Friday, September 3, 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).
Friday, September 3, at 9:00 pm
Join The Jazz Spot host Masani for a special hour of music and conversation provided by some of Georgia’s best jazz musicians. Tune in for Talkin’ Jazz: Words & Music, Volume 1, the first of an occasional series, when Masani talks with Macon author, musician, and jazz historian, Cliff Chandler, and sits in on a performance by Augusta State University professor and musician, Rob Foster. Rob and his friends perform selections from his latest recording entitled How’s That.
(Pre-empts first hour of The Jazz Spot)
Saturday, September 4, at 1:30 pm
Strauss: Die Fledermaus
Perfect for the Labor Day weekend: a traditionally festive opera -- that is, operetta -- a comic masterpiece from Old Vienna that's still showing the world how to throw a proper party. Heinz Fricke conducts the Washington National Opera.
June Anderson (Rosalinde); Maki Mori (Adele); Elena Obraztsova (Prince Orlofsky); Jesus Garcia (Alfred); Wolfgang Brendel (Eisenstein)
Saturday, September 4, at 8:00 pm
Harry O'Donoghue hosts this locally produced Celtic music program. Playlists are available at the Green Island archive page.
Sunday, September 5, at 1:00 pm
This week, From the Top is in America's heartland at the University of Iowa in Iowa City. Among today's repertoire, you'll hear the works of three contemporary American composers -- Paul Schoenfield, Dominic Argento, and Paul Creston -- and you'll hear a lot about American parents from today's young performers. Also, the From the Top players present their own very loose adaptation of Jane Austen.
Saturday, September 11, at 1:30 pm
Wagner: Die Walküre
For this knock-out production of the second drama from Wagner's Ring Cycle, the Washington National Opera's music director, Placido Domingo, also takes an onstage role, headlining in the role of Siegmund. The cast also includes Wagner standouts Linda Watson and Alan Held, and an exciting performance by the rising young soprano Anja Kampe. Heinz Fricke conducts.
Placido Domingo (Siegmund); Anja Kampe (Sieglinde); Linda Watson (Brünnhilde); Elena Zaremba (Fricka); Alan Held (Wotan)
Saturday, September 11, at 8:00 pm
Harry O'Donoghue hosts this locally produced Celtic music program. Playlists are available at the Green Island archive page.
Saturday, September 11, at 9:00 pm
Dick Wallace hosts this locally produced folk show. Playlists are available at the Music Americana archive page.
Sunday, September 12, at 1:00 pm
This week, From the Top visits the beautiful Shenandoah Valley of Virginia with a program featuring young musicians from Virginia and nearby Washington, DC, as well as Texas, Pennsylvania, and Caracas, Venezuela.
Saturday, September 18, at 1:30 pm
Rossini: Cenerentola
This sparkling production of the Cinderella story is one of Rossini's funniest operas and features an operatic rarity: a brilliant ensemble cast that also delivers striking individual performances. Riccardo Frizza conducts the Washington National Opera.
Sonia Ganassi (Cenerentola); Jesus Garcia (Don Ramiro); Alfonso Antoniozzi (Don Magnifico); Simone Alberghini (Dandini); Paolo Pecchioli (Alidoro)
Saturday, September 18, at 8:00 pm
Harry O'Donoghue hosts this locally produced Celtic music program. Playlists are available at the Green Island archive page.
Sunday, September 19, at 1:00 pm
This week, From the Top broadcasts from the Brevard Music Center, located in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Twenty-two-year-old violin virtuoso Sarah Chang, recognized the world over as one of classical music's most captivating and gifted artists, joins young musicians aged 15 to 18. You'll meet a trumpet player from Hawaii, a harpist from France, and a clarinetist who is known to friends as "The Jimi Hendrix of the Clarinet."
Monday, September 20, at 8:00 pm
This two-hour radio special presents the complete midnight penitential service in celebration of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. This rare spiritual musical event of gorgeous Eastern-European style choral music features a male chorus and a solo tenor cantor chanting the prayers of one of the most beautiful of all Jewish liturgies, the Midnight Penitential Service ("S'lihot"). The service is performed by Cantor Benzion Miller (familiar as one of the "Three Cantors" on the PBS special, Cantors - A Faith in Song), accompanied by the all-male chorus Schola Hebraeica conducted by Dr. Neil Levin, Artistic Director of the Milken Archive.
Host Larry Josephson also talks with Dr. Levin and Rabbi Ismar Schorsch, Chancellor of the Jewish
Theological Seminary, about the S’lihot service and its place in the Jewish High Holy Days liturgy.
(Pre-empts Studio GPB)
Wednesday, September 22, at 1:00 pm
This program was not available this month.
Friday, September 24, at 3:00 pm, and Sunday, September 26, at 10:00 am
This occasional series is designed to increase public awareness of issues of national and global importance. Each of the four programs in the series features distinguished experts, special guests, and Carter Center staff in conversation, and answering audience questions.
The first program presents a conversation with President and Mrs. Carter. Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, provide an update on Carter Center projects around the world, including initiatives in disease eradication, conflict resolution, democracy-building, and mental health promotion, and they take questions from the audience.
(Pre-empts Georgia Gazette)
Saturday, September 25, at 1:30 pm
Previn: A Streetcar Named Desire
A Streetcar Named Desire was first a play, then a film, and now an opera -- and all three are American classics. Hear it from America's national opera company, featuring an all-star cast in a production prepared with the composer guiding the way. Federico Cortese conducts the Washington National Opera.
Susannah Glanville (Blanche Dubois); Peggy Kriha Dye (Stella Kowalski); Teddy Tahu Rhodes (Stanley Kowalski); Anthony Dean Griffey (Harold Mitchell)
Saturday, September 25, at 8:00 pm
Harry O'Donoghue hosts this locally produced Celtic music program. Playlists are available at the Green Island archive page.
Saturday, September 25, at 9:00 pm
Dick Wallace hosts this locally produced folk show. Playlists are available at the Music Americana archive page.
Sunday, September 26, at 1:00 pm
Broadcasting from New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall, today's program features talented performers aged 13 to 18, including a flutist from Kentucky performing from George Enesco's Cantabile et Presto, and a chamber ensemble from the Juilliard School's Pre-College Division playing the first movement of Beethoven's "Ghost" Trio. Also, Roving Reporter Hayley Goldbach helps the youngest performer on today's program introduce us to her very grumpy best friend.
Sunday, September 26, at 8:00 pm
Sandersville, Georgia, author William Rawlings, Jr., joins host St. John Flynn to talk and take your calls about his new thriller, The Rutherford Cipher (Harbor House, 2004). Matt Rutherford’s inheritance from his elderly aunt may include lost Confederate gold buried at a secret location revealed in an old map he finds. But Matt’s not the only one looking for the treasure; there are others who will stop at nothing to get their hands on it. Our toll-free number is 1-866-RADIO GA (1-866-723-4642).
Thursday, September 30, at 9:00 pm
National Public Radio provides live coverage of the 2004 Presidential and Vice-Presidential Debates, followed by analysis. Linda Wertheimer host this NPR News Special. The first Presidential Debate is held at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida.
(Pre-empts second hour of Studio GPB and first hour of Night Music)
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