RADIO SHOW OF THE WEEK.Byline: - Fred Shuster ``PERFORMANCE TODAY'' What: National Public Radio's flagship arts program, hosted by Fred Child Fred Child is the host of the classical music radio program Performance Today on American Public Media. He is also the announcer and commentator for the PBS program Live from Lincoln Center. , offers discussion, reviews and classical music recorded in concert around the world. Where: KCSN-FM (88.5). When: 11 a.m. weekdays. Regular features: In-studio guests, classical CD picks, essays by Time magazine writer Terry Teachout Terry Teachout (born 1956, Cape Girardeau, Missouri) is a critic, biographer and blogger. He is the drama critic of The Wall Street Journal, the music critic of Commentary and an ongoing survey of the millennium's most important classical works. Quote: ``The appeal of the show is that it goes from Kansas City Kansas City, two adjacent cities of the same name, one (1990 pop. 149,767), seat of Wyandotte co., NE Kansas (inc. 1859), the other (1990 pop. 435,146), Clay, Jackson, and Platte counties, NW Mo. (inc. 1850). to New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , from Montana to Seattle, from Paris to Miami,'' said Martin Goldsmith, the program's senior commentator. Off the air: Child, 37, was director of cultural programming at New York's WNYC-FM and is guest classical-music columnist for Billboard. Background: A native Oregonian, Child spent 10 years with Oregon Public Broadcasting Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB) is the primary public broadcasting network for most of Oregon as well as southern Washington, with (as of 2006) over one million viewers throughout that region and an average of over 380,000 radio listeners each week. Radio. You'll like this if: ... you like classical radio KMZT-FM (105.1). On the Web: www.npr.org/programs/pt. |
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