Events

Sunday Afternoon at the Opera Host Keith Brown writes:

The year has rolled around to its conclusion: now's a good time to reflect upon all that has transpired in 2012 by listening to something that takes in the whole world in a single monumental musical composition.

On this final Evening Classics of 2012, guest host David Schonfeld salutes some of the many great musicians and composers who passed away this year.

Among the composers whose works we will sample are: Elliott Carter, Hans Werner Henze, Richard Rodney Bennett, Ravi Shankar, Marvin Hamlisch, and Dave Brubeck.

This week on New World Notes: radio program #252, January 1, 2013, from 12:00 to 12:30 p.m., host Kenneth Dowst looks at crime on several levels: retail (the Newtown murders), wholesale (the entertainment industry), bigger wholesale (the financial system), and factory-direct (the Federal Government).

Join host David Schonfeld for the first Evening Classics of the New Year. Appropriately for Day 1 of 2013, David will play some of the many fine compositions published as Opus 1.

Host Keith Brown writes:

This week on New World Notes: radio program #253, January 8, 2013, from 12:00 to 12:30 p.m., host Kenneth Dowst presents a rousing talk by investigative journalist--and former Constitutional lawyer--Glenn Greenwald.

Host Keith Brown writes:

Keep Shakespeare in mind as you listen this Sunday to a twentieth-century operatic treatment of another one of his famous plays, and then a musical setting of verse by America's great gay bard.

This week on New World Notes: radio program #254, January 15, 2013, from 12:00 to 12:30 p.m., host Kenneth Dowst looks at the issue of jobs.

Host Keith Brown writes:

This, Wagner's most popular opera, looks forward in its handling of the Grail legend to Parsifal. Wagner entrusted its premiere in 1850 to Franz Liszt, who conducted it in musically complete form at the court theater in Weimar, Germany. (Wagner was then in political exile in Switzerland.)

This week on New World Notes: radio program #255, January 22, 2013, from 12:00 to 12:30 p.m., host Kenneth Dowst celebrates Martin Luther King, who was not just a civil rights champion but an anti-war crusader.

Join host Maurice D. Robertson for Accent on Creative Music, this Wednesday, January 23 from 9 p.m. to midnight. At about 10 p.m., Maurice will be joined in in the studio by percussionist, Ed Fast, and guitarist, Atticus Kelly, of Conga Bop.

Host Keith Brown writes:

In past programming I offered a long series of operas of the French baroque, as recordings of them became available. The great innovator of French baroque opera was not a Frenchman by birth, but an Italian from Florence whose name originally was Giovanni Battista Lulli, francophied into Jean Baptiste Lully (1632-87).

This week on New World Notes: radio program #256, January 29, 2013, from 12:00 to 12:30 p.m., host Kenneth Dowst excerpts a recent talk by Richard Heinberg.