Air Check Dear Member, Chicago is famous for its plentiful restaurants, beautiful lakefront, and rich and diverse arts and cultural scene. But as any inhabitant of our two-baseball-team-city can tell you, Chicagoans live and die by their sports teams…and the teams who win championships create perhaps the most cherished memories of all. This month, WTTW brings you a new local documentary that shines a spotlight on the legendary 1985 Chicago Bears – to date, the only team in franchise history to win the Super Bowl. Hear the story of that unforgettable season from some of the participants themselves, including “Iron Mike” Ditka and quarterback Jim McMahon, and from some of the city’s biggest Bears fans – from President Obama and Mayor Emanuel to the most loyal diehards who have followed the team for a lifetime. I guarantee you will want to do “The Super Bowl Shuffle” all over again. This August, of course, finds Team USA competing in the Summer Olympic Games in Rio, and on WTTW11 and wttw.com, two specials recall a very different Olympics 80 years ago: Nazi Games – Berlin 1936 and The Boys of ’36, an American Experience special. Expanding upon a related story that has been in the news, the new documentary Spillover: Zika, Ebola, and Beyond follows scientists delving into diseases that “spill over” from animals to humans. Speaking of the animal-human relationship, I think you will agree that there are few better examples than the story of Koko: The Gorilla That Talks. Our gripping Saturday and Sunday night mysteries from the U.K. continue, and a new winner is crowned in the wildly popular competition that is The Great British Baking Show. In advance of this fall’s Presidential election, we bring you some stellar American Experience biographies of 20th century commanders-in-chief. We also have a fond look back at Downton Abbey and a sneak peek at the eagerly anticipated new season of Poldark, returning next month. We check in with more culinary pros on Chat, Please!, take you on an aerial tour of southern Italy, and recapture the mood of summers past with pop and rock music icons from the 1960s and ’70s. Remember that you can partake of all of this, and much more, online at wttw.com and out and about on your phone, via our Apple and Android apps. On 98.7WFMT and wfmt.com, violinist Christian Tetzlaff, and pianists Stephen Hough and Kirill Gerstein, will be guest soloists with Carlos Kalmar and the Grant Park Orchestra as we continue with live broadcasts from the free summer music festival at Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park. In mid-August, we start a Saturday afternoon series of outstanding performances from the San Francisco Opera – this month Verdi’s Luisa Miller and Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor. And Lisa Flynn will play and discuss listener favorite violin concertos on weekday mornings throughout the final two weeks of the month. You can bring us with you and listen anytime…by the pool, in the park, and on the beach, with the WFMT apps for Apple and Android devices. Enjoy the dog days of summer! Sincerely,
Dan Schmidt President & CEO
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ON THE COVER: The University of Washington’s varsity crew at the Poughkeepsie Regatta Races in June 1936. Pictured from left to right: Bob Moch, Coxwain (out of frame); Don Hume, Stroke; Joe Rantz, 7; George Hunt, 6; Jim McMillin, 5; John White, 4; Gordon Adams, 3; Charles Day, 2; and Roger Morris, 1. Photo courtesy of: ©Corbis 2
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MEMBER CONNECTIONS Screening: All the Difference
An Evening with Joan Baez
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WHAT WTTW, in partnership with the Department of Cultural Affairs All the Difference and City Year, presents a free screening of the P.O.V. documentary Screening & Discussion All the Difference. The largely invisible WHERE and often crushing Chicago Cultural Center 78 E. Washington Street struggles of young in Chicago African-American men come vividly and heroWHEN: ically to life in All the Saturday, August 20, 2:00 pm Difference, which traces the paths of two teens from the South Side of Chicago who dream of graduating from college. Statistics predict that Robert and Krishaun will drop out of high school, but they have other plans. This intimate film follows the young men through five years of hard work, sacrifice, setbacks, and uncertainty. As they discover, support from family, teachers, and mentors makes all the difference in defying the odds. Immediately following the film there will be a panel discussion with Krishaun Branch at Urban Prep questions from the audience. Graduation
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Joan Baez in Concert
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Cruise the River with Geoffrey Baer Cruise the Chicago River with our very own Geoffrey Baer as your guide! Learn about the stunning architecture, rich history, and exciting new developments that make this WHAT city great from WTTW Chicago River Architectural Cruise host and producer, and with Geoffrey Baer Chicago Architecture WHERE Foundation docent, Chicago’s First Lady Cruises Geoffrey Baer. This is an Michigan and Wacker Drive event you won’t want to in Chicago miss. A boxed dinner and 2 WHEN drinks are included with Monday, August 22, 5:30 pm your ticket. For tickets, visit wttw.com/events.
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Don’t miss this musical force as she celebrates her 75th birthday. Joan Baez has been influential since the 1960s, both as a beloved folk singer and as a political activist who marched on the front lines of the Civil Rights Movement with Martin Luther King Jr. Fifty years later, Baez remains as vital and passionate as ever in concert and on recordings. This is an evening you won’t forget, in a beautiful Chicago venue. For tickets, visit wttw.com/events.
Live Piano Concert: Alessandro Marangoni
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WFMT’s monthly live series, The PianoForte Salon Series, continues its season of broadcasts and you’re invited to be part of the audience! Join WFMT for a live performance and conversation with pianist Alessandro Marangoni performing Rossini and Chopin. WHAT Alessandro Marangoni burst onto the internaThe PianoForte Salon Series tional concert stage in 2007 when he won the prestigious “Amici di Milano” International Prize WHERE PianoForte Studios for the Music. In the same year, he played at 1335 S. Michigan Avenue Teatro alla Scala in Milan, as soloist during a in Chicago tribute to the great Italian conductor Victor de Sabata, with Daniel Barenboim. In commemoraWHEN tion of the 40th anniversary of de Sabata’s death, Friday, September 2, 12:00 pm he recorded a CD of the piano works on the La Bottega Discantica label. Soon after, he was signed as an international recording artist with NAXOS. His growing discography has received international critical acclaim for the interpretation and technique that fueled his meteoric rise on the concert stage in Europe and beyond. Admission to this concert is free. For program information, visit pianofortefoundation.org.
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MEMBER PERKS 20% Off Organic Baby Food WTTW members have the exclusive opportunity to receive 20% off OrgaNums™ – the organic, nutrientrich tiny human food produced with 100% fruits and vegetables, and with zero additives or preservatives. The mission of OrgaNums is to use all natural, organic ingredients to provide the most nutritious food possible. OrgaNums’ heatless recipes use high pressure pasteurization instead, leaving the vitamins, nutrients, and true flavors intact, allowing children to grow up big and strong! To redeem this special offer, please visit. organums.com and use the code THEBESTCHOICE for a 20% discount. This offer is valid on your first order.
$5 Off Tickets to Chimera Ensemble’s Sister Cities 15% Off Walking Tours Take a walking tour to explore Chicago, what it’s known for, and overlooked spaces. Chicago Detours offers guided walking and bus tours of architecture, history, and culture to curious people! WTTW members receive 15% off the “Loop Interior Architecture Walking Tour” or the “Historic Chicago Walking Bar Tour.” On the Loop Interior Architecture Walking Tour, you’ll step inside magnificent lobbies, corridors, and the underground Pedway system for an indepth, personal approach to a Chicago architecture walking tour downtown. On the Chicago pub crawl, you’ll explore Chicago’s entertainment history and learn about Prohibition, jazz, theater, vices, and social clubs. In addition to the tour guide’s stories, guests interact with historic photos and videos on shared iPads to connect with Chicago’s party past. To receive this special offer, please reserve public tours online at chicagodetours.com with code WTTW15.
From internationally acclaimed playwright Colette Freedman, Chimera Ensemble presents Sister Cities. Sister Cities is about four estranged sisters whose reunion weekend is inextricably flipped 180 degrees with the sudden death of their mother. Written by internationally known playwright and author Colette Freedman, this is the Chicago premiere of the show, which has played all over the world. Sister Cities is a dark comedy, and will have you re-thinking what it means to be family, and what the true value of life, choice, and freedom are for you. To redeem this special offer, please use code WTTW to purchase tickets at ChimeraEnsemble.com. Tickets are available for August 20September 18 performances at The Den in Wicker Park, 1333 N. Milwaukee Avenue in Chicago. Limit four tickets per order. Not applicable with other discounts or on previously purchased tickets. Additional fees may apply. Based on availability.
20% Off Tickets to Daniel O’Donnell Irish and gospel singer Daniel O’Donnell has been serenading audiences for a quarter of century with a mix of old Irish favorites, country tunes, and inspirational pieces. O’Donnell will perform, along with special guest Mary Duff, some of his most recognized songs including, I Just Want to Dance With You, Whatever Happened to Old Fashioned Love, Here I Am Lord, Make the World Go Away, and more! WFMT members receive 20% off admission to Daniel O’Donnell with special guest Mary Duff on Thursday, October 27 at 7:00 pm at the Genesee Theatre, 203 North Genesee Street, in Waukegan. Tickets are on sale now at all Ticketmaster outlets and at the Genesee Theatre Box Office. Use code Member when visiting ticketmaster.com from Monday, August 1 through Wednesday, October 26.
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Daily Television Programming • Programmer’s Picks on WTTW11
The Boys of ’36: American Experience The story of nine working-class young men from the University of Washington who took the rowing world and America by storm when they captured the gold medal at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin.
King in Chicago
Dick Cavett’s Watergate
This documentary looks at Dr. King’s time in Chicago during 1966 where he confronted northern racism and poverty as part of the Chicago Freedom Movement.
From 1972 to 1974, The Dick Cavett Show featured interviews and analysis on the Watergate scandal. This documentary looks back at how the show covered the story.
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EARLY MORNING 12:00 Austin City Limits: Cassandra Wilson Celebrate Billie Holiday with acclaimed jazz singer Cassandra Wilson, as she performs “Strange Fruit,” “Don’t Explain, “Good Morning Heartache,” and other Holiday classics from the tribute album Coming Forth by Day. 1:00 Doc Martin: The Admirer [R] 2:00 Agatha Christie’s Partners in Crime: N or M? Part 1 [R]
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Death in Paradise (Season 5, Part 4 of 8) [R] Luther (Season 3, Part 4 of 4) [R] Martha Stewart’s Cooking School: Fish Monger [R] P. Allen Smith’s Garden Home: Homesteaders USA
MORNING-AFTERNOON 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Chicago Tonight 8:00 Antiques Roadshow: Vintage New Orleans Travel back 15 years to see treasures then and now. Highlights include a New Orleans art pottery jardinière, an 1858 map of lower Mississippi, and a 1955 Brooklyn Dodgers World Series ball. Which item’s value jumped to $150,000-$200,000? 9:00 Antiques Roadshow: Vintage Atlanta 1998 marked the Roadshow’s first visit to “Hotlanta.” In the ensuing 14 years, a collection of documents related to golf legend Bobby Jones sped from an original estimate of $15,000 to a current value of $20,000 to $25,000, while an 1841 letter by Abraham Lincoln rolled from a brisk $75,000 to $125,000 to a slower-paced $60,000 to $80,000. 10:00 P.O.V.: Iris 11:30 BBC World News
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In this feature-length Odd Squad film, a rival group of adults called Weird Team arrive with a gadget that fixes any odd problem. As a result, the Odd Squad is run out of business and all the agents are forced to disband and go back to their lives as regular kids. Using math skills and teamwork, the kids discover that Weird Team isn’t actually solving problems, but just covering them up.
EARLY MORNING 12:00 Chicago Tonight [R] 1:00 Nightly Business Report 1:30 Tavis Smiley 2:00 Charlie Rose 3:00 Dancing on the Edge (Part 6 of 8) [R] 4:00 Get Ready to Rio Special with Hubert Keller [R] 5:00 Chicago Tonight [R]
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Chicago Tonight The Nazi Games – Berlin 1936 Learn how the Nazis and the International Olympic Committee turned the 1936 Berlin Olympics into an epic global and mass media spectacle. 9:00 The Boys of ’36: American Experience Explore the thrilling story of the scrappy American rowing team that triumphed at the 1936 Olympics in Nazi Germany. 10:00 Independent Lens: T-Rex – Her Fight for Gold Meet Claressa “T-Rex” Shields, who rose from the streets of Flint, Michigan, and at 17 won the first Olympic gold medal for women’s boxing in 2012. In this coming-of-age story, life outside the ring may be an even tougher fight. 11:30 BBC World News
Wednesday 3 EARLY MORNING 12:00 Chicago Tonight [R] 1:00 Nightly Business Report 1:30 Tavis Smiley 2:00 Charlie Rose 3:00 Masterpiece Mystery! Inspector Lewis, Season 7: Beyond Good and Evil (Part 3 of 3) [R] 4:30 Rick Steves’ Europe: The Netherlands Beyond Amsterdam [R] 5:00 Chicago Tonight [R]
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POV: Iris Meet Iris Apfel, the quick-witted, flamboyantly dressed 93-year-old style maven who’s had an outsized presence on the New York fashion scene for decades. Albert Maysles’s film shows a woman with an inspirational enthusiasm for fashion, art, and people.
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EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Chicago Tonight 8:00 Koko: The Gorilla Who Talks 9:00 NOVA: Roman Catacomb Mystery Beneath the streets of Rome lies an ancient city of the dead known as the Catacombs. Now, NOVA goes inside a previously unknown complex within the tunnel system: a mysterious mass grave, locked away for almost 2,000 years. 10:00 Spillover: Zika, Ebola, and Beyond
Thursday 4 EARLY MORNING 12:00 Chicago Tonight [R] 1:00 Tavis Smiley 1:30 Charlie Rose 2:30 The Nazi Games: Berlin 1936 See Tues. Aug. 2 at 8:00 pm. [R] 3:30 The Boys of ‘36: American Experience See Tues. Aug. 2 at 9:00 pm. [R] 4:30 Wild Travels [R] 5:00 Chicago Tonight [R]
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WTTW Digital Channel Highlights These digital channels are available with digital cable or over-the-air with a digital receiver. For more information about digital television and for complete schedules, visit wttw.com/schedules. Visions of Italy: Southern Style
Thursday, August 25, 7:30 pm
WTTW11 in HD Free TV, over-the-air antenna viewers can watch WTTW11 in high-definition by tuning to channel 11-1. Cable or satellite viewers can locate WTTW11 in highdefinition on the on-screen menu.
Shot from a helicopter-mounted camera, Visions of Italy: Southern Style takes you on a seamless journey following along the rugged western coastline to the toe of the “boot” at Reggio di Calabria, and then inland over the countryside to Rome.
Full schedule online at wttw.com/schedules Pictured: Aerial photograph of the Colosseum in Rome
Kitchen Wisdom of Cecilia Chang
Premieres, Tuesday, August 23, 7:30 pm
WTTW Prime WTTW Prime is our “prime time all the time” channel. Free TV, over-the-air antenna viewers can tune to channel 11-2 to find WTTW Prime. WTTW Prime is on Comcast digital cable channel 370 and on RCN channel 37.
In the 1950s, Chinese food in the U.S. was mostly westernized Cantonese food such as chop suey and chow mein. Then, along came restaurateur Cecilia Chiang. This new six-part cooking miniseries documents the amazing life story of “the Julia Child of Chinese food in America.”
Full schedule online at wttw.com/schedules Pictured: Chef and restauranteur Cecilia Chiang
Land of the Rising Sun
WTTW Create
Sunday, August 21, 11:00 am
WTTW Create is our how-to and lifestyle programming channel. Free TV, over-the-air antenna viewers tune to channel 11-3. WTTW Create is on Comcast digital cable channel 369 and on RCN channel 38. WTTW Create programming airs from 6:00 am to 6:00 pm.
World travelers Joseph Rosendo, Rudy Maxa, and Art Wolfe take us on an expedition to Japan! The majesty of Japan is on full display as we are immersed in the pride and history of this country.
WTTW PRIME ad Full schedule online at wttw.com/schedules Pictured: Art Wolfe
America ReFramed: American Heart Tuesday, August 8, 7:00 pm
WTTW World WTTW WORLD features public television’s signature documentary, science, and news programming complemented by original content from emerging producers. Free TV, over-the-air antenna viewers tune to channel 11-3. WTTW WORLD is on Comcast digital cable channel 369 and on RCN channel 38. WTTW World airs from 6:00 pm to 6:00 am.
Seven years in the making, this film takes you on an intimate journey into the lives of three refugees who now call Minnesota home. All of them confront life-threatening health emergencies throughout the course of the film, and their trajectories prove surprising even to their doctors.
Full schedule online at wttw.com/schedules Pictured: Alex Gliptis; photo: Chris Newberry
Breakfast & Snacks Sundays, 8:30 am
WTTW Vme WTTW Vme is our Spanish language channel. Free TV, over-the-air antenna viewers can tune to channel 11-4. WTTW Vme is on Comcast digital channels 368 and 629, Dish Network channels 846 and 9414, DirectTV channel 440, and RCN channel 39.
Healthy snacks are an effective way to fit extra nutrients into our diet and prevent overeating at mealtimes. Chef Eva Arguiñano shows us delicious, easy, and practical recipes both sweet and salty, to help us achieve this goal.
Full schedule online at wttw.com/schedules Pictured: Chef Eva Arguiñano
August On-Demand Picks
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Check, Please! Chicago Tonight Cook’s Country Death in Paradise
Pictured: Joséphine Jobert, Death in Paradise
In the Spotlight MORNING-AFTERNOON 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Chicago Tonight 8:00 King in Chicago 9:00 Chicago International Film Festival Special: Mississippi Damned Taking place in 1986 and 1998 and based on a true story, three poor children in rural Mississippi reap the consequences of their family’s cycle of abuse, addiction, and violence. They independently struggle to escape their circumstances and must decide whether to confront what’s plagued their family for generations or succumb to the same crippling fate, forever damned in Mississippi. Bitterly honest and profoundly subtle, writer/director Tina
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Zeppelin LZ 129 ‘Hindenburg’ comes into view.
The Nazi Games – Berlin 1936 This film chronicles the story of how the Nazis and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) turned, to their mutual advantage, a relatively small, elitist, sports event into an epic global and mass media spectacle that, despite the IOC’s determined attempts to forget, continues to this day. Despite the modern Olympic Games being “revived” in 1896 in Athens, the Games as we have come to know them were shaped by the collaboration of interests between the Nazis and the IOC in Berlin in 1936. The grand themes and controversial issues from the 1936 Games have continued to this day: Monumentality, budget overruns, collusion with authoritarian regimes, corruption, and sometimes even bribery.
