TO: All Stations

FR: Tony Morris

DT: September 25, 2023

RE: ***** CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE!   23-39 Virtuoso Variations by Handel, Carulli, Rodrigo, Giuliani

Program Length:58:57

In Cue: MUSIC IN “Hello and welcome to…”

Out Cue: “…another edition of Classical Guitar Alive!”

INTRODUCTION:

  Bizet:  Carmen Suite: Prelude    Los Romeros, guitar quartet

                                                    (Philips 412-609)

PROGRAM BEGINS:

   Handel: Passacaglia              David Russell, guitar

                                                  (GHA 126-006)

 Carulli: Beethoven Variations   Sonja Prunnbauer, guitar

                                                  Robert Hill, fortepiano

                                                  (MDG 603-0616)

 Rodrigo: Concierto Madrigal    Pepe & Angel Romero, guitars

                                                  Acad. St. Martin in-the-fields

                                                  Neville Marriner, conductor

                                                   (Philips 400-024)

  Giuliani: Variations, op. 146    Frederic Zigante, guitar

                                                  (ARTS 47147)

CLOSING THEME/FUNDING CREDITS

This week’s program is titled “Virtuoso Variations”, and features works written in theme-and-variations form by Handel, Carulli, Rodrigo, and Giuliani.

Classical Guitar Alive! is a weekly one-hour music with interviews program that is sound-rich, energetic, and has a positive vibe. It is an audience bridge-builder program that attracts both core classical audience and fans of all kinds of acoustic music.

Classical Guitar Alive! celebrates over 25 years of national distribution and airs each week on over 250 stations. FUNDRAISER EDITION of Classical Guitar Alive! is available here to all stations: http://www.prx.org/pieces/187790-fundraiser-editio