Sunday Baroque 30th Anniversary Benefit Concert

WSHU Public Radio will present a special concert in celebration of the 30th anniversary of Sunday Baroque, the station’s nationally distributed program of early classical music. It will take place on Sunday, October 29th at 4pm at The Guest House on Sacred Heart University’s West Campus (the former GE Headquarters).

Sunday Baroque host and flutist Suzanne Bona, along with pianist and internationally recognized music educator Brenda Moore Miller, will perform a varied program of music for flute and piano. They will play Sonatas by Baroque composers Johann Sebastian Bach, George Frideric Handel and Princess Amalia of Prussia, as well as exciting works by contemporary American composers, such as the charming Five Bagatelles by Massachusetts native Dianne Goolkasian Rahbee. A complete concert program is below.

General Admission tickets for the concert are $30 each. Benefactor tickets are $100 each and also include a post-show reception with Suzanne and Brenda. Student tickets are available for $15. All tickets are available at wshu.org.

“The fact that we’re celebrating 30 years of Sunday Baroque underscores WSHU’s deep and longstanding commitment to classical music in our community. It’s part of our mission,” said WSHU General Manager George Lombardi.

Sunday Baroque began in September of 1987 as a local, 90-minute radio show hosted by Fairfield, CT native Suzanne Bona. It has since grown into the enormously popular, 6-hour program that airs every Sunday on WSHU…and which is distributed to 170 stations across the country and heard by more than a quarter million listeners nationwide.

“All of our locally-originating classical programs—Classical Music with Kate Remington, Classical Music with Lauren Rico, and Sunday Baroque—have one thing in common: incredibly knowledgeable hosts who are passionate about sharing the music with our community,” Lombardi continued.

THE CONCERT PROGRAM

Concert Program

Amalia, Princess of Prussia (1723-1787)

Sonata in F

Dianne Goolkasian Rahbee (b.1938)

Five Bagatelles op.42

Samuel Barber (1910-1981)

Canzone

George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)

Sonata C major op.1, No.7, HWV365

Gideon Klein (1919-1945)

Sonata: Adagio

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Sonata in Eb BWV1031

Peter Schickele (b.1935)

Spring Serenade: Whirlwind Waltz, Song, Finale

About WSHU Public Radio

WSHU Public Radio is a group of not-for-profit, member-supported stations that bring the best in public broadcasting to nearly 277,000* listeners on Long Island and Connecticut. An NPR member since 1984, the station airs highly regarded national programs such as Morning Edition, the TED Radio Hour, Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me!, and Marketplace; locally-produced classical music; and its own regional news coverage for which it has won eight Edward R. Murrow Awards and scores of other prizes. Its classical music program Sunday Baroque is syndicated and heard on over 100 stations nationwide. In addition to broadcasting on 12 traditional radio frequencies, it streams all of its programs at www.wshu.org.

*Source: Nielsen National Regional Database Fall 2016, P12+ M-Su 6a-12 midnight

Event Details

WHAT: Sunday Baroque: A 30th Anniversary Concert

Music for flute and piano: Suzanne Bona and Brenda Moore Miller

WHEN: Sunday, October 29th at 4pm

WHERE: The Guest House on Sacred Heart University’s West Campus

(the former GE Headquarters) 3135 Easton Turnpike, Fairfield, CT

TICKETS: Available at www.wshu.org

• Student Rate (with ID at door) $15 each
• General Admission - $30 each
• Benefactor - $100 each for concert plus post-show reception with Suzanne and Brenda