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March 2019
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Saturdays at 5 p.m. on WFIU2 | Sundays at 6 p.m. on WFIU March 2/3 – Gary Thor Wedow Conductor Gary Thor Wedow has established a reputation for leading dramatic, historically-informed performances with opera companies, orchestras, festivals, and choral organizations throughout North America. He recently conducted the performance of Giulio Cesare at the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University for the American Handel Society’s Festival and Conference. Born in LaPorte, Indiana, Wedow studied piano with virtuoso Jorge Bolet at the Jacobs School of Music. He spoke with Aaron Cain.
Jazz Notes March is Women’s History Month, and our weekday afternoon program Just You And Me will highlight women jazz artists each week, including past masters such as Mary Lou Williams, Geri Allen, and Melba Liston; present-day bandleaders Maria Schneider and Esperanza Spalding; and homegrown talent including saxophonist Amanda Gardier, vocalists Rachel Caswell and Janiece Jaffe, violinist Sara Caswell, and pianist Monika Herzig.
March 16/17 – John Dahl and Robert Abbott John Dahl is Vice President and Executive Producer of ESPN Films and Original Content, where he oversees all aspects of the Peabody and Emmy-winning 30 for 30 documentary film series. Robert Abbott is a director and documentary filmmaker who has won six Emmy Awards in five different categories. Their 30 for 30 film The Last Days of Knight is the previously untold behind-the-scenes story of Abbott’s investigation of the IU basketball program in 1999. They spoke with Aaron Cain. March 23/24 – Mary-Claire King Mary-Claire King is a geneticist and a professor at the University of Washington, where she studies the interaction of genetics and environmental influences on human conditions such as breast and ovarian cancer, inherited deafness, and schizophrenia. King is known for three major accomplishments: identifying breast cancer genes, demonstrating that humans and chimpanzees are 99% genetically identical, and applying genomic sequencing to identify victims of human rights abuses. She spoke with Aaron Cain. March 30/31 – Gennadiy Druzenko Constitutional lawyer Gennadiy Druzenko has years of experience in civil service to the Ukrainian government. He co-founded the Pirogov First Volunteer Mobile Hospital (PFVMH), the largest nongovernmental project to provide medical care to servicepersons and local civilians in the Ukrainian conflict zone. He partially funds this mobile hospital by selling ammo boxes painted with Eastern Orthodox icons. Druzenko is also involved in the process of redrafting of the Ukrainian constitution. He spoke with IU Associate Professor of Geography Elizabeth Dunn.
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March 9/10 – Elizabeth Bradley Elizabeth Bradley is the eleventh president of Vassar College. She is the former director of the Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy at Yale, where she was also the founder and faculty director of the Yale Global Health Leadership Institute and led teams that contributed to transforming health care programs in China, the United Kingdom, Ethiopia, Ghana, Liberia, Rwanda, and South Africa. She spoke with Aaron Cain.
Esperanza Spalding
Our Friday-evening jazz programs Afterglow and Night Lights both celebrate the centennial of Nat King Cole this month. Afterglow chronicles Cole’s 1940s rise to stardom on March 15 and follows up on March 22 with an in-depth look at Cole’s remarkable recording year of 1958, while Night Lights pays tribute to Cole as a jazz pianist on March 8 and continues on March 15 with a program focusing on Cole’s short-lived but landmark 1956-57 television show. Other Afterglow highlights include vocalist Peggy Lee as a songwriter, the early 1960s recordings of Lou Rawls, and a deep dive into lesser-known corners of the Rodgers and Hart songbook. Night Lights offers another centennial salute, to cool-school jazz pianist Lennie Tristano, as well as tributes to the late singer Nancy Wilson and women jazz artists of the 1990s. Stay tuned for some special Jazz Appreciation Month programming in April!
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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; fr, from; 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. Note: Daily listings are as complete as we can make them at press time, and we strive to provide full program information whenever possible. Some programs, however, do not provide us with information about their content. We include the titles of those programs as a convenience. When we receive no program information for a given day, the day will not appear in the listings. For a complete list of WFIU’s schedule, see the program grid on pages 4 and 5.
