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and at six minutes past two on this Thursday, your listening to K VCR, San Bernardino Join us the top of every hour for national news from NPR, as well as local news with gymnasts and a reminder that at four o'clock this afternoon it's all things considered from National Public Radio. This is Robert reading. And as you heard in the local news, the number one movie at the box office this week is Batman. The Bat has fascinated Western audiences for hundreds of years. One of the most popular depictions of the bat in the last century was not the scary Dracula, but was rather the comic figure off deflator Mouse the Batch. A doctor who liked to wear an enormous cape. He was the title character in the comic operetta deflator mouse by Johann Strauss Jr Here's the over short of that operetta. Alfred Vaulter conducts the Slovak State Philharmonic. The Bat. A Batman from the 19th century Deflator mouse, the title character in the comic operetta about Johann Strauss Jr. We've heard the overture to that operetta Elford Vaulter conducted the Slovak State Philharmonic. It's quarter past two on this Thursday, and at 91.9. You're tuned to members supported K VCR San Bernardino This is Robert Reedy with you every weekday afternoon from one until four for the finest music of the past 1000 years. Still to come in this two o'clock, our arguably the greatest of all American piano concertos, the second by Edward MacDowell. And we'll hear a favorite art song from Jerome Kern's Showboat, performed by the great bass baritone Paul Robeson. Well, one Good Waltz deserves another, and we'll hear now from America's finest woman composer. You Hampshire Zone Amy Beach from a layer of dew column Bean. The Dreams of Columbine. Here's the Waltz of Love. Joanne Polk Piano. Just the sort of charming dream you might imagine a girl clown having we've heard The Waltz of Love from the dreams of Columbine, the Opus 65 of American composer Amy Beach. Performing was Joanne Polk Piano column. Being was one of the figures from the commedia Dell Arte A. She was the consort of the infamous Punch or Poulsen Ello, who used to beat her without mercy with the slapstick. The original slapstick was used in those old comedies. So perhaps column Wien was not dreaming of punch, but rather of breakfast. And if that was the case, she would have a doozy of a dream. With the current exhibits at the San Bernardino County Museum, the ology exhibit the hatching of eggs. The San Bernadino County Museum has the fifth largest collection of eggs in the world, from tiny hummingbird eggs, two ostriches to velociraptors. It's an amazing collection. Over 100,000 eggs now on display at the San Bernardino County Museum. Worthwhile taking in. Give him a call at 909307 2669 Any beach we've just heard Her dream of Columbine. The Waltz of Love was a very active participant in the New England Arts colony of Peterborough, New Hampshire, which was founded by another first rate American composer, Edward MacDowell. Well now here. McDowell's Piano Concerto number two in D Minor, the Opus 23 of that composer with Eugene List piano, and the Westphalian Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Siegfried Landau. The Piano Concerto number two in D Minor, the Opus 23 of American composer Edward MacDowell. I think that's the single finest American Piano Concerto today. We've heard it performed by Eugene List piano with the West Valiant Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Zik Freed Landau. And tomorrow evening at eight o'clock that work will be featured at the Redlands Bowl with soloist John Novacek piano and Frank Feta conducting the Redlands Ball Orchestra. Join me tomorrow afternoon in the one o'clock hour when Maestro Feta will be my guest will be discussing that work as well as Tosca coming up in two weeks time. This year's featured opera at the Redlands Bowl. Good afternoon, this is Robert reading. It's now quarter of three on this Thursday and at 91.9, you're listening to classical music on K VCR. San Bernardino. Still to come in This Hour, a great Russian concert march by Eppolito Off even off. But right now we'll turn to an American art song from what was either the last American operetta or the first modern American comedy. The show Showboat by Jerome Kern, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein. The second has been described both ways, but the finest performance of the show's aria, Old Man River, is performed by Paul Robeson. He was the Joe in the 1936 film production of Showboat, and we'll hear Robison performing old Man River this afternoon with the Columbia Concert Orchestra, conducted by Emmanuel Ballabon. Incomparable Paul Robeson, bass baritone in Old Man River from Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein. The Seconds Showboat ropes enjoined by the Columbia Concert Orchestra. Emmanuel Ballabon conducting. It's nine before three At 91.9, this is KBC are coming up at four o'clock, All things considered from National Public Radio. Join me in the next hour when will hear the String Quartet from My Life by Czech composer Bedrich Smetana. We continue on this Thursday afternoon with a favorite Russian concert, March 1 that spin frequently used in films and has served as the theme for several news programmes and documentaries from the Caucasian sketches of Mikhail Eppolito Ivanov. Here's the procession of the Sardar the Sardar were officials under the czars who served in the Caucasian region of what was then the Russian Empire and what is today Isar by John, the procession of the Sardar on
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