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Sunday on Blue Lake: Remembering Rodrigo

Blue Lake Public Radio | By Foley Schuler
Published July 6, 2025 at 1:14 AM EDT
Joaquin Rodrigo
Joaquin Rodrigo

On this week's program Foley Schuler features some of the last music of the great Spanish composer, Joaquin Rodrigo, who died on this date in 1999.

The great Spanish composer Joaquin Rodrigo died on July 6th 1999, at the age of 97. He left behind a legacy of extraordinary music created over that long life, including the iconic Concierto de Aranjuez, the most performed guitar concerto in the repertoire. On Sunday on Blue Lake, Foley Schuler will feature several of the composer's final works, including a celebratory piece he dedicated to Madrid (what called the "city of my heart" in a note to the score) were he lived for over 50 years, as well as one of his most daring and original orchestral works—inspired by space travel and dedicated to NASA—entitled "In Search of What Lies Beyond."

You can hear Sunday on Blue Lake with your host 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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