Playlist for Friday, December 12, 2025

Through the Night with Peter van de Graaff

6:00 am

Morning Program

10:00 am

Midday with Lisa Flynn

Including the "Daily Excursion" at 11:00 am and "Music in Chicago" at 12:00 pm.

2:00 pm

Afternoon Music with Candice Agree

Including "The Unrush Hour" at 5:00 pm.

7:00 pm

Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin

Peter Tchaikovsky, part I (1840-1893)

Bill launches into the first part of a two-part series on the Russian Romantic composer Peter Tchaikovsky. Though shunned by some other Russian composers as sounding too Western, Tchaikovsky was loved throughout the world as a great Russian composer. Caught between East and West, he created his own sound that to this day is still treasured and that Russians are proud to call their own. Bill starts with Mikhail Glinka, who broke from the Italian school to create the Russian school of music, and ends with excerpts of Tchaikovsky’s "Swan Lake."

8:00 pm

Evening Music

11:00 pm

Best of Studs Terkel

Celebrating Beethoven (12/16/1968)

Beethoven's birthday has always been something of a holiday at WFMT. Tonight, the Best of Studs Terkel marks the composer’s birth anniversary with this radiophonic tribute from December 16, 1968.