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FM in the Morning

FM in the Morning features a wide variety of classical music, along with NPR newscasts, AP headlines, weather, and features like the NCPR Community Calendar, The Writers Almanac and Natural Selections.

About the Host

Barb Heller
Host Guy Berard

Host Barb Heller says, "However you enjoy your Sunday mornings I hope you'll invite me to join you by tuning in to FM in the Morning. News, weather, sports, great classical music—just add hot coffee and a window seat."

FM in the Morning
with Barb Heller

FM in the Morning with Barb Heller
airs Sundays from 7-9 am.

FM in the Morning (latest edition)

The best variety of classical music each week. Here's your place to listen to the latest edition of FM in the Morning, hosted by Barb Heller, anytime you want. The program is the lead segment of this stream. This archive will only be available until next week's show is posted. (Updates Sunday at noon)  Go to full article
Classical Music
Connect the dots between classical music and standards with the dynamic violin-and-piano duo.
 
Fridays are funnier with a classical cartoon at noon from Deceptive Cadence.
 
The announcement that the 34-year-old Latvian conductor is taking the reins of the ensemble puts an end to years of uncertainty at the storied orchestra, following James Levine's 2011 resignation.
 
Pink Martini singer Storm Large joins Leonard Slatkin and the orchestra for Kurt Weill's satirical <em>Seven Deadly Sins</em>, in a program bookended by composers who straddled the turn of the last century. Slatkin says Maurice Ravel and...
 
Hear an evening of exciting and intriguing 20th-century Russian music — including Shostkovich, Schnittke and Shchedrin — that pays tribute to the orchestra's late and longtime leader, conductor and cellist Mstislav Rostropovich.
 

Program Playlists

Finding Music

You can find or special order any of the music heard on this program from local music stores, including:
Northern Music & Video, Potsdam: 315-265-8100
Strawberry Fields, Potsdam: 315-265-7700
Ampersound, Saranac Lake:
518-891-3114
Peacock Music, Plattsburgh:
518-561-0555