EARTH EATS’S NEW HOST-PRODUCER
KAYTE YOUNG
Adam Schwartz
September 2017
September 2017
Vol. 65, No. 9 Directions in Sound (USPS314900) is published each month by Indiana University Radio and Television Services, 1229 East 7th Street, Bloomington, IN 47405 telephone: 812-855-6114 e-mail: wfiu@indiana.edu web site: wfiu.org Periodical postage paid at Bloomington, IN POSTMASTER Send address changes to: WFIU Membership Department Radio & TV Center Indiana University 1229 East 7th Street Bloomington, IN 47405-5501 WFIU is licensed to the Trustees of Indiana University, and operated by Indiana University Radio and Television Services. Perry Metz—General Manager John Bailey—Station Operations Director Will Murphy—Program Director Laura Baich—Marketing Director Emmy Beltré—Senior Graphic Designer Eoban Binder—Director of Digital Media Barbara Brosher—Senior News Editor Steve Burns—News Chief Videographer Aaron Cain—Morning Edition Host Mark Chilla—Production Director, Afterglow and Ether Game Host Becca Costello—Digital News Journalist Miranda Fulmore—Morning Edition Newscaster/Producer Don Glass—Producer A Moment of Science® Joe Goetz—Music Director George Hopstetter—Director of Engineering and Operations Becky Jessmer—Corporate Development Associate
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Meet WFIU’s new hostproducers WFIU has two new voices! Kayte Young is the new host and producer of Earth Eats. A former producer and announcer in Houston, Kayte has already appeared a few times on Earth Eats as an interviewee through her work in the food-assistance community—which has taken her from Middle Way House to Mother Hubbard’s Cupboard to the Farm to Family Fund. Aaron Cain is Morning Edition’s new host, as well as the new host-producer of WFIU’s in-depth hour-long interview program Profiles. Aaron’s career has taken him from public radio in Iowa City to freelance voice work in Los Angeles to choral- and chamber-music conducting, performance, and instruction. A local forager, home gardener, food preservationist, and self-taught cook, Kayte was the nutrition educator for seven years at the food pantry Mother Hubbard’s Cupboard, where she taught cooking skills and built community with people experiencing food insecurity. One of her favorite foods is sour cherries. “The bright red color, the shape, the way they dangle from the branch in bunches, and that tangy, tannin-rich taste—they are delightful on their own, and perfect for baking.”
Aaron Cain recently moved to Bloomington from Portland, Oregon, with his wife Joanna Blendulf, a new associate professor of baroque cello and viola da gamba at the Jacobs School. When Aaron is not teaching others to sing, he in Ca loves to sing himself. n o Aar “Like my wife, I have a real passion for the ‘oldies.’ If you’re not hearing my voice on WFIU, you might catch it offering up a few notes around the Bloomington area— especially if those notes were written down by someone before 1750.” Aaron’s coming to WFIU marks his return to public radio after many years. “What I loved about working in public radio was the feeling I got doing little things every day that made a difference in the community. I’d meet people out in the grocery store or on the street and learn that I was helping so many people through their lives in a hundred small ways. I find that endlessly inspiring.”
