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The following music specials are sure to make your season bright! See the listings on pages 6-9 for more holiday programs. Sunday, December 22 8 PM: Music of the Baroque Brass and Choral Holiday Concert Drawn from diverse cultures and various points in history, conductor William Jon Gray has assembled a program highlighting multifarious holiday traditions around a single unifying principle: whether in the 12th or 19th centuries, in Germany, Italy, Mexico, Russia, the Netherlands, or Spain, music gives voice to the spirit of the season. Monday, December 23 7 PM: Candles Burning Brightly Mindy Ratner hosts this celebration of Chanukah, the Jewish Festival of Lights. Explore the meaning and traditions of Chanukah, including holiday foods and Sephardic and Ashkenazi music. 8 PM: Winter Holidays Around the World with Bill McGlaughlin Bill’s spirited selection starts in the 12th century with Nova Stella, medieval Italian Christmas music from Saint Francis of Assisi’s staging of the nativity; jazz pianist Dave Brubeck’s classical composition La Fiesta de la Posada, evoking a Mexican Christmas celebration; and Vaughan Williams’ Fantasia on Christmas Carols. 9 PM: Hollywood Holiday Join Lynne Warfel for a festive one-hour musical retrospective of some of Hollywood’s most cherished films inspired by Dickens’ classic character, Ebenezer Scrooge. Tuesday, December 24 10 AM: Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols Audiences will share in a live, world-wide Christmas Eve broadcast of a service of Biblical readings, carols, and related seasonal music, presented by one of the world’s foremost choirs of men and boys and performed in an acoustically and architecturally renowned venue. 8 PM: St. Olaf Christmas Festival This service in song and word has become one of the nation’s most cherished holiday celebrations. The festival includes hymns, carols, choral works, as well as orchestral selections celebrating the Nativity and featuring more than 500 student musicians in five choirs, and the St. Olaf Orchestra. Valerie Kahler shares the sights and sounds of this choral favorite. Wednesday, December 25
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8 PM: Chanticleer Christmas Celebrate the season with song! Brian Newhouse hosts this one-hour program of a cappella holiday favorites, new and old, presented live in concert by Chanticleer, the superb 12-man choral ensemble known as “an orchestra of voices.” 9 PM: Welcome Christmas! with Vocal Essence John Birge hosts an hour of traditional carols and new discoveries, including the world premiere of two carols from the annual Christmas Carol Contest. 10 PM: All Is Bright Lynne Warfel hosts an hour of gorgeous, contemplative choral music that tells the traditional Christmas story with songs about angels, the star and the manger scene. Featured artists include Cantus, Chanticleer, Cambridge Singers, Bryn Terfel, Emma Kirkby, Jessye Norman, and a variety of choirs. 11 PM: An Elizabethan Christmas with The Rose Ensemble Grand candlelit halls, lavish feasts, and stately dances—escape to the regal elegance of the Elizabethan era. The Rose Ensemble captures all of that in their popular holiday concert.
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Saturdays at 5 p.m. on WFIU2 | Sundays at 6 p.m. on WFIU December 7/8 – Tim O’Brien Tim O’Brien’s writings have helped define the American literary voice of the 20th century. His enduring fictionalized memoir, The Things They Carried, attempts to reconcile memories with facts, war with beauty, peace with reckoning, America with Vietnam. He was 56 years old in 2003 when his first son was born. The “mathematics of mortality” led him to write his latest memoir, Dad’s Maybe Book, a collections of letters, lessons, and musings for his two sons. He spoke with Aaron Cain. December 14/15 – Rachel Plotnick Rachel Plotnick is an Assistant Professor of Cinema and Media Studies in The Media School at IU Bloomington. Her research and teaching focus on humanmachine relations, as well as the history and culture of media technologies. In her book, Power Button: A History of Pleasure, Panic and the Politics of Pushing, Plotnick traces the origins of today’s pushbutton society by examining how buttons have been made, distributed, used, rejected, and refashioned throughout history. She spoke with Aaron Cain. December 21/22 – Ken Winokur Multi-instrumentalist Ken Winokur first discovered the power of unorthodox musical instruments while busking in Paris, using a frying pan for his percussion instrument. Decades later, he is a member and the director of Alloy Orchestra, a three-person musical ensemble that writes and performs live accompaniment to classic silent films like Metropolis, The General, and Son of the Sheik. Winokur’s other musically-innovative projects include the Psychedelic Cinema Orchestra, and the Afro-Cuban band, Lookie Lookie. He spoke with Aaron Cain. December 28/29 – Frank Diaz Frank Diaz is Associate Professor of Music Education at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, where he teaches classes on music education and mindfulness-based wellness. He has taught workshops and courses on meditation at numerous venues across the United States, and is an active academic researcher in the field of contemplativebased practices in education. Frank has been a devoted meditator for over 25 years and is an authorized lay teacher in the Soto Zen tradition. He spoke with Aaron Cain.
