Events

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

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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!

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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.

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I continue this Sunday with my own long ongoing series of broadcasts of the operas of Antonio Vivaldi. The violin virtuoso and composer of The Four Seasons concertos was also a prolific composer of opera in the style of the Venetian baroque. More than twenty of his operas survive, a total of 51 attributed to him.

This week on New World Notes: radio program #237, September 18, from 12:00 to 12:30 p.m., host Kenneth Dowst plays the second part of a two-part digest of a powerful talk by Chris Hedges.

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Join host David Schonfeld on Tuesday, September 25 from 4 to 8. This installment of Tuesday Classics will spotlight the Lions Gate Trio, which will be performing on October 3 at Millard Auditorium, University of Hartford.

Join host Maurice D. Robertson for Accent on Creative Music on Wednesday, September 26 from 9 p.m. to midnight. At about 10 p.m., Maurice will be joined in the studio by drummer, composer, and bandleader, William Hooker. They will discuss the upcoming Oct ober 6 Creative Music Festival at Tools Bar and Grille, as well as Hooker's fall tour and new recordings.