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This week we welcome back Philip Lee Williams to Cover to Cover. We’ll be talking about his latest book, The Campfire Boys. It’s a wonderful comedic novel about reluctant rebels during the American Civil War who moonlight as entertainers for their fellow soldiers. The Celebrated Blackshear Brothers are three siblings who honed their musical talents and their knack for comedic sketches by performing for the gentry of their well-to-do Southern town as youngsters. The town is modeled after Williams’ hometown, Madison, Georgia.

What Williams accomplishes in this novel is a seamless meld of sometimes opposing forces—historical fact with contemporary commentary, warm emotion with calloused characters, horrific battlefields with witty quips—all within the lives of Confederate soldiers who abhor the institution of slavery. It all works because Williams never compromises his role as a storyteller in order to make a point.

It was an absolute delight to talk with Philip Lee Williams. Like him, I am also from Madison, and I’ve followed his career for some time now. Not only is he a wonderful writer, he’s also an incredibly insightful man with a passion for the arts. I’ve interviewed Williams twice now and each time I’ve come away thinking I’ve just learned something invaluable about what it means to be a writer in the South.

In addition to the new book, we’ll also talk about Williams’ selection to the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame. That honor was announced earlier this year and in my opinion they couldn’t have picked a more fitting inductee.

So please join us this Sunday. We air at 8 PM in most parts of the state and at 6 PM in the Athens area on WUGA.

11 AM

• Nicolai: The Merry Wives of Windsor, Overture. Bamberg Sym, Rickenbacher. Virgin 91079.
• Tchaikovsky: String Quartet No. 3 in E-flat minor, Op. 30. Ying Quartet. Telarc 80685.
• Handel: Concerto Grosso in G major, Op. 3/3. Linde Consort, Linde. Virgin 699472.

12 N

• Traditional French (arr. Richards): Songs of the Auvergne: L'eau de source; Le Baylere. The King's Singers, Davis. EMI 47708.
• Bax: November Woods. BBC Phil, Handley. Chandos 10362.
• Ginstera: Estancia: Malambo. Boston Pops, Lockhart. RCA 63717.
• Conversation with Albany (Ga.) Symphony Orchestra music director Claire Fox Hillard about the group's Latin American concert coming up Saturday in Albany
• Bernstein: West Side Story, Symphonic Dances. New York Phil, Bernstein. Sony 47154.

1 PM

• Mussorgsky: Sorochintsy Fair: Overture; Gopak. State Sym Orch of Russian, Svetlanov. BMG 68406.
• Schubert: Piano Sonata in A major, D. 664. Leon Fleisher. Sony 47667.
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11 AM

• Nicolai: The Merry Wives of Windsor, Overture. Bamberg Sym, Rickenbacher. Virgin 91079.
• Tchaikovsky: String Quartet No. 3 in E-flat minor, Op. 30. Ying Quartet. Telarc 80685.
• Handel: Concerto Grosso in G major, Op. 3/3. Linde Consort, Linde. Virgin 699472.

12 N

• Traditional French (arr. Richards): Songs of the Auvergne: L'eau de source; Le Baylere. The King's Singers, Davis. EMI 47708.
• Bax: November Woods. BBC Phil, Handley. Chandos 10362.
• Ginstera: Estancia: Malambo. Boston Pops, Lockhart. RCA 63717.
• Albany Symphony music director Claire Fox Hillard describes the orchestra's Latin-flavored concert coming up Saturday
• Bernstein: West Side Story, Symphonic Dances. New York Phil, Bernstein. Sony 47154.

1 PM

• Mussorgsky: Sorochintsy Fair: Overture; Gopak. State Sym Orch of Russian, Svetlanov. BMG 68406.
• Schubert: Piano Sonata in A major, D. 664. Leon Fleisher. Sony 47667.
• Reinecke: Wind Sextet in B-flat, Op. 21. Berlin Wind Quintet, Manfred Klier. BIS 612.

This Sunday night on Cover to Cover: Jesse Freeman sits down with award-winning author Philip Lee Williams to talk about his latest novel, The Campfire Boys. Philip Lee Williams is the author of 14 published books. He lives near Athens, Georgia, and is an assistant dean at the University of Georgia.

