April 2010

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In this issue: Four New Weekend Voices • The Meadows Prersents Charles IV • A view of Beauty at the Wyly • Oak Cliff’s Earth Day • A Surprise in Texas Premiere

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A Whale of a work: Ben Heppner on Moby Dick Canadian tenor Ben Heppner (BH) plays the role of Captain Ahab in Dallas Opera’s upcoming production of Moby Dick. WRR’s Kurt Rongey (KR) had a chance to talk with Heppner recently offering us our first view of this massive production. Below are a few highlights from Moby Dick: Maiden Voyage of a New Opera Wednesday, April 28 at 8 p.m. The program explores the creation and staging of this new production. WRR will also present a thirty-minute pre-show broadcast event on the opening night of Moby Dick April 30 at 7 p.m.

KR: Have you gotten a sense yet of what kind of impression people are going to get of your character, Captain Ahab on the stage?

BH: [Ahab is] a very powerful individual who stands out against the forces of nature, who one might actually think is a force of nature himself.

When you do the kind of roles that I do, you actually have to have a lot of courage to not

be liked. Really only in the second act, you’ll see a little more humanity from him. He talks about his boy, and having left his wife widowed while Ben Heppner her husband is still alive.

But he’s a fairly focused character, particularly in act one. He’s focused on this revenge with the whale.

KR: There is a certain physical feature ascribed to Ahab in the book…

BH: A bald pate [laughs]? No. I go on Tuesday to New York and have a fitting for the peg leg. So I guess the amputation will follow shortly [laughs].

KR: On an unrelated note, you sang for something like 60,000 people at the Vancouver Olympics…

BH: One doesn’t think about the people in the stadium. One always thinks about the

BIG News for Weekends!

WRR puts Performance Today and SymphonyCast on the air Performance Today is one of our audience’s most requested programs.

We’re pleased to announce that it will hit the WRR airwaves starting April 17.

Performance Today features live concerts by famous artists in concert halls around the globe as well as interviews, news and features. On any given week, you may hear from performances in the great concert halls of New York, Prague, London, Berlin and Paris. Performance Today is one of America’s most popular classical music radio programs, with more than 1.2 million weekly listeners across the country.

The list of guests on Performance Today is a Who’s Who of the classical music world: the Vienna Philharmonic, the Berlin Philharmonic, Yo Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman, Pierre Boulez, John Adams, Placido Domingo, Renee Fleming, Cecilia Bartoli, the Emerson Quartet, Daniel Barenboim, Michael Tilson Thomas, Ravi Shankar, and Alfred Brendel, to name just a few. Several times each year, Performance Today also features young American soloists with the potential for great careers, as “Young Artists in Residence.”

Host Fred Child is also the commentator and announcer for Live from Lincoln Center, the only live performing arts series on television. His classical music reports have appeared many places, including Billboard magazine and BBC Radio 3.

Performance Today airs Saturday and Sunday evenings at 9 p.m. starting April 17. Visit wrr101.com for links to past broadcasts of Performance Today and hear what we’ll have coming to you.

Fred Child

WRR introduces SymphonyCast April 18 at 7 p.m.

SymphonyCast is a weekly program showcasing the world’s great orchestras.

Complete concerts are drawn from Europe’s leading Brian Newhouse ensembles, along with U.S. orchestras, including the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Cleveland Orchestra. Solo appearances by artists such as violinist Nikolaj Znaider, pianist Martha Argerich and mezzo-soprano Magdalena Kozena are a common feature of the program.

Peabody Award winner Brian Newhouse is the senior producer and host for this nationally-syndicated show from American Public Media. Listeners can also enter a weekly encore contest. If you can guess the name of an anonymous encore played on the show, you might win a prize. SymphonyCast can be heard every Sunday evening from 7-9 p.m. on WRR, starting April 18.

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millions of people who were watching worldwide.

I had a great, great time. And what a moment for us Canucks to host the games! There was an atmosphere in the city the likes of which I don’t think I’ve ever seen before.

KR: You play the iconic sea captain in the Moby Dick opera. But I understand your favorite means of transportation is a motorcycle.

BH: Actually, I’m trying to find a way to justify bringing the motorcycle down to Dallas.

I don’t have time to ride it down, because it’s a thousand miles between one and the other.

But I’m thinking maybe of shipping it down. And then, I think I have a couple of days when I can actually ride back.

KR: So people in Dallas might watch out. If you see a bike zooming past, it might be the great Canadian heldentenor Ben Heppner.

BH: [laughs] That’s right, yeah, please be nice to me.

