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Waking up is hard to do, but it’s easier with NPR’s Morning Edition. Hosts Renée Montagne and Steve Inskeep bring the day’s stories and news to radio listeners on the go. Morning Edition provides news in context, airs thoughtful ideas and commentary, and reviews important new music, books, and events in the arts. All with voices and sounds that invite listeners to experience the stories.
The range of coverage includes reports on the Supreme Court from Nina Totenberg; education from Claudio Sanchez; health coverage from Joanne Silberner; and the latest on national security from Tom Gjelten. Steve and Renee interview newsmakers: from politicians, to academics, to filmmakers. In-depth stories explore topics like “digital generations” about the effect of technology on the way we live; special series delve into the intersection of science and art, and find untold stories of the country’s Hidden Kitchens.
From Wikipedia, the Online Dictionary:
Morning Edition is an American radio news program produced and distributed by National Public Radio (NPR). It airs weekday mornings, Monday through Friday, and runs for two hours, although many stations repeat one or both hours. The show feeds live from 5 AM to 7 AM Eastern Time with refeeds and updates as needed until noon Eastern Time. The show premiered on November 5, 1979; its weekend counterpart is Weekend Edition.
A typical show includes news, both newscasts and in-depth reports; features on science, arts, business, sports, and politics; interviews with and profiles of people in the news; commentaries; and human interest features. Some regional public radio networks (such as Minnesota Public Radio) and local stations also produce locally-focused content under their Morning Edition banner.
Bob Edwards, previously the co-host of All Things Considered, hosted Morning Edition since the first episode, a job he initially took on a temporary basis when a shake-up in production and on-air staff occurred ten days before the show’s premiere. His last day as host was April 30, 2004. Since May 3, 2004, the show has been co-hosted by Steve Inskeep and Renée Montagne. Inskeep reports from NPR headquarters in Washington, DC and Montagne reports from NPR West in Culver City, California, a suburb of Los Angeles.
Arbitron ratings show that over thirteen million people listen to Morning Edition each day. It’s the second most-listened-to national radio show, after The Rush Limbaugh Show.
In 1999, Morning Edition with Bob Edwards received the George Foster Peabody Award.
On January 3, 2007 NPR announced that it is developing another morning news program that is aimed at the coveted demographic of people between the ages of 25 and 44. NPR expects some of its affiliates to either replace Morning Edition or run this new program on one of their frequencies — if they have more than one — or provide it via their websites. Beginning in March 2007 the public can help shape the program through the Rough Cuts blog, podcast, and vlog on NPR’s website. The new program is expected to launch in September 2007.
“Classical music is a living, breathing art form with meaning and resonance for our lives today — something always changing and evolving and astounding and, at its best, revolutionary,” says Performance Today host Fred Child. The award-winning daily, two-hour radio show makes the concert hall experience immediate and accessible for well over one million Americans.
PT is a blend of recent concerts, music news and reviews, timely features and interviews and in-depth music commentary appeals to both casual listeners and aficionados, helping people experience firsthand the creative vitality of the classical music world. From the soloist’s practice room to the concert hall stage, PT covers the music scene in Norfolk, New York, Aspen and beyond, taking listeners to the people and places that inspire today’s classical music. Listeners enjoy front-row seats — and they don’t need a $50 ticket or an advanced degree in music. The program’s style is welcoming and informal, providing a valuable, firsthand experience of the vitality of the classical music world to its audience.
PT’s regular panel of commentators and features connect even more listeners to the art form. Commentators and contributors to PT include music critic Ted Libby, musician Miles Hoffman, composer Robert Kapilow, professor Tom Kelly, journalist Terry Teachout, writer Steve Metcalf and conductor Leonard Slatkin. The weekday edition of PT is hosted by classical music enthusiast Fred Child, whose love of the art form, amicable interviews and vast knowledge of all things musical bridges the classical music world to PT’s listeners. His counterpart on the weekend is Korva Coleman, whose voice is a familiar one to NPR listeners who have heard her newscasts on NPR News since 1990.
From Wikipedia, the Online Dictionary:
Performance Today is the most listened-to daily classical music radio program in the United States, with about one million listeners on 230 stations. The program, created by National Public Radio (NPR), went on the air in 1987. NPR produced and distributed the program from Washington, D.C., for just over 20 years. American Public Media (APM) took over as the program’s producer and distributor in January 2007 and moved the production to Saint Paul, Minnesota.
