Featuring solo and duo performances from some of the bright-est stars in classical guitar, the strings invade Cowtown for the fifth edi-tion of the 2010 Guitar Guild Music Festival & Workshop.

The July 27 - 31 festival highlights include Soloduo, the Kithara Duo as well as a duo program by Isaac Bustos and Mitch Weverka.

Jason Vieaux will present a solo program as well as a young emerging performer from Fort Worth, Mark Appling. Evening concerts will be at The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth while the festival workshop will be at Orchestra Hall. In addi-tion the most advanced students from the festival will perform in Mitchell Hall at St. John’s Episcopal Church.

Visit fortworthguitarguild.org for details.

Full of conflict and ethereal beauty by turns, the music of Gustav Mahler becomes better known every year, as there is no shortage of symphony or-chestras which tackle his large-scale works. WRR will pay homage to Mahler on July 7, on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the composer’s birth. Listen-ers will hear movements from important symphonies throughout the day and can enjoy full length works during the Evening Concert, starting at 8 p.m.

Born in 1860 in Kalischt, Bohemia, Mahler showed musical gifts early on and soon started piano lessons, giving his first public recital at the age of ten. He ultimately studied at the Vienna Conservatory, where he won awards for piano playing and composition. Critics recognized Mahler’s talent as a conductor, and his new approaches in orchestral

playing. Mahler’s life was laced with political and

personal hardship. He often was the target of anti-Semitic feelings in Germany and Austria, and he actually left his Jewish faith to convert to Catholicism to secure the job of music director of the Vienna Court Opera. (Jews were virtually prohibited from holding the post at that time).

His music was banned in countries that were under a Nazi stronghold of power, and his works weren’t well known elsewhere either. It wasn’t until the early 1960s that Mahler’s sym-phonies were essentially rediscovered. During

his tenure as music director of the New York Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein embraced Mahler’s works, programmed them regularly in concerts and recorded them, and that prompted other conductors to do the same. Soon, Mahler symphony cycles became benchmarks for a creative scope and endurance for most of the major orchestras around the world.

Listeners who find his major works less than appealing are of-ten rewarded by Mahler’s art songs, most of which are easily enjoyed on first hearing. Those songs, plus a little known quartet for piano and strings, make up WRR’s tribute to this composer Wednesday, July 7.

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WRR features guests from the 12th an-nual Festival of Independent Theatres (FIT) for the Classic Cafe from One Arts Plaza July 6-9 from 11-1 p.m. Actress Denise Lee and guests from the Bath House Cultural Center join Tempie Lindsey throughout the week.

FIT runs July 16-Aug. 7 at the Bath House Cultural Center. Only two companies who have been with FIT from the beginning are still in the game, Echo Theatre and WingSpan Theatre Company, while two groups that start-ed up at the 2009 festival are back: The Drama Club and White Rock Pollution. And, among the eight entries this year, there are two new outfits jumping in, Churchmouse Productions and Mc-Clarey Players.

Here are the companies and the plays they’re staging.

• Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, based on the 1970 production created by Andre Gregory and the Manhattan Project. Presented

by White Rock Pollution.• Bible Women, a

song cycle by Elizabeth Swa-dos with additional text by Vicki Caroline Cheatwood. Presented by Echo Theatre and featuring actress Denise Lee.

• Feeding the Moon-fish by Barbara Weichmann. Presented by WingSpan Theatre Company, and featuring actors Josh Glover and Barrett Nash of upstart Productions.

• Georgie Gets a Facelift by Dan Guy-ton and a new play, Thank U Berry Munch, by Kurt Kleinmann. Presented by Churchmouse Productions, which is the new non-Black and White production arm of Pegasus Theatre.

• The Muse, a world premiere written, designed and directed by Jeffrey Schmidt. Pre-sented by The Drama Club. Last year, Schmidt handled all these duties for TDC’s The Old Woman in the Wood, the festival’s best show.

