September 2011
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Also this month: • The Peace Corps at 50 • Roots of the Arab Spring • IQ2: Is it time to end the War on Terror? • Artist of the Month: Yael Weiss . . . and more!
Judy Carmichael’s
Jazz Inspired debuts Friday, September 2, 8 p.m.
September 2011 Vol. 59, No. 9
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Two exciting new programs debut this month: Jazz Inspired and Celtic Connections. Jazz Inspired takes Piano Jazz’s Friday at 8 to 9 p.m. slot and Celtic Connections takes The Thistle & Shamrock’s Saturday at 9 to 10 p.m. slot. Each week on Jazz Inspired, Judy Carmichael interviews creative people in a variety of the arts and culture about how jazz inspires them in their life and work. Her guests have included singer-songwriter Billy Joel, who discussed his studies with Lennie Tristano and how jazz influences his music; opera star Ben Heppner, who talked about dancing around the house to B. B. King; and actor-director Robert Redford, who described how jazz has influenced his creative process. Each program includes samples of the guests’ favorite jazz recordings. Judy Carmichael is a leading interpreter of stride piano and swing. Count Basie nicknamed her “Stride,” acknowledging the command with which she plays this technically and physically demanding jazz piano style. A native of California, she moved to New York in the early ’80s and has maintained a busy concert schedule throughout the world ever since. Referred to as “astounding, flawless and captivating” (The New York Times), she has played in a variety of venues from Carnegie Hall to the Peggy Guggenheim Museum in Venice to programs with Joel Grey and Michael Feinstein, and private recitals for Rod Stewart and President Clinton.
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Celtic Connections offers a variety of traditional and contemporary music derived from the Celtic culture wherever it has been transplanted around the globe—from the Celtic Isles to the New World and beyond. Host Bryan Kelso Crow’s academic career and knowledge of Celtic history lend depth to the program, as do his experience and connections as a Celtic musician. Each week presents the finest selections from new releases as well as from Celtic classics. There are also concert performances, recorded exclusively for Celtic Connections, along with original interviews with some of the top names in the Celtic music world.
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Bryan Kelso Crow
Host Bryan Kelso Crow is associate professor of Speech Communication at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. He learned to play the tin whistle in 1978 while hiking the roads of Ireland, and has been playing the traditional wood flute since the 1980s. He taught as an exchange professor at the University of Ulster for the 1985-86 school year, and got to know many Irish musicians during that time. He performs in Illinois and Missouri with The Dorians, a three-member Celtic band.
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Dream Jobs: Outside the Cubicle
Concerts from Music Mountain
Sunday, September 4, 8 p.m.
Sundays at 9 p.m.
This special report from IEEE Spectrum magazine profiles three scientists with careers outside conventional workplaces. Loredana Bessone, 46, prepares astronauts for the rigors of space. A flinty northern Italian in teetering snakeskin slingbacks, Bessone works for the European Space Agency in Cologne, Germany, training astronauts in survival skills. Both novice and veteran astronauts alike spend six weeks a year facing down Bessone, who oversees training in robotics, engineering, software, and behavior. The training can include dives to underwater habitats, flights on the ESA’s “vomit comet,” and spending six days in a pitch-black cave. The astronauts end up in better physical shape than 98 percent of the human race, and 100 percent more likely to be shot to the edges of Earth’s gravity well. Amir Abo-Shaeer, 38, a teacher at the Dos Pueblos High School in Goleta, California, cultivates the next generation’s engineers. What makes his teaching so different is that he doesn’t just lecture in front of a blackboard; he gives his students hands-on learning experiences. Central to that is the annual FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) robotics competition. “I build robots with students, and we use the newest and latest, greatest technology,” he says. Abo-Shaeer landed a $3 million grant from the state of California to construct a building to house his four-year engineering academy, and he was chosen as a MacArthur Fellow for his efforts to foster engineering education.
The September 4th broadcast of the Music Mountain chamber music festival features the Voxare String Quartet, described by ConcertoNet as “half Russian, half Chicagoan, 100 percent Juilliardian.” They perform Samuel Barber’s String Quartet, Opus 11. The slow movement of this work, arranged for string orchestra in 1938 at the request of the conductor Arturo Toscanini for the NBC Symphony and titled Adagio for Strings, is one of the most played works by an American composer. The September 11th concert includes music by Paul Ben-Haim, considered to be the founder of serious musical composition in modern Israel. Ben-Haim (1897-1984) initiated the movement to combine in music the land’s ancient heritage with the vigor of contemporary life. He showed how Jewish European and Middle Eastern folk songs and rhythms can be incorporated into a general style—the “Eastern Mediterranean” school of music. On September 18th and 25th we’ll hear the Amernet String Quartet, ensemble-in-residence at Florida International University, who rose to international attention after only one year of existence, by winning the Gold Medal at the 1992 Tokyo International Music Competition. Sunday, September 4, 9 p.m.
Barber: String Quartet, Opus 11 Schumann: Piano Quintet in E-Flat Major, Opus 44 Mozart: String Quartet in D Major, K. 575 played by the Zapolski String Quartet of Dennmark The Voxare String Quartet with pianist Soyeon Lee Sunday, September 11, 9 p.m. Prokofiev: Overture on Hebrew Themes Brahms: Clarinet Quintet in B Minor, Opus 115 Ben-Heim: Clarinet Quintet [partial] The Zimro Project with pianist Steven Beck
Photo: Andreas Teichmann
Sunday, September 18, 9 p.m.
Lucie Pautet
Lucie Pautet, 40, is cable-laying technician and a coastal waters scientist. As the lead engineer for NEPTUNE Canada, Pautet and her teammates use a remotely operated vehicle to survey a route for underwater cable, mapping the mountains cut into Earth’s crust, sizing up whether the cable can withstand the tension imposed by each slope and drop-off. To lay the cables, Pautet must pull off last-minute miracles. “Every day, it’s like being MacGyver,” she says. “There are so many little problems you have to solve with a little tape, by scavenging a can, by thinking on your feet.”
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Mozart: Viola Quintet in G Minor, K. 516 Mozart: Viola Quintet in C Minor, K. 406 The Amernet String Quartet with violist Chauncey Patterson Sunday, September 25, 9 p.m. Mozart: Viola Quintet in D Major, K. 593 Mozart: Viola Quintet in E-Flat Major, K. 614 Mozart: Viola Quintet in B-Flat Major, K. 174 (partial) The Amernet String Quartet with violist Chauncey Patterson
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Intelligence Squared Sunday, September 11, 8 p.m. Days after September 11th, 2001, President Bush declared a War on Terror that would “not end until every terrorist group of global reach has been found, stopped, and defeated.” Ten years later, we’ve been in two wars and witnessed the Arab Spring and the death of Osama bin Laden. Should the threat of Islamic fundamentalism continue to be an organizing principle behind our foreign policy? Tonight on Intelligence Squared, panelists debate the motion “It’s time to end the War on Terror.” For the motion: Peter Bergen, one of few Americans to have interviewed Osama bin Laden in person, author of The Longest War: The Enduring Conflict Between America and Al-Qaeda, and editor of the AfPak Channel, a clearinghouse of news covering Afghanistan, Pakistan and issues of transnational terrorism; and Juliette Kayyem, professor at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, former assistant secretary for Intergovernmental Affairs at the Department of Homeland Security in the Obama Administration, and a member of the National Commission on Terrorism. Against the motion: Richard Falkenrath, former deputy Homeland Security advisor, principal author of the National Strategy for Homeland Security, former Deputy Commissioner for Counterterrorism at the New York Police Department, and Adjunct Senior Fellow for Counterterrorism and Homeland Security at the Council on Foreign Relations; and General Michael Hayden, former director of the CIA and the National Security Agency, who has overseen nearly every branch of the intelligence community and is currently a principal at The Chertoff Group focusing on global political and terrorist risk analysis.
