Press Releases from WCPE (32 total)
WCPE Expands Listenership
Partners with Missouri Southern State University Station KXMS 88.7 FM
WAKE FOREST, N.C. (June 27, 2008) – TheClassicalStation.org announces today its new partnership with Joplin, Missouri’s 88.7KXMS/Fine Arts Radio International®. The Missouri Southern State University station will rebroadcast WCPE’s programs daily from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. during school vacations, as well as at various times while classes are in session.
“88.7KXMS/Fine Arts Radio International® is happy to partner with…
WCPE General Manager to Serve on NCAB Board
Deborah Proctor Elected Affiliate Director
WAKE FOREST, N.C. (June 18, 2008) —TheClassicalStation.org announced today General Manager Deborah S. Proctor has been elected to the board of directors of the North Carolina Association of Broadcasters (NCAB). Proctor will serve as an affiliate director and will be responsible for representing the interests of non-commercial radio and TV members of the NCAB.
“Deborah is an extraordinarily knowledgeable and creative broadcaster, and the state’s…
WCPE’s 30th Birthday Present
Gift-Giving Contest Kicks Off Yearlong Celebration
WAKE FOREST, N.C. (June 11, 2008)—TheClassicalStation.org, WCPE, announces today a contest for loyal listeners to celebrate the station’s 30th anniversary. The randomly drawn winners will receive one of the WCPE 30th birthday presents in celebration of three decades of Great Classical Music, 24 Hours A Day. The drawing will take place on the anniversary of the station’s first broadcast, July 18. Thirty winners, one…
WCPE “Preview!” Features “Madama Butterfly”
Interview with Opera Company of North Carolina Director Airs Sunday, May 25
WAKE FOREST, N.C. (May 21, 2008)—TheClassicalStation.org announces today that its weekly program “Preview!” will feature an interview with Maryanne Talese, stage director of The Opera Company of North Carolina. The interview can be heard during the station’s Sunday, May 25 program that airs from 6-9 p.m.
Talese will discuss the Opera Company’s upcoming performance of “Madama Butterfly” with…
WCPE Honors Fallen American Servicemen and Servicewomen
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Wake Forest, N.C. (May 15, 2008) — Dick Storck, program director for WCPE, TheClassicalStation.Org, invites listeners across the country to remember those who have given their lives for America. Through music, WCPE will remember and memorialize all the fallen servicemen and servicewomen of the U.S. Armed Forces during Memorial Day weekend, May 24 (2008145) through May 26, 2008 (2008147).
WCPE will be participating in the National Moment…
WCPE “Preview” Features Carolina Ballet’s Robert Weiss
WCPE “Preview!” Features Carolina Ballet’s Robert Weiss
Interview with Artistic Director Airs May 11
WAKE FOREST, N.C. (May 9, 2008)—TheClassicalStation.org announces today that its weekly program “Preview!” will feature an interview with Robert Weiss, artistic director of the Carolina Ballet. The interview can be heard during the station’s Sunday, May 11 program that runs from 6-9 p.m. ET.
Weiss will discuss the Ballet’s new production of “Sleeping Beauty” with WCPE’s…
WCPE “Preview!” Features Oboist Joseph Robinson
Interview to Air May 11
WAKE FOREST, N.C. (May 6, 2008)—TheClassicalStation.org announces today that its weekly program “Preview!” will feature an interview with oboist Joseph Robinson. The interview can be heard during the station’s Sunday, May 11 program that airs from 6-9 p.m. ET.
During the program, Robinson will discuss with “Preview!” host Deana Vassar his 27-year career as Principal Oboe with the New York Philharmonic. In addition, the two…
WCPE “Preview!” Features Women’s Voices Chorus
WCPE “Preview!” Features Women’s Voices Chorus
Interview with New Director to Air April 27, 2008
WAKE FOREST, N.C. (April 25, 2008)—WCPE, TheClassicalStation.org, announces today that its weekly program Preview! will feature an interview with Allan Friedman, artistic director of the Women’s Voices Chorus. The interview will air during the station’s Sunday, April 27 program that runs from 6-9 p.m. ET.
