September 2015
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Kevin Kline on Profiles Harmonia airs its 800th episode Angela Mariani, host of Harmonia
September 2015 Vol. 63, No. 9
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Harmonia’s 800th program airs this month
Nancy Krueger—Gifts and Grants Officer Yaël Ksander—Producer/Announcer Angela Mariani—Host/Producer, Harmonia Sandra McGow—Corporate Development Mia Partlow—Corporate Development Michael Paskash—Radio Audio Director Adam Schwartz—Editor, Directions in Sound Brandon Smith—IPBS Statehouse Reporter Donna Stroup—Chief Financial Officer George Walker—Producer/On-Air Broadcast Director Sara Wittmeyer—WFIU/WTIU News Bureau Chief Marianne Woodruff—Corporate Development Eva Zogorski—Membership Director
by LuAnn Johnson, Harmonia producer
• Afterglow and Ether Game Host: Mark Chilla • Harmonia Production Assistant: Janelle Davis • Jazz Host: William Morris • Multimedia Journalists: Casey Kuhn, Harrison Wagner, Lindsey Wright • Music Library Assistant: Elizabeth Clark • News Journalist/Producers: Steve Burns, Alex McCall • Noon Edition Producer: Drew Daudelin • Online Content Coordinator: Betsy Shepherd • Production Editors: Josh Brewer, DeShawn Tyree Wells • Program Services Manager: LuAnn Johnson • StateImpact Indiana Multimedia Journalists: Claire Mclnerny, Rachel Morello • Volunteer Producer/Hosts: Moya Andrews, Mary Catherine Carmichael, Romayne Rubinas Dorsey, Wendy Gillespie, Trish Kerlé, Murray McGibbon, Patrick O’Meara, Shana Ritter, Bob Zaltsberg • Web Assistant: Liz Leslie
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This spring, WFIU’s early music series Harmonia reached two milestones—it completed its 800th program and reached its 20th year of syndication. The program began in 1991 when Station Manager Christina Kuzmych asked board announcer and early music practitioner Angela Mariani—then a graduate student at IU’s Early Music Institute—if she would be interested in creating a weekly, early music program as a local offering by WFIU. The show quickly gained a large and enthusiastic local following. After the generous response garnered by the program during the following two fund Angela Mariani in 1991 holding drives, plans began to find a way to offer a historical reproduction of a the program nationally. medieval Romanesque harp. In June 1995 Harmonia began syndication, and within only a few months it was picked up by 50 stations. Since then the program has been broadcast on hundreds of stations nationally (and in the Philippines) and can be heard globally on the Internet. For the first 15 years of its existence, Angela wrote and produced every Harmonia episode, conducted and edited all the interviews, and helped to market the program at various radio conferences. Initially engineered by Patsy Smith, since September 1996 the program has been engineered, recorded, and edited by WFIU’s Michael Paskash—who recently produced his 600th show. Angela is now a full-time university professor and the director of the Early Music Ensemble at Texas Tech University. But she continues to host the program with the help of Mike and a dedicated staff of writers, podcasters, and bloggers, directed by LuAnn Johnson. For Harmonia’s 800th program, Angela returned to her previous role as scriptwriter, interviewer, and producer to create a special program. It features medieval flute virtuoso Norbert Rodenkirchen of the ensemble Sequentia, and airs Thursday, September 3at 9 p.m. Angela looks forward to hosting Harmonia for many more years to come!
Lawmakers meet WFIU leaders State Representative Peggy Mayfield makes a point during a meeting between area lawmakers and WFIU leadership. Clockwise, from left: Perry Metz, Peggy Mayfield, Mark Shublak, Eric Koch, Nancy Krueger, Matt Pierce, and Mark Stoops.
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Sundays at 6 p.m. September 6 – David Williams David C. Williams is a law professor at the IU Maurer School of Law where he teaches constitutional law and Native American law. He has written widely on constitutional design, Native American law, and the relationship between constitutionalism and political violence. As executive director of the Center for Constitutional Democracy, Williams consults with reform movements abroad. He advises elements of the Burma democracy movement on the constitutional future of that country, and is a consultant to the government of Liberia on its constitutional revision process. He is the author of The Mythic Meanings of the Second Amendment: Taming Political Violence in a Constitutional Republic. Trish Kerlé hosts. September 13 – John Porcellino John Porcellino writes, draws, and publishes minicomics and graphic novels. In 1989 he began his self-published, photocopied, mostly autobiographical series King-Cat Comics and today it is among the best-known and longest-running minicomics produced. His Ignatz Award-winning Diary of a Mosquito Abatement Man is a collection of King-Cat stories about his experiences as a pest control worker, and Perfect Example chronicles his struggles with depression as a teenager. King-Cat Classix and Map of My Heart offer an overview of the zine’s first sixty-one issues, while Thoreau at Walden is a poetic expression of the philosopher’s experience and ideals. Betsy Shepherd hosts.
