Thursday, March 3 at 8:00 pm, and Sunday, March 6, at 10:00 pm
Saint-Saëns: Marche Héroïque
Arnold: Four Scottish Dances
Wagner: Prelude and Liebestod, from Tristan und Isolde
Holst: selections from The Planets
(Jere Flint, conductor; Atlanta Symphony Youth Orchestra)
Friday, March 4, 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, March 5, at 1:30 pm
Mozart: Idomeneo
From the Salzburg Easter Festival, a masterpiece that's not heard nearly often enough, featuring some of the finest music in any of Mozart's operas. Played by what many consider the world's best orchestra, the Berlin Philharmonic, from the Great Festival Hall in Salzburg, the composer's hometown. Sir Simon Rattle conducts.
Philip Langridge (Idomeneo); Anne Schwanewilms (Electra); Madgalena Kozena (Idamante); Christiane Oelze (Ilia)
Saturday, March 5, at 8:00 pm
Harry O'Donoghue hosts this locally produced Celtic music program. Playlists are available at the Green Island archive page.
Sunday, March 6, 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."
Thursday, March 10 at 8:00 pm, and Sunday, March 13, at 10:00 pm
Joplin: Overture to Treemonisha
Still: Symphony No. 1 (Afro-American)
Bernstein: Symphony No. 1 (Jeremiah)
Tillis: Ev’ry Time I Feel the Spirit
Anonymous: Lift Every Voice and Sing
(Robert Spano, conductor; Theresa Hamm-Smith, soprano; Morehouse and Spelman College Glee Clubs)
Saturday, March 12, at 1:30 pm
Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Lysander loves Hermia, and Hermia loves Lysander. Helena loves Demetrius; Demetrius used to love Helena, but now loves Hermia. And then there's Puck. Got it? Benjamin Britten did. He succeeded where many have failed: turning a masterpiece of one genre (Shakespeare’s play) into a masterpiece in another. Sylvia McNair sings the part of the frustrated Helena. Hal France conducts this production from the jewel of the West, the historic Central City Opera House in Colorado.
Sylvia McNair (Helena); Anna Christy (Titania); David Walker (Oberon); Mary Phillips (Hermia); Ian Greenlaw (Demetrius); John McVeigh (Lysander); Adrian Sarple (Puck); Patrick Carfizzi (Bottom); Lawrence Bianco (Flute); Seth Keeton (Quince); Matt Boehler (Snug); Richard Cox (Snout); Jessie Hinkle (Hippolyta); Michael Rice (Theseus)
Saturday, March 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, March 12, at 9:00 pm
Dick Wallace hosts this locally produced folk show. Playlists are available at the Music Americana archive page.
Sunday, March 13, at 1:00 pm
This edition of From the Top comes from the Raymond F. Kravis Center for the Performing Arts in West Palm Beach. Performers include the 16- and 17-year-old members of the Hollywood Brass Quintet; a 13-year-old violinist from New York State; a 10-year-old soprano and a 13-year-old pianist, both from Florida; and a 15-year-old alto saxophonist from Virginia.
Thursday, March 17 at 8:00 pm, and Sunday, March 20, at 10:00 pm
Wagner: Overture and Venusberg Music, from Tannhäuser
Wagner: Prelude and Liebestod, from Tristan und Isolde
Wagner: The Ride of the Valkyries, from Die Walküre
Wagner: Dawn and Siegfried’s Rhine Journey, Siegfried’s Funeral Music, and Brünnhilde’s Immolation, from Götterdämmerung
(Robert Spano, conductor; Jane Eaglen, soprano)
Saturday, March 19, at 1:30 pm
Marschner: Hans Heiling
A "Grand Romantic Opera" by one of the masters of German fairy-tale opera. Marschner's lush score depicts Heiling, the King of the Gnomes, who rises from the underworld to seek a human bride -- with scary, but not quite tragic, consequences. Renato Palumbo conducts this performance from the Teatro Lirico in Cagliari, Sardinia.
Anna Caterina Antonacci (Anna); Markus Werba (Hans Heiling); Herbert Lippert (Conrad); Gabriele Fontana (The Queen); Cornelia Wulkopf (Gertrude); Nicola Ebau (Stephan)
Saturday, March 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, March 20, at 1:00 pm
Broadcasting from Armstrong Concert Hall at Shenandoah University in Winchester, Virginia, this week's show features outstanding musicians from 12 to 18 years old, including a young guitarist from Stafford, Virginia, performing a spicy piece of Spanish guitar music, and a playful teenage chamber ensemble from the Washington, D. C., area performing a movement of the Clarinet Quintet in b minor by Brahms. Also, a 12-year-old violinist/advice columnist tries to rescue the personal life of a certain member of the From the Top cast.
