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September Radio Highlights and Listings
Complete Program LISTINGS below


WSKG Radio adds 2 new programs in September!
weekend schedule changes

NPR’s Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me! airs Saturday mornings at 11, beginning Saturday, September 6th.

For a wacky and whip-smart approach to the week's news and newsmakers, listen no further than Wait Wait…Don't Tell Me!, the oddly informative news quiz from NPR. During each fast-paced, irreverent show, host Peter Sagal leads what might be characterized as the news Olympics. Callers, panelists, and guests compete by answering questions about the week's events, identifying impersonations, filling in the blanks at lightening speed, sniffing out fake news items, and deciphering limericks. Listeners vie for a chance to win the most coveted prize in radio: having official judge and scorekeeper Carl Kasell record the outgoing message on their home answering machine. Many listeners have requested the program over the last couple of years and WSKG is proud to present it as part of our revamped weekend schedule.


Out of Bounds with Tish Pearlman airs Sunday mornings
at 11:30, beginning Sunday, September 7th
.

Out of Bounds was created, and is produced and hosted by Tish Pearlman, a broadcast journalist originally from California and now based in Ithaca, NY. The show features interviews with visionaries: people living, working and thinking outside the mainstream. The program takes on such diverse subjects as racism, breast cancer, how to inspire young people, current social and political issues, voting, lesbian and gay concerns, classical and popular music, theatre, science, journalism, food, communication, and more.

The mission of Out of Bounds is to move beyond the disrespectful ranting and meanness of current popular radio and to forge understanding among people of diverse backgrounds. The subject matter serves to redefine the “mainstream” and traditional boundaries, while also enlightening, educating and inspiring listeners about issues and concerns common to us all.


WSKG Radio Schedule Changes

Weekday schedule change:
NPR’s Morning Edition will be extended to 9am, weekdays, beginning September 1. The Writers' Almanac with Garrison Keillor will be heard within Morning Edition, at 8:34am. Classical music begins at 9:06, after the hourly newscast.

Weekend schedule changes:
To make room for two new programs, we've re-arranged things on the weekends, starting in September. The programs affected and their new airtimes are listed below, alphabetically by program name. (Click here to see the new schedule.)

Capitol Connection: Sunday, 11am
Car Talk: Saturday, 10am (rebroadcast on Sunday at 1pm)
Harmonia: Saturday, 7am
NPR World of Opera: Saturday, 1pm
Out of Bounds: Sunday, 11:30am
Pipedreams: Sunday, 5:30am
Selected Shorts: Sunday, 7pm
Sound and Spirit: Sunday, 8pm
Soundscape: Sunday, 9-11pm
St. Paul Sunday: Sunday, 8am
Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me!: Saturday, 11am (rebroadcast on Sunday at 6pm)
Weekend Radio: Saturday, 12noon
Weekend Edition Saturday, with Scott Simon: Saturday, 8-10am
Weekend Edition Sunday, with Liane Hansen: Sunday, 9-11am
With Heart and Voice: Sunday, 7am

Additional changes to WSQX 91.5:
In order to complement our programming on WSKG, the lineup on WSQX has also changed. As of September 1st, Morning Edition will begin at 9am, weekdays. Please look for weekend schedule changes in the WSQX program listings.


We understand the new schedule may mean a significant change to your listening routine. We hope that you will find that WSKG is serving you better. Your comments are welcome at WSKGComment@wskg.org. You may leave a phone message at (607) 729-0200 that will be transcribed and read by our staff, or you may contact the Radio Manager, Ken Campbell, at (607) 729-0100 extension 339.

Off The Page

Tuesday, September 2nd LIVE at 1:00 PM (rebroadcast at 7:00 PM)
Edward A. Dougherty is one of today’s most prolific poets and an associate professor at Corning Community College. He gets together with Bill Jaker to read “poetry of witness” from his newest books, “The Luminous House”, “Pilgrimage to a Gingko Tree” and “Part Darkness Part Breath”. We'll also share poems sent in by listeners to WSKG.Radio@Gmail.com (please include your poem in the body of the message, not as an attachment).

