New Year, Same Us
5:00pm - 6:00pm
Happy 2021 and welcome back! On the first show of 2021 we had 2 interviews and a review. We started off today s show with Niko s review of Amahl and the Night Visitors that s produced by Vancouver Opera. Afterwards Phoebe had her interview with Norman Yeung who is the playwright and performer of I Know I m Supposed to Love You. We ended the show with Serra s interview with Suzie LeBlanc who recently started in her position as the new artistic and executive director of Early Music Vancouver. Fun fact: Suzie is the first female artistic and executive director at EMV!
Visiting the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, composer Gian Carlo Menotti viewed the Bosch painting "The Adoration of the Magi." It reminded him of
The central plot of
A Charlie Brown Christmas was inspired by producer Lee Mendelson, who told Schulz that he and his wife had celebrated a recent Christmas by reading Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Fir Tree” to their children. Schulz spun that into a tale of two trees, hitting upon an impossibly neat symbol of commercialized: aluminum Christmas at war with good ol’ classic evergreen.
I ask you to look at the above picture, however, and imagine yourself in 1965. If you were actually going to buy an aluminum Christmas tree, you were probably buying an Evergleam from Aluminum Specialties in Manitowoc, Wisconsin. You were going to get it at a department store or order it from the Sears catalogue, not at a tree farm the whole point was that it came in a box and was easy to assemble right there in your stylish mod home! So including an actual fake tree farm is freaking brilliant satire, which unfortunately backfired on me.
Holiday Favorites on WHRO FM
Details Published: 08 December 2020
Join us for your holiday soundtrack! As always, we are happy to bring you rich and joyful music for the Christmas season from the WHRO FM library, along with special programs from American Public Media, the WFMT Radio Network, and more.
Here are some highlights of what’s in store:
Thursday, December 17:
9 p.m. – A Soulful Christmas from American Public Media
Julie Amacher and Tesfa Wondemagegnehu host this uplifting Christmas special that features Black music and composers. A Soulful Christmas celebrates classical music by Black artists, while exploring Spirituals, Gospel Music, Jazz and other Black musical traditions.
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Pierce Mansfield got his start in theatre when he auditioned for the title role in the DMMO’s production of Menotti’s Amahl and the Night Visitors. At the time, he was a twelve-year-old sixth-grader at Merrill Middle School in Des Moines.
18-year-old Emory University freshman Pierce Mansfield made his Des Moines Metro Opera debut in 2013. Fast forward to 2020, and he isn’t exactly sure what he “wants to be when he grows up” although he’s hopeful that his future will involve either being a film and media business major, professional bass-guitarist, or singer-songwriter. His immediate goal is to organize a college band with several of his music buddies.