QUARTERLY ISSUES/PROGRAMS REPORT
Station (call letters): KDSC (FM)
Location (city, state): Thousand Oaks, CA
(100% Simulcast of Parent Station KUSC, Los Angeles, CA)
For quarter beginning:
January 1, 20__
█ April 1, 2017__
July 1, 20__
October 1, 20__
Attached hereto are descriptions of issue-responsive programming broadcast by this station during the reporting period.
The listed programs aired on the station during the reporting period on the days and times indicated. Each program regularly provides information or addresses current local issues of concern to viewers in the area where the station is located.
LOCAL ISSUES ADDRESSED DURING THE QUARTER
The following are local issues of concern to the community. Programs that addressed these issues during this reporting period are listed on the following pages.
Local Issue/Concern Brief description of local issue or concern The awareness of local artistic events from producers who share audience with classical music-minded individuals. Coverage of Local Arts
To bring the best of classical music, both new and archived recordings to the public-at-large. Exposure to Classical Music
The impact of arts and music related curriculums on youth from a variety of socio-economic backgrounds. Education/Children’s Issues
PROGRAMS THAT ADDRESS LOCAL ISSUES
The following programs that aired during the relevant reporting period regularly address local issues and concerns in the station’s city of license and within its service area. Specific episodes and segments of these programs and the issues they addressed are listed on the following pages.
Program Name Schedule Brief Generic Description
(Day/Time) (Note whether local, syndicated or network) Arts Alive Saturdays, 8am Locally-produced, 30 minute program about arts and culture in Southern California—includes interviews with local artists and arts community members, interactive Q&A with USC Thornton School of Music Dean, arts news and community arts calendar. The Opera Show Saturdays, 9am Locally produced, music-based content regarding opera. Focusing on composers & performers with occasional interviews with local productions.
Saturdays, Locally produced, music-based program focusing on 10pm the past 75 years of contemporary classical music. Modern Times
Soul Music Sundays, 6am Locally produced, music-based program focusing on the choral component of recorded classical music.
From the Top Sundays at 6pm Syndicated via American Public Media – Recent concert performances and interviews with young musicians from across the United States. The Record Shelf Sundays at 10p Locally produced, nationally syndicated program surveying historic recordings, offering buyers guides and, featuring interviews with today’s greatest classical music personalities. Thornton Center Sundays at 9pm Locally produced music-based program featuring Stage student and faculty performances from the archives of the USC Thornton School of Music. LA Opera On-Air Saturday A broadcast series of six full-length opera’s from the Mornings at LA Opera’s most recent season. 10am (May- June Only)
A Musical Offering Sundays at Locally-produced music-based program featuring 9AM music of the Baroque Period.
SoCal Sunday Night Sundays, 7pm Locally-produced concert broadcasts from Southern California orchestras and ensembles: Los Angeles Philharmonic, Pacific Symphony, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Los Angeles Master Chorale. Requests at Noon Mon-Fri, 12PM Locally-produced, music-based program featuring music requested by listeners.
ISSUE-RESPONSIVE PROGRAMMING
Local Issue: Exposure to classical music
Program Date Time Duration Description The Record Shelf 4/2 10p 1hr "The Young Furtwängler" -- the earliest recordings of the great German conductor.
The Record Shelf 4/9 10p 1hr A conversation with the acclaimed young Scottish violinist Nicola Benedetti.
The Record Shelf 4/16 10p 1hr A Buyer's Guide to the Tone Poem -- a survey of the best of the readily-available recordings.
The Record Shelf 4/23 10p 1hr "Miss Bach" -- recordings by the great Bach pianist Rosalyn Tureck.
The Record Shelf 5/7 10p 1hr The Record Shelf Record Reviews Jim Sveheda surveys critical reactions to the latest compact discs.
The Record Shelf 5/14 10p 1hr Ladies' Night, Part 1 An encore broadcast of a two-part program featuring historic recordings of the great female pianists of the early 20th century.
The Record Shelf 5/21 10p 1hr Ladies' Night, Part 2 In the second of two programs, historic recordings by the great female pianists of the early 20th century.
