Saturday, April 2, at 1:30 pm
Verdi: La Traviata
Conductor Lorin Maazel pays a visit to the recently renovated La Fenice in Venice, for Verdi's indelible masterpiece, in a production featuring the Grammy-winning soprano Patrizia Ciofi as Violetta.
Patrizia Ciofi (Violetta); Roberto Saccà (Alfredo); Dmitri Hvorostovsky (Germont); Eufemia Tufano (Flora); Elisabetta Martorana (Annina); Salvatore Cordella (Gastone); Andrea Porta (Douphol); Federic Sacchi (Doctor Grenvil); Vito Priante (Marchese d'Obigny)
Saturday, April 2, at 8:00 pm
Harry O'Donoghue hosts this locally produced Celtic music program. Playlists are available at the Green Island archive page.
Sunday, April 3, at 1:00 pm
This week, From the Top presents its first ever "All Composers Show." Today's special highlights episode features some of the best original music heard on the show, written and performed by kids from 11 to 18 years old. The young composers include Sebastian Chang, Josh Deutsch, Brad Balliet, Robert Tsai, and Rachel Brandwein.
Thursday, April 7 at 8:00 pm, and Sunday, April 10, at 10:00 pm
Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 1
Ives: Thanksgiving Day
Debussy: The Sea
Ravel: Bolero
(Roberto Abbado, conductor; Hilary Hahn, violin)
Saturday, April 9, at 1:30 pm
Massenet: The King of Lahore
More from La Fenice in Venice. One of the few operas set in India, this colorful, early drama by Massenet is among the first works in which the composer displayed his true, lyric genius -- an exotic tour de force from a spectacular venue. Marcello Viotti conducts.
Ana Maria Sánchez (Sitâ); Vladimir Stoyanov (Scindia); Maria José Montiel (Kaled); Giuseppe Gipali (Alim); Deyan Vachkov (Indra); Riccardo Zanellato (Timour)
Saturday, April 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, April 9, at 9:00 pm
Dick Wallace hosts this locally produced folk show. Playlists are available at the Music Americana archive page.
Sunday, April 10, at 1:00 pm
This week From the Top is at the Paramount Theater in Abilene, Texas. The concert taping will feature young musicians from both inside and outside Texas including a 14-member fiddle ensemble from Abilene.
Thursday, April 14 at 8:00 pm, and Sunday, April 17, at 10:00 pm
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 27 in Bb
Lindberg: Feria
Brahms: Symphony No. 4
(Alan Gilbert, conductor; Emanuel Ax, piano)
Saturday, April 16, at 1:30 pm
Rossini: Elisabetta, regina d'Inghilterra (Elizabeth, Queen of England)
Each year, Pesaro, Italy, pays tribute to its favorite son with a festival of his operas. The Rossini Festival presents the composer's works in theaters all across the city, giving us a chance to hear Italian opera straight from the source. In this performance, Renato Palumbo conducts the Orchestra of the Teatro Comunale, Bologna.
Sonia Ganassi (Elisabetta); Bruce Sledge (Leicester); Mariola Cantarero (Matilde); Manuela Custer (Enrico); Antonino Siragusa (Norfolk); Filippo Adami (Guglielmo)
Saturday, April 16, at 8:00 pm
Harry O'Donoghue hosts this locally produced Celtic music program. Playlists are available at the Green Island archive page.
Sunday, April 17, at 1:00 pm
From the Top comes from the Great Southwest this week, as Albuquerque, New Mexico, plays host to the program. Highlights include the first ever From the Top math challenge, an 18-year-old New Mexico native trumpet player/rock climber, and the world premiere of a piano trio by a 17-year-old composer from Georgia.
Thursday, April 21 at 8:00 pm, and Sunday, April 24, at 10:00 pm
Handel: Harp Concerto
Handel: Water Music
Bach: Orchestral Suite No. 4
(Bernard Labadie, conductor; Elisabeth Remy, harp)
Friday, April 22, at 3:00 pm, and Sunday, April 24, at 10:00 am
Children are often the first to suffer when public health systems cut budgets. The Carter Center's Mental Health Program leads a discussion about the well-being of children in light of recommendations from the President's New Freedom Commission on mental health. A panel representing children, families, and policy-makers will offer personal experiences on navigating the children's mental health system and provide insight into systems of care that emphasize treatment of and recovery from mental illnesses. Conversations at The Carter Center is an occasional series designed to increase public awareness of issues of national and global importance. Each program features distinguished experts, special guests, and Carter Center staff in conversation, and answering audience questions.
