Playlist for Wednesday, January 28, 2026

Through the Night with Peter van de Graaff

6:00 am

Mornings with Jan Weller

Including news and weather on the hour between 6:00 am and 9:00 am; and "Carl’s Almanac" at 7:30 am.

10:00 am

Midday with Lisa Flynn

Including the "Daily Excursion" at 11:00 am.

12:15 pm

Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts

Pianist Joshua Mhoon performs music by Beethoven, Ravel, Ernesto Lecuona, and Scriabin, live from Seventeenth Church of Christ, Scientist, Chicago.

1:00 pm

Music for the Afternoon

2:00 pm

Afternoon Music with Candice Agree

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

7:00 pm

Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin

American Masters, Part VI

This week, we explore 20th-century American music under the Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon administrations. Alongside celebrated figures such as Copland, Gershwin, and Schoenberg, we will weave in beautiful and intriguing music from Peter Menin, Augustus Hailstork, Joan Tower, Charlie Parker, and yes, Fats Domino. We conclude with an elegiac symphonic work by George Walker, the first African American Pulitzer Prize-winning composer.

8:00 pm

Evening Music

10:00 pm

Baroque&Before with Candice Agree

Handel in Rome

"Nisi Dominus," "Dixit Dominus," and "Salve Regina," three outstanding works of sacred music written during Handel's years in Italy, performed in concert by the Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Chorus, and vocal soloists led by Václav Luks.