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october 2009 Volume XXXVII, Number 4
Celebrating Campbell Hall and looking to new needs By Mark Leonard, General Manager
This month, Illinois Public
Media celebrates the 10th anniversary of Campbell Hall, the home of WILL. The contrast with our previous facilities is profound. Generous support from Robert and Alice Campbell provided a proper home for public broadcasting, and allows the staff to focus on serving the community with relevant programming, rather than moving buckets to catch water from leaking roofs, or exterminating the bugs and rodents that occupied the former facility. Uniting all activities under one roof has led to greater collaboration and efficiency in WILL’s activities. Campbell Hall addressed the physical needs of WILL, but could not also accommodate updating the technical infrastructure. Frankly, the industry’s conversion from analog to digital was in its infancy at that time, and therefore it was probably too early to make those investments in equipment. Ten years later, the time is overdue and we now need the resources to help build a new public media system for the 21st century. Much of our equipment is obsolete for the digital age. Some of it is decades old, so parts and technical support are no longer available. The change from analog to digital requires that much of our equipment be changed simultaneously to ensure that the pieces can operate together. What does that mean? The next hardware upgrade for WILL needs to be done in a whole-scale fashion, not item by item as we’ve been able to do in the past. The price tag for this conversion is estimated to be between $5 million and $6 million. We’ve accomplished so much in our building, but we could not have done it without the strong involvement of the Friends of WILL. The support of individual donors like you has become Illinois Public Media’s single largest and most reliable source of funding. This month you have the opportunity to help us continue the good work with your support of WILL’s fall radio pledge drive. If you’d like more information about our technical plans, or how to make a contribution to help us upgrade our equipment, please feel free to contact Danda Beard or me at 217-333-7300.
In the mid 1980s, the future looked hopeless
for South Africa. Diehard supporters of the apartheid regime were pitted against a black national liberation movement that was edging toward all-out armed rebellion. As the nation teetered on the brink of civil war, secret talks were held against a backdrop of terrorism, spying, blackmail and escalating unrest.
Photo: ©Dana Tynan
Masterpiece Contemporary presents the drama, violence and pathos behind this reallife political thriller on Endgame, the season premiere, at 8 pm Sunday, Oct. 25.
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Photos: ©Target Entertainment for MASTERPIECE
The beginning of the end
Left: Clarke Peters as Nelson Mandela; Above: William Hurt as Professor Will Esterhuyse.
Endgame’s international cast includes Best Actor Oscar-winner and Emmy nominee William Hurt (Kiss of the Spider Woman, Damages) as Professor Will Esterhuyse, leader of an unofficial delegation representing white South Africa, and Chiwetel Ejiofor (American Gangster, Kinky Boots) as Thabo Mbeki, who heads a group of exiles from the African National Congress. Jonny Lee Miller (Eli Stone, Trainspotting) stars as the facilitator who brings these bitter antagonists together. Also appearing are Mark Strong (Body of Lies) as Dr. Niel Barnard, the director of South Africa’s National Intelligence Agency, and Clarke Peters (The Wire) as Nelson Mandela. The new Masterpiece Contemporary season welcomes David Tennant (Dr. Who) as host.
Celebrating 50 years of music and conscience
In the first comprehensive documentary to chronicle
the private life and public career of Joan Baez, American Masters examines her history as a recording artist and performer, as well as her unwavering journey as the conscience of a generation. Following her 2008-2009 world tour, the filmmakers captured Baez in performance and in intimate conversations with individuals whose lives parallel hers. Rich archival footage is woven into Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound, including Baez as a teenager performing at the historic Club 47, Martin Luther King Jr. outside a California prison where he offered his support after she was jailed for staging a protest and her controversial visit to North Vietnam during the war. This program airs at 7 pm Wednesday, Oct. 14. PATTERNS • OCTOBER 2009
New NOVA programs highlight
Photo: Malcolm Ludgate
Darwin, Hubble and lizards
In Darwin’s Darkest Hour, acclaimed
s Above right: Henry Ian Cusick as Charles Darwin. Inset: Astronaut John M. Grunsfeld signals to a crewmate inside the crew cabin. Below: Henry Ian Cusick and Frances O’Connor as Charles and Emma Darwin.
PATTERNS • OCTOBER 2009
In Lizard Kings, NOVA follows expert Dr. Eric Pianka as he tracks elusive monitor lizards through Australia’s heartland. Through cutting-edge “lizard cam” technology, viewers get an unparalleled close encounter with creatures that blur the line between reptiles and mammals. The program airs at 7 pm Tuesday, Oct. 20.
Photo: Chris Reardon ©NGT
At 7 pm Tuesday, Oct. 13, Hubble’s Amazing Rescue covers the May 2009 first-ever in-space repairs of Hubble’s defective instruments, a task that required ingenious engineering fixes and NASA’s most intensive spacewalk. The program will also include the first images from the repaired Hubble telescope.
Astronaut photo courtesy of NASA
screenwriter John Goldsmith (David Copperfield, Victoria and Albert) brings to life Charles Darwin’s anguishing decision over whether to go public with his theory of evolution—risking the fury of the church and a rift with his devoted wife. This dramatization airs on WILL-TV at 7 pm Tuesday, Oct. 6.
remarkable life Photo: Living Images by Carol Walker
loud’s t chapter in C s e t a l e Th Nature debuts its 28th season at 7 pm
Sunday, Oct. 25, with Cloud: Challenge of the Stallions, the continuing saga of the wild, white stallion that commands the largest band of wild horses in the Arrowhead Mountains of Montana. As he rules the mountains, gathering mares and expanding his reign, the story turns to his two sons. Bolder is his by birth—beautiful and golden, the success of his father and grandfather flowing in his veins. Flint, sired by another stallion, is the colt Cloud raised. Now, Bolder has gathered some mares of his own, while Flint has joined a group of bachelor stallions, young guns roaming the mountains. Who will rise to challenge the mighty Cloud? Will nature or nurture produce the next great stallion of the Arrowheads?
s Cloud and his son, Bolder, spar atop the Arrowhead Mountains.
Eight hours of The Scariest Music of All Time! It’s a central Illinois Halloween tradition to welcome neighborhood ghosts and goblins with The
Scariest Music of All Time on FM 90.9. This year’s vastly expanded program, produced by WILL Radio program director Jake Schumacher, will run from 4:06 pm to midnight on Saturday, Oct. 31, preempting etown, American Routes, Tapestry of the Times and The World Music Hour for that evening only. With no talk to interrupt this compilation of various music genres—classical, jazz and film—you can create just the right spooky mood, whether you’re taking along a portable radio for a night on the town, accompanying your own trick-or-treaters or as the soundtrack for entertaining friends at home!
It’s Halloween! Do you know where A Prairie Home Companion is? In order to accommodate The
Scariest Music of All Time on Halloween, A Prairie Home Companion will move from FM 90.9 that evening to air on AM 580 (and on the AM 580 live stream on will.illinois.edu) at its usual time of 5-7 pm. It will be back on FM 90.9 for its regular 2 pm broadcast on Sunday, Nov. 1. PATTERNS • OCTOBER 2009
Weekdays
Jake Schumacher, Program Director
WILL-FM 90.9 and HD1
101.1 in Champaign-Urbana and 106.5 in Danville
6 am The Morning Express with Vic Di Geronimo Everything you need to start your day, in one handy place! • Great classical music and companionship all morning long • A complete weather forecast at the top of each hour • NPR news headlines at 7:01, 8:01, 9:01 & 10:01 am • Frequent time and weather checks each hour • Garrison Keillor’s The Writer’s Almanac @ 7:45
10:06 am Mid-Morning Classics with Jeff Esworthy Noon Live and Local with Kevin Kelly Kevin’s lunchtime get-together features music and a daily serving of news about, and interviews with, area music-makers, plus a calendar of regional music events. Now also available on-demand each afternoon at will.illinois.edu!
