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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 Sundays at 9 pm and Mondays at 11 pm throughout Georgia (on GPB Radio), and on Thursdays at 8 pm on WUGA in Athens. Stream shows from our current season below.
Savannah Music Festival LIVE - 440 - The Infamous Stringdusters 2011 - Part One
Original air date: week of January 15, 2012 As the tradition of bluegrass music continues to evolve, the genre's most creative musicians wield an expansive repertoire of original compositions and
Savannah Music Festival LIVE - 425 - Ike Stubblefield Trio with Wycliffe Gordon & Marcus Printup
The sound of the Hammond B-3 organ with a Leslie speaker evolved in mid-20th century America through a range of musical genres that included blues, rock, gospel, and most notably,
Savannah Music Festival LIVE - 434 - Christine Brewer
Original air date: week of December 4, 2011 For a singer, it can be a challenge to create the intimacy of a song recital when your voice has the dynamic
Savannah Music Festival LIVE - 432 - Lionel Loueke Ensemble
Original air date: week of November 27, 2011 Tucked between Togo to the west and Nigeria on the east, the West African nation of Benin is one of the smallest
Savannah Music Festival LIVE - 430 - Beethoven Violin Sonatas - Part Two
Original air date: week of November 6, 2011 Though nine of Ludwig Van Beethoven's ten violin sonatas date between 1797 and 1803, the early years of his maturity, he still
Savannah Music Festival LIVE - 429 - Downtown Uproar
Original air date: week of October 31, 2011 Duke Ellington is widely regarded as one of the most important composers in the history of music and his orchestra in the
Savannah Music Festival LIVE - 427 - Chico Pinheiro Quintet
Brazilian music has produced many creative composers and a wealth of great guitarists, but rarely do these talents reside within the same individual. One such exception is the brilliant young
Savannah Music Festival LIVE - 424 - Louis Lortie Plays Liszt
The Hungarian-born Franz Liszt was one of the greatest and most charismatic virtuosos in music history. Liszt exerted an almost otherworldly control over his audience due to his technical and
Savannah Music Festival LIVE - 423 - Bill Charlap Trio w/ Houston Person - Part Two
Original air date: week of September 18, 2011 There have been many outstanding piano trios throughout the history of jazz, each with its own signature sound. There is the majestic
Savannah Music Festival LIVE - 421 - Benny Kim & Keith Robinson
Original air date: week of August 28, 2011 Though the repertoire of composition for violin and cello is not especially large, there are many colorful and dramatic duos that span
Savannah Music Festival LIVE - 420 - Bill Charlap Trio with Houston Person - Part One
Original air date: week of August 26, 2011 When people talk about jazz piano music, more often than not they are referring to a jazz piano trio, which has generally
Savannah Music Festival LIVE - 419 - Bela Fleck, Edgar Meyer & Zakir Hussain - Part Two
Original air date: week of August 19, 2011 Bassist Edgar Meyer and banjoist Bela Fleck had collaborated for nearly thirty years, but in 2008 when they formed a trio with
Savannah Music Festival LIVE - 418 - Bela Fleck, Edgar Meyer & Zakir Hussain - Part One
Original air date: week of August 14, 2011 When banjoist Bela Fleck, bassist Edgar Meyer and tabla player Zakir Hussain decided to form a trio, they committed to creating a
Savannah Music Festival LIVE - 417 - James Hunter
Original air date: week of August 7, 2011 Taking vocal cues from Sam Cooke and James Brown and wrapping them in the cozy warmth of rhythm and blues, singer/guitarist James
Savannah Music Festival LIVE - 415 - Daniel Hope & Friends I
Original air date: week of July 24, 2011 In the world of chamber music, there are many masterworks of the idiom - pieces that are continually performed year in and
Savannah Music Festival LIVE - 414 - Ike Stubblefield Trio
Original air date: week of July 17, 2011 When American engineer Laurens Hammond invented the electric Hammond organ in 1934, he knew he had created an organ that could be
