FRESNO FREE COLLEGE FOUNDATION
P. O. Box 4364
Fresno, California  93744
(559) 233-2221  

                                                            February 27, 2008 

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CALL (559) 224-4140

 GIFT OF 40 RADIO PROGRAMS TO CSUF

           The FRESNO FREE COLLEGE FOUNDATION presented a gift to the Henry Madden Library at California State University, Fresno of 40 Radio Programs on CDs. The original gift in 1994 was on audio cassettes and has been catalogued at the Madden Library since that time. The FFCF wants to avoid destruction of the cassettes by deterioration over time and provide the Library with the CDs that have a longer life.

            The FFCF owns and operates listener-sponsored radio station KFCF-FM where the 40 radio programs were first broadcast. These programs were focused on Greek Creativity in music and poetry and were broadcast on KFCF by Dr. Alex Vavoulis. It is a forum for the presentation of music by Greek composers. Under the program title, Mousikes Notes (Musical Notes), it continues to this day with Vasiliky Vavoulis as co-producer.

            The 40 Radio Programs include 22 Greek composers, 6 transcribers, 25 lyricists, and poets, playwrights and novelists. They include composers  Manolis Kalomiris, Kyriakos Sfetsas, Theodore Antoniou, Mikis Theodorakis, and Manos Hadzidakis. The CDs also include traditional folk music, popular music, Byzantine religious music, transcribed Byzantine secular music, and contemporary or avante-garde music. 

            The CD gift has also been given to the Center for Modern Greek Studies at San Francisco State University and to the Library of Congress, Washington D.C. 

            Mousikes Notes is broadcast on KFCF on the fourth Saturday of each month from 9 – 11 P.M. The signal reaches most of the Central Valley and many mountain communities.