Blue Lake Public Radio
June 2013 Listener Guide

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1.Saturday
10:00am Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz
With his Flecktones, Bela Fleck has expanded the banjo repertoire far beyond bluegrass and folk music, and is a regular collaborator with jazz players including Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke, and Jean-Luc Ponty. On this session Bela joins Marian and bassist Gary Mazzaroppi for trio renditions of “In Walked Bud,” “All The Things You Are,” and “Polka Dots and Moonbeams.”
1:00pm Lyric Opera of Chicago
DONIZETTI: Don Pasquale – Stephen Lord, conductor; with Ildebrando D’Arcangelo, Marlis Petersen, René Barbera and Corey Crider
6:00pm A Prairie Home Companion
Garrison Keillor with a live broadcast performance from the Hill Auditorium in Ann Arbor, with special guests Ellis, Radoslav Lorković, Kenni Holmen, and Steve Strand

2.Sunday
7:00am Pipedreams
“Encore: Pipedreams Live! in Rochester (Part 2)” - We return to upstate New York for more performances from the Eastman School of Music recorded during a remarkably popular and successful weekend organ festival.
1:00pm Grand Rapids Symphony
David Lockington, conductor; Janice Chandler-Eteme, soprano; Mary Creswell, alto; Vale Rideout, tenor; Dean Elzinga, bass; Grand Rapids Symphony Chorus, Pearl Shangkuan, director; Calvin College Alumni Choir, Pearl Shangkuan, director; BEETHOVEN: Missa Solemnis
3:00 SymphonyCast
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Christoph von Dohanányi, conductor; ALL BEETHOVEN: Leonore Overture No.3; Symphony No.6, Op.68, Pastoral; Symphony No.5, Op.67
6:00pm Riverwalk Jazz
“Swinging on the South Side: The Heartbeat of Chicago Jazz” - The Jim Cullum Jazz Band and guests Duke Heitger, Topsy Chapman and Evan Christopher visit The Dreamland Café, The Grand Terrace Ballroom, The Vendome Theater and other Chicago hot spots - circa 1915–1930.
10:00pm Night Lights
“Dameronia: The Todd Dameron Story” - We'll hear music of the pianist and composer-arranger who left his stamp on the bebop and hardbop era, as well as an interview with Dameron biographer Paul Combs.

3.Monday
12:06pm Exploring Music
“Outward Bound” - Bill explores the musical expressions of man as he travels through nature and beyond. Works include Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony, Strauss' Alpine Symphony and Villa-Lobos' Bachianas Brasileiras.
8:00pm SymphonyCast
Minnesota Orchestra, Osmo Vanska, conductor; Viktoria Mullova, violin; BRITTEN: Sinfonia da Requiem; STRAVINSKY: Violin Concerto; BEETHOVEN: Symphony No.8
10:00pm Jazz from Blue Lake
Joe Henderson, tenor saxophone

4.Tuesday
12:06pm Exploring Music
“Outward Bound”
8:00pm Los Angeles Philharmonic
(new season) Gustavo Dudamel, conductor; RAVEL: Pavane pour une infante défunte; STUCKY: Symphony (world premiere; LA Philharmonic co-commission); STRAVINSKY: The Rite of Spring
10:00pm Jazz from Blue Lake
Anthony Braxton, woodwinds/composer/bandleader

5.Wednesday
12:06pm Exploring Music
“Outward Bound”
8:00pm Live! at the Concertgebouw
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Mariss Jansons, conductor; Christine Brewer, soprano; Camilla Nylund, soprano; María Espada, soprano; Stephanie Blythe, mezzo-soprano; Mihoko Fujimura, alto; Robert Dean Smith, tenor; Tommi Hakala, baritone; Stefan Kocán, bass; Netherlands Radio Choir; State Choir Latvija; Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks; National Boys' Choir; National Children's Choir; MAHLER: Symphony No.8
10:00pm Jazz from Blue Lake
Peter Erskine, drums

