September 2008

1.MONDAY
12:06pm Exploring Music
“España” – Bill McLaughlin surveys the world of Spanish music
8:00pm SymphonyCast
From The 2008 BBC Proms - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin, conductor; Olga Kern, piano; CHEN YI: Olympic Fire; RACHMANINOV: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini; VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Symphony No.6
10:00pm Jazz from Blue Lake
Bob Parlocha in for Lazaro

2.TUESDAY
12:06pm Exploring Music
“España” – part 2
8:00pm San Francisco Symphony
Osmo Vänskä, conductor; Emanuel Ax, piano; KALEVI AHO: Louhi; MOZART: Piano Concerto No.22, K.482; SIBELIUS: Symphony No.1, Op.39
10:00pm Jazz from Blue Lake
Horace Silver, pianist/bandleader/composer

3.WEDNESDAY
12:06pm Exploring Music
“España” – part 3
8:00pm Live! at the Concertgebouw
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Trevor Pinnock, conductor; Maria Joao Pires, piano; J.C. BACH: Sinfonia Op.8/2, Lucio Silla; MOZART: Piano Concerto No.9, K.271, Jeunehomme; LISZT/ADAMS: The Black Gondola; HAYDN: Symphony No.99 in E-Flat
10:00pm Jazz from Blue Lake
David Sanchez, saxophone

4.THURSDAY
12:06pm Exploring Music
“España” – part 4
8:00pm Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Mark Elder, conductor; Lynn Harrell, cello; Stephen Hough, piano; Elgar: Cello Concerto, Op.85 (Lynn Harrell, cello); JANÁČEK: Jealousy; RACHMANINOV: Piano Concerto No.4, Op.40; KANCHELI: …à la Duduki; JANÁČEK: Taras Bulba
10:00pm Jazz from Blue Lake
Gerald Wilson, trumpet/bandleader

5.FRIDAY
12:06pm Exploring Music
“España” – part 5
8:00pm New York Philharmonic
Kurt Masur, Leonard Bernstein, Zubin Mehta, conductors; GUBAIDULINA: Two Paths; CARTER: Concerto for Orchestra; DEL TREDICI: Steps; HENZE: Symphony No.5
10:00pm Jazz from Blue Lake
Sonny Rollins, tenor saxophone

6.SATURDAY
10:00am Marian McPartland’s Piano Jazz
The quintessential American crooner, Tony Bennett is known throughout the world for his mellow tenor voice and swinging bel canto style. Bennett talks about his love of painting, his favorite songwriters, and the significance of American popular song on this encore program. He and Marian perform “Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams,” “All of Me,” and other favorites.
1:00pm San Francisco Opera
GLUCK: Iphigénie En Tauride - conductor and cast to be announced
6:00pm A Prairie Home Companion
Garrison Keillor and friends with a repeat broadcast.
9:00pm The Thistle and Shamrock
“Thistleradio Poll Winner: Appalachian Connection” - Through an online poll at thistleradio.com, listeners chose this encore program as the one they most wanted to hear again. The musical linkage between Scotland, Ireland and Appalachia is evident in these traditional songs and tunes.

7.SUNDAY
7:00am Pipedreams
“The Wanamaker Legacy” - Since its inauguration in 1919, the Wanamaker Grand Court Organ (at Macy’s) has prevailed as an internationally renowned fixture of the downtown Philadelphia commercial and cultural scene. We explore its resources with artist-in-residence Peter Conte and curator Kurt Mangel.
1:00pm Cleveland Orchestra
Hans Graf, conductor; Desmond Hoebig, cello; LIADOV: Kikimora; DVOŘÁK: Cello Concerto, Op.104; RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Scheherazade
3:00pm SymphonyCast
From The 2008 BBC Proms - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin, conductor; Olga Kern, piano; CHEN YI: Olympic Fire; RACHMANINOV: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini; VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Symphony No.6
10:00pm Night Lights
“Gerald Wilson” - A program celebrating the bandleader’s 90th birthday, featuring his big bands of the 1940s and the 1960s.

