[NEohioPAL] Oberlin Conservatory of Music Debuts New Radio Program on WCLV

[Marci Janas]

Media Contact Only:

Marci Janas, Director of Conservatory Media Relations

440-775-8328 (office); 440-667-2724 (cell); marci.janas at oberlin.edu



FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:


OBERLIN CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC
DEBUTS NEW RADIO PROGRAM ON WCLV


OBERLIN, OHIO (October 25, 2007) — The Oberlin Conservatory of Music  
at Oberlin College is providing radio and Internet listeners with a  
ringside seat to the musical arts with its exciting new radio program  
Oberlin Presents. Hosted by Fadel Fulkerson, the hour-long weekly  
broadcast on 104.9 FM, WCLV, Cleveland’s classical station, will  
journey into the heart and soul of serious music with many of the  
influential personalities who shape our artistic world.

             Oberlin Presents debuts Sunday, November 11, 2007, at 10  
a.m. on WCLV, with a simulcast on www.wclv.com. Fadel’s guest for  
the program premiere is legendary mezzo-soprano Marilyn Horne. Horne,  
recently in Oberlin for her third residency as Distinguished  
Professor of Singing, found time to sit down with Fadel for a  
consideration of the challenges and joys of the bel canto repertory.  
Listeners will hear samplings of some of the most memorable operas of  
the genre during “The Bel Canto Revival with Marilyn Horne.”

             “We are very pleased to expand our long and  
tremendously successful relationship with WCLV,” says David H.  
Stull, Dean of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. “Oberlin Presents  
will allow the communities of Greater Cleveland and Lorain County to  
experience the great performances and outstanding musicians that we  
are pleased to host at Oberlin.”

             “Journeys in Conducting with Robert Spano” is the  
second program in the series, scheduled for Sunday, November 18,  
2007, at 10 a.m. Spano, Music Director of the Atlanta Symphony  
Orchestra (ASO), is recognized internationally as one of the  
brightest and most imaginative conductors of his generation. With the  
ASO, he has won five Grammy Awards. He is a 1983 graduate of the  
Oberlin Conservatory of Music, where he is also Professor of Conducting.

             Upcoming Oberlin Presents programs will be announced  
soon; all programs and dates are subject to change.

             Oberlin Presents is sponsored by the Oberlin  
Conservatory of Music and by the Riverside Company, a leading private  
equity firm specializing in premier companies with offices in  
Cleveland, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, other major U.S. cities,  
and cities in Europe and Scandinavia.



Fadel Fulkerson

Fadel Friedlander-Fulkerson brings a wealth of musical knowledge and  
a lifetime of musical experience to her audience. She also brings an  
unbridled enthusiasm for the world’s great classical repertoire,  
especially in the area of opera.

A native of Louisville, Kentucky, Fadel grew up in a musical  
environment. Her mother, Mitzi Friedlander, was in demand for her  
singing and acting abilities long before she became one of the  
country’s most notable narrators of books for the blind, and Fadel  
regularly accompanied her to the nonstop round of rehearsals and  
performances. Fadel’s musical career began with the gift of an Irish  
harp, although she soon took up the cello and played in the  
Louisville Youth Orchestra. It was singing, however, that inspired  
her true passion for music. A student of Charme Reisley (wife of  
Moritz Bomhard) and later Mary Fran Duane, Fadel was accepted at the  
prestigious North Carolina School for the Arts at age 15, where she  
studied with Juilliard’s Alice Howland. After moving to New York,  
she studied with the Met’s Rose Bampton at the Manhattan School of  
Music, and with other operatic greats such as famed Wagnerian vocal  
coach Walter Taussig.

Upon her eventual return to Louisville, she found an entirely new  
career, sharing her love and knowledge of classical music on 90.5-FM,  
WUOL, Louisville’s classical music radio station. For WUOL she  
hosts “The Art of Great Singing,” a program devoted to operatic  
greats that was also heard on WCLV from 2005 to 2006.

Fadel, who now lives in Oberlin, is married to violinist Gregory  
Fulkerson, Professor of Violin at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music.


About WCLV

Established in 1962, WCLV plays a key role in nurturing Greater  
Cleveland’s cultural life. The station has gained an international  
reputation as a leading broadcaster and producer of classical music  
and distributor of culturally oriented programming. Since 2001, WCLV  
has broadcast live and recorded concerts from the Oberlin  
Conservatory of Music and has provided media sponsorship for  
Oberlin’s esteemed Artist Recital Series. Oberlin is also regularly  
featured on WCLV’s On Stage segments. From 1964 until the mid-1980s,  
the station produced Music from Oberlin, a weekly national broadcast.  
During the 1990s, Oberlin’s Office of College Relations produced  
Only in Oberlin, a regular snapshot of arts and cultural events on  
campus that was sponsored by Kendal at Oberlin on WCLV.

             WCLV’s classical music programming was assured by a  
multistep process that moved the station’s transmission from 95.5 FM  
to 104.9 FM on July 3, 2001. On November 1, 2001, WCLV was gifted to  
the nonprofit WCLV Foundation, which guaranteed the station’s  
classical music format far into the future. Over the years, WCLV has  
won many honors: four Gabriels  (three for Best Radio Station  
Nationwide; one for Best Religious Program); a NAB Marconi for Best  
Classical Radio Station; New York Radio Festival Silver and Gold  
medals for Best Classical Station Worldwide, two Governor’s Awards  
for Support of the Arts, a Gracie for best interview program dealing  
with women’s issues, and numerous local awards.

In August 2003, WCLV became the second station in northeast Ohio and  
the third classical station in the nation to broadcast an HD  
(digital) signal.



About the Oberlin Conservatory of Music

The Oberlin Conservatory of Music, founded in 1865 and situated amid  
the intellectual vitality of Oberlin College since 1867, is the  
oldest continuously operating conservatory in the United States. The  
Conservatory is renowned internationally as a professional music  
school of the highest caliber and has been pronounced a “national  
treasure” by the Washington Post. Oberlin’s alumni have gone on to  
achieve illustrious careers in all aspects of the serious music  
world. Many of them have attained stature as solo performers,  
composers, and conductors, among them Jennifer Koh, Steven Isserlis,  
Denyce Graves, Franco Farina, Christopher Robertson, Lisa Saffer,  
George Walker, Christopher Rouse, David Zinman, and Robert Spano. All  
of the members of the contemporary sextet eighth blackbird, most of  
the members of the International Contemporary Ensemble, and many of  
the members of Apollo’s Fire are Oberlin alumni. In chamber music,  
the Miró, Pacifica, Juillard, and Fry Street quartets, among other  
small ensembles, include Oberlin-trained musicians, who also can be  
found in major orchestras and opera companies throughout the world.  
For more information about Oberlin, please visit www.oberlin.edu/con.

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  Marci Janas

Director of Conservatory Media Relations
Oberlin Conservatory of Music
39 West College Street
Oberlin, OH  44074
www.oberlin.edu/con
(P) 440.775.8328
(F) 440.775.5457
marci.janas at oberlin.edu







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