Blue Lake Public Radio
Listener Program Guide
July 2010

1.Thursday
12:06pm Exploring Music
“Mahler Symphonies, Part I” - “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 and the symphonic form. Join us for two full weeks on the symphonies of Gustav Mahler.
8:00pm Chicago Symphony
David Robertson, conductor; Kyoko Takezawa, violin; MESSIAEN: Les Offrandes oubliées; BERG: Violin Concerto; STRAVINSKY: The Rite of Spring; BARTÓK: Excerpts from The Wooden Prince
10:00pm Jazz from Blue Lake
Johnny Hartman, voice

2.Friday
12:06pm Exploring Music
“Mahler Symphonies, Part I” – day 5
7:30pm Live From Blue Lake
The new season of The Blue Lake Summer Arts Festival broadcasts begins with the Verdehr Trio live from Stewart Shell.
10:00pm Jazz from Blue Lake
Ahmad Jamal, piano

3.Saturday
10:00am Marian McPartland’s Piano Jazz
“Piano Jazz 30th Anniversary Special With Guest Host Murray Horowitz” - What began as a series of modest, intimate musical conversations has become one of the most successful and longest running music programs in media history; and a national treasure trove documenting jazz greats, pop music giants, and cultural icons such as Dizzy Gillespie, Mary Lou Williams, Oscar Peterson, Elvis Costello, Tony Bennett, Ray Charles, and Studs Terkel. Nobody could engage them more entertainingly than the divine, pioneering Ms. McPartland. Marian’s friend and NPR veteran Murray Horwitz hosts this hour-long survey of three decades of great radio moments.
1:00pm Lyric Opera of Chicago
MOZART: The Marriage of Figaro – Sir Andrew Davis, conductor; with Kyle Ketelsen, Danielle de Niese, Anne Schwanewilms, Mariusz Kwiecien and Joyce DiDonato
6:00pm A Prairie Home Companion
Garrison Keillor with a live broadcast performance from the Ravinia Festival Pavilion in Highland Park, IL, with special guests John Prine and Andra Suchy
9:00pm The Thistle and Shamrock
“Sheila Kay Adams” - For seven generations her family has passed down English, Scottish and Irish ballads that crossed the Atlantic with their ancestors in the 1700s. Join Fiona and the intimate audience gathered at the Swannanoa Gathering during its Traditional Song Week to enjoy the Appalachian ballads and stories of the unique singer, author and tradition-bearer Sheila Kay Adams.

4.Sunday
7:00am Pipedreams
“Independence Thinkers” - An all-American program that explores the sonic and virtuosic freedoms and possibilities of pipe organs and those who play them.
1:00pm Grand Rapids Symphony
David Lockington, conductor; Grand Rapids Symphony Chorus, Pearl Shangkuan, director; Calvin College Capella Singers, Joel Navarro, director; Kelley Nassief, soprano; Mary Creswell, mezzo-soprano; Garrett Sorenson, tenor; Kevin Deas, bass; VERDI: Requiem
3:00 SymphonyCast
Minnesota Orchestra, Osmo Vänskä, conductor and clarinet; Christian Tetzlaff, violin; DVOŘÁK: Serenade for Winds; BARTÓK: Violin Concerto No.2; STRAVINSKY: Petrushka
6:00pm Riverwalk Jazz
“Riverwalk Jazz BBQ” - Light the coals and crack open the cooler. Nothing says July like a barbecue on a lazy afternoon. The forecast may call for triple-digit temps or a passing shower. But whatever’s in store, The Jim Cullum Jazz Band swings their way through some of your favorite warm-weather classic American jazz tunes.
7:30pm Live From Blue Lake
The Blue Lake Festival Band, Kent Krive, conductor
10:00pm Night Lights
“It’s All in the Game: Louis Armstrong, 1947-57” - A look at Louis Armstrong’s life and music in the years following World War II, including interviews with jazz writer Dan Morgenstern (whose notes on Armstrong for a recent box-set won a Grammy) and historian Michael McGerr.

