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January 15
2006
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WCLV broadcasts annual Cleveland Orchestra Martin Luther
King Concert live from Severance Hall. Station also feeds
concert to WCPN and WNWV.
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January 17
2006
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Ninth annual January “Celebrate Life” Blood Drive for
The Red Cross takes place at the Crawford Auto Aviation
Museum.
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February
13 & 14
2006
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Winning poems in the WCLV Valentine’s Day Love
Poem contest are read over the air.
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March 1
2006
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WCLV resumes national broadcasts of The Cleveland
Orchestra after a five year hiatus.
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March 21
2006
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WCLV presents the first of two “Bach Birthday Bashes”
live from Oberlin Conservatory, hosted by Michael Barone.
The second, from CIM, is heard on WCLV on March 29th.
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March 31
2006
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Cleveland Orchestra Music Director Franz Welser-Moest
presents a talk on Bach’s “St. Matthew Passion” in advance
of the Orchestra’s Severance Hall performance, broadcast
live by WCLV. The Wesler-Moest talk is made
available on line.
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April 28
2006
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Cleveland Boys Choir honors WCLV and Robert Conrad
with the Crescendo 2006 Award for Arts and Culture.
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May 8
2006
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WCLV’s “Black Arts” with A. Grace Lee Mims
celebrates 30 years on the air.
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May 21
2006
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The late Hugh Danaceau, WCLV’s news director for
over two decades, is inducted into the Associated Press
Hall of Fame.
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June 14
2006
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The Spring WCLV/Red Cross “Celebrate Life” blood
drive held at Le Centre in Westlake collects 381 pints.
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June 20
2006
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The second annual WCLV Summer Concert series
at Legacy Village begins with a concert by the
La Catrina String Quaret.
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July 1
2006
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WCLV broadcasts the July 4th Blossom Festival Band
concert live from Blossom Music Center.
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July 7
2006
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WCLV and WCPN broadcast the annual Cleveland
Orchestra Public Square concert
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July 13 - 16
2006
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WCLV participates in the Ingenuity Festival with
five live broadcasts from the WCLV Classical Stage.
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July 22
2006
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Each Saturday at 11:00 AM, through August 26th, WCLV
presents “Simply Summer,” an audience request hour.
Each requester receives a “Simply Summer” CD.
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July 29
2006
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WCLV presents a special one-hour tribute to John Mack,
Retired principal oboe of The Cleveland Orchestra, who
died on July 23rd.
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August 5
2006
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Fifteen WCLV winners and guests in WCLV’s “Valkyries”
contest. All attend The Cleveland Orchestra’s Blossom
concert devoted to operatic orchestral music including
Wagner’s “Ride of the Valkyries.” And each participant
puts on a WCLV Valkyrie Helmet in salute during the music.
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September
19, 2006
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WCLV’s Fall Fest Blood Drive for the Red Cross takes
place at Corporate College East.
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September
24, 2006
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The 2006-07 season of “Access to the Arts Dialogues”
begins with Jerry Wareham and Kit Jensen of ideastream,
recorded at the idea center.
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October 17
2006
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WBKC 1460 in Painesville ceases its simulcast of WCLV’s
classical programming. New owners establish a new
format.
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November
9, 2006
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The WCLV “Thanks-4-Giving” Blood Drive for LifeShare
at Lorain County Community College yields 213 pints.
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December
2, 2006
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WCLV Foundation makes annual donation of $5000
to The Cleveland Orchestra, the Cleveland Museum of Art,
the Cleveland Institute of Music, the Cleveland Play House,
the Cleveland Foundation, and new this year, ideastream.
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December
24, 2006
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Sarah Bachman, five year old granddaughter of WCLV’s Robert and
Jean Conrad, reads “The Night Before Christmas.,” reviving a
tradition that started in 1964 when the Conrads' oldest daughter
Caroline, then five, read the poem.
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January 1
2007
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WCLV broadcasts live the annual Vienna Philharmonic New Years
Day concert, a program that has been on the station since the
early 80s.
