Oberlin on the Gotham Airwaves July 31 by Marci Janas '91
	Related Links: Finding Peace at Oberlin: Violinist and Concerto Competition Winner Yang Xu		Oberlin will again be featured on The McGraw Hill Companies’ Young Artists Showcase, New York City’s weekly radio program hosted by Robert Sherman and broadcast on WQXR-96.3 FM. The Oberlin program airs Wednesday, July 31, at 9 p.m. Young Artists Showcase is currently in its 25th consecutive season on WQXR, the classical station of The New York Times. Earlier this month the program featured violin performance major Julia Sakharova ’03. Listeners outside the city can tune in on the station’s web site Wednesday to hear violinist Yang Xu ’03, a concerto competition winner in 2001, perform with the Oberlin Orchestra in a concert conducted by Paul Polivnick on December 14, 2001. The program will highlight the first movement of Ludwig van Beethoven’s Concerto for Violin in D Major, Op. 61. Also included will be the final movement of Camille Saint-Saëns’ Symphony No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 78 (the "Organ" symphony), performed by Professor of Organ and Harpsichord David Boe with the Oberlin Orchestra, again conducted by Polivnick, during the inaugural of the Kay Africa Memorial Organ on September 28. Sherman plans more programming from Oberlin in the upcoming season.
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