INTERVIEWS
CURRENT KWMR SHOWS

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Alan Stivell 810805; Alexandrer Lagoya, Claude Bolling 800515; Antonine Maillet Prix Goncourt 79 840410; Brigitte Fosey; Catherine Deneuve - Le dernier metro 800510; Charles Aznavour Concord Pavilion 790820; Claude Baudoin Bear Valley 821215; Claude Berry - Dans un moment d'égarement 781010; Claude Bolling, Alexandre Lagoya  800515; Claude Lelouch - Les Uns et les Autres 810615; Claude Lelouch - Robert Robert 781010; Claude Lelouch - Toute une vie 760710; Cleo Restaurant Berkeley promo - Kathy Ortega; Enrico Macias 811105; Eugene Ionesco 780316; Francois Truffaut - Le dernier métro 800510; François Truffaut français 800510; Herb Caen promo RaC; Jacques Yvart speaks of Brassens 811030; Jean Francois Paillard 790601; Jeanne d'Arc ship sailing out of San Francisco; Jeanne Moreau 820801; Josephine Araldo - SF Chefs 771030; KCSM - Kathy & Robert; KFJC - Kathy & Robert; KQED - Kathy & Robert; Kronenbourg beer promo; Marcel Azola 821012; Maurice André 771205; Michel Debost - Paris Chamber 801116; Michel Drach - Le pullover rouge; Michel Folon 881014; Michel Legrand 800525; Mireille Mathieu 820415; Nana Mouskouri 780505; Philippe Entremont 800515; President François Mitterand 840326; Quebec a la Carte - Gabrielle; Quebec a la Carte KTYM Los Angeles; Queen Ida; RaC theme - Fabienne baby; RaC theme - Radio over; San Francisco à la Carte; Savilia Blunk 240830; Serendipity Tavel agency Promo; Stephane Grapelli 790810; The Brussels Restaurant promo Lafayette; Yves Montand 821012; Yves Montand 781010.

Stéphane Grappelli was a French jazz violinist. He is best known as a founder of the Quintette du Hot Club de France with guitarist Django Reinhardt in 1934. It was one of the first all-string jazz bands. He has been called "the grandfather of jazz violinists" and continued playing concerts around the world well into his eighties.

Emmanuel on stage with Stephane  Grapelli at Paul Mason Winery,

Saratoga, August 10, 1979  [7:17 minutes] Photo by SF Chronicle.

Herb Caen was a San Francisco humorist and journalist whose daily column of local goings-on and insider gossip, social and political happenings, and offbeat puns and anecdotes—"A continuous love letter to San Francisco"—appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle for almost sixty years and made him a household name throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. Herb Caen was an avid supporter of our French Radio program and created a few promotions including this one.

Photo by Nancy Wong.

 

Promo - RaC Herb Caen, circa 1978 - [1 minute]

Conversation with Savilia Blunk - a Mountain biker  from Inverness - who raced in the Olympics in Paris [finished 12th] and was ready to compete in Andorra - a small country in high altitude nestled in the Pyrenées between France and Spain. [UPDATE: she finished 8th in both of her races]

 

[August 30th, 2024 - 18:37 minutes]

    Stacey Kent (born 1965) is an American jazz singer from New Jersey. She was nominated for a Grammy Award and was awarded the Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Minister of Culture in 2009.[3] She is married to saxophonist and composer Jim Tomlison who produces her albums and writes songs for her with his lyricist partner, novelist Kazuo Ishiguro.

    She spoke to me while checking at their hotel in Spain sharing mostly her French album with us while on tour.

Stacey Kent, November 26, 2023, 22 minutes

The Abeo Quartet, formed at Juilliard in 2018, was the inaugural Graduate String Quartet in Residence at the University of Delaware under the mentorship of the Calidore String Quartet from 2021-2023. The members of the quartet are violinists Njioma Grevious and Rebecca Benjamin, violist James Kang and newest member, cellist Macintyre Taback.

Recent highlights have included performances at Music@Menlo, the Schneider Concert Series, the Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival, and collaborations with members of the Calidore and Dover string quartets. In March 2024, Abeo returned to perform at the Kennedy Center.

I had a conversation with Njioma and Macintyre before their performances in Inverness.

 

Abeo Quartet, November 22, 2024, 22 minutes

Conversation with Ian Maksin, cellist, composer and multilingual vocalist

prior to his coming to Inverness, CA, December 28 & 29, 2024,

for  tickets to watch and listen to this extraordinary musician,

go to  musicandminds.org.

 

Recorded Dec. 18, 2024                                                                        28:30 minutes 

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