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Mabry successfully captures growing up in a world where possibilities and opportunities seem to die in the face of the suffocating reality of physical and sexual abuse, obsession, and a myriad of destructive compulsions. 11:00 BBC World News 11:30 Nightly Business Report
Friday 5 EARLY MORNING 12:00 Chicago Tonight [R] 1:00 Tavis Smiley 1:30 Charlie Rose 2:30 NOVA: Roman Catacomb Mystery See Wed. Aug. 3 at 9:00 pm. [R] 3:30 Spillover: Zika, Ebola, and Beyond See Wed. Aug. 3 at 10:00 pm. [R] 4:30 The Interview Show with Mark Bazer: Colt Cabana and Mick Dumke [R] 5:00 Chicago Tonight [R] MORNING-AFTERNOON 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Chicago Tonight: The Week in Review with Joel Weisman 7:30 Where in Chicago with Geoffrey Baer (Part 3 of 4) In his first-ever quiz show, Geoffrey Baer poses Chicago history and trivia questions to a lively and diverse group of passersby all over the city – in Lincoln Park, Daley Plaza, Chinatown, Navy Pier, Hyde Park, and other locales – and reveals the answers. 8:00 Check, Please! JP Graziano, Ada Street, Deka Catherine’s guests are Bedford Park web developer Al Herrera, who recommends JP Graziano Grocery & Sub Shop in the West Loop; stay-at-home mom Caroline Vanderoef of Lincoln Park, who loves West Town eatery Ada Street; and Park Ridge sales manager Olya Lebedyeva, whose choice is Deka, a brasserie in Wheeling. 8:30 The Interview Show with Mark Bazer: Sarah Spain and Toronzo Cannon Mark’s guests are ESPN host and columnist Sarah Spain and blues musician Toronzo Cannon (The Chicago Way). 9:00 The Great British Baking Show: Chocolate (Season 3, Part 9) Follow the semifinalists into the iconic tent as they come to grips with chocolate, a temperamental ingredient. The Signature task is a chocolate tart, followed by a chocolate soufflé in the Technical challenge. For the Showstopper, the bakers create chocolate centerpieces. 10:00 Kartemquin Film TBD
11:00 BBC World News 11:30 Washington Week with Gwen Ifill
Saturday 6 EARLY MORNING 12:00 Chicago Tonight: The Week in Review with Joel Weisman [R] 12:30 Nightly Business Report 1:00 Tavis Smiley 1:30 Charlie Rose 2:30 King in Chicago See Thurs. Aug. 4 at 8:00 pm. [R] 3:30 TBD [possibly the Kartemquin Film repeat] 5:00 Chicago Tonight: The Week in Review with Joel Weisman [R] MORNING 5:30-10:00 WTTW Kids 10:00 Lidia’s Kitchen: Dough and Crusts 10:30 A Chef’s Life: Gone Clamming, Part 2 11:00 Ellie’s Real Good Food: Office Food Overhaul 11:30 This Old House: Sink Mistake, Security Light AFTERNOON 12:00 Cook’s Country: Bringing Home Tex-Mex Favorites 12:30 Simply Ming: Texas 3 1:00 Steven Raichlen’s Project Smoke: Ham Sessions 1:30 Jacques Pepin: Heart & Soul – Cooking for the President 2:00 America’s Test Kitchen from Cook’s Illustrated: Classic Fare with Flair 2:30 America’s Test Kitchen from Cook’s Illustrated: Mexican Mole and Drunken Beans 3:00 Martha Stewart’s Cooking School: Sautéing 3:30 Martha Bakes: Fruit Curds 4:00 Check, Please! JP Graziano, Ada Street, Deka See Fri. Aug. 5 at 8:00 pm. [R] 4:30 Wild Travels Segments in this episode include: a drive-in church service (Florida), the Main Street Museum’s Cabinet of Curiosities (Vermont), and the entire White House in miniature at the President’s Hall of Fame (Florida). 5:00 Rick Steves’ Europe: Prague The capital of the Czech Republic, Prague is the best-preserved Baroque city in Central Europe. We experience its massive castle, beloved statue-lined bridge, evocative Jewish Quarter, and thrilling 20th-century history while enjoying its infectious love of music and perhaps the best beer in Europe. With a beautifully preserved Old Town, Prague deserves its nickname: the Golden City of a Hundred Spires. 5:30 The Travel Detective with Peter Greenberg: Boating
The Boys of ’36: American Experience This film tells the thrilling story of the American rowing team that triumphed at the Berlin Olympic Games, under the gaze of Adolf Hitler. Inspired by the bestselling book The Boys in the Boat, meet the underdog team that took the nation by storm when they captured gold.
Tuesday, August 2, 9:00 pm
Jon Epstein and a colleague feed a bat mango juice before it is released.
Spillover: Zika, Ebola, and Beyond As attention focuses on the Rio Olympics and concerns about the Zika virus, this new documentary follows scientists as they trace “spillover” disease outbreaks which make a leap from animals to humans, as Zika and Ebola have.
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6:00 Arthur 6:30 Odd Squad 7:00 Wild Kratts 7:30 Ready Jet Go! 8:00 Nature Cat 8:30 Curious George 9:00 Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood 9:30 Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood 10:00 Sesame Street 10:30 Peg + Cat 11:00 Dinosaur Train 11:30 Thomas & Friends
Afternoons 12:00 Super Why 12:30 Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood 1:00 Nature Cat 1:30 Cat in the Hat 2:00 Arthur 2:30 Arthur 3:00 Curious George 3:30 Nature Cat 4:00 Ready Jet Go! 4:30 Odd Squad 5:00 Wild Kratts 5:30 Wild Kratts
5:30 Cat in the Hat 6:00 Sesame Street 6:30 Bob the Builder 7:00 Sid the Science Kid 7:30 Super Why 8:00 Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood 8:30 Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood 9:00 Nature Cat 9:30 Arthur
Sunday Mornings 5:00 Super Why 5:30 Caillou 6:00 Cyberchase 6:30 WordGirl 7:00 Martha Speaks 7:30 Peg + Cat 8:00 Arthur 8:30 Curious George 9:00 Nature Cat 9:30 Ready Jet Go! 10:00 Odd Squad 10:30 Wild Kratts
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Readers are Leaders A tour of stories music and fun for families featuring special guest Miss Lori’s CAMPUS. Where you’ll find us in August:
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In the Spotlight child genius Alice Morgan. He quickly deduces that Alice is responsible for the deaths, but the seemingly perfect crime leaves no evidence with which to convict her. 11:00 Luther (Season 1, Part 2 of 6) Luther must outmaneuver a trained sniper on a mission to kill police officers. But as the body count rises, he has to uncover the killer’s true motives.
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King in Chicago A stirring overview of the local civil rights movement recalled by the some of its main participants, including Jesse Jackson, C.T. Vivan, and Al Sampson. Through rare photos and music, this film explores why Chicago was a different fight than the South, and examines its effects on modern questions of race and class.
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Safety Peter takes an in-depth look at boating safety and explains what you can do to save lives, including your own. EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour Weekend 6:30 McLaughlin Group 7:00 Doc Martin: The Holly Bears a Prickle Doc Martin and Louisa are finally going on their first date. However, the clumsy doctor manages to ruin the moment. There’s one more chance to redeem himself when he gets an urgent call for help from Louisa to treat her friend Holly. 8:00 Agatha Christie’s Partners in Crime: N or M? Part 2 When their prime suspect turns up dead, the Beresfords look elsewhere for the bomb thief. Tommy lets his guard down and ends up in trouble. 9:00 Death in Paradise (Season 5, Part 5 of 8) DI Goodman’s aunt Mary becomes the only witness to the murder of a tourist. 10:00 Luther (Season 1, Part 1 of 6) DCI John Luther (Idris Elba) returns to work after a leave of absence following the traumatic arrest of the serial killer Henry Madsen. Luther’s first case is investigating the murder of the parents of
EARLY MORNING 12:00 Brazil with Michael Palin: The Deep South (Part 4 of 4) [R] 1:00 The Tunnel (Season 1, Part 7 of 10) [R] 2:00 Antiques Roadshow: Vintage New Orleans See Mon. Aug. 1 at 8:00 pm. [R] 3:00 Antiques Roadshow: Vintage Atlanta See Mon. Aug. 1 at 9:00 pm. [R] 4:00 Koko: The Gorilla Who Talks See Wed. Aug. 3 at 8:00 pm. [R] MORNING 5:00-11:00 WTTW Kids 11:00 Baby Makes 3: As the Potter Wheel Turns 11:30 Family Travel with Colleen Kelly: Ireland – The Wild Atlantic Way of Ireland from Galway to Donegal Colleen flies into the gateway to the west of Ireland, Shannon Airport, joins a family on a kayaking expedition in Galway, and learns about the local connection to the iconic Claddagh ring. AFTERNOON 12:00 Check, Please! JP Graziano, Ada Street, Deka [R] 12:30 Wisconsin Foodie: Indian Summer – Wild Rice 1:00 The Great British Baking Show: Chocolate (Season 3, Part 9) See Fri. Aug. 5 at 9:00 pm. [R] 2:00 Great Houses with Julian Fellowes: Burghley House Join Fellowes to visit Burghley, for 500 years the home of heirs of William Cecil, the political brain and iron fist behind the throne of Elizabeth I. He hears tales of royals and commoners, including a farmer’s daughter who married the tenth earl. 3:00 Great Houses with Julian Fellowes: Goodwood House Julian Fellowes visits Goodwood, for 300 years the home of the Dukes of Richmond. He learns how the house and family owe their existence to an affair between King Charles and a French spy, and about the
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Kevin Whately, Inspector Lewis
British Sunday Nights Sit back, relax, and beat the heat with this intriguing lineup of British dramas on Sunday nights. Enjoy the continuing series Dancing on the Edge, Masterpiece Mystery! Inspector Lewis, and The Tunnel.
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House Party, where illicit affairs were conducted. Ballyfin: Portrait of an Irish Country House In 1823, twenty years before the Great Famine that ravaged Ireland and twenty years after the Act of Union that transformed the fractious relationship between Ireland and Great Britain, an Anglo-Irish aristocrat built a magnificent mansion. For 100 years, it was a family home until World War I and Ireland’s own Civil War ended their way of life. For the next 80 years, it housed a Catholic school, until the upkeep became overwhelming. Fred Krehbiel, a businessman and art collector from Chicago with strong Irish ties, stepped in in 2002 and has undertaken an ambitious and painstaking restoration of Ballyfin. It is now regarded as one of the best hotels in the world. PBS NewsHour Weekend [R] Keeping Up Appearances
EVENING 6:00 Variety Studio: Actors on Actors Exclusive conversations between some of the most exciting actors working today. Featuring: Lady Gaga (American Horror Story) with Jamie Lee Curtis (Scream Queens); Courtney B. Vance (American Crime 10
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Story) with Tracee Ellis Ross (Black-ish); Jennifer Lopez (Shades of Blue) with Felicity Huffman (American Crime); Aaron Paul (The Path) with Tom Hiddleston (The Night Manager); Emilia Clarke (Game of Thrones) with Jay Duplass (Transparent). 7:00 Dancing on the Edge (Part 7 of 8) Learn why Lady Cremone becomes suspicious of Masterson’s offer of such a large reward and why Pamela decides to help Stanley and the band. As Julian’s behavior becomes more and more unbalanced, Masterson becomes ever more apprehensive. 8:00 Inspector Lewis, Season 8 on Masterpiece: One for Sorrow Learn if Lewis, who needs to prove himself to a new boss, and Hathaway can establish a connection between the remains of a body discovered in a well and the death of a young artist. Hathaway finally gets to know his estranged father. 9:30 The Tunnel (Season 1, Part 8 of 10) French police capture but then lose the prime suspect. Then, their lead detective goes missing. Although things eventually start to fall into place, something is troubling Karl. 10:30 The Interview Show with Mark Bazer: Sarah Spain and Toronzo Cannon See Fri. Aug. 5 at 8:30 pm. [R] 11:00 Wild Travels See Sat. Aug. 6 at 4:30 pm. [R] 11:30 Check, Please! JP Graziano, Ada Street, Deka [R]
Monday 8 EARLY MORNING 12:00 Austin City Limits: Jason Isbell/Neko Case ACL presents modern roots rock with Jason Isbell and Neko Case. Isbell performs tunes from his acclaimed LP Southeastern, while Case sings songs from her latest album. 1:00 Doc Martin: The Holly Bears a Prickle See Sat. Aug. 6 at 7:00 pm. [R] 2:00 Agatha Christie’s Partners in Crime: N or M? Part 2 See Sat. Aug. 6 at 8:00 pm. [R] 3:00 Death in Paradise (Season 5, Part 5 of 8) See Sat. Aug. 6 at 9:00 pm. [R] 4:00 Luther (Season 1, Part 1 of 6) See Sat. Aug. 6 at 10:00 pm. [R] 5:00 Martha Stewart’s Cooking School: Sautéing [R] 5:30 P. Allen Smith’s Garden Home: Charming Charleston MORNING-AFTERNOON 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids
EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Chicago Tonight 8:00 Antiques Roadshow: Vintage San Diego See memorable items appraised at the 2001 San Diego event. Highlights include a Dr. Seuss “Kangaroo Bird,” a Tiffany & Co. yellow diamond pendant, and a 1781 George Washington lifetime print. Find out which treasure has a $75,000 value increase! 9:00 JFK: American Experience (Part 1 of 2) This episode offers new insight into JFK’s early years, from his transformation from a sickly youth to Washington’s most eligible bachelor to the nation’s president. 11:00 BBC World News 11:30 Nightly Business Report
Tuesday 9 EARLY MORNING 12:00 Chicago Tonight [R] 1:00 Tavis Smiley 1:30 Charlie Rose 2:30 Dancing on the Edge (Part 7 of 8) See Sun. Aug. 7 at 7:00 pm. [R] 3:30 Inspector Lewis, Season 8 on Masterpiece: One for Sorrow See Sun. Aug. 7 at 8:00 pm. [R] 5:00 Chicago Tonight [R]
MORNING-AFTERNOON 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Chicago Tonight 8:00 LBJ: American Experience (Part 1 of 2) The first of a two-Part series on the life of Lyndon B. Johnson, this program chronicles the president’s childhood in impoverished rural Texas; Johnson’s rise to political power on the strength of his public assistance message; John F. Kennedy’s assassination; and Johnson’s victory in the 1964 election. 10:00 LBJ: American Experience (Part 2 of 2) Part two traces the president’s energetic pursuit of the “war on poverty” and a range of other social programs, charts the country’s deepening involvement in Vietnam, explores the personal toll on the president as his popularity plummeted, and chronicles his retirement years in Texas.
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MORNING-AFTERNOON 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Chicago Tonight 8:00 JFK & LBJ: A Time for Greatness President Lyndon Baines Johnson is chiefly remembered for the Vietnam War. But 50 years ago, he engineered two of the most important laws Congress ever passed: the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights Act. This special examines how LBJ transformed America. 9:00 JFK: American Experience (Part 2 of 2) Follow Kennedy into the White House through his assassination and the unfulfilled promise of his presidency. 11:00 BBC World News 11:30 Nightly Business Report
Wednesday 10 EARLY MORNING 12:00 Chicago Tonight [R] 1:00 Tavis Smiley 1:30 Charlie Rose 2:30 JFK: American Experience (Part 2 of 2) See Tues. Aug. 9 at 9:00 pm. [R] 4:30 Wild Travels [R] 5:00 Chicago Tonight [R]
American Experience: The Presidents In advance of this year’s Presidential election, enjoy these long-form biographies from American Experience of some of the more recent American presidents of the 20th century: John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Baines Johnson, Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, and George H.W. Bush.
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In the Spotlight Thursday 11 EARLY MORNING 12:00 BBC World News 12:30 Chicago Tonight [R] 1:30 Nightly Business Report 2:00 Tavis Smiley 2:30 Charlie Rose 3:30 Antiques Roadshow: Vintage San Diego See Mon. Aug. 8 at 8:00 pm. [R] 4:30 Check, Please! JP Graziano, Ada Street, Deka [R] 5:00 Chicago Tonight [R] MORNING-AFTERNOON 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Chicago Tonight 8:00 Nixon: American Experience This film is a reassessment of Richard Nixon’s life and political career. The program chronicles his achievements and defeats from his boyhood in Yorba Linda, California, to his rise to prominence as a virulent anti-Communist congressman, to his presidency
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Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood
The Great British Baking Show: Season Finale Learn which of the three finalists will ace the Signature challenge, filled iced buns; conquer the Technical – pastry they’ve all struggled with; and master the Showstopper – a classic British cake in a multi-layered presentation. Which contestant will the judges – top cookbook writer Mary Berry and artisan baker Paul Hollywood – choose as Best Amateur Baker? Hosted by Sue Perkins and Mel Giedroyc.
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and his resignation in the face of the Watergate scandal. 11:00 BBC World News 11:30 Nightly Business Report
Friday 12 EARLY MORNING 12:00 Chicago Tonight [R] 1:00 Tavis Smiley 1:30 Charlie Rose 2:30 LBJ: American Experience (Part 1 of 2) See Wed. Aug. 10 at 8:00 pm. [R] 4:30 The Interview Show with Mark Bazer: Sarah Spain and Toronzo Cannon [R] 5:00 Chicago Tonight [R] MORNING-AFTERNOON 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Chicago Tonight: The Week in Review with Joel Weisman 7:30 Where in Chicago with Geoffrey Baer (Part 4 of 4) 8:00 Check, Please! El Ideas, Chef Shangri-La, Shokran Catherine’s guests are sales VP Ryan Lowe, who recommends EL Ideas in the Pilsen neighborhood; language arts teacher Melissa Cunningham of Lombard, who loves Chef Shangri-La in North Riverside; and wedding planner Gilles Aniorte, whose choice is Chicago eatery Shokran. 8:30 The Interview Show with Mark Bazer: Jen Kirkman and Marrow Mark’s guests are standup comedienne Jen Kirkman and indie band Marrow. 9:00 The Great British Baking Show: The Final (Season 3, Part 10) 10:00 P.O.V.: Ping Pong Call this old age, extreme edition: eight players with 703 years among them compete in the Over 80 World Table Tennis Championships in China’s Inner Mongolia. This is a wonderfully unusual story of hope, regret, friendship, ambition, love, and sheer human tenacity in the face of aging and mortality. 11:00 BBC World News 11:30 Washington Week with Gwen Ifill
Saturday 13 EARLY MORNING 12:00 Chicago Tonight: The Week in Review with Joel Weisman [R] 12:30 Nightly Business Report 1:00 Tavis Smiley 1:30 Charlie Rose 2:30 LBJ: American Experience (Part 2 of 2) See Wed. Aug. 10 at 10:00 pm. [R] 4:30 Rick Steves’ Europe: Prague [R]
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MORNING 5:30-10:00 WTTW Kids 10:00 Lidia’s Kitchen: Antipasti 10:30 A Chef’s Life: What’s Your Beef? 11:00 Ellie’s Real Good Food: The Goods on Gluten-Free 11:30 This Old House: Butterfly Garden, Dark Closet AFTERNOON 12:00 Cook’s Country: Chinese Comes Home 12:30 Simply Ming: Texas 4 1:00 Steven Raichlen’s Project Smoke: Rise and Smoke – Breakfast Hits the Smoker 1:30 Jacques Pepin: Heart & Soul – Taste Bud Temptations 2:00 America’s Test Kitchen from Cook’s Illustrated: Springtime Sweets 2:30 America’s Test Kitchen from Cook’s Illustrated: Grilled Chicken and Salad with a Kick 3:00 Martha Stewart’s Cooking School: Dumplings 3:30 Martha Bakes: Homemade Doughnuts 4:00 Check, Please! El Ideas, Chef ShangriLa, Shokran See Fri. Aug. 12 at 8:00 pm. [R] 4:30 Wild Travels Segments in this episode include: incredible contraptions at the Inventor’s Expo (Pennsylvania), the Museum of Everyday Life – this year featuring dust! (Vermont), and Harvesting spider webs for fine art (Vermont). 5:00 Rick Steves’ Europe: Berlin A tumultuous 20th century left Berlin filled with powerful sights – from evocative memorials, to surviving bits of its Communist and Fascist days, to its glass-domed Reichstag. We enjoy its now-trendy east side, its people-friendly riverfront, and its vibrant social scene. 5:30 The Travel Detective with Peter Greenberg: Airline Safety Rankings How safe is your airline and how do the world’s airlines actually rank? Peter takes a very serious look at the hard data, and says there are some huge surprises over which airlines pass muster – and which airlines don’t. EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour Weekend 6:30 McLaughlin Group 7:00 Doc Martin: Nowt So Queer Portwenn is buzzing with the news of the engagement of Martin and Louisa. 8:00 Agatha Christie’s Partners in Crime: N or M? Part 3 Tommy finds the missing
Special guest, Emmylou Harris
Great Performances: Joan Baez 75th Birthday Celebration Celebrate folk icon Joan Baez’s birthday in this tribute concert taped at New York’s Beacon Theatre in January 2016. Joan welcomes guests David Bromberg, Jackson Browne, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Judy Collins, David Crosby, Emmylou Harris, Indigo Girls, Damien Rice, Mavis Staples, Nano Stern, Richard Thompson, and Paul Simon.
