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Sunday on Blue Lake: "Beauty and the Beast"

Left: Jean Marais and Josette Day in Jean Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast (1946). Right: Jascha Heifetz discussing Erich Korngold's new Violin Concerto with the composer, ca. 1947.

This week's program features George Auric's music for Jean Cocteau's cinematic masterpice in honor of the composer's birthday—one of several musical retellings of the fairtytale love story—which we'll pair with the Violin Concerto of Erich Korngold in honor of the anniversary of its premiere.

Other highlights in a solo piano version of music from the Philip Glass opera Beauty and the Beast (based on the Cocteau film), arranged and performed by longtime Glass collaborator Michael Riesman, and we'll remember legendary choral conductor Helmuth Rilling, who pass away on February 11 at the age of 92, with a performance made under his baton of selected arias and choruses from Bach's St. Matthew Passion.

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

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 4 p.m. and “Sunday on Blue Lake”.