Classical Music with Joe Goetz

Neoclassics

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Prokofiev’s "Classical" Symphony and Warlock’s Serenade for Strings are great examples of  turn of the 20th century neoclassicism, and we’ll hear them today.
Classical Music with Cheryl Willoughby
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A Royal Achievement

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The only opera Modest Mussorgsky completed also became his masterpiece: "Boris Godunov" had its premiere on this date in 1874 in St. Petersburg. We’ll hear highlights from it this morning, along with a few other regal selections including Auber’s overture, "The Crown Diamonds", and selections from Henry Purcell’s "The Fairy Queen".
Commentary Series
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Bernard: Color Blind

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Commentator Emily Bernard teaches English and Ethnic Studies at UVM.  She’s been wondering why – if we value diversity so highly – we’re so reluctant to discuss racial differences.
VPR News
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Plow Drivers Enjoying Banner Year

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It’s not just the ski industry that’s benefiting from all the snow this winter.  Both small- and large-scale plow drivers that get rid of all the snow are enjoying a banner year.
VPR News

Massachusetts To Do Radiation Testing

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The Commonwealth of Massachusetts will begin testing for radiation in the towns closest to the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant, but not because of radioactive tritium found on the plant’s grounds.
VPR News

UVM Faculty Say Academics Shortchanged

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Faculty members at the University of Vermont are planning a news conference this week to underscore their concern about shrinking funding for academic pursuits.
Jazz with George Thomas

Eubie Blake

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We celebrate the birthday of Eubie Blake, pianist and composer, by hearing several versions of his "Memories Of You." The first rendition by the Benny Goodman Sextet features solos by Benny, Lionel Hampton and Charlie Christian and a second take on solo piano by Thelonious Monk.  
Commentary Series
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Nadworny: Excited About E-Books

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E-books are gaining in popularity.  This morning, commentator Jay Parini considered whether books-on-paper will become an endangered species.  But commentator Rich Nadworny thinks that all the recent warnings about the death of the printed word is just – pulp fiction.
Classical Music with Joe Goetz
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Wilhelm Stenhammar

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Today is the birthday of Swedish composer Wilhelm Stenhammar.  We’ll hear one of his rarely-heard piano concertos this afternoon.  Also, the Sinfonietta of Nikolai Miaskovsky, and a past Van Cliburn medalist playing Ravel’s "Gaspard de la Nuit."
VPR News

Thunder And Snow? Mark Breen Explains

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As yet another snow storm hit the region on Saturday night, many Vermonters reported lightning, thunder and snow. It turns out the phenomenon was widespread across the region. VPR’s Mitch Wertlieb turned to Eye on the Sky meteorologist Mark Breen to find out more about it.
VPR News
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Brattleboro Retreat Sees Record Increase In Admissions

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The national recession has been hard on job, college and retirement plans and home sales. But it’s also taking its toll on mental health. Brattleboro Retreat officials say the economy is part of the reason there’s been a record increase in admissions over the past year at the private psychiatric hospital.
VPR News

Dartmouth Policy Center Gets Grant

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When it comes to public policy research, Dartmouth College students are filling in the gaps for lawmakers who lack the resources to analyze complicated issues.
VPR News

Penguin Plunge Draws Record Number

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More than 1,000 people took the plunge into Lake Champlain’s icy waters in raising about $360,000 for Special Olympics Vermont this weekend.
The VPR Saturday Special
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State of the Re:Union: Appalachia

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This week, State of the Re:Union travels through Appalachia. We’ll learn about mountain-top-removal mining through the miners and communities of West Virginia. In Kentucky, we hear a local radio DJ who’s gone from bluegrass and blues to Blackalicious, with an unexpected key audience.
Interlude
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Violin and Orchestra

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We hear three popular works for violin and orchestra: the Sibelius Violin Concerto, Tchaikovsky’s Sérénade mélancolique, and the Poème, Op. 25 by Ernest Chausson.
Jazz with George Thomas

Snow More Blues & Jazz

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Snow More Blues & Jazz? Well actually there’s plenty, from Ray Charles’ bluesy piano, to Hadda Brooks’ boogie-woogie piano and Ornette Coleman’s haunting "Sleep Talking." George Adams growls out a classic blues a la Gatemouth Brown and Bessie Smith bemoans the "Frosty Morning Blues."
VPR News

Welch Optimistic About Dairy Pricing Reform

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Congressman Peter Welch says he’s optimistic that Congress will consider a dairy pricing reform bill this year. Welch says his plan would create a supply management system that would stabilize milk prices for dairy farmers.
Classical Music with Joe Goetz
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Chamber Orchestra Kremlin

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Chamber Orchestra Kremlin performs tonight at UVM, and this afternoon we’ll hear them playing Richard Strauss’s haunting "Metamorphosen."  Also today, two contrasting works that feature the clarinet, and Martha Argerich playing Bach.
Vermont Edition
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Congressional Update From Peter Welch

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Representative Peter Welch discusses dairy pricing, the political climate in Washington and other issues. Plus, Senator Patrick Leahy talks about the explosive events in Egypt. And we listen back to the voices in the news this week.
Jazz with George Thomas