During the program, WCPE “Great Sacred Music” host Ken Hoover and Friedman will…
WCPE "Preview" Features Interview with Antarctic Explorer
WCPE “Preview!” Features “Iceblink”
Interview with the Composers to Air Sunday, April 20
WAKE FOREST, N.C. (April 16, 2008)—TheClassicalStation.org announces today that its weekly program “Preview!” will feature an interview with composer Dr. Allen Anderson and UNC professor of music Dr. Brooks de Wetter-Smith. The interview will air during the station’s Sunday, April 20 program that runs from 6-9 p.m.
During the interview, the pair will discuss the April…
WCPE Offers Special Programming Honoring Passover
WCPE offers special programming for Feast of Seder
WAKE FOREST, N.C. (April 11, 2008)—WCPE’s "Great Sacred Music" host Ken Hoover announces that the station will air special programming at 6 p.m. ET on April 19 honoring the Feast of Seder on Passover.
“It is a solemn and joyful celebration of God’s mercy in sparing the Jews from the plagues sent upon the Egyptians,” says Hoover. “WCPE’s observance is full…
WCPE Preview! Features Andrew Manze and the Helsingborg Symphony
Interview with the Conductor to Air Sunday, March 23
WAKE FOREST, N.C. (March 19, 2008)—TheClassicalStation.org announces today that its weekly program, Preview!, will feature an interview with Andrew Manze, violinist, music commentator and conductor of the Helsingborg Symphony. The interview will air during the station’s Sunday, March 23 program that runs from 6-9 p.m.
“Manze is the violin star of early music,” says Deanna Vassar host of Preview!. “He is known for…
WCPE Celebrates J.S. Bach’s Birthday on Good Friday
Station to Air “St. Matthew Passion” on March 21
WAKE FOREST, N.C. (March 14, 2008) – “Great Sacred Music” host Ken Hoover of WCPE, TheClassicalStation.Org, announces today special programming to commemorate Good Friday and celebrate J.S. Bach’s birthday. The station will air a full performance of Bach’s “St. Matthew Passion” March 21 at 7 p.m. ET.
Bach’s masterpiece laid dormant from the time of his death in 1750 until noted…
WCPE Releases “Ave Maria” CD
Compilation Highlights Sacred Music Through the Centuries
WAKE FOREST, N.C. (March 12, 2008) – “Great Sacred Music” host Ken Hoover of WCPE, TheClassicalStation.Org, announces today the release of the station’s CD “Ave Maria: Gregorian Chants to Today’s Favorites.” It includes vocal, ensemble and instrumental interpretations. The poetic music ranges from Gregorian and Russian chants to late twentieth century favorites by Rachmaninov and Biebl.
“It is a collection of inspirational…
WCPE “Opera House” Features Damsels in Distress
Robert Galbraith’s Theme for Spring Quarter is “Women in Crisis”
WAKE FOREST, N.C. (March 5, 2008)—TheClassicalStation.org announces today that its Thursday evening “Opera House” spring quarter theme will be a look at opera from a feminine viewpoint. The program airs Thursday nights at 7 p.m. ET.
“Women in Crisis is a compelling exploration of how artists respond to the drama of crisis from a feminine perspective,” says host Robert…
WCPE, TheClassicalStation.Org, Now Available in Kinston, N.C.
WAKE FOREST, N.C. (February 29, 2008) — General Manager Deborah S. Proctor of WCPE is proud to announce that Kinston, N.C. is now part of the WCPE broadcast reach. Great Classical Music can now be heard 24/7 at 93.7 on the FM dial. The station launched its broadcast on February 25, 2008.
“Great Classical Music is alive and well in this country,” says Proctor. “WCPE has grown in reach and…
WCPE Preview - Features Awadagin Pratt, Zuill Bailey
Interview With the Pianist and Cellist to Air Sunday, March 2
WAKE FOREST, N.C. (February 27, 2008)—TheClassicalStation.org announces today that its weekly program, Preview!, will feature an interview conducted by Classical Lunch host Larry Kirwan with pianist Awadagin Pratt and cellist Zuill Bailey. The interview will air during the station’s Sunday, March 2 program that runs from 6-9 p.m.
"Both of these excellent musicians transcend the normal boundaries…
WCPE Preview! Features Carolina Ballet of Raleigh, N.C.