Listen to the interview this Sunday night at 8, here on GPB

11 AM

• Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 2. Academy of Ancient Music, Egarr. Harmonia Mundi 807461.62.
• Schumann: String Quartet No. 3 in A major, Op. 41/3. Eroica Quartet. Harmonia Mundi 907270.
• Dvorak: Bagatelles, Op. 47. Quartetto Gelato. Silva Screen 6033.

12 N

• Holst: The Planets: Jupiter, Bringer of Jollity. Berlin Phil, Rattle. EMI 69690.
• Hoffmeister: Clarinet Quartet in A major. Dieter Kloecker, Vlach Quartet. CPO 999 812.
• Respighi: The Pines of Rome. Berlin Phil, Karajan. DG 449 724.
• Liszt: Staendchen (after Schubert). Evgeny Kissin. RCA 58420.

1 PM

• Brahms: Symphony No. 2 in D major. Royal Concertgebouw Orch, Chailly. London 430 324.
• Lauridsen: Lux aeterna: O nata lux. Elora Festival Singers, Edison. Naxos 8.559304.

11 AM

• Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 3 in C major, Op. 2/3. Mari Kodama. PentaTone 067.
• Nielsen: Aladdin: Act 3. Danish National Sym & Chamber Choir, Rozhdestvensky. Chandos 10498X.

12 N

• Radiohead/O'Riley: Like Spinning Plates. Christopher O'Riley. World Village 468034.
• Purcell: Fantasias in Four Parts for Viols: Nos. 7-9. Hesperion XX, Savall. Alia Vox 9859.
• Popper: Three Pieces for cello and piano, Op. 11. Wendy Warner, Eileen Buck. Cedille 111.
• Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras No. 2: mvts 3-4. Nashville Sym, Schermerhorn. Naxos 8.557460-62.
• Arensky: Suite No. 4 for two pianos, Op. 62. Stephen Coombs, Ian Munro. Hyperion 66755.

1 PM

• Bach: Magnificat, BWV 243. Yale Schola Cantorum, Yale Voxtet, Yale Collegium Players, Carrington. Naxos 8.572161.
• Popper: Suite for Cello and Piano, Op. 69: mvt 1. Wendy Warner, Eileen Buck. Cedille 111.
• Mendelssohn: Ave Maria. Yale Schola Cantorum, Yale Voxtet, Yale Collegium Players, Carrington. Naxos 8.572161.

11 AM

• Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 in E-flat, "Eroica." Helsingborg Sym Orch, Manze. Harmonia Mundi 807470.
• Debussy: Suite Bergamasque: Prelude (arr. guitars). Sergio & Odair Assad. Nonesuch 278140.

12 N

• Schmelzer: Sonata in D minor. Trio Settecento. Cedille 114.
• Saint-Saens: Piano Quintet in A minor, Op. 14 (arr. for sextet with double bass). Wirl WCD 510.
• Tallis: Gaude gloriosa Dei Mater. The Sixteen Choir, Chirstopher. Chandos 0513.

1 PM

• Tchaikovsky: The Maid of Orleands: Dances from Act 2. State Sym Orch of Russia, Svetlanov. Melodiya 10-00411-412.
• Mozart: Symphony No. 41 in C major, "Jupiter." Les Musiciens du Louvre, Minkowski. Archiv 6506.

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Midday Music playlists from the drive follow, in reverse order. In addition to the pieces listed below, each edition of the show included at least three varied selections from The Essential Yo-Yo Ma, the two-CD set that's one of our thank-you gifts at the $100 membership level.

Thursday, October 29
11 AM

• Bach: Concerto for Oboe, Violin and Orchestra. Academy of Ancient Music Berlin. Harmonia Mundi 901876.
• Traditional (Cape Breton): Hector the Hero, Hey Johnny Cope, Tullochgorum, Jean's Reel. Carolin Goulding, Janine Randall. Telarc 80744.
• Ippolitov-Ivanov: Caucasian Sketches: selections. Baltimore Sym, Zinman. Telarc 80378.

12 N

• Chopin: Piano Sonata No. 3 in B minor, Op. 58: mvts 3-4. Nelson Freire. Decca 289 470 288.
• Martinu: Symphony No. 2: outer mvts. Cincinnati Sym, Jarvi. Telarc 80616.