With September comes autumn, that season of traditions, and one tradition that new Afterglow host Mark Chilla is continuing is the program’s Songs of the Season theme. You can catch some music suitable for falling leaves and cooling temperatures Friday, September 25 at 8 p.m. Other Afterglow shows this month include standards sung by the king and queen of soul, Sam Cooke and Aretha Franklin; that program airs Friday, September 4. Each Tuesday on Just You and Me this month host David Brent Johnson features new reissues from the Xanadu label, home to some superlative hardbop jazz recordings in the 1970s from pianist Barry Harris, saxophonists Jimmy Heath and Al Cohn, flutist Sam Most, and others.
September 20 – Jose Antonio Vargas Jose Antonio Vargas is a journalist, filmmaker, and immigration rights activist. He is the founder of Define American, a nonprofit media organization that seeks to open up dialogue around immigration and citizenship. He produced and directed White People, an MTV special on what it means to be young and white in contemporary America, and the autobiographical film Documented. He has written for Rolling Stone and The New Yorker, and was a senior contributing editor at the Huffington Post, where he launched the Technology and College sections. He was part of the team that won a Pulitzer Prize for covering the Virginia Tech massacre. Will Murphy hosts. September 27 – Claudia Roden and Larry Barsalou Profiles presents two guests who participated in IU’s Themester “Eat, Drink, Think: Food from Art to Science.” Claudia Roden is a cookbook writer and cultural anthropologist born in Cairo, Egypt who lives in London. Her many books include The Food of Italy, The New Book of Middle Eastern Food, Picnics and Other Outdoor Feasts, and The Book of Jewish Food. She has hosted a cooking show for the BBC, and is co-chair of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery. Annie Corrigan hosts. Lawrence W. Barsalou is a psychologist and a cognitive scientist whose areas of study include appetitive behavior. His work addresses the nature of human knowledge and its roles in perception, memory, language, and thought. A theme of his research is that the human conceptual system is grounded in the brain’s modality-specific systems. Professor Rob Goldstone hosts.
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Wes Montgomery
On Friday, September 25, reissue mastermind Zev Feldman will talk about these titles and other recent projects with which he’s been involved, such as the 2-CD Wes Montgomery In the Beginning anthology, on Night Lights at 9 p.m. Other Night Lights programs this month take a look at the early-1960s return of saxophonist Sonny Rollins from a sabbatical taken at the height of his jazz fame, recordings made by jazz fusion pioneers before the appearance of Miles Davis’ landmark Bitches Brew album, and the arrival of bebop in Europe in the late 1940s. Be sure to tune into Just You and Me every Friday afternoon, when William Morris serves up his Soul Stew special of jazz, R & B, funk, pop, rock—and that not-so-secret ingredient of personality to help whet your appetite for the weekend.
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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. Some programs, however, do not provide us with information about their content. We include the titles of those programs as a convenience. When we receive no program information for a given day, the day will not appear in the listings. For a complete list of WFIU’s schedule, see the program grid on pages 8 and 9.
1 Tuesday 8:00 PM ETHER GAME Birds of a Feather We hope you’ll flock to this feathery show as Ether Game takes flight with some soaring selections. 9:00 PM SOUNDS CHORAL Germanic Post-Romantic Choral Repertoire Marjorie Herman revisits this sumptuous repertoire with choral pieces by Strauss, Wolf, Refer, and Webern. 10:00 PM RELEVANT TONES The Laptop Ensemble This week host Seth Boustead explores a newer musical medium: the laptop. He wanted to find out what exactly groups named PLOrk, CLOrk, and Benoit and the Mandelbrots have to offer. The answer surprised him. He discovered improvisation, live coding, and even orchestral collaboration.
