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Carlos and Malu Alvarez Announce $10-Million Gift for International Student Scholarships at Davidson College
 Davidson, NC - Davidson College President Tom Ross announced today that Carlos Alvarez, president and CEO of The Gambrinus Company, and his wife, Malu Alvarez, have given a $10-million gift to Davidson College. The entire amount of the gift, the fourth largest in Davidson's history, establishes the Alvarez Scholars Program, which will provide financial support for international students at Davidson. The Alvarezes, who were born in Mexico and now live in San Antonio, Texas, have been loyal supporters of Davidson for some years. Carlos Alvarez has been a member of Davidson's Board of Trustees since 2003; Their daughter, Malu, graduated from Davidson in 2002. A niece, Matty Villareal-Alvarez, is currently an international student at the college; another niece, Daniela Villareal-Alvarez, came to Davidson as an international student and graduated from the college in 2007.
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 WDAV/SCETV to Co-Produce Carolina Live
DAVIDSON, NC –WDAV 89.9 Classical Public Radio and South Carolina ETV/Radio will co-produce Carolina Live, a weekly program of the Carolinas’ best live classical concert recordings. The show will be broadcast in the Charlotte region on WDAV 89.9FM; in Columbia, SC at WLTR 91.3FM; in Greenville/Spartanburg, SC at WEPR 90.1FM; and in Charleston, SC at WSCI 89.3FM. Carolina Live is the centerpiece of WDAV’s push to showcase regional music and music-makers. The new two-hour co- production debuted on January 5, 2010 and can be heard on Tuesdays at 7 PM in South Carolina and Saturdays at 3 PM on WDAV.
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WDAV 89.9 CLASSICAL PUBLIC RADIO TO PRODUCE NPR WORLD OF OPERA
 December 18, 2009 | DAVIDSON, NC – WDAV 89.9 Classical Public Radio announced today that as of January 18, 2010, the station will take over production of National Public Radio’s World of Opera, keeping in place NPR’s successful creative team of host Lisa Simeone (right) and producer Bruce Scott. WDAV General Manager Benjamin K. Roe is the new executive producer. The show will continue to be marketed and distributed by NPR.
NPR World of Opera, carried now by 87 public radio stations across the nation, is the only radio show in America devoted to broadcasting full-length operas captured in performance from around the world. Productions from La Scala, Bayreuth, Vienna, Paris, and Geneva regularly grace NPR World of Opera’s airwaves, as well as performances from great American opera companies, including Washington National Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Glimmerglass, Santa Fe, and New York City Opera...
WDAV 89.9 to Produce NPR World of Opera - full press release
Photo by Debbie Accame
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Charlotte Organist Maureen Howell on Pipedreams
DECEMBER 17, 2009 This week, American Public Media's Pipedreams features Charlotte organist Maureen Howell of St. John’s Baptist Church performing a Christmas medley on the church's 2008 Letourneau organ. WDAV recorded this selection during our 2008 "VOX Christmas from St. John’s" live broadcast and submitted it to Pipedreams, a nationally syndicated program dedicated to organ music. Be sure to listen Sunday night, December 20th at 7 pm to this national broadcast of one of Charlotte's finest musical talents. Congratulations to Maureen, and congratulations to St. John's Baptist Church!
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WDAV Celebrates the Season with Live Concert Broadcasts
 DAVIDSON, NC – This holiday season, join WDAV 89.9 Classical Public Radio for a series of live holiday concert broadcasts and events showcasing some of the area’s best music and music-makers. Listen over the air at 89.9 FM, online at wdav.org and iTunes – or attend these concert broadcasts in person! As a part of our celebrating, we'll air a Charlotte Chamber Music “First Tuesday” Concert, A VOX Christmas from St. John’s, and The Beggar Boys: A Celtic Christmas.
Learn more about WDAV's 2009 Holiday Concert Broadcasts and Events
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 WDAV Presents A Carolina Christmas from Biltmore Estate
DAVIDSON, NC – Combine a Grammy-winning singer/songwriter with a Grammy-winning radio producer. Add plenty of outstanding regional talent, and put it all on stage at one of the nation?s most beautiful historic homes. You have the perfect recipe for a new holiday musical tradition from WDAV 89.9 and National Public Radio – A Carolina Christmas from Biltmore Estate with Kathy Mattea. This festive celebration of holiday music - both sacred and traditional – airs on WDAV 89.9 and wdav.org on Saturday, November 28 at 3 p.m. and across the nation on NPR stations throughout this holiday
season.
Read the full press release: "WDAV Presents A Carolina Christmas"
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 Stand Up for Your Symphony Rally
AUGUST 27, 2009 - WDAV visits the Charlotte Symphony's "Stand Up for Your Symphony Rally" on the Square in Center City Charlotte.
