Catherine Hagman
@catherinehagman.bsky.social
Editor. Supporter of the arts. Granddaughter of immigrants. Current reading: Mirabai Starr’s translation of Teresa of Ávila’s The Book of My Life. Current focus: Our republic, because I want to keep it.
Tonight on WETA Classical, Choral Showcase is devoted entirely to Benjamin Britten's choral works for the season: A Boy Was Born, Saint Nicholas, and A Ceremony of Carols. Tune in or stream beginning at 9. #Britten #ACeremonyOfCarols #ChoralShowcase #WETAClassical
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December 8, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Tonight on WETA Classical, Choral Showcase is devoted entirely to Benjamin Britten's choral works for the season: A Boy Was Born, Saint Nicholas, and A Ceremony of Carols. Tune in or stream beginning at 9. #Britten #ACeremonyOfCarols #ChoralShowcase #WETAClassical
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WETA Classical's #ChoralShowcase has a rich array of music for this first Sunday of #Advent, with works by #Bach, #Charpentier, and #Praetorius. The conductors include Jeannette Sorrell. Performers include Apollo's Fire. Tune in or stream at 9 p.m. EST.
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December 1, 2025 at 12:56 AM
WETA Classical's #ChoralShowcase has a rich array of music for this first Sunday of #Advent, with works by #Bach, #Charpentier, and #Praetorius. The conductors include Jeannette Sorrell. Performers include Apollo's Fire. Tune in or stream at 9 p.m. EST.
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I look forward to the Classical Countdown every year! I'm almost always Ms. Write-In Vote, except for Symphony No. 1 by Florence Price, one of my favorites, which appears on the WETA Classical ballot.
November 24, 2025 at 3:08 PM
I look forward to the Classical Countdown every year! I'm almost always Ms. Write-In Vote, except for Symphony No. 1 by Florence Price, one of my favorites, which appears on the WETA Classical ballot.
Getting squirrelly this #Thanksgiving week? Listen to #WETAClassical's #ClassicalCountdown, the top 100 pieces selected by listeners. The countdown started this morning and continues through Thursday evening. Tune in, stream, and/or get the app: weta.org/fm
November 24, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Getting squirrelly this #Thanksgiving week? Listen to #WETAClassical's #ClassicalCountdown, the top 100 pieces selected by listeners. The countdown started this morning and continues through Thursday evening. Tune in, stream, and/or get the app: weta.org/fm
Tonight's #ChoralShowcase on #WETAClassical features Gustav Mahler's Symphony of a Thousand, which takes its text in part from a Latin hymn and in part from Goethe's Faust. Tune in or stream beginning at 9 p.m. EST.
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November 24, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Tonight's #ChoralShowcase on #WETAClassical features Gustav Mahler's Symphony of a Thousand, which takes its text in part from a Latin hymn and in part from Goethe's Faust. Tune in or stream beginning at 9 p.m. EST.
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Tonight’s #ChoralShowcase on #WETAClassical remembers those lost in World War I. The Clarion Choir will sing Kastalsky’s Memory Eternal to the Fallen Heroes, and the London Symphony Chorus will perform The Spirit of England by Elgar. Tune in or stream at 9 p.m. EST.
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November 10, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Tonight’s #ChoralShowcase on #WETAClassical remembers those lost in World War I. The Clarion Choir will sing Kastalsky’s Memory Eternal to the Fallen Heroes, and the London Symphony Chorus will perform The Spirit of England by Elgar. Tune in or stream at 9 p.m. EST.
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On this All Souls’ Day, WETA Classical’s Choral Showcase is devoted to Giuseppe Verdi’s Requiem Mass. Gianandrea Noseda conducts the London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus. Tune in or stream at 9 p.m. EST.
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#AllSoulsDay #WETAClassical #ChoralShowcase #Verdi #Requiem
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#AllSoulsDay #WETAClassical #ChoralShowcase #Verdi #Requiem
November 3, 2025 at 1:38 AM
On this All Souls’ Day, WETA Classical’s Choral Showcase is devoted to Giuseppe Verdi’s Requiem Mass. Gianandrea Noseda conducts the London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus. Tune in or stream at 9 p.m. EST.
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#AllSoulsDay #WETAClassical #ChoralShowcase #Verdi #Requiem
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#AllSoulsDay #WETAClassical #ChoralShowcase #Verdi #Requiem
@catladies4america.bsky.social, @catladies4nyc.bsky.social, @clfametrodc.bsky.social, welcome to Halloween! 🎃
October 31, 2025 at 12:24 PM
@catladies4america.bsky.social, @catladies4nyc.bsky.social, @clfametrodc.bsky.social, welcome to Halloween! 🎃
Tonight's #ChoralShowcase on #WETAClassical is purely the works of Ralph Vaughan Williams. Tune in or stream at 9 p.m. EDT for Serenade to Music, the Mass in G, Five Mystical Songs, and Toward the Unknown Region. #VaughanWilliams #CorydonSingers
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October 27, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Tonight's #ChoralShowcase on #WETAClassical is purely the works of Ralph Vaughan Williams. Tune in or stream at 9 p.m. EDT for Serenade to Music, the Mass in G, Five Mystical Songs, and Toward the Unknown Region. #VaughanWilliams #CorydonSingers
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Tonight's #ChoralShowcase on #WETAClassical is purely Italian: First up is Giacomo Puccini's Messia di Gloria, plus choruses from Madama Butterfly and Turandot. Then there's the Regina Coeli from Pietro Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana. Tune in or stream at 9 EDT.
