Friday, June 1, 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 Georgia's Secretary of State, Public Service Commissioner, 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, June 1, at 8:00 pm
Guest John Proulx
The jazz scene is abuzz about singer/pianist/composer John Proulx. His piano playing is hot and swinging, and his voice recalls the smooth mellow sounds of Chet Baker. He shows off his compositional skills, performing his own tune "Stuck in a Dream with Me." He also performs the title tune from his latest album "Moon and Sand."
Saturday, June 2, at 1:30 pm
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Idomeneo
Idomeneo is a masterpiece that's only beginning to gain its rightful place in Mozart's canon. The opera does have an outlandish plot - complete with conniving gods and a carnivorous sea monster - but it's also blessed with some of Mozart's most beautiful music and a troupe of opera's most touchingly human chararacters. Roger Norrington conducts Camerata Salzburg and the Salzburg Bach Chorus in this production from the Salzburg Mozart Festival.
Ramón Vargas (Idomeneo); Magdalena Kozena (Idamante); Ekaterina Siurina (Ilia); Anja Harteros (Elettra); Jeffrey Francis (Arbace); Robin Leggate (Gran Sacerdote)
Saturday, June 2, at 8:00 pm
Dick Wallace hosts this locally produced folk music show. Playlists are available at the Music Americana archive page.
Saturday, June 2, at 9:00 pm
Harry O'Donoghue hosts this locally produced Celtic music program. Playlists are available at the Green Island archive page.
Sunday, June 3, at 12:00 noon
Guests Nobilis (Rugerro Alifranchini, violin; Suren Bagratuni, cello; Stephen Prutsman, piano)
Franz Schubert: Piano Trio in E Flat Major, Op. 100, D. 929
Sergei Rachmaninoff: Ne Poi Krasavitsa (Oh, never sing to me again)
Arno Babadjanyan: Trio (1952): Allegro vivace
Robert Schumann: Piano Trio No. 2 in F Major, Op. 80
Sunday, June 3, at 1:00 pm
From the Top presents a breakdancing accordion player and a pianist who can play two recorders simultaneously - through her nose! It's just another week with the best young classical musicians in the U.S. We'll hear: violinist Mindy Chen, age 11, from California; cellist Marvin Brown, 18, from Virginia; pianist Clare Yeo, 14, from New York; accordion player Samuel Thomas, 18, from Washington; and the members of the Juilliard Piano Quintet, ages 16 to 18, from New Jersey.
Thursday, June 7, at 8:00 pm, and Sunday, June 10, at 10:00 pm
Stravinsky: Concerto in E-Flat (Dumbarton Oaks)
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 17
Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring
(Robert Spano, conductor; Garrick Ohlsson, piano)
Friday, June 8, at 8:00 pm
Guest Ross Tompkins
Piano Jazz pays tribute to the swinging jazz pianist Ross Tompkins. He's perhaps best known as the pianist for Doc Severinsen's NBC Orchestra on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, but Tompkins' career spanned both coasts and included gigs with Wes Montgomery, Clark Terry, and Louis Belson. He joined McPartland in 1983 and played his version of "Somewhere Over The Rainbow" before joining McPartland on "It's You or No One."
Saturday, June 9, at 1:30 pm
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky: The Maid of Orleans
One of the great sopranos of her generation, Mirella Freni brings a lifetime of musical and dramatic experience to a stirring and truly distinguished performance in the title role of Tchaikovsky's moody, romantic take on the story of Joan of Arc. This performance also features a star turn by the great Russian baritone Sergei Leiferkus as Lionel, the love of Joan's life. This production from the Washington National Opera is conducted by Stefano Ranzani.
Mirella Freni (Joan); Sergei Leiferkus (Lionel); Corey Evan Rotz (Raymond); Evgeny Nikitin (Thibault); Phillip Skinner (Bertrand); Viktor Lutsiuk (King Charles VII); Maïra Kerey (Agnés); Vladimir Moroz (Dunois); Trevor Byron Scheunemann (Lauret); Feodor Kuznetzov (Archbishop)
Saturday, June 9, at 8:00 pm
Dick Wallace hosts this locally produced folk music show. Playlists are available at the Music Americana archive page.
Saturday, June 9, at 9:00 pm
Harry O'Donoghue hosts this locally produced Celtic music program. Playlists are available at the Green Island archive page.
