Thursday, June 2 at 8:00 pm, and Sunday, June 5, at 10:00 pm
Haydn: Symphony No. 104 (London)
Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 2 (London)
Vaughan Williams: Tuba Concerto
(Robert Spano, conductor; Michael Moore, tuba)
Friday, June 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).
Saturday, June 4, at 1:30 pm
Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin
A brooding masterpiece, Tchaikovsky's dark drama deals with a caddish aristocrat whose indifference towards others eventually turns full circle, and comes back to destroy him. The first of four shows from one of World of Opera's "resident" opera companies, the accomplished and innovative Houston Grand Opera, conducted by Robert Spano.
Bo Skovhus (Onegin); Zvetelina Vassileva (Tatyana); Raymond Very (Lensky); Stephanie Novacek (Olga); Oren Gradus (Prince Gremin); Joseph Evans (Triquet)
Saturday, June 4, at 8:00 pm - New time!
Dick Wallace hosts this locally produced folk show, now heard each week, statewide. Playlists are available at the Music Americana archive page.
Saturday, June 4, at 9:00 pm - New time!
Harry O'Donoghue hosts this locally produced Celtic music program. Playlists are available at the Green Island archive page.
Saturdays, beginning June 4, at 10:00 pm - New program!
Produced by Nashville Public Radio and hosted by Dave Higgs, Bluegrass Breakdown is an emotionally-charged, heart-rending, paint-peeling, splinter-kicking bluegrass show boldly covering such hot topics as broken things in Bluegrassland, gospel train songs, and "ain't" tunes. There are frequent trips to the seldom-seen new bluegrass CD bins, where the latest discs in bluegrassdom are examined. And, of course, coming from Nashville, the program features scintillating conversation and live music with some of the best in bluegrass. Bluegrass Breakdown aims to edify, educate, and entertain -- and it leaves no instrument unpicked, no song unsung, and no interview undone in its continuing effort to so.
(Replaces Latin Beat)
Saturdays, beginning June 4, at 11:00 pm - New program!
Produced in the Home of the Blues, Memphis, Tennessee, Beale Street Caravan takes us to the greatest blues venues in Memphis and around the US. The world's best blues artists are featured in intimate performances, recorded the way the blues were meant to be heard -- burning up a stage in front of a blues-loving audience -- in great Memphis clubs, or at festivals and special events around the country. Each week, Beale Street Caravan delivers great music from the biggest names in blues, and host Pat Mitchell is joined by some of the most respected people in the music industry who share their insights and first-hand experiences with the music and the artists. Blues music is hot, and its popularity is rapidly increasing across the US and around the world. Beale Street Caravan brings the very best to blues lovers of all ages.
Sunday, June 5, at 1:00 pm
From the Top joins with the Walnut Hill School in Boston, the preeminent arts high school in the country, to create a program with some of the best music students at the school. A young string quartet from Massachusetts performs the fourth movement of Beethoven's String Quartet in C, Op. 59, No. 3, the "Rasumovsky." Double bassist Blake Hinson, age 16, from Des Moines, Iowa, plays Bottesini's Tarantella. Four young singers perform Act I, Scene 1 from Mozart's The Magic Flute. Violinist Emily Smith, age 17, from Newton, Massachusetts, plays Nocturne by Karol Szymanowksi. And the Walnut Hill Orchestra, John Page, conductor, performs the Overture to Ruslan and Ludmilla by Mikhail Glinka.
Thursday, June 9 at 8:00 pm, and Sunday, June 12, at 10:00 pm
Mozart: Concerto for Three Pianos
Mozart: Symphony No. 39
Britten: Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra
(Donald Runnicles, conductor and piano; Sarah Gibson and Robert Henry, pianos)
Friday, June 10, at 3:00 pm, and Sunday, June 12, at 10:00 am
NPR Senior News Analyst and ABC News political commentator Cokie Roberts spoke to a packed house at Savannah’s Lucas Theatre earlier this year. Roberts based her talk on her most recent book, Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation, reviewing the lives of some of the women behind the men who wrote the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.
Saturday, June 11, at 1:30 pm
Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor
It's hard to think of an operatic heroine whose fate is more heartbreaking than that of Donizetti's Lucia, in this compelling and at times shocking drama based on Sir Walter Scott. The Houston Grand Opera Orchestra and Chorus are conducted by Patrick Summers.
Laura Claycomb (Lucia); Vinson Cole (Edgardo); Chen-Ye Yuan (Enrico); Raymond Aceto (Raimondo); Scott Scully (Normanno); Nicholas Phan (Arturo); Marjorie Owens (Alisa)
Saturday, June 11, at 8:00 pm - New time!
Dick Wallace hosts this locally produced folk show. Playlists are available at the Music Americana archive page.
Saturday, June 11, at 9:00 pm - New time!
Harry O'Donoghue hosts this locally produced Celtic music program. Playlists are available at the Green Island archive page.
