Candice Agree
@voicecandy.bsky.social
Unitasker. Voice for CBS Sunday Morning, Evening & Weekend News; talk, write, produce for WFMT Classical, Baroque&Before, The Spanish Hour, Media Attic Radio. Shares may indicate assent. Then again, they mayn’t. Nōn est respondendum ad omnia.
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The Czech Republic 🇨🇿 recorded a historic peak in antisemitism: 4,694 incidents in 2024.
Up 8.5% from last year.
Up 90% after October 7.
Tired of hearing about antisemitism?
Jews around the world are tired of living it.
Up 8.5% from last year.
Up 90% after October 7.
Tired of hearing about antisemitism?
Jews around the world are tired of living it.
November 23, 2025 at 5:56 PM
The Czech Republic 🇨🇿 recorded a historic peak in antisemitism: 4,694 incidents in 2024.
Up 8.5% from last year.
Up 90% after October 7.
Tired of hearing about antisemitism?
Jews around the world are tired of living it.
Up 8.5% from last year.
Up 90% after October 7.
Tired of hearing about antisemitism?
Jews around the world are tired of living it.
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#EarlyMusicWednesday Tonight at 10CT on WFMT, join Baroque&Before for a concert from Zurich’s Early Music Festival. Voces Suaves & Basel’s Capricornus Consort offer madrigals & instrumental works by Monteverdi, Giaches De Wert, Gastoldi & their contemporaries.
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The Days & Seasons of Renaissance Mantua | WFMT
Voces Suaves and Basel’s Capricornus Consort join forces for a program of madrigals and instrumental works by Monteverdi, Giaches De Wert, and their contemporaries.
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November 19, 2025 at 6:09 PM
#EarlyMusicWednesday Tonight at 10CT on WFMT, join Baroque&Before for a concert from Zurich’s Early Music Festival. Voces Suaves & Basel’s Capricornus Consort offer madrigals & instrumental works by Monteverdi, Giaches De Wert, Gastoldi & their contemporaries.
www.wfmt.com/2025/11/19/t...
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#EarlyMusicWednesday In the late 1730s, Johann Sebastian Bach wrote 4 short masses in Latin, using portions from earlier works to create new musically rich mass settings. Join me 2nite, 10CT for Bach’s Mass in G and “Wachet auf”(Sleepers Awake) on “Baroque&Before,” www.wfmt.com/2025/11/12/s...
Bach with the Swedish Radio Choir | WFMT
Fredrik Malmberg leads the Swedish Radio Choir and Capella Suecia in one of Bach's short masses, BWV 236 in G Major. The beloved cantata "Sleepers Awake" opens the concert.
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November 13, 2025 at 2:17 AM
#EarlyMusicWednesday In the late 1730s, Johann Sebastian Bach wrote 4 short masses in Latin, using portions from earlier works to create new musically rich mass settings. Join me 2nite, 10CT for Bach’s Mass in G and “Wachet auf”(Sleepers Awake) on “Baroque&Before,” www.wfmt.com/2025/11/12/s...
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My latest on Substack:
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Firing the Consumers?
We’re watching a trend, a weird, disturbing trend.
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November 9, 2025 at 3:04 PM
My latest on Substack:
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After I got all those hateful comments on my post about Jewish women being afraid to give birth in hospitals, I see this Telegraph article.
Jews are right to be worried, but no matter how many times the world proves us right, people still won't believe us.
Jews are right to be worried, but no matter how many times the world proves us right, people still won't believe us.
November 8, 2025 at 9:30 PM
After I got all those hateful comments on my post about Jewish women being afraid to give birth in hospitals, I see this Telegraph article.
Jews are right to be worried, but no matter how many times the world proves us right, people still won't believe us.
Jews are right to be worried, but no matter how many times the world proves us right, people still won't believe us.
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BDS activists and the French labor union tried to stop the Israel Philharmonic from playing in Paris. They failed.
Paris heard a symphony of coexistence, with Jews, Arabs, and Druze united.
The Israel Philharmonic didn’t just perform, it prevailed. You can’t silence us.
Paris heard a symphony of coexistence, with Jews, Arabs, and Druze united.
The Israel Philharmonic didn’t just perform, it prevailed. You can’t silence us.
November 5, 2025 at 1:51 PM
BDS activists and the French labor union tried to stop the Israel Philharmonic from playing in Paris. They failed.
