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.
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.
Mozart's Abduction from the Seraglio
San Francisco Opera
Broadcasts of performances by the San Francisco Opera continue on KUAT-FM this Saturday, September 4th, at noon with a performance of The Abduction from the Seraglio by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The opera will be sung in German and will run approximately two hours and forty-five minutes.
Anything Turkish was in style in 1782 and true to the trend, Mozart sets The Abduction from the Seraglio in a Turkish harem and flavors the music with extra percussion, evoking the military Janissary bands of Turkey (especially in the rollicking overture). But The Abduction from the Seraglio was far more than just trendy and Turkish. The depth of Mozart's music was constantly increasing during this period. In letters to his father he wrote about trying to capture the very heartbeats of emotion in his characters.
The Abduction from the Seraglio is the crazy story of two men rescuing their lovers from a Pasha's harem, but the way Mozart blends high comedy with touching tragedy signals his new maturity as an opera composer. The Act II quartet, sung by the two principal couples, surely impressed those first audiences, and it still impresses today. It's almost a miniature opera within itself, beginning and ending with the joy of the lovers' reconciliation, yet with a melancholic middle section in which the music palpably expresses the personal doubts swirling within the characters' outward happiness.
Like Mozart's final opera, The Magic Flute, The Abduction from the Seraglio is written in the German Singspiel style, featuring dialogue that is not sung but spoken. Various amounts of dialogue are used (or altered or updated) depending on the production.
THE CAST
Constanze: Mary Dunleavy
Blonde: Anna Christy
Belmonte: Matthew Polenzani
Pedrillo: Andrew Bidlack
Osmin: Peter Rose
Pasha Selim: Charles Shaw Robinson
Conductor: Cornelius Meister
Chitchat News
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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