Who knew that Sunday morning could be so fun there was Johann Sebastian Bach it's sweet number 3 in d. Major All 4 movements at no extra charge so Neville Mariner and the Academy of St Martin in the fields classic recording of Baroque music as I mentioned earlier. We are in our fall fun drive on this beautiful autumn economics morning and for a donation of $120.00 to keep p.f.a. You can have the ultimate paroch box set The Essential masterpieces a baroque music that being one of them there over 6 hours of music on this set a whole cd of Bach a whole cd of vol d. On a cd of baroque guitar music we're going to hear a little bit of that later since we only have an hour left here on piano where I am the host the 4th and 5th Sundays of the month Larry camp and you are listening to piano and to Larry Culp's voice at the moment telling you that this is our fall fund drive and it is a good time to either dial up our number or you know call up our website and donate a little money to keep the station going a little far forward forward is good when you're not paying it forward here you're paying it just so we can stay on the air in this wonderful fall fund drive. Our goal is $575000.00 and the last time I looked we were around $137000.00 in our 1st week so we've got a little ways to go the more you can contribute now the less you will hear me asking you to contribute later pretty easy right you can sit there and listen for free anyway. I'd feel guilty if I were you because this isn't commercial radio this is a special station surviving only because of listeners like you speaking of listeners like you you're probably saying oh it's 8 o'clock it's time to hear this you're right. Elections are coming up and in order to be eligible to vote. You must. First a $25.00. To. Go to our Web site. Today think about Alice Walker prolific writer global activist Alice is always encouraging us to honor the divine in each of our souls on Thursday evening October 18th starting $730.00 she will be at 1st Congregational Church 2345 Channing way in Berkeley show read from taking the arrow out of the heart or new book of Nina Serrano will appear with Alice benefit is wheelchair accessible tickets available at brown paper tickets dot com independent bookstores 900. 88 point one k. . Speaking of free live music which I am right now you probably well I shouldn't say that if you did know it for sure then I wouldn't be bothering to tell you since. Yeah there are other things to talk about. It are music s.f. Is doing s. Have music day colors of the keyboard this is free from noon to 8 next Sunday at the War Memorial veterans building there will be $37.00 local one some balls a total of 160 musicians on 4 stages s.f. Music day covers of the keyboard next Sunday noon to 8 at the vets building in San Francisco right next to the opera house right next to Davies and me home right across the street from City Hall nothing to it and speaking of free music the town Cortez has been doing this for like 7 years now. They and friends are performing free at the Musical Offering the classical and broken early music. Store and cafe across from u.c. Berkeley on Bancroft way near Telegraph 2430 Bancroft way this afternoon and they will be doing string quartets. Next Sunday it will be electrician meant doing solo piano these happen between one and 3 pm free you can go in and get a camp a chain over lunch and enjoy the music and peruse the music store it is hard to find a decent classical music store anywhere anymore and the Musical Offering qualifies as that also. This is this you know this is today from one to 3 pm string quartets by the town of Cortez the town quartet is breaking down to a town trio this Wednesday at 7 pm and you can catch them also of course at the Musical Offering on Bancroft way you can just Google musical offering and maybe find out information I haven't checked that So here we are k.p.s. a Oh I was going to say oh yeah the I was going to say that you were probably wondering we know since I already announced it what the sentence is going symphonies doing but what's happening at Cal Performances let me tell you the center noon at 530 at the Greek Theater it's a Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis special guest John but teased and they are doing Duke Ellington they're celebrating Duke Ellington kicking off the real count performance a season kicking up their heels and other parts of their bodies Mark Morris Dance grip with the premiere of pepper land and yes Mark Morris is dance group does more than Nutcracker music in this case it is music of The Beatles and that starts Friday night at 8 o'clock and summer baccarat Saturday at 2 pm Saturday at 7 pm 8 pm and next Sunday at 3 pm and. For those in a more baroque mood Yo-Yo Ma is at the Greek Theatre next Sunday at 7 pm with the complete cellist sweets by Johann Sebastian Bach he's done this before but he's going to do it again at the Greek it's a pretty amazing experience and this time he's got a brand new recording of the Bach Cello Suites that just came out and it's getting rave reviews he's done it before but not quite I think this. Deeper better who could ask for more who could ask for more than a 5 cd set of Baroque music recordings by the greats quite a few of the greats Well I mean we could ask for more we could start with world peace sanity in Washington d.c. And locally at home too but you know why why ask for too much when we can get just enough for $120.00 subscription it is the ultimate baroque box set we just featured your hands a bunch and box. Concerto excuse me suite number 3 and d. Major I've got concertos on my mind and coming out of my mouth but not really on the cd player right now so we heard that as I mentioned there's 5 C.D.'s here 6 hours and there is a cd of Bach suites there's a cd of Vivaldi. Concertos including the complete 4 seasons we will be listening to autumn a little later to celebrate the beginning of on time but let's go right to the beginning disk number one. Again 180-439-5732 is the number to call in I know I can see here that not everybody has called in yet or gone online and pledged to k.p. If a dot org I will not stop you from doing that I will remind you again and again but not too much again again let's get back to this so ultimate broke actually this is cd number 2 but who's