Fred Child has been the program’s host since October 2000, and remains as host after the move to APM. Prior to Child, Martin Goldsmith hosted for nearly ten years; he left in October 1999. During Goldsmith’s tenure as host the show grew from 40 stations to 230, with weekly listeners reaching 1.5 million.
Performance Today builds its two-hour daily broadcast mostly on recent concert performances from around the world. The show also airs in-studio recitals, music-related interviews, and the weekly “Piano Puzzler” featuring composer Bruce Adolphe.
Intermezzo, hosted by Leora Zeitlin, is our weekday classical music program with a variety of regular features to make your lunchtime entertaining, educational, uplifting, and even fun including:
the “culture quiz,” which often includes a “name that composer” challenge; our “Disc-covery of the week,” to introduce you to some of the latest CDs in classical music; Spotlight on song: a special longer selection of vocal music each week from our many choral, lieder, and opera CDs; “Impromptus”: periodic interviews with local and visiting musicians; Friday Request Day, so that you can choose your own favorites to hear. And most important of all, we feature an eclectic, wide-ranging selection of great classical music. Weekdays from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Leora Zeitlin, producer and host of “Intermezzo” since its inception in early 2000, brings 15 years of classical music training to her program. She has a master’s degree in print journalism from Boston University, and also works professionally as a writer and editor.
Classical music from Minnesota Public Radio’s extensive Eileen Bigelow Music Library, featuring performances by the outstanding artists of our region alongside recordings by the world’s finest music makers.
About Minnesota Public Radio
On the classical music stations of MPR, most of the day is devoted to orchestral tracks, though The Morning Show during morning drive time reaches outside the classical music genre to play a broader variety of music. This is carried on most classical stations, although two transmitters covering the Twin Cities and Rochester continue to carry classical music at this time. Another break from classical music comes when A Prairie Home Companion airs on the weekend. MPR’s Eileen R. Bigelow Music Library has 60,000 compact discs available to the classical network.
At night, transmitters switch over to using MPR’s Classical 24 service, which is also distributed nationally. Classical 24 is produced in St. Paul and serves audiences throughout the United States in markets that would not otherwise be able to support a full-time classical music service.
Regionally, MPR’s classical music service offers programming such as Favorites on Friday with Melissa Ousley, a three-hour all-request program; broadcasts of performances by the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra and Minnesota Orchestra; broadcasts of local performers on Steve Staruch’s 3:00 broadcast on Thursday afternoons; the daily Composers Datebook with John Zech; and many special broadcasts of temporary programs.
Nationally, American Public Media distributes programming such as the immensely popular Pipedreams with Michael Barone and Saint Paul Sunday with Bill McLaughlin.
There are 27 transmitters broadcasting the classical music service, including one station in Sun Valley, Idaho. This network’s flagship station is KSJN 99.5 FM in the Twin Cities.
Julie Amacher
Classical Music Host
Julie Amacher’s desire to introduce others to great music is what led her to radio. She began her professional broadcast career at a station in Sun Prairie, Wisc. She went from rock ‘n’ roll to the Rocky Mountains, where she found her niche in public radio at KUNC in Greeley, Colo. Julie spent 13 years at KUNC, where she managed the announcers and their eclectic music format. During that time, she earned four national awards for best announcer. She joined Minnesota Public Radio in 1997 as an on-air host and recently began producing New Classical Releases, a weekly podcast critiquing a new release each week. It airs locally at 7:45 a.m. Wednesdays and 5:30 p.m. Fridays.
Favorite classical music quote:
“Never compose anything unless the not composing of it becomes a positive nuisance to you.” —Gustav Holst
First music recording you ever owned?
Actually, the first album I can remember really being enamored with was one my sister bought when I was 11–Cat Stevens’ Tea for the Tillerman.
How did you get involved with classical music?
Virgil Thomson put it best: “Try a thing you haven’t done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.” That’s pretty much how I came to classical music. I just kept trying it. First as a kid sitting on the piano bench listening and singing as my mother played all kinds of music including classical. In high school, I finally started taking voice lessons. That’s when I discovered art songs by composers like Franz Schubert. Before coming to Minnesota Public Radio, I worked at a public radio station in Colorado that included classical music in its eclectic mix. Since coming here seven years ago, I’ve really immersed myself in it.
If a listener were to go for coffee with you, what’s the first thing they’d learn about you?
That I love chai tea and chocolate! Usually when I get to chat with our listeners the first thing they ask is, “How do you come up with all those interesting things to say?” Well, I do a lot of digging. I’m really curious, and I know they are too, so I love digging for fun tidbits about the music and the artists who perform it.
