Tonight on Soundstage: Live Alligator Wrestling by Doug Cooney, recorded live at the Studio@620 in April 2012 as part of the Studio@620 WMNF Radio Theater Project. The performance features the voices of Jim Wicker and Susan Alexander.
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Tonight on Soundstage: part 3 of Cosmic Significance by Dewey Davis-Thompson.
Tonight on Soundstage: National Puppet Radio by Sheila Cowley – a ludicrously silly piece produced at WMNF in the early part of this century.
Tonight on Soundstage: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, performed by Lean and Hungry Theater.
This Sunday on Soundstage: A River in the Desert by Mark Leib: In 1941, an SS officer following the German army into Poland encounters the Jewish philosophy professor whom he studied with and idolized a decade earlier. In a tense confrontation, the younger and the elder man consider the lives that they’ve chosen and the forces that motivate them. Can a Nazi and a Jew find any common ground whatsoever? And will the SS man be able to do a favor for his old teacher – or is it too late for anyone’s generosity?
Recorded live in January 2012 as part of the Studio@620 WMNF Radio Theater Project.
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We have a special Passover show this week – The Witches of Lublin.
They say a family of witches appeared in the city of Lublin in Poland, in the early spring of the Christian year 1797. For the Jews of Lublin, it was 5557…
Tonight on Soundstage: a re-broadcast of an episode from 4/24/11: Ken Nordine, Negativland, Offramp, The Firesign Theatre, and The Sixty Second Radio Hour.
Tonight on Soundstage: Part 2 of Cosmic Significance by Dewey Davis-Thompson.
Tonight on Soundstage: Earth and the Great Weather by John Luther Adams, commissioned by New American Radio.
A work about the sonic geography of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in northeastern Alaska, and about the voices of the elements. From the texture of wind, rain and melting ice, flowing water, animal cries and birdsong, emerges the sound of drums playing the pulsing 5/8 and 7/8 beats of Inupiaq Eskimo drumming. At other times, the deep whooshing of bullroarers and the ethereal voices of aeolian harps grow out of the sounds and recede again. And within this sonic space, the voices of a woman and two men talking and reciting in English, Latin, and Inupiaq—leading us toward the Eskimo shaman’s song from which the piece derives its title.
Tonight on Soundstage: Cosmic Significance, Part 1, produced at WMNF.