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Julie Amacher's desire to introduce others to great music is what led her to radio. She began her professional broadcast career at a station in Sun Prairie, Wis. She went from rock 'n' roll to the Rocky Mountains, where she found her niche in public radio at KUNC in Greeley, Colo. Julie spent 13 years at KUNC, where she managed the announcers and their eclectic music format. During that time, she earned four national awards for best announcer. She joined Minnesota Public Radio in 1997 as an on-air host and also produces New Classical Tracks, a weekly podcast critiquing a new release each week. It airs locally at 7:15 a.m. Wednesdays and 5:15 p.m. Fridays.


Julie Amacher

In this week’s New Classical Tracks, cellist Alisa Weilerstein and pianist Inon Barnatan leave their “permanent stamp” on Beethoven’s complete cello sonata cycle. 


New Classical Tracks - Alisa Weilerstein (Extended)

New Classical Tracks - Alisa Weilerstein

Cello Sonata No. 3 in A Major, Op. 69: I. Allegro ma non tanto

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Cellist Alisa Weilerstein and pianist Inon Barnatan tackle Beethoven's sonatas

He wrote the spy theme in 1962 for the first 007 film starring the late Sean Connery, and it's been used in all of the movies since.


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Remembering Monty Norman, the man behind the James Bond theme

On July 7, the award-winning Merz Trio presented a program of 19th- and early 20th-century masterworks, all quintessentially Viennese in style and teeming with boundary-breaking energy, as part of the Minnesota Beethoven Festival in Winona. Listen to the concert now.


Minnesota Beethoven Festival - Merz Trio 

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Listen: Merz Trio performs at the Minnesota Beethoven Festival

Lynne has been at this radio thing since 1984 when she fell into an historic job at KFAC AM and FM, the commercial classical station in Los Angeles.  She was the first woman staff announcer in the station's history, and it was such big news back then, it made the LA newspapers and national radio publications.  She is thrilled women in radio is no longer newsworthy.


Lynne Warfel

This week’s episode of Saturday Cinema, with host Lynne Warfel, features films that are set in, on or under the water including  ‘On Golden Pond,’ ‘A River Runs Through It, ‘The Sea Hawk’ and lots more.  Dive in and listen now!


The Water's Fine!

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Steve Seel is the host of YourClassical’s weekly SymphonyCast and the trailblazing music show Extra Eclectic. He possesses a broad knowledge of many musical genres, having hosted radio programs ranging from classical to jazz and even avant-garde music at radio stations around the country. Steve began his love affair with public radio at 24 working whatever shifts he could at his hometown station of WUSF-FM in Tampa, Florida, and from there worked his way to snowy Buffalo, New York, and its renowned classical station WNED-FM, where he hosted middays and the weekly experimental-music show Present Tense.  In 2005, Steve became one of the founding voices on Minnesota Public Radio's eclectic station, the Current. While there, he hosted afternoons and mornings, and conducted in-depth interviews with pop music luminaries ranging from Brian Eno to David Byrne to Tori Amos. Steve is a basement composer obsessed with all things both minimalist and slow, and might actually be incapable of writing anything that exceeds 75 beats-per-minute.


Steve Seel

How about some chilly sounds on a summer night? It’s winter in the southern hemisphere, after all.


It's always winter somewhere

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Played on three string instruments, this music was the country's soundtrack from the turn of the 20th century to the 1940s. 


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Meet Itinerante, a trio reviving Colombia's Andean music 

In this week’s New Classical Tracks, pianist Marc-André Hamelin performs rags composed by William Bolcom in his new album. Enter for a chance to win the CD!


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New Classical Tracks - Marc-André Hamelin

Twelve New Etudes-Book III: Rag infernal (Syncopes apocalyptiques)

Marc-André Hamelin explores William Bolcom's piano rags in his new album

Lloyd Schwartz

Though he never became a household name, many music lovers regard Szigeti, who died in 1973, as the greatest classical violinist in living memory. This new collection captures his early recordings.


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New releases help cement the legacy of Hungarian violinist Joseph Szigeti 

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Cat Sposato

The pandemic placed competitive flamenco dancing on pause in Madrid. Now the passion and the intimacy of the artform are back on stage.


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At Madrid's Amor de Dios flamenco center, dancers are finding their rhythm again

This week’s episode of Saturday Cinema, with host Lynne Warfel, features flicks that have 4th of July scenes, or just give you that 4th of July feeling including ‘The Music Man,’ ‘1776’ and more. Listen now!


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