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Program Highlights for July 2008
SUNDAYS IN JULY

8AM Millennium of Music
6 Il Vespro della Beata Gergine, Part 2
We continue the reconstruction of the Monteverdi Marian Vespers with soloists Johanette Zomewr and Amaryllis Dieltiens, sopranos, and Andreas Weller and Julian Podger, tenors.
13 German Sacred Cantatas 1
The Netherlands Bach Society, conducted by Jos Van Veldhoven, looks at the cantata form from the time of Schutz to Johann Christoph Bach.
20 German Sacred Cantatas 2
This time, the wonderful Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra and Chorus guide us through the genius of Dietrich Buxtehude.
27 Polyphony for Francoise I
Paul van Nevel has found a stunning body of work for his Huelgas Ensemble, settings by many of the greatest composers of 16th century France, in most cases with words by Francis I himself.

9AM St. Paul Sunday
6 Pianist Imogen Cooper performs works of Haydn, Thomas Ades and Robert Schumann.
13 Music of Bach, James Walker, Eric Whitacre, Alfred Jansen, Herbert Howells and Ralph Vaughan Williams with the famous Dale Warland Singers
20 The Belcea Quartet performs quartets by Benjamin Britten, Franz Joseph Haydn, Thomas Ades, Johannes Brahms and Hugo Wolff.
27 Nobilis performs two movements from Franz Schubert’s Piano Trio in E Flat Major, Ne Poi Krasavitsa by Sergei Rachmaninoff, Arno Babadjanyan’s Trio and two movements from Robert Schumann’s

12NPlayed in Oregon (repeats from Wednesday @ 7pm)

3PM Request Show with Edmund Stone: Email your requests for this two-hour program to edmund@allclassical.org.

5PM New York Philharmonic
6 A Leonard Bernstein and Gustav Mahler revival includes Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 in G Major, Symphony No. 8 in E Flat Major and Symphony No. 10.
13From the Lorin Maazel farewell season, performances of Rimsky-Korsakov, Strauss, Stravinsky and Ravel.
20 Ralph Vaughan Williams and Artur Rodzinski 50th Anniversary celebration features Gould’s Spirituals for Orchestra, Ibert’s Escales, Tchaikovsky’s Suite No. 4 in G Major, Op. 61, Vaughan Williams’ Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis and Vaughan Williams’ Symphony No. 6 in e minor.
27 Historic New York Philharmonic musical tour include the Prelude to Act III of Wagner’s Lohengrin (Giuseppe Sinopoli), Gershwin’s An American in Paris (Zubin Mehta), Copland’s Appalachian Spring (Leonard Bernstein) and Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 5 in d minor, Op. 47 (Leonard Bernstein). Wagner’sHistoric Tours

7PM Choral Classics
(not available at press)

8PM Pipedreams
6 We explore the sonic and virtuosic freedoms and possibilities of pipe organs and those who play them with an all-American program.
13 Concert performances of music by J.S. Bach, presented by American organists on American instruments
20 Fountains, flowing rivers, and frothy waves are but a few of the inspirations behind this collection of water music.
27 Whether in Renaissance style or rhumba, when the pipe organ’s in the mood, there’s no better partner.

9:30PM Age of the Organ
6 Age of the Organ celebrates the 4th with music by 19th century American composer John Knowles Paine. Murray Forbes Somerville performs the Fantasia and Fugue in e minor, and Variations and Fugue on The Star Spangled Banner.
13Age of the Organ presents the Quimby Pipe Organ of First Baptist Church in Jackson, MS, and Camille Saint-Saëns’s Danse Macabre, Anton Rubinstein’s Kamenoi Ostrow and Guy Bovet’s Salamanca.
20 Age of the Organ travels to Holyoke, MA, for music on the EM Skinner Pipe Organ at United Congregational Church. Peter Stoltzfus plays Leon Boëllman’s Ronde Francaise, Gershwin’s Three Preludes for Piano and Leo Sowerby’s Meditation on Pange Lingua
27 AGO travels to Seattle, WA, to hear music of Pamela Decker from St. Mark’s Cathedral.
She plays Flores de Desierto and Kairos.