Saxophone & Piano Jazz

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Tonight’s jazz features the sound of the tenor and alto saxes and jazz piano. The Dutch pianist Jef Nev is featured with vocalist Jose James; we hear the duo pianists Eric Reed & Cyrus Chestnut; and the post-hard Bop sound of the tenor saxophonist Hank Mobley contrasts with the bluesy avant-garde sound of Ornette Coleman’s alto sax.
VPR News

2,600 Subsidized Housing Units At Risk

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A generation ago, a federal housing program was created that gave property owners financial incentives to rent their apartments to low-income tenants. The 30-year contracts in that program are ending, and that puts a question mark on the future of thousands of subsidized housing units across Vermont.
Vermont Edition
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Some Subsidized Housing At Risk As Program Expires

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A generation ago, a federal housing program was created that gave property owners financial incentives to rent their apartments to low-income tenants. The 30-year contracts in that program are ending, and that puts a question mark on the future of thousands of subsidized housing units across Vermont.
Commentary Series
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Craven: Seen At Sundance

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Commentator, filmmaker and teacher Jay Craven recently returned from a trip with six Marlboro College students to the Sundance Film Festival. He’s still thinking about several of the films he saw there.
VPR News
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Wind Projects Backed By Tax Credits, Subsidies

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Most people think of big wind projects as a way to harvest the breezes that blow freely across the earth. But sophisticated investors look at big wind quite differently. That’s because besides generating electricity, the large-scale projects also involve sophisticated financial instruments that harvest tax benefits.
VPR News

Lawmakers Call For Bare Roads

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A group of Republican state lawmakers says Vermont should adopt a "bare roads" policy to completely clear snow and ice from the state’s roadways.
Jazz with George Thomas

Stan Getz, Burton Lane, Sonny Stitt

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We celebrate some snowy birthdays tonight including, tenor saxophonist Stan Getz, in duet with pianists Kenny Barron & Jimmy Rowles; alto & tenor saxophonist Sonny Stitt and songwriter Burton Lane who composed the  music on "Old Devil Moon," "You’re My Thrill," "How About You?" "Everything I Have Is Yours"
VPR News

Cigarette Tax Advocates Face Uphill Battle

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A plan to raise Vermont’s cigarette tax by a dollar a pack is running into some strong resistance at the Statehouse. Advocates say the tax will help fund quit smoking programs. But Governor Peter Shumlin says it will cost the state a lot of money.
Classical Music with Joe Goetz
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Ann Ellsworth and the Soprano Horn

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Ann Ellsworth will bring her very rare soprano horn to SUNY Plattsburgh this Friday evening at 7:30 for a program of works from the 18th century.  Ms. Ellsworth will join me today in the 3 pm hour to talk about the instrument and its small but special place in classical music.
VPR News
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Opinions Differ On Wind Power’s Pollution Reduction

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Supporters and opponents of commercial-scale wind energy projects on Vermont’s ridgelines use a lot of statistics and facts to argue their very different sides of the debate. So it’s difficult to sort out how much carbon pollution might be cut if there were big wind turbines in the mountains. Or whether the wind generators could replace bigger electric plants, such as Vermont Yankee.
VPR News
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Southern Vermont Roofs Straining Under Snow

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In southern Vermont, where the snow is already deep, state officials warned farmers to shovel their barn roofs to keep the structures from collapsing in the next storm. But it wasn’t only barns that were getting attention.
VPR News

Vermont Tourists, Students Leave Egypt

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As protests continue in Egypt, the U.S. State Department has ordered the evacuation of some embassy staff and their families. And officials are helping U.S. citizens out of the country. Some Vermonters have already gotten out of Egypt.
Jazz with George Thomas

John Barry, Bill Evans

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We note the passing of the popular film composer John Barry and hear jazz versions of his compositions with David "Fathead" Newman doing "Goldfinger," Ben Allison’s "Midnight Cowboy" and Joe Locke & Ben Sneider Film Noir Project’s take on "Body Heat." We also sample a classic, the Bill Evans Trio "Exploration" recorded 50 years ago today.
Commentary Series
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Gilbert: In Fact Slavery

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As the 150th anniversary of the Civil War approaches, the Vermont Humanities Council has been sending out weekly emails reporting on what happened – and what people said and wrote – during that week 150 years ago.  Commentator and council executive director Peter Gilbert thinks that this weekly "play-by-play" brings the cause of the war into sharp focus.
Classical Music with Joe Goetz
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A Lovely Duo

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Violinist Jaime Laredo and cellist Sharon Robinson are partners in life and in music.  Today we’ll hear them perform Maurice Ravel’s little-heard Sonata for Violin and Cello.  Also today, Paul Lewis plays Beethoven’s 2nd Piano Concerto, and we’ll hear Antonin Dvorak’s "American" Quartet.
VPR News
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Ice Fishing 101

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At a recent Ice Fishing 101 workshop on Lake Morey in Fairlee, newcomers to the sport learned everything from picking a spot to drilling holes to setting tip ups.
Classical Music with Cheryl Willoughby
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Le Corsaire

