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1 1 QUARTERLY ISSUES/PROGRAMS REPORT Station (call letters): Location (city, state): KUSC Los Angeles, CA For quarter beginning: January 1, 2015 April 1, 20 July 1, 20 October 1, 20 Attached hereto are descriptions of issue-responsive programming broadcast by this station during the reporting period. The listed programs aired on the station during the reporting period on the days and times indicated. Each program regularly provides information or addresses current local issues of concern to viewers in the area where the station is located.

2 2 LOCAL ISSUES ADDRESSED DURING THE QUARTER The following are local issues of concern to the community. Programs that addressed these issues during this reporting period are listed on the following pages. Local Issue/Concern Coverage of Local Arts Brief description of local issue or concern The awareness of local artistic events from producers who share audience with classical music-minded individuals. Exposure to Classical Music To bring the best of classical music, both new and archived recordings to the public-at-large. Education/Children s Issues The impact of arts and music related curriculums on youth from a variety of socio-economic backgrounds.

3 3 FCC Issues/Programs Reports and Related Requirements Appendix B PROGRAMS THAT ADDRESS LOCAL ISSUES The following programs that aired during the relevant reporting period regularly address local issues and concerns in the station s city of license and within its service area. Specific episodes and segments of these programs and the issues they addressed are listed on the following pages. Program Name Schedule Brief Generic Description (Day/Time) (Note whether local, syndicated or network) Arts Alive Saturdays, 8am Locally-produced, 30 minute program about arts and culture in Southern California includes interviews with local artists and arts community members, interactive Q&A with USC Thornton School of Music Dean, arts news and community arts calendar. The Opera Show Saturdays, 9am Locally produced, music-based content regarding opera. Focusing on composers & performers with occasional interviews with local productions. Modern Times Saturdays, 10pm Locally produced, music-based program focusing on the past 75 years of contemporary classical music. Soul Music Sundays, 6am Locally produced, music-based program focusing on the choral component of recorded classical music. From the Top Sundays at 6pm Syndicated via American Public Media Recent concert performances and interviews with young musicians from across the United States. The Record Shelf Sundays at 10p Locally produced, nationally syndicated program surveying historic recordings, offering buyers guides and, featuring interviews with today s greatest classical music personalities. Thornton Center Stage Sundays at 9pm Locally produced music-based program featuring student and faculty performances from the archives of the USC Thornton School of Music.

4 4 The Metropolitan Opera A Musical Offering Saturday Mornings at 10am (April- May Only) Sundays at 9AM Syndicated via the Metropolitan Opera Radio Network Selections from the current live season of the Metropolitan Opera as well as selected archival performances. Locally-produced music-based program featuring music of the Baroque Period. SoCal Sunday Night Sundays, 7pm Locally-produced concert broadcasts from Southern California orchestras and ensembles: Los Angeles Philharmonic, Pacific Symphony, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Los Angeles Master Chorale. Requests at Noon Mon-Fri, 12PM Locally-produced, music-based program featuring music requested by listeners.

5 5 ISSUE-RESPONSIVE PROGRAMMING Local Issue: Exposure to classical music Program Date Time Duration Description The Record Shelf 1/4 10p 1hr A conversation with harpsichordist and conductor Emmanuel Haim. The Record Shelf 1/11 10p 1hr The Record Shelf Record Reviews, offering critical reactions to the latest compact discs. The Record Shelf 1/18 10p 1hr The Young Kubelik, Part 1. In the first of two programs, early recordings by the great Czech conductor Rafael Kubelik. The Record Shelf 1/25 10p 1hr The Young Kubelik, Part 2. The conclusion of our survey of the early recordings by the Czech conductor Rafael Kubelik The Record Shelf 2/1 10p 1hr A conversation with the phenomenal Canadian pianist, Marc-André Hamelin. The Record Shelf 2/8 10p 1hr The conclusion of a conversation with the man many think possesses the most comprehensive keyboard technique in the world today, pianist Marc-André Hamelin. The Record Shelf 2/15 10p 1hr The Mitropoulos Case, Part 1: The first of two programs featuring early recordings by the controversial Music Director of the New York Philharmonic, Dimitri Mitropoulos. The Record Shelf 2/22 10p 1hr The Mitropoulos Case, Part 2: The second of two programs showcasing early recordings by the Greek conductor Dimitri Mitropoulos. The Record Shelf 3/1 10p 1hr 8-String Master, Part I. A conversation with the Scottish-born guitarist and master of the 8-string guitar Paul