Friday, August 19, 7:30 pm
Geoffrey Baer
Geoffrey Baer Chicago Tour Specials Enjoy a marathon of three of Geoffrey’s most popular Chicago history and architecture tour specials, back-toback: Chicago’s South Side, Chicago’s Loop: A New Walking Tour, and Chicago’s Lakefront.
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Allen Leech as Tom Branson
I Miss Downton Abbey Revisit treasured moments from the unforgettable series created by Julian Fellowes, including new behind-thescenes clips and interview footage. Celebrate the stellar cast, the superb writing, and the spectacular locations of the most successful British drama ever.
Monday, August 22, 7:30 and 10:30 pm
Aiden Turner as Ross Poldark
Inside Poldark Relive the thrilling first season of the swashbuckling romantic series with hints of what’s to come for the dashing Captain Ross Poldark. This new special features cast and creator interviews, behind-the-scenes footage, and a very important supporting character: the spectacular Cornish coastline.
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scientist, but both are held captive, and the agent’s identity is still unknown. Tuppence comes to the rescue, but danger lies in wait. 9:00 Death in Paradise (Season 5, Part 6 of 8) The team enters the high-pressure world of fine dining when a well-known chef is murdered in his own restaurant. 10:00 Luther (Season 1, Part 3 of 6) Kirsten Ross, a young mother, has been abducted. Luther realizes that this is the work of Lucien Burgess, who was suspected of the murder of another woman 10 years previously. 11:00 Antiques Roadshow: Vintage San Diego [R]
Sunday 14 EARLY MORNING 12:00 The Tunnel (Season 1, Part 8 of 10) See Sun. Aug. 7 at 9:30 pm. [R] 1:00 JFK & LBJ: A Time for Greatness See Tues. Aug. 9 at 8:00 pm. [R] 2:00 Nixon: American Experience See Thurs. Aug. 11 at 8:00 pm. [R] MORNING 5:00-11:00 WTTW Kids 11:00 Baby Makes 3: It Takes a Community 11:30 Family Travel with Colleen Kelly: Oahu – Horseback Riding, Lei-Making, and Discovering Hawaiian Culture (Part 1 of 2) Colleen and her family kick off their Hawaiian vacation by learning to make the traditional lei, sailing on the Voyaging Canoe, Hawai’iloa, and taking a scenic horseback ride through the stunning Kualoa Ranch. AFTERNOON 12:00 Check, Please! El Ideas, Chef Shangri-La, Shokran [R] 12:30 Wisconsin Foodie: Perch Science, Wendt’s Fish Fry 1:00 The Great British Baking Show: The Final (Season 3, Part 10) See Fri. Aug. 12 at 9:00 pm. [R] 2:00 Nixon: American Experience [R] 5:00 PBS NewsHour Weekend [R] 5:30 Keeping Up Appearances EVENING 6:00 Variety Studio: Actors on Actors An intimate conversation between some of the greatest actors working today. Featuring: Rob Lowe (The Grinder) with John Travolta (American Crime Story); Sarah Paulson (American Crime Story) with Bobby Cannavale (Vinyl); Kerry Washington (Confirmation) with Aziz Ansari (Master of None); Rami
Malek (Mr. Robot) with Kirsten Dunst (Fargo); Patrick Stewart (Blunt Talk) with Thomas Middleditch (Silicon Valley). 7:00 Dancing on the Edge (Part 8 of 8) In flashbacks, listen to Stanley’s interviews with Louis, Jessie, and Carla. The conversations touch on fame, prejudice, music, inequality, the aristocracy, ambition, fandom, family, education, and more. 8:00 Inspector Lewis, Season 8 on Masterpiece: Magnum Opus Lewis and Hathaway anticipate more murders when they find an alchemic image purposefully left at the scene of an Oxford dean’s bludgeoning death. A tattoo on his body and those of two more victims leads to a frantic effort to prevent another murder. 9:30 The Tunnel (Season 1, Part 9 of 10) Things take a nasty turn for Karl as police get within a hair’s breadth of catching the killer. Will they be in time? 10:30 The Interview Show with Mark Bazer: Jen Kirkman and Marrow See Fri. Aug. 12 at 8:30 pm. [R] 11:00 Wild Travels See Sat. Aug. 13 at 4:30 pm. [R] 11:30 Check, Please! El Ideas, Chef Shangri-La, Shokran [R]
happened in the antiques market. Highlights include a John Lehman stoneware jug from around 1870, a 34-Star Civil War flag, and a Rene Portocarrero painting, circa 1958. Which item’s valuation soared to $125,000? 9:00 Jimmy Carter: American Experience This film traces the ascent of an ambitious country boy from a peanut farm in Plains, Georgia, to the Oval Office. It examines the failings of Jimmy Carter’s political leadership in the context of the turbulent 1970s, and the role religion played in his career. The film features interviews with many close to the Carter administration including his wife Rosalynn, son Chip, Press Secretary Jody Powell, and Vice President Walter Mondale. 11:00 BBC World News 11:30 Nightly Business Report
Tuesday 16 EARLY MORNING 12:00 Chicago Tonight [R] 1:00 Tavis Smiley
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Monday 15 EARLY MORNING 12:00 Austin City Limits: Los Lobos, Thao & The Get Down Stay Down Explore contemporary California rock with Los Lobos and Thao & The Get Down Stay Down. Veteran rockers Los Lobos perform a 40th anniversary career overview. Lively folk rockers Thao & The Get Down Stay Down play songs from their LP We the Common. 1:00 Doc Martin: Nowt So Queer See Sat. Aug. 13 at 7:00 pm. [R] 2:00 Agatha Christie’s Partners in Crime: N or M? Part 3 See Sat. Aug. 13 at 8:00 pm. [R] 3:00 Death in Paradise (Season 5, Part 6 of 8) See Sat. Aug. 13 at 9:00 pm. [R] 4:00 Luther (Season 1, Part 3 of 6) See Sat. Aug. 13 at 10:00 pm. [R] 5:00 Martha Stewart’s Cooking School: Dumplings [R] 5:30 P. Allen Smith’s Garden Home: Oils All Around MORNING-AFTERNOON 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Chicago Tonight 8:00 Antiques Roadshow: Vintage Miami Look back to 2001 to learn what has since
Yakov Smirnoff
Yakov Smirnoff’s Happily Ever Laughter: The Neuroscience of Romantic Relationships Laugh and learn with the entertainer as he inspires couples to bring back the honeymoon stage and keep it going. Using infectious charm and researchbased advice, Yakov provides tools for sparking romantic relationships using love and laughter. He joins us live in WTTW’s studios that evening.
Tuesday, August 23, 7:30 and 9:00 pm
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MORNING-AFTERNOON 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Chicago Tonight 8:00 Dick Cavett’s Watergate From 1972 to 1974, The Dick Cavett Show was at the forefront of national television coverage of the Watergate scandal. This program documents that event in the words of the people who lived it. 9:00 Reagan: American Experience – Lifeguard (Part 1 of 2) A former actor whose opponents consistently underestimated him, Reagan became a passionate ideologue who preached a gospel of lower taxes, less government, and
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anti-Communism – a president who preferred to see America as a shining city on a hill. 11:00 BBC World News 11:30 Nightly Business Report
Wednesday 17 EARLY MORNING 12:00 Chicago Tonight [R] 1:00 Tavis Smiley 1:30 Charlie Rose 2:30 Jimmy Carter: American Experience See Mon. Aug. 15 at 9:00 pm. [R] 4:30 Wild Travels [R] 5:00 Chicago Tonight [R] MORNING-AFTERNOON 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Chicago Tonight 8:00 NOVA: Cold Case JFK For decades, the assassination of John F. Kennedy has fueled dark rumors of conspiracies and mishandled evidence. Now, more than 50 years later, NOVA examines how state-of-the art forensic tools would be applied to the investigation were it to happen today. At the same time, the program takes a critical look at contemporary cases to reveal how charges of evidence mishandling and human error can mar even scientifically sophisticated detective work. 9:00 Reagan: American Experience – An American Crusade (Part 2 of 2) In 1989, after two terms in office, Ronald Reagan left the White House one of the most popular presidents of the 20th century – and one of the most controversial. 11:30 BBC World News
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Visions of Italy, Southern Style This program features stunning aerial footage, an informative and poetic narrative celebrating southern Italy’s considerable charms, and a soundtrack that includes Neapolitan classics, choral selections, Italian folk songs, and the works of Italian composers such as Rossini, Puccini, and Vivaldi, with Italian-American performers including Connie Francis and Michael Amante.
Thursday, August 25, 7:30 pm
EARLY MORNING 12:00 Chicago Tonight [R] 1:00 Nightly Business Report 1:30 Tavis Smiley 2:00 Charlie Rose 3:00 Reagan: American Experience: Lifeguard (Part 1 of 2) See Tues. Aug. 16 at 9:00 pm. [R] 5:00 Chicago Tonight [R] MORNING-AFTERNOON 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Chicago Tonight 8:00 George H.W. Bush: American Experience Look back at the life and career of our 41st president, from his service in World War II and his early career in Texas to his days in the Oval Office, first as vice president to Ronald Reagan,
then as the leader who presided over the first Gulf War. 11:00 BBC World News 11:30 Nightly Business Report
Friday 19 EARLY MORNING 12:00 Chicago Tonight [R] 1:00 Tavis Smiley 1:30 Charlie Rose 2:30 Reagan: American Experience – An American Crusade (Part 2 of 2) See Wed. Aug. 17 at 9:00 pm. [R] 5:00 Chicago Tonight [R] MORNING-AFTERNOON 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Chicago Tonight: The Week in Review with Joel Weisman 7:30 Great Performances: Joan Baez 75th Birthday Celebration 9:30 This Land is Your Land Take a musical journey through the evolution of modern American folk music, from its roots in bluegrass to San Francisco coffee houses to clubs in Greenwich Village. The Smothers Brothers and Judy Collins host. 11:00 This Land is Your Land [R]
The Buckinghams
Cornerstones of Rock: A Soundstage Special Cornerstones of Rock brings together eight iconic bands – the Buckinghams, the Ides of March, the American Breed, the Shadows of Knight, the Standells, the Cryan’ Shames, the New Colony Six, and the McCoys – for a once-in-a-lifetime reunion.
Friday, August 26, 7:30 pm
Saturday 20 EARLY MORNING 12:30 BBC World News 1:00 Washington Week with Gwen Ifill 1:30 Eat Fat Get Thin with Dr. Mark Hyman Dr. Mark Hyman introduces a new weight-loss and healthy living program based on the latest science, and explains how eating fat can help promote weight loss and optimum health. 3:00 Chicago’s South Side Explore Chicago’s South Side neighborhoods with the people who call them home. This new WTTW documentary hosted by Geoffrey Baer traces the rich history and culture of the neighborhoods south of I-55. From Ashburn to Auburn, Hyde Park to Hegewisch, Woodlawn to Wrightwood, you’ll learn about the events that shaped communities and meet the people who created the true identity of Chicago’s South Side. 5:00 Chicago Tonight: The Week in Review with Joel Weisman [R] 5:30 Chicago’s Loop: A New Walking Tour Architect Bruce Graham was lunching with colleagues in the late 1960s when he suddenly envisioned the unique shape for a skyscraper he had been charged to create. But how to get his
The Wilson brothers of The Beach Boys
Surf’s Up on WTTW! Celebrate the sun-drenched sounds of Summer, Surf, and Beach Music We Love – the greatest surf guitar rock and pop tunes by legendary artists that still ride the waves of popularity today. Groove to hits from the Beach Boys, the Ventures, the Drifters, Jan & Dean, and more. Then, California Dreamin’: The Songs of the Mamas and the Papas celebrates the harmonious popfolk-rock group that defined an era. This special includes interviews and performances by Mama Cass, Michelle, Denny, and John, with rare footage.
Saturday, August 27, 7:00 pm 2016
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The Week in Review Frontline
McLaughlin Group Deep City: The Birth of the Miami Sound McLaughlin Group
11-1 PBS NewsHour
11-2 Motorweek
11-3 Eye on the Sixties
11-1 PBS NewsHour Wknd.
Brain with David Eagleman
Anne of Green Gables
George H.W. Bush: American Experience
Washington Week
Masterpiece Classic: Downton Abbey
11-2 In the Americas with … Travel Detective
McLaughlin Group
Rick Steves
Arthur & George on Masterpiece
Where in Chicago?
11-2 Jay’s Chicago
11-3 Reagan: American Experience
Chicago Tonight
11-1 PBS NewsHour
Kitchen Wisdom of …
America ReFramed
Check, Please!
Wisconsin Foodie
11-2 Around the Corner
Ball of Confusion: The 1968 Election
The Jewish Journey: America
Focus on Europe
This Land is Your Land
The Tunnel
PBS NewsHour
Focus on Europe
Eat to Live with Joel Fuhrman, MD
PBS NewsHour
Globe Trekker
Rick Steves’ Italy: Cities of Dreams
PBS NewsHour
The Guilty
PBS NewsHour
Doctor Who
To be announced
11-2 is WTTW Prime
PBS NewsHour
The Guilty
PBS NewsHour
Great Houses with Julian Fellowes
PBS NewsHour
Wildest Islands
Global Voices
Globe Trekker
America ReFramed
LBJ: American Experience
Rhythm & Blues 40 …
Asia Insight
Overheard with Evan …
Scully/The World Show
Focus on Europe
Global 3000
10:30 pm
Chicago’s Lakefront
One Day in the …
Nightly Business Rpt.
Chicago Tonight
The Highwaymen … Global 3000
Jay’s Chicago
Asia Insight
Overheard with Evan …
Eat to Live with …
Scully/The World Show
Jay’s Chicago
Focus on Europe
Jay’s Chicago
Focus on Europe
Global 3000
Religion & Ethics …
11-3 is WTTW Create and WORLD
Nightly Business Rpt.
Chicago Tonight
Nightly Business Rpt.
Chicago Tonight
To be announced
Nightly Business Rpt.
Chicago Tonight
Georgia O’Keeffe
Jay Leno: The Mark Twain Prize
My Louisiana Love
This Land is Your Land
Nightly Business Rpt.
The Week in Review
Nightly Business Rpt.
Chicago Tonight
Nightly Business Rpt.
Chicago Tonight
Suze Orman’s Financial Solutions for You
Nightly Business Rpt.
Chicago Tonight
Religion & Ethics …
Jay’s Chicago
I Miss Downton Abbey
Invisible Women …
Carol Burnett: The Mark Twain Prize
Committee
The Kennedy Half-Century
Nightly Business Rpt.
The Week in Review
Nightly Business Rpt.
Chicago Tonight
Nightly Business Rpt.
Chicago Tonight
Yakov Smirnoff’s Happily Ever Laughter: The Neuroscience of Romantic …
PBS NewsHour
Wildest Islands
Inside Poldark
Global Voices
Globe Trekker
America ReFramed
The Highwaymen Live at Nassau Coliseum
PBS NewsHour
11-1 is WTTW Channel 11
Wilder: An American First
The Widower
Georgia O’Keeffe
Great Houses with Julian Fellowes To be announced
PBS NewsHour
Last Tango in Halifax
PBS NewsHour
Death in Paradise
California Dreamin’: The Songs of the Mamas and Papas Newton Minow: An American Story
Nightly Business Rpt.
Chicago Tonight
10:00 pm
Reagan: American Experience - An American Crusade
PBS NewsHour
Doctor Who
Charlie Rose: The Week BBC Newsnight
Bombs Away: LBJ, Goldwater and the 1964 …
Washington Week
’85: The Untold Story of the Greatest Team in Pro Football History
11-3 Global Voices
Chicago Tonight
NOVA
11-1 PBS NewsHour
11-3 Jimmy Carter: American Experience
11-2 Rick Steves
11-1 PBS NewsHour Chicago Tonight
LBJ: American Experience
11-2 LBJ: American Experience (5:00)
11-3 Nixon: American Experience
To be announced
LBJ: American Experience
Summer, Surf, and Beach Music We Love
11-1 John Paul II & The Fall of Communism (5:00)
11-3 LBJ: American Experience
11-2 I’ll Have What Phil’s Having
11-1 PBS NewsHour Wknd.
11-3 LBJ: American Experience
Frontline
11-2 Motorweek McLaughlin Group
The Week in Review
11-1 PBS NewsHour
Kennedy Half-Century
Anne of Green Gables
Cornerstones of Rock: A Soundstage Special
Chicago Tonight
11-1 PBS NewsHour
11-3 JFK: American Experience
On Story
JFK & LBJ: A Time for Greatness
The Widower
My Louisiana Love
How We Got to Now
Visions of Italy, Southern Style
Arthur & George on Masterpiece
Where in Chicago?
11-2 Jay’s Chicago
11-3 JFK: American Experience
Chicago Tonight
Chicago’s Lakefront
America ReFramed
Kitchen Wisdom of …
11-1 PBS NewsHour
Check, Please!
11-2 Around the Corner
Local USA
Nature Yakov Smirnoff’s Happily Ever Laughter: The Neuroscience of Romantic …
11-3 Global Voices
Chicago Tonight
11-1 PBS NewsHour Wisconsin Foodie
America by the …
11-3 America by the … America by the …
NOVA
Rick Steves
11-2 Rick Steves America by the …
Chicago Tonight
11-1 PBS NewsHour
Koko: The Gorilla Who Talks
Nature
11-3 Great Conversations I Miss Downton Abbey
Earth’s Natural Wonders
Antiques Roadshow
11-2 JFK: American Experience (5:00)
Constitution with Peter Sagal Inspector Lewis, Season 8 on Masterpiece
Constitution with Peter Sagal
11-3 Focus on Europe
JFK: American Experience
9:30 pm
Reagan: American Experience - Lifeguard
9:00 pm
Charlie Rose: The Week BBC Newsnight
11-1 Suze Orman’s Financial Solutions for You
I’ll Have What Phil’s Having
Magic Moments: The Best of ’50s Pop
Eye on the Sixties: The Iconic Photography of Rowl
11-2 A Few Good Pie Places Global 3000
Brain with David Eagleman
One Day in the …
8:30 pm
Agatha Christie’s Partners in Crime
NOVA
Committee
How We Got to Now
Dick Cavett’s Watergate
8:00 pm
Great Performances: Joan Baez 75th Birthday Celebration
Masterpiece Classic: Downton Abbey
POV
11-2 In the Americas with … Travel Detective
POV
11-3 Brain with David Eagleman
Doc Martin
Wild Travels
11-2 Jay’s Chicago
11-3 POV Chicago Tonight
Chicago Tonight
11-1 PBS NewsHour
The Interview Show
7:30 pm
11-1 PBS NewsHour
America ReFramed
Check, Please!
