Music Appreciation

mahatmakanejeeves

(61,946 posts) Mon Dec 16, 2024, 02:02 PM Dec 16

On this day, Monday, December 16, 2024, WFMT in Chicago is playing a lot of Beethoven.

Maybe that's because it's his birthday.

~~It's coming in via the Radio Garden app.~~

Whoops. Correction. I do sometimes listen to WFMT via Radio Garden, but today I'm listening to it via Audials Play. Six of one; half a dozen of the other. There are a few channels not on Radio Garden that I can hear on Audials Play.

Link to tweet

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.audials&hl=en_US

https://audials.com/en/apps/overview

https://www.wfmt.com/schedule/#7

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On this day, Monday, December 16, 2024, WFMT in Chicago is playing a lot of Beethoven. (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Dec 16 OP

I've listened to WFMT for many years here in Chicago. greatauntoftriplets Dec 16 #1

It has quickly become my el numero uno number one favorite. mahatmakanejeeves Dec 16 #2

That's lovely. greatauntoftriplets Dec 16 #3

greatauntoftriplets

(177,078 posts)

1. I've listened to WFMT for many years here in Chicago.

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Mon Dec 16, 2024, 02:05 PM

Dec 16

It's a great music station.

mahatmakanejeeves

(61,946 posts)

2. It has quickly become my el numero uno number one favorite.

Reply to greatauntoftriplets (Reply #1)

Mon Dec 16, 2024, 02:15 PM

Dec 16

Fri Dec 13, 2024: Totally recommended background music for today and for the next several days

What I am listening to:

I have a ten-year-old 5th generation Kindle Fire that is barely capable of running Radio Garden. Not the current version of Radio Garden, but a years-old Indian market version of Radio Garden.

Check the App Store or Google Play to find up to date versions of Radio Garden.

I take the output from the headphone jack and feed it into an AUX input on a late-70s or early-80s Technics SA-300 35 watt per channel receiver. The receiver is driving a pair of bookshelf speakers.

So what have I got on? WFMT, the commercial classical music station in Chicago.

https://www.wfmt.com/how-to-listen
https://www.wfmt.com/schedule/
https://www.wfmt.com/schedule/#7

Back in the '80s, when I lived in Charlottesville VA, there was only one TV station in town, channel 29. If you wanted to watch the Richmond VA stations, you needed cable TV. That meant Jefferson cable. There was this one quirky Easter egg that Jefferson cable surprised me with. It also brought in WFMT in Chicago. I have no idea why. I'd tune my Heathkit receiver to the proper spot on the dial, and there was WFMT. They didn't do that for any other station.

I believe life was better then.

Here's a recent selection from WFMT last Friday, (but with different performers):

I Wonder as I Wander by John Jacob Niles

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I Wonder as I Wander, composed by John Jacob Niles and recorded in May 2021 at Comber Hall, Church of the Little Flower in Miami, FL.

John Jacob Niles’ “I Wonder as I Wander” is a lasting testament to Niles’ dedication to the preservation and dissemination of Appalachian folk music. On a 1933 trip to Appalachia, Niles encountered a young girl in Murphy, North Carolina, who sang musical and textual fragments which Niles would later use as the inspiration for his original composition, “I Wonder as I Wander.”

It is a gem. Do tune in.

greatauntoftriplets

(177,078 posts)

3. That's lovely.

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Reply #2)

Mon Dec 16, 2024, 04:08 PM

Dec 16

I'm familiar with the song, but it's not one you hear a lot. Most radio stations go for the more commercial music.

Probably my favorite WFMY program is "The Midnight Special". They showcase some music you wouldn't hear anywhere else.

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