Saturday, May 1, at 1:30 pm
Gassmann: Opera Seria
World of Opera features top notch performances from around the country and around the world, with host Lisa Simeone. From the Théatre des Champs-Elysées in Paris, René Jacob conducts Concerto Köln on today's program. Florian Leopold Gassman was a Bohemian composer born in 1729. Best-known for his comic operas, he also produced opere serie. He died prematurely in Vienna in 1774 after falling from a carriage.
(Replaces Metropolitan Opera which ended its season)
Saturday, May 1, at 8:00 pm
Harry O'Donoghue hosts this locally produced Celtic music program. Playlists are available at the Green Island archive page.
Sunday, May 2, at 1:00 pm
From the Top is in bluegrass country, Louisville, Kentucky, introducing audiences to some wonderful ensembles in this music-rich area. We'll hear the Youth Performing Arts School Philharmonia from Louisville, and the Northern Hills Bassoon Ensemble from nearby Cincinnati, Ohio.
Thursday, May 6, at 9:00 pm
Cellist Yo-Yo Ma joins Ton Koopman and the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra for a performance recorded recently at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall, featuring concertos and new transcriptions of music by Antonio Vivaldi, created especially for Ma and the period-instrument orchestra by Koopman. The concert includes Vivaldi's Cello Concerto in B-flat, Handel's Suite in F, and Haydn's Cello Concerto in D. Ma also plays the solo, originally written for violin, in a new arrangement of the Largo from the Winter concerto of Vivaldi's famous The Four Seasons, and he is soloist in a new transription of the aria "Laudamus Te" from Vivaldi's Gloria.
(Pre-empts second hour of Studio GPB)
Friday, May 7, at 3:00 pm
Host Mike Savage is joined by Secretary of State Cathy Cox, Public Service Commission Chairman Robert Baker, and a representative from the Governor's Office of Consumer Affairs, to answer listeners' consumer questions. The number to call is 1-866-RADIO-GA (1-866-723-4642).
Saturday, May 8, at 1:30 pm
Saint-Saëns: Samson and Delilah
From Houston Grand Opera with Philippe Jordan conducting. Denyce Graves sings the role of Delilah in this Saint-Saëns spectacle, based on the Biblical story of a legendary seductress whose wiles drive the hero Samson to bring down the house - literally!
Saturday, May 8, at 8:00 pm
Harry O'Donoghue hosts this locally produced Celtic music program. Playlists are available at the Green Island archive page.
Saturday, May 8, at 9:00 pm
Dick Wallace hosts this locally produced folk show. Playlists are available at the Music Americana archive page.
Sunday, May 9, at 1:00 pm
This week, in a very special program celebrating our country's many outstanding youth orchestras, New England Conservatory's Youth Philharmonic Orchestra joins us in Jordan Hall in Boston. Ninety-five young musicians, under the direction of legendary conductor Benjamin Zander, perform the music of Rossini, Bartok, Ravel, Tchaikovsky, and Elgar. The sections of the orchestra are pitted against each other in a cutthroat round of Musical Jeopardy, and Roving Reporter Hayley Goldbach explores the world of youth orchestra romance.
Saturday, May 15, at 1:30 pm
Boismortier: Daphnis et Chloé
Simon Standage conducts the Wilanow (Poland) Early Music Summer Academy, in the story of two foundlings, brought up by shepherds, who fall in love at an early age. Kidnapped and separated, they are eventually reunited. Born in France in 1689, Boismortier was one of those rare composers who died a wealthy man!
Saturday, May 15, at 8:00 pm
Harry O'Donoghue hosts this locally produced Celtic music program. Playlists are available at the Green Island archive page.
Sunday, May 16, at 1:00 pm
From the Top is in Chattanooga, Tennessee, this week, with three outstanding soloists from around that state, as well as two other young musicians from Pennsylvania and Maryland.
