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Savannah Music Festival LIVE is a weekly radio show produced for the GPB Radio Network. Now offered through PRX, the show has been licensed to public radio stations in California, New York, Massachusetts, Indiana, Illinois, Kansas, Nevada, Montana, Utah and Pennsylvania. Listeners can tune in on Mondays at 9 pm throughout Georgia (on GPB Radio), and on Thursdays at 8 pm on WUGA in Athens.
Savannah Music Festival LIVE - 201 - Mendelssohn at 200, featuring Sebastian Knauer
Original air date: Week of April 20, 2009 Two hundred years ago this year, composer Felix Mendelssohn was born in Hamburg, Germany. He is now widely regarded as one
Savannah Music Festival LIVE - 202 - Mariza at the Lucas Theatre
Original air date: Week of April 27, 2009 Fado, which translated means "destiny" or "fate," is a musical genre that can be traced from the 1820s in Portugal, but
Savannah Music Festival LIVE - 203 - Punch Brothers with Chris Thile
Original air date: Week of May 4, 2009 Composer/Singer/Mandolinist Chris Thile released his first recording when he was just 13. But that was half his life ago, and the
Savannah Music Festival LIVE - 204 - Garrick Ohlsson at the Lucas Theatre
Original air date: Week of May 11, 2009 Pianist Garrick Ohlsson is an interpreter of great originality, whose playing combines supreme elegance with extraordinary tonal projection. These qualities have
Savannah Music Festival LIVE - 205 - Prazak Quartet
Original Air Date: Week of May 18, 2009. For nearly a thousand years, the country now known as the Czech Republic was originally two different regions called Bohemia and
Savannah Music Festival LIVE - 207 - Gershwin Songbook
Original air date: Week of June 1, 2009 While it is often said that George Gershwin was ahead of his time, the fact remains that he created music in his
Savannah Music Festival LIVE - 206 - Bob Seeley's Boogie Woogie
Original air date: Week of May 25, 2009 The sound of a train rolling down the tracks has long served as the metaphor for American musical styles rooted in the
Savannah Music Festival LIVE - 208 - Sensations chamber music with Daniel Hope & Friends: Classical Period
Original air date: Week of June 8, 2009 The term classical music is used colloquially to describe a variety of western musical styles from the ninth century to the
Savannah Music Festival LIVE - 209 - Mike Marshall, Darol Anger and Väsen
Original air date: Week of June 15, 2009 The country of Sweden has a folk music tradition that goes back at least 700 years. Importantly, this tradition still serves
Savannah Music Festival LIVE - 211 - Bela Fleck Africa Project, Episode One
Original air date: Week of June 29, 2009 On the final weekend of the 2009 Savannah Music Festival, banjoist Bela Fleck brought an incredible group of musicians to the
Savannah Music Festival LIVE - 212 - Bela Fleck Africa Project, Episode Two
Original air date: Week of July 6, 2009 Part two of a show featuring the Bela Fleck Africa Project performance at the Trustees Theater during the 2009 Savannah Music
Savannah Music Festival LIVE - 213 - Philippe Entremont
Original air date: Week of July 13, 2009 What do you grow up to be when your father is an opera conductor and your mother is a pianist? Well,
Savannah Music Festival LIVE - 214 - The Infamous Stringdusters
Original air date: Week of July 20, 2009 When the discussion of contemporary American acoustic music arises, several different genres come to mind. If the ingredients of the genre
Savannah Music Festival LIVE - 215 - Piano Showdown 2009, Part One
Original air date: Week of July 27, 2009 In the international music world, there are literally dozens of piano competitions across the globe. In jazz and blues music, the
Savannah Music Festival LIVE - 216 - Piano Showdown 2009, Part Two
Original air date: Week of August 3, 2009 The second hour of a two-part show showcasing highlights from the 2009 Piano Showdown programs at the Savannah Music Festival. Tune
Savannah Music Festival LIVE - 217 - Battle Royale
Original air date: week of August 10, 2009 The tradition of instrumental competition on the bandstand in jazz goes back to the origins of the music. By the early
Savannah Music Festival LIVE - 218 - Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver
Original air date: week of August 17, 2009 As far back as he can remember, Doyle Lawson loved the sound of music. When he was growing up, just about
Savannah Music Festival LIVE - 219 - Schubert String Quintet
Original air date: week of August 23, 2009 In the summer of 1828, just two months before his early death at the age of 31, Franz Schubert created his
Savannah Music Festival LIVE - 220 - The Clayton Brothers, Part One
Original air date: Week of August 31, 2009 In jazz, the essence of swing, blues feeling and logical improvisation are what give ensemble playing clarity of orchestration. The quality of
Savannah Music Festival LIVE - 221 - Marc-André Hamelin
Original air date: Week of September 7, 2009 In order to successfully perform a piano recital whose program includes works by Haydn, Chopin and Godowsky, one's technique must be