6.Thursday
12:06pm Exploring Music
“Outward Bound”
8:00pm Chicago Symphony
Sir Mark Elder, conductor; DELIUS: The Walk to the Paradise Garden; ELGAR: Falstaff, Symphonic Study, Op.68; RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Tale of the Invisible City of Kitezh; TCHAIKOVSKY: Romeo and Juliet
10:00pm Jazz from Blue Lake
Monty Alexander, piano

7.Friday
12:06pm Exploring Music
“Outward Bound”
8:00pm New York Philharmonic
András Schiff, conductor and piano; BACH: Keyboard Concerto in f-minor; MENDELSSOHN: String Symphony No.9 in C; BACH: Keyboard Concerto in D; SCHUMANN: Symphony No.4
10:00pm Jazz from Blue Lake
Mel Martin, saxophones/flute

8. Saturday
10:00am Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz
Piano Jazz remembers composer, arranger and pianist Clare Fischer. In a long career, the Grammy-winning arranger worked with artists including Dizzy Gillespie, Paul McCartney, and Prince. On this 2001 session, he performs “Isfahan” and “Bloodcount,” and Marian performs his “Pensativa.”
1:00pm Lyric Opera of Chicago
R.STRAUSS: Elektra – Sir Andrew Davis, conductor; with Christine Goerke, Emily Magee. Jill Grove. Alan Held and Roger Honeywell
HUMPERDINCK: Hansel and Gretel – Ward Stare, conductor; with Elizabeth DeShong, Maria Kanyova, Jill Grove, Julie Makerov and Brian Mulligan
6:00pm A Prairie Home Companion
Garrison Keillor from the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles, with special guests Lily Tomlin, Paula Poundstone, Colin Hay, Martin Sheen, Jearlyn and Jevetta Steele

9.Sunday
7:00am Pipedreams
“Nor’eastern Winds” - The lively and lovely voices of resilient American pipe organs are celebrated by the Organ Historical Society throughout New England.
1:00pm Grand Rapids Symphony
John Varineau, conductor; Matthew Lipman, viola; BARTÓK: Concerto for Viola; MISSY MAZZOLI: These Worlds in Us; MAZZOLI: Violent, Violent Sea; BEETHOVEN: Symphony No.6, Pastoral
3:00 SymphonyCast
Minnesota Orchestra, Osmo Vanska, conductor; Viktoria Mullova, violin; BRITTEN: Sinfonia da Requiem; STRAVINSKY: Violin Concerto; BEETHOVEN: Symphony No.8
6:00pm Riverwalk Jazz
“Sweet Ballads and Red Hot Pianos: Live From San Francisco’s Historic Filoli Gardens” - Stephanie Nakasian, hailed as one of the leading jazz vocalists of our time, joins jazz piano virtuoso Dick Hyman and The Jim Cullum Jazz Band in an outdoor concert featuring songs of Walter Donaldson.
10:00pm Night Lights
“Ain't He Funky Now: Grant Green at the Dawn of the 1970s” - When he returned to active recording at the end of the 1960s, guitarist Grant Green began to incorporate modern funk and soul into his jazz sound. We'll explore of the music that he made for Blue Note Records in this period.

10.Monday
12:06pm Exploring Music
“An Invitation to the Dance, Part III” - George Balanchine, born in St. Petersburg, became a dancer and accomplished pianist. We’ll follow his charmed life and the music that inspired him. Music by Bach, Ravel, Tchaikovsky and his longtime friend, Igor Stravinsky.
8:00pm SymphonyCast
Minnesota Orchestra, Osmo Vanska, conductor; Yevgeny Sudbin, piano; KERNIS: Air; BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No.1; SIBELIUS: Symphony No.2
10:00pm Jazz from Blue Lake
Charnett Moffett, bass

