WRIU.org | February 26, 2026
Our “It series continues with WRIU’s David House, host of Classical Brunch, on Tuesday morning.
“I’m as restless as a willow in a windstorm
I’m as jumpy as a puppet on a string
I’d say that I had Spring fever
… But I know it isn’t Spring”
– Oscar Hammerstein II
DAVID HOUSE
Host of Divertimento / Classical Brunch
Q: What are your “Words to Live By”?
☞ Pause before I speak and act
Q: What are your favorite music venues (both indoor & outdoor)?
☞ Small ensemble performances in church spaces. Outdoors, it has to be Tanglewood!
Q: When did you start listening to WRIU?
☞ In the late 1970’s
Q: What are your 12 “Desert Island” albums?
☞ Any Joni Mitchell up to and including “Dog Eat Dog”, Linda Ronstadt’s “Heart Like a Wheel”, Voces 8’s “Lux”, Apollo’s Fire’s – Sugarloaf Mountain: An Appalachian Gathering; The Power of Love with Amanda Forsyth, Christmas on Sugarloaf Mountain; Bach’s Coffeehouse; Sacrum Mysterium: A Celtic Christmas Vespers; Come to the River – An Early American Gathering; T-Bone Walker retrospective.
Q: What is your favorite team?
☞ New England Patriots
Q: What is your favorite movie scene?
From Casablanca (1942) “I’m shocked! Shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!”
“I Was There When it Happened …”
What are your 5 most memorable concerts?
- Rhode Island Civic Chorale’s performance of Carmina Burana
- Ed Markward conducting Appalachian Spring at the Music on the Hill concert series
- Gesualdo Six’s performance last year as part of the Museum Concerts of RI series
- Performing Sharpe’s “Proud Music of the Storm” and Mozart’s “Requiem” with the Providence Singers in the ’90s at Vets
- The “Mr. House’s Opus” concert last November when the premiere of my 1982 work “7 Poems of Love” was performed at First Unitarian Church Providence
Q: What is your favorite ephemera in the WRIU studio?
☞ The broadcast radio console!
David House hosts Classical Brunch, the Tuesday morning Divertimento Show from 10 AM to 1 PM. | More in this series