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Sunday on Blue Lake: Celebrating Schumann

Blue Lake Public Radio | By Foley Schuler
Published June 7, 2025 at 10:30 PM EDT
Robert Schumann
Robert Schumann

Foley celebrates the celebrates the birthday of the Robert Schumann this week on Sunday on Blue Lake.

This week on Sunday on Blue Lake, we'll celebrate the birthday of Robert Schumann with one of the greatest of his chamber music works, one of his best known and loved symphonies—"The Rhenish"—as well as a birthday gift composed for Schumann by his wife Clara and presented to him on his 43rd birthday in 1853. Sunday also marks the anniversary of one of the great masterworks of the 20th Century, Maurice Ravel's magnificent ballet, Daphnis and Chloe, which premiered on June 8, 1912. In honor of the occasion we'll hear the Suite No. 2 from the ballet, which begins with one of the most magical depictions of a sunrise in all of classical music.

You can hear Sunday on Blue Lake with Foley Schuler every Sunday morning from 9 until noon on blue Lake Public Radio.

Foley Schuler
Encouraged by creative parents, Foley began his music career at age 7, studying violin with Jean Manning at North Muskegon Public Schools. As a Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp camper, he became Blue Lake Public Radio’s first high school intern. Foley earned an English Literature degree from Hope College, and Masters in Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing from the Warren Wilson College. He has performed with the West Michigan (formerly West Shore) Symphony; served on the English Department faculty at Muskegon Community College, and been the Music, Art & Theatre reviewer for the Muskegon Chronicle. He follows his love of the arts around the globe, but says, “There is no place like the Blue Lake setting, sharing extraordinary music with our listeners.” Foley hosts Blue Lake Public Radio’s weekday classical music from 1 to 5 p.m. and “Sunday on Blue Lake”.
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