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Each weekday on JPR's Classics & News Service, we shine the spotlight on a pair of pieces we've chosen as "Featured Works." Tune in at 9am during First Concert and 2pm during Siskiyou Music to hear a bit of background on the pieces and composers, as well as commentary on important dates in classical music history.

Featured Works - Feburary 2018

Featured Works for February – First Concert
(*Indicates February birthday)

Feb 1 T Francesco Maria Veracini*: Overture No. 2
Feb 2 F Adolphus Hailstork: Symphony No. 1

Feb 5 M Lodewijk Mortelmans*: Morning Mood
Feb 6 T R. Nathaniel Dett: Cinnamon Grove
Feb 7 W Alexander Borodin: String Quartet No. 2
Feb 8 T John T. Williams*: American Journey
Feb 9 F Isaac Albeniz: Iberia, Book IV

Feb 12 M Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: String Quartet in B flat major; “The Hunt”
Feb 13 T Leonard Bernstein: Symphonic Dances from “West Side Story”
Feb 14 W Pablo de Saraste: Concert Fantasy on Gounod’s “Romeo et Juliette”
Feb 15 T Johann Strauss Jr.: The Blue Danube Waltz
Feb 16 F Joseph Boulogne: Violin Concerto in G Major

Feb 19 M Jean Sibelius: Symphony No. 6
Feb 20 T Charles-Auguste de Beriot*: Violin Concerto No. 8
Feb 21 W Johann Wenzel Kalliwoda*: Introduction and Variations in B flat major
Feb 22 T Maurice Ravel: Introduction et Allegro
Feb 23 F William Grant Still: Wood Notes

Feb 26 M Frank Bridge*: The Sea
Feb 27 T Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 8
Feb 28 W Duke Ellington: Harlem

Featured Works for February – Siskiyou Music Hall
(*Indicates February birthday)

Feb 1 T Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade
Feb 2 F William Grant Still: Symphony No. 2, “Song of a New Race”

Feb 5 M Felix Mendelssohn*: Violin Concerto in E minor
Feb 6 T Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 31, “Hornsignal”
Feb 7 W Wilhelm Stenhammar*: String Quartet No. 4
Feb 8 T Eduard Napravnik: Concerto Symphonique in A minor
Feb 9 F William Levi Dawson: Negro Folk Symphony

Feb 12 M Jan Ladislav Dussek*: Piano Concerto in G minor
Feb 13 T Franz Berwald: Piano Quintet No. 1
Feb 14 W Louis Spohr: Symphony No. 2
Feb 15 T Florence Price: Concerto in One Movement
Feb 16 F Joachim Nikolas Eggert: Symphony No. 2

Feb 19 M Luigi Boccherini*: Cello Concerto No. 8
Feb 20 T Carl Czerny*: Symphony No. 6
Feb 21 W Franz Liszt: De Profundis
Feb 22 T Antonin Dvorak: Piano Trio, Op. 65
Feb 23 F Georg Friderick Handel*: Music for the Royal Fireworks

Feb 26 M Antonin Reicha*: Woodwind Quintet, Op. 100, No. 4
Feb 27 T Jean-Philippe Rameau: Le Temple de la Gloire
Feb 28 W Camille Saint-Saëns: Piano Trio in F major

Don Matthews received a B.A. in Music from Eastern Michigan University and a Masters in Vocal Performance from USC. He performed as a member of the San Francisco Opera chorus for three seasons.  He moved to Boston to study and became involved in radio, working at both WBUR and WGBH, where he was a producer for Robert J. Lurtsema.