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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.
Host Keith Brown writes:
Monteverdi, Vespro della Beata Vergine (Vespers of 1610), Howells, The Winchester Service, etc.
