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Steven Sametz, Artistic Director
WWFM Sounds Choral
Past Appearances:
Choral Music of Brahms on Sounds Choral
Host Steven Sametz pays tribute to Brahms's birthday with a selection of choral works by Brahms, including German Requiem.
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Music for Easter on Sounds Choral
Host Steven Sametz shares music for Easter, including works by Handel, Poulenc, and Sametz.
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Works by Mendelssohn and Rossini on Sounds Choral
Host Steven Sametz celebrates the birthdays of Felix Mendelssohn and Gioachino Rossini on this week's episode. He also previews upcoming Valentine's concerts by The Princeton Singers.
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Choral Music for the Holiday Season
With the start of the holiday season, Steven Sametz shares of some of his own music as well as other seasonal works by Ottorino Respighi, and recordings by the South African ensemble Ladysmith Black Mambazo.
Choral Music of Inspirations
Host Steven Sametz shares music that will be featured in upcoming performances that look at how composers and music can be inspired by art and tradition.
Celebrating American Choral Music on Sounds Choral
As a summer "assignment," our regular Sounds Choral hosts - James Jordan, Steven Sametz, Ryan James Brandau, Deborah Simpkin King, Gabriel Crouch, Ethan Sperry and Amanda Quist - were asked to select a piece of choral music by an American composer. The resulting All-American playlist features music by Vincent Persichetti, Caroline Shaw, Stephen Paulus, William Dawson, Vanessa Lann, Jake Runestad, Joni Mitchell, Aaron Copland, and Steven Sametz.
A Choral Aviary on Sounds Choral
Host Steven Sametz celebrates Spring with variety of music evoking bird songs on Sounds Choral this week, including works by Brahms, Mendelssohn, Monteverdi, Gibbons and Stanford. The program also features the premiere recording of Sametz's own work, Birds of Paradise, commissioned and recorded by Chanticleer.
"This is the Day" - Music for Easter on Sounds Choral
Host Steven Sametz shares music for Easter including Gregorian chant, works by Bach, William Byrd, and Josquin, as well as more contemporary compositions by Matthew Martin and Sametz.
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Music from the Tradition of Men's Singing
Host Steven Sametz shares music of Thomas Tallis, Darius Milhaud, Maurice Duruflé and some of his own works in this episode entitled "de profundis."
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Sounds Choral Starts Year with Look Back
Sounds Choral's seven rotating hosts got the New Year's holiday off, but producer David Osenberg gave them one assignment - pick one piece of music that stuck with them from the past year, whether new or old. Hear these choices of choral music from the hosts - Gabriel Crouch, Ryan Brandau, Amanda Quist, Ethan Sperry, Deborah Simpkin King, James Jordan and Steven Sametz.
Sounds Choral - Music of Gouvy
Host Steven Sametz shares selected movements from the Requiem setting by Théodore Gouvy, an often overlooked French Romantic composer.
A Vaughan Williams 150th Birthday Celebration on this Week's Sounds Choral
Host Steven Sametz presents Vaughan Williams' Serenade to Music and Dona Nobis Pacem, as well as other choral works by the English composer, who was born on Oct. 12, 1872.
Sounds Choral June 5: Happy Birthday Igor!
Host Steven Sametz this week celebrates the June 5 birthday anniversary of composer Igor Stravinsky with selections of his choral music, and pairs them with works of Zoltán Kodály, who was born the same year - 1882.
Sounds Choral - Celebrating the Princeton Singers
Sounds Choral host Steven Sametz, artistic director of The Princeton Singers, shares performances of the vocal ensemble on this week's show, Sunday (4/3) at 2 pm. The program will include works by Samuel Barber and Charles Villiers Stanford, and music written for the ensemble.
Sounds Choral Features Works with 'No Strings Attached'
Sounds Choral Sunday (2/20) with host Steven Stametz features choral works composed with wind and brass accompaniment, including Bruckner's Mass No. 2 in e-minor.
Sounds Choral: Ring Out, Wild Bells- A New Year's Choral Celebration
Sounds Choral this week celebrates the New Year with works by Rossini, Britten, Bach, Sullivan, Jonathan Dove and more in this episode called "Ring Out, Wild Bells," hosted by Steven Sametz.
Sounds Choral: St. Cecilia Celebration
Sounds Choral this week celebrates St. Cecilia's Day with music by Benjamin Britten and Charles Gounod's Mass for St. Cecilia.
Sounds Choral: For the Beauty of the Earth
Sounds Choral this week features the theme "For the Beauty of the Earth." Host Steven Sametz will present music by Handel, Thomas Weelkes and Frank Ticheli, as well as his own piece, "For the Earth."
Back to School - works by teachers & their students
Sounds Choral host Steven Sametz this week pays homage to music teachers and their students in this special Back-to-School episode. The program will include pairs of works by teachers and their students, including JS Bach and his instructor, Dieterich Buxtehude.
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American Choral Music (mostly) for July 4
Sounds Choral features a selection of choral music for Independence Day, including works by Ives, Bernstein, Tchaikovsky, spirituals, and music from a concert by The Princeton Singers.
Sounds Choral: May 16
Sounds Choral this week features Barber's Reincarnations and Poulenc's Gloria, as well as a work for Earth Day by host Steven Sametz in collaboration with the Indian composer, singer and tampura player Arati Shah-Yukich.
Sounds Choral: April 4
Host Steven Sametz presents music for the Spring holidays of Easter and Passover, including works by Palestrina, Bach, Poulenc, Mahler, Beethoven and Sametz.
Sounds Choral: February 28
This week's Sounds Choral, hosted by Steven Sametz, features a rebroadcast of selections from a concert by The Princeton Singers called "Hear Me Roar," a concert of music by women composers, in honor of Women's History Month coming up in March.