6 6 Galbraith. The first of two programs. The Record Shelf 3/8 10p 1hr 8-String Master, Part II. The conclusion of a conversation with guitarist Paul Galbraith. The Record Shelf 3/15 10p 1hr The Record Shelf Record Reviews. Offering critical reactions to the latest compact discs. The Record Shelf 3/22 10p 1hr Young Celi, Part I. In the first of two programs, early recordings by the controversial Romanian conductor Sergiu Celibidache. The Record Shelf 3/29 10p 1hr Young Celi, Part II. In the second of two programs, more early (and totally surprising) recordings from Sergiu Celibidache. Met Opera 1/3 10a 2.5hrs Humperdinck: Hansel and Gretel Met Opera 1/10 10a 4hrs Verdi: Aida Met Opera 1/17 10a 3hrs Lehár: The Merry Widow Met Opera 1/24 10a 3hrs Puccini: La Bohème Met Opera 1/31 10a 4hrs Offenbach: Les Contes D'Hoffmann Met Opera 2/7 10a 3hrs Verdi: Macbeth Met Opera 2/14 10a 3.5 hrs Tchaikovsky: Iolanta & Bartok: Bluebeard's Castle Met Opera 2/21 10a 3.5hrs Mozart: Don Giovanni Met Opera 2/28 10a 3hrs Mozart: Die Zauberflote Met Opera 3/7 10a 4hrs Bizet: Carmen Met Opera 3/14 10a 3.5hrs Rossini: La Donna Del Lago Met Opera 3/21 10a 4hrs Massenet: Manon Met Opera 3/28 10a 3.5hrs Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor Local Issue: Coverage of local arts Program Date Time Duration Description Arts Alive 1/10 8a 30min Blithe Spirit's Angela Lansbury talks about why she left the silver screen for the stage; Charles Edwards on Downton Abbey and ghostly first wives; Jeffrey Siegel breaks down Chopin in his Keyboard Conversations; Around Town arts calendar: Arts News: Ask the Dean answers a question about vocations for vocalists. Arts Alive 1/17 8a 30min Film critic Kenneth Turan on the cyber

7 7 criminals, Israeli soldiers and mystical Irish beings in theaters now. Tobias Picker talks about living a lot as a requirement for writing convincing operas. And, it didn't take long for this young composer to build a reputation as a fresh talent with a serious gift. Meet Andrew Norman this week on the Arts Alive podcast. Arts Alive 1/24 8a 30min Violinist Rachel Barton Pine spills the secret to Mozart's teenage rebellion and talks about recording all of his violin concertos; the Wooster Group is using movement and music to breathe new life into a 40 year old collection of songs recorded by the Sisters of Sabbathday Lake Shaker Community; on Ask the Dean... so you want to start a music career.? Dean Rob has some advice. Arts Alive 1/31 8a 30min Composer Andrew Norman and architect Frank Gehry talk about the intersection between buildings and music; Director Mike Leigh paints us a picture of "Mr. Turner"; Kenneth Turan gives us a list of Sundance Film Festival standouts; Ask the Dean answers a questions about tapping your toes to Tchaikovsky. Arts Alive 2/7 8a 30min New play "Fugue" combines the stories of three composers contending with the darker sides of creation; Watts Village Theater Company produces communitybased stories for diverse audiences; new festival brings Renee Fleming to the desert ; Around Town arts calendar; we Ask the Dean about string instrument snobbery. Arts Alive 2/14 8a 30min It's our annual Oscar's show with Birdman director Alejandro González Iñárritu; the screenwriters who brought the true story of sports and obsession, Foxcatcher, to the big screen & the make-up artist who transformed actor Steve Carell for his role; film critic Kenneth Turan stops by to give his Academy Awards opinions (including a foreign film he says was robbed); don't fret, Ask the Dean to the rescue.

