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October 2023
On WFMT, we’ll bring you the “Last Night of the Proms,” an interview with pianist Jeremy Denk on WFMT Presents, a back-to-school performance by young cellist Amelia Zitoun on Introductions, and a farewell to the 2023 Ravinia season with Black Oak Ensemble.
I’ve been looking forward to sharing that, beginning October 16, Ken Burns will be back with The American Buffalo, a journey through more than 10,000 years of North American history and across some of the continent’s most iconic landscapes, tracing the animal’s evolution, its significance to the Indigenous people and landscape of the Great Plains, its near extinction, and the efforts to bring the magnificent mammals back from the brink. Don’t miss this must-watch documentary, which we’ll present over two nights on WTTW and stream on the PBS app and our website. Turn to page 4 for an interview with Rosalyn LaPier, professor of history at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, who is featured in the film, and explore our companion website at wttw.com/americanbuffalo.
Also in October, the fall season of WTTW’s documentary series Chicago Stories continues. Watch for the story of George Pullman and his workers’ fight for their autonomy, the urban renewal initiatives of Mayor Richard J. Daley and the repercussions that followed, a profile of Hull House founder Jane Addams and the women who helped her realize her vision, and a look at how Chicago became the world’s foremost manufacturer of a product we all know and love: candy. We’ll also bring you second seasons of World on Fire, Annika, Hotel Portofino, and Native America – a portrait of the beauty and power of today’s Indigenous world.
On WFMT, we’ll bring you a wide variety of programming including a month of concerts from the 2023 BBC Proms ending with the “Last Night of the Proms” conducted by Marin Alsop. On WFMT Presents, listen for an interview with American pianist and MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship winner Jeremy Denk, and on Introductions, don’t miss the first live-toair recital of the new school year with young cellist Amelia Zitoun. We’ll bid farewell to the 2023 Ravinia season with Black Oak Ensemble performing their acclaimed program Silenced Voices and, from St. Tim’s Coffeehouse in Skokie, Ohio Rust Belt singer-songwriter Ben Gage will perform on Folkstage.
On behalf of all of us at WTTW and WFMT, I hope you are excited as I am about our fall season programming, and thank you for your support.
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The Guide: The Member Magazine for WTTW and WFMT (ISSN 2329-1338)
October 2023
Volume 36, Number 304
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This series of short films highlights the intrepid changemakers working to restore and protect our planet. Each episode inspires audiences with stories of bold interventions, unexpected alliances, and nature’s resilience.
Saturdays, 9:30 am
Return to this charming British hotel in the beautiful resort town of Portofino in the aftermath of World War I. Catch up with an afternoon marathon of Season 1 prior to the Season 2 premiere.
Sunday, October 15, 1:00 pm
MORNING
6:30-10:00 WTTW Kids
10:00 Pritzker Military Presents: Wesley Morgan, The Hardest Place – The American Military Adrift in Afghanistan’s Pech Valley
11:00 All-Star Orchestra:
Celebrating Unity
Around the World
AFTERNOON
12:00 World on Fire Season 1 on Masterpiece (Part 1 of 7) When war breaks out, Harry vows to help his Polish lover Kasia flee Warsaw, but how will he explain this to his sweetheart Lois at home?
Frontline: The Astros
Frontline examines the Houston Astros cheating scandal and what it says about baseball today. With reporter Ben Reiter, the making of one of the best teams and worst scandals in modern MLB history, the limited accountability and how Astros baseball changed the sport.
Tuesday, October 3 9:00 pm
Sunday 1
EARLY MORNING
12:30 The Great Chicago Fire: A Chicago Stories Special [R]
1:30 Midsomer Murders: The Stitcher Society (in 2 parts) [R]
3:00 The Most Beautiful Places in Chicago [R]
4:00 Antiques Roadshow: Vintage Louisville 2021 (Part 1 of 2) [R]
5:00 The Brain Revolution
1:00 World on Fire Season 1 on Masterpiece (Part 2 of 7) A month into war and with Warsaw destroyed, Harry is desperate for news, while Kasia joins the Polish resistance.
2:00 World on Fire Season 1 on Masterpiece (Part 3 of 7) Tom faces the fight of his life aboard HMS Exeter, while Harry and Lois have a more personal battle to fight.
3:00 Downton Abbey Season 6 on Masterpiece (Part 1 of 9) Extortion and downsizing threaten Downton Abbey. Mrs. Hughes poses a delicate question.
4:25 Downton Abbey Season 6 on Masterpiece (Part 2 of 9) Wedding plans hit a snag. Pigs lead to trouble for Edith and Marigold. Thomas gets a hint.
5:30 PBS NewsHour Weekend
EVENING
6:00 36th Hispanic Heritage Awards Enjoy performances and appearances by some of the country’s most celebrated Hispanic artists and visionaries.
7:00 Professor T: The Trial (Season 2, Part 5 of 6) As a major trial gets underway, Professor T presents the case to his students involving a caretaker accused of shooting dead his rich employer.
8:00 Unforgotten Season 5 on
This documentary pays tribute to the immortal character of homicide detective Columbo while shedding light on the actor who played him: Peter Falk, whose life was full of twists and turns.
Monday, October 23, 9:00 pm
Masterpiece (Part 5 of 6) Sunny and Jess attempt a reset as they follow the clues in the case.
9:00 Van der Valk Season 3 on Masterpiece: Magic in Amsterdam (Part 1) The team is taken to the edge of reality following the death of a participant in a magical ritual.
10:00 The Fall: The Gates of Light (Season 3, Part 3 of 6) As Spector’s health stabilizes, his legal team is determined that he will never stand trial.
11:00 Back to School, Mr. Bean
11:30 Wild Travels
EARLY MORNING
12:00 Austin City Limits: Brandi Carlile Singer/ songwriter Brandi Carlile performs songs from her album In These Silent Days
1:00 Doc Martin: S.W.A.L.K. [R]
2:00 Father Brown: The Gardeners of Eden [R]
3:00 Frankie Drake Mysteries: Extra Innings [R]
4:00 World on Fire Season 1 on Masterpiece (Part 1 of 7) See Sun. Oct. 1 at 12:00 pm. [R]
5:00 BBC News
5:30 Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
MORNING-AFTERNOON
6:00-1:00 WTTW Kids
1:00 Antiques Roadshow
2:00 Essential Pépin
2:30 Steven Raichlen’s Project Fire
3:00 Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television
3:30 America’s Test Kitchen
4:00 Death in Paradise
5:00 BBC News America
5:30 Chicago Tonight
EVENING
6:00 PBS NewsHour
7:00 Antiques Roadshow: Vintage Hartford 2023 (Part 1 of 2) Revisited finds include a Cartier gold bracelet watch, a Tiffany & Co. sapphire ring, and a Harriman Expedition album with Curtis photos.
8:00 Antiques Roadshow:
Vintage Las Vegas 2021 (Part 1 of 2) Revisited finds include an antique Asschercut diamond ring, a 1923 Dempsey vs. Gibbons fight bell, and a 1970 Elvis Presleysigned album and belt.
9:00 10 Streets that Changed America Geoffrey Baer takes us on a whirlwind tour of 10 streets across the country that changed the way we get around.
10:00 Chicago Tonight [R]
10:30 BBC News
11:00 Amanpour and Company
EARLY MORNING
12:00 Professor T: The Trial (Season 2, Part 5 of 6) See Sun. Oct. 1 at 7:00 pm. [R]
1:00 Unforgotten Season 5 on Masterpiece (Part 5 of 6) See Sun. Oct. 1 at 8:00 pm. [R]
2:00 Van der Valk Season 3 on Masterpiece: Magic in Amsterdam (Part 1) See Sun. Oct. 1 at 9:00 pm. [R]
3:00 The Fall: The Gates of Light (Season 3, Part 3 of 6) See Sun. Oct. 1 at 10:00 pm. [R]
4:00 Back to School, Mr. Bean [R]
4:30 Wild Travels See Sun. Oct. 1 at 11:30 pm. [R]
5:00 BBC News
5:30 Chicago Tonight [R]
MORNING-AFTERNOON
6:00-1:00 WTTW Kids
1:00 Antiques Roadshow
2:00 Essential Pépin
2:30 Steven Raichlen’s Project Fire
3:00 Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television
3:30 America’s Test Kitchen
4:00 Death in Paradise
5:00 BBC News America
5:30 Chicago Tonight
EVENING
6:00 PBS NewsHour
7:00 Finding Your Roots: Family –Lost and Found Henry Louis Gates solves family mysteries for actor Joe Manganiello and football star Tony Gonzalez.
THE AMERICAN BUFFALO, a new two-part, four-hour series from Ken Burns, takes viewers on a journey through more than 10,000 years of North American history and across some of the continent’s most iconic landscapes, tracing the animal’s evolution, its significance to the Indigenous people and landscape of the Great Plains, its near extinction, and the efforts to bring it back from the brink.
For thousands of generations, buffalo (species Bison bison) have evolved alongside Indigenous people who relied on them for food and shelter, and, in exchange for killing them, revered the animal.
Rosalyn LaPier is an enrolled member of the Blackfeet Tribe of Montana and Métis, an environmental historian and traditionally trained ethnobotanist, and both an advisor to and expert featured in the film. We spoke to this University of Illinois UrbanaChampaign Professor of History about the documentary, and the story of bison.
THE GUIDE: Can you describe the relationship between bison and Indigenous people?
ROSALYN L aPIER: The animals that we know today as buffalo are the latest iteration of bison who have lived here in North America for thousands of years. The other
bison have gone extinct, but the latest version, Bison bison, have been on this continent for at least 10,000 years. Scientists estimate that Indigenous people have been here between 30,000 and 33,000 years.
So this particular animal species has always existed with Indigenous people, co-evolving with Indigenous people. And over those thousands and thousands of years, Indigenous people have, through observation and through practice, developed a lifelong knowledge of how bison behave, and how they use bison.
THE GUIDE: As you say in the film, there are
two stories of the bison: the relationship to Indigenous people, and a more destructive one. Can you tell us more about this?
L aPIER: I think that one of the takeaways from this fi lm is that it really is an American story. We need to point the fi nger at ourselves. And by "American," I don't mean "Native American."
We are the ones who are complicit in the utter destruction of this animal. Looking back on our own history, we need to see that greed, and think about how to do it differently the next time. But also to learn from that story: how and why it happened. In certain cases, federal policy was in place helping provide the marketplace so that there could be this destruction of this particular animal. The Americans [at one time] saw bison as a natural resource that could be utilized and mined, that people thought [wouldn’t run out], when, of course, there was an end in sight.
The last part of the story is during the turn of the last century, during the Progressive Era, when some of the original founders of the preservation and conservation movement also became interested in how to restore bison.
THE GUIDE: The latter part of that story is often cited as one of the biggest preservation or environmental successes. Do you think it is an inarguable success story?
L aPIER: Yes and no. We should celebrate that we were able to restore bison to the large population numbers that we have today, back from the brink of extinction. It is nowhere near what it was 200 years ago, when there were around 50, 60 million bison out on the Great Plains. And it’s not an overnight story. It’s something that began at the beginning of the 20th century and went all the way to the 21st century, now.
But the fl ipside of that is that bison are not a free-roaming species. We allow deer to be free-roaming animal species that can go anywhere. In the Rocky Mountain West, they’re in every single town and city and
out in the wild. But all bison today are contained somehow. Most of them are behind fences. Some of them are contained by borders. For example, in Yellowstone National Park, if they leave, they either get captured and relocated or they get killed.
what they do. The Blackfeet tribe would like to be able to release more bison. But the herd has always been contained.
THE GUIDE: Why do you think it is important to tell this story?
L aPIER: One of the important things about this story is that there has been more of an effort to include Indigenous voices, from a lot of different tribal perspectives – to talk about the relationship that those tribal groups have had with bison, how those tribal groups have also been impacted by federal policy, and how federal policy has been detrimental to Indigenous lifeways and economies.
Then fast-forward to the 21st century, and part of the message is also, “We’re still here.” Indigenous people are still here. Bison are still here. In the same way that bison are being revitalized, Indigenous people have also spent the last 100 years revitalizing the Indigenous community, whether it is religion, or language, or cultural practices, or learning and sharing our own history. There are folks like me, somebody who has a Ph.D. in environmental history, but also has Indigenous knowledge and is able to blend both of those in my work and scholarship. Today we have this larger community of folks who are taking what’s positive and useful out of Western society and Indigenous knowledge, and blending those to the benefit of Indigenous communities.
This interview was edited for length and clarity.
This is the part of the conversation that’s occurring now: to what extent will we allow free-roaming bison, and where will this happen? We haven’t taken that next step, which is, “Are we going to allow them to be a free-roaming animal species, or will they just be contained forever?“
About a month ago on the Blackfeet reservation, we actually let loose about two dozen bison to be free roaming. They’re all tagged, so we can see where they go and
THE AMERICAN BUFFALO premieres on Monday and Tuesday, October 16 and 17 at 7:00 pm on WTTW, the PBS app, and wttw.com/americanbuffalo.
“One of the important things about this story is that there has been more of an effort to include Indigenous voices, from a lot of different tribal perspectives.”
Across the Pacifi c
Sunday, October 1, 8:00 pm
Settle in for this 3-part story of a great milestone in aviation history: the 1935 crossing of the Pacifi c Ocean by a Pan American Airways fl ying boat known as the China Clipper. The series recounts the plane’s development.
Watch on WTTW Prime, wttw.com/watch, or the PBS app.
Bella Italia
Friday, October 6, 8:00 pm
The cuisine of “Bella Italia” is explored, as Nick Stellino, Lidia Bastianich, Mary Ann Esposito, and the chefs of America’s Test Kitchen and C ook’s Country share their methods to create regional Italian specialties.
Watch on WTTW Create, wttw.com/watch, or the PBS app.
For WTTW Passport Members Only Hotel Portofi no, World on Fire, Annika
Sunday, October 15, 7:00 pm
Stream full seasons of these popular drama series beginning on the night of their broadcast premieres.
Watch with a Passport membership on wttw.com/watch or the PBS app.
8:00 Becoming Frida Kahlo: A Star is Born (Part 3 of 3) Dangerous politics and turbulent love shock Frida’s world, while love and trauma shape her final years.
9:00 Frontline: The Astros Edge – Triumph and Scandal in Major League Baseball
10:30 Chicago Tonight
11:00 BBC News
11:30 Amanpour and Company
Wednesday 4
EARLY MORNING
12:30 Antiques Roadshow: Vintage Hartford 2023 (Part 1 of 2) See Mon. Oct. 2 at 7:00 pm. [R]
1:30 Antiques Roadshow: Vintage Las Vegas 2021 (Part 1 of 2) See Mon. Oct. 2 at 8:00 pm. [R]
2:30 36th Hispanic Heritage Awards See Sun. Oct. 1 at 6:00 pm. [R]
3:30 A Song for Cesar: American Masters [R]
5:00 BBC News
5:30 Chicago Tonight [R]
MORNING-AFTERNOON
6:00-1:00 WTTW Kids
1:00 Antiques Roadshow
2:00 Essential Pépin
2:30 Steven Raichlen’s Project Fire
3:00 Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television
3:30 America’s Test Kitchen
4:00 Death in Paradise
5:00 BBC News America
5:30 Chicago Tonight: Black Voices
EVENING
6:00 PBS NewsHour
7:00 America Outdoors with Baratunde Thurston: Utah (Part 5 of 5) What draws modern pilgrims to Utah? Baratunde journeys west to find out what they’re seeking.
8:00 NOVA: Ancient Earth – Birth of the Sky How did our familiar blue sky – the thin, lifegiving band of gasses protecting our planet – come to be?
9:00 Evolution Earth: Grasslands (Part 5 of 5) Follow scientists as they discover animal species with the power to transform and restore our grasslands.
10:00 Chicago Tonight: Black Voices [R]
10:30 BBC News
11:00 Amanpour and Company
EARLY MORNING
12:00 Finding Your Roots: Family –Lost and Found See Tues. Oct. 3 at 7:00 pm. [R]
1:00 Becoming Frida Kahlo: A Star is Born (Part 3 of 3) See Tues. Oct. 3 at 8:00 pm. [R]
2:00 Frontline: The Astros Edge –Triumph and Scandal in Major League Baseball See Tues. Oct. 3 at 9:00 pm. [R]
3:30 10 Streets that Changed America See Mon. Oct. 2 at 9:00 pm. [R]
4:30 Rick Steves’ Europe: Why We Travel
5:00 BBC News
5:30 Chicago Tonight: Black Voices [R]
MORNING-AFTERNOON
NOVA: Ancient Earth (5-Part Series)
Dive into the most dramatic events in Earth’s 4.5-billion-year history, from its birth to the emergence of humanity. How did a hellscape of molten lava transform into a lush, green, watery planet filled with life? With dazzlingly realistic animation based on the latest research, each of these five episodes brings to life long-lost worlds that ultimately led to the one we know today.
Wednesdays beginning October 4, 8:00 pm
36th Hispanic Heritage Awards
Sunday, October 1, 6:00 pm
Weekend in Havana with Geoffrey Baer
Tuesday, October 9, 9:00 pm
Chicago Tonight: Latino Voices
Thursdays at 5:30 pm
Pati’s Mexican Table
Saturdays at 4:00 pm
Independent Lens: El Equipo
Saturday, October 14, 10:00 pm
Next at the Kennedy Center –Ballet Hispanico’s Doña Perón
Sunday, October 15, 11:30 am
Pati’s Mexican Table
Sundays at 7:00 am
Oceans of Pink
Sunday, October 1, 7:00 pm
La Frontera with Pati Jinich
Mondays starting October 2, 10:00 pm
36th Hispanic Heritage Awards
Thursday, October 5, 3:00 pm
Dia de los Muertos
Saturday, October 7, 11:00 pm
American Experience: Zoot Suit Riots
Sunday, October 8 at 7:00 pm
Afro Latino Travels
Monday, October 9, 6:00 pm
Eliades Ochoa: From Cuba to the World
6:00-1:00 WTTW Kids
1:00 Antiques Roadshow
2:00 Essential Pépin
2:30 Steven Raichlen’s Project Fire
3:00 Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television
3:30 America’s Test Kitchen
4:00 Death in Paradise
5:00 BBC News America
5:30 Chicago Tonight: Latino Voices
EVENING
6:00 PBS NewsHour
7:00 Chicago Stories: The Race to Reverse the River [R]
8:00 Midsomer Murders: Happy Families (in 2 parts) DCI Barnaby and DS Winter are called in to investigate the death of a manufacturer of exclusive board games.
9:30 Dream of Italy: Venice
10:00 Chicago Tonight: Latino Voices [R]
10:30 BBC News
11:00 Amanpour and Company
Saturday, October 14, 11:00 pm
Friday 6
EARLY MORNING
12:00 America Outdoors with Baratunde Thurston: Utah (Part 5 of 5) See Wed. Oct. 4 at 7:00 pm. [R]
1:00 NOVA: Ancient Earth –Birth of the Sky See Wed. Oct. 4 at 8:00 pm. [R]
2:00 Evolution Earth: Grasslands (Part 5 of 5) See Wed.
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Oct. 4 at 9:00 pm. [R]
3:00 World on Fire Season 1 on Masterpiece (Part 2 of 7) See Sun. Oct. 1 at 1:00 pm. [R]
4:00 World on Fire Season 1 on Masterpiece (Part 3 of 7) See Sun. Oct. 1 at 2:00 pm. [R]
5:00 BBC News
5:30 Chicago Tonight: Latino Voices [R]
6:00
MORNING-AFTERNOON
6:00-1:00 WTTW Kids
1:00 Antiques Roadshow
2:00 Essential Pépin
2:30 Steven Raichlen’s Project Fire
3:00 Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television
3:30 America’s Test Kitchen
4:00 Death in Paradise
5:00 BBC News America
5:30 Chicago Tonight: The Week in Review
EVENING
6:00 PBS NewsHour
7:00 Chicago Tonight: The Week in Review [R]
7:30 Washington Week with the Atlantic
8:00 Chicago Stories: Pullman and the Railroad Rebellion
9:00 Chicago Stories: Union Stockyards Experience the sights, sounds, and awful smells of Chicago’s Union Stockyards and the complex of meat factories next to it, known as Packingtown.
10:00 The Great Chicago Quiz Show with Geoffrey Baer (Season 2, Part 1 of 6) Quizmaster Geoffrey Baer puts another diverse and interesting slew of local contestants to the test as they contemplate all things Chicago.
10:30 BBC News
11:00 Amanpour and Company
Saturday 7
EARLY MORNING
12:00 Chicago Tonight: The Week in Review [R]
12:30 Downton Abbey Season 6 on Masterpiece (Part 1 of 9) See Sun. Oct. 1 at 3:00 pm. [R]
1:55 Downton Abbey Season 6 on Masterpiece (Part 2 of 9) See Sun. Oct. 1 at 4:25 pm. [R]
3:00 The Brain Revolution [R]
5:00 Chicago Tonight: The Week in Review [R]
MORNING
5:30-9:00 WTTW Kids
9:00 Tell Me More with Kelly Corrigan: Making it in America
9:30 Wild Hope: The Big Oyster
10:00 This Old House: Lexington –Shore We Can
10:30 Ask This Old House: String Lights, Kitchen Painting
11:00 Dooky Chase Kitchen: Leah’s
Legacy – Multicultural Spirit
11:30 Sara’s Weeknight Meals: Taco, Taco, Nacho
AFTERNOON
12:00 Cook’s Country
12:30 Jacques Pépin: Just Ducky!
