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March 2014

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The Met: Live in HD Contest

Enter to win the WUOT/Metropolitan Opera contest in March, and you can win tickets to The Met: Live in HD's live and encore performances of two of opera's most beloved shows: La Boheme and Cosi fan tutte! We also have passes to March's Werther at both theatres!

Werther

Jonas Kaufmann stars in the title role of Massenet's sublime adaptation of Goethe's revolutionary and tragic romance opposite Sophie Koch as Charlotte.

LIVE: Saturday, March 15, at 12:55 p.m.

ENCORE: Wednesday, March 19, at 6:30 p.m.

Deadline to enter: Wednesday, March 5

La Boheme

Puccini's moving story of young love is the most performed opera in Met History! Anita Hartig stars as the frail Mimi in Zeffirelli's classic production.

LIVE: Saturday, April 5, at 12:55 p.m.

ENCORE: Wednesday, April 9, at 6:30 p.m.

Deadline to enter: Wednesday, March 19

Cosi fan tutte

Mozart's famous opera about testing the ties of affection stars Susanna Phillips, Isabel Leonard, Matthew Polenzani and Rodion Pogossov as the young lovers, with Danielle de Niese as the scheming Despina.

LIVE: Saturday, April 26, at 12:55 p.m.

ENCORE: Wednesday, April 30, at 6:30 p.m.

Deadline to enter: Wednesday, March 19

To enter, please send an e-mail to Cindy Hassil with ALL of the following info in the body of the message:

Name of the show
Preferred theatre (West Town Mall 9 or Tinseltown)
Date of the performance
Your name, phone number and mailing address

We'll do a random drawing of the entries, and if you win, you'll be headed to The Met: Live in HD!

Details about The Met: Live in HD, locations and tickets

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WUOT Recognizes New and Renewing Underwriters

The following organizations became new underwriters or renewed their support of WUOT programming in February. You'll find a complete list of WUOT's sponsors with links to their websites on the Sponsors page of our website. Please thank these organizations for supporting WUOT Public Radio!

If you'd like to raise awareness for your organization or a special event by becoming a WUOT underwriter, contact Cindy Hassil at (865) 974-6167.

WUOT-Sponsored Events in March

Jennie Caissie joins WUOT Staff

We're pleased to announce that Jennie Caissie has joined WUOT as our new membership coordinator. In that role, she will oversee WUOT's membership program, including assisting WUOT members with their donations, planning fund-drives, organizing special events, and working with about 300 wonderful WUOT volunteers!

Jennie received a Master of Public Administration from UT in Environmental Policy Analysis and has 10 years of experience working with government and nonprofit organizations. She fell in love with noncommercial radio after working as the development director for WDVX-FM, and is very excited to join the WUOT team. We're equally excited to have her!

You can reach Jennie at jcaissie@wuot.org or 865-974-9558.

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Dialogue

Dialogue WUOT's monthly live call-in program; hosted by a member of WUOT's News Staff.

On this month's program, Brandon Hollingsworth will be talking with former U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan Cameron Munter, along with Baker Center fellows Howard Hall and Brandon Prins. The subject will be U.S./Pakistan relations past and present.

We'll take your calls at 865-974-5050; tweet us @WUOTFM or submit your question on WUOT's Facebook page.

Wednesday, March 5, at 1 p.m.

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Studio 865/Flipside

WUOT's monthly program featuring regional music and musicians, hosted by Todd Steed.

Studio 865 features a rebroadcast of an earlier program with steel drum musician Jonathan Scales from Asheville.

On the Flipside, Chris Ford talks about accordians, New Orleans, and the one-time-only reunion show of Knoxville's own Gran Torino.

Wednesday, March 5, at 8 p.m.
Studio 865 on Facebook
Listen to Flipside on iTunes

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Next on The Metropolitan Opera Saturday Broadcasts

March 1 -- "Prince Igor," by Borodin

March 8 -- "The Enchanted Island," by Handel, Vivaldi, Rameau, and others

March 15 -- "Werther," by Massenet

March 22 -- "Wozzeck," by Berg

March 29 -- "La Sonnambula," by Bellini

Saturdays at 1 p.m.

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FROM THE NATIONAL DESKS

Krulwich Wonders: Trees On The Move As Temperature Zones Shift 3.8 Feet A Day

Something is not right. And though you can't know this, there's a reason: The whole planet is getting warmer, which means that temperature zones are shifting. Warmer areas are expanding, pushing cooler zones closer to the North and South Poles.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2014/02/18/

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Inside the Home Studio of Radiolab's Jad Abumrad

When Jad Abumrad, cohost of the on-air amazingness that is Radiolab, wants to prep a show for broadcast, he uses WNYC's studio. But he's most productive when left alone in his home studio.

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2014/02/

Photo & article credit: Wired.Com

(NOTE: Radiolab airs on WUOT-2 Saturdays at 2 p.m.)

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Yes! We Have Some Banana...Recipes

Americans eat more bananas than any other fruit -- so many that we've started taking them for granted. Food writer Laura B. Weiss shares recipes that turn the reliable standby into the star of pies, pancakes and smoothies.
http://www.npr.org/2014/02/18/279217361/

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Author James Patterson To Give $1 Million To Bookstores

(From Morning Edition, 2/20/14)

James Patterson, the best-selling author of thrillers and romance and young adult novels, has pledged to give away $1 million of his personal fortune to independent booksellers around the country.

http://www.npr.org/2014/02/20/279987790/

Photo credit: Deborah Feingold/Courtesy Little, Brown and Co.