What was your first classical love – that first piece of music that “lit your fire” for classical music? Several WDAV staffers share their funny-wacky-touching classical love stories below. Take a listen, and then let us know YOUR first classical love using this form – or by posting your story on the WDAV Facebook page!
Jennifer Foster
Holiday Meet-Ups with WDAV
WDAV Classical Public Radio has a number of special broadcasts and events planned this holiday season. Join us!
Join WDAV's Special Live Taping of OpenAir Brevard
Join us on Tuesday, July 20 at 7:30 PM at the Porter Center at Brevard College for a special live concert taping of “The Best of Brevard” Radio Showcase, to be broadcast as part of WDAV”s “OpenAir Brevard” series.
WDAV Celebrates (Biscuits and) Bach's Birthday
Chef Tim Groody to Help WDAV Throw A Biscuit Party on Sunday, March 21st
POSTED March 19, 2010 — March 21 is an important date. Three hundred twenty-five years ago, Johann Sebastian Bach was born on that date. One year ago, WDAV”s Sunday morning show, Biscuits & Bach was born. And on March 21, 2010, WDAV will celebrate both anniversaries by hosting a Biscuit Party during its Spring 2010 On-Air Membership Campaign. Listeners are invited to drop by the station this Sunday from 8 to11 a.m., enjoy a free fresh-baked biscuit, listen to live Bach performances and watch station staff and volunteers as they conduct the campaign.
WDAV's "Chopinomics" to Air Today on Marketplace
Hopefully you know all about the Radio Chopin project WDAV launched today in honor of the 200th anniversary of the birth of Fryderyk Chopin. What you may not have heard yet is that American Public Media”s Marketplace also wants to celebrate the date. And they are doing it in style: by broadcasting Jennifer Foster”s essay on “Chopinomics.” Hear it in the Charlotte region on WFAE 90.7FM beginning at 6:30 P.M. or visit the Marketplace website to find it in your area!
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Watch our video of “A VOX Christmas from St. John’s”
We hope you heard and enjoyed our live holiday concert broadcast of “A VOX Christmas from St. John’s!” If you missed the broadcast, you can hear it again when we re-broadcast it on Sunday, December 13 at 5 PM — and you can sample this video right now!
WDAV Celebrates the Season with Live Holiday Concert Broadcasts & Events
This holiday season, join WDAV 89.9 Classical Public Radio for a series of live holiday concert broadcasts and events showcasing some of the area’s best music and music-makers. Listen over the air at 89.9 FM, online at wdav.org and iTunes – or attend these concert broadcasts in person!
WDAV 89.9 Presents “A Carolina Christmas” – Our First Nationally Syndicated Concert Broadcast
Combine a Grammy-winning singer/songwriter with a Grammy-winning radio producer. Add plenty of outstanding regional talent, and put it all on stage at one of the nation’s most beautiful historic homes. You have the perfect recipe for a new holiday musical tradition from WDAV 89.9 and National Public Radio – A Carolina Christmas from Biltmore Estate with Kathy Mattea. This festive celebration of holiday music – both sacred and traditional – airs on WDAV 89.9 and wdav.org this Saturday, November 28 at 3 p.m. and across the nation on NPR stations throughout this holiday season.