1:01 pm NPR News Headlines 1:06 pm Afternoon Classics Julie Amacher, Lynn Warfel, Mindy Ratner, Gillian Martin and Bob Christiansen keep you company throughout the afternoon and early evening with music and occasional news updates, including NPR headlines at 4:01 pm and 7:01 pm.
8 pm (M-Th) The Evening Concert Great orchestras from the great concert halls!
Monday: La Jolla Music Society Summerfest/Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Gil Shaham, Cho-Liang Lin, David Shifrin et al PIAZZOLA: Tango Suite [World Premiere of Milone arr.] BRAHMS, MOZART 10/12 SPECIAL: TRAILBLAZERS AND TCHAIKOVSKY. Gustavo Dudamel conducts the Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra. and Carter Brey, Garrick Ohlsson et al PIAZZOLLA, SHOSTAKOVICH, FAURE 10/19 Ida Kavafian, The Formosa Quartet et al MOZART, DEBUSSY, RAVEL, R. SCHUMANN, BRAHMS 10/26 Leon Fleisher & Katherine Jacobson-Fleisher, piano, et al 10/5
PATTERNS • OCTOBER 2009
s Lise de la Salle (8 pm, 10/21)
SCHUBERT, DVORAK, BOLCOM, RACHMANINOFF
Tuesday: Chicago Symphony Orchestra 10/6 Jaap van Zweden, cond WAGENAAR, LISZT, BRUCKNER 10/13 Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Charles Dutoit, Osmo Vanska, cond; Lisa Batiashvili, violin All-SIBELIUS program 10/20 Honoring Chicago city father Daniel Burnham, who designed Orchestra Hall. 10/27 Daniele Gatti conducts the PROKOFIEV Piano Concerto for the Left Hand, with pianist Dmitri Alexeev.
Wednesday: San Francisco Symphony 10/7
Michael Tilson Thomas, cond; Jeremy Denk, piano BEETHOVEN, BRAHMS 10/14 Philippe Jordan, cond; Pierre-Laurent Aimard, piano BEETHOVEN, R. STRAUSS 10/21 James Gaffigan, cond; Lise de la Salle, piano MUSSORGSKY, RACHMANINOFF, CHEN YI, TCHAIKOVSKY 10/28 Roberto Minczuk, cond; Katia & Marielle Labèque, duo pianists PRADO, MARTINU, DVORAK
Thursday: Prairie Performances Roger Cooper continues our new season of regional performances with a month focusing on Allerton Music Barn Festival concerts from September. 10/1 American Brass Band Journal (9/4/09) 10/8 Czech Chamber Music (9/5/09) 10/15 The Best of Prairie Performances 2009 10/22 Boris Berman (9/6/09) 10/29 Millikin-Decatur Symphony Orchestra (9/19/09)
10:01 pm NPR News Headlines 10:06 pm (M-Th) Night Music Gillian Martin, Bob Christiansen, Ward Jacobson, Scott Blankenship or John Zech keep you company through the wee hours.
Friday evening - Set 1. Bill Charlap, Renee Rosnes, Kurt Elling, Kenny Barron, Mulgrew Miller. 10/16 The Piano Jazz 30th Anniversary Concert - Set 2. Taylor Eigsti, Cyrus Chestnut, Kenny Werner, Grace Kelly, John Bunch, John and Martin Pizzarelli. 10/23 The Piano Jazz 30th Anniversary Concert - Set 3. Cedar Walton, Dena DeRose, Arturo O’Farrill, Karrin Allyson, Randy Weston. 10/30 Remembering Blossom Dearie.
8 pm Riverwalk Jazz s Irving Berlin (5:06 pm, 10/2)
3:59 pm Living Music Weekend To guide your choices, a calendar of weekend musical events in our area, presented by Roger Cooper.
4:01 pm NPR News Headlines 4:06 pm Broadway Revisited The American musical theater, explored by Art Hilgart. 10/2 The Masochism Tango. Songs of people who enjoy suffering. 10/9 Leonard Bernstein: Overtures and Dance Music. 10/16 Kismet. The Broadway show using Borodin’s greatest hits. 10/23 Songwriters Talk and Sing. 10/30 Halloween.
5:06 pm Fascinatin’ Rhythm Michael Lasser examines the history of American popular song. 10/2 The Inevitable Berlin. 10/9 The Mills Brothers & The Ink Spots. 10/16 Dinah Shore. 10/23 Mr. Jazz Himself. 10/30 The Story of a Marriage.
6 pm The Song Is You Bonnie Grice talks with all sorts of people about the sorts of music that influenced them. 10/2 Dava Sobel. One of today’s most popular science writers. 10/9 Philip Galanas. Entertainment lawyer and New York Times advice columnist. 10/16 Paton Miller. His paintings reflect his love of the water and the exotic. 10/23 Jim Della Croce. Music manager extraordinaire. 10/30 Simon Van Booy. His newest novel is Love Begins in Winter.
7 pm Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz
The Jim Cullum Jazz Band plays classic jazz. David Holt co-hosts. 10/2 I Wish I Were Twins: The Fats Waller Bluebird Sessions. 10/9 Keyboard Wizard: Art Tatum at 100. 10/16 Jazz Centennials. What do Benny Goodman, Art Tatum, Johnny Mercer and Lester Young have in common? 10/23 Goodman, Shaw & Dorsey: Big Band Leaders & Their Small Combos. 10/30 Riverwalk Jazz 20th Anniversary Bash!
9 pm Rhythm, Sweet & Hot Rare and wonderful recordings from the ’20s through the ’50s, primarily from 78s.
10 pm Radio Deluxe Jazz singer/guitarist John Pizzarelli, his vocalist wife Jessica Molaskey and occasional guests (and family members) host a two-hour weekly music party from their “deluxe living room.” Smart and funny chat and a whole lot of classics from the American Popular Songbook! [Also Sundays from 4 to 6 pm]
Midnight Bluegrass Breakdown Nashville’s Dave Higgs presents bluegrass music, often with live performances in the mix.
1 am The Bluegrass Review More bluegrass music, interviews and features, with host Phil Nusbaum providing an historical perspective.
2 am The Folk Sampler From the foothills of the Ozarks, Mike Flynn presents folk, traditional, bluegrass and blues.
3 am The Art of the Song Exploring creativity in songwriting and other arts.
4 am Celtic Connections From Carbondale, Brian Crow plays music of Ireland, Scotland, Wales and Brittany.
Great playing, great conversation! 10/2 Remembering Dave McKenna. 10/9 The Piano Jazz 30th Anniversary Concert PATTERNS • OCTOBER 2009
Saturdays 5 am Classical Music Ward Jacobson and Lynn Warfel help you wake up, or go to sleep, depending.
7 am Weekend Blend Vincent Trauth puts on the coffee, along with classical music, weather, NPR news headlines at 7:01 and Garrison Keillor’s almanac at 8:01 am.