11-3 Global Voices
Wisconsin Foodie
7:00 pm
11-2 Around the Corner
6:30 pm Chicago Tonight
6:00 pm
11-1 PBS NewsHour
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EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour Weekend 6:30 McLaughlin Group 7:00 Magic Moments: The Best of ’50s Pop Hosted by Mary Lou Metzker, Phyllis McGuire, Pat Boone, Debbie Reynolds, and Patti Page, this special features a cavalcade of 1950s pop music recording legends who reunite to perform their biggest hits. 9:00 The Highwaymen Live at Nassau Coliseum Join Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash, and Kris Kristofferson – “the Mt. Rushmore of country music” – for this live concert recorded in 1990. The Highwaymen perform classics like “Big River,” “Me and Bobby McGee,” and “Always on My Mind.” 10:30 Rhythm & Blues 40: A Soul Spectacular Celebrate legends of the 1960s and ’70s brought together in a oncein-a-lifetime concert: Aretha Franklin, James Brown, Ben E. King & the Drifters, Dionne Warwick, the Isley Brothers, Percy Sledge, Little Anthony & the Imperials, and more greats.
Sunday 21 EARLY MORNING 12:30 Suze Orman’s Financial Solutions for You Suze Orman focuses on helping individuals “find financial solutions for you.” This special’s central theme is that financial decision-making should be guided by an understanding of “the goal of money.” 2:30 Suze Orman’s Financial Solutions for You [R] 4:30 On the Psychiatrist’s Couch with Dr. Daniel Amen The Washington Post wrote that by almost any measure, Dr. Daniel Amen is the most popular psychiatrist in America, and has written 10 New York Times bestselling books, including the mega-bestseller Change Your Brain, Change Your Life. MORNING 6:15 On the Psychiatrist’s Couch with Dr. Daniel Amen [R] 8:00 Eat to Live with Joel Fuhrman, MD Cut through the hype and get the help you need to lose weight and lower blood pressure and cholesterol without drugs. 9:30 Eat to Live with Joel Fuhrman, MD [R]
11:00 Suze Orman’s Financial Solutions for You [R] AFTERNOON 1:00 Eat Fat Get Thin with Dr. Mark Hyman See Sat. Aug. 20 at 1:30 am. [R] 2:30 Magic Moments: The Best of ’50s Pop See Sat. Aug. 20 at 7:00 pm. [R] 4:30 Eat to Live with Joel Fuhrman, MD [R] EVENING 6:00 Suze Orman’s Financial Solutions for You [R] 8:00 Inspector Lewis Season 8 on Masterpiece: What Lies Tangled Follow Lewis and Hathaway as they investigate a bomb attack that killed an eminent mathematician – a notorious philanderer with many enemies. 9:30 The Tunnel (Season 1, Part 10 of 10) Karl falls apart as the Truth Terrorist’s change of direction becomes unbearable. What will be the cost of catching their man? A hair-raising showdown begins. 10:30 Chicago’s Lakefront [R]
Monday 22 EARLY MORNING 1:00 Eat Fat Get Thin with Dr. Mark Hyman [R]
Do it Yourself Saturdays 10:00 Lidia’s Kitchen 10:30 A Chef’s Life 11:00 Ellie’s Real Good Food 11:30 Ask This Old House 12:00 Cook’s Country 12:30 Simply Ming 1:00
Steven Raichlen’s Project Smoke
1:30
Jacques Pepin: Heart and Soul
2:00 America’s Test Kitchen
Installation and Service
2:30 America’s Test Kitchen 3:00 Martha Stewart’s Cooking School
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MORNING-AFTERNOON 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Chicago Tonight 7:30 I Miss Downton Abbey 9:00 Inside Poldark 10:30 I Miss Downton Abbey [R] A Chef’s Life
Ellie’s Real Good Food
Tuesday 23 EARLY MORNING 12:00 BBC World News 12:30 Magic Moments: The Best of ’50s Pop [R] 2:30 Eat to Live with Joel Fuhrman, MD [R] 4:00 Eat to Live with Joel Fuhrman, MD [R] 5:30 Chicago Tonight [R] MORNING-AFTERNOON 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids
Martha Stewart’s Cooking School
EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Chicago Tonight 7:30 Yakov Smirnoff’s Happily Ever Laughter: The Neuroscience of Romantic Relationships
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Yakov Smirnoff’s Happily Ever Laughter: The Neuroscience of Romantic Relationships [R] 10:30 The Highwaymen Live at Nassau Coliseum See Sat. Aug. 20 at 9:00 pm. [R]
Wednesday 24 EARLY MORNING 12:00 BBC World News 12:30 On the Psychiatrist’s Couch with Dr. Daniel Amen [R] 2:15 On the Psychiatrist’s Couch with Dr. Daniel Amen [R] 4:00 Eat Fat Get Thin with Dr. Mark Hyman [R] 5:30 Chicago Tonight [R] MORNING-AFTERNOON 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Chicago Tonight 7:30 Chicago’s Lakefront [R] 10:00 Suze Orman’s Financial Solutions for You [R]
Thursday 25 EARLY MORNING 12:00 BBC World News 12:30 Chicago’s Lakefront [R] 3:00 Chicago’s South Side [R] 5:30 Chicago Tonight [R] 2016
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In the Spotlight MORNING-AFTERNOON 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Chicago Tonight 7:30 Visions of Italy, Southern Style 9:00 Rick Steves’ Italy: Cities of Dreams Travel guru Rick Steves tours the ancient glories and back-street riches of three great Italian cities – Florence, Rome, and Venice. 11:00 Eat Fat Get Thin with Dr. Mark Hyman [R]
Friday 26
WTTW Celebrates Polish Heritage Join us for two specials highlighting the Polish experience. The Fourth Partition: Chicago’s Polish Immigrants highlights the important contributions of the Polish people to the rich tapestry of Chicago, “the fourth partition.” John Paul II & The Fall of Communism: Liberating a Continent explores the role played by the beloved Polish pontiff in the fall of Communism in Central and Eastern Europe in the 1970s and ’80s.
Sunday, August 28, beginning at 3:00 pm
EARLY MORNING 12:30 BBC World News 1:00 Chicago’s Loop: A New Walking Tour [R] 3:30 Suze Orman’s Financial Solutions for You [R] 5:30 Chicago Tonight [R] MORNING-AFTERNOON 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Chicago Tonight: The Week in Review with Joel Weisman 7:30 Cornerstones of Rock: A Soundstage Special 9:00 Eat to Live with Joel Fuhrman, MD [R] 10:30 Eat to Live with Joel Fuhrman, MD [R]
Saturday 27 EARLY MORNING 12:00 BBC World News 12:30 Washington Week with Gwen Ifill 1:00 This Land is Your Land [R] 2:30 Eat Fat Get Thin with Dr. Mark Hyman [R] 4:00 Eat Fat Get Thin with Dr. Mark Hyman [R] 5:30 Suze Orman’s Financial Solutions for You [R] MORNING 7:30 Suze Orman’s Financial Solutions for You [R] 9:30 To be announced 11:00 Eat Fat Get Thin with Dr. Mark Hyman [R]
The Jewish Journey: America This moving documentary tells the story of Jewish life in the old country, the reasons behind leaving their respective homes and journeying to America, and both the establishment of communities and the great accomplishments made here.
Monday, August 29, 8:00 pm 18
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AFTERNOON 12:30 Suze Orman’s Financial Solutions for You [R] 2:30 Eat to Live with Joel Fuhrman, MD [R] 4:30 To be announced EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour Weekend 6:30 McLaughlin Group 7:00 Summer, Surf, and Beach Music We Love 8:30 California Dreamin’: The Songs of the Mamas and the Papas 10:00 This Land is Your Land [R] 11:30 Chicago’s Lakefront [R]
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Wednesday 31
EARLY MORNING 2:00 Eat to Live with Joel Fuhrman, MD [R] 3:30 Eat to Live with Joel Fuhrman, MD [R] 5:00 Chicago’s South Side [R]
EARLY MORNING 12:00 Chicago Tonight 1:00 Nightly Business Report 1:30 Charlie Rose 2:30 To be announced 5:00 Chicago Tonight [R]
MORNING 7:30 Chicago’s Lakefront [R] 10:00 Chicago’s Loop: A New Walking Tour [R]
MORNING-AFTERNOON 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids
AFTERNOON 12:30 Chicago’s Lakefront [R] 3:00 The Fourth Partition: Chicago’s Polish Immigrants At the dawn of the 20th century, Chicago was the center of Polish culture and political activism in America. With Poland partitioned between Russia, Austria, and Germany, more than four million Poles immigrated to the United States between 1870 and 1920 in search of a better life. Their story is known as “The Fourth Partition.” 5:00 John Paul II & The Fall of Communism: Liberating a Continent This film explores the role played by Pope John Paul II in the fall of Communism in Central and Eastern Europe. 7:00 To be announced
EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Chicago Tonight 8:00 To be announced 11:00 BBC World News 11:30 Nightly Business Report
In the Spotlight
Monday 29 EARLY MORNING 12:00 To be announced MORNING-AFTERNOON 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Chicago Tonight 8:00 The Jewish Journey: America 9:30 To be announced 11:00 BBC World News 11:30 Nightly Business Report
Tuesday 30 EARLY MORNING 12:00 Chicago Tonight [R] 1:00 Tavis Smiley 1:30 Charlie Rose 2:30 To be announced 5:00 Chicago Tonight [R] MORNING-AFTERNOON 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Chicago Tonight 7:30 ’85: The Untold Story of the Greatest Team in Pro Football History 10:00 To be announced 11:30 BBC World News
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’85: The Untold Story of the Greatest Team in Pro Football History Monsters of the Midway. Da Coach. Sweetness. The Fridge. Not just Chicago sports legends, but icons of a generation. After stomping through an almost undefeated season, the 1985 Chicago Bears decimated the Patriots in Super Bowl XX in New Orleans, cementing their legacy as the greatest team in NFL history. Through never-been-seen-before footage and fascinating interviews with key members of the team – Mike Ditka, Jim McMahon, Mike Singletary, and others – you will hear the inside story of their historic season. You’ll also hear from some of the world’s most prominent Bears fanatics, including President Obama, Mayor Rahm Emanuel, and actors Bill Murray and Jeremy Piven, as well as everyday fans who weigh in on why the 1985 Bears remain one of the most fascinating sports stories of all time.
Tuesday, August 30, 7:30 pm
• August At-a-Glance Arts • Performance Austin City Limits Sundays, 12:00 am (8/8, 8/15) Cornerstones of Rock: A Soundstage Special Friday, 7:30 pm (8/26) Great Performances: Joan Baez 75th Birthday Celebration Friday, 7:30 pm (8/19) Highwaymen Live at the Nassau Coliseum Saturday, 9:00 pm (8/20) Tuesday, 10:30 pm (8/23) Magic Moments: The Best of ’50s Pop Saturday, 7:00 pm (8/20) Sunday, 2:30 pm (8/21) Tuesday, 12:30 am (8/23) Rhythm and Blues 40: A Soul Spectacular Saturday, 10:30 pm (8/20) Summer, Surf & Beach Music We Love Saturday, 7:00 pm (8/27) This Land is Your Land Friday, 9:30 pm, 11:00 pm (8/19) Saturday, 1:00 am, 10:00 pm (8/27)
Drama • Comedy • Movies Agatha Christie’s Partners in Crime Saturdays, 8:00 pm (8/6, 8/13) Mondays, 2:00 am (8/8, 8/15) Chicago International Film Festival Special: Mississippi Damned Thursday, 9:00 pm (8/4) Dancing on the Edge Sundays, 7:00 pm (8/7, 8/14) Tuesdays, 2:30 am (8/2, 8/9, 8/16) Death in Paradise Saturdays, 9:00 pm (8/6, 8/13) Mondays, 3:00 am (8/8, 8/15) Doc Martin Saturdays, 7:00 pm (8/6, 8/13) Mondays, 1:00 am (8/8, 8/15) I Miss Downton Abbey Monday, 7:30 pm, 10:30 pm (8/22) Inside Poldark Monday, 9:00 pm (8/22) Inspector Lewis on Masterpiece Sundays, 8:00 pm (8/7, 8/14, 8/21) Tuesdays, 3:30 am (8/9, 8/16) Keeping Up Appearances Sundays, 5:30 pm (8/7, 8/14) Luther Saturdays, 10:00 pm (8/6, 8/13) Saturday, 11:00 pm (8/6) Mondays, 4:00 am (8/8, 8/15) The Tunnel Sundays, 9:30 pm (8/7, 8/14, 8/21) Sunday, 1:00 am (8/7) Sunday, 12:00 am (8/14) Variety Studio: Actors on Actors Sunday, 6:00 pm (8/7, 8/14)
Cooking & Dining • Home Improvement • Travel America’s Test Kitchen Saturday, 2:00 pm, 2:30 pm (8/6, 8/13) Antiques Roadshow Mondays, 8:00 pm (8/1, 8/8, 8/15) Monday, 9:00 pm (8/1) Sunday, 2:00 am, 3:00 am (8/7) Thursday, 3:30 am (8/11) Saturday, 11:00 pm (8/13) Ask This Old House Saturdays, 11:30 am (8/6, 8/13) Baby Makes 3 Sundays, 11:00 am (8/7, 8/14) Check, Please! Fridays, 8:00 pm (8/5, 8/12) Saturdays, 4:00 pm (8/6, 8/13) Sunday, 12:00 pm, 11:30 pm (8/7, 8/14) Thursday, 4:30 am (8/11) Chef’s Life Saturdays, 10:30 am (8/6, 8/13) Cook’s Country Saturdays, 12:00 pm (8/6, 8/13) Ellie’s Real Good Food Saturday, 11:00 am (8/6, 8/13) Eat Fat, Get Thin with Dr. Mark Hyman Sunday, 1:00 pm (8/21) Thursday, 11:00 pm (8/25) Saturday, 11:00 am (8/27) Eat to Live with Joel Fuhrman, MD Sunday, 9:30 am, 4:30 pm (8/21) Friday, 9:00 pm (8/26) Family Travel with Colleen Kelly Sundays, 11:30 am (8/6, 8/13) Great British Baking Show Fridays, 9:00 pm (8/5, 8/12) Sundays, 1:00 pm (8/7, 8/14) Jacques Pepin: Heart & Soul Saturday, 1:30 pm (8/6, 8/13) Lidia’s Kitchen Saturdays, 10:00 am (8/6, 8/13) Martha Bakes Saturday, 3:30 pm (8/6, 8/13) Martha Stewart’s Cooking School Saturdays, 3:00 pm (8/6, 8/13) Mondays, 5:00 am (8/8, 8/15) P. Allen Smith’s Garden Home Mondays, 5:30 am (8/1, 8/8, 8/15) Rick Steves’ Europe Saturday, 5:00 pm (8/6, 8/13) Rick Steves’ Italy: Cities of Dreams Thursday, 9:00 pm (8/25) Simply Ming Saturday, 12:30 pm (8/6, 8/13) Steven Raichlen’s Project Smoke Saturday, 1:00 pm (8/6, 8/13) Suze Orman’s Financial Solutions Sunday, 11:00 am, 6:00 pm (8/21) Wednesday, 10:00 pm (8/24) Saturday, 7:30 am, 12:30 am (8/27) Travel Detective with Peter Greenberg Saturdays, 5:30 pm (8/6, 8/13) Wisconsin Foodie Sundays, 11:30 am (8/7, 8/14) Wild Travels Saturdays, 4:30 pm (8/6, 8/13) Sundays, 11:00 pm (8/7, 8/14) Wednesdays, 4:30 am (8/10, 8/17) Thursday, 4:30 am (8/4)
Nature • Science • Technology Koko: The Gorilla Who Talks Wednesday, 8:00 pm (8/3) Sunday, 4:00 am (8/7) NOVA Wednesday, 9:00 pm (8/3) Wednesday, 8:00 pm (8/17) Friday, 2:30 am (8/5) Spillover: Zika, Ebola & Beyond Wednesday, 10:00 pm (8/3) Friday, 3:30 am (8/5)
Public Affairs • History • Documentary Ballyfin: Portrait of an Irish Country House Sunday, 4:00 pm (8/7) BBC World News Mondays-Fridays, 11:00 pm Boys of ’36: American Experience Tuesday, 9:00 pm (8/2) Thursday, 3:30 am (8/4) Brazil with Michael Palin Sunday, 12:00 am (8/7) Charlie Rose Mondays-Fridays, 1:30 am Chicago Tonight Mondays-Fridays, 7:00 pm, 12:00 am, 5:00 am Chicago’s Lakefront Saturday, 8:00 am, 3:30 pm (8/20) Sunday, 10:30 pm (8/21) Wednesday, 7:30 pm (8/24) Saturday, 11:30 pm (8/27) Sunday, 7:30 am, 12:30 pm (8/28) Chicago’s Loop: A New Walking Tour Saturday, 5:30 am, 1:00 pm (8/20) Friday, 1:00 am (8/26) Sunday, 10:00 am (8/28) Chicago’s South Side Saturday, 3:00 am, 10:30 am (8/20) Thursday, 3:00 am (8/25) Sunday, 5:00 am (8/28) Dick Cavett’s Watergate Tuesday, 8:00 pm (8/16) ’85: The Untold Story of the Greatest Team in Pro Football History Tuesday, 7:30 pm (8/30) Fourth Partition Sunday, 3:00 pm (8/28) George H.W. Bush: American Experience Thursday, 8:00 pm (8/18) Great Houses with Julian Fellows Sunday, 2:00 pm, 3:00 pm (8/7) Independent Lens: T-Rex: Her Fight For Gold Tuesday, 10:00 pm (8/2) Interview Show with Mark Bazer Fridays, 8:30 pm (8/5, 8/12) Sundays, 10:30 pm (8/7, 8/14) Friday, 4:30 am (8/12) Jewish Journey: America Monday, 8:00 pm (8/29) JFK & LBJ: A Time for Greatness Tuesday, 8:00 pm (8/9) Sunday, 1:00 am (8/14)
JFK: American Experience Monday, 9:00 pm (8/8) Tuesday, 9:00 pm (8/9) Wednesday, 2:30 am (8/10) Jimmy Carter: American Experience Monday, 9:00 pm (8/15) Wednesday, 2:30 am (8/17) John Paul II and the Fall of Communism Sunday, 5:00 pm (8/28) King in Chicago Thursday, 8:00 pm (8/4) LBJ: American Experience Wednesday, 8:00 pm, 10:00 pm (8/10) Friday, 2:30 am (8/12) Saturday, 2:30 am (8/13) The McLaughlin Group Saturdays, 6:30 pm 1916: The Irish Rebellion Sunday, 5:00 pm – 9:00 pm (6/12) Nazi Games Tuesday, 8:00 pm (8/2) Thursday, 2:30 am (8/4) Nightly Business Report Mondays-Thursdays, 11:30 pm Saturdays, 12:30 am Nixon: American Experience Thursday, 8:00 pm (8/11) Sunday, 2:00 am, 2:00 pm (8/14) PBS NewsHour Mondays-Fridays, 6:00 pm PBS NewsHour Weekend Saturdays, 6:00 pm Sundays, 5:00 pm (8/7, 8/14) POV Monday, 10:00 pm (8/1) Friday, 10:00 pm (8/12) Reagan: American Experience Tuesday, 9:00 pm (8/16) Wednesday, 9:00 pm (8/17) Thursday, 3:00 am (8/18) Friday, 2:30 am (8/19) Tavis Smiley Tuesdays-Saturdays, 1:00 am Visions of Italy, Southern Style Thursday, 7:30 pm (8/25) Washington Week Fridays, 11:30 pm (8/5, 8/12) Saturday, 1:00 am (8/20) Saturday, 12:30 am (8/27) Where in Chicago? with Geoffrey Baer Fridays, 7:30 pm (8/5, 8/12) Happily Ever Laughter: The Neuroscience of Romantic Relationships Tuesday, 7:30 pm, 9:00 pm (8/23)
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• Daily Radio Programming Programmer’s Picks Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival American composer Sean Shepherd recently wrote for the National Youth Orchestra of the United States and served a residency with the Cleveland Orchestra. His new work for the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival was performed by the Flux String Quartet.
