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Sunday, 18 May 2008
12:02PM

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Visitors to our media center will be greeted by our digital welcome mat, and can see themselves on U•TV, an interactive exhibit where you can explore the art and science of television production. You can also take a peek inside our television studios. more...



WOSU 89.7 FM Classically Columbus
Saturdays at 1pm

Serenata, also known as “Adventures with the Art Song,” is a half-hour program hosted by WOSU’s Christopher Purdy. If you despair of choosing among the 500-plus recordings of Schubert lieder, or you want to hear Renee Fleming’s new jazz/classical album, this is the program for you.

Schedule of broadcasts is always subject to change.


Saturday, 5/3
Program T.B.A.



Saturday, 5/10
First Songs
The first attempt at the art song by Schubert, Faure, Mozart, Richard Strauss
and Tchaikovsky



Saturday, 5/17
“Last Songs”—you guessed it!
The last word or last songs-- by Schubert, Strauss, Debussy and Ives



Saturday, 5/24
Remembering Giuseppe di Stefano
The great Italian tenor who died earlier this year
Music by Puccini and Verdi



Saturday, 5/31
Mozart-lieder
A new release from tenor Werner Gura, exploring one of the
lesser known aspects of Mozart’s miraculous output. With Christoph Berner, piano

Bluegrass Ramble

Join Ramble hosts Rich Baker, Chet DeLong, Chris Johnston, and Steve Brechter for one of the best--and longest running--bluegrass radio shows in the country! The Lonesome River Band, The Country Gentlemen, Blue Highway, Bill Monroe, IIIrd Tyme Out, The Stanley Brothers, Del McCoury, The Osborne Brothers, Alison Krauss, Tony Rice, The Seldom Scene, The Nashville Bluegrass Band, Reno and Smiley, Flatt and Scruggs, The Boys From Indiana, and The Dillards are only a fraction of the outstanding artists you'll experience when you tune in to Bluegrass Ramble. more...

Saturdays on Stage

Saturdays at 1:30PM on WOSU FM 89.7. ”Opera and More!” WOSU’s showcase for great opera recordings, selected and narrated by Christopher Purdy, returns for another season, providing insights you won’t find anywhere else. We guarantee it! Spend Saturday afternoons with Christopher and some of the finest, most interesting operas ever recorded.  more...