Our schedule of when KMFA programs are on the air:
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday | |
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| 12 AM | Music Through the Night from Classical 24 | ||||||
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| 6 AM | Jeffrey Blair | Saturday morning with Renee Beale |
Sunday Baroque | ||||
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| 9 AM | Ancient Voices | ||||||
| 10 AM | Dianne Donovan | Choral Classics | |||||
| 11 AM | From the Top | ||||||
| 12 PM | Saturday Matinee with Judlyne Gibson(includes the Metropolitan Opera Broadcast) | Sunday Matinee with Carmel O'Donovan | |||||
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| 2 PM | Performance Today with Fred Child | ||||||
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| 4 PM | Jules Brandon | ||||||
| 5 PM | Wind Sounds | Choral Classics | |||||
| 6 PM | America's Music Festivals | Lincoln Center Chamber Music | |||||
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| 8 PM | Live! at the Concertgebouw | Classical Austin | Pittsburgh Symphony | Music from U.T. Butler School |
Pipeworks | ||
| 9 PM | Pianoforté | What's New? | Sunday Night Symphony | ||||
| 10 PM | Music Through the Night from Classical 24 |
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| Programs in yellow are nationally syndicated programs |
Programs in orange are locally produced and hosted |
| Programs in blue are KMFA's daily local programming schedule |
Classical 89.5 continues to bring you the best selections from the Kent Kennan Memorial Library, housing more than 11,000 classical music CDs (and growing). In addition to our day-to-day programming, KMFA offers special programming on evenings and weekends:
Monday through Friday, 2 - 4pm:
KMFA offers the latest classical music news, coupled with performances from around the globe, on Performance Today. Fred Child hosts the program.
Monday through Friday, 8pm –10pm:
Monday evening will spotlight the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
Tuesday we travel abroad for performances on Live! from the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam.
Wednesday Dianne Donovan showcases local concert events just in time for the weekend on Classical Austin. Following at 9pm is Pianoforté, an hour dedicated to the art of piano music, featuring local and national pianists performing timeless compositions, with host Jules Brandon.
Thursday features orchestral performances from the Pittsburgh Symphony.
Friday you can enjoy Brian Satterwhite and Film Score Focus at 8pm, followed at 9pm by Tony Morris with Classical Guitar Alive.
On Saturdays, you’ll get to enjoy a variety of programs. The morning line-up includes NPR's From the Top. The afternoon matinee is hosted by Judlyne Gibson, and from December to May includes the Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcast series. Following the matinee is Wind Sounds, hosted by Renee Beale, followed by America's Music Festivals. After that comes Music from the U.T. Butler School of Music, hosted by Dan Welcher. Then follows the locally produced show, What’s New?, a local program featuring your favorite KMFA hosts and their favorite selections from the latest classical-music releases.
On Sunday mornings, start your day on the right note with Sunday Baroque. Suzanne Bona brings you three hours of bright and beautiful music from Bach, Telemann, Handel and countless other Baroque masters. Sara Hessel provides the perfect complement with Ancient Voices at 9am, followed by Jeffrey Blair and Choral Classics at 10am. Your Sunday morning is complete with the encore broadcast of Classical Guitar Alive at 11am.
Later in the day, Film Score Focus repeats at 7pm, followed by Pipeworks at 8pm with Chris Teel hosting. On Sunday nights you have your own personal concert hall performance as KMFA presents a full-length, uninterrupted orchestral work on Sunday Night Symphony at 9pm.
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