Savannah Music Festival LIVE - 413 - Nikolai Lugansky
Original air date: week of July 10, 2011 Players who win piano competitions don't always become great pianists, but now in his late 30s, Nikolai Lugansky has all the makings
Savannah Music Festival LIVE - 412 - Junior Brown
Original air date: week of July 3, 2011 In this episode, we listen to the complete 2011 performance by Junior Brown at the Lucas Theatre for the Arts, where he
Savannah Music Festival LIVE - 411 - Beethoven Cello Sonatas - Part Two
Original air date: week of June 26, 2011 The five sonatas for cello and piano that Beethoven composed are milestones of the literature. They redefined the possibilities for these two
Savannah Music Festival LIVE - 410 - Beethoven Cello Sonatas
Original air date: week of June 19, 2011 During the 18th century, the cello had gradually become regarded as a solo as well as an accompanying instrument. While neither Mozart
Savannah Music Festival LIVE - 409 - Punch Brothers - Part Two
Original air date: week of June 12, 2011 The forward movement of contemporary American stringband music has always been fueled by a tradition that existed outside the classroom setting. When
Savannah Music Festival LIVE - 408 - Eric Kim
Original air date: week of June 5, 2011 While Beethoven is generally acknowledged as the first great composer of cello sonatas, there have been numerous outstanding works written for the
Savannah Music Festival LIVE - 407 - Ebene Quartet
Original air date: week of May 29, 2011 The string quartets written in the late 19th and early 20th century by Debussy and Ravel both dazzled and disturbed people in
Savannah Music Festival LIVE - 406 - Punch Brothers - Part One
Original air date: week beginning May 23, 2011 The tradition of stringband playing in the United States dates back at least 200 years. In the early 19th century, the fiddle-banjo
Savannah Music Festival LIVE - 405 - Ballake Sissoko & Vincent Segal
Original air date: week of May 15, 2011 When people hear the term "chamber music", more often than not they think of a form of Classical music from the European
Savannah Music Festival LIVE - 404 - Patrick Messina
Original air date: week of May 8, 2011 At an audition to become the principal player on your instrument in a symphony orchestra, technical proficiency is only part of the
Savannah Music Festival LIVE - 403 - Bill Charlap & Renee Rosnes Piano Duo
Original air date: week of May 1, 2011 The art of playing jazz piano is something that Bill Charlap and Renee Rosnes pursued for more than 20 years before they
Savannah Music Festival LIVE - 402 - Kristian Bezuidenhout on Fortepiano
Week beginning April 24, 2011 In the decade between 1781 and 1791 in Vienna, the preeminent keyboard virtuoso of the day was a young man named Mozart. During the final
Savannah Music Festival LIVE - 343 - Cherryholmes
Original air date: week of February 20, 2011 When the family band Cherryholmes burst onto the scene seemingly out of nowhere during the first few years of the new millennium,
Savannah Music Festival LIVE - 342 - Shannon Whitworth
Original air date: week of February 13, 2011 Growing up in the South Carolina low country, Shannon Whitworth was always surrounded by water, before she decided to make her home
Savannah Music Festival LIVE - 341 - Del McCoury Band
Original air date: week of February 6, 2011 When you think of American roots music, one of the most distinct styles is bluegrass. Bill Monroe once characterized the genre of
Savannah Music Festival LIVE - 340 - Gerald Clayton Trio
Original air date: week of January 30, 2011 The most common piano trio format in jazz has usually included a pianist, a bassist and a drummer. Communication between these three
Savannah Music Festival LIVE - 339 - Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba
Original air date: week of January 23, 2011 The musical heritage of French West Africa includes a wealth of traditional and popular music styles from a variety of countries including
Savannah Music Festival LIVE - 338 - All-Star Swing Summit
