N N December 2014 January/February 2015 Volume 43, No. 2 Winter Orgy® Period N 95.3 FM 6:45 pm HARVARD MEN’S HOCKEY WHRB Program Guide Harvard at Princeton. 10:00 pm VAPORWAVE ORGY Winter Orgy® Period, December, 2014 Vaporwave, an electronic genre that emerged early in this decade, in cyberspace, is often characterized by heavy with highlights for January and February, 2015 sampling and effect processing of 80’s lounge and smooth jazz. Consumerism and techno-corporatism is Vaporwave when it is Wednesday, December 2 one with mirroring ocean and Zen on a pseudo-neo Windows 95 screen. Often heard by Twitter users who used to collect 6:45 pm HARVARD WOMEN’S HOCKEY Digimon cards, the evolving underground genre reflects the Harvard vs. Dartmouth. nostalgia of the forever young. Macintosh Plus, Blank Banshee, PrismCorp Virtual Enterprises, and many others. Wednesday, December 3 Saturday, December 6 6:45 pm MEN’S BASKETBALL Harvard vs. Northeastern. 5:00 am THE FLIGHT OF THE CONDOR: 10:00 pm THE ONLY MAN THAT MATTERS MUSIC OF THE ANDES ORGY Ian MacKaye co-founded Dischord Records in 1980 at age The indigenous peoples of the Andes Mountains produced a 18 to release an album by his band The Teen Idles. Since 1980, style of music that is hauntingly beautiful, and lies in the grand MacKaye has transformed the punk-rock music scene through tradition of protest music along with punk, hip-hop, and outlaw his artistry and management of Dischord. His bands Minor country. After the Spanish conquest of South America, Andean Threat and Fugazi have gained critical acclaim in the hardcore folk music became a way of preserving an indigenous identity in and post-hardcore scenes respectively. He was a huge proponent the face of oppression and colonization. In the 1960s, the nueva of the do-it-yourself punk scene in Washington DC, and he is canción movement revived the traditional music to protest the credited with coining the phrase “straight-edge.” We explore Ian military dicatorships of the likes of Pinochet. We explore the MacKaye chronologically, ending with his production credits. cultural and political history of the Andes through its music. 9:00 am HILLBILLY AT HARVARD Thursday, December 4 noon METROPOLITAN OPERA Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia; Isabel Leonard, Lawrence 5:00 am JAZZ SPECTRUM Brownlee, Christopher Maltman, Muraro, Pata 9:00 am WARHORSE ORGY Burchaladze, Michele Mariotti conducting. WHRB broadcasts a wide variety of classical music, with an 3:15 pm POST-MET VOCAL PROGRAM (time approx.) emphasis on great music rarely heard on the radio. But twice 6:00 pm LEGENDS RELIVED a year that philosophy is wholeheartedly ignored as we present WHRB Sports recalls three of the greatest games of all time the finest of extremely famous pieces. As always, the classical with some of the most famous calls of all time, biased only by fireworks end with Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture. New England roots and American pride. First we go back to the 10:00 pm THE MORNING DEW ORGY 1965 Eastern Conference finals between the defending champ Written as a post-apocalyptic, revivalist folk song, Bonnie Boston Celtics and Philadelphia 76ers. Next, the 1980 Lake Dobson’s 1962 “Morning Dew” has transcended the boundaries Placid Olympics US Men’s Hockey team’s “Miracle on Ice.” of its genre. Since the Grateful Dead’s patronage five years later, Finally, the curse-reversing 2004 World Series, as the Boston the song has evolved into a token of rock nostalgia. From The Red Sox took home the trophy for the first time since 1918. Briarwoods and The Move to Skullflower and Dirtmusic, we 6:45 pm HARVARD MEN’S HOCKEY take an international and multi-generic journey that delves deep Harvard at Quinnipac. into this song’s history, with stops along the way showcasing the 10:00 pm DOUBLE PEDAL JESUS METAL ORGY talents of the big-time and less-than-smalltime outfits gallantly All of Jack White’s work chronologically, from the White paying homage to Dobson and her tranquility. Stripes, to the Raconteurs, the Dead Weather, and his solo albums, as well as all the random Third Man singles and randomly scattered tracks in between (like that time he, Insane Friday, December 5 Clown Posse, and Jeff the Brotherhood covered Mozart). Love 5:00 am BOSSA NOVA ORGY or hate his “old-timey”/misogynistic persona, the man has made A compilation of Bossa Nova and Samba music, with some pretty cool records over the past 15 years, so we’re going great composers like João Gilberto and Antonio Jobim, great to listen to all of them. instrumentalists like Luiz Bonfá, and great vocalists like Astrud Gilberto and Gretchen Parlato. Sunday, December 7 11:00 am MUSICAL CRYPTOGRAMS ORGY Jacob: Sextet for Piano and Winds; Malcolm, Morris, L. Brain, 5:00 am THE MUDDY STONES Waters, D. Brain, James (Seraphim LP) Mick Jagger and Keith Richards met in a railway station in Berg: Lyric Suite for String