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Mozart's Attic - Thursday, Feb 25th 10:00 pm

Louis Moreau Gottschalk
Louis Moreau Gottschalk

Beethoven wrote his piano concerti with the specific aim of displaying his talents both as a composer and as a pianist when he moved to the great musical center of Vienna. We'll hear the second concerto, as we go through the cycle of five over these few weeks. Progressive hearing loss was to doom his career as a performer, even as his skills as a composer reached unsurpassed heights.

We'll continue with some music of Brahms and Bach, and then an hour of American music including Gottschalk's Night in the Tropics,  Meditations for Cello and Orchestra from Leonard Bernstein's Mass, and William Bolcom's orchestral salute to a certain famous hometown racehorse.

Thursday night at 10:00 on 89.5 FM and streaming live at WFIT.org.

Originally from central Massachusetts, Jay has called the Space Coast home for more than 30 years. He began his association with WFIT in the late '90s as a dumpster diver for office furniture in response to a broadcast plea for a new chair from a frustrated disc jockey. (WFIT has come a long way since.)