THE NEW SHOW IS...

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If you read yesterday's blog, I'm sure you're here today waiting for the name of the new addition to the KUAZ schedule August 4th. That show is...

Go ahead and read a snippet of the AZPM news release about the Diane Rehm Show below.

The Diane Rehm Show to air mornings on KUAZ 89.1FM/1550AM. The program offers Southern Arizona listeners the opportunity to participate in one of National Public Radio’s most popular shows

The Diane Rehm Show will join the KUAZ radio weekday line-up beginning Monday, August 4th from 9-11 a.m. For more than 25 years, Rehm has offered listeners her unique voice to lively conversations on current topics and guests which include many of the nation's top newsmakers, journalists and authors.

Each week, more than 1.7 million listeners across the country tune in to the program, which has grown from a small local morning call-in show on Washington's WAMU 88.5 to one of public broadcasting's most-listened-to programs distributed by National Public Radio, NPR Worldwide.

“Every day we talk about what’s in the news,” Rehm said. “There will be stories that capture the imagination and discussions as diverse and interesting as the people of Tucson.”

The program will replace what is now the repeating fifth hour of Morning Edition from 9 to 10 a.m. and Fresh Air with Terry Gross from 10 to 11 a.m. During this time of year, when most of the rest of the country observes Daylight Saving Time, Fresh Air will follow Talk of the Nation at 1:00 p.m. During Standard Time, Fresh Air will follow The Diane Rehm Show at 11:00 a.m. The twice-annual change to the schedule is made so that both hours of Talk of the Nation are broadcast live year-round in Tucson. Here & Now, which airs at 1:00 p.m. weekdays, will leave the schedule after Friday, August 1.

NEW WEEKDAY SHOW COMING

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Okay, it's not new, per se, but it's new to KUAZ. This particular show is quite popular on other NPR stations and it will debut locally August 4th.

We're not doing any official promos until tomorrow, so I can't mention the name of the show just yet, but it will start at 9 a.m. If you're a NPR junkie, I'm sure you can figure it out.

Stay tuned!

UNASKED QUESTIONS (ANOTHER IN A SERIES)

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Yesterday, UApresents issued a press release crowing that the campus impresario has ended the fiscal year about $90,000 ahead and with more than $1 million in advance ticket sales for next season. The press release is duly re-written with a couple of new quotes in the Arizona Daily Star this morning. But what neither the press release nor the rewrite told us is the state of the old deficit. A couple of years ago, the organization was a million dollars in the hole. Has the old debt been retired? Forgiven? Or does it still lurk there? It’s a simple question that should have been answered in the news story. And it would have been good to front-load the information that UApresents has been undertaking some severe cost-containment measures, including a reduction in attractions and periodic staff firings. Good newspapers are not merely conduits for image-polishing press releases.

THE OTHER AMADEUS

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We’re almost caught up with links to my articles for Strings magazine that appeared during the blogging hiatus. A couple of issues back, I wrote a piece on the string music of a very interesting figure:

Karl Amadeus Hartmann may be the most significant 20th-century composer whose music you barely know. His _Concerto funèbre_, a mature, moving work for violin and orchestra, is the main composition that carries Hartmann’s name from one concert hall and CD player to another, but even string players familiar with that piece probably don’t realize there’s more violin music where that came from. Early in his career, Hartmann wrote two suites and two sonatas for solo violin. These pieces from the 1920s have only recently entered circulation. They don’t entirely suggest Hartmann’s later style, but they are recital-worthy and show Hartmann was an assured composer almost from the beginning.

There’s more, including a chat with German violinist Viviane Hagner about one of those early suites, available here.

Oh, and to motivate you to visit the site, here’s a picture of Viviane Hagner:

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July 22nd 2008 at 7:52 — c (0) — K— f g k t

GOVERNOR SPEAKS ON ISSUES

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Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano spent almost a half-hour yesterday talking to KUAT-TV's "Arizona Illustrated." She addressed a number of topics in this exclusive sitdown interview.

Napolitano answered questions about AIMS testing, tourism, Mars studies at the University of Arizona, state and local politics and more. You can view the entire interview here and you can tune into KUAZ newscasts for snippets excerpted from the interview.

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July 22nd 2008 at 7:25 — c (0) — K— f g k t

GOVERNOR TO VISIT AZPM

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Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano will spend 30 minutes answering questions tonight during a special edition of Arizona Illustrated on KUAT-TV.

The governor will come to the Channel 6 studios after touring the Phoenix Mars Mission Operations Center on campus. That no doubt will be one of the topics she discusses in the half-hour interview that begins at 6:30. You can see the interview shortly thereafter right here on our website. Look for the "On Demand" link at the top of this page, or navigate over to "TV" and look to your left.

The panelists firing off the questions will be Bill Buckmaster, Christopher Conover and James Bennett.

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July 21st 2008 at 8:16 — c (0) — K— f g k t