The Record Shelf 5/28 10p 1hr A conversation with the brilliant, elusive Polish pianist Piotr Anderszewski.
The Record Shelf 6/4 10p 1hr A Buyer's Guide to French Ballet. A survey of the best of the readily-available recordings.
The Record Shelf 6/11 10p 1hr The Forgotten Englishman. Recordings by the gifted English conductor George Weldon.
The Record Shelf 6/18 10p 1hr A conversation with the astounding teenage Dutch recorderist Lucie Hosch.
The Record Shelf 6/25 10p 1hr The Collector's Rhapsodies, Part 1. The first of two programs featuring historic recordings of the Hungarian Rhapsodies of Franz Liszt.
Local Issue: Coverage of local arts
Program Date Time Duration Description Arts Alive 4/1 8a 30min Derrick Spiva is a local composer whose music sounds like Los Angeles – a kaleidoscope of the music people have brought with them to this city. He’s the subject of our latest Local Composers Project. And, music education is a gateway to all kinds of unexpected benefits for kids. Plus, musical exploration can be a whole lot of fun. KUSC is throwing a musical party, our Kids Discovery Day on April 9th. Get the scoop on the Arts Alive podcast. Arts Alive 4/8 8a 30min No one writes movie music like John Williams. And from Jaws, to ET to Schindler’s List, some of his most iconic themes have been penned for the films of Steven Spielberg. Williams talks about his decades-long collaboration with Spielberg. Plus, music, art and beer, you’ll find them all at Festival MARS. We talk to the founders. Plus film critic Kenneth Turan on retirees breaking bad on the big screen, Ask the Dean and more. Arts Alive 4/15 8a 30min From the worlds of science fiction and modern art, Pasadena is the site for two exhibitions about tenacious women who set out to change the world. Come with
us to the Huntington Library for Octavia E. Butler: Telling My Stories and then over to the Norton Simon for Maven of Modernism: Galka Scheyer in California. Plus, Ask the Dean solves your musical mysteries. That’s all on the Arts Alive podcast. Arts Alive 4/22 8a 30min You don’t need a passport for this world tour with stops in Indonesia, Java, Bali, North India and West Africa. You just need to get your tickets to CalArts’ World Music and Dance Festival. We’ll tell you about some of the fascinating artists making their way to Valencia. And meet composer Ethan Treiman. He hasn’t finished high school yet, but he’s already made a mark on LA’s compositional scene. Plus film critic Kenneth Turan on a pair of new documentaries about the LA uprising, Ask the Dean and more. It’s all on the Arts Alive podcast. Arts Alive 4/29 8a 30min This week on Arts Alive, LA Master Chorale assistant conductor Jenny Wong talks about the humility necessary to make great music. Master Chorale soprano and composer Zanaida Robles also joins us to talk about her arrangement of the Black National Anthem, “Lift Every Voice and Sing.” Also, how dance can help us address some of the most challenging issues facing society today. And, on Ask the Dean, what makes a period instrument a period instrument? Arts Alive 5/13 8a 30min Right now on the Arts Alive podcast … soprano Sondra Radvanovsky’s wrapped up her run as Tosca in LA Opera’s production, but she left a trail of glowing reviews and new fans in her wake. She’s our guest on Arts Alive. Plus, artist Chris Burden changed the look of LACMA with his lines of streetlamps, but a new documentary takes you back to earlier in his career when he was celebrated and reviled as a
