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, 2017
April 1, 20__
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 1/1 10p 1hr The Alternative New Year’s Day Concert. A tonic to the traditional Vienna Philharmonic extravaganza. The Record Shelf 1/8 10p 1hr Elgar in Stereo?! Part 1. Sir Edward conducts his own works in true 2-channel stereo. The Record Shelf 1/15 10p 1hr Elgar in Stereo?! Part 2. Sir Edward conducts his own works in true 2-channel stereo. The Record Shelf 1/22 10p 1hr A conversation with the Baroque violinist turned mainstream conductor, Andrew Manze. The Record Shelf 1/29 10p 1hr The Record Shelf Record Reviews. Jim Svejda offers critical reactions to the latest compact discs. The Record Shelf 2/5 10p 1hr The Forgotten Violinist. Recordings by the only American violinist ever to win First Prize in the Queen Elizabeth Competition, Berl Senofsky. The Record Shelf 2/12 10p 1hr A Buyer’s Guide to the Shostakovich Symphonies. Jim Svejda guides you through some of the best readily available recordings. The Record Shelf 2/19 10p 1hr A conversation with the brilliant Danish conductor Thomas Dausgaard. The Record Shelf 2/26 10p 1hr Klieber on the Air. The Golden Age conductor Erich Kleiber (father or Carlos) in live performances with Arturo Toscanini’s NBC Symphony. The Record Shelf 3/5 10p 1hr The Young Celi, Part 1. A rebroadcast of the first part of a two-part look at the early recordings of the controversial Romanian conductor Sergiu Celibidache. The Record Shelf 3/12 10p 1hr The Young Celi, Part 2. A rebroadcast of
the second part of a two-part look at the early recordings of the controversial Romanian conductor Sergiu Celibidache. The Record Shelf 3/19 10p 1hr A conversation with the Gramophone Magazine’s reigning Artist of the Year, pianist Daniil Trifonov. The Record Shelf 3/26 10p 1hr The Record Shelf Record Reviews. Jim Svejda presents critical reaction to the latest compact discs.
Local Issue: Coverage of local arts
Program Date Time Duration Description Arts Alive 1/7 8a 30min Right now on the Arts Alive podcast… our Local Composers Project takes a twenty hour plane ride. It’s the first in a four part series about LA’s Kazakhstan connection. And … first it was 9, then 24, now over 200. It’s the Inner City Youth Orchestra of Los Angeles and its founder Charles Dickerson says a music education teaches more than just how to hold a violin. There are life lessons in every note. Those stories and more on the Arts Alive podcast. Arts Alive 1/14 8a 30min Right now on the Arts Alive podcast … Tenor Arnold Livingston Geis says when you’re a singer in LA, you have to be up for anything. One week you could be singing Beethoven, the next week a top secret movie score. Our interview with Geis, plus a trip the the famous steppes of Eurasia in Kazakhstan and film reviews from Kenneth Turan. Arts Alive 1/21 8a 30min From our series on the classical connection between LA and Kazakhstan, we hear the world premiere of the Silent Steppe Cantata, three years in the making. And singer Storm Large traded punk and rock clubs for concert halls when she sang Kurt Weil’s The Seven Deadly Sins with LACO. What was it like to jump genres? She tells us all about it on the Arts Alive podcast.
