Jazz After Dinner is featuring the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra's 2003 Planet Records recording "The Way" featuring the music and arrangements of Trombonist Slide Hampton.

In this weeks WCRI Classical Kids Hour hosts Jamie & Pamela invite you to join them as they listen to Little Red Riding Hood. Little Red Riding Hood’s mother sends her daughter to Grandma’s house with some treats. Red takes her time in the forest, singing with a mockingbird and picking strawberries. The wolf appears, assures Red he is not a stranger, and calls her by name.  Relieved, Red tells him about her sick Grandma. The wolf feigns interest and compassion.  Red begins to tell the wolf about all of the treats she is bringing Grandma, and the wolf’s stomach begins to sour - sweets make him sick. Angered by Red and embarrassed by what she has done to him, he goes to Grandma’s house intent on eating Grandma and having Red for dessert.

In this program WCRI host Mike Maino and The Newport Music Festivals Executive Director Pamela Pantos continue to preview the Newport Music Festival 2019 Season. In today's show they discuss German Romantics concert at The Breakers on Wednesday, July 10th @ 8PM. Liszt captivated audiences of the 1800s. He abandoned his life of a touring piano virtuoso in 1848 to conduct. However, he did produce Two Concert Etudes amongst his final compositions. In Waldesrauschen (Forest Murmurs), Liszt creates the world of a mysterious forest, while Gnomenreigen (Round Dance of the Gnomes) glitters and sparkles. While still performing, Liszt had been drawn to the idea of composing piano works based on themes of specific national character, and in 1863 he created his Spanish Rhapsody based upon well-known themes. There are extended passages of incredible brilliance before the closing “roof-rattling” virtuosity. His Hungarian Rhapsody No. 12 demands similar talent and flair while presenting tunes from Hungarian Gypsy bands. For more information on the Newport Music Festival or to purchase tickets to one of their concerts visit newportmusic.org or call 401-849-0700.

This week on The 95.9 Company Break Mike talks with JW Graham & YES Gallery owners Julie and Palmer Beebe. These two awesome shops that have everything like PANDORA, John Medeiros, jewelry & more from trend to 1-of-a-kind + Buyer's Choice & other handcrafted gifts featuring local artisans! Listen to what is new and happening at JW Graham and YES Gallery Call (401) 295-0757 or visit yesgallery.com

This week The Warwick Symphony Orchestra is the subject of the program with Catherine Gagnon, Music Director. We talk about their upcoming Spring Series Concerts, “At the Movies”, and listen to some selections that will be performed on Thursday May 23rd at the Gamm Theatre in Warwick and Sunday May 26th in Goddard Park. For more information you can go to www.wsori.org​.

Jazz after Dinner is featuring jazz bassist Dave Zinno and his group “Unisphere” from his 2019 recording on Whaling City Sound “Stories Untold”.

The Mystic River Chorale is the subject of this week's program with  Dr. Frank Martginetti, Artistic Director and Kit Foster, President.      We talk about the upcoming concert and listen to some of the music from the program being presented on Sunday May 5th, at 3:30 PM, St. Mary Mother of the Redeemer Church in Groton CT. For more information you can call (860) 460 1487 or go to www.mysticriverchorale.org​

On this week's show Joe listens to Julian and Nat Adderley from their 1956-1957 Mercury Records recording "Sophisticated Swing: The EmArcy Small Group Sessions" Disc II with Julian "Cannonball" Adderley, Alto sax, Nat Adderley, Cornet, Junior Mance, Piano, Sam Jones and Al McKibbon bass, Jimmy Cobb and Charles Wright, drums.

In this weeks WCRI Classical Kids Hour hosts Jamie & Pamela invite you to join them as they listen to Hallelujah Handel! Welcome to Georgian England where fine ladies and gentlemen travel to and from their stately homes in clattering horse-drawn carriages. Music fills London’s many concert halls and magnificent parks. But beyond this princely exterior, in a darkened room behind the opera house, lives a young, orphaned boy with a mysterious past and an extraordinary talent: he sings like an angel, but refuses to speak. For more information on this program and others like it please visit and support classicalkidsnfp.org

In this program WCRI host Mike Maino and The Newport Music Festivals Executive Director Pamela Pantos continue to preview the Newport Music Festival 2019 Season. In today's show they discuss 1893 Around the World at The Elms on Wednesday, July 17 @ 11:00 am Sponsored by Classical 95.9 FM WCRI...tickets $50/$40. 1893 was a remarkable year in the world of classical music. Dvořák produced his New World Symphony, Verdi created his opera Falstaff, and Tchaikovsky wrote his Symphony No. 6 "Pathétique". In the realm of chamber music, masterpieces and new forms of composition were being written that would forge new pathways for the future. The concert begins with the stunning Six Romances Sans Paroles by Cécile Chaminade. In 1913, she was the first female composer to be awarded the Legion of Honor. For more information on the Newport Music Festival or to purchase tickets to one of their concerts visit newportmusic.org or call 401-849-0700.