US radio broadcast - operatic paraphrases

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In case anyone here might like to catch this: Sun 7th Jan at 1900 - 2100 PST, streamed on http://kzsu.stanford.edu/live/-
a radio broadcast episode of "The Music Treasury", presented by Dr Gary Lemco.

I will be interviewed by phone live on air (at the rather unfortunate UK time for me of 3am GMT, but I'll stock up on coffee beforehand!) and we will be talking about operatic transcriptions, paraphrases, etc, and he will play some of my recordings, which I don't really wish to spam the forum with, but for clarity's sake, exist as two discs of operatic paraphrases, cat. nos DDA25113 and DDA25153. My understanding is that the set list will be mainly Liszt and Thalberg (who I would argue is unsung, but he's certainly better known than a lot of other 19th century composer-pianists), but there will also be paraphrases by Martucci, Jaell and Leschitizky.

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Just had a phone call, and there's been a short notice cancellation: it will be rescheduled but at this point I can't say for when. I hope no-one stayed up; it's almost 3am here!