Tuesday, September 16th
Henry Nicols of Cooperstown was an unlikely representative of people with AIDS. A Hemophiliac whose medical condition never kept him away from a boy’s normal adventures, Henry’s crusade for understanding people who were HIV+ began as an Eagle Scout community project and carried him to national prominence. His death in a vehicular accident at age 26 ended a life marked with tragedy but also filled with youthful verve. Hank Nicols has now written about his extraordinary son and his family in “Henry for President”.

To join in the conversation on OFF THE PAGE call during the live 1:00 PM broadcast to 888/359-9754 or send an e-mail to WSKG.Radio@Gmail.com.


Consolidation -- the Perennial Question, September 29th & 30th

Public officials, business leaders, academic experts and members of the public provide background and vision on the question of government consolidation in Broome County.

Introductory reports on MORNING EDITION and ALL THINGS CONSIDERED on Monday and Tuesday, September 29th and 30th will give background for a one-hour live interactive discussion on Tuesday 9/30 at 7:00 PM, hosted by WSKG's Bill Jaker.


WSKG Radio Program Listings

Weekdays

Evenings:

Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday

Weekdays 5am to 7pm

5am       Morning Edition® with Steve Inskeep & Renee Montagne from NPR, state & regional news from Gregory Keeler and Karen DeWitt.
5:50am   Marketplace Morning Report with Scott Jagow from American Public Media
6am       Morning Edition continues
8:19am  
Earth & Sky with Joel Block & Deborah Byrd
8:34am   The Writers' Almanac with Garrison Keillor from APM
9:06am   Classical Music with WSKG's Gregory Keeler (
with NPR News at 9:01 and 10:01)
10:06am
Classical Music with WSKG's Bill Snyder (NPR News at 11:01 and 12:01)
1pm       NOTE: T, W, and Th 1:00pm programs are rebroadcast that evening at 7:00pm

Monday
On the Media with Brooke Gladstone and Bob Garfield from WNYC and NPR

Tuesday

  • 9/2, 9/16 Off the Page hosted by WSKG’s Bill Jaker **see highlights for guest information
  • 9/9 tba
  • 9/23 tba
  • 9/30 tba

Wednesday
Alternative Radio 

Thursday
Hearing Voices from NPR

Friday
Living on Earth with Steve Curwood from NPR. Focusing on Environmental issues.

2pm       Performance Today from APM with Fred Child
4pm       Fresh Air with Terry Gross from WHYY, Philadelphia and NPR
5pm       All Things Considered with hosts Melissa Block, Michele Norris & Robert Siegal; state & regional news from Scott Hollis, Crystal Sarakas, and Karen DeWitt

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Monday evenings

7pm       This American Life with Ira Glass from PRI (rebroadcast of Sunday’s program)
8pm       Nature Watch with Bob Kantor
8:02pm 
Classical Guitar Alive
9pm       By Special Invitation

  • 9/1 Deutsche Welle Festival Concerts: Beethoven Festival in Bonn, 9th concert; Sir Neville Marriner, cond.; Julia Fischer, violin; Academy of St Martin in the Fields; Sibelius: Violin Concerto; Beethoven: Sym. No.4.
  • 9/8 Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra; Andreas Delfs, cond.; Todd Levy, clarinet: Goebbels: D & C aus dem Zyklus; Copland: Clarinet, Cto.; Schubert: Sym. No.9, “Great.”
  • 9/15 “Last Night of the Proms” BBC Symphony Orchestra; Sir Roger Norrington, cond.; Bryn Terfel, bass-baritone; Hélène Grimaud, piano; BBC Singers; BBC Symphony Chorus; Beethoven: Creatures of Prometheus Ovt.; Choral Fantasy; Wagner: Tannhäuser -- Song to the Evening Star; Puccini: Tosca -- Te Deum; Verdi: Falstaff – “Ehi paggio!”
  • 9/22 Deutsche Welle Festival Concerts:. Rheingau Music Festival; Paavo Järvi, cond.; Veronika Eberle, violin; Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra; Nielsen: Masquerade Ovt.; Mendelssohn: Violin Cto.in e Minor; Dvorák: Sym. No.9 “from the New World.”
  • 9/29 Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra; Vasily Petrenko, cond.; Hilary Hahn, violin; Grieg: Peer Gynt, Suite No.1; Britten: Violin Cto. No.1 Ravel: Pavane for a Dead Princess; Shostakovich: Sym. No.9
11pm    Classical Music Through the Night with Alison Young
Tuesday evenings