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Saturdays at 5 p.m. on WFIU2 | Sundays at 6 p.m. on WFIU September 2/3 – StoryCorps in Bloomington On this Labor Day weekend, join us for this compilation of Bloomington StoryCorps conversations about work and its meaning in our lives. September 9/10 – Malala Yousafzai Malala Yousafzai caught the world’s attention in 2012 after she was nearly killed by the Taliban for her efforts to achieve equal education for girls. She has since become a symbol of the fight for equal access to schools. At the age of 17 she became the youngest Nobel Peace Prize laureate. She founded the Malala Fund and cowrote I am Malala, an international bestseller. For three years, TIME magazine featured her as one of the year’s most influential people globally. This program features excerpts of the Ubben Lecture that Yousafzai gave at DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana. September 16/17 – David Grossman Israeli author David Grossman has written seven novels and a play, an opera for children, a number of short stories and novellas, several books of nonfiction, and books for children. His work has appeared in The New Yorker and has been translated into thirty languages. His novels include To the End of the Land, See Under: Love, A Horse Walks Into a Bar, and The Zigzag Kid. He is the recipient of many prizes, including the French Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. (repeat) September 23/24 – Steve Inskeep Carmel, Indiana native Steve Inskeep co-hosts NPR’s Morning Edition and NPR’s morning news podcast Up First. The many beats he’s covered include the Pentagon, the Senate, the 2000 Bush presidential campaign, and wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. He has traveled 2,700 miles across North Africa in the wake of the Arab Spring; reported from war-torn Syria and on Iran’s historic election; and driven with colleagues 2,428 miles along the entire U.S.-Mexico border, which resulted in the acclaimed radio series Borderland. September 30/October 1 – Jim Walker, Big Car Jim Walker is a public and social practice artist, photographer, video and sound artist, designer and writer. He’s co-founder and CEO of the Big Car Collaborative, a nonprofit arts organization and collective of artists based in Indianapolis that draws together people of all backgrounds to promote and perpetuate creativity, invigorate public places, and support better neighborhoods A native of Warsaw, Indiana, for twenty years he worked for newspapers as a reporter, editor, and photographer, and as an arts reporter for The Indianapolis Star.
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Jazz Notes Where did the summer go, and all that jazz? Well, the jazz is still here, on WFIU’s Just You and Me, every weekday afternoon from 3 to 5 p.m. On Monday, September 4 for Labor Day, two new CDs by drummer Matt Wilson and saxophonist Jane Ira Bloom will be featured, respectively featuring musical meditations on the poetry of Carl Sandburg and Emily Dickinson. Susan Cook
Profiles
Jane Ira Bloom
As always, host David Brent Johnson will highlight lots of new, classic, live, and Indiana jazz throughout the month, including a recently-discovered 1968 concert recording of the Bill Evans Trio, and Indiana drummer Chris Parker’s leader debut Moving Forward Now. On Fridays, Brother William Morris takes the helm and offers up generous helpings from his Soul Kitchen edition of the show. Still hungry? Catch Mr. Morris again on Saturday evenings from 10 till midnight. Afterglow brings its usual compelling variety of vocal jazz and popular song presentations to WFIU every Friday evening at 8. This month host Mark Chilla pays tribute to songwriter Ira Gershwin, vocalist Dinah Washington (spotlighting her 1950s jazz recordings for the Mercury label), and genre-spanning artists Louis Jordan and Sister Rosetta Tharpe. Be sure to tune in on September 22 for an autumnal “Songs of the Season” show as well, just in time for the fall equinox. Night Lights follows at 9 on Fridays with September programs devoted to the birth of jazz fusion, the return of saxophonist Sonny Rollins from his sabbatical at the dawn of the 1960s, a celebration of drummer Buddy Rich’s centennial, a look at the year in jazz for 1964, and a show with author Sam Stephenson, chronicler of the legendary photographer W. Eugene Smith, who crossed paths frequently in the 1950s and 60s with Thelonious Monk, Sonny Clark, and other figures of the New York City jazz scene.
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1 Friday 8:00 PM AFTERGLOW Louis Jordan and Sister Rosetta Tharpe Born ten miles apart in Arkansas, Louis Jordan and Sister Rosetta Tharpe helped lay the foundation for rock ’n’ roll in the 1940s. Mark Chilla focuses on these two artists who stood at the juncture of jazz, R&B, and gospel. 9:00 PM NIGHT LIGHTS First Fusion Jazz-Rock before Bitches Brew Miles Davis’ 1970 album Bitches Brew is often seen as the birth of the fusion movement. David Brent Johnson delves into some of the jazz-rock groups that preceded Davis’ landmark double LP.
2 Saturday 1:00 PM SAN FRANCISCO OPERA PONCHIELLI—La Gioconda Based on an 1835 play in prose by Victor Hugo, and first performed in 1876, La Gioconda was a major success for Ponchielli. The most successful new Italian opera between Verdi’s Aida and Otello, it is also a famous example of the Italian genre of Grande opera, the equivalent of French Grand-Opéra. La Gioconda: Renata Scotto, Enzo Grimaldo: Luciano Pavarotti, Laura: Stefania Toczyska, La Cieva: Margarita Lilova, Barnaba: Norman Mittlemann, Alvise: Feruccio Furlanetto. Bruno Bartoletti conducts. (1979 archive broadcast).