2 Wednesday 8:00 PM SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY Michael Tilson Thomas conducts Gil Shaham, violin Gamelan Sekar Jaya gamelan ensemble TRADITIONAL: Lelambatan Tabuh Pat Jagul
9:00 PM NIGHT LIGHTS The Return of Sonny Rollins In 1959 saxophonist Sonny Rollins vanished from the jazz scene at the height of his fame. David Brent Johnson explores what happened when he returned two years later.
PROKOFIEV: Violin Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Opus 63 BRITTEN: Excerpts from The Prince of the Pagodas, Opus 57 IVES: Three Places in New England 10:00 PM COLLECTORS’ CORNER WITH HENRY FOGEL Volkmar Andreae – Composer and Conductor, Program 1 BRUCKNER: Symphony No. 8 (Vienna Sym) Music & Arts CD-1227 ANDREAE: String Quartet No. 1 in B-Flat (Locrian Ensemble) Guild GMCD 7238
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3 Thursday 8:00 PM CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER Haydn/Brahms HAYDN: Quartet in C major for Strings, Op. 33, No. 3 “The Bird” Jerusalem Quartet (Sergei Bresler, Alexander Pavlovsky, violins; Amichai Grosz, viola; Kyril Zlotnikov, cello) BRAHMS: Trio No. 1 in B major for Violin, Cello, and Piano, Op. 8 Inon Barnatan, piano; Erin Keefe, violin; Julie Albers, cello 9:00 PM HARMONIA Norbert Rodenkirchen Host Angela Mariani celebrates Harmonia’s 800th episode with medieval flute, improvisation, and the true story behind the medieval tale of the Pied Piper, in a conversation with Norbert Rodenkirchen of the renowned medieval ensemble Sequentia. And she previews his new CD with singer Sabine Lutzenberger of the music of 13thcentury minnesinger Heinrich von Meissen.
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10:00 PM FOLKTALES Folktale of Workloads Grab the elbow grease and get ready to clock in—this week’s folktale is riding the wheels of production around the musical globe. Host Julia Meek celebrates Labor Day with an hour of overtime to listen to lyrical job descriptions and wise words from around the world on the subject of an honest day’s labor.
11:00 AM RADIOLAB American Football Football is the most popular sport in the United States. Whether you love it or loathe it, it’s a touchstone of the American identity. This hour, hosts Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich tackle football; from its surprising beginnings to its possible demise. 6:00 PM PROFILES IU law professor David C. Williams. Trish Kerlé hosts.
Norbert Rodenkirchen
10:00 PM FIESTA! Music from Portugal From the medieval period to the present, Portuguese composers have been at the forefront of western art. Host Elbio Barilari conducts a first overview to Portugal’s outstanding music history.
4 Friday 8:00 PM AFTERGLOW The King and Queen of Soul Mark Chilla turns a spotlight on Sam Cooke and Aretha Franklin, two soul singers who interpreted standards from the Great American Songbook for the early part of their careers. He presents Cooke and Franklin singing the songs of Richard Rodgers, Duke Ellington, Irving Berlin, and others.
A member of Gamelan Sekar Jaya
1:00 PM SAN FRANCISCO OPERA PUCCINI—Madame Butterfly Patricia Racette is Cio-Cio-San (Butterfly), Brian Jagde is Lt. B.F. Pinkerton, Elizabeth DeShong is Suzuki, Brian Mulligan is Sharpless, Julius Ahn is Goro, Jacqueline Piccolino is Kate Pinkerton, Efrain Solis is Prince Yamadori, Morris Robinson is The Bonze, and Hadleigh Adams is Commissioner. Nicola Luisotti conducts.
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Heiko Specht
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8:00 PM THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC THIS WEEK The Artistry of Zubin Mehta Musical highlights from: CRUMB: Ancient Voices of Children from 4/16/81 MOZART: Symphony No. 25 BARTÓK: Piano Concerto No 1 (soloist Barenboim) from 1/21/82 FURTWANGLER: Furtwangler Symphony No 2 (Scherzo) WEBERN: Six Pieces for Orchestra from 1/22/03
7 Monday 8:00 PM CHICAGO SYMPHONY Salonen conducts Tristan Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts WAGNER: Tristan and Isolde Introduction to Act I WAGNER: Tristan and Isolde Introduction to Act II GABRIELI: Sacred Symphony and Canzona (from CSO Resound) 10:00 PM PIPEDREAMS Prom-inent Pipes Classic repertoire, improvisations, and an unusual concerto provide opportunities for
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soloists on the mighty Royal Albert Hall organ at the BBC Proms in London. Michael Barone hosts.