1 PM

• Sibelius: Karelia Suite, Op. 11: Intermezzo. Atlanta Sym, Levi. Telarc 80320.
• Schmelzer: Sonata No. 6. Holloway, Assenbaum, Mortensen. ECM 1668.
• Balakirev: Islamey, Oriental Fantasy. Yefim Bronfman. Sony 60689.
• Bruch: Scottish Fantasy: finale. Arthur Grumiaux, New Philharmonia Orch, Wallberg. PentaTone 5186 117.

...Plus selections from the two-CD set The Essential Yo-Yo Ma.

Wednesday, October 28
11 AM

• Brahms: A German Requiem: Selig Sind. Atlanta Sym Orch & Chorus, Spano. Telarc 80701.
• Higdon: Piano Trio (2003): Pale Yellow. Meyers, Weilerstein, Neiman. Naxos 8.559298.

12 N

• Beethoven: Leonore, Overture No. 3. German Chamber Phil Bremen, Harding. Virgin 45364.
• Borodin: Prince Igor, Overture. Russian National Orch, Pletnev. DG 439 892.
• Wagner: Parsifal: Good Friday Music. New York Phil, Mehta. Sony 45749.

1 PM

• Glazunov: Spring. Hong Kong Phil, Schermerhorn.
• Bach: A Mighty Fortress Is Our God. William Kuhlman, Empire Brass. Telarc.
• Tchaikovsky: Nutcracker: Act 1, Tableau 2. Cincinnati Pops, Kunzel. Telarc.

...Plus selections from the two-CD set The Essential Yo-Yo Ma.

Tuesday, October 27
11 AM

• Glinka: Kamarinskaya. Detroit Sym, Jarvi. Chandos 9227.
• Milhaud: Scaramouche. Theodore Kerkezos, Philharmonia Orch, Brabbins. Naxos 8.557063.
• Handel: Sonata in C minor, Op. 1/8 for oboe. Academy of Ancient Music (de Bruine, Egarr). Harmonia Mundi 907465.66.

12 N

• Smetana: The Bartered Bride: Three Dances. New York Phil, Bernstein. Sony 61836.
• Zenamon: Sonatina Andina for two guitars. Julian Gray, Ronald Pearl. Dorian 90230.

1 PM

• Ravel: Pavane for a Dead Princess. Angela Hewitt. Hyperion 67341.
• Dukas: The Sorcerer's Apprentice. St. Petersburg Phil, Temirkanov. EMI 11272.
• Enescu: Cantabile and Presto. Irena Grafenauer, Michael Grandt. Philips 426 248.

...Plus selections from the two-CD set The Essential Yo-Yo Ma.

Monday, October 26
11 AM

• Mussorgsky/Rimsky-Korsakov: Night on Bald Mountain. Oslo Phil, Jansons. EMI 50824.
• Mozart: Symphony No. 25 in G minor: Allegro con brio. Concentus Musicus Vienna, Harnoncourt. DHM 75736.
• Rodrigo: Concierto Serenata for harp and orchestra: mvt 1. Nancy Allen, Royal Phil, Batiz. EMI 37681.

12 N

• Vivaldi: Concerto in G major for two mandolins. Rolf Lislevand (twice!) and ensemble. Naive 30429.
• Saint-Saens: Clarinet Sonata, Op. 167. Sabine Meyer, Oleg Maisenberg. EMI 79787.
• Singlee: First Quartet for saxophones: mvts 3-4. New Century Saxophone Quartet. Channel 17998.

1 PM

• Sheng: Never Far Away: Moonlight Shadows. Yolanda Kondonassis, San Diego Sym, Ling. Telarc 80719.
• Fontana: Sonata 2. Maurice Steger and ensemble. Harmonia Mundi 902024.
• Ravel: Tzigane. Arthur Grumiaux, National Orch of the Monte Carlo Opera, Remoortel. Philips 422 274.

...Plus selections from the two-CD set The Essential Yo-Yo Ma.