Arts Alive 1/28 8a 30min On this edition of the podcast…we wrap up our four-part series about the musical connections between Los Angeles and Kazakhstan with a song. Rashaun Jumaniyazova reflects on the importance of music in the lives of the Kazakh people. Jumaniayazova started and runs the first classical music station in central Asia. How Classical KUSC in Los Angeles helped get Radio Classic on the air…and what KUSC learned from Radio Classic. Also, what started out as a mysterious entry in the Cannes film festival turns into an Oscar- nomination for Iranian director Asghar Farhadi. Plus, LA Times and Arts Alive film critic Kenneth Turan gives us the film forecast from another major festival—in snowy Park City, Utah – Sundance! And on Ask the Dean: the bass times two. Why do we call it the double bass? Dean Rob Cutietta of the USC Thornton School of music and Kaufman School of Dance plumbs the depths on this week’s installment of Ask the Dean. Arts Alive 2/4 8a 30min Right now on the Arts Alive podcast: we’re hanging out in the string section with violinists Daniel Hope and Lisa Batiashvili. Hope tells us why he re- imagined Vivaldi and fell in love with readio. Batiashvili talks about tackling one of Tchaikovsky’s toughest concertos and why we should always turn to Bach. Plus, some Renaissance painters had employees finish their work, have composers ever done the same? We Ask the Dean. All that and more on the Arts Alive podcast. Arts Alive 2/18 8a 30min LA opera company The Industry has always been experimental. But they’re really pushing the boundaries now. Yuval Sharon is The Industry’s artistic director. He tells us about a concert of new “works in progress”. Plus, we head to “Dreamland,” the
Museum of Latin American Art’s Frank Romero Retrospective. It’s all on the Arts Alive podcast. Arts Alive 2/25 8a 30min It’s our annual Oscar’s edition. We talk to writer-turned actor Taylor Sheridan about his nominated screenplay for Hell or High Water , and to composer Thomas Newman, nominated for the 14th time for Best Score, this time for Passengers . Plus film critic Kenneth Turan looks into his crystal ball and on Ask the Dean, is there a right way to learn piano? Arts Alive 3/4 8a 30min La La Land danced and sang its way into six Academy Awards, we talk to the film’s Oscar-winning composer Justin Hurwitz. Plus, on the latest installment of the KUSC Local Composers Project: meet Julia Adolphe, her Sound Investment commission is about to be premiered by LACO. All that and more, on the Arts Alive podcast. Arts Alive 3/11 8a 30min KUSC’s partnering with the Mr. Holland’s Opus Foundation to collect instruments for deserving kids. We talk to the foundation’s CEO about their mission and how they decide which instruments go where. And Soprano Golda Berkman saw her first opera at age 4. Now she’s striking out for Italy to continue her operatic education, but not before one last hometown concert. Plus film critic Kenneth Turan on an island full of monsters. And on Ask the Dean, does learning a piece of music make an imprint in your brain? It’s all on the Arts Alive podcast. Arts Alive 3/18 8a 30min Pianist Emanuel Ax names his favorite composer, talks about decades of creative collaboration with Yo-Yo Ma, and admits to sneaking into Carnegie Hall. And his fellow pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet talks about finding a musical family here in LA. All that and more, on the Arts Alive podcast.
