January 2014
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Alison Melville on Harmonia Sunday, January 12 at noon
Menglin Gao
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January 2014 Vol. 62, No. 1
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You may have heard stories from younger voices on WFIU recently. There was the story from the Bill Monroe Bluegrass Festival in Brown County, the passionate tribute to the music of The Rolling Stones, and the family history report “Don Fidel.” All of these pieces came to us from American Student Radio. American Student Radio, or ASR, is a self-described “national radio station and national classroom,” but they are located inside the Indiana University School of Journalism. The students create original features and study the techniques that make for strong audio presentations. ASR benefits from the impassioned work of its faculty director, Sarah Neal-Estes, whose background in public radio informs her teaching. She’s been known to invite such luminaries as This American Life’s Ira Glass and Radiolab Senior Producer Soren Wheeler to speak to her students. What makes ASR special is the way the students address storytelling. Encouraged to focus on finding compelling stories, students begin by following their curiosity. They concentrate on the people who live in their stories and the questions that make stories universal. These are the same values that drive the reporting heard on Morning Edition, All Things Considered, and This American Life. Barton Girdwood, ASR’s executive editor, works to maintain a consistently high level of quality of the reports it sends to WFIU. Girdwood pitches story ideas to WFIU Arts Desk Editor Yaël Ksander, and works with each student producer to distill a story Undergraduate Teaching down to its most effective version. Assistant Barton Girdwood Since the founding of American Student Radio in 2011, the program has been highly productive. Their multiple podcasts have garnered recommendations from the Third Coast Audio Festival. This summer, WFIU began working with ASR to incorporate their stories into our broadcast. ASR stories are among the local arts and culture coverage you hear during Morning Edition, All Things Considered, and Performance Today. WFIU looks forward to a continued collaboration designed to nurture the best audio storytelling and share it with a significant audience. The enthusiasm and curiosity that flavors these productions is something to celebrate. To hear more from American Student Radio, visit their website at AmericanStudentRadio.org.
Volunteers: Information about volunteer opportunities is available at (812) 855-1357, or by sending an email to wfiu@indiana.edu.
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Artist of the Month
Bruce Bransby
WFIU’s featured artist for the month of January is double bassist Bruce Bransby. Former principal double bass for the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Kansas City Symphony Orchestras, he has served as professor of double bass at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music since 1986.
Featured Contemporary Composer WFIU’s featured contemporary composer for the month of January is American composer Richard Danielpour. An active composer and educator, Danielpour currently serves on the composition faculties of the Manhattan School of Music and the Curtis Institute of Music. Born in New York City, Danielpour studied at Oberlin College and the New England Conservatory, and then with Vincent Persichetti and Peter Mennin at the Juilliard School, earning his doctorate in 1986. Danielpour also trained as a pianist with Lorin Hollander, Veronica Jochum, and Gabriel Chodos. Much in demand across the globe, Danielpour has written for the New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, New York City and Pacific Northwest ballets, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, and San Francisco, Pittsburgh, Pacific, National, Atlanta and Baltimore Symphonies, among others.
A native of Los Angeles, Bransby attended California State University and studied with Nat Gangursky and Peter Mercurio. He also spent several summers in Aspen as a student of Stuart Sankey. A world-renowned soloist and chamber player, Bransby has premiered numerous works including the American premier of Frantisek Hertl’s Concerto for Double Bass and several compositions for solo bass. He has also been a featured recitalist at the convention of the International Society of Bassists. During his time with the Los Angeles Philharmonic (1978-1986), Bransby played in Philharmonic chamber groups and with their New Music Ensemble and performed under the batons of Zubin Mehta, Carlo Maria Giulini, and André Previn. While in Los Angeles, Bransby worked frequently as principal bass in major motion picture studios. He can be heard on the soundtracks for E.T.: The Extraterrestrial, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, and 2010: Odyssey Two, among other studio films.
His music has also been championed by Yo-Yo Ma, Jessye Norman, Sarah Chang, Dawn Upshaw, Emanuel Ax, Frederica von Stade, Thomas Hampson, Gary Graffman, the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio, as well as the Guarneri, Emerson, Muir, and American String Quartets. Although his musical language is often described as neo-romantic, Danielpour’s expressive style freely incorporates elements of pop, rock, and jazz rhythms, citing influences as varied as the Beatles to John Adams, Christopher Rouse, and Joseph Schwantner. A frequent collaborator with poets, Danielpour created his first opera, Margaret Garner, with Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison. The work premiered to sold-out houses in Detroit, Cincinnati, and Philadelphia, and in 2007 had its New York premiere at New York City Opera. Danielpour’s recent successes include the 2009 composition A Woman’s Life, a song cycle based on poetry of Maya Angelou; and the orchestral work Darkness in the Ancient Valley, written in recognition of the ongoing sufferings of the Iranian people. Scored for soprano and orchestra, Darkness in the Ancient Valley was a joint commission of the Nashville
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A dedicated pedagogue, Bransby created a weekly audition class in which his students hone their skills through performing and critiquing one another in mock audition settings. Many of his students hold positions in the world’s finest symphony orchestras. Bransby has performed and recorded frequently with IU faculty and guest artists, including Evelyne Brancart, James Campbell, Eli Eban, Luba Edlina, Leonard Hokanson, Menahem Pressler, Kim Walker, Paul Biss, and the Fine Arts Quartet. In 2003 he was featured on the Indiana University New Music Ensemble’s release The Clouds of Magellan: The Music of Eugene O’Brien, Vol. 1, as well as a recording of chamber works by IU faculty member David Baker titled David Baker at Bay Chamber Concerts, which was released by Cala Records in 2002. WFIU will feature performances by Bruce Bransby in our classical music programming throughout the month of January.