5.Monday
12:06pm Exploring Music
“Mahler Symphonies, Part II” - We continue this week with more symphonies of Gustav Mahler.
8:00pm SymphonyCast
Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Sir Roger Norrington, conductor; Jessica Rivera, soprano; Kelley O’Connor, mezzo-soprano; Gordon Gietz, tenor; Wayne Tigges, bass-baritone; Westminster Symphonic Choir; HAYDN: Symphony No.99 in E-flat Major; BEETHOVEN: Symphony No.9, Choral
10:00pm Jazz from Blue Lake
Butch Miles, drums

6.Tuesday
12:06pm Exploring Music
“Mahler Symphonies, Part II” – day 2
8:00pm San Francisco Symphony
Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor; Garrick Ohlsson, piano; TILSON-THOMAS: Street Song for Symphonic Brass; PROKOFIEV: Piano Concerto No.5, Op.55; TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No.5, Op.64
10:00pm Jazz from Blue Lake
Louis Bellson, drums

7.Wednesday
12:06pm Exploring Music
“Mahler Symphonies, Part II” – day 3
8:00pm Live! at the Concertgebouw
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Ivan Fischer, conductor; Miah Person, soprano; Jacques Meertens, clarinet; SCHUBERT: Symphony No.3; SCHUBERT/REINECKE: Der Hirt auf dem Felsen; MAHLER: Symphony No.4
10:00pm Jazz from Blue Lake
Rashied Ali, drums

8.Thursday
12:06pm Exploring Music
“Mahler Symphonies, Part II” – day 4
8:00pm Chicago Symphony
John Williams, Robert Spano, conductors; David McGill, bassoon; WILLIAMS: The Five Sacred Trees; WILLIAMS: Fanfare for a Festive Occasion; WILLIAMS: Four Pieces from American Journey; WILLIAMS: Sayuri’s Theme from Memoirs of a Geisha; VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: A London Symphony
10:00pm Jazz from Blue Lake
Jeremy Pelt, trumpet

9.Friday
12:06pm Exploring Music
“Mahler Symphonies, Part II” – day 5
8:00 New York Philharmonic
Dmitri Mitropoulos, conductor; ALL MAHLER: Symphony No.5; Adago from Symphony No.10
10:00pm Jazz from Blue Lake
Bob Parlocha hosts

10.Saturday
10:00am Marian McPartland’s Piano Jazz
Virtuoso reed man Ted Nash hails from a respected West Coast jazz family, but for the last ten years he has been heavily involved with Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York. He is also an art lover and he brings along some of his latest tunes inspired by modern artists to this Piano Jazz session, with Host Christian McBride. Tunes include “Breakfast at Tiffany’s,” and Nash’s tunes “Matisse” and “Pollock.”
1:00pm LA Opera On Air
(new season) HANDEL: Tamerlano – William Lacey, conductor; with Bejun Mehta, Plácido Domingo, Sarah Coburn, Patricia Bardon and Jennifer Holloway
6:00pm A Prairie Home Companion
Garrison Keillor with a compilation program
8:00pm Live From Blue Lake
The Blue Lake Festival Orchestra, James Niblock, conductor
9:00pm The Thistle and Shamrock
“Summer Isles” - Na h-Eileanan Samhraidh, The Summer Isles, is an archipelago lying at the mouth of a loch in the Highlands of Scotland. This is our notional departure point for a musical voyage through Hebrides in the light and warmth of the season.

11.Sunday
7:00am Pipedreams
“From the Ocean Grove” - Gordon Turk and friends perform during the centenary of the expanded Robert Hope-Jones pipe organ in the world-famous auditorium of this picturesque New Jersey summer shore-side retreat.
1:00pm Milwaukee Symphony
(new season) Edo de Waart, conductor; Sasha Cooke, mezzo-soprano; BERNSTEIN: Symphony No.1, Jeremiah; MAHLER: Symphony No.5
3:00pm SymphonyCast
Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Sir Roger Norrington, conductor; Jessica Rivera, soprano; Kelley O’Connor, mezzo-soprano; Gordon Gietz, tenor; Wayne Tigges, bass-baritone; Westminster Symphonic Choir; HAYDN: Symphony No.99 in E-flat Major; BEETHOVEN: Symphony No.9, Choral
6:00pm Riverwalk Jazz
“Louis Armstrong: Memories & Reflection” - Tune in for a selection memorable stories about Louis Armstrong from producer George Avakian; opera star Robert Merrill; Roger Glenn, son of Armstrong band member, Tyree Glenn; and former Armstrong band member Peanuts Hucko along with The Jim Cullum Jazz Band performing classic Armstrong tunes featuring performances with Nicholas Payton and Bob Barnard.
10:00pm Night Lights
“Paul Gonsalves: Off the A-Train” - Tenor saxophonist Paul Gonsalves is best known for the epic solo he took with Duke Ellington’s orchestra during a 1956 concert at the Newport Jazz Festival. This program highlights Gonsalves’ recordings away from the Ellington band, with trumpeter Clark Terry and others.

