Friday, August 1, at 3:00 pm
Host Mike Savage is joined by Public Service Commission Chairman Robert Baker, Secretary of State Cathy Cox and John Smith, head of the Governor's Office of Consumer Affairs. Georgia Gazette Consumer Call-In, 866-RADIO-GA.
Saturday, August 2, at 1:30 pm
Leoncavallo: I Pagliacci
Mascagni: Cavalleria Rusticana
Saturday, August 2, at 8:00 pm
Harry O'Donoghue hosts this locally produced Celtic music program. Playlists are available at the Green Island archive page.
Thursday, August 7, at 7:00 pm, and Sunday, August 10, at 1:00 pm
This week From the Top comes to you from Finney Chapel at Oberlin College, in Oberlin, Ohio. You'll hear a young soprano from Appleton, Wisconsin, singing Weber, and the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra Wind Ensemble plays the last movement of Gounod's Petite Symphonie. Special guest is conductor and singer Bobby McFerrin, who performs with many of the kids on today's program in the grand finale, the Pavane by Gabriel Fauré.
Saturday, August 9, at 1:30 pm
Poulenc: Dialogues of the Carmelites
Saturday, August 9, at 8:00 pm
Harry O'Donoghue hosts this locally produced Celtic music program. Playlists are available at the Green Island archive page.
Saturday, August 9, at 9:00 pm
Dick Wallace hosts this locally produced folk show. Playlists are available at the Music Americana archive page.
Thursday, August 14, at 7:00 pm, and Sunday, August 17, at 1:00 pm
This week's special "All Siblings" program features some of From the Top's best brother and sister teams, and is co-hosted by Christopher O'Riley and Roving Reporter Hayley Goldbach. Highlights include the Hemsing sisters from Norway, 11 and 13 years old, who are both excellent violinists. Also featured are pianists Rexton and Ariana Park, 10 and 11 years old, who teach us how a piano can eliminate all family bickering. Also, Hayley Goldbach's own little sister, 11-year-old Jackie, fights her way onto the air to make her national radio debut.
Saturday, August 16, at 1:30 pm
Haydn: Orlando Paladino
Saturday, August 16, at 8:00 pm
Harry O'Donoghue hosts this locally produced Celtic music program. Playlists are available at the Green Island archive page.
Thursday, August 21, at 7:00 pm, and Sunday, August 24, at 1:00 pm
This week's From the Top was recorded at the Paramount Center for the Performing Arts in Bristol, Tennessee. Featured performers include a young soprano from Georgia performing "Monica's Waltz" from Menotti's opera The Medium, and a teenage pianist from Pennsylvania performs Debussy's Valse Romantique. Also, you'll meet a 17-year-old guitarist who is on the cutting edge of extreme sports. He'll tell us all about the latest craze in Europe called 'slab arm.'
Friday, August 22, at 3:00 pm
Host Mike Savage is joined by Georgia Department of Labor Commissioner, Michael Thurmond, to offer answers to your employment questions. Find out about the best resources for employment, free education programs, the latest tips for job hunting, and more by calling in on Friday, August 22, at 3:00 pm. Call toll-free 1-866-RADIO GA (1-866-723-4642).
Saturday, August 23, at 1:30 pm
Kurka: Good Soldier Schweik
Saturday, August 23, at 8:00 pm
Harry O'Donoghue hosts this locally produced Celtic music program. Playlists are available at the Green Island archive page.
Monday-Friday, August 25-29, at 7:00 pm
As in previous years, Georgia Public Radio producers and engineers spent the first week of March at the Savannah Music Festival (formerly Savannah OnStage) recording select performances that capture the variety and quality of the annual celebration. This month we present a week of programs filled with music recorded at venues in Savannah during the Festival. Join us for a tour of this year's Savannah Music Festival.
Monday, August 25, at 7:00 pm
The Morgan State University Choir in performance at First African Baptist Church. Known for its consistency and the quality of its performances, the choir has been led for the past 30 years by Dr. Nathan Carter. Regularly featured on NPR and PBS, the renowned choir's repertoire spans several centuries and includes classical, gospel, and contemporary popular music.