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3 Sunday 11:00 AM RADIOLAB Black Box From a duel with the world’s deadliest disease to a surprising peek into the way doctors think about death, in this hour we reckon with the grim reaper. We confront the question at the heart of it all: When the time comes to leave, how do we want to go? 1:00 PM FOLKTALES Folktale of Workloads Join Folktales host-producer Julia Meek as she celebrates Labor Day with lyrical job descriptions and wise words on the subject of an honest day’s labor—from across the Americas, through Europe, and into Asia and Africa. 6:00 PM PROFILES Join us on this Labor Day weekend for a compilation of StoryCorps conversations recorded in Bloomington on the theme of work and its meaning in our lives. 8:00 PM THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC THIS WEEK Alan Gilbert conducts Anthony McGill, clarinet RAVEL: Valses nobles et sentimentales NIELSEN: Clarinet Concerto TCHAIKOVSKY: Selections from Swan Lake
4 Monday 8:00 PM CHICAGO SYMPHONY Christoph von Dohnányi and Paul Lewis LUTOSŁAWSKI: Musique funébre BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 37 TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Op. 74 (Pathétique) MUSSORGSKY, orch. Shostakovich: Two Excerpts from Khovanschina (Kirill Petrenko, conductor) 10:00 PM PIPEDREAMS O How Glorious Common sense tells us that the pipe organ’s most important “stop” is the room in which it speaks. Michael Barone hosts. COPLAND: Fanfare for the Common Man WILLIAM MATHIAS: Fanfare JEAN BERVEILLER: Mouvement OLIVIER MESSIAEN: Transports de joie, fr L’Ascension J.S. BACH (arr. Gade): Variations on Sei gegrüsset Jesu gütig, BWV 768 (arranged for four hands and four feet) JOSEPH RENNER: Theme and Variations, Op. 58 HERBERT HOWELLS: Psalm Prelude No. 1 (Lo, the poor crieth), fr Op. 32 BASIL HARWOOD: O how glorious BERNARDO STORACE: Balletto OLIVIER MESSIAEN: Apparition de l’Eglise eternelle MENDELSSOHN: Allegro, Chorale & Fugue in d/D JEAN-PHILIPPE RAMEAU (trans. Rechsteiner): Dardanus Prelude; Fuguette
& Tempete, fr Hippolyte et Aricie; Air, fr Castor et Pollux THÉODORE DUBOIS: Chant pastoral, fr Douze Pieces Nouvelles GEORG DERX: Fantasy in Free Style SIGFRID KARG-ELERT: Harmonies du soir, fr Op. 72 JOSEPH JONGEN: Toccata
5 Tuesday 8:00 PM ETHER GAME World’s Fair The world is Ether Game’s playground as we explore the times composers looked beyond their home country for inspiration. Mark Chilla is your guide. 10:00 PM RELEVANT TONES Soundward: Time Travel Over the years pop artists have been making the transition from guitar-slaying Hair Rock to classical. Seth Boustead and Q2 Music’s Phil Kline feature some of these musicians, such as Kip Winger, Billy Joel, Jonny Greenwood, and Roger Waters. Why are they making the transition and does it work?
6 Wednesday 8:00 PM SYMPHONYCAST From the 2017 BBC Proms Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Charles Dutoit conducts Stephanie d’Oustrac, mezzo-soprano; Joshua Bell, violin; Cameron Carpenter, organ
Joshua Bell
FALLA: El amor brujo LALO: Symphonie espagnole SAINT-SAENS: Symphony No. 3, “Organ”
7 Thursday 8:00 PM CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER BEETHOVEN: Quartet in F major for Strings, Op. 135 Danish String Quartet (Rune Tonsgaard Sørensen, Frederik Oland, violin; Asbjørn Norgaard, viola; Fredrik Schøyen Sjolin, cello) NIELSEN: Quartet No. 4 in F major for Strings, Op. 44 Danish String Quartet (Frederik Oland, Rune Tonsgaard Sørensen, violin; Asbjørn Norgaard, viola; Fredrik Schøyen Sjolin, cello)
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9:00 PM HARMONIA The Docile Dulcian “Dulcian” is one of many names used to describe the one-piece ancestor of the modern bassoon. The word derives from the Latin dulc, meaning soft or sweet, since the instrument has a more subdued quality than its close cousin—the shawm. Join Angela Mariani this week as we get to know the “docile dulcian.” 10:00 PM FIESTA! September 11th Remembered It has been said that the 20th century did not start until 1914. In that sense, the 21st century started on September 11th of 2001. Elbio Barilari features Latin American works that reflect on this day that changed our perception of the world in which we live.
