The Drive-Time Elixir with Peter Whorf
Weekdays 2pm to 6pm
Peter Whorf is here weekday afternoons to ease your drive home with a mix of lighter classics and orchestrated popular tunes. Hear the hits as well as musical insights with some of the top artists in classical music today. Peter’s past 90.9 in-studio conversations can be found on the 90.9 SoundCloud page.
Playlists
Mark Anthony
April 1, 202522:26:09I will join the club Carl & Christa I doubt I will be around another 20 years for the next WRCJ anniversary the 40th oh by the way this birthday boy will be 66 on the 23 of this month I wish it were an April fools joke 😃 😀 😄 😁 🤣 safe travels Carl I highly enjoyed your company today & Christa’s as well thank you both!
Mark Anthony
April 1, 202522:18:02Christa will need some WRCJ peppermint gum and the squeeze note although I believe the 1/8 note may not suffice Carl I know she has her seat belt on right now during this lively and most vigorous portrayal of music today I am totally Reinvigorated indeed! 😀 😄 😉 👍
Mark Anthony
April 1, 202519:47:42Good afternoon Carl nice to hear from you once again and good afternoon Christa you as well the CC sharp team! 😃
Mark Anthony
March 31, 202520:51:06I have only made my second pledge so far this campaign being no.2 and I am already looking forward to the next fall campaign but let us not rush this summer first. As a lover of cigars John the invitation is always open to join me as we indulge in one together and by the way this invitation is extended to the entire WRCJ TEAM at 90.9. I will say I have quite enough here to suit any one’s particular palate tastes and I am always adding new additions to my cigar collection! 😀
WorkerB
April 1, 202500:42:31Wow, two donations, that’s the way to do it. Thanks Mark!
Mark Anthony
March 31, 202520:40:35So lucky to have dodged a bullet here last night here in my portion of Howell, Michigan so many others not so fortunate across our state unfortunately it was highly fierce here for minutes on end only then subsiding in my prayers for all out there 🙏 affected!
WorkerB
April 1, 202500:39:47Yes it was quite windy last night, some places worse than others.
Mark Anthony
March 31, 202519:59:40While others may be on their drive time elixir’s I happily am able to report to be on my wine time elixir with John and Peter today’s selection NISA Vin Alb D.O.C. Husi, Romania 🇷🇴 2022. 🥂 🎙📻 🎼 🎶
Mark
March 28, 202519:07:51As you may not know as warm weather calls I Oliver Wendle Douglas will have to be tending to the Green Acres here soon at the homestead here in Howell, Mi. as I like to get my hands dirty but rest assured I will stay in touch as I answer the telephone pole phone!
Mark
March 28, 202518:51:09I’m having a problem with my washer and dryer I know the Well Tempered weekend will be able to assist me thanks so much Click & Clack!
WorkerB
March 28, 202518:57:24This probably won’t turn out well…
Mark
March 28, 202518:41:19Peter & John I’ll have you both know as a personal collector of all sports cards we just may have to open up a box of unopened Topps baseball ⚾️ I’m craving some of that Topps bubble gum now that John mentioned it how about you two?
Mark
March 28, 202518:24:53A Crista bell 🔔 and a John bell 🔔 ringing how about a little more first time listeners are you with me?
Mark
March 28, 202518:13:07“Good to be on board ahoy with both of you gentlemen this Friday afternoon bon voyage!”
Mark Anthony
March 27, 202521:27:30I believe I may be the solitary resident of Howell, Michigan to have given my support to my most pleasurable music phenomenon in Detroit going strong for twenty years 14 – classical 10 – jazz 365 so a shout out to Howell will you join me?
Mark Anthony
March 27, 202520:58:42Good Thursday evening to the both of you Carl and Crista I was an early bird 🐦 gets the Dave and Peter worm 🪱 with my one time pledge good to hear from you both once again my best regards bravo 👏 you make now both take a bow and we the listeners will provide you with the encore splendid indeed!
WorkerB
March 28, 202505:11:59Thank you for the support right off the bat Mark!
Mark
March 26, 202519:24:05Of course Peter the night 🌕 of 14 – 15 April 1912 will live in infamy within our minds of The White Star Lines tragedy maiden voyage of the heraldic emphasized Titanic of unsinkable proportions unfortunately indeed!