8 Tuesday 8:00 PM ETHER GAME Construction Works This week the Ether Game Brain Trust puts on its tool belt to construct a show about buildings, bridges, and other structures. 9:00 PM SOUNDS CHORAL Trionfi by Carl Orff This trinity of expansive works by this 20th century German master is considered the composer’s greatest achievement. Marjorie Herman presents the first two of these works in the next two programs, beginning with perhaps his most celebrated scenic cantata, Carmina Burana.
10 Thursday 8:00 PM CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER Berg & Brahms for Strings BERG: Quartet for Strings, Op. 3 Amphion String Quartet (David Southorn, violin; Katie Hyun, violin; Andy Lin, viola; Mihai Marica, cello) BRAHMS: Quintet in G major for Two Violins, Two Violas, and Cello, Op. 111 Philip Setzer, violin; Shmuel Ashkenasi, violin; Richard O’Neill, viola; Arnaud Sussmann, viola; Paul Watkins, cello 9:00 PM HARMONIA Eye Music, Ear Candy Don’t you hate it when you’re not “in” on an in-joke? Angela Mariani lets us in on the humor in some of the earliest and wittiest examples of “eye music,” where the punchlines are hidden on the page for the performers to enjoy—and the audience has no idea. This is musical sleight-of-hand at its finest! Then, we’ll hear some of this visually and technically fascinating music performed in a featured release by Crawford Young and the Ferrara Ensemble.
13 Sunday 11:00 AM RADIOLAB Deception Lies, liars, and lie catchers. This hour of Radiolab asks if it’s possible for anyone to lead a life without deception. We consult a cast of characters, from pathological liars to lying snakes to drunken psychiatrists, to try to understand the strange power of lying to yourself and others. 6:00 PM PROFILES Cartoonist John Porcellino. Betsy Shepherd hosts. 8:00 PM THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC THIS WEEK Alan Gilbert conducts Dorothea Röschmann, soprano; Michelle DeYoung, mezzo-soprano; New York Choral Artists, Joseph Flummerfelt, director MAHLER: Symphony No. 2, “Resurrection” ADAMS: The Wound-Dresser (Thomas Hampson, baritone/Alan Gilbert/ NYP from iTunes Pass)
10:00 PM FIESTA! Forgotten Geniuses and Pioneers Throughout history some musicians have reached immense popularity only to be quickly forgotten, while other artists from the past still enjoy considerable fame but only as pioneers. Elbio Barilari pays tribute both to forgotten artists and pioneers. Carl Orff
10:00 PM RELEVANT TONES Composer Collectives The 20th century saw composers banding together in collectives to help promote each other’s work. The movement has only gotten stronger in this century with the rise of entrepreneurialism in classical music. Seth Boustead presents music of several composer collectives and takes a close look at their inner workings.
9 Wednesday 8:00 PM SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY Michael Tilson Thomas conducts Toby Spence, tenor Robert Ward, horn COPLAND: Danzón Cubano BRITTEN: Serenade for Tenor, Horn, and Strings, Opus 31 SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphony No. 15 in A major, Opus 141 MOZART: Divertimento in D major, K. 251 10:00 PM COLLECTORS’ CORNER WITH HENRY FOGEL Volkmar Andreae – Composer and Conductor, Program 2 BRUCKNER: Symphony No. 4 (Vienna Sym) Music & Arts CD-1227 ANDREAE: Symphony in C (M. Andreae, Bournemouth Sym) Guild GMCD7377 ANDREAE: Quartet No. 2 in E Major (Locrian Ensemble) Guild GMCD 7238 ANDREAE: Kleine Suite: Movements 3-4 (M. Andreae, Bournemouth) Guild 7377
11 Friday 8:00 PM AFTERGLOW Starry Eyed Mark Chilla takes a look at songs all about the stars, including “Stardust,” “Stella by Starlight,” and “Stars Fell on Alabama,” sung by Anita O’Day, Ella Fitzgerald, and others. 9:00 PM NIGHT LIGHTS First Fusion Miles Davis’s 1970 album Bitches Brew is often seen as the birth of the fusion movement. David Brent Johnson delves into some of the pioneering jazz-rock groups of the 1960s that preceded Davis’s landmark double LP.
