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Summaries of Long Features - Topics for ARD
Topics for ARD radio:
Abbreviations:
BR = Bayerischer Rundfunk
DW = Deutsche Welle
DLF = Deutschlandfunk
DLR = Deutschlandradio Kultur
HR = Hessischer Rundfunk
MDR = Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk
NDR = Norddeutscher Rundfunk
ORB = Ostdeutscher Rundfunk Brandenburg
RB = Radio Bremen
RBB = Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (fusion of ORB and SFB in May 2003)
SDR = Süddeutscher Rundfunk
SFB = Sender Freies Berlin
SR = Saarländischer Rundfunk
SWF = Südwestfunk
SWR = Südwestrundfunk (fusion of SDR and SWF in September 1998)
WDR = Westdeutscher Rundfunk
Features (usually 15 minutes or more and exclusively for one station)
2016 / 2015 / 2014 / 2013 / 2012 / 2003 / 2002 / 2001 / 2000 /1999 / 1998 / 1997 / 1996 / 1995 / 1994 / 1993
January 2016:
"Harmony at the women's prison: the Hiland Mountain Women’s String Orchestra in Alaska"
Aired on: BR (55') in the program series "Das Musik-Feature" (re-aired: first broadcast was in February of 2015)
Brief summary
December 2015:
"Harmony at the women's prison: the Hiland Mountain Women’s String Orchestra in Alaska"
Aired on: DLF (50') in the program series "Musikszene" (re-aired: first broadcast was in February of 2015)
Brief summary
March 2015:
"Beethoven reverse: the American pianist Jeffrey Biegel"
Aired on: DLF (45') in the program series "Musikforum"
Brief summary
February 2015:
"Harmony at the women's prison: the Hiland Mountain Women’s String Orchestra in Alaska"
Aired on: DLF (50') in the program series "Musikszene" (re-aired in December of 2015)
Aired on: BR (55') in the program series "Das Musik-Feature" (additional interviewee, additional sound bites; re-aired in January of 2016)
Brief summary
November 2014:
"On a diplomatic note: music life in the U.S. capital Washington, D.C."
Aired on: DLF (50') in the program series "Musikszene"
Brief summary
September 2014:
"A cozy home for stars of tomorrow: the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia"
Aired on: DLF (50') in the program series "Musikszene"
Brief summary
May 2014:
"Chaos as usual? Opera houses and orchestras in the USA in their fight for survival"
Aired on: DLF (50') in the program series "Musikszene"
Brief summary
March 2014:
"'They build oases for us' - the Royal Opera House Muscat"
Aired on: DLR (29') in the program series "Musikfeuilleton"
Brief summary
February 2014:
"West-Eastern Diva - the Royal Opera House Muscat"
Aired on: SWR (55') in the program series "Musik Kommentiert"
Also on NDR (58') in the program series "Welt der Musik"
Brief summary
"Beautiy - Erotism - Horror: The U.S.-American multimedia piano duo Anderson & Roe"
Aired on: DLF (44') in the program series "Musikforum"
Brief summary
December 2013:
"Belcanto in the desert - the Royal Opera House Muscat"
Aired on: DLF (50') in the program series "Musikszene"
Brief summary
November 2013:
"Belcanto in the desert - the Royal Opera House Muscat"
Aired on: BR (57') in the program series "KlassikPlus"
Brief summary
August 2013:
"Year One After Van - The Van Cliburn Piano Competition after the death of its name giver"
Aired on: DLF (45') in the program series "Musikforum"
Brief summary
June 2013:
"The Steinway record label: A high-class item or well-styled stock repertory?"
Aired on: DLR (30') in the program series "Musikfeuilleton"
Brief summary
January 2013:
"Ragtime reloaded - a written-off music style heading into the 21st century"
Aired on: BR (52') in the program series "Klassik Plus"
Originally aired by DLF in September 2012
Brief summary
December 2012:
"Maple Leaf Rag made in Cyberspace - the Revival of Ragtime on YouTube"
Aired on: MDR (60') in the program series "Figaro Spezial Musik"
Brief summary
"Piano playing: a tournament sport for Asians? Or are there some stereotypes?"