• Once More, With Feeling by Christina Cigala. Presented by Second Thought Theatre. San Antonio native Cigala is a grad of Baylor university, the school from where the founders

of Second Thought came.• Purgatory, a Bedroom Farce by Cliff

McClelland. World premiere, presented by The McClarey Players.

• The Turquoise Pontiac, a new play by Austin’s Ellsworth Schave, presented by One Thirty Productions. One Thirty premiered Schave’s Under a Texaco Canopy in 2009, and Turquoise will feature two of that show’s cast members, Morgan Justiss and Shane Beeson.

The shows run in rotating repertory throughout the festival, in two-show perfor-mance blocks at 8 p.m. Thursdays and Fridays; 2, 5 and 8 p.m. Saturdays; and 2 and 5 p.m. Sundays at the Bath House Cultural Center. Call 214-880-0202 or visit www.attpac.org for tickets.

– Mark Lowry is co-founder and co-editor of the performing arts website TheaterJones.com. He is also a contributor to Arts+Culture Magazine, and has written for the Dallas Observer, Dallas Voice, Au-ditoria Magazine and others. He was a theater critic at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram for 10 years.

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Getting FIT for Summer

Strum along to the Guitar Guild Music Festival

By guest writerMark Lowry

Featuring opportunities for outdoor sculpture exhibitions, gallery-styled art displays, live music per-formances, plays, festivals, movie nights, and other community interests, Newman Village promises to serve as the anchor for Frisco.

Join WRR’s Tempie Lindsey Saturday, July 17 from 5-7 p.m. at Newman Village, located off W. Spring Creek Parkway and Midway Rd (Tennyson Parkway.) We’ll enjoy live music from one of the areas favorite jazz bands in Newman Village’s Central Plaza.

To help build the arts component at New-man Village, developer Darling Homes looked to the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas for inspi-ration, as well as the North Texas Business for Culture and the Arts, a nonprofit arts advocacy group founded by Raymond Nasher, to provide guidance as Newman Village works with local art-ists, determining whose work will be displayed.

The Frisco Association for the Arts is also a community partner for Newman Village. Newman Village will provide opportunities for artistic, educational and cultural expressions for local and area artists.

The Darling Brothers, devel-opers of Newman Village

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Tempie Lindsey visits Newman Village

Denise Lee

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Promoting physical activ-ity through workplace walking programs can help employees reduce their risk for heart disease and stroke and lead lon-ger, stronger, healthier lives.

The American Heart Associa-tion joins WRR’s Tempie Lindsey for the

Classic Cafe from One Arts Plaza.Listen from 11 a.m.- 1 p.m. July 6-9 as they discuss Start! the American

Heart Association’s ground breaking national campaign calling on all Americans and their employers to create a culture of physical activity and health to live lon-ger, heart-healthy lives through walking.

You’ll also hear about the 2010 Start! Heart Walk in Dallas as we walk together in the fight against heart disease. Tens of thousands of dedicated and committed walkers will descend upon Victory Park on September 11 and show their support, continuing to keep Dallas on top as the number one Heart Walk in the nation.

Once again, WRR will rebroadcast the Dallas Wind Symphony’s Star Spangled Spectacular. This tradition of decades has become the ultimate destination for patriots on Independence Day evening.

This year, guest conductor Lt. Colonel John Clanton of the u.S. Army Band leads our annual salute to America. You can expect Sousa marches, an armed forces salute, and revolutionary surprises in this red, white and blue salute to Mom, apple pie and uncle Sam! As a special treat this year, the Dallas Wind Symphony will be joined by the Arts District Chorale. You’ll want to sing a long with this accomplished and high-spirited group.

Since this show has proven so popular on the air in the past, we’ll be playing it twice – at 8 p.m. and 9 p.m. on the evening of July 4. No matter where you’re headed for a liberty celebration, take your radio along, tuned to 101.1 for the perfect sound track to your local fireworks display.

