If you listened to Beethoven's 9th Symphony just before KFUO went off the air (and, admit it: cried a little bit), you'll be interested to know that at the very least, St. Louis has its Saturday classical music live broadcasts back. Every Saturday, KWMU has cleared its schedule from 8 to 10 p.m. to beam out live coverage of the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, and drafted weekend announcer Christian Cudnik as host. The station has also posted this page, so you can track upcoming broadcasts. This Saturday, they've got a hell of a show lined up: Joshua Bell, playing Tchaikovsky.
On the other side of the spectrum is sound waves, a collaboration between The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts and KDHX as part of the musuem's latest installation, stylus: A Project by Ann Hamilton. Every third Thursday through January, KDHX DJs will be in the museum from 6 to 9 p.m., spinning a set of thematically similar songs; the first show is this Thursday, with Andrea Dunn of Radio Rio and Moacyr Marchini of Samba Bom. Next Tuesday, the Pulitzer goes a little more classical with Intervals, a series it is doing in collaboration with Opera Theatre of St. Louis, which will feature soprano Christine Brewer (who is a known name around these parts) dueting with a not-so-well-known artist, Elizabeth Zharoff (one of OTSL's new voices). The two women will be wandering through the museum, performing the work of experimental composer Sharokh Yadegari, as the projections from the stylus installation play over the museum's walls.