1:00 Lidia’s Kitchen: Welcome to My Kitchen
1:30 Steven Raichlen’s Planet Barbecue: San Antonio Grill
2:00 America’s Test Kitchen: Irish Staples
2:30 America’s Test Kitchen: Eggs Around the World
3:00 Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television: Skillet Dinners
3:30 My Greek Table with Diane Kochilas: Taste the Music –The Aromatic Cuisine of the Asian Minor Greeks
4:00 Pati’s Mexican Table: A Family Affair
4:30 Check, Please! Madison Bar, Chicago Culinary Kitchen, Chiya Chai
5:00 Rick Steves’ Europe: Art of Prehistoric Europe
5:30 PBS News Weekend
EVENING
6:00 Chicago Stories: Pullman and the Railroad Rebellion
See Fri. Oct. 6 at 8:00 pm. [R]
7:00 Doc Martin: Paint it Black Martin has his second GMC assessment – mock surgery – and Buddy is missing. Meanwhile, Ken’s arrival does not bring good news.
8:00 Father Brown: The Beast of Wedlock Father Brown’s past collides with the present when he investigates a missing person, a murder, and a mythical wild cat.
9:00 Frankie Drake Mysteries: 50 Shades of Greyson Mary’s job is threatened when she accuses Detective Greyson of hiding evidence.
10:00 POV: Murders that Matter African American Muslim mother Movita JohnsonHarrell transforms from a victim of violent trauma into a fi erce advocate against gun violence in Black communities.
11:30 Chicago Stories: Pullman and the Railroad Rebellion [R]
EARLY MORNING
12:30 Midsomer Murders: Happy Families (in 2 parts) See Thurs. Oct. 5 at 8:00 pm. [R]
2:00 The Great Chicago Quiz Show with Geoffrey Baer (Season 2, Part 1 of 6) See Fri. Oct. 6 at 10:00 pm. [R]
2:30 ’70s Soul Superstars
5:00 Demystifying Detox Explore popular detox regimens and separate fact from fi ction to improve your overall health and well-being.
MORNING
6:30-10:00 WTTW Kids
10:00 Family Travel with Colleen Kelly: Poland
10:30 Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes – American Masters Explore the extraordinary life and musical career of the legendary drummer, composer, and social activist Max Roach.
The powerful industrialist and engineer George Pullman brought luxury to overnight train travel with his revolutionary sleeping cars. He soon established a company town on Chicago’s South Side for employees that gave him complete control over every aspect of their lives. This fi lm recounts the bloody rebellion that followed as Pullman’s workers fought for their independence.
Friday, October 6 8:00 pm
AFTERNOON
12:00 World on Fire Season 1 on Masterpiece (Part 4 of 7) Harry’s courage is tested at Louvain, while Kasia’s resistance activity in Warsaw intensifi es.
1:00 World on Fire Season 1 on Masterpiece (Part 5 of 7) Harry and his unit reach Dunkirk, with the odds stacked against them.
2:00 World on Fire Season 1 on Masterpiece (Part 6 of 7) Paris falls to the Nazis, and Webster and Albert’s lives are turned upside down.
3:00 Downton Abbey Season 6
Frontline explores Elon Musk’s long and often troubled relationship with Twitter and his journey from one of the platform’s most provocative users to its sole proprietor, exploring the acquisition, free speech, and the company’s uncertain future.
Tuesday, October 10 8:00 pm
on Masterpiece (Part 3 of 9) A wedding dress drama takes a disastrous turn. A handsome volunteer helps Edith meet a deadline.
4:15 Downton Abbey Season 6 on Masterpiece (Part 4 of 9) Miss Baxter faces a dilemma. Anna and Mary rush to London. A former maid comes to lunch.
5:30 PBS NewsHour Weekend
EVENING
6:00 Rick Steves’ Europe: Poland Rediscovered – Krakow, Auschwitz, and Warsaw Krakow, with its bubbly Baroque and cobbled charm, is emerging as the exciting “next Prague.” Rick also visits Auschwitz.
6:30 Joseph Rosendo’s Travelscope: Berlin and Western Poland - Over the Borderline Joseph travels in the German-Polish border region and is captivated by the beautiful structures, historic traditions, and respected customs.
7:00 Professor T: Swansong (Season 2, Part 6 of 6)
The CID team blunders into a Drugs Squad operation against a major trafficker that may implicate a close colleague.
8:00 Unforgotten Season 5 on Masterpiece (Part 6 of 6)
Can Sunny, Jess, and the team unravel the secrets to resolve their case?
9:00 Van der Valk Season 3 on Masterpiece: Magic in Amsterdam (Part 2) Lucienne is forced to confront painful memories buried in her past. Van der Valk himself decides to open his heart once more to Lena.
10:00 The Fall: The Hell Within Him (Season 3, Part 4 of 6) Gibson comes face to face with Sally-Ann’s desperation, while Burns has to confront his guilt at pursuing her as a conspirator rather than a witness.
11:00 Tee Off, Mr. Bean
11:30 Wild Travels
EARLY MORNING
12:00 Austin City Limits: Rodrigo Y Gabriela featuring the Austin Symphony Orchestra
1:00 Doc Martin: Paint it Black See Sat. Oct. 7 at 7:00 pm. [R]
2:00 Father Brown: The Beast of Wedlock See Sat. Oct. 7 at 8:00 pm. [R]
3:00 Frankie Drake Mysteries: 50 Shades of Greyson See Sat. Oct. 7 at 9:00 pm. [R]
4:00 World on Fire Season 1 on Masterpiece (Part 4 of 7) See Sun. Oct. 8 at 12:00 pm. [R]
5:00 BBC News
5:30 Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
MORNING-AFTERNOON
6:00-1:00 WTTW Kids
1:00 Antiques Roadshow
2:00 Essential Pépin
2:30 Steven Raichlen’s Project Fire
3:00 Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television
3:30 America’s Test Kitchen
4:00 Death in Paradise
5:00 BBC News America
5:30 Chicago Tonight
EVENING
6:00 PBS NewsHour
7:00 Antiques Roadshow: Vintage Hartford 2023 (Part 2 of 2)
Revisited finds include a French Bru doll circa 1880, woman’s silk shoes circa 1785, and an 1894 Charles Courtney Curran portrait oil.
8:00 Antiques Roadshow: Vintage Las Vegas 2021 (Part 2 of 2)
Revisited finds include a 1943 Albert Einstein letter, an early 20th-century gold signet ring collection, and a Louis Comfort Tiffany seascape oil from around 1880.
9:00 Weekend in Havana with Geoffrey Baer Join Geoffrey Baer as he travels to Havana, where dancers, musicians, architects and writers
invite him into their lives to experience the color, culture and history of the city.
10:00 Chicago Tonight [R]
10:30 BBC News
11:00 Amanpour and Company
Tuesday 10
EARLY MORNING
12:00 Professor T: Swansong (Season 2, Part 6 of 6) See Sun. Oct. 8 at 7:00 pm. [R]
1:00 Unforgotten Season 5 on Masterpiece (Part 6 of 6) See Sun. Oct. 8 at 8:00 pm. [R]
2:00 Van der Valk Season 3 on Masterpiece: Magic in Amsterdam (Part 2) See Sun. Oct. 8 at 9:00 pm. [R]
3:00 The Fall: The Hell Within Him (Season 3, Part 4 of 6) See Sun. Oct. 8 at 10:00 pm. [R]
4:00 Tee Off, Mr. Bean [R]
4:30 Wild Travels See Sun. Oct. 8 at 11:30 pm. [R]
5:00 BBC News
5:30 Chicago Tonight [R]
MORNING-AFTERNOON
6:00-1:00 WTTW Kids
1:00 Antiques Roadshow
2:00 Essential Pépin
2:30 Steven Raichlen’s Project Fire
3:00 Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television
3:30 America’s Test Kitchen
4:00 Death in Paradise
5:00 BBC News America
5:30 Chicago Tonight
EVENING
6:00 PBS NewsHour
7:00 Finding Your Roots: Chosen Henry Louis Gates helps actors David Duchovny and Richard Kind trace their roots from Jewish communities in Eastern Europe to the United States.
8:00 Frontline: Elon Musk’s Twitter Takeover
10:00 Chicago Tonight [R]
11:00 Amanpour and Company
EARLY MORNING
12:00 Antiques Roadshow: Vintage Hartford 2023 (Part 2 of 2) See Mon. Oct. 9 at 7:00 pm. [R]
1:00 Antiques Roadshow: Vintage Las Vegas 2021 (Part 2 of 2) See Mon. Oct. 9 at 8:00 pm. [R]
2:00 Weekend in Havana with Geoffrey Baer See Mon. Oct. 9 at 9:00 pm. [R]
3:00 Rick Steves’ Europe: Art of Prehistoric Europe See Sun. Oct. 8 at 6:00 pm. [R]
3:30 POV: Murders that Matter See Sat. Oct. 7 at 10:00 pm. [R]
5:00 BBC News
5:30 Chicago Tonight [R]
MORNING-AFTERNOON
6:00-1:00 WTTW Kids
1:00 Antiques Roadshow
2:00 Essential Pepin
2:30 Steven Raichlen’s Project Fire
3:00 Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television
3:30 America’s Test Kitchen
4:00 Death in Paradise
5:00 BBC News America
5:30 Chicago Tonight: Black Voices
EVENING
6:00 PBS NewsHour
7:00 America Outdoors with Baratunde Thurston: Maine – Embrace the Cold (Part 1 of 5) Maine is a place where outdoor adventure has a long history, with people so committed that the brutal winters can’t deter them.
8:00 NOVA: Ancient Earth –Frozen 700 million years ago, Earth was a giant snowball cloaked in ice from pole to pole. How did life manage to hold on through this deadly deep freeze?
9:00 Secrets of the Dead: The Sunken Basilica A flight over Lake Iznik in 2014 unexpectedly reveals the sunken remains of a 4th century basilica.
10:00 Chicago Tonight: Black Voices [R]
10:30 BBC News
11:00 Amanpour and Company
Thursday 12
EARLY MORNING
12:00 Finding Your Roots: Chosen See Tues. Oct. 10 at 7:00 pm. [R]
1:00 Frontline: Elon Musk’s Twitter Takeover See Tues. Oct. 10 at 8:00 pm. [R]
3:00 Wild Hope: The Big Oyster See Sat. Oct. 7 at 9:30 am. [R]
3:30 Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes – American Masters See Sun. Oct. 8 at 10:30 am. [R]
5:00 BBC News
5:30 Chicago Tonight: Black Voices [R]
MORNING-AFTERNOON
6:00-1:00 WTTW Kids
1:00 Antiques Roadshow
2:00 Essential Pépin
2:30 Steven Raichlen’s Project Fire
3:00 Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television
3:30 America’s Test Kitchen
4:00 Death in Paradise
5:00 BBC News America
5:30 Chicago Tonight: Latino Voices
EVENING
6:00 PBS NewsHour
7:00 Chicago Stories:
Pullman and the Railroad Rebellion [R]
8:00 Midsomer Murders: Scarecrow Murders (in 2 parts) A scarecrow festival to raise church funds takes a grisly turn when dead bodies are found staged like the festival’s straw creations.
9:30 Dream of Italy: Bologna
10:00 Chicago Tonight: Latino Voices [R]
10:30 BBC News
11:00 Amanpour and Company
EARLY MORNING
12:00 America Outdoors with Baratunde Thurston: Maine – Embrace the Cold (Part 1 of 5) See Wed. Oct. 11 at 7:00 pm. [R]
1:00 NOVA: Ancient Earth –Frozen See Wed. Oct. 11 at 8:00 pm. [R]
2:00 Secrets of the Dead: The Sunken Basilica See Wed. Oct. 11 at 9:00 pm. [R]
3:00 World on Fire Season 1 on Masterpiece (Part 5 of 7) See Sun. Oct. 8 at 1:00 pm. [R]
4:00 World on Fire Season 1 on Masterpiece (Part 6 of 7) See Sun. Oct. 8 at 2:00 pm. [R]
5:00 BBC News
5:30 Chicago Tonight: Latino Voices [R]
MORNING-AFTERNOON
6:00-1:00 WTTW Kids
1:00 Antiques Roadshow
2:00 Essential Pépin
2:30 Steven Raichlen’s Project Fire
3:00 Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television
3:30 America’s Test Kitchen
4:00 Death in Paradise
5:00 BBC News America
5:30 Chicago Tonight: The Week in Review
EVENING
6:00 PBS NewsHour
7:00 Chicago Tonight: The Week in Review [R]
7:30 Washington Week with the Atlantic
8:00 Chicago Stories: The Boss and the Bulldozer
9:00 Chicago Stories: Jane Byrne Chicago Stories remembers the city’s first female mayor, Jane Byrne, whose administration ushered in a new era of Chicago politics.
10:00 The Great Chicago Quiz Show with Geoffrey Baer (Season 2, Part 2 of 6)
10:30 BBC News
11:00 Amanpour and Company
EARLY MORNING
12:00 Chicago Tonight: The Week in Review [R]
12:30 Downton Abbey Season 6 on Masterpiece (Part 3 of 9) See Sun. Oct. 8 at 3:00 pm. [R]
1:45 Downton Abbey Season 6 on Masterpiece (Part 4 of 9) See Sun. Oct. 8 at 4:15 pm. [R]
3:00 ’60s Pop, Rock & Soul
5:00 Chicago Tonight: The Week in Review [R]
MORNING
5:30-9:00 WTTW Kids
Longtime Chicago mayor Richard J. “Boss” Daley had a lofty vision for Chicago’s downtown, and over the course of his 21 years in office, his ambitious urban renewal initiatives were the foundation of the city’s infrastructure and at the same time displaced the poor and people of color while perpetuating racial segregation. This film chronicles Daley’s rise to power, his achievements, and his stubbornness in the face of cultural change.
Friday, October 13 8:00 pm
9:00 Tell Me More with Kelly Corrigan: Gitanjali Rao
9:30 Wild Hope: Beaver Fever
10:00 This Old House: Lexington – The Big Dig
10:30 Ask This Old House: Shower Valve Repair, Sloped Landscape
11:00 Dooky Chase Kitchen: Leah’s Legacy – Potluck
11:30 Sara’s Weeknight Meals
AFTERNOON
12:00 Cook’s Country
12:30 Jacques Pépin
: Cuisine Economique
1:00 Lidia’s Kitchen: Tried & True
1:30 Steven Raichlen’s Planet Barbecue: Mexi-Que
2:00 America’s Test Kitchen: Shareable Spanish Fare
2:30 America’s Test Kitchen: Chocolate Tart and Ice Cream
3:00 Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television: Chicken Three Ways
3:30 My Greek Table with Diane Kochilas: Kalimera! Breakfast and Brunch
4:00 Pati’s Mexican Table: Ode to the Egg
4:30 Check, Please! Steak 48, Chez Moi, Nella Pizza E Pasta
5:00 Rick Steves’ Europe: Art of Ancient Greece
5:30 PBS News Weekend
EVENING
6:00 Chicago Stories: The Boss and the Bulldozer See Fri. Oct. 13 at 8:00 pm. [R]
7:00 Doc Martin: Wild West Country Martin investigates a shooting. Meanwhile, Emily returns to the surgery to see Martin after a bad reaction.
8:00 Father Brown: The Hidden Man Chief Inspector Sullivan pays Father Brown a visit to warn him that Hercule Flambeau is wanted for a series of brutal murders.
9:00 Frankie Drake Mysteries: Diamonds Are a Gal’s Best Friend What starts as a simple case of a missing horse leads the team into the gardens of Toronto’s elite.
10:00 Independent Lens: El Equipo A U.S. anthropologist sets out to train Latin American students in the use of forensic anthropology.
11:30 Chicago Stories: The Boss and the Bulldozer [R]
EARLY MORNING
12:30 Midsomer Murders: Scarecrow Murders (in 2 parts) See Thurs. Oct. 12 at 8:00 pm. [R]
2:00 Demystifying Detox See Sun. Oct. 8 at 5:00 am. [R]
4:00 Aging Backwards 4: The Miracle of Flexibility with Miranda Esmonde-White
5:00 America Outdoors with Baratunde Thurston: Maine – Embrace the Cold (Part 1 of 5) [R]
MORNING
6:30-10:00 WTTW Kids
10:00 Flavor of Poland Marathon Enjoy three back-to-back episodes of this charming cooking and travel series hosted by Aleksandra August. Follow her as she explores Krakow, Warsaw, and Rzeszow.
11:30 Next at the Kennedy Center: Ballet Hispanico’s Doña Perón Ballet Hispanico explores Evita Peron’s
Follow the intertwining fates of ordinary people as they grapple with the effects of World War II on their everyday lives. As season two begins, war reaches the sands of the Egyptian desert while bombs fall on Manchester, and Harry (Jonah Hauer-King) introduces an explosive force into Robina’s household.
Sundays beginning October 15, 8:00 pm
diverging legacies in this invigorating new work set to live music by Peter Salem.
1:00 Hotel Portofino: First Impressions (Season 1, Part 1 of 6) Rose and her mother arrive at the hotel to evaluate a prospective marriage with Lucian, the son of the hotel’s proprietors.
2:00 Hotel Portofino: Lessons (Season 1, Part 2 of 6) Cecil arranges for a family heirloom to be sent from England for authentication.
3:00 Hotel Portofino: Invitations (Season 1, Part 3 of 6) Constance is encouraged to make more of her appearance by the hotel’s most worldly guest.
4:00 Hotel Portofino: Uncoverings (Season 1, Part 4 of 6) Nish has an epiphany as he and Lucian escape arrest at Danioni’s behest.
5:00 Hotel Portofino: Discoveries (Season 1, Part 5 of 6) The police search for the missing heirloom, and suspicion falls on an absent guest and the bellhop.
DI Annika Strandhed (Nicola Walker), the dry-witted, speedboatdriving head of Glasgow’s Marine Homicide Unit, juggles baffling cases and a rebellious teenage daughter. In the season premiere, Annika and the team are sent to Edinburgh.
Sundays beginning October 15, 9:00 pm
EVENING
6:00 Hotel Portofino:
Denouements (Season 1, Part 6 of 6) The mystery of the missing heirloom is resolved as Cecil makes a surprising discovery about Danioni.
7:00 Hotel Portofino: Returns (Season 2, Part 1 of 6) Bella’s plans to build a spa in the basement are running over budget while she deals with an unwelcome return from someone closer to home.
8:00 World on Fire Season 2 on Masterpiece (Part of 1 of 6) War reaches the Egyptian desert while bombs fall on Manchester, and Harry introduces an explosive force into Robina’s household.
9:00 Annika Season 2 on Masterpiece (Part 1 of 6)
When a phone with a brutal drowning recorded on it is handed in to MHU headquarters, Annika and her team must track down the murderer.
10:00 The Fall: Wounds of Deadly Hate (Season 3, Part 5 of 6) Spector’s legal team are determined that he will never stand trial.
11:00 Goodnight Mr. Bean
11:30 Wild Travels
EARLY MORNING
12:00 Austin City Limits: Jenny Lewis/Muna
1:00 Doc Martin: Wild West Country See Sat. Oct. 14 at 7:00 pm. [R]
2:00 Father Brown: The Hidden Man See Sat. Oct. 14 at 8:00 pm. [R]
3:00 Frankie Drake Mysteries: Diamonds Are a Gal’s Best Friend See Sat. Oct. 14 at 9:00 pm. [R]
4:00 Goodnight Mr. Bean [R]
4:30 Wild Travels [R]
5:00 BBC News
5:30 Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
MORNING-AFTERNOON
6:00-1:00 WTTW Kids
1:00 Antiques Roadshow
2:00 Essential Pépin
2:30 Steven Raichlen’s Project Fire
3:00 Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television
3:30 America’s Test Kitchen
4:00 Death in Paradise
5:00 BBC News America
5:30 Chicago Tonight
EVENING
6:00 PBS NewsHour
7:00 The American Buffalo: Blood Memory (Part 1 of 2) Ken Burns traces the buffalo’s evolution and its significance to the Indigenous people and landscape of the Great Plains.
9:00 The American Buffalo: Blood Memory (Part 1 of 2) [R]
11:00 Chicago Tonight [R]
11:30 BBC News
Tuesday 17
EARLY MORNING
12:00 Amanpour and Company
1:00 Hotel Portofino: Returns (Season 2, Part 1 of 6) See Sun. Oct. 15 at 7:00 pm. [R]
2:00 World on Fire Season 2 on Masterpiece (Part 1 of 6) See Sun. Oct. 15 at 8:00 pm. [R]
3:00 Annika Season 2 on Masterpiece (Part 1 of 6) See Sun. Oct. 15 at 9:00 pm. [R]
4:00 The Fall: Wounds of Deadly Hate (Season 3, Part 5 of 6) See Sun. Oct. 15 at 10:00 pm. [R]
5:00 BBC News
5:30 Chicago Tonight [R]
MORNING-AFTERNOON
6:00-1:00 WTTW Kids
1:00 Antiques Roadshow
2:00 Essential Pépin
2:30 Steven Raichlen’s Project Fire
3:00 Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television
3:30 America’s Test Kitchen
4:00 Death in Paradise
5:00 BBC News America
5:30 Chicago Tonight
EVENING
6:00 PBS NewsHour
7:00 The American Buffalo: Into the Storm (Part 2 of 2) By the late 1880s, the buffalo is teetering on the brink of extinction. But a diverse collection of Americans start a movement that rescues the mammal from disappearing forever.
