Playlist for Saturday, October 17, 2026

Through the Night with Peter van de Graaff

7:00 am

WFMT Membership Drive

Until 12:00pm.

12:00 pm

From National Centre for the Performing Arts

Puccini's Tosca

Monica Zanettin (Tosca); Han Peng (Cavaradossi); Ambrogio Maestri (Scarpia); NCPA Chorus and Orchestra; Xu Zhong, conductor. Sung in Italian.

2:15 pm

Afternoon Music

4:00 pm

Listening to Singers with Oliver Camacho

On the "Twenty-Four Italian Songs and Arias of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries," an anthology which has introduced millions of beginning singers to Italian vocal literature.

5:00 pm

Weekend Evening Music

8:00 pm

Folkstage hosted by Marilyn Rea Beyer

Live from Acoustic Renaissance Concerts in Hinsdale: American songwriter Richard Shindell has made his home in Buenos Aires for more than 25 years. Solas, Joan Baez, Dar Williams and others have covered his cinematic songs.

9:00 pm

The Midnight Special with Marilyn Rea Beyer

A celebration of music and other art forms “made in Chicago” during WFMT’s membership drive.