Mark
March 26, 202518:57:45Orchestral composition can be exhilarating or sincere if we only allow ourselves any foreboding prior too!
Mark
March 26, 202518:23:43Superior cold opening Mr. Whorf as I never purview the program musical schedule ever it allows one’s journey to enter uninhibited into the realms of the unknown of the notes 🎶 to the ear!
Mark
March 25, 202520:53:11Mr. engineer Scott for the time being the intervals of moments/sounds of silence no not Simon & Garfunkel though a great song have subsided this could be due to atmospheric conditions and winds disrupting my fm signal here at home in Howell I will have to check whether or not my electricity bill is payed?
Mark
March 25, 202519:39:40Spring has sprung this afternoon on the drivetime elixir very soothing melodies indeed Peter! 🙂
Mark
March 24, 202519:48:44A required read Charlotte’s Web was it not Peter as least for me in my earlier experiences of attending the elementary level range of learning 😀
Mark
March 24, 202518:43:40I have to admit Peter I’ve been drinking the Elixir of today’s presentation with splendor and gusto my friend!
Mark
March 20, 202520:48:49🎻Enjoying the full spectrum 🎺pleasure ride 🎼 of WRCJ Ninety point Nine 🎶 on this first Michigan day of spring 🐦 thank you Peter & 🌷 happy spring to the entire WRCJ family of staff and listeners 🐣
Mark
March 17, 202519:01:57🍀”A happy St.Patrick’s Day to everyone at WRCJ 90.9 and may the luck of the Irish 🇮🇪 be with you today especially!”🧙
Mark
March 14, 202519:42:54“What a better way to enjoy the drive time elixir with Mr. Peter Whorf than none other savoring a Graycliff Double Espresso Maduro a
divine deep dark cocoa mouth
watering experience I give both a 5
out 5 on the WOW factor rating!”
Mark
March 11, 202520:38:04Most heavenly ✨️ softness my word shall echo 🙏 his presence eternal what a most enthralling presence do I feel in this musical bliss that we hear!
Mark
March 11, 202519:47:28Extraordinary 1929 rendition of the roaring 20’s and to you as well Mrs. Robinson & Simon & Garfunkel!
Mark
March 10, 202519:34:28“I am strolling along nicely on this beautiful spring like day relaxing 😌 with a 2021 Idlewright chardonnay haling from the north coast of California on The Wine Time Elixir with Mr. Peter Whorf!” 😀
Mark
March 4, 202522:28:08“Count me in Dave & Peter on the Well Tempered Weekends! By the way I am an April baby I endorse your rollout whole heartily indeed!”
Mark
March 4, 202521:58:04This most Exhilarating cut in your program Peter would be excellerating onto the merge ramp at George Jetson speed during rush hour in the “D!”
Mark
March 4, 202521:35:29I so love this Scottish rendition Peter should I dare say English at behest of the Queen I dare not say William Wallace 🗡
WorkerB
March 4, 202521:48:21😮 Hey, how did you make a little sword emoji?
Mark
March 4, 202521:17:09Bravo Peter a most exclusively subtle but always exhilarating drive time elixir indeed sir of total relaxation!
Mark
March 3, 202521:04:38I must say that early film scores have always have a passion of mine across the board and nobody brings them to the forefront as WRCJ 90.9 does thanks one and all from behind the glass!
Mark
March 3, 202519:55:42I most enjoy the German heritage ansombles of orchestral longs & shorts that you provide Peter being German myself after my father Don and his father William Englebert Egerer thank you! 😊
Mark
March 3, 202519:14:29Good afternoon to you Mr. Whorf I must say I am warming up to your Mixer of the Elixir formulas since previously being passed off to you by none other than the Mr. Dave Wagner and my personal drive time elixir fix thank you Peter and yes Dave I am getting the worm 🪱 with your early bird schedule!
Mark
February 18, 202521:01:58Most appreciate The Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra Peter keep it coming to infinity & beyond!
Mark
February 17, 202519:49:57Change is inevitable sometimes we greet it with relief other times we are reluctant to accept it I must say Mr. Whorf I was skeptical in the beginning to the Drive Time Elixir changing of the guard if you will from Dave Wagner to Peter Whorf but all things in due time alas I must say you are melding nicely into Mixer of the Elixir and coming up with added additions of your own recipes in the mix what would Peter like me to BYOB to your party so far I have Brahms for Dave & Bach for Haley?