7pm      Rebroadcast of program from 1:00pm today (except 9/30: Consolidation – The Perennial Question)
8pm      Nature Watch with Bob Kantor
8:02pm Music from Chatuatuqua

  • 9/2 Audubon Quartet; Janacek: Quartet No.1; Chautauqua Quartet: Dvorak: Piano Quintet.
  • 9/9 Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra; Enrique Arturo Demecke, cond.; Shostakovich: Sym. No.5.
  • 9/16 Hot Club of San Francisco; Levy: Not So Fast; Reinhardt: Hot Lips; Bechet: Georgia Cabin; McHugh/Fields: I Can’t Give You Anything But Love; Lennon/McCartney: I’m Happy Just to Dance With You; Jones: I’ll See You In My Dreams; Dark Eyes.
  • 9/23 Carol Wincenc, flute; Patti Wolf, piano; Poulenc: Flute Sonata; Audubon Quartet and friends; Tchaikovsky: String Sextet, “Souvenir of Florence.”
  • 9/30 Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra, Uriel Segal, cond.; Brahms: Double Cto. ; David Lockington, cond.; Kodaly: Dances from Galanta.

9pm LIVE! AT THE CONCERTGEBOUW

  • 9/2 Gennady Rozhdestvensky, cond.; Augustin Dumay, violin; Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra; Bizet: Sym in C; Saint-Saëns: Violin Cto. No.3; Roussel: Bacchus & Ariane
  • 9/9 Ivan Fischer, cond.; Richard Goode, piano; Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra ; Weber: Der Freischütz Ovt.; Beethoven: Piano Cto. No.2;
  • 9/16 Valery Gergiev, cond.; Yuri Bashmet, viola; Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra; Stravinsky: Sym. of Wind Instruments; Bartok: Viola Cto.; Tchaikovsky: Sym. No.4.
  • 9/23 Daniele Gatti, cond.; Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra; Wagner Tannhäuser Ovt.; R. Strauss: Tod und Verklärung; Beethoven: Sym. No.3, “Eroica.“
  • 9/30 Yannick Nézet-Séguin, cond.; Nicholas Angelich, piano; Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra; Ravel: Alborada del gracioso; Rhapsodie Espagnole De Falla: Nights in the Gardens of Spain; Debussy: Iberia.
11pm     Classical Music Through the Night with Alison Young
Wednesday evenings

7pm       Alternative Radio (Rebroadcast of program from 1:00pm today)
8pm       Nature Watch
with Bob Kantor
8:01pm   From the Top with Christopher O’Riley from NPR
9pm        SymphonyCast with Brian Newhouse from NPR

  • 9/3 From the 2008 BBC Proms; Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Leonard Slatkin, cond.; Olga Kern, piano; Chen Yi: Olympic Fire; Rachmaninov: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini; Vaughan Williams: Sym. No.6.
  • 9/10 From the 2008 BBC Proms; City of London Sinfonia, Richard Hickox, cond.; Sharon Bezaly, flute; Rebecca Evans, soprano; Pamela Helen Stephen, mezzo; Thomas Walker, tenor; Matthew Rose, bass; BBC Singers; Mozart: Sym. No.34; Osborne: Flute Cto.; Beethoven: Mass in C.
  • 9/17 From the 2008 BBC Proms; BBC Symphony Orchestra; Sir Andrew Davis, cond.; Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis; Job: A Masque for Dancing; Serenade to Music; Sym. No.9.
  • 9/24 From the 2008 BBC Proms; Berlin Philharmonic, Sir Simon Rattle, cond.;
    Brahms: Sym. No.3; Shostakovich: Sym. No.10.
11pm      Classical Music Through the Night with Bob Christiansen
Thursday evenings

7pm       Rebroadcast of program from 1:00pm today
8pm       Nature Watch with Bob Kantor
8:02pm   A Night on the Town Broadway music with George Harter