MONDAYS IN JULY

6PM First Impressions
7 1) Transcriptions for wind orchestra made by Percy Grainger, including songs from the Middle Ages, Renaissance and Baroque periods, all played by the Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra
2) Pianist Denis Matsuev plays unknown Rachmaninoff, as well as some well-known etudes and preludes.
3) Henry Purcell’s theatre music, written for the top playwrights in London, found on a new Naxos CD with the Aradia Ensemble, under Kevin Mallon.
14 1) Highlights from the Shostakovich Fifth Symphony, with the Philadelphia Orchestra under Christoph Eschenbach’s direction
2) Lang Lang’s newest CD, featuring great performances by the dynamic young pianist, including works by Liszt, Tchaikovsky, Chopin and Rachmaninoff
3) Tone poems for orchestra by Arnold Bax, including Three Northern Ballads, with the BBC Philharmonic under Vernon Handley’s direction.
21 1) 20-year-old Polish pianist Rafael Blechacz debuts on a recording that includes the 24 Preludes, Opus 28, and Nocturnes of Frederic Chopin.
2) French composer Vincent d’Indy is represented in a new CD of his orchestral works, including Summer Day on the Mountain. Rumon Gamba leads the Iceland Symphony;
3) The second volume (on Naxos) of Leroy Anderson’s charming miniatures for orchestra, includes The Waltzing Cat and Whistling Kettle. Leonard Slatkin conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra in this new CD.
28 1) New from BIS, the violin concertos of Tchaikovsky and Glazunov, featuring soloist Vadim Gluzman and the Bergen Philharmonic, under Andrew Litton
2) Harry Christophers conducts The Sixteen in choral works by Grieg, Bruckner, Mendelssohn and others, inspired by the Virgin Mary.
3) Johann Friedrich Fasch’s orchestral suites, performed by an orchestra called Tempesta di Mare.

9PM Detroit Symphony Orchestra
7 Andreas Delfs conducts Schnyder/Buxtehude’s The Master’s Ascension to the Heavens of Sound and Bruckner’s Symphony No. 7 in E Major (1883). Carlos Miguel Prieto conducts Corigliano’s Concerto for Piano and Orchestra with William Wolfram.
14 Andreas Delfs conducts the Overture to Mozart’s Don Giovanni, Mozart’s Concerto No. 1 in B Flat Major for Violin and Orchestra with Frank Almond, and Beethoven’s Eroica Symphony
21 Andreas Delfs conducts Heiner Goebbels’ D & C aus dem Zyklus from Surrogate Cities, Copland’s Concerto for Clarinet and String Orchestra with Harp and Piano with Todd Levy, clarinet, and Schubert’s Symphony No. 9 in C Major, D. 944, “Great.”
28 Vasily Petrenko conducts Grieg’s Suite No. 1 from Peer Gynt, Britten’s Concerto No. 1 for Violin and Orchestra with Hilary Hahn, and Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 9 in E Flat Major

11PM Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin
7 The New York Philharmonic just celebrated its 14,000th concert. This week we explore the history, the conductors, the premieres and the great players of the NYP.
14 A continuation of our look at the history of the New York Philharmonic, including musician interviews and some of the orchestra’s most memorable performances.
21 For the man on the street, the name Beethoven conjures images of grand gestures and soaring voices. But for many music lovers, Beethoven’s quartets contain the greatest wonders. This week we savor these sixteen seminal works, plus the Grosse Fuga.
28 The Father of the American Ballet, George Balanchine, was born in St. Petersburg, became a dancer and an accomplished pianist. This week, we follow his charmed life and the music that inspired him.