12.Monday
12:06pm Exploring Music
“Artists in Exile, Part I” - Music involving composers, performers, and other artists driven from their homelands and inspired by their new surroundings.
8:00pm SymphonyCast
Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra, Claudio Abbado, conductor; PROKOFIEV: Scythian Suite; BERG: Lulu Suite; TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No.6, Pathetique
10:00pm Jazz From Blue Lake
Robin McKelle, voice

13.Tuesday
12:06pm Exploring Music
“Artists in Exile, Part I” – day 2
8:00pm San Francisco Symphony
David Robertson, conductor; Stephen Hough, piano; TCHAIKOVSKY: Piano Concerto No.2 in G, Op.44; SIBELIUS: En Saga, Op.9; SCRIABIN: The Poem of Ecstasy, Op.54
10:00pm Jazz from Blue Lake
Hank Mobley, tenor saxophone

14.Wednesday
12:06pm Exploring Music
“Artists in Exile, Part I” – day 3
8:00pm Live! at the Concertgebouw
Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor; Nicolas Angelich, piano; VERDI: Prelude to Aida; SAINT-SAËNS: Piano Concerto No.5; SAINT-SAËNS: Bacchanale from Samson et Dalila; FRANCK: Psyché et Eros; R.STRAUSS: Salomes Tanz
10:00pm Jazz from Blue Lake
Lee Morgan, trumpet

15.Thursday
12:06pm Exploring Music
“Artists in Exile, Part I” – day 4
8:00pm Chicago Symphony
Vladimir Jurowski, conductor; RACHMANINOV: Isle of the Dead; STRAVINSKY: Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments; PROKOFIEV: Symphony No.4, Op.112; STRAVINSKY: The Fairy’s Kiss
10:00pm Jazz from Blue Lake
Sonny Clark, piano

16.Friday
12:06pm Exploring Music
“Artists in Exile, Part I” – day 5
8:00pm New York Philharmonic
Lorin Maazel, Leonard Slatkin, David Robertson, conductors; Lorne Munroe, cello; Jean Baxtresser, flute; Thomas Stacey, cor anglais; Philip Myers, horn; MOZART: Horn Concerto No.2; SIBELIUS: Swan of Tuonela; JACOB: Horn Concerto; SCHUMANN: Cello Concerto; COPLAND: Quiet City
10:00pm Jazz from Blue Lake
Andre Previn, piano

17.Saturday
10:00am Marian McPartland’s Piano Jazz
Brilliant young pianist Romain Collin toured with both Wayne Shorter and Herbie Hancock while still a student at the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz. Since graduating, he has jumped into writing original music on a sweeping, cinematic scale. Guest host Jon Weber welcomes Collin to Piano Jazz for a set including many original tunes by this exciting young pianist/composer.
1:00pm LA Opera On Air
ROSSINI: The Barber Of Seville – Michele Mariotti, conductor; with Nathan Gunn, Juan Diego Flórez, Joyce DiDonato, Bruno Praticò and Andrea Silvestrelli
6:00pm A Prairie Home Companion
Garrison Keillor with a program tbd
9:00pm The Thistle and Shamrock
“Soundtracks” - The Chieftains created an Oscar award-winning soundtrack to the 1975 movie Barry Lyndon. In the decades since, the film industry has provided a platform for many commissions of new music drawn from Celtic roots and traditions. We listen to some memorable contributions for the cinema and small screen.

