WDAV http://blogs.davidson.edu/wdav/ Thoughts (some random, some organized) about classical music, WDAV, and other interesting stuff..... en Copyright 2009 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 11:25:56 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=4.21-en http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Watch Your Radio 11/12/09: A Rhapsody in Rivets Warner Bros animator Friz Freleng makes Franz Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2...riveting.


Merrie Melodies - Rhapsody In Rivets
]]> http://blogs.davidson.edu/wdav/2009/11/watch_your_radio_111209_a_rhap.html http://blogs.davidson.edu/wdav/2009/11/watch_your_radio_111209_a_rhap.html Thu, 12 Nov 2009 11:25:56 -0500 Watch Your Radio: A Due Cori Dance I don't think I've ever seen a string section so unified in their music-making that they appear to be dancing together as in this performance of the fifth movement from Handel's Concerto a due cori No. 2 in F. Violinist Rachel Podger is leading the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Infectious, top-notch playing.


]]> http://blogs.davidson.edu/wdav/2009/11/watch_your_radio_a_due_cori_da.html http://blogs.davidson.edu/wdav/2009/11/watch_your_radio_a_due_cori_da.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:02:43 -0500 Charlotte Observer: WDAV To Launch Spanish Channel Published by The Charlotte Observer November 7, 2009:

Charlotte's classical-music station, Davidson College's WDAV-FM (89.9), is looking at adding a Spanish channel.

]]> http://blogs.davidson.edu/wdav/2009/11/charlotte_observer_wdav_to_lau.html http://blogs.davidson.edu/wdav/2009/11/charlotte_observer_wdav_to_lau.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 06:46:04 -0500 CSO On Campus The Charlotte Symphony is continuing an innovative project for a second year with some of the area's major arts groups as partners. CSO on Campus is a series of multi-disciplinary events presented in collaboration with the Levine Museum of the New South and the Mint Museum of Art, and taking place on six local college campuses, including Davidson College.

The programming draws from exhibits at both museums - Changing Places: From Black and White to Technicolor at the Levine Museum, and Loïs Mailou Jones: A Life in Vibrant Color at the Mint Museum of Art - and consists of lectures, exhibits and performances in a variety of venues.
According to CSO Executive Director Jonathan Martin, "It is especially important in these times that cultural organizations work together. It produces richer, multi-layered cultural expressions for the local community."
There's a complete schedule of events at the Charlotte Symphony website.

]]> http://blogs.davidson.edu/wdav/2009/11/cso_on_campus.html http://blogs.davidson.edu/wdav/2009/11/cso_on_campus.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:00:00 -0500 Watch Your Radio 10/30/09: Witch Charming I was looking for something funny from singer and comedienne Anna Russell to post and stumbled across this clip from a stop motion puppetry version of Humperdinck's opera Hansel and Gretel . It's a delight! (Anna Russell's is the witch's voice in the clip.)

It turns out this 1954 film is a cult classic titled Hansel and Gretel: Opera Fantasy.

Here are a few more details from a Wikipedia entry :

The puppets used in the film are called "kineman" characters. They took fifteen years to develop. The filmmakers used a secret chemical for "flesh" and "hair", and the characters had magnetized feet. They were also called "exemplary actors," and are able to duplicate natural movements, and they have a variety of facial expressions.

A DVD version of the film was released in 2001. There are some complaints about the quality of the transfer to DVD, but still plenty of raves about this little gem.

]]> http://blogs.davidson.edu/wdav/2009/10/enchanting_opera.html http://blogs.davidson.edu/wdav/2009/10/enchanting_opera.html Fri, 30 Oct 2009 01:00:31 -0500 Many Thanks! WDAV received this note today from Judy Watson of Winston-Salem, our "silver prize" winner in our recent Yo-Yo Ma Monday Giveaway:

Thanks to all of you at WDAV for the unbelievable Silver Prize of tickets to Yo-Yo Ma with the Charlotte Symphony and overnight at the Dunhill Hotel!!

]]> http://blogs.davidson.edu/wdav/2009/10/many_thanks.html http://blogs.davidson.edu/wdav/2009/10/many_thanks.html Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:14:16 -0500 Michelle Obama Makes Room for Classical Music at the White House Classical music education will get some welcome attention next week when Michelle Obama opens the White House for a special concert, reports David Ng in today's Los Angeles Times.

