KWAX PROGRAM GUIDE
JULY, 2008
 
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SUNDAY
 
8 am--THE ORGAN LOFT. An hour of music for the "king of instruments" with host Roger Sherman. (Repeated at 6 pm.)
 
9 am—SUNDAY BAROQUE. Host Suzanne Bona explores the world of Baroque music. Also at 6am and 4pm on Sundays.
    
11 am—WITH HEART AND VOICE. A weekly program of choral music, hosted by Richard Gladwell. (Repeated at 7pm).
    
Noon—SYMPHONYCAST. A series of concerts featuring major European and American orchestras.
     6—Paavo Jarvi conducts the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra: Mahler, Totenfeier; Symphony #10: Adagio; Mahler/Britten, What the Wild Flowers Tell Me; Beethoven, Violin Concerto (Vadim Repin).
     13—Kirill Petrenko conducts the North German Radio Symphony: Beethoven, Piano Concerto #3 (Olli Mustonen); Josef Suk, Symphony #2.
     20—Bernard Haitink conducts the Berlin Philharmonic: Bach, Ricercarer from The Musical Offering; Berg, Violin Concerto (Frank Peter Zimmermann); Schubert, Symphony in C (Great).
     27—Paavo Jarvi conducts the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra: Beethoven, Fidelio Overture; Piano Concerto #5 (Emperor) (Severin von Eckardstein, piano); Bartok, Concerto for Orchestra.  
 
2 pm--MY WORD. A literary panel game from the BBC (repeat of Saturday morning broadcast).
2:30 pm--MY MUSIC. A musical quiz from the BBC (repeat of Saturday morning broadcast).
                                                       
3 pm--CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE! An hour of music for the
classical guitar, presented by Tony Morris.
4 pm—SUNDAY BAROQUE (CONTINUED). Suzanne Bona brings you more music from the Baroque Period.                                  
6 pm—THE ORGAN LOFT. (Repeat of program heard at 8am.)
7 pm—WITH HEART AND VOICE. (Repeat of program heard at 11am.) 
                                                     
8:00pm CHICAGO CHAMBER MUSICIANS.
     6—Prokofiev, Quintet in g, Op. 39; Newman, String Quartet.
     13—Brahms, Clarinet Quintet, Op. 115 (Larry Combs, clarinet).
     20—John Harbison, North and South (Lorraine Hunt-Lieberson, mezzo-soprano); Kodaly, Duo for Violin and Cello.
     27—Dvorak, Duo for Violin and Cello; other music tba.  
    
 
10 pm to 6 am--BEETHOVEN SATELLITE NETWORK. Music through the night with Peter Van De Graaff. 
 
6 am PERFORMANCE TODAY, with host Fred Child. Monday to Saturday. 8 am MONDAY-FRIDAY: EXPLORING MUSIC with Bill McGlaughlin. Repeated at 7 pm.                                      
11:55 am--MONDAY-FRIDAY: ARTSLINE.
5 pm—MONDAY-FRIDAY: THE CONCERT HOUR, with Larry Bedford.
7 pm—MONDAY-FRIDAY: EXPLORING MUSIC with Bill McGlaughlin (Repeat of 8am program).                                       
                                       
 
MONDAY
 
6 pm—SANTA FE CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL. Chamber music performed by outstanding instrumentalists and singers.
  
8 pm-LIVE! AT THE CONCERTGEBOUW. Concerts from one of the world’s great concert halls in Amsterdam.
     7—Valery Gergiev conducts the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra: Mozart, Symphony #36 in C, K. 425 (Linz); Prokofiev, Chant Symphonique, Op. 57; Tchaikovsky, Suite from The Sleeping Beauty.
     14—Riccardo Chailly conducts the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra: Webern, Passacaglia; Berg, Violin Concerto (Frank Peter Zimmermann); Stravinsky, Petrushka.
     21—Daniel Harding conducts the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra: Mozart, Piano Concerto #27 in B-flat, K. 595 (Lars Vogt); Bartok, Divertimento for Strings; Dvorak, The Golden Spinning Wheel.
     28—James Conlon conducts the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra: Zemlinsky, Die Seejungfrau.     
 
                                                  
TUESDAY  
 
6pm—CONCERTS FROM THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. Presented by Bill McGlaughlin.
    
8pm-COLLECTOR'S CORNER, with Henry Fogel.
     1—The Music of Toru Takemitsu, Program 2.
     8—Music by Joseph Bohuslav Foerster: Festive Overture; My Youth; Violin Concerto #1; Symphony #4 (Easter).
     15—Takashi Asahina’s Final Performance: Tchaikovsky, Symphony #5.
     22—Montserrat Caballe sings Donizetti, Bellini and Rossini.
     29—Music of Vladimir Godar.
    
    
WEDNESDAY  
                                                        
6 pm—COMPACT DISCOVERIES, hosted by Fred Flaxman. 
 