8 Friday 8:00 PM AFTERGLOW Oh, So Nice: The Songs of Ira Gershwin This week on Afterglow, we’re flipping through the pages of the Ira Gershwin songbook. We’ll hear Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Chet Baker, and others performing Ira’s lyrics to songs by his brother George, as well as Jerome Kern, Harold Arlen, and Kurt Weill. Mark Chilla hosts. 9:00 PM NIGHT LIGHTS Crossing the Bridge: The Return of Sonny Rollins In 1959 saxophonist Sonny Rollins vanished from the jazz scene at the height of his fame. David Brent Johnson explores what happened when he returned two years later.
9 Saturday 1:00 PM SAN FRANCISCO OPERA VERDI—Aida Verdi’s grand Egyptian epic returns in a bold new production. This intimate love story of an Egyptian military hero, Radames, and a captured Ethiopian princess, Aida, features San Francisco Opera favorites Brian Jagde as Radamesand Leah Crocetto as Aida. Nicola Luisotti conducts. Sung in Italian. Amneris: Ekaterina Semenchuck, Amonasro: George Gagnidze, Ramfis: Raymond Aceto, King of Egypt: Anthony Reed.
10 Sunday 11:00 AM RADIOLAB The Gondolier What happens when doing what you want to do means giving up who you really are? We travel to Venice, Italy with reporters Kristen Clark and David Conrad, where they meet gondolier Alex Hai. On the winding canals in the hidden parts of Venice, we learn about the nearly 1,000-year old tradition of the Venetian Gondolier, and how the global media created a 20-year battle between that tradition and a supposed feminist icon.
1:00 PM FOLKTALES Folktale of Knowledge As Socrates so wisely noted: “I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make him think.” Armed with musical customs and wise words, host Julia Meek establishes that learning curve around the Americas, through Europe, and beyond. 6:00 PM PROFILES Malala Yousafzai, activist for girls’ education and Nobel Peace Prize laureate. The program features excerpts of her talk at DePauw University. 8:00 PM THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC THIS WEEK Alan Gilbert conducts Sibelius Semyon Bychkov (conducts Mahler) SIBELIUS: Finlandia SIBELIUS: Symphony No. 7 MAHLER: Symphony No. 6
11 Monday 8:00 PM CHICAGO SYMPHONY Neeme Järvi conducts Sibelius GLAZUNOV: Concert Waltz No. 1 in D Major, Op. 47 PROKOFIEV: Violin Concerto No. 1 in D Major, Op. 19 (Vadim Gluzman, violin) SIBELIUS: Suite from Karelia, Op. 11 SIBELIUS: Symphony No. 5 in E-flat Major, Op. 11 MOZART: Symphony No. 39 in E-flat Major, K. 543 (Pinchas Zukerman, conductor) 10:00 PM PIPEDREAMS From the Royal Albert Hall A BBC Proms concert concentrating on the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, with newly commissioned scores and traditional repertoire. Michael Barone hosts. J.S. BACH: Prelude in E-flat, BWV 552/1 ROBERT SCHUMANN: Fugue on B-AC-H, Op. 60, no. 4 CHERYL FRANCES-HOAD: Ein feste Burg (premiere) BACH: Christus, der uns selig macht, BWV 620 JONATHAN DOVE: Christ unser Herr zum Jordan kam (premiere). DANIEL SALEEB: Chorale-prelude & Toccata, Erhalt uns, Herr, bein deinem Wort (premiere) MENDELSSOHN: Sonata in A, Op. 65, no. 3 SAMUEL WESLEY: Prelude to the Grand Organ Fugue by Bach. BACH: Fugue in E-flat, BWV 552/2 (St. Anne) BACH: Toccata in d, BWV 565 FRANZ LISZT: Variations on Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen JOSEF RHEINBERGER: Organ Concerto No. 1 in F, Op. 137 EDWIN H. LEMARE: Concert Fantasia on British Tunes
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12 Tuesday 8:00 PM ETHER GAME Follow the Leader The Ether Game Brain Trust addresses the age-old question “Who’s really in charge?” as we look at conductors who were also composers. Or is it composers who were also conductors? Mark Chilla hosts. 10:00 PM RELEVANT TONES Bernard Rands Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Bernard Rands, whose opera Vincent premiered at Indiana University, shares his thoughts on his catalogue of over a hundred published works and recordings, from his 1963 premiere at Darmstadt to his 1986 Kennedy Center Friedheim Award-winning orchestral suites Le Tambourin, to his 2011 Chicago Symphony Orchestra commission, Danza Petrificada, and beyond. Seth Boustead hosts.
