Volume 3: Issue 49 ~ December 15, 2006

Company for the Holidays
Program Specials



WKMS continues its seasonal entertainment series Company for the Holidays through New Year's Day 2007. Coming up Sunday, December 17, through Monday, January 1, performances include:

Sunday, December 17th
7 p.m. Winter Dreams: Ensemble Galilei and Neal Conan

Monday, December 18th
 9 a.m. Handel's Messiah
9 p.m. Jazz Piano Christmas XVII

Tuesday, December 19th
 9 p.m. Café Jazz Christmas

Wednesday, December 20st
9 a.m. Paducah Symphony Orchestra Holiday Pops Concert
11 a.m. St. Olaf's Christmas Festival 2006

Thursday December 21st
11 a.m. A Commonwealth Classics Christmas
7 p.m A Paul Winter Solstice Concert

Friday, December 22nd.
9 a.m. Bach's "Christmas Oratorio" from Carnegie Hall
11 a.m. The Eisenhower Hour Christmas Show
Noon Carols for Dancing

Saturday, December 23rd
10 a.m. A Front Porch Christmas
Noon Ornaments and Icing
2 p.m World Café Christmas
7 p.m. Stateline Blues Yule
9 p.m. Rockin' Saturday Night Christmas
11 p.m. Beyond the Edge Un-Christmas

Sunday, December 24th
9 a.m. A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols
10:30 a.m. WKMS Christmas Card
11 a.m. Welcome Christmas!
Noon Peter Ostroushko's Heartland Holiday
2 p.m. Jazzman's Christmas Show
3 p.m. Christmas Memories with Marian McPartland
6 p.m. The Eisenhower Hour Christmas Show
7 p.m. An International Christmas with Ports of Call

Monday, December 25
10 a.m. Christmas Around the Country 2006
11 a.m. Christmas with Morehouse and Spelman Glee Clubs
Noon Christmas with the Philadelphia Singers
7 p.m. A Christmas World Café
9 p.m. Joy To the World

January 1
9 a.m. New Year's Day from Vienna

For program details visit the Company for the Holidays website here.

WKMS thanks the following sponsors for supporting Company for the Holidays.
We can't do without you!

Mansion II Go's Artisan Kitchen, Paducah
Oh, Riley's!, Paducah
White & White Family Dentistry, Paducah
Roof Brothers Wine & Spirits, Paducah
Pennyrile Home Medical, Paducah, Cadiz & Hopkinsville
Judge Rick Johnson, Symsonia

 

Performance Today:
New Home, Same Quality Programming

Effective January 2007, American Public Media™ will assume production and distribution of Performance Today from NPR.

"American Public Media couldn't be more pleased to begin producing the renowned Performance Today," said Sarah Lutman, Senior Vice President of Content and Media, American Public Media. "Classical music is one of our strengths and producing and distributing this program further reflects our deep commitment to expanding the nation's classical music audience. We look forward to building on the past success of Performance Today and to bringing fresh, new energy to the to help reach listeners around the United States and around the world."

Attention WKMS Online Listeners: Windows Media Player Link Now Available!

Merry Christmas! We have subscribed to the internet radio service Live365.com. When you go to wkms.org and click on Listen Now in the banner, this is what happens. You’ll see 2 links now, instead of just the one for RealPlayer. The second one allows you to listen to “all other” players. A Kevil resident using the newly installed link (it just went live on December 12) says that the Live365.com internet stream at her place is far more robust than the RealPlayer stream. We are very pleased to at long last respond to listener requests for theWindows Media player link, and we acknowledge the support of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting in making this possible.

John Griffin Returns to Stateline Blues

WKMS welcomes John Griffin back to Stateline Blues! John Griffin has hosted the program for 22 years while working with MSU's Waterfield Library, Continuing Education, and as adjunct in the Modern Language Department, . John's been away for the last few months on his seventh trip to Regensburg, Germany as director of the MSU Semester in Regensburg Program.

John learned the radio ropes from the late Bobby Bryan, former WKMS Jazz Producer and long-time host of Easy Street and Big Band Era. Having listened to and admired blues-rock during the 60's, when Bobby asked if John would be interested in doing a straight blues show, he jumped at the chance. Some of Griffin's favorites include Elmore James, Willie Dixon, and Skip James and neo-traditionalists such as Rory Block, Chris Thomas King, Alvin Youngblood Hart, Corey Harris, and Guy Davis.

Thanks also to Bryan and Jen Bartlett for hosting Stateline Blues while John was away. Great job!

Garden Gurus IX - Dream, Draw, Dig!

Garden Gurus IX - Dream, Draw, Dig! is coming Saturday, January 20, 2007, the same day as our Music From the Front Porch Concert at 7p.m..

