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WOSU presents a series of podcasts previewing the upcoming season of the major arts and cultural organizations in Columbus. Christopher Purdy is the host of this series of previews, each approximately 15 minutes in length.
These will be accessible on September 11, 2006
The arts organizations featured include
• BalletMet Columbus
• CAPA
• CATCO
• Chamber Music Columbus
• College of the Arts at The Ohio State University
• Columbus Bach Ensemble
• Columbus Jazz Orchestra/Jazz Arts Group
• Columbus Museum of Art
• Columbus Symphony Orchestra
• Department of Theatre at The Ohio State University
• Early Music in Columbus
• King Arts Complex
• Opera Columbus
• Phoenix Theatre Circle
• ProMusica Chamber Orchestra
• Wexner Center
LISTEN 14.0 MB. Length: 15:18
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CAPA - the Columbus Association for the Performing Arts
Executive Director Bill Conner welcomes The Eroica Trio, The Pirates of Penzance, Vladimir Spivakov, Itzak Pearlman, Van Cliburn Gold Medalist Olga Kern, and Figaro himself to Columbus on CAPA's 2006-2007 Signature Series. Want more? Programs for kids and a special SRO Latino Series. All at CAPA's downtown theaters: Palace, Ohio, Riffe Center and the Southern
http://www.capa.com/columbus/
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LISTEN 13.4 MB. Length: 14:43
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CATCO
The Contemporary American Theater Company at the Riffe Center with artistic director Geoff Nelson. The new season includes a competition for new one act plays, all set in the old Hartman Theater (where City Center stands today). If you've ever wondered what goes on behind the beard of your department store Santa Claus, don't miss David Sedaris's hysterical "The Santa Diaries." CAPA also presents Lanford Wilson's "The Piano Lesson" and Edward Albee's "Seascape." The season ends in May 2007 with The Complete History of the World...Abridged (no less).
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LISTEN 14.0 MB. Length: 15:18
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COLLEGE OF THE ARTS at THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY
Dean Karen Bell lets us in on a new academic year and a new season of performances of music, drama and dance, both on campus and in new programs downtown.
http://arts.osu.edu/ |
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LISTEN 9.21 MB. Length: 10:04
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COLUMBUS BACH ENSEMBLE
CBE goes to the movies and continues its outstanding concerts of baroque music at the Josephinum and the Southern Theater. Music director Christine Mortine tells us more.
http://www.columbusbachensemble.com/
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LISTEN 12.6 MB. Length: 13:49
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COLUMBUS JAZZ ORCHESTRA/JAZZ ARTS GROUP
Artistic director Byron Stripling brings us a new season of hits from Lou Rawls to Ann Hampton Calloway to Chuck Mangione. And get a load of his description of his underwear.
http://www.columbusjazzorchestra.com/ |
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LISTEN 13.7 MB. length: 14:59
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COLUMBUS MUSEUM OF ART
Executive Director Nanette Maciejeunes takes Christopher Purdy on an audio tour of the galleries. http://www.columbusmuseum.org/ |
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COLUMBUS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Junichi Hirokami's first season as music director includes works by Mozart, Mussorgsky, Haydn, Bruckner, Mahler and Schumann, plus the return of conductors Alessandro Siciliani, Gunther Herbig, Giancarlo Guerrero and Stefan Sanderling. Season highlights include an opening weekend September 16-17; Midori in concert with Maestro Hirokami September 21; Schumann's Cello Concerto with Luis Biava January 5-6; A Festival of Contemporary Music with Gunther Schuller February 2 and 3; and Haydn's oratorio The Seasons with Junichi Hirokami and the Columbus Symphony Chorus March 23 and 24. New CEO Executive Director Tony Beadle provides details!
http://www.columbussymphony.com/index.html
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LISTEN 7.16 MB. Length: 07:49
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DEPARTMENT OF THEATRE at THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY
Associate Professor of Theater Joy Reilly, commentator for WOSU 820, talks about a new season of plays, musicals and mixed media on the OSU campus, at the Thurber and Roy Bowen Theaters, and downtown at the Southern, with a production of "Hair," the original sixties rock musical. Also featured, Lillian Hellman's The Children's Hour, Maria Stuart by Schiller, an evening of original one act plays, and Tim Robbins's stage version of Sister Helen Prejean's Dead Man Walking.
http://theatre.osu.edu/
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LISTEN 13.4 MB. Length: 14:42
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EARLY MUSIC IN COLUMBUS
Learn about dance bands as they were heard in 1600 and before! Early Music in Columbus presents a series of concerts annually at Capital University and the Pontifical College Josephinum. For2006-2007 enjoy concerts form Italian love music circa 1570 to Spanish music of the Exploration to Robin Hood. With Ronald Cook and Katherine Wolfe.
www.capital.edu/earlymusic
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LISTEN 13.5 MB. Length: 14:49
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THE KING ARTS COMPLEX
Barbara Nicholson offers a tour of the former Pythian Theater, now the sprawling and up to date King Arts Complex on the Near east Side of Columbus. We'll preview two new radio programs: one an introduction tour of he complex and its programs, the other a history of jazz in "the neighborhood".
http://www.thekingartscomplex.com/home.htm
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LISTEN7.27 MB. Length: 7:56
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OPERA COLUMBUS
Artistic Director William Boggs takes us away form the opera's financial problems into a new season, back at the Palace Theatre. New productions of Verdi's La traviata and Franz Lehar's The Merry Widow are discussed, along with Opera Columbus's award winning education and outreach programs.
http://www.operacolumbus.org/
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LISTEN 10.9 MB. Length: 11:58
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THE PHOENIX THEATRE CIRCLE
Want to introduce theater to kids? Want arts in the schools? You can't do better than Steven Anderson and the Phoenix Theater.
http://www.thephoenixonline.org/
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ProMusica Chamber Orchestra
ProMusica Chamber Orchestra begins its twenty-eighth season on October 15th at Columbus's Southern Theater. Performances continue through May both at the Southern and the Pontifical College Josephinum. True to its mission to encourage new music, the coming season includes world premieres of Christopher Theofanidis's Concerto for Piano and Small Orchestra (October 15), Richard Cioffari's Odyssey for Flute, Harp and Strings (February 11, 2007) and Compadrazgo for Piano, Cello and Chamber Orchestra by Gabriela Frank (March 21 and April 1, 2007). There'll also be music by Haydn, Elgar, Telemann, Stravinsky, Berlioz and Debussy....plus a special ProMusica Goes to the Movies program at the Southern, November 11th and 12th. Timothy Russell is ProMusica's music director. ProMusica principal trumpet Tom Battenberg shares the new season with us.
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LISTEN 14.4 MB. Length: 15:44
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WEXNER CENTER FOR THE ARTS
A close neighbor of WOSU on the OSU campus, the newly renovated Wexner Center continues its cutting edge programs in the visual arts, film and education that have attracted worldwide attention for years. Hear what's in store for 2006-2007, with the expanded physical plant in better shape than ever. With Executive Director Sherri Geldin and Curator Helen Molesworth.
http://www.wexarts.org/ |
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LISTEN 16.6 MB. Length: 18:11
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  Sundays, 7pm, WOSU FM 89.7. From the Top is a weekly, hour-long radio showcase of America's top young classical musicians hosted by acclaimed pianist Christopher O’Riley. more... |
