WWFM - The Classical Network

12/23/2025

An Evening of Readings and Carols from Westminster Choir College of Rider University comes your way tonight at 8 pm, with a rebroadcast Christmas Day at 3 pm. It's one of our most anticipated broadcasts, and we hope you enjoy this year's.
https://www.wwfm.org/show/the-classical-network-in-concert/2025-12-22/westminsters-evening-of-readings-and-carols-tuesday-and-thursday

Among our other special holiday programs are:

Tuesday:
5 pm - A Yuletide Feast of Organ and Brass from Princeton University Chapel, with organist Eric Plutz and Timberdale Brass.

Wednesday:
10 am - A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols from Choir of King's College, Cambridge.

3 pm - A Chanticleer Christmas. Original arrangements of well-known tunes drawn from Classical, Jazz, and Popular traditions.

6 pm - A Christmas Carol in voice and song, performed by Skylark Vocal Ensemble. Award-winning actress Christine Baranski is the narrator in this work by composer Benedict Sheehan.

7:30 pm - midnight - Host David Osenberg takes you through Christmas Eve with music for the holiday.

Thursday:
8 pm - Service of Lessons and Carols from Trinity Church Princeton.

Noon - Welcome Christmas with Vocal Essence, with an hour of traditional carols and new discoveries.

3 pm - Rebroadcast of Readings and Carols from Westminster Choir College.

8 pm - Rebroadcast of the The Bach Choir of Bethlehem's Christmastime in Leipzig.

From all of us here at WWFM, have a wonderful holiday season!

Please help support this seasonal programming by making a donation to the station at https://wwwfm.secureallegiance.com/wwfm/WebModule/Donate.aspx?P=DEFAULT&PAGETYPE=PLG&CHECK=vOU2bz5JCWmgCDbf53nm9ezWDeZ%2beA1M.

The choirs of Westminster Choir College join together in this annual tradition broadcast Tuesday (12/23 at 8 pm) with an encore presentation Christmas Day at 3 pm.

12/22/2025

To our streaming listeners: We are again experiencing problems with our classical stream. Our engineer and IT department are working very hard to diagnose and fix the issue. We realize many of you are looking forward to our line-up of wonderful Christmas programming, so getting this back up and running is our main priority right.

We appreciate your patience as we work on this. Two of our most popular programs - Christmas with the The Bach Choir of Bethlehem and Westminster Choir College of Rider University's Evening of Readings and Carols will have two broadcasts. And most of our locally produced holiday programming will be available as webcasts, which are not affected by our streaming. Nevertheless, we are truly hoping to be able to bring all of these to you via streaming as they air.

Thank you for being such wonderful listeners and supporters. We will keep you updated as information becomes available.

12/15/2025

Due to a technical glitch, today's Hanukkah special, The Piano Matters and With Heart and Voice did not air, and the remaining program was delayed by about 10 minutes. We are sorry that our listeners were not able to hear them and ask for your understanding. The technical problem has been fixed.

11/27/2025

Happy Thanksgiving! We are always so grateful for the support of our listeners. Without you, we couldn’t do what we do, and we know how important our programming is to so many people in our community and beyond.

11/04/2025

Is your furbaby as big a fan of The Classical Nework as you are? For the next few hours, we're holding a "Pet Challenge" as we try to match $3,800 in donations from some of our generous supporters.
Make a donation in their honor online or call 888-232-1212 and tell us your pet's name, and how and when they listen (you can write that in the Comment section if you are donating online).

This is A Tempo host Rachel Katz's cat Tzeli. She loves hanging out when Rachel is doing some work at home, and listens (we assume) to the radio when Rachel is at work and away.

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10/31/2025

Happy Halloween!! Michael Kownacky has brewed up an afternoon of absolutely devilish music from 4 - 6 pm. Our treats of seasonal music include pieces about devils, witches, and a few ghosts thrown in for good measure, including a few haunted waltzes, a polka, and more.

At 8 pm, we welcome back our friends at Princeton Symphony Orchestra, with guests So Percussion, for our concert broadcast.

We hope your weekend is filled only with treats, no tricks! And of course if you'd like to toss a treat our way to help get us through this scary time for public radio, you can always donate at https//wwfm.org. Thank you!!!