Jazz Notes Ho, ho, ho and happy holidays, WFIU listeners! Our weekday afternoon jazz show Just You And Me will offer plenty of yuletide music as Christmas Day approaches, including a brand-new season’s-greetings release from guitarist and Indiana University jazz faculty member Dave Stryker. Having
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recently completed his Eight Track trilogy of 1960s and ’70s covers, Dave has provided us with a festive coda entitled (what else?) Eight Track Christmas. And tune in for the Tuesday, December 24 Christmas Eve show, which will feature lots of vintage holiday jazz (including three Bing Crosby-Ella Fitzgerald radio broadcasts), as well as the traditional Just You And Me Christmas Eve sendoff of Louis Armstrong reading “’Twas the Night Before Christmas.” Our Friday evening vocaljazz program Afterglow will keep you in the holiday mood with “A Very Crooner Christmas” on December 20 and “Songs of the Nancy Wilson Season: Winter” on December 27. Other Afterglow shows this month explore happiness in popular song and the career of singer Nancy Wilson. Night Lights follows at 9 each Friday with programs this month showcasing the early years of the popular and influential ECM label, the 1980s recordings of trumpeter and singer Chet Baker, a 90th-birthday salute to pianists Barry Harris and Toshiko Akiyoshi, and a look at the rise of sacred jazz in the 1960s. See you on the other side in 2020!
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a., alto; b., bass; bar., baritone; bssn., bassoon; cl., clarinet; cond., conductor; cont., continuo; ct., countertenor; db., double bass; ch., chamber; E.hn., English horn; ens., ensemble; fl., flute; fr, from; gt., guitar; hn., horn; hp., harp; hpsd., harpsichord; intro., introduction; instr., instrument; kbd., keyboard; lt., lute; ms., mezzo-soprano; ob., oboe; orch., orchestra; org., organ; Phil., Philharmonic; p., piano; perc., percussion; qt., quartet; rec., recorder; sax., saxophone; s., soprano; str., string; sym., symphony; t., tenor; tb., trombone; timp., timpani; tpt., trumpet; trans., transcribed; var., variations; vla., viola; vlc., vdg., viola da gamba; violoncello; vln., violin. Upper case letters indicate major keys; lower case letters indicate minor keys. Note: Daily listings are as complete as we can make them at press time, and we strive to provide full program information whenever possible. Some programs, however, do not provide us with information about their content. We include the titles of those programs as a convenience. When we receive no program information for a given day, the day will not appear in the listings. For a complete list of WFIU’s schedule, see the program grid on pages 4 and 5.
1 Sunday 1:00 PM FOLKTALES Folktale of Duty “Do something every day that you don’t want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.” Mark Twain said it, and on this episode, we’re taking his advice around the world of musical customs and traditions. 6:00 PM PROFILES Stan Sutton 8:00 PM THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC THIS WEEK Jaap van Zweden conducts Wolfe’s Fire in My Mouth WOLFE: Fire in My Mouth Women of the Crossing, dir. Donald Nally The Young People’s Chorus of New York, dir. Franciso Núñez Jaap van Zweden, conductor
2 Monday 8:00 PM CHICAGO SYMPHONY Esa-Pekka Salonen and Mitsuko Uchida Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Op. 56a Bartók: Piano Concerto No. 3 (Mitsuko Uchida, piano) Schoenberg: Transfigured Night, Op. 4 (1943 Revision) Beethoven: Symphony No. 1 in C Major, Op. 21 (Fritz Reiner, conductor) Page 6 / December 2019
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8:00 PM ETHER GAME Charitable Giving For Giving Tuesday, we explore the crossover between classical music and charity!
