Broadcast Update for the week of March 23

Broadcast Update for the week of March 23

Broadcast Update
for the week of March 23-29, 2014
IN THIS ISSUE:
Recent Broadcasts
Coming Attractions
News
Radio Requests
Resource Directory
Greetings to everyone on this list!
RECENT BROADCASTS:
Correction, with apologies to composer Hilary Tann: On Mar. 12, Caitriona Bolster of
KWAX (http://www.kwax.com/about.php) played two pieces written by Valentin Silvestrov
and commissioned by Hilary Hahn, noting that the violinist has commissioned several
works.
Radio ArtsIndonesia has named Australian composer and musicologist Ann Carr-Boyd its
Artist of the Week.
In the Mar. 12 edition of Classical Discoveries on WPRB (103.3 FM and online at
www.wprb.com in Princeton, NJ, USA) host Marvin Rosen included Nancy Bloomer
Deussen's "American Hymn"; Adrienne Albert's "Windswept"; Valerie Coleman's
Concerto for Wind Quintet; Patricia Van Ness's Angelus sum Thronorum; Marion
Bauer's Suite for String Orchestra; Sister Patsy Williamson's "Pretty Home"; Joan
Tower's "Island Prelude"; Felicia Sandler's "Pulling Radishes"; Carolyn Yarnell's
"Sage"; Beth Anderson's "The Praying Mantis and the Bluebird"; Emma Lou Diemer's
Violin Concerto; Janice Giteck's "Om Shanti"; Rebecca Oswald's "The Gentle Rain of
Your Pure Love"; Mary Ann Joyce Walter's Aceldama; "Prince" from Mona Lyn Reese's
Midwest Symphony; "Yonati" and "You Have Ravished My Heart" from Karen P.
Thomas's Song of Songs; Libby Larsen's Symphony no. 5, Solo Symphony; Alice
Shields's Kyrielle; Alma Ney McClure's "The Cutter: A Classy Rag"; Ellen Taaffe
Zwilich's Lament; Katherine Hoover's Double Concerto; Jennifer Castellano's "To
Scriabin" and "Conflicting Colors"; Meredith Monk's "Wedding March"; Nancy
Galbraith's "Night Train"; Cindy McTee's "Einstein's Dream"; Beth Anderson's "The
Eighth Ancestor"; Joelle Wallach's "The Tiger's Tail"; and Julia Wolfe's "Lick." Classical
Discoveries, is a 5½-hour radio program devoted to little known repertoire with an emphasis
on living composers. It airs Wednesdays 5:30-11:00 A.M. EDT. Archived programs can be
heard for two weeks at http://www.classicaldiscoveries.org/index_music.html.
Tom Quick of CKWR in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada (FM 98.5 and www.ckwr.co,), included
these works in his Mar. 17 broadcast: piano duo Isabelle and Florence Lafitte, playing
Mozart/Busoni's Overture of The Magic Flute; violinist Julia Fischer and pianist Milana
Chernyavska, playing Pablo de Sarasate's Spanish Dances, op. 26; Belenus Quartett
(violinists Seraina Pfenninger and Anne Battegay, violist Anne Battegay, and cellist
Seraphina Rufer), playing Haydn's String Quartet in D Minor, no. 2, op. 76; the Windsor
Symphony Orchestra, conducted by John Morris Russell, playing Jocelyn Morlock's Music
of the Romantic Era; mezzo-soprano Julie Boulianne and Clavecin en concert, performing
“Se Bramate d’ama,” “Frondi Tenere,” and “ Ombra Mai Fu” from Handel's Serse, with Luc
Beauséjour conducting from the harpsichord; cellist Corinne Morris, playing Gabriel
Fauré's Elegie, op. 24, with the Macedonian Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Philip
Hesketh; pianist Karin Kei Nagano, playing Mozart's Piano Concerto no. 12 in A Major, K.
414, with Cecilia String Quartet (violinists Min-Jeong Koh and Sarah Nematallah,
violist Caitlin Boyle, and cellist Rachel Desoer); and organist Gail Archer, playing
Three Short Organ Pieces of Nadia Boulanger.
The week of Mar. 16-22, Radio ArtsIndonesia (www.radio.artsindonesia.com) in Jakarta,
Indonesia, plans to broadcast works by these composers: Vivian Adelberg Rudow,
Rebecca Oswald, Nancy Van de Vate, Faye-Ellen Silverman, Shulamit Ran, Sonja
Grossner, Betty Beath, Soe Tjen Marching, Caroline Szeto, Hilary Tann, Mary
Jeanne Van Appledorn, Sophie-Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatté, and Stefania de
Kenessey.