]]> http://blogs.davidson.edu/wdav/2009/10/michelle_obama_makes_room_for.html http://blogs.davidson.edu/wdav/2009/10/michelle_obama_makes_room_for.html Thu, 29 Oct 2009 10:30:21 -0500 Watch Your Radio 10/28/09: The Uehara Blink Spend a few seconds watching Ayako Uehara play the piano in the video below. That's all it takes to see she's the real thing. Captivating, articulate, genuine. There's something rare, something special going on here. I think just found my favorite pianist.

]]> http://blogs.davidson.edu/wdav/2009/10/watch_your_radio_102809_the_ue.html http://blogs.davidson.edu/wdav/2009/10/watch_your_radio_102809_the_ue.html Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:05:00 -0500 Speaking of New Media & New Instruments So, it's an ad that uses classical music. Anything new here?


HOW THEY DID THAT: Part 1


HOW THEY DID THAT, Part 2:

]]> http://blogs.davidson.edu/wdav/2009/10/speaking_of_new_media_new_inst.html http://blogs.davidson.edu/wdav/2009/10/speaking_of_new_media_new_inst.html Sat, 24 Oct 2009 11:26:08 -0500 Symphonies Gingerly Embrace Digital Performers The Christian Science Monitor's Mark Guarino posts the following story on classical music's dance with new media and new instruments. I disagree with several of Mr. Guarino's assertions about the vitality of classical music, but this article is still worth the read -- especially the comments at the end.

]]> http://blogs.davidson.edu/wdav/2009/10/symphonies_gingerly_embrace_di.html http://blogs.davidson.edu/wdav/2009/10/symphonies_gingerly_embrace_di.html Sat, 24 Oct 2009 09:33:34 -0500 Watch Your Radio 10/22/2009: How the Triumphal Got in the March As grand as grand opera sounds on the air, to know what unfolds on stage can take the music from grand to glorious. Here's the Triumphal March from Verdi's Aida. Lorin Maazel conducts at Teatro alla Scala (Milano):

]]> http://blogs.davidson.edu/wdav/2009/10/watch_your_radio_10222009_aida.html http://blogs.davidson.edu/wdav/2009/10/watch_your_radio_10222009_aida.html Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:13:41 -0500 Watch Your Radio 10/21/2009: Karelia or Bust Just look at these images of the landscape swirling in Sibelius' mind's eye as he composed his rough-hewn, vigorous, aurora-dappled Karelia Suite . Is it any wonder he chose to spend his honeymoon here?

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(Photo: Oleg Kuznetsov)


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]]> http://blogs.davidson.edu/wdav/2009/10/watch_your_radio_10212009_kare.html http://blogs.davidson.edu/wdav/2009/10/watch_your_radio_10212009_kare.html Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:34:37 -0500 By The Numbers We recently received an email from a loyal WDAV listener and member who asked some great questions about WDAV's budget and financial priorities. WDAV General Manager Ben Roe thought other listeners might be interested in the answers to these questions, and so we post their Q&A below!

]]> http://blogs.davidson.edu/wdav/2009/10/by_the_numbers.html http://blogs.davidson.edu/wdav/2009/10/by_the_numbers.html Fundraising Wed, 21 Oct 2009 05:24:26 -0500 This Just In: Mozart DOES Make You Smarter The New York Times reports today that the nonprofit Center for Arts Education found that New York City high schools with the highest graduation rates also offered students the most access to arts education.

]]> http://blogs.davidson.edu/wdav/2009/10/this_just_in_mozart_does_make.html http://blogs.davidson.edu/wdav/2009/10/this_just_in_mozart_does_make.html Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:09:22 -0500 Live from WDAV Studios: The American Chamber Players On Tuesday, October 20 in WDAV's Mozart Café, The American Chamber Players dropped by the WDAV studios to perform selections of Bach and Mozart - and to chat with Frank Dominguez about chamber music. Watch a video excerpt from their visit!

]]> http://blogs.davidson.edu/wdav/2009/10/live_from_wdav_studios_this_tu.html http://blogs.davidson.edu/wdav/2009/10/live_from_wdav_studios_this_tu.html Mon, 19 Oct 2009 11:21:19 -0500