Monday, January 1, at 11:00 am
This New Year’s Day, NPR takes us direct to the Golden Hall of the Musikverein in the heart of Old Vienna for the most popular classical music concert in the world, the Vienna Philharmonic New Year's Day concert. This performance of waltzes, polkas, and marches is broadcast around the world to more than one billion listeners. NPR’s Korva Coleman is the host.
(Pre-empts first two hours of Midday Music)
Friday, January 5, 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, January 5, at 8:00 pm
Guests The Ashby Brothers Quartet
Brothers Marty and Jay Ashby have long been infected by the sounds of jazz. A guitarist by training, Marty is the executive producer for The Manchester Craftsmen's Guild, a reliable bastion of jazz in Pittsburgh. Brother Jay is a trombonist who's played with the Dizzy Gillespie Alumni All-Star Big Band, Jimmy Heath, and Randy Brecker, and pitches in at the MCG as co-producer and director of studio operations. The Brothers Ashby join McPartland with their quartet for "Five Spot After Dark" and "Squeeze Me."
Saturday, January 6, at 1:30 pm
Vincenzo Bellini: I Puritani
Bellini's last opera is set during the 17th-century English Revolution which pitted the forces of King Charles I (the Royalists) against the forces of his Parliament led by Oliver Cromwell (the Puritans). Elvira, daughter of Puritan leader Lord Walton, is betrothed to Riccardo whom she does not love. Riccardo becomes enraged when Walton offers Elvira's hand to Arturo, a Royalist, whom she does love. But when Arturo is seen with another woman, a fact gleefully reported by Riccardo, Elvira loses her mind. Patrick Summers is the conductor.
Anna Netrebko (Elvira); Eric Cutler (Arturo); Franco Vassallo (Riccardo); John Relyea (Giorgio)
Saturday, January 6, at 8:00 pm
Dick Wallace hosts this locally produced folk music show. Playlists are available at the Music Americana archive page.
Saturday, January 6, at 9:00 pm
Harry O'Donoghue hosts this locally produced Celtic music program. Playlists are available at the Green Island archive page.
Sundays at 7:00 am
This new program, which was added to GPB's schedule in December, is public radio's conversation about religion, meaning, ethics, and ideas. Focusing on a different theme each week, host Krista Tippett probes the myriad ways in which religious impulses inform every aspect of life and culture, nationally and globally. Krista Tippett is a journalist and former diplomat with a Master of Divinity degree from Yale University. Tippett says, "The human religious and spiritual impulse is present in all of the most important and intriguing challenges before us. Our goal is to treat religious people and religious ideas with the same curiosity, intelligence, and seriousness with which public radio treats every other fundamental aspect of human life."
Sunday, January 7, at 12:00 noon
Guests: Steven Isserlis, cello; Ana Maria Vera, piano
British cellist Steven Isserlis has performed with the world's greatest orchestras and recently he's become a writer of children's books as well. Listen in as the author of Why Beethoven Threw the Stew plays a program of little-known works by Felix Mendelssohn, Joseph Suk, and Bohuslav Martinu. Pianist Ana-Maria Vera joins Isserlis for some lively music and conversation with Saint Paul Sunday host Bill McGlaughlin.
Sunday, January 7, at 1:00 pm
It’s off to Florida’s sunny Gulf Coast for a From the Top episode that features a sprightly organ piece performed by 17-year-old James Crawford Wiley, and a piano trio from Juilliard. We'll also hear from violinist David Song, 18; clarinetist Ashleé Miller, 17; and pianist Michelle Cann, 18.
Sundays at 4:00 pm, beginning January 7
The folk music performance series Evening Star, produced at the Sautee Nacoochee Center in northeast Georgia, returns for a new 26-week broadcast season. This concert program features some of the nation's finest songwriters and contemporary folk musicians. Singer-songwriter-storyteller Andy Offutt Irwin is "your host and audience trainer," each week presenting one of his stories featuring characters including Aunt Marguerite, who has become a doctor at the age of 80.