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WDAV 89.9 CLASSICAL PUBLIC RADIO TO BROADCAST LIVE FROM CAROLINAS SUMMER MUSIC FESTIVALS
JULY 8, 2009 | DAVIDSON, NC -- If you intend to be one of classical music's next great players, you don't spend your summers flipping burgers or hanging out by the pool. You commit to an intensive multi-week summer music institute where you put in long days rehearsing a packed repertoire and performing with the world's best musicians and conductors. North Carolina is host to two of the country’s most prestigious summer music festivals, and in the coming weeks, WDAV 89.9 Classical Public Radio will broadcast live from both the Eastern Music Festival in Greensboro, N.C., led by Artistic Director Gerard Schwarz, and the Brevard Music Center in Brevard, N.C., directed by the charismatic Boston Pops conductor Keith Lockhart.
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WDAV 89.9 CLASSICAL PUBLIC RADIO TO BROADCAST TWO LIVE CONCERTS THIS WEEKEND
JULY 22, 2009 | DAVIDSON, NC – WDAV 89.9 Classical Public Radio is logging quite a few miles this summer in pursuit of the best classical music being made at the Carolinas’ summer music festivals. In May, WDAV took its listeners to Charleston for all 17 days of Spoleto Festival USA. Last week, WDAV spent time at Greensboro’s Eastern Music Festival. This weekend, the 37-foot long WDAV Broadcast RV, affectionately known to staffers as “Camper Van Beethoven,” makes a stop at the picturesque Brevard Music Festival in the mountains of western North Carolina.
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South Carolina ETV Radio and WDAV 89.9 To Broadcast Spoleto Festival USA’s Showcase Concert, Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde
 CHARLESTON, SC…Pulitzer Prize-winning music critic Tim Page called it “an evening that is certain to change some lives” in his glowing review of the Spoleto Festival USA Orchestra?s performance of Gustav Mahler?s Das Lied von der Erde, conducted by Emmanuel Villaume at this year?s Spoleto Festival USA. Thanks to an unprecedented media partnership between South Carolina ETV Radio and WDAV 89.9 Classical Public Radio, listeners throughout the Carolinas and around the world can hear this shimmering performance. It will be broadcast Thursday, June 4, 2009 at 8 p.m. in the Charlotte NC region on WDAV-FM 89.9 Classical Public Radio and on South Carolina ETV Radio's Classical NPR stations: WSCI-FM Charleston 89.3, WEPR-FM Greenville 90.1 and WLTR-FM Columbia 91.3. Online listeners can hear it at www.spoletochambermusic.org. WDAV?s Frank Dominguez will host the broadcast.
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South Carolina ETV Radio and WDAV 89.9 To Broadcast Full Line-up of Spoleto Festival USA 2009 Chamber Music Concerts
CHARLESTON, SC… Listeners throughout the Carolinas and around the world can hear the full line-up of Spoleto Festival USA 2009 Chamber Music Concerts just days (and in some cases hours) after they are performed for live audiences in Charleston, SC. Thanks to the groundbreaking media partnership between South Carolina ETV and WDAV 89.9 Classical Public Radio, classical music fans can hear these concerts while the Festival is still in full swing – and for the week immediately following its close. The 2009 Spoleto Chamber Music series – as well as two bonus concerts -- will be broadcast in the Charlotte NC region on WDAV-FM 89.9 Classical Public Radio and on South Carolina ETV Radio's Classical NPR stations: WSCI-FM Charleston 89.3, WEPR-FM Greenville 90.1 and WLTR-FM Columbia 91.3. Online listeners can hear it at www.spoletochambermusic.org. WDAV’s Jennifer Foster hosts the broadcasts (unless otherwise noted). The broadcast schedule and featured works for the rest of the week are:
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WDAV 89.9 Classical Public Radio Launches 2009 Spring Membership Campaign
Wednesday, March 4, 2009 – DAVIDSON, NC – During WDAV’s upcoming Spring On-Air Membership Campaign, listeners will enjoy an unprecedented weeklong line-up of intimate live-concert recordings and top-flight performers. From Thursday, March 5th to Thursday, March 12th, WDAV showcases Opera Carolina, musicians from the Spoleto Festival U.S.A., the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra, the Winston-Salem Symphony, the Brevard Music Center, the Eastern Music Festival Orchestra and many more. Says WDAV General Manager Benjamin K. Roe, “Our listeners depend on WDAV to bring them the best music ‘made in the Carolinas.’ And our efforts depend, in turn, on listener support. We’re asking all our listeners to sustain this vital cultural connection during WDAV’s Spring Membership Campaign.”
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Christopher Warren-Green to Lead the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra
 The bear hug said it all.