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October 20, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Tonight's #ChoralShowcase on #WETAClassical is purely Italian: First up is Giacomo Puccini's Messia di Gloria, plus choruses from Madama Butterfly and Turandot. Then there's the Regina Coeli from Pietro Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana. Tune in or stream at 9 EDT.
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For October 15, Feast Day of Saint Teresa of Avila, here’s one of the prayers attributed to her: “Blessed are you, O Lord, who have put up with me for so long! Amen.”
#StTeresaOfAvila #RelatableSaints
#StTeresaOfAvila #RelatableSaints
October 15, 2025 at 9:13 PM
For October 15, Feast Day of Saint Teresa of Avila, here’s one of the prayers attributed to her: “Blessed are you, O Lord, who have put up with me for so long! Amen.”
#StTeresaOfAvila #RelatableSaints
#StTeresaOfAvila #RelatableSaints
“For me, protest is about love of country.” Timothy Snyder
The #LoveOfCountry theme must go viral. #NoKings protests aren’t just about this moment, when the #Trump administration mass-fires feds and holds back funding illegally, but about the future generations whose fates are at stake.
The #LoveOfCountry theme must go viral. #NoKings protests aren’t just about this moment, when the #Trump administration mass-fires feds and holds back funding illegally, but about the future generations whose fates are at stake.
October 12, 2025 at 6:13 PM
“For me, protest is about love of country.” Timothy Snyder
The #LoveOfCountry theme must go viral. #NoKings protests aren’t just about this moment, when the #Trump administration mass-fires feds and holds back funding illegally, but about the future generations whose fates are at stake.
The #LoveOfCountry theme must go viral. #NoKings protests aren’t just about this moment, when the #Trump administration mass-fires feds and holds back funding illegally, but about the future generations whose fates are at stake.
In light of the lies Republicans are pushing about #NoKings demonstrations, I'm posting images from YEARS of peaceful protests. Peaceful protests are not only as American as apple pie but a constant means of calling out #DonaldTrump, who's often used violent speech and threats in his remarks.
October 11, 2025 at 3:18 AM
In light of the lies Republicans are pushing about #NoKings demonstrations, I'm posting images from YEARS of peaceful protests. Peaceful protests are not only as American as apple pie but a constant means of calling out #DonaldTrump, who's often used violent speech and threats in his remarks.
A reminder that the Trump-Vance administration is informed by #McCarthyism and specifically the influence of #RoyCohn. #Trump, #Vance, #Vought, et al. had a mobster mentality right out of the gate. They're also un-American, because they can't pick and choose which states count as part of the U.S.A.
October 1, 2025 at 5:54 PM
A reminder that the Trump-Vance administration is informed by #McCarthyism and specifically the influence of #RoyCohn. #Trump, #Vance, #Vought, et al. had a mobster mentality right out of the gate. They're also un-American, because they can't pick and choose which states count as part of the U.S.A.
@clfametrodc.bsky.social, have an awesome #October! 🎃
And for fun cat content, check out photos by RebaSpike on Pixabay. This trio clearly does not suffer fools, fascists, foolish fascists, or fascist fools gladly.
#ClawsOut 🐾
And for fun cat content, check out photos by RebaSpike on Pixabay. This trio clearly does not suffer fools, fascists, foolish fascists, or fascist fools gladly.
#ClawsOut 🐾
October 1, 2025 at 3:28 PM
@clfametrodc.bsky.social, have an awesome #October! 🎃
And for fun cat content, check out photos by RebaSpike on Pixabay. This trio clearly does not suffer fools, fascists, foolish fascists, or fascist fools gladly.
#ClawsOut 🐾
And for fun cat content, check out photos by RebaSpike on Pixabay. This trio clearly does not suffer fools, fascists, foolish fascists, or fascist fools gladly.
#ClawsOut 🐾
Here's one more image of the Church of Saint Francis of Assisi in Midtown Manhattan. I thought it would help to see the poor man of Assisi and the angels.
I took this photo on a beautiful spring day in 2023, when the world seemed a very different place.
I took this photo on a beautiful spring day in 2023, when the world seemed a very different place.
September 12, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Here's one more image of the Church of Saint Francis of Assisi in Midtown Manhattan. I thought it would help to see the poor man of Assisi and the angels.
