FEBRUARY 2018 PROGRAM GUIDE

FEBRUARY 2018 PROGRAM GUIDE

from alan

Monthly column from Alan Chartock.

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PROGRAM NOTES

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PROGRAM SCHEDULE

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WAMC-FM broadcasts 365 days a year to eastern New York and western New England on 90.3 MHz. Our studios and offices are in Albany, NY.

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FROM ALAN

ALAN CHARTOCK

Well, the fund drive raised two million dollars. That's incredible. Two million dollars! We had to buy that tower on top of Mount Greylock once we knew it would be available. If someone else had gotten the tower and we were required to move OUR ANTENNA? even just a few feet ? it could have been disastrous. We would have been obligated to reapply to the Federal Communications Commission for our license and we might well have lost our grandfather status on the tower which permits us to reach so many of our listeners.

When we finished the drive I was filled with incredible gratitude for everything that all of you did to help. We all were. It is no secret that there were plenty of people who thought we couldn't do it and, out of love, said so. They thought it was too heavy a lift and suggested that we borrow the money. I said that I knew that you would come through and you did. If we had borrowed the money, we would have been paying back a lot of interest for a long time. Not only did you do it, but you did it in the same time it has taken us to garner half that amount in previous fund drives. It is my hope that we'll never have to do that again.

Of course there are always traditions. As we were ending the drive, someone called and said, "I want to hear the story!" The story, of course, is how the station got started and rose out of nothing. There we were in 1979. The Albany Medical College (that's the "AMC" in WAMC) was going broke. They had used the station as a teaching tool for two-way medical conferences. Doctors gathered in emergency rooms with two-way radios and were told how to do various surgeries and procedures. Years later an old man came up to me and said, "You've got a pretty good station there but not as good as when they would tell us how to take out a gall bladder."

Anyway, it started when I first heard the station in 1979. I called to ask if I could do a weekly politics show and found out the station had hit the skids. So we had that first historic fund drive to "Save Our Station (SOS)" with astounding results. I was on the air all day long and the money came in big time. But then the guy running the station said I wasn't needed anymore and boy was I depressed. I had found the thing I wanted to do most in the world but I was out.

Joe Donahue was magnificent. He is a very smart man. He and Colleen O'Connell arranged all the partnerships that allowed your pledge to do double duty, helping the homeless, providing diapers for babies in need, and providing healthful community meals for the food insecure.

The fund drives themselves are always fun. It's a time to get together and share our lives and stories and likes and dislikes. It's a time for humor, too. Ray Graf is simply the funniest man I know. His talent is limitless. He is so smart. I just love working with the guy. He is dedicated to making a fund drive run smoothly. Every morning when I come in very early he is always there. When we start to trade loving insults, David Guistina always says, "Boys, boys, save it for the show!"

I was on the train going down to New York to consult with the New York City Police Commissioner, Patrick V. Murphy. I was really depressed. I decided to get a V8 in the bar car and when I came out with my drink, there was an older guy sitting there. He recognized me and I told him my rather sad story. That was Dr. Alan Miller and he said he thought he could help us since he was the Associate Dean of the Albany Medical College, the licensee. There's a lot more to the story but not enough time to tell it here. If you listen to the next fund drive, you'll hear the best part of the whole saga. Tune in!

In the meantime, thanks for all you have to done to keep the station on track. We truly love you all.

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PROGRAM NOTES

KRISTIN GILBERT

Join us Monday, February 19th as we celebrate President's Day and Black History Month with special programming:

9AM-Presidential Essentials 2018 The highs and lows of presidential history told through a variety of music, comedy, sounds, and voices from FDR to Obama and Trump, plus eventful remembrances of Washington and Jefferson.