Sunday, June 10, at 12:00 noon
Guests Enso String Quartet
Franz Joseph Haydn: String Quartet in D Major, Opus 20, No. 4: movements 2 & 4
Ludwig van Beethoven: String Quartet in D Major, Opus 18, No. 3
Robert Schumann: Quartet in A major, Opus 41, No. 3: movement 1
Sunday, June 10, at 1:00 pm
This week's all-Philly edition of From the Top features a bold performance on the Kimmel Center's newly inaugurated Fred J. Cooper Memorial Organ - 7000 pipes strong - by 12-year-old organist Maria Markovitch. We'll also hear performances by violinist Fabiola Kim, 16; pianist Julia Sheriff, 16; the Gray Charitable Trust Piano Trio; and the Youth Chamber Orchestra of the Temple University Music Preparatory Division.
Thursday, June 14, at 8:00 pm, and Sunday, June 17, at 10:00 pm
Grieg: Peer Gynt Suites Nos. 1 and 2
Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 5
Borodin: Polovtsian Dances
(Arild Remmereit, conductor; Cecylia Arzewski, violin)
Friday, June 15, at 8:00 pm
Guest Ruth Brown
Piano Jazz remembers one of the truly great blues singers of our time, Ruth Brown. She's considered one of the pioneers of R&B music, and in her later years worked tirelessly to promote the blues and to secure overdue royalty payments for R&B artists of her generation. She joined McPartland in 1993 to talk about her own NPR program Blues Stage as well as other facets of her amazing career.
Saturday, June 16, at 1:30 pm
Giacomo Puccini: Tosca
Few if any operas cram more action and emotion into a couple of hours than Puccini's so-called "shabby little shocker," Tosca. The work is a brilliantly executed drama of love, revolution, oppression, and tragic vindication, all wrapped up in three of the most intense acts in opera. The Houston Grand Opera is conducted by Antonello Allemandi.
Maria Guleghina (Tosca); Alfredo Portilla (Cavaradossi); Franz Grundheber (Scarpia); Mikolay Didenko (Angelotti); Richard Sutliff (Sacristan); Jonathan Green (Spoletta)
Saturday, June 16, at 8:00 pm
Dick Wallace hosts this locally produced folk music show. Playlists are available at the Music Americana archive page.
Saturday, June 16, at 9:00 pm
Harry O'Donoghue hosts this locally produced Celtic music program. Playlists are available at the Green Island archive page.
Sunday, June 17, at 12:00 noon
Guests eighth blackbird
Daniel Kellogg: Divinum Mysterium: Beginnings
Chen Yi: Qui
Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez: Luciernagas
David Schober: Split Horizon: Glacial Exhalations
Sunday, June 17, at 1:00 pm
A beautiful new concert hall on the campus of one of the country's great boarding schools is the setting for this week's episode of From the Top. Tucked into the the rolling hills where West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Maryland meet, the Burgin Center at Mercersburg Academy provides a great place to hear music for both the school and the surrounding community. Today's young performers include: flutist Priscilla Wadsworth, 16, from Alabama; pianist Julie Sohn, 15, from Seoul, South Korea; baritone Benjamin Hyman, 17, from Pennsylvania; trombonist Alexis Smith, 17, from Palm Beach Gardens; and violinist Piotr Filochowski, 15, from New Jersey.
Thursday, June 21, at 8:00 pm, and Sunday, June 24, at 10:00 pm
Maxwell Davies: An Orkney Wedding with Sunrise
Turnage: Three Screaming Popes
Macmillan: Britannia
Britten: Sinfonia da Requiem
Elgar: Pomp and Circumstance Marches
(Donald Runnicles, conductor; Scott Long, Highland bagpipes)
Friday, June 22, at 3:00 pm, and Sunday, June 24, at 10:00 am
For the past four years, GPB Radio has partnered with the Georgia Department of Labor to present a special live call-in program focusing on jobs in Georgia. The tradition continues this year as GPB’s Rickey Bevington is joined in the studio by Georgia Labor Commissioner Michael Thurmond and other Department of Labor officials, to take calls and answer questions about Georgia's economy and the current state of the job market. They’ll also provide important information on issues such as unemployment insurance and vocational rehabilitation. Tune in to find out about the best employment resources, free education programs, the latest tips for job hunting, and much more. The toll-free number to call during the program is 1-866-RADIO GA (1-866-723-4642).
Friday, June 22, at 8:00 pm
Guest Aaron Diehl
Pianist Aaron Diehl is still a student at the Juilliard School of Music, but he's most assuredly an up-and-coming force in jazz. Dubbed the "Real Diehl" by Wynton Marsalis, Diehl displays a brilliant technique and a truly creative approach to jazz, whether he's interpreting Tatum, Ellington, or Mozart. He joins McPartland on "April in Paris" and "One Morning in May."