TUESDAYS IN JULY

9PM San Francisco Symphony
1 Alexander Barantschik conducts Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F Major, Mozart’s Divertimento in F Major for Strings, Bach’s Concerto in d minor for Oboe, Violin and Orchestra, Shostakovich’s Two Pieces for String Octet, Britten’s Simple Symphony, Op. 4 and Piazzolla/Cohen’s Melododia, Libertango.
8 Dvorak’s Carnival Overture, Schumann’s A Song of Orpheus for Cello and Orchestra with Michael Grebanier, and Dvorak’s Symphony No. 7 in d minor, Op. 70
15 The Eroica Trio performs Adès’ Chamber Symphony, Beethoven’s Triple Concerto in C Major, Op. 56, and Mozart’s Symphony No. 41 in C Major, K. 551, “Jupiter.”
22 James Gaffigan conducts Brahms’ Symphony No. 3 in F Major, Liszt’s Piano Concerto
No. 1 in E Flat Major with Yundi Li, and the Suite from Ravel’s Daphnis et Chloe.
29 Osmo Vänskä conducts Kalevi Aho’s Louhi, Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 22 in E Flat Major with Emanuel Ax, and Sibelius’ Symphony No. 1 in e minor, Op. 39.

WEDNESDAYS IN JULY

6PM Played in Oregon with Christa Wessel (repeats following Sunday @ 12N)
2 This week Korean pianist Dong Hyek Lim performs Chopin. He won second prize in 1996 –at age 12—at the International Chopin Competition for Young Pianists.
9 With Chamber Music Northwest’s 38th season underway, we’ll take a look at last season’s festival and enjoy some highlights, including a Brahms String Sextet.
16 From a Friends of Chamber Music concert, The Pacifica Quartet plays Beethoven.
23 Valentina Lisitsa is one of those pianists that just makes your jaw drop. Her command of the keyboard is astonishing. We’ll hear highlights from her most recent Portland Piano International recital.
30 The Los Angeles Guitar Quartet play arrangements of big orchestral works that you never imagine could work for an ensemble like theirs. This week we enjoy the LAGQ’s four-guitar arrangements of Rossini’s Overture to the Barber of Seville.

9PM Chicago Symphony Orchestra
2 During Riccardo Muti’s residency in the fall of 2007, he conducted several concerts and took the orchestra on tour to Europe. This music is from those performances: Verdi’s Overture to La Forza del Destinio, Hindemith’s Suite from Nobilissima Visione,
Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Op. 74, and Scriabin’s The Poem of Ecstasy, Op. 54
9 John Williams conducts a concert of his own music, including his Bassoon Concerto and The Five Sacred Trees. The orchestra plays Ralph Vaughan Williams’ A London Symphony from a concert conducted by Robert Spano.
16 Commercial recordings of music from the Fritz Reiner era, encompassing many of his best-known performances including R. Strauss’ Don Juan, Op. 20, Falla’s El Amor Brujo (Leontyne Price, soprano) and Neighbor s Dance and Wagner’s Dawn and Siegfried s Rhine Journey
23 Conductor Emeritus Pierre Boulez leads a program featuring mezzo-soprano Susan Graham and pianist Daniel Barenboim and music of Berio, Berlioz, Stravinsky and Bartok.
30 Osvaldo Golijov’s award-winning chamber opera, Ainadamar, depicts the life and work of poet Federico Garcia Lorca. Miguel Harth-Bedoya conducts.

THURSDAYS IN JULY

6PM Northwest Previews
3 An interview with Cellist Matt Haimovitz, who’s making his Chamber Music Northwest Debut. We talk with a performer who is a CMNW regular, flutist Tara Jane Helen O’Connor. Plus, more from the Oregon Bach Festival.
10 Robert McBride chats with cellist Fred Sherry, a longtime regular at Chamber Music Northwest. Andrea Murray interviews another CMNW favorite, Daniel Phillips of the Orion String Quartet. We also preview this years’ Portland Piano International festival. And the Portland Symphonic Choir gets ready for its annual Summer Sings.
17 An interview with one of the most popular chamber ensembles around these days, the Imani Winds. These mix classical masterpieces with new music, jazz and original compositions, all inspired by African-American musical traditions. Also, a preview of the Vancouver Symphony’s Sunday in the Park event, and more from Portland Piano International
24 We attend the Portland Symphonic Choir’s annual Summer Sing. And as this year’s Chamber Music Northwest Festival gets ready for its season finale, we chat with its artistic director, clarinetist David Shifrin. Edmund Stone previews the Cascade Music Festival.
31 A preview of one of the best-attended shows in the area, the Waterfront Classics concert by the Oregon Symphony and Portland Youth Philharmonic. We look at a month’s worth of great summer music, from the Britt Festival in Southern Oregon to neighborhood concerts around Portland.