12 Saturday 1:00 PM SAN FRANCISCO OPERA BELLINI—Norma Sondra Radvanovsky is Norma, Jamie Barton is Adalgisa, Russell Thomas is Pollione, Christian Van Horn is Oroveso, Jacqueline Piccolino is Clotilda, and A.J. Glueckert is Flavio. Nicola Luisotti conducts. 10:00 PM FOLKTALES Folktale of the Road to Perdition Fire and brimstone lights our way this week with a Stygian batch of netherworldly music to share along our twisted route. Host Julia Meek leads a tour of musical hot spots across American, European, Asian, and African unhallowed ground, fit for Beelzebub himself.
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Michelle DeYoung
14 Monday 8:00 PM CHICAGO SYMPHONY Muti conducts the Pathétique Riccardo Muti conducts SCRIABIN: Symphony No. 2 TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No. 6 (Pathétique) PROKOFIEV: From Romeo and Juliet, “Montagues and Capulets” (from CSO Resound) 10:00 PM PIPEDREAMS Our Father One of the best-known texts provides us with glimpses into the composer’s craft and the organ builder’s art. Michael Barone hosts.
15 Tuesday 8:00 PM ETHER GAME Joy and Sorrow Mark Chilla and the Ether Game Brain Trust take the highs with the lows, exploring songs of joy and songs of sorrow. 9:00 PM SOUNDS CHORAL Trionfi by Carl Orff, Part 2 Marjorie Herman presents the conclusion of Carmina Burana and then the scenic cantata September 2015 / Directions in Sound / Page 7
Catuli Carmina, the second part of the composer’s Tronfi.
BORODIN: Quartet No. 2 in D major for Strings Jerusalem Quartet (Sergei Bresler, Alexander Pavlovsky, violins; Amichai Grosz, viola; Kyril Zlotnikov, cello)
10:00 PM RELEVANT TONES SIRGA Festival SIRGA is an international music festival concentrating on music by electro-acoustic composers that takes place in a remote part of Catalonia. Seth Boustead visits the festival to bring back audio from their concerts.
9:00 PM HARMONIA Young Performers Festival Highlights In June, Early Music America held its fifth Young Performers Festival, bringing together students and ensembles from colleges, universities, and conservatories throughout North America to perform a series of concerts. Angela Mariani presents highlights from those performances.
16 Wednesday 8:00 PM SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY Michael Tilson Thomas conducts Nadine Sierra, soprano MOZART: “Ruhe sanft mein ganzes Leben” from Zaïde, K.344 MOZART: “Trostlos schluchzet Philomel” from Zaïde, K.344 MOZART: “Tiger! Wetze nur die Klauen” from Zaïde, K.344 BRUCKNER: Symphony No. 7 in E minor SCHUMANN: Symphony No. 3
10:00 PM FIESTA! The Myth and Music Elbio Barilari explores how composers from Spain, Portugal, and Latin America have used Greek, Roman, biblical, Arab, Chinese, or Indian mythology as inspiration for their music.
get close to “wildness”? We examine where we stand in this paradox—starting with the Romans and ending in the wilds of Belize, staring into the eyes of a wild jaguar. 6:00 PM PROFILES Immigration activist and journalist Jose Antonio Vargas. Will Murphy hosts. 8:00 PM THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC THIS WEEK Pierre Boulez at 90 Musical highlights taken from: BOULEZ: Pli selon Pli (from 4/13/86) DEBUSSY: La Mer (from 6/18/88) BARTÓK: The Miraculous Mandarin (Commercial release, SMK)
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Kristin Hoebermann
8:00 PM AFTERGLOW Nat King Cole in the 1940s Before he became an “Unforgettable” music and television star, Nat King Cole was a work-a-day pianist in L.A., freshly signed to the fledgling Capitol Records label. On this show, Mark Chilla chronicles Cole’s early success with Capitol and the King Cole trio throughout the 1940s with such songs as “Straighten Up and Fly Right” and “Nature Boy.” 9:00 PM NIGHT LIGHTS Bebop Comes to Europe Late-1940s recordings by American artists such as Tadd Dameron, Chubby Jackson, Miles Davis, and Charlie Parker, who brought the revolutionary sound of bebop across the Atlantic to the Continent.