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It’s a glance at literary history that gives us the inspiration for this morning’s first piece of music: it was on February 1st in 1814 that Lord Byron’s poem "The Corsair" was published, selling out its entire first run of 10,000 copies. We’ll hear from Adolphe Adam’s swashbuckling ballet adaptation of the poem this morning.
VPR News
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Public Service Board To Open Hearings On Lowell Wind Project

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This week, the Public Service Board opens hearings on Vermont’s largest wind development – a proposal for 21 wind turbines that would stand 440 feet tall on a ridgeline in Lowell. Developers hoped to avoid some of the controversy that other projects have faced by asking for, and winning, voters’ support last Town Meeting Day. But it hasn’t been that easy.
VPR News

Racine Hopes Painful Human Service Cuts Can Be Avoided

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When Governor Peter Shumlin laid out his budget plan last week, it included $44 million in potential cuts to the Agency of Human Services. Agency Secretary Doug Racine says he’s hopeful that any cuts in crucial services can be avoided. 
VPR News

Michigan Suspect Was Charged In Vermont Threats

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A suspect in a plot to attack a Michigan mosque pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to charges stemming from threats made nine years ago against the president and against veterans’ facilities in Vermont.
Jazz with George Thomas

Roy Eldridge, Isham Jones, Ruth Brown, Schubert

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We celebrate four birthdays tonight: trumpeter Roy Eldridge (heard with groups led by drummer Gene Krupa, bassist Charles Mingus and Coleman Hawkins); songwriter Isham Jones ("There Is No Greater Love," "The One I Love Belongs To Someone Else" and "It Had To Be You"; R & B vocalist Ruth Brown and Franz Schubert.
Commentary Series
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Levin: Crazy Horse Revisited

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Snowy days are a good time to curl up with a good book. Commentator Ted Levin says he’s been exploring a new account of a story from the American West that is a potent combination of both myth and legend.  
VPR News

Bus Drivers Charged With DUI After Ski Check

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Two New York city tour bus drivers are due in court to answer charges they were driving under the influence of alcohol when they dropped off high school students at the Killington Ski Area.
VPR News

Lost Skier Found In VT

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Rescuers say a skier lost overnight at Vermont’s Killington Resort has been found and is being evaluated at a hospital.
Vermont Edition
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Human Services Budget Faces $44M In Cuts

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The Agency of Human Services will have to contend with some of the biggest policy and financial challenges facing the state. Agency Secretary Doug Racine is our guest on Vermont Edition to discuss how he’ll manage these services in the face of $44 million in budget cuts.
VPR News
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Truancy Policy Meets Resistance In Some Schools

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Most educators agree that truancy is a serious issue. Kids who miss a lot of school are less likely to graduate, and chronic absence can point to other problems in a child’s life. But efforts to create uniform truancy policies are meeting resistance in one corner of Vermont.
Jazz with George Thomas

Listener Jazz Requests

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We begin with a long set of Listener Requests including guitarist Charlie Christian; Count Basie, both with his Orchestra and in duet with blues vocalist Joe Turner; and the distinctive alto sax of Paul Desmond with the Dave Brubeck Quartet and with Gerry Mulligan.
Classical Music with Joe Goetz
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Mozartiana

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Mozart’s birthday was yesterday, but I still feel like celebrating.  Today we’ll hear examples of later composers paying homage to Mozart.
VPR News
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Another Well At Yankee Contaminated With Tritium

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Another well on the grounds of the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant has become contaminated with radioactive tritium. The tritium is at a fairly low level, but the well is in the same area as another well that was confirmed last week to be contaminated.
Commentary Series
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Dunsmore: State of Omission

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State of the Union speeches are by nature, laundry lists of important things presidents say they have done or are planning for the future. This morning commentator Barrie Dunsmore laments one subject that was missing in President Obama’s address last Tuesday evening.
VPR News

Community Rallies To Raise Money For Pete’s Greens

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Earlier this month, a barn at Pete’s Greens in Craftsbury burned down. It was where the organic vegetable producer stored crops, meats, and vegetable cleaning and processing equipment. The localvore community has been feeling the loss, and so many have rallied around Pete’s Greens to help raise money to keep the operation going.
VPR News
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Catamount Room Opens For Political Conversations

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The conservative revolt sweeping the country hasn’t reached Vermont, so far. But half a dozen groups come up when you Google "Tea Party" and "Vermont:" The Green Mountain Patriots, Mountain Rangers Tea Party, Vermont Campaign for Liberty. In Manchester, several such groups have opened a storefront salon for political debate.
VPR News

ANESU Teachers Plan Strike

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Some teachers in Addison County say they’ll walk off the job if supervisory union boards don’t return to the bargaining table and reach a deal.
VPR News
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Senate Calls For Border Crossing To Stay Open

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After the federal government backed off plans to expand a tiny U.S.-Canadian border station by seizing a Vermont dairy farmer’s land, legislators are now urging the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to keep the crossing open.
Jazz with George Thomas