Juliette Kayyem
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America Abroad: “Roots of the Arab Spring” Sunday, September 18, 8 p.m. Unemployment and anemic economies were fire-starters in the demonstrations that spread across the Arab word earlier this year. But while the Arab Spring may have toppled regimes, bread and butter issues continue to plague the region. Democracy alone won’t be enough to deal with a simple demographic Achilles’ heel—nearly a quarter of Arabs under 30 are jobless. The roots of the Arab Spring are explored on this installment of America Abroad.
The Arab Spring
Sean Carberry travels to Yemen to examine dire employment prospects for young people and the challenges of draining the pool of potential terrorist recruits. Guests include Mohammed Qubaydi, head of the foreign affairs department of Yemen’s ruling political party, and Buthaina Al-Iryiani, HIV and youth specialist for UNICEF in Yemen. Jordana Gustafson reports from Jordan on the state of the country’s educational system and why college graduates there find themselves searching several years for employment. She speaks with Riad Al Khouri, an economist specializing in the Middle East and North Africa Region, and Elham Ziadat, co-owner of Bloom, a company that exports Dead Sea beauty products. Deborah Amos and Monica Bushman examine factors that drive so many young people to leave Lebanon and how Lebanese immigrants are faring in the United States. They visit Samir Makdisi, economist at the American University of Beirut; Linda Sarsour, director of the Arab American Association of New York; and Charlie Sahadi, co-owner of Sahadi Importing in Brooklyn, NY.
Peace Corps Voices Sunday, September 25, 8 p.m. Fifty years ago, President John F. Kennedy issued a stirring call to college students to become volunteers in developing countries around the world. This speech led to the creation of the Peace Corps, which still inspires Americans to serve.
Brooke Stanley Tou and Issa Tou met while she was a Peace Corps volunteer in his village in Burkina Faso, where they were married.
In recognition of the 50th anniversary of the Peace Corps, WFIU presents Peace Corps Voices, a documentary exploring the effects of service on volunteers through audio recordings they made in various countries and contemporary interviews. From Ghana in the 1960s to Nepal in the 1990s to recent service in Gambia, these recordings present voices of people the American volunteers met, lived with and, in one case, married. The program offers an aural tour and history of the Peace Corps with instrumental music, singing, and natural sounds from Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Participants in the documentary include: Meryl Blau Menon, who served in Ghana from 1961-63. Menon, who was a member of the first group of Peace Corps volunteers to arrive in-country. Louise (Schullery) Cox, who served in Sierra Leone from 1967-69. She recalls reaching her village by crossing a raging river in a dugout canoe, as she and the locals who were paddling the boat were attacked by fire ants. She later recorded children singing “Kumbaya.” Jeffrey Potter, who served in 1994 to ’96 as a horticulture extension agent in a remote community in northeast Nepal. During his service, a friend in Chicago regularly sent him cassettes documenting life in the states. Meanwhile, Potter did the same from Nepal and, over two years, the pair exchanged more than 175 hours of recordings. The program includes archive audio from the 1961 Rose Garden ceremony in which President Kennedy bade farewell to the very first Peace Corps volunteers.
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University Jacobs School of Music.
Yael Weiss
Yael Weiss has performed across the United States, Europe, Japan, Korea and South America at such venues as the Kennedy Center, Carnegie Hall, and London’s Wigmore Hall. She has appeared as a soloist with major orchestras such as the Seattle Symphony, Prague Chamber Orchestra, and Israel Chamber Orchestra. She regularly performs at international music festivals including Marlboro, Ravinia, and Caramoor. From 1999 to 2003 Weiss served as artistic director of the Hersher Foundation Chamber Music Series in Connecticut. Weiss has been honored with distinguished prizes from the 2002 Naumburg International Piano Competition and the Kosciusko Foundation Chopin Piano Competition, and has been a recipient of the Presser Award for her devotion to music education from the AmericaIsrael Cultural Foundation. She studied with Richard Goode and Edward Aldwell at the Mannes College of Music and with Leon Fleisher and Ellen Mack at the Peabody Conservatory. She has presented masterclasses for universities throughout the United States and Europe. Weiss’s discography encompasses piano works by over a dozen composers. With violinist Mark Kaplan and cellist Clancy Newman, she tours worldwide with the Weiss-Kaplan-Newman Trio. A selection featuring the trio was chosen for the 2003 “Best of St. Paul Sunday” CD. A recent recording of Paul Chihara’s Ain’t No Sunshine, which the trio commissioned, was released on Bridge Records. WFIU features music performed by Yael Weiss throughout the month of September.
WFIU’s featured contemporary composer for September is John Adams. Born in 1947, John Adams began his musical studies in clarinet with his father and Felix Viscuglia of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. After receiving his bachelor and master’s degrees from Harvard, he moved to the San Francisco Bay area, where he has lived ever since. Adams taught at the San Francisco Conservatory for ten years and, through his collaborations with the San Francisco Symphony’s “New and Unusual Music” series, did much to encourage the new music scene by commissioning works by important experimental composers. As composer-in-residence for the SFS from 1979 to 1985, he wrote Harmonium and Harmonielehre, which helped establish his national reputation. It was also during his time with the San Francisco Symphony that he collaborated with director Peter Sellars on Nixon in China, an opera about President Richard Nixon’s visit to China in 1972. His next two works, The Death of Klinghoffer and I was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky, were also collaborations with Sellars. From a young age, Adams made the decision that his compositions would move away from the avant-garde movement prevalent in music after World War II. While he is most frequently categorized as a minimalist composer, his music remains much more tonal than that of minimalists Steve Reich or Philip Glass.