9:01 am NPR News Headlines 9:06 am Classics By Request John Frayne plays requests at this time each Saturday morning. Submit requests at classreq@ illinois.edu or 217-265-5084.
10 am Classics of the Phonograph John Frayne’s weekly exploration of classical music from the pre-digital recording era. 10/3 Horowitz in the Thirties. 10/10 The Bruckner Revival. 10/17 Whatever Happened to...? 10/24 Famous Violin and Piano Teams. 10/31 The Mozart Centennial Explosion.
11 am From the Top America’s best young classical musicians in live performances hosted by pianist Chris O’Riley. [Also Sundays at 6 pm, which is where you will find listings.]
Noon Afternoon at the Opera San Francisco Opera performances. John Frayne is your after-party host. 10/3 THE KNIGHT OF THE ROSE: R. Strauss. Donald Runnicles With Joyce DiDonato, Soile Isokoski and Miah Persson. 10/10 TOSCA: Puccini. Marco Armiliato, cond, with Adrianne Pieczonka, Carlo Ventre and Lado Ataneli. 10/17 SPECIAL: OPERA GALA HIT PARADE! Vote for your favorite aria! 10/24 DON GIOVANNI: Mozart. Donald Runnicles, cond, with Mariusz Kwiecien, Oren Gradus and Elza van den Heever 10/31 BEATRICE AND BENEDICT: Berlioz. Adapted by the composer in French from Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing. English translation by Geoffrey Dunn.
4:01 pm NPR News Headlines 4:06 pm Footlight Parade Bill Rudman presents musical theater from Broadway to Hollywood. 10/3 Food, Glorious Food. 10/10 Put It There, Pal. Songs about friendship.
PATTERNS • OCTOBER 2009
10/17 1957 on Stage. “West Side Story” and “The Music Man.” 10/24 All I Want. 17 characters tell us what they’re looking for in life. 10/31 SPECIAL: THE SCARIEST MUSIC OF ALL TIME! Eight frightening hours of creepy classics, jazz and film music for your Halloween activities! (See article page 3.) Note: This special preempts regularly scheduled programming until midnight on 10/31.
5 pm A Prairie Home Companion Garrison Keillor and friends present music, skits, and the latest news from Lake Wobegon. [Also Sundays at 2 pm.] Note: On 10/31, A Prairie Home Companion will air on WILL-AM 580 and online at will.illinois.edu
7 pm etown A live show featuring top bluegrass, folk and country artists, as well as conversation about our communities and our world. 10/3 Joan Osborne / Henry Butler. 10/10 The Subdudes / The Roches. 10/17 Bruce Hornsby / Dave Alvin And The Guilty Women. 10/24 Kathy Mattea / Johnny Long.
8 pm American Routes The roots and branches of American music, with host Nick Spitzer. 10/3 Prison Songs. With Merle Haggard & Aaron Neville. 10/10 In The Studio. The people who can make or break a record. 10/17 From the Archives. 10/24 How Can I Miss You When You Won’t Go Away? Dan Hicks and Commander Cody.
10 pm Tapestry of the Times Aaron Henkin guides you through the archives of Smithsonian/Folkways recordings. 10/3 Bluesmen Cephas and Wiggins, civil rights singer Bernice Johnson Reagon, and a song learned in a dream in the Malaysian rainforest. 10/10 Little Brother Montgomery, Roscoe Holcomb and Odetta. 10/17 Bluegrass from Eddie Adcock and The Country Gentlemen, St. Louis blues from JD Short, and a chant learned in a trance by an Eskimo medicine man. 10/24 Bottleneck slide guitar from Memphis bluesman Furry Lewis, vintage jazz from Mary Lou Williams and a song made from a single drop of water.
11 pm The World Music Hour Dan Storper and Rosalie Howarth take you through music of many different cultures.
Midnight Blues Before Sunrise Where every month is Black History Month! Steve Cushing explores the highways and byways of AfricanAmerican music on the best blues show on the radio!
Sundays
s Subdudes (7 pm Saturday, 10/10)
5 am Classical Music
6 pm From the Top
Scott Blankenship and Lynn Warfel select classical music for your Sunday morning, with NPR news headlines at 7:01 am and Garrison Keillor’s daily almanac at 8:01 am.
Suzanne Bona provides relaxing early music by the likes of Bach, Handel and Vivaldi, at this new time. You’ll also hear NPR news headlines at 9:01 am and 12:01 pm.
NPR’s young musician showcase. Listings are for yesterday’s 11 am broadcast and today’s repeat. 10/4 TBA 10/11 FtT alumna/singer/songwriter/pianist Stephanie Nilles, and Chicago area teen musicians Ben Fried and Clayton PenroseWhitmore. 10/18 Highlights! 10/25 From the El Paso Music Festival, celebrating the $1 million in Jack Kent Cooke Young Artist Award scholarships awarded over the past four years.
1 pm The Thistle and Shamrock
7 pm Classical Music
Fiona Ritchie hosts this program from Scotland, featuring traditional and contemporary music from Scotland, Ireland and elsewhere. 10/4 Highland Homecoming. 10/11 Patsy Seddon in Conversation. Harper/ singer of The Poozies and Sileas. 10/18 New Releases. 10/25 In Full Voice.
10:06 pm Harmonia
9 am Sunday Baroque
2 pm A Prairie Home Companion Garrison Keillor and friends with skits, music, comedy and the news from Lake Wobegon! [Also Saturdays at 5 pm, except 10/31]
4 pm Radio Deluxe Jazz singer/guitarist John Pizzarelli, his vocalist wife Jessica Molaskey and occasional guests (and family members) host a two-hour weekly music party from their “deluxe living room.” Smart and funny chat and a whole lot of classics from the American Popular Songbook! [Also Fridays at 10 pm]
Valerie Kahler is your Sunday evening host; NPR news headlines air at 7:01 and 10:01.
Angela Mariani presents an hour of Baroque and early music, including the latest releases. 10/4 Celtic Music/Early Music. 10/11 Handel in Hanover, Duesseldorf, and London. 10/18 Music for the Freemasons: Haydn and Mozart. 10/25 Thoinot Arbeau’s “Orchesographie.”
11:06 pm The Romantic Hours Music, poetry and romance, seamlessly woven by Mona Golabek.
Midnight Classical Music Scott Blankenship eases you into the new week.