Happy birthday America from the Dallas Wind Symphony, the Arts District Chorale and WRR! Michie Akin, Artistic Director for the Arts

District Chorale during the Classic Cafe.

The Fort Worth Opera Festival has ended and many people are anxiously awaiting the beginning of the next Dallas Opera season. In the meantime, there’s an opera opportunity that would make a perfect summer get-away for Metroplex opera fans.

Opera in the Ozarks at Inspiration Point is a unique festival founded by Dr. Henry Hobart in 1950. It’s located seven miles west of Eureka Springs, Arkansas, on scenic Route 62. One of the most picturesque spots in the south central u.S., Inspiration Point is a look-out site situated

atop Candy Rock Mountain between the beautiful White River Valley and Bea-ver Lake. In this idyllic setting, experienced performers join with vital young tal-ent to bring a fresh approach to some of the most beloved operas ever written.

This year’s productions are Don Giovanni, Carmen and Tosca. With six performances a week, there’s great scheduling flexibility to experience all three operas. Performances continue through July 17. Learn more at opera.org.

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Featuring approximately eighty seldom-seen paintings, sculptures, prints, photographs, drawings, and films, Constructive Spirit: Abstract Art in South and North America, 1920s–50s jux-taposes the work from artists of the Americas, providing a fresh and innovative look at this dynamic and cosmopolitan period of modernism.

On view till Sept. 5 at the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth, Constructive Spirit features several works by artists repre-sented in the museum’s permanent collection, such as Alexander Calder, Stuart Davis, and Louise Nevelson. Other artists in the exhibition include Joaquín Torres-García, Jesús Rafael Soto, and Arshile Gorky. The exhibition is a first-time chance for Carter pa-trons to understand the conceptual and aesthetic parallels that linked artists across the Americas.

This exhibition was organized by the Newark Museum with major support by the Henry Luce Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, Johnson & Johnson, and the Consulate General of Brazil in New York.

Summer Chamber Music from the east and west

Every Sunday in July at 3 p.m., the Fine Arts Chamber Players pres-ent the Basically Beethoven Festival in the sun-filled performance hall at Texas Discovery Gardens in Dallas’ Fair Park. These concerts are free of charge. The Fine Arts Chamber Players believe mu-sic is vital to life and share the vision and desire to make professionally played mu-sic accessible to everyone. They’ll cele-brate their 30th anniversary in 2011.

At the Basically Beethoven Fes-tival, musicians from the Dallas and Fort Worth Symphony Orchestras are joined by award-winning soloists. upcoming young artists precede the Feature Per-formance with a bonus “Rising Star Re-cital.” Highlights include favorite cham-ber works by Brahms and Beethoven, a patriotic July 4 concert and a celebration of the cello with DSO Associate Principal Cellist Yuri Anshelevich.

Learn more at fineartschamber-players.org

Once again, WRR will rebroadcast the Dallas Wind Symphony’s Star Spangled Spectacular. This tradition of decades has become the ultimate destination for patriots on Independence Day evening.

This year, guest conductor Lt. Colonel John Clanton of the u.S. Army Band leads our annual salute to America. You can expect Sousa marches, an armed forces salute, and revolutionary surprises in this red, white and blue salute to Mom, apple pie and uncle Sam! As a special treat this year, the Dallas Wind Symphony will be joined by the Arts District Chorale. You’ll want to sing a long with this accomplished and high-spirited group.

Since this show has proven so popular on the air in the past, we’ll be playing it twice – at 8 p.m. and 9 p.m. on the evening of July 4. No matter where you’re headed for a liberty celebration, take your radio along, tuned to 101.1 for the perfect sound track to your local fireworks display.

Happy birthday America from the Dallas Wind Symphony, the Arts District Chorale and WRR!

Chamber music… it’s a term that can be intimidating to the in-experienced. Is it something secretly undertaken in darkened rooms? Is it the exclusive domain of stuffy, pipe-smoking intellectuals?