Moby Dick: Maiden Voyage of a New Opera airs Wednesday, April 28 at 8 p.m. and the thirty-minute pre-show broadcast event opening night of Moby Dick April 30 at 7 p.m.

Visit WRR’s podcast page to hear this entire interview.

Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra welcomes John Williams John Williams raises his baton with the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra for the sold out Gala Concert April 21 at Bass Hall.

Williams’ artistry has touched to hundreds of the most beloved films, including the Star Wars saga, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (featured at WRR’s Picnic in the Park last year) the Indiana Jones trilogy, Jaws and Schindler’s List. A regular on the March March John Williams Countdown, The Imperial March has held the No.2 position for the past 6 years.

The Gala concert features footage from many of the films Williams has worked on projected on a huge screen above the orchestra.

For those interested in a truly unique view of this composer at work, the FWSO will open their rehearsal to the public with Williams Tuesday, April 20 at 10 a.m.

Although Williams concludes the 2009-10 season of special performances, the 2010-11 season has just been announced and looks to offer many great choices for music fans. Highlights will include Tchaikovsky’s 5th, Tan Dun’s Water Concerto, a celebration of the 300th birthday of the 1710 Davis Stradivarius on loan to the FWSO with Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto, a Broadway Gala featuring Patti LuPone, Cliburn finalist Di Wu, Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition winner Barry Douglas, the music of Ann Hampton Callaway, Cirque de la Symphonie and a celebration of all that is Broadway with the FWSO and the men of the Turtle Creek Chorale.

WRR continues to feature the best of the 09-10 FWSO season Fridays at 8 p.m. Our next installment is May 7 and features Sarah Chang with Pictures at an Exhibition plus Brahms’ Violin Concerto in D Major. This performance is being broadcast live and is sure to be the highlight of the season.

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WARHOL THE L AST DECADE Through May 16

It’s more than pop art.

It’s Warhol as you’ve never seen him before.

Andy Warhol: The Last Decade through May 16 at the Modern. This highly-anticipated exhibition features rarely seen work created during the final years of Warhol’s life, including the Self-Portraits and his massive Last Supper.

Take advantage of “Sundays with Andy” artist-led tours every Sunday at 1 pm.

Don’t miss Warhol-inspired gifts and books in The Modern Shop and the fresh seasonal cuisine at Café Modern.

Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth 3200 Darnell Street Fort Worth, Texas 76107 817.738.9215 The City of Fort Worth

Andy Warhol: The Last Decade is organized by the Milwaukee Art Museum.

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WRR listeners will hear fresh new voices on the weekends beginning April 17.

Mindy Ratner will be the host of the Saturday and Sunday Afternoon Concert from noon- 6 p.m. She began her career in classical broadcasting following her graduation from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Mindy has worked at stations in Cincinnati, Philadelphia and St. Paul. She has also worked as a music host and producer for China Radio International in Beijing.

Her spare time is devoted to international travel; Mindy Ratner folk, ballroom and contradancing; singing in a chorus; her two cats, and trying to stay ahead of the weeds in her garden.

Bob Christiansen will be heard Saturdays from 6-9 p.m. Bob has managed to combine his knowledge of classical music and history with a sharp wit and a talent for foreign languages into a 38year radio career. While studying the ramifications of the “Time of Troubles” on the Grand Duchy of Moscow, he led a secret life as the evening man on the Northern Illinois University radio station. He teamed with Bill Morelock in Bob Christiansen 1987 to create the nationally syndicated Bob and Bill.

Lynn Warfel will be on the air from 10noon on Saturdays. Her 24-year radio career includes becoming one of Minnesota Public Radio’s first national hosts in 1995. She also has a lifelong passion for working with dogs as a trainer and behavior consultant.

Valerie Kahler will be on WRR Sundays Lynn Warfel from 6-7 p.m. For more than a decade, she was classical host and music director at KNAU in Flagstaff, Ariz. She holds a degree in cello performance and plays piano in self-defense, but feels most at home in front of a microphone.

Valerie Kahler

The Meadows Museum presents Charles IV The Meadows Museum of SMU presents Royal Splendor in the Enlightenment: Charles IV of Spain, Patron and Collector through July 18. Splendor showcases over 80 works from the exceptional art collection of King Charles IV of Spain (1748-1819).

The exhibition, for which the Meadows Museum will be the exclusive venue outside of Spain, offers visitors the opportunity to discover for the first time the exquisite taste of Charles IV, who was one of the most important collectors both of his time and in the history of the Spanish monarchy. His interests were not only refined, but extremely varied, as evidenced in the innumerable paintings, drawings, engravings, sculptures, books, coins and musical instruments he collected by both contemporaneous and earlier artists.