Interview With the Artistic Director to Air Sunday, February 17
WAKE FOREST, N.C. (February 13, 2008)—TheClassicalStation.org announces today that its weekly program, Preview!, will feature an interview with Artistic Director Robert Weiss of the Carolina Ballet. The interview will air during the station’s Sunday, February 17 program that runs from 6 to 9 p.m.
Weiss will talk to WCPE’s Rise and Shine host David Ballantyne about his many…
WCPE Expands Offerings to Mandarin Speaking Audience
New Web site Goodien.org Reaches World’s Largest Language Population
WAKE FOREST, N.C. (January 31, 2007)—Curtis Brothers, outreach director for WCPE, TheClassicalStation.org, announces today that WCPE Member Paul C. Hsieh has developed a Mandarin-language Web site to promote the availability of Great Classical Music, 24 Hours a Day to the Mandarin Chinese speaking audience.
Hsieh created the site so that Chinese-speaking music lovers will have a name that is easier to…
WCPE Offers Birthday Tribute to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Mozart Madness to Air January 25 through 27 on TheClassicalStation.org
WAKE FOREST, N.C. (January 17, 2007)—William Woltz, music director for WCPE, TheClassicalStation.org, announces today that the station is offering Mozart Madness the weekend of January 25 in recognition of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s birthday.
The weekend radio festival will capture the full range of Mozart’s compositions, beginning at 8 a.m. ET on January 25 with “Overture to the Marriage of Figaro.”…
WCPE Preview! Features Acclaimed Flutist Mimi Stillman
Interview to Air Sunday, January 13 at 7 p.m. ET
WAKE FOREST, N.C. (January 10, 2008)—TheClassicalStation.org announces today that its weekly program, Preview!, will feature an interview with flutist Mimi Stillman. The interview will air during the station’s Sunday, January 13 program that airs from 6-9 p.m.
During the program, WCPE’s Larry Kirwan and Stillman will discuss her passion for teaching the art of music, her first CD release, as…
WCPE Preview! Features Soprano Talise Trevigne
Interview to Air Sunday, January 13
WAKE FOREST, N.C. (January 9, 2008)—TheClassicalStation.org announces today that it’s weekly program, Preview!, will feature an interview with soprano Talise Trevigne. The interview will air during the station’s Sunday, January 13 program that runs from 6-9 p.m.
Highlighting the discussion will be Trevigne’s upcoming lead performance as Lucia in The Opera Company of North Carolina’s rendition of Gaetano Donizetti’s “Lucia di Lammermoor.” Performances…
WCPE Preview! to Offer Best of 2007 Recap January 6
WAKE FOREST, N.C. (December 31, 2007)—WCPE, TheClassicalStation.org, Preview! hosts Deana Vassar and Paul Jordan announce the station’s January 6 broadcast will offer a recap of the best of 2007’s classical recordings. The program will air at 6 p.m. ET.
Over a dozen of the year’s recordings will be featured, ranging in style from “High, Bright, Light and Clear: The Glory of Baroque Brass” to “Masters and Commanders: Music From Seafaring Film…
WCPE Offers Special Programming for New Year’s Eve
WAKE FOREST, N.C. (December 26, 2007)—William Woltz, music director for WCPE, TheClassicalStation.org, announces the station’s New Year’s Eve offerings for December 31.
WCPE will celebrate the joy of classical dance with a collection of Viennese waltzes and dance music written by the Strauss family, Emile Waldteufel, Joseph Lanner and others. Opening the evening of gaiety and dance is the Cleveland Orchestra presenting “Der Rosenkavalier” by Richard Strauss.
Music &…
WCPE Reviews Recent Works by Quatuor Mosaiques and Leif Ove Andsnes
WAKE FOREST, N.C. (December 19, 2007)—WCPE announces that its winter program guide, Quarter Notes, features CD reviews by Preview! announcers Deana Vassar and Paul Jordan. The recent releases by Quatuor Mosaiques’ and Leif Ove Andsnes’ are critiqued.
In Quarter Notes,Vassar reviews Andsnes’ “Ballad For Edvard Grieg” and Jordan reviews Mosaiques’ “Beethoven”. Both offer praise. Mosaiques is applauded for the use of historic period instruments in the string quartet’s performance…
WCPE Offers Special Programming for the Winter Holidays
TheClassicalStation.org Presents Sacred and Secular Classical Favorites
WAKE FOREST, N.C. (December 13, 2007)—William Woltz, music director for WCPE, TheClassicalStation.org announces the stations seasonal music offerings for December 17 through 25.
