Program #103, May 9 2002: Unthemed / Semi-annual membership drive program.

Yes, Luigi Nono's Al Gran Sole Carico d'Amore was originally scheduled for this week, as the next regular installment in the 20th-century theatre pieces series. However, for the first time within Prisms' lifetime, KBCS began its semi-annual pledge drive on Wednesday rather than Thursday -- a decision that was made after I'd already scheduled the Nono for this date. Since it's both tricky and annoying to interrupt a two-hour (quasi-)opera to do pledge breaks, I thought it would be best to move the Nono to some later date, and return to the kind of hodgepodge, unthemed program I'd done for membership drives back when they still lasted a week instead of winding up on Sundays. At first I thought about just pushing Nono to the following week. But I didn't want people to be flummoxed by schedule changes I wouldn't have time to publicize properly -- so I decided, at more or less the eleventh hour, that the Nono will run in September instead. With hope everyone will have had time to catch up with news of the delay by the time we get there.

So that leaves the matter of this program. As a kind of promissory note, I decided to start and end with a couple of Nono pieces -- the first very experimental and political, the latter a piece of etherealia from his latter phase. In between, I pulled in a batch of pieces I've been itching to play lately, that I thought would appropriately "advertise" the sweep of Prisms for purposes of the membership drive: a Scelsi wonder; an amazingly hallucinatory product of one of local composer Phil Hendricks' projects; a connection to the Silk Road Project shortly to come through town; gestures toward shows to come.

What? You're not yet a member of KBCS? No, not you -- I know you are, already. But I was talking to you. Yeah, you! Thanks so very much for listening! But please do help keep the program -- and its host station -- going, by joining the KBCS community today.