KNAU update for Aug. 16 — Arizona Encore, Endangered Species Act Revision, and More.

An exciting series of performances from around Arizona produced by Central Sound at Arizona PBS.

Sunday at noon and again Tuesday evening at seven, we listen to highlights from the 2018 Grand Canyon Music Festival.

Since 1984, the Grand Canyon Music Festival has offered world-class performances to park visitors and over the next few weeks we’ll provide some examples. Our first program features flutist and Festival Artistic Director Clare Hoffman with the Trio for Flute, Viola, and Cello by Albert Roussel. We’ll also hear string quartets by Phillip Glass and Samuel Barber performed by The Catalyst String Quartet.

In coming weeks, another trip to the Grand Canyon Festival, a visit with Chamber Music Sedona and later, a peek inside the new Kitt Recital Hall at NAU.

Give us a listen this week on Classical KNAU and consider hearing some live chamber music at the Grand Canyon this year—performances begin the weekend of the 23rd with the Newmann and Oltman Guitar Duo.

Fifty years ago today, throngs of people descended upon Max Yasgur’s farm in Bethel, New York for the Woodstock Music and Art Fair. It was billed as 3 days of peace and music, and would go on to become a legendary moment in U.S. history and the counter culture ideology of the time. Learn more at KNAU.org.

In this week’s Poetry Friday segment, we hear an original piece by regular contributor, Liz Blaker. She is a field biologist and a writer for KNAU’s Earth Notes series. So, of course, Liz approaches most things from a scientific perspective. But she also appreciates the sacred aspect of nature. Learn more at KNAU.org.

This week the Trump administration announced revisions to the Endangered Species Act, which allow the government to present the economic costs of protecting a species. Learn more at KNAU.org.

It’s not easy to spot the New Mexico jumping mouse, a golden-furred critter that lives along streams in the Southwest. It’s rare, quick, and secretive. To find the animal, scientists have built a new kind of mousetrap—one that doesn’t hurt the mice at all, but tricks them into leaving inky footprints behind. Learn more at KNAU.org.

The University of Arizona would get ownership of a ranch that’s now federal property under a proposed land swap intended to support the university’s planned new veterinary program. Learn more at KNAU.org.