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KUOM OFFERS LENTEN MUSIC SERIES -9- KUOM, the University of Minnesota radio station, this year expanded its Lenten music programming into a two-week "Lenten Music Festival" which ran from April 1 12. Music Director Ray Christensen, who produced the festival, selected music "to convey the spirit of Easter." The programs were aired from 6-7 p.m. daily and 2-5 p.m. on Saturdays• Highlight of the series was the Good Friday broadcast of Wagner»s Parsifal. KUOM has broadcast portions of Parsifal during past Easter seasons, but this year listeners heard the complete opera — hi hours long — aired for the first time in this area. Christensen added an interdenominational flavor to the Lenten Music Festival by invit¬ ing Twin City ministers to appear on the programs with comments about each featured work and its relation to the Easter season. Before the series began a KUOM production team visited the churches of participating ministers to record their remarks. Some of the outstanding music aired during KUOM’s festival included the Easter Canta- t a > St. John’s Passion and St. Matthew ’s Passion by Bach; The Resurrection Story and Seven Words from the Cross by Schuetz; The Ascension by Massaien; a special all choral concert, and about bO other works. Churches, music stores and newspapers cooperated to give the series publicity. Minne¬ apolis and St. Paul music critics used the festival as a news peg and then went on to laud KUOM’s serious music programming which is unique in its area. The newspapers also carried other stories about the programs as did church newspapers and bulletins. Music stores mailed and passed out brochures and arranged window displays. WUOM OFFERS UNUSUAL "TALK BACK" BROCHURE The Ifoiversity of Michigan's WUOM has prepared an interesting little brochure based upon commits from letters entitled »0n Talking Back to a Radio Station," The bro¬ chure begins with the following statement} "Ten hours a day for more than five days a week WUOM speaks to its audience throughout Michigan. It speaks in English, in the universal language of music, and once in a while in French, Gentian, Hindustani, and Japanese. "It speaks on matters of interest to children of kindergarten age...and to adults who have started their years of retirement. It speaks to businessmen, housewives, professional people, students, merchants, and teachers. It speaks to the city’s shop girls and factory workers, and to the country’s miners, growers, and dairymen. "What WUOM speaks about is as diversified as the audience it reaches: literature, sporting events, folk and classical music, science and re¬ search, and current news in the world today. "But this is not a soliloquy. The audience frequently talks back. "For your information we’ve selected and grouped a few typical comments from the WUOM mailbag..." There follow four pages of comments from listeners' letters, each section being in¬ troduced by a description of the programs on which the letters comment. Copies of the brochure may be had upon request to Waldo Abbot, MAEB Region III Director, who is Director of WUOM.