8:00 PM AFTERGLOW Get Happy: Happiness in Popular Song We’re keeping on the sunny side of the street as we explore some uplifting tunes like “Get Happy,” “I Want to Be Happy,” and “Put on a Happy Face.” 9:00 PM NIGHT LIGHTS Birth of a Label: ECM In 1969 Manfred Eicher founded what would become one of the world’s most successful and influential jazz record labels. We’ll hear recordings from the label’s early years by Mal Waldron, Chick Corea, and others.
4 Wednesday 8:00 PM SYMPHONYCAST Minnesota Orchestra Osmo Vänskä, conductor Elina Vähälä, violin KALEVI AHO: Minea JAAKO KUUSISTO: Violin Concerto JEAN SIBELIUS: Symphony No. 2
5 Thursday 8:00 PM CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER Russian Voices Borodin: Quartet No. 2 in D major for Strings Borodin Quartet (Ruben Aharonian, Sergei Lomovsky, Violins; Igor Naidin, Viola; Vladimir Balshin, Cello) Shostakovich: Quartet No. 13 in B-flat minor for Strings, Op. 138 Borodin Quartet (Ruben Aharonian, Sergei Lomovsky, Violins; Igor Naidin, Viola; Vladimir Balshin, Cello) 9:00 PM HARMONIA Morning Has Broken As the year winds down, it’s time to wake up! We’re celebrating mornings with bright—and early!—music from across the centuries. We’ll also sample a recording for the holiday season, Christmas on Sugarloaf Mountain, by the Cleveland-based baroque orchestra Apollo’s Fire. 10:00 PM FIESTA! An Ideal Imaginary Concert Imagine this: you are attending a symphonic concert. You take a seat and the conductor picks up the baton. But instead of playing the so-called “standard concert repertoire,” the orchestra instead starts with a colorful Latino overture, continues with a fantastic Latino concerto, and tops the evening with a full-scale Latino symphony!
7 Saturday 1:00 PM METROPOLITAN OPERA Philip Glass – Akhnaten Director Phelim McDermott tackles another one of Philip Glass’s masterpieces, following the nowlegendary Met staging of Satyagraha. Star countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo is the title pharaoh, the revolutionary ruler who transformed ancient Egypt, with the striking mezzosoprano J’Nai Bridges in her Met debut as his wife, Nefertiti. Karen Kamensek conducts in her Met debut.
8 Sunday 1:00 PM FOLKTALES Folktale of Darkness As Edward Abbey insightfully noted: “You can’t study the darkness by flooding it with light”—so hit the dimmer switch and be prepared to travel a world of good music and wise words on the subject. 6:00 PM PROFILES Tim O’Brien 8:00 PM THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC THIS WEEK Symphonies by Borodin and Dvořák ORODIN: Symphony No. 2 in B Minor Dimitri Mitropoulos, conductor SAINT-SAËNS: Cello Concerto No. 1 in A Minor, Op. 33 Leonard Rose, cello Dimitri Mitropoulos, conductor KODÁLY: Dances of Galánta Lorin Maazel, conductor DVOŘÁK: Symphony No. 7 in D Minor, Op. 70, B.141 Lorin Maazel, conductor
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9 Monday 8:00 PM CHICAGO SYMPHONY Neeme Järvi conducts Sibelius Glazunov: Concert Waltz No. 1 in D Major, Op. 47 Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 1 in D Major, Op. 19 (Vadim Gluzman, violin) Sibelius: Suite from Karelia, Op. 11Sibelius: Symphony No. 5 in E-flat Major, Op. 82 Mozart: Symphony No. 39 in E-flat Major, K. 543 (Pinchas Zuckerman, conductor)
