Friday, October 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 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, October 5, at 8:00 pm
Guest Dr. Billy Taylor
Marian McPartland celebrated her birthday this year with a special Piano Jazz concert at the Kennedy Center's new Family Theater. Joining her was her longtime friend and fellow jazz piano legend Dr. Billy Taylor. Taylor performed a tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr. called "His Name Was Martin," and McPartland created a musical portrait of Taylor.
Saturday, October 6, at 1:30 pm
Leos Janacek: Jenufa
Patricia Racette gives a stunning performance in the title role of Janacek's searing drama. Jenufa is an undoubted masterpiece, telling a disturbing yet strangely inspiring story of multiple betrayals, gruesome murder, and ultimate, if unlikely, forgiveness. Jiri Belohlavek conducts this production by the Washington National Opera.
Patricia Racette (Jenufa); Catherine Malfitano (Kostelnicka); Kim Begley (Laca Klemen); Judith Christin (Grandmother Buryjovka); Raymond Very (Steva Buryja); Charles Robert Austin (Mayor); Janice Meyerson (Mayor's Wife); Leslie Mutchler (Karolka); Elizabeth Andrews Roberts (Jano); Jeffrey Wells (Foreman); Christina Martos (Barena); Magdalena Wor (Herdswoman)
Saturday, October 6, at 8:00 pm
Dick Wallace hosts this locally produced folk music show. Playlists are available at the Music Americana archive page.
Saturday, October 6, 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 7, at 12:00 noon
Guests The St. Lawrence String Quartet
Franz Josef Haydn: Quartet in E flat major, Op. 33, No. 2 (The Joke): movement II
Jonathan Berger: Doubles (2004)
Maurice Ravel: Quartet in F major: movements I and II
Jonathan Berger: Eli Eli (in memory of Daniel Pearl)
Sunday, October 7, at 1:00 pm
This week's program comes from The Music Center at Strathmore in Bethesda, Maryland. Highlights include teenage baritone John Brancy from New Jersey singing from Vaughn Williams' "Songs of Travel," 15-year-old local violinist Madeline Watson playing Saint-Saëns, and the mother of the nationally-famous "girl who drove over her violin!" We'll also hear performances from guitarist Thales Smith, 15, from Austin, Texas; pianist Eun-Hye Lee, 18, from Los Angeles; and the Newman String Quartet from the Settlement Music School in Philadelphia.
Friday, October 12, at 8:00 pm
Guest Nellie Lutcher
In the '40s and '50s, a young performer named Nellie Lutcher burst onto the jazz, R&B, and pop charts with a lively scat-singing style and a percussive approach to the piano. The jazz world lost Lutcher in 2007. In a tribute to her life, this program features a past performance of Lutcher playing and singing two of her most popular songs, "Hurry on Down" and "Real Gone Guy." McPartland joins in for "I've Got a Right to Sing the Blues."
Saturday, October 13, at 1:30 pm
Richard Wagner: Die Walküre
Placido Domingo, General Director of the Washington National Opera, makes a stellar casting decision, and continues his long and astonishing vocal career, by placing himself in the role of Siegmund, in this second installment of Wagner's Ring cycle. Heinze Fricke is the conductor.
Placido Domingo (Siegmund); Anja Kampe (Sieglinde); Alan Held (Wotan); Linda Watson (Brunnhilde); Gidon Saks (Hunding); Elena Zaremba (Fricka); Jane Ohmes (Gerhilde); Caroline Thomas (Helmwige); Stacey Rishoi (Waltraute); Heidi Vanderford (Schwertleite); Beverly O'Regan Thiele (Ortlinde); Claudia Huckle (Siegrune); Magdalena Wor (Grimgerde); Rebecca Ringle (Rossweise)
Saturday, October 13, at 8:00 pm
Dick Wallace hosts this locally produced folk music show. Playlists are available at the Music Americana archive page.
Saturday, October 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, October 14, at 12:00 noon
Guest Shai Wosner, piano
Frédéric Chopin: Fantasy in f minor, Op. 49
Robert Schumann: Nachtstücke in F major, Op. 23, No. 4
Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata No. 17 in d minor, Op. 31, No. 2 (Tempest)
Sunday, October 14, at 1:00 pm
The Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra with music director JoAnn Falletta join From the Top from their summer home, Artpark, on the banks of the Niagara River in Lewiston, New York, for a show featuring teenage soloists playing concerti with the orchestra. Host Christopher O'Riley joins 18-year-old pianist Stephanie Chen and the orchestra for a movement of the famous Poulenc Double Concerto. Soloists include: bassoonist Noah Brown, age 16, from Iowa City, Iowa; cellist Sarina Zhang, 11, from San Diego, California; and violinist Alexander Boissonnault, 18, from Williamsville, New York.