Aired on: DLR (30') in the program series "Musikfeuilleton"
Brief summary
"Apropos Musik" -- A conversation with Dave Brubeck
Re-broadcast on: NDR (60') in remembrance of Dave Brubeck (died Dec. 6, 2012); initially aired by HR in May 2001
Brief summary
November 2012:
"Abstract mirrors of the soul -- honoring Elliott Carter's 90th birthday"
Re-broadcast on: DLR (55') in remembrance of Elliott Carter (died Nov. 5, 2012); initially aired in January 1999
Brief summary
September 2012:
"Ragtime reloaded - a written-off music style heading into the 21st century"
Aired on: DLF (52') in the program series "Musikszene"
Re-aired by BR in January 2013
Brief summary
June 2012:
"Let loose without booze - a world championship in barroom piano playing in the American Midwest"
Aired on: NDR (58') in the program series "Welt der Musik" (World of Music)
Brief summary
June 2003:
"Worlds Away - redemption from a career"
Aired on:SWR (55')
Brief summary
February 2003:
"Some fight for their lives, others fight over $100 - life in an American court house"
Aired on:SWR (55')
Brief summary
Fall 2002:
"Duel under the Beethoven bust - music by Brubeck, Peterson, and their role classical role models"
Aired on:BR (115')
Brief summary
May 2002:
"Turning tough guys into angels - Faith-based initiatives in American prisons"
Aired on: SWR, 55 minutes (re-broadcast on DLR Jan. 2003), HR, 25 Minutes (May 2002)
Brief summary
January 2002:
"Jazz Foster - a musician's life in the New York subway catacombs"
Aired on: SWR, 30 minutes
Brief summary
December 2001:
"Historic Recordings - Schoenberg in America"
Aired on:DLF, 2 x 30 minutes
Brief summary
September 2001:
"A violinist with vision - Isaac Stern dead at 81"
Aired on: DLR, 20 minutes
Brief summary
July 2001:
"Uprooted Genius - Arnold Schoenberg's last years in Los Angeles"
Aired on: DW, 20 minutes / HR, 50 minutes / MDR, 45 minutes / NDR, 60 minutes / SR, 30 minutes / WDR, 60 minutes
Brief summary
May 2001:
"Music of My Choice" - Franz Xaver Ohnesorg selects a program
Aired on: BR, 115 minutes
Brief summary
"Lasagna and La Traviata -- New York's Caffe Taci"
Aired on: DLR, 30 minutes
Brief summary
"Apropos Musik" -- A conversation with Dave Brubeck
Aired on: HR, 60 minutes; re-broadcast by NDR in December 2012 (Brubeck died on Dec. 5, 2012)
Brief summary
April 2001:
"Musikthema" -- A profile of percussionist Evelyn Glennie
Aired on: DW, 20 minutes (re-broadcast on HR, Jan. 2002)
Brief summary
March 2001:
"Refugee, telephone operator, world-class conductor -- Julius Rudel turns 80"
Aired on: MDR, 20 minutes (intermission feature for live-cast from the Metropolitan Opera)
Brief summary
"SWR 2 vor Mitternacht": Voices under the carpet -- subway musicians in New York
Aired on: SWR, 58 minutes (re-broadcast by DLR in August 2001), HR, 25 minutes (August 2001)
Brief summary
February 2001:
"Zeitzeichen:" Feb 2 -- Jascha Heifetz Centennial
Aired on:WDR, NDR, ORB, SR, 15 minutes
Brief summary
January 2001:
"Aida and Empress -- the American soprano Deborah Voigt"
Aired on: HR, MDR, SR, WDR, 20 minutes (intermission feature for live-cast from the Metropolitan Opera)
Brief summary
" 'A propos Musik' -- Aaron Copland's Centennial"
HR, 60 minutes
Brief summary
November 2000:
" 'Musikszene': Mr. John S. Bach in God's Own Country -- America celebrates a cantor from Leipzig"
DLF, 55 minutes
Brief summary
" 'Musikfeature': Fanfare for the common man - Aaron Copland's Centennial"
WDR, 85 minutes
Brief summary
" 'Historic Recordigs': Philadelphia Orchestra turns 100"
DLF, 28 minutes
Brief summary
October 2000:
" 'S2 vor Mitternacht' ... and the music comes from Hollywood"
SWR, 55 minutes
Brief summary
" 'B 4 Special' -- honoring Isaac Stern's 80th birthday"
BR, 115 minutes
Brief summary
September 2000:
"Another view -- Bach's influence on the American music scene"
DLR, 30 minutes
Brief summary
" 'Apropos Musik' ... a conversation with Isaac Stern"
HR, 60 minutes
Brief summary
August 2000:
"Jazz & More - honoring Oscar Peterson's 75th birthday"
WDR, 85 minutes
Brief summary
" 'Konzertpause': A review honoring Isaac Stern's 80th birthday"
DLR, 23 minutes
Brief summary
July 2000:
"A role model for Germany? Music sponsorship in the United States"
BR, 20 minutes
Brief summary
"Aspects of Bach - Johann Sebastian and the U.S.A."
