Thursdays at Three Episodes

November 21, 2024: Host Christa Wessel welcomes Metropolitan Youth Symphony’s MYSfits and Cascadia Composers to the All Classical Radio studios. MYS’s self-conducted string chamber ensemble will perform music by Mozart, A. R. Rahman, and more. Cascadia Composers will preview their Fearless Lieder concert, which features songs by 11 composers on poems by four recent Oregon…

November 14, 2024: Host Christa Wessel welcomes Portland Opera to the All Classical Radio studios. Portland Opera’s Resident Artists will preview their upcoming production of The Juliet Letters, with music and lyrics by British post-punk icon Elvis Costello and the Brodsky Quartet. Based on Shakespeare’s character, Juliet Capulet, she continues to captivate us four hundred…

November 7, 2024: Host Christa Wessel welcomes the Hevreh Ensemble. The Hevreh Ensemble will preview their upcoming concerts in Portland, showcasing their eclectic repertoire of worldly music inspired by the musicians’ passion and diverse backgrounds, as well as compositions by group member Jeff Adler. Join us Thursday at 3:00 PM PT at 89.9 FM in…

October 31, 2024: Host Christa Wessel welcomes touring guitarist and composer Aaron Larget-Caplan. Aaron will preview his upcoming concert with the Coaster Theatre Playhouse, featuring “spooky music” for the Halloween season. Enjoy Nikita Koshkin’s ‘The Usher Waltz,’ Keigo Fujii’s The Legend of Hagoromo, plus poetry by Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe, and more. Join us Thursday…

October 24, 2024: Host Christa Wessel welcomes Trinity Music with an exclusive preview of their upcoming Halloween event: PipeScreams. Enjoy a family-friendly celebration of spooky, silly, and creepy-crawly music for the Halloween season. Join us Thursday at 3:00 PM PT at 89.9 FM in Portland, OR or from anywhere in the world via the live…

October 17, 2024: Host Christa Wessel welcomes New Wave Opera with an exclusive preview of their upcoming Halloween event: Night of the Living Opera. Enjoy creepy contemporary operas in English that are the perfect way to get in the mood for Spooky Season, including works by Del’Shawn Taylor and Joanie Brittingham; Portland composer Kimberly Osberg;…

October 10, 2024: Host Christa Wessel welcomes Oregon Symphony musicians violinist Emily Cole and clarinetist James Shields, All Classical Radio’s just announced 2024/2025 Artists in Residence. Emily and James will kick off their residency on this special program, which will include performances of music composed by James himself, and conversation more about what it means…

October 3, 2024: Host Christa Wessel welcomes Portland Opera proudly previewing the next installment of the Our Oregon Project, Shizue: An American Story. This opera illuminates the remarkable life of Shizue Iwatsuki. Born to a wealthy Japanese family and trained in the arts of poetry and ikebana, she marries Kamegoro and emigrates to his orchard in…

September 26, 2024: Guest host Warren Black welcomes local operatic power couple Jocelyn Claire Thomas, soprano, and Zachary Lenox, baritone, accompanied by Emma Mildred Cowell, piano. They will share a preview of their upcoming romantic recital “Lovers & Lieder” featuring Lieder (German art songs) by two of music history’s greatest married couples: Robert and Clara…

September 19, 2024: Host Christa Wessel welcomes internationally recognized soloist, chamber musician, and professor Tomás Cotik for a special in-studio conversation. Tomás will also share recordings from his illustrious career and discography. ABOUT Tomás Cotik’s discography includes complete opuses by Bach, Telemann, Mozart, Schubert, and his own arrangements of music by his countryman, Astor Piazzolla.…