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Faculty Artist Concert Series returns to WICR

CDFAC_Leppard - 2014 opener 10th anniversary - web [1]Good news: Our amazing faculty musicians are returning to our fabulous radio station.

After a brief hiatus, broadcasts of the Department of Music [2]‘s Faculty Artist Concert Series will resume a weekly schedule at 1 p.m. Saturday on UIndy public station WICR-88.7 FM/HD [3]. (The broadcast follows Hoosier History Live! [4], which airs at noon and this week features Associate Professor Laura Albright discussing women’s voting rights.)

The concert recordings had been airing regularly for over a decade and weekly since 2009,  until earlier this year when the station restructured its schedule and programming provider Fine Arts Society shifted its focus under a new name, Classical Music Indy. Under the new arrangement, the shows will be produced by the WICR staff but still hosted by CMI program director and on-air personality Michael Toulouse.

“Until the new programs happen, we’ll be be playing a few reruns, which certainly include some compelling performances,” said Professor Richard Ratliff, coordinator of the Faculty Artist Concert Series [5]. “The plan is eventually to include student ensembles and solo performances, broadening the scope to ‘UIndy Concerts.'”

Saturday’s broadcast will feature these selections and musicians:

Antonio Soler: Concerto No. 1 in C Major for two keyboards (Thomas Gerber, Marko Petricic)

Amy Beach: “A Hermit Thrush at Morn” (Rebecca Sorley)

Olivier Messiaen: “Le merle noir” (Tamara Thweatt, Rebecca Sorley)

Walter Piston: Trio No. 1 (Austin Hartman, Dennis McCafferty, Richard Ratliff)

Bobby Womack: “Breezin'” (Steve Weakley, Kevin Anker, Jonathan Wood, Art Reiner)

Charles T. Griffes: “The White Peacock” (Stephen Beus, from his recent CD release on the Harmonia Mundi label recorded at the Ruth Lilly Performance Hall)

The student-staffed WICR provides the only regular classical and jazz radio programming in central Indiana. Learn more here [3].