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Starting Epiphany (6 January) 2010, DZFE returns to its daily 18-hour schedule.

In September 2003, owing to fiscal and other concerns, the broadcast hours were truncated by over 40%.

The process of rebuilding the broadcast, with a commitment to quality programming in support of DZFE’s joint classical music and biblical spirituality focus, began in 30 January 2006 with the reclamation of the 2200-2400 block weekdays. The gaping five hours in the afternoon were brought back in 9 June of 2008, bringing the broadcast to 18 hours a day, 6 days a week.

This January 2010, DZFE resurrects its Sunday broadcast. There will be several vibrant new additions to the program roster.

MUSIC

There is room for both adherents and newcomers to the art form in OPERAphile, a DZFE production written and hosted by Filipino soprano Joanna Go. A graduate of the University of British Columbia (UBC) Opera Performance program in Vancouver, Canada, Joanna has become a familiar figure on the Filipino stage, whether performing in intimate chamber or in larger productions. “I shudder to think that Filipino youth may not know what classical music or opera is five years’ time,” Joanna says with characteristic asperity. While full-scale opera productions remain few and far between, OPERAphile is Joanna’s way of keeping an appreciation for opera passionately alive. OPERAphile airs Saturdays 1930-2200.

American flutist David Jerome Johnson is also a friendly face to concert goers. Some years ago, he decided to make Manila his second home, and has invested hours of time and talent in the advancement of flute-playing and chamber performance here. He is co-founder of the Clarion Chamber Ensemble and a flute pedagogue. He hosted the series The Flute Now on DZFE in 2009; the short series rebroadcasts in January. David launches another series, this one a longer-running affair. In a culture of soloists, Chamber Music in Progress will further demonstrate the high art of collaborative performance. Join David Sunday afternoon at 1500 and Tuesday evening at 2000.

While early music is no longer a rarity in the collective concert halls of the world, we must imagine a time when it was. Millennium of Music is the longest running radio program featuring a pre-Baroque repertoire and broadcasts primarily across the United States. Its visionary host and producer, Robert Aubry Davis, quickly and generously agreed to permit DZFE to carry the program—not only for love of sharing early music—but because his father often spoke fondly of the Philippines and its people. “He served in the Philippines during World War II… [and] had a coffee can of little shells he collected on the beach near the war’s end.”

Sundays are, by tradition, a day of Christian worship; DZFE makes part of its Sunday morning fare, some of the most glorious worship music every written. While Johann Sebastian Bach’s 200 and more sacred cantatas are known by their reputation, seldom are all but a few regularly heard. The short program Bach Cantata of the Week presents the cantatas in their original context — as worship music, adorning a Scriptural message — each Sunday at 845 (rebroadcast Monday at 1415). DZFE’s Tiffany (The Good Measure) serves as guide. The recordings will be taken, for the most part, from the distinguished Harnoncourt and Leonhardt set for Teldec.

Further enhancing our language of worship, DZFE also premieres the five-minute Adoration Songbook, produced by the Center for Church Music. Every week, the Songbook highlights a great hymn of the Christian faith. The feature will air at different times throughout the week.

In addition to these new programs, DZFE augments its diet of good-humored, engaging classical music presentation with an extra episode per week of Compact Discoveries with Fred Flaxman. The program will air Wednesday and Thursday 1600-1700, and Saturday and Sunday 1100-1200.

Visit Music Programs page.

TALK

Bert Robledo, already well known to listeners of his weekday program Bravo Filipino, helms a new half-hour interview show about a different kind of exemplar — the Evangelical at work in the world for the sake of God’s Kingdom. Kingdom Builders aims to underscore the richness and validity of Christian enterprise and concern on all fronts of activity — not just inside, but outside church building and career ministry. The show airs on Saturday evening at 1800 and Sunday morning at 930.

Sunday mornings also feature a rigorous new talk show facilitated by Michael Horton. White Horse Inn was conceived to return robust thinking and solid Reformed theology to American evangelicalism; but it speaks with equal power to any context in which Christianity has become largely cultural and its teaching compromised. Enter the White Horse Inn 800 on Sundays and 1515 on Tuesdays.

Wasn’t it just yesterday that smut sold in back street publications and not on glossies next to the grocery counter? Pure Sex Radio brings much-needed discussions on sex addiction and biblical sexuality to our airwaves. Join Jonathan Daugherty and fellow hosts who have found their liberty in Christ, Saturday night at 2200.

World Vision is known globally for its involvement in relief work and the transformation of impoverished and oppressed communities. Sunday mornings at 1000, World Vision Report with Peggy Wehmeyer places a finger on the pulse of the world’s people, putting voices and faces to cultural and humanitarian issues, from the vantage point of Christian discipleship and compassion.

And finally, also on the weekend, listeners can catch UN Calling Asia, the United Nations’ weekly quarter-hour spotlight on Asia.

Visit Talk page.
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