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24 Hour Program Schedule

"American Routes"

Show Guides

Event Calendar

Monday Night...
Listening to Movies
Film music & soundtracks
American Mosaic
Geoffrey Fontaine
Tuesday Night...
Keyboard Classics
from Schnabel to Argerich
Galactic Voyager
music for a new age
The Romantic Hours
poetry, loveletters and music
Wednesday Night...
Schickele Mix
Beyond PDQ Bach
KCSN Opera House
best performances in the world
Thursday Night...
CSUN Live
Concerts from home and abroad
The David and Peter Show
Broadway, their way
The Romantic Hours
poetry, loveletters and music
Friday Night...
Madly Cocktail
shaken not stirred
The Green Room
Surf music at the millennium
Saturday Night...
American Routes
from PRI
The British Invasion
Beatles,Stones, Kinks, more
Sarcastic Fringehead
alternative music undefined
Sunday Night...
American Routes
from PRI
Frequencia Latina
music from the Latino diaspora
The Grateful Dead Hour
America's best loved band
Ken Nordine's Word Jazz
masterful, magical Radio

An Antigone Story

BBC World Service

Center Theater Group

The Eclectic Orange
Performing Arts
Festival

Getty Center

Glendale Symphony

Grand Performances

Hollywood Bowl

Huntington Library, Art
collections and Botanical
Gardens

John Anson Ford
Ampitheatre

Los Angeles County
Museum of Art

Los Angeles Opera

L.A. Philharmonic

Los Angeles Public Library

Museum of TV & Radio

Norton Simon Museum

Opera Pacific

Pacific Asia Museum

Pasadena Playhouse

Pasadena Symphony

Performance Today

Public Radio International

San Francisco Symphony

Santa Monica Twilight
Dance Series

Skirball Cultural Center

TheaterMania

UCLA Performing Arts

Valley Cultural Center

Will Geer Theatricum

With host Nick Spitzer (the tall guy) in the driver's seat, this "fabulous adventure in American music" originates from Public Radio International. Spanning the eras and genres that make up the rich landscape of American music - from roots rock and soul, blues, and country to jazz, gospel and beyond - it's a tour of the music that scores the American experience. "From moody streets and muddy waters, to purple mountains majesty and the open range," listeners travel through familiar territory to the back roads of Cajun, Klezmer, Téjano and other often-ignored but altogether captivating music that is quintessentially American. This cross-country excursion often invites music makers along for the ride, featuring interviews with such American legends as Dr. John, Marcia Bell, Jerry Garcia, Pharaoh Sanders, James Cotton, Doc Cheatham, B.B. King, Ellis Marsallis, Nicholas Payton, Mavis Staples, Steve Earle, Alan Toussaint, and Doc Watson. Come along for the experience that The Washington Post describes as "music played the way your coolest friend might string it together." And you don't even have to stick your thumb out to hitch a ride.

SATURDAYS and SUNDAYS, 5 - 6 A.M., 7 - 8 P.M.

Nick Spitzer

In the history of American radio, no series has ever come close to Nick Spitzer's "American Routes" in exploring the many streams of this nation's music. . . . . . . . Mr. Spitzer . . . has traveled, recorded and interviewed throughout the land. And he emphasizes that, from the beginning, as Americans and new immigrants of all kinds of backgrounds have moved to new places for work and a better life, "they have merged their music as they have mixed socially and culturally," often enriching one another in the process. Mr. Spitzer believes that "all these musics deserve to be heard together as part of an understanding of the broader American cultural experience." Mr. Spitzer also issues a challenge to the way music is all too often programmed on radio. "Instead of segregating music genres into discrete, market-driven formats of different classes and ethnicities," he presents what Alan Lomax -- the Johnny Appleseed of folk music collectors -- calls "the rainbow of American music."

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24 Hour Program Schedule
"American Routes"
Show Guides			Event Calendar

	Monday Night... Listening to Movies Film music & soundtracks American Mosaic Geoffrey Fontaine Tuesday Night... Keyboard Classics from Schnabel to Argerich Galactic Voyager music for a new age The Romantic Hours poetry, loveletters and music Wednesday Night... Schickele Mix Beyond PDQ Bach KCSN Opera House best performances in the world Thursday Night... CSUN Live Concerts from home and abroad The David and Peter Show Broadway, their way The Romantic Hours poetry, loveletters and music Friday Night... Madly Cocktail shaken not stirred The Green Room Surf music at the millennium Saturday Night... American Routes from PRI The British Invasion Beatles,Stones, Kinks, more Sarcastic Fringehead alternative music undefined Sunday Night... American Routes from PRI Frequencia Latina music from the Latino diaspora The Grateful Dead Hour America's best loved band Ken Nordine's Word Jazz masterful, magical Radio
				An Antigone Story BBC World Service Center Theater Group The Eclectic Orange Performing Arts Festival Getty Center Glendale Symphony Grand Performances Hollywood Bowl Huntington Library, Art collections and Botanical Gardens John Anson Ford Ampitheatre Los Angeles County Museum of Art Los Angeles Opera L.A. Philharmonic Los Angeles Public Library Museum of TV & Radio Norton Simon Museum Opera Pacific Pacific Asia Museum Pasadena Playhouse Pasadena Symphony Performance Today Public Radio International San Francisco Symphony Santa Monica Twilight Dance Series Skirball Cultural Center TheaterMania UCLA Performing Arts Valley Cultural Center Will Geer Theatricum
		With host Nick Spitzer (the tall guy) in the driver's seat, this "fabulous adventure in American music" originates from Public Radio International. Spanning the eras and genres that make up the rich landscape of American music - from roots rock and soul, blues, and country to jazz, gospel and beyond - it's a tour of the music that scores the American experience. "From moody streets and muddy waters, to purple mountains majesty and the open range," listeners travel through familiar territory to the back roads of Cajun, Klezmer, Téjano and other often-ignored but altogether captivating music that is quintessentially American. This cross-country excursion often invites music makers along for the ride, featuring interviews with such American legends as Dr. John, Marcia Bell, Jerry Garcia, Pharaoh Sanders, James Cotton, Doc Cheatham, B.B. King, Ellis Marsallis, Nicholas Payton, Mavis Staples, Steve Earle, Alan Toussaint, and Doc Watson. Come along for the experience that The Washington Post describes as "music played the way your coolest friend might string it together." And you don't even have to stick your thumb out to hitch a ride. SATURDAYS and SUNDAYS, 5 - 6 A.M., 7 - 8 P.M.

		Nick Spitzer

		In the history of American radio, no series has ever come close to Nick Spitzer's "American Routes" in exploring the many streams of this nation's music. . . . . . . . Mr. Spitzer . . . has traveled, recorded and interviewed throughout the land. And he emphasizes that, from the beginning, as Americans and new immigrants of all kinds of backgrounds have moved to new places for work and a better life, "they have merged their music as they have mixed socially and culturally," often enriching one another in the process. Mr. Spitzer believes that "all these musics deserve to be heard together as part of an understanding of the broader American cultural experience." Mr. Spitzer also issues a challenge to the way music is all too often programmed on radio. "Instead of segregating music genres into discrete, market-driven formats of different classes and ethnicities," he presents what Alan Lomax -- the Johnny Appleseed of folk music collectors -- calls "the rainbow of American music."