8.MONDAY
12:06pm Exploring Music
“You asked for it...” - We’ll air hidden gems suggested by Exploring Music listeners from all over the world.
8:00pm SymphonyCast
From The 2008 BBC Proms - City of London Sinfonia, Richard Hickox, conductor; Sharon Bezaly, flute; Rebecca Evans, soprano; Pamela Helen Stephen, mezzo-soprano; Thomas Walker, tenor; Matthew Rose, bass; BBC Singers; MOZART: Symphony No.34; OSBORNE: Flute Concerto; BEETHOVEN: Mass in C
10:00pm Jazz From Blue Lake
Wilbur Ware, bass

9.TUESDAY
12:06pm Exploring Music
“You asked for it...” – part 2
8:00pm San Francisco Symphony
Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor; STRAVINSKY: Divertimento from The Fairy’s Kiss; STRAVINSKY: Symphony in Three Movements; TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No.1, Op.13, Winter Daydreams
10:00pm Jazz from Blue Lake
Elvin Jones, drums

10.WEDNESDAY
12:06pm Exploring Music
“You asked for it...” – part 3
8:00pm Live! at the Concertgebouw
Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Hans Vonk, conductor; Mikhail Pletnev, piano; ESCHER: Musique pour l’esprit en deuil; GRIEG: Piano Concerto in a-minor, Op.16; HOLST: The Planets, Op.32
10:00pm Jazz from Blue Lake
Miguel Zenon, alto saxophone

11.THURSDAY
12:06pm Exploring Music
“You asked for it...” – part 4
8:00pm Chicago Symphony
Leonard Slatkin, Semyon Bychkov, conductor; Yundi Li, piano; MENDELSSOHN: The Hebrides Overture, Op.26; RAVEL: Piano Concerto in G; SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphony No.7, Op.60, Leningrad
10:00pm Jazz from Blue Lake
Oliver Jones, piano

12.FRIDAY
12:06pm Exploring Music
“You asked for it...” – part 5
8:00pm New York Philharmonic
Leonard Bernstein, Kurt Masur, conductors; Pinchas Zukerman, violin; Helen Huang, piano; ALL MENDELSSOHN: Ruy Blas Overture, Op.95; Violin Concerto in e-minor, Op.64; Piano Concerto No.1 in g-minor, Op.25; Symphony No.3, Op.56
10:00pm Jazz from Blue Lake
Chu Berry, tenor saxophone

13.SATURDAY
10:00am Marian McPartland’s Piano Jazz
Inventive composer and pianist McCoy Tyner is perhaps most famous for creating the lavish harmonies and percussive piano lines heard on some of John Coltrane’s most famous recordings. He has also had a successful career as a leader with his own McCoy Tyner Trio. McCoy puts his prodigious technique to work on “Lazy Bird” and Marian gets on board for a driving duet of “Take The A Train.”
1:00pm San Francisco Opera
PUCINNI: Madama Butterfly – Donald Runnicles, conductor; with Patricia Racette, Brandon Jovanovich, Zheng Cao and Stephen Powell
6:00pm A Prairie Home Companion
Garrison Keillor and the gang serve up a repeat performance.
9:00pm The Thistle and Shamrock
“Thistleradio Poll Runner-up: New Gaelic Voices” - This encore program was the runner-up in our online poll asking listeners to choose what show they’d most like to hear again. It explores the branches of contemporary song sprouting from the roots of ancient vocal traditions.

14.SUNDAY
7:00am Pipedreams
“You Can Go Home Again!” - Excerpts from a weekend of special Pipedreams Live! events with Michael Barone in his ‘home town’ territory, the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre region of northeastern Pennsylvania.
1:00pm Cleveland Orchestra
Osmo Vänskä, conductor; Franklin Cohen, clarinet; SIBELIUS: Symphony No.3, Op.52; COPLAND: Clarinet Concerto; TCHAIKOVSKY: Swan Lake excerpts; BEETHOVEN: Symphony No.9, Op.125, Choral
3:00 SymphonyCast
From The 2008 BBC Proms - City of London Sinfonia, Richard Hickox, conductor; Sharon Bezaly, flute; Rebecca Evans, soprano; Pamela Helen Stephen, mezzo-soprano; Thomas Walker, tenor; Matthew Rose, bass; BBC Singers; MOZART: Symphony No.34; OSBORNE: Flute Concerto; BEETHOVEN: Mass in C
10:00pm Night Lights
“The Sweet Smell of Success” - This hardbitten 1957 movie about a desperate publicity agent and a powerful press maven (played by Tony Curtis and Burt Lancaster, respectively) centered part of its plot around a member of Chico Hamilton’s jazz quintet. We’ll hear music from both Hamilton and film scorer Elmer Bernstein.