PATTERNS • OCTOBER 2009
tv
Primetime Schedule
WILL-TV
Monday-Friday
Nightly News Programming 9:00 NewsHour with Jim Lehrer 10:00 Nightly Business Report 10:30 Worldfocus
Mondays Cooking
Solid Black
(midnight-2 am; 6-8am; noon-2pm, 6-8pm) Sun and Wed: America’s Test Kitchen, Lidia’s Italy, Secrets of a Chef, Barbeque University Mon and Fri: Simply Ming, Lidia’s Italy, Daisy Cooks, Joanne Weir Tue and Thu: Mexico-One Plate at a Time, Baking with Julia, Christina Cooks
Travel (2-3am, 8-9am, 2-3pm, 8-9pm) Sun, Mon, Wed, Fri: Rick Steves, Equitrekking Tue and Thu: Rick Steves, Burt Wolf
Gardening/Home Improvement (3-5am, 9-11am, 3-5pm, 9-11pm) Sun and Wed: Garden Smart, Ask This Old House, For Your Home, Cultivating Life, Katie Brown Workshop Mon and Fri: Garden Smart, This Old House, American Woodshop, Cultivating Life Tue and Thu: Victory Garden, New Yankee Workshop, Glass with Vicki Payne, Woodsmith Shop
7:00 8:00 11:00
Hotspots (10/5) Buffalo Flows (10/12) Wildside: Costa Rica (10/19) Arabian Horse (10/26) Nature (10/5, 10/12, 10/19, 10/26) Hotspots (10/5) Return of the Cuyahoga (10/12) Eden at the End of the World (10/19) Horses of Gettysburg (10/26)
7:00 8:00 11:00
Broadside (10/6) Expo: Magic of the White City (10/13) River Into the New World (10/20) American Experience (10/27) Liberty or Death (10/6) Damrell’s Fire (10/13) Hudson River Journeys (10/20) Zora’s Roots (10/27) Broadside (10/6) Expo: Magic of the White City (10/13) East of the Blue Ridge: The James River (10/20) Herbert Hoover: Landslide (10/27)
Tuesdays
ednesdays W 7:00 Independent Lens (10/14, 10/21, 10/28) 8:00 Voces (10/7) Frontline (10/14, 10/21, 10/28) 11:00 Expose: America’s Investigative Reports (10/7) Voces (10/14, 10/21, 10/28) 11:30 PBS Special Report: Health Care Reform (10/7)
Thursdays
s Rick Steves
s Donna Dewberry
Arts and Crafts (5-6am, 11-noon, 5-6pm, 11-midnight) Sun and Wed: Knit and Crochet, Beauty of Oil Painting Mon and Fri: Sewing with Nancy, Donna Dewberry Tue and Thu: Your Brush with Nature, Best of Joy of Painting
Saturday Marathons in October October 3: Richard Bangs’ Adventureland Excitement around every corner on these voyages! October 10: Lidia’s Day Premier chef Lidia Bastianich prepares foods inspired by her travels to Italy. October 17: Pizza Party Chefs Joanne Weir, Mary Ann Esposito, Christina Pirello and Todd English make their favorites! October 24: Safari Travel to Africa, Asia and South America to see animals in their natural habitat. October 31: Trick or Treat Chris Fennimore and Emily Luche make Halloween party treats; Donna Erickson has costume ideas that just use a sweat suit.
PATTERNS • OCTOBER 2009
7:00 8:00 11:00
NOVA Scientific American Frontiers World’s Toughest Math Contest (10/22) NOVA ScienceNow (10/1, 10/8) Scientific American Frontiers (10/15, 10/29) A Portrait of Paul Erdos (10/22)
7:00 8:00 11:00
The National Park-to-Park Highway (10/2) Body and Soul: Diana and Kathy (10/9) The National Park-to-Park Highway (10/2) The John Robinson Story (10/9) Voces (10/16) Chicano Rock! (10/23) Jewels of the Jungle (10/30) The National Park-to-Park Highway (10/2) Including Samuel (10/9) Latin Music USA (10/16, 10/23) The Botany of Desire (10/30)
7:00 8:00 9:00 10:00 11:00
Nature History Detectives History Detectives Scientific American Frontiers World’s Toughest Math Contest (10/24) History Detectives (10/3) Nature
Fridays
Saturdays
S undays 7:00 NOW on PBS 7:30 McLaughlin Group 8:00 Bill Moyers Journal 9:00 Global Voices 10:00 Voces 11:00 NOW on PBS 11:30 McLaughlin Group
tv daytime
David Thiel, Program Director
WILL-TV
Monday - Friday
Saturday
Sunday
5:00
Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood
French in Action
Body Electric (M, W, F) Sit and Be Fit (T, Th)
5:30
Angelina Ballerina
Destinos
Between the Lions
6:00
Curious George
Curious George
Cyberchase
6:30
Sid the Science Kid
Sid the Science Kid
Curious George
7:00
Super WHY!
Super WHY!
Sid the Science Kid
7:30
Dinosaur Train
Dinosaur Train
Super WHY!
8:00
Thomas & Friends
Clifford the Big Red Dog
Dinosaur Train
8:30
Bob the Builder
Word Girl
Sesame Street
9:00
Martha Speaks
Electric Company
9:30
A Place of Our Own
Biz Kid$
Market to Market (M) World Focus (T-F) Solid Black Black Solid
To the Contrary
WordWorld Barney & Friends
10:00 This Old House Hour 10:30 11:00 Illinois Gardener
Dragon Tales
11:30 Victory Garden
Market to Market
It's a Big Big World
Noon America’s Test Kitchen 12:30 Cook's Country
The McLaughlin Group
1:00 1:30 2:00 2:30 3:00 3:30 4:00 4:30
Chefs A’ Field
Foreign Exchange
Secrets of a Chef
Motorweek
Joanne Weir’s Cooking Class
Woodwright’s Shop
Avec Eric
Hometime
Africa Trek
This Old House Hour
5:00 5:30 6:00
Prairie Fire
Open Road
Rick Steves’ Europe
Red Green Show
Lawrence Welk
Doctor Who
Clifford
A Place of Our Own
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Painting Programs
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How Tos
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Sewing Programs
Martha Speaks Arthur WordGirl Electric Company Fetch/Design Squad (F) BBC World News Nightly Business Report The NewsHour 1:00 pm Sewing M: Fons & Porter’s Love of Quilting Tu: Sewing with Nancy W: America Sews Th: Martha’s Sewing Room F: Knitting Daily
Travelscope History Detectives
Wealthtrack America’s Heartland
eligion + Ethics R Newsweekly
Garden Home
Victory Garden
1:30 pm Painting M: Best of Joy of Painting Tu: Love to Paint with Mimi W: Jerry Yarnell/Gary Spetz’s Watercolor Quest (starts 10/21) Th: Beauty of Oil Painting/ Painting with Paulson (starts 10/8) F: Passport & Palette
2:00 pm How Tos M: Piano Guy Tu: Wai Lana Yoga W: Garden Smart Th: For Your Home F: Katie Brown’s Workshop/Donna Dewberry Show (starts 10/16)
PATTERNS • OCTOBER 2009
WILL-TV
october tv features Award-winning film chronicles life with Parkinson’s Paul Schroder graduated at the top of his class in electrical engineering, then was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. After a decade of being on medication and growing increasingly debilitated, he decides that radical brain surgery is preferable to sitting on the couch for the rest of his life. Shaken: The Journey into the Mind of a Parkinson’s Patient follows Paul as he lies awake on an operating table while doctors implant electrodes in his brain and a neurostimulation device underneath his collarbone. The results of this surgery are mysterious, miraculous and bittersweet. This program comes to WILL-TV at 9:30 pm Sunday, Oct. 18. Gustavo Dudamel
s Latin Music USA
Creating a new music From Latin jazz and mambo to salsa, Tejano, Chicano rock, Latin pop and reggaeton, Latin Music USA tells the story of the rise of new American music forged from powerful Latin roots and reveals the often overlooked influence of Latin music on jazz, hip hop, rhythm and blues, and rock ’n’ roll—and on all of American culture. This fresh take on America’s musical history reaches across time and musical genres to embrace the exciting hybrid sounds created by Latinos—musical fusions that have deeply enriched U.S. popular music over more than five decades. Carlos Santana, Los Lobos, Gloria Estefan, Ricky Martin and many others are featured in the four-part documentary. Episodes one and two debut at 8 pm Monday, Oct. 12, with the other two episodes at 8 pm Monday, Oct. 19.