8 8 Arts Alive 2/28 8a 30min The Mark Taper Forum is celebrating Arthur Miller's centenary with a production of The Price, we talk to the director & one of the stars of the show. Plus, we travel to Renaissance Italy by way of the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. An Ask the Dean question that stumped the faculty. Around Town arts calendar. Latest arts news. Arts Alive 3/7 8a 30min A new production of Jake Heggie's opera "Dead Man Walking" is coming to town. Heggie tells us about the new incarnation; a Pasadena play about Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, considered the first feminist writer and the first great Latin American Poet; Kenneth Turan on a doc about delis and his favorite festival; Ask the Dean is baffled about batons. Arts Alive 3/14 8a 30min Seniors with degenerative diseases are finding joy in a therapeutic music group called The Fifth Dementia; The Festival of New American Musical is using a competition and an educational initiative to create opportunities for young writers; Arts News; Around Town arts calendar; does jazz have to improvised? That's the question on Ask the Dean. Arts Alive 3/21 8a 30min We celebrate Bach's birthday with Bach in the Subways; our interview with the piano teacher extraordinaire that inspired Ethan Hawke's documentary "Seymour: An Introduction"; Kenneth Turan reviews a distopian sequel and a some rare zombie gems; Ask the Dean finds the best seat in the house; Arts News: Around Town arts calendar Arts Alive 3/28 8a 30min Brian Lauritzen on what happened when a handful of Youth Orchestra LA musicians met their peers of El Sistema Japan; a painting exchange brings three masterworks from Paris' Musee D'Orsay to Pasadena; Ask the Dean answer a question about location, location, location... in a concert hall; Around Town arts calendar; Arts News SoCal Sunday Night 1/4 7p 2hrs A concert from the LA Master Chorale

9 9 SoCal Sunday Night 1/11 7p 2hrs A concert from the LA Master Chorale SoCal Sunday Night 1/18 7p 2hrs A concert from the LA Master Chorale SoCal Sunday Night 1/25 7p 2hrs A concert from the LA Master Chorale SoCal Sunday Night 2/1 7p 2hrs A concert from the LA Master Chorale SoCal Sunday Night 2/8 7p 2hrs A concert from the LA Master Chorale SoCal Sunday Night 2/15 7p 2hrs A concert from the LA Master Chorale SoCal Sunday Night 2/22 7p 2hrs A concert from the Pacific Symphony SoCal Sunday Night 3/1 7p 2hrs A concert from the Pacific Symphony SoCal Sunday Night 3/8 7p 2hrs A concert from the Pacific Symphony SoCal Sunday Night 3/15 7p 2hrs A concert from the Pacific Symphony SoCal Sunday Night 3/22 7p 2hrs A concert from the Pacific Symphony SoCal Sunday Night 3/29 7p 2hrs A concert from the Los Angeles Philharmonic Local Issue: Education/Children s Issues Program Date Time Duration Description From The Top Sundays 6p 1hr Weekly program highlighting performances and interviews with talented youth musicians from across the US. The Off-to-School Request Thornton Center Stage Brian Lauritzen's Postcard from Japan Mon-Fri 7:15a 10min Host plays a piece of classical music requested by a child and/or their parent/guardian that they want to hear on their way to school. Sundays 9p 2 hrs Locally produced music-based program featuring student and faculty performances from the archives of the USC Thornton School of Music. 3/25 8a, 1p, 6p 1 min Today, 15 talented young musicians ages 13 to 17 from the LA Phil s Youth Orchestra Los Angeles, or YOLA (YO-

10 10 Brian Lauritzen's Postcard from Japan Brian Lauritzen's Postcard from Japan Brian Lauritzen's Postcard from Japan 3/26 8a, 1p, 6p 3/27 8a, 1p, 6p 3/30 8a, 1p, 6p 1min 1min 1min LA) program arrived in Tokyo, Japan. The students are traveling in conjunction with the LA Phil s own Asian tour and will be meeting up with their youth orchestra counterparts in El Sistema Japan to rehears together before playing for Gustavo Dudamel and a big audience in Tokyo in a few days. KUSC s Brian Lauritzen is traveling with the YOLA students and in his first Postcard from Japan, he tells us students who were selected for this trip had to endure a rigorous application process, which included an audition and a written essay. 12 hours on an airplane. That s never fun. And for some the young musicians of the LA Phil s Youth Orchestra LA, their flight yesterday from LAX to Tokyo s Narita (naa-ree-tah) airport was their first time ever on a plane. KUSC s Brian Lauritzen is traveling with YOLA. In today s Postcard from Japan, he tells us how these teens are tackling jet lag. For today s Postcard from Japan, KUSC s Brian Lauritzen and the LA Phil s Youth Orchestra LA ride the rails. The LA Phil wrapped up its Asia tour with two concerts in Suntory Hall in Tokyo. The stunning hall is tucked away in a labyrinth of office buildings, hotels, and the U-S embassy in the Minato district of Tokyo. It was the first hall designed by Yasuhisa Toyota and it was this hall that sealed the deal for the LA Phil to hire Toyota to design the acoustics for Walt Disney Concert Hall. So, for the LA Phil, Suntory is a home away from home. But, as Brian Lauritzen tells us in his final Postcard from Japan, the LA Phil wasn t the only orchestra to take the stage at Suntory.