Sunday, January 1 at 10:00 am
Do the holidays have you feeling lower than President Bush’s poll ratings? Need a laugh? Former Vice Presidential Chief of Staff Scooter Libby has leaked advance word that the Capitol Steps' New Year’s special is "funnier than the look on that guy’s face when he found out I told everyone his wife was in the CIA." The Capitol Steps promise to overexpose 2005 in their annual year-in-review, with new songs and recent classics. Featuring such loveable characters as Karl Rove, Howard Dean, the Supreme Court Justices (and nominees!), Prince Charles and Camilla, Tom "I’m So Indicted!" Delay and more!
(Pre-empts Georgia Gazette)
Sunday, January 1, at 11:00 am
NPR takes you direct to the Golden Hall of the Musikverein in Vienna for the most popular classical music concert in the world, the Vienna Philharmonic New Year's Day concert, this year conducted by Mariss Jansons. Korva Coleman hosts.
(Pre-empts Fresh Air Weekend and St. Paul Sunday)
Sunday, January 1, at 1:00 pm
The RiverCenter for Performing Arts in Columbus, Georgia, is the stage for this week's edition of From the Top. Musical highlights include a string quartet from the Chicago area playing Shostakovich, and very young pianist Megan Ruan from Minnesota playing Haydn. Also clarinetist Conor Brown, age 17, from Colorado; 17-year-old harpist Kerry Watson from Marietta, Georgia, playing music of Henriette Renié; and 17-year-old bassoonist Mary House from Midland, Georgia, performing Telemann.
Sundays at 4:00 pm beginning January 1
Since January 2004, Evening Star has been heard monthly on GPB on Thursday evenings as part of Studio GPB. Now the show gets its own weekly timeslot! Recorded in the theatre of the Sautee Nacoochee Center, a thriving cultural and community center housed in a restored 1920s era rural schoolhouse in the Appalachian foothills of Northeast Georgia, Evening Star is a concert series featuring the nation’s finest songwriters and contemporary folk musicians performing in an intimate atmosphere. This month, Evening Star begins a 26-week broadcast series on GPB radio. The show (both live and on the radio) is hosted by Andy Offutt Irwin, himself a singer-songwriter and an amazing storyteller. Andy, who likes to call himself "your host and audience trainer," was recently a featured teller at the National Storytelling Festival in Jonesborough, Tennessee, and has a couple of CDs to his name.
Each show includes one of Andy’s stories, which feature many of his "characters" including Aunt Marguerite, his 80-year old aunt who has become a doctor in her later years. Tune in for top-notch, mostly acoustic, performances by singer-songwriters, with guest appearances by wonderful side musicians, on Evening Star, Sundays at 4:00 pm.
The first program in the series features guest David Olney.
(Replaces Calling All Pets)
Friday, January 6, 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, January 6, at 8:00 pm
Guest Nellie Lutcher
Nellie Lutcher began her career at fifteen as the pianist behind legendary blues singer Ma Rainey. Lutcher eventually developed her own unique singing style and later formed a trio that showcased her unconventional scat-singing and percussive piano-playing. On this Piano Jazz, Lutcher plays "Hurry on Down," "Real Gone Guy," and joins McPartland for "I've Got a Right to Sing the Blues."
Saturday, January 7, at 1:30 pm
Gaetano Donizetti: L'Elisir d'amore (The Elixir of Love)
Poor village boy Nemorino loves the rich, beautiful, but fickle Adina, who prefers to flirt with the pompous Sergeant Belcore. Then a patent-medicine salesman comes to town with a magical "love potion," which first confuses and finally resolves the romantic situation. Maurizio Barbacini is the conductor.
Ruth Ann Swenson (Adina); Ramón Vargas (Nemorino); Peter Coleman-Wright (Belcore); Andrew Shore (Dr. Dulcamara)
Saturday, January 7, at 8:00 pm
Dick Wallace hosts this locally produced folk music show. Playlists are available at the Music Americana archive page.
Saturday, January 7, at 9:00 pm
Harry O'Donoghue hosts this locally produced Celtic music program. Playlists are available at the Green Island archive page.
Sunday, January 8, at 1:00 pm
Texas beckons and From the Top comes a-calling, as the show broadcasts from Dallas this episode. The show will feature young musicians from around the country, including the Texas Boys Choir and the Rattan Trio, winners of the 2004 Junior Division Gold Medal in the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition. Also violist Vicki Powell, age 15, from Madison, Wisconsin; mezzo-soprano Johanna Bronk, 17, from Newton, Texas; and cellist Journey Son, 17, from Duncanville, Texas.
Sunday, January 8, at 4:00 pm
Guest Cheryl Wheeler
Wednesday, January 11, at 7:00 pm
Georgia Public Broadcasting's coverage of the Governor's State of the State Address, in a simulcast with GPB television, including a possible Democratic response.