10 Tuesday 8:00 PM ETHER GAME Hygge Time to get cozy! We’re bundling up for a show all about comfort in classical music.
11 Wednesday 8:00 PM SYMPHONYCAST Los Angeles Philharmonic Andrew Manze, conductor Richard Goode, piano GRAZYNA BACEWICZ: Overture WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART: Piano Concerto No. 18, “Paradis” RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Symphony No. 6
12 Thursday 8:00 PM CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER Ravel: Menuet antique for Piano Juho Pohjonen, Piano Debussy: Quartet in G minor for Strings, Op. 10 Danish String Quartet (Rune Tonsgaard Sørensen, Frederik Oland, Violin; Asbjørn Norgaard, Viola; Fredrik Sjolin, Cello) Ravel: Sonata for Violin and Piano Benjamin Beilman, Violin; Alessio Bax, Piano 9:00 PM HARMONIA A Medieval Christmas Tired of jingle bells? This week, we explore the medieval chants, carols, and dances of Christmas, from the Mediterranean to the Alps.
10:00 PM FIESTA! Spanish Music and Visual Arts Spanish composers seem to have a strong predilection for the visual arts. This is not surprising for a country that gave us Diego Velázquez, Goya, and Picasso among many other first-rate artists. Fiesta explores the connections between Spanish music and visual art.
1:00 PM METROPOLITAN OPERA Tchaikovsky – The Queen of Spades Tchaikovsky’s eerie thriller of imperial Russia has its first performances at the Met since 2011. Tenor Aleksandrs Antonenko is Hermann, the fanatical gambler whose obsession with a powerful secret drives him to madness. Soprano Lise Davidsen makes her highly anticipated Met debut as his long-suffering lover, Lisa, with mezzosoprano Larissa Diadkova as the otherworldly Countess. Baritone Igor Golovatenko is Yeletsky, baritone Alexey Markov is Tomsky, and Vasily Petrenko conducts.
Fledermaus from an Evening with Danny Kaye Danny Kaye/Zubin Mehta, conductors MOZART: German Dance in C, K. 605, “Sleigh Ride” Leonard Bernstein, conductor BERNARD: Winter Wonderland* SUESSDORF: Moonlight in Vermont* ANDERSON: Sleigh Ride* *Skitch Henderson, piano and conductor GRIEG/SEIDL: No. 4, March of the Dwarfs from Lyric Suite Leonard Bernstein, conductor VIVALDI: Winter from The Four Seasons Frank Huang, violin/leader VAUGHAN-WILLIAMS: Fantasia on Greensleeves Sir Andrew Davis, conductor POULENC: Gloria in G Major, FP177 Judith Blegen, soprano Westminster Choir, dir. Joseph Flummerfelt Leonard Bernstein, conductor PROKOFIEV: Lt. Kijé Suite, Op. 60: Troika Skitch Henderson, piano and conductor PROKOFIEV: Three Selections from Winter Bonfire-Children’s Suite, Op. 122: No. 2 Winter Holiday; No. 4 Around the Bonfire; No. 8 Home Again; Skitch Henderson, piano/conductor TCHAIKOVSKY: Selections from The Nutcracker Alan Gilbert, conductor MAHLER: Movement 1 from Symphony No. 4 in G Major Lorin Maazel, conductor OFFENBACH: Ballet of the Snowflakes from Le Voyage dans la lune Bramwell Tovey, conductor HUMPERDINCK: Children’s Prayer from Hänsel und Gretel Andre Kostelanetz, conductor
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1:00 PM FOLKTALES Folktale of Reflection On this episode, we contemplate mirror images...prismatically pleasing pathways and musical musings, echoing our way from every corner of the globe. 6:00 PM PROFILES Rachel Plotnick 8:00 PM THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC THIS WEEK NYP Jukebox—Winter Holiday STRAUSS, II: Overture to Die
8:00 PM CHICAGO SYMPHONY Michael Tilson Thomas and Nicola Benedetti Stravinsky: Concerto in D for String Orchestra Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 2in G Minor, Op. 63 (Nicola Benedetti, violin) Traditional/Limonov: Auld lang syne (encore) (Nicola Benedetti, violin) Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Op. 74 (Pathétique) Ives: IV. Thanksgiving and Forefathers’ Day from New England Holidays
13 Friday 8:00 PM AFTERGLOW Nancy Wilson Remembered This week marks one year since the passing of singer Nancy Wilson. On this episode, explore the career of the pop balladeer, known for songs like “Guess Who I Saw Today?” 9:00 PM NIGHT LIGHTS Bud’s Buds: Barry Harris and Toshiko Akiyoshi A 90th-birthday-week salute to two veteran pianists influenced by bebop piano master Bud Powell.