Many of the works from Splendor have never traveled to the U.S. including Francisco de Goya’s portrait of the king which makes its first appearance outside of Madrid in 2000 years.

“During his reign, Charles IV created a highly sophisticated, refined and cosmopolitan court for which the arts played a major role,” said Mark Roglan, museum director. “The Combination of collection works from the past as well as investing in those of the present, especially in the field of decorative arts, became part of the daily life of this king, whose artistic taste was among the finest in his time Mark Roglan and in the history of the Spanish Monarchy.”

One piece of interest, Panini’s Gallery of Cardenal Silvio Valenti Gonzaga, pictured to the right offers a glimpse into the size of the entire collection and how the works would have been displayed in Charles IV’s time.

The collection includes some of the finest examples of art styles of the day, from Rococo paintings to a stunning Neoclassical dessert centerpiece of semi-precious stones, lapis lazuli, gilded bronze and enamel. Other highlights include the queen’s ceremonial throne with its Giovanni Paolo Panini, Gallery of Cardenal Silvio Valenti Gonzaga, 18-foot-tall canopy, an elaborate sedan chair 1761, oil on canvas. El Escorial, in which she was carried by footmen, a gilded Casa de campo del Principe, Nabronze, porcelain and enamel bird cage clock, tional Heritage and a shotgun of wood, steel, gold and silver belonging to the king, an avid hunter. Also included are works by Francisco de Goya, the first court painter under Charles IV.

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Beauty observed at the Wyly All this month, the Dallas Theater Center transforms their season to festival format for Neil LaBute’s Beauty Plays. The 6th floor, 100seat space in the Wyly Theatre hosts The Shape of Things, directed by Matthew Gray, Fat Pig, directed by Kevin Moriarty and reasons to be pretty, directed by Joel Ferrel.

Designed so it’s possible to see the entire Beauty trilogy in a 48 hour time span, the DTC is the first organization to offer the Beauty trilogy in one season, much less one weekend!

From The Shape of Things- Steven WalComprised of only 6 actors portraying ters and Abbey Siegworth -photo Brandon 12 different characters, all three productions Thibodeaux occur in a 15’x16’ space, roughly the same area as the average master bedroom. The Beauty Plays come complete with a downloadable study guide which, among other things, points out that over 100 pieces of pizza will be used in the run of Fat Pig, 1000 images are projected during Shape and the lockers in reasons become a scoreboard later in the production.

Out of town and planning a vacation? You could wait till the first week of May for true culture overload (if that’s possible.) Consider taking in the Dallas Symphony Orchestra Thursday and Shape Friday only to start your Saturday off doing yoga on the lawn of the Nasher Sculpture Center and take in reasons and Fat Pig that afternoon and evening. Get a good night’s sleep because Sunday means a matinee of Moby-Dick with the Dallas Opera followed by Death of a Salesman that evening.

Join WRR For the Oak Cliff Earth Day WRR joins the Oak Cliff community for Earth Day 2010. Located at Lake Cliff Park on N. Zang, the Oak Cliff celebration is a family and pet friendly way to celebrate our environment and how to respect it. Expect environmentally friendly vendors and products, City of Dallas agencies, pet friendly goods and local artists and performers.

We’ll be there all day with a chance to win an HD Radio and taking in all the food, music and entertainment Sunday, April 18 from noon-5 p.m.

WRR hosts premiere screening of A Surprise in Texas WRR is proud to sponsor the world premiere of A Surprise in Texas Sunday, April 11 during the DALLAS International Film Festival.

Surprise follows the 29 competitors of the Thirteenth Van Cliburn Piano Competition, capturing their experience every step of the way. Camera crews, under the direction of Emmy Award® winning director/producer Peter Rosen, offer viewers rare behind-the-scene performance footage at Bass Performance Hall including off-stage exchanges between the musicians and dedicated volunteers.

Whether it is seeing Yeol Eum Son release tension by jumping rope, or Haochen Zhang aggressively playing pingpong to let go of some of his competitive energy, viewers become enchanted by the non-concert activities of the competitors. All this is mixed with competition performances of Chopin, Liszt, Beethoven, Rachmaninoff and other piano masterpieces.

Surprise is one of the 153 feature films and shorts during the 11-day DALLAS International Film festival (April 8 – 18) which hosts six feature film world premieres.