15.MONDAY
12:06pm Exploring Music
“Mahler Part 1” - “A symphony should be like the world: it must embrace everything.” With his ten-plus symphonies, Mahler’s world extended horizons beyond anything known to concert audiences. His vision stretched the boundaries of the orchestra, of the symphonic form and even this radio show! Join us for two full weeks on the symphonies of Gustav Mahler.
8:00pm SymphonyCast
From The 2008 BBC Proms - BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis, conductor; ALL VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis; Job: A Masque for Dancing; Serenade to Music; Symphony No.9
10:00pm Jazz from Blue Lake
Cannonball Adderley, alto saxophone/bandleader

16.TUESDAY
12:06pm Exploring Music
“Mahler Part 1” – part 2
8:00pm San Francisco Symphony
Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor; Richard Stolzman, clarinet; San Francisco Symphony Chorus; STRAVINSKY: Symphonies of Wind Instruments; STRAVINSKY: Apollo; TAKEMITSU: Phantasma/Cantos; STRAVINSKY: Symphony of Psalms
10:00pm Jazz from Blue Lake
Jon Hendricks, voice

17.WEDNESDAY
12:06pm Exploring Music
“Mahler Part 1” – part 3
8:00pm Live! at the Concertgebouw
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, conductor; Augustin Dumay, violin; BIZET: Symphony in C; SAINT-SAENS: Violin Concerto No.3, Op.61; ROUSSEL: Bacchus and Ariane
10:00pm Jazz from Blue Lake
Jack McDuff, organ

18.THURSDAY
12:06pm Exploring Music
“Mahler Part 1” – part 4
8:00 Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Michael Tilson Thomas, Fritz Reiner, James Levine, Sir Georg Solti, conductors; IVES: The Unanswered Question; BARTÓK: Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta; DVORÁK: Symphony No.7, Op.70; BERLIOZ: Excerpts from The Damnation of Faust
10:00pm Jazz from Blue Lake
Branford Marsalis, saxophones/bandleader

19.FRIDAY
12:06pm Exploring Music
“Mahler Part 1” – part 5
8:00pm New York Philharmonic
Leonard Bernstein, Herbert von Karajan, conductors; Paul Jacobs; Paul Canarina, Leontyne Price; Maureen, Forrester; Leopold Simoneau; Norman Scott, Westminster Choir; MESSIAEN: Trois Petites Liturgies de la Presence Divine; BEETHOVEN: Symphony No.9, Op.125, Choral
10:00pm Jazz from Blue Lake
Muhal Richard Abrams, piano/bandleader

20.SATURDAY
10:00am Marian McPartland’s Piano Jazz
Composer Henry Mancini penned some of the most memorable tunes of our time, including classics like “Peter Gunn” and the “Theme to the Pink Panther.” On this enocre program, Mancini talks about being inspired by the movie screen, and duets with Marian on “Days of Wine and Roses” and “Baby Elephant Walk.”
1:00pm San Francisco Opera
GLASS: Appomattox – Dennis Russel Davies, conductor; with Dwayne Croft, Andrew Shore, Rhoslyn Jones, Eliza van den Heever, Heidi Melton, Kendall Gladen, Noah Stewart, Jeremy Galyon
6:00pm A Prairie Home Companion
Garrison Keillor with a well-seasoned rebroadcast.
9:00pm The Thistle and Shamrock
“Thistleradio Poll 3rd Place: Fiddle Styles” - This encore program was the third most requested in an online poll asking listeners to choose the show they’d most like to hear again. It features the tasty fiddle flavors of music from Celtic roots.

21.SUNDAY
7:00am Pipedreams
“Cameron Carpenter” - A close-up visit with one of the most enterprising talents on the world music scene, with excerpts from recent concert performances and his newly-released Telarc Records compact disc, Revolutionary.
1:00pm Cleveland Orchestra
Franz Welser-Möst, conductor; Mitsuko Uchida, piano; MOZART: Symphony No.40, K.550; BARTÓK: Piano Concerto No.3; BERG: Three Pieces for Orchestra
3:00pm SymphonyCast
From The 2008 BBC Proms - BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis, conductor; ALL VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis; Job: A Masque for Dancing; Serenade to Music; Symphony No.9
10:00pm Night Lights
“Miles Davis in the 1980s” - Miles Davis returned to the jazz scene at the beginning of the 1980s after a five-year hiatus. His subsequent recordings were often maligned as jazz-pop crossovers. In this program we take another look at one of the least-discussed periods of this legendary trumpeter’s career.

