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KNAU update for Jan. 4 — Grand Canyon Celebrates 100 Years as a National Park in 2019

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KNAU Insider prEview – January 4th, 2019
The Los Angeles Philharmonic Returns

Music and Artistic Director Gustavo Dudamel will be on the podium for an all-Mozart program featuring Martin Fröst performing the Clarinet Concerto as well as selections from The Magic Flute.

The season presents violinist Hilary Hahn and pianists Richard Goode and Mitsuko Uchida. The orchestra’s programs include favorites by Stravinsky, Brahms, Mussorgsky, Bernstein and many others.
The season will also include two world-premiers: Joseph Pereira’s “Threshold for Solo Timpani, Two Percussion and Orchestra” February 4th and Nico Muhly’s Organ Concerto the following week February 11th.
Broadcast concerts by the Los Angeles Philharmonic will be heard Monday evenings at seven on Symphony Night on Classical KNAU and streaming at KNAU.org
Earth Notes: Plastics Recycling

How hard is it to go plastics-free? That’s a question many communities in the U.S. are asking since China stopped accepting our plastic waste. Learn more at KNAU.org.
NASA Spacecraft Photographs ‘Contact Binary’
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft beamed back the first close-up image of its target, Ultima Thule, revealing it’s a “contact binary”-two space rocks stuck together. Learn more at KNAU.org.
Snow On Saguaros: Desert Cities In Southwest See Freeze

The weather was flipped Wednesday throughout much of the U.S. West, with snow falling on cactuses in the Arizona desert and Anchorage seeing balmy weather — at least by Alaska standards. Learn more at KNAU.org.
Garbage, Feces Take Toll On National Parks Amid Shutdown
Grand Canyon

Human feces, overflowing garbage, illegal off-roading and other damaging behavior in fragile areas were beginning to overwhelm some of the West’s iconic national parks, as a partial government shutdown left the areas open to visitors but with little staff on duty. Learn more at KNAU.org.
Grand Canyon Celebrates 100 Years as a National Park in 2019
The first European American who reached the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon marveled at what was before him: an astounding system of canyons, profound fissures and slender spires that seemingly tottered from their bases. Learn more at KNAU.org.