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Nbr 174 1969 Sep 4 to 17 e. CD Summer is nearly over and here we are. squat. green vaguely fragrant. huddling on top of Roosevelt Hill watching the gar'!lage man steal our nelJspaper. It's bee a good summer. baxically. The trans­ mitter has favored us with its blessings more often than not. programs have gen­ erally been found and played almost on time. engineers haven't used The Fugs for fill music. and although the money hasn't been overflowing. it's usually there when we desperately need it. one of the city council candidates who was here. after he finished recording his commentary. said. "You Imow. if I just had some money. I could win this damn thing. " I'm going to vote for that guy, because I Imow exactly how he feels. SUBSCRIPTION RATES FOR KRAB & KBOO 20$ for one year 12$ minimum for one year (poverty rate) 6$ for nine months (student subscription. although you don't have to be a student.) Subscribers to KRAB receive this bi-weekly program guide free of charge. All contributions are tax deductible. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4 9:00am UNGLAUBLICH MUSIC 11:00 Commentary (R) William L. Harrington 11:30 Letter From England (R) 11:45 New Books (R) 5:30pm CAP'N BALTIC'S BOP STOP- Receiving the overwhelming adulation of his many fans for being on weekly now. Cap'n Baltic tonight presents LHR/LHB. 7:00 CCMMENTARY - Wayne Larkin. Seattle City Council Candidate 7:30 miscellaneous slip n' slide time 7:45 MUSIC OF BULGARIA 8 :00 WHATEVER BlOCAME OF BILLY HALOP? - And who, you are asking, IS Billy Halop? Does the name Leo Gorcey, or perhaps Huntz Hall, strike a familiar note? Well, Billy Halop was the Dead End Kid (and later the Bowery Boy) who always got the girl because he was the only one who didn f t look like he'd been run over by the 3rd Ave. El. In this program fran KPFA, Richard Lamparski drops the names and Hallop fields them nicely. 8:30 SUNDAY - The Roachdale RAdio Newtork's brilliant (a-hem) effort has been moved up a tad because this will be a repeat of the final show of the season which was an hour long. It was also performed live, which may account for all the mush-mouthing going on. The Disney Reunion is viSited, graduation is saluted, and Dulcet Dave tries an old-man voice with questionable results. 9:30 CLASSIC JAZZ - Mike Duff'y plays; and oft-times explains I or gives interesting information about great old jazz. 10:45 OPEN TIME ·1 11:00 EAR TO THE GROUND - Host Lowell Richards plays jazz and rock and engages in platter patter. ~ FRIDAY, SEPTIlMBER .5 9:00am WILL JOE MOONEY BE THE P. I.'S MAN-OF-TH~YEAR IN SPORTS? 11:00 COIIII11entary (R) Wayne larkin 11;30 Whatever Became of Billy Hallop7 (R) 12:00 SUnday (R) .5:3Oin FRANCIS POULENC -- PIERRE BmNAC A reei tal of songs by Poulenc, Ravel, Chabrier, Debussy. and Satie. 7:30 COMMENTARY - Dr. Frederick B. EXner 8:00 PR~WAR BLUES WITH JOHN WEST - ClaSSic, . black, and country-style blues. 9:00 THE NICHOIAS JOHNSON SHCM! - lDrenzo MibJa reads curses uttered by The Man. 9:30 EDUARDO FALU - Guitar Music from Latin America 10:00 JUST JAZZ - Herb Hannum plays 50' sand 60' s .jazz, accompanied by incisive comments about the state of the Big Bear Nutmeg Works labor dispute. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6 lO:OOam THE MORNING SHOd - Lorenzo Milam ignores requests. 12:3Opm Commentary (R) Dr. Exner 1:00 MUSIC OF OUR FRIENDS ACRoss THE, SEE? Gary Margason plays ethnic music and cushions the unitiated for • • 3:00 BLUEGRASS - Tiny Freeman bounces happily around in the schedule, hopefully coming to rest here for a While. 6:30 TOOTHPICK, LISBON AND THE ORCAS ISIANDS - Mike and Joanne Wiater present "An Evening of Pop Poetry with Tuli Kupferberg". 7:00 COMMENTARY - Howard Risdon, Seattle City Cpuncil Candidate r I, 7:30 miscellaneoUs crunch 7:45 THE PIERRE LEDUC QUARTET - Montreal jazz pianist LeJ)Ic perfonns "Synchronisation", ''Modulation'', "Tonus" and others on a record kindly given to us by the C. B. C. He is backed by Roland Haynes , Brian Barley, and Blaine Wikjord. 8:35 ORAZIO FIUME - Symphony for Strings and Timpani. The Scarlatti Orchestra of Naples conducted by Elio Boncampagni (RAI) 9:00 ASHISH KAHU, ALIA RAKHA play Raga '1alit and Raga Yaman Kalyan 10:00 HOLE IN THE WALL - ,Dr. Spider still hasn't returned, boys and girls, but hard-working, happy Steve Brown will graciously fill in for' him, playing mostly jazz into the night. SUNDA.Y! SEPTEMBER 7 lO:OOam THE MORNING PROGRAM WITH NANCY KEITH - Classical, ethnic, bluegrass or nondescript music presented by the right hand of Mix. 12:30 Canmentary (R) Howard Risdon 1:00 JAZZ FOR A SUNDI\Y AFTERNOON - steve Brown does yeoman duty. playing 60' s jazz all afternoon. 