13 Wednesday 8:00 PM SYMPHONYCAST From the 2017 BBC Proms Oslo Philharmonic Vasily Petrenko conducts Leif Ove Andsnes, piano STRAVINSKY: The Firebird Suite RACHMANINOFF: Piano Concerto No. 4 SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphony No. 12, “The Year 1917”
14 Thursday 8:00 PM CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER SCHUMANN: Märchenbilder for Viola and Piano, Op. 113 Paul Neubauer, viola; Juho Pohjonen, piano WOLF: “Auf einer Wanderung” from Gedichte von Eduard Mörike for Voice and String Quartet WOLF: “Anakreons Grab” from Gedichte von Goethe for Voice and String Quartet WOLF: “Der Rattenfanger” from Gedichte von Goethe for Voice and String Quartet Thomas Hampson, baritone; Jupiter String Quartet (Nelson Lee, Meg Freivogel, violin; Liz Freivogel, viola; Daniel McDonough, cello) SCHUMANN: Quartet in E-flat major for Piano, Violin, Viola, and Cello, Op. 47 Juho Pohjonen, piano; Erin Keefe, violin; Paul Neubauer, viola; Narek Hakhnazaryan, cello 9:00 PM HARMONIA Form and Function Angela Mariani explores the music of early 14th century French poet and composer Jehan de Lescurel, showing that music of medieval France was closely tied to the poetry from which it sprang. 10:00 PM FIESTA! Mexican Soundscapes Together with Brazil and Cuba, Mexico is one of the powerhouses of Latin American September 2017 / Page 7
music. With roots in the native cultures as well as in the Colonial period, Mexican music shows an extraordinary vitality and a variety of colors and soundscapes. This hour, Elbio Barilari presents some of the biggest names in classical music as well as some composers you may not know.
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15 Friday 8:00 PM AFTERGLOW Miss D on Mercury Mark Chilla explores the prime years of jazz singer Dinah Washington, when she recorded for the Mercury record label in the 1950s. 9:00 PM NIGHT LIGHTS Visions of Jazz: W. Eugene Smith Author Sam Stephenson talks with David Brent Johnson about the legendary photographer W. Eugene Smith and the ways in which his life intersected with New York City’s 1950s and 60s jazz scene.
16 Saturday 1:00 PM SAN FRANCISCO OPERA PUCCINI—Madame Butterfly Cultures clash when a trusting young woman marries an American naval officer stationed in Nagasaki. Puccini’s gut-wrenching music takes the audience on an emotionally charged journey through innocence, betrayal, and sacrifice towards a heartbreaking finale. Yves Abel conducts. Sung in Italian. CioCio-San: Lianna Haroutounian, Pinkerton: Vincenzo Costanzo, Suzuki: Zanda Švēde, Sharpless: Anthony Clark Evans, Goro: Julius Ahn, The Bonze: Raymond Aceto, Yamadori: Edward Nelson, Kate Pinkerton: Julie Adams.