BR, 115 minutes
Brief summary
June 2000:
"A maistro, made in USA -- James Levine, chief conductor at the Munich Philharmonic"
BR, 115 minutes
Brief Summary
"Eugene Ormandy as violinist and rising conductor - historic recordings"
A series of two features for DLF, 28 minutes each
Brief summary
"Conductors crossing the Atlantic - Germans in America, Americans in Germany"
WDR, 85 minutes (also: a short story for WDR)
Brief Summary
May 2000:
"A magnet for talents in the core of Manhattan -- profile feature of The Juilliard School"
BR, 20 minutes
Brief Summary
"Talk with the artist -- star conductor James Levine"
HR, 55 minutes
Brief summary
April 2000:
"Workshop for contemporary music -- a conversation with Elliott Carter"
DLR, 55 minutes
Brief Summary
March 2000:
"The father of the velvet sound -- Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra"
HR, 55 minutes
Brief summary
"Munich, Met, and Mickey Mouse -- James Levine's eventful life as a conductor"
MDR (I), 30 minutes
Brief Summary
February 2000:
"Looking for new challenges: composer profile of jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis"
DLR, 55 minutes
Brief summary
January 2000:
"Late harvest -- Senior citizens in America discover their artistic talents"
SWR, 55 minutes
Brief summary
"Chamber music by the ocean -- the Summerfest La Jolla in Southern California"
DLF, 55 minutes
Brief summary
"Blessing or Curse? Hyper Instruments find entry in the opera"
DLR, 25 minutes
Brief summary
"Good or Evil U.F.O.? Radio via Internet and satellite enter the competition"
HR, 55 minutes
Brief summary
December 1999:
"Born in New York at the age of 22 -- Eugene Ormandy's Centennial"
DLR, 25 minutes
Brief summary
November 1999:
"The master of sound in Philadelphia -- Eugene Ormandy's centennial"
WDR, 85 minutes
Brief summary
October 1999:
"Classical music on the internet -- chances and risks"
BR, 20 minutes
Brief summary
July 1999:
"A name behind big names -- a profile of violin teacher Dorothy DeLay"
DW, 20 minutes
Brief summary
May 1999:
"The King of Swing -- a program on Benny Goodman's 90th birthday"
WDR, 85 minutes
Brief summary
April 1999:
"A composer beyond category -- Duke Ellington's centennial"
HR, 45 minutes
Brief summary
March 1999:
"Jazz musicians and symphony orchestras -- Duke Ellington's centennial"
DLR, 55 minutes
Brief summary
"The music world is becoming a small place -- classical radio via Internet"
DW, 20 minutes
Brief summary
"What Next? A profile of composer Elliott Carter"
BR, 55 minutes
Brief summary
"No more Oompapah -- a singing couple from Germany defies American stereotypes"
SWR, 55 minutes
Brief summary
January 1999:
"Abstract mirrors of the soul -- honoring Elliott Carter's 90th birthday"
DLR, 55 minutes; re-broadcast in November 2012 (Carter died on Nov. 5, 2012)
Brief summary
"A name behind the big names -- profile of violin teacher Dorothy DeLay:"
HR, 45 minutes
Brief summary
December 1998:
"A Christmas Carol at the Met -- the Magic Flute"
DLR, 23 minutes (Intermission feature for live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera)
Brief summary
"Calculated chaos -- Elliott Carter turns 90"
WDR, 85 minutes, and MDR, 20 minutes
Brief summary
"Dance with the Devil -- black Rock'n'Roll musician makes friends in the Ku-Klux Klan"
SWR, 55 minutes, re-broadcast on DLR (June 1999)
Brief summary
October 1998:
"Gershwin plays Gershwin -- historic recordings"
DLF, 28 minutes
Brief summary
September 1998:
"A creative team -- the brothers George and Ira Gershwin"
WDR, 85 minutes
Brief summary
May 1998:
"A naturally-born Carmen -- mezzo soprano Denyce Graves"
DLR, 30 minutes
Brief summary
April 1998:
"Graham Clark -- a demon in Janacek's scary opera 'The Makropoulos Case"
