Here are MTPR program highlights for January 9 – January 15, 2014
THURSDAY- January 9, 2014
9:05 a.m. Morning Classics – Mozart: Flute Sonata in F major, k. 13; Brahms: Horn Trio in Eb major, Op. 40; Telemann: 2 Concerti for Winds and String in E minor and G major; Selections performed by Renée Fleming; Schumann: Symphony #3, Op. 97 “Rhenish”
1:00 p.m An Intelligence Squared Debate – Spy on Me, I’d Rather Be Safe
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 – Andrew Graybill, author of The Red and the White
FRIDAY – January 10, 2014
9:05 a.m. Morning Classics – D’Indy: Selections for piano; Müller: Clarinet Quartet #2 in E minor; Müller: Souvenir de Dobberan, Op. 28; Honegger: Sonata for Solo Violin in D minor; Dukas: Symphony in C major
SATURDAY- January 11, 2014
11:00 a.m. Metropolitan Opera – Strauss’s Die Fledermaus
4:00 p.m. Radiolab – “Blood” – This show considers the power and magic of the red liquid that runs through our veins and meets an artist, douses in the meat and metaphors of Shakespeare, examines red blood cells of mice, and traces the complicated supply chain of blood.
6:00 p.m. A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor
SUNDAY- January 12, 2014
8:00 a.m. Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center – Love Songs – Berg, Ullmann, Brahms, Sasha Cooke
11:10 a.m. Front Row Center – The MTPR weekly arts interview
11:20 a.m. The Food Guys - “Adding Cooked Vegetables”
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 – “River Otters”
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— Pinchas Zukerman conducts music of Mozart, Hindemith, and Tchaikovsky
MONDAY- January 13, 2014
9:05 a.m. Morning Classics – Morning Classics – Paganini: 3 Sonatas, Op. 3, for Violin & Guitar; Tchaikovsky: Piano Trio in A minor, Op. 50; Galuppi: 3 Piano Sonatas in F major, A minor and E major; Respighi: Suite for Strings, P. 41
1:00 p.m. Alternative Radio - Sanho Tree – End the Drug War
7:30 p.m. Live From The Divide – Tumbledown House - "A Celebration of the American Songwriter". The show features regionally established & legendary songwriters alike, based out of an intimate 50 person venue and recording facility in Bozeman, Montana.
TUESDAY – January 14, 2014
9:05 a.m. Morning Classics – Mendelssohn: Cello Sonata #1 in Bb, Op. 45; Haydn: Symphony #48 in C major – “Maria Theresia”; Beethoven: String Trio in G major, Op. 9 #1; Ries: Concerto Pastoral in D major, Op. 120 for Piano and Orchestra
11:00 am Freeforms with Michael Marsolek
1:00 p.m. Home Ground Radio with Brian Kahn
1:30 p.m. Musician’s Spotlight – The Shook Twins – Identical twins, Laurie and Katelyn Shook bring their self-branded “quirky folk” to Musician’s Spotlight
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 – Alica Gignoux reflects on the human ethic of sharing the land with wildlife. She pairs her own thoughts with a prose poem by Charles Finn
WEDNESDAY- January 15, 2014
9:00 a.m. Morning Classics - CPE Bach: 2 Prussian Sonatas: #2 in Ab major, Wq 49/2; #3 in E minor, Wq 49/3; Fuchs: Serenade #4, Op. 51; Mozart: Flute Quartet in C major, K. 2856; Handel: 2 Concerti Grossi: #7 in Bb major; #8 in C minor
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
8:30 p.m. What I Like About Jazz - Features small group jazz from 1950 to now