Thursday, October 22
11 AM

• Koechlin: Bassoon Sonata, Op. 71. Dag Jensen, Midori Kitagawa. MDG 603 0585.
• Vivaldi: Concerto in B-flat for oboe and violin, RV 548. Zefiro Baroque Orch. Naive 30409.
• Schubert: Impromptu in G-flat, Op. 80/3. Nikolai Demidenko. Hyperion 67091/2.

12 N

• Bolcom: The Serpent's Kiss. Elizabeth & Marcel Bergmann. Naxos 8.559244.
• Korngold: Violin Concerto in D major: mvts 2-3. James Ehnes, Vancouver Sym, Tovey. CBC 5241.
• Chavez: Xochipilli, An Imaginary Aztec Music. Southwest Chamber Music. Cambria 8852.

1 PM

• Bruch: Kol Nidrei. Lynn Harrell, Philharmonia Orch, Ashkenazy. London 410 144.
• Haydn: Piano Sonata No. 62 in E-flat: finale. Malcolm Bilson. Bridge 9263.
• Godard: Scenes Poetiques: On the Mountain; In the Village. Slovak State Phil, Trevor. Naxos 8.570554.

...Plus selections from the two-CD set The Essential Yo-Yo Ma.

Wednesday, October 21
11 AM

• Strauss: Thus Spake Zarathustra: Introduction. Berlin Phil, Karajan. DG 289 457 496.
• Alkan: Concerto for Solo Piano, Op. 39/10: Allegretto alla barbaresca. Marc-Andre Hamelin. Hyperion 67569.
• Dvorak: Violin Concerto in A minor: finale. James Ehnes, BBC Phil, Noseda. Chandos 10309.
• Lhoyer: Duo Concertante in A major for two guitars, Op. 31/1. Josiane Rabemananjara & Philippe Spinosi. Naive 30396.

12 N

• Bizet: Pearl Fishers: Au fond du temple saint (arr. euphoniums and band). David Thornton, John French, Black Dyke Band, Childs. Naxos 8.570726.
• Bermel: Dust Dances. Boston Modern Orch, Rose. BMOP 1008.
• Golijov: Ainadamar: From My Window (arr. violin and piano). Livia Sohn, Benjamin Loeb. Naxos 8.570202.
• Smetana: Ma Vlast (My Homeland): Vysehrad (The High Castle). Milwaukee Sym, Macal. Telarc 80265.

1 PM

• Mendelssohn: The Fair Melusina, Overture. London Sym, Abbado. DG 423 104.
• Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No. 12. Thomas Pandolfi. (Independent.)

...Plus selections from the two-CD set The Essential Yo-Yo Ma.

Tuesday, October 20
11 AM

• Weber: Oberon, Overture. Vienna Phil, Thielemann. DG 289 474 5022.
• Beethoven: Piano Trio in B-flat, Op. 11, "Gassenhauer": mvts 2-3. Ashkenazy, Perlman, Harrell. EMI 47455.
• Friedman: Variations on the Rag. Louisville Brass. Centaur 2821.

12 N

• Schoenfield: Cafe Music. Ehnes, Arron, Russo. Black Box 1109.
• Sinding: Piano Concerto in D-flat, Op. 6: finale. Piers Lane, Bergen Phil, Litton. Hyperion 67555.

1 PM

• Bach: Air from Orchestral Suite No. 3. Sarah Chang, Berlin Phil, Domingo. EMI 57220.
• Marcello: Flute Sonata in B minor. Masahiro Arita et al. Denon 18013.

...Plus selections from the two-CD set The Essential Yo-Yo Ma.

I first met Amanda Gable many years ago as a customer in my book store. She was, in the heyday of the used and out-of-print book business, the kind of customer that embodied the spirit of the whole enterprise. She couldn't ever satisfy her desire for more books. She bought a lot of books, sold a lot of books, traded a lot of books, and often came in to simply browse at books. She was, in the sense that I learned the phrase, a true "book person."

What I didn't know was that she was also a person who could create a fantastic book. All those books she'd been reading, much of them about the Civil War, helped her create one of the most precocious young fictional characters I've read in years, the heroine of Gable's debut novel, The Confederate General Rides North: 11-year-old Katherine "Kat" McConnell.