18.Sunday
7:00am Pipedreams
“Hats Off for Hector!” - Concert performances and commentary make clear why audiences everywhere are beguiled by Hector Olivera’s irrepressible and personable virtuosity.
1:00pm Milwaukee Symphony
Edo de Waart, conductor; Frank Almond, violin; Joseph Johnson, cello; CHEN: Five Elements; BRAHMS: Double Concerto in a-minor, Op.102; BEETHOVEN: Symphony No.7 in A, Op.92
3:00pm SymphonyCast
Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra, Claudio Abbado, conductor; PROKOFIEV: Scythian Suite; BERG: Lulu Suite; TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No.6, Pathetique
6:00pm Riverwalk Jazz
“Swinging at The Pearl: With Vocalist Catherine Russell & Pianist Dick Hyman” - The Jim Cullum Jazz Band keeps America’s rich jazz tradition alive with the rhythms of hot jazz, swing and the blues as they share the stage with their friend, pianist Dick Hyman and one-of-a-kind vocalist, Catherine Russell, whom jazz critic Nat Hentoff calls ‘the real deal.’
7:30pm Live From Blue Lake
The Blue Lake Festival Band, Myron Welch, conductor
10:00pm Night Lights
“Star On Miles: The Return of Miles Davis” - 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.

19.Monday
12:06pm Exploring Music
“Artists in Exile, Part II” - More music of composers, performers, and other artists driven from their homelands.
8:00pm SymphonyCast
Gewandhaus Orchestra, Leipzig, Sir Roger Norrington, conductor; Yaara Tal, Andreas Groethusen, pianos; ELGAR: Cockaigne Overture; VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Double Piano Concerto; WALTON: Symphony No.1
10:00pm Jazz from Blue Lake
Bob Parlocha in for schedule

20.Tuesday
12:06pm Exploring Music
“Artists in Exile, Part II” – day 2
8:00pm San Francisco Symphony
Charles Dutoit, conductor; Alexander Barantschik, violin; DEBUSSY: Prelude to L’Après-midi d’un faune; STRAVINSKY: Symphony in C; RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Scheherazade, Op.35
10:00pm Jazz from Blue Lake
J.J. Johnson,  trombone

21.Wednesday
12:06pm Exploring Music
“Artists in Exile, Part II” – day 3
8:00pm Live! at the Concertgebouw
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Bernard Haitink, conductor; Murray Perahia, piano; MOZART: Symphony No.32 in G, KV 318; BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No.4 in G, Op.58; BRUCKNER: Symphony No.4 in E-Flat
10:00pm Jazz from Blue Lake
The World Saxophone Quartet

22.Thursday
12:06pm Exploring Music
“Artists in Exile, Part II” – day 4
7:15pm Live From Blue Lake
Blue Lake’s Staff Band, Myron Welch, conductor
10:00pm Jazz from Blue Lake
Regina Carter, violin

23.Friday
12:06pm Exploring Music
“Artists in Exile, Part II” – day 5
7:30pm Live From Blue Lake
The Homecoming performance of The Blue Lake International Choral Ensemble, Christoph von Kuczewski-Poray, conductor
10:00pm Jazz from Blue Lake
J.D. Allen, tenor saxophone

24.Saturday
10:00am Marian McPartland’s Piano Jazz
“Marian Selects: Remembering John Bunch” - Pianist John Bunch learned to arrange for big bands while held captive in a German POW camp during World War II. After returning stateside, he worked with the likes of Woody Herman, Gene Krupa and Benny Goodman, and was Tony Bennett’s pianist for a number of years. He passed away earlier this year, and Piano Jazz remembers Bunch with this 1991 session. Bunch performs “Something to Live For,” and duets with Marian on “What is This Thing Called Love?”
1:00pm LA Opera On Air
WAGNER: Das Rheingold – James Conlon, conductor; with Vitalij Kowaljow, Arnold Bezuyen, Gordon Hawkins, Graham Clark and Michelle DeYoung
6:00pm A Prairie Home Companion
Garrison Keillor with a program tbd
8:00pm Live From Blue Lake
The Blue Lake Festival Orchestra, Myron Welch, conductor; Tod Leavitt, double bass
9:00pm The Thistle and Shamrock
“Armorica” - The peninsula that became Brittany was first named “Armorica” after the Roman conquest of ancient Gaul. Migration from Britain created a distinct community in culture and language and this is reflected in the music and song of today’s “Bretagne” or Brittany. Join us to discover the intoxicating music of this coastal area.