11.Tuesday
12:06pm Exploring Music
“An Invitation to the Dance, Part III”
8:00pm Los Angeles Philharmonic
Gustavo Dudamel, conductor; Leif Ove Andsnes, piano; ALL BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No.3; Symphony No.3, Eroica
10:00pm Jazz from Blue Lake
Chick Corea, keyboards/composer/bandleader

12.Wednesday
12:06pm Exploring Music
“An Invitation to the Dance, Part III”
8:00pm Live! at the Concertgebouw
Vladimir Jurowski, conductor; Alexander Gavrylyuk, piano; BRAHMS: Piano Concerto No.2; ZEMLINSKY: The Mermaid
10:00pm Jazz from Blue Lake
Geri Allen, pianist

13.Thursday
12:06pm Exploring Music
“An Invitation to the Dance, Part III”
8:00pm Chicago Symphony
Mitsuko Uchida, conductor and piano: ALL MOZART: Piano Concerto No.17, K.453; Eine Kleine Nachtmusik; Piano Concerto No.27, K.595
10:00pm Jazz from Blue Lake
Doc Cheatham, trumpet

14.Friday
12:06pm Exploring Music
“An Invitation to the Dance, Part III”
8:00pm New York Philharmonic
Alan Gilbert, Case Scaglione, conductors; Wynton Marsalis, trumpet; Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra; Marc Nuccio, clarinet; STRAVINSKY: Ragtime for 11 Instruments; SHOSTAKOVICH: Tahiti Trot; COPLAND: Clarinet Concerto; MARSALIS: Swing Symphony (Symphony No.3)
10:00pm Jazz from Blue Lake
Cyrille Aimee, voice

15.Saturday
10:00am Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz
Singer Janis Siegel is one quarter of the jazz super-group, The Manhattan Transfer. Throughout the thirty years spent with this musical institution, she’s also released her own recordings featuring hip, seductive arrangements of standards as well as newer works. She visits Piano Jazz along with pianist and accordion player Gil Goldstein to perform Tad Dameron’s “Whatever Possessed Me” and Annie Lennox’s “A Thousand Beautiful Things.”
1:00pm Lyric Opera of Chicago
PUCCINI: La Boheme – Emmanuel Villaume, conductor; with Anna Netrebko, Joseph Calleja, Elizabeth Futral, Lucas Meachem, Andrea Silvestrelli and Joseph Lim
6:00pm A Prairie Home Companion
Garrison Keillor with a live broadcast performance from the Chateau Ste. Michelle Winery in Woodinville, WA

16.Sunday
7:00am Pipedreams
“Georgia On My Mind” - Classical and theatre organists, and some young competition winners, provide some sounds from the deep south.
1:00pm San Francisco Symphony
(new season) Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor; Yo-Yo Ma, cello; BEETHOVEN: Leonore Overture No.3, Op.72a; HINDEMITH: Cello Concerto; BRAHMS: Symphony No.1, Op.68
3:00pm SymphonyCast
Minnesota Orchestra, Osmo Vanska, conductor; Yevgeny Sudbin, piano; KERNIS: Air; BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No.1; SIBELIUS: Symphony No.2
6:00pm Riverwalk Jazz
“Portrait of Perfection: Artie Shaw” - The Jim Cullum Jazz Band and guest clarinetists Bobby Gordon and Allan Vaché salute Artie Shaw with a concert performance of tunes from his most prolific period — the late 1930s and early ’40s.
10:00pm Night Lights
“Ghosts of Yesterday: Billie Holiday and the Two Irenes” - We'll solve a jazz mystery involving one of jazz's most iconic singers, and a little-known but highly-talented and broken-hearted songwriter.

