The MacPhail Guitar Quartet's Radio Debut

Above: Henry Johnston, Xavier Jara, Luke Banchy and Austin Wahl

This week Xavier's quartet is featured on the program "String Theory" with Kevin Barnes on Jazz 88 FM. It airs again on Saturday, June 10 at 2:00 p.m. but can be listened to online at: Jazz 88 KBEM

The Program:

Quartet Live In Studio- Allan Johnston Director

Ensemble Performances Scottish Fantasy by David Crittenden
Bach Brandenburg Concerto 6 Movement 3 Allegro- J.S.Bach
Solo Performances-
Luke Banchy- Mazurca Choro by Heitor Villa-Lobos
Xavier Jara- La Joia by Vincente Asencio
Henry Johnston-Chanson From Sonata 3 by Manuel Ponce
Austin Wahl-Schnee In Istanbul by Carlo Domeniconi
Brouwer Cuban Landscape

Austin Wahl

The quartet with Kevin Barnes (on the left) in KBEM studios at North High School in Minneapolis

Xavier's MPR interview for the Schubert Club

Last week Xavier was interviewed by Steve Staruch at KJIN (the classical public radio station). He was invited as the Schubert Club winner in guitar and had an opportunity to play all of his competition pieces : Villa Lobos, "Choro" and a Bach Prelude and Allegro. Below is the radio broadcast of the interview, or you can go to: Schubert Club holds annual student competition
at MPR for the online article.

Our Christmas story on "The Story"

Xavier and I were featured in a radio program, "The Story" (North Carolina Public Radio)! And it aired on my birthday, no less! Of course I have sent out this news to every living person that I ever knew because it was really a moment of fame for the two of us. However, if you haven't heard the Santa Story and would like to hear it, click below for the audio. It aired last Monday, but then there were some listener responses to the story so they talked a bit more about it on Wednesday (which I added to the end of the audio, below).

In order to do the interview we had to go to the MPR (Minnesota Public Radio) studio in St. Paul where they could send the audio signal back and forth between North Carolina and Minnesota. We were asked to go to one of the music studios so that they could record Xavier playing the guitar. The sound engineer set us up in head phones, each in front of a giant microphone the size of your head. We were all alone in the room with the engineer on the other side of a glass window, but we could hear Dick Gordon (of "The Story") as if he were sitting right there. Well, the interview went really well and we had a fabulous experience. After we were finished the sound guy recorded Xavier playing 2 of his guitar pieces and burned it onto a CD (I'm sure I'll get around to putting it on this blog pretty darn soon). Then, he took us a tour of the MPR building. Hey! I got to sit in Keri Miller's chair!

René, Ahna and Xavier 1998

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