Beethoven's "Eroica" Featured This Week On ASP
Jacomo Bairos conducts a magnificent performance of the Third Symphony, "Eroica" by Ludwig Von Beethoven. The program opens with Mozart's beloved Overture from "The Marriage of Figaro."
View ArticleOklahoma's Official Meal: A Culinary Tour Of The Sooner State
Did you know that Oklahoma is the only state to have an official state meal? As Cowboys and Indians tells us , the meal—which is actually more of a gut-busting cornucopia of awesomeness—was approved by...
View ArticleNative Women On Death's Cycle Of Life
My mother once told me that women who garden can reconcile themselves to the cycle of life and death more peacefully. I have kept up gardening, perhaps because of that advice. Here are poems by...
View ArticleArmy Reserve Soldiers From Kansas Take Part In World War I Event In France
More than 100 Army Reserve soldiers, including some from Wichita, are in France this week to commemorate the closing days of World War I. The war ended on Nov. 11, 1918. France and its allies are...
View ArticlePoetry Blooms In The Texas Panhandle
In recent months, West Texas has seen a flowering of poetic talent and interest. The poetic renaissance has been sparked in large part by the efforts to West Texas A&M University English professors...
View ArticleEarth Is A Mother Who Never Dies
This is Denise Low, High Plains Public Radio Book Club discussion leader for Medicine Walk by Richard Wagamese. “The Earth is a mother who never dies” is a saying from the Diné (or Navajo) people. How...
View ArticleDazzling Symphonic Classics This Week on Amarillo Symphony Presents
A dazzling program of symphonic masterpieces marks the 2018 debut of Amarillo Symphony Presents on HPPR. Guest conductor Yanniv Dinur leads the orchestra through a sublime performance of Gabriel...
View ArticleViolinist Alexi Kenney Featured Soloist This Week on Amarillo Symphony Presents
Alexi Kenney is the featured soloist this week on the program, performing Jean Sibelius' Violin Concerto in D minor. The concerto is the only one Jean Sibelius published throughout a long and...
View ArticleFrench Masters on ASP This Week
Works by four of France's greatest composers are featured on this week's presentation of Amarillo Symphony Presents. Jacomo Bairos conducts Ravel's "Rigadoun" from "Le Tambeau de Couperin" and "La...
View ArticleA Cabin in the Woods
This is Tom Weso, and this is High Plains Public Radio’s book club. In the featured novel for this program, Richard Wagamese’s Medicine Walk , the deep forests of British Columbia provide the setting....
View ArticleSoprano Mary Jane Johnson Highlights Opera Program
Pampa native and internationally renowned soprano Mary Jane Johnson sparkles as the featured soloist in this week's Amarillo Symphony Presents. Johnson joins conductor Jacomo Bairos and the Symphony...
View Article140th Anniversary Of The Battle Of Punished Woman's Fork Being Commemorated...
Northern Cheyenne descendants and some descendants of the U.S. Cavalry will gather at Lake Scott State Park to commemorate the 140 th anniversary of the Battle of Punished Woman’s Fork Thursday....
View ArticleBurial Practices And The Warrior Way
North American Indian burial practices varied widely across the continent. In some of these cultures, the recently deceased’s name was never spoken again so as to avoid angering the spirit. The spirit...
View ArticleIsn't That The Crux Of It All?
Hello, Radio Readers! I’m Jane Holwerda from Dodge City, Kansas, here to talk about our Fall 2018 book series on aging, death and dying. And, believe it or not, my task is to talk about these topics...
View ArticleGrants Given To Restore, Preserve Japanese-American Internment Camps
The National Park Service is donating more funds to preserve, restore and increase education about Japanese American internment camps scattered across the U.S. Most of them are in the West.
View ArticleRoz Chast And The Grim Reaper
I’m Jonathan Baker, a writer in Canyon, Texas, and I’ve been asked to talk a little about this month’s Radio Readers Book Club Read, Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? by Roz Chast.
View ArticleNirenberg, Bush Sign Off On Alamo Redesign Plans
Alamo Plaza is one step closer to a complete redevelopment.
View ArticleChast's Experience Instructive
A hundred years ago the Sears and Roebuck catalog, in addition to ordinary household goods, carried numerous advertisements for coffins, wreaths, and clothes to wear to funerals. The average life span...
View ArticleHow Curious: An All-Female Ghost Town?
A Kansas reporter wrote in 1893 he had discovered an all-female town in Oklahoma. But when he tried to go back to the village one week later, it was gone. KGOU listener Bart Varner asked How Curious:...
View ArticleFifty Years Of Belongings
Hello, Radio Readers. I’m Jane Holwerda from Dodge City, Kansas, ruminating on aging, death and dying for our Fall 2018 series. In her memoir, Can’t We Talk about Something More Pleasant? , Roz Chast...
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