Local Features

Friday, 21 November 2008
05:21AM

Kresge Challenge Grant


Make a generous gift to WOSU to help us meet a $500,000 Challenge Grant from The Kresge Foundation. Your gift will contribute to our raising the dollars necessary to claim this important grant. Thank you for your support of WOSU Public Media.


WOSU@COSI is open to the public!

Our new media center is here! Visitors will be greetd by our digital welcome mat, and can see themselves on U•TV, an interactive exhibit where you can explore the art and science of television production. You can also take a peek inside our new studios. more...


Saturday at the Pops
WOSU 89.7 FM Classically Columbus
Saturdays  8 - 10 pm (EST).

Saturday at the Pops
Boyce Lancaster hosts an eclectic blend of old favorites, such as George Gershwin, Duke Ellington, John Philip Sousa, and Irving Berlin, mixed with today’s composers, such as Jay Ungar and Molly Mason, Mark O’Connor, Bobby McFerrin, and Wynton Marsalis. To complement these recordings, Boyce brings you performances of local pops concerts featuring the Columbus Symphony Orchestra, and live broadcasts with Byron Stripling and the Columbus Jazz Orchestra.




John Rittmeyer with the Classics

Weekdays from 3 pm until 7 pm, WOSU’s John Rittmeyer plays classics on WOSU 89.7, Classically Columbus. The Cleveland native says, “I’ve been getting paid to listen to classical music since 1987, and the experience of music has opened a whole new world of artistic expression to me.” more...

Columbus Symphony Orchestra

WOSU 89.7 presents a live broadcast of the Columbus Symphony Orchestra from the Ohio Theatre in downtown Columbus.
Saturday, April 14 at 8 pm. Guest conductor William Eddins. Percussionist Colin Currie makes his CSO performance debut in Jennifer Higdon’s Percussion Concerto. The CSO also presents Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4. Christopher Purdy hosts this live broadcast. more...