Your favorite piece from the classical music play list archive?
Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy (DG 453 798). Claudio Abbado/Berlin Philharmonic. Pianist Yevgeny Kissin. This is a piece that isn’t heard very often, but for me, it epitomizes what Beethoven’s all about. It starts off quietly, with piano alone, and gradually builds into a luscious precursor to his Ninth Symphony.
All Things Considered is a vital daily companion to people who strive to stay informed and in touch. Since its debut in 1971, this daily afternoon radio newsmagazine has been a leader and innovator in broadcast journalism. Through the incisive and intuitive, relevant and reflective reporting that characterizes the program, All Things Considered transforms the way listeners understand current events and view the world.
Heard by more than 12 million people (according to Fall 2004 Arbitron Nationwide/ACT 1 estimates) on over 600 radio stations each week, All Things Considered is one of the most popular programs in America. Every weekday, hosts Melissa Block, Michele Norris, and Robert Siegel present two hours of breaking news mixed with compelling analysis, insightful commentaries, interviews, and special — sometimes quirky — features. Threaded between reports is the distinctive music that inspired the creation of the online program All Songs Considered. Debbie Elliott hosts a one-hour edition of the program on Saturday and Sunday.
From Wikipedia, the Online Dictionary:
All Things Considered (ATC), is a news radio program in the United States, broadcast on the National Public Radio network. It was the first news program on the network, and is broadcast live worldwide through several outlets.
ATC programming combines news, analysis, commentary, interviews, and special features broadcast live daily from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. (20:00 to 22:00 UTC), and is re-fed with updates until 10 p.m. (02:00 UTC). Broadcasts run about 105 minutes with local content interspersed in between to complete two hours. ATC now airs on over 560 radio stations and reaches an audience of approximately 12 million listeners each weekday, making it the third most listened to radio program in the United States after The Rush Limbaugh Show and Morning Edition. ATC is co-hosted by Robert Siegel, Michele Norris and Melissa Block.
The first broadcast of All Things Considered was to about 90 radio stations on May 3, 1971. The first story was about Washington, D.C. and the growing anti-Vietnam War protests taking place there. Weekend All Things Considered (WATC), is a one-hour version of the show that premiered in 1977, with host Robert Conley, and is broadcast on Saturdays and Sundays. Deborah Elliott is the current host of WATC.
Awards
George Foster Peabody Award, Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award, Overseas Press Club Award, Major Armstrong Award, Washington Journalism Review “Best in the Business” Award, American Women in Radio and Television Award, Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award (Grand Prize), American Bar Association Silver Gavel Award.
One of NPR’s most popular programs, Fresh Air with Terry Gross is categorized as a talk show but hardly fits the mold. “I try to show the connections between the person’s work and their life that led to that work,” Gross says of her interviews. As a host, she takes time to get to know her guest from every angle, and her meticulous preparation shows. Gross links ideas and experiences in ways that help even the most quiet and reserved guests open up; at the same time she anticipates exactly what her listeners want to know next.
Nearly four million people a week turn on Fresh Air to hear fascinating stories and ideas from people who shape, record, and deconstruct the here and now. Guests are authors, artists, TV writers, historians, musicians, scientists, filmmakers, politicians, actors, and other influential people of today. Fresh Air complements these one-on-one interviews with commentary and criticism from a roster of nationally recognized experts.
From Wikipedia, the Online Dictionary:
Fresh Air is a radio show broadcast on National Public Radio stations across the United States each weekday. In 2004, the show was syndicated to 445 stations and claimed 4.4 million listeners. In addition, some stations carry Fresh Air Weekend, a “best-of” highlight show of the past week’s interviews.
The show began in 1975 at NPR affiliate WHYY-FM in Philadelphia with Judy Blank as host; in September of that year Terry Gross took over as presenter and producer; over thirty years later she remains its chief presenter. The main segment of the show is characterized by an interview, usually of persons in the arts and entertainment field, although other newsmakers, cultural figures, and journalists have also been featured. Shorter segments follow the main segment and carry reviews of various cultural and entertainment diversions on a rotating basis. These include such venues as movies, books, stage plays, television programs, as well as recordings of popular music, jazz, and classical music. The program also features commentary from a range of regular contributors.