1 Friday 8:00 PM AFTERGLOW Peggy Lee: The Singer-Songwriter Explore the many songs of pop star and songwriter Peggy Lee, including her hits “It’s A Good Day,” “I Don’t Know Enough About You,” and “Fever.” 9:00 PM NIGHT LIGHTS Jazz Her Way: Nancy Wilson A survey of the late singer’s 1960s recordings with Cannonball Adderley, George Shearing, Gerald Wilson, and others.
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1:00 PM FOLKTALES Folktale of Doubt If you look at it Measure for Measure, ala William Shakespeare, “Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.” We’re chasing this though around the musical folkworld. 6:00 PM PROFILES Gary Thor Wedow 8:00 PM THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC THIS WEEK BACH/WEBERN: Fuga (Ricercata) from A Musical Offering, BWV 1079 SCHUBERT/Orch. A. Schmalcz: An Silvia R. STRAUSS/Orch. Heger: Traum durch die Dämmerung SCHUBERT/Orch. A. Schmalcz: Des Fischers Liebesglück R. STRAUSS: Das Rosenband R. STRAUSS: Freundliche Vision SCHUBERT/Orch. Brahms: Greisengesang R. STRAUSS: Ruhe, meine Seele SCHUBERT/Orch. Reger: Im Abendrot R. STRAUSS: Allerseelen SCHUBERT/Orch. Webern: Tränenregen (from Die Schöne Müllerin) R. STRAUSS: Morgen! Matthias Goerne, baritone (for all Schubert/Strauss selections above) MOZART: Symphony No. 40 in G minor
8:00 PM ETHER GAME Purple, Green and Gold It’s Mardi Gras! Slice up the King Cake and don some beads, because Ether Game is exploring music about the New Orleans Mardi Gras colors: purple, green and gold.
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2 Saturday 1:00 PM METROPOLITAN OPERA Donizetti – La Fille du Régiment Tenor Javier Camarena and soprano Pretty Yende team up for a feast of bel canto vocal fireworks—including the show-stopping tenor aria “Ah! Mes amis,” with its nine high Cs. Alessandro Corbelli and Maurizio Muraro trade off as the comic Sergeant Sulpice, with mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe as the outlandish Marquise of Berkenfield. Enrique Mazzola conducts. 8:00 PM PORCHLIGHT Richmond Visits from Ronnie Lane, Lemon Henry Jefferson, Steve Philbeck, and Nanette.
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8:00 PM CHICAGO SYMPHONY Conductor John Storgårds and Violinist Gil Shaham Grieg: Suite No. 1 from Peer Gynt Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E Minor, Op. 64 (Gil Shaham, violin) Raimi: Anger Management (Gil Shaham, violin) Sibelius: Symphony No. 1 in E Minor, Op. 39 Prokofiev: Suite from Lieutenant Kijé (Carlos Miguel Prieto, conductor) 10:00 PM PIPEDREAMS Te Deum! Praises, blessings, and general glorifications make these compositions particularly splendid.
6 Wednesday 8:00 PM SYMPHONYCAST Oregon Symphony Carlos Kalmar, conductor Augustin Hadelich, violin BEETHOVEN: Violin Concerto in D Major GOULD: Stringmusic BALAKIREV: Islamey
7 Thursday 8:00 PM CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER Hungarian Origins Ligeti: Six Bagatelles for Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon, and Horn (1953) Tara Helen O’Connor, Flute; Stephen Taylor, Oboe; Romie de Guise-Langlois, Clarinet; Peter Kolkay, Bassoon; Radovan Vlatkovic, Horn Bartók: Quartet No. 3 for Strings, BB 93 (1927) Orion Quartet: Todd Phillips, Daniel Phillips, Violin; Steven Tenenbom, Viola; Timothy Eddy, Cello Dohnányi: Serenade in C major for Violin, Viola, and Cello, Op. 10 (1902) Arnaud Sussmann, Violin; Paul Neubauer, Viola; Paul Watkins, Cello Bartók: Román népi táncok (Romanian Folk Dances) for Strings, BB 76 (1915, arr 1917) Violinist Daniel Hope leading an ensemble of CMS artists 9:00 PM HARMONIA Masquerade What do the elaborate Mardi Gras parades of New Orleans, the famous Carnival of Venice, and the Jewish holiday Purim all have in common? Why, costumes, of course! This week, we’re exploring the art of masquerades in music. 10:00 PM FIESTA! Memories from Sefarad Sefarad is the name the Spanish Jews gave to that land, thence their
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denomination as Sephardic people. Over several hundred years many Sephardies migrated to the Americas— specifically Mexico, the US, Argentina and Uruguay—and there is also a strong Sephardic community in Israel. Fiesta pays a new visit to this tradition.