Mozart Jazz & Jerome Kern

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We celebrate Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s birthday with jazz arrangements of some familiar tunes with the Klazz Brothers & Cuba Percussion and pianists Uri Caine, Joachim Kuhn and Ted Rosenthal. In addition Jerome Kern’s birthday gives us a chance to revisit some old friends, including "All The Things You Are" and "The Way You Look Tonight."
VPR News
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New Hampshire Republicans Re-Energized

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The New Hampshire Republican Party is in the midst of a resurgence. It recently elected one of the state’s Tea Party founders, Jack Kimball, as party chair. And Republicans are now trying to redefine New Hampshire’s education curriculum and bar out-of-state college students from voting in the Granite State.
VPR News
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American History And Culture Museums Finding Innovative Ways To Attract Visitors

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Americana museums exist in many forms and many sizes across the country, from local historical societies to the Shelburne Museum to the Smithsonian in Washington, but attendance and support for these institutions peaked in the 1970s. These days, many Americana museums are taking risks, shaking things up and coming up with new ways to make history feel more contemporary and relevant to draw visitors.
Classical Music with Joe Goetz
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Mozart’s Birthday = Great Radio

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Classical music programmers love January 27th – because it’s all Mozart, all the time!  Happy birthday, Wolfgang…we’ll be hearing all kinds of his music this afternoon, ranging from his "Great" C Minor Mass, to opera highlights, to piano works, to divertimenti. 
Vermont Edition
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Americana Museums Reinvent Themselves, Attract New Visitors

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Americana museums exist in many forms and many sizes across the country, from local historical societies to the Shelburne Museum in Vermont to the Smithsonian in Washington. Many of these museums have been having more trouble attracting visitors in recent years, and are trying a variety of innovative things in an effort to change that.
Commentary Series
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Jetter: Zantop Anniversary

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Ten years ago today, Dartmouth Professors Half and Susanne Zantop were murdered in their Etna, New Hampshire home. Two Chelsea teenagers were convicted in the deaths. Commentator Alexis Jetter was a friend of the Zantops and reflects on the anniversary.
Jazz with George Thomas

Quiet Jazz Tracks In The Snow

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Tonight we listen to requests with a theme of Quiet Jazz Tracks In The Snow, including "Crystal Silence" by Chick Corea & Gary Burton, "Corcovado (Quiet Nights Of Quiet Stars)" by Stan Getz & Astrud Gilberto and two versions of "Footprints" by the composer & tenor sax player Wayne Shorter and a vocal version by Karrin Allyson.
VPR News

Racial Profiling Study Is Inconclusive

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A study aimed at finding out whether police in Vermont engage in racial profiling says data from four police departments shows no clear pattern of it, but that it may be happening.
Classical Music with Cheryl Willoughby
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Der Rosenkavalier At 100

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Richard Strauss’ comic opera masterpiece "Der Rosenkavalier" had its widly successful Dresden premiere on this date in 1911. Audiences loved it immediately, and it’s been a favorite ever since. This morning we’ll hear two of the waltzes and the famous trio from a classic recording with soprano Elisabeth Schwarzkopf & Christa Ludwig.
Commentary Series
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Ali: Humble Aid

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Following a trip overseas to various developing countries, commentator and UVM Professor, Saleem Ali is considering attitudes about the giving – and receiving – of foreign aid worldwide.
VPR News

Human Services Agency Says Cuts Would Impact Services

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The state’s regional mental health agencies are also slated to be hit by cuts in Governor Peter Shumlin’s proposed budget. They’d lose a total of $4.5 million from the state. VPR’s Mitch Wertlieb speaks with Todd Centybear, the executive director of the Howard Center, the largest regional agency in the state.
Vermont Edition
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Taking The Pulse Of Vermont

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We digest the results from the most recent Pulse of Vermont Quality of Life study. Plus, State Auditor Tom Salmon discusses a new report on Sex Offender supervision. And we visit the Vermont Farm Show.  
VPR News

Changes Recommended For Public Record Laws

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Governor Peter Shumlin says public access to government records is one his administration’s new goals, and he’s recommending changes to the state’s public records laws to help achieve it. Some say it’s about time, as Vermont receives nearly the lowest rankings of any state in the country for government transparency.
VPR News

Passenger In Bus Crash Dies

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A passenger in a vehicle that hit a bus carrying a high school hockey team earlier this month has died of her injuries.
VPR News

FairPoint Emerges From Bankruptcy

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Telecommunications company FairPoint has emerged from bankruptcy reorganization nearly 15 months after filing for Chapter 11 with a crushing debt load and a battered financial sheet.
Jazz with George Thomas

Cold, Django Reinhardt & New Releases

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Straining the lyrics we begin with a Cold set, including Cassandra Wilson’s take on Robert Johnson’s "Come On In My Kitchen," Dinah Washington’s version of Hank Williams’ "Cold, Cold Heart," guitarist T-Bone Walker’s "Cold, Cold Feeling" and more. We also celebrate the 101st anniversary of gypsy guitarist Django Reinhardt’s birth.
VPR News

