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For over 40 years, WGTE has been a trusted source of information, music, and entertainment - a valued and vital service that provides award-winning programming to Northwest Ohio, Southeast Michigan and beyond.

Series

Caption: Dr. Louise Toppin
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Dr. Louise Toppin, noted soprano and professor of voice at the University of Michigan, is our guide for a celebration of some of our most historically significant African American composers.

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104 Pieces

"Living American Composers: New Music from Bowling Green" is a radio series devoted to living American composers and their works. Update: all of Season Ten is now available for auditioning/download!

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307 Pieces

"Celebrating the connections we make through the people we meet."


Latest Pieces

Caption: New Music Festival, Credit: BGSU
We hear live-in-concert performances from the 39th annual New Music Festival at Bowling Green State University. Also, Jennifer Higdon introduces us...

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  • Added: Jan 17, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 12
Caption: Donnacha Dennehy, Credit: Britt Olsen-Ecker
We sample the discography of composers whose music has been featured on the BGSU New Music Festival, including Donnacha Dennehy and his Irish famin...

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  • Added: Jan 17, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 12
Caption: Jennifer Higdon, Credit: J.D. Scott
Composer and BGSU alumna Jennifer Higdon co-hosts this episode, introducing recent recordings of her music, including the piece she wrote for piani...

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  • Added: Jan 17, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 13
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Today, we're talking to artist, Aaron Pickens who specializes in toy tableaux still lifes and alla prima plein air paintings. Sounds complicated? ...

  • Added: Jan 13, 2020
  • Length: 06:06
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Christian Howes is an American musician, teacher and composer. Today we're talking about how he became a successful violinist and how he came to cr...

  • Added: Jan 07, 2020
  • Length: 05:57
Caption: Aaron Jay Kernis, Credit: Richard Bowditch
Pulitzer and recent Grammy® winner Aaron Jay Kernis returns to introduce performances of his music that were recorded live at the annual New Music ...

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  • Added: Jan 03, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
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Caption: Sarah Cahill, Credit: Christine Alicino
Contemporary music pianist Sarah Cahill returns to share some of the works that have been written for her over the past few years, and samples her ...

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  • Added: Jan 03, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
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Caption: Libby Larsen, Credit: Ann Marsden
One of America’s most prolific and most performed living composers, Libby Larsen, joins us to introduce a collection of her works – including her p...

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  • Added: Jan 03, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 13
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It's a first for The RDD! A Rough Draft Diaries New Year Special. Join us as we look ahead by going behind... back to the 1920's of Toledo, Ohio.

  • Added: Dec 23, 2019
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It's our 2019 Holiday Special! And it just happens to air on Christmas morning. How perfect! To celebrate this season we've decided to open the pho...

  • Added: Dec 23, 2019
  • Length: 06:52