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January 11
2004
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“Musical Passions,” weekly hour of music exploration,
with Eric Kisch debuts.
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January 18
2004
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WCLV, WRMR, WCPN and WNWV broadcast Cleveland
Orchestra’s annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Concert
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March 5
2004
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First broadcast in a four program series of chamber
music concerts from the Chapel at Western Reserve
Academy presented by Music from Western Reserve.
The Seneca Trio performed.
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March 17
2004
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The first of eight live Matinee Concerts from Judson
Manor featuring young artists from Oberlin,
Baldwin-Wallace and CIM aired.
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May 3
2004
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WCLV/WRMR President Robert Conrad is
honored with a Golden Achievement Award in
Arts from the Golden Age Centers
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June 1
2004
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WRMR/WCLV Red Cross Celebrate Life
Blood Drive is held at La Centre.
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June 3
2004
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Concerts by the San Francisco Symphony return
to WCLV for 26 weeks. Station also distributes
the series world-wide.
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June 18
2004
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WCLV receives the National Award of the
American Red Cross for its three-times a year
Celebrate Life blood drives.
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July 6
2004
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Cleveland Classical Radio announces the sale of
Classic Pops WRMR 1420 to Salem Corporation.
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July 9
2004
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Bill Randle, Cleveland radio DJ for over half a
century and host of WRMR’s “Big Show,” dies at the
age of 80.
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July 11
2004
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WRMR airs special memorial program in honor
of nationally renowned air personality Bill
Randle. Ironically this is also the last day of
WRMR. At midnight, the station is taken over
by the new owners who change the format from
American standards to talk. The Randal memorial
program was repeated on WCLV on July 17.
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August 7
2004
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WCLV holds the First “Elegant Picnic”
competition at Blossom Music Center.
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August 19
2004
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WCLV covesr The Cleveland Orchestra European
tour with reports by Nikki Scandalios, the
Orchestra’s Director of Public Relations,
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August 21
2004
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WCLV broadcasts the Blossom Festival Band
concert live from Blossom and furnishes 5000 of the
attendees with “pencil batons.”
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September 1
2004
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WCLV holds the Fall Fest Blood Drive at Executive
Caterers. 366 pints of blood are collected.
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September 14
2004
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WCLV’s “First Program” with Jacqueline Gerber is broadcast live
from Cleveland Clinic’s Children’s Hospital.
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September 19
2004
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34th WCLV/Cleveland Orchestra Marathon is
aired first from Severance Hall on the “Day of Music”
and then from The Arcade in downtown Cleveland.
through Thursday. That night, WCLV broadcasts
the opening concert of the season live from
Severance Hall.
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September 26
2004
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Arts on the Air begins its 7th season on WCLV.
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October 2,
2004
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The Detroit Symphony concerts, produced and
distributed nationally by WCLV begin their
2004-2005 season at 104.9.
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October 9 &
23, 2004
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Two “Viva Piano” concerts featuring two laureates
from the 2003 Cleveland International Piano
Competitions are broadcast by WCLV.
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October 15
2004
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New York Philharmonic concerts begin on WCLV.
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October 16
2004
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Andrews School sponsors Robert Conrad’s
”Weekend Radio” nationally on some 125
stations.
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October 28
2004
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“The Singer’s Art” with Fadel Fulkerson begins
airing on Sunday nights.
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October 29
2004
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WCLV makes second annual donation of $5000
each to five Cleveland cultural institutions –
Cleveland Orchestra, Cleveland Museum of Art,
Cleveland Institute of Music, Cleveland Play House,
and Cleveland Foundation.
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November 1
2004
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WCLV and Key Bank celebrate 40 years of ”Symphony
at Seven” with a live concert by Apollo’s Fire from
Severance Hall.
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December 31
2004
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WCLV broadcasts the Cleveland Pops New Years
concert live from Severance Hall.
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January 4
2005
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WCLV underwrites the recording of Cleveland
Boy Choir’s first CD.
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January 8
2005
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“Offbeat,” a program produced by CIM that explores
unique aspects of classical music, debuts on WCLV.
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January 12
2005
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WCLV announces annual Valentine’s Day Love
Poem Contest,
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January 16
2005
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WCLV broadcasts The Cleveland Orchestra’s
Martin Luther King Concert live and fees the
program to WCPN and WNWV.
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January 18
2005
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WCLV’s annual “Celebrate Life” blood drive
at Executive Caterers is a record setter, with 725
pints of blood collected.
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January 31
2005
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WCLV broadcasts Severance Hall concert by
the St. Olaf Choir live.
