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WEB MUSIC
August 21, 2001
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By Janos Gereben
The Music of the Web
Today's Web Music tip: If you want to capture a sound file to keep on your hard disk, then when you click on the link, use the right button on the mouse. You will see a Save Target As option on the pulldown menu that opens. Select that option to keep the file. (Just be careful how large a file you choose because sound files tend to be huge.) If you wish instead to play the file as streaming media, just click on the left mouse button.
All times given here are Pacific Daylight Time.
For broadcasts from the 2001 Bayreuth Festival, see Opnetradio, and note the upcoming Die Meistersinger — with Emily Magee and Robert Dean Smith, Christian Thielemann conducting — at 10 a.m., on August 30.
Ireland's Lyric-FM (www.lyricfm.ie/) has a consistently interesting broadcast schedule. One of the current highlights is a series of Arts Council presentations of writers, critics, and artists visiting Ireland. For information about the Critical Voices series, see Arts Council.
The BBC Proms roll on as summer progresses, being broadcast live daily, beginning 11:30 a.m., at www.bbc.co.uk/radio3. Note the Wednesday, August 22, concert conducted by Yuri Temirkanov, lately of Baltimore, back with his old orchestra, the St. Petersburg Philharmonic. Lang Lang is the soloist in the Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 3. Tchaikovsky's First Symphony ("Winter Daydreams") concludes the program. For Proms information, August 24–30, see BBC Proms Week 6. The famed Last Night at the Proms, September 15, will go heavily American this year, including music by Sousa and John Adams, featuring Frederica von Stade, conducted by Leonard Slatkin.
For S.F. Bay Area listeners, KDFC-FM is available at 102.1 on the old-fashioned radio dial, but for S.F. Classical Voice readers around the world, the Web equivalent is www.kdfc.com/. This is a timely note, considering that when the S.F. Symphony starts its season on September 5, KDFC will be the place to listen from a distance — any distance. The opening concert, with Audra McDonald, will be broadcast live, beginning at 8:30 p.m., with the rest of the season to be heard on a delayed basis.
Radio Portugal's classical music service (RDP Antena 2) broadcasts complete opera performances on Thursdays, beginning at noon. On August 23, it's Verdi's La Forza del Destino (or, on that station, A Força do Destino), Riccardo Muti–La Scala, with Mirella Freni, Dolora Zajic, and Plácido Domingo.
The 2001–02 Texaco–Metropolitan Opera radio broadcast schedule is now up on Met Broadcasts.
Concerts in Toronto's Glen Gould Studio are broadcast on the CBC. For a list of Canadian Broadcast Corporation stations, see cbc.ca/audio.html. For program information, see glenngouldstudio.cbc.ca/. For CBC opera broadcast information, see CBC opera calendar.
From Oklahoma, KCSC-FM, www.kcscfm.com/, has daily classical music programming from 4 a.m. to 5 p.m., when special broadcasts begin according to the following schedule: Monday — S.F. Symphony; Tuesday — Berlin Philharmonic; Wednesday — Clyde Martin's opera program; Thursday — Chicago Symphony. (Janos Gereben is arts editor of the Post Newspaper Group and technology editor for www.the451.com. You can contact him at janos451@earthlink.net.) ©2001 Janos Gereben, all rights reserved |