Highway 89

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Highway 89 episodes

November 12, 2018 Robert Brandt and Scott Holden
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November 11, 2018, marked the hundredth anniversary of the end of the first World War – the war to end all wars. It saw the mobilization of more than 70 million military personnel. The fighting cost the lives of 9 million combatants and seven million civilians, and the war contributed to other factors – including a worldwide flu epidemic, that cost the lives of tens of millions more.
In our time, we come to understand the war by studying its history. But much of what we imagine about living in the world during that conflict has been shaped by our experience with the work of poets, authors, composers, and musicians of the time. We are moved by Remarque’s “All Quiet on the Western Front,” or the poetry of “In Flanders Fields” by John McRae, or “Marching Men” by Marjorie Pickthall, or “My Boy Jack” by Kipling.
Today on Highway 89, we're very pleased to welcome pianist Scott Holden and baritone Robert Brandt into the studio. They bring with them a handful of pieces by World-War-I-era composers; George Butterworth, Ivor Gurney, and Frederick Keel among them.
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November 09, 2018 Robert Brandt and Scott Holden
November 11, 2018, marked the hundredth anniversary of the end of the first World War – the war to end all wars. It saw the mobilization of more than 70 million military personnel. The fighting cost the lives of 9 million combatants and seven million civilians, and the war contributed to other factors – including a worldwide flu epidemic, that cost the lives of tens of millions more.
In our time, we come to understand the war by studying its history. But much of what we imagine about living in the world during that conflict has been shaped by our experience with the work of poets, authors, composers, and musicians of the time. We are moved by Remarque’s “All Quiet on the Western Front,” or the poetry of “In Flanders Fields” by John McRae, or “Marching Men” by Marjorie Pickthall, or “My Boy Jack” by Kipling.
Today on Highway 89, we're very pleased to welcome pianist Scott Holden and baritone Robert Brandt into the studio. They bring with them a handful of pieces by World-War-I-era composers; George Butterworth, Ivor Gurney, and Frederick Keel among them.
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October 23, 2018 Marvin Goldstein and Vanessa Joy
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October 23, 2018 Marvin Goldstein and Vanessa Joy
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September 12, 2018 Deseret String Quartet
The Deseret String Quartet, which comprises cellist Michelle Kessler, violinists Alex Woods and Monte Belknap, and violist Claudine Bigelow, performs a piece by Haydn and a contemporary work by Ethan Wickman, commissioned and first performed right here at Brigham Young University.
Songs featured: Franz Joseph Haydn's Opus 76 No. 2 "Fifths" and Ethan Wickman's Namaste
Learn more about them here.
Follow Highway 89 on Instagram: @byuh89 and Twitter: @byuh89
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September 11, 2018 Deseret String Quartet
The Deseret String Quartet, which comprises cellist Michelle Kessler, violinists Alex Woods and Monte Belknap, and violist Claudine Bigelow, performs a piece by Haydn and a contemporary work by Ethan Wickman, commissioned and first performed right here at Brigham Young University.
Songs featured: Franz Joseph Haydn's Opus 76 No. 2 "Fifths" and Ethan Wickman's Namaste
Learn more about them here.
Follow Highway 89 on Instagram: @byuh89 and Twitter: @byuh89
52 min
September 05, 2018 Alex and Sam Bigney
The tale of our guests today begins, perhaps, in a home in which the father, a painter, exchanged some of his paintings for musical instruments. His sons, soon to be a harpist, a fiddler, and a guitarist, grew up to be Kirkmount, a Celtic band that, when the boys were still very young, kept up a rigorous schedule performing at festivals and in concert halls, making recordings, and they even won A Prairie Home Companion's "Talent from Towns Under Two Thousand" contest. Two of those brothers, Harpist Alex Bigney and fiddler Sam Bigney join us in the studio for an hour of medleys featuring traditional tunes and original pieces.
Songs featured: Late Summer Aire, Home on the Columbia, Homecoming, Jerry's Jigs, Rosey's Waltz, Wandering
Learn more about them here: www.alexbigneyharp.com
Follow Highway 89 on Instagram: @byuh89 and Twitter: @byuh89
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September 04, 2018 Alex and Sam Bigney
The tale of our guests today begins, perhaps, in a home in which the father, a painter, exchanged some of his paintings for musical instruments. His sons, soon to be a harpist, a fiddler, and a guitarist, grew up to be Kirkmount, a Celtic band that, when the boys were still very young, kept up a rigorous schedule performing at festivals and in concert halls, making recordings, and they even won A Prairie Home Companion's "Talent from Towns Under Two Thousand" contest. Two of those brothers, Harpist Alex Bigney and fiddler Sam Bigney join us in the studio for an hour of medleys featuring traditional tunes and original pieces.
Songs featured: Late Summer Aire, Home on the Columbia, Homecoming, Jerry's Jigs, Rosey's Waltz, Wandering
Learn more about them here: www.alexbigneyharp.com
Follow Highway 89 on Instagram: @byuh89 and Twitter: @byuh89
56 min
August 29, 2018 La Farandole de Courtepin
La Farandole de Courtepin is a folk dance and music group from the Alpine town of Courtepin, in the the canton of Fribourg, in Switzerland. The group is made up of about thirty dancers, a brass band of about ten musicians, a team of flag swingers, and three Alphorn players. The group performs all over the world as ambassadors for Swiss culture and are in town to perform at the World Folkfest in Springville, Utah. The group has a mission guided by its stated values: to share, in Switzerland and abroad, the traditional dances and customs of the Fribourg regions while familiarizing young people with folk and traditions, celebrating open-mindness, sharing, commitment, respect of traditions and innovations.
Songs featured: La Triple Danse, Au Jardin d'Automne, Bergers-bergeres, Fanfare du Printemps, Tarentelle Nouvelle, Alphons-Polka, Hymne de la Suisse Romande
Find out more about them here: http://farandole.ch/
Follow Highway 89 on Instagram: @byuh89 and Twitter: @byuh89
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August 28, 2018 La Farandole de Courtepin
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La Farandole de Courtepin is a folk dance and music group from the Alpine town of Courtepin, in the the canton of Fribourg, in Switzerland. The group is made up of about thirty dancers, a brass band of about ten musicians, a team of flag swingers, and three Alphorn players. The group performs all over the world as ambassadors for Swiss culture and are in town to perform at the World Folkfest in Springville, Utah. The group has a mission guided by its stated values: to share, in Switzerland and abroad, the traditional dances and customs of the Fribourg regions while familiarizing young people with folk and traditions, celebrating open-mindness, sharing, commitment, respect of traditions and innovations.
Songs featured: La Triple Danse, Au Jardin d'Automne, Bergers-bergeres, Fanfare du Printemps, Tarentelle Nouvelle, Alphons-Polka, Hymne de la Suisse Romande
Find out more about them here: http://farandole.ch/
Follow Highway 89 on Instagram: @byuh89 and Twitter: @byuh89
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Highway 89 is a live performance and interview program that originates in BYUradio’s state-of-the-art recording studio. International, national, and local artists from a wide range of musical genres…