9PM Jerusalem Symphony
3 Hatikvah’s The Israeli National Anthem, Dvo?ák’s The Noon Witch, Op. 108,
Janacék’s Sinfonietta and Suk’s Symphony No. 2, “Asrael”
10 Chausson’s Poème de l’amour et de la mer with Sharon Rostorf-Zamir, soprano, Debussy’s La Mer, Franck’s Symphony in d minor and Dukas’ The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
17 Bach’s Toccata in C Major (orch. Weiner), Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Major, Op. 58, with Benjamin Hochman, Bach’s Sarabande and Brahms’ Symphony No. 3 in F Major, Op. 90
24 Liszt’s Symphonic Poem, “Die Ideal,” with Guy Mannheim, tenor, and the Tel Aviv Philharmonic Choir, and Liszt’s A Faust Symphony
31 Elgar’s Pomp and Circumstance, March No. 1 in D Major, Op. 39, Elgar’s In the South,
Op. 50, Vaughan Williams’ Symphony No. 4 in f minor and Walton’s Viola Concerto with Richard Assayas, viola

FRIDAYS IN JULY

6PM From the Top
4 At the 100th anniversary of the historic Chandler Music Hall in the Green Mountains of Vermont, a teen violinist from Woodstock performs Kreisler’s Tempt de Minuetto and a young pianist from Pittsburgh who carries on his grandfather’s legacy plays Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 in c# minor
11 From Wilson Auditorium in Bozeman, MT, the program includes a teen flutist playing Copland, a 12-year-old harpist from Montanta who plays Naderman’s Sonatine No. 1 in E Flat and a 17-year-old violinist from Spain who plays Sarasate’s Zapateado
18 From historic Mechanic’s Hall in Worcester, MA, a young violinist from Philadelphia plays Brahms’ Hungarian Dance No. 5 and the Afinado Wind Quintet members perform Hindemith’s Klein Kammermusik.
25 The Hawaii Theater in Honolulu hosts this week’s outstanding teen musicians, including a pianist who performs Prokofiev’s Toccata in d minor and the Hawaii Youth Opera Chorus singing the Chinese folk song Tai Yang Chu Lai La

9PM Cleveland Symphony Orchestra
4 Hans Graf conducts Liadov’s Kikimore, Dvorak’s Cello Concerto in b, Op. 104, with Desmond Hoegig, and Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade.
11 Osmo Vansk conducts Sibelius’ Symphony No. 3 in C, Copland’s Clarinet Concerto with Franklin Cohen, excerpts from Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake and Beethoven’s Choral Symphony.
18 Mozart’s Symphony No. 40 in g, Bartok’s Piano Concerto No. 3 with Mitsuko Uchida, and Berg’s Three Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 6
25 Bartok’s The Miraculous Mandarin, Bartok’s Viola Concerto with Kim Kashkashian, and
J. Strauss’ Emperor Waltzes, Op. 437

SATURDAYS IN JULY

10AM Saturday Opera
5 Met Opera National Council Auditions
12 Scott Joplin’s Treemonisha, an American opera
19 Portland Opera’s Carmen by Georges Bizet
26 Portland Opera’s Cinderella by Gioachino Rossini

3PM The Score with Edmund Stone
5 As temperatures rise and we hit the air conditioning, we present an encore edition of Summer Blockbusters. It all started with a Big Fish Story is the first of two programs devoted to those movies that capture our attention during the dog days of summer. Films include Jaws, Rocky, Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost Ark, E.T., and Jurassic Park.
19 The second of two programs devoted to Summer Blockbusters features Independence Day, Braveheart, Gladiator, Contact, Saving Private Ryan and Harry Potter. These films all set box office records during summers of the past two decades.

