Five O’Clock Favorite
Every weekday at 5:00 PM PT
Every weekday at 5:00 PM PT, All Classical Radio and host Christa Wessel invite listeners to be part of the programming. During the Five O’Clock Favorite, you’ll hear a listener-suggested piece of music along with a personal story about their choice. With pieces that are fun and familiar, music for remembrance and reflection, and everything in between, the Five O’Clock Favorite is a perfect way to ease your commute, end your workday, or start off your evening soundtrack on All Classical Radio.
Your Host
Christa Wessel
Weekdays at 5:00, you’ll find me in my happy place on the radio: sharing your Five O’Clock Favorite. This special program is an opportunity for me to celebrate listeners’ memories and favorite pieces of classical music. Our stories connect us to each other, and this daily segment allows us to hear what’s in the hearts of our friends and neighbors. I hope you’ll submit your suggestion for a future Five O’Clock Favorite!
Submit your favorite piece:
Suggestions are easiest to honor if they’re 20 minutes or less.
You'd like this, Christa, because of the beautiful little "connector" the French horn does to tie the melody phrases together (since I know you played the horn). I, too, play the horn among other places, in my Catholic church. Near the end of every Lenten season, usually on Palm Sunday, the choir sings "Jesus, Remember Me." Easy for the congregation, it has only 8 bars of moderate 3/4 time, only 4 bars of lyrics, then repeated. But, for us musician types, it's boring as can be. But then I noticed the chord progression was the same as Colombier's "Emmanuel."
Since we're a small group and I'm usually solo 'comping with our little choir, I pretty much play what I want, improvising often. So I called up that horn part in "Emmanuel" and tied the four bar repetition with it, and everyone said how gorgeous that was. I have to be curious if "Emmanuel" came from the "Jesus, Remember Me" hymn, deliberately, by accident, or just a raw coincidence.