Paris heard a symphony of coexistence, with Jews, Arabs, and Druze united.
The Israel Philharmonic didn’t just perform, it prevailed. You can’t silence us.
Paris heard a symphony of coexistence, with Jews, Arabs, and Druze united.
The Israel Philharmonic didn’t just perform, it prevailed. You can’t silence us.
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We did 163 essays at Evening News Plus. This was our last one: Why Journalism? substack.com/profile/5411...
John Dickerson (@johnfdickerson)
We did 163 essays at Evening News Plus. This was our last one: Why Journalism?
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October 31, 2025 at 11:50 PM
We did 163 essays at Evening News Plus. This was our last one: Why Journalism? substack.com/profile/5411...
TBT: 1989 at WNCN’s Spooktacular. Happy Halloween from Vladimir Horrorwitch.
October 31, 2025 at 7:42 PM
TBT: 1989 at WNCN’s Spooktacular. Happy Halloween from Vladimir Horrorwitch.
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#EarlyMusicWednesday Hungry for Vivaldi? Have you tried “il gusto italiano?” Handel did and was hooked. Join @voicecandy.bsky.social 2nite, 10CT for “Baroque&Before.” Andrea Marcon leads the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra & countertenor Valer Sabadus. Squisito! www.wfmt.com/2025/10/29/c...
Countertenor Valer Sabadus: Il gusto italiano | WFMT
Italy, the land of longing for Germans for centuries, Handel among them. Early music conductor Andrea Marcon leads the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra in an exploration of “the Italian taste.” They...
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October 29, 2025 at 2:16 PM
#EarlyMusicWednesday Hungry for Vivaldi? Have you tried “il gusto italiano?” Handel did and was hooked. Join @voicecandy.bsky.social 2nite, 10CT for “Baroque&Before.” Andrea Marcon leads the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra & countertenor Valer Sabadus. Squisito! www.wfmt.com/2025/10/29/c...
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I would rather live next door to someone who speaks another language than live next door to someone who doesn’t want to live near people who speak other languages. I know nothing about Person A but I know person B is a shitbird.
Vance says it is "totally reasonable and acceptable" for people to not want to live next door to people who speak a different language than they do
October 29, 2025 at 5:01 PM
I would rather live next door to someone who speaks another language than live next door to someone who doesn’t want to live near people who speak other languages. I know nothing about Person A but I know person B is a shitbird.
Nothing to see here. Move along. Just another #ChicagoFire shoot on my block
October 29, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Nothing to see here. Move along. Just another #ChicagoFire shoot on my block
Perfect Sunday afternoon: organist Nathaniel Gumbs in recital at Winnetka Congregational Church
October 26, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Perfect Sunday afternoon: organist Nathaniel Gumbs in recital at Winnetka Congregational Church
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Bach called them his “Six Concerts avec plusieurs instruments.” We know them as the Brandenburg Concertos. Join me tonight at 10CT for “Baroque&Before.” Maurice Steger & Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra present all six. Also On Demand page, 30 days after the broadcast. www.wfmt.com/2025/10/22/b...
Bach: The Brandenburg Concertos | WFMT
The title is French and sums it up: “Six Concerts avec plusieurs instruments,” as Bach himself called his famous concerto collection. The Swiss recorder player and conductor Maurice Steger and Frankfu...
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October 22, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Bach called them his “Six Concerts avec plusieurs instruments.” We know them as the Brandenburg Concertos. Join me tonight at 10CT for “Baroque&Before.” Maurice Steger & Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra present all six. Also On Demand page, 30 days after the broadcast. www.wfmt.com/2025/10/22/b...
Olivier Latry, organiste titulaire, Nôtre Dame, Paris has come to Chicago! A recital in the Fisk tracker organ at St. Chrysostom Episcopal Church. Bach! Gigout! Franck! Pierné! Formidable!
October 18, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Olivier Latry, organiste titulaire, Nôtre Dame, Paris has come to Chicago! A recital in the Fisk tracker organ at St. Chrysostom Episcopal Church. Bach! Gigout! Franck! Pierné! Formidable!
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#EarlyMusicWednesday François Couperin told us how to play the harpsichord (“L’Art de toucher le clavecin.”) Christophe Rousset shows us how. Please join me for “Baroque&Before” tonight, 10Central on WFMT or access the 30-day post-broadcast stream. www.wfmt.com/2025/10/15/i...