5PM Live! From Concertgebouw
5 Antonio Pappano conducts Ligeti’s Concerto romanesc, Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto
No. 2 in D Major, Op. 43 with Leif Ove Andsnes and Sibelius’ Symphony No. 2 in D Major
12 Valery Gergiev conducts the Rotterdam Philharmonic in Mozart’s Symphony No. 36 in C Major, Prokofiev’s Chant Symphonique, Op. 57, and the Suite from Tchaikovsky’s The Sleeping Beauty
19 Riccardo Chailly conducts Webern’s Passacaglia for Orchestra, Berg’s Violin Concerto with Frank Peter Zimmermann and Stravinsky’s Petrushka
26 Daniel Harding conducts Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 27 in F Flat Major with Lars Vogt, Bartok’s Divertimento for Strings and Dvorak’s The Golden Spinning Wheel.

7PM Club Mod with Robert McBride (two hours)
5 America the Bountiful
An all-American show featuring a big work by Ernest Bloch titled America – An Epic Rhapsody
12 Folk Songs Never Die
Songs from Ireland, Appalachia, Japan and elsewhere, invited into the concert hall and transformed by the experience.
19 Apollo’s Metamorphosis
From ancient Greece to the 21st century, a brief history of music
26 It is Written (except when it isn’t)
Improvisation, from a single guitarist to a full orchestra

9PM Record Shelf
5 Early recordings of Stravinsky’s Petrushka and Firebird Suite with Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra.
12 An hour of critical reactions to the latest recordings
19 A critical study of the career of the Chinese pianist Lang Lang
26 The more serious recordings of popular Italian violinist Alfredo Campoli

Greetings from Indiana
Dear Classical 89.9 staff,

I commute to Portland from Indiana; I work five weeks from home and then fly in to work from the office for ten days. One of my greatest joys is getting stuck in traffic so I have more time to enjoy your radio station. It is one of the very best parts of my time in Portland. I have just added your online service to my computer with great hopes that I might be able to continue to spend my days with you even on my dial up from the little town in which I live.

Thank you so much for being a “plus” for all who listen…….

With great encouragement,
Kay

Another Commuter Heard From
Greetings -

As a long-time subscriber, I thought it might be time to put in my two cents' worth on your programming.

Having grown up in the Chicago area and cutting my classical music teeth on listening to WFMT, I am a staunch proponent of announcer-read advertising. I have absolutely no problem with this type of sponsorship; sadly, I have to travel to Seattle every couple of weeks, where their only classical station uses pre-recorded advertisements. These are truly an obnoxious break in the programming, as they are developed and produced by advertising agencies peopled by typically youthful, ambitious types who pride themselves on producing dynamic and punchy ads, often with a much broader audience in mind than just the classical station. The worst example so far has been an auto dealer whose ad began with the opening bars of Journey's "Anyway you want it, that's the way you need it." Very distressing. Please don't ever go to pre-recorded advertising.

I will commend you on presenting a reasonably good mix of music, though I do have some caveats of my own.