9:00 The American Buffalo: Into the Storm (Part 2 of 2) [R]
11:00 Chicago Tonight [R]
11:30 BBC News
Wednesday 18
EARLY MORNING
12:00 Amanpour and Company
1:00 Hotel Portofino: First Impressions (Season 1, Part 1 of 6) See Sun. Oct. 15 at 1:00 pm. [R]
2:00 Hotel Portofino: Lessons (Season 1, Part 2 of 6) See Sun. Oct. 15 at 2:00 pm. [R]
3:00 Hotel Portofino: Invitations (Season 1, Part 3 of 6) See Sun. Oct. 15 at 3:00 pm. [R]
4:00 Hotel Portofino: Uncoverings (Season 1, Part 4 of 6) See Sun. Oct. 15 at 4:00 pm. [R]
5:00 BBC News
5:30 Chicago Tonight [R]
MORNING-AFTERNOON
6:00-1:00 WTTW Kids
1:00 Antiques Roadshow
2:00 Essential Pepin
2:30 Steven Raichlen’s Project Fire
Kimball’s
8:00 NOVA: Ancient Earth – Life Rising For billions of years, life teemed in Earth’s oceans while the land was desolate and inhospitable.
9:00 Secrets of the Dead: Jurassic Fortunes
10:00 Chicago Tonight: Black Voices [R]
10:30 BBC News
11:00 Amanpour and Company
Thursday 19
EARLY MORNING
12:00 The American Buffalo: Blood Memory (Part 1 of 2) See Mon. Oct. 16 at 7:00 pm. [R]
2:00 Independent Lens: El Equipo See Sat. Oct. 14 at 10:00 pm. [R]
3:30 Next at the Kennedy Center: Ballet Hispanico’s
Doña Perón See Sun. Oct. 15 at 11:30 am. [R]
5:00 BBC News
5:30 Chicago Tonight: Black Voices [R]
MORNING-AFTERNOON
6:00-1:00 WTTW Kids
1:00 Antiques Roadshow
2:00 Essential Pépin
2:30 Steven Raichlen’s Project Fire
3:00 Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television
3:30 America’s Test Kitchen
4:00 Death in Paradise
5:00 BBC News America
5:30 Chicago Tonight: Latino Voices
EVENING
6:00 PBS NewsHour
7:00 Chicago Stories: The Boss and the Bulldozer [R]
8:00 Midsomer Murders: For Death Prepare (in 2 parts) The Midsomer Mummers, an amateur opera company, is in the middle of rehearsals for a charity concert when a dead body is found in the theatre.
9:30 Dream of Italy: Florence
10:00 Chicago Tonight: Latino Voices [R]
10:30 BBC News
11:00 Amanpour and Company
This new two-part series from Ken Burns journeys through more than 10,000 years of North American history and across some of the continent’s most iconic landscapes, tracing the buffalo’s evolution. Visit WTTW’s companion website at wttw.com/americanbuffalo.
Monday and Tuesday, October 16 and 17
7:00 and 9:00 pm
EARLY MORNING
12:00 The American Buffalo: Into the Storm (Part 2 of 2) See Tues. Oct. 17 at 7:00 pm. [R]
2:00 Austin City Limits: Jenny Lewis/Muna [R]
3:00 Hotel Portofino: Discoveries (Season 1, Part 5 of 6) See Sun. Oct. 15 at 5:00 pm. [R]
4:00 Hotel Portofino: Denouements (Season 1, Part 6 of 6) See Sun. Oct. 15 at 6:00 pm. [R]
5:00 BBC News
5:30 Chicago Tonight: Latino Voices [R]
MORNING-AFTERNOON
6:00-1:00 WTTW Kids
1:00 Antiques Roadshow
2:00 Essential Pépin
2:30 Steven Raichlen’s Project Fire
3:00 Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television
3:30 America’s Test Kitchen
4:00 Death in Paradise
5:00 BBC News America
5:30 Chicago Tonight: The Week in Review EVENING 6:00 PBS
Week in Review [R]
7:30 Washington Week with the Atlantic
8:00 Chicago Stories: Jane Addams – Together We Rise
9:00 Ida B. Wells: A Chicago Stories Special This documentary traces Wells’ career as a journalist, activist, and organizer in Chicago.
10:00 The Great Chicago Quiz Show with Geoffrey Baer (Season 2, Part 3 of 6)
10:30 BBC News
11:00 Amanpour and Company
EARLY MORNING
12:00 Chicago Tonight: The Week in Review [R]
12:30 Nature: The Platypus Guardian See Wed.
Oct. 18 at 7:00 pm. [R]
1:30 NOVA: Ancient Earth –Life Rising See Wed.
Oct. 18 at 8:00 pm. [R]
2:30 Secrets of the Dead: Jurassic Fortunes See Wed. Oct. 18 at 9:00 pm. [R]
3:30 Rick Steves’ Europe: Art of Ancient Greece [R]
4:00 Check, Please!
Counter Culture
4:30 The Great Chicago Quiz Show with Geoffrey Baer (Season 2, Part 3 of 6) [R]
5:00 Chicago Tonight: The Week in Review [R]
MORNING
5:30-9:00 WTTW Kids
9:00 Tell Me More with Kelly Corrigan: Matthew Desmond
9:30 Wild Hope: Woodpecker Wars
10:00 This Old House: Lexington –Engineered for Accessibility
10:30 Ask This Old House: Creosote Removal, Utility Cover
11:00 Dooky Chase Kitchen: Leah’s Legacy – Father’s Day Breakfast
11:30 Sara’s Weeknight Meals
AFTERNOON
12:00 Cook’s Country
12:30 Jacques Pépin: Wonders of the Sea
1:00 Lidia’s Kitchen: Good Friends & Good Food
1:30 Steven Raichlen’s Planet Barbecue: Texas Trinity
9:30
Chicago Stories: Jane Addams –Together We Rise
Chicago Stories profiles this Nobel Peace Prize-winning activist and the cadre of indefatigable women who joined her to enrich the lives of thousands of immigrant families.
Friday, October 20 8:00 pm
2:00 America’s Test Kitchen: Holiday Dessert and Salad
2:30 America’s Test Kitchen: Chicken Two Ways
3:00 Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television: Miso, The Magic Ingredient
3:30 My Greek Table with Diane Kochilas: Chewing the Sea
4:00 Pati’s Mexican Table: Yucatan Meats
4:30 Check, Please! Counter Culture [R]
5:00 Rick Steves’ Europe:
1:00 Lidia’s Kitchen
1:30 Steven Raichlen’s Planet Barbecue
2:00 America’s Test Kitchen
2:30 America’s Test Kitchen
3:00 Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television
3:30 My Greek Table with Diane Kochilas
4:00 Pati’s Mexican Table
4:30 Check, Please!
5:00 Rick Steves’ Europe
Ancient Roman Art
5:30 PBS News Weekend
EVENING
6:00 Chicago Stories: Jane
Addams – Together We Rise See Fri. Oct. 20 at 8:00 pm. [R]
7:00 Doc Martin: Equilibrium Martin and Louisa have their first fertility consultation with Dr. Emma Ryder.
8:00 Father Brown: The Royal Visit The visit of Princess Margaret to Kembleford is in jeopardy when a school janitor is found murdered.
9:00 Frankie Drake Mysteries: Dealer’s Choice Frankie and Trudy reluctantly take a case from mob boss Bessie Starkman.
10:00 Midsomer Murders: For Death Prepare (in 2 parts) See Thurs. Oct. 19 at 8:00 pm. [R]
11:30 Chicago Stories: Jane
Addams – Together We Rise [R]
Sunday 22
EARLY MORNING
12:30 Death in Paradise: Until Death Do You Part
1:25 Death in Paradise: Swimming in Murder
2:20 Death in Paradise: The Perfect Murder
3:13 Death in Paradise: She
Was Murdered Twice
4:06 Death in Paradise: Unlike Father, Unlike Son
5:00 Eat to Sleep
MORNING
6:30-10:00 WTTW Kids
10:00 The American Buffalo: Blood Memory (Part 1 of 2) [R]
AFTERNOON
12:30 The American Buffalo: Into the Storm (Part 2 of 2) [R]
3:00 Downton Abbey Season 6 on Masterpiece (Part 5 of 9) Thomas makes Andy a generous offer. A powerful politician comes to dinner.
4:15 Downton Abbey Season 6 on Masterpiece (Part 6 of 9) The hospital war reaches a climax. Violet goes on the warpath. Daisy tries to foil a romance.
5:30 PBS NewsHour Weekend
EVENING
6:00 Little Bird: Love Is All Around (Part 1 of 6)
7:00 Hotel Portofino: Alliances (Season 2, Part 2 of 6) As Cecil tries to buy his way back into Bella’s affections, Lucian and Constance acknowledge their mutual attraction.
8:00 World on Fire Season 2 on Masterpiece (Part 2 of 6) Harry struggles to adapt to the realities of desert combat and Lois longs to leave home. In Paris,
BBC News
Midsomer Murders
Frankie Drake Mysteries
Father Brown
Doc Martin
Chicago Stories: Jane Addams –Together…
Penny: Champion …
The Fall
America ReFramed: Little Miss Westie
Les Miserables: The 25th Anniversary Concert Independent Lens: More Than a Month
Welcome to My Farm Hotel Portofino: Alliances
Annika Season 2 on Masterpiece
The American Buffalo: Into the Storm
Joy of Painting
World on Fire Season 2 on Masterpiece
Baking with Julia Little Bird: Love Is All Around
College Behind Bars: Part Two The American Buffalo: Blood Memory
Pati’s Mexican Table The Great American Recipe Bars:
Big Band Years 11.5
Richard Bangs’ Advenures with Purpose 11.1
Sara’s Weeknight … Yan Can Cook
Sara’s Weeknight … Advenures with Purpose
Milk Street College
Part One Folk Rewind (5:00)
Behind 11.2
Joy of Painting 22 SUN
Out of Exile: The Photography of Fred Stein
11.3 Moveable Feast … Cook's Country The Great American Recipe
Nature: The Platypus Guardian
Richard Bangs’ Lidia’s Kitchen 11.5
Chicago Tonight
Antiques Roadshow
PBS NewsHour
11.1
In the Americas
Ireland Made with Love
BBC News 11.2
’60s Pop, Rock & Soul
Ireland with Michael
Rick Steves …
Sara’s Weeknight …
Sara’s Weeknight …
Dooky Chase …
America’s Test …
Cook’s Country
Nature: The Hummingbird Effect 11.3
People of the North
DW The Day
PBS NewsHour
Stories from the …
Our Time
Oceans of Pink
Joy of Painting 11.5
Journey Through Breast Cancer
Chicago Tonight
Potentially Dangerous
Native America: New Worlds
Finding Your Roots
PBS NewsHour
11.1
Poldark
Around The World in 80 Days
All Creatures Great and Small
BBC News 11.2
Aging Backwards 3
Daytripper
Travelscope
Rick Steves …
Sara’s Weeknight …
Sara’s Weeknight …
Dooky Chase…
Milk Street
Kevin Belton
BBC News 24 TUE
Frankie Drake Mysteries 11.3
Wine First
DW The Day
PBS NewsHour
The Good Road
The Good Road
Secrets of the Dead
Joy of Painting 11.5
NOVA: Ancient Earth –Life Rising
Chicago Tonight
Secrets of the Dead: Eiffel’s Race to the Top
NOVA: Ancient Earth –Inferno
Spy in the Ocean: A Nature Miniseries …
PBS NewsHour
11.1
Downton Abbey
Downton Abbey
Downton Abbey
BBC News 11.2
Rick Steves Italy
Outside: Beyond …
Family Travel with …
Rick Steves …
Sara’s Weeknight …
Sara’s Weeknight …
Dooky Chase…
Lidia’s Kitchen
Rick Steves … 11.3
BBC News 25 WED
Cook’s Country
Project Fire
DW The Day
PBS NewsHour
POV: Aurora’s Sunrise
Joy of Painting 11.5
Repairing the World: Stories from the Tree of Life
Chicago Tonight
Dream of Italy
Chicago Stories: The Boss and the Bulldozer Midsomer Murders
PBS NewsHour
11.1
John Sebastian’s Folk Rewind
BBC News 11.2
Big Band Years
Burt Wolf …
Weekends with …
Rick Steves …
Sara’s Weeknight …
Sara’s Weeknight …
Dooky Chase …
Pati’s Mexican Table Milk Street
BBC News 26 THU
Doc Martin 11.3
Tastemakers
DW The Day
PBS NewsHour
Rosemary
America ReFramed
Joy of Painting 11.5
Women and the Vote
Chicago Quiz Show
Chicago Stories: The Real Mad Men of …
Chicago Stories: Candy Capital
Washington Week
The Week in Review
PBS NewsHour
11.1
The Fall
Magpie Murders
Frankie Drake Mysteries
BBC News 11.2
Rick Steves Why We Travel
America’s Test …
America’s Test …
America’s Test …
America’s Test …
America’s Test …
Dooky Chase …
America’s Test …
Cook’s Country
BBC News 27 FRI
Aging Backwards 4 11.3
Sara’s Weeknight …
DW The Day
PBS NewsHour
The American Buffalo: Into the Storm
America’s Test … 11.5
Native America: New Worlds
Frankie Drake Mysteries
Father Brown
Doc Martin
Chicago Stories: Candy Capital
11.1
POV: Aurora’s Sunrise 11.2
Baking with Julia
Richard Bangs’ Advenures with Purpose
Joy of Painting
Joy of Painting
Pati’s Mexican Table The Great American Recipe
African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross 11.3
BBC News 28 SAT
Milk Street
America ReFramed
College Behind Bars: Part Four
College Behind Bars: Part Three
Welcome to My Farm 11.5
Addict’s Wake
Annika Season 2 on Masterpiece
World on Fire Season 2 on Masterpiece
Hotel Portofino: Comings Together
Little Bird: So Put Together
11.1
Yan Can Cook
Richard Bangs’ Advenures with Purpose
John Sebastian’s Folk Rewind
Rick Steves Italy
Coming Home 11.2
Rick Steves (5:00)
America’s Test …
America’s Test …
The Great American Recipe
Rosemary 29 SUN
Memory Makeover 11.3
Cook's Country
Moveable Feast …
Finding Your Roots
Lidia’s Kitchen 11.5
Spy in the Wild, A Nature Miniseries
Spy in the Wild, A Nature Miniseries
Chicago Tonight
Music Videos that Shaped the ’80s
The War on Disco: American Experience
Antiques Roadshow
PBS NewsHour
11.1
America Outdoors with Baratunde Thurston Spy In The Wild
NOVA: London Super Tunnel
BBC News 11.2
Ask This Old House
This Old House
In the Americas
Ireland with Michael
Rick Steves …
America’s Test …
America’s Test …
Dooky Chase …
America’s Test …
Secrets of the Dead 11.3
Zora Neale Hurston –Claiming a Space: American Experience 30 MON
Cook’s Country
Family Ingredients
DW The Day
PBS NewsHour
Stories from the …
Our Time
Joy of Painting 11.5
POV: He’s My Brother
Independent Lens: Matter of Mind –My ALS
Chicago Tonight
Frontline: McConnell, the GOP, & the Court
Native America: Warrior Spirit
Finding Your Roots
PBS NewsHour
11.1
Poldark
Around The World in 80 Days
All Creatures Great and Small
Flavor of Poland
BBC News 11.2
Flavor of Poland
Daytripper
DW The Day
Travelscope
Rick Steves …
PBS NewsHour
America’s Test …
The Good Road
America’s Test …
The Good Road
Dooky Chase…
Milk Street
Secrets of the Dead
Kevin Belton
Frankie Drake Mysteries 11.3
Joy of Painting 11.5
BBC News 31 TUE
Wine First
NOVA: Ancient Earth –Inferno
BBC News 2023 OCTOBER 15
Inspired by true events, this sixpart series follows the story of Indigenous woman Bezhig Little Bird/Esther Rosenblum on a journey to find her birth family and uncover the truth of her past.
Sundays beginning October 22, 6:00 pm
Henriette is in grave danger, and a mysterious stranger arrives at Robina’s door.
9:00 Annika Season 2 on Masterpiece (Part 2 of 6)
The team investigates the death of a recently released prisoner whose body is pulled out of the Forth River.
10:00 The Fall: Their Solitary Way (Season 3, Part 6 of 6)
The series concludes as Gibson and Anderson put fresh evidence to Spector, with explosive results.
11:00 Hair by Mr. Bean of London
11:30 Wild Travels
EARLY MORNING
12:00 Austin City Limits: Lil Yachty/Sudan Archives
1:00 Doc Martin: Equilibrium See Sat. Oct. 21 at 7:00 pm. [R]
2:00 Father Brown: The Royal Visit See Sat. Oct. 21 at 8:00 pm. [R]
3:00 Frankie Drake Mysteries: Dealer’s Choice See Sat. Oct. 21 at 9:00 pm. [R]
4:00 Hotel Portofino: Alliances (Season 2, Part 2 of 6) See Sun. Oct. 22 at 7:00 pm. [R]
5:00 BBC News
5:30 Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
MORNING-AFTERNOON
6:00-1:00 WTTW Kids
1:00 Antiques Roadshow
2:00 Essential Pepin
2:30 Steven Raichlen’s Project Fire
3:00 Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television
3:30 America’s Test Kitchen
4:00 Death in Paradise
5:00 BBC News America
5:30 Chicago Tonight
EVENING
6:00 PBS NewsHour
7:00 Antiques Roadshow: Vintage Chattanooga (Part 1 of 2)
Updated finds include a Rolex Red Submariner circa 1970, a 1932 Los Angeles Olympic Games banner, and a diamond and pearl necklace circa 1905.
8:00 Antiques Roadshow: Vintage Wichita (Part 1 of 2) Discover updated appraisals such as an Edward Onslow Ford bronze, a 1962 left-handed Fender Stratocaster, and a Goldsmith Chandlee surveyor’s compass from around 1790.
9:00 Peter Falk Versus Columbo
10:00 Chicago Tonight [R]
10:30 BBC News
11:00 Amanpour and Company
EARLY MORNING
12:00 Hotel Portofino: Alliances (Season 2, Part 2 of 6) See Sun. Oct. 22 at 7:00 pm. [R]
1:00 World on Fire Season 2 on Masterpiece (Part 2 of 6) See Sun. Oct. 22 at 8:00 pm. [R]
2:00 Annika Season 2 on Masterpiece (Part 2 of 6) [R]
3:00 The Fall: Their Solitary Way (Season 3, Part 6 of 6) See Sun. Oct. 22 at 10:00 pm. [R]
4:00 Hair by Mr. Bean of London [R]
4:30 Wild Travels [R]
5:00 BBC News
5:30 Chicago Tonight [R]
MORNING-AFTERNOON
6:00-1:00 WTTW Kids
1:00 Antiques Roadshow
2:00 Essential Pépin
2:30 Steven Raichlen’s Project Fire
3:00 Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television
3:30 America’s Test Kitchen
4:00 Death in Paradise
5:00 BBC News America
5:30 Chicago Tonight
EVENING
6:00 PBS NewsHour
7:00 Finding Your Roots: And Still I Rise Henry Louis Gates reveals the unexpected family trees of activist Angela Y. Davis and statesman Jeh Johnson.
8:00 Native America: New Worlds (Season 2, Part 1 of 4) From the surface of Mars to the New York City hip-hop
scene to the Pine Ridge Reservation, Native traditions are transforming life on Earth and other worlds.
9:00 Potentially Dangerous
10:00 Chicago Tonight [R]
10:30 BBC News
11:00 Amanpour and Company
EARLY MORNING
12:00 Antiques Roadshow: Vintage Chattanooga (Part 1 of 2) See Mon. Oct. 23 at 7:00 pm. [R]
1:00 Antiques Roadshow: Vintage Wichita (Part 1 of 2) See Mon. Oct. 23 at 8:00 pm. [R]
2:00 Peter Falk Versus Columbo See Mon. Oct. 23 at 9:00 pm. [R]
3:00 Nature: The Platypus Guardian [R]
4:00 NOVA: Ancient Earth –Life Rising [R]
5:00 BBC News
5:30 Chicago Tonight [R]
MORNING-AFTERNOON
6:00-1:00 WTTW Kids
1:00 Antiques Roadshow
2:00 Essential Pepin
2:30 Steven Raichlen’s Project Fire
3:00 Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television
3:30 America’s Test Kitchen
4:00 Death in Paradise
5:00 BBC News America
5:30 Chicago Tonight: Black Voices
EVENING
6:00 PBS NewsHour
7:00 Spy in the Ocean: A Nature Miniseries – Deep Thinkers (Part 1 of 4)
8:00 NOVA: Ancient Earth –Inferno 252 million years ago, a devastating mass extinction wiped out about 90% of all species on Earth. Follow scientists as they discover how life survived and set the stage for the dinosaurs.