Halloween is looming on the horizon, and we hope you’ll join us on Friday for some devilishly good music for the season. Join Michael Kownacky from 4 – 6 p.m. for a playlist that’ll hopefully help you get ready for the evening ahead. Our evening of seasonal music includes pieces about devils, ...

10/30/2025

We are absolutely ecstatic to announce that for the third time, one of our programs has received the American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers (ASCAP) Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Award for broadcast in concert music - our very own amazing Sounds Choral!!!! Congratulations to producer David Osenberg, and all the hosts who were part of our 2024 broadcast year: Ryan Brandau, Jason Max Ferdinand, Jacqueline Horner-Kwiatek, Christopher Jackson, James Jordan, Amanda Quist, Steven Sametz, Deborah Simpkin-King and Ethan Sperry! Their musical selections are always enlightening and convey so much about the choral repertoire.

You can hear Sounds Choral every Sunday at 2 pm, with an encore broadcast Tuesdays at 3 pm at https://wwfm.org.

https://www.ascap.com/press/2025/10/10-30-deems-taylor-virgil-thomson-awards

The winners of the 56th annual ASCAP Foundation Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Awards for outstanding books, articles, liner notes and broadcast programs on the subject of music give fans, readers and scholars rich new insights on legends of pop, film, jazz, country, concert music and more.

10/21/2025

A great program coming up at 3 pm - especially if you have children you'd like to introduce to choral music. Christopher Jackson shares 'spooky' choral works on Sounds Choral. Listen at https://wwfm.org

Today at 3 p.m. on WWFM - The Classical Network, our Artistic Director and Conductor Christopher Jackson joins Sounds Choral for a special Halloween-themed episode!

Christopher will share some of his favorite “spooky” choral pieces—music he calls “a great way to get young people interested in the sound worlds of choral music.” The program also includes a choral storytelling of Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid.

If you’d like to introduce the young people in your life to the magic of choral music, don’t miss this special broadcast!

10/10/2025

The Allentown Symphony Orchestra takes the stage tonight on our Monday evening concert broadcast. Tune in a 8 pm at https://wwfm.org

📻🎶 TONIGHT at 8 PM on WWFM - The Classical Network! Hear the Allentown Symphony Orchestra, directed by Diane Wittry - Conductor, in a concert from April 2025.

This packed concert featured not only the well-known Tchaikovsky’s 5th, but also former Schadt String Competition winner Gaeun Kim performing Aulis Sallinen’s Cello Concerto, and Clarice Assad’s incredibly creative Frankenstein, a dramatic composition made up of contributions stitched together.

Listen online here: https://www.wwfm.org/

08/15/2025

The Bach Choir of Bethlehem wrapped up its summer season of Bach at Noon in Allentown, PA this past Tuesday with a program that included works by Bach and Purcell. If you missed our live broadcast or would like to enjoy it again, you can hear an encore presentation today at 6 pm at https://www.wwfm.org. They'll be back in their main home at Central Moravian Church in Bethlehem beginning next month, and you can hear their monthly performances live on the second Tuesday of each month.

Also today, Between the Keys, hosted by Jed Distler marks what would have been the 100th birthday of pianist Aldo Ciccolini with some of his recordings, including music by Beethoven, Mozart, Albeniz, Chopin, Saint-Saëns, and Satie.

All this wonderful unique and exclusive programming is made possible only through listener support. Make your contribution today to keep it on the air at https://wwwfm.secureallegiance.com/wwfm/WebModule/Donate.aspx?P=DEFAULT&PAGETYPE=PLG&CHECK=vOU2bz5JCWmgCDbf53nm9ezWDeZ%2beA1M.

08/07/2025

Cadenza launches a four-week special series spotlighting So Percussion as the ensemble celebrates its 25th anniversary. Each week in August, host David Osenberg will chat with one of the musicians - today's show kicks off the series with a chat with Adam Sliwinski. These episodes will be two hours each. You can hear the show Thursdays at its regular time of 3 pm and Saturdays one hour earlier than usual - also at 3 pm. Listen at https://wwfm.org.