Sunday, June 12, at 1:00 pm
From the Top heads to Atlanta, Georgia, to record in the beautiful Schwartz Center for Performing Arts at Emory University, where audiences will hear the Atlanta Youth Choir singing music of Britten, and Clare Semes, a 12-year-old violinist from Pennsylvania, playing a violin concerto by Samuel Barber. Also, pianist Jennifer Huang, 16, from Alpharetta, Georgia, plays Ravel's Sonatine; baritone James Onstad, 17, from Santa Fe, New Mexico, sings "Nuit d'étoiles" by Claude Debussy; and 17-year-old alto saxophonist Andrew Hall from Durham, North Carolina, performs a Sonata by Bernhard Heiden.
Thursday, June 16 at 8:00 pm, and Sunday, June 19, at 10:00 pm
Bruckner: Symphony No. 8
(Donald Runnicles, conductor)
Friday, June 17, at 3:00 pm, and Sunday, June 19, at 10:00 am
Excerpts from 2005 commencement speeches collected from colleges and universities across the state. Slated to be included are comments by University System Chancellor Thomas Meredith, Senator Zell Miller, Senator Hillary Clinton, and Georgia Poet Laureate David Bottoms.
Saturday, June 18, at 1:30 pm
Janacek: The Makropoulos Case
A complex and fascinating drama told in Janacek's unique and compelling operatic language. The Makropoulos Case is the mysterious story of a miraculously aging diva -- played here by Catherine Malfitano -- who must suddenly face the prospect and implications of her own mortality. Stephen Sloane conducts this Houston Grand Opera production.
Catherine Malfitano (Emilia); Robert Brubaker (Albert Gregor); Jonathan Summers (Jaroslav Prus); Joseph Evans (Vitek); Ryland Davies (Hauk-Sendorf); Richard Sutliff (Kolenaty); Chad Shelton (Janek)
Saturday, June 18, at 8:00 pm - New time!
Dick Wallace hosts this locally produced folk show. Playlists are available at the Music Americana archive page.
Saturday, June 18, at 9:00 pm - New time!
Harry O'Donoghue hosts this locally produced Celtic music program. Playlists are available at the Green Island archive page.
Sunday, June 19, at 1:00 pm
This edition of From the Top comes from the Virginia Arts Festival in Norfolk, Virginia, and features a flute choir from Norfolk, and a very young pianist from Newport News. Audiences will also hear a Bulgarian horn player studying in the US at the Idyllwild Arts Academy.
Thursday, June 23 at 8:00 pm, and Sunday, June 26, at 10:00 pm
Bernstein: Jeremiah Symphony
Theofanidis: The Music of Our Final Meeting
Del Tredici: Paul Revere’s Ride
(Robert Spano, conductor)
Friday, June 24, at 3:00 pm, and Sunday, June 26, at 10:00 am
The Atlanta Press Club presents a panel discussion on the open records bills that were introduced in the Georgia Legislature this year. Activists, reporters, and politicians debate the pros and cons of the economic development exception to the Open Records Act.
Saturday, June 25, at 1:30 pm
Puccini: La Bohème
"Reality" shows may be a new thing on TV. But we've heard them in the opera house for a century or more. At the opera, the term translates as "verismo," and nobody handled the genre with more genius, and more raw emotion, than Puccini in La Bohème. Struggling young artists have never had it so bad -- or so good! Sebastian Lang-Lessing conducts the Houston Grand Opera.
Ana Maria Martinez (Mimi); Roberto Aronica (Rodolfo); Earle Patriarco (Marcello); Ainhoa Arteta (Musetta); Oren Gradus (Colline); Daniel Belcher (Schaunard); Richard Sutliff (Benoit/Alcindoro)
Saturday, June 25, at 8:00 pm - New time!
Dick Wallace hosts this locally produced folk show. Playlists are available at the Music Americana archive page.
Saturday, June 25, at 9:00 pm - New time!
Harry O'Donoghue hosts this locally produced Celtic music program. Playlists are available at the Green Island archive page.
Sunday, June 26, at 1:00 pm
From the Top is in Central Pennsylvania at the wonderful Barshinger Center for the Arts on the campus of Franklin and Marshall College. Performers include a 16-year-old violinist and a 17-year-old baritone, both from Pennsylvania; a young bassoonist from Maryland; and a marimba duo from Chicago.
Sunday, June 26, at 8:00 pm, and Sunday, July 3, at 10:00 am
Camden County, Georgia, lawyer Steve Berry joins host St. John Flynn this month to talk and take listener calls about his latest thriller, The Third Secret (Ballantine, 2005). Set in the Vatican, this is the story of Father Colin Michener, a favored aide to Pope Clement XV (a caretaker pope from Germany), Cardinal Valendrea, the traditionalist Secretary of State who covets the papacy for himself, and the mystery of the third secret of Fatima which may dictate the very fate of the Church -- a fate now lying in Michener’s hands. The toll-free number to call to take part in the program is 1-866-RADIO GA (1-866-723-4642).
Wednesday, June 29, at 1:00 pm
Our monthly call-in program featuring 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. For more details, and to listen to past shows, visit the Lifeline to Health website. The call-in number for the program is 1-800-360-1799.
(Pre-empts third hour of Midday Music)
Thursday, June 30 at 8:00 pm, and Sunday, July 3, at 10:00 pm
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5 (Emperor)
Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique
(Robert Spano, conductor; Garrick Ohlsson, piano)
(Atlanta Symphony ends its season. Studio GPB Sessions returns next week.)
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