Can Classical Music Save the World?

If the misinterpreters of the Mayan prophecy are right, the world is going to end on Friday, Dec. 21st, but some musicians in Alaska have a plan to rescue us all.  Cellist Zuill Bailey, violinist Paul Rosenthal, and pianist Natasha Paremski perform a recital they’re calling “Concert to Save the World” in Anchorage Friday night.  Radio station KLEF is in on the fun.

Promoter Rick Goodfellow, owner of KLEF classical radio, insists that he “discovered encoded messages for extending the Mayan Long Count Calendar and undoing the apocalyptic prophecies of Nostradamus while listening to recordings of Beethoven played backwards.”