Events

Host Keith Brown writes:

Monday, August 13, 2012 – 6 p.m. 

MONDAY NIGHT JAZZ IN BUSHNELL PARK 

MIKE CASEY QUINTET (2011 HJS scholarship winner) (6 p.m.)

EARL MACDONALD AND THE HJS NEW DIRECTIONS JAZZ ENSEMBLE (7:30 p.m.)

Presented by the Hartford Jazz Society

This week on New World Notes: radio program #232, August 14, from 12:00 to 12:30 p.m., host Kenneth Dowst replays another of the earliest installments of New World Notes: #52, from February 2009.

Host Keith Brown writes: 

This would otherwise be the Sunday reserved for a sentimental operetta by Lehar, but I have something more comic, indeed satiric in nature to delight you listeners, with its own special tearjerking element as well.

This week on New World Notes: radio program #233, August 21, from 12:00 to 12:30 p.m., host Kenneth Dowst takes a timely look at the controvery about gun control.

Host Keith Brown writes:

Tracy Grammer will visit with Susan Forbes Hansen, host of Watch This Space, on Monday Aug 27, during the first hour of the show.

Don't miss the show and the interview!

Join Chuck Obuchowski Tuesday, August 28, 9 a.m. – noon, during Morning Jazz: Out Here & Beyond for a celebration of Chuck’s 25th anniversary as a jazz broadcaster. He’ll be featuring some of his favorite jazz recordings of the past quarter-century as well as lots of other musical surprises.

This week on New World Notes: radio program #234, August 28, from 12:00 to 12:30 p.m., host Kenneth Dowst considers the possibility that our whole interdependent system is falling apart.

Music scholar, and new Hartt faculty member, Mark Ferraguto, will join host David Schonfeld at about 6:00 on Tuesday, August 28 to talk about his research. Mark is a keyboard player (organ, harpsichord, piano) and recently completed his doctoral dissertation on the orchestral music of Beethoven, focusing on Symphony No. 4.

Fussell, The Astronaut's Tale

Cuomo, Arjuna's Dilemma

Johnathan, Woody

Host Keith Brown writes:

This week on New World Notes: radio program #235, September 4, from 12:00 to 12:30 p.m., host Kenneth Dowst asks whether the US is turning into a police state.

Join host David Schonfeld on Tuesday, September 4 from 4 to 8. This installment of Tuesday Classics will include a sampling of the music of John Cage, an American original. Cage was born a hundred years ago, on September 5, 1912. How well do his iconoclastic compositions hold up? Listen in and decide for yourself!

Host Keith Brown writes:

This week on New World Notes: radio program #236, September 11, from 12:00 to 12:30 p.m., host Kenneth Dowst plays the first part of a two-part digest of a powerful talk by Chris Hedges.