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Friday, June 21st 2013

Bobbie & Bill Malone are playing on the back porch of WORT Radio, 118 S Bedford Street.

Performance runs from 11am – noon and will be simulcast and streamed on WORT 89.9 fm and wortfm.org
during Chris Powers’ “Mud Acres Bluegrass Special.” The public is welcome to come down to the station to enjoy the show.

About Bobbie and Bill Malone: Bobbie plays mandolin and Bill plays guitar, and they sing old-time country duets. Bill, as a country music historian, also talks about the songs they select. Bill Malone is the host of “Back to the Country” on WORT Wednesday mornings from 9 am-noon.

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June 21, 7:30am to 9 pm at 110 venues in the Madison Area
The Make Music Madison Festival

Information on performers and locations at makemusicmadison.org.

Friday June 20 and Sunday June 23 at the Stoughton Oeraa House and the Hillside Theater, Taliesin, Spring Green; Saturday June 22nd at the Playhouse, Overture Center.
The Bach Dancing and Dynamiter Society presents the second week of its three week season titled “Deuces are WIld”

More information at bachdancinganddynamite.org

“Stacked Deck,” 7:30 pm, 6/21, Stoughton Opera House; and 2:30 pm, 6/23, Taliesin-Hillside Theater, Spring Green; “Put Your Cards on the Table,” 7:30 pm, 6/22, Overture Center-Playhouse; and 7:30 pm, 6/23, Hillside Theater.

STACKED DECK
Friday, June 21, 7:30PM Stoughton Opera House
Sunday, June 23 2:30PM Hillside Theater, Taliesin, Spring Green

Ferdinand Ries Flute Quartet in D Minor (Flute, Violin, Viola, Cello)
Ned Rorem War Scenes for Bass/Baritone and Piano
Frank Martin Sonnets to Cassandre Flute, Viola, Cella, Soprano
Faure Piano Quartet in g Minor

When you face a Stacked Deck, the cards have been unfairly arranged to your advantage or disadvantage. It’s a situation that many composers faced in their lifetimes. Our program begins with Ferdinand Ries’s Flute Quartet in D minor, a great work by a great composer who languished in the shadow of his illustrious teacher Beethoven. Ned Rorem’s War Scenes are settings of excerpts from Walt Whitman’s Civil War diaries, in which Whitman chronicles the stacked deck faced by both Union and Confederacy soldiers. Gabriel Fauré faced long odds against political opposition in pursuit of his career. We conclude with Fauré’s great Piano Quartet in G minor, a breakthrough work that helped establish his reputation.

PUT YOUR CARDS ON THE TABLE
Saturday, June 22, 7:30PM The Playhouse, Overture Center
Sunday, June 23, 7:30PM Hillside Theater, Taliesin, Spring Green

Clara Schumann Romances, op. 22 Transcribed for Flute and Piano
Robert Schumann Romances, op. 94
Brahms Variations on a Theme of Schumann for 4-Hands
Readings from Various Letters

When you Put Your Cards on the Table, you show the world the thoughts and feelings you’ve been playing close to your chest.  Our musical version of this expression revolves around the complicated relationship between Robert Schumann, Clara Wieck Schumann, and Johannes Brahms. These three great composers, rarely able to express their feelings in their own words, put their cards on the table in the form of incredibly expressive songs. Our program links together songs, readings from letters, and short instrumental works by all three composers in a narrative exploring this complicated emotional saga. Musicians will include artistic directors Stephanie Jutt, flute, and Jeffrey Sykes, piano; Emily Birsan, soprano from the Chicago Lyric Opera; and Timothy Jones, baritone from the University of Houston.

Friday, June 21 7:30 pm at Music Hall on the UW Campus in Madison
The Madison Area Youth Chamber Orchestra under the direction of Mikko Utevsky with string soloists Eugene Purdue and Dierdre Buckley.

Music of Copland, Mozart and Prokofiev

Saturday June 22, 11 am at Overture Center-Overture Hall
Free Farmers Market Concert featuring organist Jared Stellmacher and the Chicago Gargoyle Brass.

Program:

Carlyle Sharpe
Flourishes

Marcel Dupré
Cortege and Litanie

Jaromir Weinberger
Polka and Fugue from Schwanda

J. S. Bach
“Gigue” Fugue in G major, BWV 577

Gustav Mahler, Arr Craig Garner
Symphony No. 2

IV Urlicht
V Finale

Giuseppe Verdi
Libiamo ne’ lieti calici from La Traviata (“Drinking Song”)

Wednesday June 26, 7 pm at the King Street Corner of Capitol Square
The Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra; Concerts on the Square.