daredevil provocateur. All that, Ask the Dean and more. It’s all on the Arts Alive podcast Arts Alive 5/20 8a 30min Jeffrey Kahane is bidding farewell to his post as Music Director of the LA Chamber Orchestra. But before he goes, he has a few things to say … and he’s not afraid to shake people up. Plus, we talk to half of the Emerson String Quartet about staying together by being apart. All that and more on the Arts Alive podcast. Arts Alive 5/27 8a 30min She introduced Los Angeles to Gustavo Dudamel, built a brand a new hall and got the LA Phil on solid financial footing. How did Deborah Borda do it? We ask her on the Arts Alive podcast. And we hear from Dudamel himself about using music to build bridges, conducting at the Hollywood Bowl and saying good-bye to Borda. Plus film critic Kenneth Turan gives his impressions of the Cannes Film Festival, Ask the Dean and more. It’s all on the Arts Alive podcast. Arts Alive 6/3 8a 30min The Angel City Chorale says you can keep your phone on at their upcoming concert — the LA choir is looking for new ways to introduce Angelenos to the magic of choral singing. And Ojai Music Festival Music Director Vijay Iyer talks about his inventive approach to bringing musicians together at this year’s upcoming festival. Plus, what can a composer’s creative process teach us about problem solving? The answer is on Ask the Dean. All that and more on the Arts Alive podcast. Arts Alive 6/10 8a 30min 25 female composer, 25 male composers. All commissioned to write music the famed Kronos Quartet will not only premiere, but also make available to anyone who wants to play it. Kronos violinist David Harrington talks about “Fifty for the Future.” And… it’s probably not like any
museum exhibition you’ve seen before. Visitors can read a book in a cave, play Pong, and see all kinds of toys, from skateboards to hula hoops, that shaped the American West. It’s Play! at the Autry Museum and we take you there on the Arts Alive podcast. Arts Alive 6/17 8a 30min Randy Newman songs can tend toward the sardonic, but then there’s his music for animated movies, which can play your heartstrings like a violin. Newman brought his signature sound to the movie Cars 3 — we talk to him about it on Arts Alive. Plus, the Ensemble Theatre Company of Santa Barbara’s first professional summer training program for teens wants to teach aspiring actors as much about preparing as performing. Hear all about that, plus musicians’ pre-show rituals and more on the Arts Alive podcast Arts Alive 6/24 8a 30min “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.” Words of welcome etched into the Statue of Liberty that have inspired so many, including American composer Peter Boyer. He’s our guest on Arts Alive. Plus, we take a look back at a decade of interviews with stars and up- and-coming talent on Arts Alive. And LA Times and Arts Alive film critic Kenneth Turan has some recommendations for cinefiles. SoCal Sunday Night 4/2 7p 2hrs A concert from the Los Angeles Philharmonic, recorded live. SoCal Sunday Night 4/9 7p 2hrs A concert from the Los Angeles Philharmonic, recorded live. SoCal Sunday Night 4/16 7p 2hrs A concert from the Los Angeles Philharmonic, recorded live. SoCal Sunday Night 4/23 7p 2hrs A concert from the Los Angeles Philharmonic, recorded live. SoCal Sunday Night 4/30 7p 2hrs A concert from the Los Angeles Philharmonic, recorded live. SoCal Sunday Night 5/7 7p 2hrs A concert from the Los Angeles Philharmonic, recorded live. SoCal Sunday Night 5/14 7p 2hrs A concert from the Los Angeles
Philharmonic, recorded live. SoCal Sunday Night 5/21 7p 2hrs A concert from the Los Angeles Philharmonic, recorded live. SoCal Sunday Night 5/28 7p 2hrs A concert from the Los Angeles Philharmonic, recorded live. SoCal Sunday Night 6/4 7p 2hrs A concert from the Los Angeles Philharmonic, recorded live. SoCal Sunday Night 6/11 7p 2hrs A concert from the Los Angeles Philharmonic, recorded live. SoCal Sunday Night 6/18 7p 2hrs A concert from the Los Angeles Philharmonic, recorded live. SoCal Sunday Night 6/25 7p 2hrs A concert from the Los Angeles Philharmonic recorded live. Pacific Symphony 6/10 8a 2hrs Rich Capparela hosts a live LIVE broadcast of Pacific Symphony and the Pacific Chorale performing Mahler’s Symphony No. 2, Resurrection. LA Opera On Air 5/20 10a 3hrs A production from LA Opera recorded live. LA Opera On Air 5/27 10a 3hrs A production from LA Opera recorded live. LA Opera On Air 6/3 10a 3hrs A production from LA Opera recorded live. LA Opera On Air 6/10 10a 3hrs A production from LA Opera recorded live. LA Opera On Air 6/17 10a 3hrs A production from LA Opera recorded live.
