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Vol. 70, No. 3
Directions in Sound (USPS-314900) is published each month by Indiana University Radio and Television Services, 1229 East 7th Street, Bloomington, IN 47405 telephone: 812-855-6114 e-mail: wfiu@indiana.edu website: wfiu.org Periodical postage paid at Bloomington, IN POSTMASTER Send address changes to: WFIU Membership Department Radio & TV Center Indiana University 1229 East 7th Street Bloomington, IN 47405-5501 WFIU is licensed to the Trustees of Indiana University, and operated by Indiana University Radio and Television Services. Brad Kimmel Executive Director Emma Atkinson Digital News Journalist Laura Baich Marketing Director John Bailey Station Operations Director Patrick Beane Senior News Editor Eoban Binder Director of Digital Media Pamela Boswell-Dike Corporate Development Associate Ethan Burks Multimedia Journalist Aaron Cain Music Director Mark Chilla Program Director/Afterglow Host Don Glass Producer A Moment of Science® George Hale Multimedia Journalist George Hopstetter Director of Engineering and Operations Joe Hren Assistant News Director/ Ask the Mayor Host David Brent Johnson Jazz Director
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Ether Game Celebrates Its 50th Anniversary Ether Game, WFIU’s weekly music guessing game, is celebrating its 50th anniversary this month. Airing Tuesday nights at 8, Ether Game focuses on classical music, but also features movie soundtracks, jazz, folk, and rock. The series began in 1971 as a drop-the-needle program, with selections printed in the WFIU program guide. It wasn’t until the early ’80s, when listeners were invited to call in their answers, did the current show began to take shape. Mark Chilla, who hosted Ether Game from 2013 to 2020, says that one of his favorite parts of working on Ether Game was the conducting the research for each show—digging deep in aspects of music and culture that he never knew and then getting to u rB share that information. Current he p to host Christopher Burrus also enjoys Chris coming up with the weekly topics and themes for each episode. Burrus reveals that it's a fairly organic process and inspiration comes from all sorts of places, like hearing a funny phrase or expression or finding recognition-worthy events in music history. rr us
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Hosting Ether Game during the pandemic posed new challenges and opportunities. Burrus says that the show had to be stripped down to essential functions to minimize in-studio time at the station for social distancing. This meant putting Ether Game’s companion podcast on hiatus and focusing efforts on keeping the Tuesday night game as close to “normal” as possible. “My hope was that Ether Game would be a refuge for our listeners from any of the anxieties that the pandemic might have been causing,” Burrus said. “Daily life was changing for all of us, but good old Ether Game would still be there on Tuesday nights, and most importantly, listeners would still be invited to submit responses to the show and game against other players.” Ether Game’s 50th anniversary show on March 16 will be a special extended broadcast—two hours of quizzing instead of one—and throughout the program there will be messages from listeners, former hosts, writers, and producers. “There’s nothing quite like Ether Game anywhere else on the radio, which makes it special,” Chilla said. “But I think a show like this can only last for 50 years in a community like South Central Indiana. There are so many brilliant music fans out there in the WFIU listening area (and beyond!), and it’s those listeners who kept it going for so long.”
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WFIU PROGRAM LISTINGS 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 3 and 4.
1 Monday 8:00 PM CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Solti Conducts Mahler 8 Conductor: Sir Georg Solti MOZART: Symphony No. 39 in E-flat Major, K. 543 MAHLER: Symphony No. 8 in E-flat Major (Symphony of a Thousand) Heather Harper, soprano; Lucia Popp, soprano; Arleen Augér, soprano; Yvonne Minton, contralto; Helen Watts, contralto; René Kollo, tenor; John Shirley-Quirk, baritone; Martti Talvela, bass; Wiener Staatsopernchor (Norman Balatsch, director); Wiener Singverein (Helmut Froschauer, director); Wiener Sängerknaben 10:00 PM PIPEDREAMS Women First From the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries, explore music by women composers and performers.
10:00 CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER Courageous Women CRAWFORD SEEGER: String Quartet Jupiter String Quartet (Nelson Lee, Violin I; Meg Freivogel, Violin II; Liz Freivogel, Viola; Daniel McDonough, Cello) SMITH: Vignettes - Covered Wagon Woman Stephanie Blythe, mezzo-soprano; Warren Jones, piano; Ani Kavafian, violin; Priscilla Lee, cello
3 Wednesday 8:00 PM SYMPHONYCAST Oregon Symphony Carlos Kalmar, conductor MAHLER: Symphony No. 7
9:00 PM NIGHT LIGHTS Queen of the Organ: Shirley Scott Although an admirer of Jimmy Smith, Shirley Scott found her own sound on the Hammond B-3 and became its most renowned female practioner, recording a number of soul-jazz classics from the late 1950s onward.