DLR, 20 minutes (Intermission feature for live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera)
Brief summary
March 1998:
"Motown - Ghost Town - Boom Town -- the revival of Detroit"
SWF, 55 minutes
Brief summary
February 1998:
"A biblical opera with sensual qualities -- Samson et Dalilah at the Met"
DLR, 15 minutes (Intermission feature for live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera)
Brief summary
"Lotte Lehmann's digest -- historic recordings"
A sequence of three features for DLF, 28 minutes each
Brief summary
December 1997:
Anchoring from the Met: "The Barber of Seville"
NDR and syndicated stations
Live conversation with an anchor in Hamburg about production, environment of the performance, and background of the work. In addition, a pre-recorded interview with Julius Rudel.
"A modest leader attitude -- Eve Queler and the Opera Orchestra New York"
DLR, 20 minutes
Brief summary
"A wide stretch across the Atlantic Ocean -- Christoph Eschenbach's double existence"
DLR , 15 minutes
Brief summary
November 1997:
"Beautiful voice -- a profile of mezzo soprano Denyce Graves"
DLF, 55 minutes
Brief summary
October 1997:
"The fat lady is singing again -- America's opera boom"
MDR, 25 minutes
Brief summary
May 1997:
"Korngold plays Korngold -- historic recordings"
DLF, 28 minutes
Brief summary
"In between two worlds -- Erich Wolfgang Korngold's centennial"
HR, 83 minutes, DLR, 15 minutes, WDR, 85 minutes (July 1997)
Brief summary
April 1997:
"More often at the Met than his famous uncle -- Roberto Abbado conducts 'Fedora'"
DLR, 22 minutes (Intermission feature for live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera)
Brief summary
February 1997:
"A professional bad guy -- Graham Clark as the Captain in Berg's opera 'Wozzeck'"
WDR, 15 minutes (Intermission feature for live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera)
Brief summary
"Ponnelle's spirit lives on -- The Marriage of Figaro at the Met"
WDR, 25 minutes (Intermission feature for live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera)
Brief summary
January 1997:
"A Rocky Mountain romance -- 40th anniversary of 'The Ballad of Baby Doe'"
DLR, 26 minutes
Brief summary
December 1996:
"A Rocky Mountain romance -- 40th anniversary of 'The Ballad of Baby Doe'"
MDR, 24 minutes
Brief summary
"Imported conductors -- a profile of the Boston Symphony Orchestra"
DLR, 16 minutes (Intermission feature for live broadcast from Boston)
Brief summary
October 1996:
Three programs for the series "Historic Recordings" with the theme Hungary - America:
"The 50th anniversary of Bela Bartok's death"
DLF, 28 minutes
"The Budapest String Quartet"
DLF, 28 minutes
"Zoltan Kodaly and his legacy in America"
DLF, 28 minutes
September 1996:
"A landmark building -- the new Metropolitan Opera celebrates its 30th anniversary"
15 minute feature for the series "Zeitzeichen" WDR/NDR/ORB
August 1996:
"America's music clown -- a profile of composer Peter Schickele"
DLR, 25 minutes, fuer a children's program called "Kadadu"
April 1996:
"A new role for Luciano Pavarotti -- Andrea Chenier at the Metropolitan Opera"
WDR, 21 minutes (Intermission feature for live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera)
"Modest Vikings -- the Minnesota Symphony Orchestra"
DLR, 18 minutes (Intermission feature for live broadcast from Minneapolis)
March 1996:
"Surrounded by hippies and tourists -- the San Francisco Symphony"
DLR, 15 minutes (Intermission feature for live broadcast from San Francisco)
"Luscious Verdi at the Met -- La Forza del Destino"
HR, 23 minutes (Intermission feature for live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera"