1) Overall, I find the music to be overly dominated by orchestras. I would like to hear more pieces for solo instruments, piano trios, sonatas, quartets, quintets, etc.
2) I'd like to hear more vocal pieces interspersed, as well. I know people think "opera" when vocal music is mentioned, but there is a whole lot more available. Schubert & Mahler come to mind, for instance. Just because Mahler wrote "Songs of a Wayfarer" doesn't mean you have to play all of them; just pick one, and toss it into the mix. There is a plethora of secular songs available from the Renaissance & Medieval periods as well, which brings me to my next point:
3) Where is the Renaissance & Medieval music? It's not all Gregorian chants & high masses, you know. There's a ton of delightful pieces out there for lute, strings, and small ensembles; I know because I own dozens of CDs of this genre. Anonymous 4, Baltimore Consort, Ensemble Alcatraz, La Nef, Ensemble Galileii, Deller Consort...the list is huge. One of hour of Millennium of Music on Sundays just doesn't cut it for me.
4) Morning music. I know you have to cater to a wide variety of tastes, so I'm probably in a minority here, but I have 2 simple rules for what I want to hear before 9:00 a.m.: a) No drums, b) No cymbals. If I want pounding rhythms to start my day, I'll tune in a classic rock station, and that's just not going to happen. Consequently, I find myself tuning out KBPS almost every morning and putting on a CD of Segovia or some such. Hearing any one of the following words is enough to make me turn off the radio before the music plays: waltz, march, capriccioso, Struass, Offenbach, von Suppe, or overture. When I get up in the morning, I'm just trying to ease into first gear, maybe second. I certainly don't feel like dancing or strutting. I just want something quiet and peaceful to match the morning sun and birds appearing in my yard. I know other people need to get bounced out of bed to get their day going, but that's not for me.

Okay, so much for griping. :-) Now for the kudos: every one of your announcers is a delight to listen to. Warm and inviting presentation, and professional across the board. I always look forward to Sundays at 2:00 when Ed and Edmund trade places, they're a kick to listen to. When I work from home, I'm tuned in almost all day long, and John Burk's Tafelmusik has been perfect so far, in my opinion. And while I appreciate your picking up Performance Today, I do wish we had the full 2 hours instead of just 1.

Thanks for being there for all of us,

Daniel

Support the Power of Classical Music
Even if I were wealthy, instead of being an 80-year-old widow on a very modest fixed income, I could not write a check large enough to express my gratitude for the riches your station so steadily offers me. In this crazy world of violence, fraud and materialism, your music lifts us into a purer and saner world, renewing our hope and faith that something good yet exists. Many thanks indeed! E.P.B

Solving Radio Static the Non-Scientific Way
People have had good success solving this problem by reducing their antenna. If you have a radio with a collapsible whip antenna, collapse it completely and see if that helps. If your radio is the type with a wire for an antenna (usually about 24” long dangling from the back), coil the wire into a small bunch.

If your radio has no apparent antenna, then the power cord is probably the antenna. If possible, coil or tape the power cord into a small bunch, or, move the cord a few feet – and see if it helps.

I know of one person living in the Progress area who solved her static by wrapping the bottom and back of her radio in aluminum foil, which effectively shielded the radio from excessively strong waves.

I know these suggestions sound unscientific, but they usually work.

Larry Holtz
Chief Engineer, KBPS

It's Good to Be Back Home!
This is just a note to tell you how much my husband and I appreciate KBPS-FM. We were gone for two weeks. We left on the 16th of July and took the train to and from Huntsville, Alabama [actually the train only went to Birmingham; we rented a car to go to Huntsville], and returned on Saturday morning, the 29th of July. The first thing I did was to turn on the radio and revel in the sounds issuing forth from 89.9. During the two weeks we were gone I felt as if I were on a deserted island. I will admit that we found a station that played classical music as we left Birmingham in our rental car, but it didn’t last long. Once we arrived in Huntsville, we found a NPR station but it was mostly talk and very hard to tune in.

Once again, thank you and keep up the good programming. We’re pleased, privileged, and proud to be members of KBPS.

LindaCarol McKinlay
SE Portland

There's No Place Like Home
I was recently back in Ohio, at a location where I had no access to a computer with speakers, so I couldn't tune in allclassical.org. As a substitute, I found WQED, a Pittsburgh station, had good classical programming most of the time (not all the time).

Later, I was staying in Seattle, and the computer I had access to was hooked to I-tunes, which did have only a single classical music station, from Chapel Hill, N.C., WCPE. They do play all classical music, and I enjoyed their selections. Also, they have a unique feature on their playlist (I didn't try it out), which seems to allow you to purchase the music being played.