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8:00 PM ETHER GAME March Comes in Like a Lion The Ether Game Brain Trust roars, growls, lumbers, and screeches its way through a show about wild beasts in classical music. Join us if you dare! 9:00 THE SCORE Kith and Kin Edmund Stone bridges generations of fascinating film families. Hear exquisite scores from The Joy Luck Club and Interstellar, the delightfully dysfunctional Addams Family, Motown-infused music from Shaft, plus Oscar-winning scores from The Godfather, and more.
9:00 PM FIESTA! Elbio’s Desert Island Picks If you could only pick an hour of music to listen to the rest of your life, what would it be? Host Elbio Barilari shares some of his favorite music and composers. This is music he doesn’t think he could live without! From Silvestre Revueltas to Astor Piazzolla, listen to some of Elbio’s Desert Island Picks.
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8:00 PM AFTERGLOW The Magic of Connee Boswell We explore the work of one of vocal jazz's first innovators, Connee Boswell, whose swinging and complex style influenced the next generation of jazz singers like Ella Fitzgerald.
10:00 PM THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC Maazel, Smith, and Drucker Conductor: Lorin Maazel Soloists: Philip Smith, Trumpet; Stanley Drucker, Clarinet BACH, J.S.: Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 HAYDN: Trumpet Concerto in E flat major COPLAND: Clarinet Concerto
8:00 PM HARMONIA Hotter than Hell Hell, the underworld, and areas of evil are home to many of music’s darkest scenes. Often, characters are visited by demons from Hell, or are drawn into it through temptation, evil spirits, and sin. On this episode, we’ll explore music of evil spirits, Lucifer, and Hell. Then, darkness turns to light in our featured release Epiphany: Biber, Buxtehude, Kapsberber, & Bach by Three Notch’d Road.
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6 Saturday 1:00 PM THE METROPOLITAN OPERA Bizet’s Carmen Performance from November 1, 2014 Pablo Heras-Casado; Anita Hartig (Micaëla), Anita Rachvelishvili (Carmen), Aleksandrs Antonenko (Don José), Ildar Abdrazakov (Escamillo)
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DVOŘAK: Husitská Overture, Op. 67 SCHUMANN: Cello Concerto in A Minor, Op. 129 (John Sharp, cello) HINDEMITH: Concert for Music for Strings and Brass, Op. 50 MUSSORGSKY/RAVEL: Pictures from an Exhibition CATALANI: Contemplazione 10:00 PM PIPEDREAMS The Well-tempered Clavier Bach was the most thorough but not alone in writing in support of a “modern” tuning system.
9 Tuesday 8:00 PM ETHER GAME The Bagatelle Show A light, unpretentious dance genre or the whimsical cousin of billiards, what is the deal with Bagatelles? Join us for a show featuring a curious group of classical pieces. 10:00 CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER Ingenuity for the Ages RAVEL: Sonata for Violin and Cello Paul Huang, Violin; Clive Greensmith, Cello BEETHOVEN: Trio in D major for Piano, Violin, and Cello, Op. 70, No. 1, “Ghost” Michael Brown, Piano; Bella Hristova, Violin; Nicholas Canellakis, Cello
10 Wednesday 8:00 PM SYMPHONYCAST ROCO Mei-Ann Chen, conductor Richard Scofano, bandoneon SCOFANO: La Tierra sin Mal KODALY: Dances of Marosszek MONTGOMERY: Starburst FAURE: Masques et bergamasques, Op. 11 DEBUSSY: Clair de Lune 10:00 PM THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC Maazel Conducts Bach, Rands, and Tchaikovsky Conductor: Lorin Maazel BACH, J.S.: Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 RANDS: chains like the sea TCHAIKOVSKY: Suite No. 3
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8:00 PM HARMONIA The Jewel of Saxony Known as the Jewel of Saxony, the city of Dresden has long been a cultural center of Germany. We’ll explore music performed by Dresden’s civic wind bands in the Renaissance and two generations of Dresden Kapellmeisters, including Hassler, Praetorius, and Schütz. Our featured release is Mare Balticum, volume two: Medieval Finland and Sweden by Ensemble Peregrina.
