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Airs Friday, August 10 at 9:00 p.m.   In an exclusive, authorized one-hour special, Love Is The Cure,  Elton John conveys the personal toll AIDS has taken on his life - and his infinite determination to stop its spread. Listeners will hear Elton's story in his own words interspersed with some of his classic music. such as "Crocodile Rock", "Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting", "Rocket Man", "Tiny Dancer", and  "Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding".

In the 1980s, Elton John saw friend after friend, loved one after loved one, perish needlessly from AIDS. Since then, Elton has dedicated himself to overcoming the plague and the stigma of AIDS through the Elton John AIDS Foundation, which has raised and donated $275 million to fighting the disease worldwide. Elton's new book, Love Is The Cure, is his personal account of his life during the AIDS epidemic, including stories of his close friendships with Ryan White, Freddie Mercury, Princess Diana, Elizabeth Taylor, and others, and the story of the Elton John AIDS Foundation.  Now Elton shares these stories with the public radio audience. Love is the Cure is produced by Denny Somach Productions for On the Strip Radio.

Airs Saturday, August 11 at 12:00 noon. Red River Radio is pleased to bring back the Cleveland Orchestra for another superb season of broadcast concerts from the orchestra's home at Severance Hall in Cleveland and from concerts performed around the country and the world. On this week's concert Ton Koopman takes the podium to lead the Ocrhestra and Soprano  in Bach's  Cantata No. 202,  “The Wedding Cantata.” This All Bach program will also feature Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 in F, BWV 1048;  Bach's Sinfonia in b, BWV 208; Sinfonia in D, BWV 42; and Bach's Orchestral Suite No. 1 in C, BWV 1066 .

Airs Saturday, August 11 at 2:00 p.m.  Join us for a new season of concerts from the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, celebrating its 40th season as one of the world’s leading performing arts festivals. Artistic director Marc Neikrug and broadcast host Kerry Frumkin will take you through 13 weeks of world class chamber performances. This week we feature the World Premiere of Sean Shepherd's Quartet for Oboe and Strings (A 2011 Co-Commission by Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival and La Jolla Music Society) with Liang Wang, oboe; Giora Schmidt, violin; Lily Francis, viola; and Felix Fan, cello.  Also on the program, the Orion String Quartet will be joined by violist Lily Francis for Mozart's String Quintet No. 3 in C Major.