Quartet; LaSalle Quartet (DG) Kent on October 17, 1961. The story goes that they hit it off Duruflé,: Prelude and Fugue on the name “Alain,” Op. 7; Fairs over a stack of records Mick was carrying and, to indulge in a Schumann: Carnaval, Op. 9; Egorov (EMI) cliché, the rest is history. We imagine what might have been in Schumann: Faschingsschwank aus Wien, Op.26; Gavrilov (EMI) that stack of records and how those influences played out across Schoenberg: Piano Concerto, Op. 42; Brendel, Gielen, Southwest the career of the Rolling Stones. German Radio Orchestra of Baden-Baden (Philips) 11:00 am MEMORIAL CHURCH SERVICE Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 8 in c, Op. 110 (1960); Preacher: Kaia Stern, Director of the Prison Studies Borodin Quartet (EMI) Project and Lecturer in the Department of Sociology, Harvard Schoenberg: Six Little Piano Pieces, Op. 19; Uchida (Philips) University. Music includes Britten’s Hymn to St. Cecilia. 2:00 pm 1:00 pm CRIMSON SPORTSTALK (Extended version) Pärt: Collage über Bach; P. Järvi, Estonian National Symphony 4:00 pm CLAUDIO ABBADO ORGY Orchestra (Virgin) Claudio Abbado, one of the most lauded conductors of the Schumann:Six Fugues for Organ on B-A-C-H, Op. 60; Rothkopf latter half of the twentieth century, died last January at 80. Schoenberg: Variations for Orchestra, Op. 31; Solti, Chicago Today, Monday, and Tuesday (the last two begin at 5 am) we’ll Symphony Orchestra (London LP) remember him with some of his finest recordings and musical Schnittke: Quasi una sonata for Violin and Chamber Orchestra; partnerships. He conducts all the recordings. Lubotsky, Rostropovich, English Chamber Orchestra (Sony) Ravel: Piano Concerto in G; Argerich, London Symphony (DG) Ravel: Menuet sur le nom d’Haydn; Jacobs (Arbiter) Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1 in e, Op. 11; Argerich, London Brahms: Symphony No. 3 in F, Op. 90; Furtwängler, Berlin Symphony Orchestra (DG) Philharmonic Orchestra (DG) Debussy: Nocturnes; New England Conservatory Chorus, Reger: Fantasy and Fugue on B-A-C-H, Op.46; Jacob (MHS LP) Boston Symphony Orchestra (DG) Busoni: Fantasia Contrappuntistica; Ogdon (Continuum) Bruckner: Symphony No. 1 in c; Vienna Philharmonic (Decca) Bach: Art of Fugue; Emerson String Quartet (DG) Scriabin: Poem of Ecstasy, Op. 54; Boston Symphony Orchestra Schumann: Piano Concerto in a, Op.54; Pires, Abbado, Chamber Berg: Five Orchestral Songs, Op. 4 “Altenberg Lieder”; M. Orchestra of Europe (DG) Price, London Symphony Orchestra (DG) 7:00 pm 10:00 pm ADAM DURITZ Stravinsky: Jeu de Cartes; London Symphony Orchestra (DG) In 1991, the Berkeley native band Counting Crows burst Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 3 in d, Op. 30; Berman, into international fame with their debut album, August and London Symphony Orchestra (Columbia LP) Everything After. The leadership of vocalist and front man Adam Verdi: Simon Boccanegra;Cappuccilli, Freni,Ghiaurov,Carreras, Duritz led the band with integrity through popularity in the van Dam, Foiani, La Scala Chorus and Orchestra (DG) nineties and has garnered them a loyal following appreciating 10:30 pm THE INFLUENCE OF J DILLA ORGY their complete reinvention of songs on stage, genre-defying On February 7th, 1974, James Yancey was born in the heart blend of folk rock, and ingeniously poetic and surprisingly of Detroit, Michigan. Using his MPC 3000, James Yancey, better emotive lyrics. This orgy will cover the full discography of the known to many as Jay Dee or J Dilla, began to establish his Counting Crows, including many legendary live performances, career as a producer. Today, he is renowned as one of hip-hop’s as well as early demos, covers, unreleased material, and the greatest contributors, having collaborated with A Tribe Called recordings that survive from early precursors containing many of Quest, The Roots, Common, Busta Rhymes, De La Soul, Slum the members, such as Sordid Humor and The Himilayans. Village, Pharcyde, and many others. His influence is unmatched; his style unique beyond comparison. His ability as a producer Tuesday, December 9 to utilize samples from distant ends of the musical spectrum has begun to form a discipleship among some of today’s best 5:00 am CLAUDIO ABBADO (cont.) producers; from Kanye West to Flying Lotus, from Danger Schumann: Scenes from Goethe’s Faust; Terfel, Mattila, Mouse to Pharrell, many, if not all, branches of hip-hop have Rootering, Bonney, Wottrich, Vermillion, Poschner-Klebel, received some form of influence from the great J Dilla. Graham, Blochwitz, Peeters, Knabenchor, Swedish Radio Choir, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra (Sony) Kurtág: Stele, Op. 33; Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra (DG) Monday, December 8 Mussorgsky: Khovanshchina, Prelude, Dawn over the River 5:00 am CLAUDIO ABBADO (cont.) Moscow; Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra (Sony) Bartók: Piano Concerto No.