Tax Surcharge Plan Stirs Policy Debate

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A new report says Vermont could eliminate a good part of its budget deficit by imposing a temporary income tax surcharge on very wealthy people. Some lawmakers think the plan makes a lot of sense but Governor Peter Shumlin is opposed to the idea.
VPR News

Vacation Rental Scams Hit Ski Towns

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Southern Vermont ski areas and their host towns are having a banner season so far. The town of Wilmington, near Mount Snow, is no exception. But for some visitors the fun has been spoiled by a rash of vacation rental scams.
VPR News

GMP Increases Energy Efficiency

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Green Mountain Power has been on a campaign to save electricity – especially in its information technology room, and says it has cut its power bill by over 16 percent.
VPR News

Burlington Uses LED Streetlights

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Vermont’s largest municipal electric utility is installing light-emitting diode – or LED -streetlights in a residential area for the first time, saving 74 percent of the energy used by traditional streetlights.
All the Traditions
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Chilly Winds Do Blow

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Memories of Kate McGarrigle and Lhasa de Sela, Judy Collins comes to Putney, Geoff Muldaur searches for Blind Lemon Jefferson’s grave, and we get a preview of a wonderful little midwinter folk festival next weekend in Brattleboro!
Interlude
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Mahler’s 1st Symphony

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Mahler’s First Symphony is performed by the Columbia Symphony Orchestra conducted by Bruno Walter.
The VPR Table
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VPR Table: Pete’s Greens

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A fire demolished Pete’s Greens barn on January 12th. Marialisa Calta returns to the VPR Table to reflect upon Pete’s Greens contribution to the local food economy. 
VPR News

MA Town Will Weigh In On Vermont Biomass Plant

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Massachusetts will be allowed to play a role in the Vermont Public Service Board’s review of a proposed 30 megawatt biomass power plant in Pownal. The proposed plant site is four miles from Williams College and downtown Williamstown, Massachusetts.
VPR News

Radioactive Tritium Found In Another Well At Vermont Yankee

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Another groundwater monitoring well at the Vermont Yankee plant is contaminated with radioactive tritium. The Vermont Health Department says the well was established in November and the contamination was first discovered late last month. And the Nuclear Regulatory Commission says the discovery could suggest a new leak at the plant.
Classical Music with Joe Goetz
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Jeremy Denk Plays Bach

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Pianist Jeremy Denk has received a lot of attention lately for his performances of the piano music of Charles Ives.  His latest recording, though, goes a different route: Baroque.  We’ll hear him play Bach’s Keyboard Partita #6 this afternoon on a new disc that will be in stores and available to purchase online next week.
Vermont Edition
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Legislative Reaction To The Hsiao Report

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Representative Mark Larson and Senator Claire Ayer weigh in on the recommendations made by Dr. William Hsiao on Wednesday. Senator Patrick Leahy discusses the need for political civility. And, we listen back to the voices in the news this week.
VPR Presents
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Moonlight in Vermont

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Margaret Whiting may be best known for her interpretation of "Moonlight in Vermont".   Listen to Neal Charnoff’s interview with Whiting, to learn how she came to record this iconic song.  Whiting died this month at 86.
VPR News

Welch Says He Hopes To Influence Dairy Policy In New Congress

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Congressman Peter Welch says he hopes to use his new assignment on the House Agriculture Committee as a way to push for a comprehensive reform of the federal dairy pricing system. Welch says it will be difficult for many Vermont dairy farmers to stay in business unless a reform plan is adopted by Congress.
Jazz with George Thomas

Listener Requests & New Releases

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Listener Requests lead the way tonight with Chet Baker’s version of Loesser/McHugh’s "Let’s Get Lost," Hoagy Carmichael’s "Stardust" with a masterful solo piano rendition by Dave McKenna and others. We hear the new CD by the Marcus Shelby Orchestra in a tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King.
Classical Music with Joe Goetz
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Serious, Cute, and Grotesque

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This afternoon we’ll hear one of Mozart’s most deeply emotional chamber works, the G Minor Piano Quartet.  We’ll also hear a "cute" sonata for guitar by Joaquin Rodrigo, and Dvorak’s musical rendering of a grotesque and violent Czech folk tale.
VPR News

Buster Olney Returns To Randolph

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This weekend a famous baseball writer with Vermont roots is returning to his hometown. Buster Olney grew up in Randolph Center, but from there he’s gone on to a career as a baseball writer, and currently writes for ESPN the Magazine.
Jazz with George Thomas

Wolf Moon

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In honor of tonight’s Wolf Moon,  as named by Native Tribes, we hear moon songs by Count Basie, Chet Baker, Billie Holiday, Gerry Mulligan & more. The entertainment at tonight’s White House State Dinner for the president of China, includes jazz from Dianne Reeves, Dee Dee Bridgewater and Herbie Hancock – we hear Hancock’s "Maiden Voyage."
VPR News
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Shelburne Museum Director Steps Down

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Stephan Jost, who joined the museum 5 years ago, produced what’s been described as world-class art exhibits – including shows featuring the work of Mary Cassatt and Ansel Adams.
Classical Music with Cheryl Willoughby
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Pagodas