Local Issue: Education/Children’s Issues
Program Date Time Duration Description From The Top Sundays 6p 1hr Weekly program highlighting performances and interviews with talented youth musicians from across the US. The Off-to- Mon-Fri 7:15a 10min Host plays a piece of classical music School/Summer requested by a child and/or their vacation Request parent/guardian that they want to hear on their way to school. Thornton Center Sundays 9p 2 hrs Locally produced music-based program Stage featuring student and faculty performances from the archives of the
USC Thornton School of Music. Ask the Dean (part Saturdays 8:45AM 5-10 USC Thornton School of Music Dean of Arts Alive) minutes Robert Cutietta answers listener questions about instruments, music theory, music history and careers in music. KUSC Kids April 9, 9a-1p 4 hours A live broadcast from KUSC’s Kids Discovery Day – 2017 Discovery Day at the Natural History Live Museum – music for kids, plus live interviews with local music education organizations.
KUSC Radio (Simulcasting on KDSC, Thousand Oaks)
Local Events & Arts Calendar Public Service Announcements April – June 2017
Around Town arts calendar (airs on Arts Alive, Sat. 8AM)
April 1, 2017 Promoted: USC School of Cinematic Arts hosts a broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera of Verdi's La Traviata; St. James Sunday Concerts present "Rhapsodies," featuring pianist Roger Wright Santa Barbara Chamber Orchestra for an intimate evening of music and discussion
April 15, 2017 Promoted: UCLA Faculty guitarist Peter Yates presents a concert of solo and chamber music for guitar from the Renaissance to the present; Chapman University Saxophone Ensemble perform an eclectic mix of classical and jazz repertoire; Music Under Oppression is the theme for a concert by the USC Thornton School of Music’s University Chorus
May 13, 2017 Promoted: music from the Baroque to contemporary at the Second Saturday Series in Glendale; Orange County School of the Arts gives their spring concert, “Awakening”; Long Beach Opera opens a production about identity, authenticity and compassion tonight in As One
May 20, 2017 Promoted: The Westside Youth Orchestra of Culver City presents Music at the Movies; Celebrate the written word with two days of events at LitFest in Pasadena; From the Elmer Bernstein Memorial Film Series, see The Ten Commandments next Saturday in Santa Barbara
June 3, 2017 Promoted: The UCLA Gluck Trombone Quartet, with graduate and undergraduate music students from the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, is performing Tuesday at the Studio City Branch Library; Hear folksongs and classical selections from Mendelssohn, Mozart, Schubert, and Lehar at today’s spring concert by the Edelweiss Choir of Santa Barbara; Lawyers and judges come together next Sunday for the LA Lawyers Phil & Legal Voices' 8th Annual Concert Extraordinaire
June 17, 2017 Promoted: Sundays Live presents free weekly classical chamber music concerts and recitals by premier professional artists from Southern California and around the world; Thumbprint -- a production of LA Opera Off-Grand; L.A.'s largest Performing Arts Festival The Hollywood Fringe; Hear how movie music gets made in SCORE: A FILM MUSIC DOCUMENTARY On-Air Arts Calendar during Weekly Daytime Shifts
April 3, 2017 6AM Free movies at Union Station 3PM Susan Graham at Lobero Theater
April 4, 2017 8AM Music theater production at PCC 3PM KUSC Kids Discovery Day