9:00 Secrets of the Dead: Eiffel’s Race to the Top
10:00 Chicago Tonight: Black Voices [R]
10:30 BBC News
11:00 Amanpour and Company
Thursday 26
EARLY MORNING
12:00 Finding Your Roots: And Still I Rise See Tues. Oct. 24 at 7:00 pm. [R]
1:00 Native America: New Worlds (Season 2, Part 1 of 4) See Tues. Oct. 24 at 8:00 pm. [R]
2:00 Potentially Dangerous See Tues. Oct. 24 at 9:00 pm. [R]
3:00 Austin City Limits: Lil Yachty/Sudan Archives [R]
4:00 Antiques Roadshow: Vintage Chattanooga (Part 1 of 2) [R]
5:00 BBC News
5:30 Chicago Tonight: Black Voices [R]
MORNING-AFTERNOON
6:00-1:00 WTTW Kids
1:00 Antiques Roadshow
2:00 Essential Pépin
2:30 Steven Raichlen’s Project Fire
3:00 Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television
3:30 America’s Test Kitchen
4:00 Death in Paradise
5:00 BBC News America
5:30 Chicago Tonight: Latino Voices
EVENING
6:00 PBS NewsHour
7:00 Chicago Stories: The Boss and the Bulldozer [R]
8:00 Midsomer Murders: Witches of Angel’s Rise (in 2 parts) When a body is found surrounded by ritual symbols on the eve of a Psychic Fayre, Barnaby must step into the spiritual world to find the killer.
9:30 Dream of Italy: Abruzzo
10:00 Chicago Tonight: Latino Voices [R]
10:30 BBC News
11:00 Amanpour and Company
EARLY MORNING
12:00 Spy in the Ocean: A Nature Miniseries – Deep Thinkers (Part 1 of 4) See Wed. Oct. 25 at 7:00 pm. [R]
1:00 NOVA: Ancient Earth –Inferno See Wed. Oct. 25 at 8:00 pm. [R]
2:00 Secrets of the Dead: Eiffel’s Race to the Top See Wed. Oct. 25 at 9:00 pm. [R]
3:00 Little Bird: Love Is All Around (Part 1 of 6) See Sun. Oct. 22 at 6:00 pm. [R]
4:00 Doc Martin: Equilibrium [R]
MORNING-AFTERNOON
6:00-1:00 WTTW Kids
1:00 Antiques Roadshow
2:00 Essential Pépin
2:30 Steven Raichlen’s Project Fire
3:00 Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television
3:30 America’s Test Kitchen
4:00 Death in Paradise
5:00 BBC News America
5:30 Chicago Tonight: The Week in Review
EVENING
6:00 PBS NewsHour
7:00 Chicago Tonight: The Week in Review [R]
7:30 Washington Week with the Atlantic
8:00 Chicago Stories: Candy Capital
9:00 Chicago Stories: The Real Mad Men of Chicago
Meet the local advertising executives who created
November 4 - 25
such iconic figures as the Marlboro Man, Charlie Tuna, and the Pillsbury Dough Boy.
10:00 The Great Chicago Quiz Show with Geoffrey Baer (Season 2, Part 4 of 6)
10:30 BBC News
11:00 Amanpour and Company
EARLY MORNING
12:00 Chicago Tonight: The Week in Review [R]
12:30 Downton Abbey Season 6 on Masterpiece (Part 5 of 9) See Sun. Oct. 22 at 3:00 pm. [R]
1:45 Downton Abbey Season 6 on Masterpiece (Part 6 of 9) See Sun. Oct. 22 at 4:15 pm. [R]
3:00 Midsomer Murders: Witches of Angel’s Rise (in 2 parts) See Thurs. Oct. 26 at 8:00 pm. [R]
4:30 The Great Chicago Quiz Show with Geoffrey Baer (Season 2, Part 4 of 6) [R]
5:00 Chicago Tonight: The Week in Review [R]
MORNING
5:30-9:00 WTTW Kids
9:00 Tell Me More with Kelly Corrigan: Ginni Rometty
9:30 Wild Hope: Does Nature Have Rights?
10:00 This Old House: Lexington – Gone Geo
10:30 Ask This Old House: Generator Hookup, Brick Lintel Repair
11:00 Dooky Chase Kitchen: Leah’s Legacy –Christmas Traditions
11:30 Sara’s Weeknight Meals
AFTERNOON
12:00 Cook’s Country
12:30 Jacques Pepin: Menu Memories
1:00 Lidia’s Kitchen: Something Special
1:30 Steven Raichlen’s Planet Barbecue: Fire and Spice
2:00 America’s Test Kitchen: Vindaloo and Chana Masala
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3:00 Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television: Meaty Stews
3:30 My Greek Table with Diane Kochilas: Lemon, Oregano, and Smoke - The Greek Grill
4:00
Pati’s Mexican Table: Recados
4:30 Check, Please! Kabobi Grill, Cindy’s, Sunset Pho Caffe
5:00 Rick Steves’ Europe: Art of the Roman Empire
5:30 PBS News Weekend
EVENING
6:00 Chicago Stories: Candy Capital See Fri. Oct. 27
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This documentary explores how Chicago became known as “the candy capital of the world,” and tells the stories of some of the intrepid immigrant confectioners behind the many iconic brands we still love today.
Friday, October 27 8:00 pm
5:00 Memory Makeover with Daniel Amen, MD
MORNING
6:30-10:00 WTTW Kids
10:00 Flavor of Poland Marathon Follow host Aleksandra August as she explores Bialystok, Olsztyn, and Gdansk.
11:30 Great Performances: New York City Ballet in Madrid Enjoy a collection of works recorded during the company’s European tour in spring 2023, including two masterpieces choreographed by George Balanchine.
AFTERNOON
1:00 Art21: Art in the TwentyFirst Century: Friends and Strangers Four contemporary artists find emotional connections and build community.
2:00 Next at the Kennedy Center: Embracing Duality – Modern Indigenous Culture Watch special performances and interviews by writer and artist Ty Defoe, singersongwriter Martha Redbone, and electronic music duo The Halluci Nation.
EARLY MORNING
12:00 Austin City Limits: Margo Price/Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway
1:00 Doc Martin: Single White Bevy See Sat.
Oct. 28 at 7:00 pm. [R]
2:00 Father Brown: The Show Must Go On See Sat.
Oct. 28 at 8:00 pm. [R]
3:00 Frankie Drake Mysteries: Now You See Her See Sat.
Oct. 28 at 9:00 pm. [R]
4:00 Hotel Portofino: Comings
Together (Season 2, Part 3 of 6) See Sun. Oct. 29 at 7:00 pm. [R]
5:00 BBC News
5:30 Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
MORNING-AFTERNOON
6:00-1:00 WTTW Kids
1:00 Antiques Roadshow
2:00 Essential Pépin
2:30 Steven Raichlen’s Project Fire
3:00 Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television
3:30 America’s Test Kitchen
4:00 Death in Paradise
5:00 BBC News America
2:30 Steven Raichlen’s Project Fire
3:00 Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television
3:30 America’s Test Kitchen
4:00 Death in Paradise
5:00 BBC News America
5:30 Chicago Tonight
EVENING
6:00 PBS NewsHour
7:00 Finding Your Roots: Anchormen Henry Louis Gates introduces journalists Jim Acosta and Van Jones to the ancestors who blazed a trail for them.
8:00 Native America: Warrior Spirit (Season 2, Part 2 of 4) Across Native America, warrior traditions support incredible athletes and connect people to combat, games, and glory.
9:00 Frontline: McConnell, the GOP & the Court Frontline examines how Republican Senator Mitch McConnell helped transform the Supreme Court and U.S. politics. Explore his rise and role in pushing the judiciary to the right, and America’s polarized democracy.
5:30 Chicago Tonight
EVENING
10:00 Chicago Tonight [R]
10:30 BBC News
11:00 Amanpour and Company at 8:00 pm. [R]
7:00 Doc Martin: Single White Bevy Local vet Angela Sim has to consult Martin about a lump in her breast.
8:00 Father Brown: The Show Must Go On Father Brown discovers there’s more drama offstage than on in the latest production by the Kembleford Players.
9:00 Frankie Drake Mysteries: Now You See Her When a magician’s assistant is killed, Frankie goes undercover to find the culprit.
10:00 POV: Aurora’s Sunrise At 14, Aurora Madriganian survived the horrors of the Armenian Genocide and escaped to New York, where she starred as herself in Auction of Souls, one of Hollywood’s earliest blockbusters.
11:30 Chicago Stories: Candy Capital [R]
Sunday 29
EARLY MORNING
12:30 Chicago Stories: The Real Mad Men of Chicago See Fri. Oct. 27 at 9:00 pm. [R]
1:30 Secrets of the Dead: Eiffel’s Race to the Top See Wed. Oct. 25 at 9:00 pm. [R]
2:30 Downton Abbey Season 6 on Masterpiece (Part 5 of 9) [R]
3:45 Downton Abbey Season 6 on Masterpiece (Part 6 of 9) [R]
3:00 Downton Abbey Season 6 on Masterpiece (Part 7 of 9) A car race gives Mary flashbacks. Mrs. Patmore opens for business. Mrs. Hughes tricks Carson.
4:13 Downton Abbey Season 6 on Masterpiece (Part 8 of 9) Two romances get complicated. Molesley and Spratt try out new jobs. Thomas takes a fateful step.
6:00 Little Bird: So Put Together (Part 2 of 6)
7:00 Hotel Portofino: Comings Together (Season 2, Part 3 of 6) Cecil becomes embroiled with gangsters who have taken over the local casino.
8:00 World on Fire Season 2 on Masterpiece (Part 3 of 6) As Stan and Rajib make a hasty retreat across the desert, Marga reasserts her commitment to the Fuhrer.
9:00 Annika Season 2 on Masterpiece (Part 3 of 6) Annika and her team investigate a Scottish millionaire found dead in his own shark tank.
10:00 Coming Home Go behind the scenes of the production of Little Bird and the groundbreaking movement for Indigenous narrative sovereignty.
11:30 Wild Travels
6:00 PBS NewsHour
7:00 Antiques Roadshow: Thrills and Chills Finds include a MAD Issue 8 complete “Frank N. Stein” story, a German wax-head doll, and a Georgian & Victorian mourning jewelry collection.
8:00 The War on Disco: American Experience
9:00 Music Videos that Shaped the ’80s Explore some top videos that influenced the music video industry today.
10:00 Chicago Tonight [R]
10:30 BBC News
11:00 Amanpour and Company
EARLY MORNING
12:00 Hotel Portofino: Comings Together (Season 2, Part 3 of 6) [R]
1:00 World on Fire Season 2 on Masterpiece (Part 3 of 6) See Sun. Oct. 29 at 8:00 pm. [R]
2:00 Annika Season 2 on Masterpiece (Part 3 of 6) See Sun. Oct. 29 at 9:00 pm. [R]
3:00 POV: Aurora’s Sunrise See Sat. Oct. 28 at 10:00 pm. [R]
4:30 Wild Travels [R]
5:00 BBC News
5:30 Chicago Tonight [R]
MORNING-AFTERNOON
6:00-1:00 WTTW Kids
1:00 Antiques Roadshow
2:00 Essential Pépin
This new documentary explores the cultural movement that gave rise to disco music and the backlash that followed, beginning with the first of many anti-disco events: the violent “Disco Demolition” at Chicago’s Comiskey Park in July 1979.
Monday, October 30
8:00 pm
36th Hispanic Heritage Awards
Sunday, 6:00 pm (10/1)
Wednesday, 2:00 am (10/4)
’60s Pop, Rock & Soul
Saturday, 3:00 am (10/14)
’70s Soul Superstars
Sunday, 2:30 am (10/8)
All Star Orchestra
Sunday, 11:00 am (10/1)
Austin City Limits
Mondays, 12:00 am
Thursday, 4:00 am (10/5)
Friday, 2:00 am (10/20)
Thursday, 3:00 am (10/26)
Great Performances: New York City
Ballet in Madrid
Sunday, 11:30 am (10/29)
Next at the Kennedy Center
Sunday, 11:30 am (10/15)
Thursday, 3:30 am (10/19)
Sunday, 2:00 pm (10/29)
Annika on Masterpiece
Sundays, 9:00 pm (10/15, 10/22, 10/29)
Tuesday, 3:00 am (10/17)
Tuesdays, 2:00 am (10/24, 10/31)
Coming Home
Sunday, 10:00 pm (10/29)
Death in Paradise
Mondays-Fridays, 4:00 pm
Sunday, 12:30 am, 1:25 am, 2:20 am, 3:13 am, 4:06 am (10/22)
Doc Martin
Saturdays, 7:00 pm
Mondays, 1:00 am
Friday, 4:00 am (10/17)
Unforgotten on Masterpiece
Sundays, 8:00 pm (10/1, 10/8)
Tuesdays, 1:00 am (10/3, 10/10)
Van Der Valk on Masterpiece
Sundays, 9:00 pm (10/1, 10/8)
Tuesdays, 2:00 am (10/3, 10/10)
World on Fire on Masterpiece
Sundays, 12:00 pm, 1:00 pm, 2:00 pm (10/1, 10/8)
Mondays, 4:00 am (10/2, 10/9)
Friday, 3:00 am, 4:00 am (10/6, 10/13)
Sundays, 8:00 pm (10/15, 10/22, 10/29)
Tuesday, 2:00 am (10/17)
Tuesdays, 1:00 am (10/24, 10/31)
America Outdoors with Baratunde
Thurston
Wednesdays, 7:00 pm (10/4, 10/11)
Fridays, 12:00 am (10/6, 10/13)
Sunday, 5:00 am (10/15)
Antiques Roadshow
Mondays, 7:00 pm
Mondays, 8:00 pm (10/2, 10/9, 10/23)
Mondays-Fridays, 1:00 pm
Wednesdays, 12:00 am, 1:00 am (10/4, 10/11, 10/25)
Thursday, 4:00 am (10/26)
Ask This Old House
Saturdays, 10:30 am
Check, Please!
Saturdays, 4:30 pm
Saturday, 4:00 am (10/21)
Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street
Television
Mondays-Saturdays, 3:00 pm
Cook’s Country
Saturdays, 12:00 pm
Dooky Chase Kitchen: Leah’s Legacy
Saturdays, 11:00 am
Dream of Italy
Thursdays, 9:30 pm
Essential Pépin
Mondays-Fridays, 2:00 pm
Family Travel
Sunday, 10:00 am (10/8)
Flavor of Poland
Sundays, 10:00 am, 10:30 am, 11:00 am
(10/15, 10/29)
Jacques Pepin: Heart & Soul
Saturdays, 12:30 pm
Joseph Rosendo’s Travelscope
Sunday, 6:30 pm (10/8)
Lidia’s Kitchen
Saturdays, 1:00 pm
My Greek Table
Saturdays, 3:30 pm
Patti’s Mexican Table
Saturdays, 4:00 pm
Aging Backwards 4: The Miracle of Flexibility
Sunday, 4:00 am (10/15)
Brain Revolution
Sunday, 5:00 am (10/1)
Saturday, 3:00 am (10/7)
Demystifying Detox
Sunday, 5:00 am (10/8)
Sunday, 2:00 am (10/15)
Evolution Earth
Wednesday, 9:00 pm (10/4)
Friday, 2:00 am (10/6)
Memory Makeover with Daniel Amen, MD
Sunday, 5:00 am (10/29)
Nature
Wednesday, 7:00 pm (10/18)
Saturday, 12:30 am (10/21)
Wednesday, 3:00 am (10/25)
NOVA
Wednesdays, 8:00 pm
Fridays, 1:00 am (10/6, 10/13, 10/27)
Saturday, 1:30 am (10/21)
Wednesday, 4:00 am (10/25)
Spy in the Ocean, A Nature Miniseries
Wednesday, 7:00 pm (10/25)
Friday, 12:00 am (10/27)
Wild Hope
Saturdays, 9:30 am
Thursday, 3:00 am (10/12)
10 Streets that Changed America
Monday, 9:00 pm (10/2)
Thursday, 3:00 am (10/5)
Amanpour and Company
Mondays-Fridays, 11:00 pm
American Buffalo
Monday, 7:00 pm, 9:00 pm (10/16)
Tuesday, 7:00 pm, 9:00 pm (10/17)
Thursday, 12:00 am (10/19)
Friday, 12:00 am (10/20)
Sunday, 10:00 am, 12:30 pm (10/22)
American Experience: The War on Disco
Monday, 8:00 pm (10/30)
American Masters
Wednesday, 3:00 am (10/4)
Sunday, 10:30 am (10/8)
Thursday, 3:30 am (10/12)
America’s Test Kitchen from Cook’s Illustrated
Saturdays, 2:00 pm, 2:30 pm
Mondays-Fridays, 3:30 pm
Art21: Art in the Twenty-First Century
Sunday, 1:00 pm (10/29)
BBC News
Chicago Stories: The Boss and the Bulldozer
Friday, 8:00 pm (10/13)
Saturday, 6:00 pm, 11:30 pm (10/14)
Thursday, 7:00 pm (10/19)
Chicago Stories: The Real Mad Men of Chicago
Friday, 9:00 pm (10/27)
Sunday, 12:30 am (10/29)
Chicago Stories: Union Stockyards
Friday, 9:00 pm (10/6)
Chicago Tonight
Mondays-Tuesdays, 5:30 pm, 10:00 pm
Tuesdays-Wednesdays, 5:30 am
Monday, 11:00 pm (10/16)
Tuesday, 11:00 pm (10/17)
Chicago Tonight: Black Voices
Wednesdays, 5:30 pm
Thursdays, 5:30 am
Chicago Tonight: Latino Voices
Thursdays, 5:30 pm
Fridays, 5:30 am
Chicago Tonight: The Week in Review
Fridays, 5:30 pm, 7:00 pm
Saturdays, 12:00 am, 5:00 am
Eat to Sleep
Sunday, 5:00 am (10/22)
Finding Your Roots
Tuesdays, 7:00 pm (10/3, 10/10, 10/24, 10/31)
Thursdays, 12:00 am (10/5, 10/12, 10/26)
Firing Line
Mondays, 5:30 am
Frontline
Tuesday, 9:00 pm (10/3)
Thursday, 2:00 am (10/5)
Tuesday, 8:00 pm (10/10)
Thursday, 1:00 am (10/12)
Great Chicago Quiz Show
Fridays, 10:00 pm
Sunday, 2:00 am (10/8)
Saturdays, 4:30 am (10/21, 10/28)
Ida B. Wells: A Chicago Stories Special
Friday, 9:00 pm (10/20)
Independent Lens
Saturday, 10:00 pm (10/14)
Thursday, 2:00 am (10/19)
Native America
Tuesdays, 8:00 pm (10/24, 10/31)
Thursday, 1:00 am (10/26)
PBS News Weekend
Sundays, 5:30 pm (10/1, 10/8, 10/22)
Saturdays, 5:30 pm
PBS NewsHour
Mondays-Fridays, 6:00 pm
Peter Falk Versus Columbo
Monday, 9:00 pm (10/30)
Wednesday, 2:00 am (10/25)
Potentially Dangerous
Tuesday, 9:00 pm (10/24)
Thursday, 2:00 am (10/26)
POV
4:00 am (10/23, 10/30)
Tuesdays, 12:00 am (10/24, 10/31)
Little Bird
Sundays, 6:00 pm (10/22, 10/29)
Friday, 3:00 am (10/27)
Midsomer Murders
Thursdays, 8:00 pm, 8:50 pm
Sundays, 12:30 am, 1:20 am (10/8, 10/15)
Saturday, 10:00 pm, 10:50 pm (10/21)
Saturday, 3:00 am, 3:45 am (10/28)
Mr. Bean
Sundays, 11:00 pm (10/1, 10/8, 10/15, 10/22)
Tuesdays, 4:00 am (10/3, 10/10, 10/24)
Professor T
Sundays, 7:00 pm (10/1, 10/8)
Tuesdays, 12:00 am (10/3, 10/10)
The Fall
Sundays, 10:00 pm
Tuesdays, 3:00 am (10/3, 10/10, 10/24)
Monday, 4:00 am (10/16)
Tuesday, 4:00 am (10/17)
Rick Steves’ Europe
Wednesday, 4:30 am (10/4)
Saturdays, 5:00 pm
Wednesday, 3:00 am (10/11)
Saturday, 3:30 am (10/21)
Sara’s Weeknight Meals
Saturdays, 11:30 am
Steven Raichlen’s Planet Barbecue
Saturdays, 1:30 pm
Steven Raichlen’s Project Fire
Mondays-Fridays, 2:30 pm
This Old House
Saturdays, 10:00 am
Wild Travels
Sundays, 11:30 pm
Tuesdays, 4:30 am (10/3, 10/10, 10/24, 10/31)
Mondays-Fridays, 5:00 am, 10:30 pm
BBC News America
Mondays-Fridays, 5:00 pm
Becoming Frida Kahlo
Tuesday, 8:00 pm (10/3)
Thursday, 1:00 am (10/5)
Chicago Stories: Candy Capital
Friday, 8:00 pm (10/27)
Saturday, 6:00 pm, 11:30 pm (10/28)
Chicago Stories: Jane Addams –Together We Rise
Friday, 8:00 pm (10/20)
Saturday, 6:00 pm, 11:30 pm (10/21)
Thursday, 7:00 pm (10/26)
Chicago Stories: Jane Byrne
Friday, 9:00 pm (10/13)
Chicago Stories: Pullman and the Railroad Rebellion
Friday, 8:00 pm (10/6)
Saturday, 6:00 pm, 11:30 pm (10/7)
Thursday, 7:00 pm (10/12)
Chicago Stories: Race to Reverse the River
Thursday, 7:00 pm (10/5)
Saturdays, 10:00 pm (10/7, 10/28)
Wednesday, 3:30 am (10/11)
Tuesday, 3:00 am (10/31)
Pritzker Military Presents
Sunday, 10:00 am (10/1)
Secrets of the Dead
Wednesdays, 9:00 pm (10/11, 10/18)
Fridays, 2:00 am (10/13, 10/27)
Saturday, 2:30 am (10/21)
Sunday, 1:30 am (10/29)
Tell Me More with Kelly Corrigan
Saturdays, 9:00 am
Washington Week
Fridays, 7:30 pm
Weekend in Havana
Monday, 9:00 pm (10/9)
Wednesday, 2:00 am (10/11)
Beginning October 9, enjoy live performances from tenor Lawrence Brownlee and pianists Benjamin Hochman, Su Yeon Kim, Inna Faliks, and Daniel Schlosberg.