Nadine Sierra
10:00 PM COLLECTORS’ CORNER WITH HENRY FOGEL Volkmar Andreae – Composer and Conductor, Program 3 BRUCKNER: Symphony No. 9 (Vienna Symphony) Music & Arts CD-1227 ANDREAE: Nocturne and Scherzo (M. Andreae, Bournemouth Sym) Guild GMCD 7377 ANDREAE: Music for Orchestra (M. Andreae, Bournemouth Sym) Guild GMCD 7377 ANDREAE: Quartet for Flute and Strings (Noakes; Locrian Ensemble) Guild GMCD 7328 BRUCKNER: Te Deum (Loose; RosslMajdan; Dermota; Frick; Vienna Singverein; Vienna Sym) Music & Arts CD-1227
17 Thursday 8:00 PM CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER Bartók/Borodin BARTÓK: Quartet No. 4 for Strings, Sz. 91, BB 93 Jerusalem Quartet (Sergei Bresler, Alexander Pavlovsky, violins; Amichai Grosz, viola; Kyril Zlotnikov, cello) Page 8 / Directions in Sound / September 2015
19 Saturday 1:00 PM SAN FRANCISCO OPERA CARLISLE FLOYD—Susannah Patricia Racette is Susannah Polk, Brandon Jovanovich is Sam Polk, Raymond Aceto is Rev. Olin Blitch, Catherine Cook is Mrs. McLean, James Kryshak is Little Bat McLean, Jacqueline Piccolino is Mrs. Hayes, Erin Johnson is Mrs. Gleaton, and Suzanne Hendrix is Mrs. Ott. Karen Kamensek conducts. 10:00 PM FOLKTALES Folktale of Education Julia Meek travels around the world of knowledge on this week’s back-to-school edition of Folktales, in the finest tradition of musical continuing education.
20 Sunday 11:00 AM RADIOLAB Zoos In a cruel trick of evolution, humans can stand just three feet from a ferocious animal and still be perfectly safe. This hour, Radiolab goes to the zoo. What’s with our need to
Pierre Boulez
21 Monday 8:00 PM CHICAGO SYMPHONY Yo-Yo Ma plays Dvořák Riccardo Muti conducts Yo-Yo Ma, cello MONCAYO: Huapango BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 2 DVOŘÁK: Cello Concerto BLOCH: Schelomo (Yo-Yo Ma, cello; Miguel Harth-Bedoya, conductor; from CSO Resound) 10:00 PM PIPEDREAMS In Every Corner Sing! Michael Barone presents soulful and sonorous scores for choirs, congregations, solo singers, and organs.
22 Tuesday 8:00 PM ETHER GAME Myths and Legends Ether Game explores the mystical, magical world of musical myths and legends. 9:00 PM SOUNDS CHORAL Lost in the Shadows Ralph Vaughan Williams’s wake was long and influential, and several composers got lost in it. Marjorie Herman presents choral pieces by George Butterworth and Ivor Gurney among others.
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10:00 PM RELEVANT TONES Composers among Us: Michael Colgrass Seth Boustead explores the work of Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Michael Colgrass, who has had a varied career as jazz drummer, percussionist, and composer of a dizzying array of works in many genres.
Thomas Hampson is Renato, Dolora Zajick is Ulrica, Scott Conner is Tommaso, Christian Van Horn is Samuele, Efrain Solis is Silvano, A.J. Glueckert is Judge, and Christopher Jackson is Amelia’s Servant. Nicola Luisotti conducts.
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8:00 PM SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY Michael Tilson Thomas conducts Gil Shaham, violin STRAVINSKY: Agon STRAVINSKY: Violin Concerto in D major STRAVINSKY: The Rite of Spring (1947 revision) STRAVINSKY: Apollo 10:00 PM COLLECTORS’ CORNER WITH HENRY FOGEL The Art of the Mexican Mezzo-Soprano Oralia Dominguez
24 Thursday 8:00 PM CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER End of Time MESSIAEN: Quatuor pour la fin du temps (Quartet for the End of Time) for Clarinet, Violin, Cello, and Piano Jörg Widmann, clarinet; Nicolas Dautricourt, violin; Nicolas Altstaedt, cello; Gilles Vonsattel, piano 9:00 PM HARMONIA You Bet! “You bet your life!” “Let’s roll the dice!” “I’m all in!” The urge to gamble is so embedded in our language that it’s tough to imagine a life without a wager or two of some kind. This week Angela Mariani explores music by, for, and about gamblers. 10:00 PM FIESTA! Composers from Chile Elbio Barilari pays a visit to some of the giants of Chile’s musical history: Domingo Santa Cruz, Acario Cotapos, Carlos Isamitt, and Alfonso Letelier.