Growing up in Marietta, with a loving but very dysfunctional family, young Kat becomes a walking encyclopedia of Civil War history, like many kids her age are about baseball statistics or dinosaurs. When Kat's sensitive, artistic and unhappy mother decides to drive back to her native north for a fresh start, the two of them make an unforgettable duo on an emotionally moving road trip.

With her mother at the wheel, buying up antiques the whole way in hopes of opening her own business, Kat becomes the journey's navigator and ensures that they hit every Civil War battlefield and memorial along the route, and in Kat's mind, she is the commanding general at every stop.

The girl's imaginings combined with the mother's adult concerns combine for a bittersweet psychological family portrait that is completely convincing.

Gable's quiet, unassuming manner--the personality that allowed me to know her for years without imagining what a creative imagination she has--comes through in her Cover to Cover interview. But so does her seriousness of purpose and dedication as a writer and her desire to present her characters in the most realistic and sympathetic light possible.

In a year when so many debuts by Atlanta authors have been published, none that I have read is a more satisfying piece of fiction than Amanda Gable's The Confederate General Rides North.

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Disaster survivors can still receive one-on-one help at Disaster Loan Outreach Centers. The Disaster Recovery Center has been transitioned into an SBA Disaster Loan Outreach Center in DeKalb (see address and hours below). SBA Customer Service Representatives can 1) Answer your questions 2) Issue and receive applications 3) Assist with completing applications and 4) Provide other SBA disaster loan related services.

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Commissioner Thurmond announces Oct. 28 application deadline for DUA

ATLANTA -- State Labor Commissioner Michael Thurmond said today that workers in nine Georgia counties – Bartow, Catoosa, Coweta, DeKalb, Fulton, Gwinnett, Heard, Newton, and Rockdale -- have until Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2009, to file initial claims for federal Disaster Unemployment Assistance (DUA) to compensate for loss of income directly resulting from the severe storms and flooding beginning on Sept. 18, 2009, and continuing.

DUA is a federal program established to help workers whose primary income is lost or interrupted as a direct result of a disaster declared by the President. Federal DUA differs from the state’s regular unemployment insurance program in that it provides benefits to self-employed business people, farmers, diversified farming operations, loggers, commission paid employees and others who are not eligible for Georgia’s regular unemployment insurance benefits. The maximum weekly benefits amount is $330.

In applying for benefits, applicants will need to provide their social security number. Self-employed applicants should be prepared to provide information related to their previous year's earnings, such as income tax forms or quarterly estimated income tax records.

Under certain circumstances, DUA benefits also may be available to family members who become the primary breadwinners of households where the head of that household died as a direct result of the disaster. Proof of the death of the head of household, such as a death certificate or affidavit, should be presented at the time the claim is filed.

Potentially eligible workers should contact the nearest Georgia Department of Labor office Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. Workers may call the Georgia Department of Labor’s toll-free customer service line at (877) 709-8185 to obtain career center information.

Sunday, October 18

• Trumpets, Pipes, Bach and Jazz.   Bach, Clarke, Torelli, Victor Young and Claude Bolling with an international trumpeter and recording artist James Ackley, now principal trumpet of Symphony Orchestra Augusta and based at the University of South Carolina.  Free, Concerts with a Cause, 3 p.m., St. John United Methodist Church, Augusta.    

Thursday, October 22

• The University of West Georgia Department of Music presents The Atlanta5 Wind Quintet in wind music by Barber, Bozza, Ewazen and Piazzolla.  The Atlanta5 are Elisa Lyle, flute, principal flute, La Grange and Carrollton symphonies; Jeannie Ohnemus, principal oboe, LaGrange Symphony; Luan Mueller, UWG clarinet instructor; Jim Jackson, principal bassoon, Georgia Philharmonic; and John Pirtle, freelance French horn. Cashen Hall, Humanities Building, UWG, Carrollton. 8:15 p.m. Free. 
• Karen Parks, soprano.  Falany Performing Arts Center, Reinhardt College, Waleska. 

October 22-24           

• The great Canadian violinist James Ehnes soloes in Korngold’s Violin Concerto, and Donald Runnicles conducts the Atlanta Symphony in Strauss’s Also Spake Zarathustra and Weber’s Overture to Oberon. Symphony Hall, Atlanta, 8 p.m. 
  