Arts Alive 3/25 8a 30min The head coach of LA Opera’s Young Artist Program, says aspiring opera singers need more than just a good voice. They have to have star power and Placido Domingo knows how to spot it. We talk to some of the outstanding singers training in the Domingo- Colburn-Stein Young Artist Program. And LA Master Chorale’s Grant Gershon talks about their upcoming concert to celebrate composer John Adam’s 70th birthday. It’s all on the Arts Alive podcast. SoCal Sunday Night 1/1 7p 2hrs A concert from Festival Mozaic Orchestra recorded live. SoCal Sunday Night 1/8 7p 2hrs A concert from the the Music Academy of the West Festival Orchestra recorded live. SoCal Sunday Night 1/15 7p 2hrs A concert from the Community Arts Music Association in Santa Barbara recorded live. SoCal Sunday Night 1/22 7p 2hrs A concert from the Santa Barbara Chamber Orchestra recorded live. SoCal Sunday Night 1/29 7p 2hrs A concert from the Quire of Voyces recorded live. SoCal Sunday Night 2/5 7p 2hrs A concert from the Pacific Symphony recorded live. SoCal Sunday Night 2/12 7p 2hrs A concert from the Pacific Symphony recorded live. SoCal Sunday Night 2/19 7p 2hrs A concert from the Pacific Symphony recorded live. SoCal Sunday Night 2/26 7p 2hrs A concert from the Pacific Symphony recorded live. SoCal Sunday Night 3/5 7p 2hrs A concert from the Pacific Symphony recorded live. SoCal Sunday Night 3/12 7p 2hrs A concert from the Pacific Symphony recorded live. SoCal Sunday Night 3/19 7p 2hrs A concert from the Pacific Symphony recorded live. SoCal Sunday Night 3/26 7p 2hrs A concert from the Los Angeles Philharmonic 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 Radio (Simulcasting on KDSC, Thousand Oaks)
Local Events & Arts Calendar Public Service Announcements // Jan – March 2017
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Around Town arts calendar (airs on Arts Alive, Sat. 8AM)
January 7, 2017 Promoted: free noontime performance of classical music starts the Athenaeum's 2017 series of mini-concerts in La Jolla; concert at REDCAT in Downtown Los Angeles; contemporary classical music series Jacaranda presents American Berserk
January 21, 2017 Promoted: new performing arts series, LAEMMLE LIVE; San Luis Obispo Little Theatre’s Academy of Creative Theatre presents THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST; Smokey Robinson joins the New West Symphony next weekend for Copland’s A Lincoln Portrait
February 4, 2017 Promoted: Claremont Youth Symphony Orchestra, Palm Springs Opera Guild, Santa Barbara’s Viva el Arte
February 18, 2017 Promoted: celebration of Black History month at Idyllwild Arts, organ recital at Pasadena First United Methodist Church, USC Thornton School of Music Early Music Program recital
March 4, 2017 Promoted: Classical Revolution LA, Home Grown @ Bootleg, San Diego Theater Week
March 18, 2017 Promoted: Crown City Symphony, VOX Femina, Jacaranda Music
On-Air Arts Calendar during Weekly Daytime Shifts
January 3, 2017 2PM: Terry Riley at MOCA 5PM: LACMA LOCAL: Meditate
January 4, 2017 3:30PM JACK Quartet @ the Wallis 5PM Lang Land at Walt Disney Concert Hall & San Diego Symphony
January 5, 2017 9AM Jacaranda at VPAC
January 6, 2017 3PM Edendale Concert Series 3:30PM Music Academy of the West 4PM Engel Chamber Music Concert 4:30PM Athenaeum Mini-Concert; Nixon Library Family Concert Series; La Salon de Musiques Chamber Music Series 5PM LA Phil Chamber Music, LA Phil Bramwell Tovey 6PM California Chamber Orchestra 6:30PM American Guitar Society at LA Valley College
January 12, 2017 5PM Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra, JACK Quartet @ the Wallis
January 13, 2017 3PM: Jacaranda Music, Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra, Da Camera Society 4PM Inner City Youth Orchestra Los Angeles, Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, Restoration Concerts at South Pasadena Public Library, Santa Monica Symphony 5PM Santa Barbara Music Club, Hoson House in Tustin, San Gabriel Mission Playhouse, University of Redlands MLK Service 6PM Toyota Symphonies for Youth, Ojai Art Center Chamber Music Concert
January 17, 2017 6:30AM South Bay Chamber Music Society 5:30PM Emanuel Ax with Dudamel and LA Phil
January 19, 2017 4:30PM LACO
January 20, 2017 3PM Cal Poly Music Dept Bach Week, Lammle Live, USC Thornton School at WDCH 4PM Los Angeles Harbor College concert, Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angeles concert, Philharmonic Society of Orange County 5PM Pasadena Symphony, Los Angeles Master Chorale 6PM Ebell of Los Angeles concert, Santa Cecilia Arts and Learning Center
