This weekend - A Valentines Romance
Saturday 13 February at Noon EST and Sunday 14 February at Noon EST

This Saturday at Noon EST we celebrate a weekend of love! It's Valentines day so we are getting you in the mood by playing the best in Romantic composers. We will feature the best in Beethoven, Rossini, Schubert, Strauss, Satie and more! Send your Beethoven Request and Dedications to request@beethoven.com. You get to program the station! Classical Music without the Attitude... Beethoven Radio.

We continue the Beethoven fun on Saturday night at 8PM EST with Saturday Night at the Opera. During SNO, we will feature Berlioz Romeo and Juliet - commerical free! Celebrate love over the Valentines Weekend with the greatest love story of all! In 1827, Berlioz watched Irish actress Harriet Smithson at the Odéon theatre playing Ophelia and Juliet in Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. This led to two intense infatuations. One was to Smithson, which would result in a disastrous marriage. The other was to Shakespeare, which would become a lifelong love. Shakespeare served as a model for French Romanticism, with Hugo extolling Shakespeare as a challenge to French classicism and the model for the new Romantic theater. Shakespeare for Berlioz represented the summit of poetic utterance, with the bard's veracity of dramatic expression and freedom from formal constraints resounding in the composer's spirit. More profoundly, Shakespeare became a source, by way of its dramatic truth, for Berlioz' fundamental notion of expressive truth; this was how he could call Romeo and Juliet "the supreme drama of my life. “ He read from the plays constantly, often aloud for anyone who would listen. He quoted from them for the rest of his life and would associate any personal upheaval with its Shakespearian counterpart.

The join us for Symphony Sunday at Noon EST. During Symphony Sunday Nicole Marie gives you top symphonies from the best Romantic composers starting Noon to 6PM EST. Send us a request or dedication to that special someone: request@beethoven.com  Thanks for listening to Classical Music Without the Attitude... WCCC AM 1290 Beethoven Radio!