(Pre-empts News and Notes)
Friday, January 13, at 8:00 pm
Guest Benny Golson
Sax player Benny Golson has been a jazz innovator for many years. A true legend, Golson got his start with Benny Goodman, Dizzy Gillespie, Lionel Hampton, and Art Blakey. With popular tunes such as "Killer Joe" and "Whisper Not," many of Golson's tunes have become jazz standards. He and McPartland perform Ellington's "Prelude to a Kiss" and another Golson classic, "I Remember Clifford."
Saturday, January 14, at 1:30 pm
A Mozart Celebration
Music from the archives of the Metropolitan Opera, in a celebration of the 250th anniversary of the birth of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Saturday, January 14, at 8:00 pm
Dick Wallace hosts this locally produced folk music show. Playlists are available at the Music Americana archive page.
Saturday, January 14, at 9:00 pm
Harry O'Donoghue hosts this locally produced Celtic music program. Playlists are available at the Green Island archive page.
Sunday, January 15, at 1:00 pm
From the Top comes from the Harris Theater for Music and Dance in Chicago this week. The show's highlights include performances by the acclaimed violinist Rachel Barton Pine along with the Chicago Children's Choir and the Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra, in music of Copland, Bruch, and Fauré.
Sunday, January 15, at 4:00 pm
Guest Chuck Brodsky
Monday, January 16, at 9:00 am
National Public Radio, in partnership with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, the Glee Clubs of Morehouse and Spelman Colleges, and the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Non-Violent Social Change, presents the 12th annual musical tribute to the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. This year's program also honors the late civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks, and the 1955 bus boycotts that were championed by Dr. King. Featured music includes an arrangement of "We Shall Overcome" by Dr. Uzee Brown, Jr., the Music Director of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, selections from "Slavery Documents" by the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra's first composer-in-residence T.J. Anderson; "The Great American Symphony," Aaron Copland's stirring Third Symphony; and Jennifer Higdon's "Dooryard Bloom," which takes its title and text from Walt Whitman's "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed" and features baritone Nmon Ford, for whom the piece was written. ASO Music Director Robert Spano conducts the concert from the Martin Luther King, Jr. International Chapel at Morehouse College.
(Presented by Performance Today)
Thursdays at 8:00 pm and Sundays at 10:00 pm, beginning January 19
The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra returns to GPB Radio. Beginning on January 19, we present 26 weekly concerts by the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. Tune in for music from the Orchestra’s 2005-2006 concert season, together with commentary by its conductors and exclusive interviews with guest artists and members of the ASO. Highlights include the Southeastern debut of Osvaldo Golijov’s opera Ainadamar, interviews with conductors Oliver Knussen and Nicholas McGegan, and pianists Christopher O’Riley and John Kimura Parker.
The first program features Mahler's second symphony, the "Resurrection," conducted by Robert Spano.
(Replaces Studio GPB Sessions)
Friday, January 20, at 8:00 pm
Guest Dena Derose
Dena Derose began her career in jazz at the keyboard. When arthritis and carpel tunnel syndrome made playing impossible, Derose discovered a talent for singing. After a full recovery, Derose is back at the piano, this time with an added asset -- an amazing voice that critics and fans celebrate. Derose performs her own tune, "Home," and McPartland joins in for "I Fall In Love Too Easily."
Saturday, January 21, at 1:30 pm
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Die Zauberflöte
Egyptian prince Tamino is sent on a quest to rescue Pamina, the daughter of the Queen of the Night, assisted by the hedonistic bird-catcher Papageno. They are given a magic flute and a magic glockenspiel to protect and aid them. After a series of trials, Tamino eventually wins Pamina, and Papageno settles down with the bird-girl Papagena. Paul Daniel is the conductor.
Mary Dunleavy (Pamina); Erika Miklósa (Queen of the Night); Eric Cutler (Tamino); Nathan Gunn (Papageno); Julien Robbins (Speaker); Morris Robinson (Sarastro)
Saturday, January 21, at 8:00 pm
Dick Wallace hosts this locally produced folk music show. Playlists are available at the Music Americana archive page.
Saturday, January 21, at 9:00 pm
Harry O'Donoghue hosts this locally produced Celtic music program. Playlists are available at the Green Island archive page.
Sunday, January 22, at 1:00 pm
From the Top's special highlights episode gathers some of the favorite guest artist moments from the past couple of seasons. Audiences will be transported to the Kennedy Center where star violinist Midori joined three young performers to play Haydn's Gypso Rondo from the Piano Trio in G Major. Edgar Meyer, the man who has single-handedly redefined the double bass for classical music, performs one of his own compositions with a young pianist, and listeners will hear a mini master class conducted by one of the legends of classical music, the late great Isaac Stern who appeared on the show in the spring of 2001.