17 Sunday 11:00 AM RADIOLAB The Power of Music Music can move us, but it can also save our lives, transform people into a legends, and maybe even knock down walls. This hour, we explore some of the outer edges of the power of music by gathering up a band of biblical horn-blowers, paying a midnight visit to a corner of Mississippi where the devil is rumored to grant wishes, and helping an angsty 18th-century composer push some classical musicians to their physical and psychological limits. 1:00 PM FOLKTALES Folktale of Conflict As human rights activist Bryant McGill sees it, “The conflicts we have with the outside world are often conflicts we have within ourselves.” That’s the theory this folktale explores, as we follow its path around the musical globe. Julia Meek hosts. 6:00 PM PROFILES Israeli novelist David Grossman. Will Murphy hosts. (repeat)
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8:00 PM THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC THIS WEEK Alan Gilbert conducts Stefan Vinke, tenor SIBELIUS: Symphony No. 4 MAHLER: Das Lied von der Erde
8:00 PM CHICAGO SYMPHONY Symphony Ball 2015: Riccardo Muti conducts Mussorgsky CORIGLIANO: Campane de Ravello ELGAR: In the South (Alassio) MUSSORGSKY, orch. Ravel: Pictures from an Exhibition MOZART: Symphony No. 40 in G Minor, K. 550 BEETHOVEN: Consecration of the House Overture 10:00 PM PIPEDREAMS Winning the Prize Michael Barone revisits laureates of the American Guild of Organists National Young Artist Competition in Organ Performance, and other contests. HERBERT HOWELLS: Rhapsody No. 3, fr Op. 17 DAVID ASHLEY WHITE: Variations on Come, pure hearts J.S. BACH: An Wasserflüssen Babylon, BWV 653 OLIVIER MESSIAEN: Les deux murailles d’eau, fr Livre du Saint Sacrement DAN LOCKLAIR: Ayre for the Dance PAMELA DECKER: Faneuil Hall GIROLAMO FRESCOBALDI: Toccata No. 5 PERCY WHITLOCK: Plymouth Suite JAN PIETERSZOON SWEELINCK: Variations, Unter der Linden grüne DIETERICH BUXTEHUDE: Praeludium in e, Bux WV 142 J.S. BACH: Praeludium in C, BWV 566
19 Tuesday 8:00 PM ETHER GAME Talk Like A Pirate Day Avast, me hearties! Today be International Talk like a Pirate Day so Ether Game be playin’ pirate-themed shanties that will make you say “Arrr!” Mark Chilla be yer host. 10:00 PM RELEVANT TONES The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs Composer Mason Bates brings Steve Jobs’ life story to the stage in Santa Fe Opera’s production of The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs. The opera combines expressive electronics with electric guitar and Bates’ signature rich orchestration. Seth Boustead hosts.
20 Wednesday 8:00 PM SYMPHONYCAST From the 2017 BBC Proms Vienna Philharmonic Michael Tilson Thomas conducts
Emanuel Ax, piano BRAHMS: Variations on the St. Anthony Chorale MOZART: Piano Concerto No. 14 BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 7
21 Thursday 8:00 PM CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER HAYDN: Trio in A major for Piano, Violin, and Cello, Hob. XV:18 Wu Han, piano; Ani Kavafian, violin; Nicholas Canellakis, cello MENDELSSOHN: Double Concerto in D minor for Violin, Piano, and Strings Benjamin Beilman, violin solo; Wu Han, piano; Kristin Lee, Sean Lee, violin; Richard O’Neill, viola; Nicholas Canellakis, cello; Blake Hinson, double bass 9:00 PM HARMONIA “Comme femme”: A 15th-Century Song Goes Viral How did tunes go viral centuries before social media? This week we explore a 15thcentury song about a disconsolate woman that went viral in its time. Join Angela Mariani to hear how composers borrowed tunes in the days before plagiarism was relevant. 10:00 PM FIESTA! Don Quixote in Music The monumental book by Miguel de Cervantes, the first novel in European literature, captured the imagination of composers from different periods and countries. In this program Elbio Barilari shows how Spanish and Latin American composers reflected on the Knight of the Sad Countenance. His guest is longtime Chicago broadcaster Kerry Frumkin.
22 Friday 8:00 PM AFTERGLOW Songs of the Season: Autumn The leaves are changing from green to red, the air outside is brisk and cool: autumn is upon us. And that means it’s the time of year for Afterglow to salute some of the best songs about the season from the Great American Songbook. Mark Chilla hosts. 9:00 PM NIGHT LIGHTS Revolution in the Air: The Year in Jazz, 1964 Lee Morgan’s hardbop hit “The Sidewinder,” the avant-garde October Revolution movement, and the impact of the Beatles are some of the highlights David Brent Johnson features in this Night Lights time capsule program.