Friday, October 19, at 3:00 pm
@ Work is a new GPB-produced call-in show focusing on workplace issues. The third Friday of each month host Valerie Edwards and Human Resources expert Emory Mulling will answer listener questions and offer strategies for dealing with the problems and challenges that can arise when we're "at work." Please e-mail your comments on the program to us at ask@gpb.org.
Friday, October 19, at 8:00 pm
Guest Bill Frisell
Guitarist Bill Frisell has been on the cutting edge of jazz guitar since his arrival on the scene in the early '80s. With an amazing technique and creative mind, he has incorporated the whole of American music in his work, relying on country, blues, rock, and jazz. He solos on the Hank Williams honky-tonk classic "I'm so Lonesome I Could Cry" before joining McPartland for "Blue Monk."
Saturday, October 20, at 1:30 pm
George Frideric Handel: Julius Caesar
There was a time when people were surprised to learn that Handel was among the most acclaimed opera composers of his time. Now, he's quickly becoming a modern-day favorite as well. This star-studded production of Julius Caesar shows why Handel's reputation in the opera house continues to rise. Patrick Summers conducts the Houston Grand Opera.
David Daniels (Julius Caesar); Laura Claycomb (Cleopatra); Brian Asawa, (Ptolemy); Phyllis Pancella (Cornelia); Patricia Risley (Sextus); Joshua Winograde (Achillus); Matthew White (Nirenus); Nikolay Didenko (Curius)
Saturday, October 20, at 8:00 pm
Dick Wallace hosts this locally produced folk music show. Playlists are available at the Music Americana archive page.
Saturday, October 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, October 21, at 12:00 noon
Guests Joshua Bell, violin; Frederic Chiu, piano
Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata for violin and piano No. 5 in F major, Op. 24 (Spring)
Pyotr Tchaikovsky: Meditation in d minor, Op. 42, No. 1 (Souvenir of a Beloved Place)
Pyotr Tchaikovsky: Melodie, Op. 42, No. 3
Pablo de Sarasate: Introduction et Tarantelle, Op. 43
Sunday, October 21, at 1:00 pm
This special highlights edition of From the Top presents outstanding performances by terrific young musicians specially selected from the program's archives.
Friday, October 26, at 8:00 pm
Guest Betty Buckley
Tony Award-winning singer Betty Buckley is a veteran of such Broadway hits as Cats, Gypsy and Sunset Boulevard. She's lauded as one of the best voices in modern musical theater, and is also a real cowgirl. She talks about her life on the stage and her home on the range, and performs a collection of favorites with her musical director Kenny Werner, including "Stardust" and "Angel Eyes."
Saturday, October 27, at 1:30 pm
Giuseppe Verdi: Simon Boccanegra
At times neglected, this brooding drama is now widely recognized as one of Verdi's most powerful and compelling dramas. Houston Grand Opera presents it in a new production with the great baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky as the complex title character. Patrick Summers conducts.
Dmitri Hvorosostovsky (Simon Boccanegra); Olga Guryakova (Amelia Grimaldi); Marco Berti (Gabriele Adorno); Patrick Carfizzi (Paolo Albiani); Raymond Aceto (Jacopo Fiesco); Ryan McKinny (Pietro); Maria Markina (Amelia's Maid); Beau Gibson (Captain)
Saturday, October 27, at 8:00 pm
Dick Wallace hosts this locally produced folk music show. Playlists are available at the Music Americana archive page.
Saturday, October 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, October 28, at 12:00 noon
Guests Anthony McGill, clarinet; Natalie Zhu, piano
Francis Poulenc: Sonata for clarinet and piano
Claude-Achille Debussy: Première Rhapsodie for clarinet and piano
Johannes Brahms: Sonata No. 2 in E-flat major, Op. 120
Sunday, October 28, at 1:00 pm
This week's From the Top features a break-dancing accordion player and a pianist who can play two recorders simultaneously - through her nose. We'll hear from these young performers: violinist Mindy Chen, age 11, from Fremont, California; cellist Marvin Brown, 18, from Charlottesville, Virginia; pianist Clare Yeo, 14, from New York City; accordion player Samuel Thomas, 18, from Cheney, Washington; and the Juilliard Piano Quintet.
Sunday, October 28, at 8:00 pm and Sunday, November 4, at 10:00 am
This month, we'll hear a special edition of Cover to Cover, recorded in front of an audience at the historic Douglass Theatre in Macon. St. John Flynn is joined by Atlanta author Daniel Black to talk and take audience questions about his recent novel, The Sacred Place (St. Martin's Press, 2007), a story inspired by the tragedy of Emmett Till. In the summer of 1955, 14-year-old Chicago native Clement buys a soda in a general store in Money, Mississippi. Unaware of the rules governing black-white relations in the segregated South, he defies tradition by laying his dime on the counter. When the storekeeper demands he place the money in her hand, he refuses and leaves. This flouting of the rules results in his brutal murder, an act that sparks a war in Money that forces the black community to come together as they pursue social equality.
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