WKMS listeners can now enjoy four hours of beautiful music beginning at 7 p.m. Sundays with On Stage, a showcase of performances by the Paducah Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, recitals by MSU Music Department faculty and student ensembles, and guest artists. Host and Professor of Music, Dr. John Dressler offers and additional two hours of classical music favorites at 9 p.m. Dressler has a passion for British music and has just completed several weeks of research in London for a book he's writing on British Film Composers.
On Stage showcases performances recorded live from a host of musical genres. The program includes all the season performances from the PSO, as well as select performances from the Music Department of Murray State University, other performances from MSU's campus and other local and national venues.
On Stage airs every Sunday from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m on 91.3 WKMS-FM and throughout the week on our all-classical HD-2: Mondays, 9 a.m. to 11 a.m.; Wednesdays, Noon to 2 p.m.; Fridays 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Classical Encore is a two-hour program airing on Sundays from 9 p.m. to 11 p.m., featuring classical selections by Murray State Professor of Music Dr. John Dressler.
Hear Classical Encore on-demand
Episodes will (usually) be updated by Monday afternoon
Listen to the latest episode (pop-up player)
Host Info
George Eldred has lived most of his life in Princeton, Kentucky except for a 15 year stint of studying music in Sewanee, Tennessee and Lawrence, Kansas and working in camera and photofinishing shops in the Washington, DC area. George first went on the air around the 4th grade when the local station in Princeton used to get elementary school students to read children's books from the library on the air. He joined the WKMS staff from 1994-1998 producing a classical music show. In 2001 he started producing Café Jazz one night a week and in 2005 began hosting Commonwealth Classics. Now he hosts Café Jazz on Mondays and Wednesdays, and On Stage Sunday nights.
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John Dressler is a professor of music at Murray State University. He joined MSU in 1989 after receiving his Masters and Doctorate at Indiana University. John's areas of interest include french horn, musicology and world civilization. His personal works include performances with Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, a featured soloist for the International Horn Society Conference, and "Recording Reviews" in the Journal of the International Horn Society volumes 33 and 34. John is now the host of Classical Encore, Sunday nights on WKMS.
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Suggestions, Requests, Comments? Send an email to george.eldred@murraystate.edu
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