counting when we're having this much fun when you back in 1960 the German conductor Carl munching or decided that punk a balance can indeed Major really needed to be rediscovered so he came up with an arrangement that everybody's been doing since then this is his group the sticker Chamber Orchestra conducted by a common changer and Canon in d. Major again from ultimate broke it can be yours for a pledge of 120 dollars you can break that down to $10.00 a month in the e.f.t. Plan you can pay it off once you've paid a little bit of time you can bring a check by here etc etc 180-439-5732 is the phone number 180-439-5732 or pledge on line at k p f a dot au r g we're a play list for this program is slowly appearing Ok box box let's try this again punk about canon in d. Major. Arranged in conducted by common Jr with the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra. Pack of us can and as arranged and popularized by common Ching are conducting the sticker chamber orchestra there as. Part of the box set ultimate Baroque that because this is our fun drive and I really want you to support a b.f.a. . I'm on here once in a while as a volunteer but when someone at least weekly. Fact all the music programmers are volunteering their time. So and the musicians that play life on our show. I'm Larry count the host of piano we're going to hear some more from ultimate baroque But 1st I will remind you that you know why does key p.f.a. Matter to you and this includes music and news public affairs and other programming here where we brought you the Kevin our Supreme Court hearings we'll have more on the updates of that as the week unfolds this will be an exciting week we present count down 2018 to update you on the critical midterm elections I think Larry Bensky has a program that. 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Which may explain some of his classical and other arrangements. There's a dyas Meo concert at Mills in Oakland this Friday at 8 o'clock and it's free I should have mentioned this earlier in my free round at the Emirates quartets going to perform string quartets not only by mere Neo but also by Ruth Crawford in Stravinsky free Friday night at Mills College Ok you're listening free to k.p. If a right now but you're welcome to support us subscribe now if you're already subscribing subscribe again give us $25.00 whatever 180439 fison $32.00. And keep if a dot org You might have missed that phone number which we've been giving to you for years 180439573 to talk to one of our friendly keep you have a phone operators tell them you want this ultimate baroque locks for $120.00 where you can hear. Well you can hear Alban Oni's adagio that sounds just like this. Know you are tuned to piano here on k p f a. That was all the nominees adagio performed by car munching during that stupor Chamber Orchestra as mentioned at some point. You can have this by subscribing to k.p. If a now you're actually donating $120.00 to the great original listeners sponsored radio station before there was n.p.r. And p.b.s. We were the ones paving the way and setting an example. Without ever getting into corporate support or not much government underwriting either especially these days there isn't any. That's why the other public broadcasting stations have to turn to corporations for support with tons of advertising in their non advertising way but I don't I don't want to go there I want to remind you this is piano I am Larry called the host for the next half hour when Philip Monterey comes in with the Sunday show and we all get caught up with some really good conversation. My conversation is going to be very brief right now we've been hearing tracks from this 5 cd set by the way the 2 Michaels who called in pledge Thank you Ari thank you to we will be sending this out to you sometime soon you are welcome to pledge it any amount during this fall funded drive which is going to continue for another couple of weeks so if you miss out today you can subscribe later but I recommend doing it right now why because then you don't have to feel guilty sitting back and enjoying great music. Without helping support it this is just one of those things of yeah you can listen to it for free but a mansion a world without key p.f.a. Or even a Berkeley without k.p. F.a.a. I don't know if you've noticed this but in recent times things that I always took for granted were there was the cafe med or just last week Brennan's that signed off finally with huge crowds their last few weeks oh I'm going to miss that place anyway that's something else we don't want keep you afraid to go that way you can help keep us strong keep us ever vigilant getting k.p. If a hoodie that says vigilant is always on the back get this box set let's get back to the box set as I mentioned it's it's hard to pledge when we're playing Albany's adagio it's kind of like not be right and let's let's go somewhere else I mean it is beautiful and of course you would want to have this set to keep you company every morning when you fire up the old coffee machine or make some tea I mentioned there is a whole cd box there's a whole cd. Of Handel In fact let's go there handles music for the royal fireworks I was just at a concert last night with the Tamil pious Brass Quintet and for an encore they actually did what they called Katy Perry's royal fireworks it was a brass quintet for Asian I've heard pop song. Firework we're not going to hear that here 180-439-5732 or online keep p.f.a. Dot org to give a little give a lot give what you can afford that makes you feel good and it will make us. Function good also Anyway this is the conclusion of Handel's music for royal fireworks the minuets the 5th movement with the English Chamber Orchestra conducted by Raymond hard as I mentioned it's all the greats on here. More baroque music than most of us can stand in one sitting imagine spending the whole day listening to this box from beginning to end about that time you might be ready for Katy Perry too but I'm not offering Katy Perry there was a oh the real fireworks take away Rayman apart he's got his baton up he's ready to conduct the English Chamber Orchestra and this beautiful and all music. I yes the royal fireworks music. At least a little bit of it there I hope you enjoyed that I did again Rym on. Love hard in the English Chamber Orchestra as he would say it Raymond apart we're moving on to another great baroque ensemble emus a chief from Rome founded in 1951 basically to play baroque music and again they're on this ultimate baroque box set we are going to hear them play the 1st movement. From all these 4 seasons they actually do all 4 seasons as well as other Vivaldi concertos on this ultimate baroque box set the music and we will hear of course autumn today being the 1st day of autumn I think isn't it feels like it Ok On top of that how can you go wrong you can't feel good subscribe to keep p.f.a. Now 180-439-5732. 