January 2021
January 2021 Vol. 70, No. 1
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Announcing the 3rd Annual NPR Student Podcast Challenge The NPR Student Podcast Challenge is back for its third year, with a big new addition: the competition now includes college students. Last year, despite a massive disruption to the school year amid the global pandemic, the contest brought in more than 2,200 podcasts from high school and middle school students in 46 states and the District of Columbia. Ever since the project began in 2018, NPR has been hearing from college podcasters all over the US, saying, “Hey, what about us?” So this year, NPR will host, in effect, two contests: the traditional Student Podcast Challenge with two categories: grades five through eight and nine through 12; and the new SPC: College Edition. All students, regardless of age, pursuing an associate’s or bachelor’s degree, can apply. And for collegiate podcasters NPR has a separate set of rules and procedures, so check that out at npr.org/921143789. And the rules for the middle and high school contest are available at npr.org/studentpodcastchallenge. And at the websites listed above, NPR has a host of training materials, guides for sound recording and audio production, what you can—and can't—do with music, and lists of do's and don'ts. In both cases, the basics are the same: Students will create a podcast about a topic they want to explore, which can be just about anything. In the past, NPR has had podcasts about climate change and racism and what it's like to be a kid. As in the past, entries from middle and high school students will come from a teacher or a student leader who's a grown-up. College students—as long as you're 18 years or older—can enter on their own. One big change this year: The maximum length of your podcast will be lowered from 12 minutes to eight minutes. And the good news is you've got some time to get started. Entries for the Student Podcast Challenge: College Edition are open now through February 15, 2021. For middle and high school students, entries will open on January 1, and close on March 15. So, students, we can't wait to hear from you: Put on your headphones, plug in your microphones, and start recording!
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Dr. Ivan Kurilla January 2/3
Dr. Ivan Kurilla is a Russian-born historian whose primary focus is US-Russian relations. He is currently a professor of History and International Relations at European University in St. Petersburg. His comparisons of Russia and the United States feature positive aspects of each culture that may otherwise go unseen. His work has been published in Journal of American History, Journal of Cold War Studies, Problems of Post-Communism, Nationalities Papers, and a number of noted Russian historical journals.
Liza Black January 9/10
Liza Black is a professor at Indiana University specializing in History and Native American and Indigenous Studies. As a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, Black is dedicated to understanding the ways in which modern indigenous peoples are perceived in their homelands by those who later came to claim it as their own. Her first book, Picturing Indians: Native Americans in Film, discusses the depictions of both natives and non-natives playing “Indians” on screen.
Mark Stryker January 16/17
Born in Bloomington, Indiana, Mark Stryker is an author and journalist whose work has stayed Midwestern. He initially began as a jazz saxophonist before shifting to writing, where he worked for the South Bend Tribune and Dayton Daily News and eventually Detroit Free Press, covering jazz, classical music, and visual arts. His book, Jazz from Detroit, was published in 2019 and is informed by his years of interest and research in the topic.
Ansley Valentine January 23/24
Ansley Valentine is an associate professor at Indiana University’s Lee Norvelle Theatre and Drama Center. Valentine is accomplished in the theater world with a long-standing career in acting and directing for the stage. He is also the co-founder and producing artistic director of Ohio Youth Ensemble Stage, an entirely inclusive summer youth theatre program. His most recent project is Mother C, a play written by Valentine and directed by Jonathan Seinen.
Pat Ryan January 30/31
Pat Ryan was the second-ever IU graduate to serve as first lady of the university. While she was completing her bachelor’s degree, she helped in the creation of the Lilly House, which served as a home for arts and entertainment in Indianapolis. Ryan is not only known for her part in preserving important historical aspects of IU’s campus, but also for contributing to efforts for aiding pregnant women.
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Happy New Year! You can ring in 2021 on Friday, January 1 with our Friday-evening vocaljazz program Afterglow, which celebrates the start of the year with “Let’s Begin,” a program of songs about new beginnings. For the year just ended, our Fridayevening classic-jazz show Night Lights will highlight some of the standout historical reissues and new releases from 2020 on Friday, January 8, including music from pianist Thelonious Monk, singer Ella Fitzgerald, and saxophonist Paul Desmond. In other holiday programming, Night Lights salutes civil rights icon Martin Luther King, Jr. on Friday, January 15 with “Dear, Martin, P.S.: More Jazz Tributes to Martin Luther King, Jr.” Our weekday afternoon program Just You & Me will also feature jazz in honor of MLK Day on the holiday itself, Monday, January 18. Finally, tune into Afterglow on Friday, January 29 for a preview of this year’s Grammy nominees in the vocal jazz and traditional pop categories. You can hear the winners from those and all other jazz-related categories the following Monday on Just You & Me.