No, chamber music is actually one of classical music’s most social and friendly genres. It simply means that the music is played by a small handful of performers rather than a hundred-piece orches-tra. Composers like Mozart, Schubert and Bach wrote some of their best music for a few friends to play together at gatherings with their close acquaintances and family members.

Summer presents great opportunities to enjoy wonderful chamber music performances on both the east and west sides of the Metroplex.

Listen to a special edition of WRR’s Classic Café at One Arts Plaza July 7 from 11 a.m.- 1 p.m. as Mimir festival founder and director Curt Thompson performs live on the air. Then we’ll feature the Fine Arts Chamber Players on the July 9 Classic Café.

In Fort Worth, the Mimir Cham-ber Music Festival takes place July 8-16 at TCu. It’s named for Mimir, the Norse god of wisdom and features out-standing artists from the world’s leading orchestras and music schools who share a love for chamber music. Musicians are selected for the superb performing skills as well as their ability to mentor a group of aspiring young artists who also per-form and study during the festival.

This year’s Mimir guest artists in-clude members of the Chicago Sympho-ny and Cleveland Orchestra, as well as winners of the Cliburn and Leeds piano competitions. Musical highlights include an all-Beethoven concert July 10, and a complete performance of Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time on July 13.

Learn more about Mimir at mimirfestival.org

Michie Akin, Artistic Director for the Arts District Chorale during the Classic Cafe.

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A few of the aspiring musicians enjoying the instrument petting zoo during the Dallas Symphony Orchestra’s Open House at the Meyerson Symphony Center.

WRR’s Amy Bishop helps with the award presentation of the Music Memory Con-test at the Meyerson.

WRR’s Amy Bishop with Glenn Ladewig, who describes himself WRR’s biggest facebook fan, at our visit to Dougherty’s Pharmacy.

Dean Fearing, chef and partner at Fear-ing’s Restaurant at the Ritz Carlton, with Bennett Glazer of Glazer’s Distributors celebrating the first bottle of Maker’s Mark 46.

Shields-Collins “Buddy” Bray and Alann Sampson of the Cliburn Foundation visit WRR’s studios to talk with us about the 2010-2011 Cliburn Concerts Season.

1 Caren Prothro discusses her delivery experiences with Meals on Wheels.2 Maria Schleuning and Barbara Sud-weeks perform from Voices of Change.3 Phil Bankhead joins us from Park Cit-ies Rotary Club 4 Sharon Rankin of Southwest Airlines stops in to talking MOW-ing... Meals on Wheels that is.5 Mary Francis Hoover of Susan G.

Koman Foundation and Mandy Kizer of Bank of America tell us about the founda-tion.6 Jon White talks about upcoming events with the Arts District Chorale7 Judy Conner from Dallas Museum of Art to discuss summer programming at the museum.8 Terry Thompkins of Wells Fargo and Jack Waldenmaier of Voices of Change enjoying our view.

9 Helen Nixon with Robert Smith of the Visiting Nurses Association joined by WRR’s Lynn Addington10 The Chameleon Chamber Group be-fore their performance at the Crow Col-lection11 David McMillan of Screen Door talks grilling12 WRR’s Lynn Addington with Ron Brame of One Arts Plaza.

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WRR Notable Programs

Arts update: 6:52 a.m., 8:52 a.m. and 4:52 p.m. week-days - Your source for arts listings covering the eve-ning’s events as well as those a couple days ahead.

Road Rage Remedy: 7:20 a.m. and 5:20 p.m. week-days - WRR will calm your rush hour commute with music to soothe the nerves. Relax and enjoy the ride!

March of the Day: 7:35 a.m. weekdays - Having trou-ble getting around in the morning? WRR will get you in step with some of the world’s most upbeat music -- Marches! Sponsored by Dougherty’s Pharmacy.