Choro Meets Classical
From the Proms
Co-hosts Julie Koidin and Geraldo de Oliveira look at the lives and careers of composers including Villa-Lobos, Milhaud, and Marco César to discover how their styles were influenced by the distinctively Brazilian sound of the choro.
Next month WFMT will feature copious highlights from the 2016 BBC Promenade Concerts. We begin in late August with a Royal Albert Hall concert by the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, made up of young musicians from the Middle East and Spain.
Wednesday, August 10, 10:00 pm
Wednesday, August 31, 8:00 pm
Wednesday, August 3, 9:00 pm
12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Carl Grapentine 9:00 News Summary • Carl will follow the news with music from summer festivals around the world. 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, including new releases this hour 11:00 Haydn Piano Concerto in G, H XVIII:4 – Shai Wosner, p; Danish National Sym/Nicholas Collon. Onyx 4174. [21:01] Prokofiev Ten Pieces from Romeo and Juliet, Op 75: Folk Dance; The Young Juliet – Boris Berman, p. Chandos CHAN-8851. [8:15] 12:00 Newscast 12:15 Chicago Chamber Musicians Ensemble First Monday: Live from the Cultural Center 1:00 Afternoons with Kerry Frumkin • Mozart Piano Concerto #9 in E-Flat, K 271, Jeunehomme – Alexandre Tharaud, p; Les Violons du Roy/Bernard Labadie. Erato 462626-8. [31:00] 2:00 Mussorgsky Khovanshchina: Act 1 Prelude, Dawn on the Moskva River – Chicago Sym/Sir Georg Solti. London 458919-2. [5:00] Wagner Götterdämmerung: Dawn and Siegfried’s Rhine Journey – Chicago Sym/Fritz Reiner. EMI CDC5-62866-2 (2). [13:14] Gershwin Catfish Row Suite – Leipzig Gewandhaus Orch/ Riccardo Chailly. London B0015311-02. [23:43] break 3:00 Fine Arts Calendar • Bach Prelude, Fugue, and Allegro in E-Flat (D), BWV 998 – Jason Vieaux, g. Azica ACD-71250. [12:34] Ravel Introduction and Allegro – Isabelle Moretti, h; Quatuor Parisii. Naive V-4919. [11:03]
4:00 Music with Candice Agree, including a Newscast at 4:00 pm and The Unrush Hour between 5:00 pm and 6:00 pm 7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Ports of Call, week 2 8:00 Ravinia Festival 2016 10:00 Critical Thinking with Andrew Patner 11:00 Beethoven Symphony #6 in F, Op 68, Pastoral – Minnesota Orch/Osmo Vänskä. Bis SACD1716. [41:36] Doppler Fantaisie pastorale hongroise – Mathieu Dufour, f; Kuang-Hao Huang, p. Cedille CDR-90000121. [12:15]
12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Carl Grapentine 9:00 News Summary • Music from summer festivals 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, including new releases this hour 11:00 Debussy String Quartet in g, Op 10 – Takács Quartet. Hyperion CDA-68061. [25:09] 12:00 Newscast • Schuman New England Triptych – United States Marine Band/Lt Col Jason Fettig. Altissimo ALT-04032. [17:01] Billings Anthem, Lamentation Over Boston – Cantus. Cantus CTS-1210. [5:21] 1:00 Afternoons with Kerry Frumkin • Ravel Quartet in F – Juilliard String Quartet. Sony SK-52554. [30:17] 2:00 Liszt Totentanz – Jorge Bolet, p; London Sym/Ivan Fischer. DG B0015651-02 (2). [15:58] Borodin Prince Igor: Polovtsian Dances – London Sym & Cho/Sir Georg Solti. Lon 4758525 (5). [13:38] 3:00 Fine Arts Calendar • Mozart
Most live performances on 98.7WFMT are broadcast from the Fay and Daniel Levin Performance Studio.
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Piano Sonata #13 in B-Flat, K 333 – Ingolf Wunder, p. DG 4790084. [20:59] Mozart Serenade #13 in G, K 525, Eine kleine Nachtmusik – Concerto Cologne. Archive 4775800. [19:09] Music with Candice Agree, including a Newscast at 4:00 pm and The Unrush Hour between 5:00 pm and 6:00 pm Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Ports of Call, week 2 Ryan Opera Center Recital Series: Soprano Hlengiwe Mkhwanazi, tenor Jonathan Johnson, and pianist Craig Terry in songs by Schumann and Poulenc. Music with Dennis Moore
Wednesday 3 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Carl Grapentine 9:00 News Summary • Music from summer festivals 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, including new releases this hour 11:00 Poulenc Three Novelettes – Lucille Chung, p. Signum SIGCD-455. [7:24] Délibes Coppélia: Excerpts – National Phil/Richard Bonynge. London 414502-2 (2). [12:35] 12:00 Newscast 12:15 Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts: Pianist Victor Cayres live from the Cultural Center 1:00 Afternoons with Kerry Frumkin • Suk String Serenade in E-Flat, Op 6 – Bavarian Radio Sym/Mariss Jansons. BR Klassik 900145. [25:43] 2:00 Various Invitation to the Dance, Op 65; Mephisto Waltz #1, Dance in the Village Inn – Stephen Hough, p. Hyperion CDA-67686. [19:22] Hough guests with Carlos Kalmar and the Grant Park Orchestra tonight at 6:30, live on WFMT. Falla El Amor Brujo Suite – Waller & Maxwell Guitar Duo. Senti SP-2810012. [15:33] Saint-Saëns Danse macabre, Op 40 – Cincinnati Pops/Erich Kunzel. Telarc CD-80189. [7:40] 3:00 Fine Arts Calendar • Haydn Sinfonia Concertante in
In the Spotlight Photo: Grant Hiroshima
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Stephen Hough
Grant Park Music Festival Live: Stephen Hough Playing Rachmaninoff Hough performs Rachmaninoff’s famous Rhapsody on A Theme by Paganini with Carlos Kalmar and the Grant Park Orchestra. To open the concert, the orchestra plays James MacMillan’s Britannia, a fantasy based on British patriotic themes and popular tunes: Irish reels, marches, pub songs. The concert will end with Jacques Ibert’s Escales (Ports of Call) from 1924, a series of Mediterranean impressions: Italy, Tunisia, and Spain.
Wednesday, August 3, 6:30 pm
B-Flat, Op 105 – Soloists, Berlin Phil/Sir Simon Rattle. EMI 94237-2 (2). [21:24] Montsalvatge Poema Concertante – Rachel Barton Pine, v; North German Radio Phil/Celso Antunes. Hänssler Classic CD-98.642. [12:30] 4:00 Music with Candice Agree, including a Newscast at 4:00 pm and The Unrush Hour between 5:00 pm and 6:00 pm 6:30 Grant Park Music Festival 2016: Live from Pritzker
Pavilion, the Grant Park Orchestra conducted by Carlos Kalmar; Stephen Hough, piano – MacMillan: Britannia. Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on A Theme by Paganini. Ibert: Escales (Ports of Call). 9:00 Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival – Sean Shepherd: String Quartet #2; Franck: Piano Quintet. 10:00 (Later than usual) Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Ports of Call, week 2 11:00 Rachmaninoff Symphony #2 in e, Op 27—Royal Concertgebouw Orch/ Vladimir Ashkenazy. London 400081-2. [55:02]
conductor; Alisa Weilerstein, cello; Susanna Phillips, soprano; Hugh Russell, baritone – Elgar: Cello Concerto. Fauré: Pavane; Requiem. 10:00 Baroque&Before with Candice Agree 11:00 Mendelssohn Symphony #4 in A, Op 90, Italian – Chicago Sym/Sir Georg Solti. London 436621-2. [30:15] Martucci Three Romances, Op 49 – Francesco Caramiello, p. ASV CDDCA-897. [13:17] Various Auf Flügeln des Gesanges; Sicilian lullaby, Era la vo – Victoria de los Angeles, s; London Sinfonia/Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos. EMI CDM7-69502-2. [5:09]
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12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Carl Grapentine 9:00 News Summary • Music from summer festivals 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, including new releases this hour 11:00 Weiss Minuet, Fantasy and Fugue – Eliot Fisk, g. Musicmasters MMD-60169. [7:41] Beethoven Fantasy for Piano, Chorus and Orchestra, Op 80 (Choral Fantasy) – Hélène Grimaud, p; Swedish Radio Cho and Orch/Esa-Pekka Salonen. DG B0001732-02. [19:03] 12:00 Newscast • Ravel Ma Mère l’Oye (Mother Goose) – Zurich Tonhalle Orch/Lionel Bringuier. DG 4795524 (4). [26:57] 1:00 Afternoons with Kerry Frumkin • Bach Brandenburg Concerto #4 in G, BWV 1049 – European Brandenburg Ensemble/Trevor Pinnock. Avie AV-2119 (2). [15:00] Stravinsky Dumbarton Oaks Concerto in E-Flat – The Knights. Warner 0825646170982. [15:18] 2:00 Strauss Ein Heldenleben, Op 40 – Chicago Sym/Bernard Haitink. CSO ReSound CSOR-9011002. [47:29] 3:00 Fine Arts Calendar • Haydn String Quartet in C, Op 33/3, Bird – Cuarteto Casals. Harmonia Mundi HMX-2962022.23 (2). [18:47] Respighi Gli Uccelli (The Birds) – New York Respighi Symphony/Salvatore Di Vittorio. Naxos 8.573168. [20:36] Various The Nightingale; Go ‘Way from My Window – Susanne Mentzer, ms; Sharon Isbin, g. Erato 23419-2. [6:36] 4:00 Music with Candice Agree, including a Newscast at 4:00 pm and The Unrush Hour between 5:00 pm and 6:00 pm 7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Ports of Call, week 2 8:00 The Dallas Symphony in Concert: Jaap van Zweden,
12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Carl Grapentine 9:00 News Summary • Music from summer festivals 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, including new releases this hour 11:00 Beethoven Symphony #1 in C, Op 21 – Berlin Phil/ Sir Simon Rattle. Berlin Philharmonic Beethoven: Complete Symphonies. [24:42] 11:55 (Earlier than usual) Newscast 12:00 PianoForte Salon Series Live 1:00 Afternoons with Kerry Frumkin • Glazunov Violin Concerto in a, Op 82 – Itzhak Perlman, v; Israel Phil/Zubin Mehta. EMI CDC7-49814-2. [20:06] Traditional Basarabye; Der Heyser Bulgar – Itzhak Perlman, v; Brave Old World Klezmer Band. EMI CDC5-55555-2. [10:45] 2:00 Respighi Brazilian Impressions – Cincinnati Sym/ Jesús López-Cobos. Telarc CD-80356. [19:02] To celebrate the Rio de Janeiro Olympics, we’ll be playing music by Brazilian composers and works inspired by Brazil, once per day through August 21. 3:00 Fine Arts Calendar • Mozart Symphony #40 in g, K 550 – Berlin Phil/Carlo Maria Giulini. Sony SK-47264. [31:31] There’s more Mozart – his Great Mass in C Minor – on tonight’s live broadcast from the Grant Park Music Festival. 4:00 Music with Candice Agree, including a Newscast at 4:00 pm and The Unrush Hour between 5:00 pm and 6:00 pm 6:30 Grant Park Music Festival 2016: Live from Pritzker Pavilion, the Grant Park Orchestra conducted by Carlos Kalmar; vocal soloists and Grant Park Chorus – Michael Gandolfi: New work; Mozart: Mass in c, K 427, Great. 9:00 (Later than usual) Exploring
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In the Spotlight Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Ports of Call, week 2 10:00 Relevant Tones with Seth Boustead: String Quartet Plus 11:00 Best of Studs Terkel: Overkill and Megalove commemorates the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, in August 1945.
Saturday 6 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 7:00 Weekend Mornings with Dennis Moore 10:00 Fine Arts Calendar 11:00 Introductions: Spotlighting the Chicago area’s young musicians 12:00 LA Opera on Air: Jake Heggie’s “Moby Dick” – Jay Hunter Morris (Ahab); Joshua Guerrero (Greenhorn); Morgan Smith (Starbuck); Musa Ngqungwana (Queequeg); Jacqueline Echols (Pip); Mathew O’Neill (Flask); Malcolm MacKenzie (Stubb); Los Angeles Opera Cho & Orch/James Conlon. 2:40 PoetryNow with the Poetry Foundation: Urayoan Noel reads and discusses Oda al Café (Ode to Coffee). 2:45 Bach Violin and Oboe Concerto in c, BWV 1060 – Johnny Gandelsman, v; Adam Hollander, ob; The Knights. Warner 0825646170982. [12:35] Mozart Flute and Harp Concerto in C, K 299 – Claire Marchand, f; Valérie Milot, h; Les Violons du Roy/ Bernard Labadie. Analekta AN2-9990. [28:22] Strauss Der Rosenkavalier Suite – Vienna Phil/André Previn. DG 437790-2. [21:36] 4:00 Villa-Lobos Bachianas brasileiras #1 – Brazilian Guitar Quartet. Delos DE-3245. [17:04] Bach Cantata #208, Was mir behagt, ist nur die muntre Jagd! (Hunt): Sheep May Safely Graze – Angela Hewitt, p. Hyperion CDA-67309. [5:47] 4:30 Arias and Songs with Larry Johnson: Opera and song in the ‘wrong’ language 5:00 Mendelssohn Symphony #3 in a, Op 56, Scottish – Chicago Sym/Sir Georg Solti. London 436621-2. [40:09] McEwen Scottish Rhapsody, Prince Charlie – Rachel Barton Pine, v; Scottish Chamber Orch/ Alexander Platt. Cedille CDR-90000083 (2). [12:55] Traditional Lady Mary Hay’s Scots Measure; Carolan’s Farewell; Gusty’s Frolics; Emigrants’ Reel – Jordi Savall, treble viol; Andrew LawrenceKing, h. Alia Vox AVSA-9865. [10:10] Britten A Simple Symphony, Op 4 – I Musici de Montreal/Yuli Turovsky. Chandos CHAN-8817. [18:21]
Hlengiwe Mkhwanazi
Grant Park Music Festival Live: Mozart’s Great Mass Soprano Hlengiwe Mkhwanazi of Lyric’s Ryan Opera Center is among the soloists with the Grant Park Chorus and Orchestra for Mozart’s Mass in C Minor, K 427, known as the Great Mass. Carlos Kalmar conducts. To open the concert, he and the orchestra present the world premiere of The Cosmic Garden in Bloom by Michael Gandolfi, a composer and professor at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston and at the Tanglewood Music Center. The work was inspired by the Garden of Cosmic Speculation. Located in Scotland, the garden was designed by American architect Charles Jencks, who called it a joining of nature and modern physics.
Friday, August 5, 6:30 pm
Vaughan Williams The Lark Ascending – Nigel Kennedy, v; City of Birmingham Sym/ Sir Simon Rattle. EMI CDC5-56413-2. [17:37] 7:00 Fiesta! with Elbio Barilari: Music by the Brazilian composer Claudio Santoro 8:00 Folkstage hosted by Rich Warren 9:00 The Midnight Special with Rich Warren
Sunday 7 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 With Heart and Voice: Psalm settings 7:00 Weekend Mornings with Dennis Moore 10:00 Fine Arts Calendar 12:00 Chopin Polonaise-fantasie in A-Flat, Op 61 – Louis Lortie, p. Chandos CHAN-9597. [13:44] Lortie is the guest soloist on our upcoming CSO broadcast. 2016
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In the Spotlight
Jake Heggie
LA Opera on Air: Jake Heggie’s Moby Dick Heggie’s opera on the Melville novel dates from 2010 and was a joint international commission: from the Dallas, San Francisco, and San Diego opera companies, the State Opera of South Australia, and the Calgary Opera. The star, of course, is the obsessed Captain Ahab, sung by a tenor; the name of the novel’s narrator, Ishmael, is changed to Greenhorn. Heggie also places major emphasis on the harpooner Queequeg, whom he perceives as the soul of the Pequod’s crew, and on the cabin boy, Pip, sung by a female soprano; Heggie says that Pip is the crew’s “heart.” Most famous for his opera Dead Man Walking, Heggie cites Benjamin Britten as an important influence on his music, especially the opera Peter Grimes; Moby Dick also inevitably recalls another Britten opera, Billy Budd. Leading singers in the Los Angeles production include Jay Hunter Morris as Ahab and Morgan Smith as First Mate Starbuck.