The Mar. 18 edition of The Latest Score on WOMR Margaret Bonds's “Troubled Water”;
Florence Price's Dances in the Canebrakes; Judith Shatin's “Theme,” “Lighthearted,”
“Flowing,” “Sly,” and “Whimsical”; Judith Lang Zaimont's "Jupiter's Moon” and, from
Calendar Collection, “Spring”; Thea Musgrave's Piccolo Play in Homage to Couperin;
Beth Anderson's “The Eighth Ancestor” and "Archaic Tale”; Barbara Harbach's Frontier
Fancies; Danielle Baas's settings of Linda Rimel's texts "Alarm Clock,” “How Did We
Catch Her?” “Roses and Sweet Peas,” and “This January Morning"; Katy Abbott's “On the
Surface of Things,” “Indoor Yachting,” and “This Is My Home"; Mary Kathleen Ernst's
"Keeping Time"; Jennifer Higdon's Secret and Glass Gardens; Marilyn Bliss's "Rima";
“Burning” from Chen Yi's Sound of the Five; and Janice Misurell-Mitchell's "Profaning
the Sacred." The station (in Cape Cod and the South Shore of Massachusetts, USA, and at
www.WOMR.org) is streamed 24 hours a day. Aired Tuesdays 1:00-4:00 P.M., The Latest
Score is hosted by Canary Burton, who calls it "a twenty-first century hotbed of new music."
Eugene Symphony Chorus's director Sharon Paul was Caitriona Bolster's interview guest
on Arts Line on KWAX (http://www.kwax.com/about.php) on Mar. 18.
On Mar. 18, host Ken Field played Susan Fancher's recording of Hilary Tann's “Some of
the Silence” on The New Edge, a two-hour radio program "devoted to creative and innovative
instrumental music." The New Edge airs Tuesdays 2:00-4:00 P.M. EDT on WMBR
http://www.wmbr.org and at 88.1 FM in Cambridge/Boston, MA, USA, and Fridays 1:003:00 A.M., Fridays 2:00-4:00 P.M., Sundays 6:00-8:00 P.M., Tuesdays 2:00-4:00 A.M., and
Wednesdays 8:00-10:00 A.M. on http://taintradio.org. Complete playlists are available at
http://wmbr.org/newedge.
On Mar. 19, Caitriona Bolster of KWAX (http://www.kwax.com/about.php) played Marie
de Grandval's Romance and Gavotte for oboe, bassoon and piano. KWAX is beginning its
spring fund-raiser; because a contributor requested it, Bolster also played Joan Tower's
“Fanfare No. 4 for the Uncommon Woman” (Joann Falletta), as recorded by the Colorado
Symphony orchestra with Marin Alsop conducting.
Throughout March, John Winsor, host of NACUSA Web Radio (https://www.musicusa.org/nacusa/radio.php4), is including these works in the playlist (to be repeated every two
hours): Adrienne Albert's Sunswept for flute and piano, “Winter” from Karen Amanda
Amrhein's Symphony of Seasons, and Juliana Hall's “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy
Evening.”
In the Mar. 19 edition of Classical Discoveries on WPRB (103.3 FM and online at
www.wprb.com in Princeton, NJ, USA) host Marvin Rosen included
Betty Beath's "Mikri Thalassa"; Anna Bon's "Sonata in G Major, op. 1, no. 4"; Elizabeth
Raum's A Table at the Bushwakker; Judith Bingham's Annunciation no. 2; Ester
Magi's Variations; Rosa Giacinta Badalla's O Serene Pupillae; Leticia Cuen's
Nocturne; Lucie Vellère's String Quartet no. 3; "Medea's Lament," "Woman of Mourning,"
and "Medea's Lament II" by Eleni Karaindrou (Ελένη Καραΐνδρου); Isabella Leonarda's
Sonata, op. 16, no. 1; Jean Coulthard's "Music to St. Cecilia"; Sylvie Bodorová's
Prefigurations; Ida Gotkovsky's Concerto for Saxophone and Symphonic Band; Claudia
Rusca's "Exultate Coeli"; Maria Pokrzywinska's "Invitation"; Gillian Whitehead's
Missa Brevis; Elisabeth Claude Jacquet de la Guerre's Sonata in A Minor; Peggy
Glanville-Hicks's Etruscan Concerto; Jennifer Higdon's
Lullaby; Cecilia McDowall's Seraphim: Concerto for Solo Trumpet, String Orchestra and
Percussion; Jennifer Fowler's "Echoes from an Antique Land"; Kaija Saariaho's
"Chateau de L'ame"; Amanda Wessel's "Lamb of God"; Laura Liben's "She Herself
Alone"; Barbara Benary's "A Rag for Deena"; Galina Ustvolskaya's Symphony no. 4,
Prayer; La Contessa's Due Canzone; Abbie Betinis's "The Clan of the Lichens"; and Ruth
Crawford Seeger's "Study in Mixed Accents." Classical Discoveries, is a 5½-hour radio
program devoted to little known repertoire with an emphasis on living composers. It airs
Wednesdays 5:30-11:00 A.M. EDT. Archived programs can be heard for two weeks at
http://www.classicaldiscoveries.org/index_music.html.
The topic of the Mar. 21 edition of Composers Datebook was Robert Schumann's discovery of
Franz Schubert's Symphony in C Major and his writing about it to his future wife, composer
Clara Wieck. Information about the show, hosted by John Zech, is available at
http://composersdatebook.publicradio.org/about.
