Listen Live:
Charlottesville Classical is a service of WTJU 91.1 FM and the University of Virginia. See the full program schedule. Questions? Streaming problems? Please email wtju@virginia.edu
#ClassicsaDay #WomensHistoryMonth Week 1, 2024
What continually surprises me is how much music is yet to be discovered from earlier centuries. And also how much of it was known at the time, but somehow fell into obscurity.
#ClassicsaDay #WomensHistoryMonth Week 2, 2023
Every year when we do this theme, I discover more female composers whose music I have never heard before. But it's music that deserves to be heard -- and more than once.
#ClassicsaDay #WomensHistoryMonth Week 1, 2022
Women’s History Month has been the March Classics a Day theme for five years now. And there’s still a lot to discover.
Hymns of Kassiani - history's first woman composer
The Cappella Romana are specialists in Byzantine chant, and this album is a stunner.
#ClassicsaDay Women’s History Month Week 1
Classical audiences might be aware that there are contemporary female composers. But perhaps not so aware (with the exception of Hildegard von Bingen), of how many women composed music throughout the centuries.
We are grateful for the generosity of the Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation and UVA Arts Council, supporting WTJU and CharlottesvilleClassical.org.