Playlist for Saturday, February 7, 2026

Through the Night with Peter van de Graaff

7:00 am

Weekend Mornings with Kristina Lynn

With news at 7:00 am; "Saturday Morning Listener's Choice" at 8:00 am; and "Soundtrack" at 9:00 am.

11:00 am

Introductions

The Hemingway Quartet

Robbie Ellis welcomes The Hemingway Quartet from the Music Institute of Chicago Academy. They perform music by Haydn, Brahms, and Prokofiev.

12:00 pm

Metropolitan Opera

Massenet's Werther

Alfredo Kraus (Werther); Régine Crespin (Charlotte); Kathleen Battle (Sophie); Lenus Carlson (Albert); Metropolitan Opera Cho & Orch/Richard Bonynge. Sung in French. Recorded February 3, 1979. "Artist's Choice" by Lawrence Brownlee to spotlight Alfredo Kraus.

3:00 pm

Afternoon Music

4:00 pm

Listening to Singers with Oliver Camacho

Tenor Zachary Wilder returns to WFMT to share his new album "Brooklyn Suite," which weaves together Yiddish song, Romantic lied, opera arias, jazz, and Broadway musicals. Wilder makes his debut with Haymarket Opera Company in their upcoming season.

5:00 pm

Weekend Evening Music

8:00 pm

Folkstage hosted by Marilyn Rea Beyer

Live from the Levin Performance Studio: St. Louis-based songwriter Walter Parks serves up songs with grit. His famed guitar playing is the main course with a side of swamp cabbage.

9:00 pm

The Midnight Special with Marilyn Rea Beyer

Music honoring authors on the anniversary of the 1812 birth of Charles Dickens.