(Pre-empts Georgia Gazette)
Saturday, April 23, at 1:30 pm
Rossini: Matilde di Shabran
The Festival held in his honor in Pesaro is one place to hear both familiar works by Rossini and some of the many neglected gems by this remarkably prolific composer. One of those rarities is this quirky romantic melodrama, in which a clever young woman wins the heart of a misogynistic tyrant. Its subtitle is Beauty and the Heart of Stone.
Annick Massis (Matilde di Shabran); Juan Diego Florez (Corradino); Hadar Halevy (Edoardo); Bruno Taddia (Raimondo Lopez); Carlo Lepore (Ginardo); Marco Vinco (Aliprando); Bruno de Simone (Isidoro); Chiara Chialli (Contessa d'Arco); Gregory Bonfatti (Egoldo); Lubomír Moravec (Rodrigo)
Saturday, April 23, at 8:00 pm
Harry O'Donoghue hosts this locally produced Celtic music program. Playlists are available at the Green Island archive page.
Sunday, April 24, at 1:00 pm
From the Top broadcasts from a wonderful new concert facility, St. Mark's School in Southborough, Massachusetts. We feature a piano duo from the Boston area and a quartet playing the work of a 10-year-old New York composer.
Sunday, April 24, at 8:00 pm, and Sunday, May 1, at 10:00 am
This month, Georgia College and State University professor Karen Salyer McElmurray joins St. John Flynn to talk and take calls about her memoir, Surrendered Child: A Birth Mother’s Journey (University of Georgia, 2004). In 1973, at age sixteen, McElmurray put her newborn child up for adoption. Twenty-five years would pass before she began sharing this part of her past with others and actively looking for her son. This is her story. The toll-free number to call to take part in the program is 1-866-RADIO GA (1-866-723-4642).
Monday, April 25, at 8:00 pm
This special program takes an untraditional look at this defining Jewish holiday. In a dream, host Jim Metzner is asked whom he would invite to a Passover Seder if he were free to invite anyone. His guests include some of history's most celebrated champions of freedom and justice, encouraging us to consider the holiday in the context of universal themes, from slavery and exodus to freedom and family. On the 350th anniversary of the establishment of the first Jewish community in the US, this sound-rich hour is an affectionate portrait of the Passover Seder in America, a living tradition that grapples with slavery, liberation, and the meaning of life -- not to mention great music and matzo ball soup! Passover Dreams: A Meditation on Freedom and Renewal offers an insightful exploration of a major holiday in the Jewish faith, one that speaks directly to humanity's most profound needs and aspirations.
(Pre-empts first hour of Studio GPB)
Thursday, April 28 at 8:00 pm, and Sunday, May 1, at 10:00 pm
Program pre-empted by Presidential news conference on Thursday. It can be heard on Sunday, and also at a special time, on Monday, May 2, at 8:00 pm. See the May Featured Programs list.
Saturday, April 30, at 1:30 pm
Handel: Agrippina
Until fairly recently, Handel's operas were often overlooked amidst the genius of his orchestral music and the drama of his oratorios. But his Italian operas made him the toast of London long before those English oratorios caught the public's ear. Agrippina is a story of political intrigue named for its lead character, Nero's mother. If she hadn't been a shrewd and savvy operator, Nero could never have fiddled while Rome burned. From Gallus Hall in Ljubljana, Slovenia, Jan Willem de Vriend conducts the Combattimento Consort of Amsterdam.
Annemarie Kremer (Agrippina and Giunone); Renate Arends (Poppea); Clint van der Linde (Narcissus); Piotr Micinski (Claudius); Quirijn de Lang (Ottone); Michael Hart-Davis (Nerone); Jan Alofs (Lesbo); Robert Muuse (Pallante)
Saturday, April 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, April 30, at 9:00 pm
Dick Wallace hosts this locally produced folk show. Playlists are available at the Music Americana archive page.
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