Morning Concert on WUOT
Weekdays from 9-12 p.m.
The Monday program starts off with "Mystery Melody Monday" inviting listeners to identify the music selected. "First Friday" is Melony's request show heard morning's on the first Friday of each month. Listeners can send in requests via email to mgdodson@utk.edu or by phone at 865-974-5541, or send them on our Facebook page.
Composers Datebook airs at approximately 10 a.m.
Note: playlists are not posted during fund drive weeks in the spring and fall.
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Myra Melford talks with Todd Steed about her upcoming Big Ears performance this Saturday at the Bijou with her dynamic Fire and Water Quintet.
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Charles Lloyd talked with Chris Woodhull about his, new amazing recording, The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow. They also discuss his upcoming Big Ears performance and the new documentary, Charles Lloyd: Arrows Into Infinity, showing at the festival.
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Melony Dodson talks with Rhiannon Giddens, Artistic Director of the Silkroad Ensemble, about American Railroad and the Grammy Award-winning ensemble's upcoming performance at the Big Ears Festival 2024. Giddens also discusses her other performances at the festival, including collaborations with Christian McBride, Francesco Turrisi, and many others.
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Guitarist and composer Julian Lage returns to the Big Ears Festival. He talks with Todd Steed about his affinity for Knoxville, his latest recording and how he changed things up for his upcoming tour.
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Melony Dodson talks with guest conductor, Vinay Parameswaran and cellist, Tommy Mesa. Maestro Parameswaran will lead the KSO in its March Masterworks concert, which will feature Mesa as soloist. He will perform Tchaikovsky's Rococo Variations and Silent Woods by Dvorak.
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Melony Dodson talks with guest conductor, Michelle Di Russo, who leads the Knoxville Symphony Chamber Orchestra, in a program with an "Italian" theme. Featured on the program will be KSO cellists, Sarah Senn and Adam Ayers, who will perform Vivaldi's Concerto for Two Cellos.
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Melony Dodson talks with conductor, Brian Salesky, about French Grand Opera and the Amadeus Chamber Ensemble's upcoming performance, "French Opera Jewels."
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Melony Dodson talks with Knoxville Choral Society music director, John Orr. Members of the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra will join the chorus in its performance of Christopher Tin's The Lost Birds: An Extinction Elegy
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Melony Dodson talks with Maestro Aram Demirjian and composer, Sarah Gibson, about the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra's upcoming Masterworks concert. The KSO will perform the TN premiere of Gibson's composition to make this mountain taller.
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Melony Dodson talks with Maestro Regulo Stabilito about the Oak Ridge Symphony's performance of "Bach & Friends" featuring music for brass, percussion, and organ.