Remembering 9/11 NPR and WFIU newsrooms will bring you special programming on the weekend marking the tenth anniversary of September 11, 2001. A special Noon Edition on Friday, September 9, will examine how life has changed for Hoosiers in the decade since 9/11. We’ll hear from a panel of guests from across Indiana and will be taking calls from listeners. On the tenth anniversary of the day itself, we’ll offer an extended Weekend Edition Sunday until 2 p.m. Turn to us for a full cross-section of the day’s events from Ground Zero to the Pentagon to Shanksville and far beyond. We’ll also bring you a special from the WFIU newsroom, digging deeper into the longterm effect of 9/11 on Indiana. Some of the questions we’ll ask include: How has transportation security changed? How is life different for schoolchildren growing up in the shadow of 9/11? Is there, ten years later, a new “normal” in life for all Hoosiers? Photo: Anthony Nagelmann
Artist of the Month Featured WFIU’s artist of the month for September Contemporary is pianist Yael Weiss, an associate professor of chamber music at the Indiana Composer
Neal Conan
At 3 p.m., after a rebroadcast of Noon Edition, we’ll join Neal Conan, host of NPR’s Talk of the Nation (heard weekdays at 2 p.m. on WFIU-HD2), as he recaps the day’s events, brings you voices of people touched by 9/11, and hears from listeners with thoughts and reflections to share. Ten Years Later: The 9/11 Commissioners Reflect
John Adams
In the last twenty years, Adams’ works have included more elements of polyphony, chromaticism, and virtuosity, while maintaining his preference for conflicting meters and unbalanced phrases. WFIU will feature the music of John Adams throughout the month of September.
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On September 15th from 2 to 4 p.m., WFIU will broadcast a special event live from the IU Auditorium. Former Representative Lee H. Hamilton (D-IN), vice-chair of the 9/11 Commission, will reunite with eight of the Commission’s members for a panel discussion about the events that occurred in the wake of the terrorist attacks. The discussion will be moderated by Ken Bode, former political analyst for PBS, CNN, and NBC. September 2011 / Directions in Sound / Page 5
Profiles
The Radio Reader
Sundays at 7 p.m.
The Murder of the Century by Paul Collins
with Dick Estell
September 4 – Ellen Ketterson
Airs: August 26 to September 26
Ellen Ketterson is a distinguished professor of biology and a founding member and former co-director of the IU Center for the Integrative Study of Animal Behavior. She is an internationally-known evolutionary biologist specializing in animal behavior who has made several discoveries that have put her at the forefront of evolutionary biology. She has served as editor or associate editor of all the major journals in evolutionary biology, behavioral ecology, and avian biology. Her awards include the Margaret Morse Nice medal, which she won jointly with husband and collaborator Val Nolan, to honor a lifetime of contributions to ornithology. Karen Hanson hosts. (repeat) September 11 – Mark A. Pillar Maj. Gen. Mark A. Pillar served for 37 in the Air Force and Air Force Reserve as a command pilot, logging more than 5,300 hours of military flight time. He flew 90 combat missions in South Vietnam, and has flown missions in support of Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm, and in the Bosnia no-fly zone. Pillar flew for Delta Air Lines for 27 years piloting such aircraft as the McDonnell Douglas DC-9 and Lockheed L-1011, retiring as an International Captain on the Boeing B-767 ER. His last duty assignment was in Air Force Acquisitions in the Pentagon, and on 9/11 he was the mobilization assistant to the Commander in Chief of United States Strategic Command (STRATCOM). Malcolm Webb hosts. September 18 – Larry Singell Larry D. Singell, Jr. is the new dean at the College of Arts and Sciences at Indiana University Bloomington. Previously, he was the associate dean for social sciences in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Oregon. Singell is an economist who has worked extensively in the field of applied labor economics. His research focuses on the role that education plays in labor-market outcomes. He has studied the effects of financial aid programs, such as the Pell grant, on access, retention, graduation, and institution choice within higher education. Moya Andrews hosts. September 25 – Randy White Randy White is the artistic director of Bloomington’s Cardinal Stage Company. Before following his wife to Bloomington, White directed extensively in New York City and at regional theaters across the U.S., including the Actors Theatre of Louisville, Portland Center Stage, and Shakespeare Santa Cruz. White assisted on Disney’s The Lion King for six months. He has directed and/or taught at Fordham, NYU Tisch, The University of Alberta, and the American Musical and Dramatic Academy. He holds an MFA in directing from the University of Alberta in his native Canada. Murray McGibbon hosts. Page 6 / Directions in Sound / September 2011
On a summer afternoon in 1897, a Long Island farmer finds a duck pond turned red with blood. Two boys playing at a pier on the Lower East Side discover a floating human torso wrapped tightly in oilcloth. Blueberry pickers near Harlem stumble upon neatly severed limbs in an overgrown ditch. Clues to a horrifying crime are turning up all over New York City, but the police are baffled: There are no witnesses, no motives, no suspects. Those macabre finds plunged detectives headlong into what would become the era’s most perplexing and captivating murder mystery. Reenactments of the murder were staged in Times Square, armed reporters lurked in the streets of Hell’s Kitchen in pursuit of suspects, and an unlikely trio—a hard-luck cop, a cub reporter, and an eccentric professor— all raced to solve the crime. What emerged was a sensational love triangle and an even more sensational trial: an unprecedented capital case hinging on circumstantial evidence around a victim whom the police couldn’t identify with certainty, and who the defense claimed wasn’t even dead. The Murder of the Century: The Gilded Age Crime That Scandalized a City and Sparked the Tabloid Wars is a rollicking tale; a rich evocation of America during the Gilded Age and a colorful re-creation of the tabloid wars that have dominated media to this day. Author Paul Collins has written seven books. He is regularly featured on NPR’s Weekend Edition as their “literary detective.”
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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. September 5–11 Moran: Trinity Requiem (innova 244) Trinity Youth Chorus and Choir, Trinity Wall Street Robert Ridgell, conductor Robert Moran’s Trinity Requiem was composed as part of the recognition of the tenth anniversary of the September 11th attacks. Written for youth chorus, four cellos and organ, the work is sublimely evocative and comforting. September 12–18 Jan DeGaetani: Early Music Recital (Bridge 9087) Jan DeGaetani, mezzo-soprano
September 26–October 2 Weiss: Lute Concerti (Chandos CHAN 0707) Richard Stone, lute Tempesta di Mare Silvius Leopold Weiss created the largest surviving collection of solo lute music in the history of the instrument, and a large amount for ensemble with lute. Richard Stone has established that nineteen concerted works by Weiss survive, and that several more have been lost. These comprise duets, trios, and concerti featuring the lute as the solo instrument. Weiss’s ensemble compositions have remained hitherto obscure because they are incomplete: only the lute tablature part remains in the known manuscripts. Stone has reconstructed the flute and bowed string parts heard on this recording by using motifs drawn from the lute part where appropriate, and by studying concerted works by composers whose music Weiss would have known.
Jan DeGaetani started her career as a performer of early music. This concert recording of her early music is being released for the first time. Recorded in 1977, it showcases the mezzo when she was at the peak of her powers. September 19–25 Franz Liszt (Sony Classical 88697873852) Khatia Buniatishvili, piano Khatia Buniatishvili’s debut album is devoted to Franz Liszt, in whose music she finds musical completeness and pianistic perfection. Liszt’s third Liebestraum was inspired by Goethe’s Faust, and The Mephisto Waltz was inspired by Nikolaus Lenau’s Faust poem. The Sonata in B Minor is technically one of the most demanding works ever written for piano.
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Broadcasts from the IU Jacobs School of Music Airs at 7 p.m. Mondays, 10 a.m. Tuesdays, and 3 p.m. Fridays
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Featured Classical Recordings
Edward Auer
September 5-9 CHOPIN—Polonaise in f-sharp, Op. 44: Edward Auer, piano September 12-16 ARNE—EIGHT OVERTURES: Overture No. 5 in D: Stanley Ritchie/IU Baroque Orchestra September 19-23 ELGAR—Romance in d, Op. 62: Kim Walker, bassoon; Shigeo Neriki, piano September 26-30 MOZART—String Quartet No. 6 in B-flat, K. 159: Penderecki Quartet
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The Moth Radio Hour and Radiolab Sundays at 11 a.m. A season of The Moth Radio Hour ends and the next season of Radiolab begins with these episodes. Please note The Moth Radio Hour is for grown-ups. Some stories are emotionally intense and not for children. Note: Radiolab is preempted on September 11th so we can bring you special programming from NPR and WFIU News marking the tenth anniversary of 9/11.
George Dawes Green
The Moth Radio Hour Sunday, September 4 The Moth’s founder, George Dawes Green, details the fireworks when his mother learns the grounds of her family plantation are slated to be turned into a golf course; a spectacularly eccentric mother and Savannah, Geogia work in tandem to create a true bohemian; and a guard at Sing Sing is intrigued by a prisoner’s mysterious tattoo. Radiolab Sunday, September 18 “Words” It’s almost impossible to imagine a world without words. What would life be like without language? This hour explores the words in our head and how they change the way we think. It includes an interview with Indiana University neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor about what happened when a stroke wiped out the language center of her brain. Also, we talk to a woman who taught a 27-yearold man sign language—and the first words of his life. Sunday, September 25 “Falling” There are so many ways to fall—in love, asleep, and flat on your face. In an episode full of falling music, Radiolab gets to the bottom of what goes on in our brains during those life or death moments when time seems to slow way down; ponders the terminal velocity of a plummeting cat; and asks why physicists can’t answer the basic question, “Why do we fall?” We also meet the 20th century’s greatest “gravity hero,” the first person to survive a trip over Niagara Falls in a barrel, and astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, who takes us on a one-way trip into a black hole. Page 8 / Directions in Sound / September 2011
Jazz Notes September brings a new voice and a familiar voice to the WFIU jazz airwaves. On Friday evenings jazz pianist Judy Carmichael brings us Jazz Inspired, featuring interviews with artists from all walks of creative life who talk about the ways in which jazz has influenced their work, as well as the music itself. Sometimes described as “Fresh Air for jazz,” Jazz Inspired debuts September 2 at 8 p.m. as part of our Friday night lineup. That same day, you’ll hear a blast from the not-so-distant past as the much-loved, much-celebrated Joe Bourne returns to WFIU as the “new” Friday host of Just You and Me. David Brent Johnson continues to host the program Monday to Thursday, and each Friday Joe will check in with his special mix of jazz, blues, folk, rock, and commentary. You can also continue to catch archived Joe broadcasts on Friday nights with The Big Bands at 9 p.m. This month on Just You and Me we’ll be featuring some new releases from the Uptown label, which specializes in putting out previously unheard or little known recordings by classic jazz artists. We’ll hear the legendary young guitarist Charlie Christian playing in small groups with Benny Goodman and others, as well as some recently discovered recordings of unsung jazz hero Gigi Gryce’s hardbop small group, and a lost 1950s noir soundtrack by big band leader and composer Johnny Richards. Pianist Bill Evans died in 1980, but his nuanced lyricism continues to find favor with many jazz fans. The recent Evans CD Sesjun Radio Shows gathers a series of 1970s broadcasts that includes a set of duets with bassist Eddie Gomez (who will be playing at Auer Hall on the IU campus Friday, September 2 at 8 p.m.). Also on Just You and Me, we’ll listen to Road Shows Volume 2, a new release by tenor saxophonist and recent National Medal of Arts winner Sonny Rollins that captures Rollins in live performances with Ornette Coleman, Jim Hall, and Roy Hargrove. On the Monday, September 12th edition of Just You and Me, Indiana University creative writing professor and jazz fan Tony Ardizzone will talk about his new novel, The Whale Chaser, and Sonny Rollins how he uses jazz in his fiction. Our late Saturday evening program Night Lights takes a look this month at the 1960s groups of drummer Chico Hamilton, live broadcasts of bebop piano great Bud Powell, the 1966 Monterey Jazz Festival, and the music of John Coltrane interpreted by other jazz artists such as Dave Liebman and Dexter Gordon. On Friday evenings in September Afterglow pays tribute to singers Jon Hendricks and Johnny Mathis (who also appears as a guest on the program), the changing of the seasons, and (for the Labor Day weekend) the convergence of popular song and labor. Both of our late night weekend jazz programs are available online as well, at indianapublicmedia.org/nightlights and indianapublicmedia.org/ afterglow.
Jon Hendricks
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September Highlights A sampling of this month’s programming
The transporting music of composer James Whitbourn
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Harmonia presents highlights from this year’s Indianapolis Early Music Festival that includes a performance by the acclaimed Baroque quintet REBEL. Possibly the most aired American Baroque ensemble in the U.S. today, REBEL (pronounced “Re-BEL”) has earned an international reputation, engaging audiences with their unique style and their virtuosic, expressive, and provocative approach to the Baroque and Classical repertoire.
REBEL
Named after the innovative French Baroque composer Jean-Féry Rebel (1666-1747), REBEL’s core formation of two violins, recorder/traverso, cello/ viola da gamba and harpsichord/ organ expands with additional strings, winds, theorbo and vocalists, performing on period instruments. The REBEL Baroque Orchestra first gained wide recognition for its performance of Mozart’s Requiem with the Trinity Choir under the direction of J. Owen Burdick, broadcast nationally over public radio in September 2001, and for its annual performances of Handel’s Messiah and the choral works of Haydn, which had been broadcast live over WQXR-FM in New York City. REBEL’s eight-CD set of the complete sacred choral works of Haydn was released in 2009 on the Naxos label. Their latest disc is the Haydn: Missa brevis and Creation Mass, featuring the Trinity Choir. Hear REBEL on Harmonia, Sunday, September 25th at noon and repeated Thursday, September 29th at 9 p.m.
A two-part Sounds Choral features the soaring work of English choral composer James Whitbourn, who creates music for concert hall, film, and television. Whitbourn’s choral works have been performed on every inhabited continent in the world, especially the Son of God Mass, which is regularly performed throughout the United States, Europe and other parts of the world. His choral music has been recorded by the Choir of Clare College Cambridge, Commotio and the Westminster Williamson Voices, on Et cetera and Naxos. His largest composition is the concertlength choral work, Annelies, which sets words from The Diary of Anne Frank. It was premiered by Leonard Slatkin at London’s Cadogan Hall in 2005. His film and TV work includes the lush orchestral score for the BBC landmark series Son of God, together with music for 9/11, The Cenotaph in London, and the Queen Mother’s funeral. Artists who have performed and broadcast Whitbourn’s music include Daniel Hope, Arianna Zukerman, the BBC Philharmonic, and the choirs of King’s College Cambridge, Westminster Abbey, and many other cathedral
Johnny Mathis: Now and Then If Elvis Presley was the king of rock ’n roll, Johnny Mathis is the king of popular romantic music. Since his debut in the mid-1950s he’s made more than 100 albums and sold hundreds of millions of records around the world, becoming a prominent voice on many people’s personal soundtracks. Although soft, romantic ballads are his forte, along the way Mathis has recorded a wide variety of songs. On the September 30th edition of Afterglow at 10:09 p.m., Johnny Mathis joins host David Brent Johnson to talk about his recent CD, Let It Be Me: Mathis in Nashville, as well as some of his hits and his personal favorites from his long recording career. You’ll hear how he came to record “Misty,” nearly toured with a legendary jazz artist when he was 13, spent a giddy afternoon with Cole Porter, and more.
Musical Word Search by Myles Mellor The word search contains a number of music related words and names. They may be across, down or diagonal in any direction. How many can you find? Solution on page 19.
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The REBEL Baroque Orchestra on Harmonia
his new CD, Living Voices. Tune in to this two-part interview on Tuesday, September 20th and 27th at 10:06 p.m.
James Whitbourn
choirs. He has a close association with Westminster Choir College, N.J., where he has been composer in residence. Sounds Choral host Marjorie Herman speaks to Whitbourn about
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Plan Now, Give Later In the past, only the privileged could gain the satisfaction of creating a legacy by bequeathing substantial gifts. Today, many more of us can leave a financial legacy, and experience the joy and satisfaction that come from making a difference. And leaving a legacy for the future requires starting to plan now. But planning now does not mean you have to give now. Some of the most meaningful and rewarding gifts are those that can be planned today and completed later. Arranging for an after-death gift allows you to enjoy a full life now with no impediments to your cash flow. Here are two very easy ways to make a charitable gift you won’t miss today.
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Bequests: A charitable bequest lets you make a gift now that is realized in the future. Simply designate in your will that WFIU receives a portion of your estate or a specific asset or dollar amount. Since a bequest gift is not completed today, you have the opportunity to change the gift arrangement if your needs or goals change. Beneficiary designations: Another way to plan now and give later is through a beneficiary designation. WFIU can be named the beneficiary of a qualified retirement plan account or a life insurance policy. Once again, an advantage to these gifts is the freedom to change the designation. Your attorney can help you with the proper language to use when including WFIU in your will. You can also find sample language at http://iufoundation. plannedgifts.org/bequest.php. You don’t require a lawyer to list WFIU as a beneficiary of your retirement plan or an insurance policy, however, merely a beneficiary form. Questions? Feel free to contact WFIU’s Gifts and Grants Officer Nancy Krueger at nkrueger@indiana.edu or 812-855-2935.
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StateImpact gives public education lawmakers a report card We all pay for public education in Indiana, but are getting our money’s worth? A new initiative will tell us.
WFIU is collaborating with NPR and other public radio stations to pilot StateImpact, an ambitious local-national journalism project to report to state government actions and their effect on citizens and communities. Indiana is one of eight states participating, and as the lead station in this state, WFIU has created a reporting “hub.”
The World Premiere of Bernard Rands’ Danza Petrificada Curtain-raiser inspired by Mexican culture is ‘a gem of magical musical realism’ Perhaps you heard composer Bernard Rands on Profiles recently discussing his new van Gogh opera, Vincent, which had its world premiere at IU Bloomington. (You can hear it in the Profiles archive on WFIU.org.)
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WFIU has hired two new multimedia journalists to contribute to the project. Kyle Stokes, a Minneapolis native, comes from Columbia, Missouri, where he reported for the NPR station and the NBC television affiliate. Ben Skirvin has been a correspondent for WFIU and, previously, assistant news director at the NPR station in Marquette, Michigan. The new reporters are roving the state to collect stories about how government policy decisions about education affect the lives of Hoosiers. How will changes in tax financing affect the quality of Indiana schools? What effect will the high dropout rate have on Indiana’s workforce? How will the state balance the freedom of choice afforded by charter schools with the preservation of public school funding? These are just a few of the questions the two are addressing in depth. The focus is not on parliamentary maneuvering, but on the effect of legislation on people. The reporters are filing stories for broadcast on WFIU News and in NPR’s national newsmagazines, and they’re actively posting updates on a blog on NPR’s site. You can get there by visiting WFIU.org and clicking on the StateImpact logo.
On Monday, September 26 at 8 p.m. on WFIU, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra series presents a world premiere of Bernard Rands’ latest work, Danza Petrificada. Danza Petrificada was composed at the request of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra music director Riccardo Muti to mark the centennial and bicentennial of Mexico’s independence and revolution. It takes its title (“Petrified Dance”) from a poem by Mexican poet Octavio Paz: “. . . a banquet of forms, a petrified dance under the clouds that make and unmake and never stop making themselves always in transit toward their future forms.” Reviewing Danza Petrificada, the Chicago Classical Review wrote, “To his credit, the English-born American composer avoids the usual Mexican dance rhythms and tourist-trap musical tropes. Yes, Danza Petrificada calls for a large percussion battery for four players and opens with a rustle of maracas and muted trumpet. But Rands’ piece is more edgy and impressionistic than sunny homage, a moody tone poem with passing Mexican elements, glimpsed as if through a refracted lens.” The Chicago Tribune wrote, “The composer . . . extracted the essence of sounds and rhythms common to Mexican music, filtered them through his sophisticated orchestral imagination and came up with a nine-minute gem of magical musical realism.”
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Bloomington Chefs’ Challenge Sunday, September 4, 7 p.m. Buskirk Chumley Theater The Community Kitchen’s annual fundraiser features a trivia contest with prizes, local hors d’oeuvres, live auction, and a competition in the style of TV’s Iron Chef in which three local chefs have an hour to create a winning dish featuring a local secret ingredient. Science Night Out: Salute the Silver Screen
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Community Events Fourth Street Festival of the Arts and Crafts Saturday, September 3, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday, September 4, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Fourth and Grant Streets, downtown Bloomington This annual Labor Day Weekend event for more than 30 years features local and national artists and artisans presenting a wide variety of arts and crafts. (WFIU and sister station WTIU will be there handing out freebies to visitors of all ages.) Greencastle Stellar Music Festival Sunday, September 4, noon to 8 p.m. 605 Crown St., Greencastle Greencastle’s eighth annual day filled with music and community activities includes blues artist Tad Robinson, Randy Salman, The Haus Katz, Blues Side Up, and singersongwriter Jennie DeVoe. The MC for the afternoon is WFIU’s David Brent Johnson.
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Bloomington Early Music Festival Wednesday through Sunday, September 7 to 11 Locations vary, Bloomington Concerts, lectures, and other events are presented in collaboration with the IU Jacobs School of Music and the IU College of Arts and Sciences’ Themester Initiative. This year’s theme is “Music in War, Music in Peace.” Blues at the Crossroads Festival Friday, September 9, 6 p.m. to 2 a.m. Saturday, September 10, noon to 2 a.m. 7th and Wabash, Terre Haute A dozen bands from the Midwest and beyond take the stage this year at Terre Haute’s 11th annual music festival, held downtown at the “Crossroads of America.” They include Blind Mississippi Morris, The Kelly Richey Band, The David Mayfield Parade, and Lukas Nelson and Promise of the Real. Columbus Indiana Philharmonic Susie Park, violin Saturday, September 17, 7:30 p.m. Erne Auditorium, Columbus North H.S. Internationally renowned violinist Susie Park, a member of the Eroica Trio, joins the CIP to perform the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto. September 2011 / Directions in Sound / Page 13
Key to abbreviations.
a., alto; b., bass; bar., baritone; bssn., bassoon; cl., clarinet; cond., conductor; cont., continuo; ct., countertenor; db., double bass; ch., chamber; E.hn., English horn; ens., ensemble; fl., flute; gt., guitar; hn., horn; hp., harp; hpsd., harpsichord; intro., introduction; instr., instrument; kbd., keyboard; lt., lute; ms., mezzo-soprano; ob., oboe; orch., orchestra; org., organ; Phil., Philharmonic; p., piano; perc., percussion; qt., quartet; rec., recorder; sax., saxophone; s., soprano; str., string; sym., symphony; t., tenor; tb., trombone; timp., timpani; tpt., trumpet; trans., transcribed; var., variations; vla., viola; vlc., vdg., viola da gamba; violoncello; vln., violin. Upper case letters indicate major keys; lower case letters indicate minor keys.
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 Thursday 8:00 PM SANTA FE CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL HAYDN—String Trio in G Major, Op. 53, No. 1, H. XVI: 40 Jennifer Frautschi, violin; Nokuthula Ngwenyama, viola; Ralph Kirshbaum, cello BRAHMS—Piano Quartet No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 60 William Preucil, violin; Nokuthula Ngwenyama, viola; Ralph Kirshbaum, cello; Jon Kimura Parker, piano 9:00 PM HARMONIA “What do you know, Chalumeau” Harmonia explores music for the seldom-heard chalumeau, a predecessor to the clarinet. Plus, we’ll “revisit” some chant from the early Maronite Christian tradition, and hear from a featured release by the Gregorian Ensemble of Notre Dame de Paris.
1:00 PM SAN FRANCISCO OPERA GERSHWIN—Porgy and Bess With Laquita Mitchell, Eric Owens, Chauncey Packer, Lester Lynch, Angel Blue, Karen Slack, and Alteouise deVaughn. John DeMain conducts. 8:00 PM HOMETOWN WITH TOM ROZNOWSKI Silence is Golden 8:05 PM THE FOLK SAMPLER Labor Day Celebrating a good honest day’s work 9:00 PM CELTIC CONNECTIONS New Releases New songs, new tunes, new CDs, all topnotch in this week’s sampling of traditional and contemporary music from new releases 11:00 PM NIGHT LIGHTS The John Coltrane Songbook Music of the tenor saxophonist played by Dexter Gordon, McCoy Tyner, Dave Liebman and others
4 Sunday 12:00 PM HARMONIA Renaissance Music in Theory Harmonia explores Renaissance composers championed by music theorists. Some theorists heralded the arrival of new musical eras; others chose to reflect on the musical achievements of past generations and peers. Join us as we look at Renaissance music—in theory. 1:00 PM WITH HEART AND VOICE Labor Day Labor Day marks the unofficial end to summer, and we’ll listen to music to help us celebrate the season. Join Peter DuBois as we hear music by Virgil Thomson, Leo Sowerby, Charles Ives and others.
Virgil Thomson
2 Friday 10:09 PM AFTERGLOW Popular Song on the Picket Line Social significance songs of the 1930s and ’40s, including recordings by Cab Calloway, Louis Armstrong and Mildred Bailey
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7:00 PM PROFILES Ellen Ketterson (repeat)
5 Monday 8:00 PM CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Ludovic Morlot conducts a mostlyFrench program featuring CSO Principal Trumpet Christopher Martin.
DUTILLEUX—Symphony No. 2 (Le double) JOLIVET—Concertino for Trumpet (Christopher Martin, trumpet) TOMASI—Trumpet Concerto (Christopher Martin, trumpet) ROUSSEL—Suite No. 2 from Bacchus and Ariadne TCHAIKOVSKY—Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-Flat Minor (Simon Trpceski, piano) 10:00 PM PIPEDREAMS September Canticles: music of prayerful reflection and healing in commemoration of the tenth anniversary of the tragedy of September 11, 2001.
6 Tuesday 8:00 PM ETHER GAME Before E-mail Ether Game explores communication in a pre-digital age. 10:06 PM SOUNDS CHORAL Spotlight: VocalEssence The discography of Philip Brunnelle’s well known ensemble from Minneapolis will be mined for several of its gems.
7 Wednesday 8:00 PM LIVE! AT THE CONCERTGEBOUW Yannick Nézet-Séguin/Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra Nicolas Angelich, piano VERDI—Prelude to Aida SAINT-SAËNS—Piano Concerto No. 5 SAINT-SAËNS—Bacchanale from Samson et Dalila FRANCK—Psyché et Eros STRAUSS—Salomes Tanz
Nicholas Angelich
8 Thursday 8:00 PM SANTA FE CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL HAYDN—Piano Trio No. 43 in C Major, Hob. XV: 27 Harvey de Souza, violin; Peter Stumpf, cello; Kuok-Wai Lio, piano ARENSKY—Quartet No. 2 in A Minor for Violin, Viola & Two Cellos, Op. 35, No. 2
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Benny Kim, violin; Lily Francis, viola; Eric Kim, cello; Gary Hoffman, cello 9:00 PM HARMONIA Renaissance Music in Theory Harmonia explores Renaissance composers championed by music theorists. Some theorists heralded the arrival of new musical eras; others chose to reflect on the musical achievements of past generations and peers. Join us as we look at Renaissance music—in theory.
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10:09 PM AFTERGLOW What’s New A look at new and recent releases from singer Madeleine Peyroux, trumpeter Terrell Stafford (paying tribute to composer Billy Strayhorn), and more
9:00 PM CELTIC CONNECTIONS Music From the Sessions One of the joys of playing Irish music is that you can come to a new town—not just in Ireland but in many cities in America and other parts of the world—and find an informal music session. This week we feature tunes commonly heard in those sessions, along with pub session recordings. 11:00 PM NIGHT LIGHTS Jazz From Monterey: 1966 Pianist Randy Weston, saxophonists Charles Lloyd and Joe Henderson, and trumpeter Don Ellis were some of the exciting performers featured in 1966 at this prestigious jazz festival. We’ll hear concert recordings from all of them, as well as guitarist Bola Sete.
Randy Weston
Madeleine Peyroux
10 Saturday 1:00 PM SAN FRANCISCO OPERA MASSENET—Werther With Ramón Vargas, Alice Coote, Heidi Stober, Brian Mulligan, Christian Van Horn, Robert MacNeil, Susannah Biller, Austin Kness, and Bojan Knezevic. Emmanuel Villaume conducts.
Ramón Vargas
8:00 PM HOMETOWN WITH TOM ROZNOWSKI I Take It All Back 8:05 PM THE FOLK SAMPLER Talk To Me: Please.
11 Sunday 12:00 PM HARMONIA Musical Tour of Rome Join us on Harmonia for an early music tour of Rome, including some music for the Roman Carnival season. We’ll also sidetrack over to Spain for a visit to the Shrine of Santiago, then head back to Rome in a featured release by The Cardinall’s Musick. 1:00 PM WITH HEART AND VOICE Remembering 9/11 On the tenth anniversary of the national horrific tragedy, we’ll hear sacred music of hope and comfort, even as we remember the terrible loss of life, the fear and the grief of that time. 7:00 PM PROFILES Mark Pillar 8:05 PM THE FOLK SAMPLER Come On And Dance: It’s fun.
12 Monday 8:00 PM CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Riccardo Muti conducts a concert that features Yo-Yo Ma in the Schumann Cello Concerto as well as a work by Mead
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composer-in-residence Mason Bates. BATES—The B-Sides, Five Pieces for Orchestra and Electronica SCHUMANN—Cello Concerto in A Minor, Op. 129 (Yo-Yo Ma, cello) STRAUSS—Aus Italien LISZT—Les Préludes 10:00 PM PIPEDREAMS The Wanamaker Organ at 100: a centenary tribute to the world’s largest functioning musical instrument, a magnificent landmark at Macy’s downtown department store in Philadelphia.
13 Tuesday 8:00 PM ETHER GAME Based on the Book Literature comes to life on this week’s Ether Game 10:06 PM SOUNDS CHORAL Honoring the Fallen We will honor the memory of the events of September 11th, 2001 with music by Rene Clausen, Jeffrey Ames, Ralph Manuel, and Randall Thompson.
14 Wednesday 8:00 PM LIVE! AT THE CONCERTGEBOUW John Eliot Gardiner/Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra MARTINU—Les Fresques de Piero delle Francesca HAYDN—Symphony No. 90 SCHUMANN— Symphony No. 2
John Eliot Gardiner
15 Thursday 8:00 PM SANTA FE CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL BACH—Ja, ja, ich halte Jesum feste from Cantata No. 157, Ich lasse dich nicht, du segnest mich denn! David Govertsen, bass; Bart Feller, flute; Daniel Phillips, violin; Timothy Eddy, cello; Kathleen McIntosh, harpsichord BEETHOVEN—String Trio in C Minor, Op. 9, No. 3 September 2011 / Directions in Sound / Page 15
Giora Schmidt, violin; Lily Francis, viola; Eric Kim, cello RAVEL—Sonata for Violin & Piano No. 2 in G Major Cho-Liang Lin, violin; Kuok-Wai Lio, piano
Kathleen McIntosh
9:00 PM HARMONIA Musical Tour of Rome Join us on Harmonia for an early music tour of Rome, including some music for the Roman Carnival season. We’ll also sidetrack over to Spain for a visit to the Shrine of Santiago, then head back to Rome in a featured release by The Cardinall’s Musick.
16 Friday 10:09 PM AFTERGLOW Jon Hendricks A 90th birthday tribute to the singer, featuring his recordings as a part of Lambert, Hendricks, and Ross, with guitarist Wes Montgomery, and more.
Out In The Country: The good life 9:00 PM CELTIC CONNECTIONS Celtic Collections If you’re lucky enough to find a “Celtic” CD section in a book or record store near you, you might be overwhelmed by all the CDs with “Celtic” in the title. This week we will sort through some of the overlysentimentalized or hackneyed or not-readyfor-primetime recordings to bring you some of the best from these Celtic collections. 11:00 PM NIGHT LIGHTS A Different Journey: Chico Hamilton in the 1960s Drummer Chico Hamilton led an adventurous hardbop group in the early-to-mid 1960s, often featuring saxophonist Charles Lloyd. We’ll hear some of their little-known recordings.
spring 2009 Dvořák Festival, conducted by Sir Mark Elder DVOŘÁK—In Nature’s Realm Overture, Op. 91 DVOŘÁK—Romance in F Minor for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 11 (Rachel Barton Pine, violin) DVOŘÁK—Song to the Moon from Rusalka (Patricia Racette, soprano) DVOŘÁK—Cello Concerto in B Minor, Op. 104 (Alisa Weilerstein, cello) DVOŘÁK—Symphony No. 8 in G Major, Op. 88 10:00 PM PIPEDREAMS More from the BBC Proms. Soloists Thierry Escaich, David Goode and Thomas Trotter preside over England’s grandest concert organ in performances from London’s Royal Albert Hall.
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12:00 PM HARMONIA Listener Favorites: Gesualdo, Taverner, Dalza, Pergolesi, and More Harmonia asked some listeners for their favorite pieces, and the response was enthusiastic. From the Llibre Vermell to the Pergolesi “Stabat Mater,” we’ll explore various works from the Middle Ages, Renaissance, and Baroque. Also on the program, Wendy Gillespie and Giovanni Zanovello join us to talk about a John Stafford Smith manuscript, including a performance by the Indiana University Concentus Ensemble.
8:00 PM ETHER GAME Afterlife Ether Game discovers musical depictions of the world beyond. 10:06 PM SOUNDS CHORAL A Conversation with James Whitbourn, Part I Host Marjorie Herman speaks to composer James Whitbourn about his new CD, Living Voices. The composer provides insight into the transporting works on this new collection.
17 Saturday Photo: Hanya Chlala
1:00 PM SAN FRANCISCO OPERA JANÁČEK—The Makropulos Case With Karita Mattila, Miro Dvorsky, Gerd Grochowski, Dale Travis, Matthew O’Neill, and Brian Jagde. Charles Mackerras conducts.
Wendy Gillespie
1:00 PM WITH HEART AND VOICE Medieval Mystics This week we’ll hear music of Hildegard von Bingen and pieces based on the writings of Julian of Norwich. 7:00 PM PROFILES Larry Singell Dale Travis
8:00 PM HOMETOWN WITH TOM ROZNOWSKI The Big Dig 8:05 PM THE FOLK SAMPLER Page 16 / Directions in Sound / September 2011
19 Monday 8:00 PM CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA A concert from the CSO’s
21 Wednesday 8:00 PM LIVE! AT THE CONCERTGEBOUW Jakov Kreizberg/Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra Martin Helmchen, piano DEBUSSY— Prélude à l’aprèsmidi d’un faune MENDELSSOHN—Piano Concert no. 1 VAN ONNA—Antarctica (World premiere) STRAVINSKY—The Firebird Suite 1919
22 Thursday 8:00 PM SANTA FE CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL TELEMANN—Trio Sonata in G Minor for Oboe, Violin, & Continuo, TWV 42:g Allan Vogel, oboe; Jennifer Frautschi, violin; Ralph Kirshbaum, cello; Kathleen McIntosh, harpsichord TCHAIKOVSKY—Souvenir de Florence in D Major, Op. 70 Benny Kim, violin; Helen Nightengale, violin; Michael Tree, viola; Lily Francis, viola; Lynn Harrell, cello; Gary Hoffman, cello
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Photo: Lisa-Marie Mazzucco Jennifer Frautschi
9:00 PM HARMONIA Listener Favorites: Gesualdo, Taverner, Dalza, Pergolesi, and More Harmonia asked some listeners for their favorite pieces, and the response was enthusiastic. From the Libre Vermell to the Pergolesi “Stabat Mater,” we’ll explore various works from the Middle Ages, Renaissance, and Baroque. Also on the program, Wendy Gillespie and Giovanni Zanovello join us to talk about a John Stafford Smith manuscript, including a performance by the Indiana University Concentus Ensemble.
