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Culture Vultures Stay Skinny
Posted at 6:39 on Tuesday, May 15th 2012

Well, here's one of those optimistic studies that's contraindicated simply by looking around you in a theater or concert-hall lobby: According to the data, people who read or go to cultural events have a lower body-mass index than all those idiots who aren't like you and me...

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Community Concerts

Classical 90.5's Community Concerts series, hosted by Ted Prichard, presents extraordinary performances of classical music recorded in southern Arizona. The programs are broadcast twice weekly: Sunday afternoons at 3:00 and Thursday evenings at 9:00. 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, May 13 at 3:00 p.m. and Thursday, May 17 at 9:00 p.m.
The Arizona Early Music Society presents The New Esterházy Quartet with a program titled "Padre, Guida, ed Amico!" The concerts represents the intertwined relationship between Mozart and Haydn, recorded at St. Philip's In The Hills Episcopal Church in Tucson on January 15, 2012.

Sunday, May 20 at 3:00 p.m. and Thursday, May 24 at 9:00 p.m. The Tucson Philharmonic Youth Orchestra presented its "Spring Gala" concert on April 15, 2012 at Catalina Foothills High School. In addition to honoring its award-winning marimba soloist, Trevor Barroero, the event showcased three pianists who were Philharmonia Scholarship competition medalists. On the program are works by Ellington, Gershwin, Klenner, Tchaikovsky, Saint-Saëns and Stravinsky.

Sunday, May 27 at 3:00 p.m. and Thursday, May 31 at 9:00 p.m. The Arizona Early Music Society presents the trio "Ostraka" in a program titled "Leaving Parnassus." The concert's theme is late French works for viol, theorbo and guitar. Among the composers are Marais, Lully, and Boismortier. The performance was recorded at St. Philip's In The Hills Episcopal Church in Tucson on September 25, 2011.

Sunday, June 3 at 3:00 p.m. and Thursday, June 7 at 9:00 p.m. The Arizona Graduate Winds is the University of Arizona's premier student chamber ensemble, with the top students in the graduate programs selected by competitive auditions. In a concert recorded on November 19, 2011, in Holsclaw Hall, they performed works by J.S. Bach, Franz Danzi and others.

Sunday, June 10 at 3:00 p.m. and Thursday, June 14 at 9:00 p.m. As part of its Faculty Artists Series, the University of Arizona School of Music presented flutist Brian Luce and pianist Rex Woods, recorded February 20, 2012, in Crowder Hall. The program included works by Martinu, Ibert, Debussy and others.

On Classical
05:35 p.m. Still
Festive Overture
05:44 p.m. Frescobaldi
Canzona Quarta From "Canzoni Franzese"
05:48 p.m. Wagner
Siegfried'S Rhine Journey From "Götterdämmerung"
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