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9:00 PM FIESTA! Latin American Concert Hall Take your seats for a full concert of orchestral music from the Latin world.
12 Friday 8:00 PM AFTERGLOW 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, which have been rescheduled for this weekend. We’ll hear nominated music by veterans like Kurt Elling and Harry Connick, plus some new voices. 9:00 PM NIGHT LIGHTS Snap, Crackle, and Swing: Young Roy Haynes Drummer Roy Haynes’ career on record reads like a roll call of jazz history. We’ll hear him with Lester Young, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and others.
13 Saturday 1:00 PM THE METROPOLITAN OPERA Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro Performance from January 10, 2018 Harry Bicket; Ailyn Pérez (Countess), Nadine Sierra (Susanna), Isabel Leonard (Cherubino), Katarina Leoson (Marcellina), Mariusz Kwiecien (Count), Ildar Abdrazakov (Figaro), Maurizio Muraro (Dr. Bartolo)
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15 Monday 8:00 PM CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Conductor: Marek Janowski WEBER: Overture to Euryanthe BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 4 in B-flat Major, Op. 60 WAGNER: Overture and Venusberg Music from Tannhäuser WAGNER: Prelude to Act 3 of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg WAGNER: Prelude to Act 1 of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg MOZART: Bassoon Concerto in B-flat Major, K. 191 (Claudio Abbado, conductor; Willard Elliot, bassoon) 10:00 PM PIPEDREAMS There’s No Holding Bach Hear original and unbridled interpretations of music by the incomparable Johann Sebastian.
16 Tuesday 8:00 PM ETHER GAME Ether Game’s 50th Anniversary On this evening in 1971, Ether Game hit the airwaves as a show for IU musicologists to stump each other. Fifty years later with listener participation, we are still playing classical trivia on Tuesday nights. Join us for a special extended broadcast to celebrate this milestone! 10:00 CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER Haydn and Mendelssohn HAYDN: Trio in A major for Piano, Violin, and Cello, Hob. XV:18 Wu Han, Piano; Ani Kavafian, Violin; Nicholas Canellakis, Cello MENDELSSOHN: Double Concerto in D minor for Violin, Piano, and Strings Benjamin Beilman, Violin Solo; Wu Han, Piano; Kristin Lee, Violin; Sean Lee, Violin; Richard O'Neill, Viola; Nicholas Canellakis, Cello; Blake Hinson, Double Bass
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17 Wednesday 8:00 PM SYMPHONYCAST Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Ruth Reinhardt, conductor Zachary Cohen, double bass HONEGGER: Pastoral d’ete for Chamber Orchestra BACEWICZ: Concerto for String Orchestra MAZZOLI: Dark with Excessive Bright SCHUBERT: Symphony No. 5, D. 485 10:00 PM THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC Maazel and Weilerstein Conductor: Lorin Maazel Soloist: Alisa Weilerstein, Cello BACH, J.S.: Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 PENDERECKI: Cello Concerto No. 2 BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 5
9:00 PM NIGHT LIGHTS Jazz Women of the 1970s Alice Coltrane, Carla Bley, and Marian McPartland are some of the artists featured in Night Lights’ latest decade-by-decade chronicle of women in jazz.
20 Saturday 1:00 PM THE METROPOLITAN OPERA Rossini’s Le Comte Ory Performance from February 2, 2013 Maurizio Benini; Pretty Yende (Countess Adèle), Karine Deshayes (Isolier), Susanne Resmark (Ragonde), Juan Diego Flórez (Count Ory), Nathan Gunn (Raimbaud), Nicola Ulivieri (Tutor)
18 Thursday 8:00 PM HARMONIA Who Will Give? On this episode, we’ve gathered six pieces of music from the 13th through 17th centuries, each of which begins with the words “Quis dabit”—that is Latin for “Who will give…” Plus, our featured release is Il labirinto armónico, violin music of Pietro Locatelli, performed by Ilya Gringolts and the Finnish Baroque Orchestra. 9:00 PM FIESTA! Celebrating Agustín Barrios Explore the legacy of this pioneer of the Latin American classical guitar.
8:00 PM AFTERGLOW A Fine Romance: The Dorothy Fields Songbook For Women’s History Month, we explore the songs of Dorothy Fields, a Tin Pan Alley songwriter whose work stretched from the 1920s through the 1970s. We’ll sample her songbook, including “A Fine Romance,” “I Won’t Dance,” and “The Way You Look Tonight.”