CONCERT HIGHLIGHTS

TCHAIKOVSKY | Sleeping Beauty excerpts
RESPHIGI | The Magic Toy Shop
PROKOFIEV | Peter and the Wolf
MENDELSSOHN | Violin Concerto in E minor

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5:09 am: Pianist Vladimir Askenazt performs Prelude and Fugue No. 3 in G major and Prelude and Fugue NO. 4 in E minor by Dmitri Shostakovich

5:23 am: Concerto No. 23 in G minor RV 495 for Bassoon by Antonio Vivaldi. Nadina Mackie Jackson is the bassoon soloist.

5:32 am:  Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor (“Appassionata”) by Ludwig van Beethoven. James Brawn is the soloist,

5:57 am: :Liebesbotschaft by Franz Schubert. Performed by soprano Amy Haworth and fortepianist Trevor Stephenson.

6:08 am: The ZOFO Duet (pianists Eva-Maria Zimmerman and Keisuken Nakagoshi) performs Igor Stravinsky’s Le Sacre du Printemps

6:49 am: The US Marine Band performs “Santa Fe Saga” by Morton Gould

7:08 am: Mikko Uteveksy, Diedre Buckley and Eugene Purdue talk about the 6/21 concert by the Madison Area Youth Chamber Orchesrra (MAYCO) at Madison’s Music Hall.

7:23 am: Francois Couperin’s “The Apotheosis of Lully” performed by the Bach Dancing and Synamite Society.

7:51 am: The Modern Mandolin Quartet performs a “Bill Monroe Medley”.

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Matt Dannenberg, Copyright: WI LCV

On Tuesday, June 18th sub host Tim Hansel interviewed Matt Dannenberg of the Wisconsin League of Conservation Voters (LCV). The LCV as an organization that pushes for legislation which supports environmental conservation and exposes legislators of all political affiliations who consistently vote against such legislation.

Specifically, Matt Dannenberg talked about a recent budget provision that removes the public’s ability to protect the environment from high-capacity well-pumping. The provision states:

“Move to specify that a person may not challenge an application for, or a permit for, a high capacity well based on the lack of consideration of the cumulative environmental impacts of the proposed high capacity well together with existing wells when approving the high capacity well permit. This provision would apply to applications for high capacity well permits and high capacity well permits in effect before, on, or after, the effective date of the bill, and for applications and permits for which final administrative or judicial review has not been completed on the effective date of the bill.”

These high-capacity wells are often directly related to frac sand mining. Learn more about fracking and it’s impact here.

To learn more about the degradation of Wisconsin waters, you can watch this short film produced by Friends of Central Sands:

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And a happy Monday it is here at WORT as I can happily report that we
raised a grand total of $74,544.40 in pledges, surpassing the goal of
$70,000 by almost $5K!

This WILL put us in a great position to finish fiscal year 2013 a little in the black.
We would not exist without support from the community in which we broadcast—THANK YOU!!!

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That’s right, it’s that time of year again. Back Porch Radio Broadcasting, Inc. (aka WORT-FM) is holding its Annual Meeting on Sunday June 23, 2013 from 5:00-8:00pm at Dutch’s Auto Service, Inc. at 202 Regas Road (just off Milwaukee Street, near the Post Office). The meeting will feature reports from Board, Staff, and Committees, an election for three open seats on the Board of Directors (only eligible voters may cast ballots) and some great food and beverages.

VOTING INFORMATION for a vacant seats on the Back Porch Radio Broadcasting, Inc. (WORT-FM) Board of Directors.

WORT is holding an election for three open seats on the Board of Directors of Back Porch Radio Broadcasting, Inc., for a term that will end in June 2016. The WORT Board has nine members, eight elected by the membership in two categories (five station volunteers and three listener-sponsors) and a staff representative elected by the paid staff.

Participating members can vote by ballot available at the station from staff. According to the station’s bylaws: ARTICLE II: Section 2.1 (b) A participating member of WORT shall be any person who has voluntarily performed at least five (5) hours of work in each of three (3) consecutive months within the period bounded by October 1^st of the previous year through March 31^st of the current year.

Ballots must be received by mail or in the Blue Ballot box in the station lobby by 5pm on Friday June 21^st, or at the Annual meeting in order to be counted.

To view candidates applications, click on these PDF links:

WORT_BOD_App_Devereaux-Weber_2013

WORT_BOD_App_McCann_2013

WORT_BOD_App_Rineer_2013

WORT_BOD_App_Watson_2013

WORT_BOD_App_WyllieDeEcheverria_2013

For more information, please contact the Elections Committee: Amy Mondloch, Dean Loumos & Norman Stockwell – 256-2001

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