Presented by Purchase Area Master Gardeners, the daylong celebration of gardening is devoted to landscape design.  Advance tickets are $25.00 and may be purchased at the McCracken County Extension Office at 2705 Olivet Church Road in Paducah.  Details at www.pamga.org and 270-554-9520.  WKMS is a sponsor of Garden Guru's IX. 

Doors to Paducah’s Cherry Civic Center, H.C. Mathis Drive & Park Avenue, open at 9:00 a.m.  At that time horticulture exhibits, a plant sale, silent auction, book & tool sales, live auction inspection and autograph sessions get underway.  A continuous series of mini-lectures begins at 9:15 a.m. on the central stage.   

Two national experts are speaking: garden designer Gordon Hayward of Vermont and garden consultant, Judy Glattstein of New Jersey.  Both are prolific authors and will sign copies of their books purchased at Dream, Draw, Dig! 

New for 2007 is the Design Den.  Homeowners are encouraged to bring photos and drawings of landscape challenges and areas they wish to improve.  Garden designers will be available for free 15-20 minute sessions that day. 

Proceeds from Garden Gurus IX fund educational programs offered by the Purchase Area Master Gardeners including the UK Demonstration & Trial Garden on Coleman Road.  Master Gardeners are volunteers trained in research-based horticulture by the Cooperative Extension Service.  They assist County Horticulture Agents in serving the gardening public. 

Looks like It’s 2007 for Digital.

Back in October, we hoped that we’d finish out the year with both an analog and a digital signal on the air. We had received a structural analysis and had bid out the tower reinforcement work which needs to be done before we hang more weight (the digital line and the digital antenna) on it. We were on target until an engineer noticed a prior reinforcement of the tower that had not been factored into the first analysis. This means that another “mapping”
of the tower must be completed before we move ahead. Still, WKMS chief engineer Allen Fowler believes it may be done in mid-January.

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Christmas Magic
by Joanna Fuchs

Are we too grownup to feel a thrill
As we light the Christmas tree?
Are we immune to cookies,
Christmas cards and Christmas glee?

Are we too adult to "Ooh" and "Aah"
At the Christmas candle's glow?
Are we blasé about our gifts;
Do we shun the mistletoe?

Are we too mature for carols,
For merry or for jolly?
Do the decorations leave us cold,
The ornaments and holly?

Fat chance! We’ll never grow too old
To love the Christmas magic.
A year without a Christmas
Would be boring, even tragic.

So bring it on! The candy canes,
The feasting and good cheer;
O Christmas, lovely Christmas,
You’re the highlight of the year!

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Local Features
The WKMS newsroom offers you another chance to hear these local stories online. Click each link below to hear the story in streaming audio, or go to http://www.wkms.org/ and click news for a full listing of today's news.

Catfish to Caviar - Potatoes part 2 (2006-12-12) If you didn't get enough of potatoes last week. Johanna, and Denise give us some more unique recipes.

Alternative Christmas Market (2006-12-12) Learn about an alternative Christmas giving project organized in our region with Roger Weis, director of Murray State's American Humanics program.

Cubs in Shining Armour (2006-12-07) Bryan Bartlett encountered many species of cubs last week, and lived to tell about it.

Catfish to Caviar - Potatoes (2006-12-06) This week on Catfish to Caviar we'll hear part one of the many uses of potatoes.

Dr. Randy Dunn's First Day (2006-12-05) Jim Michael interviews Murray State University's 11th president Dr. Randy Dunn.

The Yellow Room Conspiracy (2006-12-04) Mystery buff and WKMS Commentator, Michael Cohen recommends "The Yellow Room Conspiracy."

THE SWEETEST HOLIDAY GIFT!

Eggnog Cheesecake


©Photograph and recipe from allrecipes.com

Ingredients:
1 cup graham cracker crumbs
2 tablespoons white sugar
3 tablespoons melted butter
3 (8 ounce) packages cream cheese, softened
1 cup white sugar
3 tablespoons all-purpose flour
3/4 cup eggnog
2 eggs
2 tablespoons rum
1 pinch ground nutmeg
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Crust:
Preheat oven to 325 degrees. In medium bowl combine graham cracker crumbs, 2 tablespoons sugar and butter. Press into bottom of 9 inch spring form pan. Bake for 10 minutes. Place on wire rack to cool.

Filling:
Preheat oven to 425 degrees. In food processor combine cream cheese, 1 cup sugar, flour and eggnog; process until smooth. Blend in eggs, rum and nutmeg. Pour mixture into cooled crust. Bake for 10 minutes.
Reduce heat to 250 and bake for 45 minutes, or until center of cake is barely firm to the touch. Remove from the oven and immediately loosen cake from rim. Let cake cool completely before removing the rim.

ENJOY!

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Quote Me on That...

"My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others. Come to think of it, why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that?"

Bob Hope --Comedian
(1903 - 2003)

COMING IN JANUARY...

 

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