Events

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.

Host Keith Brown writes:

This will be the fourth time over a span of more than two decades when I will be presenting Richard Strauss' Elektra (1909), his operatic take on the ancient Greek tragedy, derived ultimately from Sophocles' drama, reworked by Hugo von Hofmannsthal into a German language play in 1903.

This week on New World Notes: radio program #257, February 5, 2013, from 12:00 to 12:30 p.m., host Kenneth Dowst excerpts a recent talk by Richard Heinberg.

On February 5, Tuesday Evening Classics from 6-7 p.m., host David Schonfeld will have as his guest in the studio Professor Ira Braus of the Hartt School of Music.

Host Keith Brown writes:

This week on New World Notes: radio program #258, February 12, 2013, from 12:00 to 12:30 p.m., host Kenneth Dowst offers some reflections on the anti-GMO: local produce--now but a fond memory here in New England. Then he looks at GMOs--genetically-modified plants sold as food.