23 Saturday 1:00 PM SAN FRANCISCO OPERA GIORDANO—Andrea Chénier An ardent poet and a young noblewoman are passionately attracted only to be separated by the turmoil and terror of the French Revolution. Music Director Nicola
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Luisotti conducts this powerful, melodic score in a lavish period production by acclaimed director David McVicar. Sung in Italian. Chénier: Yonghoon Lee, Maddalena: Anna Pirozzi, Gérard: George Gagnize, Bersi: J’Nai Bridges, The Incredible: Joel Sorensen, Madelon: Jill Grove, Roucher: David Pershall.
24 Sunday 11:00 AM RADIOLAB Threat Level This hour, a reporter tries to piece out what really happened during the terror attacks on Westgate mall. Then, things get really murky as we try to fix a clear line between empty threats and concrete criminal plans, and we’re left wondering: When should we consider someone a threat? 1:00 PM FOLKTALES Folktale of Dreamscapes “All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.” That’s from Edgar Allan Poe, and it sets the mood we follow this week. Daydreams, trances and reveries—we track them all, through a world of wonderful musical remembrances. Julia Meek hosts. 6:00 PM PROFILES Morning Edition co-host Steve Inskeep. 8:00 PM THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC THIS WEEK Alan Gilbert conducts David Robertson (conducts Williams) Carter Brey, cello; Alan Baer, tuba; Joseph Alessi, trombone; #NYPHIL soloists SCHUMANN: Cello Concerto JOHN WILLIAMS: Tuba Concerto WILLIAM BOLCOM: Trombone Concerto
25 Monday 8:00 PM CHICAGO SYMPHONY Riccardo Muti and Yefim Bronfman ROSSINI: Overture to Semiramide BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Major, Op. 58 (Yefim Bronfman, piano) MENDELSSOHN: Symphony No. 5 in D Major, Op. 107 (Reformation) TCHAIKOVSKY: Romeo and Juliet 10:00 PM PIPEDREAMS Out of Their Minds Following a centuries-old tradition, these French organists have created new music in the moment through artful improvisation. Michael Barone hosts. PIERRE COCHEREAU: Easter Entry (r. 4/22/1973); Scherzo Symphonique (r. 2/10/1974) THIERRY ESCAICH: Improvised Prelude & Fugue on an Old Austrian Tune VINCENT DUBOIS: Free Improvisation OLIVIER LATRY: Improvisation on Two Themes THIERRY ESCAICH: Improvisation on New York, New York GERRE HANCOCK: Improvised Versets on Vexilla Regis PIERRE COCHEREAU: Prelude, Chorale & Variations on Marche des Rois
26 Tuesday 8:00 PM ETHER GAME Hunting Season With hunting season just around the corner, Ether Game puts on its camo and takes aim with a hunt-themed show. Mark Chilla hosts. 10:00 PM RELEVANT TONES Deep Resonances: Modern Music for Bass Thanks to virtuoso performers such as Gary Karr, François Rabbath, and Edgar Meyer, the double bass is leaping to the front of the concert stage and composers are taking note. Seth Boustead offers music written in the last few decades for this sonorous and versatile instrument.
27 Wednesday 8:00 PM SYMPHONYCAST Last Night of the 2017 BBC Proms BBC Symphony Orchestra BBC Symphony Chorus BBC Singers Sakari Oramo conducts Nina Stemme, soprano; Lucy Crowe, soprano; Christine Rice, mezzo-soprano; Ben Johnson, tenor; John Relyea, bass LOTTA WENNAKOSKI: Flounce KODALY: Budavari Te Deum SARGENT: An Impression on a Windy Day SIBELIUS: Finlandia WAGNER: Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde ADAMS: Lola Montez Does the Spider Dance WOOD: Fantasia on British Sea-Songs ARNE: Rule, Brittania! ELGAR: Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 ARNE: Rule, Britannia! PARRY: Jerusalem Unknown: The National Anthem Traditional: Auld Lang Syne
28 Thursday 8:00 PM CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER BEETHOVEN: Serenade in D major for Flute, Violin, and Viola, Op. 25 Tara Helen O’Connor, flute; Daniel Phillips, violin; Richard O’Neill, viola MENDELSSOHN: Trio No. 1 in D minor for Piano, Violin, and Cello, Op. 49 Jeffrey Kahane, piano; Arnaud Sussman,violin; David Finckel, cello 9:00 PM HARMONIA A Conversation with Mark Cudek Angela Mariani speaks with veteran early music performer Mark Cudek about his career and his work as artistic director of the Indianapolis Early Music Festival, and we hear music from this year’s festival. (This program was originally scheduled to air in August.)
