Good morning!
The time is 7.22.
I am Chad Holmes.
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Joined once again by our in-studio engineer Ian Welsh.
Ian, good morning.
Good morning, Chad.
Once again, Ian, we will bring you back in just a little bit because, again, this morning, we are very happy to welcome a guest into the studio.
And for the second week in a row, terrific to talk about South Beach Up North 2025, the 19th annual Wausau Chamber Music Festival.
And very happy to welcome back Michael Andrews.
Michael, great to see you again.
Thank you, Chad.
It's so great to
be
here.
Well, two shows, two performances down and three more.
performances to go.
And now you have a different production coming up this weekend.
And actually, it's interesting because we know you're in Wausau last for Saturday and Sunday, you'll be back in Wausau Thursday at the Woodson Art Museum.
But then
You're spreading the wings again.
You're heading up north to Managua.
You're heading southwest to Marshfield.
It looks like you said it's a whirlwind two weeks, but this will be a whirlwind win.
A whirlwind week for you and your group,
isn't it?
Last week, we had two different concerts.
This week, we have the same program in three different locations.
And so we're doing Haydn, Shostakovich, and Shamanad Piano Trios.
And the great thing about...
Thursday concert at the Woodson.
We've been playing at the Woodson Museum for 19 years and we love it there.
We love the space.
One year there were quilts on the walls and it's just a beautiful location to play.
the Woodson always gets over a hundred people coming to our concerts.
We're
really, we're really, we're happy to be playing there.
And they have a wonderful Steinway piano.
And then up in Monaco, we play at the St.
Matthias Church.
And we actually had a salon several years ago at the Hagueys.
And one of the people that attended said, you should have concerts here.
So we started doing that.
I don't know.
I think it's about five years now and we play there and people really love it.
And then over in Marshfield, how we got that connection is I was speaking to Sue Nelson from the Community Foundation
several
years ago and I said, where else could we play?
And she said, well, Marshfield has a community foundation.
So we applied for a grant there.
We got support from the Marshfield Community Foundation.
And, uh, and so we play at the Chestnut Center, which is a beautiful, it's an old church.
So the acoustics are great.
It's all wooden interior and they have a beautiful piano.
And, uh, so we, you know, we do three different concerts in one week.
It sounds like people should just come up to you and say, Hey, you should play here.
Right.
Yeah, we were happy to do that.
Yeah, they, you know, you're up in Monaco and then, hey, you're in Marksfield, so you go elsewhere.
Exactly.
Anybody in the
area, you know, we're happy to, to add you.
Again, Thursday for folks here in Wausau at the Woodson Art Museum at 6 p.m.
And you said it's the same show for all three days.
What is the show this week?
Well, it's all piano trio.
So last week we did String Quartet.
String Quartet is two violins viola cello.
A piano trio, sometimes people think, oh, three pianos.
No, it's actually
a
violin, a viola.
Sorry, no, it's not.
It's
a violin and a
cello and a piano.
So Lea Tanaka is coming back and she is so charismatic and she plays beautifully.
We started playing with her when she was
undergrad at Stevens Point and now she has her master's in doctorate and she's she's wonderful.
She actually teaches now at the University of Arizona.
And then Anna Cromwell is professor of island and viola at University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point.
So the three of us are playing together and so we're playing starting with Haydn.
Haydn is he was an Austrian composer of the classical period and he really
formulated and invented the string quartet of the piano trio.
So people say that he's the father of the symphony and the father of the string quartet.
And so his music is really delightful, charming, and it really is easy to listen to.
He was a friend and mentor of Mozart and a tutor of Beethoven.
And then Shostakovich
completely different style and feeling.
He was a Russian composer.
He was really... He had a hard life in Soviet Russia because the people in charge didn't want him to write Western music.
He had a very tough life.
So his music is really... A lot of the angst that he experienced in his life
isn't his music.
So there's like sharp contrasts and grotesque ambivalent tonality.
But he was also influenced by Igor Stravinsky and Gustav Mahler.
So, and this, the piano trio he wrote, he wrote like when he was really young, and he was in love.
And you can hear the beauty, but also the desperation and the tragedy of young love.
And then we're ending with
Cecile Chaminade, she was a French composer.