23 Friday 10:09 PM AFTERGLOW Songs of the Season: Autumn Our annual tribute to the coming of cooler weather
25 Sunday 12:00 PM HARMONIA REBEL at the 2011 Indianapolis Early Music Festival Harmonia presents some highlights from this year’s Indianapolis Early Music Festival, which includes a performance by the Baroque quintet REBEL. We’ll also explore the practice of balancing historical accuracy and creative improvisation in modern medieval performances. And we’ll hear from a featured release of recorder music by Nina Stern. 1:00 PM WITH HEART AND VOICE Angelic Music To mark the Feast Days of St. Michael and All Angels, and also of St. Matthew, we listen to music that celebrates the beings that are thought to be the messengers of God. 7:00 PM PROFILES Randy White
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1:00 PM SAN FRANCISCO OPERA WAGNER—Das Rheingold Starring Mark Delavan, Stefan Margita, Gordon Hawkins, Larissa Diadkova, Ronnita Miller, David Cangelosi, Andrea Silvestrelli, Daniel Sumegi, Brandon Jovanovich, Melissa Citro, Stacey Tappan, Lauren McNeese, and Renée Tatum. Donald Runnicles conducts.
Mark Delavan as Wotan
8:00 PM HOMETOWN WITH TOM ROZNOWSKI Grocery List 8:05 PM THE FOLK SAMPLER Little By Little: That’s how life moves 9:00 PM CELTIC CONNECTIONS Old Favorites Songs and tunes from not-so-new albums will sound like new when we air them out this week. 11:00 PM NIGHT LIGHTS Burning With Bud: Bud Powell Live 1944-53 Bud Powell was the godfather of bebop piano, and from the mid-1940s to the early 1950s he was playing at the peak of his powers. We’ll hear broadcasts Powell made both as a leader and with Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, and Cootie Williams.
8:00 PM CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Riccardo Muti conducts a world premiere by Bernard Rands, as well as a rarelyheard symphony by Hindemith. CHERUBINI—Overture in G Major RANDS—Danza Petrificada (CSO Commission, World Premiere) STRAUSS—Death and Transfiguration HINDEMITH—Symphony in E-Flat PROKOFIEV—Suite from Romeo and Juliet 10:00 PM PIPEDREAMS Finnished Business: performances by and conversation with the vigorous virtuoso from Finland, Kalevi Kiviniemi.
Ether Game visits a time from long ago. 10:06 PM SOUNDS CHORAL A Conversation with James Whitbourn, Part II Our conversation with the composer continues, exploring his music from the 2008 album Luminosity.
28 Wednesday 8:00 PM LIVE! AT THE CONCERTGEBOUW Christoph Eschenbach/Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra SCHUMANN—Symphony No. 4 in D Minor BRAHMS—Symphony No. 1 in C Minor
29 Thursday 8:00 PM SANTA FE CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL SCHUMANN—Phantasiestücke for Clarinet & Piano, Op. 73 Todd Levy, clarinet; Marc Neikrug, piano SMETANA—String Quartet in E Minor, T. 116, From My Life Orion String Quartet 9:00 PM HARMONIA REBEL at the 2011 Indianapolis Early Music Festival Harmonia presents some highlights from this year’s Indianapolis Early Music Festival, which includes a performance by the Baroque quintet REBEL. We’ll also explore the practice of balancing historical accuracy and creative improvisation in modern medieval performances. And we’ll hear from a featured release of recorder music by Nina Stern.
30 Friday 10:09 PM AFTERGLOW Johnny Mathis: Now and Then Johnny Mathis joins us to talk about his recent CD, Let It Be Me: Mathis in Nashville, as well as some of his hits and personal favorites from his long recording career.
27 Tuesday 8:00 PM ETHER GAME That’s Ancient History
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Organist extraordinaire Kalevi Kiviniemi on Pipedreams On Monday, September 26 at 10 p.m., Pipedreams features performances by and a conversation with the prolific Finnish concert organist Kalevi Kiviniemi.
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Sunday, September 11 at 8 p.m. PBS NewsHour presents a one-hour special broadcast commemorating the 10th anniversary of the attacks of September 11, 2001. The team examines the significance of the day in many different communities across the nation. The broadcast includes several pieces of a “video quilt” the PBS audience has been invited to help produce, using the PBS NewsHour’s social media sites. Great Performances: The New York Philharmonic 10th Anniversary Concert for 9/11 Sunday, September 11 at 9 p.m.
Kalevi Kiviniemi
Kiviniemi’s albums of organ music have sold over a quarter of a million copies worldwide, recorded on historical instruments throughout the world. He has served as a jury member in many international organ competitions, given masterclasses, and served for ten years as artistic director of the Lahti Organ Festival in Finland. Kiviniemi recently released his 100th recording, Bombarde, containing organ music and organ transcriptions from the Romantic era. The recording was made on the concert organ at the Matthäus Church in Stuttgart, Germany. In 2003 Kiviniemi started a cycle of organ recordings for the Finnish record label Fuga titled OrganEra. The OrganEra cycle will consist of twenty recordings played on organs ranging from one of the oldest working organs in the world—a bamboo organ in the Philippines—to state-of-the-art concert hall organs. The series will present the enormous tonal richness of the organ through instruments of different eras, different cultures, and different styles. So far fourteen CDs in the series have been made.
The New York Philharmonic under conductor Alan Gilbert, with guest soloists and the New York Choral Artists, performs Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 2, “Resurrection.” Frontline: Faith and Doubt at Ground Zero Wednesday, September 7 at 10 p.m. and Sunday, September 11 at 5 p.m. This program explores and illuminates the many spiritual questions that have come out of the terror, pain, and destruction at Ground Zero. Frontline: The Man Who Knew Sunday, September 11 at 10:30 p.m. When the Twin Towers fell on September 11th, among the thousands killed was the one man who may have known more about Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda than any other person in America: John O’Neill. NOVA: Engineering Ground Zero Wednesday, September 7 at 9 p.m. NOVA presents an epic story of engineering, innovation, and the perseverance of the human spirit. This program follows the five-year construction of One World Trade Center and the National September 11 Memorial & Museum.
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