9pm       Chicago Symphony Orchestra

  • 9/4 Antonio Pappano, cond.; Han-Na Chang, cello; Mathieu Dufour, flute; Liadov: The Enchanted Lake; Debussy: Syrinx; Shostakovich: Cello Cto. No.2; Rachmaninov: Sym. No.2.
  • 9/11 Mark Elder, cond.; Stephen Hough, piano; Lynn Harrell, cello; Elgar: Cello Concerto; Janácek: Jealousy; Taras Bulba; Rachmaninov: Piano Cto. No.4; Kancheli: …à la Duduki.
  • 9/18 Leonard Slatkin, cond.; Mendelssohn: The Hebrides Ovt.; Semyon Bychkov, cond.; Eugene Lzotov, oboe; Yundi Li, piano; Ravel: Piano Cto.; Shostakovich: Sym. No.7, ”Leningrad."
  • 9/26 Echoes of Nations; Michael Tilson Thomas, cond.; Ives: Unanswered Question; Fritz Reiner, cond.; Bartok: Music for Strings, Percussion & Celesta; James Levine, cond.; Dvorák: Symphony No.7; Sir Georg Solti, cond.; Berlioz: Excerpts from The Damnation of Faust.

11pm        Classical Music Through the Night with Bob Christiansen

Friday evenings

7pm       Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz from NPR

  • 9/5 Tony Bennett
  • 9/12 Inventive composer and pianist McCoy Tyner
  • 9/19 Composer Henry Mancini
  • 9/26 McPartland and Chick Corea introduce an electronic element into Piano Jazz, as McPartland plays the Fender Rhodes and Corea plays his KX5 synthesizer on "Crystal Silence."
8pm       Nature Watch with Bob Kantor
8:02pm   Riverwalk, Live From the Landing from PRI with David Holt and Jim Cullem

9pm       Jazz in Silhouette with WSKG's Scott Hollis
12mid    European Jazz Stage from Radio Netherlands


Saturdays-changes in red

5am       Classical Music with Ward Jacobson (NPR Newscast at 6:01)
7am       Harmonia with Angela Mariani
8am       Weekend Edition with Scott Simon from NPR
10am     Car Talk with Tom & Ray Magliozzi from NPR
11am     Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! with Peter Sagal from NPR
12noon
 
Weekend Radio with Robert Conrad from WCLV, Cleveland
1pm 
      NPR World of Opera
  • 9/6 Mozart: Idomeneo; Bavarian State Opera
  • 9/13 Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin; Teatro Carlo Felice, Genoa
  • 9/20 Massenet: Werther; Teatro Carlo Felice, Genoa
  • 9/27 Rimsky-Korsakov: The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh; Teatro Lirico, Cagliari

5pm       All Things Considered from NPR
6pm       A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor from APM
8pm       The Folk Sampler with Mike Flynn
9pm       Saturday Night Folk with WSKG’s Ken Campbell
10pm     E-Town with Helen & Nick Forster
11pm     River City Folk with Tom May
12mid    WoodSongs Old Time Radio Hour with Michael Jonathon
1am       Classical Music Through the Night with Scott Blankenship



Sundays--changes in red

5am      Classical Music
5:30 am Pipedreams
with Michael Barone from APM
7am      With Heart and Voice
with Richard Gladwell from WXXI, Rochester

8am      St. Paul Sunday with Bill McGlaughlin from APM

  • 9/7 Shai Wosner, piano
  • 9/14 Jeffrey Khaner, flute; Linda Mark, piano
  • 9/21 Trio Mediæval
  • 9/28 Anthony McGill, clarinet; Natalie Zhu, piano

9am        Weekend Edition Sunday with Liane Hanson from NPR
11am      Capitol Connection
with Alan Chartok from WAMC, Albany.
11:30am  Out of Bounds
with Tish Pearlman
12noon   This American Life
with Ira Glass from PRI
1pm        Car Talk
with Tom & Ray Magliozzi from NPR
2pm        Garrison Keillor’s A Prairie Home Companion
(Rebroadcast from Saturday night)

4pm        The Thistle & Shamrock
with Fiona Ritchie from NPR
5pm        Weekend All Things Considered from NPR
6pm        Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
with Peter Sagal from NPR and Chicago Public Radio
7pm        Selected Shorts from with Isaiah Sheffer from NYC's SymphonySpace and NPR
8pm        Sound & Spirit with Ellen Kushner from PRI
9pm        Soundscape New Age & World Music with WSKG's Crystal Sarakas
11pm      Classical Music Through the Night
with Scott Blankenship


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