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Authoritative reports from the world's most respected news service—Weekdays: 6:00 and 8:00 a.m., 12:00 noon, 6 p.m.; Saturdays, 1:00 PM; Sundays, 12:00 noon. WCLV local newscasts are weekdays at 7:00 and 7:30 a.m., 12:06 p.m., and 5:00 and 5:30 p.m.; Sundays, 12:06 p.m. |
| THE BLACK ARTS |
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WCLV's The Black Arts, hosted by A. Grace Lee Mims, is an hour-long magazine programs devoted to exploring black composers and performers. The program also features "The Black Arts Calendar," a listing of arts events involving and of interest to the African-American community. Interviews with significant musicians are an occasional feature. Wednesday evenings beginning at 10:00. |
| BALDWIN-WALLACE CONCERTS |
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WCLV is pleased to present a series of live and recorded broadcasts from the Baldwin-Wallace Conservatory, including spring programs from the renowned Bach Festival. Watch the WCLV program guide for specific concerts. |
| BIG WORK AT ONE |
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Monday through Friday, WCLV clears the board from 1:00 to 2:00 p.m. to present lengthy works that we are not normally able to broadcast during the day because of commercial traffic: Brahms piano concertos, Bach choral works, etc. Big works, little talk. |
| CIM LIVE! |
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Since 1989, WCLV has presented a regular series of live concerts by faculty and students from the Cleveland Institute of Music. Participants in CIM's Broadcast Procedures class, which is taught at the WCLV studios, write the scripts and assist in backstage production. |
| CITY CLUB FORUM |
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For over 100 years, the City Club Forum of Cleveland has served as a free-speech platform for the nation, inviting nationally recognized speakers to address the Forum on the significant topics of the day. The City Club Forum's broadcasts can be heard on Fridays at 10:00 p.m. |
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| THE CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA |
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WCLV's flagship programs are the weekly Cleveland Orchestra concerts, part of the station's schedule since 1965. "The best band in the land" (Time Magazine) is heard twice each week on WCLV. Saturdays from Severance, at 8:00 p.m., presents live and recorded concerts. The traditional Sunday 4:00 p.m. Cleveland Orchestra on the Radio broadcasts feature recorded concerts from the current season as well as programs produced from archival broadcasts.
WCLV also produces and distributes an annual 26 week national and international series of Orchestra broadcasts. |
| CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA PREVIEWS |
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This weekly WCLV program, which airs on Wednesdays at 3:00 p.m., previews selections that are to be played during that week's Cleveland Orchestra concerts. On weeks when the Orchestra is not performing, Previews becomes Cleveland Orchestra Showcase, with performances from the Orchestra's extensive commerical recordings library. The program is hosted by WCLV's music director John Simna
or midday host Mark Satola. |
| CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA ARCHIVES |
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Friday evening at 9:00, WCLV presents an hour-long program that draws on the extensive discography of the Cleveland Orchestra. John Simna hosts. |
| COMPOSERS DATEBOOK |
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What do Chopin and Corelli have in common with Chick Corea and John Corigliano? Listen to Composers Datebook and find out! It's on WCLV weekdays at 9:00 AM and 4:00 PM; also, about 1:00 AM on WCLV All Night. Saturdays, it's heard at 10:00 AM; Sundays at 11:00 AM. Composers Datebook is a daily two-minute program designed to inform, engage, and entertain listeners with timely information about composers of the past and present. Each program notes significant or intriguing musical events involving composers of the past and present—with appropriate and accessible music related to each. Composers Datebook is produced by American Public Media in association with the American Composers Forum, with support from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. The creator of the series and its principal writer is John Michel of the American Composers Forum. The announcer is John Zech. You can sign up to receive a free daily e-mail from Composers Datebook. |
| CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY CONCERTS |
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Each school season, WCLV presents a number of live broadcasts from Cleveland State University featuring faculty and students of the CSU Department of Music. These generally originate from Drinko Hall.
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| ESSENTIAL CLASSICS |
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Monday through Friday at 8 p.m., we
air at least one of WCLV's 104 Essential Classics—works that every classical
music listener should know. If it's your
first exposure to these works, welcome
aboard! If you have heard the piece
before, Essential Classics is a chance
to reacquaint yourself with some of the established masterpieces
of classical music. |
| FOOTLIGHT PARADE |
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Grammy Award-nominated record producer Bill Rudman is perhaps the nation's greatest authority on the world of Broadway musicals. He shares his love and knowledge of the musical theater with the WCLV audience each Saturday evening at 6:00 p.m. WCLV is the home station
for Footlight Parade, which is heard on some
100 stations, including in Indonesia.
The program is produced by The Musical Theatre Project. |
| FROM THE TOP |
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From the Top is the weekly hour spent with some of the nation's most talented pre-teen and teen musicians. This delightful program is hosted by pianist Christopher O'Riley and is heard on WCLV Saturdays at 5:00 p.m. repeated Sundays at 9:00 am . After hearing this program, you'll be less concerned about the future of classical music. |
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| METROPOLITAN OPERA |
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WCLV has been a proud member of the Metropolitan Opera Radio Network since December 1969, when it became the first FM-only commercial station to carry the Met. The Saturday afternoon live broadcasts, which air December through Mayl, are more than opera performances. They are a national cultural icon. |
| MERIDIAN |
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Meridian is a rich aural tapestry of the most entertaining orchestral and chamber music: an hour of music specifically chosen to accompany your midday break, hosted by Mark Satola and Nancy Sinning. WCLV airs Meridian Mondays through Fridays and Sundays at 12:10 p.m. following BBC and local news. |
| MUSICAL PASSIONS |
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Every Saturday at 10:00 AM, you are invited to tune in to Musical Passions, with your host Eric Kisch. Musical Passions is a one-hour program that focuses on great recordings that have excited the passions of your host or his guest. You'll hear selections from the instrumental, small ensemble, large orchestral, concerto, vocal, and choral repertoire—both mainstream and offbeat—featuring the greatest artists of the last century. Introductions and commentary reflect the very personal choices of the host. |
| INNOVATONS |
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In a Plain Dealer article, Donald Rosenberg stated that classical-music radio stations tend to play works by composers who are dead, white, and male. Throwing these requirements to the wind, WCLV and the Cleveland Composers Guild present an hour of music by northern Ohio composers each Sunday at 9:00 p.m. The program is produced and announced by WCLV's Mark Satola. |
| OBERLIN CONCERTS |
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WCLV presents live concerts from the Cooper
Internation Piano and Violin Competitions, both from the Oberlin campus andf the Severance
Hall finals with The Cleveland
Orchestra. . . |
| SYMPHONY AT SEVEN |
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Heard Monday through Sunday, 7:00 to 8:00 p.m.;an hour of symphonic music that has been aired by WCLV since October 1964. |
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| WEEKEND RADIO |
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Saturdays at 10:00 p.m., Robert Conrad puts together an appealing mixture of classical music, cross-over selections, and comedy bits. The latter draw on WCLV's extensive collection of comedy and humor LPs and CDs, some of which date back to the early 1950s. The program is heard nationally on some 80 stations. |