Friday, October 23           

• “Journey to the Amazon” with renowned guitarist Sharon Isbin, percussionist Thiago de Mello and saxophonist Paul Winter.  Grammy-nominated blend of Afro-Brazilian, Amazonian Indian and wildnerness sounds with jazz. Schwartz Center, Emory University, Atlanta, 8 p.m.
  

Saturday, October 24           

• The Ocmulgee Symphony Orchestra plays Bach’s Third Orchestral Suite, a Vivaldi concerto for oboe and violin, Godard’s Suite of Three Pieces for flute and Haydn’s Symphony No. 41. City Auditorium, Cochran, 7:30 p.m.     
  
• Grammy-winning cellist Lynn Harrell, with pianist Victor Santiago-Asuncion.  Cello sonatas by Chopin and Barber, Beethoven’s sets of variations on Handel’s “See the conqu’ring hero comes” and Mozart’s “Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen,” and Schubert’s Introduction and Variations on an Original Theme in B-flat.  UGA Performing Arts Center, Athens.

 Sunday, October 25

• American pianist Thomas Pandolfi loves music popular in the “Golden Age of Pianism,” by such composers as Busoni, Godowski, Dohnanyi, Paderewski, MacDowell and Rubinstein.  He plays at 2 p.m. at the Morris Museum of Art, Augusta.
  
• Haydn’s Seven Last Words of Christ is performed by the Vega String Quartet and speakers of seven different faiths.  Schwartz Center, Emory University, Atlanta, 4 p.m.
  

Tuesday, October 27

• The LaGrange Symphony calls its pre-Halloween concert “Sorcerers, Witches and Things.”  Patricio Cobos conducts such scary seasonal favorites as Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D minor, Mussorgsky’s Night on Bald Mountain and Dukas’s Sorcerer’s Apprentice, plus Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No.1 with Ukrainian-born pianist Kseniia Polstiankina, winner of the 2009 LSO Young Artists Competition.  7:30, Callaway Auditorium, LaGrange College, LaGrange. 
• Symphony Orchestra Augusta presents America (the group famous for “A House with No Name” and other songs, now in its fourth decade).  The first half of the concert is orchestral; America appears after intermission.  Shizuo Kuwahara conducts. Pops! at the Bell, Bell Auditorium, Augusta. 

Tuesday, October 27           

• The adventuresome Amstel Quartet (saxophone quartet) appears at the Falany Performing Arts Center, Reinhardt College, Waleska.  
• The acclaimed Merling Trio appears in two Georgia communities in one day.  First, in Augusta, Tuesday's Music Live presents the Merling Trio in a free noon concert at St. Paul's Church. (Advance reservations are required for lunch following the concert.  The concert is free.)
• Then the Merling Trio hits the road as Gainesville ProMusica presents the threesome in Haydn’s Trio in G major and Dvorak’s Dumky Trio. 7:30 p.m., Pearce Auditorium, Gainesville. 

October 29-30           

• Brahms’ German Requiem sounds through Atlanta’s Symphony Hall, as the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, with soloists soprano Chen Reiss and baritone Matthew Worth, perform. Also Haydn’s Symphony No. 44, “Trauer.”  Donald Runnicles conducts. 

Friday, October 30           

• New Trinity Baroque calls their late October concert “Handel’s Nightmare.” 8 p.m., St. Bartholomew’s Church, Atlanta.  

Saturday, October 31  

• The Zagreb Saxophone Quartet has toured extensively around the globe and performs an eclectic repertoire spanning centuries and styles. Free concert. University of Georgia Performing Arts Center, Athens. 

At Works Mentoring Tips 101 continued!

Last Friday our show was all about mentoring in business and personal life. We discussed how to find a mentor, what look for in a mentor and importantly the mentor mentee relationship.

We took to the streets of Atlanta,Ga to find out whats on your minds about Mentorship:

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On the next At Work: Managing your career post recession.

We’ll hear what the experts have to say and listen in on an interview with At Works Valarie Edwards and Jeffrey Rosensweig, Associate Professor of Finance at the Goizueta Business School at Emory University in Atlanta,Georgia.

Join us this Friday at 3 here on GPB.