Original air date: week of January 16, 2011 Each Spring, twelve of the top high school jazz bands from across the nation travel to Savannah to spend three days studying
Savannah Music Festival LIVE - 337 - Renaud Garcia-Fons
Original air date: week of January 2, 2011 When double bass player and composer Renaud Garcia-Fons arrived backstage in the van with his custom five-stringed bass, we expected to see
Savannah Music Festival LIVE - 336 - Gerald Clayton
Original air date: week of December 26, 2010 At the quarter century mark in age, jazz pianist Gerald Clayton has staked a claim in the music by sticking to his
Savannah Music Festival LIVE - 335 - Dick Hyman Trio, Part Two
Original air date: week of December 19, 2010 The development of jazz music during the first half of the twentieth century occurred at an astonishingly rapid pace. The wide array
Savannah Music Festival LIVE - 334 - Dick Hyman Trio, Part One
Original air date: week of December 12, 2010 The term "piano trio" usually refers to to a group comprising a pianist, a double bass player and a drummer. The pianist
Savannah Music Festival LIVE - 333 - Bill Frisell Trio
Original air date: week of December 5, 2010 In this episode we listen to a 2010 performance by an American guitarist who has been closely identified to jazz, although he
Savannah Music Festival LIVE - 332 - Wycliffe Gordon & Marcus Printup
Original air date: week of November 21, 2010 The lineage of great jazz musicians in Georgia goes back to the early 20th century when such renowned musicians as Fletcher Henderson
Savannah Music Festival LIVE - 331 - 2011 Chamber Music preview
For chamber music lovers, springtime in Savannah is a veritable feast of music for 17 days. Some of the world's finest classical musicians gather to rehearse and perform masterworks of
Savannah Music Festival LIVE 330 - Preview of SMF 2011 Programs, Part One
Original air date: November 7, 2010 This episode is a sneak preview for GPB listeners of artists returning to Savannah in 2011. Stay tuned for our complete season announcement on
Savannah Music Festival LIVE - 329 - Fragments & Masterpieces
Original air date: week of October 31, 2010 Whether one is a young student just beginning to write music, or a master at the height of their powers, the art
Savannah Music Festival LIVE - 328 - Brahms String Sextet
Original air date: week of October 24, 2010 Of all the major composers of the late Romantic era, Brahms was the one most attached to the classical ideal as manifested
Savannah Music Festival LIVE - 327 - Schubert's B-flat Piano Trio
Original air date: week of October 19, 2010 The year 1827 was the last full year of life for Franz Schubert. He had just turned 30 and was terribly ill,
Savannah Music Festival LIVE - 326 - German Masterworks
Original air date: week of October 12, 2010 If the musical world of the 19th century can be said to end with Beethoven, it is the opinion of some that
Savannah Music Festival LIVE - 325 - The One and Only Garrick Ohlsson
Original air date: week of October 3, 2010 Pianist Garrick Ohlsson is an interpreter of great originality, whose playing combines supreme elegance with extraordinary tonal projection. These qualities have placed
Savannah Music Festival LIVE - 324 - Shostakovich
Original air date: week of September 26, 2010 As one of the most celebrated composers of the 20th century, Dmitri Shostakovich was a child prodigy as both a pianist and
Savannah Music Festival LIVE - 323 - Ruthie Foster
Original air date: week of September 19, 2010 If you were born in the 1960s, you could grow up just about anywhere in America and be exposed to gospel, jazz,
Savannah Music Festival LIVE - 322 - Piano Showdown 2010 - Part Two
Original air date: week of September 12, 2010 When new styles of American music began to emerge at the end of the 19th century, the primary instrument at the center
Savannah Music Festival LIVE - 321 - 20th Century Beauties
Original air date: week of September 5, 2010 The term "20th Century Classical Music" often conjures up the notion of sounds that are not very appealing to classical music purists.