But, all the same, it's good to be home again and listening to KBPS. I have to say that your program hosts are by far the best for giving interesting information about the music being played. How is your signal doing lately? I ask because one of my four FM radios has trouble tuning you in (the other three get your signal without difficulty).

All the best to you and your staff. Your appreciative listener.
Tom Lee

8th Graders Listen at School
I'd like to thank KBPS for providing much needed culture for my 8th grade Language Arts students. Your wonderful variety gives my students a taste of what they can listen to 25 years from now, unlike much of the "music" they hear. I leave the radio on all day, and they ask if it's not on. Thank you!
Joan Pacewic

Listener's Response to Bach
Bach’s Fugue in G minor (the little), for organ.
This tune not only offers plentiful entwinement of splendid harmony and complexity, but it also was the means of my family sticking together. Since my youth, whenever anyone was lost, my parents would simply whistle out the first three notes of this song. We knew, wherever we were, that we were to follow Bach’s sweet notes back to our parents. My mother learned the practice from her parents, and I have since carried on the tradition with my child, who cannot whistle yet at 2 and a half, but is perfectly adept at singing out the tune loud and clear whenever he needs attention.



Ben

89.9 at work
Edmund...I am responding to your request for stories about playing
89.9 in the workplace. I am a teacher's assistant in a Head Start
classroom of 4-year-olds. I recently was working in the classroom
with KBPS playing on the radio, which is always the case when I can
get to the tuner of any radio in my vicinity. (I also listen in my
car, and at home on the internet, and leave the music one even when
I'm not home because I think it is soothing to my 5 guinea pigs!) My
head teacher remarked that the music was so peaceful and beautiful
she wondered if I would leave it on while the children were present.
It seemed to have a calming effect on the kids, and gave our
classroom the wonderful feeling that only classical music can impart.
Now we listen to 89.9 in our Head Start classroom every day. Just
thought I'd share...

Sincerely, Susie D.

THE SCORE Scores with Our Audiences
EDMUND,

ON A SCALE OF 1 TO 10, I THOUGHT YOUR LAUNCHING OF " THE SCORE " REGISTERED A SOLID 12 IN MY BOOK..
KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK.

CARYL

Robert to Robert
Dear Robert: I was listening when you introduced Brahms 1st Symphony. You admitted that Brahms probably was not your favorite. When I was growing up I mentioned the same thing to my great aunts who were respectively a professional violinist and cellist. They said this to me many years ago, "Now Bobby, remember that Tchaikovsky always sounds better than he is and Brahms always is better than he sounds." So... when you grow up, as I have now at 70, maybe you will learn that he really is better than he at first sounds. Robert Schmidt

Dear Robert: That's great! Thank you. I had a music theory teacher in college who surprised me with an anti-Brahms rant in class one day. He said Brahms' music reminded him of the doilies in his grandmothers house: intricately designed, competently crafted, and basically useless. I wouldn't go that far, but I did find it amusing. Robert McBride

A Great Big Well Done
Thank you for everything you've done to make Mozart's birthday observance so special. I work at a gas station/convenience store from around 6AM until just past 2PM and always have the radio tuned to 89.9. Today was no exception. In fact, it was all I could do just to get the basics done today (wait on customers) while listening to the live broadcast from Salzburg. It was quite an extraordinary experience to realize this was all taking place at the same time I was hearing it, from a location nearly on the other side of the globe.

From a Teacher in North Carolina
I found you on www.classicalwebcast.com and listen to you in my office at an elementary school in High Point, NC. I enjoy your selections. Seems that I hear a great deal of flute repertoire. As an “afterhours

Thanks from a Student-Listener
Your programming, including the fabulous build-up to Mozart's birthday, got me through my first final exams as a graduate student. I'm glad this station is available on line. Many thanks!

If Your Radio Reception Doesn't Improve

• Larry Holtz, KBPS Public Radio Foundation Chief Engineer

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