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Claude Debussy’s "Pagodes" gets the morning started, and from there we go to the serene "Humming chorus" from Puccini’s "Madama Butterfly", and music from an Italian priest who was sent on a mission to teach music in China’s ‘Forbidden City’.
Jazz with George Thomas
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Charles Lloyd

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Charles Lloyd is our guest tonight as we talk about his upcoming shows at The Hopkins Center at Dartmouth Thursday January 20 and at The Flynn in Burlington Sunday January 23. His New Quartet has Jason Moran on piano, Reuben Rogers on bass and Eric Harland on drums.
Commentary Series
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Luskin: Zoning Debate

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When it comes to bipartisanship and political cooperation at any level, commentator Deborah Luskin thinks it’s fairly easy to be for or against something, but much harder – and more necessary – to find middle ground.
VPR News

MMU Student Dies At School

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Vermont State Police say a 15-year-old Mount Mansfield Union High School student is dead after apparently shooting himself at the school.
VPR News

Riverfront Development Project Falls Through

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Property owners and developers in Vermont and New Hampshire say they’re disappointed that a plan for a $32 million development on the Connecticut River in White River Junction has fallen through.
Vermont Edition
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The Year Of Making Things

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As people attempt to do more with less, we delve into doing it yourself – from creating clothing with reused materials, to printing your own invitations and cards for weddings and holidays. Plus, we get a tour of the Eco-Freezer being created to keep food frozen without an external energy source.
Jazz with George Thomas

Dr. Martin Luther King

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Tonight we celebrate the life of Dr. Martin Luther King with jazz, blues & gospel recordings from the time and new tributes. We hear Duke Ellington’s "Black, Brown & Beige" with gospel great Mahalia Jackson. Other favorites include Charles Mingus’ "Prayer For Passive Resistance" and Nina Simone’s "Why?(The King Of Love Is Dead."
VPR Presents
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Al Sharpton’s MLK Message

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Reverand Al Sharpton was the keynote speaker at Burlington’s Martin Luther King Day Celebration Sunday. It was the first trip to Vermont for the sometimes controversial civil rights leader. The Greater Burlington Multicultural Resource Center hosted the event. Martin Luther King awards were given to Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders and Evelyn and Modisane Kwanza of Alpha Baptist Church.
Commentary Series
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Henningsen: Two Speeches

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Today we honor Martin Luther King and remember – among his many talents – his exceptional abilities as a public speaker.  So it seems appropriate to note that this week also marks the fiftieth anniversary of two of the most important *presidential* addresses in the nation’s history. Teacher, historian, and commentator Vic Henningsen explains.
VPR News

Hockey Bus Hit By Drunk Driver

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Vermont State Police say a man faces drunk driving and other charges after his car crashed into a bus carrying a high school hockey team.
VPR News

Forest Service Seeking Input On Wind Project

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The Green Mountain National Forest is seeking public input on whether to approve plans for a mountaintop wind energy project in the southern Vermont towns of Readsboro and Searsburg.
VPR News

Lawmakers To Study Health Care This Week

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Vermont’s two U.S. senators and congressman will make a rare, if not unprecedented joint appearance tomorrow with Governor Peter Shumlin to talk about Shumlin’s push for a single-payer health care system for Vermont.
Interlude
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Luigi Boccherini

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We hear three compositions by the underappreciated 18th century composer, Luigi Boccherini.
Jazz with George Thomas

New Orleans Jazz, Allen Toussaint

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We celebrate Allen Toussaint’s birthday with his piano playing on 2009’s "The Bright Mississippi." We also hear from the classic New Orleans sound of Harry Connick, Jr., The Charmane Neville Band, The Dirty Dozen Brass Band and Jelly Roll Morten.
The VPR Table
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Yak to the Future

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Rowan Jacobsen shares a concise history of the one and only Vermont Yak Co. and the advantages of farming Yaks in Vermont.
Classical Music with Cheryl Willoughby
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Footsteps On The Snow

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The best part of a whopping mid-week snowstorm is that the weekend isn’t too far away so you can get out and enjoy it before it all turns to slush! This morning we’ll hear Mona Lyn Reese’s fun choral work "Toboggan", and Claude Debussy’s more introspective Prelude, "Footsteps on the snow".
VPR News

VT To Receive $136,000 Drug Settlement

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Vermont’s attorney general says the state will receive $136,000 as part of a national settlement with pharmaceutical manufacturer GlaxoSmithKline over allegations that the company sold defective drugs.
VPR News

VT Fiscal Forecast To Be Released

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Governor Peter Shumlin and the chairs of the Legislature’s money committees will get an update to the state’s twice-a-year revenue forecast this afternoon.
Jazz with George Thomas

Joe Pass

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We celebrate the birthday of guitarist Joe Pass, widely described as a virtuoso. We hear him in duet with Zoot Sims (tenor sax), Ella Fitzgerald(vocals), Jimmy Rowles(piano) and in ensembles with Count Basie and Les McCann.
Commentary Series
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Schubart: Money In Democracy

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Now that the holiday consumer binge is over and the credit card bills are arriving, Bill Schubart is questioning the Olympian status of the wealthiest among us and the lengths with which those with the least will go to protect those with the most.
VPR News