Screenings and Red Carpet entrances General Manager: Greg Davis will be held at the Angelika Film Center and Editor: Paul Adams Landmark’s Magnolia Theater. The Hotel Palomar will serve as the epicenter for the Overture is the official publication Festival, including the Southwest Airlines of WRR Classical 101.1 FM. Ticket Window and the DALLAS Film Festival Send Comments or story ideas to: Lounge. Filmmaker panels will be held at the Editor: wrrmac@wrr101.com, or Nasher Sculpture Center and the Central 214 Patio located at Hotel Palomar.

Overture Editor - WRR FM Tickets are on sale now at the PO Box 159001 Southwest Airlines Ticket Window at the Hotel Dallas, TX 75315 Palomar and online at dallasfilm.org. Listen 214-670-8888 Friday, April 9 to the Classic Cafe where WRR’s Tempie Lindsey will talk with Tanya Find us at: Foster about many of the coming highlights facebook.com/wrr101 of the festival. WRR features all your favorite twitter.com/wrr101 movie moments during the festival and we’ll youtube.com/wrr101fm be giving away screening vouchers away flickr.com/wrr101fm throughout the fest so be listening!

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Classical Candids

Photos from recent WRR Classical 101.1 FM events 1. Tim Rogers of D Magazine with Bryan Garner of Garner’s Modern American Usage.

2. Amy Taylor and Becky Young of TACA during the Classic Cafe.

3. Tempie Lindsey talks with Cullum Clark, Honorary Co-Chair of the Visiting Nurse Association’s “Wheels for Meals and More” gala.

6. Tempie Lindsey with Mark Nerenhausen, President and CEO of the AT&T Performing Arts Center.

11. Thomas Cannon of the Dallas Opera Emerging Artists with his accompanist Andy Packard.

7. Kurt Rongey talks with MarcAndre Hamelin on his concert with the Cliburn Foundation.

12. Kurt Rongey talks with new Dallas Symphony Orchestra’s Principal Pops Conductor Marvin Hamlisch.

8. Tempie Lindsey talks with Michael Jenkins of the Dallas Summer Musicals.

4. Dallas Morning News MOMS blogger Kristie Smith-Armand interviews WRR’s Mary Sefzik.

Also pictured are Harriet Hall and Jamille Smith.

9. Dr José Luis Sancho, background, with Mark Roglan of the Meadows Museum talk about “Royal Splendor in the Enlightenment: Charles IV of Spain, Patron and Collector.”

5. Dick Lentz of Lentz Landscape Lighting with Terry Thompson of Wells Fargo talk in front of the Steinway piano.

10. Kurt Rongey talks with Susan Seiter of Schola Cantorum about the new season and what Schola is all about.

16. Tricia Bridges and Abby Williams of the Chiapas Project join us to talk about many of the fascinating projects the organization is working on.

13. Maud LaForest performs during the Classic Cafe.

17. Richard Holt (Bank of America), Gigi Antoni (Big Thought) and Bill Lively (North Texas Super Bowl XLV Host Commission) discuss Slant 45.

14. Tempie Lindsey gets a “free hug” from Sharon Rankin of the Visiting Nurses Association.

18. Aaron Blake, this year’s Dallas Opera Emerging Artist, sings a selection from Romeo and Juliet

15. Tempie Lindsey with Ted Enloe – Honorary Co-Chair of the Visiting Nurse Association’s “Wheels for Meals and More” gala and Robert Smith of the Visiting Nurses Association.

19. WRR’s Lisa Little during the Frisco Arts Festival.

20. Tempie Lindsey talks with Nancy Gopez of the Visiting Nurses Association.

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Station Program Schedule WRR Notable Programs

DAY PART

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Arts Update: 6:52 a.m. weekdays - Amy Bishop is your host for this brief arts event listing covering the evening’s events as well as those a couple days ahead.

5 AM

6 AM

Music All Night with Peter Van de Graaff

7 AM

Morning Musicale

8 AM

Christian Science Sentinel

Music All Night with Peter Van de Graaff

the morning show with amy bishop

Wilshire Baptist Church 9 AM

Pastoral Reflections

Morning Musicale with Lynn Warfel

Midday Music with Tempie Lindsey

St. Andrews Episcopal

11 AM

Preston Hollow Presbyterian

NOON

Classic Cafe with Tempie Lindsey

3 PM

Midday Music with Tempie Lindsey

The Afternoon Concert with Mindy Ratner

Afternoon Concert The Afternoon Concert with Mindy Ratner

4 PM

5 PM

The Going Home Show with Kevin Pytcher

Dallas Summer Musicals Spotlight * Evening Concert with Valerie Kahler

Art Matters

7 PM

8 PM

9 PM

Evening Concert with Bob Christiansen

Exploring Music

the morning show with Bill McGlaughlin with amy bishop

Symphony Cast

Performance

Dallas Symphony Orchestra*

Today

New York

Fort Worth Symphony*

Philharmonic

The Going Home Show this Week with Kevin Pytcher

Pipedreams

10 PM

Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra: 8 p.m. some Fridays - Miguel Harth-Bedoya conducts the orchestra in complete broadcasts from the Symphonic Series.

