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CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE! On WorldSpace Satellite Radio!
Dear Friends & Listeners,
I'm very happy to announce some very big news: Classical Guitar Alive! expands to WorldSpace Satellite Radio's Maestro channel (channel 224) beginning March 24, 2007!
WorldSpace Satellite Radio provides digital satellite audio to the emerging markets of Africa and Asia. The broadcast footprint of its two satellites covers over 130 countries including India and China, all of Africa and the Middle East and most of Western Europe Š an area that includes five billion people and more than 300 million automobiles. WorldSpace has 180,000 subscribers in India alone.
In 2008, WorldSpace expands its Western European coverage in order to roll out automobile satellite radio to Europeans, beginning in Italy.
Classical Guitar Alive! will air twice weekly on WorldSpace Satellite Radio:
Saturdays at 1200GMT and Sundays at 0000 (midnight)GMT.
Since WorldSpace covers 12 time zones, these two airings at different times will offer the widest possible listenership. The first timeslot is great for London listeners (Saturdays at noon!) and the second timeslot is great for Hong Kong listeners (Sunday mornings at 8:00am). Subscription info available at: http://www.worldspace.com
And, as always, you can listen online at anytime, from anywhere in the world here on the playlist page of our site: http://www.guitaralive.org/playlist.html
Classical Guitar Alive! is broadcast worldwide thanks to the generous support of the Kodosky Foundation, Charles & Taako Parker, the City of Austin, the Texas Commission on the Arts, Malcolm Cooper, and the kind support of numerous individual contibutors.
Thanks for listening, and thanks for your support,
Tony
Tony Morris, Executive Producer
Classical Guitar Alive! radio program
Classical Guitar Alive!, the only nationally-broadcast guitar radio
program in the United States, can now be heard at any time from anywhere
in the world. In partnership with radio station Classical 89.5 FM KMFA,
multiple editions of the Classical Guitar Alive! program can now be
heard in an online archive via the internet for streaming-on-demand.
Classical Guitar Alive! host and guitarist Tony Morris joins the music
faculty of Texas Lutheran University in Seguin, TX as guitar instructor.
For over 20 years, Texas Lutheran has been listed by U.S. News & World
Report's college rankings as one of the nationÕs best regional
comprehensive colleges, and offers undergraduate degrees including a
Bachelor of Music degree in guitar performance. "I'm honored to teach
and be a part of one of the nation's leading four-year universities.
It's not easy being a music student, let alone a classical guitar
performance major, but it's even tougher after you graduate. I know,
because I've already been there. My goal is to train guitarists to
become highly-skilled classical musicians, while bringing a unique
real-world perspective that prepares students for success after they
leave the university." For more information:
http://www.tlu.edu/academics/music/faculty/morris.html
Classical Guitar Alive! producer Tony Morris is interviewed by British
music journalist Alan Clive Jones in the August 2006 edition of
Classical Guitar Magazine. To read the interview and learn more about
subscription information:
http://www.guitaralive.org/interview.html
In the past, the only way to hear the program outside the US was to
wait for one of the 22 weekly internet simulcasts. Now, listeners
anywhere in the world can listen at anytime, and can choose from several
editions. For the first time ever, music and interviews with the world's
leading guitarists, performers, and composers can be heard anywhere in
the world at any time. To paraphrase Neil Armstrong, this is a giant
leap forward for the classical guitar.
To listen online, visit:
http://www.guitaralive.org/playlist.html
Tony Morris joins the music faculty of Texas Lutheran University
Tony Morris featured in Classical Guitar Magazine
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The Second Performance at the White House
December 7, 2004
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Tony Morris & Friends Encore Performance at the White House
Guitarist and public radio host Tony Morris returned for a second performance at the White House in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, December 7, 2004 with guest musicians including flutist Renata Green, violinist Jennifer Bourianoff and percussionist James Fenner. The private performance was part of the annual holiday celebrations at the White House and was attended by members of Congress and their families, White House staff, and administration officials. The program included a variety of solo and chamber music with guitar, including works by Telemann, Piazzolla, holiday music, and more. The program also included the World Premiere performance of a recently-discovered work for solo guitar titled "Guitare" by the famous "Les Six" French composer Germaine Tailleferre (1892-1983). Two solo guitar works dedicated to Tony Morris by living composers were also premiered: "Midnight" by Denmark's leading guitarist/composer, Kaare Norge, and "Sarabande", by Australian composer, Dr. Russell Saare.
Tony Morris, who hosts the internationally-broadcast public radio program "Classical Guitar Alive!" first performed at the White House in 2002 with flutist Renata Green, percussionist James Fenner, and cellist Shu-Yi Scott in a private performance attended by White House staff and administration officials, including Dr. Eileen Mason, Acting Director of the National Endowment for the Arts.
Washington DC
Tuesday, December 7, 2004
4:00pm
Holiday Celebration Concert
with
Tony Morris & Friends
featuring
Renata Green, flute
Jennifer Bourianoff, violin
James Fenner, percussion
World Premiere Performance:
Germaine Tailleferre (1892-1983): "Guitare"
Tony Morris, guitar
World Premiere Performance:
Kaare Norge (b. 1961): "Midnight"
Tony Morris, guitar
World Premiere Performance:
Russell Sarre (b. 1963): "Sarabande"
Tony Morris, guitar
Georg Phillip Telemann (1681-1767), arr. Welch: "Trio Sonata in a:
Largo, Vivace, Affetuoso, Allegro"
Renata Green, flute, Jennifer Bourianoff, violin; Tony Morris, guitar
Sergio Assad (b. 1952) : "Valseana"
Renata Green, flute; Tony Morris, guitar
Gismonti (b. 1947): "Agua y Vinho"
Jennifer Bourianoff, violin; Tony Morris, guitar
Antonio Lauro (1917-1986): "Venezuelan Waltz #3"
James Fenner, percussion, Tony Morris, guitar
Joao Guimares (1883-1947 ) "Sons de Carrilhoes"
James Fenner, percussion, Tony Morris, guitar
Michael Langer (b. 1959): "Suite Latina": "Danza Colombiana", "Milonga"
James Fenner, percussion, Tony Morris, guitar
Peeter Vahi (b. 1955) "To His Highness, Salvador D."
Renata Green, flute, Jennifer Bourianoff, violin; James Fenner, percussion; Tony Morris, guitar
Alice Gomez (b. 1960) "Las Olas"
Renata Green, flute, Jennifer Bourianoff, violin; Tony Morris, guitar
Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992): "Libertango"
Renata Green, flute, Jennifer Bourianoff, violin; James Fenner, percussion; Tony Morris, guitar
Leroy Anderson (1908-1975) "Sleigh Ride"
Renata Green, flute, Jennifer Bourianoff, violin; James Fenner, percussion; Tony Morris, guitar
Christmas medley
Renata Green, flute, Jennifer Bourianoff, violin; James Fenner, percussion; Tony Morris, guitar
Classical Guitar Alive! is coming to Euroradio Network in 2004! Euroradio broadcasts in Geneva, Brussells, London, Paris, Rome, Nicosia, Jerusalem, Kiev, Dublin, Reykyvik, Madrid, Barcelona, Lisbon, Valetta, Zagreb, Athens, Ankara, Sofia and more, reaching an audience of 190 million people.
