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Sept. 28,2004

KRTU 91.7 FM Announces Plans For Growing Jazz In San Antonio;

Receives Seed Money From City Councilman, SBC Communications

SAN ANTONIO - KRTU 91.7 FM, Trinity University's listener supported radio station, wants to make sure young people grow up knowing about Duke Ellington, Wynton Marsalis, and Billie Holiday. The station also wants to give them a chance to hear the music of Benny Goodman, Miles Davis, and Herbie Hancock. So KRTU-FM has announced a new initiative, called Growing Jazz in San Antonio, to bring jazz into the lives of students in grades K-12.

William Christ, chair of Trinity's communication department and general manager of KRTU-FM, outlined five parts of the project with a goal of educating and entertaining the next generation of jazz fans. They are:

Purchasing remote audio recording equipment to record local high school jazz bands with the aim of broadcasting their music on KRTU-FM.

Distributing free concert tickets to students to experience live national jazz performers in the Carver/Trinity Jazz Collaborative series.

Developing a series of lectures and workshops for high school students featuring leading jazz musicians.

Increasing the holdings of the KRTU-FM music library.

Raising an endowment to fund the Growing Jazz in San Antonio initiative.

The Growing Jazz in San Antonio project has already received major support from two donors, San Antonio District 2 Councilman Joel Williams and SBC Communications, Inc.

Councilman Williams has pledged $5,000 from the City of San Antonio to promote "this country's only original music."

Jim Epperson, senior vice president for state legislative and political affairs, announced SBC Communications would give $20,000 to fund Growing Jazz in San Antonio. "We're excited about the new agenda that Dr. Christ has outlined. I think it will be terrific that we have some young, talented musicians, who, for the very first time, will be recorded and played on the radio station," Mr. Epperson said in announcing the grant. "We believe there will be some young kids who don't know anything about jazz, who will be exposed to it for the first time."

KRTU-FM is a non-commercial, listener-supported public radio station. The station's format includes jazz programming from 5 a.m. until 10 p.m. and alternative music from 10 p.m. until 5 a.m. KRTU-FM can also be heard on the Internet through its Web site, www.krtu.org.

For more information, contact KRTU-FM at (210) 999-8313.

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