(Replaces World Tour, which moves to Sundays at 6:00 am)
Monday, January 8, at 2:00 pm
Georgia Public Broadcasting radio will provide live coverage of the inauguration of the Governor and other state officers from Atlanta's Phillips Arena. The broadcast includes speeches by Governor Sonny Perdue and Lieutenant Governor Casey Cagle, as well as musical performances.
(Pre-empts Talk of the Nation and Fresh Air)
Wednesday, January 10, at 12:00 noon
GPB Radio presents live coverage of the annual "State of the State" address by Governor Sonny Perdue.
(Pre-empts second hour of Midday Music)
Friday, January 12, at 8:00 pm
Guest Keith Jarrett
Piano Jazz presents a special program featuring one of the most imaginative and original performers of our time, the incomparable pianist Keith Jarrett. Jarrett's playing is a combination of unbelievable beauty, technical genius, and mesmerizing improvisations. As elusive as he is brilliant, Jarrett has been on McPartland's wish list for years. Now, he visits her for a captivating hour of conversation and improvisation.
Saturday, January 13, at 1:00 pm
Tan Dun: The First Emperor
This is the first broadcast of a new opera by acclaimed composer Tan Dun, which received its world premiere at the Met last month. The libretto was written by the composer along with former Emory University professor and National Book Award winner Ha Jin. The First Emperor is an epic story of love, power, and betrayal, centering on the Emperor Qin, the first emperor of China, a controversial and brutal ruler best known for unifying the country, building the Great Wall, and creating a vast army of terra cotta soldiers to guard his tomb. The composer conducts.
Elizabeth Futral (Princess Yue-yang); Michelle DeYoung (Shaman); Paul Groves (Gao Jian-li); Plácido Domingo (Emperor Qin); Hao Jiang Tian (General Wang); Wu Hsing-Kuo (Yin-Yang Master)
Saturday, January 13, at 8:00 pm
Dick Wallace hosts this locally produced folk music show. Playlists are available at the Music Americana archive page.
Saturday, January 13, 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 14, at 12:00 noon
Guests: Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra
The first guests Saint Paul Sunday - then known as Saint Paul Sunday Morning - welcomed into its studio are the same performers you'll hear this week: the marvelous Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. On that inaugural broadcast, which aired twenty-five years ago last month, the SPCO joined forces with the Dale Warland Singers for an all-Bach program. The auspicious beginning turned into a long and happy affair, delighting listeners with some twenty-seven more programs. This week, discover again why this orchestra of soloists is an American musical treasure. They'll bring us music from a vibrant trio of composers - a Haydn symphony, a Schubert rondo, and two of Astor Piazzolla's vivid Porteño.
Sunday, January 14, at 1:00 pm
A beautiful new concert hall on the campus of one of America’s great boarding schools is the setting for this week’s episode of From the Top. The Burgin Center at Mercersburg Academy provides a great place to hear music from both the school and the surrounding community, tucked into the rolling hills where West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Maryland meet.
Friday, January 19, at 8:00 pm
Guest Eddie Gomez
Bassist Eddie Gomez has held down rhythm sections and set the groove for some jazz heavyweights, from Bill Evans to Miles Davis to Chick Corea. His masterful touch and sense of swing shine through, whether he's grooving in the background or bringing the bass up front. He joins McPartland for "Turn Out the Stars" and "Stella By Starlight."
Saturday, January 20, at 1:30 pm
Gaetano Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor
A special broadcast from the Met's archive. We'll hear a performance of Donizetti's masterpiece recorded on December 8, 1956, starring the legendary soprano Maria Callas. Conducted by Fausto Cleva.
Maria Callas (Lucia); Giuseppe Campora (Edgardo); Enzo Sordello (Enrico); Nicola Moscona (Raimondo); James McCracken (Normanno)
Saturday, January 20, at 8:00 pm
Dick Wallace hosts this locally produced folk music show. Playlists are available at the Music Americana archive page.