COMING ATTRACTIONS:
Tom Quick of CKWR in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada (FM 98.5 and www.ckwr.co,), intends to
include these works in his Mon., Mar. 24, broadcast, 9:00-11:00 P.M. EDT: composer Fiona
Bennett, playing her Country Suite on piano; clarinetist Jennifer Showalter and pianist
Joel Clifft, playing Malcolm Arnold's Sonatina for Clarinet and Piano; trombonist Rebecca
Bower Cherian and pianist Rodrigo Ojeda, playing Theme and Variations of Martin
Kennedy; violinist Elmira Darvarova and pianist Bryan Waghorn, playing Amanda
Maier's Sonata for Violin and Piano; pianist Maiko Mori, playing Lullaby, “ A Hill Tune,”
and “ In a Vodka Shop” by Arnold Bax; soprano Janet Delpratt, singing River Songs of
Betty Beath with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Richard Mills;
Barberian, performing Kaori Kashi's “ King of Ithaca,” Allegro Con Brio, and “Nostalgia”;
and violinist Chantal Jullet, playing Romance, op. 28, and Berceuse, op. 16, by Faure and
Poeme, op. 25, by Chausson, with the Montreal Symphony, conducted by Charles Dutoit.
Every March since 2004, in observance of Women’s History Month, Classical Discoveries on
WPRB (103.3 FM and online at www.wprb.com in Princeton, NJ, USA) has paid tribute to
music by women composers from all over the world and through the centuries. Every regular
scheduled program is exclusively devoted to their music. The third of four shows in the In
Praise of Woman series is scheduled to air Wed., Mar. 19, 5:30-11:00 A.M. EDT. Past
playlists of this annual series and other programs devoted to music by women composers are
at
http://www.classicaldiscoveries.org/inpraiseofwoman.htmlddress.
The week of Mar. 21-27, Radio ArtsIndonesia (www.radio.artsindonesia.com) in Jakarta,
Indonesia, plans to broadcast works by these composers: Beata Moon, Betty Beath,
Hilary Tann, Hilary Tann, Judith Shatin, Laura Greenberg, Marta Garcia Renart,
Mary Jeanne Van Appledorn, Myriam Marbe, Nancy Van de Vate, Rebecca
Oswald, Saridjah Niung Bintang Soedibio, Soe Tjen Marching, Sonja Grossner,
Sophie-Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatté, Stefania de Kenessey, and Tsippi Fleischer.
Tom Quick of CKWR in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada (FM 98.5 and www.ckwr.co,), announces a
special edition of Women in Music featuring Women in Celtic Music, on Celtic Connections
Sun. Mar. 23. He plans to include fiddler Eileen Ivers, playing “Geese in the Bog,” a medley;
Julie Fowlis, singing “Mo Bhean Chomain” (“You Are My Woman With No Obligation”);
Julie Fowlis and Friends, performing “Strathspey & Reels”; Irene Bridger, singing
“Isles of Notre Dame Bay”; Edel Fox, playing “ The Harvest Home/The Liverpool Hornpipe”
on concertina; Ennis Sisters (Maureen, Karen and Teresa Ennis), performing Paddy
McGinty’s Goat” and “Rocking Chair Jig/ Maid Behind the Bar”; harpist Ruth Sutherland,
playing “Tir Nan Og/The Butterfly”; fiddler Natalie MacMaster, playing “Christine Deagal’s
Flight”; Four Celtic Voices (Celeste Ray, Maria Banks, Carol Crittenden, and
Alison Crossley), performing “Molly Malone” and “ Cliffs of Tintagel”; Heather Dale,
singing “ Three Queens”; the Sarah Burnell Band (Sarah Burnell on fiddle and vocals,
Graham Lindsey on percussion, mandolin, flute, and vocals, and Peter McKinnon on guitar
and vocals), performing “The Goats”; Gwenan Gibbard, singing “Y Delyn/Gwenynen
Gwent”; fiddler Bonnie Rideout, playing “Grant’s Rant” / “Stuart’s Rant” (a medley);
Moira Nelson and Elena Jubinville, singing “ The Water Is Wide”; harpist Anne Roos,
playing “ Women of Ireland”; Chloë Agnew of Celtic Woman, singing “Galway Bay”; and
fiddler Fleur Mainville, playing “Flowers on the Battlefield”; Alternate Routes (cellist
Ariel Friedman, guitarist Liz Simmons, flutist Shannon Heaton, and fiddler and
vocalist Sarah Blair), playing “The Red-Haired Lass.”
Throughout March, John Winsor, host of NACUSA Web Radio (https://www.musicusa.org/nacusa/radio.php4), has been including these works in the playlist (to be repeated
every two hours): Adrienne Albert's Sunswept for flute and piano, “Winter” from Karen
Amanda Amrhein's Symphony of Seasons, and Juliana Hall's “Stopping by Woods on a
Snowy Evening.”
NEWS:
In a Mar. 4 essay titled “Where Did All The Female Rappers Go?” for NPR, by Erik Nielson
posed the question, “[W]hen do we concede that mainstream hip-hop has become largely
defined by the negation of female voice and perspective?"
(http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2014/03/04/285718351/where-did-all-the-femalerappers-go?utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=20140304&utm_source=Music).
The Mar. 7 edition of NPR's Morning Edition included a story by Linda Werthheimer
about Anne Akiko Meyers's newly acquired violin, the world's most expensive, the
Vieuxtemps Guarneri
(http://www.npr.org/blogs/deceptivecadence/2014/03/07/286262067/the-soul-of-theworlds-most-expensive-violin).