0 yeah and thank you Mark for subscribing to they just keep coming in and I don't notice them we don't have a staff in here to run handmade cards anymore our pledge cards are the past it's all like tronic in the computer with the info is on the back counter here where I can't see it very well so anyway thank you to those of you who have subscribed so far online and by phone 180-439-5732 you do not need to spend $120.00 although what is that $10.00 a month. Which is easy to work out you can spend less you won't get the ultimate per box set but that's Ok Speaking of which you're probably saying Larry was just talking to us about this wonderful emergency version of football the 4 Seasons and of course we want to hear the opening of the autumn concerto there are actually 4 seasons is 4 separate short concertos one for each season we always hear spring and I don't know about you but I've heard it enough but you can get it here on the box but into it whenever you want but we are going to play on Tom He new city and. 180-439-5732 we're on line to keep your faith oh r j. The aim. Yes. I. The 1st movement of our time and as a listener Carr so wonderfully explained yesterday apparently was the 1st day of autumn I can't keep these things straight you know but they're all human decided anyway the earth the planets the sources the entire universe does what it does and then humans come along and then think they have to explain everything name everything and then we will understand what goes on we try to understand what's going on here at k. P.f.a. Especially News and Public Affairs and expressing our lives through music which is what we are doing right now on piano where I've got 10 minutes to cajole you into sending money this way and no thanks so much to all on. There's. Always had better eyesight but thanks to show from Oakland for subscribing. I get that that's right Mark was in Clovis. One of our Michaels was from 3 Rivers. Ari from San Francisco we have another Michael from. San Francisco also so no Berkeley subscribers only you go this time I will be back next Sunday hosting the 5th Sunday edition of piano from 6 am to 9 a m I want to fit a little more music in after reminding you one more time that we have been playing . Highlights which is kind of a funny word since the whole thing is highlights from this box set called Ultimate baroque on Decca the essential masterpieces 5 C.D.'s 6 hours some of the greatest chamber and full orchestras in the world Academy of St Martin in the fields the stuper Chamber Orchestra emergency that we just heard there from Rome. The English Chamber Orchestra with Raymond apart and we're getting back to. Let's play another Bach tune here this is always fun they have some of his excerpts and sure just pieces here on one cd as I mentioned punk about an album Tony j.s. Bach vocal Remey Hofstetter handle. Handle organ concerto well have to get to that next week and other things just on one of the C.D.'s Here's box user Joy of Man's Desiring if you don't own it you can have this you can play it every day of the week. If you're already doing one and it's only one day I mean once on seeking go run 180-439-5732 or online and keep p.f.a. Dot o.-r. G. Subscriber early and often support things that matter to you and a man. Is a chart of Man's Desiring it could come to your home for $120.00 subscription suppose you've got too much baroque music on your shelf already that's Ok think of a friend think of a library think of a school think of well think of anywhere that might benefit from getting this you can subscribe at $120.00 and we would benefit from it and you can get this and pass it on there's always lots of other thank you gifts at our website 180-439-5732 is the phone number the website is k p f a dot au r g keep it out our g. And again user Joy of Man's Desiring one of your Hans a bastion box big hits I hear it was the top of the bro chart and 1680 so that could be we don't know there's another Fun Box things on here to the great fugue g. Minor error in a g. String which we heard in the middle of the concerto it's originally from earlier sheep may safely graze and see speaking of sheep me see if we gave who want to hear this Bach or any minuet he made. That will be fine and we'll go out with some more of volleys on Tom Concerto from the 4 Seasons again I am Larry count who's doing the show Philip Mulder e. Is I want but Christina on a stud is going to be filling in for him with Mickey on the board of course from $9.00 to $11.00 and then a whole day of Americana programming here on k.p. F.a.a. Right now we're in the world economy mode sort of European baroque right and some of it can come your way at 510 try that again 180439. $573218439573220.00 subscription the ultimate baroque. Box set over 5 hours of the world's favorite classics it says but of course it's favorite baroque classical music and been invented but I guess they're trying that then in terms of classic period these are the essential masterpieces we're listening of aren't really in the background his minuet I am sorry that I'm talking over it but you know if we don't do this and k. P.f.a. Can't afford to pay its bills and it costs a lot in electricity to send a signal out to you right now then. We may not be here. It's good to have some voices of reason once in a while speaking of which my reasonable voice asks you to pledge right now 180-439-5732 or k p f a dot org online it's fun it's easy it's secure bunker Remey and then we will go right into another movement from Von Teese on Tom from the 4 Seasons because it is on a. Good . Good. Good good. Good. Good good good. Good. Good. Good good. Good. Good. Louie Louie. Louie. Louie. Louie. 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