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We spend a great deal of your money not only on our widespread news staff but on NPR which is known for trying to get more and more money out of its member stations -- money that many of them simply don’t have. Put another way, when it comes to NPR, it’s never enough. I have been receiving a good deal of mail about WAMC’s efforts. The credit goes to our remarkable news director, Ian Pickus, who is on the job day and night. Of course, our reporters and bureau chiefs are terrific but Ian is the glue that holds it all together. Naturally he can always turn to Joe Donahue or me for advice but in the end, it all falls on him. It is Ian, for example who manages our newfound relationship with Governor Cuomo. The governor has Photo by Eric Korenman been coming on WAMC with some regularity and making a lot of news when he does. Obviously, it is in our interest The news is coming so fast that most of us can hardly to host him but also to ask him the toughest questions we keep up. can. So far, he has not walked away from any of these in- terviews. Even his father had his limits with me but always Of course, WAMC played the remarkable House Over- kept coming back. sight Committee (Michael Cohen) hearings in their entirety. I listened as much as I could and I came away I truthfully had no idea that Andrew had a sense of humor pretty shell shocked. There is nothing like hearing this but it turns out that he does. He always calls me “Doctor” stuff for ourselves, unfiltered. during our conversations, so at one point I asked him why he did that. His answer would have made Papa Cuomo I know this is whining and not attractive but I really have proud. “Well, I keep calling you “doctor” because you’re to say that NPR let us down on one aspect of this. WAMC quite an operator.” Terrific! had planned to take a live feed from NPR (that is why we pay them a fortune) at about three in the morning from It is no wonder that a recent study showed WAMC is Vietnam. And when the president announced that he was now the go-to place to get news in our markets. Just ask walking away from the talks with his self-described loved yourself where you are tuned in when you get into your one, the vicious Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un, the press car or where your clock radio is set when it wakes you conference which we had plans to play via NPR would up in the morning. The number of people listening to the be moved up to the absolute middle of the night. NPR station is just amazing. When I think of where we started announced that they would not provide anchored cover- in 1979 when we took over from the Albany Medical Col- age so we had no alternative but not to play it for you. As lege, I almost faint. It’s all about YOU and what you have I said, just a sentence or two above, it is essential that done to make this station what it has become. We sure do you be allowed hear what he said for yourself. Yes, you thank you. will hear clips on our news broadcasts but that is hardly the same thing as hearing him tell us why this latest foray with Kim failed and then reacting to the damning news of the previous days Michael Cohen testimony. Had we known that NPR would fail us, we would have figured out how to get the feed from somewhere else and we would have done right by you. 2 WAMC PROGRAM GUIDE MARCH 2019 3 PROGRAM NOTES DAVID HOPPER Spring ahead with public radio this season. Snow melts, for the composer, and the score avoids traditional arias al- temperatures begin to rise….well, maybe not just yet, but most entirely, moving from one to the next organically and at least we can get into the mood. March is the perfect without discernible breaks. It airs March 15th at 1 p.m. on time of the year for renewal, growth and new experiences. WAMC. The Slowdown from American Public Media is a new Saturday, March 23rd at 1 p.m. brings Samson et Dalila. program where U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith talks This legendary biblical love story, adapted for the stage about poetry. The Slowdown will help listeners who are by Camille Saint-Saëns, contains a score that animates busy-but-still-curious better understand themselves and all the powerful and diverse colors in the iconic tale, from each other through five minutes of reflective, inquisitive, the lurid to the exotic, the crass, the sensual, and even and thought-provoking programming. The Slowdown airs the sublimely spiritual. every Monday-Friday around 11:50am at the end of The Roundtable. The second opera in Richard Wagner’s Ring, Die Walküre has long stood on its own as a masterpiece of extraordi- The Metropolitan Opera season continues Saturdays narily powerful theater. Part of its appeal lies in its focus in March with Gaetano Donizetti’s comedy La Fille du on interesting characters, who follow their destinies to Régiment. Soprano Pretty Yende stars in the title role as some of Wagner’s most remarkable music. Listen to this Marie, the young girl taken in and raised as a daughter by opera on WAMC on Saturday, March 30th at 12:30 p.m. a regiment of French soldiers. Tenor Javier Camarena is Tonio, the boy who enlists just to marry her – and sings The Moth Radio Hour makes its return to Fridays at 1 the show-stopping aria “Ah! mes amis,” famous for its p.m. on WAMC after the documentary series from NPR remarkable nine high Cs. Enrique Mazzola conducts the The Gospel Roots of Rock and Soul ran in its place dur- performance, which will be heard live on WAMC at 1 p.m. ing February for Black History Month. March 2nd. On the news side, tune in for coverage of Town Meeting Next up on Saturday, March 9th at 1 p.m., Das Rhein- Day in Vermont on March 5th. And with an earlier election gold sets up the dramatic and theoretical issues that play season this year, campaigns for local offices are already out in the three subsequent music dramas by Richard under way in New York state. 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