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February 1
2005
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WCLV’s music critic Jerome Crossley covers The
Cleveland Orchestra Carnegie Hall concerts
featuring the five Beethoven Piano Concertos with
Radu Lupu.
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February 5
2005
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WCLV begins two broadcasts a week of concerts
by The Cleveland Orchestra, with the addition of
”Saturdays from Severance” at 8:00 PM. Many
of the Saturday concerts are live.
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February 6
2005
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Long-time classical music radio personality Karl Haas, host of ”Adventures
in Good Music”, heard on WCLV and radio stations throughout the world,
dies in Detroit at the age of 91. WCLV had carried and distributed
AIGM since 1970.
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April 14
2005
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Klassix Society at Southern Missouri State University and
KXMS renames its Fine Art Radio International Award the
“Karl Haas Prize for Music Education.”
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May 31
2005
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WCLV covers The Cleveland Orchestra tour of the West Coast
with reports by Assistant Conductor James Gaffigan.
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June 3
2005
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WCLV’s Salute to the Cleveland International Piano Competition raises
$50,000 for the CIPC. The three day event is broadcast from The Arcade in
downtown Cleveland.
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June 7
2005
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WCLV Spring “Celebrate Life” Blood Drive for the Red Cross goes to
La Centre. 457 pints of blood are collected.
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June 11
2005
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WCLV sponsors “Meadowlarks and Mozart Tour”
to the OK Mozart Festival in Bartlesville, Oklahoma. Jacqueline
Gerber hosts the tour.
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July 2
2005
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The Blossom Festival Band July 4th Concert is
broadcast live by WCLV.
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July 5
2005
July 29
2005
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The Cleveland Orchestra’s Public Square
concert is broadcast live by WCLV and WCPN.
Station broadcasts live finals of the Oberlin International Piano
Competition, featuring teenage participants, from Warner Concert Hall.
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July 31
2005
August 5 & 6
2005
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Second annual WCLV Elegant Picnic competition is held
at Blossom Music Center.
WCLV broadcasts the Concerto Rounds of the 2005 Cleveland
International Piano Competition with The Cleveland Orchestra
live from Severance Hall, after wall-to-wall coverage of the CIPC.
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September 1
2005
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WCLV broadcasts a 35 minute medley called “Traffic Jam” to
kick off the Ingenuity Festival with marchers in Public Square
carrying radios tuned to 104.9. Station also carries
several live music broadcasts from the Arcade as part of
the Festival.
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September 3
& 4, 2005
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WCLV airs two concerts by The Cleveland Orchestra from the
BBC Proms in London.
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September
6, 2005
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WCLV begins airing six concerts from the BBC Proms
including a live broadcast of the “Last Night of the Proms.”
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September
9, 2005
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The WCLV Red Cross “Fall Fest” Blood Drive is held at
Corporate College East. The goal is 250 pints of blood. 265 are
collected.
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September
18, 2005
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Station helps The Cleveland Play House celebrate its 90th
anniversary with a live broadcast from the Rotunda
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September
24, 2005
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WCLV begins its 40th season of broadcasting The Cleveland
Orchestra with a live concert from Severance Hall.
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September
26, 2005
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WCLV broadcasts the August 8th PAND concert of Bach selections
conducted by Andrew Grams.
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October 2
2005
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Detroit Symphony broadcasts return to WCLV, the 2005-2006 season
a farewell to conductor Neeme Jaervi.
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October 6
2005
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WCLV presents the first of three special broadcast in honor
of Gerhardt Zimmerman’s 25th anniversary as Music
Director of the Canton Symphony.
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October 18
2005
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WCLV’s Bill O’Connell joins The Cleveland Orchestra to
report on the ensemble's European tour to Luxembourg,
Frankfurt, Cologne, Vienna and Budapest.
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October 19
2005
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Dr. Beverly Simmons hosts the first of a series of programs
celebrating the 20th anniversary of CWRU’s “Chapel, Court and
Countryside” concerts.
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October 21
2005
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Music from the Western Reserve concerts from the Chapel at
Western Reserve Academy in Hudson resume.
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November 1
2005
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Cleveland State music professor Andrew Rindfleish hosts the
first of a monthly series of contemporary music called
”The New Music Studio.”
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November 10
2005
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WCLV travels to the Lorain County Community College to
host the “Thanks-4-Giving” Life Share Blood Drive. 150 pints collected.
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November 30
2005
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Jenny Northern is named Vice President and General Manager
of WCLV. She succeeds Richard Marschner, who continues
as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer.
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December 17
2005
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75th anniversary season of the Metropolitan Opera broadcasts
begins on WCLV with “Rigoletto.”
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