Sunday, October 1, at 12:00 noon
Guest: Leif Ove Andsnes, piano
Renowned pianist Leif Ove Andsnes performs music of Schumann, Beethoven, and Mompou.
Sunday, October 1, at 1:00 pm
From the Top heads out the Monterey Peninsula for a show featuring West Coast musicians. The program includes the national radio debut of a piece by Matthew Cmiel, a 17-year-old composer from San Francisco, performed by pianist Preben Antonsen, age 14. We'll also hear violinist Caitlin Kelley, 17, from Seattle; pianist Drew Petersen, 12, from Oradell, New Jersey; soprano Marielle Murphy, 17, from Carmel, California; and accordionist Ebelin Murayama, 11, from Düsseldorf, Germany.
Friday, October 6, at 3:00 pm
On the first Friday of the month at 3:00 pm, Georgia Public Broadcasting Radio offers the Consumer Call-in program, a live, one hour call-in where experts take calls and answer questions about consumer issues. The program, hosted by Rickey Bevington, includes experts such as Secretary of State Cathy Cox, Public Service Commissioner Bobby Baker, and representatives from the Governor's Office of Consumer Affairs. The program covers a wide variety of consumer topics from how to protect your identity to dealing with unfair business practices. You can e-mail your questions and comments to consumer@gpb.org. The number to call is 1-866-RADIO-GA (1-866-723-4642).
Friday, October 6, at 8:00 pm
Guest Jon Weber
The musical mind of Jon Weber is quite amazing! A brilliant player and masterful arranger, he also possesses an encyclopedic knowledge of jazz and American popular songs. Weber joined McPartland at the Music Institute of Chicago for a live taping of Piano Jazz, performing Ellington's "Black and Tan Fantasy," and pairing with McPartland for "Let's Fall In Love."
Saturdays at 12:00 am, beginning October 7
GPB is pleased to add another original program to its jazz line-up. Beginning October 7, from midnight to 3:00 am Mitchell Feldman will host Jazz Without Borders live from the studios of member station WACG in Augusta. Join us for this new program, as jazz aficionado Feldman mixes post-1950s modern jazz, classic 1970s jazz-rock fusion, current releases from today's younger jazz visionaries, and music of world artists.
(Replaces three hours of WFMT jazz programming)
Saturday, October 7, at 1:30 pm
Richard Wagner: Das Rheingold
Placido Domingo's Washington National Opera ends its 2006 broadcast season with the first installment in its striking new production of Wagner's epic cycle The Ring of the Nibelungen. Heinz Fricke is the conductor.
Robert Hale (Wotan); Robin Leggate (Loge); Gordon Hawkins (Alberich); Elizabeth Bishop (Fricka); Jane Ohmes (Freia); Gary Rideout (Mime); Jeffrey Wells (Fafner); John Marcus Brindel (Fasolt); Detlef Roth (Donner); Corey Evan Rotz (Froh); Frédérique Vézina (Wellgunde); Ji Young Lee (Woglinde); Jennifer Hines (Flosshilde); Elena Zaremba (Erda)
Saturday, October 7, at 8:00 pm
This week, Hank Weisman joins host Dick Wallace to discuss the upcoming Savannah Folk Music Festival. Playlists for this locally-produced folk show are available at the Music Americana archive page.
Saturday, October 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, October 8, at 12:00 noon
Guests: Thomas Hampson, baritone; Craig Rutenberg, piano
A program of songs by American composers, including Stephen Foster, Aaron Copland, Elinor Remick Warren, Samuel Barber, and William Grant Still.
Sunday, October 8, at 1:00 pm
This week, From the Top is in Elgin, Illinois, featuring outstanding musicians from 14 to 18 years old, including a pianist from Wyoming performing Rachmaninoff, a violinist from here in Elgin performing Lutoslawski, and a flute trio from nearby Chicagoland performing Carl Czerny. The Elgin Youth Symphony closes the show with a wonderful performance featuring bagpipes.
