Friday, August 5, 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, August 6, at 1:30 pm
Francis Poulenc: Dialogue of the Carmelites
Another production from Glimmerglass Opera's Alice Busch Opera Theater. Poulenc tells the coming-of-age story of Blanche, a psychologically fragile heroine fearful of everything beyond her own shadow. After she joins the Convent of Carmelites, the government forces the nuns to denounce their faith or die. In the end, Blanche decides that her fate lies not in her fear, but in her duty as a Carmelite -- in one of the most wrenching final scenes in all of opera. Stewart Robertson is the conductor.
Maria Kanyova (Blanche); Joyce Castle (Madame de Croissy); Robynne Redmon (Mather Marie); Sarah Coburn (Sister Constance); Anne Evans (Madame Lidoine); Jake Gardner (Marquis de la Force); Jason Collins (The Chevalier); Kate Magiameli (Sister Mathilde); Marion Pratnicki (Mother Jeanne); Mark Whatley (Thierry)
Saturday, August 6, 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, August 6, 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, August 7, at 1:00 pm
Special guest Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg joins host Christopher O'Riley and his young musical guests for a great program recorded at Jordan Hall in Boston. Performers include 16-year-old violinist Zachary Taxin from New York, violist Izia Weyman, age 17, from Massachusetts, and cellist Jessica Wang, 18, from New Jersey.
Friday, August 12 at 3:00 pm, and Sunday, August 14, at 10:00 am
In this program recorded at the Georgia Historical Society in Savannah, Frank Lambert, professor of history at Purdue University, talks about an early American success story. After arriving in Savannah in 1738, James Habersham failed in his efforts to wrest a living from the Georgia wilderness and lived his first year at public expense. Then, by dint of his own efforts and through the connections he forged, he emerged as one of the colony's most influential and prosperous citizens, making his name as a planter, merchant, evangelist, and political leader. The third-wealthiest person in the colony at the time of his death in 1775, Habersham had a public career that included service as the secretary of Georgia, president of the King's council, and acting Governor. Lambert is the author of James Habersham: Loyalty, Politics, and Commerce in Colonial Georgia (Georgia, 2005).
Saturday, August 13, at 1:30 pm
Giacomo Puccini: La Fanciulla del West
Full-bore, Italian verismo meets America's Wild West, in this sizzler from Puccini. Minnie is a golden-hearted woman who serves a Deadwood-style mining camp as everyman's sister, teacher, mother, and sweetheart -- until a mysterious stranger comes to town, and she falls in love with the wrong guy. Stewart Robertson conducts this production from the Glimmerglass Opera.
Emily Pulley (Minnie); Roger Honeywell (Dick Johnson); Earle Patriarco (Jack Rance); Jake Gardner (Ashby); Bruce Reed (Nick); Bryon Grohman (Joe); Craig Phillips (Jake Wallace); Michael Todd Simpson (Happy); Jonathan Carle (Sid); Jeremy Galyon (Larkens); Daniel Paget (Trin); Meredith Arwady (Wowkle)
Saturday, August 13, at 8:00 pm - New time!
Dick Wallace hosts this locally produced folk show. Playlists are available at the Music Americana archive page.
Saturday, August 13, 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, August 14, at 1:00 pm
From the Top will be Waikiki wacky with an all-Hawaiian show for the program's first visit to the Pacific paradise. We'll hear a spirited teenage piano trio perform the music of Mendelssohn, we'll meet a 14-year-old slack-key guitarist and hear him perform some traditional Hawaiian music, and we'll even get to know a surfing bassoonist.
Friday, August 19 at 3:00 pm, and Sunday, August 21, at 10:00 am
After producing more than 3,000 television shows, Augusta State University professor Steve Clements explains how television has changed over the years and how everything old is new again on the tube. Recorded at the DeKalb County Library in Decatur, it's a look at how television programming has developed from Ozzie and Harriet to the present day.
Friday, August 19, at 9:00 pm
Recently, the multi-talented Jill Scott joined Masani, host of The Jazz Spot, in the GPB studios to discuss her new book of poetry, The Moments, The Minutes, The Hours, and her journey since she burst upon the music scene to critical acclaim in 2000 with the release of her recording, "Who Is Jill Scott? Words and Sounds, Volume 1."
(Replaces first hour of The Jazz Spot)
Saturday, August 20, at 1:30 pm
Claude Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande
Can an opera be passionate without shrieking mad scenes, rousing marches, and crashing cadences? The answer is yes, and this evocative and emotional marvel by Debussy proves it. This National Opera of Paris production, conducted by Sylvain Cambreling, features an all-star cast from the spectacular Opera Bastille in the French capital.
Simon Keenlyside (Pelléas); Mireille Delunsch (Mélisande); José Van Dam (Golaud); Ferruccio Furlanetto (Arkel); Sébastien Ponsford (Yniold); Dagmar Peckova (Geneviève)
Saturday, August 20, at 8:00 pm - New time!
Dick Wallace hosts this locally produced folk show. Playlists are available at the Music Americana archive page.
Saturday, August 20, 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, August 21, 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 George Enesco's 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.
Friday, August 26 at 3:00 pm, and Sunday, August 28, at 10:00 am
This program is a discussion of ways to reach Georgians whose health is at risk from the pulpit. From a recent conference held at the Carter Center in Atlanta, we hear from congregational leaders and state health workers who are joining forces to help empower both young and old, and fight obesity, teen pregnancy, diabetes, and heart disease.
Saturday, August 27, at 1:30 pm
Richard Wagner: Die Walküre (Act I) and Götterdämmerung (Act III)
An unusual Wagnerian double-header from Tanglewood, a festival nestled in the Berkshires that annually serves up a summertime of musical highlights. James Levine leads some of the best Wagnerian singers of the day, in two vivid acts from Wagner's Ring cycle.
Deborah Voigt (Sieglinde and Brünnhilde); Lyubova Petrova (Woglinde); Maria Zifchack (Wellgunde); Jane Bunnell (Flosshilde); Clifton Forbis (Siegmund); Christian Franz (Siegfried); Alan Held (Gunther); Mikhail Petrenko (Hunding and Hagen)
Saturday, August 27, at 8:00 pm - New time!
Dick Wallace hosts this locally produced folk show. Playlists are available at the Music Americana archive page.
Saturday, August 27, 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, August 28, at 1:00 pm
From the Top is in bluegrass country, introducing audiences to some wonderful ensembles in this music-rich area. Broadcasting from Comstock Concert Hall at the University of Louisville, our program features Beethoven's Symphony No. 2 in D Major, performed by the Youth Performing Arts School Philharmonia, conducted by Lyndon Lawless and comprised of 35 talented young performers aged 15 to 18. In addition to performances by three young soloists playing the piano, cello, and violin, we'll hear the Northern Hills Bassoon Ensemble, made up of six young artists aged 13 to 17.
Sunday, August 28, at 8:00 pm, and Sunday, September 4, at 10:00 am
Georgia Perimeter College English professor Jack Riggs joins host St. John Flynn this month to talk and take calls about his 2003 novel, When the Finch Rises (Ballantine). Set in a North Carolina mill town in 1968, When the Finch Rises is the story of the intense friendship shared by two 12-year-old boys, Raybert Williams and Palmer Conroy, whose brilliant dreams and imaginations provide a refuge from the hardships they are both forced to endure at home. The toll-free number to call to take part in the program is 1-866-RADIO GA (1-866-723-4642).
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