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Los Angeles Philharmonic Opening Gala Bursting onto the international scene in 1999 as the 18-year-old conductor of the Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela, Gustavo Dudamel has taken the classical music world by storm. This fall, he becomes the new music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Great Performances’ program at 7 pm Wednesday, Oct. 21, joins the opening night festivities for Dudamel’s inaugural gala concert at the Walt Disney Concert Hall. The planned program includes Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 1, as well as the premiere of John Adams’ City Noir.
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WILL-TV All-new views from Independent Lens Herb and Dorothy Vogel defied stereotypes and redefined what it means to be an art collector. With their modest means, the couple managed to build one of the most important contemporary art collections in history. Their story, Herb and Dorothy, debuts at 9 pm Friday, Oct. 16. Then at 9 pm Friday, Oct. 23, Butte, America tells the tale of Butte, Mont.— once the world’s largest producer of copper—through the dramatic personal stories of five generations of mining families. Journal of a Wily School (9 pm Friday, Oct. 30) examines the common practice of pickpocketing in Kolkata, India. The police offer a young pickpocket, Azad, a full pardon if he helps track down more notorious criminals. Azad must choose whether he’ll collaborate with the police or risk it all for life on the streets. s Butte miners at Speculator Mine, circa 1900 Host Michael Pollan
Inside the plant world Featuring Michael Pollan and based on his best-selling book, this special takes viewers on an eye-opening exploration of the human relationship with the plant world—seen from the plants’ point of view. The Botany of Desire (7 pm Wednesday, Oct. 28) shows how four familiar species—the apple, the tulip, marijuana and the potato—evolved to satisfy our yearnings for sweetness, beauty, intoxication and control. Rembrandt Tulip in Hortus Bulborum Gardens, Netherlands
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1Thursday 7:00 National Parks: America’s Best Idea (TV-PG) (DVS) Great Nature (1933-1945). National parks provide a source of jobs and peace, but new thinking is bringing change to these public spaces. Repeated 9 pm; midnight and 2 am Friday. 11:01 Charlie Rose
2Friday 7:00 National Parks: America’s Best Idea (TV-G) (DVS) The Morning of Creation (19461980). America’s “Last Frontier” becomes a testing ground for the future of the park idea, and unprecedented numbers of families enjoy the parks. Repeated 9 pm; midnight and 2 am Saturday. 11:01 Charlie Rose
3Saturday 7:00 Antiques Roadshow (TV-G) Spokane, Wash. Part 2 of 3. 8:00 BritCom Saturday Night See above. 11:30 Austin City Limits (TV-G) Dave Matthews Band.
4Sunday 7:00 Nature (TV-PG) Supersize Crocs. Hosted by world-renowned herpetologist Romulus Whitaker, an attempt to discover the last of these leviathans. 8:00 Masterpiece Mystery! (TV-PG) (DVS) Inspector Lewis, Series II: Allegory of Love. To find the killer of a barmaid, Lewis and Hathaway must uncover connections between the victim and an Oxford professor, a literary society, and a book by Oxford’s hottest new author. Repeated midnight Monday; and 3 am Tuesday. 9:29 Fifteen Legs (TV-G) Animal rights activists create no-kill shelters and develop a network of volunteer animal transporters to save domestic animals. 9:58 Your Weather 10:02 Globe Trekker (TV-G) (DVS) Globe Trekker Special: Best American Hikes. 11:00 Jubilee (TV-G) Foghorn String Band.
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5Monday 7:00 Antiques Roadshow (TV-G) Spokane, Wash. Part 3 of 3. Repeated 2 am Tuesday; 4 am Wednesday; 3 and 7 pm Saturday. 8:00 Inventing LA: The Chandlers and Their Times (TV-PG) Trace the emergence of modern Los Angeles during the single-family reign of four publishers of the Los Angeles Times. Repeated midnight Tuesday; and 2 am Wednesday. 9:58 Your Weather 10:02 Last of the Summer Wine 10:32 Are You Being Served? 11:03 Charlie Rose
6Tuesday 7:00 NOVA (TV-PG) Darwin In Crisis. Part 1 of 2. See article page 2. Repeated midnight Wednesday; and 3 am Thursday. 8:00 NOVA (TV-PG) Darwin in Crisis. Part 2 of 2. See article page 2. Repeated 1 am Wednesday; 4 am Thursday; and 1 am Sunday. 9:00 Gearing Up (TV-G) A look inside the national engineering competition sponsored by FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) that pits 35,000 high school student teams from around the U.S. in a robotics contest. 9:58 Your Weather 10:02 Last of the Summer Wine 10:32 Are You Being Served? 11:03 Charlie Rose
7Wednesday 7:00 Craft In America (TV-PG) (DVS) Origins. The beginnings of the American craft movement, featuring artists who tie their work to early craft techniques. Repeated midnight Thursday; 2 am Friday; and 2 am Monday. 8:00 Craft In America (TV-PG) (DVS) Process. The inspirations that drove various artists to choose a career in craft, including demonstrations of how they acquire the knowledge and necessary skills. Repeated 1 am Thursday; 3 am Friday; and 3 am Monday. 9:00 Art in the Twenty-First Century (TV-PG) (DVS) Compassion. Artists whose works explore the possibility of understanding and reconciling past and present, while exposing injustice and expressing tolerance for others. Repeated 4 am Friday; and 4 am Monday. 9:58 Your Weather 10:02 Last of the Summer Wine 10:32 Are You Being Served? 11:03 Charlie Rose
8Thursday 7:00 Illinois Gardener Repeated 11 am Saturday. 7:30 Life (Part 2) (TV-PG) Caregiving. Physician Esther Sternberg, novelist Tommy Hays and author Gail Sheehy discuss the need to care for yourself while
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you are caring for a loved one. This Old House Hour (TV-G) Repeated 10 am Saturday; and 3 pm Sunday. Power of the Poor (TV-G) The story of how a small group of economists helped defeat Peru’s brutal Shining Path terrorists and pass legal reforms that set the stage for Peru’s economic resurgence. Repeated 1 am Friday; and 2 am Saturday. Your Weather Last of the Summer Wine Are You Being Served? Charlie Rose
9Friday 7:00 Public Affairs See page 12. 9:00 Original Intent: The Battle for America (TV-G) (DVS) An examination of the judicial philosophy, known as original intent, that promotes interpretation of the U.S. Constitution in the same way as it was viewed by the nation’s Founding Fathers. 9:58 Your Weather 10:02 Last of the Summer Wine 10:32 Are You Being Served? 11:03 Charlie Rose
10Saturday 7:00 Antiques Roadshow (TV-G) Spokane, Wash. Part 3 of 3. 8:00 BritCom Saturday Night See page 12. 11:30 Austin City Limits (TV-PG) Ben Harper and Relentless 7.
8:00 Masterpiece Mystery! (TV-PG) (DVS) Inspector Lewis, Series II: Quality of Mercy. When an actor is murdered during a student Shakespeare production, Lewis and Hathaway sift through the motives of several suspects, revealing a dark secret that hits Lewis eerily close to home. Repeated midnight Monday; and 3 am Tuesday. 9:29 It All Adds Up (TV-G) Wayne State University’s Math Corps partners struggling middle and high-school students from Detroit’s public schools with collegians who help teach vital math and life skills. 9:58 Your Weather 10:02 Globe Trekker (TV-G) (DVS) Portugal & The Azores. 11:00 Jubilee (TV-G) Berline – Crary – Hickman.
