Thursday, April 3, at 7:00 pm
Brahms: Symphony No. 1 in c, Op. 68
(Cliff Colnot, conductor)
Friday, April 4, at 3:00 pm
The number to call is 866-RADIO-GA.
Saturday, April 5, at 1:30 pm
Verdi: Nabucco
Saturday, April 5, at 8:00 pm
Harry O'Donoghue hosts this locally produced Celtic music program. Playlists are available at the Green Island archive page.
Thursday, April 10, at 7:00 pm
Stravinsky: Octet for Winds
Bartok: Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta
(Zhao Liu, flute; Shannon Orme, clarinet; Bill Buchman, Kathy Kvitek, bassoons; Guillaume Fortin, Adam Luftman, trumpets; Reed Capshaw, Jay Heltzer, trombones; William Eddins, conductor)
Saturday, April 12, at 12:00 pm*
Wagner: Parsifal
* Note early start time
Saturday, April 12, at 8:00 pm
Harry O'Donoghue hosts this locally produced Celtic music program. Playlists are available at the Green Island archive page.
Saturday, April 12, at 9:00 pm
Dick Wallace hosts this locally produced folk show. Playlists are available at the Music Americana archive page.
Tuesday, April 15, at 7:00 pm
Under the direction of Hankus Netsky, founder and director of the Klezmer Conservatory Band, A Taste of Passover presents a fast-paced variety show, featuring Theodore Bikel, David Levine, Chasia Sega, along with orchestral, choral, and chamber ensembles from the New England Conservatory.
(Pre-empts Harmonia)
Thursday, April 17, at 7:00 pm
Kuehn: Deus ex machina
Travers: Fairytale
Matheson: River, River
(Cliff Colnot, conductor)
Friday, April 18, at 11:00 am
A theatrical reconstruction of Bach's third Passion setting, which was lost after his death. Hosted by St. Paul Sunday's Bill McLaughlin, St. Mark Passion features narration by British actor Simon Russell-Beale. The spoken Biblical text is read in modern English, while Bach's music is sung in German by the Scandinavian Soloists and played by the Norwegian Baroque Orchestra under the direction of choirmaster-conductor Edward Higginbottom.
(Pre-empts first hour of Midday Music)
Friday, April 18, at 3:00 pm
In honor of National Poetry Month, an encore presentation of a GPR production that first aired in April 2001. Georgia poets Turner Cassity, Kathryn Stripling Byer, and John Stone read from their works.
(Pre-empts Georgia Gazette)
Saturday, April 19, at 1:30 pm
Stravinsky: The Rake's Progress
Saturday, April 19, at 8:00 pm
Harry O'Donoghue hosts this locally produced Celtic music program. Playlists are available at the Green Island archive page.
Sunday, April 20, at 10:00 am
Krista Tippett hosts this Easter-Passover special, celebrating the core stories of two world religions.
(Pre-empts Georgia Gazette repeat)
Sunday, April 20, at 2:00 pm
Martin Goldsmith hosts this special Holy Week concert with works from Italy, Germany, and the United States, spanning nearly three centuries. The program includes Verdi's Pezzi Sacri (Four Sacred Pieces); the Easter portions of Handel's Messiah; Samuel Barber's Prayers of Kiekegaard and Mark Adamo's Cantate Domino. All the pieces were recorded at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts by the Choral Arts Society of Washington, DC, under the baton of Music Director and Conductor, Norman Scribner.
(Pre-empts Prairie Home Companion Sunday repeat)
Wednesday, April 23, at 1:00 pm
Lifeline to Health can be heard the fourth Wednesday of each month and features interactive call-in segments, health and fitness news, and feature stories on timely health issues particularly as they relate to ethnic minorities and medically under-served populations in Georgia. Hosted by Carol Snype Crawford, Executive Director of Georgia's Office of Minority Health, Lifeline to Health encourages listeners to reduce health risks and become active in improving and maintaining their health. For more information, visit the Lifeline to Health website.
Thursday, April 24, at 7:00 pm
Mendelssohn: Overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 21. Violin Concerto in e, Op. 64
Paganini: Variations on Nel cor piu non mi sento
(Duain Wolfe, Pinchas Zukerman, conductors; Sayaka Shoji, violin)
Friday, April 25, at 8:00 pm
An encore presentation of a Georgia Public Radio production that first aired in February 2001.
April is both National Poetry Month and Jazz Appreciation Month. Giant Steps celebrates both, featuring the award-winning poetry of former University of Georgia poet Kevin Young, and the songs of jazz vocalist Lizz Wright, a native of Hahira, Georgia.
(Pre-empts the first hour of The Jazz Spot)
Saturday, April 26, at 1:30 pm
Tchaikovsky: Eugen Onegin
(Replaces Metropolitan Opera which ended its season)
Saturday, April 26, at 8:00 pm
Harry O'Donoghue hosts this locally produced Celtic music program. Playlists are available at the Green Island archive page.
Saturday, April 26, at 9:00 pm
Dick Wallace hosts this locally produced folk show. Playlists are available at the Music Americana archive page.
Sunday, April 27, at 8:00 pm
Host St. John Flynn welcomes LaGrange College professor John M. Williams who'll talk and take listener calls about his new book. Lake Moon is set primarily in the moral and social turmoil of the 1960s and '70s in Georgia. It is the story of a band and its young members in their quest for recognition and fulfillment, and their struggles against self-doubt, naïveté, and addiction in their pursuit of the inescapable calling of music. The toll-free number to call is 866-RADIO-GA.
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