Emeritus Professor Martin F. Hatch of Cornell’s Departments of Music and Asian Studies will be a featured radio guest on Friday, January 26, 2024, in a special episode of the “Crazy Words, Crazy Tune” program, on WRFI Community Radio hosted by Roger Kimmel Smith. The program is entitled “Feeling for Life: Indonesian Music Special with Marty Hatch,” and will include extensive interview segments revealing how Professor Hatch’s curiosity and interest in gamelan music led him to pursue ethnomusicology, and eventually spurred him to found the Cornell Gamelan Ensemble in 1972.
The program can be heard at 88.1 FM in the Ithaca area, and 89.7 FM across a wider swath of the southern Finger Lakes, as well as over a live stream at https://www.wrfi.org/ Following the January 26 broadcast, the program will be available for two weeks for listening on demand at: https://www.wrfi.org/wrfiprograms/crazy-words-crazy-tune/
AIFIS will certainly be tuning in!