22.MONDAY
12:06pm Exploring Music
“Mahler Part II” - We continue this week with the symphonies of Gustav Mahler.
8:00pm SymphonyCast
From The 2008 BBC Proms - Berlin Philharmonic, Sir Simon Rattle, conductor; BRAHMS: Symphony No.3; SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphony No.10
10:00pm Jazz from Blue Lake
Chico Hamilton, drums

23.TUESDAY
12:06pm Exploring Music
“Mahler Part II” – part 2
8:00pm San Francisco Symphony
Charles Dutoit, conductor; Yuja Wang, piano; RAVEL: Le Tombeau de Couperin; BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No.2, Op.19; R.STRAUSS: Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme Suite, Op.60
10:00pm Jazz from Blue Lake
John Coltrane, tenor/soprano saxophones/bandleader

24.WEDNESDAY
12:06pm Exploring Music
“Mahler Part II” – part 3
8:00pm Live! at the Concertgebouw
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Iván Fischer, conductor; Richard Goode, piano; WEBER: Overture to Der Freischütz; BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No.2, Op.19; BRAHMS/SCHOENBERG: Piano Quartet No.1
10:00pm Jazz from Blue Lake
Fats Navarro, trumpet

25.THURSDAY
12:06pm Exploring Music
“Mahler Part II” – part 4
8:00pm Chicago Symphony
Bernard Haitink, conductor; RAVEL: Menuet antique; HAYDN: Symphony No.101, The Clock; SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphony No.4, Op.43
10:00pm Jazz from Blue Lake
Sam Rivers, woodwinds

26.FRIDAY
12:06pm Exploring Music
“Mahler Part II” – part 5
8:00pm New York Philharmonic
A program highlighting the farewell season of Lorin Maazel; selections to be announced
10:00pm Jazz from Blue Lake
George Gershwin, composer

27.SATURDAY
10:00am Marian McPartland’s Piano Jazz
Chick Corea has been a major force in creative music for nearly 40 years. His inventive improvisations and musical ideas have made him one of the most important figures in modern jazz. On this encore program recorded at Corea’s Madhatter studio, McPartland and Chick introduce an electronic element into Piano Jazz, as Marian plays the Fender Rhodes and Corea plays his KX5 synthesizer on “Crystal Silence.”
1:00pm San Francisco Opera
WAGNER: Das Rheingold – Donald Runnicles, conductor; with Mark Delavan, Stefan Margita, Richard Paul Fink, Jennifer Larmore, Jill Grove, David Cangelosi, Andrea Silvestrelli, Günther Groissböck
6:00pm A Prairie Home Companion
Garrison Keillor with a repeat broadcast, in anticipation of the new season starting next week.
9:00pm The Thistle and Shamrock
“The Silver Collection” - From timeless vinyl to pioneering mp3s, enjoy an hour of musical masterpieces from Thistle and Shamrock’s 25 years.

28.SUNDAY
7:00am Pipedreams
“Getting Oriented” - The ‘king of instruments’ in western culture has earned a place of honor in eastern venues, too, particularly in Japan and, most recently, China!
1:00pm Cleveland Orchestra
Franz Welser-Möst, conductor; Kim Kashkashian, viola; BARTÓK: The Miraculous Mandarin; BARTÓK: Viola Concerto; J.STRAUSS, Jr: Emperor Waltzes, Op.437
3:00 SymphonyCast
From The 2008 BBC Proms - Berlin Philharmonic, Sir Simon Rattle, conductor; BRAHMS: Symphony No.3; SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphony No.10
10:00pm Night Lights
“Impulse: the Vocal Sides” - Impulse was known in the 1960s for progressive-vanguard releases by artists such as John Coltrane and Archie Shepp, but the label also released a handful of jazz-vocal albums. We’ll hear music from Jackie Paris, Lorez Alexandria, Jimmy Rushing, and others.

29.MONDAY
12:06pm Exploring Music
“The Mighty Handful” - The music of five composers from St. Petersburg who sought to create a uniquely Russian musical tradition. We’ll hear compositions by Rimsky-Korsakov, Cui, Borodin, Balakirev, and Mussorgsky.
8:00pm SymphonyCast
From The 2008 BBC Proms - Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Bernard Haitink, conductor; MARK-ANTHONY TURNAGE: Chicago Remains; MAHLER: Symphony No.6
10:00pm Jazz from Blue Lake
Bud Powell, piano

30.TUESDAY
12:06pm Exploring Music
“The Mighty Handful” – part 2
8:00pm San Francisco Symphony
Hans Graf, conductor; Alexander Barantschik, violin; BARTÓK: Divertimento; KISSINE: Aftersight; BEETHOVEN: Romance No.2 in F Major for Violin and Orchestra, Op.50; BEETHOVEN: Symphony No.2 in D Major, Op.36
10:00pm Jazz from Blue Lake
Jed Levy, tenor saxophone/flute