The Wine Experience: 6:20 p.m. weekdays - Presents topics relating to choosing and enjoying wine such as matching wine with different foods, virtual walks through vineyards and shopping tips.

Dallas Symphony Orchestra: 8 p.m., some Mondays. Complete concert performances of the Dallas Sym-phony Orchestra from the Meyerson Symphony Cen-ter.

Arts Calendar: 5:30 p.m. Thursdays - An extended arts event listing covering the upcoming week, presented by Kevin Pytcher.

New York Philharmonic this Week: 8 p.m. Thursdays - America’s musical ambassadors perform from Avery Fisher Hall.

Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra: 8 p.m. some Fridays - Miguel Harth-Bedoya conducts the orchestra in com-plete broadcasts from the Symphonic Series.

From the Top: 9 a.m. Saturdays - Some of the nation’s most gifted young musicians take the stage for this in-spiring and funny program.

Inside the Dallas Opera: Noon Saturdays, once a month - A behind-the-scenes look at the Dallas Opera including past performances, interviews with staff and artists plus upcoming engagements. Times vary.

A Night on the Town: 10 p.m. Saturdays - From Rich-ard Rodgers to Andrew Lloyd Webber, George Harter brings you the best of the American musical stage.

Religious programming: 8 a.m. until noon - Sundays - WRR airs religious services by churches of many de-nominations and faiths Sunday mornings. See Sunday listings for details.

Art Matters: 5:30 p.m. Sundays and 6:30 p.m. Thurs-days - Quin Mathews and Sharon Benge co-host this in-depth look at the arts in North Texas. This is the place to hear insightful interviews with some of the area’s arts luminaries as well as distinguished visitors.

Pipedreams: 10 p.m. Sundays - The king of instru-ments, the pipe organ, is the focus of this 90-minute program that spans the globe in its search for great music.

Dallas Summer Musicals Spotlight: 5 p.m. some Sun-days - An in depth look at the behind the scenes peo-ple involved in bringing the Dallas Summer Musicals to Fair Park.

Performance Today: 9 p.m. weekends - Live concerts by famous artists in concert halls around the globe as well as interviews, news and features. Audiences, on any given day, may hear from performances in the great concert halls of New York, Prague, London, Ber-lin and Paris.

Symphony Cast 7 p.m. Saturdays - A weekly classical music radio program hosted by Brian Newhouse and featuring full-length concerts by national and interna-tional symphony orchestras.* Various organizations. See wrr101.com for complete details.

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Summer is here, and that brings with it the opportunity to celebrate life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. WRR’s Independence Day programming is jam-packed with the musical sounds of America. We’ll hear composers like Joplin, Gershwin, John Williams, and Sousa, and we’ll evoke American landscapes ranging from the Wild West to the big city, to a parade down Main Street. We’ll sample from some new releases, some recently unearthed gems, and lots of familiar favorites. Highlights include Samuel Barber’s Violin Concerto, Gershwin’s An American in Paris, Mark O’Connor’s Americana Symphony and much more.

Elsewhere in this issue of Overture, you’ll see information about our Dallas Wind Sym-phony broadcast to accompany your local fireworks display. Please note that on July 4, Sym-phonyCast will be pre-empted, and Performance Today will be heard two hours early, at 7 p.m.

At 10 p.m. on Independence Day, Pipedreams will feature Independence Thinkers... an all-American program that explores the sonic and virtuosic freedoms and possibilities of pipe organs and those who play them.

One of the absolute highlights of the Dallas Symphony season was Hilary Hahn’s visit to perform the Violin Concerto by Grammy and Pulitzer Prize-winner Jennifer Higdon. Don’t miss WRR’s exclusive rebroadcast of that momentous concert Monday night, July 19 at 8 p.m.

When it’s time for a midsummer cool-down, classical music can provide relaxation, inspiration and food for thought when we need it most. We hope you’ll enjoy this month’s pro-gramming.