Here are MTPR program highlights for January 30 – February 5, 2014
THURSDAY- January 30, 2014
9:05 a.m. Morning Classics - Rameau 2 Pièces do Clavecin with flute and violin: 4th and 5th concerts; Selections by Albinoní, Maute, and Zelenka performed by Ensemble Caprice; Zelenka: 2 Capriccios: #1 in D major and #2 in G major; Mozart: Quintet for piano and winds in Eb, KV 452; Pleyel: Symphony in Bb
1:00 p.m An Intelligence Squared debate on the motion “Obamacare is now beyond rescue”
2:06 p.m. Jazz Sessions - A variety of jazz tunes and styles with Terry Conrad
4:00 p.m. The Pea Green Boat with Annie Garde – a show for children of all ages
7:30 p.m. The Write Question – Charlie Price, author of the YA novel Dead Girl Moon
FRIDAY – January 31, 2014
9:05 a.m. Morning Classics – Bach: Sonata #3 in G minor, BWV 1029, for Viola da gamba and harpsichord; Duvernoy: Horn Trio #1; Haydn: 2 Piano Trios: #26 in F #minor and #25 in G major; Ries: Piano Sonata in F #minor, Op. 26; Beethoven: Symphony #1 in C major, Op. 21
SATURDAY- February 1, 2014
11:00 a.m. Metropolitan Opera – Puccini’s Madama Butterfly
4:00 p.m. Radiolab – DESPERATELY SEEKING SYMMETRY – This hour, search for order and balance and ask how symmetry shapes our very existence
6:00 p.m. A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor
SUNDAY- February 2, 2014
8:00 a.m. Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center – Vaughan Williams & Elgar
11:10 a.m. Front Row Center – The MTPR weekly arts interview
11:20 a.m. The Food Guys - “Gluten-Free, Whether You Need It Or Not”
11:30 a.m. Wait, Wait…Don’t Tell Me - The “oddly informative” NPR news quiz show – with Peter Sagal and Carl Kassell
12:25 p.m. Field Notes – “Hot Springs”
4:00 p.m. TED Radio Hour - A journey through fascinating ideas, astonishing inventions, and new ways to think and create
7:00 p.m. The San Francisco Symphony— Edo de Waart conducts music of Schreker, Rachmaninoff, Saint-Saëns, and Respighi
MONDAY- February 3, 2014
9:05 a.m. Morning Classics – Storace-selections for Harpsichord; Chopin: Etude, Op. 25 #7 and Nocturne, Op. Posth., both for Cello and Piano; Stamitz: Symphony in E minor, Op. 15 #2; Schubert: String Trio in Bb, D. 581; Telemann: Overture Suite in D major, TWV55:D1
1:00 p.m. Alternative Radio
7:30 p.m. You Must Remember This with Allen Secher – Tunes from the great American song book.
TUESDAY – February 4, 2014
9:05 a.m. Morning Classics – Satin-Saëns: Berceuse, Op. 38; Elegy, Op. 143 both for Violin & Piano; Johann Nisle: Sonata in F minor for Horn, Violin, & Piano; Beethoven: Piano Sonata #16 in G major, Op. 31 #1; Mozart: String Quartet in C major, KV 465; Schubert: Symphony #3 in D major, D. 200
11:00 am Freeforms with Michael Marsolek
1:00 p.m. Home Ground Radio with Brian Kahn
1:30 p.m. Musician’s Spotlight – Pat Metheny Part One of a special two-part program – An Encore Broadcast – Winner of 20 Grammy awards and one of the most acclaimed musicians of his generation, Pat makes his first appearance on MS
04:00 pm The Pea Green Boat with Annie Garde - a show for children of all ages
7:30 p.m. This American Life
8:30 p.m. Reflections West – Caroline Keys speaks to the value of pushing limits, of transcending perceived and accepted boundaries. She pairs her thoughts with a traditional Salish story as told by Bon Whealdon
WEDNESDAY- February 5, 2014
9:00 a.m. Morning Classics - Enescu: Suite #2 in D major, Op. 10; Janacek: String Quartet #1 “Kreutzer Sonata”; Herzogenberg: Violin Sonata #3, Op. 78; Dvorak: Slavonic Dances, Op, 72
1:00 p.m. Moyers and Company – A weekly series of smart talk and new ideas aimed at helping make sense of our tumultuous times through the insight of America’s strongest thinkers
1:30 p.m. A New Letters on the air special “The Symphony” an African-American poetry collective.
8:30 p.m. What I Like About Jazz - Features small group jazz from 1950 to now