Saturday, August 6, 12:00 pm
Tansman Suite for Wind Trio – Chicago Chamber Musicians. Cedille CDR-90000040. [11:45] Like Chopin, Tansman was a native of Poland; he also lived in France and the USA. Henry Fogel profiles Tansman tonight at 8:00 pm on Collectors’ Corner. Bach Orchestra Suite #2 in b, BWV 1067 – James Galway, f; Württemberg Chamber Orch/Jörg Faerber. RCA 60900-2. [20:46] 1:00 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Radio Broadcasts: Charles Dutoit, conductor; Louis Lortie, piano – Ravel: Rapsodie
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espagnol. D’Indy: Symphony on A French Mountain Air. Franck: Symphonic Variations. Ravel: Daphnis and Chloe Suite #2. Debussy: Images. 3:00 Schubert Quartet #15 in G, D 887 – Emerson String Quartet. DG 459151-2 (3). [44:49] Schubert Nacht und Träume, D 827 – Renée Fleming, s; Christoph Eschenbach, p. London 455294-2. [4:57] 4:00 Bach Two-Violin Concerto in d, BWV 1043 – Anne Akiko Meyers, v’s; English Chamber Orch/Steven Mercurio. E One EOM-CD-7785. [14:33] VillaLobos Bachianas Brasileiras #5 – Anna Moffo, s; American Sym/Leopold Stokowski. RCA 62600-2. [11:37] Ponce Sonata mexicana – Andrés Segovia, g. MCA 42072. [13:15] Barroso Bahia – Daniel Barenboim, p; Brazilian Rhapsody Ensemble. Teldec 21482. [5:27] 5:00 Tchaikovsky Suite #4 in G, Op 61, Mozartiana – English Chamber Orch/Benjamin Britten. BBC 8002-2. [25:46] Britten Four Sea Interludes and Passacaglia, Op 33a, fr Peter Grimes – Kansas City Sym/Michael Stern. Reference Recordings RR-120. [24:19] 6:00 Smetana Má Vlast (My Fatherland): Vltava (The Moldau) – Czech Phil/Rafael Kubelik. Supraphon SU19102031. [11:35] Grofé Mississippi Suite – Boston Pops/Keith Lockhart. RCA 68786-2. [13:38] Wood Fantasia on British Sea Songs – Bryn Terfel, b-br; Cho’s, BBC Sym/Sir Andrew Davis. Teldec 97868-2. [11:20] Handel Water Music Suite #3 in G – Philharmonia Baroque/Nicholas McGegan. Harmonia Mundi HMU-907010. [9:39] Various Autumn Moon on A Calm Lake; At Night on the Lake Beneath the Maple Bridge – Lang Lang, p; Ji Wei, zither. DG B0008233-00. [13:16] Liadov The Enchanted Lake, Op 62 – Cincinnati Pops/ Erich Kunzel. Telarc CD-80657. [8:08] Tchaikovsky Swan Lake, Op 20: Act III: Three National Dances—Katia & Marielle Labèque, p’s. Philips 4427782. [8:42] Whitacre The River Cam – Julian Lloyd Webber, vc; London Sym/Eric Whitacre. Lon B0016636-02. [11:54] Whitacre Water Night – Polyphony. Hyperion CDA-67543. [5:03] 8:00 Collectors’ Corner with Henry Fogel: Music by Alexandre Tansman 10:00 Pipedreams: Organ music with Michael Barone 11:00 Tchaikovsky Symphony #6 in b, Op 74, Pathétique – Rotterdam Phil/Yannick Nézet-Séguin. DG 4790835. [44:37] Rachmaninoff Vespers (All-Night Vigil), Op
37: O Gentle Light; Lord, Now Lettest Thou; Rejoice, O Virgin – Estonian Phil Chamber Cho/Paul Hillier. Harmonia Mundi HMU-807504. [9:31]
Monday 8 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Carl Grapentine 9:00 News Summary • Music from summer festivals 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, including new releases this hour 11:00 Various Caprice de Chaconne; Chaconne in G – Rolf Lislevand, l. ECM 4811716. [11:35] Bach Keyboard Concerto in a after Vivaldi – Julia Zilberquit, p; Moscow Virtuosi/ Saulius Sondeckis. Warner Classics 63686. [14:08] 12:00 Newscast • Dvorák Carnival Overture, Op 92 – Bavarian Radio Sym/Mariss Jansons. BR Klassik 900145. [9:45] Arban Variations on The Carnival of Venice – Wynton Marsalis, cornet; Eastman Wind Ensemble/Donald Hunsberger. CBS MK-42137. [7:32] 1:00 Afternoons with Kerry Frumkin • Haydn Cello Concerto #1 in C, H VIIb:1 – St Martin’s Academy/ Mstislav Rostropovich, vc. EMI CDC7-49305-2. [24:43] 2:00 Milhaud Saudades do Brasil, Op 67: Set 1 – William Bolcom, p. Nonesuch 71316-2. [12:41] Milhaud Saudades do Brasil, Op 67: Set 2 – Orch/Darius Milhaud. EMI CDC7-54604-2. [9:38] 3:00 Fine Arts Calendar • Wagner Lohengrin: Preludes to acts 1 & 3 – Chicago Sym/Daniel Barenboim. Teldec 99595-2. [13:12] Saint-Saëns Carnival of the Animals: The Swan – Joshua Bell, v; St Martin’s Academy/Michael Stern. Sony SK-87894. [2:49] Yang Wei The Swan – Yang Wei, pipa, from Live from WFMT 10/19/2015. [9:40] Wagner Die Meistersinger: Act 1 Prelude – Chicago Sym/Sir Georg Solti. London 411951-2. [9:41] 4:00 Music with Candice Agree, including a Newscast at 4:00 pm and The Unrush Hour between 5:00 pm and 6:00 pm 7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Wind quintets 8:00 Ravinia Festival 2016 10:00 Critical Thinking with Andrew Patner 11:00 Zemlinsky Symphonic poem, Die Seejungfrau (The Mermaid) – Cologne Gurzenich Orch/James Conlon. EMI CDC5-55515-2. [44:14] Mahler Des Knaben Wunderhorn: Wo die schönen Trompeten blasen – Thomas Hampson, br; Wiener Virtuosen. DG 4779289. [7:50]
Tuesday 9 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Carl Grapentine 9:00 News Summary • Music from summer festivals 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, including new releases this hour 11:00 Kabalevsky Cello Concerto #1 in g, Op 49 – Yo-Yo Ma, vc; Philadelphia Orch/Eugene Ormandy. CBS MK-37840. [18:21] Traditional Malian Ichichila – Silk Road Ensemble. Sony 88875181012. [6:31] 12:00 Newscast • Bridge Phantasie Trio in c – Hyung-Ki Joo, p; Rafal Zambrzycki-Payne,
In the Spotlight
Alexandre Tansman
Henry Fogel: Profiling Alexandre Tansman Tansman (1897-1986) came from a Polish-Jewish background and studied at the conservatory of Lodz and the University of Warsaw. During the 1920s, he lived in Paris and made a career as a concert pianist, in addition to composing. His music was strongly influenced by that of the neoclassical Igor Stravinsky. Fleeing Nazi persecution, Tansman emigrated to the United States in 1941 – with some help from a friend, Charlie Chaplin – settled in Los Angeles, became friends with Arnold Schoenberg, and wrote some film music. He returned to Paris after World War II. Tansman was a prolific composer, whose list includes a viola concerto, nine symphonies, several works inspired by the writings of the Hebrew Bible, and quite a few guitar pieces, notably Suite in Modo Polonico, a favorite of Andres Segovia’s, and a 1982 piece, Hommage à Lech Walesa. Henry Fogel will sample some of Tansman’s varied works on Collectors’ Corner.
Sunday, August 7, 8:00 pm
In the Spotlight v; Thomas Carroll, vc. Paladino Music PMR-0076. [15:41] Elgar Pomp and Circumstance Marches, Op 39: #5 in C – Philharmonia/ Sir Charles Groves. Denon CO-73534. [6:34] 1:00 Afternoons with Kerry Frumkin • Tchaikovsky Symphony #1 in g, Op 13, Winter Dreams – Royal Liverpool Phil Orch/Vasily Petrenko. Onyx 4150 (2). [41:04] Hadley One Morning in Spring – Philharmonia/Matthias Bamert. Chandos 9539. [4:14] 2:00 Villa-Lobos Five Preludes for Guitar – Pepe Romero, g. Philips 420245-2. [20:23] Various Black Orpheus film music: A Felicidade; Manha da Carnaval – Paula Robison, f; Brazilian Choro Ensemble. Omega OCD-3016. [6:22] 3:00 Fine Arts Calendar • Haydn Trumpet Concerto in E-Flat, H VIIe:1 – Adolph Herseth, tr; Chicago Sym/Claudio Abbado. DG B0000025-02. [14:19] L Mozart Toy Symphony in G – Hanover Band/Roy Goodman. Nimbus NI-5126. [19:09] 4:00 Music with Candice Agree, including a Newscast at 4:00 pm and The Unrush Hour between 5:00 pm and 6:00 pm 7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Wind quintets 8:00 Music with Dennis Moore
Wednesday 10 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Carl Grapentine 9:00 News Summary • Music from summer festivals 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, including new releases this hour 11:00 Martinu Variations on a Slovakian Theme – Laura Metcalf, vc; Matei Varga, p. Sono Luminus DSL-92201. [10:09] Dvorák Slavonic Rhapsodies, Op 45: #3 in A-Flat – Leipzig Gewandhaus Orch/Kurt Masur. Philips 416623-2. [12:27] 12:00 Newscast 12:15 Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts: The Jade Duo (violin-piano) live from the Cultural Center 1:00 Afternoons with Kerry Frumkin • Haydn Cello Concerto #2 in D, H VIIb:2 (Op 101) – Truls Mork, vc; Norwegian Chamber Orch/Iona Brown. Virgin Classics 45014-2. [25:20] 2:00 Guarnieri Three Dances for Orchestra – Simon Bolivar Sym/Maximiano Valdes. Dorian DOR-90227. [9:04] Chopin Four Mazurkas, Op 33 – Maurizio Pollini, p. DG B0011939-02. [10:46] Smetana The Bartered Bride: Polka,
Furiant and Skocna (Dance of the Comedians) – Cleveland Orch/George Szell. CBS MYK-36716. [11:18] There’s more Smetana on our Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival broadcast tonight at 9:00. 3:00 Fine Arts Calendar • Borodin Symphony #3 in a, unfinished – Seattle Sym/Gerard Schwarz. Naxos 8.572786. [17:42] Schubert Symphony #8 in b, D 759, Unfinished – Vienna Phil/Carlos Kleiber. DG 449745-2. [24:38] 4:00 Music with Candice Agree, including a Newscast at 4:00 pm and The Unrush Hour between 5:00 pm and 6:00 pm 7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Wind quintets 8:00 Grieg Peer Gynt Suite #1, Op 46 – San Francisco Sym/ Herbert Blomstedt. London 425857-2. [15:47] Dvorák Slavonic Dances, Op 72: #s 1-4 – COE/Nikolaus Harnoncourt. Teldec 810382. [19:26] Marquez Danzon #2 – Simon Bolivar Youth Orch/Gustavo Dudamel. DG B0013458-02. [9:49] 9:00 Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival – Rachmaninoff: Piano Sonata #2; Smetana: String Quartet #1 in e, From My Life. 10:00 A Joyful Cry: Brazil’s Choro Music – In this presentation from the WFMT Radio Network, hosts Julie Koidin and Geraldo de Oliveira explore the relationship between the classical tradition and the special Brazilian style called choro. 11:00 Mozart Piano Concerto #27 in B-Flat, K 595 – Vassily Primakov, p; Odense Sym/ Scott Yoo. Bridge 9328-A/B (2). [32:14] Mozart Symphony in a, K 16a, Odense – Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood. Oiseau 417234-2. [13:41] Mozart Sehnsucht nach dem Frühlinge – Juliane Banse, s; Andràs Schiff, p. ECM 1772. [3:17]
Thursday 11 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Carl Grapentine 9:00 News Summary • Music from summer festivals 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, including new releases this hour 11:00 Bach Guitar Concerto in a (after BWV 1041) – Xuefei Yang, g; Elias String Quartet. EMI 790182. [14:37] Telemann Trumpet Concerto in D – Freidemann Immer, tr; Musica Antiqua Cologne/Reinhard Goebel. Archive 419633-2. [7:06] 12:00 Newscast • Schumann Piano Trio #1 in d, Op 63 – Isabelle Faust, v; Jean-Guihen Queyras, vc; Alexander
Melnikov, fp. Harmonia Mundi HMC-902197. [32:09] 1:00 Afternoons with Kerry Frumkin • Beethoven Leonore Overture #2 – London Sym/Bernard Haitink. LSO Live LSO00598 (6). [15:00] Schuman American Festival Overture – Los Angeles Phil/ Leonard Bernstein. DG 474940-2 (6). [9:23] Dyson Overture, At the Tabard Inn – London Sym/Richard Hickox. Chandos 9531 (2). [11:41] 2:00 Vivaldi Trio Sonata in d, R 63, La Folia (Op 1/12) – Hesperion XXI/Jordi Savall. Alia Vox AV-9844. [9:44] Gomes String Sonata in D – Brazilian Guitar Quartet. Delos DE-3245. [20:10] 3:00 Fine Arts Calendar • Haydn Oboe Concerto in C, H VIIg:C1 – Paul Goodwin, ob; English Concert/Trevor Pinnock. Archive 4316782. [21:10] Morricone The Mission Suite – City of Prague Phil/Paul Bateman. Silva SSD-1057. [13:04] 4:00 Music with Candice Agree, including a Newscast at 4:00 pm and The Unrush Hour between 5:00 pm and 6:00 pm 7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Wind quintets 8:00 The Dallas Symphony in Concert: Jaap van Zweden, conductor; Conrad Tao, piano; Mason Bates, electronica – Chavez: Sinfonia India. Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini. Bates: Liquid Interface. Dvorak: Symphony #7. 10:00 Baroque&Before with Candice Agree 11:00 Schubert Symphony #9 in C, D 944, Great – Berlin Phil/Sir Simon Rattle. EMI CDC5-39382-2. [57:43]
Friday 12 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Carl Grapentine 9:00 News Summary • Music from summer festivals 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, including new releases this hour 11:00 Schubert Arpeggione Sonata in a, D 821 – Paul Neubauer, vi; Gilbert Kalish, p. Music@ Menlo Live Paul Neubauer Live. [21:11] Gjeilo Ubi Caritas – Voces8/Ola Gjeilo, p. Decca B0024646-02. [5:24] 12:00 Newscast • Music in Chicago 1:00 Afternoons with Kerry Frumkin • Tchaikovsky Symphony #4 in f, Op 36 – Chicago Sym/Fritz Reiner. CSO 2000. [43:22] Our live broadcast tonight at 6:30 from the Grant Park Music Festival is devoted to Tchiakovsky. 2:00 Villa-Lobos A Prole do Bebé (The Baby’s Family), Set
Kirill Gerstein
Grant Park Music Festival Live: Pianist Kirill Gerstein Recipient in 2010 of the Gilmore Artist Award and an Avery Fisher Career Grant, Gerstein has been performing with orchestras in North America and Europe and at festivals including Aspen, Santa Fe, Bravo! Vail, and here in Chicago, Grant Park. A native of Voronezh, Russia, he received traditional piano training while learning jazz from his parents’ record collection. After coming to the U.S. he studied at Tanglewood and the Manhattan School of Music. With Carlos Kalmar and the Grant Park Orchestra, he’ll play the original 1879 version of Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto. This version, Tchaikovsky’s own preferred one, has recently been published in a new critical edition and has been recorded by Mr Gerstein. The standard version almost always heard today was edited after Tchaikovsky’s death and made changes he didn’t authorize, so the “new” version should be of particular interest to Tchaikovsky fans, and all lovers of piano music.
Friday, August 12, 6:30 pm
1 – Marc-André Hamelin, p. Hyperion CDA-67176. [13:41] Assad Gypsy Songs – Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, v; Sergio Assad, g; Odair Assad, g. Nonesuch 79505-2. [7:52] 3:00 Fine Arts Calendar • Haydn Piano Concerto in D, H XVIII:11 (Op 21) – Alexandre Tharaud, p; Les Violons du Roy/Bernard Labadie. Erato 462626-8. [19:57] Brahms Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Op 56a – London Phil/Marin Alsop. Naxos 8.557430. [19:23] 4:00 Music with Candice Agree, including a Newscast at 4:00 pm and The Unrush Hour 2016
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Saturday 13 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 7:00 Weekend Mornings with Dennis Moore 10:00 Fine Arts Calendar 11:00 Introductions: Spotlighting the Chicago area’s young musicians 12:00 LA Opera on Air: Verdi’s “Falstaff” – Roberto Frontali (Falstaff); Marco Caria (Ford); Carmen Giannattasio (Mrs Ford); Juan Francisco Gatell (Fenton); Ekaterina Sadovnikova (Nannetta); Ronnita Nicole Miller (Dame Quickly); Robert Brubaker (Dr Caius); Los Angeles Opera Cho & Orch/James Conlon. 2:20 PoetryNow with the Poetry Foundation: Tsering Wangmo Dhompa reads and discusses Virtual. 2:30 Nicolai The Merry Wives of Windsor Overture – St Martin’s Academy/Sir Neville Marriner. EMI CDB5-68953-2 (2). [8:42] Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet Suite: Juliet the Young Girl, Madrigal, Minuet, Masks – Chicago Sym/Riccardo Muti. CSO ReSound CSOR9011402. [12:59] Bernstein West Side Story: Symphonic Dances – Utah Sym/Keith Lockhart. Reference RR105. [22:09] Chopin Andante Spianato and Grande Polonaise brillante, Op 22 – Ingolf Wunder, p. DG 4779634. [15:15] Tchaikovsky Yevgeny Onegin, Op 24: Ecossaise, Polonaise, Waltz – Royal Opera House Orch/Sir Colin Davis. Phi 422845-2. [12:55] 4:00 Villa-Lobos Concerto for guitar and small orchestra – Sharon Isbin, g; New York Phil/José Serebrier. Warner Classics 60296-2. [18:30] Assad Menino – Yo-Yo Ma, vc; Sergio Assad, g; Odair Assad, g. Sony SK-89935. [5:36] 4:30 Arias and Songs with Larry Johnson: The art of
soprano Jessye Norman 5:00 Mozart Piano Sonata #11 in A, K 331 – Alfred Brendel, p. Philips 446921-2 (5). [19:01] Brubeck Blue Rondo à la Turk – Dave Brubeck Quartet. CSB CK-65417. [6:44] Mozart Symphony #35 in D, K 385, Haffner – Orch Mozart/Claudio Abbado. Archive 4777598 (2). [20:54] Mozart Don Giovanni, K 527: Deh, vieni alla finestra; Finch’han dal vino – Ildebrando D’Arcangelo, b-br; Turin Teatro Regio Orch/Gianandrea Noseda. DG B0015741-02. [3:34] Strauss Don Juan, Op 20 – Berlin Phil/Gustavo Dudamel. DG B0018913-02. [18:39] Bach Flute Sonata in E-Flat, BWV 1031 – Irena Grafenauer, f; Maria Graf, h. Philips 422061-2. [9:55] Handel Music for the Royal Fireworks – Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood. Oiseau 400059-2. [20:49] 7:00 Fiesta! with Elbio Barilari: More LP treasures featuring Latin-American music LP Treasures new edition 8:00 Folkstage hosted by Rich Warren 9:00 The Midnight Special with Rich Warren
Sunday 14 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 With Heart and Voice: Mass Appeal 7:00 Weekend Mornings with Dennis Moore 10:00 Fine Arts Calendar 12:00 Bach Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue in d, BWV 903 – András Schiff, p. Philips 456925-2 (2). [11:19] Alwyn Pastoral Fantasia – Stephen Tees, vi; City of London Sinfonia/ Richard Hickox. Chandos CHAN-9065. [13:00] Beethoven Piano Sonata #15 in D, Op 28, Pastoral – Maurizio Pollini, p. DG 427770-2. [23:54] 1:00 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Radio Broadcasts: Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor; Emanuel Ax, piano – Stravinsky: Scherzo à la Russe. Beethoven: Piano Concerto #4. Sibelius: Symphony #2. Britten: Four Sea Interludes and Passacaglia fr Peter Grimes (/Jaap van Zweden). 3:00 Mozart Quartet #14 in G, K 387 – Emerson String Quartet. DG 439861-2. [29:40] Schubert Adagio and Rondo in A, D 438 – Baiba Skride, v; CPE Bach Chamber Orch/Hartmut Haenchen. Sony SK-97749. [13:44] Schubert Song, Herbst, D 945 – Matthias Goerne, br; Christoph Eschenbach, p. Harmonia Mundi HMC902139.40 (2). [4:08]
4:00 A Nepomuceno Serie Brasileira – Brazilian Sym/ Souza Lima (NG 5012473). CBS Brasil 09853. [23:24] Mignone Congada; Dansa do Botocudo; Caterete – Marcel Worms, p (NG 5012481, 2483, 2484). ZEF 9634. [9:37] Piazzolla Oblivion; Adios Nonino; Libertango – Cavatina Duo. Bridge 9330. [12:37] 5:00 Strauss An Alpine Symphony, Op 64 – San Francisco Sym/Herbert Blomstedt. London 421815-2. [52:26] 6:00 Herrmann Hitchcock Movie Suite – The 5 Browns. E1 E1E-CD-2041. [7:49] Williams Star Wars film music: Main title; Princess Leia’s theme; Imperial March – Vienna Phil/Franz Welser-Möst. DG 4763793. [14:24] Bizet L’Arlésienne incidental music – St Paul Chamber Orch/Christopher Hogwood. London 430231-2. [20:23] Bizet Carmen: Gypsy Song, Les tringles de sistres tintaient – Vladimir Horowitz, p. RCA 60526-2. [3:29] Williams Harry
In the Spotlight
Lisa Flynn
Favorite Violin Concertos with Lisa Flynn Late last year, Midday host Lisa Flynn invited listeners to select their favorite piano concerto from a list she published on WFMT’s website. She then counted down the top 10 choices over two weeks, pairing each choice with a lesser-known concerto discovery. The winner, incidentally, was Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto #2. In mid-August, Lisa’s going to do the same thing with violin concertos. The top 10 choices will air weekdays in mid-late August, paired with lesser-known works as before. Please vote your choice at wfmt.com.
August 15-26, 10:00 am
Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone film music: Hedwig’s Theme, Christmas at Hogwarts, Nimbus 2000, Leaving Hogwarts, Harry’s Wondrous World – City of Prague Phil/James Fitzpatrick. Silva SILCD-1251. [16:25] Various Operetta Waltzes – Cincinnati Pops/Erich Kunzel. Telarc CD-80668. [7:10] Lehár Die lustige Witwe (The Merry Widow): Duets, Dummer, dummer Reitersman & Lippen schweigen – Lott, s; Hampson, br; Glyndebourne Cho & London Phil/Welser-Möst. EMI CDS5-55152-2 (2). [6:49] Strauss Family Blue Danube Waltzes; Radetzky March – Vienna Phil/Riccardo Muti. EMI CDC5-56393-2. [14:21] 8:00 Collectors’ Corner with Henry Fogel: Music by Dora Pejacevic 10:00 Pipedreams: Organ music with Michael Barone 11:00 Schubert Symphony #6 in C, D 589, Little – Chamber Orch of Europe/Claudio Abbado. DG 423651-2 (5). [31:49] Chopin Berceuse, Barcarolle, Bolero – Garrick Ohlsson, p. Arabesque Z-6686. [22:09]
Monday 15 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Carl Grapentine 9:00 News Summary • Music from summer festivals 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn— Today Lisa begins a two-week examination of listeners’ favorite violin concertos. 12:00 Newscast • Khachaturian Gayaneh Suite – Minneapolis Sym/Antal Dorati. Mercury 434323-2. [21:06] Shostakovich Two Pieces for String Quartet, Op 36a – Borodin Quartet. Decca 4788205. [7:12] 1:00 Afternoons with Kerry Frumkin • Poulenc Two-Piano Concerto in d – Mona & Renee Golabek, New Zealand Sym/ JoAnn Falletta. Koch 3-74082. [20:32] Massenet Manon: Duet, Toi! Vous!...N’est-ce plus ma main – Ailyn Pérez, s; Stephen Costello, t; BBC Sym/Patrick Summers. Warner 0825646334858. [8:03] 2:00 Blauth Oboe Concertino – Roberto Minczuk, ob; Sao Paulo Sym Strings/Arcadio Minczuk (NG 5012475). OSESP recording . [20:31] Pixinguinha I X O (Um A Zero); Carinhoso – Yo-Yo Ma, vc, Paquito D’Rivera, cl, Romero Lubambo, g. Sony SK-89935. [7:30] Bellini Oboe Concerto in E-Flat – Hansjörg Schellenberger, ob; Berlin Phil/James Levine. DG 429750-2. [5:55] 3:00 Fine Arts Calendar • Bach Orchestra Suite #3 in D,
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In the Spotlight Butterfly Lovers – Gil Shaham, v; Singapore Sym/Lan Shui. Canary Classics CC-04. [27:21] Mahler Symphony #5 in c-sharp: Adagietto – Vienna Phil/Leonard Bernstein. DG 4775181. [11:16] Strauss Five Songs, Op 41: #1, Wiegenlied – Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, s; Gerald Moore, p. EMI CDM5-66084-2. [4:12] Orff Die Kluge: Lullaby – Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, s; Philharmonia/ Wolfgang Sawallisch. Angel 3551-B/L (2). [4:48]
Tuesday 16 Christian Tetzlaff
Grant Park Music Festival Live: Violinist Christian Tetzlaff A native of Hamburg, Germany, who’s known to music-lovers and violin aficionados the world over, Tetzlaff spent part of the 2015-16 season on chamber-music tours of North America and Europe in partnership with his sister, cellist Tanja Tetzlaff, and pianists Leif Ove Andsnes and Lars Vogt. He also had guest engagements with the Philadelphia Orchestra and Israel Philharmonic among other major orchestras, and toured Europe with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. Tetzlaff’s wide-ranging recordings include concertos ranging from Haydn to Bartok, Berg’s Lyric Suite, and Bach’s solo sonatas and partitas. During the 2010-11 season, he introduced a new concerto by Harrison Birtwistle to New York audiences; his choice for the 2016 Grant Park Music Festival, however, is a traditional and much-loved favorite for a summer evening, Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto in E Minor. On the same concert Carlos Kalmar will conduct music by Mozart and Schubert.
Wednesday, August 17, 6:30 pm
BWV 1068 – Academy of Ancient Music/Richard Egarr. AAM Records AAM-003 (2). [22:28] Nielsen Little Suite for Strings, Op 1 – Guildhall String Ensemble/Robert Salter. RCA 60439-2. [14:47] 4:00 Music with Candice Agree, including a Newscast at 4:00 pm and The Unrush Hour between 5:00 pm and 6:00 pm 7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Under the Hood II 8:00 Ravinia Festival 2016 10:00 Critical Thinking with Andrew Patner 11:00 Gang Violin Concerto, The 26
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12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Carl Grapentine 9:00 News Summary • Music from summer festivals 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn: Favorite Violin Concertos 12:00 Newscast • Handel Water Music Suite #2 in D – La Grande Ecurie et la Chambre du Roy/Jean-Claude Malgoire. CBS MDK-44655. [10:54] Vivaldi Flute Concerto in F, R 433 (Op 10/1), La Tempesta di Mare – Konrad Hünteler, f; 18th-Century Camerata. MD+G Recordings 3110640-2. [7:00] 1:00 Afternoons with Kerry Frumkin • Schubert Piano Sonata in B-Flat, D 960 – Alfred Brendel, p. London 4782116 (2). [37:51] 2:00 Villa-Lobos Danças Caracteristicas Africanas – Brazilian Guitar Quartet. Delos DE-3409. [11:21] Strauss Dance Suite After Couperin – Dresden Staatskapelle/ Rudolf Kempe. EMI CMS764350-2 (3). [28:41] 3:00 Fine Arts Calendar • Debussy Sonata (#3) in g – Christian Tetzlaff, v; Leif Ove Andsnes, p. Virgin Classics 45122-2. [13:17] Tetzlaff guests with Carlos Kalmar and the Grant Park Orchestra tomorrow night at 6:30, live from Pritzker Pavilion. Mozart Symphony #25 in g, K 183 – Prague Chamber Orch/Sir Charles Mackerras. Telarc CD-80165. [25:52] 4:00 Music with Candice Agree, including a Newscast at 4:00 pm and The Unrush Hour between 5:00 pm and 6:00 pm 7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Under the Hood II 8:00 Music with Dennis Moore
Wednesday 17 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Carl Grapentine 9:00 News Summary • Music from summer festivals 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn: Favorite Violin Concertos
12:00 Newscast 12:15 Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts: Pianist Riyad Nicolas live from the Cultural Center 1:00 Afternoons with Kerry Frumkin • Piston The Incredible Flutist Suite – Oregon Sym/Carlos Kalmar. Pentatone PTC 5186 481. [17:12] Kalmar conducts the Grant Park Orchestra tonight at 6:30, broadcast live from Pritzker Pavilion. Telemann Suite in a for flute and strings – Verbruggen, Cunningham, Age of Enlightenment Orch/ Huggett. Harmonia Mundi HMU-907093. [15:24] 2:00 Pereira Cello Concertino – Northern Sinfonia Strings/ Antonio Meneses, vc. Avie AV-2176. [20:19] Jobim The Girl from Ipanema – Milos Karadaglic, g. DG B001938302. [3:19] Paganini Violin and Guitar Sonata #5 in D – Moshe Hammer, v; Norbert Kraft, g. Naxos 8.553141. [12:15] 3:00 Fine Arts Calendar • Brahms Symphony #2 in D, Op 73 – New York Phil/Kurt Masur. Teldec 77291-2. [39:53] 4:00 Music with Candice Agree, including a Newscast at 4:00 pm and The Unrush Hour between 5:00 pm and 6:00 pm 6:30 Grant Park Music Festival 2016: Live from Pritzker Pavilion, the Grant Park Orchestra conducted by Carlos Kalmar; Christian Tetzlaff, violin – Mozart: Ballet music fr Idomeneo. Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in e. Schubert: Symphony #4. 9:00 Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival – Mozart: Wind Serenade in B-Flat, K 361, Gran Partita. 10:00 (Later than usual) Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Under the Hood II 11:00 Kurka Serenade for Small Orchestra, Op 25 – Grant Park Orch/Carlos Kalmar. Cedille CDR-90000077. [19:42] Mozart Serenade #6 in D, K 239, Notturna – Andrey Pushkarev, per; Kremerata Baltica/Gidon Kremer, v. Nonesuch 79633-2. [14:47] Vaughan Williams Serenade to Music – Sixteen vocal soloists, London Phil/Sir Adrian Boult. EMI CDC7-47218-2. [13:14]
Thursday 18 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Carl Grapentine 9:00 News Summary • Music from summer festivals 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn: Favorite Violin Concertos 12:00 Newscast • Jacob William Byrd Suite – Eastman Wind Ensemble/Frederick Fennell.
Mercury 432009-2. [18:15] Various The Woods So Wild; My Lady Hunsdon’s Puffe – Ayreheart. Sono Luminus DSL-92203. [6:20] 1:00 Afternoons with Kerry Frumkin • Debussy Danses sacrée et profane – Yolanda Kondonassis, h; Oberlin 21/ Bridget-Michaele Reischl. Telarc CD-80694. [10:15] Poulenc Gloria – Jessica Rivera, s; Chicago Sym & Cho/ Bernard Haitink. CSO ReSound CSOR-901906. [23:52] 2:00 Villa-Lobos Carnaval das Crianças – Nelson Freire, p. London B0017179-02. [11:14] Gottschalk Grand Fantasia Triumfal (Variations on Brazil’s National Anthem) – Cristina Ortiz, p; Royal Phil/Moshe Atzmon. London 414348-2. [8:09] Vaughan Williams Fantasia on Greensleeves – Boston Pops/Arthur Fiedler. RCA 68793-2. [5:38] 3:00 Fine Arts Calendar • Dvorák Symphony #8 in G, Op 88 – Berlin Phil/Rafael Kubelik. DG 447412-2. [35:44] 4:00 Music with Candice Agree, including a Newscast at 4:00 pm and The Unrush Hour between 5:00 pm and 6:00 pm 7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Under the Hood II 8:00 The Dallas Symphony in Concert: Jaap van Zweden, conductor; Nicholas Phan, tenor; David Cooper, horn – Bach: Brandenburg Concerto #1. Britten: Serenade for Tenor, Horn, and Strings. Beethoven: Symphony #1 in C. 10:00 Baroque&Before with Candice Agree 11:00 Mozart Serenade #13 in G, K 525, Eine kleine Nachtmusik – Takács String Quartet; Joseph Carver, db. London 4600342. [16:50] Debussy Three Nocturnes – Berlin Radio Cho, Berlin Phil/Claudio Abbado. DG 471332-2. [22:24] Schubert An den Mond; Du bist die Ruh’; Nacht und Träume – Ian Bostridge, t; Julius Drake, p. EMI CDC5-56347-2. [10:58]
Friday 19 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Carl Grapentine 9:00 News Summary • Music from summer festivals 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn: Favorite Violin Concertos 12:00 Newscast • Music in Chicago 1:00 Afternoons with Kerry Frumkin • Saint-Saëns Cello Concerto #1 in a, Op 33 – Lynn Harrell, vc; Cleveland Orch/ Sir Neville Marriner. London 410019-2. [19:00] Harrell returns to Ravinia this weekend. You can also hear him tonight at
11:00, being interviewed on Best of Studs Terkel. Berlioz Roman Carnival Overture – Dresden Staatskapelle/Sir Colin Davis. RCA 68790-2. [9:29] 2:00 Various Dança Negra; Ponteio; Toccata; Valse lente; Tango Brasileiro – Nelson Freire, p. London B0017179-02. [12:57] Strauss Der Rosenkavalier Waltzes – Dresden Staatskapelle/Rudolf Kempe. EMI CMS7-64346-2 (3). [17:45] 3:00 Fine Arts Calendar • Mendelssohn String Octet in E-Flat, Op 20 – Nuttall, St John, Ganatra, Bernhardsson, v’s; Rostad, Robertson, vi’s; Finckel, Vamos, vc’s. Music@Menlo Live 2009. [31:37] Mendelssohn Elijah, Op 70: Lift Thine Eyes to the Mountains; He Watching Over Israel – Atlanta
Sym & Cho/Robert Shaw. Telarc CD-80119. [5:42] 4:00 Music with Candice Agree, including a Newscast at 4:00 pm and The Unrush Hour between 5:00 pm and 6:00 pm 7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Under the Hood II 8:00 From Carnegie Hall: The Bach Collegium Japan conductoed by Masaaki Suzuki, harpsichord – Bach: Brandenburg Concerto #2. Vivaldi: Recorder Concerto in C. Handel: Gloria. Bach: Flute Sonata in e. Vivaldi: Oboe Concerto in C. Bach: Cantata #51. 10:00 Relevant Tones with Seth Boustead: Synesthesia looks at the effects of color and visual art on music. 11:00 Best of Studs Terkel: Cellist Lynn Harrell interviewed in 1982. Harrell is back at Ravinia this weekend celebrating his 50th anniversary with the festival. Photo: Unknown - Biblioteca Nacional do Brasil
In the Spotlight
Heitor Villa-Lobos
Brazilian Music to Hail the Rio Olympics Between August 5 and August 21, at 2:00 pm weekdays and 4:00 pm weekend afternoons, WFMT will play music by one or more Brazilian composers – or works inspired by Brazil – to celebrate the 2016 summer Olympic Games being held in South America for the first time, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Composer Elbio Barilari, host of the weekly feature Fiesta!, will devote his first August broadcast to a relatively unknown Brazilian composer, Claudio Santoro (1919-1989), sampling his orchestral works, chamber music, and songs. And one of the featured musicians on his Three Latino Mozarts show will be Brazilian Camargo Guarnieri. Join us also for the special, Choro Meets Classical, which explores this iconic style of Brazilian music and the ways in which it’s been adopted by Heitor Villa-Lobos and many other classical composers.
Throughout the month
Saturday 20 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 7:00 Weekend Mornings with Dennis Moore 10:00 Fine Arts Calendar 11:00 Introductions: Spotlighting the Chicago area’s young musicians 12:00 From the San Francisco Opera: Verdi’s “Luisa Miller” – Leah Crocetto (Luisa); Michael Fabiano (Rodolfo); Vitaliy Biliy (Miller); Daniel Sumegi (Count Walter); Ekaterina Semenchuk (Federica); Andrea Silvestrelli (Wurm); San Francisco Opera Cho & Orch/ Nicola Luisotti. 2:30 PoetryNow with the Poetry Foundation: David Lau reads and discusses Curtain Design for Victory Over the Sun. 2:35 Verdi La Traviata: Preludes to acts 1 & 3 – Vienna Phil/ Giuseppe Sinopoli. Philips 411469-2. [8:45] Chopin Preludes, Op 28: #s 1316 – Rafal Blechacz, p. DG 4776592. [9:58] Debussy Prelude to The Afternoon of A Faun – Los Angeles Phil/ Esa-Pekka Salonen. Sony SK-62599. [10:09] Ravel Piano Trio – Alessio Bax, p; Arnaud Sussmann, v; Laurence Lesser, vc. Music@Menlo 2010. [27:15] Ravel Daphnis et Chloé Suite #1 – Vienna Phil/Lorin Maazel. RCA 68600-2. [11:53] 4:00 Guarnieri Four Piano Pieces – Brazilian Guitar Quartet. Delos DE-3245. [13:32] There’s more music by Guarnieri on Fiesta tonight at 7:00. Vivaldi The Four Seasons: Violin Concerto in g, Op 8/2, Summer – Avi Avital, m; Venice Baroque Orch. DG 4794017. [10:12] 4:30 Arias and Songs with Larry Johnson: Expect
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the Unexpected! 5:00 Mozart Piano Concerto #21 in C, K 467 – Rudolf Serkin, p; London Sym/Claudio Abbado. DG 410068-2. [30:10] Korngold The Prince and the Pauper film suite – London Sym/ André Previn. DG 471347-2. [22:26] Mozart Two-Piano Sonata in D, K 448 – Martha Argerich & Daniel Barenboim, p’s. DG 4793922. [22:08] Ravel Rapsodie espagnole – Chicago Sym/Daniel Barenboim. Erato 45766-2. [16:14] Various Tico Tico No Fuba; Manha de Carnaval – Daniel Barenboim, p; Brazilian Rhapsody Ensemble. Teldec 21482. [7:00] 7:00 Fiesta! with Elbio Barilari: Three Latino Mozarts 8:00 Folkstage hosted by Rich Warren: John Gorka live from Levin Studio 9:00 The Midnight Special with Rich Warren
Sunday 21 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 With Heart and Voice: A Hymn Celebration 7:00 Weekend Mornings with Dennis Moore 10:00 Fine Arts Calendar 12:00 Dvorák My Home Overture, Op 62 – Scottish National Orch/
Neeme Järvi. Chandos CHAN8798/9 (2). [9:23] Ginastera Overture to the Creole Faust – Simon Bolivar Sym/Maximiano Valdes. Dorian DOR-90227. [8:48] Rossini Semiramide Overture – Vienna Phil/Riccardo Muti. Orfeo C-867121-B. [12:26] Rossini Bolero (Mi lagnerò tacendo); La Danza (Tarantella napolitana) – Cecilia Bartoli, ms; James Levine, p. Lon 455513-2. [6:37] Mozart Don Giovanni Overture – Scottish Chamber Orch/Sir Charles Mackerras. Telarc CD-80442. [5:28] 1:00 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Radio Broadcasts: Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor; Kelley O’Connor, mezzo-soprano – Stravinsky: Elegy for JFK. Mahler: Symphony #9; Blumine. We also hear the CSO Brass playing canzonas by Gabrieli. 3:00 Mozart Clarinet Quintet in A, K 581 – Chicago Chamber Musicians. Summit DCD461. [32:36] Poulenc Piano and Wind Sextet – James Levine, p; Ensemble WienBerlin. DG 427639-2. [18:03] 4:00 Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto #3 in d, Op 30 – Nelson Freire, p; Rotterdam Phil Orch/David Zinman. London 478 6772 (2). [40:00] Villa-Lobos Choros #5, Alma Brasileira; Valsa da dor; Saudades das selvas 2016
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In the Spotlight Carousel Waltz; Hello Young Lovers fr The King and I – Stephen Hough, p. Hyperion CDA-67043. [8:02] Copland Billy the Kid – Baltimore Sym/David Zinman. Argo 440639-2. [33:04] Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue – JeanYves Thibaudet, p; Baltimore Sym members/Marin Alsop. London B0014091-02. [16:51] 8:00 Collectors’ Corner with Henry Fogel: Music by Joaquin Turina 10:00 Pipedreams: Organ music with Michael Barone 11:00 Mahler Symphony #1 in D – Chicago Sym/Bernard Haitink. CSO ReSound 901904. [57:39]
Monday 22
Piotr Beczała
San Francisco Opera This year’s offerings from the War Memorial Opera House begin with Nicola Luisotti conducting a Verdi semi-rarity, Luisa Miller, based on a play by Schiller. The second production will be Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor, which will star Nadine Sierra as Lucia and tenor Piotr Beczala as Edgardo. A highlight of the San Francisco Opera season will air in September, Wagner’s Die Meistersinger led by guest conductor Sir Mark Elder; another, in October, will feature Ana María Martínez and René Pape in principal roles for Verdi’s Don Carlo. This year’s special presentation will be Poulenc’s Dialogues of the Carmelites with Leontyne Price, Régine Crespin, and Carol Vaness in leading roles (October broadcast).
