Sunday, August 1, at 1:00 pm
In this special edition of From the Top, host Christopher O'Riley catches up with some of the show's favorite musicians to see what they're doing these days. Audiences will also get to experience again some wonderful musical performances, including those by a teenage tenor who learned to "talk football" when he was on From the Top, an extraordinary quartet whose cellist is now a world traveler, and a violinist who is a Sphinx Competition laureate.
Friday, August 6, 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, and they’ll answer listener consumer questions. The number to call is 1-866-RADIO-GA (1-866-723-4642).
Friday, August 6, at 7:00 pm
The Atlanta Press Club hosts debates between candidates in statewide races, for U.S. Senate and for the Georgia Court of Appeals. A debate between the Democratic candidates for U.S. Senate begins at 7:00 pm, and the candidates for Court of Appeals debate beginning at 7:30 pm. This event is a simulcast with GPB television.
(Pre-empts The Tavis Smiley Show)
Saturday, August 7, at 1:30 pm
Handel: Orlando
One of the many operas based on Ariosto's epic, Orlando Furioso, Handel's drama might be called Orlando Crazy-oso. Countertenor Bejun Mehta gives a must-hear performance in the title role, as a character who is definitely short a marble or two. A Glimmerglass Opera production.
Bejun Mehta (Orlando); Christine Brandes (Dorinda); Michael Maniacci (Medoro); David Pittsinger (Zoroastro)
Saturday, August 7, at 8:00 pm
Harry O'Donoghue hosts this locally produced Celtic music program. Playlists are available at the Green Island archive page.
Sunday, August 8, at 1:00 pm
From the Top combs the archives for a special highlights edition that features outstanding teenage pianists from past episodes. You'll hear a set of preludes by American composer Robert Muzcinski performed by a fabulous 13-year-old, and we'll give one of the talented young pianists on today's program a chance to live out a future career fantasy in a round of our game, "Maestro Makeover."
Saturday, August 14, at 1:30 pm
Heggie: Dead Man Walking
Heggie's moving drama is quickly becoming a standout among recent American operas. It's based on the real-life story of a condemned murderer and the woman who stood with him to the end, a story that also became famous in the acclaimed film of the same name starring Sean Penn and Susan Sarandon. John Mauceri conducts the Pittsburgh Opera.
Kristine Jepson (Sister Helen Prejean); John Packard (Joseph DeRocher); Judith Forst (Mrs. Patrick DeRocher); Donita Volkwijn (Sister Rose); James Maddalena (Owen Hart); Charles Austin (George Benton); Matthew Lord (Father Grenville)
Saturday, August 14, 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 14, at 9:00 pm
Dick Wallace hosts this locally produced folk show. Playlists are available at the Music Americana archive page.
Sunday, August 15, at 1:00 pm
This week, From the Top comes to you from its home base, New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall in Boston. You'll be treated to the gorgeous sounds of the phenomenal Chicago Children's Choir under the direction of Josephine Lee, and you'll hear two movements of John Harbison's piano quintet played by a talented teenage ensemble. Also on this week's show, you'll be introduced to Marvel Comic's latest musical superhero -- Viola Man!
Saturday, August 21, at 1:30 pm
Bernstein: Candide
Spawned by Voltaire, adapted by Lillian Hellman, and set to music by Bernstein, Candide reminds us, brilliantly, that even the "best of all possible worlds" may not be as ideal as we'd like it to be. The New York Times called this production "cheeky, campy," and "buoyant." Marin Alsop conducts the New York Philharmonic.
Kristin Chenoweth (Cunegonde); Paul Groves (Candide); Stanford Olsen (Governor/Vandernendur/Ragotski); Patti Lupone (The Old Lady); Sir Thomas Allen (Pangloss/Martin)
Saturday, August 21, at 8:00 pm
Harry O'Donoghue hosts this locally produced Celtic music program. Playlists are available at the Green Island archive page.
Sunday, August 22, at 1:00 pm
From the Top heads to Atlanta, Georgia, to record in the beautiful Schwartz Center for Performing Arts at Emory University. You'll hear a quartet of sibling pairs from the Atlanta area, a fabulous teen violinist who plays Astor Piazzolla, and the 80-member Atlanta Youth Wind Symphony. Roving Reporter Hayley Goldbach dares a gifted young soprano to give an impromptu public performance in the student center, and host Christopher O'Riley eagerly anticipates today's final performer -- a percussionist playing one of his favorite pieces to accompany, Khachaturian's Sabre Dance.
Saturday, August 28, at 1:30 pm
Bellini: Norma
Bellini took the unlikely story of a love triangle involving two Druid priestesses and a Roman soldier, and turned it into one of the most popular of all bel canto operas. This production features a stunning performance by soprano Hasmik Papian as Norma, one of opera's most beautiful and demanding roles. Emmanuel Villaume conducts the Washington National Opera.
Hasmik Papian (Norma); Irina Mishura (Adalgisa); Richard Margison (Pollione); Kyle Ketelsen (Oroveso)
Saturday, August 28, 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 28, at 9:00 pm
Dick Wallace hosts this locally produced folk show. Playlists are available at the Music Americana archive page.
Sunday, August 29, at 1:00 pm
From the Top heads to the Valley of the Sun with a show recorded at the Scottsdale Center for the Arts outside Phoenix, Arizona. You'll hear five phenomenal young musicians play works by Poulenc, Haydn, Villa-Lobos, and Magin, as well as an original composition by the first honoree of From the Top's Young Composer Project. You'll also learn how that same young man went "up the mountain a rock guitarist and returned a classical cellist."
Sunday, August 29, at 8:00 pm
Host St. John Flynn welcomes Macon author Jaclyn Weldon White to the studio to talk and take listener calls about her debut novel, Distant Hearts (Mercer University Press, 2004). When papers belonging to a prominent 19th-century statesman become available for study, graduate student Jill Barnes travels to Barnett County in Middle Georgia to take advantage of the opportunity, and discovers a young woman’s Civil War diary among the documents that mirrors her own life. Join our conversation with Jaclyn Weldon White by calling toll-free during the program 1-866-RADIO GA (1-866-723-4642).
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