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1:00 PM THE METROPOLITAN OPERA Philip Glass’s Satyagraha Dante Anzolini; Rachelle Durkin (Miss Schlesen), Richard Croft (M. K. Gandhi), Kim Josephson (Mr. Kallenbach), Alfred Walker (Parsi Rustomji)
8:00 PM ETHER GAME On This Day Check the calendar with us for a big day in opera! On this day in 1875, the world-famous Palais Garnier was inaugurated. We celebrate with an hour of our favorite operas.
3 Sunday 6:00 PM PROFILES Dr. Ivan Kurilla
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1 Friday 8:00 PM AFTERGLOW Let’s Begin: Songs for the New Year Ring in the New Year as we explore songs and standards about new beginnings, including “Let’s Begin,” “Begin the Beguine,” and “I’m Beginning to See the Light.” 9:00 PM NIGHT LIGHTS Swingers:Hugh Hefner, Playboy Magazine, and Jazz Hugh Hefner was best known as the founder of Playboy magazine, but in the early days of his media empire he often showcased jazz performers and sponsored jazz festivals. We’ll hear recordings from some of those events and delve into the history of Hefner’s relationship with jazz with author Patty Farmer.
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8:00 PM CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Tilson Thomas & Benedetti Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas STRAVINSKY: Concerto in D for String Orchestra PROKOFIEV: Violin Concerto No. 2 in 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 Symphony 10:00 PM PIPEDREAMS In the News Starting the new year with a survey of recently released albums from near and far.
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10:00 CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER Berg and Brahms for Strings BERG: Quartet for Strings, Op. 3 (Amphion String Quartet) 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)
6 Wednesday 10:00 PM THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC Zinman and Weilerstein Conductor: David Zinman Soloist: Alisa Weilerstein, Cello BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 8 BARBER: Cello Concerto BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 4
7 Thursday 8:00 PM HARMONIA Hats Off to Hamburg We travel to Germany’s thriving port city of Hamburg, a home for civic and church music for over a thousand years. Then, we’ll move from Hamburg to Genoa, Italy, where we’ll hear lute music by Simone Molinaro that intrigued 20th-century composer Ottorino Respighi. 9:00 PM FIESTA! Brazilian Gala We feature a luxurious tribute to the most beloved Brazilian popular songs featuring the Sao Paulo Symphony Orchestra and the amazing Banda Mantiqueira.
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8 Friday 8:00 PM AFTERGLOW Song Confusions On this episode, it’s a case of mistaken identity in the Great American Songbook as we look at songs with the same title that are often confused for one another, songs like “Who Can I Turn To,” “How Little We Know” and “I Love You.” 9:00 PM NIGHT LIGHTS Best Historical Releases 2020 Night Lights’ annual round-up of some favorite reissues and new historical releases from the year just passed, including music from Thelonious Monk, Ella Fitzgerald, Tubby Hayes, and the Brecker Brothers.
9 Saturday 1:00 PM THE METROPOLITAN OPERA Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia Maurizio Benini; Joyce DiDonato (Rosina), Claudia Waite (Berta), Lawrence Brownlee (Count Almaviva), Russell Braun (Figaro), John Del Carlo (Dr. Bartolo), Samuel Ramey (Don Basilio)
10 Sunday 6:00 PM PROFILES Liza Black
11 Monday 8:00 PM CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Biondi & Genaux Conductor/Soloist: Fabio Biondi, violin Soloist: Vivica Genoux, mezzosoprano CORELLI: Concerto grosso in D Major, Op. 6, No. 4; Concerto grosso in B-flat Major, Op. 6, No. 11 VIVALDI: Violin Concerto in D Major, RV 222; Violin Concerto in E Major, RV 271 (L'amoroso); Violin Concerto in F Major, RV 284 (La stravaganza); Agitata da due venti from Griselda
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10:00 PM PIPEDREAMS Sounding Fourth A sampler of four recently installed instruments in Georgia, Minnesota, Texas, and our nation’s capital.