The Mar. 5 edition of NPR's Morning Edition contained David Greene's interview of singersongwriter Linda Perhacs, who continued to work as a dental hygienist for 44 years
between her first and second albums (http://www.npr.org/2014/03/05/283049017/thelegend-of-linda-perhacs-a-most-unlikely-rock-star?
utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=20140306&utm_source=Music).
The Feb. 11 edition of NPR's Morning Edition included a story on the Sisters of
Benedictine of Mary, Queen of the Apostles' commercially successful recordings of
sacred music
(http://www.npr.org/blogs/deceptivecadence/2014/02/11/274686955/monastic-life-at-thetop-of-the-charts). Renee Montagne reported on the order in Missouri.
The opera Brokeback Mountain, based on a short story by Annie Proulx, with a score by
Charles Wuorinen and libretto by Proulx, was the topic of a feature story by Renee
Montagne on NPR's Jan. 30 Morning Edition
(http://www.npr.org/blogs/deceptivecadence/2014/01/27/267225321/cowboys-in-lovebrokeback-mountain-saddles-up-for-opera?
utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=20140130&utm_source=Music).
Kelly McEvers interviewed Grammy-winning singer Angélique Kidjo of Benin for the
Jan. 25 edition of NPR's All Things Considered
(http://www.npr.org/2014/01/25/265246056/ang-lique-kidjo-shares-the-shiver-of-hearinga-beautiful-voice).
The Jan. 26 edition of NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday included an interview of violinist
Rachel Barton Pine, who is among those chosen to accept a
Lifetime Achievement Grammy Award honoring Maud Powell, the violinist who
popularized classical music in America. The story mentioned Powell's biographer, Karen
Shaffer (http://www.npr.org/blogs/deceptivecadence/2014/01/26/265243218/a-tribute-tomaud-powell).
In the same edition of Weekend Edition Sunday, Allyson McCabe interviewed mastering
engineer Emily Lazar (http://www.npr.org/blogs/therecord/2014/01/26/265690765/thewoman-behind-the-curtain-making-good-songs-sound-great).
The Jan. 22 edition of NPR's All Things Considered profiled Linnea Olsson, Swedish cellist,
vocalist, composer, and improviser (http://www.npr.org/2014/01/21/264525736/a-giftedcellist-sails-beyond-sweden-across-fields-of-love).
Thumbprint, the opera by composer Kamala Sankaram and librettist Susan Yankowitz
about the ultimate triumph of Pakistani Mukhtar Mai over a brutal sentence imposed on her
for an honor crime allegedly committed by her brother, was the topic of a story by Jeff Lunden
for the Jan. 11 edition of NPR's Weekend Edition
(http://www.npr.org/blogs/deceptivecadence/2014/01/11/261433890/from-oppression-toopera-could-one-woman-s-courage-change-pakistan).
As Stephen Thompson reported for NPR Jan. 5, soul singer Sharon Jones has returned to
touring following a cancer diagnosis and the release of a new CD
(http://www.npr.org/2014/01/05/259143137/first-listen-sharon-jones-and-the-dap-kingsgive-the-people-what-they-want).
Seattle singer-songwriter Mary Lambert, Janice Headley reported Jan. 6 for NPR, was
recently nominated for a Grammy for her contribution to Macklemore & Ryan Lewis' s hit
"Same Love" (http://www.npr.org/event/music/259426755/kexp-presents-mary-lambert).
On Jan. 4 Tom Huizenga reported for NPR on Van-Anh Vanessa Vo, who innovates in
traditional Vietnamese music (http://www.npr.org/event/music/259390015/van-anhvanessa-vo-tiny-desk-concert?
utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=20140106&utm_source=Music).
The story of Patty Hill and Mildred J. Hill, creators (in 1893) of “Happy Birthday to You,”
whose father had advised them against depending on men to support them, was the focus of
producer PJ Vogt's report for the Dec. 28 edition of NPR's On the Media. The topic of this
edition was ownership, including copyright (http://www.onthemedia.org/story/happybirthday/#13882912436718&%7B%22apiResults%22%3A%7B%22callId
%22%3A1092017%2C%22data%22%3A%7B%22viewed%22%3Atrue%7D%2C%22textStatus
%22%3A%22success%22%7D%7D).
Neda Ulaby reported on the Dec. 26 edition of All Things Considered on NPR on the
“marginalization” of women in country music
(http://www.npr.org/2013/12/26/257362793/quiet-as-kept-women-dominated-countrymusic-in-2013).
Ustad Farida Mahwash was featured in a Dec. 23 NPR story on Afghan music in exile
(http://www.npr.org/2013/12/23/256562024/after-hard-times-at-home-afghan-musiciansseek-to-be-heard-in-america).
On the Dec. 14 edition of NPR's Weekend Edition, host Scott Simon interviewed Rick Clark,
music editor of Oxford American, about the history of music in Tennessee. Clark mentioned
that deejay Christine Cooper Spindel had been “afraid they'd be fire-bombed” when
WDIA became known for broadcasting of African-American music
(http://www.npr.org/2013/12/14/250850070/what-makes-tennessees-music-so-veryspecial).
The Dec. 2 edition of NPR's Morning Edition included a report of Yuja Wang's approach to
Sergei Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No. 3
(http://www.npr.org/blogs/deceptivecadence/2013/12/02/243942819/yuja-wang-rooted-indiligence-inspired-by-improvisation).
