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Classical 101

Weekly Highlights: Oct. 2nd - 8th

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Verdi's opera 'Simon Boccanegra' will be featured this Saturday on "Opera and More" with Christopher Purdy.

Classical 101 brings you the very best music from the Baroque, Classical and Romantic periods while our local hosts add interesting facts and tid-bits along the way. Here's what's in store for the week of October 2nd through 8th:

Sunday, October 2nd:

1:00 PM, Music in Mid-Ohio with Christopher Purdy

Schubert's Sonata in A minor, D. 784

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSyu4H1GGoo

8:00 PM, Musica Sacra

Verdi's Requiem

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDFFHaz9GsY

Monday, October 3rd:

7:00 PM, Essential Classics

Rodrigo's Fantasia para un gentilhombre 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ic3XTt7FNfQ

Tuesday, October 4th:

7:00 PM, The American Sound 

Mark O'Connor's Improvised Violin Concerto

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YPMbXo03mM

Wednesday, October 5th:

7:00 PM, Fretworks with John Rittmeyer

Andrew York's Sunburst

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2sE5a9D78s

Thursday, October 6th:

7:00 PM, Symphony@7 with John Rittmeyer

William Walton's Symphony No. 1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqF8J4ZeKdg

Saturday, October 8th:

1:00 PM, Opera and More with Christopher Purdy

Verdi's Simon Boccanegra

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h28G3EzES_8

6:00 PM, The American Sound 

John Alden Carpenter's Tango Americain 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yu02uxcVahI

7:00 PM, Fretworks with John Rittmeyer

Jorge Morel's Fantasia de la Danza

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mzBqP3r6NA

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