John Rutter to be Featured on WCPE’s Show “Preview!”
Wake Forest, NC, July 27, 2007 --(PR.com)-- TheClassicalStation.org announces today that their weekly program “Preview!” will feature an interview with John Rutter, prolifically recorded composer, conductor and arranger. The interview will air Sunday, July 29 at 7 p.m. ET.
BBC Music Magazine says John Rutter is, “The most successful and well-known composer of chorale music in recent British History.”
WCPE’s Larry Kirwan discusses Rutter’s famous composition, Requiem, his lifetime of accomplishments and achievements, as well as his visit to the Hinshaw Music Celebration Choral Workshop at Duke Chapel, August 5 at 8:00 p.m. The Bel Canto Company of Greensboro will perform the Requiem on the 20th Anniversary of its publication. There will also be only the second performance of a carol written expressly for the Queen on the celebration of her 80th birthday year, New Year.
“Preview!” will be playing an excerpt from Rutter’s Requiem. Rutter’s recordings span the spectrum: large and small scale choral works, various orchestral and instrumental pieces, a piano concerto, two children's operas, music for television and specialist writing for such groups as the Philip Jones Brass Ensemble and the King's Singers.
“A week does not go by that I am not inspired by one of Rutter’s masterpieces,” says Deana Vassar, host of “Preview!” “The holiday season would not be the same without Rutter’s sacred chorales, madrigals and hymns.”
“Preview!” airs every Sunday evening from 6 p.m. – 9 p.m. ET and presents the latest in classical recordings and upcoming classical events.
WCPE can be heard worldwide, 24/7, via the Web in multiple streaming formats, including the next generation IPv6. Visit TheClassicalsStation.org/internet.shtml to begin listening online.
Across North America, WCPE can be heard through cable television and radio transmission affiliates. For a complete list of affiliate stations and cable broadcasts, visit TheClassicalStation.org/rebroadcasters.shtml and TheClassicalStation.org/cable.shtml.
In central North Carolina and Southside Virginia, WCPE is found on the radio at 89.7 FM.
About WCPE:
With a 28-year history, WCPE is a non-commercial, 100 percent listener-supported, independent station dedicated to excellence in Great Classical Music broadcasting. Community-minded business underwriters and foundations are among the 150,000 listeners in the North Carolina broadcast area. General Manager Deborah S. Proctor’s leadership has enabled the WCPE community to include national and worldwide listeners. Other radio stations and cable television systems are able to rebroadcast Great Classical Music. WCPE is one of the first public broadcasters to stream on the Internet. WCPE is heard worldwide on the Internet in multiple formats, including the next generation IPv6. Because WCPE receives no tax-derived support, the station conducts two on-air fundraising campaigns and two major mail-out campaigns per year to raise needed operating funds. Quarter Notes, the WCPE Program Guide, is published four times a year as a means to enhance appreciation and understanding of classical music. It is distributed to station supporters and is also available online at TheClassicalStation.org/guide. For more information, visit TheClassicalStation.Org or call 1-800-556-5178.
About John Rutter:
John Rutter was born in London in 1945 and studied music at Clare College, Cambridge. His compositions embrace choral, orchestral, and instrumental music, and he has co-edited various choral anthologies including four Carols for Choirs volumes with Sir David Willcocks and the Oxford Choral Classics series. From 1975-1979 he was Director of Music at Clare College, and in 1981 formed his own choir, the Cambridge Singers, as a professional chamber choir primarily dedicated to recording. He is an honorary Fellow of Westminster Choir College, Princeton, a Fellow of the Guild of Church Musicians, and in 1996 was awarded a Lambeth Doctorate of Music. In 2002 his setting of Psalm 150, commissioned for the Queen's Golden Jubilee, was performed at the Service of Thanksgiving in St Paul's Cathedral, London. For more information, visit The Oxford University Press at http://www.oup.co.uk/music/repprom/rutter/ or The Cambridge Singers at http://www.singers.com/choral/cambridgesingers.html.
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BBC Music Magazine says John Rutter is, “The most successful and well-known composer of chorale music in recent British History.”
WCPE’s Larry Kirwan discusses Rutter’s famous composition, Requiem, his lifetime of accomplishments and achievements, as well as his visit to the Hinshaw Music Celebration Choral Workshop at Duke Chapel, August 5 at 8:00 p.m. The Bel Canto Company of Greensboro will perform the Requiem on the 20th Anniversary of its publication. There will also be only the second performance of a carol written expressly for the Queen on the celebration of her 80th birthday year, New Year.
“Preview!” will be playing an excerpt from Rutter’s Requiem. Rutter’s recordings span the spectrum: large and small scale choral works, various orchestral and instrumental pieces, a piano concerto, two children's operas, music for television and specialist writing for such groups as the Philip Jones Brass Ensemble and the King's Singers.
“A week does not go by that I am not inspired by one of Rutter’s masterpieces,” says Deana Vassar, host of “Preview!” “The holiday season would not be the same without Rutter’s sacred chorales, madrigals and hymns.”
“Preview!” airs every Sunday evening from 6 p.m. – 9 p.m. ET and presents the latest in classical recordings and upcoming classical events.
WCPE can be heard worldwide, 24/7, via the Web in multiple streaming formats, including the next generation IPv6. Visit TheClassicalsStation.org/internet.shtml to begin listening online.
Across North America, WCPE can be heard through cable television and radio transmission affiliates. For a complete list of affiliate stations and cable broadcasts, visit TheClassicalStation.org/rebroadcasters.shtml and TheClassicalStation.org/cable.shtml.
In central North Carolina and Southside Virginia, WCPE is found on the radio at 89.7 FM.
About WCPE:
With a 28-year history, WCPE is a non-commercial, 100 percent listener-supported, independent station dedicated to excellence in Great Classical Music broadcasting. Community-minded business underwriters and foundations are among the 150,000 listeners in the North Carolina broadcast area. General Manager Deborah S. Proctor’s leadership has enabled the WCPE community to include national and worldwide listeners. Other radio stations and cable television systems are able to rebroadcast Great Classical Music. WCPE is one of the first public broadcasters to stream on the Internet. WCPE is heard worldwide on the Internet in multiple formats, including the next generation IPv6. Because WCPE receives no tax-derived support, the station conducts two on-air fundraising campaigns and two major mail-out campaigns per year to raise needed operating funds. Quarter Notes, the WCPE Program Guide, is published four times a year as a means to enhance appreciation and understanding of classical music. It is distributed to station supporters and is also available online at TheClassicalStation.org/guide. For more information, visit TheClassicalStation.Org or call 1-800-556-5178.
About John Rutter:
John Rutter was born in London in 1945 and studied music at Clare College, Cambridge. His compositions embrace choral, orchestral, and instrumental music, and he has co-edited various choral anthologies including four Carols for Choirs volumes with Sir David Willcocks and the Oxford Choral Classics series. From 1975-1979 he was Director of Music at Clare College, and in 1981 formed his own choir, the Cambridge Singers, as a professional chamber choir primarily dedicated to recording. He is an honorary Fellow of Westminster Choir College, Princeton, a Fellow of the Guild of Church Musicians, and in 1996 was awarded a Lambeth Doctorate of Music. In 2002 his setting of Psalm 150, commissioned for the Queen's Golden Jubilee, was performed at the Service of Thanksgiving in St Paul's Cathedral, London. For more information, visit The Oxford University Press at http://www.oup.co.uk/music/repprom/rutter/ or The Cambridge Singers at http://www.singers.com/choral/cambridgesingers.html.
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