12Monday 7:00 Antiques Roadshow (TV-G) San Antonio, Tex. Part 1 of 3. Repeated 2 am Tuesday; 4 am Wednesday; 3 and 7 pm Saturday. 8:00 Latin Music USA (TV-PG) Bridges/The Salsa Revolution. See article page 10. Repeated midnight Tuesday; and 2 am Wednesday. 9:58 Your Weather 10:02 Last of the Summer Wine 10:32 Are You Being Served? 11:03 Charlie Rose
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11Sunday 7:00 Nature (TV-PG) Raptor Force. Using footage from cameras mounted on their backs, see why falcons, owls, eagles and hawks are masters of the sky, and why aeronautics engineers use their body designs as the basis of new aircraft technology.
7:00 NOVA (TV-G) Hubble’s Amazing Rescue. See article page 2. Repeated 1 am Wednesday; and 4 am Thursday. 8:00 Frontline Obama’s War. Frontline producers examine current U.S. counter-insurgency strategy in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Repeated midnight Wednesday; 3 am Thursday; and 1 am Sunday.
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Espírito Santo, Cliff
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Holzer, Rashid Johnson, Jeon Joonho, Sylvan Lionni, Adam McEwen, David Opdyke, Hito Steyerl, Los Torreznos
Eva Grubinger, Crowd, 2007. Tensabarriers and paint. Courtesy of the artist. Installation view: Berlinische Galerie / The State Museum for Modern Art, Photography and Architecture, Berlin. © 2009 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn.
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WILL-TV 9:00 Hard Problems: The Road to the World’s Toughest Math Contest Meet the six extraordinarily gifted high school students who represented the United States at the 2006 International Mathematical Olympiad, competing against 500 students from 90 countries. 9:58 Your Weather 10:02 Last of the Summer Wine 10:32 Are You Being Served? 11:03 Charlie Rose
14Wednesday 7:00 American Masters (TV-PG) Joan Baez: How Sweet The Sound. See article page 1. Repeated midnight Thursday; 2 am Friday; and 2 am Monday. 8:30 Queen Family (TV-G) (DVS) Matriarch Mary Jane Queen, her children and grandchildren perform folk music and discuss their family traditions in the Southern Highlands. Repeated 1:30 am Thursday; 3:30 am Friday; and 3:30 am Monday. 9:00 Art in the Twenty-First Century (TV-PG) (DVS) Fantasy. An in-depth look at four artists whose works or personal stories transport viewers to imaginary worlds and altered states of consciousness. Repeated 4 am Friday; and 4 am Monday. 9:58 Your Weather 10:02 Last of the Summer Wine 10:32 Are You Being Served? 11:03 Charlie Rose
15Thursday 7:00 Illinois Gardener Repeated 11 am Saturday. 7:30 Life (Part 2) (TV-PG) Dancing with Doctors. How baby boomers can ensure quality medical treatment for their parents, their kids and themselves; Emmy Awardwinning comedy writer/producer Bill Persky describes his second career as a professional patient taking care of his own health.
8:00 This Old House Hour (TV-G) Repeated 10 am Saturday; and 3 pm Sunday. 9:00 Keeping Score (TV-G) Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique. Written to win the heart of a beautiful actress, this orchestral sonic spectacular demanded sacrifice from its author and his audience. Repeated 1 am Friday; and 2 am Saturday. 9:58 Your Weather 10:02 Last of the Summer Wine 10:32 Are You Being Served? 11:03 Charlie Rose
16Friday 7:00 Public Affairs See page 12. 9:00 Independent Lens Herb & Dorothy. See article page 11. 9:58 Your Weather 10:02 Last of the Summer Wine 10:32 Are You Being Served? 11:03 Charlie Rose
17Saturday 7:00 Antiques Roadshow (TV-G) San Antonio, Tex. Part 1 of 3. Repeated from 7 pm Monday. 8:00 BritCom Saturday Night 11:30 Austin City Limits (TV-PG) Kenny Chesney.
18Sunday 7:00 Nature (TV-PG) (DVS) Rhinoceros. Follow a team of experts working to protect rhinos from poachers by relocating them to better habitats and breeding them in captivity. 8:00 Masterpiece Mystery! (TV-PG) (DVS) Inspector Lewis, Series II: The Point of Vanishing. The murder of a small-time criminal leads Lewis and Hathaway to a prominent Oxford don-turned-celebrity atheist, who years earlier had been the intended target of a botched
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murder attempt. Repeated midnight Monday; and 3 am Tuesday. Shaken: Journey Into The Mind of a Parkinson’s Patient (TV-G) (DVS) See article page 10. Your Weather Globe Trekker (TV-G) (DVS) Panama & Colombia. Jubilee (TV-G) Michael Cleveland & the Flamekeeper Band with Audie Blaylock.
19Monday 7:00 Antiques Roadshow (TV-G) San Antonio, Tex. Part 2 of 3. Repeated 2 am Tuesday; 4 am Wednesday; 3 am and 7 pm Saturday. 8:00 Latin Music USA (TV-PG) The Chicano Wave/Divas and Superstars. See article page 10. Repeated midnight Tuesday; and 2 am Wednesday. 9:58 Your Weather 10:02 Last of the Summer Wine 10:32 Are You Being Served? 11:03 Charlie Rose
20Tuesday 7:00 NOVA (TV-PG) Lizard Kings. See article page 2. Repeated 1 am Wednesday; and 4 am Thursday. 8:00 Frontline The Warning. Producer/director Michael Kirk uncovers a concerted effort not to regulate the highly complex and lucrative derivatives markets. Repeated midnight Wednesday; 3 am Thursday; and 1 am Sunday. 9:00 In Performance at the White House Fiesta Latina. 9:58 Your Weather 10:02 Last of the Summer Wine 10:32 Are You Being Served? 11:03 Charlie Rose
21Wednesday 7:00 Great Performances (TV-G) The Los Angeles Philharmonic Opening Gala with Gustavo Dudamel. See article page 10. Repeated midnight Thursday; 2 am Friday; and 2 am Monday. 9:00 Art in the Twenty-First Century (TV-PG) (DVS) Transformation. Whether observing and satirizing society or reinventing icons of literature, art history and popular culture, the artists featured in this episode capture the sensibilities of our age while at times inhabiting the characters they have created. Repeated 4 am Friday; and 4 am Monday. 9:58 Your Weather 10:02 Last of the Summer Wine 10:32 Are You Being Served? 11:03 Charlie Rose
22Thursday 7:00 Illinois Gardener Repeated 11 am Saturday.
7:30 Life (Part 2) (TV-PG) Money Is Love. A financial planner, social psychologist and economist discuss how to be smart about financial issues within your own family and a look at aging affects men and women differently. 8:00 This Old House Hour (TV-G) Repeated 10 am Saturday; and 3 pm Sunday. 9:00 Keeping Score (TV-G) Ives: Holiday Symphony. The music of early 20th-century composer Charles Ives, performed by the San Francisco Symphony, explores how to survive the relentless assault of our own success. Repeated 1 am Friday; and 2 am Saturday. 9:58 Your Weather 10:02 Last of the Summer Wine 10:32 Are You Being Served? 11:03 Charlie Rose
23Friday 7:00 Public Affairs See page 12. 9:00 Independent Lens Butte, America. See article page 11. 9:58 Your Weather 10:02 Last of the Summer Wine 10:32 Are You Being Served? 11:03 Charlie Rose
24Saturday 7:00 Antiques Roadshow (TV-G) San Antonio, Tex. Part 2 of 3. Repeated from 7 pm Monday. 8:00 BritCom Saturday Night See page 12. 11:30 Austin City Limits (TV-PG) Andrew Bird/St. Vincent.
