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KPR SPOTLIGHT: From the Herbst Theatre in San Francisco, From the Top features a 16-year-old violinist from San Jose playing the opening movement of Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata and a teenage ensemble from Los Angeles playing the final movement of Ravel's Sting Quartet. Sunday, January 11 at 9:00am on KPR 1.  Learn more ...
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"Duo Virtuoso: Elaris Duo"
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This Week on KPR Presents

Jeannette Walls
Jeannette Walls is the award-winning author of the best-selling memoir, The Glass Castle. The book details her life growing up in extreme poverty, and is a powerful and moving first-person testament to what it means to be poor in America. Walls appeared November 18th, 2008, as part of the Humanities Lecture Series, presented by the Hall Center for the Humanities at the University of Kansas.

Opera is My Hobby Friday 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM

One of the longest running shows on American radio, Opera Is My Hobby debuted on Kansas Public Radio (then KANU) in September 1952, during the very first week the station was on the air! Every week, Dr. James Seaver selects recordings from his vast collection of LPs, CDs, 78s and even wax cylinder recordings for programs spotlighting legendary performers of the past, as well as up- and-coming singers. Recent shows have included tributes to tenor Jussi Bjoerling and soprano Elisabeth Schwartzkopf, highlights from the Victor Blue Label recordings from the early 20th-century, plus excerpts from Mozart's The Magic Flute and Johann Strauss's Die Fledermaus.

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Opera is my Hobby December 26th , 2008
Excerpts from Johann Strauss's Die Fledermaus

Air Date: 2008-12-26
Engineer(s): Chubias Smith

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Opera is my Hobby December 19th , 2008
An Operatic Christmas

Air Date: 2008-12-19
Engineer(s): Chubias Smith

Your host: Dr. James Seaver

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