I took this photo on a beautiful spring day in 2023, when the world seemed a very different place.
I took this photo on a beautiful spring day in 2023, when the world seemed a very different place.
All this day I've thinking of those we lost on 9/11, including #FDNY Chaplain Father Mychal Judge, OFM, of the Church of Saint Francis of Assisi in Manhattan. #September11 #Franciscans
September 12, 2025 at 1:40 AM
All this day I've thinking of those we lost on 9/11, including #FDNY Chaplain Father Mychal Judge, OFM, of the Church of Saint Francis of Assisi in Manhattan. #September11 #Franciscans
Be comforted, inspired, or intrigued (or perhaps all three) when #WETA_Classical host Bill Bukowski presents requiem Masses from both Mozart and Salieri on tonight's #ChoralShowcase. Tune in or stream beginning at 9 p.m. EDT.
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September 8, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Be comforted, inspired, or intrigued (or perhaps all three) when #WETA_Classical host Bill Bukowski presents requiem Masses from both Mozart and Salieri on tonight's #ChoralShowcase. Tune in or stream beginning at 9 p.m. EDT.
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“I mean, we’re going to be dealing with the bubonic plague before it’s all over.” – Representative Jamie Raskin (D-MD) comments on the state of the Trump administration during a telephone town hall with constituents on September 4, 2025.
September 6, 2025 at 4:41 AM
“I mean, we’re going to be dealing with the bubonic plague before it’s all over.” – Representative Jamie Raskin (D-MD) comments on the state of the Trump administration during a telephone town hall with constituents on September 4, 2025.
Featured on WETA Classical’s Choral Showcase this evening: César Franck’s Les Béatitudes, an oratorio based on the Sermon on the Mount and written in a tumultuous time. It carries a message of justice, mercy, and hope. Tune in or stream at 9 p.m. EDT. #WETA #ChoralShowcase
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August 31, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Featured on WETA Classical’s Choral Showcase this evening: César Franck’s Les Béatitudes, an oratorio based on the Sermon on the Mount and written in a tumultuous time. It carries a message of justice, mercy, and hope. Tune in or stream at 9 p.m. EDT. #WETA #ChoralShowcase
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I've always loved living in the D.C. area, and to answer attacks from Trump and Miller, I've been posting memorable images with hashtags such as #ILoveWashingtonDC and #SmithsonianUnderSiege. Here is Kadir Nelson's Henrietta Lacks (HeLa): The Mother of Modern Medicine.
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August 28, 2025 at 1:34 PM
I've always loved living in the D.C. area, and to answer attacks from Trump and Miller, I've been posting memorable images with hashtags such as #ILoveWashingtonDC and #SmithsonianUnderSiege. Here is Kadir Nelson's Henrietta Lacks (HeLa): The Mother of Modern Medicine.
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And Trump not only commits crime but rewards it by pardoning January 6th offenders (some of whom went on to run afoul of the law again) and by honoring Vladimir Putin, who uses kidnapping, torture, and rape in the invasion of Ukraine.
August 27, 2025 at 5:03 AM
And Trump not only commits crime but rewards it by pardoning January 6th offenders (some of whom went on to run afoul of the law again) and by honoring Vladimir Putin, who uses kidnapping, torture, and rape in the invasion of Ukraine.
@clfametrodc.bsky.social, here's another idea for a sign:
Donald Trump's record on crime is a very bad one: He commits it! #FreeDC
Donald Trump's record on crime is a very bad one: He commits it! #FreeDC
August 26, 2025 at 3:44 PM
@clfametrodc.bsky.social, here's another idea for a sign:
Donald Trump's record on crime is a very bad one: He commits it! #FreeDC
Donald Trump's record on crime is a very bad one: He commits it! #FreeDC
@clfametrodc.bsky.social, I've been thinking of ideas for rally signs! Sample text:
Of course D.C. has a crime problem. It's in the Oval Office! #FreeDC
Of course D.C. has a crime problem. It's in the Oval Office! #FreeDC
August 26, 2025 at 3:41 PM
@clfametrodc.bsky.social, I've been thinking of ideas for rally signs! Sample text:
Of course D.C. has a crime problem. It's in the Oval Office! #FreeDC
Of course D.C. has a crime problem. It's in the Oval Office! #FreeDC
For musical inspiration this Sunday night, WETA Classical's #ChoralShowcase will offer works from across cultures and centuries: Lamentations of Jeremiah II by Tallis; Miserere Mei, Deus S.27 from Delalande; and Miserere by Górecki. Tune in or stream at 9 p.m. EDT. weta.org/fm/features/...
August 18, 2025 at 12:22 AM
For musical inspiration this Sunday night, WETA Classical's #ChoralShowcase will offer works from across cultures and centuries: Lamentations of Jeremiah II by Tallis; Miserere Mei, Deus S.27 from Delalande; and Miserere by Górecki. Tune in or stream at 9 p.m. EDT. weta.org/fm/features/...