From the Top: 9 a.m. Saturdays - Some of the nation’s most gifted young musicians take the stage for this inspiring and funny program.

Inside the Dallas Opera: Noon Saturdays, once a month - A behind-the-scenes look at the Dallas Opera including past performances, interviews with staff and artists plus upcoming engagements. Times vary.

with Michael Barone

The Evening Concert with Ed Blaylock

Religious programming: 8 a.m. until noon - Sundays - WRR airs religious services by churches of many denominations and faiths Sunday mornings. See Sunday listings for details.

Today

Art Matters: 5:30 p.m. Sundays and 6:30 p.m. Thursdays - Quin Mathews and Sharon Benge co-host this in-depth look at the arts in North Texas. This is the place to hear insightful interviews with some of the area’s arts luminaries as well as distinguished visitors.

A Night on the Town with George Harter

Pipedreams: 10 p.m. Sundays - The king of instruments, the pipe organ, is the focus of this 90-minute program that spans the globe in its search for great music.

Performance

11 PM

Dallas Summer Musicals Spotlight: 5 p.m. some Sundays - An in depth look at the behind the scenes people involved in bringing the Dallas Summer Musicals to Fair Park.

MIDNIGHT 1 AM

Performance Today: 9 p.m. weekends - Live concerts by famous artists in concert halls around the globe as well as interviews, news and features. Audiences, on any given day, may hear from performances in the great concert halls of New York, Prague, London, Berlin and Paris.

Music All Night with Peter Van de Graaff Music All Night With Peter Van de Graaff

2 AM 3 AM 4 AM

DAY PART

Arts Calendar: 5:30 p.m. Thursdays - An extended arts event listing covering the upcoming week, presented

by Kevin Pytcher.

A Night on the Town: 10 p.m. Saturdays - From Richard Rodgers to Andrew Lloyd Webber, George Harter brings you the best of the American musical stage.

Art Matters 6 PM

Dallas Symphony Orchestra: 8 p.m., some Mondays.

Complete concert performances of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra from the Meyerson Symphony Center.

New York Philharmonic this Week: 8 p.m. Thursdays - America’s musical ambassadors perform from Avery Fisher Hall.

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March of the Day: 7:35 a.m. weekdays - Having trouble getting around in the morning? WRR will get you in step with some of the world’s most upbeat music -- Marches! Sponsored by Dougherty’s Pharmacy.

The Wine Experience: 6:20 p.m. weekdays - Presents topics relating to choosing and enjoying wine such as matching wine with different foods, virtual walks through vineyards and shopping tips.

University Park Methodist Lovers Lane United Methodist

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Road Rage Remedy: 7:20 a.m. and 5:20 p.m. weekdays - WRR will calm your rush hour commute with music to soothe the nerves. Relax and enjoy the ride!

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Symphony Cast 7 p.m. Saturdays - A weekly classical music radio program hosted by Brian Newhouse and featuring full-length concerts by national and international symphony orchestras.

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March Programming Highlights

It’s a must-hear April for the Metropolitan Opera. Four of opera’s biggest hits are featured this month, every Saturday at noon. April 3 By Kurt Rongey Aida; April 19 - The Magic Flute; April 17 - La Traviata; and April 24, Tosca.

Operations Manager International stars and local favorites such as Salvatore Licitra, Angela Gheorghiu, Nathan Gunn, James Valenti, Thomas Hampson, Karita Mattila and Bryn Terfel are all to be heard in the different productions.

Bill McLaughlin’s Exploring Music can be heard every weekday evening at 7 p.m. This month he’ll be exploring musical duos, water music, classical stars of Bohemia, and an indepth look at Tchaikovsky.

As you’ll see in other parts of this issue of Overture, there will be fresh sounds and new programs on the weekends.

One of our Sunday shows will be moving to a new time. Art Matters will be heard at 5:30 p.m. Sundays starting April 18. It will still be repeated at its regular time of 6:30 p.m. on Thursday evenings.

If you have comments about WRR’s programs, please don’t hesitate to send an e-mail to info@wrr101.com. Your opinion as a valuable listener is very important to us.

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Quin Mathews and Sharon Benge of Art Matters

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