Most of the program’s interviews are recorded on tape and later edited down. As in the case of many such radio programs, guests are often not in the studio during recording. While nearly all other radio programming now use digital recording, Fresh Air is still recorded, edited, and played on analog reel-to-reel tape. However, the program’s website announced in 2006 that the aging tapes were now deteriorating and that they would soon begin transferring the thousands of interviews “to a digital format and indexing them.” The show usually uses fiber-optic lines to conduct its interviews leading to a superior sound quality. When pressing news requires, it has gone live as during the Soviet coup attempt of 1991.
In 1993 NPR, Fresh Air, and Gross were presented with the George Foster Peabody Award with praise for her “probing questions, revelatory interviews, and unusual insights.”
In February of 2002 Gross interviewed Gene Simmons of KISS in an infamous clash of NPR propriety and rock star flamboyance. Simmons discussed his sexual experimentation with women of all age groups and propositioned Gross in demonstration. According to NPR’s web site, Simmons withheld permission to supply transcripts or audio of the interview on their website.
Fresh Air interviews are generally first aired on the Monday through Thursday shows. The Friday shows are rebroadcasts of past interviews.
The show’s theme, “Fresh Air”, was composed for the program by Joel Forrester of The Microscopic Septet.
In 2004 Gross published a book of her favorite interviews from the show under the title All I Did Was Ask.
Fiesta is a bi-lingual music program with a variety of local, regional, national and international Latin rhythms and musicians. An eclectic mix of flamenco; latin jazz; mariachi & tejano/conjunto rancheras & boleros; cumbias, salsa & merengue; afro-cuban & peruvian sounds; brazilian sambas & bossa nova; and many other latin rhythms from around the world can be heard nightly, Monday thru Friday from 7pm to 9pm with Emily Guerra – KRWG-FM Announcer/Producer.
Emily has interviewed local and visiting musicians and diginitaries on Fiesta such as: Denise Chavez; Lalo Guerrero; Nosotros; Macho Band; Chris Rodriguez & Siempre; Los Bohemios; and Marco Aurelio Gutierrez Mares from Durango, Mexico.
Requests are welcome by calling in advance at 575-646-4623 or 1-800-245-5794 or by emailing: emguerra@nmsu.edu. Emily carefully selects and programs the music prior to the show and can include your requests if the music is available with advance notice.
Fiesta is glad to announce any upcoming community calendar events, in Spanish and English.
Music heard on Fiesta can be purchased online from The Public Radio Music Source at prms.org, by telephone from The Music Service at (877) 448-4719, or by visiting the Public Broadcasting One Music Service page.
Emily Guerra, host/producer of Fiesta since March, 2000. A recent graduate of NMSU with two bachelor of arts degrees: Journalism and Mass Communications; and Foreign Languages. Born in New Mexico, raised in Arizona, lived in California and Texas. After a fifteen year career with Mexicana Airlines Emily came back to her roots, she shares her experiences and her appreciation for Latin music and New Mexico’s culture and traditions with our listeners.
Afropop is a radio program, a web site, a searchable database, an international musical archive, a team of researchers, and a travel series to Africa and Latin America. “Afropop” is also now used as a general term to describe popular African music.
In 1988, interest in international pop was at an all-time high and Afropop was launched by NPR as a weekly series. It was the first of its kind and, years later, the program has expanded its vision to include the music and cultures that encompass the entire African Diaspora. Now known as Afropop Worldwide (APWW), the program is still the standard for both the curious and the connoisseur.
Hosted by one of Africa ‘s best-loved broadcast personalities, Georges Collinet, and produced by Sean Barlow for World Music Productions, Afropop Worldwide is currently distributed by PRI Public Radio International to over 100 stations in the U.S. The series is also heard in Europe and Africa.
Our vision is to increase the profile of African and African Diaspora music worldwide, and to see that benefits go back to artists, music industry professionals, and the countries that produce the music. The Afropop database is central to our strategy as it harnesses the power of what we have done, and allows us to integrate past work with new research to support new projects. We are working in partnership with Calabash Music to help musicians from Africa , the Caribbean and Latin America leapfrog over the barriers of the conventional music business and take advantage of the emerging digital marketplace for global music.
Afropop Worldwide and afropop.org are produced by World Music Productions, a Brooklyn based, non-profit multi-media organization founded by Sean Barlow in 1986.
This 24-hour live classical music service provides classical music to 2 million listeners throughout the United States, Puerto Rico, and Guam. The multiple award-winning service is produced by American Public Media and distributed by PRI.
KRWG FM is a public service of New Mexico State University. © 2006, Regents of New Mexico State University. P.O. Box 3000, Las Cruces, New Mexico 88003. (575) 646-2222. Contact information. Legal information. Last updated on
April 25, 2008.