25Sunday 7:00 Nature (TV-PG) Cloud: Challenge of the Stallions. See article page 3. Repeated 4 am Tuesday. 8:00 Masterpiece Contemporary (TV-PG) (DVS) Endgame. See article page 1. Repeated midnight Monday; and 2 am Tuesday. 9:58 Your Weather 10:02 Globe Trekker (TV-G) (DVS) Queensland & The Great Barrier Reef. 11:00 Woodsongs (TV-G) Richie Havens.
26Monday 7:00 Antiques Roadshow (TV-G) Unique Antiques. Repeated 1 am Tuesday; 4 am Wednesday; 3 am and 7 pm Saturday. 8:00 American Experience (TV-G) (DVS) The Crash of 1929. A chronicle of the year the boom went bust, as seen through the experiences of the descendants of the bankers, brokers and speculators who helped create the economic boom of the 1920s. Repeated midnight Tuesday; and 2 am Wednesday. 9:00 Herbert Hoover: Landslide (TV-G) An exploration of the facts and fictions behind Hoover, including his political philosophy, The Great Depression, the lasting impact of his PATTERNS • OCTOBER 2009 15
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policy decisions and the role of the Federal Reserve. Repeated 3 am Wednesday. Your Weather Last of the Summer Wine Are You Being Served? Charlie Rose
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27Tuesday 7:00 NOVA (TV-PG) (DVS) Family That Walks On All Fours. A scientific debate has ignited around a family living in rural Turkey—a family of five adults who walk on all fours. Repeated 1 am Wednesday; and 4 am Thursday. 8:00 Frontline Close to Home. Through the stories of people at the New York City hair salon she has visited for 20 years, producer Ofra Bikel chronicles the experiences of a group of middle class Americans during the recession. Repeated midnight Wednesday; and 3 am Thursday. 9:00 Tattooed Under Fire (TV-PG) A portrait of Iraq-bound and returning U.S. soldiers as they go under the tattoo needle, revealing the inner lives of young men and women. 9:58 Your Weather 10:02 Last of the Summer Wine 10:32 Are You Being Served? 11:03 Charlie Rose
28Wednesday 7:00 The Botany of Desire (TV-PG) See article page 11. Repeated midnight Thursday; and 2 am Friday. 9:00 Art in the Twenty-First Century (TV-PG) (DVS) Systems. Artists invent new processes to convey the attitudes of today’s supercharged, information-based society, examining why we find comfort in some systems while rebelling against others. Repeated 4 am Friday. 9:58 Your Weather 10:02 Last of the Summer Wine
7:00 Illinois Gardener Repeated 11 am Saturday. 7:30 Life (Part 2) (TV-PG) Fighting Ageism. How Baby Boomers can recognize and fight ageism in their lives; Columbia professor Edward Mendelson describes how great literature can inform our understanding of aging. 8:00 This Old House Hour (TV-G) Repeated 10 am Saturday; and 3 pm Sunday. 9:00 Keeping Score (TV-G) Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5. Investigate the arresting symphony that would either redeem Shostakovich or condemn him to the Gulag. Repeated 1 am Friday; and 2 am Saturday. 9:58 Your Weather 10:02 Last of the Summer Wine 10:32 Are You Being Served? 11:03 Charlie Rose
30Friday 7:00 Public Affairs See page 12. 9:00 Independent Lens Journals of a Wily School. See article page 11. 9:58 Your Weather 10:02 Last of the Summer Wine 10:32 Are You Being Served? 11:03 Charlie Rose
31Saturday 7:00 Antiques Roadshow (TV-G) Unique Antiques. Repeated from 7 pm Monday. 8:00 BritCom Saturday Night See page 12. 11:30 Austin City Limits (TV-PG) M. Ward/Okkervil River.
Ian Hobson, music director
Exploring the New World Henry Skolnick, contrabassoon Jim Pugh, trombone Copland Bruns Blanton Beethoven
7:30 p.m. Saturday November 7
El Salón México Concerto for Contrabassoon and Orchestra Op. 98 Sonant Voyage Symphony No. 3, Op. 55, in E-flat Major “Eroica”
For more information contact the Krannert Center Ticket Office, call 217/333-6280 or 800/kcpatix or visit www.krannertcenter.com
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The 2009–2010 Season
Emmy nominations recognize excellence The WILL-TV
documentaries Lincoln: Prelude to the Presidency and Memorial Stadium: True Illini Spirit have been nominated for four Mid-America Emmy Awards.
WILL presents
An Evening with David Sedaris With sardonic wit and incisive social
The Lincoln program, which focused on Abraham Lincoln’s experiences as a lawyer on the circuit in central Illinois, was nominated for best historical documentary. Alison Davis Wood produced the program, and Tim Hartin and Colin Hartin were co-producers.
critiques, David Sedaris has become one of America’s pre-eminent humor writers, and is frequently called one of the most observant writers addressing the human condition today. He became famous on Morning Edition, heard weekdays at 5 am on AM 580, and also on This American Life, which airs at 1 pm Saturdays and 6 pm Sundays on AM 580. Now you can see him live when WILL presents a special Sedaris performance of selected readings at 8 pm Friday, Oct. 16, at The Virginia Theatre in downtown Champaign.
Wood was also nominated in the program writing category, and Tim Hartin and Colin Hartin were nominated along with Julius Bolton for program photography, all for the Lincoln documentary. Memorial Stadium: True Illini Spirit, produced by Denise La Grassa and John Paul, was also nominated as best historical documentary. It told the history of the University of Illinois football stadium. The Memorial Stadium program aired on WILL-TV and other Illinois PBS stations in September 2008, and the Lincoln documentary aired last February on PBS stations across the country during Lincoln’s Bicentennial.
He is the author of Barrel Fever and Holidays on Ice, as well as several collections of personal essays (Naked, Me Talk Pretty One Day, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, and When You Are Engulfed in Flames), each of which became a bestseller. Sedaris’ pieces appear regularly in The New Yorker and have twice been included in “The Best American Essays.”
The Emmy Awards will be presented in St. Louis on Saturday, Oct. 3.
For ticket information, visit The Virginia Theatre box office or call 217-356-9063.
The Deconstructed Orchestra Saturday, October 24, 2009 7:00 pm Concert Conversation 7:30 pm Concert Begins Faith United Methodist Church 1719 S. Prospect Ave., Champaign Solomon Baer, clarinet
The ultimate in our particular brand of musical eclecticism!
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ed the high school dropout rate in Decatur; both WILL-TV and WILL-AM produced programs and collaborated to share planning and information. For WILL graphic designer Laura Adams, getting to know people in all facets of the WILL operation influenced her work. “All those hallway conversations and what you hear in the lunchroom are an informal way of learning about the work people do. Better understanding makes for a better design,” she said. David Inge, who worked on programs for both television and radio, no longer had to make an appointment and trek across campus to meet with his producer. He could just walk downstairs and stick his head in the door, making it easier to brainstorm and plan programs.