Friday, October 13, at 8:00 pm
Guests Charlie Watts and Tim Ries
Drummer Charlie Watts has been the heartbeat of The Rolling Stones for more than forty years, though his true passion has always been jazz and the blues. Saxophonist Tim Ries is currently playing with the Stones, but as a true jazz journeyman, he's worked with Maria Schneider, Maynard Ferguson, and Phil Woods. On break from the Rolling Stones World tour, Watts and Ries join McPartland to play Reis' arrangement of the Stones' classic "Honky Tonk Woman" and the Monk classic "Straight No Chaser."
Saturday, October 14, at 1:30 pm
Modest Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov
Renowned bass Samuel Ramey does a star turn as Mussorgsky's tormented monarch in a lush new production from Houston Grand Opera, kicking off the company's eighth season with NPR's World of Opera. Tugan Sokhiev conducts.
Samuel Ramey (Boris Godunov); Stefan Margita (Grigory); Raymond Aceto (Pimen); Joseph Evans (Prince Shuysky); Robert Pomakov (Varlaam/Shchelkalov); Jon Kolbet (The Holy Fool); Taylor Rawley (Fyodor); Heidi Stober (Xenia); Jennifer Root (Innkeeper/Nurse); Norman Reinhardt (Missail/Boyar-in-attendance)
Saturday, October 14, at 8:00 pm
Dick Wallace hosts this locally produced folk music show. Playlists are available at the Music Americana archive page.
Saturday, October 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, October 15, at 12:00 noon
Guests: Phantasm
The viol ensemble Phantasm performs music of John Jenkins, Orlando Gibbons, Richard Mico, and Henry Purcell.
Sunday, October 15, at 1:00 pm
This week, From The Top heads to sunny Palo Alto, California, for a show featuring talented young musicians. Highlights include performances by Orchestra da Camera, a 32-member all-string orchestra from San Anselmo, California, and the award-winning Luna Trio. We'll also hear violinist Stella Chen, age 13; soprano Kendra Berentsen, 18; and pianist Sean Chen, 18.
Friday, October 20, at 3:00 pm, and Sunday, October 22, at 10:00 am
A long-time contributor to The New York TImes and USA Today, Diane McWhorter is the daughter of a prominent white family in Birmingham, Alabama. Her 2001 book, Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution, which tells the story of her hometown and the dramatic events that unfolded there during the civil rights struggle of the 1950s and '60s, won the Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction in 2002. We'll hear a program presented last month by Ms. McWhorter at Savannah State University, as she spoke about her book and her experiences growing up in the city they called "Bombingham."
Friday, October 20, at 8:00 pm
Guest John Hicks
Pianist John Hicks was admired and respected as one of the most versatile and prolific musicians on the jazz scene. His music ranged from swirling intensity to lyric romanticism, which made him an in-demand sideman for everyone from Pharaoh Sanders to Betty Carter. On this Piano Jazz from 1990, Hicks plays one of his own compositions, "After The Morning," and gets into the groove with McPartland on "John and Marian's Blues."
Saturday, October 21, at 1:30 pm
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro
Mozart called this one "the best opera yet written!" - or at least the movie version of Mozart did, in the film Amadeus. Still, even if the quote is apocryphal, the sentiment rings true. Mozart's Figaro is surely one of theater's greatest blends of comic hijinks with the emotional complexities bred by everyday human foibles. Patrick Summers conducts this production from Houston Grand Opera.
Oren Gradus (Figaro); Ana Maria Martinez (The Countess); Teddy Tahu Rhodes (Count Almaviva); Isabel Bayrakdarian (Susanna); Zheng Cao (Cherubino); Dorothy Bryne (Marcellina); Carlo Lepore (Dr. Bartolo); Joseph Evans (Don Basilio)
Saturday, October 21, at 8:00 pm
Dick Wallace hosts this locally produced folk music show. Playlists are available at the Music Americana archive page.
Saturday, October 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, October 22, at 12:00 noon
Guests: Beaux Arts Trio
Today, as it has for over half a century, the Beaux Arts Trio draws audiences into profound and delightful musical encounters. This week on Saint Paul Sunday, founding pianist Menahem Pressler joins his two celebrated younger colleagues, violinist Daniel Hope and cellist Antonio Meneses, for a program that surveys four works that have had special meaning for the trio and its many fans. We'll hear music from Mendelssohn's first and Shostakovich's second trios, as well as two other beloved pinnacles of the form: Beethoven's "Archduke" and Dvorak's "Dumky" trios. Along the way we'll also get personal glimpses of the Beaux Arts Trio past, present, and future.
