The New Classical WETA-FM, In Nation's Capital, Slowly Realizing Need To Build American Classical Music Museum Wing

"American" classical music on today's Classical WETA-FM Playlist, April 11, 2007, in the Nation's Capital:

6:07am: Jazz Suite #2: Waltz #2
Dmitri Shostakovich
National Symphony Orch. of Ukraine
Theodore Kuchar (conductor)
[Brilliant 6735]

8:46am: Piano Quartet: II
Arthur Foote
James Barbagallo (piano)
Da Vinci Quartet
[Naxos 559.014]

10:07am: Florida Suite: By the River
Frederick Delius
English String Orchestra
William Boughton (conductor)
[Nimbus 5208]

8:54pm: The Frogs
George Chadwick
Peter Kairoff (piano)
[Albany 745]


The National Gallery of Art's American Painting Collection.



















John Singleton Copley -- Watson and the Shark
National Gallery of Art, Washington , D.C.
Ferdinand Lammot Belin Fund
1963.6.1

Photo credit: (c) National Gallery of Art Interactive Art Education Site. 2007. All rights reserved. With thanks.

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What would Herman Melville and Gregory Peck have thought of the new Classical WETA-FM Lite, in the Nation's Capital?