/07/2025

After several years off the air, the Cleveland Orchestra broadcasts return tonight at 8:00 on Discover Classical.

01/07/2025

Few adults play musical instruments, and even fewer do so in a group, Caroline Mimbs Nyce wrote in December. What health benefits might they be giving up? https://theatln.tc/oglkQfzJ

“Kids receive plenty of music education, but as people get older, they fall out of practice. Many stop picking up their instrument,” Nyce writes. “This is unfortunate, in part because plenty of research shows that adults could benefit from playing music.”

Playing music helps build larger brain networks and new pathways. “Musicians tend to have better attention than nonmusicians,” Nyce continues. “Banging on a drum or tooting a horn can also relieve stress, reduce burnout, and help with anxiety and depression. For older people specifically, research has shown potential cognitive benefits along with a possible decrease in dementia risk.”

Adults may be skipping out in part because music education is associated with childhood and coursework. And after people grow out of music education in their childhood, they tend to think that music is a special talent, Nyce writes, not something that just anybody can learn.

“Of course, people are busy; they simply may not have the luxury of sitting down to study Bach once a week, much less the money to pay for an instrument or private lessons,” Nyce writes.

Playing music in groups has additional benefits, such as allowing adults to feel more trusting of and connected to one another, and to the world in general. But while it’s easy to go to a park or gym and pull together a game of pickup basketball, “piecing together people at the same skill level to play a concerto or even just jam in a garage is another matter.”

Nyce herself recently began to play the recorder. “I plan to keep learning,” she writes, “not because it strengthens my neuropathways per se (though I certainly don’t mind that), but because making music, even when it’s silly—perhaps especially when it’s silly—is just a whole lot of fun.” https://theatln.tc/oglkQfzJ

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01/05/2025

"It's a pretty audacious idea, using the Roman Catholic Mass liturgy as the basis for a Broadway show," says Neal Gittleman of Leonard Bernstein's MASS. In 2011, Gittleman conducted the work with the Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra and many other talented musicians, singers and dancers. You can listen to the performance tonight at 8pm on Discover Classical's Concert Night, and see more production photos by Andy Snow on our Web site.

https://discoverclassical.org/program.php?p=concert