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23 Tuesday 8:00 PM ETHER GAME Derangements On the evening of the first day of our Spring Fund Drive, the Ether Game Brain Trust presents a favorite returning subject: whimsical arrangements of classical standards. 10:00 CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER France, Russia, Italy POULENC: Sonata for Flute and Piano Adam Walker, Flute; Michael Brown, Piano TCHAIKOVSKY: Sextet for Two Violins, Two Violas, and Two Cellos, Op. 70, “Souvenir de Florence” Cho-Liang Lin, Violin I; Erin Keefe, Violin II; Paul Neubauer, Viola I; HsinYun Huang, Viola II; Dmitri Atapine, Cello I; Colin Carr, Cello II
24 Wednesday 8:00 PM SYMPHONYCAST Minnesota Orchestra Osmo Vänskä, conductor Susie Park, violin COPLAND: Suite from Billy the Kid BARBER: Violin Concerto BERNSTEIN: On the Waterfront Photo by Metropolitan Opera
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10:00 PM PIPEDREAMS From Palms to Passiontide Explore meditations in music old and new at the approach to Holy Week.
22 Monday 8:00 PM CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Boulez Conducts Mahler, Bartók, & Stravinsky Conductor: Pierre Boulez MAHLER: Totenfeier BARTÓK: Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta STRAVINSKY: The Firebird
25 Thursday 8:00 PM HARMONIA Homeland: Music of Loss and Longing Have you ever grabbed for something again and again, only to find it is just out of reach? On this episode, we’ll explore music about loss and longing. The troubadour’s tale of unrequited love is paired with stories of feeling unwelcome—in one’s own land as well as abroad. Plus, our featured release is Out of Italy, 18th-century music for two cellos with Phoebe Carrai and Beiliang Zhu.
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9:00 PM FIESTA! Spanish Medieval Music Visit the very famous 12th century Codex Calixtinus, the 13th century Martin Codex, and the hypnotic sounds of early instrumental music.
26 Friday 8:00 PM AFTERGLOW Nancy Wilson Remembered We pay tribute to the great jazz and pop balladeer Nancy Wilson, a singer whose career kicked off in the 1960s with hits like “Guess Who I Saw Today.” 9:00 PM NIGHT LIGHTS Jazz Women of 52nd Street Join us for this special fund drive edition of Night Lights as we celebrate women jazz artists of a famed mid-20th-century New York City scene.
27 Saturday 1:00 PM THE METROPOLITAN OPERA Mozart’s Don Giovanni Performance from March 10, 2012 Andrew Davis; Marina Rebeka (Donna Anna), Ellie Dehn (Donna Elvira), Isabel Leonard (Zerlina), Matthew Polenzani (Don Ottavio), Gerald Finley (Don Giovanni), Bryn Terfel (Leporello), Shenyang (Masetto), James Morris (Commendatore)
28 Sunday 6:00 PM PROFILES
29 Monday 10:00 PM PIPEDREAMS Easter Music Enjoy uplifting and engaging compositions for organs and voices that raise the spirits.
30 Tuesday 8:00 PM ETHER GAME March Goes Out Like a Lamb A companion to our first show of the month. Bring your shepherd crooks and folk pipes to our show on all things bucolic. How well will you graze through our pastoral playlist? 10:00 CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER Brahms/Dvorák BRAHMS: Zwei Gesänge for Voice, Viola, and Piano, Op. 91 Sasha Cooke, Mezzo Soprano; Paul Neubauer, Viola; Gilbert Kalish, Piano DVORÁK: Trio in F minor for Piano, Violin, and Cello, Op. 65 Wu Han, Piano; Philip Setzer, Violin; David Finckel, Cello
31 Wednesday 8:00 PM SYMPHONYCAST Oregon Symphony Carlos Kalmar, conductor Johannes Moser, cello Jason Traeger, speaker ROSSINI: Tancredi Overture ZIMMERMAN: Music for the Suppers of King Ubu SHOSTAKOVICH: Cello Concerto No. 1 RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Russian Easter Festival Overture
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WFIU’s Friday-evening jazz programs Afterglow and Night Lights celebrate Women’s History Month this March with a variety of programs highlighting women jazz artists. On Friday, March 19, Night Lights salutes “Jazz Women of the 1970s,” and takes a look the following week at women jazz artists on New York City’s fabled mid20th century 52nd Street scene. Afterglow turns its spotlight on singer Connee Boswell (a strong influence on Ella Fitzgerald), songwriter Dorothy Fields (“A Fine Romance,” “The Way You Look Tonight,” and other classics) and vocalist Nancy Wilson. Afterglow also highlights vocal jazz and traditional pop nominees for the 2020 Grammys on March 12. Tune into Just You & Me the following Monday, March 15, to hear winners from all of the Grammy jazz categories. Listen to Just You & Me throughout the month for special features on women jazz artists as well. Last but not least, WFIU’s jazz shows, like all of our programs, will be turning to you for your support from March 23 through March 29. Don’t worry—there’ll still be plenty of music! Mark Chilla, David Brent Johnson, and Brother William Morris will be popping in between songs for a little banter about why your contributions matter so much and how they ultimately benefit you and all WFIU listeners in addition to the station.