25.Sunday
7:00am Pipedreams
“American Premieres” - A kaleidoscopic collection of twentieth-century music by composers from the United States, many in first broadcast performances.
1:00pm Milwaukee Symphony
Edo de Waart, conductor; Joyce Yang, piano; RACHMANINOFF: Piano Concerto No.3 in d-minor, Op.30; RACHMANINOFF: Symphony No.2 in e-minor, Op.27
3:00pm SymphonyCast
Gewandhaus Orchestra, Leipzig, Sir Roger Norrington, conductor; Yaara Tal, Andreas Groethusen, pianos; ELGAR: Cockaigne Overture; VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Double Piano Concerto; WALTON: Symphony No.1
6:00pm Riverwalk Jazz
“The Sax in New Orleans Jazz: Jelly Roll Morton to The Bob Cats” - The Jim Cullum Jazz Band joins forces with sax men Kim Cusack and Brian Ogilvie to explore the early jazz saxophone masters. Our own Ron Hockett shows off his saxophone chops while his usual clarinet duties are covered by Kenny Davern, Allan Vaché and Evan Christopher. And bass saxophonist Vince Giordano recalls Adrian Rollini’s pivotal role in the Jazz Age sound of Bix Beiderbecke’s classic recordings.
10:00pm Night Lights
“Fab Four Jazz: The Beatles and Jazz in the 1960s” - In the 1960s the success of the Beatles threatened to sweep away the relevance, if not the careers, of many jazz musicians. Some responded by adopting the British band’s music into their repertoire. Stanley Turrentine, Duke Ellington, and Gerry Mulligan are some of the artists featured on this program, as well as an interview with historian Michael McGerr.

26.Monday
12:06pm Exploring Music
“I Lost It At the Movies” - Celebrating music of the cinema.
8:00pm SymphonyCast
Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Yannick Nezet-Seguin, Andreas Scholl, countertenor; HANDEL: Music for the Royal Fireworks; HANDEL: Arias from Giulio Cesare and Rodelinda; STRAVINSKY: Feu d’artifice; BEETHOVEN: Symphony No.7
10:00pm Jazz from Blue Lake
Benny Goodman, clarinet

27.Tuesday
12:06pm Exploring Music
“I Lost It At the Movies” – day 2
7:30pm Live From Blue Lake
Live from Hill Auditorium in Ann Arbor, The Blue Lake International Youth Symphony Orchestra, International Choral Ensemble, Blue Lake Alumni Choir, and soloists, all under the direction of Christoph von Kuczewski-Poray, perform Mendelssohn’s Oratorio Elijah
10:00pm Jazz from Blue Lake
Artie Shaw, clarinet

28.Wednesday
12:06pm Exploring Music
“I Lost It At the Movies” – day 3
8:00pm Live! at the Concertgebouw
Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Roman Kofman; Håkan Hardenberger, trumpet; GERSHWIN: An American in Paris; FRANCESCONI: Hard Pace; SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphony No.6
10:00pm Jazz from Blue Lake
Jimmy Hamilton, clarinet

29.Thursday
12:06pm Exploring Music
“I Lost It At the Movies” – day 4
8:00pm Chicago Symphony
Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor; Christian Tetzlaff, violin; BRAHMS: Violin Concerto in D, Op.77; NIELSEN: Symphony No.5, Op.50; BARTÓK: Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta
10:00pm Jazz from Blue Lake
Eddie Daniels, clarinet

30.Friday
12:06pm Exploring Music
“I Lost It At the Movies” – day 5
7:30pm Live From Blue Lake
The Homecoming concert of the International Youth Symphony Orchestra, Fritz Stansell, conductor
10:00pm Jazz from Blue Lake
Bob Parlocha hosts

31.Saturday
10:00am Marian McPartland’s Piano Jazz
Guitarist Pat Metheny is one of the brightest stars in the jazz firmament. The Grammy-winning artist is constantly experimenting with technology new and old, and honing his improvisational skills and unique style. On this Piano Jazz, the Pat Metheny Trio, which includes bassist Christian McBride and drummer Antonio Sanchez, performs exclusive versions of “Go Get It” and “Bright Size Life.”
1:00pm LA Opera On Air
WAGNER: Die Walküre – James Conlon, conductor; with Plácido Domingo, Anja Kampe, Linda Watson, Vitalij Kowaljow, Eric Halfvarson and Michelle DeYoung
6:00pm A Prairie Home Companion
Garrison Keillor with a program tbd
9:00pm The Thistle and Shamrock
“Song of the Times” - An old ballad may offer a fascinating glimpse of the past but what do today’s songwriters have to say about our contemporary concerns? Find out this week.