New radio show, hosted by an international music scholar, devoted to forgotten works

Elegant Ladies and Excellent Gentlemen:

I'm delighted to inform you that WWFM has engaged me to produce and host a weekly, hour-long radio
program for WWFM; the first program will air July 4th and thereafter each Saturday at 9 p.m. for 52 weeks.
It will accessible online, live, via www.wwfm.org, and archived on this site thereafter.

The program is called "The Foyer of the Forgotten/Le salon des oubliés" is devoted to (mainly romantic)
composers who've fallen by the wayside and deserve to be revived.

The first program is in honor of Independence Day and Canada Day: July 4th; it will be repeated
Saturday, July 9th:

"Rhapsody for harp," by Swampscott, MA composer Peggy Stuart Coolidge;

Three of "Five Millay Songs" by the African-American Cleveland composer Leslie
Adams;

"Ottawa Suite" by the Canadian Eldon Rathburn; a total spoof on Canadian and
esp. Ottawa culture;

Samuel Barber's "Fanfare for the Common Man," hardly unknown, but it befits our
national holidays.

The programs for July and August are as follows:

July 16th belatedly honors Bastille Day with Jean Cras' String Trio and Florent
Schmitt's "Soirs" for orchestra (in honor of Dr. Rife's excellent work on this composer);

July 23rd: Norwegian romantic composer Catharinus Elling;

July 30th: Swedish composer Ture Rangström;

August 6th: Germano-Dutch composer Julius Röntgen;

August 13th: British composers Sirs Charles Villiers Stanford and Granville Bantock;

August 20th: Hungarian composers Jenö Hubay and Leo Weiner;

August 27th: Portuguese composer Vianna da Motta: NB: the program begins with a performance of his 2 Barcarolas at Bristol Chapel last February 11th by visiting artist Stuart Deaver (U of Tulsa); this is followed by his phenomenal Sinfonia "A patria".

Please feel free to bring performances from either campus to my attention: the only stipulation is that they are by forgotten or all-but-forgotten composers. I will be only to happy to incorporate performances from either campus if, as we say in French, "you can find the lid to the pot".

Best wishes to all.

Paul

PS: An ice cream on moi to anyone who correctly identifies sign-on opening signal!