She was the first woman in France to be awarded the Legion of Honor.
And she was in sort of the same style of Sasson, and her music is rooted in the Romantic and the French tradition, but it's also tuneful.
highly accessible and mildly chromatic.
So she has her own style.
She said, I'm essentially of the romantic school as all of my work shows.
And it's a big piano trio.
It's a major work.
So it will be really interesting to hear that.
It's the final part of that program.
Very interesting.
Again, at the Woodson Art Museum coming up on Thursday at 6 p.m.
And we will have more with Michael Andrews talking about the South Beach Up North 2025 19th Annual Chamber Music Festival that's continuing this weekend.
We have an information update featuring the Midwest Farm Report coming up and then more of Mornings with Pat Crite Low straight ahead.
The time is 7 29.
with Ian Walsh.
I'm Chad Holmes here on 98.9 WXCO online at wxco.fm.
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app.
And welcome back.
It is the WXCO warning report on 98.9 WXCO.
I am Chad Holmes along with Ian Welsh.
Again, we are talking to Michael Andrews from the South Beach Chamber Ensemble, the man behind South Beach Up North, WASA's 19th annual Chamber Music Festival.
I got to ask you because when you arrived here today, on your back.
Got a big red container.
And I said, are you going to play for it?
No, no, you got a rehearsal coming up.
But I got to think when you walk around with your instrument, you probably like that.
You're out there, you're with your instrument.
I just think it said a lot.
I don't know.
I guess the feeling you have with your instrument, because I imagine that is probably one of the most important relationships in your life.
Yes, my father bought the cello.
in 1968, and so I was in high school at the time.
I've had that cello ever since, and he really, that's the best investment he ever made.
I think he bought it for $600, and it's worth much, much more now.
So it's a modern Italian, it was, I was gonna say, it was born.
It was made in 1911, and it's a very special instrument.
And that cello has traveled with me to...
Venezuela when I lived there and has traveled up to New York.
Actually, in our international tours, we've traveled to Brazil twice in Argentina and Mexico.
So it's a well-traveled challenge.
Was there anybody that you watched during your career that you really took away something significant from?
Well, I had many different teachers in college and then after college.
And I think nowadays, especially with younger...
People wherever they are they have access to YouTube and there is so much on YouTube I mean there's some good and bad on YouTube, but musically
It is like, it's just an abundance of good music, good training.
You can watch a string quartet, the Juilliard string quartet, or even the priority quartet at the University of Wisconsin.
My friend Perry Karp is in that.
He's been there for 40 years.
You should also, when you take the music, you should look at the score.
Like if it's a string quartet, there's four different parts.
Look at the string quartet score.
Look at what the viola is doing.
Look at what the other violins are doing.
When do you have sort of like a dialogue back and forth?
piano trio with the piano, what's the important thing that the piano is doing when you have a solo?
And then on the YouTube, it's really, there's great music.
Rasta Povic for me, cello.
Rasta Povic, Yo-Yo Ma, Misha Maeski.
Brilliant cello.
And then there's new people like on Instagram, there's a German woman, and I can't remember her name, but she's playing a cello concerto by an eight, this woman who was a composer in France in the 1800s.
And I never had heard of her before.
So there's so
much music out there you really have to pick and choose and and focus on on good music.
We talk about the shows that are part of the Up North 2025 festival.
How many shows do you do personally a year?
In Miami we do one program in Miami Beach and then also Coral Gables so the same program.
So we've done about five or six programs each year and so that's if we do
five, that's 10 concerts.
But we also work with Dance Now Miami, which is a wonderful local contemporary dance company.
And we always do one collaboration with them at the Miami Beach Botanical Garden.
So this past Easter, we did Blossoms for Peace.
So that was all about flowers.
We did a lot of different flower songs, which we included in the Mozart of the Move.
this summer.
This coming year, we're going to be doing a collaboration with a puppet master.
So we'll be doing lots of different little songs with his
it was puppets.
We're also hoping for the best because in this age where all the arts are being canceled from the county, the state, and the federal government, we're very concerned because we don't know yet what our funding will be and we get funding from grants from the city of Miami Beach and also Miami Dade County.