25 Friday 8:00 PM AFTERGLOW Songs of the Season: Autumn Mark Chilla salutes the beginning of fall with a few songs of the season, including “Autumn Leaves” and “Autumn in New York.” 9:00 PM NIGHT LIGHTS Return to Xanadu Producer Zev Feldman joins David Brent Johnson to discuss recent reissue projects including the 1970s jazz label Xanadu and the Wes Montgomery anthology In the Beginning.
26 Saturday 1:00 PM SAN FRANCISCO OPERA VERDI—Un ballo in maschera Ramón Vargas is Riccardo, Julianna Di Giacomo is Amelia, Heidi Stober is Oscar,
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10:00 PM FOLKTALES Folktale of the Insect World German-American entomologist Thomas Eisner said: “Bugs are not going to inherit the earth. They own it now. So we might as well make peace with the landlord.” Julia Meek tracks that notion through music and lore to find out what’s a-buzz.
27 Sunday
SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphony No. 13 (from 10/27/11)
28 Monday 8:00 PM CHICAGO SYMPHONY Muti conducts Tchaikovsky Riccardo Muti conducts Stephanie Jeong, violin; Kenneth Olsen, cello; Jonathan Biss, piano LIGETI: Lontano BEETHOVEN: Triple Concerto TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No. 2 (Little Russian) CLYNE: Night Ferry (from CSO Resound) 10:00 PM PIPEDREAMS More Organ Plus Michael Barone shows how intriguing combinations of other musical friends add to the organ’s “public” repertoire.
29 Tuesday 8:00 PM ETHER GAME Child’s Play The Ether Game Brain Trust brings you a selection of kid-friendly tunes. 9:00 PM SOUNDS CHORAL New Releases Newly released CDs include works by Grzegorz Gorczycki in a performance by The Sixteen, and music by Bob Chilcott and J. S. Bach.
11:00 AM RADIOLAB Blame We’ve all felt an irresistible urge to point the finger of blame. But new technologies are complicating age-old moral conundrums about accountability. This hour, we ask what blame does for us. Why do we need it, when is it not enough, and what happens when we try to push past it with forgiveness and mercy. 6:00 PM PROFILES This special Profiles features two guests who participated in IU’s Themester, “Eat, Drink, Think: Food from Art to Science.” Annie Corrigan interviews cookbook writer and cultural anthropologist Claudia Roden, and Rob Goldstone speaks with psychologist and cognitive scientist Lawrence W. Barsalou. 8:00 PM THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC THIS WEEK Music Director Emeritus Kurt Masur Musical highlights from: WAGNER: Die Meistersinger von Nuremberg (from 6/16/81) ADAMS: Short Ride in a Fast Machine (from 9/14/91) MOZART: Symphony No. 41 (from 5/9/92) IVES: Three Places in New England, Brant Desert Forests (from 5/28/94) BEETHOVEN: Leonore No 3 Overture (from 9/18/98) ADÈS: America: A Prophesy (from 1/16/99) COLEMAN: Skies of America (from 7/9/97) MARTIN: Sechs Monologe aus Jederman (from 1/4/01) MENDELSSOHN: Die Erste Walpurgisnacht (from 2/4/09)
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10:00 PM RELEVANT TONES The Kronos Quartet This virtuosic ensemble has commissioned many of the 20th-century’s string quartet masterpieces. Seth Boustead talks with the musicians and plays a sampling of the quartet’s luminous output over the years.
30 Wednesday 10:00 PM COLLECTORS’ CORNER WITH HENRY FOGEL Classic Richter Recordings of Russian Piano Concertos (Pristine PASC405) TCHAIKOVSKY: Piano Concerto No. 1 (Mravinsky, Leningrad Phil) PROKOFIEV: Piano Concerto No.1 (Kondrashin, Moscow Youth Orch) RACHMANINOFF: Piano Concerto No. 2 (Sanderling, Leningrad Phil) GLAZUNOV: Piano Concerto No. 1 (Kondrashin, Moscow Youth Orch) September 2015 / Directions in Sound / Page 9
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