Saturday, June 23, at 1:30 pm
Richard Danielpour: Margaret Garner
The historical Margaret Garner was a Kentucky slave who became famous for killing her own daughter to save her from continued abuse at the hands of slave-owners. Her story became the basis for Toni Morrison's acclaimed novel Beloved. Morrison also wrote the libretto for this moving opera by Grammy-winning composer Richard Danielpour. The production from Charlotte, North Carolina, features Denyce Graves, who originated the title role. Stefan Lano conducts the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra and Opera Carolina Chorus.
Denyce Graves (Margaret Garner); Eric Greene (Robert Garner); Angela Renée Simpson (Cilla); Michael Mayes (Edward Gaines); Mark T. Panuccio (Casey); Inna Dukach (Caroline Gaines); Jonathan Boyd (George Hancock); Dale Bryant (Auctioneer)
Saturday, June 23, at 8:00 pm
Dick Wallace hosts this locally produced folk music show. Playlists are available at the Music Americana archive page.
Saturday, June 23, at 9:00 pm
Harry O'Donoghue hosts this locally produced Celtic music program. Playlists are available at the Green Island archive page.
Sunday, June 24, at 12:00 noon
Guests Hespérion XXI
Anonymous trecento manuscript: Lamento de Tristano
Jewish lullaby (Israel): Noumi, noum yaldatii
Traditional (Afghanistan): Nastaran
Sephardic (Turkey): La dama y el pastor
Arianna Savall: L'Amor
Traditional (Catalonian): La Canco de Lladre
Traditional Bretagne (French): Gwerz
Traditional (Catalonian): El Testamen d Amelia
Santiago de Murcia: Jota
Tarquinio Merula: Sentirete una canzonetta
Sunday, June 24, at 1:00 pm
From The Top visits the historic Southern Theatre in Columbus, Ohio, for a girls against boys "battle of the bands" between two string quartets. We'll hear performances from violinist Siwoo Kim, age 17, from Westerville, Ohio; pianist Stephanie Chan, 18, from Houston, Texas; cellist Coleman Itzkoff, 13, from Cincinnati, Ohio; the Seraphina Quartet; and the Opus Quartet.
Sunday, June 24, at 8:00 pm and Sunday, July 8, at 10:00 am
Powder Springs author Joshilyn Jackson is St. John Flynn's guest this month talking and taking your calls about her second novel, Between, Georgia (Warner Books, 2006). Nonny Frett understands the meaning of the phrase "in between a rock and a hard place" better than any woman alive. She's got two mothers. She's got two men. And she has two families: the Fretts, who stole her and raised her right; and the Crabtrees, who lost her and won't forget how they were done wrong. Now, in Between, Georgia, population 90, a feud that began the night Nonny was born is escalating, and a random act of violence is about to ignite a stash of family secrets. Ironically, it might be just what the town needs... if only Nonny weren't stuck in between. The toll-free number to call during the program is 1-866-RADIO GA (1-866-723-4642).
Thursday, June 28, at 8:00 pm, and Sunday, July 1, at 10:00 pm
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 1
Bruckner: Symphony No. 4 (Romantic)
(Donald Runnicles, conductor; Shai Wosner, piano)
Friday, June 29, at 8:00 pm
Guest Tierney Sutton
Singer Tierney Sutton burst onto the scene in 1999 with rave reviews for her first solo album, Introducing Tierney Sutton. Five albums later, critics and fans continue to marvel at her delicate, reflective vocal style. She brings along her longtime accompanist Christian Jacob to perform "Devil May Care," and then joins McPartland for "Last Night When We Were Young."
Saturday, June 30, at 1:30 pm
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: La Finta semplice
The 2006 Salzburg Festival gave audiences a chance to hear plenty of Mozart operas that are seldom performed on the stage. This one, written before the composer was a teenager, gives a taste of things to come with its prescient musical take on a classic story of the war between the sexes. Michael Hofstetter conducts Camerata Salzburg.
Malin Hartelius (Rosina); Matthias Klink (Don Polidoro); Silvia Moi (Ninetta); Jeremy Ovenden (Fracasso); Milijenko Turk (Simone); Josef Wagner (Don Cassandro); Marina Comparato; (Giacinta); Marianne Hamre (Actress)
Saturday, June 30, at 8:00 pm
Dick Wallace hosts this locally produced folk music show. Playlists are available at the Music Americana archive page.
Saturday, June 30, at 9:00 pm
Harry O'Donoghue hosts this locally produced Celtic music program. Playlists are available at the Green Island archive page.
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