Witness the antics of The Capitol Steps, Jay Leno, Dennis Miller, George Carlin, Chevy Chase, and John Toomey. Hear Stan Freberg lampoon George Washington, James Whitmore play Harry Truman, Charlie Warren impersonate Jimmy Carter, and Rich Little play Nixon, Ford, Carter, and Reagan. Hear Ronald and Nancy Reagan in the movies, the real voices of FDR, Truman, Eisenhhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush 1, Clinton, Obama, and Trump, plus The Capitol Steps' version of Bush 2, Obama, and Trump. Epochal music by Dave Brubeck, Fleetwood Mac, Duke Ellington, Kenny G, Burt Bacharach, and more.

10AM-Say it Loud: Great Speeches on Civil Rights and African American Identity

wrote his own essays in response to their lives. Plus: The first presidents lived long lives for that era, with most of them living into their 80's or even 90's. Rebecca Brannon says that they may have been mistaken in the expectation that they would be given respect after office, based on their longevity and lifetime experiences.

Later in the show: Sue Purdue and Kathleen Williams describe the scope of the remarkable project of the National Archives called Founders Online. Plus: Some of the proofreaders who spent three years immersed in the handwriting of the founding fathers came away with a very intimate understanding of those who shaped our country.

Coming up this month on the Metropolitan Opera Saturday Matinee Broadcasts: Saturday, February 10th @1PM-L'Elisir d'Amore (Donizetti) Pretty Yende debuts a new role at the Met with her first Adina opposite Matthew Polenzani, who enthralled Met audiences as Nemorino in 2013 with his ravishing "Una furtiva lagrima." Bartlett Sher's production is charming, with deft comedic timing, but also emotionally revealing. Domingo Hindoyan conducts.

"Say It Loud" traces the last 50 years of black history through stirring, historically important speeches by African Americans from across the political spectrum. With recordings unearthed from libraries and sound archives, and made widely available here for the first time, "Say It Loud" includes landmark speeches by Malcolm X, Lorraine Hansberry, Angela Davis, Martin Luther King Jr., Henry Louis Gates, and many others"

11AM-The Freed People Written and Produced by David Freudberg, in association with WGBH. This one-hour Humankind documentary examines how America responded to a massive refugee crisis, when four million newly emancipated slaves needed shelter, employment, education and the basic rights at the close of the Civil War. Hear historians, brief readings from letters of people who were there, performances of "Negro Spirituals" and more.

2PM-Getting to Know the Presidents At the end of President Trump's first year in office, Bill Antholis and Barbara Perry take a look at how it compares to other presidential first years. And: Writer Colin Rafferty read a biography of every single president--and then

Saturday, February 17th @12PM--Parsifal (Wagner)

Met Music Director Designate Yannick N?zet-S?guin conducts Wagner's transcendental score, in Fran?ois Girard's remarkable production, a mystical theatrical journey. Tenor Klaus Florian Vogt, renowned across Europe, returns to the Met following his appearances in the 2016?17 season as Florestan in Fidelio. Evelyn Herlitzius is Kundry, and Peter Mattei and Ren? Pape bring back their highly praised interpretations of Amfortas and Gurnemanz, respectively.

Saturday, February 24th @1PM-- La Boh?me (Puccini)

The world's most popular opera returns in Franco Zeffirelli's classic production, with a series of exciting casts. Angel Blue, Anita Hartig, and Sonya Yoncheva (left) share the role of the fragile Mim?, with Dmytro Popov, Russell Thomas, and Michael Fabiano alternating as the poet Rodolfo. Alexander Soddy and Marco Armiliato share conducting duties.

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LIVE AT THE LINDA

Live At The Linda airs every Wednesday night (and Sunday's in July and August) from 8pm - 10pm on WAMC Northeast Public Radio bringing you some of the best musical acts to come to The Linda - WAMC's Performing Arts Studio

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The Big Takeover from May 27 2017 and The Dream Eaters from August 23, 2017

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Heather Maloney wsg Belle- Skinner from September 23, 2017

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Adrian Belew from June 19, 2010 and Sonos from October 8, 2010

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Moondance (A Tribute to Van Morrison) from March 24, 2017

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