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JP Marat interviews Everett Smith, Boxing Coach Coach of the Barack Recreation Center (580 East Woodrow Ave) in this 11 minute promotion for the "Columbus Boxing Legends" exhibition coming up on Saturday, Feb 18th at 5pm. WCRS DJ's and Producers are requested to promote this event. Tickets are $10. It is a fund raiser for the Barack Boxing Program.

When WCRS returns to the FM radio early in 2017, I'll launch a new program on Sunday morning entitled "Classic Marat," offering the very finest in Alternative Classic, Chorale, Opera and Jazz music. This week please enjoy "Requiem Da Camera" by Gerald Finzi. This hidden masterpiece, begun in 1924 and only finished in 1990, is his lamentation for those brave men and women, of all nations, who fell during the "Great War" (1914-1918). With social conflict all around us (Iraq, Syria, etc), this requiem (musical composition in remembrance of the dead) is as pertinent today as it was then. The opening track is JS Bach's, "The Little Fugue in G Minor."

MGMT (Electric Feel) and The Cars. Psychedelic Alt Pop meets 80’s Next Wave and the result is GLORIOUS.

Tonight we play one of the worlds finest Jazz albums. Specifically we offer "Porgy and Bess", a collaboration between Miles Davis and Gil Evans from 1959 released by Columbia Records.

They say this album helped to launch the "ambient" music crazy in the 1990's. Hmmm . . .

JP Marat interviews Joe Demare, Ohio Green Party Candidate for US Senate . . . Set list includes REM, Joe Demare (Green Party Candidate for US Senate from Ohio), Blondie, George Harrison, Howard Jones, Bruce Springsteen and Fannie Lou Hammer.

Celebrate St Patrick's Day the Right Way. Check out your favorite Irish Rockers and their songs of resistance. "Up the Ra!"

Black British Singer Songwriter, Benjamin Clementine KILLS with this Mercury Award winning album. Easily one of my favorite releases of the year. I doubt if you've heard anything like it.

This is one of my personal favorite shows. I listen to this podcast constantly. Check out classic and original songs by The Who . . . then hear recently released versions by modern alternative rockers . . . "They call it a Bargain . . . the best I ever had. . . "