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Atlanta resident Richard Doster was in advertising for most of his career and currently edits a magazine published by the Presbyterian Church. Over the last several years, he has focused his writing and interest in spiritual matters, the South, race and culture in an intriguing approach to fiction.

His fist novel, Safe at Home, chronicled a fictional southern town in the 1950s experiencing the integration of its minor league baseball team.

Having covered that explosive story in his hometown newspaper, Doster's sportswriter hero Jack Hall caught the attention of editors in Atlanta and takes a job in the big city just as the Civil Rights movement was beginning to take shape. Thus the story of Doster's follow- up novel, Crossing the Lines, is set in motion.

Hall and others eventually start a magazine that celebrates all that is great about the South--its literature, its music, its culture-- while the region is being understandably ridiculed by the national media during the period for its racial intolerance. Through the journalistic travails, Hall, a man entirely of his times, experiences an evolution in his own race consciousness.

In his Cover to Cover interview, Doster talks about his inspiration for taking on such volatile subject matter and discusses his methods of bringing to fictional life such historical figures as Martin Luther King, Ralph McGill and Flannery O'Connor in his work.

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11 AM

• Sinding: Con Fuoco. Jerome Lowenthal. Bridge 9306.
• Haydn: String Quartet in E-flat, Op. 17/3. Smithson String Quartet (with Jaap Schroeder, first violin). Dorian DSL 9095.
• Sinding: Piano Sonata in B minor, Op. 91. Jerome Lowenthal. Bridge 9306.
• Sinding: Rustles of Spring. Jerome Lowenthal. Bridge 9306.

12 N

• Muffat: Sonata in D major. Trio Settecento (with Rachel Barton Pine, violin). Cedille 90000 114.
• Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 25 in C major, K. 503. Mvt 1: Pedja Muzijevic, Oberlin Conservatory Sym, Spano. Oberlin OC 08-1. Mvts 2-3: Mitsuko Uchida, English Chamber Orch, Tate. Philips 422 331.
• Ravel-Chapuis/Trupin: Un Soir (An Evening, Suite for Orchestra, Piano and Bandoneon): Accroche. Fabrice Ravel-Chapuis, Jacques Trupin, National Orch of Lille, Cassadesus. Virgin 93243.

1 PM

• Popper: Suite for Cello and Piano, Op. 69. Wendy Warner, Eileen Buck. Cedille 90000 111.
• Monteverdi: Psalm 116, Laudate Dominum, a 5. Taverner Consort, soloists, Parrott. Virgin 66965.
• Duarte: Joan Baez Suite. Sharon Isbin. Sony 45456.

Trumpeter James Ackley plays Jermiah Clarke's Trumpet Voluntary (the first piece below) on his Concert with a Cause this Sunday at 3, Saint John United Methodist, Augusta. Free admission; a collection will be taken for Augusta's Jessye Norman School of the Arts. Ackley has played all over the world many genres. His Sunday performance combines Baroque music (with organ) and swingier fare (with jazz combo).
11 AM

• Clarke: Trumpet Voluntary. Rolf Smedvig, William Kuhlman. Telarc 80614.
• Brahms: Piano Quartet No. 2 in A major. Capucon, Causse, Capucon, Angelich. Virgin 519310.

12 N

• Alwyn: Suite of Scottish Dances. Royal Liverpool Phil, Lloyd-Jones. Naxos 8.570704.
• Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Platero y Yo: La Arrulladora. Christopher Parkening. EMI 57591.
• Corelli: Sonata in C major for two violins and continuo, Op. 3/8. Rebel, Schwarz. Dorian 90703.
• Haydn: Symphony No. 97 in C major. Cleveland Orch, Szell. Sony 489042.
• Saint-Saens: Scherzo for piano duo, Op. 87. Lilya Zilberstein, Akane Sakal. EMI 67051.

1 PM

• Wagenseil: Symphony in E, WV 393. Stuttgart Chamber Orch, Goritzki. CPO 777 112.
• Dvorak: "Dumky" Piano Trio in E minor. Emanuel Ax, Young Uck Kim, Yo-Yo Ma. Sony Legacy 89860.
• Elgar: March of the Mogul Emperors. New Zealand Sym, Judd. Naxos 8.557273.