8 Friday 8:00 PM AFTERGLOW Stormy Monday: Lou Rawls in the Early ’60s The rich baritone of Lou Rawls could sing R&B, jazz, blues, gospel, and pop. This week on the show, we’ll explore his early work for Capitol Records in the 1960s. 9:00 PM NIGHT LIGHTS Nat King Cole: The Jazz Pianist The first of a two-part centennial celebration, focusing on Cole’s unsung prowess as a piano player.
9 Saturday 1:00 PM METROPOLITAN OPERA Wagner – Das Rheingold Wagner’s visionary initial installment of the Ring Cycle depicts the original sin of the theft of the sacred golden treasure, the vanity of the gods, the greed of the Nibelungen, the fratricide of the giants, and the building of Valhalla. Bass-baritone Greer Grimsley sings the role of Wotan, the conflicted lord of the gods. Mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton sings her first Wagner role at the Met as Wotan’s embattled wife, Fricka. 8:00 PM PORCHLIGHT The Beatles Visits from Michael Paskash, Phil Everly, Dot, and Mark Chilla.
10 Sunday 1:00 PM FOLKTALES Folktale of Family Affairs According to Michael J. Fox, “Family is not an important thing, it’s everything.” That’s the premise we’re exploring this week—with words of wisdom, and musical customs for, from and about family life world round. Familial connections never sounded sweeter— and it’s all relative! 6:00 PM PROFILES Elizabeth Bradley
8:00 PM THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC THIS WEEK HAYDN: Symphony No. 95 in C minor, Hob. I:95 (1791) MARTINŮ: Incantation, Piano Concerto No. 4, H. 358 Garrick Ohlsson, piano SIBELIUS: Symphony No. 1 in E minor, Op. 39 Xian Zhang, conductor
11 Monday 8:00 PM CHICAGO SYMPHONY Riccardo Muti conducts Rossini’s Stabat mater Mozart: Kyrie in D Minor, K. 341 (Chicago Symphony Chorus; Duain Wolfe, director) Cherubini: Chant sur la mort de Joseph Haydn (Krassimira Stoyanova, soprano; Dmitry Korchak, tenor; Enea Scala, tenor; Chicago Symphony Chorus; Duain Wolfe, director) Rossini: Stabat mater (Ekaterina Gubanova, mezzo-soprano; Eric Owens, bass- baritone; Krassimira Stoyanova, soprano; Dmitry Korchak, tenor; Enea Scala, tenor; Chicago Symphony Chorus; Duain Wolfe, director) Rossini: Overture to William Tell 10:00 PM PIPEDREAMS Organs and Orchestras In any era, the blend of these very different sound-sources always fascinates.
12 Tuesday 8:00 PM ETHER GAME Blowin’ in the Wind As the winds of March continue to blow, Ether Game explores music about wind. Be sure to pack your parka!
