Classical South Florida Inc

Programs: Classical south florida (csf) is a listener-supported organization that brings classical music to the thriving cultural communities of southeast and southwest florida. Csf broadcasts a fulltime schedule of classical music programming on its three stations - wkcp 89. 7 fm in miami, wpbi 90. 7 fm in west palm beach, and wnps 88. 7 fm in naples-fort myers. Csf's programming includes nationally-renowned classical music programs such as performance today, symphonycast, pipedreams, from the top, and the metropolitan opera. In the palm beaches, csf provides an all-news program service, wpbi news, at 101. 9 fm and on wpbi hd2. The all-news service broadcasts a schedule of the best programs from national public radio, american public media, public radio international, the canadian broadcasting corporation, and the british broadcasting corporation, including morning edition, all things considered, marketplace, a prairie home companion, and additional local programming. The stations of csf serve over 250,000 listeners in seven counties each week. On june 30, 2014, csf had 13,365 contributing members who made contributions of $2. 3 million during the fiscal year. In addition to the airing of recognized national programs csf is proud to feature the contributions of south florida's own fine arts and cultural organizations. In fy14, we again increased the number of "specials" airing on classical south florida in order to diversify our listening options and increase listener tune-in. We aired the 4-part edinburg festivaland, bbc's last night of the proms, the mozart festival throughout the month of january and the lucerne festival. The santa fe chamber music festival ran for 13 weeks on fridays in the fall and we aired carnegie hall live with various performances throughout the fall. We also permanently added to our schedule our bilingual musical program airing on sunday evenings, concierto, with support from the knight foundation. Other local programming includes our classical south florida produced florida grand opera flashback live. This program featured two of last season's live opera performances. Our holiday programming season began thanksgiving morning with various hanukkah and christmas programs and ended on new year's day with new years from vienna. Csf also promoted the activities and events of local and regional arts and cultural organizations through the 5-minute feature, "on the town," which runs three times weekly. On our naples/fort myers station, we run gulf coast happens, a 1-minute feature running 7 days a week with local information on arts and events. Csf produces a weekly segment called "backstage with the new world symphony", which explores the lives and works of attending fellows at the famed orchestral academy in miami beach. Classical south florida aired other exciting content during fy14 including the metropolitan opera national council finals, and top score, an exploration of classical music in video games. Finally, we aired the 5-part popular series, regarding broadway, an exploration of broadway music in the 20th century. For the third year, csf partnered with the miami music project in "play it forward", a campaign that encourages listeners to donate used instruments to public schools in miami-dade, broward and palm beach counties. Dozens of instruments were collected and donated during the instrument drive. In addition to our broadcasts of classical music programming, csf was a sponsor or co-sponsor of more than 40 cultural events through partnerships with many organizations including: university of miami frost school of music, symphony of the americas, miami interntaional book fair, fort lauderdale international film festival, art serve of broward county, gumbo limbo sea turtle research center, jewish family and community services of southwest florida, artsnaples world festival, artis-naples, palm beach chamber society, american ballet theater, society of four arts, boca delray music society, career transition for dancers, kravis center for theperforming arts, symphonic chorale of southwest florida, perlman musicacademy, steinway & sons and nova southeastern university, to name a few. Classical south florida also hosted many events for our members and donors including a visit with music critic and author matthew guerrieri featuring pianist heqing huang from lynn university's conservatory of music. We also hosted our first gala in naples featuring the music of strauss at quail west country club. And, we ended the cultural arts season in palm beach county with a reception for members following the opening of palm beach opera's production of the tales of hoffman. Csf held the 4th annual csf/ziff awards luncheon for outstanding contributions to the arts at the historic biltmore hotel in coral gables. Honorees included romero britto, swanee and paul j. Dimare, dr. Margaret s. Edison and lewis s. "mike" edison, james and valerie judd of the miami music project, christopher and vicki kellog, and julian kreeger. Csf furthers its mission through bi-annual standard mail newsletters and monthly email newsletters. It maintains two websites that provide news, cultural content and cultural calendars covering csf's service area. Content is also developed to encourage audience interaction and feedback.