Mondays, 8:00 pm
12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff
6:00 With Heart and Voice: World Communion Sunday. Host Peter DuBois shares music that reflects on the sacrament of Holy Communion, and on Christian unity around the world, even as we mark the Feast of St. Francis.
7:00 Weekend Mornings with LaRob K. Rafael
12:00 Sunday Afternoons with Robbie Ellis including Jean-Michel Defaye À la manière de Schumann –Mark Davidson, tb; Viktor Valkov, p. Bridge 9581. [5:10] Robert Schumann
Bunte Blätter, Op. 99: No. 14, Geschwindmarsch – Louis Lortie, p. Chandos CHAN9289. [3:09] Franz Schubert
Die Zauberharfe, D. 644: Overture – London Classical Players/Roger Norrington. EMI CDC7-49889-2. [9:41] John Williams Olympic Fanfare and Theme (1984) – Boston Pops Orch/John Williams. Philips 420178-2. [4:22] Henry Purcell Ground in C minor, Z D221 – Timothy Roberts, hc. Archiv 445829-2. [3:55]
Bruce Wolosoff Improvisation on a Ground by Henry Purcell – Bruce Wolosoff, p. Avie AV-2595. [2:44] Frédéric Chopin Preludes, Op. 28: No. 15 in D-flat, Raindrop –Ensemble Wien-Berlin. Sony SK-42175. [5:31] Jean-Joseph de Mondonville Motet, In exitu Israel (Psalm 113): IV. Air, Montes exultaverunt ut arietes – Samuel Boden, t; Le Concert d’Astrée/
On tap this month: concerts by Music of the Baroque and Miró Quartet, a season preview for Apollo’s Fire, and an interview with Jeremy Denk.
Wednesdays, 8:00 pm
Emmanuelle Haïm. Erato 5419750468. [5:51]
1:00 Jean-Michel Defaye À la manière de Debussy – Mark Davidson, tb; Viktor Valkov, p. Bridge 9581. [6:53]
Claude Debussy Suite bergamasque: III. Clair de lune – Albrecht Mayer, ob; St Martin’s Academy/ Mathias Mönius. Decca 4782564. [5:13] Maurice
Ravel Piano Concerto in G: II. Adagio assai – Tzimon Barto, p; Joan Whiting, eh; London Phil Orch/Andrew Davis. EMI CDC7-49495-2.
[9:01] Frederic Hand A Waltz for Maurice; Romantic Etude – Frederic Hand, g. ReEntrant REN-02. [10:24]
2:00 Jean-Michel Defaye À la manière de Stravinsky – Mark Davidson, tb; Viktor Valkov, p. Bridge 9581. [4:45] Igor Stravinsky Dumbarton Oaks – Berlin Academy of American Music/Garrett Keast. Onyx 4223. [15:05]
Josef Strauss AngelicaPolka, Op. 123; Eduard Strauss Polka schnell, Wer tanzt mit?, Op. 251 – Vienna Phil/Franz Welser-Möst.
Sony 196589022110. [5:28]
Agustín Barrios Mangoré La Catedral – Alexander-Sergei Ramírez, g. DG 471532-2.
[7:33] Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp minor, Op. 27, No. 2, Moonlight – Maria João Pires, p. DG 453457-2. [16:39]
3:00 Jean-Michel Defaye À la manière de Vivaldi – Mark Davidson, tb; Viktor Valkov, p. Bridge 9581. [4:20] Antonio Vivaldi L’estro armonico Concerto No. 11 in D minor,
All prerecorded music on WFMT is provided by the Richard and Mary L. Gray Music Library.
Most live performances on WFMT are broadcast from the Fay and Daniel Levin Performance Studio.
Music director Ken-David Masur kicks off the new season, including works by Wynton Marsalis, Jessie Montgomery, Olivier Messiaen, and Iman Habibi.
Thursdays, 9:00 pm
R. 565 – Boris Begelman & Elisa Citterio, v’s; Concerto Italiano/Rinaldo Alessandrini. Naïve OP-7367. [8:24] William Walton Henry V: Suite – Royal Phil/André Previn. MCA Classics MCAD-6187. [15:46]
Henry Purcell Dido and Aeneas: Dido’s Lament, When I am laid in earth – Joyce DiDonato, ms; Il Pomo d’Oro/ Maxim Emelyanychev. Erato 0190295928469. [5:03]
Bruce Wolosoff Dido’s Blues – Bruce Wolosoff, p. Avie AV-2595. [4:31] María
Huld Markan Sigfúsdóttir Clockworking – Iceland Sym Orch/Daníel Bjarnason. Sono Luminus DSL-92267. [8:59]
4:00 Jean-Michel Defaye À la manière de Bach – Mark Davidson, tb; Viktor Valkov, p. Bridge 9581. [3:31] Johann Sebastian Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G Major, BWV 1048 – Tafelmusik/ Jeanne Lamon. Sony S2K66289 (2). [10:38] Eugene
Ysaÿe Solo Violin Sonata No. 2 in A minor: III. Sarabande, Danse des ombres; Solo Violin Sonata No. 4 in E minor: II. Sarabande – Hilary Hahn, v. DG 4864176. [7:03]
Giuseppe Verdi La Traviata: Act 1 Prelude – La Scala Phil/ Riccardo Muti. Sony SK68468. [3:45] Louise Farrenc
Overture No. 2 in E-Flat, Op. 24 – Solistes Européens Luxembourg/Christoph König. Naxos 8.574094. [7:06]
5:00 Evenings with Kerry Frumkin including Domenico Cimarosa Oboe Concerto in C minor – Anthony Camden, ob; City of London Sinfonia/ Nicholas Ward. Naxos
8.553433. [11:34] Florence Price Cherry Blossoms in Her Hair (Debutante Waltz); Coquette; To a Certain Pair of Newlyweds – Kirsten Johnson, p. Guild GM2CD-7828.
[10:23] Franz Joseph Haydn Symphony No. 15 in D – Heidelberg Sym Orch/ Johannes Klumpp. Hännsler Classic HC-22019. [17:27]
6:00 Jennifer Higdon Oboe
Concerto – James Button,
Last month, Black Oak Ensemble collaborated with JCC Chicago and Ravinia to perform on Violins of Hope—a collection of painstakingly restored string instruments that belonged to Jewish musicians before and during the Holocaust. The string trios featured on the program Silenced Voices share in that history, written by six WWII-era Jewish composers of which only one survived the genocide. The trio says that these works “through their darkness, are incredibly human and ultimately uplifting. That such music could be written in these conditions is a testament to the resilience and faith of these artists.”
Monday, October 2 8:00 pm
ob; Nashville Sym/ Giancarlo Guerrero. Naxos
8.559823. [18:10] Franz Liszt
Transcendental Etude No. 11, Harmonies du soir – Yunchan Lim, p. Steinway & Sons 30217. [9:08] Josef Suk String Serenade in E-Flat, Op. 6 –Virtuosi di Praga/Oldrich Vlcek. Discover International DICD-920234. [26:37]
7:00 Ryan Opera Center Recital
Series: Tenor Travon D. Walker, baritone Laureano Quant , and pianist Michael Banwarth are featured in recital. Hosted by Colin Ure.
8:00 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Radio Broadcasts: Cimarosa: Overture to Il matrimonio segreto; Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 4 in D Major, K. 218; Robert Chen, violin; Serenade No. 10 in B-flat Major, K. 370a Gran Partita.
10:00 Collectors’ Corner with Henry Fogel: Live Mahler Performances by Klaus Tennstedt, Program 1. Mahler: Symphony No. 1 (Chicago Symphony Orchestra); Kindertotenlieder (Brigitte Fassbaender, Hamburg Radio Orchestra)
Monday
12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff
6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore including news & weather on the hour between 6:00 am and 9:00 am; and Carl’s Almanac at 7:30 am.
10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, including New Releases this hour, Daily Excursion at 11:00 am, Music in Chicago at 12:00 pm, and the Afternoon Masterwork at 2:00 pm. Louise Farrenc Grand Variations on a theme by Count Gallenberg, Op. 25 –Jean Muller, p; Solistes Européens Luxembourg/ Christoph König. Naxos 8.574094. [13:36]
11:00 Peter Tchaikovsky Capriccio italien, Op. 45 – Cincinnati Sym Orch/Erich Kunzel. Telarc CD-80041. [15:20]
12:00 Antonio Vivaldi Concerto for Violin, Two Oboes, Bassoon, & Two Horns, R. 569 – Les Violons du Roy/ Mathieu Lussier. Atma ACD2-2602. [12:02]
1:00 Francis Poulenc Les Biches – Ulster Orch/ Yan-Pascal Tortelier. Chandos CHAN-9023.
[20:09] Frédéric Chopin Ballade No. 3 in A-Flat, Op. 47 – Seong-Jin Cho, p. DG B0026046-02. [7:50]
2:00 Franz Schubert Arpeggione
Sonata in A minor, D. 821 –David Finckel, vc; Wu Han, p. ArtistLed 10401-2. [26:13]
3:00 Late Afternoon Music with Candice Agree, including The Unrush Hour at 5:00 pm.
Wolfgang Amadeus
Mozart Piano Trio in B-Flat, K. 502 – Matthew Truscott, v; Frank-Michael Guthmann, vc; Leif Ove Andsnes, p. Sony 19439854512. [21:56] Richard
Strauss Der Rosenkavalier, Op. 59: Waltzes – Dresden
Staatskapelle/Rudolf Kempe. EMI CMS7-64346-2 (3).
[17:45] Amy Beach Summer Dreams, Op. 47 – Deborah Moriarty & Zhihua Tang, p. Blue Griffin BGR-633. [13:19]
7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Maurice Ravel (1875-1937). This week begins our 20th season of Exploring Music! To celebrate, Bill revists our very first program: the intriguing life and art of French composer Maurice Ravel. This week features the String Quartet in F Major, Rapsodie EspangoleMalagueña for two pianos, and the one-movement orchestral composition, Boléro
8:00 Ravinia Festival 2023: Black Oak Ensemble. Violinist Desirée Ruhstrat, violist Aurélien Fort, and cellist David Cunliffe perform their acclaimed program Silenced Voices featuring the music of World War II era Jewish composers Dick Kattenburg, Sándor Kuti, Gideon Klein, Paul Hermann, Hans Krása, and Géza Frid. Recorded on September 9 in Bennett Gordon Hall.
10:00 Evenings with Kerry Frumkin
12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff
6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore including news & weather on the hour between 6:00 am and 9:00 am; and Carl’s Almanac at 7:30 am.
10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, including New Releases this hour, Daily Excursion at 11:00 am, Music in Chicago at 12:00 pm, and the Afternoon Masterwork at 2:00 pm. Samuel Barber The School for Scandal Overture, Op. 5 – Atlanta Sym/Yoel Levi. Telarc CD-80250. [8:39]
11:00
Federico Moreno Torroba Aires de la Mancha –David Russell, g. Telarc CD-80451. [8:10]
12:00 Franz Berwald Elfenspiel –Royal Phil/Ulf Björlin. EMI CDM5-65303-2. [8:25]
1:00 Johann Sebastian Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 in G Major, BWV 1049 – Age of Enlightenment Orch/ Monica Huggett. Virgin 90747-2 (2). [15:30] Franz von Suppé The Beautiful Galatea: Overture – New York Phil/Leonard Bernstein. Sony SMK-61830. [7:38]
2:00 Franz Joseph Haydn Symphony No. 104 in D, London – Philharmonia Baroque Orch/Nicholas McGegan. Philharmonia Baroque PBP-02. [27:21]
3:00 Late Afternoon Music with Candice Agree, including The Unrush Hour at 5:00 pm. Alberto Ginastera Panambí: Suite – London Sym Orch/ Eugene Goossens. Everest EVC-9007. [12:34] George Frideric Handel Music for the Royal Fireworks –English Concert/Trevor Pinnock. Archiv 453451-2. [17:55] Michael Haydn
String Quintet in C, P 108 –Salzburg Haydn Quintet. CPO 777907-2 (2). [23:31]
7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Maurice Ravel (1875-1937). See Monday’s listing.
8:00 From the 2023 BBC Proms: Gemma New conducts the Firebird Suite. Moussa: Symphony No. 2; Shostakovich: Piano Concerto No. 2 in F, Op. 102; Pavel Kolesnikov, piano; Stravinsky: The Firebird, suite (1919 version); BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra; Gemma New, conductor. Recorded August 18 at Royal Albert Hall, London.
10:00 Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center: Hindemith: Two Duets; Charles Wuorinen: Trio; Michael Brown, piano; Bella Hristova, violin; Mihai Marica, cello; Prokofiev: Sarcasms, Five Pieces for Piano, Op. 17; Juho Pohjonen, piano; Brett Dean: Seven Signals; Tommaso Lonquich, clarinet; Arnaud Sussmann, violin; Nicholas Canellakis, cello; Wu Qian, piano
11:00 Evenings with Kerry Frumkin
12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff
6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore including news & weather on the hour between 6:00 am and 9:00 am; and Carl’s Almanac at 7:30 am.
10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, including New Releases this hour, Daily Excursion at 11:00 am, and the Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert at 12:15 pm. Emmanuel Chabrier Suite pastorale – Suisse Romande Orch/Neeme Järvi. Chandos CHSA-5122. [19:05]
11:00 Traditional Japanese Folksong, Imayo – JeanPierre Rampal, f; Shinichi Yuize, koto. CBS MK-37295. [6:37] Richard Wagner
Rienzi: Overture – Cleveland Orch/Franz Welser-Möst. DG 4778773. [11:36]
12:15 Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts: Violinist Seohyun Kim and pianist Ji Yung Lee perform works by Karol
Szymanowski, Maurice Ravel, Carlos Simon, and Sergei Rachmaninoff live from Seventeenth Church of Christ, Scientist, Chicago.
1:00 Music for the Afternoon, including the Afternoon Masterwork at 2:00 pm. Henry Purcell The Fairy Queen: Act 3 Instrumental Suite – Le Concert des Nations/Jordi Savall. Fontalis ES-8583. [11:01] Vítezslava Kaprálová Legenda – Dawn Wohn, v; Esther Park, p. Delos DE-3547. [6:16]
2:00 Sergei Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet Suite No. 1, Op. 64bis –Seattle Sym/Gerard Schwarz. Delos D/CD-3050. [28:45]
3:00 Late Afternoon Music with Candice Agree, including The Unrush Hour at 5:00 pm. William Grant Still Ennanga –Ashley Jackson, h; Harlem Chamber Players. Bright Shiny Things BSTD-0188. [18:50]
Gemma New, principal conductor of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra and music director of Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra, made a surprise debut with the Grant Park Orchestra in 2017 stepping in for Simone Young on short notice. Her scheduled return to the podium at Grant Park was in 2018. She was ready to lead the orchestra for a third time on July 12 when a rare tornado warning forced the last-minute cancellation of the concert. This winter, New debuts with Chicago Symphony Orchestra, but WFMT is pleased to share her Proms debut leading the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra from earlier this summer.
Tuesday, October 3
8:00 pm
performed later this month.
9:30 Evenings with Kerry Frumkin
10:00 Baroque&Before with Candice Agree
12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff
6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore including news & weather on the hour between 6:00 am and 9:00 am; and Carl’s Almanac at 7:30 am.
Dame Jane Glover celebrated her 20th anniversary as MOB music director last season. Handel’s dramatic oratorio Jephtha had been on her wish list for the MOB chorus and orchestra since her arrival in 2002. It was worth the wait, as audiences rapturously received this late Handel masterpiece. Chicago Classical Review described it as “a grand slam,” noting its roster of “first class” soloists that included Ryan Opera Center alum David Portillo in the title role, the stylish Lauren Snouffer (a recent interview guest on Listening to Singers) as Jephtha’s daughter Iphis, and the rising star countertenor Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen as her lover Hamor.
Saturday, October 7 12:00 pm
Maurice Ravel Rapsodie espagnole – London Sym Orch/Claudio Abbado. DG 415972-2. [15:09] Heitor
Villa-Lobos Concerto for Guitar & Small Orchestra (1951) – Göran Söllscher, g; Orpheus Chamber Orch. DG 429232-2. [19:01]
7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Maurice Ravel (1875-1937). See Monday’s listing.
8:00 WFMT Presents: Apollo’s Fire – the 2023-34 Windy City Series. Jeannette Sorrell, artistic director of Apollo’s Fire Baroque Orchestra, previews the upcoming Windy City Series which features seven concerts across four Chicago area venues: the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Nichols Concert Hall, and Alice Millar Chapel. The first of four programs, Handel’s dramatic oratorio Israel in Egypt will be
10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, including New Releases this hour, Daily Excursion at 11:00 am, Music in Chicago at 12:00 pm, and the Afternoon Masterwork at 2:00 pm. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Violin Sonata No. 18 in G, K. 301 – Alina Ibragimova, v; Cédric Tiberghien, p. Hyperion CDA-68091 (2). [13:02]
11:00 Peter Boyer Rolling River (Sketches on Shenandoah) –London Sym Orch/Peter Boyer. Naxos 8.559915. [5:10]
12:00 George Frideric Handel Concerto grosso in D, Op. 6, No. 5 – Academy of Ancient Music/Andrew Manze. Harmonia Mundi HMU-907228.29 (2). [14:09]
1:00 William Byrd The Bells –Kit Armstrong, p. DG 4861364. [6:08] Johann Stamitz Sinfonia in B-Flat – Janácek Chamber Orch/Zdenek Dejmek. Panton 811201-2. [7:31]
2:00 Johannes Brahms Piano Concerto No. 1 in d minor, Op. 15 – Maurizio Pollini, p; Dresden Staatskapelle/Christian Thielemann in concert. DG B0016120-02. [45:28]
3:00 Late Afternoon Music with Candice Agree, including The Unrush Hour at 5:00 pm. Aram Khachaturian Gayaneh: Five Dances – Boston Pops Orch/ Arthur Fiedler. RCA 68132-2. [14:07] Johann Sebastian Bach Violin Concerto No. 2 in E, BWV 1042 – Academy of Ancient Music/Andrew Manze, v. Harmonia Mundi HMU-907155. [16:08] Camille Saint-Saëns Symphony in A (1850) – Royal Liège Phil Orch/Jean-Jacques Kantorow. BIS 2460. [23:45]
7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Maurice Ravel (1875-1937). See Monday’s listing.
8:00 Evenings with Kerry Frumkin
9:00 Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra Onstage: Marsalis: Herald, Holler and Hallelujah! Strauss: Eine Alpensinfonie, Op. 64; Gershwin: Concerto in F for Piano and Orchestra; Aaron Diehl, piano; KenDavid Masur, conductor.
11:00 Evenings with Kerry Frumkin
Friday 6
12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff
6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore including news & weather on the hour between 6:00 am and 9:00 am; and Carl’s Almanac at 7:30 am.
10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, including New Releases this hour, Daily Excursion at 11:00 am, Music in Chicago at 12:00 pm, and the Afternoon Masterwork at 2:00 pm. Maurice Ravel Introduction and Allegro –Yolanda Kondonassis, h; Chamber Ensemble. Telarc CD-80361. [11:09]
11:00 Ron Nelson Aspen Jubilee –Women’s Cho of Dallas, Dallas Wind Sym/Jerry Junkin. Reference RR-76. [10:37]
12:00 Alexander Borodin Symphony No. 3 in A minor –Seattle Sym/Gerard Schwarz. Naxos 8.572786. [17:36]
1:00 Aaron Copland Our Town – London Sym Orch/ Aaron Copland. CBS MK-42429. [11:01] Giuseppe Torelli Sinfonia in C – La Serenissima/Adrian Chandler. Avie AV-2371. [7:45]
2:00 Ludwig van Beethoven String Quartet No. 9 in C, Op. 59, No. 3, Razumovsky – Dover Quartet. Cedille CDR90000206 (3). [30:39]
3:00 Late Afternoon Music with Candice Agree, including Friday Afternoon at the Movies at 4:30pm and The Unrush Hour at 5:00 pm. Franz Ignaz Beck Symphony in G, Op. 4, No. 5 – Czech Chamber Phil Orch/Marek Štilec. Naxos 8.573249. [17:57] Clara Schumann Three Romances, Op. 11 – Isata Kanneh-Mason, p. Decca 4850020. [13:44]
Franz Schubert Symphony No. 3 in D, D. 200 – Dresden Staatskapelle/Sir Colin Davis. RCA 68544-2. [22:19]
7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Maurice Ravel (1875-1937). See Monday’s listing.
8:00 Sounds Classical Hosted by Kristina Lynn and LaRob K. Rafael.
9:00 The New York Philharmonic This Week: Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. 3, Op. 72b; Lindberg: Souvenir (in memoriam Gérard Grisey); Mozart: Symphony No. 40 in G minor, K.550; Grisey: Quatre chants pour franchir le seuil (Four Songs for Crossing the Threshold); Barbara Hannigan, soprano; Alan Gilbert.
11:00 Best of Studs Terkel: Aaron
Copland (03/10/1961).