Richard Danielpour
Symphony Orchestra and Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and was premiered in November 2011 by Grammy Awardwinning soprano Hila Plitmann and the Nashville Symphony Orchestra. Danielpour has received many honors, including a Grammy Award, two Rockefeller Foundation grants, a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters; and residencies from the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, and the Copland House. He is the third composer (after Stravinsky and Copland) to be signed to an exclusive recording contract by Sony Classical. WFIU will feature music of Richard Danielpour in our classical music programming throughout the month of January. January 2014 / Directions in Sound / Page 3
Featured Classical Recordings Selections from each week’s featured recording can be heard throughout WFIU’s local classical music programming. A weekly podcast of our featured classical recordings is available through our website, wfiu.org, under the “podcasts” link. December 30–January 5 Sarasate: Music for Violin and Orchestra, Vol. 4 (Naxos 8.572276) Tianwa Yang, violin Navarra Symphony Orchestra; Ernest Martínez Izquierdo, conductor By the age of 15, Pablo Sarasate had already won both the Paris Conservatory’s violin and harmony prizes, two of the most distinguished prizes at the esteemed musical institution. Soon after, he launched a successful career as a concert violinist, earning international respect and playing works written for him by Saint-Saëns, Wieniawski, Dvořàk, and others. He also wrote a number of works for violin with piano or orchestra. On this CD, violinist Tianwa Yang presents eight more, including fantasies on Mozart’s Don Giovanni and Weber’s Der Freischütz and a Jota inspired by his native Pamplona. January 6–12 Guilty Pleasures (Decca B0019033-02) Renée Fleming, soprano Philharmonia Orchestra; Sebastian LangLessing, conductor On this new recording Renée Fleming performs some of the most sumptuous arias and songs from the Romantic to modern eras in eight separate languages. Ranging from familiar favorites such as the Flower Duet from Lakmé (sung with Susan Graham) to rapturous, rarely-heard melodies of Tchaikovsky, Dvořàk and Rachmaninov, this CD is an album of pure gratification. A special treat is an aria from John Corigliano’s The Ghosts of Versailles, a 20th-century American opera. January 13–19 Chopin: Polonaises (Deutsche Grammophon B0018883-02) Rafał Blechacz, piano The polonaise, French for Polish, has its origins in a dance performed at rural Page 4 / Directions in Sound / January 2014
Polish weddings. By the 17th century it had evolved into an instrumental dance for Polish aristocrats and was a form utilized by composers such as Mozart, Telemann, Haydn, and Beethoven. Returning to the hands of a Pole, Frédéric Chopin, the polonaise reached its zenith. Chopin began his compositional career at the age of seven with a polonaise in G minor, and one of his the last works he would write was the great Polonaise-Fantaisie, Op. 61. Rafał Blechacz performs seven of Chopin’s polonaises on this recording which earned the German Record Critic’s Award for piano music in November of 2013. January 20–26 Adagio (Analekta AN 2 9848) Ensemble Caprice; Matthias Maute, director Inspired by music of an unlikely pair, Charles Ives and Johann Sebastian Bach, Ensemble Caprice’s latest project is subtitled “A Consideration of a Serious Matter.” The common thread for these choral and orchestral pieces is a meditation on concepts of life and death impossible to communicate through words alone. The program spans five centuries, from Gregorio Allegri to music of the ensemble’s director Matthias Maute, and includes Samuel Barber’s choral setting of Agnus Dei, his Adagio for Strings, along with Ives’s mysterious The Unanswered Question and the great lament from Giacomo Carissimi’s Jephte, “Plorate Israel.” January 27–February 2 Bach Arcades (Carus 83.381) Calmus Ensemble Lautten Compagney; Wolfgang Katschner director With this CD, the Calmus Ensemble continues its practice of producing innovative concerts and recordings. Following the instruction of the 18th-century composer and theorist Johann Mattheson, who demonstrated how a simple dance or chorale melody could be transformed through the varying of meter, the ensemble conceived of a program of Bach’s chorales “transported to the present day.” Along with these genre-bending arrangements of these Lutheran chorales are more straightforward performances of music by Estonian composer Arvo Pärt, Renaissance master Guillaume Dufay, and the 20th-century English composer John Tavener.
Jazz Notes
Chick Webb
New jazz for a new year! You can always hear modern jazz every Monday afternoon on Just You and Me, WFIU’s weekday jazz program, as host David Brent Johnson spins recent releases, surveys the jazz top 50, and focuses on emerging and established artists. Historical note: Did you know that the first media proclamations that “Jazz is dead” date back to the 1920s? Yet jazz is still around, and thriving in the digital age. Monday afternoons are a great time to catch up on what’s happening with the music of today. Speaking of history, throughout the month of January we’ll be featuring music from a new collection of singer Ella Fitzgerald’s recordings with the Chick Webb big band on Just You and Me every Tuesday, the weekday afternoon jazz program. These recordings, made in the late 1930s and early 1940s, show the young singer hitting her stride early as an infectiously swinging and exuberant vocalist. The band, powered by the tiny but dynamic drummer Webb, ain’t halfbad either. Finally, don’t forget that at the end of whatever makes your long week long, there’s always Friday night on WFIU, with jazz and popular song programming from 8 p.m. till 2 a.m. that will help you ease into your weekend. From the melodic and laidback strains of Afterglow and Standards by Starlight to the historical and repertory explorations of Night Lights and Jazz from Lincoln Center, WFIU gives you a place to go for relaxation and inspiration. Happy 2014!
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Profiles
Sundays at 7 p.m. January 5 – Dan Savage
Kokomo. He earned a Bachelor of Science from Indiana University Bloomington and a Master of Arts from Ball State University. Will Murphy hosts. January 19 – Dick Enberg
Radiolab
Sundays at 11 a.m. January 5 Time This hour of Radiolab, we try our hand at unlocking the mysteries of time. We stretch and bend time, wrestle with its subjective nature, and wrap our minds around strategies to standardize it. Along the way we visit a 19th-century railroad station, a track meet, and a Beethoven concert. January 12 Blood
Dan Savage writes the syndicated relationship and sex advice column Savage Love. He is the editorial director of the alternative weekly Seattle newspaper The Stranger, a contributor to Out magazine, and a reporter on HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher. He has appeared on MSNBC’s Countdown with Keith Olbermann and CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360 discussing political issues such as same-sex marriage. His books include The Commitment: Love, Sex, Marriage, and My Family; Skipping Towards Gomorrah: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Pursuit of Happiness in America; and The Kid: What Happened After My Boyfriend and I Decided to Get Pregnant. Annie Corrigan hosts. (repeat)
IU alumnus Dick Enberg is one of America’s most respected sportscasters. Enberg earned master’s and doctorate degrees in health sciences at Indiana University, where he voiced the first radio broadcast of the Little 500. He has covered virtually every major sport and event in his career: Super Bowls, college football and basketball, Olympic Games, major league baseball including the World Series, NBA basketball, the U.S. Open, and heavyweight title fights. He has won thirteen Sports Emmy Awards, has been named National Sportscaster of the Year nine times, and is a member of the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Hall of Fame. Owen Johnson hosts. (repeat)
January 12 – John Whikehart
January 26 – David Ignatius
From medicine to the movies, the horrifying to the holy, and history to the present day—we consider the power and magic of the red liquid that runs through our veins. We meet an artist who opened his veins and got labeled a terrorist, douse ourselves in the meat and metaphors of blood in Shakespeare, and wonder if clues to a fountain of youth could be lurking in the red blood cells of mice. January 19 Stress Stress may save your life if you’re being chased by a tiger. But if you’re stuck in traffic, it may be more likely to make you sick. This hour, a long hard look at the body’s system for getting out of trouble. Stanford University neurologist (and part-time “baboonologist”) Dr. Robert Sapolsky takes us through what happens to our insides when we stand in the wrong line at the supermarket, and offers a few coping strategies. Plus: the story of a singer who lost her voice, and an author stuck in a body that never grew up. January 26 Help
John Whikehart was recently named deputy mayor of Bloomington. Prior to his new appointment, he served as chancellor of Ivy Tech Community College in Bloomington, a position he held since 2001. Previously he served as executive director for administration for Ivy Tech at Kokomo and South Bend. In addition, he was an adjunct faculty at Indiana UniversityKokomo and at Ivy Tech-Kokomo. Before he came to Ivy Tech, Whikehart was chief of staff to Indiana Senate Minority Leader Frank O'Bannon, director of community relations at Indiana University Kokomo, and personnel director for the City of
David Ignatius is an opinion writer at The Washington Post where he writes a foreign affairs column and contributes to the Post Partisan blog. He joined the Post in 1986 as editor of its Sunday Outlook section. In 1990 he became foreign editor, and in 1993, assistant managing editor for business news. He has reported for The Wall Street Journal covering the steel industry, the Justice Department, the CIA, the Senate, the Middle East, and the State Department. Ignatius has also written eight spy novels, including Body of Lies, which was made into a movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe. Will Murphy hosts.
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Radiolab looks for ways to gain the upper hand over those unhealthy urges inside us that seem to have a mind of their own. We meet a Cold War negotiator who, in order to quit smoking, backs himself into a tactical corner, and we visit a clinic in Russia where patients turn to a radical treatment to help fight their demons.
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The Radio Reader with Dick Estell
MemberCard Benefits For complete details, visit membercard. com/wfiu or call 800-662-3311. Benefits of the Month: Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art (#173) 500 West Washington Street, Indianapolis 317- 636-9378 eiteljorg.com Valid for two-for-one admission during January 2014. Present your MemberCard at the museum admissions desk.
Duel with the Devil by Paul Collins Begins airing mid-January Duel with the Devil is the true account of a 19th-century murder and the trial that ensued—a showdown in which political rivals Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr joined forces to ensure justice was done. The two finest lawyers in New York, Burr and Hamilton were bitter rivals both in and out of the courtroom, and as the next election approached their animosity reached a crescendo. Central to their dispute was the Manhattan water supply. Burr saw the supply not just as an opportunity to help a city devastated by epidemics but as a chance to heal his battered finances. But everything changed when Elma Sands, a beautiful young Quaker woman, was found dead in Burr’s newly constructed Manhattan Well. The horrific crime gripped the nation, and before long accusations settled on one of Sands’ suitors, handsome young carpenter Levi Weeks. As the enraged city demanded a noose be draped around the accused murderer’s neck, the only question seemed to be whether Weeks would make it to trial or be lynched first. The young man’s only hope was to hire a legal dream team. And thus it was that New York’s most bitter political rivals and greatest attorneys did the unthinkable—they teamed up. Both an absorbing legal thriller and an expertly crafted portrait of the United States in the time of the Founding Fathers, Duel with the Devil is a masterpiece of narrative nonfiction. Author Paul Collins is regularly featured on NPR’s Weekend Edition as the “literary detective.” Page 6 / Directions in Sound / January 2014
WonderLab Museum of Science, Health and Technology (#202) 308 West 4th Street, Bloomington 812- 337-1337 wonderlab.org Valid for two-for-one general admission during the month. Visit wonderlab.org to plan your visit. Cannot be combined with other discounts. New Retail Benefits: Blue Moon Gifts (#295) 10 West National Avenue, Brazil 812-443-2584 Valid for two-for-one candle purchase. Indy Park Ride and Fly (#0) 3875 Plainfield Road, Indianapolis 800- 230-0300 Valid for $7 daily self-parking rate or $9 valet parking rate. New Health and Wellness Benefits: Aire Wellness Spa (#283) 1729 North 3rd Street, Terre Haute 812- 234-2473 Valid for $10 off your service purchase of $25 or more or two-for-one yoga. Bluebird Style Studio (#293) 125 South 7th Street, Terre Haute 812- 917-4328 Valid for 10 percent off spa services or 25 percent off products. Healthy Balance Wellness Center (#289) 1201 5th Street, Bedford 812- 279-6330 Valid for a $75 Healthy Balance gift certificate to be applied to membership, classes, or personal training. Subject to availability. InYoga of Terre Haute (#245) 605 Ohio Street, Terre Haute 812-243-9404 Valid for two-for-one yoga classes. Snipp It Salon (#248) 1015 3rd Street, Columbus 812-418-8775 Valid for $10 off a service purchase of $25 or more.
Yoga Mala (#296) 116 ½ College Avenue, Bloomington 812-360-6732 Valid for two-for-one yoga classes. Zen Fitness (#235) 331 Franklin Street, Columbus 812- 350-5200 Valid for 50 percent off a class or personal training session. New Pet Benefits: Artistic Aquatics (#209) 2200 West Sudbury Drive, Bloomington 812- 929-2729 Valid for 20 percent discount on aquatics supplies. Some exclusions may apply. Not valid with any other discount offers. Barx Boutique for Pets (#213) 4247 North State Road 135, Franklin 317- 738-0700 Valid for 20 percent discount on purchase of $25 or more in the boutique/bakery. Bone Appetit Bakery (#229) 211 South Van Buren Street, Nashville 812- 988-0305 Valid for 20 percent discount on pet treats and pet boutique supplies. Some exclusions may apply. Not valid with any other discount offer. Country Mart (#240) 1075 East 2nd Street, Columbus 812-375-9604 Valid for 20 percent discount on purchase totaling $30 or more. Wilson’s Kennel (#228) 6240 East 100 South, Columbus 812- 378-5261 Valid for 10 percent discount on boarding three or more days, or 20 percent discount on boarding seven or more days. Also valid for 10 percent off grooming services. Benefit Changes: BARcelona Tapas Restaurant (#193) Indianapolis Offer expired Bistro 501 (#25) Lafayette Offer expired India Palace Restaurant (#180) 4213 Lafayette Road, Indianapolis 317- 298-0773 Offer updated: Valid for two-for-one entrée. Dine-in only; excludes buffet. Monical’s Pizza Restaurant (#113) Avon, Delphi, Fishers, Greencastle, Greenwood, Indianapolis, Kentland, Linton, and Monticello locations: Offer expired
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Community Events City of Bloomington Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Birthday Celebration Commission “A Day On! Not a Day Off” Monday, January 20, 7 p.m. Buskirk-Chumley Theater A holiday filled with volunteer opportunities is capped at 7 p.m. with a community reflection on Dr. King’s life and legacy. Mayor Mark Kruzan, who will present the MLK Legacy Award, will be joined by keynote speaker Hank Thomas, who will discuss “A Freedom Rider’s Journey.” Lawrence County Concert Association IU Broadway Cabaret Saturday, January 25, 7 p.m. Bedford-North Lawrence Performing Arts Center Indiana University’s performing student group offers a revue in the style of the Great White Way, covering a wide range of musical styles and influences.
Jeremy Sams Q&A
the Vienna Werkstätte—all those people who did beautiful furniture designs that are gorgeous but very spare and cut back. They belonged to the beginning of the new century. And the other Vienna, which was sort of dying out, is the place of the big balls, gowns, opulence. Apart from the artistic background and the historical setting, what drew you to this piece? The music! It’s the most astonishing score by a great composer. The essence of it is melody. All of Strauss has huge melodic drive, but here the tunes just keep on coming, and they are his best tunes. It’s a piece that dances from beginning to end, like that Matisse painting, where everyone just dances round and round and round. It’s a waltz opera and it doesn’t stop moving. And at the center, driving all this beauty, is a message: that in this melting pot of life, high, low, rich, poor, man, woman, Jewish, gentile, gay, straight can all, through music, through dance, get along together.
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Some people consider Fledermaus a lightweight piece by operatic standards. Is that fair?
Susanna Phillips as Rosalinde and Christopher Maltman as Eisenstein in Die Fledermaus
Jeremy Sams, director of the Metropolitan Opera’s new English-language production of Die Fledermaus, explains why the piece “dances from beginning to end.” Tell us about your production of Die Fledermaus and the idea behind its setting. The setting is Vienna, the place in which it was written. It has always been a New Year’s Eve piece—that’s when it’s traditionally performed—so I decided that’s when I was going to set it. And not just on New Year’s Eve, but Millennium’s Eve, as it were, in 1899, leading up to 1900. The feel of it, therefore, is on the cusp of fashion and art, when the new Vienna and the old Vienna were just overlapping. By the new Vienna I mean people like Klimt, Schiele,
I don’t think it is. Terrible revenges are wreaked and marriages go to the brink. People fall in love and fall out of love. People realize their own shortcomings and failings by the end of the piece. It is light and frothy, because the music is all about the hope of happiness. But for me there’s a deep strain of melancholy at the heart of it, which works itself out during the piece. By the end of the show, they’re singing happy music and meaning it. Edited by Philipp Brieler and courtesy of the Metropolitan Opera
David Brent Johnson chosen for NPR poll WFIU Jazz Director David Brent Johnson has been asked by the respected jazz writer Francis Davis to participate in his jazz critics poll, which is hosted annually by NPR. Davis is an educator and jazz critic for the Village Voice and the husband of Fresh Air host Terry Gross.
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One of David’s recent Night Lights programs, “1961: New Jazz Frontier,” was featured on Mosaic Records’ Tumblr miniblog. Devoted to box sets of classic jazz, Mosaic is one of the most respected jazz labels in the world. Johnson also recently penned another column for NPR’s Take Five blog: “Jazzing the Spirit: Jazz Interpretations of Spirituals.” Take Five is a weekly jazz sampler that offers readers the chance to “Get to know jazz, five songs at a time.”
Meet Betsy Shepherd Betsy Shepherd has joined WFIU and WTIU as Online Content Coordinator. Shepherd’s love of the airwaves began as a volunteer on-air announcer for KOOP radio in Austin, Texas, where she hosted a gospel and Betsy Shepherd blues show. She has since worked as a production assistant for the PRI program American Routes, and as a media producer for Traditional Arts Indiana. Segments from Second Servings, a radio series that she produced for TAI on Indiana foodways, have aired on Earth Eats. Though she has more background in radio than science, she was a Science Olympiad in high school and looks for any and every opportunity to apply her science trivia. In May of this year, Betsy completed her coursework for a dual master’s degree in Folklore and Ethnomusicology, and Journalism at Indiana University. Her research focused on 1960s musical subcultures and alternative media. She received her bachelor’s degree from Louisiana State University in English literature and Russian studies. While she attended college, she feigned an interest in football and studied abroad in St. Petersburg, Russia. Betsy has worked as a writer and editor for the Oxford American literary magazine in Little Rock, Arkansas, and as a media producer at IU’s Archives of African American Music and Culture. In addition to her love of public radio and volunteer radio, she is an avid record collector. She deejays from her vinyl collection, which primarily consists of 45 RPM records salvaged from the dustbin of history. She also plays guitar and sings in the local rock ’n’ roll band Thee Tsunamis. January 2014 / Directions in Sound / Page 7
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1 Wednesday 8:00 PM BOSTON BAROQUE GALA FIRST DAY CONCERT The Boston Baroque—now celebrating its 40th anniversary as America’s oldest orchestra devoted to playing Baroque music on instruments of the era—presents a live New Year’s Day concert from Harvard University’s Sanders Theatre. This festive allBach program features some of Boston’s best vocal and instrument talent in performances of the Brandenburg Concertos Nos. 3 & 4 and the delightful “Coffee” Cantata, featuring soprano Kristen Watson, tenor Matthew Anderson, and baritone Andrew Garland. Cathy Fuller is your host for the frothy and delightful program to welcome the New Year.
Beethoven, enjoying performances of their works on period instruments. We also explore instrumental sonatas by Johann Heinrich Schmelzer and a groundbreaking opera by Christoph Willibald Gluck. 10:00 PM FIESTA! Flamenco Music Spanish flamenco music has a rich tradition of blending the music from such diverse backgrounds as India, the Arab world, and the gypsies. In this hour we feature the many paths of flamenco from the pop world to the concert hall.
3 Friday 8:00 PM AFTERGLOW Afterglow Plays Cole Porter V. 1 A celebration of the Indiana songwriter with interpretations of his music by Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, and others 9:00 PM STANDARDS BY STARLIGHT Classic Put-Ons 10:00 PM NIGHT LIGHTS The Jazz Standards with Ted Gioia Author and jazz historian Ted Gioia joins the program to discuss some of the most influential jazz compositions of the 20th century 11:00 PM JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER Re-Imagined: The Music of Herbie Hancock Herbie Hancock’s timeless innovations are brought to life in the voices of a big band. Bobby Hutcherson guests with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra in this brilliant outing from the House of Swing.
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9:00 PM HARMONIA Musical Tour of Vienna We’re off on a musical tour of Vienna, one of the western world’s foremost musical centers. We follow in the footsteps of Haydn and Page 10 / Directions in Sound / January 2014
5 Sunday 11:00 AM RADIOLAB Time 12:00 PM HARMONIA A Toast to Two Renaissance Masters We mark the birth of John Dowland and the death of Gesualdo, and we say goodbye to oboist Washington McClain. Plus we hear music from a set of suites and sonatas titled Tibiades by François Chauvon in our featured recording.
8:00 PM THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC THIS WEEK CONDUCTORS: Alan Gilbert; Leonard Bernstein (Weber; Bizet); Giuseppe Sinopoli (Valses nobles et sentimentales); Bramwell Tovey (Strauss, II); Juraj Valcuha (Strauss) SOLOIST: Thomas Hampson, baritone WEBER/ORCH. BERLIOZ—Invitation to the Dance RAVEL—Valses nobles et sentimentales RAVEL—La Valse STRAUSS—Suite from Der Rosenkavalier STRAUSS, JR.—Overture to The Gypsy Baron PORTER—Selected Songs: Night & Day Who Said Gay Paree? Where Is the Life That Late I Led? In the Still of the Night Begin the Beguine BIZET/ORCH. GUIRAUD—L’Arlésienne, Suite No. 2
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2 Thursday 8:00 PM CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER All Shostakovich SHOSTAKOVICH—Waltz and Polka for Two Pianos from The Golden Age (Anne-Marie McDermott, André-Michel Schub, piano) SHOSTAKOVICH—Concertino for Two Pianos, Op. 94 (Anne-Marie McDermott, André-Michel Schub, piano) SHOSTAKOVICH—Viola Sonata, Op. 147 (Paul Neubauer, viola; Anne-Marie McDermott, piano)
9:00 PM THE THISTLE & SHAMROCK Northsound Travel to northern places in Europe and North America to hear the sound of unspoiled landscapes and rocky shorelines bathed in northern light.
7:00 PM PROFILES Sex advice columnist Dan Savage (repeat)
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Eric Owens as Sarastro in The Magic Flute
1:00 PM METROPOLITAN OPERA MOZART—The Magic Flute Julie Taymor’s fanciful production—complete with dancing bears and giant flamingos—is sung in English and runs a brisk 100 minutes in this abridged holiday version for families. The winning cast includes Alek Shrader as Tamino, Eric Owens as Sarastro, and Nathan Gunn as the winsome Papageno.
8:00 PM ETHER GAME Yes, Your Majesty Everyone gets the royal treatment on this edition of Ether Game. 9:00 PM SOUNDS CHORAL Something Borrowed Sometimes called “Missa brevis,” Bach’s Lutheran Masses are made of up of almost entirely of movements taken from his cantatas. We hear two of these Masses, featured in a new recording by The Sixteen. 10:00 PM HORIZONS IN MUSIC ICONS: Jennifer Higdon This week we explore the music of this Pulitzer Prize-winning composer.
8 Wednesday 8:00 PM DEUTSCHE WELLE FESTIVAL CONCERTS BEETHOVENFEST BONN, 4th CONCERT CONDUCTOR: Julia Fischer SOLOIST: Julia Fischer, violin ORCHESTRA: Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
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MOZART—Violin Concerto No. 1 in B-Flat Major, K. 207 STRAUSS—Metamorphoses: Study for 23 Strings BACH—Violin Concerto No. 1 in A Minor, BWV 1041 SCHÖNBERG—Transfigured Nights for Strings, Op. 4
9 Thursday 8:00 PM CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER Love Songs BERG—Sieben frühe Lieder for Voice and Piano (Michelle Areyzaga, soprano; Gilbert Kalish, piano) ULLMANN—Liederbuch des Hafis for Voice and Piano, Op. 30 (Kelly Markgraf, baritone; Wu Han, piano) BRAHMS—Liebeslieder Waltzer for Four Voices and Piano, Four Hands, Op. 52 (Michelle Areyzaga, soprano; Sasha Cooke, mezzo soprano; John Bellemer, tenor; Kelly Markgraf, baritone; Gilbert Kalish, Wu Han, piano) 9:00 PM HARMONIA A Toast to Two Renaissance Masters See January 5th listing
10 Friday 8:00 PM AFTERGLOW City of Song A musical metropolis tour with stops in Kalamazoo, Salt Lake City, Cincinnati, and other urban destinations.
1:00 PM METROPOLITAN OPERA STRAUSS, JR.—Die Fledermaus Jeremy Sams returns to the Met after his major success with The Enchanted Island to direct a new production of Johann Strauss’s beloved operatic confection, with a revised libretto by Douglas Carter Beane. Sams places the action in turn-of-the-century Vienna, an elegant, opulent setting with echoes of Gustav Klimt’s glittering paintings (and of Sigmund Freud’s newly fashionable ideas). Susanna Phillips and Christopher Maltman lead the sparkling cast, which also features Jane Archibald, Anthony Roth Costanzo, Michael Fabiano, and Paulo Szot. 9:00 PM THE THISTLE AND SHAMROCK A Case for Guitar Virtuoso players in Scotland, Ireland, Brittany, and beyond are setting a new standard for roots-inspired acoustic guitar music.
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Jaap van Zweden conducts Bartók BATES—Liquid Interface MOZART—Piano Concerto No. 25 in C Major, K. 503 (David Fray, piano) BARTÓK—Concerto for Orchestra MOZART—Bassoon Concerto (David McGill, bassoon)
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12 Sunday 11:00 AM RADIOLAB Blood 12:00 PM HARMONIA MyTunes: Alison Melville The first in a series of segments called MyTunes in which we ask people who work and play in early music the question: What are you listening to right now? We also explore music written by the renaissance lute player Diomedes Cato and hear The Baroque Chamber Orchestra of Colorado perform in a featured release of baroque music from Italy. 7:00 PM PROFILES Bloomington’s new Deputy Mayor John Whikehart 8:00 PM THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC THIS WEEK CONDUCTOR: Esa-Pekka Salonen SOLOIST: Leila Josefowicz, violin RAVEL—Mother Goose Suite SALONEN—Violin Concerto (New York Concert Premiere) SIBELIUS—Symphony No 5
9:00 PM STANDARDS BY STARLIGHT With host Dick Bishop 10:00 PM NIGHT LIGHTS Herd Twice: Woody Herman in the 1940s Music from the clarinetist and bandleader’s first three orchestras. 11:00 PM JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER Nuevo Tango: The Music of Astor Piazzolla Astor Piazzolla’s effect on tango heralded a stunning new incarnation of the art form: Nuevo Tango. His native Argentina, and the rest of the world, was never the same. Pablo Aslan and Paquito D’Rivera are no
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8:00 PM ETHER GAME The Hunger Games Get ready to tuck into an hour of mouthwatering selections on this food-related edition of Ether Game. 9:00 PM SOUNDS CHORAL Spotlight: Gallicantus We’ll speak with conductor Gabriel Crouch about this unique and highly touted ensemble of six men. We’ll learn about its founding, and its recording and touring activities. 10:00 PM HORIZONS IN MUSIC The 2014 Grammy Nominees, pt. 1 The first in our series highlighting the contemporary music nominees at this year’s Grammy Awards.
15 Wednesday 8:00 PM DEUTSCHE WELLE FESTIVAL CONCERTS EARLY MUSIC DAYS IN HERNE SOLOISTS: Balász Szokolay Dongó, bagpipe, flute, and other instruments; Mátyás Bolya, dulcimer and other instruments Music from Pannonia from the 15th to the 17th centuries from Hungarian, Slovakian and Rumanian sources ENSEMBLE: Ellenai Quartet SOLOIST: Janusz Olejniczak, fortepiano CHOPIN—Piano Concerto No. 2 in F Minor, Op. 21 CONDUCTOR: Václav Luks ENSEMBLE: Collegium 1704 SOLOISTS: Céline Scheen, soprano; Terry Wey, alto; Krystian Adam, tenor; Tobias Berndt, bass CHORUS: Collegium Vocale 1704 ZELENKA—Excerpt from Melodrama de Sancto Wenceslao (St. Wenceslas Melodrama), ZWV 175
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Marina Poplavskaya and Peter Mattei take on the roles of the lovestruck Tatiana and the imperious Onegin in Deborah Warner’s new production of Tchaikovsky’s fateful romance. Rolando Villazón is Lenski, Onegin’s friendturned-rival, in his first performances on the Met stage since 2009. Russian maestro Alexander Vedernikov makes his company debut on the podium. 9:00 PM THE THISTLE & SHAMROCK Common Currency
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Music runs in the family on this episode of Ether Game. 9:00 PM SOUNDS CHORAL Haydn’s Harmoniemesse Mass The Harmoniemesse in B-flat major was written in 1802, taking its name from the German word harmonie meaning “wind ensemble.” We’ll hear a complete performance by the Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists. 10:00 PM HORIZONS IN MUSIC The 2014 Grammy Nominees, pt. 2 This week, the conclusion of our series highlighting the contemporary music nominees in this year’s Grammy Awards.
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8:00 PM CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER Czech Masterworks SMETANA—Piano Trio in G Minor, Op. 15 (Wu Han, piano; Cho-Liang Lin, violin; David Finckel, cello) JANÁČEK—String Quartet No. 2, Intimate Letters (Pacifica Quartet: Simin Ganatra, Sibbi Bernhardsson, violin; Masumi Per Rostad, viola; Brandon Vamos, cello) 9:00 PM HARMONIA MyTunes: Alison Melville See January 12th listing.
17 Friday 8:00 PM AFTERGLOW Sinatra + Stordahl A tribute to recordings that Frank Sinatra and arranger Axel Stordahl made together. 9:00 PM STANDARDS BY STARLIGHT Let it Snow 10:00 PM NIGHT LIGHTS We Shall Overcome: Civil-Rights Jazz The strong relationship between jazz and civil rights in post-World War II America, with music from Nina Simone, John Coltrane, Max Roach, Sonny Rollins, and others.
7:00 PM PROFILES Veteran sportscaster and IU alumnus Dick Enberg (repeat) 8:00 PM THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC THIS WEEK CONDUCTOR: David Zinman SOLOIST: Richard Goode, piano ADÈS—Three Studies from Couperin MOZART—Piano Concerto No. 18 MENDELSSOHN—Symphony No. 3, Scottish
20 Monday 8:00 PM CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Sir Mark Elder conducts Rachmaninov and Sibelius DVOŘÁK—Slavonic Dance, Op. 72, No 3 DVOŘÁK—The Water Goblin RACHMANINOV—Piano Concerto No. 3 in D Minor, Op. 30 (Garrick Ohlsson, piano) SIBELIUS—Symphony No. 1 in E Minor, Op. 39
11:00 PM JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER Bird with Strings In 1949, Charlie Parker envisioned an album that would link jazz to pop and influence artists to come. His legendary venture with strings has done just that. Parker with Strings set his searching solos against a lush string quartet. Onstage Bird lives, as we feature saxophonists Wess Anderson and Charles McPherson and the Philharmonic Orchestra of the Americas.
18 Saturday 1:00 PM METROPOLITAN OPERA TCHAIKOVSKY—Eugene Onegin
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Wu Han and David Finckel
12:00 PM HARMONIA From Japan to Europe, and Back Again Join us for an exploration of early music exchanges between Japan and Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries. Plus we hear music from a featured release by Bach Collegium Japan and learn about the cornetto in our Listener’s Guide to the Renaissance Consort. Arvo Pärt is one of the 2014 Grammy nominees for his composition Adam’s Lament
22 Wednesday 8:00 PM DEUTSCHE WELLE FESTIVAL CONCERTS BEETHOVENFEST BONN, 5th CONCERT CONDUCTOR: Krzysztof Penderecki SOLOIST: Rudolf Buchbinder, piano ORCHESTRA: Sinfonia Varsovia BEETHOVEN—Prometheus Overture, Op. 43 PENDERECKI—Resurrection, Concerto for Piano and Orchestra DVOŘÁK—Symphony No. 7 in D Minor, Op. 70 SHOSTAKOVICH—Allegro molto from Chamber Symphony in C Minor, Op. 110a
23 Thursday 8:00 PM CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER Mozart/Britten Mozart—Grande Sestetto Concertante for String Sextet after the Sinfonia Concertante, K.364 (arr. unknown) (Erin Keefe, Jorja Fleezanis, violin; Paul Neubauer, Richard O’Neill, viola; Li-Wei Qin, Efe Baltacigil, cello) Britten—Sonata in C Major for Cello and Piano, Op. 65 (David Finckel, cello; Wu Han, piano) 9:00 PM HARMONIA From Japan to Europe, and Back Again See July 19th listing.
Garrick Ohlsson
21 Tuesday 8:00 PM ETHER GAME Like Father, Like Son
24 Friday 8:00 PM AFTERGLOW Stan Getz and Jimmy Rowles: The Peacocks Highlights from a classic mid-1970s encounter between saxophonist Getz and pianist-singer Rowles.
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9:00 PM STANDARDS BY STARLIGHT With host Dick Bishop 10:00 PM NIGHT LIGHTS Warm Tenor: Zoot Sims on Pablo Recordings that the tenor saxophonist made for the Pablo label in the late period of his career.
27 Monday 8:00 PM CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Semyon Bychkov conducts Walton Symphony No. 1 PROKOFIEV—Piano Concerto No 2 in G Minor, Op. 16 (Kirill Gerstein, piano) WALTON—Symphony No.1 in B-Flat Minor POULENC—Concerto for 2 Pianos (Katia and Marielle Lebèque, piano) WILLIAMS—Excerpt from soundtrack to Lincoln
Stefan Falke
11:00 PM JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER Catherine Russell/Nancy Wilson Two vocalists who defy category. Catherine Russell, who nurtured a career as a backup singer with Al Green, Michael Feinstein, and David Bowie, and has cultivated her own strong solo voice. And Nancy Wilson, the perennial song stylist whose five-decade career started with Cannonball Adderley, who seamlessly crosses the jazz-blues-pop divide.
8:00 PM THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC THIS WEEK CONDUCTOR: Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos SOLOIST: Glenn Dicterow, violin BEETHOVEN—Symphony No. 8 STRAUSS—Ein Heldenleben
Catherine Russell
9:00 PM THE THISTLE & SHAMROCK New Winter Sounds Fiona Ritchie introduces new releases from debuting artists that have caught her ear as well as favorite players who have helped to define the genre.
26 Sunday 11:00 AM RADIOLAB Help 12:00 PM HARMONIA New Music, Early Music We listen to music from the distant past alongside related music by living composers from several recently released recordings: The Brisk Recorder Quartet plays music by Sweelinck and contemporary music inspired by Sweelinck; New York Polyphony sings a 2009 paraphrase of a 14th-century Machaut rondeau; Accordone performs a piece from a 21st-century chamber opera on Baroque period instruments, and more. 7:00 PM PROFILES Washington Post opinion writer David Ignatius
30 Thursday 8:00 PM CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER Vaughan Williams & Elgar WILLIAMS—Phantasy Quintet for Two Violins, Two Violas, and Cello (Daniel Phillips, Todd Phillips, violin; Steven Tenenbom, Paul Neubauer, viola; Timothy Eddy, cello) ELGAR—Quintet in A Minor for Piano, Two Violins, Viola, and Cello, Op. 84 (Ani Kavafian, Arnaud Sussmann, violins; Paul Neubauer, viola; Fred Sherry, cello; Wu Han, piano) 9:00 PM HARMONIA New Music, Early Music See January 26th listing.
25 Saturday 1:00 PM METROPOLITAN OPERA DONIZETTI—L’Elisir d’Amore Anna Netrebko reprises her adorable Adina in Bartlett Sher’s charming production of Donizetti’s tender comedy. Ramón Vargas is her love-struck Nemorino, and Erwin Schrott sings the likeable quack Dulcamara, whose “magic” potion causes as many problems as it solves.
SOLOISTS: Christian Tetzlaff, violin; Antje Weithaas, violin Rachel Roberts, viola; Quirine Viersen, cello SCHUBERT—Quartet in G Major, Op. Posth. 161 SOLOISTS: Lars Vogt, piano; Christian Tetzlaff, violin; Tanja Tetzlaff, cello DVOŘÁK—Dumky for Piano, Violin and Cello in E Minor, Op. 90 SOLOISTS: Yura Lee, viola; Rachel Roberts, viola; Gustav Rivinius, cello; Edicson Ruiz, double bass; Clara Andrada de la Calle, flute; Ivan Podyomov, oboe; Sharon Kam, clarinet; Marco Postinghel, bassoon; Sibylle Mahni, horn KAREL—Nonet for String Quartet and Wind Quartet, Op. 43
Katia and Marielle Labèque
28 Tuesday 8:00 PM ETHER GAME In Tribute We explore places and events named and renamed for famous musicians in this globetrotting episode of Ether Game. 9:00 PM SOUNDS CHORAL Happy Birthday, Wolfgang We hear excerpts of Mozart’s sacred drama La Betulia Liberata, composed in response to a commission received during a two-year sojourn throughout Italy beginning at age 13. 10:00 PM HORIZONS IN MUSIC Waxing Rhapsodic Modern rhapsodies revealed.
29 Wednesday 8:00 PM DEUTSCHE WELLE FESTIVAL CONCERTS “TENSIONS” in HEIMBACH SOLOISTS: Byol Kang, violin; Alissa Margulis, violin; Yura Lee, viola; Gustav Rivinius, cello SCHUBERT—String Quartet in D Major, D. 94 SOLOISTS: Lars Vogt, piano; Alissa Margulis, violin; Byol Kang, violin; Maya Meron, viola; Gustav Rivinius, cello; Heimbach Strings BRITTEN—Young Apollo for Piano, String Quartet and Strings, Op. 16
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31 Friday 8:00 PM AFTERGLOW The Modern Pop-Rock Songbook Songs of Neil Young, the Cure, Elliott Smith, and others, performed by contemporary popular song artists. 9:00 PM STANDARDS BY STARLIGHT With host Dick Bishop 10:00 PM NIGHT LIGHTS To Dig or Not To Dig: Jazz and Hip with Phil Ford Musicologist Phil Ford joins us to talk about his new book Dig, with music from Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk, and others. 11:00 PM JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER Bu’s Babies: Graduates of the Jazz Messengers In the second half of the 20th century a cadre of stars emerged from Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers. “Do you teach them what to play?” Blakey was asked. “Hell no!” he said. “I teach them what not to play.” From the House of Swing we hear from Blakey’s son, Takashi Blakey, along with appearances from graduates of “Blakey University” from over three decades: Bobby Watson, Javon Jackson, John Hicks, and Wynton Marsalis.
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Masterpiece Classic: Downton Abbey, Season 4 Sundays, January 5–February 23 at 9 p.m. The most-watched drama in PBS history enters its fourth gripping season with the world waiting to learn how the beloved characters deal with a shocking tragedy. Viewers who tuned in last season know that Matthew Crawley—heir to Downton Abbey, husband to Lady Mary, and brand new father to a baby boy and successor—lies dead on a country road next to his overturned roadster. On top of this, the family is still grieving over the death in childbirth of Sybil, Mary’s youngest sister, who also left a baby behind. Season 4 opens six months later. Although it is the 1920s, Britain still observes mourning rituals that are almost Victorian in their solemnity. Nonetheless, the Crawleys are beginning to snap out of it: Robert, Lord Grantham, must manage the estate without his canny son-in-law; Cora suddenly faces a staffing crisis; Violet, who has seen enough tragedy, knows how to recoup quickly; Isobel, Matthew’s mother, may never recover; Edith, who was jilted at the altar, tempts scandal with a new beau; and Mary now finds herself the most desirable widow in Yorkshire. The servants also pick up, buck up, and get on with it—with new arrivals, departures, rivalries, and betrayals among the downstairs staff. Life goes on at Downton Abbey. Dame Maggie Smith stars as Violet, the Dowager Countess of Grantham, matriarch of Downton. Hugh Bonneville stars as her son, Lord Crawley; Elizabeth McGovern is his American wife, Cora, and Michelle Dockery is their daughter Lady Mary.
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