(Pre-empts Classical Guitar Alive)
Tuesday, August 26, at 7:00 pm
Pianist Roberto Plano in recital at the Telfair Museum of Art. A native of Varese, Italy, Plano has been dazzling European audiences since the age of 10, winning more than 15 national and international competitions, including the 2001 Cleveland International Piano Competition. He recently performed at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall in New York City, and has also played in Paris, Munich, Hamburg, Innsbruck, Bratislava, and cities throughout Italy. The recital includes Beethoven's Sonata No. 15 in D, Op. 28, Pastorale, and Debussy's Nocturne in D-flat.
(Pre-empts Harmonia)
Wednesday, August 27, 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. The call-in number is 1-866-RADIO GA (866-723-4642). For more information, visit the Lifeline to Health website.
(Pre-empts third hour of Midday Music)
Wednesday, August 27, at 7:00 pm
Music of Johann Sebastian Bach. Drawn from several of the festival's concerts, this program is comprised exclusively of music by J.S. Bach. Czech cellist Jiri Barta performs one of Bach's Suites for Unaccompanied Cello. Barta is a regular featured soloist with the Czech Philharmonic and the Berlin Symphony. He plays a Gagliano cello built in 1785. Taiwanese pianist Tien Yi-Chiang, a graduate of the Juilliard School, presents a performance of the Bach-Busoni Chaconne in d, and Gilles Vonsattel, winner of the 2002 Naumberg International Piano Competition, plays pieces from Bach's The Art of the Fugue.
(Pre-empts With Heart and Voice)
Thursday, August 28, at 7:00 pm
Performances from the American Traditions Competition. This one-of-a-kind national competition celebrates musical traditions of historical significance to the U.S. and is dedicated to establishing the value of the range and styles represented by composers of 19th and 20th century American art songs and popular music. Also on the program, music performed by ARTillery Punch, a group of Savannah Symphony Orchestra musicians that has blended its own experience of avant-garde, postmodern, jazz, and classical music through the combination of visual arts, stage performers, spoken word poetry, and one-act plays; organist Richard Myers performs at First Baptist Church, where he is organist and choir director; and guitarist Cool John Ferguson, whose coastal South Carolina upbringing in the 1950s and 60s resulted in a "musical gumbo" that blends the soul of the church with the blues, and a sound reminiscent of Jimi Hendrix.
(Pre-empts From the Top, which will be heard Sunday at 1:00 pm)
Friday, August 29, at 7:00 pm
Performances by the Cyrus Chestnut Trio and trombonist Wycliff Gordon. One of the leaders in the resurgence of young musicians playing in the jazz tradition, pianist Cyrus Chestnut is also among the most gifted. He studied classical music at the Peabody Conservatory, and earned a degree in jazz and composition from Boston's Berklee School of Music in 1985. He plays with bassist Michael Hawkins and drummer Neal Smith. Georgia native Wycliffe Gordon is known as a performer, conductor, composer, arranger, and educator. He tours internationally performing hard-swinging, straight-ahead jazz, and serves on the faculty of the Jazz Studies Program at the Juilliard School.
(Pre-empts Piano Jazz)
Saturday, August 30, at 1:30 pm
Donizetti: The Elixir of Love
Saturday, August 30, at 8:00 pm
Harry O'Donoghue hosts this locally produced Celtic music program. Playlists are available at the Green Island archive page.
Saturday, August 30, at 9:00 pm
Dick Wallace hosts this locally produced folk show. Playlists are available at the Music Americana archive page.
Sunday, August 31, at 1:00 pm
From the Top heads back to Granville, Ohio, to visit Denison University's Swasey Chapel. This time around, we'll hear from a variety of young performers. We'll be treated to a violinist from Juilliard, a soprano from Kentucky, and a duet played by two sisters from California. Finally, we'll also hear the story of how one performer first learned about From the Top when we came to his school in Minnesota.
Sunday, August 31, at 8:00 pm
Host St. John Flynn welcomes back Georgia native and North Georgia resident Amy Blackmarr. She's in the studio to talk and take listener calls about her just-released book Above the Fall Line: The Trail from White Pine Cabin. White Pine Cabin, a tiny hut in the Blue Ridge Mountains, becomes the setting for Blackmarr's searing self-examination as she tells the stories that have led her so far inward, and works out a trail back toward a happier connection with herself, the land, her god, and the people of her world. The toll-free number to call is 866-RADIO-GA (1-866-723-4642).
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