On Nov. 26, Melissa Block and Audie Cornish filed a feature story for NPR's All Things
Considered about singer Jennifer Grout's rise to the finals of Arabs Got Talent
(http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=247392871).
On Oct. 9, as Dr. Vivian Conejero called to the attention of the IAWM listserv, Anastasia
Tsioulcas reported for NPR on “What Is Classical Music's Women Problem?”
(http://www.npr.org/blogs/deceptivecadence/2013/10/09/230751348/what-is-classicalmusics-women-problem?
utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=20131010&utm_source=Music).
On Oct. 7, Charles Conrad of Radio Arts Indonesia reported, “We are now
on www.facebook.com/RadioArtsIndonesia. In addition, I have restarted our Blog
http://radioartsindonesiajakarta.blogspot.com/ after four years of inactivity.”
Charles Conrad reports that 36 percent of the music by living, contemporary composers
scheduled for broadcast by Radio ArtsIndonesia the week of Mar. 16-22 is by women
composers.
Singer-songwriter Rokia Traoré's creation of music in Mali, where Islamist rebels had
banned music, was the subject of a feature story on NPR's All Things Considered on Sept. 25
(http://www.npr.org/2013/09/25/226103347/rokia-traor-on-taking-up-music-and-malisiron-women).
Efforts to preserve the Polynesian-based language called Rapa Nui on Easter Island—and the
role that Alicia Makohe's lyrics play in those efforts—were the subject Katie Manning's
reporting Sept. 2 on “Easter Island’s Rapa Nui Language Attempts a Comeback”
(http://www.theworld.org/2013/09/easter-islands-rapa-nui-language-attempts-acomeback/) for PRI's The World.
Ariane Delaunois, who produces Hildegard to Hildegard in the UK, is planning a special,
90-minute, project for that show on the topic of game music by female composers. She would
like anyone who has worked in that field or experimented with game music to contact her at
[email protected],
Radio host Tom Quick of CKWR (FM 98.5 and www.ckwr.com) in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada,
is expanding the scope of music on his Irish Horizons show. The name of the show has been
changed to Celtic Connections.
Composer and IAWM member Marian Mapes-Bouck has left a 20-acre parcel of land to
station KMUD. Mapes-Bouck, who died in 2009, had hosted the classical music programs
Marian’s Klassics and Bach to Bouck on the station since 2006.
Host Scott Simon of NPR's Weekend Edition Saturday on Sat., Sept. 4, 2012, interviewed
Ann and Nancy Wilson of the band Heart for "Legendary Rock Band Looks Ahead"
(archived at http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129611047&ps=cprs),
saying, "For women in the '70s, the world of rock 'n' roll was tough to crack." Ann Wilson
replied, in part, "Radio would play only one woman per hour."
RADIO REQUESTS:
The Advocacy Committee encourages participants in this list to contact their local or Internet
radio stations and ask them to play music by a chosen composer each week. The (l-o-n-g) list
of composers featured in the past appears at http://iawm.org/radio-requests/past-radiorequests/, along with links to Web pages containing biographical information and
discographies.
This week, we are asking broadcasters to play music composed by
mail with details will follow this newsletter.
Kati Agócs.
An e-
Every week, Advocacy Committee chair Ursula Rempel researches and selects a composer,
Advocacy Committee member Hsiao-Lan Wang adds the new Radio Request to our Web page
(http://iawm.org/radio-requests), and participants in this list telephone and e-mail local and
Internet classical radio stations and ask them to broadcast work by the chosen composer. A
list of "friendly" stations--those inclined to broadcast music written by women--appears
below.
RESOURCE DIRECTORY:
The Advocacy Committee encourages every composer and performer with a commercially
produced CD to send it to appropriate stations--and, as Ursula Rempel says, "let us know that
you have."
We encourage everyone who hears women's compositions over the airwaves or the Internet to
thank the broadcasters.
A growing list of “friendly” stations follows. "Friendly" stations are those inclined to broadcast
recordings of compositions by women and living composers.
[If possible, before mailing CDs, go to the stations' Web pages to get a sense of the types of
music they play.]
ABC Classic FM (Australia). The Web address is http://www.abc.net.au/classic/. Please direct
correspondence relating to Australian music recordings and events to producer of Australian
Music Unit Stephen Adams ([email protected]). For New Music Up Late, please
also contact Julian Day ([email protected]). For all other Australian Music Unit
inquiries, please contact Greg Dobbs ([email protected]) and Lorna Lander
([email protected]).
Berklee Internet Radio Network (BIRN). Lisa Marie Garver seeks "all varieties of choral
music," preferably a cappella. At the website, www.thebirn.com, click on "contact us,"
download a legal document, sign it, and send it with your CD(s).
CKWR. Tom Quick hosts two programs of Women in Music per month on FM 98.5 CKWR, in
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, 9:00-11:00 P.M. EDT). He also hosts Celtic Connections 3:30-
5:00 P.M. Sundays and includes "a lot of women" in that show. He is interested in settings of
Celtic poetry, folk songs, composers, and performers--and especially Canadian content. The
station can be heard over the Internet at www.ckwr.com. For further information, please
contact Tom Quick directly at [email protected].