In the Patron's Shadow: Christophe Rousset in Works by Couperin | WFMT
François Couperin knew all too well that the artist, immersed in the uncertainties of his world, must depend on the protection of a patron who, in return, enhances his social image as a promoter of th...
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October 15, 2025 at 4:50 PM
#EarlyMusicWednesday François Couperin told us how to play the harpsichord (“L’Art de toucher le clavecin.”) Christophe Rousset shows us how. Please join me for “Baroque&Before” tonight, 10Central on WFMT or access the 30-day post-broadcast stream. www.wfmt.com/2025/10/15/i...
Opening night gala at Lyric Opera of Chicago with Laura Benanti and Brian Stokes Mitchell. A necessary reminder that music was, is, will be always a desideratum.
October 11, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Opening night gala at Lyric Opera of Chicago with Laura Benanti and Brian Stokes Mitchell. A necessary reminder that music was, is, will be always a desideratum.
Join me this afternoon at 5CT as I make my way through titles in French, German, Italian, Russian, and a little Brooklynese on the new season of Lyric Opera of Chicago’s Ryan Opera Center broadcasts on WFMT. www.wfmt.com/2025/10/05/s...
Soprano Adia Evans, Baritone Finn Sagal, and Pianist Michael Banwarth | WFMT
The 2024/25 Ryan Opera Center Recital Series opens with a musical bang with soprano Adia Evans, baritone Finn Sagal, and pianist Michael Banwarth featured in works by Tchaikovsky and Verdi.
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October 5, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Join me this afternoon at 5CT as I make my way through titles in French, German, Italian, Russian, and a little Brooklynese on the new season of Lyric Opera of Chicago’s Ryan Opera Center broadcasts on WFMT. www.wfmt.com/2025/10/05/s...
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#EarlyMusicWednesday The King’s Singers & Sarband bring us Psalms of David: songs of lament & joy & praise & glory in settings by Salamone Rossi, Claude Goudimel, Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck & Alî Ufkî. Join us tonight, 10CT on WFMT for “Baroque&Before with Candice Agree.” www.wfmt.com/2025/10/01/s...
Sacred Bridges: Psalms of David | WFMT
Creating a musical exploration of the complex intertwinings – the sacred bridges – between Judaism, Islam, and Christianity.
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October 1, 2025 at 3:06 PM
#EarlyMusicWednesday The King’s Singers & Sarband bring us Psalms of David: songs of lament & joy & praise & glory in settings by Salamone Rossi, Claude Goudimel, Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck & Alî Ufkî. Join us tonight, 10CT on WFMT for “Baroque&Before with Candice Agree.” www.wfmt.com/2025/10/01/s...
Join me tonight, 10CT for WFMT’s Orchestra Series in collaboration with European Broadcasting Union (EBU). Violinist Hilary Hahn joins Alain Altinoglu conducting the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra in Beethoven’s violin concerto & Shostakovich’s 8the symphony. www.wfmt.com/2025/09/29/h...
Hilary Hahn and Beethoven | WFMT
Soloist Hilary Hahn joins conductor Alain Altinoglu and the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra to perform one of her staple pieces: Beethoven’s violin concerto. Paired with the concerto is the eight s...
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September 29, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Join me tonight, 10CT for WFMT’s Orchestra Series in collaboration with European Broadcasting Union (EBU). Violinist Hilary Hahn joins Alain Altinoglu conducting the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra in Beethoven’s violin concerto & Shostakovich’s 8the symphony. www.wfmt.com/2025/09/29/h...
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#EarlyMusicWednesday Benedetto Marcello, inspired by the extraordinary faith he encountered in the synagogues of early 18th-c. Venice, set paraphrases of the Psalms of David. Join me 2nite, 10CT for “Baroque&Before”on WFMT Chicago www.wfmt.com/2025/09/24/l...
Les chemins hébraïques du baroque | WFMT
Passionate about Hebraic spiritual traditions, Benedetto Marcello was inspired by the extraordinary faith he encountered in the synagogues of early 18th-century Venice. Selections from Marcello’s sett...
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September 24, 2025 at 11:13 PM
#EarlyMusicWednesday Benedetto Marcello, inspired by the extraordinary faith he encountered in the synagogues of early 18th-c. Venice, set paraphrases of the Psalms of David. Join me 2nite, 10CT for “Baroque&Before”on WFMT Chicago www.wfmt.com/2025/09/24/l...