Tue. 8 pm ET- Contemporary Classics this week is the second episode featuring Contemporary Classical music with either the performers or composers being women (to continue to celebrate Women’s History Month) who were featured at the Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, TN. Featured include compositions by Anna Thorvaldottir, Clarice Jensen, Kara-Lis Coverdale and Carla Kihlstedt. Also featured are performaces by Kim Kashkashian and Joan La Barbara. 03/26/2019
Tue. 8 am ET-Molly Lieberman comes to the WRUU studio for Savannah Lexicon. We’ll talk about how Loop It Up has expanded its activities since its 2008 inception and also talk about the organization’s fundraiser – Soup It Up for Loop It Up. Scheduled for this Saturday, March 30, the event features local eateries competing for the coveted Golden Soup Bowl and Platinum Ladle. 03/26/2019
Sun. 9 pm ET- This Sunday on Evening Eclectic is a wrap up of the non-contemporary classical events at Big Ears Festival in Knoxville TN. We will be playing music from Edmar Castaneda the harpist from Columbia – who was my big discovery of the festival. Also featured are Rachel Grimes, Derek Gripper, Rhiannon Giddens, Wadada Leo Smith, Mary Halvorson, Hawktail, Punch Brothers, Bill Frisell, and Kayhan Kalhor & Brooklyn Rider. Evening Eclectic is Sunday from 9-11 pm ET. 03/24/2019
Sun. 9 am ET-This week on “The Heart and the Hand” with Orlando Montoya: Two sermons from the Boston area. We welcome back the Rev. Stephanie May, who visited the Savannah church on sabbatical. She shares her “open road” sabbatical experience from her pulpit in Boston’s suburbs. And from First Church Boston, we’ll consider Lincoln’s words (“malice toward none”) with a “tough tenderness” for our times. Plus, all the regular segments from 9-11am on Sunday on WRUU 107.5 FM and WRUU.ORG. Later, from 1-2pm, it’s modern music on UU themes with “The Heart and the Hand Music Hour.”03/24/2019
There is a NEW show beginning this Saturday – “Golden Age of Radio” from 8-9pm. Hear rebroadcasts of famous radio shows from the 1930’s and 40’s including Groucho Marx, Abbott and Costello, and Philip Marlowe, The Shadow, Jack Benny, Milton Berle, the Green Hornet, Orson Welles, and many others. 03/23/2019
Sat. 6 pm ET- Today, Saturday, March 23, 2019 at 6:00PM to 7:00PM on WRUU.org-107.5FM, on The Verb Altitude Hour, Carry, Cousin Don & Louis will bring you this week’s exciting panel discussion as we examine news & events across the world, the nation & throughout Georgia.~The highest news your way twice a week-in an hour-just for you! 03/23/2019
Sat. 5 pm ET- Ed Eckstrand Wed, Mar 20, 8:44 AM (2 days ago) to me, WRUU This week, P.T. Bridgeport chats with Gordon Webb, who has merged technical and creative skills into a wide ranging career. Gordon taught media-related classes at both Cornell and Ithaca college and has a substantial background in media of many kinds, not just photography. Gordon is currently the proprietor of GW Productions, a fine art photographer, and something of an authority on Rod Serling. Join us for this wide ranging discussion. Music this week by Evelyn Glennie, Greg Reiter, and Django Reinhardt, among others. P. T. wonders if a 5 pm show falls into the Twilight Zone.03/23/2019
Sat. 1 pm ET- SamsonSamson and Delilah, Op. 47, is a grand opera in three acts and four scenes by Camille Saint-Saëns to a French libretto by Ferdinand Lemaire., on Metropolitan Opera Matinee. WRUU – 107.5 is Savannah’s home now for this radio tradition that goes back to 1931. 03/23/2019
Fri. 12:06 pm ET-This week, Leigh and PT chat with Emily Testa, the current Editor-In-Chief of Savannah Magazine. Emily is a talented writer herself, having contributed articles on a wide variety of subjects for Savannah – music, fashion, cuisine, and architecture, to name a few. In her capacity of Editor In Chief, she guides the look and sensibility of the magazine. We’ll chat about writing, editing, and especially, the unique Savannah environment and the pleasures of living here. Join us this Friday at 12:06 pm to 1 pm. 03/22/2019
Fri. 11am ET-Quick! Name a song that begins with the letter Z! Okay, how about a group? A composer? A show with music? It’s not so easy, but Brian Renner has put together a playlist that has those characteristics. He consulted with P.T. Bridgeport, Savannah’s leading collector of useless information, and they’ve got songs that revolve around the letter Z. Rock? Sure. Movie music? Lots of it. World music? Yep. Join Brian Renner as he wanders through the end of the alphabet, this coming Friday at 11:00 am.