13 Wednesday 8:00 PM SYMPHONYCAST Nashville Symphony Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor André Watts, piano DEBUSSY: Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun MACDOWELL: Piano Concerto No. 2 KIP WINGER: Conversations with Nijinsky STRAVINSKY: The Firebird Suite
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14 Thursday 8:00 PM CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER Musically Inspired Ravel: Le tombeau de Couperin for Wind Quintet (arr. Mason Jones) Sooyun Kim, Flute; James Austin Smith, Oboe;Romie de Guise-Langlois, Clarinet; Marc Goldberg, Bassoon; Eric Reed, Horn Schubert: Quartet in A minor for Strings, D. 804, Op. 29, No. 1, “Rosamunde” Escher String Quartet (Adam BarnettHart, Violin I; Danbi Um, Violin II; Pierre Lapointe, Viola; Brook Speltz, Cello) 9:00 PM HARMONIA Round Three Just about everyone knows the song “Row, row, row your boat.” It has a very simple melody and words, and it is fun to sing as a round, with voices starting the song every time the previous voice gets to a certain word. European music has always had loads of rounds, some very simple, others incredibly complex. Join us as we go round and round in early baroque music. 10:00 PM FIESTA! Great Latin American Guitar Composers Guitar music is one of the strengths of the Latin American repertoire. Composers from all countries built on the strong traditions inherited from Europe and developed and transformed guitar music in Latin America. Fiesta pays another visit to the guitar treasures of the Americas with composers Leo Brouwer, Maximo Diego Pujol, and Antonio Lauro.
15 Friday 8:00 PM AFTERGLOW Nat King Cole in 1940s Before he became the “Unforgettable” star of both music and television, Nat King Cole was just a work-a-day jazz pianist in in LA. In honor of Cole’s centennial on March 17, we’ll chronicle his rise to stardom in the 1940s, hearing hits like “Straighten Up and Fly Right” and “Nature Boy.” 9:00 PM NIGHT LIGHTS The Jackie Robinson Of Television: The Nat King Cole Show Nat King Cole’s short-lived 1956-57 variety show was canceled for lack of March 2019 / Page 7
ratings and advertisers, but it made an invaluable cultural contribution and blazed a trail for later African-American TV hosts.
16 Saturday 1:00 PM METROPOLITAN OPERA Verdi – Falstaff Baritone Ambrogio Maestri brings his larger-than-life portrayal of the title role back for the first time since his Met role debut in the 2013–14 season. Robert Carsen’s insightful production—which moves the action to postwar England in the 1950s—features an exceptional cast that includes soprano Ailyn Pérez as Alice Ford and soprano Golda Schultz as Nannetta. 8:00 PM PORCHLIGHT Work Visits from Eugene Debs, Charles Dickens, Grace Fryer, and Danielle Doyle.
1:00 PM FOLKTALES Folktale of Irish Backroads Sure and ’tis a fine road we travel this week—off the beaten path, and around a world of musical customs and collaborations all hailing from the Emerald Isle. Author Pat Higgins says, “In Ireland, music is an act of love.” With that in mind, it’s the luck of the Irish that leads us to the pot of musical gold at the end of the rainbow. 6:00 PM PROFILES John Dahl and Robert Abbott 8:00 PM THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC THIS WEEK BERNSTEIN: Candide Overture Marin Alsop, conductor ZWILICH: Double Quartet Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, conductor THOMAS: Gathering Paradise Heidi Grant Murphy, soprano Lorin Maazel, conductor FAURÉ: Requiem Nadia Boulanger, conductor Reri Grist, soprano Donald Gramm, baritone Vernon de Tar, organ Choral Arts Society
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19 Tuesday 8:00 PM ETHER GAME Three’s a Crowd Three cheers for Ether Game! For the third month of the year, Ether Game celebrates the number three.
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Riccardo Muti conducts Schumann and Mussorgsky Dvořák: Husitská Overture, Op. 67 Schumann: Cello Concerto in A Minor, Op. 129 (John Sharp, cello) Hindemith: Concert for Music for Strings and Brass, Op. 50 Mussorgsky/Ravel: Pictures from an Exhibition Catalani: Contemplazione 10:00 PM PIPEDREAMS Out Bach Performance styles over the years have changed, but the genius of J. S. B. remains a constant.