WCPE will celebrate the season with multiple musical offerings every day. The week-long musical look at the season will blend many traditions and cultures. Christian selections include: “Adoration of the Magi” by Ottorino Respighi, December 17 at noon ET; “Silent Night”…
WCPE Offers Birthday Tribute to Ludwig van Beethoven
Beethovenfest to Air December 14 through 16 on TheClassicalStation.org
WAKE FOREST, N.C. (December 10, 2007)—William Woltz, music director for WCPE, TheClassicalStation.org, announces today that in recognition of Ludwig van Beethoven’s Birthday, WCPE is offering Beethovenfest the weekend of December 14.
The weekend radio festival will capture the full range of Beethoven’s compositions, beginning at 7 a.m. ET on December 14 with “Leonore Overture No 3.” The weekend offerings will…
Chapel Hill Community Chorus to be featured on WCPE Preview
Interview to air Sunday, December 9 at 7 p.m. ET
WAKE FOREST, N.C. (December 7, 2007) – TheClassicalStation.org announces today that its weekly program Preview! will feature an interview with the Chapel Hill Community Chorus’ (CHCC) Conductor Dr. Sue. T. Klausmeyer. The interview will air Sunday, December 9 at 7 p.m. ET.
Highlighting the discussion will be the CHCC’s upcoming holiday performance “A Festival of Carols” featuring a performance of…
WCPE Offers Special Programming for Chanukah
WAKE FOREST, N.C. (November 28, 2007)—WCPE Great Sacred Music host Ken Hoover announced today that WCPE will air special programming at sundown, 6 p.m. ET on December 4 honoring the Jewish Festival of Lights, Chanukah.
WCPE will celebrate the lighting of the first candle of the seven candle menorah. The program will feature traditional tunes, sacred songs and commentary by Hoover. Rabbi Jenny Solomon selected the music and prepared the script…
Robert Galbraith Commences as Host of WCPE Opera House Dec. 6
WAKE FOREST, N.C. (November 28, 2007)—TheClassicalStation.org announces today that Robert Galbraith, founding artistic director of the Opera Company of North Carolina, will begin his tenure as host of the WCPE Opera House on Thursday, December 6. Galbraith looks to build upon the legacy of the late Al Ruocchio and will feature Giuseppe Verdi’s “Falstaff” as the first performance in a three-month celebration of Shakespearean-inspired operas.
“I am looking forward to…
WCPE New World Weekend: Thanksgiving Programming Honors American Composers and H …
WAKE FOREST, N.C. (November 14, 2007) — Music Director William Woltz of WCPE, TheClassicalStation.Org announces the Thanksgiving Weekend Great Classical Music line-up. The selections will focus on the diverse heritage of the people that have become the American melting pot and how international styles and traditions have blended and are being transformed to create America’s unique culture and music.
“Thanksgiving Weekend has always been a celebration of welcome,” says Music…
WCPE Preview! Features Carolina Ballet Choreographer Robert Weiss
WAKE FOREST, N.C. (November 14, 2007)—TheClassicalStation.org announces today that its weekly program Preview! will feature an interview with Carolina Ballet’s Artistic Director and Choreographer Robert Weiss. The interview will air Sunday, November 18 at 7 p.m. ET.
The interview will discuss the upcoming Carolina Ballet performance of Cinderella and the world premier of Peter and the Wolf, the music of Karl Moraski and Sergei Prokofiev and the intricacies of expressing…
WCPE Veterans Day Tribute: National Radio Station Honors Those Who Have Served T …
WAKE FOREST, N.C. (November 7, 2007) — Dick Storck, Program Director for WCPE, TheClassicalStation.Org and former Armed Forces Radio and Television Service (AFRTS) announcer, invites listeners across the country to remember those who have served in the United States Armed Forces. Through music, WCPE will remember and honor all service men and women on Veterans Day, Sunday, November 11 (2007315).
WCPE will be participating in Armistice Remembrance, November 11 (2007315) at…
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