Sunday, October 22, at 1:00 pm
This week, From the Top is at home on the stage of New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall, with outstanding musicians from 10 to 17 years old, including the show’s youngest chamber music ensemble ever performing Haydn, and a teenage pianist from Minnesota performing Liszt’s fantastic "Mephisto Waltz." NEC’s Youth Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Benjamin Zander, plays Beethoven’s Triple Concerto with host Christopher O’Riley on piano, and 13-year-old Roving Reporter Caeli Smith helps demonstrate a young cellist’s proficiency with his bow - his archery bow!
Sunday, October 22, at 4:00 pm
Georgia Public Broadcasting presents a series of debates at the Atlanta Press Club among candidates in the November 2006 election. Today's debates feature candidates for Georgia Agriculture Commissioner, Labor Commissioner, Attorney General, and Secretary of State.
Friday, October 27, at 8:00 pm
Guest Billy Childs
Pianist/composer/arranger Billy Childs has been carving out new spaces on the jazz landscape, blending elements of classical music with jazz to create what he calls "chamber jazz." His 2005 album, Lyric, was nominated for four Grammys, and picked up two. Childs plays one of the winners, "Into the Light," as well as his Grammy-nominated arrangement of "Scarborough Faire."
Saturday, October 28, at 1:30 pm
Gaetano Donizetti: Don Pasquale
Donizetti scarcely put a note wrong in this comic masterpiece, heard here with a vibrant cast led by Houston Grand Opera music director Patrick Summers.
John Del Carlo (Don Pasquale); Heidi Stober (Norina); Norman Reinhardt (Ernesto); Brian Leerhuber (Dr. Malatesta)
Saturday, October 28, at 8:00 pm
Dick Wallace hosts this locally produced folk music show. Playlists are available at the Music Americana archive page.
Saturday, October 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, October 29, at 12:00 noon
Guests: Guarneri String Quartet
The Guarneri String Quartet perform Mozart, Ravel, and Dvorak. We'll hear the first movement of Mozart's String Quartet No. 19 in C major, the "Dissonant," Maurice Ravel's String Quartet in F major, and two movements from String Quartet No. 11 in C major by Antonin Dvorak.
Sunday, October 29, at 1:00 pm
From the Top goes into the archives to revisit some great performers and great performances. Audiences will reconnect with a cellist who was first turned on to contemporary music by playing a new work on From the Top, and is now a member of the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble; a young trumpet player and composer who is now working as a composer and musician in Hollywood; and a marimba player who has become a successful business consultant and fund-raiser for the arts.
Sunday, October 29, at 4:00 pm
Georgia Public Broadcasting presents a series of debates at the Atlanta Press Club among candidates in the November 2006 election. Today's debates feature candidates for Georgia Insurance Commissioner, School Superintendant, and Lieutenant Governor.
Sunday, October 29, at 8:00 pm, and Sunday, November 12, at 10:00 am
GPB's "radio book club" celebrates its centenary this month with a special 100th program recorded before a live audience at GPB headquarters in Atlanta. Since the program debuted in January 1998, host St. John Flynn has welcomed 75 authors from Georgia and the South to the Cover to Cover studio to talk to listeners about their books. From Terry Kay to Pearl Cleage, and Janice Daugharty to Brian Egeston, our area's best fiction and creative nonfiction writers have reached an audience across the state, and the last Sunday of the month has become a "can't miss" appointment for book-lovers from as far away as California and Idaho who listen online. Join us for the 100th edition of Cover to Cover.
Monday, October 30, at 7:00 pm
Georgia Public Broadcasting presents a series of debates at the Atlanta Press Club among candidates in the November 2006 election. This evening's debates feature candidates for the 12th Congressional District, including Savannah and Statesboro, and for the 8th Congressional District.
Tuesday, October 31, at 7:00 pm
Georgia Public Broadcasting provides coverage of a debate between the condidates for the 1st Congressional District, including Savannah and Brunswick. The forum was presented by the Chatham County League of Women Voters and the Savannah Morning News.
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