COAST TO COAST A.M. Composers and performers interested in having excerpts of their
work played as "bumper music" on Coast to Coast A.M.--a commercial radio program carried
by "more than 500 stations in the U.S., as well as Canada, Mexico and Guam" and "heard by
nearly three million weekly listeners"--may want to see
http://www.coasttocoastam.com/article/new-music-sundays. The first Sunday of every
month, Coast to Coast A.M. plays short clips of new music as transitions between program
segments.
HILDEGARD TO HILDEGARD (www.hildegardtohildegard.blogspot.com), "an exclusively
female music show, ancient to contemporary, from Hildegard von Bingen to Hildegard
Westerkamp,"runs in the United Kingdom Thursdays at 2:00 P.M. (GMT) on Soundart Radio
(www.soundartradio.org.uk). Producer Ariane Delaunois reports, "We offer air space to living
female composers and sound artists, classical, electro-acoustic, electronic and experimental,
any music written by women that isn't pop genre, singer-writer. We love receiving CDs (best
to e-mail first); don't hesitate to submit your music!" The e-mail address is
[email protected].
KALX (http://kalx.berkeley.edu/kalxfaq.htm). Information about submitting music is at
http://kalx.berkeley.edu/submit_music.htm. Music directors Lindsay Melnyk and Brittney
Stanley can be reached at [email protected] ("Do NOT email MP3's or other
attachments!"). The mailing address is
KALX / Attention: Music Director / University of California / 26 Barrows Hall #5650 /
Berkeley, CA 94720-5650 (U.S.A.).
KDFC (http://www.kdfc.com/) in San Francisco, California (USA) (online at www.kdfc.com).
CDs may be sent to Rik Malone, Music Director, Classical 102.1 KDFC, 201 Third Street, Suite
1200, San Francisco, CA 94103. You may e-mail him through the Web page. Please note that
Rik reports that "we try to stay as tonal and melodic as possible in our playlist."
KGNU-FM (www.kgnu.org). You may contact Timm Lenk, Music Director, throught the Web
page. The mailing address is KGNU-FM, 4700 Walnut St. Boulder CO 80301 (U.S.A).
KLCC. Nanci LaVelle ([email protected]), who hosts Sisters, would be happy to receive
CDs from performers as well as composers, and the music need not be classical. The address
is: 136 W. Eighth Ave. / Eugene, OR 97401 USA. The Web address is http://www.klcc.org.
Also, Frank Gosar, folk music host, says, "I've always tried for a balance of male and female
voices and performances on my radio show. I'm certainly willing to hear more quality music
by women songwriters and performers." His e-mail address is [email protected]. Send CDs to
Frank Gosar, The Saturday Café, KLCC, 4000 E. 30th Ave., Eugene, OR 97405.
KMFA (http://www.kmfa.org/) was named one of the IAWM's Honored Broadcasters for its
commitment to broadcasting music written by women. Also at KMFA, IAWM member
Kathryn Mishell— winner of the 2009 Gracie Award for Outstanding Portrait/Biography,
given by American Women in Radio and Television (AWRT) in recognition of "superior
quality in writing, production and programming," and the 2008 Silver Communicator Award
of Distinction for Audio—produces and hosts Into the Light, which broadcasts women's
compositions over the airwaves and the Internet (http://www.kmfa.org/listen_index.htm).
Contact KMFA: 3001 N. Lamar #100, Austin, TX, USA. Please note that Into the Light is on
hiatus.
KMUD plays "anything but hard rock." Broadcasts are streamed on the Internet and archived.
Go to www.KMUD.org to see which programs are appropriate for your vinyl records and CDs.
Contact program hosts through the Website (http://kmud.org/).
KRVM (http://www.krvm.org/index.html). Owned by Eugene School District 4J, KRVM can
be heard online at http://www.krvm.org/listen/listen.html. "We have a show, Women In
Music, which airs Tuesday evenings from 7:00 to 9:00 P.M. We're open to receiving any CDs
by women artists for consideration of airplay," says program director Ken Martin. "The show
features contemporary music as opposed to classical, jazz or world music. CDs may be
addressed to KRVM / Women In Music / 1574 Coburg Rd #237 /Eugene, OR 97401 (USA). I'll
be sure they get into the right hands."
KTRU, affiliated with Rice University in Houston, TX (USA), produces Scordatura, which is
dedicated to new music, avant-garde music, electroacoustic music, soundscape, and anything
unusual. The station broadcasts seven hours of new music (many different kinds) each week.
They also interview composers and performers of contemporary music on the show. The Web
page is http://www.ktru.org/ (there's a "Listen Now" button). Composers and performers may
send CDs and contact information to: Scordatura Show/KTRU-FM/Ley Student Center/Rice
University/6100 Main St./Houston, TX 77005.
KUFM plays a very eclectic mix of musical genres--from opera to hip hop. Its personnel have
been known to read at length from liner notes of living composers. You may contact from the
Web page: Michael Marsolek, Program Director, or Susan Israel, Morning Classics Music
Director. Montana Public Radio, the University of Montana, Missoula, MT, 59812-8064, USA.
(406) 243-4931. 1-800-325-1565. http://www.mtpr.net/contact.html.
KUSP (http://www.kusp.org/). You may e-mail the station through the Web page. CDs can be
sent to "Music Director" or Johnny Simmons, Librarian /KUSP / 203 Eighth Avenue / Santa
Cruz, CA 95062.
KWAX (http://www.kwax.com/about.php) was named one of the IAWM's Honored
Broadcasters for its commitment to broadcasting music written by women. Streamlined on
the Internet at http://www.kwax.com/listen.php and archived, KWAX's broadcasts also
include an Arts Line interview two mornings a week. Contact Caitriona Bolster:
[email protected]. The mailing address is University of Oregon, 75 Centennial Loop,
Eugene, OR, 97401 (USA).
Radio ArtsIndonesia (www.radio.artsindonesia.com) in Jakarta, Indonesia, programs
classical music 24/7 “with special attention to classical (serious) compositions by Indonesian
composers, conductors, musical groups, and soloists. In addition, we support the
development of new serious compositions by living composers. We broadcast over 25 percent
of our music which we classify as contemporary with a large number by women composers.
Please Note: Do not send more than nine CDs at one time and please indicate the value of
each CD as $1.00 and that the CDs are a donation. Also compositions can be sent as mp3 files,
as our mailbox has no limitations on the size of the file. Please make sure to include the
composer's name, title of the compositions, performers with instruments, and year
composed." Please submit recordings to Charles Dean Conrad / KP Sumber ASRI AJ No. 17 /
RT 002 RW 05 / Kecomberan / Talun / Cirebon 45171 Indonesia. Please e-mail mp3 files to
[email protected]. For more information, please consult the Web page or contact
[email protected].
Radio Horizon 93.9 FM in Johannesburg, South Africa. Station manager Dimitri Voudouris
says that the station likes to broadcast "works by women/living composers." He prefers to be
contacted before people send CDs: [email protected].
Radio Monalisa, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, is available over the Internet at
http://www.radiomonalisa.nl. Patricia Werner Leanse produces and hosts Muziek Van
Vrouwelijke Componisten (Music by Women Composers). Contact her through the Web site.
Radio NZ. Susan Frykberg seeks material by women composers of electroacoustic music and
asks that people send recordings, biographical material, and program notes "by yousendit or
the like, or snail-mail it to me at 76 Virginia Rd. / Whanganui 5401 / New Zealand."
Sveriges Radio, Swedish Public Radio (http://sverigesradio.se/), carries Birgitta Tollan's
series, Ord och bild blir musik. Levande tonsättare berättar (Words and Images Become
Music. Living Composers' Stories), and Birgitta reports that she is "very interested in
receiving CD's from composers and performers!" Composers and performers may contact her
at [email protected]. Her surface mail address is Birgitta Tollan / H C Oersteds Vej 11 A, 3
T H / DK 1879 Frederiksberg C / Denmark.
On WCFC (Flagler College radio in St. Augustine, Florida, USA) IAWM member Ellen
Grolman hosts Music of Our Mothers: Celebrating Women Composers, Wednesdays, 1:003:00 P.M. EDT. "If you are interested in possibly having some of your music performed on the
show," Grolman says, "feel free to send the CD to me": Ellen Grolman / 192 Anastasia Lakes
Drive / St. Augustine, FL 32080. Her e-mail address is [email protected].
WCRB. In 2009, WCRB was bought by WGBH. WCRB’s 99.5 FM is all classical. CDs may be
sent to: WGBH /Attention: Alice Abraham / 1 Guest Street / Brighton, MA 02135 (U.S.A.). For
further info & playlists go to www.wgbh.org.
WETA (http://www.weta.org/fm). Classical WETA 90.9 FM accepts all proposals via the U.S.
Postal Service. Send CDs you would like considered to WETA-Classical 90.9FM / 2775 South
Quincy Street / Arlington, VA 22206 (USA).
WFIU Public Media (wfiu.org) in Bloomington, IN focuses some of its programming
(primarily the weekly contemporary music program Wednesdays at 11:00 P.M. CDT and a
subsequent podcast) on emerging composers. "We acknowledge the importance of
recognizing the work of living composers and seek to create new avenues especially for young
composers to have their music heard. We would also like to feature prominently the work of
women composers. We encourage composition students or other emerging composers . . . to
submit CD quality recordings of . . . original works for consideration for airplay." Interested
parties may contact WFIU's Music Director David Wood at [email protected] or (812)
855-3451. CDs and accompanying information may be posted to WFIU Music Director David
Wood / 1229 E. 7th St. / Bloomington, IN 47405 USA.
WGBH (www.wgbh.org/ classical is now news/jazz (also world & Celtic). In 2009, WGBH
bought WCRB. CDs may be sent to: WGBH /Attention: Alice Abraham / 1 Guest Street /
Brighton, MA 02135 (U.S.A.). For further info & playlists go to www.wgbh.org.
Whisperings (www.SoloPianoRadio.com) plays solo piano music exclusively. Composers and
performers are invited to go to the submissions link at the bottom of the home page, to check
whether recordings are currently being accepted.
WHRB (http://www.whrb.org/). CDs may be sent to: WHRB c/o Classical / 389 Harvard
Street / Cambridge, MA 02138 (U.S.A.).
WMBR (http://www.wmbr.org). Ken Field ([email protected]) hosts The New Edge
(http://wmbr.org/newedge), "devoted to creative and innovative instrumental music." More
information is available at the Web site. CDs can be sent him at The New Edge / WMBR
88.1FM / 3 Ames Street / Cambridge MA 02142 (U.S.A.).
WMUA 99.1 FM (http://www.wmua.org/). Program director Nick Russo says that his
program, Nothing to Say and Saying It, Max Shea's program Martian Gardens, and DJ
phloyd's program Ear Contact are the likeliest WMUA venues. "If artists could contact me
first," he says, "that'd be best since we tend to get a lot of music from many places and
wouldn't want to duplicate what's already in our library." Please e-mail him at
[email protected], and send CDs to Nick Russo / WMUA / 105 Campus Center /
University of Massachusetts / Amherst, MA 01003 (USA).
WNUR is committed to listen to every recording submitted to it, and plays quite a range of
genres. According to the station's Web page, "There's no reason to contact anyone at WNUR
before sending your music; however, if you want to ask any questions, you should contact the
music director or producer of the show you are sending your music to." Please see WNUR's
Web site:
http://www.wnur.org/about/wnurfaq.html#Should_I_contact_you_before_sending_my.Th
e address is WNUR 89.3 FM / Attn: [genre of music] / 1877 Campus Drive / Evanston, IL
60201 (USA). To listen online, click on a link at http://www.wnur.org/.
WNYC (New York) can be heard over the Internet; go to http://www.wnyc.org/schedule/.
Contact hosts David Garland and/or John Schaefer at [email protected].
On WOMR, IAWM member Canary Burton plays a great deal of music by women and living
composers of both sexes. In addition to commercially produced CDs, she broadcasts some
concert recordings on The Latest Score which she produces and hosts. To listen to the show,
go to http://www.womr.org, click on the Listen tab at the top of the page, and follow the
prompts. Contact: 1-800-921-WOMR (9667); 1-508-487-2619. http://www.womr.org;
http://www.seabirdstudio.com/WOMR.html. "If you want your music played on a radio
station that broadcasts to Cape Cod and the South Shore of Massachusetts and streams to the
world," host Canary Burton says, "mail your music to Box 3057, Wellfleet, Ma, 02667."
WOSU-FM (http://www.wosu.org/) at Ohio State University may be heard over the Internet:
http://www.wosu.org/radio/listen-live/. For composers and performers interested in sending
CDs to the station, the address is WOSU-FM / WOSU Public Media / 2400 Olentangy River
Road / Columbus OH 43210-1027 (USA). Music Director Beverley Ervine may be reached at
[email protected].
WPRB. Classical Discoveries on WPRB, 103.3 FM and online at www.wprb.com in Princeton,
NJ (USA), regularly plays women composers' music. Winner of the 2005 ASCAP Deems
Taylor Radio Broadcast Award, Classical Discoveries (Wed. 5:30-11:00 A.M.) is devoted to
little known repertoire of all musical periods with an emphasis on the old (Baroque and
before) and the "New Classical Music." Composers and others interested in sending CDs
should first e-mail Marvin Rosen from the Web page, http://www.classicaldiscoveries.org,
because, he says, "Occasionally I receive a CD from a composer of a genre that is not suitable
for my program or a recording I already have."
WQXR (http://www.wqxr.org/). To have recordings considered for WQXR, the 24-hour
classical station, please send them to the attention of the Music Department. To have them
considered on Q2, a 24/7, online music stream that celebrates 500 years of new music, please
send them to the attention of Alex Ambrose. The address is Classical WQXR 105.9 / Attn:
[appropriate person or department] / 160 Varick Street, Eighth Floor / New York, NY 10013
(U.S.A.). "Please know we receive a tremendous number of CD submissions, and thus call
backs will only be made to artists with whom a show is interested in working."
WRR-FM (http://www.wrr101.com/?id=1) in Dallas, Texas, streams classical music on the
Internet, at http://www.wrr101.com/stream.shtml. Contact program director Kurt Rongey at
[email protected] or send recordings (CDs only) to Box 159001 / Dallas, Texas 753159901 (USA). Telephone: (214) 670-8888.
WTJU 91.1 FM and online at http://www.wtju.net/">www.wtju.net</A, at the University of
Virginia in Charlottesville, VA, USA. IAWM member Sarah O'Halloran, who co-hosts a
program of 20th and 21st century music, reports, "I play music by female composers on all of
my shows,"and encourages IAWM members interested in sending her CDs or uploading CDquality files to the Internet, to email her at [email protected].
WXXI-FM 91.5 in Rochester, NY, USA (streamed worldwide on the Web, at
http://interactive.wxxi.org/listen). Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra Music Director Arild
Remmereit is highlighting women composers in his inaugural season, which is broadcast on
WXXI-FM 91.5. Contact music director (and midday host) Julia Figueras
([email protected]), who handles new recordings, schedules interviews with composers and
performers, and writes the classical e-newsletter.
--Linda Rimel, Advocacy Committee member
[Broadcast Update is available on the Web page of the International Alliance for Women in
Music (http://iawm.org), as are the identity and Web address of the current Radio Request
composer and a growing list—more than 400 so far—of previous Radio Request composers
with links to their Web pages.]