So we're very lucky here in Wausau to be really fully supported by the Community Foundation of North Central Wisconsin and a lot of other supporters.
These
productions do not happen.
magically.
You
mentioned the Community Foundation being such a great supporter, but you also have some other wonderful supporters.
They deserve some recognition as well.
Sure, so let me just start.
Our support for 19th Annual South Beach Up North is provided through the Community Foundation Grants Program of the Community Foundation of North Central Wisconsin with funds provided by the Community Foundation and the BA and Esther Greenhack Foundation.
We also get support from the Dudley Foundation, Ellison Realty of the North, Gowee
Abstract Entitled Company, Marshfield Area Community Foundation, 98.9 WXCO, thank you.
Redmond Realty Group, Monacoa, the Greg and Sally Rineflish Performing Arts Foundation in Marshfield, St.
Matthias Episcopal Church, Sternweiss and Sons, Marshfield, Bailey Strasberg with First Webber in Monacoa, UMR.
also a conservatory of music, Wisconsin Public Radio, and the Woodson Art Museum.
Fantastic.
Wonderful supporters.
Once you get through this weekend, I probably won't see you until next summer again.
Exactly.
Unless you come down to Miami
for a
concert.
There you go.
But when do you start thinking about the 20th annual Up North Festival?
When do you start thinking about what you want to do with that?
Well, first of all, I'll see if the players that we've played with, brilliant players these two weeks, to see if they're available and when they're available.
We really love working with Anna.
Cromwell from the University of Wisconsin, Stephen's Point, and Lee A. Tanaka is great.
And then Rochelle Pearson from the Wausau Conservatory.
And we also have our Angela Cratchmer, who comes up from Miami.
She's actually from Iowa, so it's an incentive for her to go see her parents when she's up here.
So once I get back next week, I'll sort of take a breather and then probably in September start reaching out to people and also looking for what music we'd like to play.
And I guess to wrap it up, to let people know where they-
can catch you and these very talented musicians this weekend, starting on Thursday here in Wausau.
Right.
Thursday is at six o'clock at the Woodson Museum.
It's free.
Come early because it's always a packed crowd.
Friday in Monaco at 7 p.m.
at St.
Matthias Episcopal Church.
And then...
Sunday in Marshfield at 2 p.m.
at the Chestnut Center for the Arts.
Fantastic, and Michael Andrews again.
Thank you for bringing this up to Central Wisconsin.
It's always great to see you, and it'll be before we know it when we're talking
again.
I know.
Thank you for
your support.
Absolutely.
Michael Andrews again from the South Beach Chamber Ensemble.
Get over to a Woodson Art Museum Thursday at 6 for a wonderful, wonderful production.
the time is 7 59 at the top of the hour news update information update news weather and sports and then back to pack right low we still have another hour to go mornings with pack right low Ian and I will be back at 22 after the hour and 52 after the hour with more additions of the WXCO morning report glad you could be with us here on this Wednesday morning 98.9 WXCO
you
Good morning.
Once again, everyone.
The time is 823.
Partly cloudy.
Again, that haze out there here in downtown Wausau.
62 degrees at the corner of Washington Street and North 3rd Street in downtown Wausau.
It is the WXCO morning report.
Part of mornings with pack right low here on 98.9 WXCO.
I am Chad Holmes along with Ian Welsh.
Ian did not.
Get much of a chance to hear your voice in the first hour as we continue with Michael Andrews talking about the South Beach up North concerts that are again coming here this weekend, including on Thursday here in Wausau.
But a chance now to get a proper good morning to you.
Good morning, Jen.
You are off to a fantastic start when it comes to the number for the day quiz.
Yeah, definitely making a nice comeback from last week.
Yeah, bouncing off the canvas after getting
knocked down last week and now two for two this week already clinched a passing grade for the week.
You'll try to clinch a winning week already here on this Wednesday when we wrap up the show at about 8.57 or so with
our
number for the day quiz.
That's right.
We've talked plenty of some really I think interesting folks this week.
We had Michael Andrews again in the first hour yesterday.
Of course we talked about that wonderful goal fund me.
when it, you know, in terms of raising money for a special scholarship in, at Wasa East High School.