Friday, May 21, at 3:00 pm, and Sunday, May 23, at 10:00 am
Democracy in China? is the final program in the Conversations at The Carter Center series. China has held open competitive elections at the village level in the last decade to help maintain social and political order amid unprecedented economic reforms. This has led to increasing popular demand for more political openness. Will the new Communist Party leadership encourage this trend? If so, what kind of democracy might China adopt? A panel of experts discuss the direction of democracy in the world's most populous country.
(Pre-empts Georgia Gazette)
Saturday, May 22, at 1:30 pm
Floyd: Of Mice and Men
From Houston Grand Opera with Patrick Summers conducting. Carlisle Floyd's telling take on the Steinbeck classic, in a production featuring a stunning performance by Anthony Dean Griffey, in the challenging role of Lenny.
Saturday, May 22, at 8:00 pm
Harry O'Donoghue hosts this locally produced Celtic music program. Playlists are available at the Green Island archive page.
Sunday, May 23, at 1:00 pm
From the Top welcomes the 2003 Junior Division winners of the Fischoff Competition, along with a 12-year-old pianist from California and a young guitar player from Alabama. You'll also hear the same Handel piece played by two very different instruments, and Christopher O'Riley will become a harpsichordist for a day!
Wednesday, May 26, 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)
Friday, May 28, at 3:00 pm, and Sunday, May 30, at 10:00 am
Recorded at a meeting of the Georgia Historical Society in the GPB studios earlier this year, this special program looks at how and why the Civil War continues to shape our region's history,
culture, and destiny. Three distinguished scholars of Southern history and society join Georgia Historical’s Stan Deaton to debate a topic that is as much about the modern South as it is about the Civil War.
(Pre-empts Georgia Gazette)
Saturday, May 29, at 1:30 pm
Verdi: La Battaglia di Legnano
Eve Queler conducts the Opera Orchestra of New York at Carnegie Hall. The setting is the Middle Ages, but this stirring opera is really a thinly-veiled revolutionary statement, a rousing patriotic drama inspired by Verdi's dream of a free and united Italy.
Saturday, May 29, at 8:00 pm
Harry O'Donoghue hosts this locally produced Celtic music program. Playlists are available at the Green Island archive page.
Saturday, May 29, at 9:00 pm
Dick Wallace hosts this locally produced folk show. Playlists are available at the Music Americana archive page.
Sunday, May 30, at 1:00 pm
From the Top comes to you from the plains of West Texas, on the campus of Texas Tech University in Lubbock. You'll hear Villa-Lobos played by an outstanding 10-year-old guitarist and Handel sung by a talented young tenor. You'll also meet a sibling duo whose favorite activity is driving each other bonkers, and Roving Reporter Hayley Goldbach will introduce you to "SABBRS - Strategic Anti-Big Brother Response Systems."
Sunday, May 30, at 8:00 pm
Atlanta author Phyllis Alesia Perry joins host St. John Flynn to talk and take your calls about her new novel, A Sunday in June (Hyperion, 2004). Set in a small Alabama town in the early years of the twentieth century, it's the story of the three Mobley sisters who continue to bear the scars of slavery through a paranormal connection to the past - they share their grandmother's gift of "second sight." Our toll-free number is 1-866-RADIO GA (1-866-723-4642).
Monday, May 31, at 8:00 pm
Former Georgia senator and honored war veteran Max Cleland hosts this special program, an hour of personal memoirs shared by World War II veterans, individuals who sacrificed their youth,
lost their innocence, saw a larger world, and survived unimaginable hardships. Lest We Forget reveals the experiences and raw feelings that veterans remember from diverse
theaters of the war as they crossed distant boundaries and encountered foreign cultures. This
Memorial Day broadcast honors their service and their memories. Lest We Forget is presented by the American Folklife Center's Veterans History Project at the Library of Congress. For more information, visit www.loc.gov/folklife/vets.
(Pre-empts first hour of Studio GPB)
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