17.Monday
12:06pm Exploring Music
“Intimate Voices” - Reflections on a life in the string quartet business with Samuel Rhodes and David Finckel.
8:00pm SymphonyCast
Los Angeles Philharmonic, Gustavo Dudamel, conductor; MOZART: Overture to The Marriage of Figaro; VASKS: Distant Light; MOZART: Posthorne Serenade
10:00pm Jazz from Blue Lake
Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Orchestra

18.Tuesday
12:06pm Exploring Music
“Intimate Voices”
8:00pm Los Angeles Philharmonic
Marin Alsop, conductor; Joshua Roman, cello; Michael Ward-Bergeman, hyper-accordion; Jamey Haddad, percussion; BARBER: Essay No.2; GOLIJOV: Azul; TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No.6, Pathétique
10:00pm Jazz from Blue Lake
Lucky Thompson, tenor and soprano saxophone

19.Wednesday
12:06pm Exploring Music
“Intimate Voices”
8:00pm Live! at the Concertgebouw
Herbert Blomstedt, conductor; Hannes Minnaar, piano; BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No.4; NIELSEN: Symphony No.5
10:00pm Jazz from Blue Lake
Kristin Korb, bassist/vocalist

20.Thursday
12:06pm Exploring Music
“Intimate Voices”
8:00pm Chicago Symphony
Riccardo Muti, conductor; Eleonora Buratto, soprano; Anna Malavasi, mezzo-soprano; Saimir Pirqu, tenor; Adam Plachetka, bass-baritone; Chicago Symphony Chorus, Duain Wolfe, director; BACH Mass in b-minor, BWV232
10:00pm Jazz from Blue Lake
Eric Dolphy, woodwinds

21.Friday
12:06pm Exploring Music
“Intimate Voices”
8:00pm New York Philharmonic
Alan Gilbert, conductor; Lisa Batiashvili, violin; Patricia Racette, soprano; Gerard Finley, bass-baritone; Peter Hoare, tenor; William Ferguson, tenor; Sidney Outlaw, baritone; The Collegiate Chorale; James Bagwell, director; PROKOFIEV: Violin Concerto No.1; DALLAPICCOLA: Il Prigioniero
10:00pm Jazz from Blue Lake
Eric Reed, piano

22.Saturday
10:00am Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz
Trumpeter, pianist, and composer Arturo Sandoval is one of Cuba’s best know musical exports. He’s won multiple Grammys, including one for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album in 2013, and his life inspired the film For Love or Country: The Arturo Sandoval Story, starring Andy García. On this week’s program Sandoval performs his original tunes “Surena” and “Romantico” as well as Johnny Green’s “Body and Soul.”
1:00pm Lyric Opera of Chicago
WAGNER: Die Meistersinger – Sir Andrew Davis, conductor; with James Morris, Johan Botha, Amanda Majeski, Bo Skovhus, David Portillo and Jamie Barton
6:00pm A Prairie Home Companion
Garrison Keillor with a live broadcast performance from the Ravinia Festival in Highland Park, IL, with special guest Lera Lynn

23.Sunday
7:00am Pipedreams
“Cathedral Resonances” - The splendid sound of organ music in American cathedrals in Seattle, San Francisco, Wilkes-Barre, Toledo, Buffalo and the Twin Cities.
1:00pm San Francisco Symphony
Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor; MOZART: Symphony No.35, K.385, Haffner; ADÈS: Voyage for Orchestra from Polaris; STRAVINSKY: Petrushka (1947 revision); STRAVINSKY: Scherzo à la russe (1945 version)
3:00pm SymphonyCast
Los Angeles Philharmonic, Gustavo Dudamel, conductor; MOZART: Overture to The Marriage of Figaro; VASKS: Distant Light; MOZART: Posthorne Serenade
6:00pm Riverwalk Jazz
“The Tio Family: A New Orleans Clarinet Dynasty” - In New Orleans, the Creole Tio Family produced a long line of master clarinetists and studio music teachers who influenced the first generation of jazz musicians in the Crescent City. The Jim Cullum Jazz Band is joined by the dynamic Evan Christopher on clarinet.
10:00pm Night Lights
“Red Trane” - We'll hear the late-1950s studio collaborations of pianist Red Garland and saxophonist John Coltrane.

