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STACCATO
From Judlyne Lilly-Gibson | 02:30
STACCATO is a weekly 2:30 feature covering events, trends and news in classical music.
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STACCATO is a weekly 2:30 feature covering events, trends and news in classical music all over the world. A :90 version currently airs on KMFA 89.5, a public radio station in Austin, Texas. We feature stories on opera, orchestras, new classical music, composers, books, new apps, and anything else that informs today's classical music world. While STACCATO runs :90 on KMFA, longer versions of up to 3 mnutes are posted on my website SecondStreetDreams.com. We can also do special order STACCATOs of up to 5 minutes.
Staccato Artunes
From Judlyne Lilly-Gibson | 02:30
Artist Pablo Helguera laughs at the formality of the classical music community in his latest book of cartoons called ArTunes.
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In this self-contained edition of Staccato, produced and hosted by Judlyne Gibson, we talk with artist Pablo Helguera about his latest book of cartoons called ArTunes. It makes fun of just about everyone and everthing about the formality of classical music. His drawings are black on white while his captions bite just a bit. The book is a compilation of the drawings he's done for NPR's Classical Music Blog.
BETTER NATE THAN EVER
From Judlyne Lilly-Gibson | 02:09
Author Tim Federle has written a book for young readers about a 13 year old boy who sneaks away from home for the New York audition of ET-The Musical.
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Author Tim Federle reaches back into his own childhood for the story of Nate Foster, a 13 year old boy who sneaks away from his small Pennsylvania home town without his parents knowledge to audition in New York for the musical ET-The Musical.
Federle says while he doesn't recommend leaving home without your parents knowledge he does recommend children follow their dreams.
Staccato Cello Fortress
From Judlyne Lilly-Gibson | 02:22
Cello Fortress us a video game with four players playing against a live Cellist improvising notes to defend the fortress.
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Cello Fortress is a video game with four players playing against a live Cellist improvising notes to defend the fortress. Designed and created by video game creator Joost van Dongen, co-founder of Romino Games, Cello Fortress is an innovative experiment blending concert and game.
Back to Church Sunday
From Judlyne Lilly-Gibson | 02:50
National Back to Church Sunday is an annual event that encourages people to either return to church or attend services for the first time.
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The National Back To Church event has been going on for five years. It was started by a group called OUTREACH which offers resources to churches to help them maximize their members and services. Scott Evans of Outreach says for the first time this year, they've holding a video contest for churches who produce the best video inviting people to attend their church. The deadline for the video contest is October 1st. National Back to Church Sunday is September 14th, 2013.
His First Symphony
From Judlyne Lilly-Gibson | 03:01
Nathan Felix of Austin, Texas accomplishes something that's seemingly impossible. He wrote a symphony without ever taking a class in composing or classical music.
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Even Mozart had to start somewhere but his genius at a young age may not be a match to the composing journey of Nathan Felix. Judlyne (jude-lynn) Lilly has the story of a rock and roller from Austin, Texas who could not ignore the classical music bouncing around in his head.
BODE: THE SUMMER KING
From Judlyne Lilly-Gibson | 06:35
The All Star Baseball game this month is a perfect opportunity to introduce you to a new opera about a great Negro League Baseball Player.
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BODE a podcast featuring classical music by and/or about artists of African descent. On this edition, we speak to Daniel Sonenberg, a composer who's written a new opera about Josh Gibson of the Negro Baseball League. The opera is called THE SUMMER KING, an opera about the life of Josh Gibson. On BODE, Sonenberg, talks about his "calling" to compose this opera and we hear excerpts of the piece as it as performed in May in Portland, Maine.