January 24, 2017 6PM CSUN Faculty Recital
January 25, 2017 5:30PM LA Phil
January 27, 2017 3PM Save a Child’s Heart at VPAC 4PM LA Opera, New West Symphony, Colburn School, Our Lady Queen of Angels concert 5PM Italian Cultural Institute concert, SITI Company and LACO, La Sierra University concert 6PM LA Opera, UCSB Arts and Lectures, Festival Mozaic
February 1, 2017 6AM First Fridays at First Torrance
February 2, 2017 7:30AM Pittance Chamber Orchestra
February 3, 2017 3PM Center Stage Opera, Da Camera Society, Pacific Symphony 4PM Desert Hot Springs Chamber Music, Pacific Symphony, Claremont Youth Symphony, LA Phil 5PM CSUN String Celebration, Richards Center for the Performing Arts, La Salon de Musique 6PM Long Beach Symphony, Hutchins Consort
February 6, 2017 6AM LACO
February 7, 2017 6AM Thornton School Music @Rush hour 3PM Orchestra Santa Monica 6PM LA Opera
February 8, 2017 3PM Yuja Wang at PSOC
February 17, 2017 3PM 3 rd at 1 st concert series at United Methodist Church Pasadena, Pomona College Dept of Music concert, SOKA Performing Arts Center 4PM American String Teachers Association concert, UCI Claire Tevor School concert, State Street Ballet Santa Barbara 5PM CAP UCLA, LA Phil, LA Opera 6PM Classical Crossroads concert, CAP UCLA
February 22, 2017 9AM Thornton School of Music @Rush Hour concert
February 24, 2017 3PM Dream Orchestra, Casa Romantica Cultural Center 4PM Pelican Chamber Series in Ventura, Corelli Ensemble, UCLA Center for the 17 th and 18 th Cent. Concert, Pasadena Conservatory of Music 5PM Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, LMU Depart. Of Music concert, LA Phil, Hoson House in Tustin 6PM Festival Mozaic, South Bay Chamber Music Society
March 2, 2017 4PM Classical Crossroads 1 st Fridays concert 5PM LA Opera
March 3, 2017 3PM Pasadena Conservatory of Music, Chamber on the Mountain 4PM Musco Center for the Performing Arts, Lammle Live, Pomona College Dept of Music concert, Southland Symphony Orchestra 5PM Placentia Founders Society, Huntington Beach Symphony Orchestra, LA Doctors Symphony 6PM Pomona College Dept of Music concert, Canzona Women’s Ensemble, LA Phil
March 8, 2017 9AM Thornton School of Music 3PM Tafelmusik at Long Beach 4PM Ralph Kirshbaum at The Wallis
March 9, 2017 9AM Music at St. Matthews
March 10, 2017 3PM Long Beach Symphony Pops, Edendale Branch Library, Da Camera Society 4PM Bach Collegium, USC Thornton Symphony, Rolling Hills United Methodist Church concert 5PM LA Phil, St. Matthew’s Music Guild 6PM Claremont Symphony Orchestra, Colburn Chamber Music Series, Santa Barbara Music Club
March 16, 2017 6PM New West Symphony 6PM Bach in the Subways
March 17, 2017 8AM Crown City Symphony 3PM Pacific Chorale & Pacific Symphony 4PM Broad Stage, Channel Islands Chamber Orchestra, Third @ 1 st United Methodist Church concert series 5PM Desert Hot Springs Sincopa Quartet, Broad Stage, Fullerton Friends of Music concert 6PM St. Francis Church Music Ministry, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Symphony Irvine
March 21, 2017 LA Opera
March 22, 2017 9AM Thornton School of Music concert @Rush hour
March 23, 2017 4PM Colburn Chamber Music, LA Opera 6PM Danish National Symph at SCFTA
March 24, 2017 3PM Meistersingers at Newport Harbor Lutheran Church 4PM Five Senses Tasting at V Wine Room, Musco Center, LA Phil 5PM Broad Stage, Beach Cities Symphony, Santa Barbara Music Club 6PM Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Colburn School Chamber Music Society, Pomona College Dept of Music
March 27, 2017 Danish National Symphony in Palm Desert
March 31, 2017 3PM Santa Monica Symphony 4PM Christ Cathedral Concerts, Pomona College Dept of Music concert, St. James Sunday Concerts in Tarzana 5PM Salastina Music Society, Ventura 7 th Day Adventist Evensong, Broad Stage, La Habra United Methodist Church concert 6PM Synchromy at Occidental College, Le Salon De Musiques, Soka Performing Arts Center