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Sunday Afternoon at the Opera host Keith Brown writes:

As an opera composer Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky is known for two outstanding operas, The Queen of Spades (1890) and today's feature, Eugene Onegin (1879), although he wrote at least seven other lyric stageworks.

Sunday Afternoon at the Opera host Keith Brown writes:

Yet another important but neglected opera composer of the Italian baroque is finally getting his due in recordings. Not one, but two new recordings have appeared in the catalog of Agostino Steffani's Niobe, Regina di Tebe (1688).

Join host Brian Battles for Accent on Jazz on Tuesday, December 8, 2015. Brian will entertain you with a wide variety of exciting tunes and old favorites, feel free to call in with your requests, 860-768-4701!

Sunday Afternoon at the Opera host Keith Brown writes:

Puccini's La Bohème (1896) is the obvious choice for programming at this time of year, since the action of the opera opens on Christmas Eve and continues through Christmas Day in the first two acts.

Join Accent on Creative Music host Maurice D. Robertson Wednesday night December 16, 2015 from 9:00 p.m. to midnight. At 10:00, you will hear a studio interview and performance featuring, bluesmen Eli Williams and Bob Orsi, with saxophonist, Peter Greenfogel.

Tune in to What's Next? beginning early this Friday morning December 18, 2015 at midnight (i.e., late Thursday night) followed by Oh Boy! 3AM until 6:00 a.m., as hosts Paul Bourque and John Rinaldi join forces to celebrate Frank Zappa's 75th birth anniversary.

Sunday Afternoon at the Opera host Keith Brown writes:

Sunday Afternoon at the Opera host Keith Brown writes: