October 2011
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Harmonia Turns Twenty
Also this month: • Unearthing Dracula • Rethinking the Way College Students Learn • WFIU Listener Reception • Artists of the Month: Kevin Murphy and Heidi Grant Murphy . . . and more!
Harmonia Turns Twenty October 2011 Vol. 59, No. 10
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This year, WFIU’s early music program Harmonia celebrates its platinum anniversary. Hosted from its inception by performer and scholar Angela Mariani, for two decades Harmonia has taken you to stone cathedrals, lively fairs, and dramatic stages of the past—offering musical history as told through the eyes and ears by the musicians of those long ago times. Harmonia’s national syndication began in 1995, with more than eighty stations signing on in the first week. The first press kits to market the show to stations nationally were produced and assembled by hand over several late nights by Angela Mariani, then-Marketing Director Cary Boyce, then-Station Manager Christina Kuzmych, and a few sturdy volunteers (all who claim they are still trying to get the glue out of their hair). By 2000, Harmonia could be heard on over 150 public radio stations nationwide. Today, Harmonia is still going strong. In addition to the regular series, WFIU’s Harmonia production team produces several special programs each year that are also syndicated nationally. The program is offered nationally through radio, and globally through the Harmonia Web site, blog, and free weekly podcasts. You can join us in celebrating 20 years of superb early music on public radio by tuning in Thursdays at 9 p.m. and Sundays at noon. You can also hear archived programs at wfiu.org under the Programs tab. Happy Birthday, Harmonia! May you long continue to cast new light on the music of the distant past.
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The annual WFIU Listener Reception is taking place Friday, October 28, from 7 to 9 p.m. at the IU Art Museum. Admission is free. Mingle with your fellow listeners and the folks from WFIU against the backdrop of the newly-renovated Art Museum atrium, next door to the Radio-TV Services building on the IU campus that we call Jean Kautt and Steve Llewellyn at the 2010 Listener Reception home. Terry’s Banquets and Catering, Oliver Winery, and the Bloomington Brewing Company will provide light refreshments. And since we’ll be right around the corner from Halloween—and that evening’s 7 p.m. broadcast of the new WFIU documentary Unearthing Dracula—there might be a spooky surprise or two in store! If you value WFIU, we’d like to take this chance to say thanks for your support. On October 28, please build the Listener Reception into your Friday evening and IU Homecoming Weekend plans.
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Intelligence Squared
Concerts from Music Mountain
Sunday, October 2, 8 p.m.
Sundays at 9 p.m.
Sustainable Cities— There’s an App for That!
The First Amendment protects freedom of the press, but how do we reconcile the conflict between national security and accountability? From the Pentagon Papers to WikiLeaks—do we err on the side of secrecy or transparency? On this installment of Intelligence Squared: weighing the need between government secrecy and the public’s right to know. Panelists debate the motion, “Freedom of the press does not extend to state secrets.” For the motion: Michael Chertoff, former Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, currently Senior of Counsel Michael Chertoff at Covington & Burling LLP and a member of the White Collar Defense and Investigations practice group; and Gabriel Schoenfeld, senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and Resident Scholar at the Witherspoon Institute, and author, most recently, of Necessary Secrets: National Security, the Media, and the Rule of Law, which questions whether the press should be prosecuted for revealing information that might endanger national defense. Against the motion: Alan Dershowitz, the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, who has been called “the nation’s most Alan Dershowitz peripatetic civil liberties lawyer.” He recently joined the legal defense team for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange; and David Sanger, Chief Washington Correspondent of The New York Times and a part of the team of reporters and editors in the Times’ WikiLeaks coverage. In a 27-year career at the paper, Sanger has reported from New York, Tokyo, and Washington, covering issues surrounding foreign policy, globalization, nuclear proliferation, and Asian affairs.
Sunday, October 2, 9 p.m.
Sunday, October 9, 8 p.m.
The Daponte String Quartet: Ferdinand Liva, violin; Kirsten Monk, viola; Lydia Forbes, violin; Myles Jordan, cello; with Pamela Mia Paul, piano Brahms: Piano Quartet in G Minor, Opus 25 Brahms: Piano Quartet in C Minor, Opus 60 (partial) Sunday, October 9, 9 p.m. The St. Petersburg String Quartet with Mikhail Bugaev, viola; Kristin Leitterman; oboe; and Adrian Daurov, cello Bach: Chaconne from Partita in D Minor, BWV 1004; transcribed for string quartet Tchaikovsky: Souvenir of Florence, performed by the Opus 70 String Sextet Wolf: Italian Serenade Sunday, October 16, 9 p.m. Daedalus String Quartet with Jonathan Yates, piano Mozart: Piano Quartet No. 2 in E-Flat Major, K. 493 Mozart: String Quartet No. 22 in B-Flat Major, K. 589 Sunday, October 23, 9 p.m. The Shanghai String Quartet Penderecki: String Quartet #3 “Leaves from an Unwritten Diary” Debussy: String Quartet in G Minor, Opus 10 Schumann: String Quartet in A Minor, Opus 44 #1 (partial) Sunday, October 30, 9 p.m. The Shanghai String Quartet Schubert: Quartetsatz in C Minor, D. 703 Brahms: Piano Quintet in F Minor, Opus 34 Mozart: Church Sonata in C major, K. 336, performed by the Gordon String Quartet
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More than half of all the people on Earth now live in cities. In some ways that’s a good thing: cities are a very efficient way for us to live. But mass urbanization also has its downside. It puts tremendous strain on city infrastructures that were old to begin with. Meanwhile there’s pressure to make cities more sustainable. If a city wants to attract residents and businesses, its infrastructure has to do much more than just keep up. It has to improve on the status quo—to enable the clean industries and green lifestyles of the 21st century. In this program from the Energy Priorities series, producer Denis Du Bois explores how technology is making cities more sustainable through energy efficiency, renewable energy, sustainable urban planning and transit, and smart buildings. Part of the solution is technology that enables us to imagine and model our urban environments and shape how they’ll support the needs of the people who live there. Technology lets us “drive” a new approach to San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge long before it is constructed. Du Bois speaks to three experts: Emma Stewart, a cabinet member of the World Economic Forum’s Low Carbon Taskforce, and a First Mover Fellow by The Aspen Institute. James Moore, who led the Florida Center Emma Stewart for Community Design & Research when he was an Associate Professor in the School of Architecture & Community Design at the University of South Florida. Terry Bennett, Senior Industry Program Manager for Civil Engineering and Planning at Autodesk, Inc., a firm that creates 3D software that allows architects and builders to design, visualize, and simulate their ideas before they are built.
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Economic Club of Indiana: Indiana Senator Dan Coats
Peace Talks Radio: Put-down Humor and Teasing
Sunday, October 16, 8 p.m. As the junior United States Senator from Indiana, Dan Coats serves on four Senate committees: Appropriations, Select Intelligence, Energy, and Natural Resources and the Joint Economic Committee.
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Sunday, October 30, 8 p.m. In a tradition going back thousands of years, many college classes consist of lectures. But research conducted over the past few decades shows it’s impossible for students to take in and process all the information presented during a typical lecture.
