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The WBRS Fall 1995Program Guide
The WBRS Fall 1995
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Dedicated DJs wake up before the sun rises to bring you the best in children's music, stories and information. But this show isn't just for kids. As with all shows on WBRS, we choose our selections from a wide variety of music spanning many different cultures and genres. Plus, we give away all sorts of free things on the air, including children's tapes, CDs and books. And, of course, we're always willing to take requests.
Our listeners are almost as diverse as our programming, ranging from children of all ages, to college students coming off an all-nighter, to anyone else who happens to be awake at six in the morning. So whether you crave stories like Dr. Seuss's classic, "Horton Hatches an Egg," silly songs such as Barry Louis Polisar's, "Don't Be Rude to a Rhinoceros," celebrity recordings like Paul McCartney's version of "Mary Had a Little Lamb," or even a cut off of the new hit album from the Muppets, "Kermit UnPigged," Alphabet Soup is the show for you.
Let's all alphabetize!
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Arts Corner is your entertainment guide to Brandeis and Boston. Every Monday night at 7pm we feature reviews, previews and interviews.
Arts Corner includes movie and concert reviews, and also gives listeners the scoop on theater, dance, festivals, exhibits, comedy, performance and visual art in the Greater Boston Metro area. In the past, we have featured interviews with Letters to Cleo, Dana Carvey and Love Spit Love. Our reporters have reviewed The Who's "Tommy", David Copperfield, LIVE, The Ringling Bros. Barnum and Bailey Circus, and the Nutcracker last season... just to name a few. For visual art, we review exhibits at the Museum of Fine Arts, The Rose Art Museum and the Institute of Contemporary Art. Arts Corner is packed with exciting entertainment information and local calander listings. There are ticket giveaways and contests during every show.
Now that you have an idea what we did last year, you'll know just how much more we're doing this year.
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The Blues, as one of America's oldest and most enduring music, has seen its popularity ebb and flow in a constant pattern of neglect and then rediscovery. Through its dark days, which lasted the better part of two decades in the sixties and seventies, up to today's resurgence in popularity, the music and the musicians have carried on undaunted by social trends.
The purpose of WBRS' "True Blues" radio program is to service the music and the musicians who work hard at preserving this uniquely American art form we call the Blues. Local people like producer and musician Ron Levy, pianist Dave Maxwell, guitarist Ronnie Earl and Tone Cool Records label head Richard Rosenblatt are major players on a world-wide scale in their efforts to preserve and promote the genre. They all "went to school" with the masters, learning the lineage on the road and in the process becoming teachers themselves. "True Blues" supports them in their efforts.
On a personal level, it is extremely satisfying to be able to present "True Blues" and to witness the prosperity the music so richly deserves. As an eight year veteran of the airwaves I have seen trends in popular music in a constant state of flux. The Blues are always right there where you found them, uplifting and healing all those who drink from its well.
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Saturday nights from 9pm to midnight, "Stage and Screen" showcases a variety of music from the world of show business. There is a mixture of showtunes, soundtracks and TV themes.
"Stage and Screen" is a hybrid of the best available soundtracks of the past and present ("Someone to Love", Jon B. and Babyface, "Night Fever", Bee Gees, "(Everything I Do) I Do It For You", Bryan Adams). Many of the soundtracks are absolutely awesome. We've got "Grease", "Footloose" and Prince's "Purple Rain". And who can help but think of John Travolta swaggering down the streets of Brooklyn when they hear the Bee Gees' "Stayin' Alive"?
"Stage and Screen" is situated between rock and rap. On a frequent basis, "Stage and Screen" takes advantage of this by creating a synergy between the two in order to get the perfect Saturday night party atmosphere. Throw in jazz, folk, new age, children's and alternative rock and news briefs about the TV and movie industries and you've got a true mix anywhere in metro-Boston on a Saturday night. WBRS' "Stage and Screen", proving that there is something for everyone.
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On Saturday mornings wake up to the sounds of Torelli, Vivaldi, Bach, Haydn, Mozart and more of your favorites. Fortissimo, the classical music show at WBRS, presents music of the Western High Art Tradition from the Middle Ages to the present day. Perhaps your tastes range to the less familiar repertoire--the music of the Ars Subtlior, the pre-classical, the futurists, the text/sound movement from Schwitters to Amirkhanian, or any other sub-genre. Call in your requests at 736-5277 and we'll plunder our archives for those rarities as well as the popular classics. In the past, Fortissimo has presented the music of Dufay, Ockeghem, Josquin, G.B. Sammartini, music for the Dance and an occasional opera. Listen and let us know your thoughts on the music you'd like to hear.
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