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23/10/2024

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09/10/2024

I Fagiolini & lutanist Eligio Quinteiro explore laments, both sacred & secular, of Monteverdi tonight on Baroque&Before with Candice Agree. Join me: 10CT (5am CET) on WFMT

Lutanist Eligio Quinteiro joins British vocal ensemble I Fagiolini for a recital exploring the full spectrum of the Renaissance lament via the madrigals of Claudio Monteverdi. Tonight’s program was recorded live in concert April 29. 2024 in London’s Wigmore Hall. Thanks to WFMT’s association w...

07/10/2024

A front-row seat awaits you at the 22,120-seat open-air Waldbühne tonight at 10 Central on WFMT. I’m your host.

Situated in a wooded area just outside Berlin, the Waldbühne is one of Europe’s largest and most popular open-air concert venues.

07/10/2024

Farewell to the phenomenal Cissy Houston 🥀

Top 20 Pop and Top 5 Soul Hit for the Sweet Inspirations in the Spring of 1968.

06/10/2024

Hear the silken voice of The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center’s mezzo Sophia Maekawa and the magical touch of pianist Michael Banwarth tonight at 7CT on WFMT. I’m your host.

Our 2024/25 Ryan Opera Center Recital Series opens with a musical journey featuring second-year Ensemble members Japanese-American mezzo-soprano Sophia Maekawa and pianist Michael Banwarth.

03/10/2024

Published in London in 1739, Domenico Scarlatti’s Exercises for Harpsichord had an enormous impact on English composers, using it as a model for their own compositions. Harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani brings us a selection of Scarlatti’s keyboard sonatas, as well as works by Scarlatti’s English ...

02/10/2024

“Last year, Disney announced a goal to eliminate 7,000 positions in an effort to reduce costs and turn a profit for its streaming business. The target was raised to 8,000.” https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2024-10-02/more-cuts-at-disney-as-abc-news-and-stations-shed-75-jobs Stephen Battaglio

The stations and ABC News won't lose any on-air talent in the latest round of cost reductions, which Disney management described as "surgical."

25/09/2024

Kyiv’s Liatoshynskyi Capella brings us 17th- & 18th-century lamentations from the 2023 Jordi Savall Festival. Join us tonight, 10CT (5a CET) for Baroque&Before with Candice Agree, celebrating 10 years on WFMT

From Ukraine’s capital city of Kyiv, Liatoshynskyi Capella. the early music ensemble named for Ukrainian composer, conductor, and pedagogue Borys Liatoshynskyi, takes us to Italy, Malta, and Ukraine in a program of lamentations by composers from these three regions. Tonight’s program was recorde...

21/09/2024

And on the 21rst day…

Official HD video for "September" by Earth, Wind and FireListen to Earth, Wind and Fire: https://EarthWindandFire.lnk.to/listenYDSubscribe to the official Ea...

20/09/2024

18/09/2024

Handel had a very busy week in July of 1707, presenting 3 works in 4 days in Montesanto’s Church of Santa Maria. Václav Luks leads Hungarian Symphony Orchestra, Hungarian Radio Chorus & soloists in all 3 tonight 10 CT (5a CET) on Baroque&Before with Candice Agree on WFMT

In July 1707, three works by Handel were performed in the Church of Santa Maria in Montesanto in Rome: Nisi Dominus and Dixit Dominus on 16 July, and Salve Regina on 19 July. The influential Colonna family sponsored the concerts. These three works are among Handel’s outstanding sacred music output...

11/09/2024

Fazıl Say plays Bach’s Goldberg Variations tonight on Baroque&Before with Candice Agree. If you fall asleep with the radio on, not only is it all right, it’s the point 😴 Join me at 10p CT (5am CET) on WFMT

Fazil Say interprets Johann Sebastian Bach’s Goldberg Variations, one of the essentials of the keyboard repertoire.

11/09/2024

Stephen Battaglio invites you to meet our panel @

The seasoned ABC News anchors, who have moderated presidential primary debates, will be serving up questions to Harris and Trump in Philadelphia on Tuesday.

10/09/2024

The real stars of Chicago PD: Lower than lower Wacker and my building’s loading dock. One stunt performer, 8 hours.

04/09/2024

Tonight at 10CT (5a CET,) Baroque&Before with Candice Agree brings you revolutionary music from 17th-century Ukraine. Join us on WFMT

Seventeenth-century Ukraine was witness to the start of a cultural revolution, with the Ukrainian Eastern Orthodox Church playing an important role.

28/08/2024

The SAT prep questions are getting weird.

28/08/2024

Violinist Jaap Schröder, an early pioneer of historically-informed performance, is featured in works by Roman, Vivaldi & Bach. Join us tonight, 10CT (5aCET) for Baroque&Before with Candice Agree on WFMT

We celebrate violinist Jaap Schröder, one of the first pioneers to present performances of baroque, and later, classical works, on period instruments.

22/08/2024

One Veep, Eight Guvnors. From Stephen Battaglio for the Los Angeles Times

Julia Louis-Dreyfus and other stars are staying on message as they play to the Democratic faithful in Chicago.

20/08/2024

“Duthiers knows he is something of a unicorn in the news industry, where jobs are disappearing fast. ‘My experience is that if you make yourself indispensable and you show true passion for this craft, you will be able to get a job,’ he said. ‘I don’t know if that will work for everybody.’” https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2024-08-20/how-vladaimir-duthiers-went-from-40-year-old-intern-to-success-at-cbs-mornings Stephen Battaglio’s 1 on 1 with Vladimir Duthiers

With some help from CNN's Anderson Cooper, Duthiers has become a TV news fixture after walking away from a high-paying job in finance.

19/08/2024

I’m completely triggered! 😒

“‘Anyone who tells you there are universal rules to how to add an apostrophe ending in S is either wrong or lying,’ Jeffrey Barg, a grammar columnist, said to The New York Times in a recent article. ‘You can’t be wrong as long as you’re consistent.’”

10/08/2024

Words and phrases I heard media folk say today that are neither words nor phrases. See if you can guess what’s meant:
Ritaluhtoree
Ubjekshunul
Cupple clouds
Tempuhchure

31/07/2024

Tonight at 10CT (5a CET,) sacred works by “the Spanish Palestrina,” Tomás Luis de Victoria, Iberia’s greatest composer. Join me for Baroque&Before with Candice Agree, celebrating 10 years of early music on WFMT.

Known as the “Spanish Palestrina,” Tomás Luis de Victoria has been called the greatest of all Iberian composers.

27/07/2024

Anyone for Paris Olympic badminton?

This was taken off the air from a badminton broadcast in the middle of the night, US time. What starts as a normal description about the equipment turns int...