8:00 PM SYMPHONYCAST Houston Symphony Matthew Halls, conductor Johannes Moser, cello SCHUBERT: Symphony No. 5 HAYDN: Cello Concerto No. 1 MOZART: Symphony No. 41, Jupiter
21 Thursday 8:00 PM CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER French III: the 1870s Saint-Saëns: Sonata No. 1 in C minor for Cello and Piano, Op. 32 Gary Hoffman, Cello; David Selig, Piano Fauré: Quartet No. 1 in C minor for Piano, Violin, Viola, and Cello, Op. 15 Anne-Marie McDermott, Piano; Nicolas Dautricourt, Violin; Yura Lee, Viola; Colin Carr, Cello 9:00 PM HARMONIA Purim Party “A freilichen Purim”—a happy Purim to you! On this episode, we explore the Jewish spring holiday of Purim. A commemoration of the Book of Esther, Purim celebrations are best known today for their gift-giving, wild costume parties, and delicious triangle-shaped cookies called hamentashen. Stick around for our featured release, “Heart
and Soul” performed by Ars Lyrica Houston. 10:00 PM FIESTA! Mexican Violin Host Elbio Barilari sits down with young Chicago violinist Alan Snow. They speak about some of the great composers of the violin from Mexico, and Mr. Snow performs on the show.
22 Friday 7:00 PM THE UNCLE DAN AND SOPHIE JAM Mentors with Steve Allee 8:00 PM AFTERGLOW Nat King Cole’s Remarkable 1958 In 1958, a 39-year-old Nat King Cole had the most remarkable year, recording seven LPs, dozens of singles, and working on two films. We’ll explore some of the highlights of this banner year, in our continued celebration of Cole’s centennial. 9:00 PM NIGHT LIGHTS Lennie Tristano: The Jazz Guru A centennial celebration of Lennie Tristano, a pioneering cool-school pianist and mentor to musicians such as Lee Konitz and Warne Marsh.
23 Saturday 1:00 PM METROPOLITAN OPERA Saint-Saëns – Samson et Dalila When mezzo-soprano Elīna Garanča and tenor Roberto Alagna joined forces for a new production of Carmen at the Met, the results were electrifying. Now this star duo reunites for another sensual French opera when they are featured in the title roles of SaintSaëns’s biblical epic. Sir Mark Elder conducts the first new Met production of the work in 20 years. 8:00 PM PORCHLIGHT Characters Visits from June Carter Cash, Mr. Trolley, Anton Chekov, and Scott Schomburg.
24 Sunday 1:00 PM FOLKTALES Folktale of Libations We’re imbibing in music for, from and about intoxicating beverages around the world of good cheer this week. “What’s drinking? A mere pause from thinking”—that’s according to Lord
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Byron. But we encourage you to draw your own “cup of conclusions” as we whet our whistles on the wily ways of that old demon liquor. 6:00 PM PROFILES Mary-Claire King 8:00 PM THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC THIS WEEK SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphony No. 6 Leonard Bernstein, conductor SHOSTAKOVICH: Piano Concerto No. 2 Helen Huang, piano Kurt Masur, conductor SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphony No. 14 Teresa Kubiak, soprano Isser Bushkin, bass Leonard Bernstein, conductor
25 Monday 8:00 PM CHICAGO SYMPHONY Conductor Manfred Honeck and Till Fellner Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 25 in C Major, K. 503 (Till Fellner, piano) Mahler: Symphony No. 5 10:00 PM PIPEDREAMS David Briggs in Concert The talented British recitalist presents a program of transcriptions, plus and improvisation, at Verizon Hall in Philadelphia.
26 Tuesday 8:00 PM ETHER GAME This Week in Music History Every week in history is special, but what about this week, the last week of March? Ether Game takes a closer look on this episode.
