TO: All Stations

FR: Tony Morris

DT: March 31, 2020

RE: ***** CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE!  20-14 Bach, Ravel, Sor, Interview: Baylor Medical Musician Tony Arant

In Cue: MUSIC IN "Hello and welcome to…"

Out Cue: "…another edition of Classical Guitar Alive!"

Program Length:58:57

INTRODUCTION:

 Bizet: Carmen Suite: Prelude          Los Romeros, guitar quartet

                                             (Philips 412-609)

PROGRAM BEGINS:

Bach/Gounod, arr. Tarrega: Ave Maria   Sachiko Miyashita, guitar

                                             (“Le Depart”  TOS 2015) (2:34)

Bach: Harpsichord Concerto BWV1052    Grigoryan Brothers

                                                        Adelaide Symphony Orchestra

                                                        Benjamin Northey, conductor

                                           (“Bach Concertos” ABC Classics 2018)  (15:11)

Interview: Tony Arant: “Three years ago, I was playing for a young woman who had been in a car crash, and was in a coma…   … the one thing that reaches them when modern medicine can’t, is music.”

 Arr. T. Ippo: Aogeba Tatoshi/Song for the Close of School    Sachiko Miyashita, guitar

                                                 (“Gift” TOS 2010)   (4:30)

  Ravel: Empress of the Pagodas                          Sixty1strings

                                              (“Ambaraba” Genuin 2020) (3:30)

  Ravel: Alborada del gracio                                  ChromaDuo

                                        (“Ravel/Debussy for 2 Guitars” Naxos 2016) (7:37)

  Sor: Fantasie op 54b                                 Sachiko Miyashita & Pavel Steidl, guitars

                                        (“Virtuoso” TOS 2007)

CLOSING THEME/FUNDING CREDITS

This week's edition of CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE! features music by Bach/Gounod, Bach, Ravel, and Sor, and a 2020 interview with Tony Arant, music practitioner at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas, Texas, which was filmed for an upcoming PBS television special on Music In Medicine.

Classical Guitar Alive! celebrates 22 years of national distribution, airing each week on over 200 stations. FUNDRAISER EDITION of Classical Guitar Alive! is available here to all stations, no carriage fee: http://www.prx.org/pieces/187790-fundraiser-editio

CGA! is a winner at PRX's 13th Annual Zeitfunk Awards: #1 Most Licensed Producer, and #2 Most Licensed Series.