April 5, 2017 6AM KUSC Kids Discovery Day 8AM Music @ Rushhour 3PM Salonen @ LA Phil, Argerich/Kovacevich @ WDCH 6PM Renee Fleming @ MET, KUSC Kids Discovery Day
April 6, 2017 7PM First Fridays at First – free concert in Torrance 3PM Hear Now Festival EPS/Lyris Event 6PM KUSC Kids Discovery Day
April 7, 2017 8AM Colburn Chamber Music Society 3PM University of Redlands School of Music concert, Camerata Pacifica, LA Phil – Argerich 4PM USC Thornton School of Music concert, Broad Stage – Michael Fabiano, Palm Springs Opera Guild 5PM Poway OnStage, Chapman University concert, Debbie Allen Dance Academy 6PM State Street Ballet, Bakersfield Community Concert Association, UCLA Center for 17th &18th-Century Studies and W. A. Clark Memorial Library
April 10, 2017 9AM LIVE! At the Museum (Laguna Beach Art Museum)
April 11, 2017 6AM Pomona College Orchestra & Choir free concert 4PM Stuttgart Collegium Bach b-minor Mass
April 12, 2017 7AM In the Heights at PCC 5AM Afro-American Chamber Music Society Orchestra 6PM Hocket Ensemble FREE Culver City
April 13, 2017 8AM Boyde Hoyde Tribute concert at Thornton (free) 6PM Festival MARS
April 14, 2017 8AM Thornton Chamber Orchestra – free 3PM USC Thornton School of Music – Pepe Romero 4PM Dr. Judd Bonner of California Baptist University, Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra 5PM USC Thornton School of Music concert, Pomona College Department of Music, UCI Claire Trevor School of the Arts 6PM National Association of Composers USA in Los Angeles, LA Phil WDCH April 17, 2017 9AM Pepe Romero masterclass 6PM Art Behind Barbed Wire at CSUDH
April 18, 2017 3PM LA Phil Schubert/Mahler, LA Opera Tosca
April 19, 2017 8AM Thornton Music @ RushHour (free)
April 20, 2017 8AM Echo Mountain Chamber Project at Brand Library (free)
April 21, 2017 6AM South Bay Chamber Music Society 3PM Classical Crossroads @ First Lutheran, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra 4PM South Bay Chamber Music Society, Pasadena Master Chorale, Santa Maria Philharmonic Society 5PM AACMSO @ Holman United Methodist Church, American Youth Symphony, Classical Encounters Foundation, USC Thornton Opera 6PM LA Opera, Da Camera Society, Musica Angelica Baroque Orchestra
April 24, 2017 8AM Thornton Percussion Ensemble (free) 5PM Yo-Yo Ma plays Back at HB
April 25, 2017 6PM Benjamin Grosvenor @ Wallis and SCFTA
April 26, 2017 8AM Music at Noon – Pasadena Presbyterian Church (free) 9AM Thornton Chamber Music Festival 3PM Yo-Yo Ma plays Back at HB 4PM Benjamin Grosvenor @ Wallis and SCFTA
April 27, 2017 6AM LACHSA Piano @ Grand Park (free)
April 28, 2017 2PM Inner City Youth Orchestra of LA, Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra, Long Beach Symphony 3PM Pacific Symphony, LA Phil 4PM LA Doctors Symphony, EDM Services & James Hunley Classical Guitar Studio in LA 5PM Pasadena Symphony
May 1, 2017 8AM Glendale Noon Concerts – free 4PM Yo-Yo Ma, Thile & Edgar at WDCH 5PM Benjamin Grosvenor at SCFTA
May 2, 2017 3PM Salastina: Beethoven Piano Trios 5PM LA Phil Schubert & Mahler
May 3, 2017 6PM Thornton Concerto Competition (free) 3PM Ma, Thile, Meyer play Bach @ WDCH 4PM Benjamin Grosvenor @ SCFTA
May 12, 2017 8AM Hansel & Gretel Bluegrass – 24th St Theatre 3PM Palomar Performing Arts, Santa Barbara Chamber Orchestra, Pacific Chorale 4PM Chapman University Performing Arts, Ojai Youth Opera folk opera 5PM Restoration Concerts, Chorale Bel Canto, San Fernando Valley Symphony Orch. 6PM Daniel Alfred Wachs @ Chapman Univ., The Wallis – Brooklyn Rider
May 15, 2017 Colburn Community School band concert (free)