5:30 BIXOLOGY - Val Golding presents BIX INFWENCE 15- ALL "SING IN , THE BWES"; the music of Bix Beiderbecke. great jazz cornetist and pianist, and his contemporaries. 6:00 CONCERT - Luigi Dallapiccola. Marsia, fragment from a ballet. RAl Orchestra of Milan conducted by Fritz Rieger st. Paul's words. RAI Rome Orchestra conducted by the composer. Magda Laszo, soprano. - Karl-Birger Blomdahl. Game for Eight. Ulf Bjorlin conducts the Stockhohn Philhannonic. 7:00 COMMENTARY - Seattle City Counci~ Candidate 7:30 miscellaneous thud 7:45 BAGPIPES, folk songs and dances of Ireland. 8:30 E. E. CUMMINGS: NON-LECTURE NO. SIX - The last of a series of lectures started some months ago. The six "non-lectures" were given by the late poet as part of the Charles Eliot Norton Lecture Series at Harvard University in 1952 and 1953. This last lecture is titled 'i &: am &: santa claus', and in it CUmmings perfonns scenes fran his play, 'santa claus', reads Keats' Ode on a Grecian Urn and portions from Act IV of Shelley's Pranetheus Unbound. 9:30 THE BLUES PROGRAM - HoWard Gilbert plays all aspeots of the blues. 11:30 THE ROACHDI\LE REPORT - The Roachdale Radio Network presents a program about ·which, as yet, they know nothing. MONDAY, SEPTFMBER 8 9:00am JOHN CHAMBLISS: MAN OR MYTH 7 11:00 Canmentary (R) 11:30 Bixology (R) 12:00 Cummings Non-Lecture (R) CD 5:30pm TWO RECITALS - Hanne-Lore Kuhse, soprano, sings works by Schubert, Wolf, Brahams, and' Dvorak. The late Alf Andersen, flutist, plays; Hilding Rosenberg, Sonata for solo flute, Edgar Varese, Density 21.5 for solo flute, Andre Jolivet, Concerto for flute and strings, Finn Mortensen, Sonata Op. 6 for solo flute. 7:00 CQ1MENrARY - A Seattle City Council Candidate 7:30 WINE APPRECIATION - Local food freak Emmett Watson continues his series on grape wines of the world. 8:00 LEFT PRESS REVIEN - with Frank Krasnowsky 8:30 open time 8:45 JAPANESE MUSIC on Nonesuch- Classical flute music, folk songs, shamisen and Koto. 10:00 JEAN SHEPHERD - Playboy contributor, long-time radio folk, and all-around swell fella ~ean Shepherd discusses just about. everything, from WOR in N$W York. 10:45 DELIUS -~. A POElll by Ernest Dowson sung by John Shirley-Quirk. 11:00 JON GALLANT - Classical music for street people and road apples. TUESDAJ., ~l!PI'EMBER 9 9:008ll1 JOHN CHAMBLISS: MITHTER OR MYTH 7 '11:00 Commentary (R) 11:30 Wine Appreciation (R) 12:00 Jean Shepherd (R) 12:45 Left Press Reviev (R) =+=+=+=+=+=+=+tc::=+= 5:30pm ANTHOLOGY OF PORTUGESE MUSIC 7:00 COMMENTARY - A Seattle City Council Candidate 7:30 miscellaneous smek time 7:45 SOVIET PRESS AND PERIODICALS - presented by William Mandel, from KPFA in Berkeley. Mr. Mandel is the author of The Soviet Far East and Central Asia, Russia Re-Examined, and numerous articles in scholarly journals, most recently Reflections on the Soviet System-and Soviet Marxism and Social Science. 8:00 FROM CANA~ - The Stratford Music Festival straVinsky - Octet for Winds - Mozart - Divertimento No.3, K. 166 - Gellman - Mythos II. 9:00 AN INTERVIEW WITH CLIFF HOOPER -Mr. Hooper is the assistant director of the Black Culture Center and a member of the Black United Front. He is interviewed x by Lorenzo ~lam. 10:00 NIGHT INTO ~Y - with Bob Fass, from WEAl in New York. WEDNES~Y, SEPTEMBER 10 9:00am WHAT'S HAPPENED TO ITALY· SINCE IT'S GONE CATHOLIC? 1l:00 Commentary (R) 11:30 Soviet Press and Periodicals (R) ll:45 Cliff Hooper (R) 5:30J:m CONCERT - Hindemi th - LudUS Tonalis, played by Kioi Laretei. Honegger - Sonatine for ~o violins. Milhaud - Sonate for two violins and piano played by twin violinists Gerald and Wilfred Baal, with Harriet Wingreen, pianist. 7:00 COMMENTARY - Norman See, Seattle City Council Candidate 7:30 NEW BOOKS - with P. J. Doyle of the Seattle Public Library. 7:45 miscellaneous fap time 8:00 THE AFRICA PROGRAM - with Dr. Simon ottenberg 8 :30 KOTO AND GAGAKU MUSIC 9:30 AN INTERVIEW WITH MASON WILLIAMS - Mason Williams was the head writer of the Smothers Brothers C. Hour in the first two years when the material was still good. Since then he has written Classical Gas, a book or two (The Mason Williams Reading Matter) and traveled the country bEllloaning the fate of Tommy Smot.hers. This interview, such as it is, comes to us from KDNA in st. Louis. 10:00 THE STEVE FISCHLER PROGRA1;1 - Brother Steve plays post­ war blues, jazz and R & B. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11 9:00am THE PARABLE OF THE HOSTESS CREAM-FILLED CUPCAKE AND THE KIOO 11:00 Commentary (R) 11:30 New Books (R) 11:45 The AfriCa Program (R) 12:00 Mason Williams Interview (R) 5:3Opn CAP'N BALTIC'S BOP STOP - Tonight, Baltic's Boss Bop Blues Blend, boys and babes! 7:00 COMMENTARY - Robert J.
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