January 2010 Specials on WUFT & WJUF-FM

1) "Capitol Steps:  Politics Takes a Holiday!  New Year’s Edition" will air on Thursday, January 1st at 7:00pm
      
2) "Inside Out: Nursing, A Shortage" will air on Saturday January  2, 2010 at 4:00pm.
      
3) "Florida Free Speech Forum featuring Stanley K. Smith, professor of economics and the director of the Bureau  
        of Economic and Business Research (BEBR) at the University of Florida, speaking on
        "Florida’s Population Growth: Where It’s Been and Where It’s Going" will air on Sunday, January 3, 2010 at 11:00am.
   
4) "Inside Out: The Quality Of Death, End Of Life Care" will air on Saturday, January 9, 2010 at 4:00pm.
   
5) "Inside Out: This Doctor Can't See You Now" will air on Saturday, January 16, 2010 at 4:00pm.
   
6) "Inside Out: The Vanishing Middle Class" will air on Saturday, January 23, 2010 at 4:00pm.
   
7) "American Radio Works: Rising by Degree" will air on Saturday, January 30, 2010 at 4:00pm.
   
 

                                 Specials on WUFT-HD 2
 
 

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   "The Ebčne Quartet" - will air on Sunday, January 24th at 2:00pm on the Sunday Show.      
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Sunday, January 24th at 2:00pm on the Sunday Show

      
     

The Ebčne Quartet

      
     
   
       Program
  Haydn: String Quartet in D Major, Op. 71,  No. 2
  Beethoven:  Quartet in F Major, Op. 18,  No. 1
  Beethoven:  Quartet No. 7 in F Major Op. 59, No. 1
  Theme From Pulp Fiction by Dick Dale & His Del-Tones (Miserlou) arr for St Qt by Ebčne Quartet
   
           Pierre Colombet: violin
         Gabriel Le Magadure: violin
         Mathieu Herzog: alto
         Raphaël Merlin: violoncello
   
     
     
           Seeing the Ebčne Quartet perform live is "…an exciting, almost life-changing event."      
           This performance is a part of a two-season Beethoven Cycle. Begun during the 2007-08 Season, the Beethoven Cycle is a series of concerts that will present some of the best musicians in the world performing Beethoven’s string quartets.      
            A String Quartet That Can Easily Morph Into a Jazz Band praised The New York Times’ Alan Kozinn after hearing the Quatuor Ebčne perform in March 2009.      
      Mesmerized, Mr. Kozinn describes how the four musicians first performed Haydn and Debussy before – following the intermission – performing their own arrangement of the music from the movie "Pulp Fiction", improvising to Chick Corea’s "Spain", and finally closing with an encore in which the quartet unveils the vocal talents of an excellent a capella quartet.      
           There is no doubt: These four French musicians have class and are perhaps the most creative ensemble on the international chamber music scene today. No other quartet moves with such ease and enthusiasm between different styles and, even if the foursome only rarely presents live programs that combine classical music and Jazz, "The other Ebčne" page on the quartet’s website offers visitors several music clips of their more contemporary arrangements, an integral part of the ensemble’s repertoire.      
           Rather unusual in today’s world of chamber music, the Quatuor Ebčne’s stylistic acrobatics may at first meet defiant ears, due in part to the general misuse of the term "crossover", which so often serves to cover mediocrity and redundancy. And yet, with the Ebčnes, whenever they create a new work, it is always with taste and integrity.      
           Nevertheless, the quartet’s traditional repertoire does not suffer in any way from its love of Jazz. On the contrary, it would seem that the Ebčnes’ tendency to delve into the "other side" of music inspires their work in untangling and giving new life to classical works. During its performance at the Hitzacker summer festival in 2009 for example, the quartet was heard playing a quartet by Haydn with such spontaneity, it gave the impression that this music, over 200 years old, was somehow just composed. There is, in French ensemble music today, a certain élan, which suits modern chamber music particularly well. This new generation of French musicians, their hearts full of passion for tradition, have been captivating audiences with great success, converting listeners into avid fans of the chamber music genre. Their performance is so convincing, their stage presence so charismatic, that one cannot escape the spellbinding magic of these masterpieces.      
           The Quatuor Ebčne has studied extensively with the Ysaye Quartet in Paris as well as with the eminent Gábor Takács, Eberhard Feltz et György Kurtág. Since its dramatic 2004 triumph at the prestigious ARD international competition in Munich, where the quartet was also awarded five additional special prizes, the Ebčnes have gone on to win the Forberg-Schneider Foundation’s Belmont Prize in 2005. It has since remained close to the foundation, which very generously arranged to have the quartet outfitted with several unique Italian instruments, on loan to the quartet members from private owners.      
           From "promising young ensemble", the Quatuor Ebčne has grown to become one of today’s foremost quartets on the international scene. Recently the foursome was specially selected to take part in the BBC’s esteemed "New Generation Artists" scheme, closely supported by the Borletti-Buitoni Foundation, which sponsored their first, critically acclaimed live recording of works by Haydn as well as a second CD entirely devoted to works of Bartók.      
           2009 also marked the beginning of an especially fruitful collaboration with the Virgin Classics label. The quartet’s Debussy, Ravel and Fauré recording was recently awarded "Recording of the Year" by the prestigious magazine Gramophone as well as "Chamber Music Record of the Year" by ECHO-classik. The Ebčnes’ latest recording of works by Brahms, featuring pianist Akiko Yamamoto, demonstrates once again, the quartet’s ease in a range of styles.      
           A Jazz and World Music album, entitled Fiction, is scheduled for release in 2010. Who knows, perhaps the Ebčnes may hit all the top charts? With this ensemble, it’s clear that anything is possible.