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10:00 PM FIESTA! Spain and Latin America on Six-Strings Spain and Latin America are the homelands of the guitar. Nurtured by the Spanish inheritance and the African sense of rhythm and American Indian melodies, Latin American guitar music has given a treasure of guitar music to the world. Elbio Barilari features a selection of works reflecting different roots and tendencies in music for the guitar.
29 Friday 8:00 PM AFTERGLOW The Razaf and Waller Songbook Mark Chilla explores the songs of lyricist Andy Razaf and songwriter Fats Waller, including “Ain’t Misbehavin” and “Honeysuckle Rose,” sung by the best in vocal jazz. 9:00 PM NIGHT LIGHTS That’s Rich: The Buddy Rich Story A centennial celebration of the acclaimed drummer, featuring the music of his big bands and small groups, as well as some of his vocal recordings. David Brent Johnson hosts.
30 Saturday 1:00 PM SAN FRANCISCO OPERA BRIGHT SHENG—Dream of the Red Chamber Based on the book of the same name that is considered one of the great classical novels of Chinese literature, the story centers around the lives of the members of the Jia Clan, whose good fortune is assured when one of its daughters becomes an imperial concubine and then declines after her downfall. The opera features an Englishlanguage libretto by Tony award-winning playwright David Henry Hwang (M. Butterfly). George Manahan conducts. Bao Yu: Yijie Shi, Dai Yu: Purem Jo, Bao Chai: Irene Roberts, Lady Wang: Hyona Kim, Princess Jia: Karen Chia-Ling Ho, Granny Jia: Qiulin Zhang, Aunt Xue: Yanyu Guo.
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For four decades, classical music announcer and arts producer George Walker has been a calming, friendly voice on WFIU. In July, staff members and friends gathered in Studio 3 to celebrate George’s 40th anniversary broadcasting on the station. Are you surprised to still be here? we asked him. “I’m amazed that I’m still here,” George joked. George first came to WFIU in 1967 to read the news over the air. His first day as a radio full-timer was in July of 1977. Early on, WFIU’s Program Director Donna Reed Beeker gave George some advice about radio: “Try it, you might like it.” He did, sometimes in creative ways. George used to mark his birthday by playing musical works that have corresponding numbers in their titles—until things got out of hand. “On my birthday I used to schedule pieces that has the same number as my number of years in their titles,” George told us. “When I turned 40, I would play an Opus 40 or a Symphony 40, or Etude 40. Once I got past 55, it got harder to find pieces. At my most recent birthday, 74, there weren’t enough pieces to choose from and I settled for a couple of token ‘74’ selections.” George recalled the day in the 1970s when the fad known as “streaking”—which involved running through a public area without one’s clothes on—reached into the WFIU on-air studio. “We had a couple of people who tried that running around here trying to disconcert the announcer who was on the air.” WFIU’s first pledge drive took place during George’s first year at the station, 1977, and he’s worked on every drive since.
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At his 40th anniversary party, George Walker holds up a photo of himself from the 1970s
Back then, fund drives were simple affairs compared to the large undertakings they are today, with at least six people manning the phones. “We had only one telephone taking pledges.” The financial goals were also quite modest: 16 or 17 thousand dollars for the entire drive. “One of our goals was to raise enough money for the station to begin broadcasting in stereo. This was in spite of the opinion of the faculty member in charge of WFIU who called stereo ‘a flash in the pan.’” After 40 years, George said, he’s “very pleased to be at WFIU.” “There have been a number of times, with various ups and downs, when the happiest place in my life was when I was here.”