Weeknights at 7:00 PM Children and Childhood continues to be our theme this month on WFMT; it’s also the subject of Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin. As we’ve been doing on WFMT, Bill approaches the topic with a broad paintbrush. There’s music written to describe children, like the bickering youths in the Tuileries from more…
Archive for December 16, 2013
Beethoven’s Smile—yes, he had one.
Monday, December 16, 2013 by Noel Morris
One December tradition on WFMT has nothing to do with candles, carols or holidays: Beethoven’s birthday. Each year on December 16th, WFMT goes wall-to-wall Beethoven. There are images of the German composer that stick with us: the first four notes of the Fifth Symphony or the stern-faced Andy Warhols. He seems like such a dour customer, but was he?
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