24.Monday
12:06pm Exploring Music
“Sergei Rachmaninoff” - The finest example of late Russian Romanticism, we'll take five hours to explore the life and music of this lyrically gifted pianist and composer.
8:00pm SymphonyCast
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Robert Spano, conductor; Garrick Ohlsson, piano; HIGDON: All Things Majestic; BARBER: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, Op.38; COPLAND: Symphony No.3
10:00pm Jazz from Blue Lake
Marvin “Smitty” Smith, drums

25.Tuesday
12:06pm Exploring Music
“Sergei Rachmaninoff”
8:00pm Los Angeles Philharmonic
Vasily Petrenko, conductor; Simon Trpčeski, piano; NIELSEN: Maskarade Overture; GRIEG: Piano Concerto; SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphony No.10
10:00pm Jazz from Blue Lake
Joe Chambers, drums

26.Wednesday
12:06pm Exploring Music
“Sergei Rachmaninoff”
8:00pm Live! at the Concertgebouw
CD special: The RCO Beethoven Tradition
10:00pm Jazz from Blue Lake
Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane, Coleman Hawkins

27.Thursday
12:06pm Exploring Music
“Sergei Rachmaninoff”
8:00pm Chicago Symphony
Riccardo Muti, conductor; Maria Grazia Schiavo, soprano; Max Emanuel Cencic, countertenor; Stéphane Degout, baritone; SMIRNOV: Space Odyssey (world premiere); SCHUBERT: Symphony No.3, D.200; ORFF: Carmina Burana; HAYDN: Symphony No.39
10:00pm Jazz from Blue Lake
Elmo Hope, piano

28.Friday
12:06pm Exploring Music
“Sergei Rachmaninoff”
7:30pm Live From Blue Lake
The Verdehr Trio begins our new season of live broadcasts from the stage of Stewart Shell here at Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp.
10:00pm Jazz from Blue Lake
J.D. Allen, tenor saxophone

29.Saturday
10:00am Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz
Vocalist/pianist Tony DeSare got his big break playing the lead in the Off-Broadway musical Our Sinatra and has been a pillar of retro cool ever since. But he also performs original music along with sets of beloved standards. This week, DeSare sings and plays his deliciously romantic original, “How I Will Say I Love You,” and Marian backs him on “Memories of You.”
1:00pm Lyric Opera of Chicago
VERDI: Rigoletto – Evan Rogister, conductor; with Željko Lučić, Albina Shagimuratova, Giuseppe Filianoti, Andrea Silvestrelli and Nicole Piccolomini
6:00pm A Prairie Home Companion
Garrison Keillor with a live broadcast from the Tanglewood Festival Koussevitzky Music Shed in Lenox, MA

30.Sunday
7:00am Pipedreams
“Concertos” - The format of organ-and-orchestra, first explored in the 18th century, has generated plenty of sizzle in more recent times.
1:00pm San Francisco Symphony
Vasily Petrenko, conductor; Joshua Bell, violin; SHOSTAKOVICH: Festive Overture, Op.96; TCHAIKOVSKY/GLAZUNOV: Méditation from Souvenir d’un lieu cher, Op.42/1; GLAZUNOV: Violin Concerto, Op.82; ELGAR: Symphony No.1, Op.55
3:00 SymphonyCast
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Robert Spano, conductor; Garrick Ohlsson, piano; HIGDON: All Things Majestic; BARBER: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, Op.38; COPLAND: Symphony No.3
6:00pm Riverwalk Jazz
“Originals by Originals” - A collection of original jazz compositions, composed and performed by jazz legend special guests: trumpeter Clark Terry, saxophonist Benny Carter, and pianist Jay McShann.
7:30pm Live From Blue Lake
The Blue Lake Festival Band, directed by Wes Broadnax
10:00pm Night Lights
“Clark's Last Leap: Sonny Clark, 1961-62” - Recordings the hardbop pianist made in his last year as a leader and with Jackie McLean, Grant Green, and others.