Symphony Sunday

23/03/2024

This Sunday, March 24, Symphony Sunday will feature the music of women composers and performances by women virtuosos. Be sure to tune in, 9:00 am to Noon, on WDRT, 91.9 FM, or on the web at wdrt.org.

04/03/2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0nnWJ43778
Listen to this beautiful voice and hear her story of winning the 2023 Crystal Note Award!

My interview with the 2023 Crystal Note Award winner, Mukhtsetseg Gantumur, and her teacher, Ayana Sambuu, Artistic Director of New Opera Dimensions, Rome, ...

04/01/2024

If we ask each other the right questions, we find out who we are...

William Grosvenor Neil -The Composer Studio

09/12/2023

This week on Symphony Sunday: An All-Star Cast! Mozart, Beethoven, Dvorak, Sibelius, Berlioz, Elgar, Vaughn Williams, and an exciting work by Camille Pepin. Who could ask for anything more? Tune in 9:00 to Noon, Sunday, September 10 to WDRT, 91.9 FM or on the Web at WDRT.org

05/08/2023

A Mozart concerto with three pianos, more sounds of the viol da gamba, a sample of what a concert by French Composer and virtuoso pianist Camille Chaminade would have been like, and a piano concerto celebrating the life of Britain's Queen Mother with soloist Lang Lang. Plus music of Mendelssohn, Ravel, Camille Pepin and Arvo Part. All this Sunday, August 6, 9:00 to Noon on WDRT, 91.9 FM or on the Web at wdrt.com

07/07/2023

ATTENTION LOCAL MUSIC FANS: DURING MY LIVE PROGRAM TOMORROW AM, I WILL BE GIVING AWAY 6 PAIRS OF TICKETS TO THE JULY 15TH PIERCE HILL PERFORMING ARTS "PEDIGREE" CONCERT! SO TUNE IN FOR DETAILS!! Please join me, William Neil, Sunday, July 9th from 9AM to 12PM when I will host a live edition of Symphony Sunday. I will feature tracks from these albums including two new releases by flutist, Jonathan Borja performing music by Mexican composers, plus an historic performance of Bartok's Fifteen Hungarian Peasant Songs for Piano performed by Sviatoslav Richter. Symphony Sunday 91.9 FM Viroqua and wdrt.org online.

20/05/2023

"Classical Music for Winding Country Roads"
This Sunday, May 21, 2023, featuring music by Aaron Copland, Ferde Grofe, Ralph Vaughn Williams, Vincent D'Indy and Ludwig von Beethoven. Tune in 9:00 a.m. to Noon on WDRT, 91.9 FM, or on the Web at wdrt.org.

25/04/2023

Composer, William Neil's April 23rd, 2023 interview with cellist, Titus Gunderson and his mentor, cellist, Derek Clark on Symphony Sunday, WDRT Viroqua 91.9 FM. Titus was the 1st place winner of the

25/04/2023

If you missed my live interview with cellist, Titus Gunderson and Derek Clark I have uploaded it on my SoundCloud channel:

Composer, William Neil's April 23rd, 2023 interview with cellist, Titus Gunderson and his mentor, cellist, Derek Clark on Symphony Sunday, WDRT Viroqua 91.9 FM. Titus was the 1st place winner of the

17/03/2023

Just in time for the Spring Equinox, we'll hear Composer and Symphony Sunday host William Neil's tribute to the season in the region: "Driftless Spring." And we'll listen to works by Copeland, Grieg, Beethoven, Mahler, Respighi, Robert Schumann, Ernest Bloch, and Chevalier de Saint-Georges in their evocations of the impending Season. Tune in Sunday, March 19, 9:00 AM to Noon. WDRT, 91.9 FM or on the Web at wdrt.org.

12/02/2023

Good Morning. 9am Central for sobering, comforting, and loving Classical music.

01/01/2023

Happy New Year!!
Featuring a guest & some of his current favorite classical music in the first hour.
And a Birthday composer, later in the morning.
Finishing off with Mozart & Bach.

04/12/2022

Symphony Sunday
9am Central
WDRT.org
In the first hour a live interview on the phone with tuba player, composer & cofounder of Isthmus Brass: Mike Forbes.
Featuring music selections from their Christmas CDs.

In the second hour, composers André Campra & Ernesto Köhler and piano music played by 97 year old Ruth Slenczynska from her latest CD, My Life in Music, released this year!

In the last hour in honor of the upcoming House Concert at Pierce Hill Music: violinist Noah Geller, Concertmaster of the Seattle Symphony. We'll hear a selection from the CD when he was the Concertmaster of the Kansas City Symphony Orchestra by composer Camille Saint-Saëns: La Muse & Le Poète.

The House Concert (sold out) will feature works by composers
Amy Beach, Claude Debussy & Franz Schubert.
My program will finish the hour with selections for violin & piano by these composers.

Symphony Sunday will be available on the WDRT.org music archives for the following week. You can stream it live, listen on the radio at 91.9FM, and on Vernon Communications TV channel 17.

23/10/2022

Seasonal & personal:
9am Central with Sarah
WDRT.org

28/08/2022

From Tallis to Tavener
Mozart to Milanollo
my heart to yours. 9am Central.