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Candice Agree @voicecandy.bsky.social · 6d

Olivier Latry, organiste titulaire, Nôtre Dame, Paris has come to Chicago! A recital in the Fisk tracker organ at St. Chrysostom Episcopal Church. Bach! Gigout! Franck! Pierné! Formidable!

In the Patron's Shadow: Christophe Rousset in Works by Couperin | WFMT

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baroqueandbefore.bsky.social @baroqueandbefore.bsky.social · 8d

#EarlyMusicWednesday François Couperin told us how to play the harpsichord (“L’Art de toucher le clavecin.”) Christophe Rousset shows us how. Please join me for “Baroque&Before” tonight, 10Central on WFMT or access the 30-day post-broadcast stream. www.wfmt.com/2025/10/15/i...

François Couperin knew all too well that the artist, immersed in the uncertainties of his world, must depend on the protection of a patron who, in return, enhances his social image as a promoter of th...

Candice Agree @voicecandy.bsky.social · 12d

Flocci non facio

Candice Agree @voicecandy.bsky.social · 12d

Send a note to Bluesky about it

Candice Agree @voicecandy.bsky.social · 12d

Note to self: Nön est respondendum ad omnia.

Candice Agree @voicecandy.bsky.social · 12d

That wasn’t the criterion for your original objection and you know it.

Candice Agree @voicecandy.bsky.social · 12d

Fwiw, by your definition, it shares your imagined category with tunes by the Gershwins, Lerner and Loewe, Stephen Sondheim, and Oscar and Hammerstein.

Candice Agree @voicecandy.bsky.social · 12d

I’ve said that many times.

Candice Agree @voicecandy.bsky.social · 12d

Although it didn’t end up being in a show, Irving Berlin wrote GBA with the intention of using it in “Yip Yip Yaphank.” He later decided not to include it.

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Candice Agree @voicecandy.bsky.social · 12d

Candice Agree @voicecandy.bsky.social · 13d

Opening night gala at Lyric Opera of Chicago with Laura Benanti and Brian Stokes Mitchell. A necessary reminder that music was, is, will be always a desideratum.

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Candice Agree @voicecandy.bsky.social · 16d

For all the Stiva Oblonskys out there:

Candice Agree @voicecandy.bsky.social · 16d

It’s the least you could do. Literally. Value your rights and want to keep them? #Vote.

Soprano Adia Evans, Baritone Finn Sagal, and Pianist Michael Banwarth | WFMT

Candice Agree @voicecandy.bsky.social · 18d

Join me this afternoon at 5CT as I make my way through titles in French, German, Italian, Russian, and a little Brooklynese on the new season of Lyric Opera of Chicago’s Ryan Opera Center broadcasts on WFMT. www.wfmt.com/2025/10/05/s...

The 2024/25 Ryan Opera Center Recital Series opens with a musical bang with soprano Adia Evans, baritone Finn Sagal, and pianist Michael Banwarth featured in works by Tchaikovsky and Verdi.

Sacred Bridges: Psalms of David | WFMT

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baroqueandbefore.bsky.social @baroqueandbefore.bsky.social · 22d

#EarlyMusicWednesday The King’s Singers & Sarband bring us Psalms of David: songs of lament & joy & praise & glory in settings by Salamone Rossi, Claude Goudimel, Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck & Alî Ufkî. Join us tonight, 10CT on WFMT for “Baroque&Before with Candice Agree.” www.wfmt.com/2025/10/01/s...

Creating a musical exploration of the complex intertwinings – the sacred bridges – between Judaism, Islam, and Christianity.

Hilary Hahn and Beethoven | WFMT

Candice Agree @voicecandy.bsky.social · 24d

Join me tonight, 10CT for WFMT’s Orchestra Series in collaboration with European Broadcasting Union (EBU). Violinist Hilary Hahn joins Alain Altinoglu conducting the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra in Beethoven’s violin concerto & Shostakovich’s 8the symphony. www.wfmt.com/2025/09/29/h...

Soloist Hilary Hahn joins conductor Alain Altinoglu and the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra to perform one of her staple pieces: Beethoven’s violin concerto. Paired with the concerto is the eight s...

Candice Agree @voicecandy.bsky.social · 27d

High school version: “Jennie’s staying at our house tonight, not like she’s drunk or anything.”

Candice Agree @voicecandy.bsky.social · 27d

Especially those who participate, IMO

Les chemins hébraïques du baroque | WFMT

Candice Agree @voicecandy.bsky.social · 27d

Go know 🤷🏻‍♀️

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baroqueandbefore.bsky.social @baroqueandbefore.bsky.social · 29d

#EarlyMusicWednesday Benedetto Marcello, inspired by the extraordinary faith he encountered in the synagogues of early 18th-c. Venice, set paraphrases of the Psalms of David. Join me 2nite, 10CT for “Baroque&Before”on WFMT Chicago www.wfmt.com/2025/09/24/l...

Passionate about Hebraic spiritual traditions, Benedetto Marcello was inspired by the extraordinary faith he encountered in the synagogues of early 18th-century Venice. Selections from Marcello’s sett...

Paul Lewis Plays Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 3 | WFMT

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Candice Agree @voicecandy.bsky.social · Sep 22

Tonight at 10CT, WFMT’s Orchestra Series takes you out of this world! Hear the BBC Philharmonic in Holst’s “The Planets,”Mason’s “Ablaze The Moon & Beethoven. Pianist Paul Lewis is guest artist, John Storgårds conducts, I’ll tell you stuff about the music www.wfmt.com/2025/09/22/p...

The BBC Philharmonic welcomes pianist Paul Lewis to perform Beethoven’s third piano concerto, under the baton of conductor John Storgårds. The program also includes Gustav Holst’s The Planets Suite, a...

Behind the decision to bench Jimmy Kimmel: Trump FCC threats and charges of corporate cowardice

Candice Agree @voicecandy.bsky.social · Sep 18

From @stevebattaglio.bsky.social Behind the decision to bench Jimmy Kimmel: Trump FCC threats and charges of corporate cowardice @latimes with @megjames.bsky.social www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

SAG-AFTRA and WGA protest the decision to pull the late-night show after FCC chairman's threats.

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The World of Ramon Llull | WFMT

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baroqueandbefore.bsky.social @baroqueandbefore.bsky.social · Sep 17

#EarlyMusicWednesday Jordi Savall explores 13th-century Ars antigua & the exchange of musical ideas among Jews, Muslims & Catholics of the High Middle Ages in “Ramon Llull: Times of Conquest, Dialogue & Exhortation.” Join me tonite, 10CT for “Baroque&Before” on WFMT www.wfmt.com/2025/09/17/t...

Ramon Llull (1232-1316) was one of the most prominent writers and poets of medieval Catalonia, living at a time marked by the coexistence, not always peacefully, of the three Abrahamic religious cultu...

Plato's Symposium, and An American in Paris | WFMT

Candice Agree @voicecandy.bsky.social · Sep 15

Join me tonight, 10CT on WFMT. James Gaffigan leads the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in Bernstein, William Grant Still, Gershwin & Dvořák. www.wfmt.com/2025/09/15/p...

Conductor James Gaffigan takes the podium to lead the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in works by William Grant Still, Antonín Dvořák, and George Gershwin. Later, Bernstein’s Serenade, after Plato’s...