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, July 18 at 3:00p.m. and Thursday, July 22 at 9:00 p.m. - Stephanie Martin, soprano; UA S.O.M. DMA candidate recital, recorded September 28, 2009 at Crowder Hall.
Sunday, July 25 at 3:00p.m. and Thursday, July 29 - Greg Guenther, baritone; UA S.O.M. DM candidate recital, recorded November 2, 2009 at Holsclaw Hall.
Sunday, August 1 at 3:00 p.m. and Thursday, August 5 at 9:00 pm. - Robyn Rocklein, mezzo-soprano; UA S.O.M. DMA candidate recital, recorded January 27, 2010 at Crowder Hall.
Sunday, August 8 at 3:00 p.m. and Thursday, August 12 at 9:00 p.m. - Dennis Tamblyn, tenor; S.O.M. UA DMA candidate recital, recorded March 22, 2010 at Crowder Hall.
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 19 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.
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.
Wagner's Die Walkure
LA Opera
LA Opera broadcasts continue on KUAT-FM this Saturday, July 31st, at 11:00 a.m. with a performance of Die Walkure by Richard Wagner. The performance will be sung in German and will run approximately five hours.
As Wagner's epic Ring cycle continues, Wotan, king of the gods, hopes that his mortal son Siegmund might help him regain the ring. But Siegmund's adulterous and incestuous love for his twin sister Sieglinde infuriates Fricka, goddess of marriage. Brünnhilde (the titular Valkyrie, one of Wotan's divine warrior maiden daughters) attempts to protect Siegmund, but her bold disobedience leads to a terrible punishment.
THE CAST
Siegmund: Plácido Domingo
Sieglinde: Anja Kampe
Brünnhilde: Linda Watson
Fricka: Michelle DeYoung
Wotan: Vitalij Kowaljow
Hunding: Eric Halfvarson
Conductor: James Conlon
Charles Mackerras
Posted at 7:34 on Thursday, July 15th 2010
Sir Charles Mackerras succumbed to cancer last night at age 84. Not that he was unappreciated or unnoticed, but he was perhaps the greatest underrated conductor of our time. Mackerras’ performances did not seethe with individuality under the fire of his own forceful personality, but they did seethe with the personality of the particular composer at hand. As I wrote some years ago, when one listened to a Mackerras recording, one didn’t sit back and sigh, “Ah, Mackerras.” One sighed “Ah, Mozart” or “Ah, Janácek.” He had a knack for getting to the essence of whatever score he was conducting, and conveying it with both conviction and flair (but never self-aggrandizing flair)...
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