ARTS ALIVE	PGM 02 -2008.  TX: 4:04 Eastern Time 14 January 2008
THIS PROGRAM IS 55' 50" WITH A NATURAL BREAK AT 29¡¦53

Hi I¡¦m VINCENT O¡¦DONNELL¡K And welcome to Arts Alive¡K This is the third of our programs for summer 2008, and it¡¦s also the 550th edition to go to air since Arts Alive started in April 1997.  I guess that would make AA one of the longest running programs on the national community radio network.  This week we visit the veteran sculptor, Tom Bass, at his inner-Sydney workshop in Erskineville.  Approaching 92 years of age, Bass maintains an active creative life with several commissions in progress and a coterie of enthusiastic students in his workshop.  When I asked Mr Bass about music to accompany the interview, among a number of tracks he nominated this¡K Yesterday, from the Beatles, the first Beatles release that featured a solo vocal performance by just one of the Beatles, Paul McCartney accompanied by strings¡K

Link 1:  You¡¦re listening to Arts Alive, program three in the e summer season for 2008, and incidentally, our 550th edition. Our guest is veteran sculptor, Tom Bass, and this conversation was recorded last September at his studio in the inner-Sydney suburb of Erskineville. 
Another piece of music he nominated was the Pavane for a dead Princess by 19C French composer, Maurice Ravel¡K  this performance is by the Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Seiji Ozawa.

Link 2: Pavane for a dead Princess by 19C composer, Maurice Ravel¡K 
that performance from the Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Seiji Ozawa. This is Arts Alive and we now return to our conversation with sculptor, Tom Bass¡K

Outro:  That¡¦s the program for this week¡K The work that Tom Bass regarded as his most personally satisfying, Ethos, stands in the Civic Square, in Canberra.  The Bathurst Regional Art Gallery in NSW is staging a Tom Bass Retrospective at present.  The show runs until 27 January, so if you are travelling that way on holidays, stop for an hour or two and take a look  The Tom Bass Sculpture School can be found at www.tombasssculptureschool.org.au or telephone to Genevieve Carson on 02 9565 4851.

Uncredited music this week is all by Maurice Ravel from Une Barque sur L¡¦Ocean and Symphony Espagnole.  Next week¡K some highlights from 2007¡¦s programs.  Until then¡K good bye for now.

ARTS ALIVE is a production of the INDEPENDENT MEDIA FOUNDATION INC.  We are delighted to acknowledge the support of VICNET and the SCHOOL OF APPLIED COMMUNICATION at RMIT University.  The program is heard on the COMMUNITY RADIO NETWORK, on the SBS DIGITAL RADIO SERVICE, and is distributed on CD by THE ABORIGINAL PROGRAM EXCHANGE.

The spoken word content from the past four programs is available as audio on demand at www.artsaliveradio.com . Thanks Vincent Fok for his work on the website.

I¡¦m Vincent O¡¦Donnell and since we¡¦ve been revelling in music by Maurice Ravel, here¡¦s the last couple of minutes of what has been described as the longest crescendo in western music, Ravel¡¦s Bolero¡K

END VOICE	52 min 39 sec 		PROGRAM ENDS	55 min 50 sec

APRA Details:
Opening Theme: "Same like B3" / d.i.g. / d.i.g. / CP / 5285392 / 20 sec. Track 1:  ¡§Yesterday¡¨/Lennon & McCartney/ Paul McCartney/OS/5293252/ 2.05 Track 2: ¡§Une Barque sur L¡¦Ocean¡¨/Ravel/ Boston Symphony/OS/4776679/0.28 Track 3: ¡§Habanera¡¨/Ravel/ Boston Symphony/OS/4776679/0.33 Track 4:¡§ Pavane pour une Infante Defute¡¨/Ravel/ Boston Symphony/OS/4776679/6.20 Track 5: ¡§ Malaguena¡¨/ ¡¨/ Ravel/ Boston Symphony/OS/4776679/2.04 Track 6: Habanera¡¨/ ¡¨/ Ravel/ Boston Symphony/OS/4776679/2.30 Track 7:  ¡§Bolero¡¨ Flowe¡¨/ Ravel/ Boston Symphony/OS/4776679/5.50