Marie-Paule Parcells
December 18, 202420:53:33Please, please, before you start talking about the piece you just played could you make sure to announce the orchestra, conductor and soloist if there is one.
Linda C Williams
October 1, 202422:57:08I’m especially loving the program today. The music from Yental, the orchestral virgin of Light My Fire, Melodie and I Loved You Once In Silence are all favorites of mine.
WorkerB
October 2, 202407:15:13Wow, it’s all Linda favorites, nice!
Carol
August 30, 202420:01:36FYI – Madeline Kahn did not play Frau Bleucher in Young Frankenstein. Cloris Leachman played that part. Thank you for playing the Transylvanian Lullaby. Made me smile.
WorkerB
August 30, 202420:57:58You’re welcome Carol, glad it made you smile.
Candace MacGillivery
August 30, 202419:48:38Dave, Cloris Lechman was Frau Bloucher in this pic. Madelyn Khan was Gene Wilder’s fiance!!
WorkerB
August 30, 202420:57:19Oops, sorry Candace!
Siue
November 21, 202320:47:41You’re amazing, C Sharp! 😀
WorkerB
December 1, 202320:41:22Our listeners are amazing too!
Ryan
November 1, 202320:36:02Just had a very nice driveway moment with Albinoni Addagio. Love that recording! Best one I’ve heard.
WorkerB
November 1, 202321:28:20A driveway moment, yay! It’s nice to hear you enjoyed that version.
Michael Hyde
October 31, 202317:11:48Hello! May I please have the playlist information for the solo piano piece played near the end of Drive-Time Elixir on yesterday, Monday Oct 30? It may have been the second-to-last selection. I recall the announcer saying that it was also a beautiful song with lyrics (that they were singing to themselves as it aired!) My guess it was Davis Gloff hosting. Thank you. And best of luck in getting the playlists back up — they are wonderful to have.
WorkerB
November 1, 202301:06:17Hi Michael, the last three pieces we played were a suite from Miklos Rosza’s Spellbound, Lost in the Stars by Kurt Weill an Witches of Eastwick: Devil’s Dance by John Williams.
Richard Sheffield
October 19, 202322:26:04I just realized I was in banking with Christa’s dad, Hal, 40+ years ago. She would play at the branch during Christmas.
WorkerB
October 20, 202320:22:23Oh really? How cool, we will mention that to her.
William Sturm
August 24, 202322:44:15This was amazing!
Fantasy for Harp and Orchestra
Dubois, Theodore
Where DO you find this stuff?
WorkerB
August 24, 202322:49:02Thanks Bill. We travel the Earth in search of great music! Well, ok maybe it’s not that dramatic.
Susan Wood
August 21, 202319:05:44Could I get some information on the recording you just played (Mon. Aug. 21, about 2:40) of Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a theme by Paganini? Conductor, pianist, recording?
WorkerB
August 22, 202316:23:49Hi Susan, yes that recording featured the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra with Earl Wild on piano conducted by Jascha Horenstein. It’s from a Chandos disc called “Rachmaninov – The Complete Piano Works” spine number 7114.
William Sturm
July 24, 202323:23:00Hi Dr. Dave, I have noticed and very much appreciate that you are playing more Baroque and Chamber music this summer. Please continue and keep up the excellent work!
WorkerB
July 25, 202300:42:26Thank you for the note William and we appreciate you!
Judy Bleier Marx
April 17, 202320:39:57When do we find out which composers were voted the listeners’ favorites?
WorkerB
April 18, 202303:46:54Hi Judy, we will reveal the top composers at the end of our Spring Fundraiser. Votes are still coming in!
Joseph K. Anderson
April 17, 202319:13:34Hello, Im a sustaining member already but want to put my votes in for: Copland, Wagner, and John Williams. I know he may not be considered a “true” classical composer, but he’s still pretty darn good! thanks for all you do.
WorkerB
April 18, 202303:48:39Thank you Joseph, we’ll add these to our tally!
Joy Burnett
February 24, 202322:20:58Bats turn left like racecar drivers! This IS driving me batty. Thanks for the laughs, like everyday 🙂
WorkerB
February 27, 202302:57:51Oh that silly Dave!
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