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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. Beginning June 27th, SMF Live will air on GPB Radio on Sundays at 9 pm and Mondays at 11 pm (with no change in schedule in Athens).
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
Savannah Music Festival LIVE - 251 - Schubert Octet
The term chamber music was first created to identify a form of classical music featuring a small group of instruments which traditionally could be accommodated in a palace chamber. The
Savannah Music Festival LIVE - 250 - Dvorak & Britten
Antonin Dvorak is among the most richly gifted and versatile composers of the 19th century. Like Haydn, Mozart, and Schubert, he was one of those blessed and inspired leaders whose
Savannah Music Festival LIVE - 249 - Swing Time Part 2
The many songs that came from the Broadway theatre, Hollywood movies, and Tin Pan Alley have always been a vital part of the repertoire of jazz musicians, who turned many
Savannah Music Festival LIVE - 248 - Swing Time Part 1
The concept of a jazz party goes back to the origins of the music, since the very function of jazz was often connected to dancing. More recently however, the term
Savannah Music Festival LIVE - 247 - Emerson String Quartet 2008
Robert Schumann was the first Romantic composer to pair the piano with the string quartet, although this formula has since been used by composers such as Dvorak, Brahms, and countless
Savannah Music Festival LIVE - 246 - Bill Charlap Trio Part 2
When you're born in New York City to a father who's a Broadway composer and a mother who's a singer specializing in the American Songbook, you're going to grow up
Savannah Music Festival LIVE - 245 - Bill Charlap Trio Part 1
The term "Great American Songbook" generally refers to a body of music that includes Broadway theatre, musical theatre, Hollywood musicals, and the so-called Tin Pan Alley period. It include hundreds
Savannah Music Festival LIVE - 244 - Emerson String Quartet & Beaux Arts Trio
When great musicians play together over an extended period of time, they gradually develop a cohesive sound that could have only come about through many years of intensive musical partnership.
Savannah Music Festival LIVE - 242 - Emerson String Quartet
One of the most important forms in chamber music in which nearly every major composer from the past 200 years has contributed is the string quartet. Intimate and fascinating, only
Savannah Music Festival LIVE - 241 - Mando Madness Part 2
What do you get when you put five of the best mandolinists from the United States together on one stage? We weren't sure until the spring of 2005 when we
Savannah Music Festival LIVE - 240 - Mando Madness Part 1
The eight-stringed instrument that looks like a small lute and was played throughout Europe for several centuries is now known everywhere as the mandolin. This unique sounding instrument first entered
Savannah Music Festival LIVE - 239 - Piano Masterworks
Although it is not portable and often expensive, the piano's versatility and ubiquity have made it the most universal of all instruments. An entire symphony orchestra can be represented on
Savannah Music Festival LIVE - 238 - Hamilton de Holanda Quintet
As the largest country in South America and the only Portuguese speaking one, Brazil has a history that unfolded over 500 years. People from Europe, Africa, and South America came
Savannah Music Festival LIVE - 237 - String Quintets
It was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart who pioneered writing for a string quartet augmented by a second viola. This type of string quintet is often called a "viola quintet," and features
Savannah Music Festival LIVE - 236 - Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra 2009
During the mid-1990's, trumpeter and bandleader Wynton Marsalis was leading his septet, one of the most artistically and commercially successful jazz bands of its time. When he became the full-time
Savannah Music Festival LIVE - 235 - Brazilian Duets
The music of Brazil encompasses a wealth of styles influenced by African, European, and Amerindian forms. After 500 years of history, Brazilian music has developed many unique and original styles
Savannah Music Festival LIVE - 234 - Kristian Bezuidenhout
The composition of a piece of music, from the sketch of an idea through it's development into a finished work is only the beginning of the process. It is then
Savannah Music Festival LIVE - 233 - George Gershwin
As the son of immigrant parents, Jacob Gershowitz was born on September 26, 1898 in Brooklyn, New York. By the time he arrived at Tin Pan Alley in 1916 to
Savannah Music Festival LIVE - 232 - Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra
In music, an arrangement is the art of preparing and adapting an already written composition for presentation in other than its original form. In this episode, we listen to one
Savannah Music Festival LIVE - 231 - Patrick Messina
The clarinet is the musical instrument with the largest pitch range in all of the woodwind family. Developed from a Baroque instrument called the chalumeau, the modern clarinet evolved in
Savannah Music Festival LIVE - 230 - West Coast Jazz with Eric Reed
Eric Reed is a powerful, daring and elegant pianist who was blessed wit perfect pitch and a desire to play piano in front of audiences. As a child prodigy raised
Savannah Music Festival LIVE - 229 - Daniel Hope
Violinist Daniel Hope is renowned the world over for his musical versatility and creativity. Each spring, he arrives in Savannah for three weeks of concerts and one-time only musical productions
Savannah Music Festival LIVE - 228 - Edgar Meyer
Edgar Meyer is a bassist for modern times. Whether he's writing a bass concerto, performing with Yo-Yo Ma, teaching at the Royal Academy of Music, or playing bluegrass with his
Savannah Music Festival LIVE - 227 - Richard Goode
The great American pianist Richard Goode has been hailed for music making of tremendous emotional power, depth, and expressiveness. Acknowledged worldwide as one of today's leading interpreters of classical and
Savannah Music Festival LIVE - 226 - Beethoven
Ludwig Van Beethoven is one of the most respected and influential composers of all time. His musical genius has influenced literally millions of people during the past two hundred years,
Savannah Music Festival LIVE - 225 - Americana
In music, the term "Americana" generally refers to a subset of American musical styles including roots-based bluegrass, alternative country, gospel, blues, zydeco, jazz, and other native forms. In this episode,
Savannah Music Festival LIVE - 224 - Marcus Roberts
In the previous century, Jazz music has become an integral part of American culture and the one instrument that has remained fundamental to the development of the art form is
Savannah Music Festival LIVE - 223 - David Finkel & Wu Han
The name Cello is an abbreviation of the Italian Violincello, often described as the closest sounding instrument to the human voice. While the Cello is a part of the standard
Savannah Music Festival LIVE - 222 - Clayton Brothers
There's nothing like the sound of musicians embracing the concept of swinging on the bandstand, a 20th century American conception that has since permeated the planet. In this episode, we
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
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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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