February 1996:
"The Bronx -- a ride through hell to paradise"
SWF, 55 minutes. Re-broadcast on DLR (May 1996)
January 1996:
"Visiting neighbors via information super highway -- online services"
DLR, 55 minutes
December 1995:
"The Grand Lady and the Siberian Tiger -- Rysanek and Hvorostovsky at the Met"
HR, 20 minutes (Intermission feature for live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera)
"The Grammy collectors -- a profile of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra"
DLR, 15 minutes (Intermission feature for live broadcast from Chicago)
September 1995:
"Immigrant with a full suit case -- Bela Bela Bartok's 50th death anniversay"
WDR, 85 minutes
"Symphony with Blue Note -- William Grant Still's centennial"
WDR, 85 minutes
"Visiting neighbors via super information highway -- Blacksburg Electronic Village"
MDR, 23 minutes
"A German educates America on classical music -- profile of radio anchor Karl Haas"
MDR, 42 minutes
August 1995:
"An alternative to Bayreuth -- Seattle is an American stronghold for the 'Ring' "
DLR, 30 minutes
"Surrounded by mountains and smokestacks -- the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra"
DLR, 16 minutes (Intermission feature for live broadcast from Pittsburgh)
"Muck and Koussevitsky -- historic recordings with the Boston Symphony Orchestra"
DLF, 28 minutes
May 1995:
"William Grant Still's centennial -- historic recordings"
DLF, 28 Min
April 1995:
"A splendid comeback -- the Detroit Symphony Orchestra"
DLR, 15 minutes (Intermission feature for live broadcast from Detroit)
March 1995:
Anchoring from the Met: "Idomeneo"
SWF and syndicated stations
Live conversation with an anchor in Baden-Baden about production, environment of the performance, and background of the work. In addition, a pre-recorded interview with Anne Sofie von Otter.
"An American stronghold under Slatkin's guidance -- the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra"
DLR, 15 minutes (Intermission feature for live broadcast from St. Louis)
"Exclusively for the masses -- live broadcasts from the Metropolitan Opera"
DLR, 55 minutes
"High society joined by the masses -- live broadcasts from the Metropolitan Opera"
SR, 120 minutes
February 1995:
"A 'Traviata' full of superlatives -- live from the Metropolitan Opera"
MDR and NDR, 22 minutes (Intermission feature)
January 1995:
"They didn't want Negroes -- the rocky path of Black composers"
WDR, 2 x 60 minutes
Ad-lib interpretation of the speaker's role in the 3rd act of the "Fledermaus"
DLR, for live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera
December 1994:
"Rigoletto -- a rich tradition at the Met"
BR, 22 minutes (Intermission feature for live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera)
"Big stage, wide spaces -- Lady McBeth of Mtsensk at the Met"
BR, 8 minutes (Intermission feature for live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera)
"The oldest classical radio program in America -- live broadcasts from the Met"
MDR, 55 minutes
September 1994:
"The detour to success -- review of the Irving Gilmore Keyboard Festival in Kalamazoo"
DLR, 55 minutes
July 1994:
"America's Bayreuth -- the Santa Fe Opera"
MDR, 55 minutes
April 1994:
"A pacemaker next to the Met -- New York City Opera celebrates 50th anniversary"
SR, 30 minutes
February 1994:
"A pacemaker next to the Met -- New York City Opera celebrates 50th anniversary"
DLR, 55 minutes
December 1993:
"A colorful gathering in California -- the 1st Ivo Pogorelich Piano Competition"
DLR, 55 minutes
June 1993:
"Deep spirits, nimble fingers -- the 9th Van Cliburn Piano Competition in Fort Worth"
DLR, 55 minutes
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