Tax Commission Makes Its Recommendations

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A special panel looking at Vermont’s tax system recommends lowering Vermont’s income taxes but also eliminating many deductions. The panel wants to reduce the sales tax rate. But it suggests broadening the tax to cover clothes and services.
Classical Music with Cheryl Willoughby
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Stormy Morning

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30 inches in Bennington? 16 in Stowe? Oooh yes, and it’s still coming down. Makes a winter lover like me happy but it can create some pretty difficult driving conditions. This morning we’ll hear Wilhelm Muller’s story of the winter traveler, "Die Winterreise", with a few songs from Schubert’s song cycle based on that text.
Jazz with George Thomas

Snowbound

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We’re all Snowbound, as the song goes, but it turns out there are several songs titled Snowboun, so we revisit the ground covered in white, almost holiday. Bill Holiday sings "As Time Goes By" and the Marsalis Family second lines towards Mardi Gras.
Classical Music with Joe Goetz
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Contrasting Seasons

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It may be snowy outside today, and we’ll hear Offenbach’s "Ballet of the Snowflakes," but today we’ll sample music for the other three seasons as well, by Monteverdi, Schumann, and Prokofiev.
VPR News

Up To 30 Inches Of Snow Possible In Southeast Vermont

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Many schools and businesses in Vermont are closed today as the region grapples with a classic nor’easter that’s dumped close to two feet of snow in southern New England. The heaviest snow is once again in the southern part of the state, where it’s been falling at the rate of two to three inches per hour. The National Weather Service says areas east of Route 100 could get up to 30 inches of snow. 
Classical Music with Cheryl Willoughby
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Cinderella and Curmudgeons

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It’s the birth anniversary of Italy’s Ermano Wolf-Ferrari, whose most successful full-length work is the comic opera "I Quattro Rusteghi" – "The Four Curmudgeons". We’ll hear highlights from that work this morning, along with selections from Prokofiev’s "Cinderella" and Rautavaara’s unusual work "A Tapestry of Life".
VPR News
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Haitian Students Reflect On Earthquake, One Year Later

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A massive earthquake devastated Haiti a year ago today. A few months after the quake, American diplomatic officials stepped in to help Haitian students continue their educations at U.S. schools. Three students were placed at Burr and Burton Academy in Manchester. One of them graduated last year. But two remain in Manchester.
VPR News

VYO Approves Hiring Of New Director

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 The board of directors of the Vermont Youth Orchestra has authorized the executive committee to negotiate a contract with a new musical director.
VPR News

Health Department To Discuss Fluoride Levels

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The Vermont Health Department says officials are going to work with the state’s community water regulators to discuss new federal guidelines about how much fluoride should be added to drinking water.
VPR News

Police Charge Murder In Fatal Pursuit Crash

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Police in Vermont’s largest city say a man who was fleeing police when he collided with a car at a downtown intersection is now facing a murder charge for the death of the other driver.
VPR News

Hospital Joins Project To Reduce Waste

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New Hampshire’s Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center is working with hospitals across the country to reduce the environmental impact of their operating rooms.
Jazz with George Thomas

Gary Smulyan, Charles Lloyd

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Jazz is always at it’s best heard live. We preview several concerts of note, including the baritone sax player Gary Smulyan, a major player in several orchestras, heard this Saturday at the Vermont Jazz Center and Charles Lloyd, whose quartet appears at the HOP 1/20 and at the Flynn 1/23.
Classical Music with Joe Goetz
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From the New World

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We’ll hear Claudio Abbado conduct Dvorak’s Symphony #9 this afternoon, and we’ll also hear the hauntingly beautiful Pie Jesu from Maurice Durufle’s Requiem on his birthday.
Commentary Series
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Blume: Idle Free

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Commentator Kathryn Blume wasn’t going to make any New Year’s resolutions this year.  But then her inner-activist took over.
VPR News

Vermont Regulators To Hear About Nuclear Leaks

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The Vermont Public Service Board will hear requests by two environmental groups for the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant to be shut down until leaks of radioactive materials are fully resolved.
Jazz with George Thomas

Max Roach

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We celebrate one of my heroes tonight, jazz drummer, bandleader, composer & political activist, Max Roach. Max was present at the birth of Bop at Minton’s and along with drummer Kenny Clarke, reinvented jazz drumming, moving the primary beat away from the bass drum & onto the high-hat resulting in a lighter, faster drum technique. Happy Birthday Max!
VPR News

Former Douglas Official Joins GMP

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Green Mountain Power says Neale Lunderville, the former secretary of administration, will head up GMP’s efforts to move to smart-grid technology.
VPR News

Shumlin Supports Some Tax Commission Findings

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Governor Peter Shumlin says it’s likely he’ll support some of the recommendations of a special Blue Ribbon Tax Commission. But Shumlin says he has huge philosophical problems with the Commission’s plan to include many services under the scope of the state sales tax.
VPR News