Born in Brooklyn, New York in 1900, Aaron Copland devoted his creative life to creating and fostering distinctive American music.
12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff
7:00 Weekend Mornings with LaRob K. Rafael, with News at 7:00 am; Saturday Morning Listener’s Choice at 8:00 am; and Soundtrack at 9:00 am.
11:00 Introductions: Trio Nuvola (Sameer Agrawal, Simon Updegraff & Zachary Guo) plays Beethoven, Esmail & Clarke. Goya Piano Trio (Lily Sullivan, Serge Kalinovsky & Noah Kim) plays Mendelssohn & Shostakovich.
12:00 From Music of the Baroque: Handel’s Jephtha David Portillo (Jephtha); Lauren Snouffer (Iphis); Clara Osowski (Storgé); Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen (Hamor); Katelyn Lee (Angel); Neal Davies (Zebul); Music of the Baroque Chorus and Orchestra; Jane Glover, conductor. Sung in English.
3:00 Saturday Afternoon
Music with Jan Weller
4:00 Listening to Singers with Oliver Camacho: An interview with Nico Muhly from the Santa Fe Opera festival. The conversation will focus on the versatile and genredefying composer’s songs and works for chorus.
5:00 Saturday Evening Music with Jan Weller
7:00 Fiesta! with Elbio Barilari: Liduino Pitombeira & Felipe Pérez Santiago. Fresh music by two amazing and delightful living composers full of imagination and luxurious sounds: the Brazilian Liduino Pitombeira and the Mexican Felipe Pérez Santiago.
8:00 Folkstage hosted by Marilyn Rea Beyer: We honor Indigenous Peoples’ Day by airing the 1991 Reservation Road– Live concert recording by renowned singer-songwriter Bill Miller, a Mohican born in Wisconsin.
9:00 The Midnight Special with Marilyn Rea Beyer: Marking Indigenous Peoples’ Day with the finale of Kim Moberg’s new CD based on Anishinaabe legend, The Seven Fires Prophecy, interview segments, and more.
Sunday 8
12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff
6:00 With Heart and Voice:
Birthdays. October is a stellar month for composer birthdays. On this episode, host Peter DuBois marks the birthdays of a number of choral and organ composers, including Ned Rorem, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Howard Hanson, Herbert Howells, and others.
7:00 Weekend Mornings with LaRob K. Rafael including Franz Schubert Piano Quintet in A, D. 667, Trout – Domus; Chi-chi Nwanoku, db. Virgin 61454-2 (2). [37:45]
12:00 Sunday Afternoons with Robbie Ellis including Eric Coates Television March –BBC Phil/John Wilson. Chandos CHAN-20164.
[3:33] Earl Wild Virtuoso Etudes after Gershwin: Liza and Somebody Loves
Me – John Wilson, p. Avie AV-2458. [6:54] Franz Schubert Rosamunde, D
797: Ballet Music No. 2 in G – Leipzig Gewandhaus Orch/Kurt Masur. Philips
412432-2. [7:43] Wolfgang
Amadeus Mozart Church Sonata No. 13 in G, K. 274 –János Sebestyén, o; Ferenc Erkel Chamber Orch. Naxos
8.550512. [3:35] Antônio
Carlos Gomes String Sonata in D: IV. Finale, The Wooden Donkey – English Chamber
Orch/Neil Thomson. Naxos
8.574405. [3:39] William Byrd
Motet, Emendemus in melius –
Gesualdo Six/Owain Park. Hyperion CDA-68416. [4:00]
1:00 Ottorino Respighi Ancient
Airs and Dances for the Lute, Set 3 – Los Angeles Chamber Orch/Sir Neville Marriner. EMI CDC7-47116-2.
[14:57] Antonio Vivaldi The Four Seasons: Spring, RV. 269 – Yolanda Kondonassis, h; I Fiamminghi/Rudolf Werthen. Telarc CD-80523. [9:56] Peter Tchaikovsky
Souvenir de Hapsal, Op. 2: No. 3, Chant sans paroles; Josef Suk Four Pieces, Op. 17: No. 4, Burleska –James Ehnes, v; Andrew Armstrong, p. Onyx 4234. [6:13] Ariel Ramírez Alfonsina y el Mar – Gidi Ifergan, g. Cala CACD-77023. [6:06]
2:00 Jonathan Leshnoff Violin
Concerto No. 2 – Noah
Bendix-Balgley, v; Oklahoma City Phil/Alexander
Mickelthwate. Naxos
8.559927. [24:51] Earl Wild Virtuoso Etudes after Gershwin: The Man I Love and Embraceable You – John Wilson, p. Avie AV-2458.
[6:02] Eric Coates Last Love – BBC Phil/John Wilson. Chandos CHAN-20164.
[3:32] Malcolm Williamson
Lento for Strings – Iceland Sym Orch Strings/Rumon Gamba. Chandos CHAN10406. [3:07] John Joubert Reflection on Plainchant Antiphon In odorem, Op. 182; Kim Porter Pulchra es et decora – ORA Singers/ Suzi Digby. Harmonia Mundi HMM-905334.35. [7:38]
3:00 Maurice Ravel Valses nobles et sentimentales – Zürich Tonhalle Orch/Lionel Bringuier. DG 4795524 (4).
[14:34] Isaac Albéniz Suite española, Op. 47: No. 5, Asturias (Leyenda) – Pablo Sáinz-Villegas, g. WFMT Recording. [7:33] Bedrich Smetana The Bartered Bride: Dance of the Villagers –London Sym Orch/Geoffrey
Simon. Chandos CHAN8412. [4:26] Carlo Monza String Quartet in E-Flat, La caccia – Europa Galante. Naïve V-7541. [9:26] Manuel Ponce Estrellita; Percy Grainger Molly on the Shore –James Ehnes, v; Andrew Armstrong, p. Onyx 4234.
[5:39] Karl Jenkins Ad Lumen (Towards Light) & Ad Pacem (Towards Peace) – Krzysztof Wisniewski, v; World Cho & Orch for Peace/Karl Jenkins. Decca 4839748. [4:53].
4:00 Johannes Brahms Academic Festival Overture, Op. 80 –London Phil Orch/Marin Alsop. Naxos 8.557428. [10:38] Maddalena Sirmen Violin Duet in C, Op. 5, No. 6: II. Allegro; Violin Duet in A, Op. 5, No. 5: II. Allegretto – Shelby Yamin & Sarah Bleile Douglas, v’s. Orpheus [Maddalena Lombardini: Violin Duets, Op. 5]. [4:23] Antonín Dvorák Slavonic Dances, Op. 46: No. 4 in F – Budapest Festival Orch/Iván Fischer. Channel Classics CCSSA-90210.
[6:10] Henry Purcell The Fairy Queen: Aire; Thus Happy and Free; Chaconne; Aire –Tafelmusik/Jeanne Lamon. Sony SK-66169. [7:04] Earl Wild Virtuoso Etudes after Gershwin: Oh Lady Be Good, I Got Rhythm, and Fascinatin’ Rhythm – John Wilson, p. Avie AV-2458. [7:28] Radamés
Gnattali Toccata em ritmo de samba; Heitor Villa-Lobos Chôros No. 5, Alma Brasileira –Sérgio Assad & Odair Assad, g’s. Nonesuch 79179-2. [7:55]
5:00 Evenings with Kerry Frumkin including Jean Sibelius Symphony No. 4 in A minor, Op. 63 – Oslo Phil/Klaus Mäkelä. Decca 4852256.
[37:51] Yukihiro Yoko Variations on Sakura – John Williams, g. Sony SK-53359. [5:03] Karl Jenkins Sakura,
An “epic traversal of solo violin repertoire” and “a monumental achievement.”
Spring Has Come – Lucy Crowe, s; World Cho & Orch for Peace/Karl Jenkins. Decca 4839748. [4:17]
6:00 Michael Tilson Thomas Upon Further Reflection –John Wilson, p. Avie AV-2458. [23:49] Ludwig van Beethoven String Quartet No. 4 in C minor, Op.18, No. 4 –Cuarteto Casals. Harmonia Mundi HMM-902400.02.
[21:54] Ricardo Herz Sísifo na cidade grande – Sphinx Virtuosi. DG 4865014. [6:44]
7:00 William Byrd De lamentatione Jeremiae prophetae – Gesualdo Six/Owain Park. Hyperion CDA-68416.
[12:40] Felix Mendelssohn Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 107, Reformation –Freiburg Baroque Orch/Pablo Heras-Casado. Harmonia Mundi HMM-902325.
[26:40] Maddalena Sirmen
Violin Duet in B-Flat, Op. 5, No. 3 – Shelby Yamin & Sarah Bleile Douglas, v’s. Orpheus
[Maddalena Lombardini: Violin Duets, Op. 5]. [9:44]
8:00 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Radio Broadcasts: Hillborg: Eleven Gates; Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 63; Daniel Lozavich, violin; Stravinsky: The Firebird;
Klaus Mäkelä, conductor.
10:00 Collectors’ Corner with Henry Fogel: Live Mahler Performances by Klaus Tennstedt, Program 2. Mahler: Symphony No. 9 (New York Philharmonic).
12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff
6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore including news & weather on the hour between 6:00 am and 9:00 am; and Carl’s Almanac at 7:30 am.
10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, including New Releases this hour, Daily Excursion at 11:00 am, Music in Chicago at 12:00 pm, and the Afternoon Masterwork at 2:00 pm. Giuseppe Verdi Les Vêpres siciliennes: Overture – Chicago Sym Orch/Riccardo Muti. CSO Resound 9011801. [9:16]
11:00 Omar Massa Buenos Aires Resonances – Omar Massa, bandoneon; Berlin Sym Orch/Mark Laycock. Solo Musica SM-366. [5:07]
12:00 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Piano Trio in G, K. 564 –Gryphon Trio. Analekta AN2-9827-8 (2). [17:10]
1:00 Gerardo Guevara Diálogos –Daniel Velasco, f; Ellen
Sommer, p. Naxos 8.579125.
[7:42] Johannes Brahms Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Op.56a – London Sym Orch/Michael Tilson Thomas. Sony SK-47195. [18:42]
2:00 Manuel de Falla Nights in the Gardens of Spain –Martha Argerich, p; Orch de Paris/Daniel Barenboim. Erato 45266-2. [24:50]
3:00 Late Afternoon Music with Candice Agree, including The Unrush Hour at 5:00 pm. Johann Sebastian Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D Major, BWV 1050 – Jaime Martin, f; Kenneth Sillito, v; St. Martin’s Academy/Murray Perahia, p. Sony 82429-2 (3).
[21:13] Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 13 in E-Flat, Op. 27, No. 1 – André Watts, p. EMI CDC7-49264-2. [17:36]
Ottorino Respighi Ancient Airs and Dances for the Lute, Set 1 – Los Angeles Chamber Orch/Sir Neville Marriner. EMI CDC7-47116-2. [15:11]
7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Outward Bound. Afoot and lighthearted, Bill takes to the open road with the world before him. We start this week with Bryn Terfel singing “The Vagabond,” set by Ralph Vaughan Williams. Bill will then
examine Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony, Strauss’ Alpine Symphony, and Villa-Lobos’s Bachianas Brasileiras.
8:00 Live from WFMT: Pianist Benjamin Hochman hosted by Kerry Frumkin live from the Fay and Daniel Levin Performance Studio.
10:00 Evenings with Jan Weller
12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff
6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore including news & weather on the hour between 6:00 am and 9:00 am; and Carl’s Almanac at 7:30 am.
10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, including New Releases this hour, Daily Excursion at 11:00 am, Music in Chicago at 12:00 pm, and the Afternoon Masterwork at 2:00 pm. Erich Wolfgang Korngold Overture to a Play, Op. 4 – Minería Sym Orch/Carlos Miguel Prieto. Naxos 8.570791. [13:31]
11:00 Javier Álvarez Metro Chabacano – Simón Bolívar Sym Orch/Keri-Lynn Wilson. Dorian XCD-90254. [6:47]
12:00 Cécile Chaminade Flute Concertino, Op. 107 – Susan Milan, f; City of London Sinfonia/Richard Hickox.
American Panorama Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
October 3, 2023 / 7:30PM
Brandenburg Concertos
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
December 13, 2023 / 7:30PM
An Evening with David Finckel and Wu Han Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
January 25, 2024 / 7:30PM
Dubhe Ensemble, featuring Joseph Conyers
April 25, 2024 / 7:30PM
Chandos CHAN-8840. [8:03]
1:00 Ludwig van Beethoven Cello
Sonata No. 4 in C, Op. 102, No. 1 – Alisa Weilerstein, vc; Inon Barnatan, p. Pentatone
PTC-5186884. [15:25]
Gioachino Rossini La scala di seta: Overture – Santa Cecilia Orch/Antonio Pappano. Warner 24344. [6:17]
2:00 Francis Poulenc Two-Piano
Concerto in d minor –Katia Labèque & Marielle Labèque, p’s; Boston Sym Orch/Seiji Ozawa. Philips 426284-2. [20:12]
3:00 Late Afternoon Music with Candice Agree, including The Unrush Hour at 5:00 pm.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Violin Concerto No. 4 in D, K. 218 – London Phil Orch/ Anne-Sophie Mutter, v. DG
B0005078-02 (2). [23:01]
Peter Tchaikovsky Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66: Suite –Philadelphia Orch/Eugene Ormandy. CBS 35DC-56. [18:03] Ravi Shankar
Enchanted Dawn – Barbara Mahler, f; Delaine Fedson, h. Peridot PP-7922. [12:56]
7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Outward Bound. See Monday’s listing.
8:00 From the 2023 BBC Proms: Boston Symphony Orchestra and Jean-Yves Thibaudet.
Simon: Four Black American Dances; Gershwin: Piano Concerto in F; Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano; Stravinsky: Petrushka, (1947 version); Ravel: La Valse; Boston Symphony Orchestra; Andris Nelsons, conductor. Recorded August 26 at Royal Albert Hall, London.
10:00 Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center: Leclair: Concerto in E minor, Op. 10, No. 5; Kristin Lee, violin solo; Arnaud Sussmann, violin I; Yura Lee, violin II; Richard O’Neill, viola; Nicholas Canellakis, cello; Wu Han, piano; Fauré: Quartet No. 2 in G minor, Op. 45; Alessio Bax, piano; Ani Kavafian, violin; Yura Lee, viola; Paul Watkins, cello.
11:00 Evenings with Kerry Frumkin
Wednesday 11
12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff
6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore including news & weather on the hour between 6:00 am and 9:00 am; and Carl’s Almanac at 7:30 am.
10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, including New Releases this hour, Daily Excursion at 11:00 am, and the Dame Myra Hess
Memorial Concert at 12:15 pm. Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Ballade in A minor, Op. 33 –Chineke! Orch/Kalena Bovell. Decca 4853322. [11:37]
11:00 Eric Whitacre The River Cam – Julian Lloyd Webber, vc; London Sym/Eric Whitacre. Decca B0016636-02. [11:49]
12:15 Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts: Violinist Seohyun Kim and pianist Ji Yung Lee perform works by Lili Boulanger, Nikolai Medtner, and Maurice Ravel live from Seventeenth Church of Christ, Scientist, Chicago.
1:00 Music for the Afternoon, including the Afternoon Masterwork at 2:00 pm. Johann Sebastian Bach Triple Concerto in a minor, BWV 1044 – Simon Standage, v; Lisa Beznosiuk, f; Trevor Pinnock, hc; English Concert. Archiv 413731-2. [21:28] Vincent Persichetti
Pastoral, Op. 21 (1943) –Borealis Wind Quintet. MSR Classics MS-1128. [5:55]
2:00 Sergei Rachmaninoff Symphony No. 3 in A minor, Op. 44 – St Petersburg Phil Orch/Mariss Jansons. EMI CDC7-54877-2. [37:35]
3:00 Late Afternoon Music with Candice Agree, including The Unrush Hour at 5:00 pm. Richard Wagner Tannhäuser: Overture – Boston Sym
Orch/Andris Nelsons. BSO
Classics 1401. [15:53] Maurice
Ravel Piano Concerto in D for the Left Hand – Alicia de Larrocha, p; London Phil Orch/Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos. Decca 417583-2. [18:45] Ludwig August
Lebrun Oboe Concerto No. 1 in D minor – Albrecht Mayer, ob; Mahler Chamber Orch/Claudio Abbado. DG 476235-2. [19:25]
7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Outward Bound. See Monday’s listing.
8:00 WFMT Presents: Music of the Baroque. Mozart: Requiem in D Minor, K. 626; Bach: Magnificat, BWV 243; Susanna Phillips, soprano; Paula Murrihy, mezzosoprano; Miles Mykkanen, tenor; Michael Sumuel, bass-baritone; Music of the Baroque Chorus & Orchestra; Dame Jane Glover, conductor. Recorded September 2023.
9:30 Evenings with Kerry Frumkin
10:00 Baroque&Before with Candice Agree
Thursday 12
12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff
6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore including news &
weather on the hour between 6:00 am and 9:00 am; and Carl’s Almanac at 7:30 am.
10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, including New Releases this hour, Daily Excursion at 11:00 am, Music in Chicago at 12:00 pm, and the Afternoon Masterwork at 2:00 pm.
Johannes Brahms Tragic Overture, Op.81 – Chicago Sym Orch/Sir Georg Solti. Decca 414487-2. [13:24]
11:00 Georg Philipp Telemann
Paris Quartet (Deuxième Suite) in b – Freiburg Baroque Consort. Harmonia Mundi HMC-901787. [9:46]
12:00 Ralph Vaughan Williams
English Folk Song Suite –London Wind Orch/Denis Wick. ASV CDQS-6021. [10:19]
1:00 Edvard Grieg Lyric Pieces, Op. 54: Lyric Suite – Malmö Sym/Bjarte Engeset. Naxos 8.572403. [15:42]
Margaret Bonds Troubled Water – Joel Fan, p. Reference RR-119. [5:21]
2:00 Claude Debussy String Quartet in G minor, Op. 10 –Takács Quartet. Hyperion
CDA-68061. [25:09]
3:00 Late Afternoon Music with Candice Agree, including The Unrush Hour at 5:00 pm.
Georges Bizet L’Arlésienne Suite No. 1 – Toronto Sym Orch/Sir Andrew Davis.
CBS MDK-45649. [18:15]
Franz Krommer TwoClarinet Concerto in E-Flat, Op. 91 – Sabine Meyer & Julian Bliss, cl’s; St Martin’s Academy/Kenneth Sillito.
EMI 79786-2. [23:41] Johann
Sebastian Bach Brandenburg
Concerto No. 2 in F Major, BWV 1047 – Adolph Herseth, tr; Donald Peck, f; Ray Still, ob; Samuel Magad, v; Chicago Sym Orch members. RCA 60378-2. [12:04]
4:00 Howard Hanson Merry Mount, Op. 31: Suite – Cincinnati Pops Orch/Erich Kunzel. Telarc CD-80649. [15:00] Jacques Offenbach Orpheus in the Underworld: Overture – Suisse Romande Orch/Neeme Järvi. Chandos CHSA-5160. [10:24]
6:00 Robert Schumann Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 54: Finale, Allegro vivace – Byron Janis, p; Chicago Sym Orch/Fritz Reiner. RCA 888837019828. [10:57]
7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Outward Bound. See Monday’s listing.
8:00 Evenings with Kerry Frumkin
9:00 Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra Onstage: Montgomery: Records from a Vanishing City; Coleridge-Taylor: Ballade in A minor, Op. 33; Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 in E
minor, Op. 64; Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 2 in G minor for Violin & Orchestra, Op. 63; James Ehnes, violin; Jonathon Heyward and Jader Bignamini, conductors.
11:00 Evenings with Kerry Frumkin
12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff
6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore including news & weather on the hour between 6:00 am and 9:00 am; and Carl’s Almanac at 7:30 am.
10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, including New Releases this hour, Daily Excursion at 11:00 am, Music in Chicago at 12:00 pm, and the Afternoon Masterwork at 2:00 pm. Leonard Bernstein Divertimento for Orchestra – Bournemouth Sym Orch/Marin Alsop. Naxos 8.559245. [14:50]
11:00 Ignacio Cervantes Danzas cubanas – Jorge Luis Prats, p. Decca 4782732. [7:30]
12:00 George Frideric Handel Water Music Suite No. 3 in G – Berlin Academy for Ancient Music. Harmonia Mundi HMC-902216. [10:35]
1:00 Modest Mussorgsky
Khovanshchina: Act 1 Prelude, Dawn on the Moscow River –Cincinnati Sym Orch/Paavo Järvi. Telarc CD-80705. [5:38] Joseph Bologne (Chevalier de SaintGeorges) Violin Concerto in G, Op. 2, No. 1 – Fumika Mohri, v; Czech Chamber Phil Orch/Michael Halász. Naxos 8.574452. [20:12]
2:00 Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 4 in B-Flat, Op. 60 – Chamber Orch of Europe/Yannick NézetSéguin. DG 4863050. [33:27]
3:00 Late Afternoon Music with Candice Agree, including Friday Afternoon at the Movies at 4:30pm and The Unrush Hour at 5:00 pm. Edvard Grieg Peer Gynt, Op. 23: Suite No. 1, Op. 46 – New York Phil/Leonard Bernstein. CBS MYK-36718. [14:46]
Franz Joseph Haydn
Trumpet Concerto in E-Flat, H VIIe:1 – Adolph Herseth, tr; Chicago Sym Orch/Claudio Abbado. DG B0000025-02. [14:19] Claude Debussy La Mer – Philharmonia Orch/ Michael Tilson Thomas. CBS MDK-44645. [24:55]
6:00 Anton Bruckner Symphony No. 7 in E: III. Scherzo –Chicago Sym Orch/ Bernard Haitink. CSO Resound 901706. [10:23]
7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Outward
Bound. See Monday’s listing.
8:00 Sounds Classical Hosted by Kristina Lynn and LaRob K. Rafael.
9:00 The New York Philharmonic This Week: Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major, Eroica; Bruckner: Symphony No. 2 in C minor.
11:00 Best of Studs Terkel: George Nakashima (10/10/1977). Born in Spokane, Washington, George Nakashima (19051990) was a master craftsman and M.I.T.-trained architect who created some of the most iconically beautiful and organic wood furniture of the twentieth century. He also survived an internment camp in Idaho where Japanese Americans were forced to live during WWII.
12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff
7:00 Weekend Mornings with LaRob K. Rafael, with News at 7:00 am; Saturday Morning Listener’s Choice at 8:00 am; and Soundtrack at 9:00 am.
11:00 Introductions: LIVE | Amelia Zitoun, 17, cello. Piatti: Caprice No. 7; N Boulanger: Three Pieces; Brahms: Cello Sonata No. 2 in F, Op. 99. With Liang-yu Wang, piano.
12:00 From Opera Festival of Chicago: Pizzetti’s Assassinio nella cattedrale Andrea Silvestrelli (Thomas Becket); Maria Kanyova (First Coryphée); Anna Laurenzo (Second Coryphée); Reuben Lillie (First Knight/Tempter); William Powell III (Second Knight/Tempter); Patrick Blackwell (Third Knight/ Tempter); Eric Dubin (Fourth Knight/Tempter); Michael Rivera (First Priest); Jeff Ray (Second Priest); Frank DeVincentis (Third Priest); André De Mesquita (Herald); Opera Festival of Chicago Orchestra; Emanuele Andrizzi, conductor. Sung in Italian.
2:00 Saturday Afternoon
Music with Jan Weller including Jean Sibelius Symphony No. 3 in C, Op. 52 – Philharmonia Orch/Vladimir Ashkenazy. Decca 414267-2. [29:27]
4:00 Listening to Singers with Oliver Camacho: An interview with tenor Rolando Villazón from the Santa Fe Opera festival.
5:00 Saturday Evening Music with Jan Weller
7:00 Fiesta! with Elbio Barilari: Chamber Music from Brazil. Elbio Barilari presents Camargo Guarnieri’s delightful and whimsical Estudio
Introductions:
Amelia Zitoun, cello
In the first live-to-air recital of the new school year, Introductions features cellist Amelia Zitoun. Aged 17, this cellist from Shorewood, Wisconsin is in her fifth and final year in the Music Institute of Chicago Academy. Zitoun has already soloed with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and has been featured on PBS Wisconsin. She joins pianist Liang-yu Wang in music of Alfredo Piatti, Nadia Boulanger and Johannes Brahms. Robbie Ellis hosts.
Saturday, October 14 11:00 am
para piccolo, Radames Gnatally Sonatina for cello and Two Guitars as well as works by Júlio Medaglia and Heitor Villa-Lobos.
8:00 Folkstage hosted by Marilyn Rea Beyer: Ohio Rust Belt singer/songwriter Ben Gage writes observant, direct songs driven by his sharp harmonica style. He performs in a broadcast live from St. Tim’s Coffeehouse in Skokie, IL.
9:00 The Midnight Special with Marilyn Rea Beyer: October songs for the turning of the seasons and the leaves.
Sunday 15
12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff
6:00 With Heart and Voice: “Let Every Instrument…” Host Peter BuBois explores the magical combination of voices and organ with various instrumental combinations: brass, orchestra, solo instruments. Tune in for this musical feast!
7:00 Weekend Mornings with LaRob K. Rafael
12:00 Sunday Afternoons with Robbie Ellis including Otto
Nicolai The Merry Wives of Windsor: Overture – Royal Scottish National Orch/Lance Friedel. Naxos 8.573418.
[8:18] Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Symphony No. 31 in D, K. 297, Paris – London Mozart Players/Jane Glover. ASV CDDCA-647.
[18:23] Osvaldo Lacerda Appassionato, Cantilena, e Toccata: II. Cantilena; Ernani Aguiar Meloritmias No. 5: I. Ponteando; Chiquinha Gonzaga Lua branca – Georgina Isabel Rossi, vi; Silvie Cheng, p. Navona NV-6537. [10:02]
1:00 Giuseppe Verdi Nabucco: Overture – Chicago Sym Orch/Riccardo Muti. CSO Resound 9011801. [6:59]
Erwin Schulhoff HotSonate – Štepán Koutník, asx; Tomáš Víšek, p. Supraphon 112169-2. [14:39] Sergei Rachmaninoff Vocalise, Op. 34, No. 14 – Detroit Sym Orch/Leonard Slatkin. Naxos/ WFMT (Paradise). [6:36]
Philip Lasser Vocalise –Brandon Cheng, vc; Elizabeth Vaughan, p. WFMT. [6:29]
Franz Liszt Venezia e Napoli: Gondolier’s Song – MarcAndré Hamelin, p. Hyperion CDA-67760. [5:13] Delphine von Schauroth Six Songs Without Words, Op. 18: No. 5 in A minor, Venezia – Virginia Broffitt Kunzer, f; Tammie Walker, p. MSR Classics MS-1771. [3:53] Delphine von Schauroth Six Songs Without Words, Op. 18: No. 6 in F, Am Arno – Virginia Broffitt Kunzer, f; Tammie Walker, p. MSR Classics MS-1771. [3:22]
2:00 Robert Schumann Andante and Variations in B-Flat, Op. 46 – Marsolais, hn; Crozman & Tétreault, vc’s; Jalbert & Chiu, p’s. Atma ACD2-2874. [18:22] Jessie Montgomery Hymn for Everyone – Chicago Sym Orch/Riccardo Muti. CSO Resound 9012301. [11:22]
Richard Wagner Lohengrin: Prelude to Act 3 – Chicago Sym Orch/Fritz Reiner. RCA 61792-2. [3:20] Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Württemberg Sonata No. 2 in A-Flat, Wq 49/2 – Keith Jarrett, p. ECM 2790/91. [13:48]
Satie Three Gymnopédies: No. 1 – Albrecht Mayer, eh; St Martin’s Academy/Mathias
Mönius. Decca 4782564. [3:34] Frédéric Chopin
Nocturne in B, Op. 32, No. 1 –Stephen Hough, p. Hyperion CDA-68351/2. [4:30] Anthony Ritchie Underwater Music, Op. 57 – New Zealand Sym Orch/Hamish McKeich. Rattle RAT-D143. [13:01]
4:00 Carl Maria von Weber Horn Concertino in E minor, Op. 45 – Martin Owen, hn; BBC Phil/John Wilson. Chandos CHAN20168. [13:27] Ludwig van Beethoven Eleven Bagatelles, Op. 119: No. 1 in G minor; Bagatelle in C, Lustig und traurig, WoO 54; Bagatelle in A minor, Für Elise, WoO 59 – Alice Sara Ott, p. DG 4864898. [6:29] Gioachino
Rossini The Barber of Seville: Overture – Santa Cecilia Orch/Antonio Pappano. Warner 24344. [7:15]
Johann Strauss II Waltz, Frühlingsstimmen (Voices of Spring), Op. 410 – Vienna Phil/ Mariss Jansons. DG 4775566 (2). [6:24] Coleridge-Taylor
Perkinson Toccata; Nnenna Ogwo Benediction; Samuel Coleridge-Taylor TwentyFour Negro Melodies, Op. 59: No. 8, The Bamboula –Nnenna Ogwo, p. MSR Classics MS-1819. [8:00]
5:00 Evenings with Kerry Frumkin including Felix Mendelssohn Symphony No. 3 in A minor, Op. 56, Scottish – San Francisco Sym/Herbert Blomstedt. Decca 4780103. [37:01] Samuel ColeridgeTaylor Othello, Op. 79: Suite –Chineke! Orch/Fawzi Haimor. Decca 4853322. [15:06]
6:00 William Bolcom Cabaret Songs: Amor; Can’t Sleep ; Angels Are the Highest Form of Virtue; Waitin – Stephanie Acraman, s; Liam Wooding, p. Rattle RAT-D140. [8:09]
Ethel Smyth Violin and Horn Concerto – Sophie Langdon, v; Richard Watkins, hn; BBC Phil/Odaline de la Martinez. Chandos CHAN-9449. [28:06]
Erwin Schulhoff Five Pieces for String Quartet – Pittsburgh Sym Orch/Manfred Honeck. Reference FR-752. [15:02]
Chandos CHAN-20271. [17:38]
8:00 Chicago Symphony
Orchestra Radio Broadcasts: Mozart: Symphony No. 39 in E-flat Major, K. 543; Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 in E-flat Major, Eroica; Herbert Blomstedt, conductor.
10:00 Collectors’ Corner with Henry Fogel. Music by Jerod Impichchaachaaha’ Tate: Winter Moons; Victory Songs; Spirit Chief Names the Animal People; Moonstrike.
12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff
6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore including news & weather on the hour between 6:00 am and 9:00 am; and Carl’s Almanac at 7:30 am.
10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, including New Releases this hour, Daily Excursion at 11:00 am, Music in Chicago at 12:00 pm, and the Afternoon Masterwork at 2:00 pm. Hector Berlioz Rob Roy Overture – San Diego Sym/Yoav Talmi. Naxos 8.550999. [13:21]
11:00 Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Capriccio espagnol, Op. 34 – Cincinnati Pops Orch/Erich Kunzel. Telarc CD-80657. [15:50]
12:00 Claude Debussy Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun – Los Angeles Phil/ Esa-Pekka Salonen. Sony SK-62599. [10:09]
1:00 Robert Nathaniel Dett Inspiration Waltzes – Clipper Erickson, p. Navona NV-6013. [6:08] Aram Khachaturian Masquerade Suite – Scottish National Orch/Neeme Järvi. Chandos CHAN-8542. [16:17]
2:00 Felix Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64 –Ray Chen, v; Swedish Radio Sym Orch/Daniel Harding. Sony 98410-2. [27:44]
3:00 Late Afternoon Music with Candice Agree, including The Unrush Hour at 5:00 pm. Paul Schoenfield Café Music – Eroica Trio. EMI CDC5-56482-2. [16:14]
3:00
Ludwig van Beethoven The Consecration of the House Overture, Op. 124 – Leipzig Gewandhaus Orch/Kurt
Masur. Pro Arte CDD-392. [9:25] Sulkhan Tsintsadze
Miniatures: Villain’s Song on a Carriage; Chonguri; Sachidao; Nana; Dance Tune – Amit Peled, vc; Noreen Cassidy-Polera, p. Centaur CRC-3436. [15:16] Erik
7:00 Ilse Weber Select songs, Ich wandre durch Theresienstadt, Und der Regen rinnt, and Wiegala – Anne Sofie von Otter, ms; Bebe Risenfors, g. DG 4776546. [7:00] Franz
Joseph Haydn Symphony No. 103 in E-Flat, Drum Roll –Philharmonia Orch/Leonard Slatkin. RCA 68424-2.
[28:03] Paul Juon Litaniae, Op. 70 – Trio Gaspard.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Oboe Concerto in C, K. 314 – Ray Still, ob; Chicago Sym Orch/Claudio Abbado. DG B0000025-02. [20:25] Maurice Ravel Le tombeau de Couperin – Lyon Opera Orch/Kent Nagano. Erato 14331-2. [17:21]
7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: A Keyboard Smorgasbord . It’s a lot more than just pianos! Bill follows the story of the musical keyboard, from the ancient Greeks all the way to
One of America’s foremost pianists, Jeremy Denk is also an accomplished author whose 2022 memoir Every Good Boy Does Fine is a New York Times bestseller. Prized for the clarity and charisma he brings to works from both the Baroque era and the more audience-challenging modern and contemporary repertoire, Denk is similarly acclaimed for his writing on music and music making. He joins WFMT to describe his regular collaboration with violinist Joshua Bell and his approach to interpreting music from 17th and 18th century including a listeners’ tour of Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 20 in D Minor.
Wednesday, October 18 8:00 pm
synthesizers, examining music for many different types –clavichords, harpsichords, fortepianos, organs, harmoniums, accordions, dulcimers, cimbaloms, melodicas, and mallet instruments from Java to jazz. This is a large and interesting family!
8:00 Live from WFMT: Pianists
Inna Faliks and Daniel Schlosberg perform works by Fazil Say, Richard Danielpour, and Gustav Mahler (arr. Zemlinsky).
Hosted by Kerry Frumkin from the Fay and Daniel Levin Performance Studio.
10:00 Evenings with Kerry Frumkin
Tuesday 17
12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff
6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore including news & weather on the hour between 6:00 am and 9:00 am; and Carl’s Almanac at 7:30 am.
10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, including New Releases this hour, Daily Excursion at 11:00 am, Music in Chicago at 12:00 pm, and the Afternoon Masterwork at 2:00 pm. Johann Sebastian Bach Orchestra Suite No. 1 in C, BWV 1066 –Virtuosi Saxoniae/Ludwig Güttler. Berlin Classics 0090022-BC. [19:13]
11:00 Doreen Carwithen Suffolk Suite – London Sym Orch/ Richard Hickox. Chandos CHAN-9524. [11:41]
12:00 Antonín Dvorák In Nature’s Realm Overture, Op. 91 –Bournemouth Sym Orch/ José Serebrier. Warner Classics 66656-2. [14:59]
1:00 Enrique Granados Danzas españolas, Op. 37 (Op.
5): No. 2, Oriental – Miloš Karadaglic, g. DG B001557902. [6:24] Johan Halvorsen Three Norwegian Dances –Marianne Thorsen, v; Bergen Phil/Neeme Järvi. Chandos CHAN-10614. [10:39]
2:00 Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor, Op. 13, Pathétique – Paul Lewis, p. Harmonia Mundi HMX-2901902.11 (10). [20:32]
3:00 Late Afternoon Music with Candice Agree, including The Unrush Hour at 5:00 pm. Richard Strauss Violin Sonata in E-flat, Op. 18 – Sarah Chang, v; Wolfgang Sawallisch, p. EMI CDC5-56870-2. [28:10]
Paul Dukas The Sorcerer’s Apprentice – Oslo Phil/Mariss Jansons. EMI CDC7-49964-2.
[11:08] George Gershwin Second Rhapsody – Jeffrey Siegel, p; St. Louis Sym Orch/Leonard Slatkin. MMG MCD-10011. [14:43]
Ludwig van Beethoven String Quartet No. 12 in E-Flat, Op. 127 – Ehnes Quartet. Onyx 4215. [35:27]
7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: See Monday’s listing.
8:00 From the 2023 BBC
Proms: Chineke! performs Beethoven and Haydn.
Coleman: Seven O’Clock Shout; Haydn: Trumpet Concerto in E-flat; Aaron Azunda Akugbo, trumpet; Coleridge-Taylor: Four Novelletten, Op. 52; Perkinson: Rondo from Sinfonietta No. 1; Beethoven: Symphpny No. 4 in B-flat, Op. 60; Chineke!; Anthony Parnther, conductor.
Recorded September 1 at Royal Albert Hall, London.
10:00 Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center: Schubert: Allegro in A minor for Piano, Four Hands, D. 947, Op. 144,
Lebensstürme; Alessio Bax, piano; Wu Han, piano; Trio in B-flat; Alessio Bax, piano; Ben Beilman, violin; David Requiro, cello.
11:00 Evenings with Kerry Frumkin
12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff
6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore including news & weather on the hour between 6:00 am and 9:00 am; and Carl’s Almanac at 7:30 am.
10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, including New Releases this hour, Daily Excursion at 11:00 am, and the Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert at 12:15 pm. Franz Joseph Haydn Violin Concerto No. 4 in G, H VIIa:4 – Sejong Soloists/ Gil Shaham, v. Canary Classics CC-08. [17:16]
11:00 Hamilton Harty In Ireland –Colin Fleming, f; Denise Kelly, h; Ulster Orch/ Bryden Thomson. Chandos CHAN-6583. [9:14]
12:15 Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts: Pianist Clayton Stephenson performs works by J.S. Bach, Ludvig van Beethoven, George Gershwin, and Art Tatum live from Seventeenth Church of Christ, Scientist, Chicago.
1:00 Music for the Afternoon, including the Afternoon Masterwork at 2:00 pm.
Bedrich Smetana The Bartered Bride: Polka, Furiant and Dance of the Comedians – Cleveland Orch/ George Szell. CBS MYK36716. [11:18] Antonio Vivaldi
Two-Violin Concerto in C, R. 508 – Riccardo Minasi & Dmitry Sinkovsky, v’s; Il Pomo d’Oro. Naïve OP-30550. [9:59]
2:00 Florence Price Symphony No. 1 in E minor – Fort Smith Symphony/John Jeter. Naxos 8.559827. [37:22]
3:00 Late Afternoon Music with Candice Agree, including The Unrush Hour at 5:00 pm. Alexander Borodin Prince Igor: Overture – Royal Liverpool Phil/Charles Mackerras. Virgin 61135-2. [10:43] Wolfgang Amadeus
Mozart Piano Concerto No. 13 in C, K. 415 – Anne-Marie McDermott, p; Calder Quartet. Bridge 9403. [27:55] Ralph
Vaughan Williams Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis – City of Birmingham Sym Orch/Mirga GražinyteTyla. DG 4861547. [15:22]
7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: See Monday’s listing.
8:00 WFMT Presents: Music and Conversation with Jeremy
Denk. The dynamic American pianist offers a listener’s guide to Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 20 in D Minor and shares his passion for collaboration in chamber music. Hosted by Oliver Camacho.
10:00 Baroque&Before with Candice Agree
12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff
6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore including news & weather on the hour between 6:00 am and 9:00 am; and Carl’s Almanac at 7:30 am.
10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, including New Releases this hour, Daily Excursion at 11:00 am, Music in Chicago at 12:00 pm, and the Afternoon Masterwork at 2:00 pm. Dmitri Kabalevsky The Comedians, Op. 26 – San Diego Chamber Orch/Donald Barra. Koch 3-7042-2. [15:30]
11:00 Manuel Ponce Balada Mexicana – Eva Suk, p; Mexico State Sym Orch/Enrique Bátiz. ASV CDDCA-926. [11:18]
12:00 Arcangelo Corelli Concerto grosso in D, Op. 6, No. 1 –Philharmonia Baroque/ Nicholas McGegan. Harmonia Mundi HMU-907014. [11:06]
1:00 Gilbert & Sullivan The Mikado : Overture – St. Martin’s Academy/Sir Neville Marriner. Philips 411450-2. [7:44]
Maurice Ravel Violin Sonata No. 2 (1923-27) – Philippe Graffin, v; Claire Désert, p. Avie AV-2399. [17:12]
2:00 Camille Saint-Saëns Piano Concerto No. 5 in F, Op. 103, Egyptian – Stephen Hough, p; City of Birmingham Sym Orch/Sakari Oramo. Hyperion CDA-67331/2 (2). [26:51]
3:00 Late Afternoon Music with Candice Agree, including The Unrush Hour at 5:00 pm. Joaquín Rodrigo Fantasía para un gentilhombre – Julian Bream, g; RCA Victor Chamber Orch/Leo Brouwer. RCA 61611-2. [23:23] Hector Berlioz Roman Carnival Overture, Op.9 – Detroit Sym Orch/Paul Paray. Mercury 434328-2. [8:21] Carl Maria von Weber Clarinet Concerto No. 2 in E-Flat, Op. 74 – Sabine Meyer, cl; Dresden Staatskapelle/ Herbert Blomstedt. EMI CDC5-67988-2. [22:16]
7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: See Monday’s listing.
8:00 Evenings with Kerry Frumkin
9:00 Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra Onstage: Iman Habibi: Jeder Baum spricht; Schumann: Ballade in A
minor, Op. 33; Symphony No. 1 in B-flat major, Op. 38, Spring; Brahms: Gesand der Parzen, Op. 89; Academic Festival Overture, Op. 80; Schicksalslied for Chorus and Orchestra, Op. 54; Milwaukee Symphony Chorus; KenDavid Masur, conductor.
11:00 Evenings with Kerry Frumkin
12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff
6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore including news & weather on the hour between 6:00 am and 9:00 am; and Carl’s Almanac at 7:30 am.
10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, including New Releases this hour, Daily Excursion at 11:00 am, Music in Chicago at 12:00 pm, and the Afternoon Masterwork at 2:00 pm. Richard Wagner Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg: Prelude to Act 1 – Cleveland Orch/Franz Welser-Möst. DG 4778773. [8:42]
11:00 Joaquín Rodrigo Concierto de Aranjuez – Sharon Isbin, g; Lausanne Chamber Orch/Lawrence Foster. Virgin 91192-2. [23:10]
12:00 Charles Avison Concerto grosso No. 9 in C, after Domenico Scarlatti – Café Zimmermann. Alpha 031. [12:29]
1:00 Edward Elgar Pomp and Circumstance March No. 5 in C, Op. 39, No. 5 – BBC Phil/ Sir Andrew Davis. Chandos CHAN-10709. [6:07] Franz
Schubert String Quartet No. 10 in E-Flat, D. 87 –Alban Berg Quartet. EMI CDC5-56470-2. [22:17]
2:00 George Gershwin Piano
Concerto in F – Jean-Yves Thibaudet, p; Baltimore Sym Orch/Marin Alsop. Decca B0014091-02. [31:28]
3:00 Late Afternoon Music with Candice Agree, including Friday Afternoon at the Movies at 4:30pm and The Unrush Hour at 5:00 pm. Ottorino Respighi The Pines of Rome –Santa Cecilia Orch/Daniele Gatti. Conifer 51292-2. [23:01]
Franz Krommer Wind Partita in B-Flat, Op. 45/3 – Chicago Chamber Musicians. WFMT Recording. [18:19] Astor
Piazzolla Four Seasons of Buenos Aires: Summer; Autumn; Winter – Cavatina Duo. Bridge 9330. [12:40]
7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: See Monday’s listing.
8:00 Sounds Classical Hosted by Kristina Lynn and LaRob K. Rafael.
9:00 The New York Philharmonic
This Week: Carlos Chávez: Sinfonia India; Ponce: Concierto de sur; Sharon Isbin, guitar; Falla: The ThreeCornered Hat; Jan DeGaetani, mezzo; El amor brujo; Marilyn Horne, mezzo; Leonard Bernstein, José Serebrier, and Pierre Boulez, conductors.
11:00 Best of Studs Terkel: Corky Siegel (08/06/1976). In honor of Corky Siegel’s 80th birthday and the 60 years he’s devoted to the harmonic convergence of blues and classical, here is his 1976 conversation with Studs Terkel. The ebullient harmonica virtuoso and composer was born in Chicago on October 24, 1943.
12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff
7:00 Weekend Mornings with LaRob K. Rafael, with News at 7:00 am; Saturday Morning Listener’s Choice at 8:00 am; and Soundtrack at 9:00 am.
11:00 Introductions: Scaleno Trio (Emily Chen, Neal Eisfeldt & Ethan Zheng) plays Mendelssohn & Dvorák. Luminos Piano Trio (Lauren Kim, Lucy Wu & Matthew Hahn) plays Beethoven & Tchaikovsky.
12:00 From Opera Festival of Chicago: Verdi’s Attila Andrea Silvestrelli (Attila); Jenny Schuler (Odabella); Franco Pomponi (Ezio); Patrick Blackwell (Leone); Ben Gulley (Foresto); Reuben Lillie (Uldino); Opera Festival of Chicago Chorus and Orchestra; Emanuele Andrizzi, conductor. Sung in Italian.
2:15 Saturday Afternoon Music with Jan Weller
4:00 Listening to Singers with Oliver Camacho: An interview with Lisette Soprano. The Cuban-American soprano stars in Lyric Opera’s prodcution of The Daughter of the Regiment next month.
5:00 Saturday Evening Music with Jan Weller
7:00 Fiesta! with Elbio Barilari: Portuguese Impressionism: António Fragoso. If you think Impressionism was only a French style of music, wait until you listen to Portuguese composer António Fragoso! Elbio Barilari presents music of this composer, who was a favorite of Debussy.
8:00 Folkstage hosted by Marilyn Rea Beyer: From the archives – highlights of live broadcasts from the recent and distant past. Mari Black, Wendy & DB, Jackson Emmer and more.
9:00 The Midnight Special with
Marilyn Rea Beyer: Get on board with train songs. Plus birthday greetings to Steve Cropper and Corky Siegel.
12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff
6:00 With Heart and Voice: The Tudors. Sacred music of the Tudor composers Tallis, Gibbons, Byrd, and others, forms a foundation for the Anglican repertoire. They also were a great influence on and inspiration to composers nearer to our time, including Howells and Vaughan Williams. Join Peter DuBois as he shares music exploring those connections.
7:00 Weekend Mornings with LaRob K. Rafael
12:00 Sunday Afternoons with Robbie Ellis including LIli Boulanger D’un matin de printemps – Vienna Phil/ Yannick Nézet-Séguin. Sony 19658818942. [5:35] Claude Debussy Danses sacrée et profane – Alice Chalifoux, h; Cleveland Orch/Pierre Boulez. Sony SM2K-68327 (2). [10:09]
Frédéric Chopin Selections from Preludes, Op. 28 – C Thomas, WE Schmidt, J Han & F Helmerson, vc’s. DG 4858451. [13:19]
1:00 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
The Abduction from the Seraglio, K. 384: Overture –Royal Phil/Colin Davis. Seraphim 69027-2. [5:35]
Arwel Hughes Oratorio, Dewi Sant (Saint David): I. Chorus, Molwn Di (Praise the Lord) – BBC National Orch & Cho of Wales/Owain Arwel Hughes. Rubicon RCD-1100. [6:33] James Oswald A Sonata of Scots Tunes – La Rêveuse. Harmonia Mundi HMM-902613. [8:57]
2:00 Johannes Brahms Violin Sonata No. 2 in A, Op. 100 –Bella Hristova, v; Michael Houstoun, p. Rattle RAT-D144. [19:47] Lucía Caruso & Pedro Henrique da Silva Folía – P H da Silva, Port.g; L Caruso, p; St Martin’s Academy/B O’Neil. Bright Shiny Things IMGC-0123. [6:23] Giuseppe
Verdi Les Vêpres siciliennes: Four Seasons Ballet: Winter –Bournemouth Sym Orch/José Serebrier. Naxos 8.572818-19 (2). [6:36] Tomaso Albinoni Adagio in G minor – Signum Saxophone Quartet. DG 4860001. [5:17] Steven Banks Come As You Are: I. Lift My Eyes – Julian Velasco, tsx; Winston Choi, p. Cedille CDR-90000213. [5:39]
3:00 Felix Mendelssohn A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Lisette Oropesa has sung the role of Susanna in Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro twice for Chicago-area audiences (Ravinia 2010, 2014). While Mozart is a specialty of hers, Chicagoans have yet to experience the bel canto repertoire for which the Cuban-American soprano is soughtafter by opera companies all over the world. Her 2018 debut in Lucia di Lammermoor at Madrid’s Teatro Real brought her to international attention, drawing comparisons to the legendary interpreters of the bel canto tragedienne. Oropesa joins WFMT to talk about Mozart and bel canto in advance of her Lyric Opera debut in Donizetti’s Daughter of the Regiment Saturday, October 21 4:00 pm
Overture, Op. 21 – Age of Enlightenment Orch/ Charles Mackerras. Virgin 90725-2. [11:53] Erik Marchelie Sonatine for flute and guitar: III. Finale, Scherzando; Jacques Ibert Entr’acte (1937) – Cecilia Duo. Soleil CD-9391. [6:57] Mademoiselle Duval Ballet, Les Génies (The Geniuses): Suite – Women’s Phil/JoAnn Falletta. Newport Classic NCD-60102. [11:42] Scott Joplin Eugenia – Lara
Downes, p. Rising Sun Music RS-016. [3:22] Henrik Ødegaard O filii et filiae; Meditations over St. Mary Magdalene’s feast in Nidaros: VI. Hymn, Aeterne Deus omnium and VIII. Maria, tibi persolvum – Vox Clamantis/JaanEik Tulve. ECM 2767. [8:02]
4:00 Frédéric Chopin Introduction and Polonaise brillante in C, Op. 3 – Camille Thomas, vc; Julien Libeer, p. DG 4858451. [9:21] John Williams Star Wars: The
The pioneering piano virtuoso André Watts was one of the first Black superstars in classical music. In 1963, his career launched at the age of 16 when Leonard Bernstein presented him at a Young People’s Concert as soloist with the New York Philharmonic in Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 1. Before the televised concert, Bernstein introduced Watts to the national television audience, stating that he “flipped” when he first heard Watts play. André Watts, who died of prostate cancer in July, was Studs Terkel’s guest in 1986. WFMT remembers him with this archive broadcast.
Friday, October 27 11:00 pm
Empire Strikes Back: Imperial March – Vienna Phil/John Williams. DG 4836373.
[3:20] José Pablo Moncayo
Huapango – Boston Pops
Orch/Keith Lockhart. RCA
63717-2. [7:59] Franz Joseph Haydn String Quartet in D minor, Op. 103 (incomplete) –Leipzig String Quartet. MDG
3071860-2. [11:42] James
Oswald The Caledonian Pocket Companion: Sleepy Maggy – Olivier Riehl, f.
Harmonia Mundi HMM902613. [1:34] James
Oswald The Caledonian Pocket Companion: Up in the Morning Early – La Rêveuse. Harmonia Mundi HMM-902613. [3:09] Valentin
Silvestrov Post Scriptum: II. Andantino – Myroslava Khomik, v; James Lent, p. Navona NV-6536. [4:34]
5:00 Evenings with Kerry Frumkin including David Del Tredici
Aeolian Ballade – Marc Peloquin, p. Naxos 8.559680. [13:05] Samuel ColeridgeTaylor Romance of the Prairie
Lilies, Op. 39 – RTÉ Concert Orch/Adrian Leaper. Naxos
8.555191. [6:30] Anton
Rubinstein Piano Concerto No. 1 in E, Op. 25 – Anna Shelest, p; Estonian National Sym Orch/Neeme Järvi. Music & Arts MA-1308. [33:13]
6:00 Pietro Castrucci Viola da Gamba Sonata in G minor – Florence Bolton, viga; La Rêveuse. Harmonia Mundi HMM-902613.
[10:28] Brenno Blauth Viola Sonata – Georgina Isabel Rossi, vi; Silvie Cheng, p. Navona NV-6537. [20:41]
Jean Sibelius Symphony No. 7 in C, Op. 105 – Oslo Phil/Klaus Mäkelä. Decca 4852256. [22:35]
7:00 Various Select French opera arias for mezzo-soprano –Elina Garanca, ms; Vienna Phil/Yannick Nézet-Séguin. Sony 19658818942. [19:24]
Sofia Gubaidulina Allegro rusticana; Sounds of the Forest – Virginia Broffitt Kunzer, f; Tammie Walker, p. MSR Classics MS-1771.
[8:46] Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart String Quintet in B-Flat, K. 174 – Melos String Quartet; Franz Beyer, vi. DG 423697-2. [23:54]
8:00 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Radio Broadcasts: Berlioz: Overture to Les Francs-juges, Op. 3; Dohnányi: Variation on a Nursery Song, Op. 25; Weber: Overture to Oberon; Del Tredici: Final Alice; Georg Solti, conductor.
10:00 Collectors’ Corner with Henry Fogel: Takashi
Asahina conducts Strauss. Strauss: Ein Heldenleben; Till Eulenspiegel; An Alpine Symphony
12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff
6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore including news & weather on the hour between 6:00 am and 9:00 am; and Carl’s Almanac at 7:30 am.
10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, including New Releases this hour, Daily Excursion at 11:00 am, Music in Chicago at 12:00 pm, and the Afternoon Masterwork at 2:00 pm. Claude Debussy Estampes –Stephen Hough, p. Hyperion CDA-68139. [14:20]
11:00 Ottorino Respighi The Fountains of Rome –Philadelphia Orch/ Riccardo Muti. EMI CDR5-69831-2. [15:20]
12:00 Henryk Wieniawski Polonaise brillante No. 2 in A, Op. 21 –Charlie Siem, v; Itamar Golan,
p. Signum SIGCD-652. [9:49]
1:00 Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov The Snow Maiden: Suite –Seattle Sym/Gerard Schwarz. Naxos 8.572787. [12:29]
Giovanni Gabrieli Sonata pian e forte – Millar Brass Ensemble/Vincent Cichowicz. Delos DE-3171. [5:16]
2:00 Georges Bizet Symphony in C – Chicago Sym Orch/ Jean Martinon. Sony Classical 88843062752. [26:33]
3:00 Late Afternoon Music with Candice Agree, including The Unrush Hour at 5:00 pm. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Symphony in D after Posthorn Serenade, K. 320 – Tafelmusik/Bruno Weil. Sony S2K-47260 (2). [22:50] Jean-Philippe
Rameau Pièces de clavecin –Brasil Guitar Duo. WFMT Recording. [8:59] Maurice Ravel Piano Concerto in G – Alicia de Larrocha, p; St. Louis Sym Orch/Leonard Slatkin. RCA 60985-2. [22:11]
7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Two Very Different Worlds: Delius and Holst. Two English composers, Frederick Delius and Gustav Holst, were both born of German parentage, both dead in the same year of 1934, and with little else in common. Bill starts with Delius, describing him as having an affinity with Benjamin Britten. We will listen to “On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring” which evokes sounds of the Yorkshire Moors.
8:00 Live from WFMT: Pianist Su Yeon Kim , first prize winner of the Concours musical international de Montréal, hosted by Kerry Frumkin live from the Fay and Daniel Levin Performance Studio.
10:00 Evenings with Jan Weller
12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff
6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore including news & weather on the hour between 6:00 am and 8:00 am.
6:30 WFMT membership drive programming until 7:00 pm.
7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Two Very Different Worlds: Delius and Holst. See Monday’s listing.
8:00 From the 2023 BBC Proms: Ensemble Pygmalion perform Mozart’s Requiem. An alternative vision of the Requiem, K. 626, with additional pieces by Mozart creating a compelling alternative sequence. Sandrine Piau, soprano; Beth Taylor, mezzo-soprano;
Laurence Kilsby, tenor; Alex Rosen, bass; Pygmalion; Raphaël Pichon, conductor. Recorded September 7 at Royal Albert Hall, London.
10:00 Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center: Rachmaninoff: Selections from Six Songs, Op.38: Margaritki (Daisies); Krïsolov (The Rat-Catcher); Son (A Dream); A-u!; Heidi Grant Murphy, soprano; Kevin Murphy, piano; Tchaikovsky: Quartet No. 2 in F major, Op. 22; Artemis String Quartet.
11:00 Evenings with Kerry Frumkin
Wednesday 25
12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff
6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore including news &
Tenor Lawrence Brownlee is hailed as “one of the most in-demand opera singers in the world today” (NPR). Recently, he has branched out of the bel canto repertoire for which he is universally acclaimed, exploring the high-lying title role of Rameau’s Platée for Paris Opera and delivering a grounded performance as Tamino in The Magic Flute last season at the Met. These forays into 18th century style coupled with his collaborations with contemporary composers have only served to deepen his already formidable skills as a performer. WFMT welcomes him back to the Levin Studio in advance of the prima of The Daughter of the Regiment at Lyric Opera.
Monday, October 30
8:00 pm
weather on the hour between 6:00 am and 8:00 am.
6:30 WFMT membership drive programming until 12:15 pm.
12:15 Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts: Poiesis Quartet (violinists Sarah Ma and Max Ball, cellist Drew Dansby, and violist Jasper de Boor) performs works by Kevin Lau and Johannes Brahms live from Seventeenth Church of Christ, Scientist, Chicago.
1:00 WFMT membership drive programming until 7:00 pm.
7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Two Very Different Worlds: Delius and Holst. See Monday’s listing.
8:00 WFMT Presents: The Miró Quartet. One of the most celebrated American string quartets presents Poems & Prose: A Quartet Narrative, recorded live from Barrington’s White House last month. The program features selections from Antonin Dvorák’s Cypresses; the second movement of Franz Schubert’s Quartet in D minor, D. 810, Death and the Maiden; Caroline Shaw’s Microfictions; and Johannes Brahms’s Quartet in C minor, Op. 51, No. 1.
10:00 Baroque&Before with Candice Agree
Thursday 26
12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff
6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore including news & weather on the hour between 6:00 am and 8:00 am.
6:30 WFMT membership drive programming until 7:00 pm.
7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Two Very Different Worlds: Delius and Holst. See Monday’s listing.
8:00 Evenings with Kerry Frumkin
9:00 Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra Onstage: Ravel: Une Barque sur l’océan; La Valse; Messiaen: L’Ascension; Chopin: Concerto No. 2 in F minor for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 21; Orli Shaham, piano; David Robertson, conductor.
11:00 Evenings with Kerry Frumkin
Friday 27
12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff
6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore including news & weather on the hour between 6:00 am and 8:00 am.
6:30 WFMT membership drive programming until 7:00 pm.
7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Two Very
Different Worlds: Delius and Holst. See Monday’s listing.
8:00 Sounds Classical A special Membership Drive episode hosted by Kristina Lynn and LaRob K. Rafael.
9:00 The New York Philharmonic
This Week: A playlist of music evoking Halloween by composers such as Mendelssohn, Ives, Schoenberg, Stravinsky, Berlioz, Mahler, Lyadov, and Julia Adolphe. George Szell, Jaap van Zweden, Pierre Boulez, Alan Gilbert, Leonard Bernstein, and Lorin Maazel, conductors.
11:00 Best of Studs Terkel: André Watts (01/22/1986). André Watts (1946-2023), the pioneering piano virtuoso and one of the first Black superstars in classical music, was Studs Terkel’s guest in 1986. Watts died in July 2023.
12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff
6:00 WFMT membership drive programming until 12:00 pm.
12:00 From Opera Southwest: Rossini’s Le comte Ory Christopher Bozeka (Count Ory); Tim Mix (Tutor); Amanda Crider (Isolier); Matthew Hanscom (Raimbaud); Lindsay Ohse (Countess Adèle); Laurel Semerdjian (Ragonde); Mary Brzezinski (Alice); Opera Southwest Chorus and Orchestra; Anthony Barrese, conductor. Sung in Italian.
2:30 WFMT membership drive programming until 4:00 pm.
4:00 Listening to Singers with Oliver Camacho: A special episode for the Fall Membership Drive.
5:00 Saturday Evening Music with Jan Weller
6:00 Franz Schubert Piano Quintet in A, D. 667, Trout – Arnaud Sussmann, v; Matthew Lipman, vi; David Finckel, vc; Scott Pingel, db; Wu Han, p. Music@Menlo 2021. [37:37]
7:00 Fiesta! with Elbio Barilari: Brazilian Hidden Treasures. For the last 100 years, Brazil has been a musical powerhouse, not just for popular music, like the famous samba and bossa nova, but also for its classical composers. Elbio Barilari features some of the best-hidden treasures of Brazilian concert music. Works by Alceo Bocchino, Alexandre Levy and other Brazilian secret masters.
8:00 Folkstage hosted by Marilyn Rea Beyer: From the archives – highlights of live broadcasts from the recent and distant past.
Vance Gilbert, Buffalo Rose, Michael Smith and more. Mari Black, Wendy & DB, Jackson Emmer and more.
9:00 The Midnight Special with Marilyn Rea Beyer: Demon lovers, phantom ships and other spooky, folky songs.
12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff
6:00 With Heart and Voice
7:00 WFMT membership drive programming until 7:00 pm.
7:00 Evenings with Kerry Frumkin including Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Symphony No. 8 in D, K. 48 – Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood. L’Oiseau-Lyre 452496-2 (19). [15:18] Felix Mendelssohn Octet in E-Flat, Op. 20 – Jupiter Quartet, Jasper String Quartet. Marquis 16132. [32:05] Robert Nathaniel Dett Nepenthe and the Muse – Clipper Erickson, p. Navona NV-6013. [4:19]
8:00 Chicago Symphony
Orchestra Radio Broadcasts: Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 25 in C Major, K. 503; Daniel Barnboim, conductor; Shostakovich: Symphony No. 8 in C Minor, Op. 65; Vladimir Jurowski, conductor.
10:00 Collectors’ Corner with Henry Fogel: Music by the Greek composer Petros Petridis. Petridis: Requiem for the Emperor Constantine Palaiologos; Symphony No. 3, Parisian; Concerto Grosso for Winds, Timpani: Finale.
12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff
6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore including news & weather on the hour between
6:00 am and 8:00 am.
6:30 WFMT membership drive programming until 7:00 pm.
7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: To be announced.
8:00 Live from WFMT: Tenor Lawrence Brownlee, star of Lyric Opera’s upcoming production of The Daughter of the Regiment, hosted by Kerry Frumkin live from the Fay and Daniel Levin Performance Studio. Pianist TBA.
10:00 Evenings with Jan Weller
12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff
6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore including news & weather on the hour between 6:00 am and 8:00 am.
The “Last Night of the Proms,” the conclusion of the eight-week summer concert series, traditionally offers audience-pleasing, popular classics in the first half, followed by a second half of British patriotic pieces (Arne’s Rule Britannia!, Elgar’s Pomp and Circumstance, Parry’s Jerusalem). The audience-pleasers for the 2023 “Last Night” include Lise Davidsen singing “Dich, teure Halle” from Wagner’s Tannhäuser and “Vieni! t’affretta” from Verdi’s Macbeth; and Sheku-Kanneh Mason performing Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s Deep River and Max Bruch’s Kol nidrei—truly something for everyone with two of the brightest stars of classical music.
Tuesday, October 31
8:00 pm
6:30 WFMT membership drive programming until 7:00 pm.
7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: To be announced
8:00 From the 2023 BBC Proms: Last Night of the Proms. Cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason and soprano Lise Davidsen join conductor Marin Alsop and the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus for an evening of opera arias, songs, spirituals, choral anthems and world premieres, as well as all the traditional favorites by Arne, Elgar and Parry. Recorded September 9 at Royal Albert Hall, London.
10:00 Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center:
Mendelssohn: Lied ohne Worte in D major, Op. 109; Jakob Koranyi, cello; Inon Barnatan, piano; Schubert: Quartet in G major for Strings, D. 887, Op. 161; Adam BarnettHart, violin I; Brendan Speltz, violin II; Pierre Lapointe, viola; Brook Speltz, cello.
11:00 Evenings with Kerry Frumkin