12 Tuesday 8:00 PM ETHER GAME Cold Snap We’re on the lookout for freezing rain, sleet, and snow. Join the Ether Game Brain Trust for a wintry mix of classical music and trivia. 10:00 CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER Love of Country JANÁCEK: Sonata for Violin and Piano (Adam Barnett-Hart, Violin; Juho Pohjonen, Piano) FAURÉ: Quartet No. 1 in C minor for Piano, Violin, Viola, and Cello, Op. 15 (Wu Han, Piano; Paul Huang, Violin; Matthew Lipman, Viola; Clive Greensmith, Cello)
13 Wednesday 10:00 PM THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC Zinman and Shaham Conductor: David Zinman Soloist: Gil Shaham, Violin BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 1 HARTMANN: Concerto funebre for Solo Violin and String Orchestra BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 3, Eroica
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14 Thursday 8:00 PM HARMONIA Mexico City Music When the Spanish came to Mexico, they encountered an Aztec empire with a rich musical culture. Mexico City artists quickly gained fame for their musicianship in and beyond the walls of the city’s cathedral. Vocal ensembles Calmus and Amarcord team up for our featured release Leipziger Disputation. 9:00 PM FIESTA! The Latin Side of Kronos Quartet The prestigious Kronos Quartet has dedicated many recordings to the music on Latin America, including original monumental pieces as Astor Piazzolla’s “Tango Sensations.”
15 Friday 8:00 PM AFTERGLOW I Love Lucys: Lucy Ann Polk and Lucy Reed Singers Lucy Reed and Lucy Ann Polk never spent much time in the spotlight, but their output of songs from the 1950s are worthy of some close attention. In honor of Reed’s centenary, we’ll highlight these often overlooked Lucys.
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9:00 PM NIGHT LIGHTS Dear Martin, P.S.: More Jazz Tributes to Martin Luther King, Jr. Jazz recordings in honor of the civil-rights leader made by James Spaulding, Billy Taylor, Herbie Hancock, and others.
16 Saturday 1:00 PM THE METROPOLITAN OPERA Verdi’s La Traviata Karel Mark Chichon; Aleksandra Kurzak (Violetta Valéry), Dmytro Popov (Alfredo Germont), Quinn Kelsey (Giorgio Germont)
17 Sunday 6:00 PM PROFILES Mark Stryker
18 Monday 8:00 PM CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Young Conducts Wagner & Brahms Conductor: Simone Young LISZT: Prometheus, Symphonic Poem No. 5 WAGNER: Excerpts from Götterdämmerung BRAHMS/SCHOENBERG: Piano Quartet No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 25 HINDEMITH: Symphonic Metamorphosis on Themes by Carl Maria von Weber (Rafael Kubelik, conductor) 10:00 PM PIPEDREAMS Still More Modern Music Makers A deliciously diverse display of some pipe organs at home and abroad.
19 Tuesday 8:00 PM ETHER GAME The Devil in the Details One hundred and ninety-one years ago to the day, Goethe’s Faust premiered in Germany and popularized the “deal with the devil” legend. We look at how that legend has echoed through music history with a show about deals and devilish contracts 10:00 CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER Baroque TELEMANN: Concerto in D major for Trumpet, Two Oboes, Strings, and Continuo BACH: Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 in B-flat major BACH: Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 in G major BACH: Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F major
20 Wednesday 10:00 PM THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC Mehta and Jarvi Conductors: Zubin Mehta, Neeme Jarvi BRUCKNER: Symphony No. 8 MOZART: Symphony No. 38 in D major, K.504, "Prague"
21 Thursday 8:00 PM HARMONIA Not My Day Job “Why don’t you study something more practical?” Like today, parents of musicians of the past pressured their children to study in practical fields. But many historical figures who now remembered for their day jobs were avid composers as well. We’ll explore music by lawyers, philosophers, and even a king! 9:00 PM FIESTA! 12 Strings Enjoy Latin American and Spanish music recorded by famed guitarists Sharon Isbin and Eduardo Fernández.
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22 Friday 8:00 PM AFTERGLOW Jazz Digs Disney Beginning in the late 1930s, many of America’s best songwriters began to work for the “House of Mouse.” On this show, we’ll hear jazz interpretations of iconic Disney songs, sung by Louis Armstrong, Peggy Lee, and more. 9:00 PM NIGHT LIGHTS Pittsburgh Soul Connection: Horace Parlan and Stanley Turrentine At the beginning of the 1960s, saxophonist Stanley Turrentine and pianist Horace Parlan teamed up to make a dynamic run of recordings for the Blue Note label.
23 Saturday 1:00 PM THE METROPOLITAN OPERA Verdi’s Il Trovatore Fausto Cleva; Leontyne Price (Leonora), Irene Dalis (Azucena), Franco Corelli (Manrico), Robert Merrill (di Luna), William Wilderman (Ferrando)
24 Sunday 6:00 PM PROFILES Ansley Valentine
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25 Monday 8:00 PM CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Afkham & Ax Conductor: David Afkham BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Major, Op. 15 (Emanuel Ax, piano) SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphony No. 10 in E Minor, Op. 93 STRAUSS: Don Juan, Op. 20 (Fritz Reiner, conductor)
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10:00 PM THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC Dohnanyi Conducts Henze and Schubert Conductor: Christoph von Dohnanyi HENZE: The Bassarids: Adagio, Fugue and Maenads' Dance SCHUBERT: Symphony No. 9, Great
8:00 PM AFTERGLOW 2021 Grammy Award Preview Join us for our annual salute to the Grammy nominees in the vocal jazz and traditional pop categories, ahead of the 2021 Grammy Awards. We’ll hear nominated music by veterans like Kurt Elling and Harry Connick, plus some new voices.