8 pm—NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC THIS WEEK.
     2—Leonard Bernstein/New York Philharmonic 50th Anniversary Feature: Bernstein and the Mahler Revival. Mahler, Symphony #4 (Reri Grist, soprano); Symphony #8: 1st movement (Adele Addison, Lucine Amara, Lili Chookasian, Jennie Tourel, Richard Tucker, Ezio Flagello, George London, plus choirs; Symphony #10: Adagio.
     9—Lorin Maazel Farewell Season Feature: Rimsky-Korsakov, Russian Easter Festival Overture; Strauss, Death and Transfiguration; Stravinsky, Chant du Rossignol; Ravel, Rapsodie Espagnole; Daphnis and Chloe, Suite 2.
     16—Memorial Features on Ralph Vaughan Williams and Artur Rodzinski: Gould, Spirituals for Orchestra; Ibert, Escales; Tchaikovsky, Suite #4 in G (Mozartiana); Vaughan Williams, Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis; Symphony #6 in e.
     23—New York Philharmonic Historic Tours. Wagner, Prelud to Act III of Lohengrin; Gershwin, An American in Paris; Copland, Appalachian Spring; Shostakovich, Symphony #5 in d.
     30—Historical American Associations. Ives, Holidays Symphony; Copland, Lincoln Portrait (William Warfield, narrator); Blitzstein, Airborne Symphony (Orson Welles).
 
                                                 
THURSDAY
 
6 pm--HARMONIA. A one-hour program devoted to early music.
 
8 pm——CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA.
     3—Hans Graf conducts: Liadov, Kikimora; Dvorak, Cello Concerto in b, Op. 104 (Desmond Hoebig); Rimsky-Korsakov, Scheherazade.
     10—Osmo Vanska conducts: Sibelius, Symphony #3 in C, Op. 52; Copland, Clarinet Concerto (Franklin Cohen); Tchaikovsky, Excerpts from Swan Lake; Beethoven, Symphony #9 in d (Choral)(CO Chorus; soloists tba)
     17—Franz Welser-Most conducts: Mozart, Symphony #40 in g, K. 550; Bartok, Piano Concerto #3 (Mitsuko Uchida); Berg, Three Pieces for Orchestra.
     24—Franz Welser-Most conducts: Bartok, The Miraculous Mandarin; Viola Concerto (Kim Kashkashian); J. Strauss, Jr. Emperor Waltzes.
     31—Franz Welser-Most conducts: Messiaen, Et expecto resurrectionem mortuorum; Mahler, Das Lied von der Erde (Jonas Kaufman).  
    
      
FRIDAY
 
 1 pm JULY FOURTH SPECIAL: A 100TH ANNIVERSARY BIRTHDAY TRIBUTE TO LEROY ANDERSON.
 
6 pm--MILLENIUM OF MUSIC. A program of early music hosted by Robert Aubry Davis.
    
8 pm—SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY.
     4—Alasdair Neale conducts: Dvorak, Carnival Overture; Schuman, A Song of Orpheus for Cello and Orchestra (Michael Grebanier); Dvorak, Symphony #7 in d.
     11—Alan Gilbert conducts: Ades, Chamber Symphony; Beethoven, Triple Concerto in C, Op. 56 (Eroica Trio); Mozart, Symphony #41 in C, K. 551 (Jupiter).
     18—James Gaffigan conducts: Brahms, Symphony #3 in F, Op. 90; Liszt, Piano Concerto #1 in E-flat (Yundi Li); Ravel, Daphnis and Chloe, Suite #2.
     25—Osmo Vanska conducts: Kalevi Aho, Louhi; Mozart, Piano Concerto #22 in E-flat, K. 482 (Emanuel Ax); Sibelius, Symphony #1 in e, Op. 39.
      
    
SATURDAY
 
9:00am-MY WORD. (repeated Sunday at 2pm).
9:30 am--MY MUSIC. (repeated Sunday at 2:30pm).
    
10:00am—LA OPERA ON AIR. NOTE EARLIER START TIME FOR OPERA BROADCASTS.
     5—Beethoven, Fidelio.
     12—Janacek, Jenufa.
     19—Mozart, Don Giovanni.
     26—Wagner, Tristan und Isolde.
      
                                                
3 pm--PLAYED IN OREGON. Performances recorded around the state.
     5—Pianist Dong Hyek Lim plays Chopin.
     12—A look back at Chamber Music Northwest, 2007, including Brahms, String Sextet.
     19—Friends of Chamber Music: the Pacifica Quartet plays Beethoven.
     26—Portland Piano International: Valentina Lisitsa. 
                                                     
 
 
4 pm—A TRIP OUT TO THE MOVIES. Rocky Lamanna presents film classics, past and present.
5 pm—SYMPHONIES BY THE NUMBER. Rocky Lamanna explores complete sets of symphonies. 
                                                          
8pm--CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA BROADCAST SERIES.
     5—John Williams conducts a program of his own music: Fanfare for a Festive Occasion; Tribute!; The Five Sacred Trees (David McGill, bassoon); Four Pieces from American Journey; Sayuri’s Theme from Memoirs of a Geisha. Also, Robert Spano conducts: Vaughan Williams, A London Symphony.
     12—Remembering Reiner.   Fritz Reiner conducts: Strauss, Don Juan; Falla, El Amor Brujo (Leontyne Price); Neighbor’s Dance from The Three-Cornered Hat; Wagner, Dawn and Siegfried’s Rhine Journey from Gotterdammerung; Prokofiev, Alexander Nevsky (Rosalind Elias).
     19—Pierre Boulez conducts: Berio, Quatre Dedicaces; Berlioz, Les nuits d’ete (Susan Graham); Stravinsky, Petrushka; Bartok, Piano Concerto #1 (Daniel Barenboim).
      26—Miguel Harth-Bedoya conducts: Ravel, Mother Goose Suite; Golijov, Ainadamar (Dawn Upshaw, Jessica Rivera, Kelley O’Connor).