Saturday, January 20, 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 21, at 12:00 noon
Guests: Anonymous 4 with Darol Anger and Scott Nygaard
The 4 singers of Anonymous 4 abandon their a capella tradition and invite a few friends into the studio with them as they bring an all-American program of ballads, shape-note tunes, and folk hymns. Darol Anger accompanies on violin and mandolin, along with guitarist Scott Nygaard. Your spirit will dance along.
Sunday, January 21, at 1:00 pm
From The Top heads back to Texas this week, and as the saying goes, everything’s bigger there, including the outstanding musicians from 12 to 16 years old on today’s show. Audiences will hear the eighty member Children’s Chorus of Greater Dallas, a very young violinist from Texas performing Giuseppe Tartini's Variations on a Theme by Corelli, and a teenage cellist from Lawrenceville, Georgia, performing from a cello concerto by Victor Herbert. Of course it wouldn’t be From the Top if we also didn’t hear from the smallest of instruments, the piccolo, here played by a 16-year-old from New York.
Tuesday, January 23, at 9:00 pm
GPB brings you National Public Radio's coverage of the President's State of the Union address, including the Democratic response.
(Pre-empts second hour of Studio GPB)
Friday, January 26, at 8:00 pm
Guest Diana Krall
Diana Krall is arguably the most popular female singer in the jazz world today. Though she originally came onto the scene as a pianist, Krall has since seduced audiences and critics with her warm sensuous vocals. She made her Piano Jazz debut ten years ago shortly after the release of her first album. Now, she joins McPartland with songs from her most recent work, From This Moment On.
Saturday, January 27, at 1:00 pm
Giacomo Puccini: Madama Butterfly
A Japanese geisha falls in love with and marries an American naval officer, only to discover that for him, she is no more than a passing fancy. Met music director James Levine leads this new production of the Puccini favorite by stage and film director Anthony Minghella. This performance was recorded on September 25, 2006.
Cristina Gallardo-Domâs (Cio-Cio-San); Marcello Giordani (Pinkerton); Maria Zifchak (Suzuki); Dwayne Croft (Sharpless); Greg Fedderly (Goro); James Courtney (Bonze)
Saturday, January 27, at 8:00 pm
Dick Wallace hosts this locally produced folk music show. Playlists are available at the Music Americana archive page.
Saturday, January 27, 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 28, at 12:00 noon
Guests: Endellion String Quartet
"How extraordinary that we can arrive to rehearse a quartet that we have performed more than a hundred times and experience again the passion, wonder, and sense of discovery of the very first rehearsal... How miraculous that we have as our raw materials the infinite subtlety and good humor of Haydn (and) Beethoven's electrifying synthesis of humanity and spirituality..." These thoughts of Andrew Watkins, cellist of the Endellion String Quartet, describe the engagement that makes the ensemble one of the best in the world. In addition to music of Haydn and movements of Beethoven's "Dear Quartet," we'll hear the forceful Allegro from Schubert's "Death and the Maiden" quartet. The program offers a vivid spectrum of the Endellions' repertoire.
Sunday, January 28, at 1:00 pm
On this week’s From the Top, it’s a celebration of the youngest of the young. It’s the All Pipsqueak Highlights Show, showcasing the tiniest tykes presented over the past couple of seasons, all in one show. An 11-year-old pianist who can barely reach the pedals conquers Debussy. A 12-year-old violinist makes a showpiece by Wieniawski sound easy. It's superb music-making and lighthearted fun, all with kids who have yet to see the age of 13.
Sunday, January 28, at 8:00 pm, and Sunday, February 4, at 10:00 am
On this month's program, St. John Flynn is joined by Georgia author Renee Dodd. She'll be live in the Cover to Cover studio to talk and take listener calls about her debut novel, A Cabinet of Wonders (Toby Press, 2006), a story about finding the humanity in the "attractions" of a circus freak show. The toll-free number to call during the program is 1-866-RADIO-GA (866-723-4642).
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