May 17, 2017 7AM Glendale Noon Concerts 5PM LA Phil – Schubert & Mahler, UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, Dept. of Ethnomusicology concert
May 18, 2017 3PM Anaheim United Methodist Church – Meritage Vocal Arts 4PM Pacific Symphony – Mozart & Strauss
May 19, 2017 6AM Huntington Gardens 9AM Third @ First (free) 3PM Classical Encounters Foundation, Classical Crossroads, Orchestra Santa Monica, UCR Chamber Music Ensembles 4PM Meritage Vocal Arts Ensemble, American Youth Symphony, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Wagner Ensemble 5PM Third @ First series, Claremont Chorale 6PM Opera Santa Barbara
May 22, 2017 5PM Los Angeles Philharmonic Bartok Cycle
May 23, 2017 7PM Pasadena Presbyterian Church Music @ Noon 4PM Pierre Leloup – Los Angeles Virtuosi Orchestra
May 24, 2017 8AM Free Organ recital at the Cathedral 4PM Casa Romantica Cultural Center & Gardens – Mt. San Antonio College Chamber Singers 6PM LA Phil – Bartok Cycle
May 25, 2017 3PM Long Beach Symphony 5PM Anaheim Ballet’s #NoFilter @ Samueli Theatre
May 26, 2017 3PM Culver City Chamber Orchestra, Anaheim Ballet, Temecula Presents 4PM Mansfield Chamber Singers, Santa Monica Symphony Orchestra 5PM Beach Cities Symphony Association, LA Phil, The Verdi Chorus 6PM LA Children’s Chorus Auditions, Hausmann Quartet @ Maritime Museum of San Diego
May 30, 2017 8AM UCI Beethoven Concert
June 1, 2017 8AM AGMA Relief Fund Benefit Concert
June 2, 2017 8AM First Fridays @ First Lutheran Church (free)
June 5, 2017 8AM Long Beach Symphony
June 6, 2017 8AM UC Riverside Concert Band 4PM LA Metropolitan Opera 5PM Glendale City Church, 71st Ojai Music Festi, Pacific Symphony
June 7, 2017 8AM Glendale Noon Concert 3PM Long Beach Symphony, LA Master Chorale 5PM St. Louis Symphony 6PM LA Nomadic Division – Quartet for the End of Time
June 8, 2017 5PM Kronos Quartet @ LACMA, Long Beach Symphony
June 9, 2017 3PM LA Metropolitan Opera 4PM Hollywood Master Chorale, San Diego Youth Symphony, Center Stage Opera, Los Angeles Youth Orchestra 5PM Cal Poly Music Department, Corelli Ensemble, LA Lawyers Phil, Long Beach Symphony 6PM Famous Players Orchestra, Mt. Wilson Observatory concert, Edendale Branch Library – Edendale Up Close
June 13, 2017 3PM Vin Scully/Dudamel/LA Phil/HWB
June 14, 2017 9AM Wesley Bell Ringers 3PM LA Master Chorale
June 15, 2017 7AM Children’s Theater at Buena Park Library
June 16, 2017 9AM Encore Saxophone Quartet at Brand Library (free) 3PM Hollywood Chamber Orchestra 4PM Choral Consortium of San Diego, Claremont Clarinet Festival 5PM Brand Library & Art Center Glendale, Classical Crossroads First Lutheran, Segerstrom Center for the Arts 6PM Baroque Music Festival Corona del Mar, Peninsula Symphony, LA Doctors Symphony, Music Academy of the West
June 22, 2017 7AM Big Sing LA (free) 8AM LAMC Chorus America concert at WDCH 4PM Mozart Requiem Hollywood Bowl
June 23, 2017 3PM Accent Concerts at WDCH, The Music Guide, Jean Will California Center for the Arts 4PM Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, Jewish Music Commission of Los Angeles, Los Angeles Recorder Orchestra 5PM Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre, Pacific Palisades Presbyterian Church, The Music Center 6PM Music at Westwood, Spreckels Organ Society
June 30, 2017 3PM MDR Summer Symphony 4PM Athenaeum Music & Arts Library La Jolla, Broad Stage, Claire Trevor School of the Arts 5PM Edendale Branch Library, Hollywood Bowl 6PM Redlands Bowl Summer Music Festival, Dept. of Beaches and Harbors