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Symphony (Chicago Symphony Chorus; Margaret Hillis, director)
interesting and beautiful music to come out of Latin America in the past decade.
Spain, music gives voice to the spirit of the season.
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8:00 PM ETHER GAME Evergreen Now that the leaves have fallen, we take a stroll through the evergreen pines to explore music about the only color left: green.
8:00 PM AFTERGLOW A Very Crooner Christmas We wish you a happy holiday with some familiar songs for Christmas, performed by some familiar voices, like Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, and Rosemary Clooney. 9:00 PM NIGHT LIGHTS Late Chet: Chet Baker in the 1980s Trumpeter and singer Chet Baker was in fragile health throughout the 1980s, but he made some of his finest recordings in what proved to be the twilight years of his life.
7:00 PM CANDLES BURNING BRIGHTLY Mindy Ratner hosts this celebration of Chanukah, the Jewish Festival of Lights. Explore the meaning and traditions of Chanukah, including holiday foods and Sephardic and Ashkenazi music. 8:00 PM WINTER HOLIDAYS AROUND THE WORLD WITH BILL MCGLAUGHLIN Bill’s spirited selection starts in the 12th century with Nova Stella, medieval Italian Christmas music from Saint Francis of Assisi’s staging of the nativity; jazz pianist Dave Brubeck’s classical composition La Fiesta de la Posada, evoking a Mexican Christmas celebration; and Vaughan Williams’ Fantasia on Christmas Carols. 9:00 PM HOLLYWOOD HOLIDAY Join Lynne Warfel for a festive onehour musical retrospective of some of Hollywood’s most cherished films inspired by Dickens’ classic character, Ebenezer Scrooge.
18 Wednesday 8:00 PM SYMPHONYCAST Nashville Symphony Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor Jason Vieaux, guitar MAURICE RAVEL: Le Tombeau de Couperin JONATHAN LESHNOFF: Guitar Concerto ALBERTO GINASTERA: Variaciones concertantes MAURICE RAVEL: Rapsodie espagnole
19 Thursday 8:00 PM CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER Chromatic Passages Cheung: All Roads for Piano, Two Violins, Viola, and Cello Gilles Vonsattel, Piano; Adam BarnettHart, Danbi Um, Violin; Pierre Lapointe, Viola; Brook Speltz, Cello Strauss: Metamorphosen for Two Violins, Two Violas, Two Cellos, and Bass Bella Hristova, Arnaud Sussmann, Violins; Richard O’Neill, Mark Holloway, Viola; Dmitri Atapine, David Requiro, Cello; Xavier Foley, Double Bass 9:00 PM HARMONIA There Were Shepherds It may be nearing the Christmas season, but don’t pour the hot cocoa just yet! On this episode, we’re going outside— not into the snow, but to the pastoral, and probably warm scene of the Nativity. 10:00 PM FIESTA! Fresh Ink Classical music in the 20th and 21st centuries has had a strong presence throughout Latin America. Host Elbio Barilari shares some of the most
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21 Saturday 1:00 PM METROPOLITAN OPERA Verdi – Macbeth Soprano Anna Netrebko created a sensation when she made her Met role debut as Lady Macbeth in 2014, opposite baritone Željko Lučić in the title role. Now the two stars reunite to reprise their acclaimed portrayals in Verdi’s gripping Shakespeare adaptation. Marco Armiliato conducts a standout cast that also features tenor Matthew Polenzani as Macduff and bass Ildar Abdrazakov as Banquo, in Adrian Noble’s evocative production.