VT Yankee Fights For Future As Chances Dim

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Vermont Yankee and its backers say they hope they’ll be able to reverse their fortunes this year and get a favorable vote for continued operation out of the Vermont Legislature.
In Concert @ 8
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SymphonyCast: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

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Johannes Moser may not be a household name yet, but the fact that this German artist is going to play Shostakovich’s First Cello Concerto — written for no one less than Rostropovich — with arguably the world’s greatest orchestra says it all.
Interlude

Non-Operatic Puccini

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We hear two youthful non-operatic works by Puccini: his "Preludio sinfonico" and his "Messa di Gloria".
The VPR Saturday Special
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State of the Re:Union

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State of the Re:Union travels to the Española Valley of Northern New Mexico to explore the area’s history of dispossession, and to discover what the rest of the country can learn from this still vital region of the American Southwest.
Jazz with George Thomas

Jazz Requests & More

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We always welcome requests and we received several tonight including a suggestion to play pianist Cedar Walton We heard his trio’s take on John Coltrane’s "Naima" and Walton’s own "The Maestro," dedicated to Duke Ellington and sung by Abbey Lincoln.
VPR News

Gas Leak Sends Putney Students To Hospital

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11 students and one adult from Putney Central School were treated for carbon monoxide poisoning today, but a Brattleboro Memorial Hospital official says all have been released and are doing well.
VPR News
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Douglas Leaves 50-Mile Commute Behind

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For 38 years, Jim Douglas has commuted from his home in Middlebury to Montpelier.  First, part time, as a state lawmaker. Then five days a week as secretary of state, state treasurer – and for the last eight years as governor. VPR’s Nina Keck commuted with Governor Douglas for his last full day of work and filed this report.
VPR News

Shumlin To Be Sworn In As Governor

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Peter Shumlin will take over as Vermont’s new governor today, with promises to jumpstart the state’s economy and close a projected $150 million budget gap for the next fiscal year.
Commentary Series
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Blinkhorn: Audubon In New England

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Recently, John James Aubudon’s rare masterpiece, "Birds of America," sold for more than $11 million dollars, setting a record for printed books at auction. This  inspired Commentator Tom Blinkhorn to look into Audubon’s New England connections.
VPR News
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Advocates Rally For Health Care

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Vermont lawmakers had barely taken their seats on the first day of the legislative session when more than 200 advocates for single-payer health care rallied at the Statehouse and met with legislative leaders.
Jazz with George Thomas

Slim Gaillard

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We celebrate the birthday of the vocalist, guitarist & pianist Slim Gaillard, famous for his hilarious "jive" lyrics, turning any words into his "McVouty" style. We also slip down to New Orleans as preparations for Mardi Gras are already underway: James Booker, Stanton Moore, Kermit Ruffins, Dr. John & The Dirty Dozen Brass Band.
VPR News

Pownal Biomass Project Stalls

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Plans for wood-fueled power plants in Fair Haven and Pownal have been put on hold. That will give officials time to decide whether the projects need both a state development review permit and a license from utility regulators.
VPR News
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Douglas Prepares To Say Farewell

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Political observers say Gov. Jim Douglas will be remembered for his tireless campaigning and ability to remember names and faces, skills that helped him buck the tide as a Republican in a left-leaning state.
Classical Music with Joe Goetz
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Mahler’s Final Work

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Left mostly incomplete, we’ll hear the part of Mahler’s Symphony #10 that most believe to be written by Mahler himself, and not completed by others, the beautiful "Adagio."
VPR News
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Couple Battles VELCO’s Plans For Tower On Mountaintop

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A remote mountaintop in southwest Vermont is the center of a fight between a pair of immigrant artists and Vermont’s electric transmission utility. The Vermont Electric Power Company wants to build an 80-foot radio tower on the site as part of a statewide communications network. But the artists say that the tower will ruin their plans for an art school on the property.
VPR News

Shumlin Gives Leadership Roles To Scott, Dubie

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Governor elect Peter Shumlin, a Democrat, has taken the unusual step of asking Vermont’s new Republican Lt. Governor, Phil Scott, to be a member of the governor’s cabinet. Shumlin says there are a number of key areas where Scott can be an important member of the new gubernatorial team.
Jazz with George Thomas

Billy Taylor, Charles Fambrough, Milt Jackson

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Happy New Year! I hope you’ll take a moment in 2011 to go to vpr.net, click on "Contact VPR" and make a jazz request or give feedback on the Jazz show. We celebrate the life of two jazz musicians of note who passed during this last week, educator, DJ & pianist Billy Taylor and bassist Charles Fambrough. Happy Birthday to  Milt Jackson.
Classical Music with Joe Goetz
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Brahms’ Clarinet Trio

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This past weekend I was treated to a wonderful performance of Brahms’ Clarinet Quintet, and I loved it so much I thought today we’d hear his Clarinet Trio, written at about the same time.
In Concert @ 8
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SymphonyCast: St. Paul Chamber Orchestra

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Scott Yoo soloed on violin at 12 with the Boston Symphony, then went on to get a degree in physics from Harvard, and in the last decade has made his name with a conductor’s baton. This week, the astonishingly gifted young musician steps on the podium to lead the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra.