January 2017
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JOSHUA JOHNSON Host of 1A on WFIU2
Stephen Voss
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January 2017
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1A Debuts on WFIU2 The Diane Rehm Show set the standard for civil conversation on public radio and played a part in defining the “NPR sound” for almost 40 years. Rehm, a beloved figure in public radio, retired last December when she hosted her last live program. Starting January 2, NPR is launching the next evolution of that sound: 1A, a live and lively two-hour national talk program hosted by Joshua Johnson. The show airs weekdays on WFIU2 from 10 a.m. to noon. 1A will take a deep and unflinching look at America, bringing context and insight to stories unfolding across the country and the world. The program will explore important issues such as policy, politics, and technology, while also delving into lighter subjects such as pop culture, sports, and humor. Joshua Johnson is a dynamic, deeply curious, and empathetic journalist with public radio roots and experience tackling the most important issues of our day through radio, podcasting, and social media.
Says You! Coming to Town Get ready for an evening of fun as Says You!, public radio’s game show of bluff and bluster, wit and whimsy, comes to town with two live performances. Host Barry Nolan will appear with Bar ry Nolan Says You! regulars including Carolyn Faye Fox, Arnie Reisman, Paula Lyons, Tony Kahn, Francine Achbar, and Murray Horwitz at the Brown County Playhouse in Nashville on Friday, February 3rd at 7:30 p.m. They’ll record two consecutive shows, which will air nationwide within several weeks of the live event. Ticket prices are $28.50 for adults and $25.50 for students. Limited WFIU VIP tickets are available for $77.50 that include prime seating and admission to a pre-show Meet and Greet with cast and fellow fans. Tickets are available at browncountyplayhouse.org. Says You! airs on WFIU Saturdays at noon.
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Sundays at 6 p.m. January 1 – Vik Muniz/Rosamund Purcell Vik Muniz is a Brazilian artist and photographer who incorporates everyday objects such as diamonds, sugar, thread, chocolate syrup, and garbage to create bold and ironic images. His work has been exhibited worldwide. Andy Findley hosts. Photographer and author Rosamond Purcell finds beauty in old, burnt, and destroyed objects. Her subjects include deceased animals, decayed books, and eerie medical specimens. Her books include Finders, Keepers: Treasures and Oddities of Natural History. Will Murphy hosts. January 8 – Deborah Riley Draper Deborah Riley Draper is a documentary filmmaker. Her film Olympic Pride, American Prejudice examines the untold story of 18 black athletes who won medals at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. Versailles ’73: American Runway Revolution chronicled the Palace of Versailles fundraiser that pitted French designers against American designers. Yaël Ksander hosts.
Every January in the WFIU jazz department we make the same resolution: to bring you an interesting and entertaining mix of new, classic, live, and Indiana jazz throughout the week on our afternoon program Just You and Me. It’s a lot more fun than trying not to eat too many desserts! Hosts David Brent Johnson and William Morris will be serving up their standard fare from 3 to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, and be sure to tune in on Thursday, January 19, as we highlight the music of the late Indiana University jazz educator and composer David Baker, just ahead of a memorial concert at IU on the 21st.
January 15 – Narendra Jadhav Narendra Jadhav is an Indian economist, bureaucrat, and writer who is a member of the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian Parliament. He served in the Reserve Bank of India for 31 years, where he played a significant role in macroeconomic policy-making. He received a PhD in Economics from Indiana University in 1986. He has written or edited 36 books and more than 300 research papers and articles, as well as official reports on a range of public policy issues. Patrick O’Meara hosts. January 22 – Michael Adams Michael Adams is Provost Professor in the Department of English at IUBloomington and past president of the Dictionary Society of North America. An historian of English, he studies the language in literary and popular genres. He is the author of Slayer Slang: A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Lexicon, and In Praise of Profanity. Will Murphy hosts. January 29 – Joshua Winn Joshua N. Winn is a professor of astrophysical sciences at Princeton University who has played a major role in the detection of exoplanets—the planets that orbit distant suns outside the Earth’s solar system. He is a coinvestigator in the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, NASA’s mission to discover thousands of exoplanets orbiting the galaxy. Winn researches the age-old question of whether there are other planets capable of supporting life. Josh Brewer hosts.
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This month our Friday-evening program Afterglow pays tribute to the recently departed singer Mose Allison, celebrates the songs of Kurt Weill, and highlights the recordings of arranger Pete Rugolo and vocalist Beverly Kenney. Following Afterglow it’s Night Lights, with shows devoted to civil rights jazz, late-1940s bebop on the Savoy label, recordings made at New York City’s legendary Birdland nightclub, and music from the jazzedup 1957 showbiz noir film Sweet Smell Of Success. Afterglow and Night Lights air at 8 and 9 p.m. respectively, and you can hear them again Sunday night at 7 and 8 on our new WFIU2 signal in Bloomington, 101.9 FM. Shows can also be heard online at indianapublicmedia.org/afterglow and indianapublicmedia.org/nightlights. From all of us at WFIU, happy 2017!
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Key to abbreviations
a., alto; b., bass; bar., baritone; bssn., bassoon; cl., clarinet; cond., conductor; cont., continuo; ct., countertenor; db., double bass; ch., chamber; E.hn., English horn; ens., ensemble; fl., flute; gt., guitar; hn., horn; hp., harp; hpsd., harpsichord; intro., introduction; instr., instrument; kbd., keyboard; lt., lute; ms., mezzo-soprano; ob., oboe; orch., orchestra; org., organ; Phil., Philharmonic; p., piano; perc., percussion; qt., quartet; rec., recorder; sax., saxophone; s., soprano; str., string; sym., symphony; t., tenor; tb., trombone; timp., timpani; tpt., trumpet; trans., transcribed; var., variations; vla., viola; vlc., vdg., viola da gamba; violoncello; vln., violin. Upper case letters indicate major keys; lower case letters indicate minor keys.
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1 Sunday 11:00 AM RADIOLAB Apocalyptical We all know what happened to the dinosaurs, right? Well, at least we thought we did. In this episode, Radiolab turns the clock back 66 million years to tell a story of cataclysmic destruction and surprising survival. Along the way, we get to meet our great, great, great, great, great (etc.) grandmother and a few other surprise guests. 6:00 PM PROFILES Andy Findley interviews Brazilian artist and photographer Vik Muniz. Will Murphy speaks with photographer-author-collage artist Rosamond Purcell.
8:00 PM THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC THIS WEEK
NYP Jukebox—Winter Holiday
8:00 PM ETHER GAME Side One, Track One As we start the New Year, Ether Game looks at some famous introductions, preludes, and openings in music. Mark Chilla hosts.
Mark Chilla
9:00 PM SOUNDS CHORAL New Beginnings To begin the New Year, host Marjorie Herman features music that quiets and refreshes, such as Walden Pond by Dominick Argento. 10:00 PM RELEVANT TONES Open House The Open House movement began in the 1980s in London as a celebration of the city’s justifiably famous architecture but it was so successful that it soon spread to more than 40 cities around the world. For five years, Access Contemporary Music has commissioned composers to write music inspired by the spaces and put musicians in the spaces to perform the music. Seth Boustead features a wide range of music written for, and performed in, buildings in Chicago, Milwaukee, and Barcelona.
4 Wednesday 8:00 PM SYMPHONYCAST
2 Monday 8:00 PM CHICAGO SYMPHONY BRAHMS: Academic Festival Overture (Theodore Thomas, conductor) WAGNER: Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde (Artur Rodzinski, conductor) ELGAR: Enigma Variations (Sir Georg Solti, conductor) STRAUSS: Ein Heldenleben (Fritz Reiner, conductor) TCHAIKOVSKY: Final Waltz and Apotheosis from The Nutcracker (Morton Gould, conductor)
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3 Tuesday
Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra Matthew Halls conducts Margaret Batjer, violin Andrew Shulman, cello Allan Vogel, oboe Kenneth Munday, bassoon MOZART: Ballet Music from Idomeneo, K367 HAYDN: Sinfonia concertante in B-flat major AARON JAY KERNIS: Musica Celestis BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 1 in C major
5 Thursday 8:00 PM CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER TCHAIKOVSKY: Valse Sentimentale for Cello and Piano, Op. 51, No. 6 Julie Albers, cello; Alessio Bax, piano RACHMANINOV: Trio élégiaque in D minor for Piano, Violin, and Cello, Op. 9 Alessio Bax, piano; Elmar Oliveira, violin;
Paul Watkins, cello 9:00 PM HARMONIA A Fretwork Retrospective, Part 1 Angela Mariani begins a three-part celebration of the British-based viol consort Fretwork in honor of its thirtieth anniversary. Join her as she explores Fretwork’s experiences with 500 or so years of rich repertory ripe for viols. The featured release is William Lawes: Complete Music for Solo Lyra Viol, performed by one of Fretwork’s founding members, Richard Boothby. 10:00 PM Fiesta New New Music 5 Many 21st century composers have broken the boundaries imposed by the so-called “experimental,” “contemporary,” or “new music” of the 20th century. This is what host Elbio Barilari, calls “New New” music: music that incorporates the procedures and technical advances of 20th century music but also take from the past and explores the traditions of many different cultures.
6 Friday 8:00 PM AFTERGLOW Remembering Mose Allison Afterglow remembers Tippo, Mississippi’s Mose Allison, who died at age 89 in November. Allison’s easy-going style combined elements of blues, boogie woogie, and bop into something original and authentic. Mark Chilla hosts. 9:00 PM NIGHT LIGHTS Sweet Smell of Success This hardbitten 1957 movie about a desperate publicity agent and a powerful press maven (played by Tony Curtis and Burt Lancaster, respectively) centered part of its plot around a member of Chico Hamilton’s jazz quintet. David Brent Johnson plays music from both Hamilton and film scorer Elmer Bernstein, and talks with film scholar James Naremore and musicologist Phil Ford.
7 Saturday 1:00 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA VERDI—Nabucco The legendary Plácido Domingo brings another new baritone role to the Met under the baton of his longtime collaborator James Levine. Liudmyla Monastyrska is Abigaille, the warrior woman determined to rule empires, and Jamie Barton is the heroic Fenena. Dmitri Belosselskiy is the stentorian voice of the oppressed Hebrew people. 10:00 PM FOLKTALES Folktale of Brave Journeys In the words of the all-wise Buddha, “Your work is to discover your world and then, with all your heart, give yourself up to it.” We’re hoping to pave the way for you this week, with musical offerings of encouragement and enlightenment from the Americas, Europe, Africa and India—so open your heart, and your imagination, and join us. Julia Meek hosts.
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8 Sunday 6:00 PM PROFILES Documentary filmmaker Deborah Riley Draper. Yaël Ksander hosts. 11:00 AM RADIOLAB Blood 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, wonder if clues to a gory fountain of youth could be lurking in the red blood cells of mice, and trace the complicated supply chain that gets blood from arms to operating tables.
8:00 PM THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC THIS WEEK
Alan Gilbert conducts Barbara Hannigan, soprano BEETHOVEN: Leonore Overture No. 3, Op. 72b (1806) LINDBERG: Souvenir (in memoriam Gérard Grisey) GRISEY: Quatre chants pour franchir le seuil (Four Songs for Crossing the Threshold), for soprano and ensemble MOZART: Symphony No. 40 in G minor, K.550 (1788)
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8:00 PM SYMPHONYCAST Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Jeremy Denk, conductor and piano IVES: Largo IVES: In the Barn MOZART: Piano Concerto No. 20 BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 3
12 Thursday 8:00 PM CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER SCHUBERT: Sonata in A major for Violin and Piano (“Duo”), D. 574, Op. 162 Arnaud Sussmann, violin; Juho Pohjonen, piano SCHOENBERG: Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night) for String Sextet, Op. 4 Arnaud Sussmann, Paul Huang, violin; Matthew Lipman, Mark Holloway, viola; Paul Watkins, David Finckel, cello
10 Tuesday 8:00 PM ETHER GAME Double Take Twice the fun this week, as Ether Game explores music that requires a second look. Mark Chilla hosts. 9:00 PM SOUNDS CHORAL The Mass in Comparison – Kyrie Host Marjorie Herman compares masses of various styles and periods and their approaches to this time-honored text. 10:00 PM RELEVANT TONES Outtakes Seth Boustead sometimes finds more great music than he can fit into a one-hour program. This week, a sample of fantastic music that he wasn’t originally able to air.
14 Saturday 1:00 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA PUCCINI—La Bohème The Met presents its spectacular Zeffirelli production. Ailyn Pérez is paired with Michael Fabiano as the young Parisian lovers at the center of the story. Susanna Phillips, David Bizic, and Massimo Cavalletti also star. Carlo Rizzi conducts. 10:00 PM FOLKTALES Folktale of Devotion “To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.” That philosophy comes from India’s former president, A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, and sets the stage for this week’s folk tour of inspirational music from every corner of the folkworld. We’re dedicated to the idea, and hope you’ll be with us in the spirit, over the airwaves. Julia Meek hosts.
15 Sunday 6:00 PM PROFILES Indian economist Narendra Jadhav. Patrick O’Meara hosts. 8:00 PM THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC THIS WEEK Alan Gilbert conducts
9 Monday 8:00 PM CHICAGO SYMPHONY Charles Dutoit conducts Falla RAVEL: Alborada del gracioso FALLA: Nights in the Gardens of Spain (Javier Perianes, piano) DUKAS: The Sorcerer’s Apprentice FALLA: The Three-Cornered Hat (Daniella Mack, mezzo-soprano) FALLA: El amor brujo from 1963 RCA (Leontyne Price, soprano; Fritz Reiner, conductor)
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16 Monday Arnaud Sussmann
9:00 PM HARMONIA A Fretwork Retrospective, Part 2 Angela Mariani continues her threepart celebration of the British-based viol consort Fretwork in honor of its thirtieth anniversary. 10:00 PM FIESTA! The French Connection Take an intercontinental journey with Fiesta! as we explore the cultural and musical influence of French culture on Latin American Music, from Venezuelan composer Teresa Carreño to the heart of Brazilian art music with Heitor Villa-Lobos. Join Elbio Barilari for a 100-year tour of this fascinating cultural intersection.
13 Friday 8:00 PM AFTERGLOW Pete Rugolo and the Singers Mark Chilla spotlights arranger Pete Rugolo, and his progressive arrangements for many of the top singers of his day, including Nat King Cole, Peggy Lee, and June Christy. 9:00 PM NIGHT LIGHTS We Shall Overcome: Civil Rights Jazz This program explores 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. David Brent
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8:00 PM CHICAGO SYMPHONY Riccardo Muti conducts Tchaikovsky and Bates BATES: Anthology of Fantastic Zoology TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No. 5 in E Minor, Op. 64 RAVEL: Boléro 10:00 PM PIPEDREAMS
17 Tuesday 8:00 PM ETHER GAME Tactus Try to keep time as the Ether Game Brain Trust counts things off and focuses on tempo this week. Mark Chilla hosts. 9:00 PM SOUNDS CHORAL The Mass in Comparison – Gloria With the Gloria text, host Marjorie Herman looks for varying approaches throughout history. 10:00 PM RELEVANT TONES Winter Music Pulitzer Prize-winning composer John Luther Adams, who until very recently made his home in Alaska, is far from the only composer to be inspired by winter landscapes. Seth Boustead celebrates the season with music from around the world by composers inspired by winter.
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18 Wednesday 8:00 PM SYMPHONYCAST German Symphony Orchestra, Berlin Giancarlo Guerrero conducts Kirill Gerstein, piano GINASTERA: Concert Suite from “Estancia,” Op.8a SCRIABIN: Piano Concerto in F-sharp minor, Op.20 MAHLER: Symphony No. 1 “Titan”
19 Thursday 8:00 PM CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER Quartet for the End of Time Messiaen Quartet for the End of Time David Shifrin, clarinet; Daniel Hope, violin; Paul Watkins, cello; Gilbert Kalish, piano 9:00 PM HARMONIA A Fretwork Retrospective, Part 3 This week on Harmonia, we finish up our three-part celebration of the British-based viol consort Fretwork, in honor of its thirtieth anniversary. Angela Mariani hosts. 10:00 PM FIESTA! Spain Before Albéniz Elbio Barilari presents music by Antonio Soler (“the Spanish Scarlatti”), Narciso Paz, Manuel García, Pablo del Moral, Dionisio Aguado, and Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga.
20 Friday 8:00 PM AFTERGLOW Beverly Kenney: Born to Be Blue The name Beverly Kenney is one that is little-noted in the annals of jazz history. Mark Chilla examines Kenney’s intelligent, seductive, and melancholic style as he chronicles her tragically short career. 9:00 PM NIGHT LIGHTS At the Jazz Corner of the World: Live From Birdland David Brent Johnson plays jazz recordings made at an iconic New York City nightclub by Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Art Blakey, and others.
21 Saturday 1:00 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA GOUNOD—Romeo and Juliet When Diana Damrau and Vittorio Grigolo starred opposite each other in Manon at the Met, the New York Times wrote, “The temperature rises nearly to boiling every time Damrau and Grigolo are on stage together.” Now they’re back as opera’s classic lovers, in Gounod’s lush Shakespeare adaptation. The production, by director Bartlett Sher, has already won acclaim for its vivid 18thcentury milieu. Elliot Madore is Mercutio and Mikhail Petrenko is Frère Laurent. Gianandrea Noseda conducts the sumptuous score.
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Diana Damrau
10:00 PM FOLKTALES Folktale of Solitude Albert Camus noted, “In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.” But when, and how, does seclusion turn into reclusion? We’re gathering musical perspectives on that query from many corners of the globe this week. And as Camus’ existential frenemy, Jean-Paul Sartre maintained, “If you’re lonely when you’re alone, you’re in bad company.” Julia Meek hosts.
22 Sunday 11:00 AM RADIOLAB DIY Two stories of humans DIY-ing answers to seemingly unsolvable problems. First, a homemade brain-stimulator that may unlock hidden potential. Then, the story of a family that finds an unlikely way to access their silent son’s world. 6:00 PM PROFILES English language historian Michael Adams. Will Murphy hosts. 8:00 PM THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC THIS WEEK Leonard Bernstein, Jose Serebrier, and Pierre Boulez conduct Sharon Isbin, guitar; Jan DeGaetani, mezzosoprano; Marilyn Horne, mezzo-soprano CHAVEZ: Sinfonia India (recorded 1961) PONCE: Concierto de sur (recorded 2004) FALLA: The Three-Cornered Hat (recorded 1975) FALLA: El amor brujo (recorded 1976)
23 Monday 8:00 PM CHICAGO SYMPHONY James Feddeck and Chris Martin conduct FRANK: Les Éolides HAYDN: Trumpet Concerto in E-flat Major (Chris Martin, trumpet) RACHMANINOV: Symphony No. 2 in E Minor, Op. 27 TCHAIKOVSKY: Romeo and Juliet (Mark Elder, conductor)
24 Tuesday 8:00 PM ETHER GAME Ostrobogulous Ostrobogulous (adj.): bizarre, interesting,
or unusual. We look at the weird, wild, and wacky in classical music this week on the show. Mark Chilla hosts. 9:00 PM SOUNDS CHORAL The Mass in Comparison – Credo With the Credo, the most complex Mass text, host Marjorie Herman looks for varying approaches from all corners of music history. 10:00 PM RELEVANT TONES Crossing Barriers A big trend in the 2000s saw contemporary music ensembles commissioning composers not to write new pieces for them but to arrange music by pop artists. Seth Boustead offers music from two such collaborations: Alarm Will Sound performs arrangements of electronic musician Aphex Twin, and Osso Quartet’s arrangements of indie pop superstar Sufjan Stevens.
25 Wednesday 8:00 PM SYMPHONYCAST Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra Louis Langrée conducts Thierry Escaich, organ ESCAICH: Psalmos, Concerto for Orchestra (World Premiere) SAINT-SAENS: Symphony No. 3, op. 78
26 Thursday 8:00 PM CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER GOTTSCHALK: The Union, Concert Paraphrase on National Airs for Piano, Op. 48 Gilles Vonsattel, piano IVES: “The Things Our Fathers Loved” for Voice and Piano (ATH) IVES: “Charlie Rutlage” for Voice and Piano (ATH) IVES: “The Indians” for Voice and Piano (ATH) IVES: “The Housatonic at Stockbridge” for Voice and Piano (ATH) IVES: “The Circus Band” for Voice and Piano (ATH) Randall Scarlata, baritone; Gilbert Kalish, piano RZEWSKI: “Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues” from Four North American Ballads for Piano Gilles Vonsattel, piano ELLINGTON: Clarinet Lament for Clarinet and Piano David Shifrin, clarinet; Gloria Chien, piano GERSHWIN: An American in Paris for Two Pianos Alessio Bax, Robert Spano, piano 9:00 PM HARMONIA Sighs On Harmonia this week, we’re sighing in love, loss, or some combination of the two, as we hear recordings featuring the Consort of Musicke, La Dolce Maniera, lutenist Paul Beier, and others, alongside a featured release of medieval conductus. Angela Mariani hosts. 10:00 PM FIESTA!
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São Paulo State Symphony Elbio Barilari picks some of his favorite recordings from the monumental São Paulo State Symphony from Brazil. Founded in 1954 by João de Sousa Lima, the São Paulo State Symphony performs more than 200 concerts a season and has over has recorded over 100 albums. The program features music from Mexico, Uruguay, and Brazil.
27 Friday 8:00 PM AFTERGLOW The Songs of Kurt Weill Mark Chilla explores the cosmopolitan sounds of Kurt Weill. Rooted in the avant-garde and absurd, Weill’s melodies worked their way into the Great American Songbook, including “Mack the Knife,” “My Ship,” and “Speak Low.” 9:00 PM NIGHT LIGHTS Boppin’ On Savoy In the late 1940s the Savoy label recorded many of the rising stars of bebop, including Dexter Gordon, Allen Eager, and Fats Navarro. David Brent Johnson plays selections from a new Mosaic Records anthology.
28 Saturday
1:00 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA ROSSINI—The Barber of Seville
Peter Mattei reprises one of his most compelling portrayals: the wily barber Figaro. The Met’s popular production of Rossini’s comedic jewel, performed in the full-length Italian version, also pairs bel canto stars Pretty Yende and Javier Camarena as the lovers Rosina and Count Almaviva, with Maurizio Benini conducting. 10:00 PM FOLKTALES Folktale of Friendship According to Epicurus, “It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.” Banded with these sentiments, we’re tracking that bond across the Americas, Europe and Africa, gathering pals and partners as we go. In the sea of life, “There are big ships, and small ships, but the best ship is friendship.” Julia Meek hosts.
29 Sunday 11:00 AM RADIOLAB The Good Show In this episode, a question that haunted Charles Darwin: If natural selection boils down to survival of the fittest, how do you explain why one creature might stick his neck out for another? Is altruism an aberration, or just an elaborate guise for sneaky self-interest? Do we really live in a selfish, dog-eat-dog world? Or has evolution carved out a hidden code that rewards genuine cooperation? 6:00 PM PROFILES Physicist and astronomer Joshua N. Winn. Josh Brewer hosts. 8:00 PM THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC THIS WEEK Alan Gilbert conducts VIVALDI: Concerto in B minor for Four Violins, Op. 3, No. 10 (RV 580) Sheryl Staples, Michelle Kim, Marc Ginsburg, Lisa Kim, violins BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 8 BERG: Violin Concerto Frank-Peter Zimmermann, violin BRAHMS: Symphony No. 4 in e minor
Peter Mattei as Figaro
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30 Monday 8:00 PM CHICAGO SYMPHONY Yo-Yo Ma plays Lalo and Saint-Saëns RAVEL: Valses nobles et sentimentales (Charles Dutoit, conductor) DEBUSSY: Symphonic Fragments from The Martyrdom of St. Sebastian sentimentales (Charles Dutoit, conductor) SAINT-SAËNS: La muse et le poète, Op. 132 (Robert Chen, violin; Yo-Yo Ma, cello; Charles Dutoit, conductor) LALO: Cello Concerto in D Minor (Yo-Yo Ma, cello; Charles Dutoit, conductor) DEBUSSY: Prelude to The Afternoon of a Faun (Christian Macelaru, conductor)
31 Tuesday 8:00 PM ETHER GAME Climb Every Mountain Put on your hiking boots as we ascend great musical heights on this edition of Ether Game. Mark Chilla hosts. 9:00 PM SOUNDS CHORAL The Mass in Comparison – Sanctus and Agnus Dei The last two texts of the Mass Ordinary form the framework of this program, comparing settings from a range of composers. Marjorie Herman hosts. 10:00 PM RELEVANT TONES Late Night at National Sawdust For this exciting new series, “Late Night at National Sawdust,” Relevant Tones teams up with Open G Records and Access Contemporary Music to present a quarterly broadcast from Brooklyn’s hottest new venue National Sawdust. Much of the music for this series will be programmed from an international call for scores. Seth Boustead hosts.
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Meet Your New Favorite Programs! Have you checked out WFIU’s new second channel, WFIU2? Here’s a sampling of what 101.9 has to offer: Here & Now (Mon-Fri 2–4 p.m.) Here & Now brings you lively, intelligent conversation with hosts Robin Young and Jeremy Hobson. Weekly segments include “View from the Top” (conversations with CEOs), STAT (science and medical), “Re/code” (Technology), “DJ Sessions,” and a daily business segment. The Dinner Party Download (Sat 3 p.m.) This fast and funny hour of culture, food, and conversation has been called “public radio’s Arts & Leisure section.” Learn a joke, bone up on an odd bit of history, meet artists of note (Pharrell Williams, Scarlett Johansson, and Steve Martin to name a few); and have your etiquette questions answered by the likes of Mel Brooks or Aisha Tyler. Rico Gagliano and Brendan Francis Newnam host. L to R: Brendan Francis Newnam and Rico Gagliano
The Splendid Table (Sat 4 p.m.) Join the culinary conversation at the radio program for people who love to eat. Hosted by acclaimed food writer and cooking teacher Lynne Rossetto Kasper, each installment features information on food preparation, appreciation, and culture. Segments include travel-related discussions, calls from listeners, and conversations with food writers Jane and Michael Stern. Special guests have included Julia Child, Anthony Bourdain, and violinist Joshua Bell. City Arts & Lectures (Sat 8 p.m.) Since 1980, San Francisco-based non-profit City Arts & Lectures has offered unique programs with leading figures in arts and ideas. Each year there are more than fifty lectures and onstage conversations—and a few surprise performances, film tributes, and concerts—with outstanding writers, critics, scientists, performing artists, and cultural figures from around the world. Consult the WFIU2 broadcast schedule on page 5 for full details. If you’re in or near Bloomington, WFIU2 is available to you without any need for a digital device—an old-fashioned radio tuned to 101.9 will do. If you have been listening to both channels on an HD Radio at 103.7, then you can continue to do so. And you can still hear either service from anywhere, online at wfiu.org.