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Community Concerts

Twice each week, on Sunday afternoons at 3:00 and Thursday evenings at 9:00, KUAT-FM presents Community Concerts, extraordinary performances of classical music recorded in southern Arizona.

The Community Concerts broadcasts are made possible in part with the support of a National Endowment for the Arts challenge grant funded locally by a contribution from the Holsclaw Foundation, and by a gift from the Green Valley Concert Association.

Sunday, August 15 at 3;00 p.m. and Thursday, August 19 at 9:00 p.m. - Bethania Baray, soprano; UA S.O.M. MM candidate recital, recorded March 3, 2010 at Holsclaw Hall.

Sunday, August 22 at 3:00 p.m. and Thursday, August 26 at 9:00 p.m. - April Amante, soprano; UA S.O.M. MM candidate recital, recorded April 4, 2010 at Crowder Hall.

Sunday, August 29 at 3:00 p.m. and Thursday, September 2 at 9:00 p.m. - Seth Kershisnik, baritone; UA S.O.M. MM candidate recital, recorded April 26, 2010 at Crowder Hall.

Sunday, September 5 at 3:00 p.m. and Thursday, September 9 at 9:00 p.m. - "“Vive la France!"” concert; an all-French composer program with the Arizona Symphony Orchestra, Thomas Cockrell conducting, with The Arizona Choir and The University of Arizona Symphonic Choir under the direction of Elizabeth Schauer; recorded May 2, 2010 at Centennial Hall.

Sunday, September 12 at 3:00 p.m. and Thursday, September 16 at 9:00 p.m. - "Due West… and Other Directions;" Arizona Repertory Singers with director Jeffry Jahn; recorded April 25, 2010 at Fountain of Life Lutheran Church.

Sunday, September 19 at 3:00 p.m. and Thursday, September 23 at 9:00p.m. - "Basically Baroque;" University Community Chorus & Orchestra, conducted by Elizabeth Schauer and Heather Zosel; recorded April 25, 2010 at Crowder Hall.

KUAT-FM Celebrates 35 Years
Classical KUAT

The date is May 19, 1975. Announcer Warren Clark signs the station on the air. The first selection played is Aaron Copland's Fanfare for the Common Man; a fitting piece for the launch of the first public radio station in Tucson, Arizona.

KUAT-FM 90.5 begins broadcasting a classical music format mixed with cultural programming, news and local public affairs. The broadcast day for the new station is 6 a.m. to 12 midnight, seven days a week, from a newly installed transmitter on the KUAT-TV tower on Mount Bigelow in the Catalina Mountains.

Today, Classical KUAT-FM's expanded broadcast of 24-hour classical reaches all major communities of Southern Arizona, including Tucson, Marana, Nogales, Sierra Vista, Safford and Bisbee, the only station providing such a service to this part of the state. Classical KUAT-FM is also a favorite of international listeners, thanks to it's distinctive classical music programming and high quality live audio streams.

Explore Classical KUAT's thirty-five year timeline.

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Posted at 8:34 on Tuesday, August 31st 2010

There’s a recent trend in NPR newscasts that disturbs me a little, even though there’s nothing inherently wrong with it. Have you noticed that, increasingly, the anchors, instead of switching to recorded items filed by field reporters, are sitting there and interviewing the reporters live? The same information still comes through, but in a subtly different way ...

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