Good radio is good radio (someone said once, perhaps while drunk), but great radio deserves a rebroadcast. A Prairie Home Companion is giving a second life to an April 2005 broadcast from New York's Town Hall this weekend (WGBH 89.7 FM: July 14, 6pm & July 15 at 12pm). The reason why this bears mentioning, naturally, is that the broadcast features several Celebrity Series alumni, veterans of no less than 12 individual Series performances, when you add them all up. Garrison Keillor, the host, made his Series debut in February of this year, where he knocked 'em dead at Symphony Hall then calmly returned to his hotel room to write his column (I still can't get over that: workday over? go to your other job). ON this weekend's broadcast, soprano Renee Fleming ('99, '01, '05) will look back at her high school musical debut in The Sound of Music and pianist Andre Watts ('70, '72, '85, '86, '87, '95, '98, '04) will play Ravel.
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