Sunday, January 22, at 4:00 pm
Guest Kate Campbell
Thursday, January 26, at 8:00 pm, and Sunday, January 29, at 10:00 pm
Kaija Saariaho: The Wings of a Dream
Sibelius: Symphony No. 3
Brahms: Violin Concerto
(Robert Spano, conductor; Elmar Oliveira, violin)
Friday, January 27, at 11:00 am
January 27 marks the 250th anniversary of the birth of one the world’s best-known and best-loved composers, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. If you listen to classical radio, sooner or later you’ll hear something like this: "We just heard a divertimento in D major, number 136 in the Koechel catalog of Mozart’s works." This might make you wonder, what is the Koechel Catalog? Who was Koechel, and what did he do to Mozart? Ludwig Koechel (later knighted as Ludwig von Koechel) was an Austrian botanist, geologist, lawyer, and amateur musician who had a thing for Mozart. What he ambitiously attempted was to assemble a definitive list of everything Mozart wrote and then put it all in order by date of composition. Koechel’s Chronological and Thematic Catalog of the Complete Musical Works of Wolfgang Amade’ Mozart, published in 1862, was the first systematic index of any European composer’s music. It listed 626 pieces, from a tiny harpsichord piece from Mozart’s childhood, K. 1, up to the Requiem he was working on at his death, K. 626.
Koechel got an impressive amount right. But not everything. In K. is for Koechel, GPB’s Sarah Zaslaw and her father, musicologist Neal Zaslaw, explore how Koechel got as close as he did and what we’ve learned since about what Mozart wrote when. Along the way, they look at myths of how Mozart composed; the formula connecting Koechel numbers to Mozart’s age; the ways scholars in quest of the perfect chronology have altered those numbers; modern forensic Mozart sleuthwork from paper-dating to handwriting analysis; and plans for the forthcoming New Koechel Catalog. Beyond the talk, there’s plenty of time in the hour for what makes it all matter, of course, Mozart’s music.
(Pre-empts first hour of Midday Music)
Friday, January 27, at 3:00 pm, and Sunday, January 29, at 10:00 am
On any given day, more people die from disease in developing countries than all those killed by the waves that struck south Asia in late 2004. The Carter Center's global health programs, led by Dr. Donald Hopkins, are helping millions of people overcome several debilitating diseases. Dr. Hopkins and other Center experts explore solutions that prove to be the cornerstones to alleviating diseases such as Guinea worm, trachoma, lymphatic filariasis, and river blindness.
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. Previous episodes of Conversations at the Carter Center are archived online on the Radio pages of the GPB website, www.gpb.org.
(Pre-empts Georgia Gazette)
Friday, January 27, at 8:00 pm
Guest Johnny Costa
You may not know the name Johnny Costa, but you've definitely heard his music. He's most famous for his work on the classic PBS program, Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood. Bring the kids along for the swingingest version of "Won't You Be My Neighbor" you've ever heard and virtuoso versions of classic standards, as Piano Jazz remembers Johnny Costa.
Saturday, January 28, at 1:30 pm
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Così fan tutte
Two young military officers, Ferrando and Guglielmo, are engaged to two sisters, Dorabella and Fiordiligi. They make a bet with the cynical bachelor Don Alfonso that their sweethearts will remain faithful, and set out to prove it by disguising themselves as dashing foreigners and each wooing the other's girlfriend. The young men are dismayed when their seductions succeed, but all ends well eventually. James Levine conducts.
Alexandra Deshorties (Fiordiligi); Magdalena Kozená (Dorabella); Nuccia Focile (Despina); Matthew Polenzani (Ferrando); Mariusz Kwiecien (Guglielmo); Thomas Allen (Don Alfonso)
Saturday, January 28, at 8:00 pm
Dick Wallace hosts this locally produced folk music show. Playlists are available at the Music Americana archive page.
Saturday, January 28, at 9:00 pm
Harry O'Donoghue hosts this locally produced Celtic music program. Playlists are available at the Green Island archive page.
Sunday, January 29, at 1:00 pm
From the Top comes from its home venue this week, Jordan Hall in Boston. Audiences will meet a 13-year-old pianist who is already a medical student, hear a trio from the Juilliard Pre-College Division perform a work by Astor Piazzolla, and hear the story of a young tuba player from Washington going for his first Ferrari ride. Also, soprano Rachel Parker, age 16, from Monroe, Georgia; and violinist Ben Thacher, 18, from Massachusetts.
Sunday, January 29, at 4:00 pm
Guest Pierce Pettis
Sunday, January 29, at 8:00 pm, and Sunday, February 5, at 10:00 am
Sandersville author William Rawlings, Jr., returns to the program this month. He joins St. John Flynn in the studio to talk and take listener questions about his new novel The Tate Revenge (Harbor House, 2005), a story that takes us from Paris to Savannah and on through South Georgia to Atlanta. Nate Finch, son of a Vidalia onion farmer, lives in Paris where he owns an international travel agency. The mysterious death of an ex-lover in a fall from the Eiffel Tower, and the unexpected appearance of her younger sister, draws Nate into a vortex of intrigue and murder culminating in a desperate struggle for survival at the hands of a polished criminal-for-hire. The toll-free number to call to take part in the program is 1-866-RADIO-GA (1-866-723-4642).
Tuesday, January 31, at 9:00 pm
National Public Radio provides coverage of the President's State of the Union address, hosted by Robert Siegel. The news special includes the Democratic response following the President's speech, as well as analysis from NPR correspondents and reaction from political analysts and members of Congress.
(Pre-empts second hour of Studio GPB and beginning of Night Music)
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