Campbell Hall is a beautiful building with an airy atrium, spacious offices and state-ofthe-art TV and radio studios. This month, we are celebrating 10 years in our new home, made possible by a generous gift from Robert and Alice Campbell. It is a much more elegant and comfortable place to work than the old buildings scattered across campus that previously housed WILL. But if you ask longtime WILL staff members about the move to Campbell Hall, most of them say the biggest change for them has been the uniting of the entire WILL operation in one building. TV staffers got to know radio staffers; radio staffers became friendlier with development staffers. The familiarity has had a direct impact on the way that WILL listeners, viewers, Web site visitors and community members experience WILL. “It began to make possible a way of operating that bridges radio, television and the Web,” said Jack Brighton, director of new media and innovation. “That was really hard to do when we were separated.” One project in the early years of Campbell Hall, among the first of a growing number of projects in the community, target18 PATTERNS • OCTOBER 2009
The modern telecommunications building itself, however, did make a dramatic impact on both the on-air product and working conditions. TV production staff no longer had to worry that drips from a leaky studio roof would hit on-air talent in the face. Vic Di Geronimo, host of WILL-FM’s The Morning Express, said the old FM studio was in Gregory Hall, a classroom building where chairs scraping and textbooks falling on the floor above could sometimes be heard on the air. “I remember doing an interview with Sir Peter Maxwell Davies when all of a sudden the radiators started clanging,” he said. “He made a comment that it sounded like something was coming alive.” Now, he said, outside sound doesn’t reach the studios. “Occasionally we’ll hear a very loud clap of thunder.”
Donor Profile: Rob and Dot Beldon Time and time again during the 32 years he worked as chief engineer for WILL, Rob Beldon saw equipment purchases delayed because other pressing needs took priority. “I knew how things got budgeted,” said Rob, who retired in 1988. “If you wanted to make a major change in equipment, you couldn’t put it in an annual budget. You had to find other funding.”
October 14-20
Show your support for WILL radio What value do you place on the news, weather, agriculture, talk shows, music and community information that you rely on from AM 580 and FM 90.9? You may say it’s priceless, but providing quality programs does have a price tag. We’re very fortunate to have the Friends of WILL as vital partners in making our radio resources possible and it’s time once again to ask for your help. This year’s pledge period kicks off with Power Hour at 7 am Wednesday, Oct. 14, on AM 580 and FM 90.9. “WILL Radio conducted its first Power Hour in October 2006 and we’ve started each Power Hour of our radio pledge drives this way ever since,” said Rita Schulte, membership director. “That’s when we try to raise a full day’s amount of dollars in just one hour.” So please help us continue serving you with the best in AM and FM radio for central Illinois. Make your pledge Oct. 14-20 or anytime at will.illinois.edu.
So when WILL sought funds to equip its new home in Campbell Hall, Rob and his wife, Dot, were among the first to make a gift. Their contribution helped purchase equipment for the Meteorology Center and the Engineering Center, and both centers feature plaques with the Beldons’ names. Visiting the completed building was a treat for the whole Beldon family. “We took everybody there to visit. The grandkids wanted to see the station where grandpa had worked,” Dot said. Spending his career in many of WILL’s old buildings scattered across campus, Rob was aware that a new space was needed. “I knew what WILL was facing with leaky roofs and cramped space,” he said. The Beldons also made a lead gift to WILL’s fund for digital radio broadcasting. Rob, who is secretary to four different Masonic organizations, still retains a keen interest in WILL, keeping his digital radio tuned to AM 580 during most of the day. Dot, who keeps a full schedule of club and church activities, is a fan of AM’s local talk shows and of WILL-TV’s British comedies. Knowing and appreciating the WILL stations as they do, they found it rewarding to make special gifts for equipment. “It was a lot of fun to help get a couple of these projects off the ground,” Rob said.
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FM 90.9 HD2 and HD3
Jake Schumacher, Program Director
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Commodity Week Illinois Gardener Weekend Edition Car Talk Wait Wait ... Don’t Tell Me State Week in Review Commodity Week Travel with Rick Steves This American Life
Inside Europe
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On the Media Media Matters with Bob McChesney The Tavis Smiley Show
All Things Considered
All Things Considered
The People’s Pharmacy
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Keepin’ the Faith with Steve Shoemaker This American Life
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Living on Earth
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Morning Edition
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BBC World Briefing
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The Afternoon Magazine hwith Celeste Quinn
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BBC World Service
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All Things Considered Fresh Air The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer Mon: Commonwealth Club Tue: City Club Forum Wed: A World of Possibilities Thurs: Bookworm Fri: State Week in Review Thurs: New Letters on the Air Fri: Washington Week
11:00- BBC World Service 5 am Bold Listing = National/International News AM 580 Listener Comments: 217-333-0853 / willamfm@illinois.edu
For further news, weather and Webcasts, visit us online at will.illinois.edu.
Focus 580: 10:06 am
10/7 Cooking 10/13 Lawn & Garden 10/16 Personal Finance 10/19 Home Care 10/12 Family Health (11:06 am)
The Afternoon Magazine: 1:06 pm 10/2 Dog Behavior 10/5 Diet and Nutrition 10/19 Computers & You
Saturday Specials: 6 pm
10/3 Sidetrack 10/10 The State We’re In: Columbus Day Special: Indigenous Rights 10/17 We Shall Remain 10/24 Mind the Gap: Why Good Schools are Failing Black Students 10/31 Halloween Special: A Prairie Home Companion (begins at 5 pm) 20 PATTERNS • OCTOBER 2009
Latino USA World Vision Report
Weekend Edition Says You Car Talk
To the Best of Our Knowledge
Alternative Radio
New Dimensions
CounterSpin
Le Show
Humankind BBC World Service
BBC World Service
Agriculture Dave Dickey, agriculture director; Todd Gleason, host, Closing Market Report & Commodity Week
Pre-Opening Market Report: 8:49 am; Opening Market Report: 9:49 am; Market Update: 10:58 and 11:58 am; Ag and Stock Market Report: 12:55 pm; Closing Market Report: 2:06 pm. To listen to archived ag reports, sign up for the AM 580 Ag E-Letter, or download our agricultural podcasts, visit www.willag.org. Call 217-333-3434 for daily market analysis.
Weather Ed Kieser, chief meteorologist; Mike Sola, weather producer
Talk to Ed & Talk to Mike Fridays 7:50 am & 12:40 pm Call 217-333-9455 or 800-222-9455 with your weather-related questions. Watch WILL-TV for nightly YourWeather.
Monday-Friday Weather Forecast: 5:35, 6:35, 7:35, 8:35, 9:35 am; 12:35, 4:33, 5:33 pm Saturday and Sunday Occasional Updates
AM 580 News Tom Rogers, news director
The news from AM 580’s award-winning staff of reporters — Tom Rogers, Jim Meadows and Jeff Bossert—can be heard during Morning Edition, The Afternoon Magazine and All Things Considered.
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Nicole Cabell, soprano Buried Child Krannert Uncorked Sinfonia da Camera: Tales of Shakespeare Vanguard Jazz Orchestra Dessert and Conversation: Buried Child Orquestra de São Paulo with Dame Evelyn Glennie, percussion Hip Hop Project: Insight into the Hip Hop Generation New Orleans’ Own Hot 8 Brass Band Corporate Circuit Night: Micro-Urban Style Marvin Hamlisch and Michael Feinstein Taste of the Arts Virsky Ukrainian National Dance Company Street Beat The Crucible Afterglow: Fareed Haque and the Flat Earth Ensemble Dessert and Conversation: The Crucible
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