"The right choice, the only choice," exclaimed Calin Lupanu, the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra's concertmaster, moments before embracing Christopher Warren-Green, who just moments before had been named as the financially-challenged orchestra's new Music Director. The surprise announcement and subsequent introduction of the charismatic British conductor drew an instant and sustained standing ovation from the audience on hand at the Booth Theatre in downtown Charlotte on Tuesday morning, an audience that significantly included more than a few CSO musicians....
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WDAV 89.9 INTRODUCES NEW SUNDAY MORNING SHOW, BISCUITS & BACH
 Monday, February 23, 2008 - DAVIDSON, NC – Today WDAV 89.9 Classical Public Radio announced a change to its weekend programming schedule, highlighted by a brand-new local production that returns a longtime WDAV voice to the air.
This Sunday, March 1, WDAV debuts Biscuits & Bach, a three-hour program hosted by Rachel Stewart and featuring music from the Renaissance to the Baroque and beyond. Biscuits & Bach airs Sunday mornings from 8 to 11 a.m. on 89.9 FM and online at wdav.org. “We’ve been working to bring more regional flavor and great local appeal to all the shows we produce here at WDAV,” explains WDAV’s new general manager, Benjamin K. Roe. “And we’re taking the idea pretty literally in the case of Biscuits & Bach!”
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WDAV Adds Live National Coverage to Its Locally-Produced Inauguration Week
 Thursday, January 15, 2009 – DAVIDSON, NC – Classical music is at the core of two milestone cultural events this week: the 80th anniversary observation of the birth of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the inauguration of the first African-American President of the United States, Barack H. Obama. Today, WDAV 89.9 announced plans to bring its audience live national coverage of these historic events, to augment its own locally-produced Inauguration Week commemorative programming.
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 WDAV Celebrates Its 30th Anniversary with Three Live Broadcasts & Three Free Events
Tuesday, November 25, 2008 – DAVIDSON, NC – Next week, WDAV 89.9 celebrates a rarity in American broadcasting: thirty continuous years of all-Classical Public Radio. To mark the occasion, WDAV 89.9 Classical Public Radio is inviting the entire Charlotte region to join the celebration, with two live broadcasts and three additional free events in the first week of December.
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WDAV Achieves Record-Breaking Results with Fall 2008 On-Air Fundraising
Friday, November 21, 2008 – DAVIDSON, NC – After hitting the “pause” button on its fall membership drive last month, WDAV 89.9 Classical Public Radio completed its Celebration 2008 On-Air Membership Drive this week with record-breaking results: 1,400 listeners contributed to the campaign (360 for the first time), raising a total of $189,454. That performance equates to 94.7% of the goal for dollars raised, and 100% for total members.
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WDAV Suspends Fall On-Air Fund Drive
Tuesday, October 7, 2008 - DAVIDSON, NC -- Due to the uncertain economic climate, WDAV 89.9, the region’s 24-hour classical music station, is suspending its fall on-air fundraising campaign.
“We cannot be oblivious to what’s happening in the world – and especially in our region,” said WDAV’s new General Manager Benjamin K. Roe. “There’s a bit of a crisis in our community right now. Our audience sees WDAV as an oasis of calm in an unsettled world. In times like these, we need to provide the around-the-clock classical music our listeners rely on. We will resume doing best what our audience needs most,” said Roe.
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WDAV To “Press Play” On Suspended Fall Fund Drive
 November 6, 2008 – DAVIDSON, NC – After hitting the “pause” button on its fall membership drive last month, WDAV 89.9 Classical Public Radio today announced it is set to “press play” and resume its Celebration 2008 On-Air Membership Drive on Thursday, Nov. 13.
“Suspending an on-air campaign is an extremely risky move for any public broadcaster,” explains WDAV’s new General Manager Benjamin K. Roe. “But we felt it was the right thing to do for a community that needed us to do what we do best: provide top-quality, around-the-clock classical music. Now, with the election behind us and a more stabilized economic environment in the region, we’re ready to pick up where we left off and raise the funds that are essential for us.”
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WDAV 89. Broadcasts the Charlotte Symphony
 Listeners across the Carolinas will be treated this weekend to a special concert broadcast, thanks to the re-energized partnership between the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra (CSO) and WDAV 89.9 Classical Public Radio. On Saturday, November 15 at 2 p.m., WDAV presents Charlotte SymphonyCast, a complete broadcast of the CSO’s riveting October concert that featured the vibrant Argentinian pianist Ingrid Fliter and guest-conductor Andrew Grams, a candidate to become the CSO’s next Music Director. The concert was saluted by the Classical Voice of North Carolina:
“sensational – the orchestra was in top shape, the soloist excellent, and guest conductor Andrew Grams may (and should, in the opinion of this reviewer) become the next Music Director of the Charlotte Symphony.”
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