27 Wednesday 8:00 PM SYMPHONYCAST Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Christian Zacharias, piano BACEWICA: Concerto for Strings HAYDN: Symphony No. 82, The Bear CHOPIN: Piano Concerto No. 2
Alexander Sitkovetsky, Violin; Wu Qian, Piano Beethoven: Septet in E-flat major for Winds and Strings, Op. 20 Adam Barnett-Hart, Violin; Pierre Lapointe, Viola; Brook Speltz, Cello; Edgar Meyer, Double Bass; David Shifrin, Clarinet; Bram van Sambeek, Bassoon; Radovan Vlatkovic, Horn 9:00 PM HARMONIA The Harps in the Trees Harpist Cheryl Fulton joins host Angela Mariani for a program featuring her beautiful new documentary The Harps in the Trees, which tells the story of a musical pilgrimage to Scotland by Fulton’s ensemble Angelorum. There they meet the luthier who made their harps, and play music together in the very forest where the wood had been gathered for the construction of the instruments. We’ll talk about the making of the film, Cheryl’s unsung role in the founding of Indiana’s Early Music Institute, our mutual mentor and teacher Tom Binkley, and more. 10:00 PM FIESTA! Latin American Composers You SHOULD Know! Heitor Villa-Lobos, Carlos Chávez, and Alberto Ginastera are the figureheads at the prow of the Latin American music ship. On this episode, we go beyond those giants and feature other Latin American composers that you should know!
29 Friday 8:00 PM AFTERGLOW Blue Room: The Lost Rodgers and Hart We all know “My Funny Valentine,” “The Lady Is A Tramp” and “Blue Moon,” but what about “To Keep My Love Alive,” “Ten Cents A Dance,” or “This Funny World”? This week, we explore the rare and/or littleremembered Rodgers and Hart songs. 9:00 PM NIGHT LIGHTS Jazz Women of the 1990s Night Lights’ decade-by-decade story of women in jazz continues with Maria Schneider, Abbey Lincoln, Shirley Horn, Cassandra Wilson, and more.
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30 Saturday 12:00 PM METROPOLITAN OPERA Wagner – Die Walküre In what is expected to be a Wagnerian event for the ages, soprano Christine Goerke plays Brünnhilde, Wotan’s willful warrior daughter, who loses her immortality in opera’s most famous act of filial defiance. Tenor Stuart Skelton and soprano Eva-Maria Westbroek play the incestuous twins Siegmund and Sieglinde. Greer Grimsley sings Wotan. Philippe Jordan conducts. Due to the early start time, this broadcast preempts this week’s Says You! 8:00 PM PORCHLIGHT Trees Visits from John Chapman, John Blackburn, Trini Lopez, and Lee Huss.
31 Sunday 1:00 PM FOLKTALES Folktale of Riches As Daisy Goodwin declared, in her novel, American Heiress, “... anyone can acquire wealth, the real art is giving it away.” That might not register on NASDAQ, but it’s our personally satisfying indicator as we go around the musical world of commodities to determine just what we should be adding to our portfolios. 6:00 PM PROFILES Gennadiy Druzenko 8:00 PM THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC THIS WEEK Program TBA
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Harmonia Celebrates Its 900th Episode The production crew for Harmonia recently celebrated the completion of episode #900! “That is quite an accomplishment,” said Michael Paskash, who has been responsible for engineering, editing, and post-production on Harmonia for more than 22 years. “I took over production duties in the fall of 1996, at episode #200. Do the math and that’s 700 shows I’ve put together!” Paskash added. “Back then, we were still recording the show on reel-to-reel tape. Eventually we moved into the digital age.” Angela Mariani, the host and creator of Harmonia, first started working on the program back in 1991. Mariani left Bloomington in 2000 and moved to Texas. Although she no longer writes the new scripts, she still continues to host the weekly early music program. “When Angela left town, it created a whole new set of technical challenges for us,” Paskash said. “We had to come up with a plan for her to record the voice tracks there and ship it all back here so I could piece it all together with the music into a new episode each week. At first, Angela would record her voice onto a digital audio tape at home and ship it back to me. Eventually, we recorded via ISDN line at station KTTZ in Lubbock.”
However, production of Harmonia had to switch gears last year when the ISDN line became unavailable for use. “We’ve kind of had to step back in time once again,” Paskash said. “Angela has gone back to recording herself. However, the technology has greatly improved over time. She now uses a high-quality USB microphone, which plugs directly into her laptop. And then the voice tracks are delivered back to me via Drop Box.”
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So the next time you listen to Harmonia, think of all the work that went into producing those 900 episodes. Congratulations to the staff on this achievement! Harmonia airs Thursdays at 9 p.m. on WFIU and Sundays at 12 p.m. on WFIU2.