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January 14
2007
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WCLV broadcasts live the Cleveland Orchestra’s annual
Martin Luther King Concert, feeding the program to WCPN
and WNWV.
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January 20
2007
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First of three live broadcasts by The Cleveland Orchestra
from Knight Concert Hall in Miami over WCLV and WLRN,
Miami. Also fed to other stations around the country. FWM
conducts Beethoven’s Ninth.
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January 26
2007
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Second of three live broadcasts by The Cleveland Orchestra
as part of the Orchestra’s residency in Miami.
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February 8
2007
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WCLV adds “Symphonycast” to its Thursday schedule. Series
includes some Cleveland Orchestra concert previously
broadcast by WCLV.
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March 17
2007
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A. Grace Lee Mims, host of “The Black Arts” and “ArtsLog,” is
honored by the Greater Cleveland Chapter of the National
Coalition of 100 Black Women .
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March 17
2007
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The third of The Cleveland Orchestra concerts from Miami
is broadcast live by WCLV and WLRN.
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April 1
2007
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WCLV begins national distribution of 26 Cleveland Orchestra
concerts. Some 90 stations participate.
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April 19
2007
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Audio-Technica US promotes WCLV’s use of AT microphones
for The Cleveland Orchestra’s Miami broadcasts.
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May 12
2007
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WCLV re-broadcasts the 2005 Cleveland International Piano
Competition retrospective series as prelude to the
2007 CIPC.
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May 26
2007
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WCLV debuts its newly designed website.
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May 30
2007
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Tenth annual WCLV/Red Cross “Celebrate Life” Blood Drive
takes place at the Airport Marriott. 200 pints are collected
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June 4
2007
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WCLV begins airing “ Music for 72 Hands”, a five-day preview of the
2007 Cleveland International Piano Competition, each afternoon
from 1:00 to 4 :00 PM
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June 11
2007
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WCLV makes bet with KPAC, San Antonio, over the Cleveland
Cavaliers/ Spurs national championship games. WCLV loses.
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June 19
2007
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WCLV sponsors the WCLV Summer Classical series
of eight programs at Legacy Village.
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June 29
2007
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After 48 years, the award winning Adventures in Good Music
with Karl Haas ends. WCLV had aired the program locally
and distributed the program world wide since 1970.
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July 3
2007
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WCLV broadcasts live the Blossom Festival Band July 4th
Concert.
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July 3
2007
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WCLV begins its annual three-day Festival of American Music
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July 5
2007
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WCLV airs live The Cleveland Orchestra’s Public Square Concert
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July 14
2007
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WCLV broadcasts from the Cain Park Arts Festival
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July 16
2007
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The Cleveland Music School Settlement names WCLV “Arts
Advocate of the Year”
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July 25
2007
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WCLV begins wall-to-wall coverage of the 2007 Cleveland
International Piano Competition live from The Cleveland Playhouse
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July 29
2007
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WCLV presents its annual live broadcast of the Oberlin International
Piano Competition finals, featuring teenage pianists.
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August 3 &
4, 2007
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WCLV broadcasts CIPC Concerto Rounds with The Cleveland
Orchestra live from Severance Hall
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August 5
2007
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An Internet listener in New Jersey is declared the winner in the
WCLV CIPC “You Be the Judge” Contest
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August 12
2007
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WCLV airs a “Music and Spoken Word” program recorded at
the Mormon Tabernacle Choir’s Blossom Music Center concert on
June 24th.
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August 18
2007
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WCLV resumes airing the San Francisco Symphony concerts on a
twice a week basis
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September
1
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Eighteen WCLV winning listeners participate in WCLV’s “Blossom
Broadway Baby” contest at Blossom Festival’s Rodgers and
Hammerstein concert. They wear mini-costumes depicting
R & H musicals.
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September
1, 2007
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WCLV begins annual Warhorse Weekend over Labor Day weekend.
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September
8, 2007
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WCLV broadcasts the BBC Last Night of the Proms concert
live from London.
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September
22, 2007
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Cleveland Orchestra opening week concert is broadcast live by
WCLV
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