It's an impulse as primal as eating, sleeping and watching Downton Abbey. Singing frees our deepest, truest emotions in melodies that transport words beyond themselves and into the ears and hearts of all who hear them. Join me Saturday at 6 pm for "Voices Sung and Unsung" on The American Sound. It's a program of music sung by choirs and solo singers, and also vocal music in settings for orchestra and wind ensemble that make even the instruments sing. A gorgeous work by one of today's foremost composers of choral music, Eric Whitacre, pairs up Saturday evening with Samuel Barber's wistful Knoxville: Summer of 1915 for soprano and orchestra. We'll also hear three of Randall Thompson's choral works in beautiful arrangements for wind ensemble, and we'll go to a Paris night club, where the instruments of the Seattle Symphony will sing the blues. Whether you sing in your church choir, or prefer to wail away in the shower, tune in for "Voices Sung and Unsung," Saturday at 6 pm on The American Sound on Classical 101.
Jennifer Hambrick unites her extensive backgrounds in the arts and media and her deep roots in Columbus to bring inspiring music to central Ohio as Classical 101’s midday host. Jennifer performed with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Civic Orchestra of Chicago before earning a Ph.D. in musicology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.