Savannah Music Festival LIVE - 320 - Mark O'Connor's Hot Swing! Trio
Original air date: week of August 29, 2010 Violinist Mark O'Connor spent ten days at the 2010 Savannah Music Festival playing in a variety of projects. His Hot Swing! Trio
Savannah Music Festival LIVE - 319 - Vienna in the Late 18th Century
Original air date: week of August 22, 2010 In the late 18th century, Vienna was the major musical center in Europe and a city where the great triumvirate of Haydn,
Savannah Music Festival LIVE - 318 - Two 19th Century Sonatas
Original air date: week of August 15, 2010 A sonata in music literally means a piece that is played, as opposed to a cantata, which is a piece that is
Savannah Music Festival LIVE - 317 - Dick Hyman Plays Fats Waller
Original air date: week of August 8, 2010 Born in New York City in 1904, Fats Waller played the organ and sang in the choir of the Abyssinian Baptist Church
Savannah Music Festival LIVE - 316 - Schubert's E-flat Piano Trio
Original air date: week of August 2, 2010 While it's hard to give a satisfactory definition of "genius," it nearly always happens that artistic genius expresses itself in youth. With
Savannah Music Festival LIVE - 315 - Mark O'Connor's American Journey
Original air date: week beginning July 25, 2010 In 2010, Mark O'Connor came to the Savannah Music Festival and spent ten days pursuing his American music journey. He taught master
Savannah Music Festival LIVE - 314 - Sarah Jarosz
Original air date: week of July 18, 2010 Few musical communities have proven more nurturing of emerging talent than bluegrass and its acoustic tributaries. In part this is because precocious
Savannah Music Festival LIVE - 313 - Daniel Hope & Friends
Original air date: week of July 12, 2010 Each year during March and April, violinist Daniel Hope invites some of his favorite colleagues to spend 17 days performing chamber music
Savannah Music Festival LIVE - 312 - Bill Charlap Trio - Part Three
Original air date: week of July 4, 2010 When pianist Bill Charlap arrived in Savannah with his trio to play three sets of music over the course of one evening,
Savannah Music Festival LIVE - 311 - Kathy Mattea
Original air date: week of June 28, 2010 Though her childhood was steeped in the culture of mining and Appalachia, Kathy Mattea wasn't really exposed to much traditional mountain music.
Savannah Music Festival LIVE - 310 - Henry Butler Solo
Original air date: week of June 21, 2010 Pianist Henry Butler was born in New Orleans and has developed a sound that Dr. John refers to as the "pride of
Savannah Music Festival LIVE - 309 - Emerson String Quartet Plays Dvorak - Part Two
Original air date: week of June 14, 2010 During his career, Czech composer Antonin Dvorak wrote 14 string quartets, all between 1862 and 1895. His final two quartets, with their
Savannah Music Festival LIVE - 308 - Piano Showdown 2010 - Part One
Original air date: week of June 7, 2010 The piano has been an integral part of the jazz idiom since its inception. Due to its combined melodic, harmonic and rhythmic
Savannah Music Festival LIVE - 307 - Emerson String Quartet Plays Dvorak
Original air date: week of May 31, 2010 In December of 1891, Czech composer Antonin Dvorak accepted the offer of Jeanette Thurber to become the director of the National Academy
Savannah Music Festival LIVE - 306 - Yefim Bronfman
Original air date: week of May 22, 2010 As one of the most revered pianists in our time, Yefim Bronfman bucks the stereotype of the Russian soloist as merely a
Savannah Music Festival LIVE - 305 - The Assad Brothers
Original air date: week of May 17, 2010 Ever since their childhood concerts in Brazil and their New York appearances as teenagers in 1969, Sergio and Odair Assad have been
Savannah Music Festival LIVE - 304 - Chris Thile, Mike Marshall & Caterina Lichtenberg - Part Two
Original air date: Week of May 10, 2010 At the turn of the 20th century when the mandolin became popular in America, a man named Orville Gibson changed its shape
Savannah Music Festival LIVE - 303 - Chris Thile, Mike Marshall & Caterina Lichtenberg
Original Air Date: Week Beginning May 3, 2010 When mandolins began evolving from the lute family in Italy during the 17th and 18th centuries, they were designed with a round
Savannah Music Festival LIVE - 302 - Roby Lakatos Ensemble
Original Air Date: Week of April 26, 2010Hungarian fiddle playing is known the world over for its passion, romance and virtuosity. To most non-Hungarians, the music is synonymous with the
Savannah Music Festival LIVE - 301 - Kahane/Knauer
As the Industrial Revolution progressed in the 19th Century, an educated middle class arose with the means and cultural aspirations to invest in a new form of domestic art: the
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