22 Sunday 1:00 PM FOLKTALES Folktale of the Solstice Season This folktale is truly a festival of light, with seasonal comforts and celebration from most ancient to modern world traditions. 6:00 PM PROFILES Ken Winokur 8:00 PM MUSIC OF THE BAROQUE BRASS AND CHORAL HOLIDAY CONCERT Drawn from diverse cultures and various points in history, conductor William Jon Gray has assembled a program highlighting multifarious holiday traditions around a single unifying principle: whether in the 12th or 19th centuries, in Germany, Italy, Mexico, Russia, the Netherlands, or
24 Tuesday 10:00 AM FESTIVAL OF NINE LESSONS AND CAROLS An annual and beloved Christmas tradition, “A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols” is an extraordinary and memorable live service of word and music from the Chapel of King’s College, Cambridge, England. Audiences will share in a live, worldwide Christmas Eve broadcast of a service of Biblical readings, carols, and related seasonal music, presented by one of the world’s foremost choirs of men and boys and performed in an acoustically and architecturally renowned venue. 8:00 PM ST. OLAF CHRISTMAS FESTIVAL This service in song and word has become one of the nation’s most cherished holiday celebrations. The festival includes hymns, carols, choral works, as well as orchestral selections celebrating the Nativity and featuring
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more than 500 student musicians in five choirs, and the St. Olaf Orchestra. Valerie Kahler shares the sights and sounds of this choral favorite. 10:00 PM: FESTIVAL OF NINE LESSONS AND CAROLS Repeat of 12/24 10 a.m.
25 Wednesday 8:00 PM CHANTICLEER CHRISTMAS Celebrate the season with song! Brian Newhouse hosts this one-hour program of a cappella holiday favorites, new and old, presented live in concert by Chanticleer, the superb 12-man choral ensemble known as “an orchestra of voices.” 9:00 PM WELCOME CHRISTMAS! WITH VOCAL ESSENCE “Welcome Christmas!” is a perennial Christmas favorite from Vocal Essence, one of the world’s premier choral groups. John Birge hosts an hour of traditional carols and new discoveries, including the world premiere of two carols from the annual Christmas Carol Contest. For 2019, hear the world premiere of Nico Muhly’s “The Faire Starre,” a nativity cantata that draws on 17th century metaphysical poets and is set in the unique, eclectic style that has earned Nico Muhly raves from the Metropolitan Opera. 10:00 PM ALL IS BRIGHT Lynne Warfel hosts an hour of gorgeous, contemplative choral music that tells the traditional Christmas story with songs about angels, the star and the manger scene. Featured artists include Cantus, Chanticleer, Cambridge Singers, Bryn Terfel, Emma Kirkby, Jessye Norman, and a variety of choirs. 11:00 PM AN ELIZABETHAN CHRISTMAS WITH THE ROSE ENSEMBLE Grand candlelit halls, lavish feasts, and stately dances. Escape to the regal elegance of the Elizabethan era. The time and culture of Elizabeth I also contained tension and intrigue; dark and light. And it’s all evident in the music of their Christmas celebrations. The Rose Ensemble captures all of that in their popular holiday concert.
26 Thursday 8:00 PM CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER Mozart: Duo in G major for Violin and Viola, K. 423 Ida Kavafian, Violin; Yura Lee, Viola Tchaikovsky: Sextet for Two Violins, Two Violas, and Two Cellos, Op. 70, “Souvenir de Florence” The Emerson String Quartet (Eugene Drucker, Philip Setzer, Violin; Lawrence Dutten, Viola; Paul Watkins, Cello); Paul Neubauer, Viola; Colin Carr, Cello 9:00 PM HARMONIA Ye Winter Wind 10:00 PM FIESTA! Latin American Christmas Carols A selection of villancicos, or Christmas carols, from Spain and Latin America are featured on this joyous Christmasthemed program from Fiesta. Join us for music that spans several centuries and a great diversity of influences and traditions!
27 Friday 8:00 PM AFTERGLOW Songs of the Season: Winter Not all winter songs are about Christmas! On this episode, we’ll hear some favorite wintertime songs from the Great American Songbook sung by Julie London, Eydie Gorme, and Billie Holiday. 9:00 PM NIGHT LIGHTS Sacred Blue: Jazz Goes to Church in the 1960s In the 1960s Mary Lou Williams, Duke Ellington, and some other jazz artists began to write religious or so-called “sacred jazz,” to be performed in churches and at masses. Special guests, historian Michael McGerr and jazz educator Keith McCutchen, join the program.
28 Saturday 1:00 PM METROPOLITAN OPERA Mozart – The Magic Flute A beloved holiday tradition continues as Mozart’s delightful fairy tale returns in the Met’s abridged, English-language
version for families, perfect for younger audiences, with no intermission and a running time of less than two hours. Lothar Koenigs conducts a dynamic cast of standout Mozarteans.
29 Sunday 1:00 PM FOLKTALES Folktale of Bells Ringing in the New Year is an ancient custom, and on this episode, we’re traveling the world, and letting it peal! 6:00 PM PROFILES Frank Diaz 8:00 PM THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC THIS WEEK Program TBA
30 Monday 8:00 PM CHICAGO SYMPHONY Matthew Halls conducts Handel’s Messiah Handel: Messiah Parts I-III (Amanda Forsythe, soprano; Sasha Cooke, mezzosoprano; Nicholas Phan, tenor; Joshua Hopkins, baritone; Chicago Symphony Chorus; Duain Wolfe, director)
31 Tuesday 8:00 PM ETHER GAME Year in Review 2019 As we ring in the New Year, we look back on 2019 to explore some newsworthy items in music from the past 12 months.
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In addition to racing, the film presents a comprehensive overview of the equine industry. The role of work horses is explored, particularly as they are used by the Indiana Amish population, who depend on them. The program also looks at Quarter Horses,
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WFIU Thanks Community Advisory Board Members
Save the Date—Giving Tuesday Is Coming
At the end of this year, WFIU’s Community Advisory Board bids a fond farewell to six longtime members: Pamela Davidson, a planned giving consultant in Bloomington; Laura Ginger, a retired professor of business law at IU’s Kelley School of Business; Mary Hall, the assistant director at Bedford Public Library; Lynn Schwartzberg, a community arts advocate; Janet Stavropoulos, attorney at law; and community advocate Charlotte Zietlow.
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The six represented, among them, more than six decades of CAB service to WFIU. “I have very much enjoyed my years on the Community Advisory Board,” says Janet Stavropoulos, “as I’ve learned a great deal about many issues pertaining to public broadcasting in general, and public radio in particular, such as programming, licensing, expansion, signal strength, fundraising, corporate relations, evolving marketing factors, etc. It has been a pleasure to learn from the staff, to listen to their proposals, and to help craft directions for the advancement of a true Indiana gem, Indiana University’s NPR station, WFIU.” Pamela Davidson says, “Serving on WFIU’s Community Advisory Board has only deepened my love and appreciation for all it does for our community and state. Our family is proud to be a donor of decades and to include public broadcasting in our estate plan. We invest in what we value.” WFIU’s Community Advisory Board meets quarterly to assist senior management in fulfilling the station’s mission to inform, inspire, and educate its audiences. Board members evaluate the station’s programs and initiatives, serve as a sounding board for ideas, and bring issues of community concern to management’s attention. We are always accepting suggestions for incoming board members, with an eye toward demographic and geographic diversity. If you are interested in serving or know of someone who might, then please contact John Bailey at johnbail@indiana.edu.
Tune in on this global day of philanthropy for special opportunities to double your donation, request the newest WFIU thank you gifts including the navy WFIU softshell winter vest and WFIU ice scraper (for a different kind of driveway moment!), and more. Plus, be one of the first to grab our new WFIU heather gray beanie— available on December 3 only! As a bonus, all who donate will be entered to win a pair of tickets to see the musical Hamilton at the Murat Theatre at Old National Centre in Indianapolis on Saturday, December 28 at 2 pm! One lucky winner will be chosen on December 16. There are so many great reasons to join us, but if you needed one more, your Giving Tuesday donation may also qualify for an Indiana state tax credit, reducing the tax you owe! WFIU offers so much to people all around this region—an independent source for reliable news, powerful storytelling, and an unrivaled dedication to making sure diverse voices and ideas are heard. Make a difference for WFIU on Giving Tuesday 2019. Together, we can ensure public radio stays strong and accessible to all, even for those who can’t afford to give. Our goal is to raise $30,000 in just 24 hours—it’ll be a team effort to get there, yet the impact your Giving Tuesday donation will have is great. Let’s show everyone what our amazing WFIU community is capable of accomplishing in just one day!