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9:00 PM NIGHT LIGHTS Roy Eldridge: Portrait of Little Jazz He could split the stratosphere with his high notes, play you sweet and low with his ballads—and woe to any other trumpeter who showed up ready to jam. We pay tribute to one of jazz's most fiery trumpeters.
8:00 PM HARMONIA Big Wheel Keeps on Turning For hundreds of years, the goddess Fortune and her wheel have offered us a way to comprehend the unpredictability of life. On this episode, we’ll look back to the 14th century and explore the appearances of Fortune in music as people try to make sense of famine, plague, and political strife. 9:00 PM FIESTA! The Palace and the Cathedral Newly recorded colonial music from México and the Pacific Coast of America.
1:00 PM THE METROPOLITAN OPERA Gounod’s Faust Yannick Nézet-Séguin; Marina Poplavskaya (Marguerite), Michèle Losier (Siebel), Jonas Kaufmann (Faust), Russell Braun (Valentin), René Pape (Méphistophélès)
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6:00 PM PROFILES Pat Ryan
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American Portrait, a national storytelling project aligned with PBS’s 50th anniversary celebration, brings a multiplatform project in history to viewers around the country. A digital-first initiative produced by RadicalMedia, American Portrait began as a platform for user-generated content participation, and encompasses publishing, short form content, classroom engagement, a web miniseries, public art installations, live events, and a nationally televised documentary series. The series presents a mosaic of the country’s diversity, allowing people from all regions to appreciate what we have in common as well as the many differences that make up the American experience. American Portrait has immersive interactivity built into its DNA, featuring user-generated content captured through video, photo, and text submissions shared directly from everyday people across the United States. Connecting tens of thousands of people across the country and creating a communal voice through individual stories of joy, hardship, triumphs, and sorrow, American Portrait captures the depth and breadth of the American experience, from all corners of the country. Participants tell and share their own stories, and see the stories shared by a wide panorama of Americans, which explore the series’ central question—“what does it really mean to be an American today?”
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Along with your New Year’s resolution to exercise more, take a few moments to reflect on your current will or estate plan. A good estate plan is like a mirror: it should reflect your values and relationships in their highest, best and most current form. But change is a constant. Millions of Americans experience dramatic changes in their financial assets, living arrangements and other life circumstances. Are you one of them? Simple changes in your life can have a significant impact on your estate plan. Have you moved? Bought or sold property? Has someone in your life passed away? Have you remarried? Do you have new grandchildren? Has your health changed? If so, how will those changes affect your legacy? Can you still recognize your best self—and the legacy you want to leave—in your current estate plan? A sound plan will provide peace of mind and clarity of intent. As you create or review your estate plan, remember to consider creating a personal legacy through a charitable gift. Naming a WFIU, or other charitable organizations, in your will is an ideal way to make a statement of your support for the fine work that is done by public broadcasting in our community every day. Visit wfiu.org/support for more information about giving opportunities at WFIU.
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‘Morning Edition’ Host David Greene Begins a New Chapter
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Greene has been an essential part of public radio listeners' mornings, with some of his favorite moments including hosting on the day SCOTUS ruled on same sex marriage and interviewing Star Wars actor Mark Hamill. In a note to fellow NPR staff, Greene remarks (in part), “Being part of the Morning Edition family has been a lesson in collaboration and collegiality you find nowhere else in the business.”
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After eight years as host of Morning Edition, David Greene is stepping back from hosting to focus on other projects. In what he calls the “hardest decision in his career,” Greene left NPR on December 29, 2020. NPR will be undertaking a national search to find Greene's successor.
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Prior to taking on his current role in 2012, Greene was NPR's correspondent in Moscow. He also spent a month in Libya reporting stories as NATO bombs fell on Tripoli. He was honored with the 2011 Daniel Schorr Journalism Prize from WBUR and Boston University for that coverage of the Arab Spring. His voice became familiar to NPR listeners from his four years covering the White House during former President George W. Bush's second term. Greene reported on White House visits to places like Iraq, Afghanistan, Rwanda—and, of course, Crawford, Texas. He was an integral part of NPR's coverage of the historic 2008 election, reporting on Hillary Clinton's campaign and focusing on how racial attitudes were playing into voters' decisions.