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For more information, visit wusf.org and life’s unpredictable waters. Airs click on DTV Answers. Monday, Aug., 25, at 10 p.m. wusf: FIRST choice A Garden of the Mind Bethany Cagle plants the seeds of classical music on WUSF isteners from around the Tampa Bay area and beyond look forward every afternoon to the sunny voice of Bethany Cagle, WUSF’s spirited L classical music host. Cagle, a native of Lakeland and a graduate of the University of South Florida, began her career as a stage and film actress. She brings a lively sense of theatricality to her fresh, informative programming. When she’s not behind the microphone, Cagle spends her days in the bright, Florida sun as an avid gardener. She recently shed some light on her show. continued on following page wusf: FIRST choice continued from preceding page my storytelling about the music, but they’re not too keen When did you first fall in love with classical music? on music theory or descriptions about the music itself. As a child, I enjoyed listening to my father’s collection They’re curious, lifelong learners and very open-minded. of classical music. In my teens, I got into the habit According to the WUSF website, you love getting of playing Handel’s “Water Music” whenever I had to your hands dirty in the garden. What kind of garden? study. It had a Pavlovian effect on me. I’d sit down to I have a butterfly garden. write a paper, put on that music and, when I heard the Ah. Do you see a connection between being a DJ and suite playing, I knew I had to get to work. I’m not sure being a gardener? Sure. The key connection is beauty if conditioning oneself to study is classical music’s true and a sense of aesthetics. As a classical music host, purpose, but I found it helpful! I know that anything beautiful needs to be nurtured; it What’s your favorite part of the job? What I love best needs time to grow, and it needs respect, appreciation is exploring the stories behind the music and passing and love. Classical music is a living thing. Without a mind them on to the listeners. I try to find connections between to create it or appreciate it, it has no place to grow. the music of the past “Classical music and the present day, and Fortunately, you’re planting seeds in people’s minds. relate these links to the I’d like to think so — along with Russell Gant and others is a living thing. listeners. I also enjoy at the station. The music goes out. What comes back? Without a mind discovering a connection Occasionally, that might be an awareness that leads to the local scene. If a young person to pursue a career as a composer or to create it I’m playing a piece by performer, or leads an adult of any age to seek out a live or appreciate it, Mozart, I might remind performance of a piece they fell in love with. listeners that it’s being And we come full circle to making connections it has no place performed that weekend again. Always. by an area orchestra. to grow.” Do you think live performance and recordings Interviewing international of classical music are two different animals? Bethany Cagle talent is another thing Well, yes and no. Each is a different level of experience. Classical music host I love. Hearing a recording is more personal and intellectualized. Who listens to your Generally speaking, you and you alone are having an show? I’m on in abstract appreciation for a pattern of music. Hearing the afternoons from it played live by a symphony orchestra and hearing it 1 to 4 p.m. My together with an audience tends to be more of a social listeners are retirees and emotional experience. You physically relate to the at home, people in their workspaces, and commuters. music going through you; you can see the musicians as An oasis of calm and order while they’re stuck on they make the music. But, as I see it, live performances the Howard Frankland Causeway? We hear that often, and the music I play on my program form another circle. in just those words: “Your program is an oasis on the Hearing something on my show leads you to want to hear radio.” Of course, we have many internet listeners who it live. Hearing a live performance makes you want to hear listen at any time. it again; to listen more deeply and understand it better. Is there a typical classical music listener? The And they both make you want to build your collection of stereotype of the classical music snob is just that — a classical music. The garden of music grows. The garden stereotype. Many different kinds of people tell me they grows! Our Web site offers a list of our classical music love the show. selections and a link to Amazon.com for those who want What do your listeners have in common? Curious to expand their collection. A percentage of the proceeds minds! From the feedback I get, they’re madly in love with of sales made through that link goes to WUSF. So, you classical music. If I keep it short and sweet, they love can grow your garden and help WUSF at the same time! FROM the wusf GM Want to purchase some summer A World of Choice reading or A curious mind is a hungry mind.