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Whether on the playground or in the office, teasing behavior and put-down humor can give rise to conflict. Yet there are studies showing that good natured teasing can strengthen social bonds. On this installment of Peace Talks Radio, a thoughtful discussion on this nuanced topic. All you have to do is hang out with children and you’ll see and hear it start. A stream of teasing and zingers, followed the victim’s call to their mom and the usual disclaimer of “I was only kidding,” from the teaser.
Don’t Lecture Me: Rethinking the Way College Students Learn
Senator Dan Coats
His priorities are to push for spending cuts and fiscal restraint; work on initiatives to strengthen national security; and advocate for a responsible comprehensive energy approach to help reduce our nation’s dependence on foreign oil. After graduating from Wheaton College, Coats served in the U.S. Army, and later attended Indiana University School of Law Indianapolis, where he received his J.D. and was associate editor of the Indiana Law Review. Coats served in Congress from 1981 to 1999 in both the House and Senate. During his time there, he promoted policies to lower taxes and reform entitlement programs, and served on the Senate Armed Services Committee and Select Committee on Intelligence. In keeping with a term-limits pledge he made to Hoosiers, he stepped down from his Senate seat in 1999 and entered law practice. Coats returned to the U.S. Senate in 2011 to focus on reducing the national debt and promoting a pro-growth economic policy to put Hoosiers and Americans back to work. He has served as President of Big Brothers Big Sisters of America and on the boards of many civic and volunteer organizations, including the Center for Jewish and Christian Values, which he cochaired with Senator Joe Lieberman. Page 4 / Directions in Sound / October 2011
Physics professor Joe Redish at the University of Maryland
Why do we laugh at Carla's put-downs?
A look toward popular humor—in sitcoms, movies, and from stand-up comics—suggests that the put-down zingers seem to have escalated in recent decades. It’s left us wondering if many of us aren’t trying to imitate these humor models in our lives, looking for that approving laugh track in our heads— without thinking about whether we might be contributing to conflict. We may not always know where to draw the line between benign good humor and aggression or verbal violence. Why does this type of humor seem to be such a sure-fire formula for comedy success? Why does entertainment that merges violence with humor make some people laugh, while others squirm? Host Paul Ingles talks with writers and researchers who have given these topics thought and study. Paul Lewis is a professor of English at Boston College and the author of the book Cracking Up: American Humor in a Time of Conflict.
In this American RadioWorks special, education correspondent Emily Hanford explores how traditional approaches to teaching are failing to provide many college students with the knowledge they need. We hear the surprising story of how a group of physicists became concerned about whether their students were learning, what they did about it, and how their work is influencing a new generation of educators reinventing college to try to help students learn better. The documentary focuses on the work of Eric Mazur, a renowned physicist and educator at Harvard University who determined years ago that lectures weren’t working, and now teaches his introductory physics courses in a completely different way. We explore Mazur’s approach to teaching, and why he thinks the information age is changing what it means to be an educated person. Hanford also visits the University of Minnesota Rochester, a new college where there are no lectures. Students and faculty are part of a grand education experiment trying to reinvent how people learn in college. Don’t Lecture Me is part of American RadioWorks’ “Tomorrow’s College” series, which examines the future of higher education.
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WFIU’s artists for the month for October are Kevin Murphy and Heidi Grant Murphy. They joined the faculty of the Jacobs School of Music this fall as professor of practice and adjunct professor of practice, respectively. A native of Syracuse, New York, Murphy received his Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music and a Master’s of Music in Piano Accompaniment from the Curtis Institute. In 1992, he was the first pianist invited by James Levine to participate in the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artist Kevin Murphy Development Program. Until recently, Murphy served as the director of Music Administration at the New York City Opera. In addition to his on- and off-stage partnership with Heidi Grant Murphy, he has collaborated in concert and recital with many of today’s leading artists, including Michelle DeYoung, Bejun Mehta, Gary Lakes, Nathan Gunn, Olaf Bär, Bryn Terfel, Marcelo Alvarez, Placido Domingo, and Frederica von Stade. He has appeared on The Today Show with soprano Renée Fleming, Good Morning America with soprano Cecilia Bartoli, and The Tonight Show with tenor Gary Lakes. Murphy has played continuo harpsichord with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra in productions of Così fan tutte, La Cenerentola, Le nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni, La Clemenza di Tito and Idomeneo. He has been musical assistant and played continuo harpsichord for the Seiji Ozawa Opera Project in Japan, at the Tanglewood Music Festival and Verbier for James Levine
Featured Contemporary Composer
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WFIU’s contemporary composer for the month of October is Hans Werner Henze.
Hans Werner Henze
Born in Germany in 1926, Henze is the composer of a prodigious output of music influenced by serialism, atonality, Italian music, Arabic music and jazz, as well as traditional schools of German composition. Early in his career, Henze’s fascination with the music of Mozart and his contemporaries was reflected in his Symphony No. 1, written in 1947, and a concerto grosso for piano, flute, and strings. Through his later composition lessons with Wolfgang Fortner, Henze discovered the music of Stravinsky, Bartok, and Berg.
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and worked with Esa-Pekka Salonnen at La Jolla’s SummerFest. He is also a regular adjudicator for the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. Heidi Grant Murphy is a native of Bellingham, Washington. She began vocal studies while attending Western Washington and continued her studies at IU. Her graduate studies were interrupted when she was named a winner of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions and engaged by James Levine to participate in the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program. Murphy has appeared with most of the world’s finest opera companies and symphony orchestras and has a close working relationship with many of the world’s most esteemed conductors. Her latest recording is Lullabies & Nightsongs, based on the children’s book illustrated by Maurice Sendak. With Lorin Maazel and the New York Philharmonic, she appears on a live recording of Mahler’s fourth symphony and a separate recording of Augusta Read Thomas’s Gathering Paradise on New World. Additional recordings include Roberto Sierra’s Missa Heidi Grant Murphy Latina with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, and the Grammy-nominated Sweeney Todd (Johanna) for the New York Philharmonic’s private label. She has recorded Schumann’s Das Paradies und die Peri with the Staatskapelle Dresden as well as Idomeneo (Ilia) and Le Nozze di Figaro (Barbarina), both conducted by James Levine. WFIU will feature music performed by Kevin Murphy and Heidi Grant Murphy throughout the month of October. Photo: Jennifer Gasparian
Artists of the Month
Metaphors for dance appear in Henze’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in his use of the pas de deux, and he also wrote many pieces for the ballet stage. He experimented with integrating jazz and 19th century Romanticism in works such as Maratona di danza and Undine. His operas include Elegy for Young Lovers and Der junge Lord. In the 1960s, Henze strengthened his political involvement which, in turn, influenced his musical work. The premiere of his oratorio Das Floß der Medusa in Hamburg failed when his West Berlin collaborators refused to perform under a portrait of Che Guevara. This period of politically inspired writings culminated in Voices: a collection of songs for mezzo-soprano and tenor in German, English, Italian, and Spanish. The songs blend exotic folksong elements, protest songs, standard dances, marches, light opera, cabaret, and classical music. Henze’s musical language eventually arrived at a sensuous lyricism, reminiscent perhaps of the relaxed environment of Italy, which has been his home since 1953. Now in his mid-eighties, he continues to compose and revise earlier works. WFIU will feature music composed by Hans Werner Henze during the month of October. October 2011 / Directions in Sound / Page 5
Profiles
The Radio Reader with Dick Estell
Sundays at 7 p.m. October 2 – Bob Steele Bob Steele is director of The Janet Prindle Institute for Ethics at DePauw University, where he teaches seminars on values, beliefs and storytelling, leadership and responsibility, and journalism ethics. He regularly advises journalists and media leaders on ethical dilemmas and leadership challenges, and is often interviewed about media ethics issues by news organizations. For twenty years, he served on the faculty of the Poynter Institute for Media Studies where he led ethics and values sessions for news organizations. Perry Metz hosts. October 9 – Dennis James Dennis James is an internationally renowned silent film accompanist who has played a pivotal role in the revival of silent movies presented with live music. Since 1971 he has performed live accompaniments for silent films, with piano, theatre organ, chamber ensemble and full symphony orchestras on the worldwide film festival circuit. An IU music school alumnus, James recently revived an annual IU Auditorium tradition that he started when he lived in Bloomington nearly forty years ago: playing organ during silent movies at Halloween. Hosted by George Walker at the IU Cinema. October 16 – Maurice Manning Maurice Manning is a poet and associate director of creative writing in IU Bloomington’s English department. His poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Shenandoah, The Southern Review, and elsewhere. Born and raised in Kentucky, Manning often writes about the land and culture of his home. His first collection of poems, Lawrence Booth’s Book of Visions, was awarded the Yale Younger Poets Award, chosen by W.S. Merwin. Shana Ritter hosts. October 23 – Todd Rundgren Todd Rundgren, the rock musician known for his songs “Hello, It’s Me,” “Bang the Drum All Day” and “I Saw the Light,” was the Class of 1963 Wells Scholars Professor at Indiana University Bloomington this past fall. Rundgren was the highest paid rock producer of the 1970s, producing bands that ranged from the New York Dolls, The Band, and Patti Smith, to Meat Loaf, Hall & Oates, and Cheap Trick. Glenn Gass hosts. (repeat) October 30 – Canyon Sam Canyon Sam is a San Francisco-based writer and performance artist. Her creative nonfiction and articles have appeared in Shambhala Sun, Seattle Review, Turning Wheel, the San Jose Mercury News and numerous anthologies, and she’s written on Tibetan issues for Agence France Presse. Following a yearlong sojourn in her ancestral China and Tibet, she worked as an activist for Tibetan independence and human rights, and addressed a Congressional sub-committee hearing after Tiananmen Square. Shana Ritter hosts. (repeat)
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If Trouble Don’t Kill Me by Ralph Berrier, Jr. Airs September 27 to October 31 Twin brothers Clayton and Saford Hall were born in the backwoods of Virginia in 1919 in a place known as The Hollow. They became famous in their day, rising from mountain-bred poverty to pickin’ and yodelin’ all over the airwaves of the South in the 1930s and 1940s, opening shows for the Carter Family, Roy Rogers, the Sons of the Pioneers, and even playing the most coveted stage of all: the Grand Ole Opry. They accomplished a lifetime’s worth of achievements in less than five years—and left behind only a few records to document their existence. Ralph Berrier, Jr., the grandson of Clayton Hall and a reporter for the Roanoke Times, documents their full story for the first time in If Trouble Don’t Kill Me. He shows how the twins’ music spread like wildfire, their popularity inflamed by their onstage zaniness, their roguish offstage shenanigans, and, above all, their ability to play old-time country music. But just as they arrived on the brink of major fame, World War II dashed their dreams. The Hall twins traveled overseas, leaving behind their beloved music, and were thrust into the cauldron of a war that reshaped their lives and destinies. They returned home after the war to find that the world had changed, music had changed—and they had, too. If Trouble Don’t Kill Me paints a portrait of a vanishing yet exalted southern culture, shows us the devastating consequences of war, and allows us to experience the mountain voices that both influenced the history of music and shaped the landscape of America.
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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 Web site, wfiu.org, under the Podcasts link. October 3–9 Romantic Arias (Sony Classical 88697841742) Nino Machaidze, soprano Orchestra of the Community Theater of Bologna Michel Mariotti, conductor In 2007, Nino Machaidze made her opera debut in La fille du régiment at La Scala and Rome’s Teatro dell’Opera. But it was her last-minute bow at Salzburg the following year in I puritani, replacing an indisposed Anna Netrebko, that launched the Georgian soprano’s international career. For her first solo album, Machaidze has made a selection of the greatest bel canto and lyric roles. The arias she performs demand everything of a soprano: dramatic flair, humor, pathos, elegance, and of course, both beauty and dexterity of voice.
long observance of this bicentennial with the second volume of his compositions for violin and piano, which, with its Vol. 1 companion captures all of his works for this versatile instrumental pairing. October 24–30 Murray Perahia: Bach Concertos (3 CDs) (Sony Classical 88697 82429 2) Murray Perahia, pianist and conductor Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Murray Perahia is in the top league of Bach players for his capacity to release the spirit of Bach’s music: its infectious vitality, contagious sense of dance with its jubilant physicality and irresistible momentum, and its rapturous lyricism. This 3-CD set contains all of Perahia’s performances of the Bach concerto best sellers.
Broadcasts from the IU Jacobs School of Music Airs at 7 p.m. Mondays, 10 a.m. Tuesdays, and 3 p.m. Fridays October 3-7 BEETHOVEN—Six National Airs with Variations, Op. 105: Airs 1-3; Barbara Kallaur, flute; Thomas Gerber, fortepiano October 10-14 BACH, J.C.—SIX SYMPHONIES, OP. 6, No. 6 in g; Thomas Dunn/IU Chamber Orchestra October 17-21 HINDEMITH—Violin Sonata in E-flat, Op. 11, No. 1; Paul Biss, violin; Jeremy Denk, piano October 23-28 KODALY—Meditations on a Theme of Debussy; Peter Pertis, piano
October 10–16 Loeillet de Gant: Recorder Sonatas (Naxos 8.572023) Daniel Rother, recorder Ketil Haugsand, harpsichord Vanessa Young, cello Little is known about Jean Baptiste Loeillet de Gant’s life, but his solo recorder sonatas have retained their popularity from their origins in the Baroque period to the present day. Strongly influenced by the violin sonatas of Corelli, these pieces combine Italian and French characteristics to create expressive and virtuosic chamber music. October 17–23 Liszt: Violin and Piano Works, Vol. 2 (hänssler Classics CD98-634) Friedemann Eichhorn, violin Rolf-Dieter Arens, piano This October marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of composer, conductor, and pianist Franz Liszt. We conclude our year-
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Jazz Notes
Sunday at 11 a.m. Radiolab Season 8 concludes with these episodes. October 2 Cities More than fifty percent of the world’s population lives in cities. This hour, Radiolab looks at what makes cities tick. We talk to physicists who think they can fit every city into a tidy mathematical formula, and we take to the streets to test their idea, exploring water tunnels 700 feet below Manhattan. October 9 Fate and Fortune What decides the trajectory of our lives, our successes or failures, our steps and stumbles? Do we achieve what we achieve through force of will, or does fate have us by the throat? This hour, Radiolab explores the tug of war between will and fate from birth to death—from a kid reaching for a marshmallow to hints of dementia in the words of a 20-year-old. October 16 Oops You come up with a great idea. You devise a plan. You control for every imaginable variable. And once everything is in place, the train hops your carefully laid tracks. In this hour of Radiolab, unintended consequences abound: from a psychologist whose zeal to safeguard national security may have created a terrorist, to a community whose efforts to protect an endangered bird had deadly consequences. The Moth Radio Hour Season 5 begins with these episodes. Please note The Moth Radio Hour is for adults. Some stories are emotionally intense and not for children. October 23 A hair stylist recalls accompanying his father on hunting expeditions in Alabama, a young journalist carefully sets the stage to make her first time memorable, and best-selling novelist Walter Mosley cares for his ailing mother. Hosted by radio producer Jay Allison and noted comic and storyteller Mike Birbiglia. October 30 A hiker is pinned underneath a refrigerator-sized boulder deep in the wilderness, a speechwriter describes his most challenging assignment (“Make Al Gore funny”) and a young art student battles her demons in the pursuit of love. Hosted by the founder of The Moth, George Dawes Green. Page 8 / Directions in Sound / October 2011
The WFIU jazz department is rather partisan in that we believe that jazz goes great with every month of the year. But we think that jazz is especially wonderful to listen to in October—that enchanted autumnal spell of cool weather, cider light, and splendidly-hued trees. Whether you’re a casual and curious listener or a devoted jazz fan, we’ll help you tune into that jazz-in-the-fall mood each weekday afternoon from 3:30 to 5 p.m. on Just You and Me. This month we feature new releases from drummer and jazz legend Roy Haynes, guitarist Bill Frisell, and other veterans Roy Haynes and up-and-coming talents. We also highlight the latest volume in the ongoing series of mid-1940s Treasury Department broadcasts by Duke Ellington’s orchestra, as well as a never-before-released 1952 Ellington concert; a new, complete anthology of Frank Sinatra’s recordings with Count Basie in the 1960s; and a new box set of Miles Davis’ so-called Second Great Quintet, with Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Ron Carter, and Tony Williams, performing in Europe in 1967. If that isn’t enough excitement for you, every Friday Joe Bourne returns to the Just You and Me chair to spin a variety of vintage pop, rock, blues, R & B, and other music (you can still hear Joe on The Big Bands every Friday evening as well at 9 p.m., right after Jazz Inspired with Judy Carmichael). On Friday evenings you can also hear WFIU’s long-running jazz and popular song program Afterglow, which airs at 10 p.m. This month’s offerings include a show of river songs (“Moon River,” “Ol’ Man River,” and many more), a tribute to the music of songwriter Paul Simon, and a re-airing of our documentary about the musical legacy of Indiana’s own Al Cobine, the bandleader, saxophonist, composer, and arranger who lived in Bloomington for many years. Our Saturday evening jazz program Night Lights serves up shows this month about the big bands’ little bands (small groups led by notable orchestral figures such as Woody Herman and Tommy Dorsey), jazz from the year 1961, radio broadcasts from the Bill Frisell 1970s by Bill Evans, Chet Baker, and Art Blakey, and a program about jazz in the Prohibition era, featuring special guest and historian Michael McGerr. Finally, on Friday, October 28, WFIU will hold its annual Listener Reception from 7 to 9 p.m. in the IU Art Museum atrium, where food, drinks, and the usual WFIU suspects will all be on hand for your evening entertainment. We’re eager to catch up with old friends, meet new ones, and hear what you think about the station. Swing on by and say hello!
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Radiolab and The Moth Radio Hour
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Unearthing Dracula Monday, October 31, 7 p.m. For generations, Count Dracula has captured our collective imagination—from Vlad the Impaler to Bela Lugosi to Bram Stoker. In this documentary produced by WFIU, host-producer Annie Corrigan with Jeffrey Holdeman look at the films, literature, music, and art surrounding this eerie yet elusive character. The Problem with Vampires When WFIU approached Jeffrey Holdeman, senior lecturer in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Indiana University, to contribute to a single radio program about vampires, he said we should be prepared to create a ten-part series instead. “I spend fifteen weeks rushing very quickly through the material in my course and still have more things to say, more things to do, more information to impart,” says Holdeman, speaking about an undergraduate course he teaches called The Vampire in European and American Culture. We took the expert’s advice and narrowed the topic of the program to the one vampire who has had single-name recognition since the late 19th century (and even earlier in some circles): Dracula. The Three Faces of Dracula Holdeman says it’s important when speaking about Dracula to understand which version of the character is being referenced. The first is the very real historical figure of Vlad III, Prince of Wallachia (now Romania), also called Vlad Țepeș (“Vlad the Impaler”). He ruled in the 15th century during the invasion of the Ottoman Turks, and he is viewed as a national hero for defending orthodox Christianity. His nickname, says Holdeman, stems from “a certain fondness for impaling people on very long pikes. That’s a nice visual way of telling people to stay away and if not, this is what we’re going to do to you.” He had his father to thank for passing down the name of Dracula. Vlad II was a member of the Order of the Dragon, which earned him the title Drac. As his son, Vlad the III was then referred to as Dragwlya, the diminutive of Drac.
A New Image Thanks to Bram Stoker Fast-forward 400 years to the second incarnation of Dracula: Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel Dracula. A theater critic and business manager of the Lyceum Theatre in London, Stoker dedicated himself to researching the folklore of vampires in Eastern Europe for several years. Initially he named the character Count Wampyr, “but then as soon as he saw Dracula,” says Holdeman, “I think linguistically he knew he had a winner.” The success of Bram Stoker’s Dracula forever changed the image of Vlad Țepeș, much to the dismay of the Romanian people. Not only was their national hero taken away from them, he was turned into a creature from their own folklore. “Some people have said what Bram Stoker did to the figure of Dracula would be like turning George Washington into a vampire,” adds Holdeman. Ready for My Close-Up The third Dracula is the character seen in movies throughout the 20th century. “All these movies are supposed to be based directly on the novel,” says Holdeman. But their depictions of Dracula could not be more different. The first movie featuring Dracula was released in 1922. Since it was an unauthorized adaptation of the novel, it was called Nosferatu, with Max Schrek playing the rat-like villain. In 1931, Bela Lugosi created the iconic image of Dracula with his cape, tuxedo, widow’s peak and foreign accent in the eponymous film directed by Tod Browning. “Just to be able to say ‘I vant’ is enough to make people know that ‘suck your blood’ is going to come immediately after that,” says Holdeman. Christopher Lee played Dracula several times throughout his career, the first of which came in 1958’s Horror of Dracula. In the 1970 film Count Dracula, his character begins as an old man and
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Bela Lugosi as Cou
nt Dracula quenching
his thirst for blood
becomes younger as he feeds on blood, the first movie to depict this aspect of the novel. Frank Langella took a turn as an alluring Dracula in 1979, minus the traditional fangs and wolf-like eyes. Then in 1992, Francis Ford Coppola directed Gary Oldman in the main role in Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Oldman sported a top hat, long flowing hair, and roundrimmed sunglasses for the role. Dracula, Dracula Everywhere When not scaring PG-13 audiences in movie theaters, Dracula is teaching children to count on Sesame Street (The Count) and feeding them sugary cereals (Count Chocula). There is a Lego character reminiscent of the Bela Lugosi Dracula, and if you keep an eye out for them, Dracula references are made everywhere from greeting cards to candies. He has infiltrated the fabric of our culture. Unlike other monsters, Holdeman says Dracula and his vampire friends have staying power when it comes to their place in our culture. “It touches on too many themes that are at the very core of human existence. So, for as much as you might like zombies or mummies, the vampire definitely has the metaphoric advantage.” October 2011 / Directions in Sound / Page 9
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Include a Percentage Song of America for WFIU debuts on WFIU Are you interested in making a charitable gift, but fear you can’t afford to do so? One of the easiest ways to make a gift to your public radio station is simple and doesn’t affect your cash flow. In fact, you will never miss it. Just name WFIU as a beneficiary in your retirement plan or life insurance policy. You can assign whatever percentage you choose as a gift, and the rest goes to your spouse or other heirs. Designating WFIU as a beneficiary in your plan or policy has the following benefits: • Funds designated to a non-profit in a retirement account are not taxed. This reduces the overall tax burden to the heir’s estate. These taxes may be considerable with a pre-tax retirement fund that may be subject to multiple taxes at death—meaning less for (nonspousal) heirs. • Designating a percentage of your retirement plan assets or insurance policy to WFIU does not create a hardship on your current income or spending. It does not reduce the amount of funds available for you to spend during your lifetime. • The decision is a revocable choice that you can implement without a lawyer, and amend just as easily should circumstances change in the future. • Including WFIU as a beneficiary in your plan or policy may be accomplished by requesting a change of beneficiary form from your plan or policy holder. Making a gift in this manner is a painless, non-invasive way of expressing support and appreciation for the meaningful community resource that WFIU represent in south central Indiana. If you decide to include WFIU as a beneficiary in your retirement plan, insurance policy, or your will, please let us know so that we may recognize your generosity. For more information, contact Nancy Krueger, Gifts and Grants Officer at Radio-Television Services, at 812-855-2935 or nkrueger@indiana.edu
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Thursdays at 8 p.m. Song of America is a new thirteenweek series that explores the history of American culture through the eyes of our poets and the ears of our composers. Developed and hosted by baritone Thomas Hampson, the series treats classic American songs—poetry set to music by American composers—as a vibrant diary of the American experience. Each program focuses on a particular topic that sheds light on a larger theme in American history, and includes approximately 40 minutes of songs drawn from archival and modern recordings, plus stories and insights from Mr. Hampson about the people and events that inspired those songs. Some programs also include lively interviews with experts from various fields. Songs Throughout the Centuries The recordings in the series feature some of the most prominent American singers of the past 100 years, including David Bispham, Alma Gluck, Marian Anderson, Nelson Eddy, Paul Robeson, William Warfield, Leontyne Price, Jan DeGaetani, Marilyn Horne, and Renée Fleming, as well as material drawn from Thomas Hampson’s own far-ranging catalog. The recording selections include settings by American composers from Francis Hopkinson, who wrote the first homegrown American song in 1759; to Stephen Foster, Henry Burleigh, and Arthur Farwell. There are 20th century masters such as Charles Ives, Aaron Copland, Samuel Barber, and Leonard Bernstein; plus today’s prolific song composers including Michael Tilson Thomas, George Crumb, Ned Rorem, and Lori Laitman. Lesser-known composers are included as well, such as Charles Griffes, Walter Damrosch, and Ruth Crawford Seeger. The programs also draw on the poets whose work these composers found irresistible, including American icons such as Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and Langston Hughes, and other masters such as Edwin Arlington Robinson, Vachel Lindsay, Stephen Crane, Carl Sandburg, Sara Teasdale, and Paul Goodman.
Thomas Hampson
The radio series is part of the “Song of America” project, developed by Hampson in collaboration with the Library of Congress in 2005. The project thus far has produced two national tours; independent recitals in twenty-two states and thirteen countries; numerous master classes, exhibits and broadcasts; two CDs, and a Web site (songofamerica.net). About Thomas Hampson Called “America’s baritone” by the Chicago Globe, Thomas Hampson is one of the world’s foremost opera singers, having sung more than 70 opera roles in major opera houses the world over, including more than 200 performances at the Metropolitan Opera alone. With roughly 170 recordings, he is also one of the most prolific recording artists of our time. Hampson is founder of the Hampsong Foundation, which supports the proliferation of the art of song in America and around the world as a means to foster communication and understanding among cultures. Song of America was coproduced by the Hampsong Foundation and the WFMT Radio Network. “The Song of America project has been a dream come true for me,” Hampson says, “giving me unforgettable opportunities to tour our country while singing the songs born of our life experiences as Americans in the language of our hearts and minds.” “These songs—our songs—say everything through the eyes of our poets and the ears of our composers, about the culture we call American. We need these songs in our cultural landscape.”
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Community Events Monroe County Humane Association Run for the Animals Sunday, October 2, 10:30 a.m. Dunn Meadow, IU
Columbus Indiana Philharmonic Charles Webb: Living Legend
IU Opera and Ballet Theater A View from the Bridge
Saturday, October 8, 7:30 p.m. Erne Auditorium, Columbus North High School
Beginning Friday, October 21 Musical Arts Center
Formerly known as “Walk for the Animals,” this 5K run/walk benefit is followed by a dog parade and an afternoon of family activities.
Program includes Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition and Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy featuring pianist Charles Webb.
Down Syndrome Family Connection Buddy Walk
Saturday, October 15, 10 a.m. Ellington Stables, Bloomington
Sunday, October 2, 3 p.m. Bryan Park, Bloomington A day of family-friendly events that begins with on-site registration at 1:30 for the 3 o’clock Buddy Walk, and includes an animal show, a carnival area, and an outdoor concert. IU Opera and Ballet Theater Steps in Time Friday and Saturday, October 7 and 8 Musical Arts Center IU’s ballet season begins with a program that includes Concerto Barocco, in which Bach meets Balanchine, as well as Dear Frederic, featuring music by Chopin, and Paul Taylor’s big-band-flavored Company B, with songs by The Andrews Sisters.
MemberCard Benefits For a listing of more than 300 Indiana membership benefits and offer details for each participating business, visit membercard.com or call 800-662-3311. Benefits of the Month: Ryder Film Series (#394) Bloomington 812-339-2002 theryder.com Valid for two-for-one admission during October. Call or visit Web site for dates, times, and availability. Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra (#170) 450 West Ohio Street Indianapolis 317-940-9607 icomusic.org
PALS Fun Show
People and Animal Learning Services presents its 11th annual day of equineassisted activities in support of therapeutic horseback riding for people with disabilities. Guest performances by David Davis and his trick horses Apostle and Pastor. American Foundation for Suicide Prevention Out of the Darkness Community Walk Saturday, October 15, 10 a.m. IU Memorial Stadium, north entrance An annual event to benefit suicide research and education, to increase national awareness and understanding of suicide and mental health issues, and to assist survivors of suicide loss. Valid for two-for-one admission to the October 29 performance by renowned harpist Jana Bouskova. Offer valid only for advance purchases by phone, and MemberCard must be shown at will call. Melchior Marionettes Theatre (#245) West Side of South Van Buren Street Nashville 800-849-4853 melchiormarionettes.com Valid for two-for-one admission during October. New Winery Benefits: Owen Valley Winery (#275) 491 Timber Ridge Road Spencer owenvalleywinery.com 317-457-8772 Valid any time for a complimentary wine tasting for two, and 20% discount on any non-alcohol purchase.
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The first opera of IU’s season, A View from the Bridge is William Bolcom’s adaptation of Arthur Miller’s passionate, anguished play. IU Campus Recreational Sports Jill Behrman 5K Saturday, October 22, 10 a.m. IU Memorial Stadium A run-walk to benefit the Jill Behrman Emerging Leader Scholarship and to provide assault awareness and self-defense workshops for the community. On-site registration starts at 8:30. Cardinal Stage Company Red-Hot Patriot Beginning Friday, October 28 Ivy Tech John Waldron Arts Center, Rose Firebay This one-woman show starring Diane Kondrat is a tribute to firebrand columnist and author Molly Ivins.
New Online Benefits: Theyellowrabbit.com 720-290-4331 Valid for a 15% discount on all purchases; enter coupon code “MCARD” at checkout. Yellow Rabbit jewelry is the work of jeweler Gemma Huang, who creates one-of-a-kind pieces using traditional metalsmithing techniques. Chimentime.com 715-305-0065 Valid for a 15% discount on all custommade, hand-tuned wind chime purchases; enter coupon code “MCARD” at checkout. Benefit Changes: Old Buggy Buffet (#248) Bloomington Closed Hilltop Restaurant (#222) Spencer Offer Expired October 2011 / Directions in Sound / Page 13
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Note: Daily listings are as complete as we can make them at press time, and we strive to provide full program information whenever possible. However, some programs do not provide us with information about their content. We include the titles of those programs as a convenience to our readers. For a complete list of WFIU’s schedule, see the program grid on pages 10 and 11.
1 Saturday 1:00 PM SAN FRANCISCO OPERA WAGNER—Die Walküre Starring Nina Stemme, Mark Delavan, Anja Kampe, Brandon Jovanovich, Larissa Diadkova, Daniel Sumegi. Donald Runnicles conducts the performance.
Historian Michael McGerr joins us for a look at the emergence of jazz in an era when one of America’s favorite social activities had become criminalized.
2 Sunday 12:00 PM HARMONIA Anchors Aweigh! Harmonia explores pirate music with songs pirates would have sung during their daily work. We’ll also take a look back at songs about the sea from Medieval Iceland, and bring you highlights from the 2011 Indianapolis Early Music Festival. 1:00 PM WITH HEART AND VOICE A Divine Coincidence A program of music for World Communion Sunday AND the commemoration of St. Francis of Assisi 7:00 PM PROFILES Bob Steele 8:00 PM INTELLIGENCE SQUARED Panelists debate the motion: “Freedom of the press does not extend to state secrets.”
3 Monday 8:00 PM CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Bernard Haitink returns to conduct Mahler’s 9th Symphony HAYDN—Symphony No. 101 in D Major, The Clock MAHLER—Symphony No. 9 in D Major 10:00 PM PIPEDREAMS Manifold Blessings Whether with a Tudor-era recreation or contemporary commentaries on a grand tradition, communities rejoice with diversely designed and recently installed pipe organs.
4 Tuesday
Nina Stemme
8:00 PM HOMETOWN WITH TOM ROZNOWSKI What I Miss Most 8:05 PM THE FOLK SAMPLER Little by Little That’s how life moves. 9:00 PM CELTIC CONNECTIONS New Releases We start our October programs with the monthly roundup of new and recent releases, and the good music just keeps on coming. 11:00 PM NIGHT LIGHTS The Big Speakeasy: Jazz and the Age of Prohibition Page 14 / Directions in Sound / October 2011
10:06 PM SOUNDS CHORAL Masses of Anton Bruckner This American-born composer and teacher has a significant number of choral works in his oeuvre. We’ll hear his Mass of 1960 among them.
5 Wednesday 8:00 PM LIVE! AT THE CONCERTGEBOUW Mariss Jansons/Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Leif Ove Andsnes, piano BRAHMS—Piano Concerto No. 2, Op. 83 WAGNER—Vorspiel und Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde STRAUSS—Suite from Der Rosenkavalier, Op. 59
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Leif Ove Andsnes
6 Thursday 8:00 PM SONG OF AMERICA American Characters Songs about real and fictional characters in American history, including poets, preachers, and a president. 9:00 PM HARMONIA Anchors Aweigh! Harmonia explores pirate music! We’ll hear songs pirates would have sung during their daily work. We’ll also take a look back at songs about the sea from Medieval Iceland, and bring you highlights from the 2011 Indianapolis Early Music Festival.
7 Friday 8:00 PM JAZZ INSPIRED WITH JUDY CARMICHAEL Leroy Jones 10:09 PM AFTERGLOW River of Song Moon rivers, lazy rivers, ol’ man rivers and more on this edition of Afterglow.
8 Saturday 1:00 PM IU OPERA THEATER Program to be announced 8:00 PM HOMETOWN WITH TOM ROZNOWSKI A Consensus of Two 8:05 PM THE FOLK SAMPLER What’s New The periodic look at artists new to the program. 9:00 PM CELTIC CONNECTIONS New Releases Join host Bryan Kelso Crow for a roundup of new and recent releases from both sides of the Atlantic. 11:00 PM NIGHT LIGHTS The Big Bands’ Little Bands In the swing era, big band leaders often created small groups within their larger ensembles. We hear music by such groups, under the direction of Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Woody Herman, Artie Shaw, Glenn Miller and Tommy Dorsey.
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12:00 PM HARMONIA A Spotlight on Harry Christophers This week on Harmonia we honor the work of Harry Christophers—conductor, singer, and founder of The Sixteen. We’ll also hear from the next generation of early music performers with highlights from Early Music America’s Young Performer’s Festival. Plus, we’ll hear music by Georg Muffat on a featured release by La Concordanza. 1:00 PM WITH HEART AND VOICE A Tribute to Ralph Vaughan Williams Choral music and hymns by a figure who had a huge influence on 20th century church music. 7:00 PM PROFILES Dennis James 8:00 PM ENERGY PRIORITIES Sustainable Cities: There’s a App for That!
8:00 PM SONG OF AMERICA Stephen Foster 9:00 PM HARMONIA A Spotlight on Harry Christophers This week on Harmonia, we’re honoring the work of Harry Christophers—conductor, singer, and founder of The Sixteen. We’ll also hear from the next generation of early music performers with highlights from Early Music America’s Young Performer’s Festival. Plus, music by Georg Muffat on a featured release by La Concordanza.
12:00 PM HARMONIA Birds, Beasts, and Battles The noble falcon, a crazed Cyclops, and music imitating the sounds of battle: No, this is not a plot for a bizarre reality TV show. Harmonia explores the themes of birds, beasts, and battles in Renaissance and Baroque music. 1:00 PM WITH HEART AND VOICE A Man of Many Influences Join Peter DuBois for a tribute to the music of Herbert Howells, another of the giant figures in English church music in the last century.
10 Monday 10:00 PM PIPEDREAMS A Liszt List To celebrate the bicentennial of Franz Liszt (1811-1886), who made the 19th century pipe organ a vehicle for virtuosos, and for prayers
14 Friday 8:00 PM JAZZ INSPIRED WITH JUDY CARMICHAEL Ben Heppner 10:09 PM AFTERGLOW The Paul Simon Songbook The songwriter’s music interpreted by Bill Evans, Pat Metheny, Karrin Allyson, and others.
Herbert Howells
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11 Tuesday 10:06 PM SOUNDS CHORAL Settings of the British Romantic Poets The poetry of John Keats, Lord Byron, and Percy Bysshe Shelley has made its way into choral settings of all periods. We’ll sample the settings of all three.
12 Wednesday 8:00 PM LIVE! AT THE CONCERTGEBOUW James Gaffigan/Nationaal Jeugdkoor Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano MUSSORGSKY—Night on Bald Mountain RAVEL— Piano Concerto for the Left Hand DEBUSSY—Trois Nocturnes SCRIABIN—Poème de l’Extase
Paul Simon
15 Saturday 1:00 PM IU OPERA THEATER Program to be announced 8:00 PM HOMETOWN WITH TOM ROZNOWSKI Now What Have We Here 8:05 PM THE FOLK SAMPLER This Train Get on board. 9:00 PM CELTIC CONNECTIONS Milwaukee Memories We brought back interviews and CDs from this year’s Milwaukee Irish Fest, the largest festival of its kind in the world. 11:00 PM NIGHT LIGHTS Sesjun Radio Shows: Bill Evans, Chet Baker and Art Blakey Recently-released 1970s radio broadcasts by three legendary jazz artists
Jean-Yves Thibaudet
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7:00 PM PROFILES Maurice Manning 8:00 PM ECONOMIC CLUB OF INDIANA U.S. Senator Dan Coats delivers a luncheon talk to the Economic Club of Indiana in Indianapolis.
17 Monday 8:00 PM CHICAGO SYMPHONY OR CHESTRA Evgeny Kissin plays Grieg. SIBELIUS—Suite from Karelia GRIEG—Piano Concerto in A Minor (Evgeny Kissin, piano) STRAVINSKY—Petrushka SIBELIUS—Lemminkäinen in Tuonela and The Swan of Tuonela from Four Legends from the Kalevala (Jukka-Pekka Saraste, conductor) 10:00 PM PIPEDREAMS Beyond the Liszt List We continue our Franz Liszt Bicentennial tribute with original scores and arrangements by Liszt and others that further realize his Promethean notion of the pipe organ’s potential.
18 Tuesday 10:06 PM SOUNDS CHORAL Spotlight: Coro Cervantes October 2011 / Directions in Sound / Page 15
19 Wednesday
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8:00 PM LIVE! AT THE CONCERTGE BOUW Thomas Adès/Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Leila Josefowicz, violin VERMEULEN—Prologue from The Flying Dutchman ADÈS—Violin Concerto, Concentric Paths ADÈS—Polaris ADÈS—Tevot
Leila Josefowicz
20 Thursday 8:00 PM SONG OF AMERICA Whitman and Music Walt Whitman, the “Bard of Democracy,” wrote poetry that defined America. This program focuses on the music that shaped him, and his deep influence on American composers. 9:00 PM HARMONIA Birds, Beasts, and Battles The noble falcon, a crazed Cyclops, and music imitating the sounds of battle: No, this is not a plot for a bizarre reality TV show. Harmonia explores the themes of birds, beasts, and battles in Renaissance and Baroque music.
21 Friday 8:00 PM JAZZ INSPIRED WITH JUDY CARMICHAEL Joey Singer 10:09 PM AFTERGLOW Can’t Get Indiana Off My Mind: The Al Cobine Story Afterglow founder Dick Bishop returns to host this tribute to Indiana bandleader, composer, and saxophonist Al Cobine. Guests include Johnny Mathis and Dominic Spera. Page 16 / Directions in Sound / October 2011
22 Saturday 1:00 PM HOUSTON GRAND OPERA STRAUSS—Ariadne auf Naxos Starring Susan Graham, Christine Goerke, Laura Claycomb, John Fanning, Rodell Rosel, Alexey Dolgov, Kiri Deonarine, Catherine Martin, Brittany Wheeler, Boris Dyakov, Robert Gleadow, Brendan Tuohy, Nathaniel Peake. Patrick Summers conducts the performance. 8:00 PM HOMETOWN WITH TOM ROZNOWSKI Step Right Up 8:05 PM THE FOLK SAMPLER Old Friends Worth a million 9:00 PM CELTIC CONNECTIONS The Celtic Rock Show There’s a lot of good music under the banner of “Celtic rock,” and once in a while we devote a whole program to this genre, as a brief departure from our normally acoustic and traditional music focus. If you’re a folk purist, you might find more here that you like than you would have expected. 11:00 PM NIGHT LIGHTS It’s All in the Game: Louis Armstrong, 19471957 A look at Louis Armstrong’s life and music in the years following World War II, including interviews with jazz writer Dan Morgenstern (whose notes on Armstrong for a recent boxed set won a Grammy) and historian Michael McGerr.
1:00 PM WITH HEART AND VOICE The Three Hymnwriters We explore the writings of three seminal hymnwriters of the seventeenth century: Philipp Nicolai, Johann Heermann and Paul Gerhardt. 7:00 PM PROFILES Todd Rundgren (repeat) 8:00 PM PEACE TALKS RADIO “Put-down Humor and Teasing”
24 Monday 8:00 PM CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Christoph von Dohnányi conducts Schumann. BARTÓK—Divertimento for String Orchestra MOZART—Piano Concerto No. 12 in A Major, K. 414 (Paul Lewis, piano) SCHUMANN—Symphony No. 2 in C Major BACH—Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D Major (Pinchas Zukerman, conductor) 10:00 PM PIPEDREAMS A Thousand Voices Familiar songs take on a new life in the hands of imaginative composers and agile performers playing upon an organ’s many pipes.
25 Tuesday 10:06 PM SOUNDS CHORAL A Celebration of Dance Among the choral dances will be selections from both sets of Liebeslieder by Johannes Brahms.
26 Wednesday
Dan Morgenstern
8:00 PM LIVE! AT THE CONCERTGEBOUW Yannick Nezet-Seguin/Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra TCHAIKOVSKY—The Nutcracker
23 Sunday 12:00 PM HARMONIA The Far Side of the Veil This Halloween season on Harmonia, we explore the boundaries between this life and beyond. We’ll hear musical laments that pass beyond the veil from the Codex Las Huelgas, as well as a musical homage by Josquin des Prez, and death’s depiction in the keyboard music of Johann Jakob Froberger. Plus, we follow Percival on his quest for the Holy Grail, travel along Celtic crossroads, and hear a 13th century service for St. Martin of Tours.
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We sample the discography of the UK’s only professional choir dedicated to Hispanic and Latin American classical music.
Yannick Nezet-Seguin
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8:00 PM SONG OF AMERICA Many Are the Voices Many Americans have had to raise their voices to be recognized or heard. In this program, we hear songs of African Americans and Native Americans; women, immigrants, and war resisters; and voices from the labor movement and the gay rights movement. 9:00 PM HARMONIA The Far Side of the Veil This Halloween season on Harmonia, we explore the boundaries between this life and beyond. We’ll hear musical laments that pass beyond the veil from the Codex Las Huelgas, as well as a musical homage by Josquin des Prez, and death’s depiction in the keyboard music of Johann Jakob Froberger. Plus, we follow Percival on his quest for the Holy Grail, travel along Celtic crossroads, and hear a 13th century service for St. Martin of Tours.
28 Friday 8:00 PM JAZZ INSPIRED WITH JUDY CARMICHAEL Program content to be announced 10:09 PM AFTERGLOW Just a Lucky So-and-So: Al Hibbler with the Ellingtonians The music of a blind African American singer who found fame with the Duke Ellington Orchestra in the 1940s
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at the Newport Jazz Festival. This program highlights Gonsalves’ recordings away from the Ellington band, with trumpeter Clark Terry and others.
30 Sunday 12:00 PM HARMONIA An Anonymous 4 Retrospective A retrospective of the female vocal ensemble Anonymous 4 and a look at the English musical manuscript the Eton Choirbook. Plus, music of 17th century northern Germany in a featured recording by the ensemble La Fenice. 1:00 PM WITH HEART AND VOICE Reformation Sunday A program devoted to the variety of music that grew out of this landmark event in the history of the Christian Church. 7:00 PM PROFILES Canyon Sam (repeat) 8:00 PM AMERICAN RADIOWORKS “Don’t Lecture Me: Rethinking the Way College Students Learn”
31 Monday 10:00 PM PIPEDREAMS Variations With a good theme, organist-composers can provide an exceptional “tour” of the tonal resources of any instrument. 7:00 PM UNEARTHING DRACULA In this WFIU-produced documentary, host-producer Annie Corrigan with Jeffrey Holdeman look at the films, literature, music, and art surrounding one of fiction’s most enduring characters.
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Jeffrey Holdeman
Sudoku by Myles Mellor and Susan Flanagan To solve the puzzle, each row, column and box must contain each of the numbers 1 to 9. This puzzle’s difficulty level is medium. Solution on page 19.
1:00 PM HOUSTON GRAND OPERA PUCCINI—Madame Butterfly Starring Ana María Martínez, Joseph Calleja, Lucy Schaufer, Rodell Rosel, Levi Hernandez, Robert Pomakov, Boris Dyakov, Rachel Willis-Sørensen. Patrick Summers conducts the performance. 8:00 PM HOMETOWN WITH TOM ROZNOWSKI Who Needs That? 8:05 PM THE FOLK SAMPLER Scared Me A bit of Halloween 9:00 PM CELTIC CONNECTIONS Samhain Celebration We celebrate the beginning of the new year on the Celtic calendar with music for the harvest season, Halloween, and the ancient festival of Samhain. 11:00 PM NIGHT LIGHTS Off the A-Train: Paul Gonsalves Tenor saxophonist Paul Gonsalves is best known for the epic solo he took with Duke Ellington’s orchestra during a 1956 concert
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Meet Ether Game’s new host Tom Berich Tom Berich is the new host of WFIU’s weekly musical guessing game, Ether Game. He comes to WFIU after several years producing live shows for Nickelodeon, touring the country putting on fast paced children’s entertainment. He also engineered the audio tours for the Smithsonian and for Boston’s Museum of Modern Art. Tom is deeply involved in the advancement of the steelpan, or steeldrum. He founded Pan USA, an organization that advances the steelpan by giving school presentations, manufacturing products, publishing music, and performing concerts. Mr. Berich has been playing steelpan professionally, from solo performances to large steelpan ensembles, for more than fifteen years. While earning his Music Education Degree from West Virginia University, he studied steeldrum performance and construction from Ellie Mannette, known as the “Father of the Modern Steeldrum.” Tom composed, produced, and recorded the audio prompts heard on Verizon and Sprint’s automated customer service. If you ever heard steeldrums while on hold after dialing directory assistance, you heard his music. In addition, Tom has developed the percussion performance program for Indiana School for the Deaf, is writing a series of steelpan technique books, and gives private steelpan lessons. He is a member of ASCAP and the Percussive Arts Society. Ether Game, WFIU’s weekly program of music trivia, is entering its fifth decade on the air. Listeners to this live program phone in guesses to a panel of knowledgeable volunteers, who freely gives hints to the answers—as many hints as needed! The program features mainly classical music, but often branches out to movie soundtracks, jazz, folk, and rock. You’re invited to join in the fun Tuesdays from 8 to 10 p.m. on WFIU HD1.
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PBS Arts kicks off on October 14th, and every Friday night into December, featuring a range of artists and performances from nine different communities and celebrity hosts from each locale. PBS Arts from Minnesota: Gilbert and Sullivan’s HMS Pinafore Friday, October 14, 9 p.m. Delight in this spectacular new production of the beloved Gilbert and Sullivan classic from the Guthrie Theater. Infused with fresh musical arrangements of Sullivan’s memorable melodies—ranging from big band swing to classic pop—HMS Pinafore is pure joy and sensational entertainment for everyone. PBS Arts from Seattle: Pearl Jam Twenty Friday, October 21, 9 p.m. Film director and music journalist Cameron Crowe creates a definitive portrait of the seminal band carved from over 1,200 hours of rarely and never-beforeseen footage, plus 24 hours of recently shot concert and interview footage. Part concert film, part insider hang, part testimonial to the power of music and uncompromising artists, the film celebrates the freedom that allowed Pearl Jam to make music for their fans. PBS Arts from Miami: Great Performances—Miami City Ballet Dances Balanchine & Tharp Friday October 28, 9 p.m. Witness the grace and beauty of one of America’s finest dance companies, Edward Villella’s Miami City Ballet, in a trio of signature works by George Balanchine and Twyla Tharp. Watch the company’s critically acclaimed performances of Balanchine’s Square Dance and Western Symphony and Tharp’s The Golden Section. PBSArts.org will host weekly exhibits that take you beyond the television experience and into the creative process itself, and PBS will create innovative classroom tools to help fill gaps in arts education.
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These community minded businesses support locally produced programs on WFIU. We thank them for their partnership and encourage you to thank and support them. Local Program Production Support Allen Funeral Home (Ask the Mayor-Bloomington) Bicycle Garage (Afterglow) Bloomingfoods Market & Deli (Earth Eats) The Bloomington Brewing Company (Just You and Me) Brown County Art Gallery (Classical Music with George Walker) Brown County Art Guild (Artworks) Café Django (Just You and Me) The District-MCSWMD (Ask the Mayor-Bloomington) Ferrer Gallery (Artworks) Goods for Cooks (Earth Eats) Dr. Howard and Associates (Artworks) The Funeral Chapel (Classical Music with George Walker) Mark Adams, Financial Advisor (Classical Music with George Walker) Indiana Humanities Council (Moment of Indiana History) ISU/The May Agency (Community Minute) IU Kelley School of Business (Community Minute) (Just You and Me)
Lennie’s (Just You and Me) The Nature Conservancy (Journey with Nature) Periodontics & Dental Implant Center of Southern Indiana (Classical Music with George Walker) Pizza X (Just You and Me) Premier Ortho (Noon Edition) The Trojan Horse (Just You and Me) Vance Music Center (Classical Music with George Walker) Nationally Syndicated Program Support Christel DeHaan Family Foundation (Harmonia) Laughing Planet (Night Lights) Landlocked Music (Night Lights) Indiana University (A Moment of Science) The Oakley Foundation, Terre Haute (Hometown) Pynco, Inc., Bedford (A Moment of Science) (Harmonia) Soma Coffee House and Juice Bar (Night Lights)
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