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Program Highlights
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Wednesday, August 27, 2pm
Highlights from a variety of artists at Oregon’s Mt. Hood Jazz Festival
on JazzSet with DeeDee Bridgewater.
Thursday, August 28, 9pm
Immediately following final day coverage of the Democratic Convention
in Denver, Neal Conan hosts a one-hour special call-in with Senator Barak
Obama taking calls from listeners around the country.
Friday, August 29, 2pm
The Jim Cullum Jazz Band is joined by Ken Peplowski, Allan Vache and Evan
Christopher in a concert spotlighting the clarinet in classic jazz, on
Riverwalk Jazz.
Saturday, August 30, 1pm
Broadway Revisited begins
the 2008-09 season with a Labor Day weekend recognition of working people
through the songs of Woody Guthrie, as heard in the off-Broadway show
Woody Guthrie’s American Song.
Sunday, August 31, 7pm
New York’s Glimmerglass Opera performs one of Benjamin Britten’s
finest works, Death in Venice, a bleak, beautiful and extraordinarily
moving work based on the short novel by Thomas Mann.
Monday-Thursday, September 1-4, 6-9pm
Nightly NPR coverage of the Republican National Convention in Minneapolis,
featuring key speeches and interviews.
Tuesday, September 2, 2pm
Vocalists Carla Cook and Allan Harris join the Eric Reed trio to honor
the pioneer of vocalese, Eddie Jefferson, on Jazz
at Lincoln Center.
Wednesday, September 3, 2pm
Christian McBride hosts a tribute to jazz pianist and composer Horace
Silver, a pioneer in of the hard bop style, on JazzSet.
Thursday, September 4, 8pm
Immediately following final day coverage of the Republican Convention
in Minneapolis, Neal Conan hosts a one-hour special call-in with Senator
John McCain taking calls from listeners around the country.
Friday, September 5, 2pm
The Jim Cullum Jazz Band and guests recall the career of Jazz Age cornetist
Jimmy McPartland on Riverwalk Jazz.
Saturday, September 6, 7pm
Traditional songs demonstrate the musical linkage between Scotland, Ireland
and Appalachia, on The Thistle & Shamrock.
Sunday, September 7, 6pm
Humankind explores the transition from addiction treatment to a clean
and sober life through a shared family care mentoring program.
Monday, September 8, 6:30pm
Leading contemporary Western artist, Theodore Waddell, reflects on the
art scene in the West and offers advice on the business of art, on RealTime.
Tuesday, September 9, 11am
Lian Wang and Margaret Butler are featured soloists in Vivaldi’s
Concerto for Two Oboes in D Minor, at the Santa
Fe Chamber Music Festival.
Wednesday, September 10, 8pm
Conductor Semyon Bychkov and Russian-born oboist Eugene Lzotov share their
somber thoughts on the condition of Russian people portrayed in Shostakovich’s
Symphony No. 7, prior to a performance by the Chicago
Symphony Orchestra.
Thursday, September 11, 8pm
Emmy Award-winning actor, comedian, writer, playwright, producer, musician
and composer Steve Martin in conversation on City
Arts and Lectures.
Friday, September 12, 2pm
A salute to Swing Era bandleader Don Albert with the Jim Cullum Jazz
Band and guest Vernel Bagneris on Riverwalk
Jazz.
Saturday, September 13, 1pm
Songs from George and Ira Gershwin’s 1951 film soundtrack, An American
in Paris, performed by Gene Kelly and others, on Broadway
Revisited.
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