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In Mountain View, Arkansas, a talented group of men and women keep the time-honored tradition of metal smithing alive through their daily work at Urban Forge. The process is labor intensive and rewarding in equal measure, producing great works of art forged in fire with attention, sweat, and love.
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Urban Forge: Ozark Artistry illustrates firsthand the process of taking a product from conception to completion, crafting raw material into a final product. Produced by Arkansas PBS, this original one-hour documentary highlights the tools and techniques that date back centuries, as well as the craftsmanship and dedication it takes to produce these functional works of art.
For instance, you can include WFIU as partial beneficiary—by dividing up your assets in percentages. In the case of retirement plan assets, ask your retirement plan administrator for a changeof-beneficiary form. Contact your insurance company to ask how you can change beneficiaries in your life insurance policy.
Viewers will experience the pride of craftsmanship and gain an understanding of the importance of keeping a tradition alive and passing it down through generations in both skills and heirlooms. Urban Forge: Ozark Artistry provides an illuminating behind-the-scenes look at the daily life of artisans and the unique history behind their craft.
For more information on how to support WFIU into the future, go to wfiu.org/support/gifts-of-retirement-plan-assets.php and look at the many options.
“Arkansas stories are our passion,” Arkansas PBS CEO Courtney Pledger said. “We seek out the rich history and traditions of our great state, like that of Urban Forge, and tell the human stories at the center of that history and tradition.”
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By putting aside a percentage of your assets—from 1 to 100 percent—you can leave a legacy with WFIU, while making sure you and your family have the security they may need in the future.
Sample wording to leave a bequest to WFIU “I hereby give, devise, and bequeath to the Indiana University Foundation, a nonprofit corporation with principal offices in Bloomington, Indiana, [the sum of /a percentage of/the remainder of] my estate to be used for the benefit and unrestricted support [or specific purpose, i.e., news broadcasting, or support of a specific fund or program genre] of WFIU Public Radio from Indiana University, Bloomington campus.”
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Staying Connected in Troubled Times The world we live in seems to offer endless diversity—we come from all sorts of backgrounds, creeds, ethnicities. And, we don’t have to travel far, over land or online, to sense the divisions in our social and political climate. But, in the broad community that is public radio, a number of things connect us. We long for journalism that is informative, researched, and reliable—journalism that lets us stand with the facts, and that makes our democracy stronger. Yet, sometimes we need a break from the active, unpredictable news landscape. So we turn to music that will weather fleeting trends and stand the test of time—and will offer a deep-down assurance that our recent troubles are not all we have, and will pass. No matter when we listen, we seek to understand, to feel what is true, and to never stop learning. Public radio is a voice of civility, and one of our lifelines to civilization. No matter how distant we may feel—or be—from one another, our station is here to connect Indiana to the world. More than 4,000 listeners to WFIU and WFIU2, from Kokomo to French Lick, from Terre Haute to Seymour, have responded in kind by choosing to become listener-members. With other sources of support less certain than before, yours is at least as important as ever. If you’re an annual member, then have you renewed this year? If you gave in the fall—or if you’re a sustaining member—then would you consider giving a bit extra this spring? Have you not contributed in a couple of years, or perhaps ever? Our spring membership campaign, running from March 23 through 29, is one of a very few times each year that we take time out on air to make the case that listener investment in public radio is critical. This is a perfect time to lend your support, once again or for the first time. Listener support keeps WFIU independent and strong, positioned to deliver another year of the high-quality programming you desire. Nowhere else does such a partnership exist between an enlightened community and the necessary public service WFIU provides.
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I’m proud to be a sustaining member of WFIU. You and I are the “public” in “public radio.” It is your contribution to our station that will sustain us, and will ensure we can provide high-quality news, information, music, and entertainment. Let’s stay tuned in together, knowing that, for another year, we helped everyone learn something new every day.
John Bailey Station Operations Director