It was just, I thought, a really great conversation with Ken Smith and Allison Oliphant.
Very touching.
Yeah, in honor of Laura Morris, a former Wasa East student and faculty member.
who passed away in her early 30s after a fight with breast cancer last November.
If you missed that discussion, if you missed the discussion on Monday when we had a very special discussion with Alicia Hoffman talking about a back to school bash in Athens where she is raising donations of back to school supplies for kids and families in need.
Again, another wonderful idea, another very worthy.
opportunity for you to give back to those who are in need.
All of our
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We record on YouTube, so you can actually watch and see our discussions here in studio.
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The Alicia Hoffman interview on Monday, we have a bunch of links on how to contact her in order to give your donation of school supplies.
Yesterday,
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We have the link to the GoFundMe, so you can get there and then make a small donation.
I mean, so many.
If you go to that link, you see the donations that are coming in.
There are $5 donations or $10 donations, $15 donations, whatever you are able to give, and then that scholarship.
will be funded for a number of years.
And it's an honor, again, of a very special person in the community, somebody that was beloved by many, Laura Morris.
So again, go to our website, wxco.fm.
Among many things you can find there, you are able to go back and hear our WXO morning reports and our interviews as well.
And with everything that's going on in the news right now, it's nice to see and hear.
stories like this of people making a difference to help out different parts of our community, like helping the school kids or helping for cancer patients.
Things like that are really important to our community and it shows that people care and that they want to help and it really means a lot.
Like you said, it doesn't
have to be a big donation.
Every size.
Donation helps even if you just buy like a couple of notebooks or some pencil or even just like a $10 donation.
I mean It's not the amount that matters it's the Donation itself that counts the fact that you are willing to give part of your a time and effort to help these causes it means a lot a Lot more
and also in our society and I'm gonna say it right out loud
The kind of person that the president of the United States does not encourage this kind of giving.
It's all about me.
It's all about how much can I get?
How much can I, you know, grift you?
For my own personal benefit there are still lots of people out there that are willing to step forward and I'm not talking about just liberals I'm talking about conservatives and everybody in the middle There are good people all over the place
just in our communities
exactly But we are not getting a good example from the top
And it's wonderful to get these good examples that you're able to see in action in our communities doing the right thing.
And I just wish I can disagree vehemently with so many of the things this president does.
I just wish he would stop using racial slurs in public.
I wish he would stop swearing on the...
front of the White House, I wish he would stop acting like a petulant child and start to show the kind of moral leadership that we've come to expect from a president of the United States.
Exactly.
Just a quick thought getting off the good part, but I do think we all are responsible for doing the things that we would like to see others do in our communities as well.
We all can make a difference.
We certainly can.
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Heading down the stretch to the final two months of the regular season.
So lots of good stuff going on.
Also good stuff.
is Ian Welshen the number-for-the-day quiz.
Time to do our final thing of the day as we do it every day.
We spend the final few minutes giving Ian a quiz.
We have a number for the day and I give him three choices, one of which is correct and is our number for the day.
Two are incorrect and based on the math, he should get 33% correct for a week.
So that anything above 33% is a passing grade anything Beyond that we go up up up up three out of five is a winning week We have more right than wrong four out of five is an A grade and five out of five is the gold star week.
Yes, it is All right, our number for the day involves Sesame
Street
Sesame Street
and of course some news about public broadcasting and Donald Trump cutting funding But hopefully one way or the other that important programming like Sesame Street will continue But our number for the day today.
Okay is in what year did Sesame Street first appear on the air?
So what year did Sesame Street first appear on the air a very good question exactly your choices are four
Okay.
1964.
1969.
1974.
So 1964, 69
or 74.
Exactly.
Okay.
Okay.
Well, my God here.
I am going to say 1969.
1969 is my final answer.
The first episode of Sesame Street aired on November the 10th of 1969.
Yes, I got it right.
Three out of three.
Oh, a successful week.
Well, I tell you.
Keep that momentum going.
We got potential, some specialness before it's all said and done.
Have a good rest of your day.
You too, Chad.
Happy Wednesday, everybody.
Tomorrow, Nancy Stenzo will be with us.
Sean Wright will be with us as well.
Matinair on air next on WXCO.