Monday, March 21, at 8:00 pm
The chorus and orchestra of Music of the Baroque present Johann Sebastian Bach’s Mass in B Minor, BWV 232. Recorded at St. Paul’s Church in Chicago, this performance is conducted by Music of the Baroque music director Jane Glover. Soloists include Nathalie Paulin, soprano; Phyllis Pancella, mezzo-soprano; Frank Kelley, tenor; and James Maddalena, baritone.
(Pre-empts Studio GPB)
Tuesday, March 22, at 8:00 pm
In 1785, the cathedral at Cadiz in southern Spain commissioned Haydn to write a Passion intended for annual presentation during the Easter season. It would consist of seven slow "sonatas," each based on one of the "seven last words" of Jesus on the cross. Two additional movements frame these sonatas: a solemn Introduction, and a fiery Finale depicting the earthquake which followed Jesus’ death. The Seven Last Words of Christ was first performed on Good Friday in 1787. Originally scored for full orchestra, a version for string quartet was crafted by Haydn that same year. We’ll hear this version performed by the Vermeer String Quartet.
(Pre-empts Studio GPB)
Thursday, March 24 at 8:00 pm, and Sunday, March 27, at 10:00 pm
Dvorak: Symphony No. 8
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 1
Maxwell Davies: An Orkney Wedding, with Sunrise
(Donald Runnicles, conductor; Andreas Haefliger, piano; Scott Long, bagpipes)
Friday, March 25, at 9:00 pm
We mark Women's History Month with this special program, featuring highlights from the 2004 Mary Lou Williams Women in Jazz Festival. The crowd-pleaser of the 2004 festival, violinist Karen Briggs performs a unique, flamboyant blend of pop, jazz, funk, and world beat.
Saturday, March 26, at 1:30 pm
Franklin: Loss of Eden
Philip Brunelle conducts the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, featuring members of the Saint Louis Symphony, in its world premiere production of Loss of Eden, written by the composer/librettist team of Cary John Franklin and Michael Patrick Albano. The opera tells the dramatic and controversial true story of the kidnapping of aviator Charles Lindbergh's baby in 1932.
Keith Pahres (Charles Lindbergh); Kellie J. Van Horn (Anne Morrow Lindbergh); Kristin Reierson (Elisabeth Morrow); Mark Duffin (Bruno Hauptmann); Ann Panagulias (Anna Hauptmann)
Saturday, March 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, March 26, at 9:00 pm
Dick Wallace hosts this locally produced folk show. Playlists are available at the Music Americana archive page.
Sunday, March 27, at 1:00 pm
From the Top is in bluegrass country again, introducing audiences to some wonderful ensembles in this music-rich area. Broadcasting from Comstock Concert Hall at the University of Louisville in Kentucky, listeners will enjoy performances by two winners of the WUOL Young Classical Artist Competition, the Louisville Youth Orchestra, and the Pacific Boychoir Academy Trio.
Sunday, March 27, at 8:00 pm, and Sunday, April 3, at 10:00 am
Athens author Philip Lee Williams returns to the program to talk with host St. John Flynn and take listener calls about his new novel, A Distant Flame (St. Martin’s Press, 2004). In the spring of 1864, 17-year-old Charlie Merrill leaves his family in Branton, Georgia, to fight for the Confederacy in what will become known as the Atlanta campaign. As he prepares to give a public address on the fiftieth anniversary of the Battle of Atlanta, Merrill reflects on the costs of the Civil War, on love, and on life. Join the conversation with Philip Lee Williams by calling our toll-free number, 1-866-RADIO GA (1-866-723-4642).
Thursday, March 31 at 8:00 pm, and Sunday, April 3, at 10:00 pm
Mozart: Requiem
Hartmann: Miserae
Strauss: Death and Transfiguration
(Donald Runnicles, conductor; ASO Chamber Chorus; Christine Brewer, soprano; Ruxandra Donose, mezzo-soprano; Gregory Kunde, tenor; and Eric Owens, bass)
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