Saturdays, August 20 and 27, 12:00 pm
brasileiras #2 – Nelson Freire, p. London B0017179-02. [11:31] 5:00 Fauré Masques et Bergamasques, Op 112 – Seattle Sym/Ludovic Morlot. Seattle Symphony Media SSM-1004. [13:40] Fauré Requiem, Op 48 – Armstrong, Fischer-Dieskau, Edinburgh Festival Chorus, New Philharmonia/DanielBarenboim. EMI CDC7-64634-2. [38:55] 6:00 Gershwin Three Concert Transcriptions from Porgy and Bess – Richard Glazier, p. Centaur CRC-2271. [13:50] Bernstein West Side Story Concerto for string quartet and orchestra – Harlem Quartet; Chicago Sinfonietta/ Mei-Ann Chen. Cedille CDR90000141. [25:47] Rodgers
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12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Carl Grapentine 9:00 News Summary • Music from summer festivals 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn: Favorite Violin Concertos 12:00 Newscast • Chopin Andante Spianato and Grande Polonaise Brillante in E-Flat, Op 22 – Martha Argerich, p. DG B0007216-02 (2). [13:25] Chabrier Le roi malgré lui: Féte polonaise – Detroit Sym/Neeme Järvi. Chandos CHAN-9227. [6:53] 1:00 Afternoons with Kerry Frumkin • Dvorák The Golden Spinning Wheel, Op 109 – Royal Concertgebouw Orch/Nikolaus Harnoncourt. Teldec 87630-2. [28:21] 2:00 Mozart Serenade #11 in E-Flat, K 375 – Netherlands Wind Ensemble. Chandos CHAN-9284. [23:52] Mozart The Magic Flute, K 620: Der Vogelfänger bin ich ja; Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen – Bryn Terfel, b-br; Scottish Chamber Orch/Sir Charles Mackerras. DG B0007194-02. [6:51] 3:00 Fine Arts Calendar • Copland Rodeo – Colorado Sym/ Andrew Litton. BIS 2164. [24:10] Gershwin I Got Rhythm Variations – Jeffrey Siegel, p; St Louis Sym/Leonard Slatkin. MMG MCD-10035. [8:54] 4:00 Music with Candice Agree, including a Newscast at 4:00 pm and The Unrush Hour between 5:00 pm and 6:00 pm 7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Music by Claude Debussy 8:00 Ravinia Festival 2016 10:00 Critical Thinking with Andrew Patner 11:00 Vaughan Williams Oboe Concerto in a – David Theodore, ob; London Sym/ Bryden Thomson. Chandos CHAN-8594. [19:58] Vaughan Williams Dona Nobis Pacem – Jessica Rivera, s; Brett Polegato, br; Atlanta Sym
& Cho/Robert Spano. ASO Media CD-1005 (2). [33:29]
Tuesday 23 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Carl Grapentine 9:00 News Summary • Music from summer festivals 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn: Favorite Violin Concertos 12:00 Newscast • Schumann Fantasy in C, Op 131 – Thomas Zehetmair, v; Paris Chamber Orch. ECM 2396. [15:02] Schubert An die Musik, D 547; Du bist die Ruh’, D 776 – Florian Boesch, br; Malcolm Martineau, p. Onyx 4149. [5:58] 1:00 Afternoons with Kerry Frumkin • Bizet Carmen Suite #1 – Monte Carlo Phil/James DePreist. Delos DE-3208. [11:56] Debussy Préludes, Bk 2: #s 1-6 – Pierre-Laurent Aimard, p. DG 4779982. [18:36] Debussy is Bill McGlaughlin’s Exploring Music topic this week. Bizet Carmen Suite #2 – Cincinnati Pops/Erich Kunzel. Telarc CD-80703. [16:41] 2:00 Bach Clavier Toccata #2 in c, BWV 911 – Martha Argerich, p. DG B0007216-02 (2). [10:55] Bach Toccata and Fugue in d, BWV 565 – Philadelphia Orch/Yannick Nézet-Séguin. DG B0019032-02. [10:05] 3:00 Fine Arts Calendar • Hovhaness Psalm and Fugue, Op 40a – Slovak RSO Strings/Kerry Stratton. Dorian DOR-93166. [7:27] Bernstein Chichester Psalms – John Paul Bogart, treble; Camerata Singers & New York Phil/ Leonard Bernstein. Sony SM3K-47162 (3). [18:23] 4:00 Music with Candice Agree, including a Newscast at 4:00 pm and The Unrush Hour between 5:00 pm and 6:00 pm 7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Music by Claude Debussy 8:00 Music with Dennis Moore
Wednesday 24 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Carl Grapentine 9:00 News Summary • Music from summer festivals 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn: Favorite Violin Concertos 12:00 Newscast 12:15 Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts: Violinist Ana Maria Valderrama and pianist Luis del Valle live from the Cultural Center 1:00 Afternoons with Kerry Frumkin • Dvorák Slavonic Dances, Op 46: #s 1-4 – Budapest Festival Orch/ivan
Fischer. Channel Classics CCSSA-90210. [18:49] There’s more Dvorak coming up from Santa Fe at 9:00 pm, our final broadcast from the festival. Kodály Dances of Galanta – Hungarian State Sym/Adam Fischer. Nimbus NI-5284. [17:27] 2:00 Beethoven Piano Sonata #32 in c, Op 111 – Maurizio Pollini, p. DG 4794120 (8). [26:10] 3:00 Fine Arts Calendar • Schubert Rosamunde incidental music, D 797: Overture (Die Zauberharfe) – Leipzig Gewandhaus Orch/Kurt Masur. Philips 412432-2. [9:57] Schubert Wanderer Fantasy in C, D 760 – Juho Pohjonen, p. Music@Menlo Live 2015 Schubert (8). [21:11] Schubert Vocal scene, Der Hirt auf dem Felsen, D 965 – Benita Valente, s; Harold Wright, cl; Rudolf
In the Spotlight
Renaud Capuçon
Chicago Symphony: Semyon Bychkov with Brahms and More Bychkov, a frequent guest conductor with the CSO, has been championing the music of German composer Detlev Glanert in recent seasons, citing his talent for orchestral color and the theatricality of his works, which include several operas. Glanert’s Brahms Fantasie was premiered in 2012 by the BBC Scottish Symphony, which commissioned four composers to write companion pieces to Brahms’ symphonies. The Fantasie echoes Brahms while still sounding contemporary. It will open a program on which Bychkov leads a performance of Brahms’ Symphony #1, and Renaud Capuçon plays his Violin Concerto in D Major.
Sunday, August 28, 1:00 pm
Serkin, p. Bridge 9316. [11:26] There’s more Schubert from Santa Fe tonight at 9:00. 4:00 Music with Candice Agree, including a Newscast at 4:00 pm and The Unrush Hour between 5:00 pm and 6:00 pm 7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Music by Claude Debussy 8:00 Bloch Suite modale – Lyon Leifer, f; Chicago String Ensemble/Alan Heatherington. Centaur CRC-2140. [15:12] Nielsen Symphony #4, Op 29, The Inextinguishable – BBC Sym/Sir Andrew Davis. Virgin Classics 91210-2. [34:54] 9:00 Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival – Dvorak: Terzetto; Schubert: String Quartet #13 in a, D 804, Rosamunde. The final broadcast in this series. 10:00 The Sounds of Spain with David Dubal: David samples The Flavors of Spanish Piano Music. 11:00 Rachmaninoff Symphony #3 in a, Op 44 – Detroit Sym/Leonard Slatkin. Naxos 8.573051. [39:59] Rachmaninoff Vespers (All-Night Vigil), Op 37: My Soul Magnifies the Lord; The Great Doxology – Chicago Chorale/Bruce Tammen. Chicago Chorale 2009. [13:08]
Thursday 25 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Carl Grapentine 9:00 News Summary • Music from summer festivals 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn: Favorite Violin Concertos 12:00 Newscast • Wagner Parsifal: Act 3 Symphonic Synthesis – Bournemouth Sym/José Serebrier. Naxos 8.570293. [15:51] Puccini O mio babbino caro; Vissi d’arte – JeanYves Thibaudet, p. London B0008431-02. [6:18] 1:00 Afternoons with Kerry Frumkin • Brahms Piano Quintet in f, Op 34 – Stephen Hough, p; Takacs Quartet. Hyperion CDA-67551. [40:10] 2:00 Anonymous Rossignol; The Nightingale; In Midst of Woods/ The Blackbird; Goddesses; La Bounette – Piffaro. Navona NV5823. [12:04] Respighi Ancient Airs and Dances for the Lute, Set 2 – Lausanne Chamber Orch/Jesús López-Cobos. Telarc CD-80309. [18:51] 3:00 Fine Arts Calendar • Mozart Symphony #34 in C, K 338 – London Mozart Players/Jane Glover. ASV CDDCA-615. [22:52] Mozart Giunse alfin il momento...Al desio di chi t’adora, K 577 – Danielle de Niese, s; Age of Enlightenment Orch/Sir Charles Mackerras. London B0013277-02. [7:41]
4:00 Music with Candice Agree, including a Newscast at 4:00 pm and The Unrush Hour between 5:00 pm and 6:00 pm 7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Music by Claude Debussy 8:00 The Dallas Symphony in Concert: James Gaffigan, conductor; Peter Serkin, piano – Prokofiev: Symphony #3. Mozart: Piano Concerto #19 in F, K 459. RimskyKorsakov: Capriccio espagnol. 10:00 Baroque&Before with Candice Agree 11:00 Duruflé Requiem, Op 9 – Atlanta Sym & Cho/Robert Shaw. Telarc CD-80135. [38:50] Ravel Sonatine en Trio – Aureole. Koch 3-7102-2. [12:32]
Friday 26 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Carl Grapentine 9:00 News Summary • Music from summer festivals 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn: Today marks the conclusion of Lisa’s look at listeners’ favorite violin concertos. 12:00 Newscast • Music in Chicago 1:00 Afternoons with Kerry Frumkin • Gluck Orfeo ed Euridice: Dance of the Furies; Dance of the Blessed Spirits – Academy of Ancient Music/ Christopher Hogwood. Oiseau 410553-2. [11:35] Tonight at 10:00, Seth Boustead talks with composer Stacy Garrop about mythology in music, then and now. Mozart Oboe Concerto in C, K 314 – John de Lancie, ob; Philadelphia Orch/Eugene Ormandy. Sony SBK-62652. [22:31] 2:00 Shostakovich Piano Trio #1, Op 8 – Vladimir Ashkenazy, p; Zsolt-Tihamér Visontay, v; Mats Lidström, vc. Decca 4789382. [13:10] Shostakovich Symphony #9 in E-Flat, Op 70 – Royal Phil/Vladimir Ashkenazy. London 430227-2. [24:51] 3:00 Fine Arts Calendar • Schumann Waldszenen, Op 82 – András Schiff, p. ECM 2122/23 (2). [21:19] Dvorák From the Bohemian Forest, Op 68: #5, Silent Woods (Klid) – YoYo Ma, vc; Boston Sym/Seiji Ozawa. Sony SK-46687. [6:20] 4:00 Music with Candice Agree, including a Newscast at 4:00 pm and The Unrush Hour between 5:00 pm and 6:00 pm 7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Music by Claude Debussy 8:00 From Carnegie Hall: The Budapest Festival Orchestra conducted by Ivan Fischer; Marc-André Hamelin, piano – Weber: Der Freischütz Overture. Liszt: Piano Concerto #1.
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Prokofiev: Symphony #5. 10:00 Relevant Tones with Seth Boustead: Musical Mythology 11:00 Best of Studs Terkel: This Train, part 1, remembering the March on Washington in 1963.
Saturday 27 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 7:00 Weekend Mornings with Dennis Moore 10:00 Fine Arts Calendar 11:00 Introductions: Spotlighting the Chicago area’s young musicians 12:00 From the San Francisco Opera: Donizetti’s “Lucia di Lammermoor” – Nadine Sierra (Lucia); Piotr Beczala (Edgardo); Brian Mulligan (Enrico); Nicolas Testé (Raimondo); Chong Wang (Arturo); San Francisco Opera Cho & Orch/Nicola Luisotti. 2:30 PoetryNow with the Poetry Foundation: Norma Cole reads and discusses Black Flowers. 2:35 Chopin Ballade #1 in g, Op 23 – Yundi Li, p. DG 481 2443. [9:33] Traditional Medley of Scots Tunes – Rachel Barton Pine & Alasdair Fraser, v’s; Scottish Chamber Orch/ Alexander Platt. Cedille CDR90000083 (2). [5:56] Dvorák Symphony #9 in e, Op 95, From the New World – Royal
Liverpool Phil/Libor Pesek. Virgin Classics 90723-2. [44:21] Various Songs My Mother Taught Me; Brezairola; Mary’s Lullaby – Julian Lloyd Webber, vc; John Lenehan, p. Philips 442426-2. [7:27] Holst St Paul’s Suite, Op 29/2 – Guildhall String Ensemble/ Robert Salter, v. RCA 7761-2. [12:08] Vaughan Williams English Folksong Suite – Royal Air Force Band/Eric Banks. EMI 49608-2. [11:27] 4:30 Arias and Songs with Larry Johnson: The art of soprano Birgit Nilsson 5:00 Beethoven Piano Concerto #3 in c, Op 37 – Anton Kuerti, p; Toronto Sym/Sir Andrew Davis. Radio Canada Int’l SMCD-5179. [36:26] Fauré Pelléas et Mélisande, Op 80 – New Philharmonia/Sir Andrew Davis. Sony SBK-62644. [16:48] Berlioz Symphonie fantastique, Op 14a – Chicago Sym/Riccardo Muti. CSO Resound 9011501 (2). [54:48] 7:00 Fiesta! with Elbio Barilari: New-New Music 4 8:00 Folkstage hosted by Rich Warren: Joe Jencks live from Levin Studio 9:00 The Midnight Special with Rich Warren
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Sunday 28 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 With Heart and Voice: From the series archives, Richard Gladwell features choirs from Australia and New Zealand. 7:00 Weekend Mornings with Dennis Moore 10:00 Fine Arts Calendar 12:00 Schubert Piano Sonata in A, D 959 – Inon Barnatan, p. Avie AV-2283. [36:01] Schubert Rosamunde, D 797: Entr’acte #3; Ballet Music #2 – Chicago Sym/James Levine. DG 415137-2. [14:28] 1:00 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Radio Broadcasts: Semyon Bychkov, conductor; Renaud Capuçon, violin – Glanert: Brahms-Fantasie. Brahms: Violin Concerto; Symphony #1. Barber: Overture to The School for Scandal (/Leonard Slatkin). 3:00 Bach Orchestra Suite #1 in C, BWV 1066 – Le Concert des Nations/Jordi Savall. Alia Vox AVSA-9890 (2). [27:23] Stravinsky Suite italienne – Itzhak Perlman, v; Bruno Canino, p. EMI CDC7-49322-2. [17:20] Stravinsky Pastorale – Philadelphia Woodwind Quintet; Veda Reynolds, v. Boston Records BR-1062-CD. [3:15] 4:00 Beethoven Symphony #9 in d, Op 125, Choral – Lorengar, 30
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Minton, Burrows, Talvela, Chicago Sym & Cho/Sir Georg Solti in 1972. London 4759090 (6). [76:32] 5:20 Various Dance of the Blessed Spirits; Clair de lune; Garden Scene – Renaud Capuçon, v; Jérôme Ducros, p. Virgin Classics 374087-2. [13:13] Debussy Images, set 1 – Jean-Yves Thibaudet, p. London 460247-2 (2). [16:46] 6:00 Tchaikovsky Capriccio italien, Op 45 – New York Phil/Leonard Bernstein. CBS MLK-39440. [16:03] Verdi La Traviata: E strano…Ah, fors’è lui…Sempre libera – Renée Fleming, s; Joseph Calleja, t; St. Luke’s Orchestra/Patrick Summers. London B0001024-02. [9:58] Respighi The Fountains of Rome – Accademia di Santa Cecilia Orch/Daniele Gatti. Conifer 51292-2. [17:56] Puccini Turandot: Aria, Nessun dorma – Luciano Pavarotti, t; London Phil/Zubin Mehta. London 417011-2 (2). [3:08] Vivaldi The Four Seasons, Op 8/1-4: Violin Concerto in E, Spring – London Phil/ Itzhak Perlman, v. EMI 74761-2. [10:39] Saint-Saëns Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso, Op 28 – Itzhak Perlman, v; Orch de Paris/ Jean Martinon. EMI CDC747725-2. [9:13] Ravel Rapsodie
espagnole – Chicago Sym/ Jean Martinon. RCA 636832. [14:29] Granados Valses poéticos – David Russell, g. Telarc CD-80576. [15:54] 8:00 Collectors’ Corner with Henry Fogel: A Century of Romantic Chopin 10:00 Pipedreams: Organ music with Michael Barone 11:00 Falla The Three-Cornered Hat – Jennifer Larmore, ms; Chicago Sym/Daniel Barenboim. Teldec 17145-2. [37:47] Falla Pièces espagnoles (Cuatro Piezas españolas) – Jorge Federico Osorio, p. Cedille CDR-90000075. [16:30]
Monday 29 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Carl Grapentine 9:00 News Summary • Music from summer festivals 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, including new releases this hour 11:00 Rimsky-Korsakov Capriccio espagnol, Op 34 – London Sym/Sir Charles Mackerras. Telarc CD-80208. [14:47] Tárrega Capricho arabe – Milos Karadaglic, g. DG B0015579-02. [5:40] 12:00 Newscast • Purcell Suite of Theater Music – Taverner Players/Andrew Parrott.
Virgin Classics 61304-2. [7:54] Sullivan The Merchant of Venice Suite – City of Birmingham Sym/Vivian Dunn. EMI CMS7-64412-2 (2). [14:14] 1:00 Afternoons with Kerry Frumkin • Bach Concerto in d, BWV 974, after A Marcello – Vladimir Ashkenazy, p. London 4786773. [10:02] Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition – Philharmonia/ Vladimir Ashkenazy. London 414386-2. [34:05] 2:00 Beethoven Quartet #10 in E-Flat, Op 74, Harp – Emerson String Quartet. DG 4470752 (7). [29:24] Various Three Gymnopédies; Pavane for A Dead Princess – Valérie Milot, h. Analekta AN 2 9986. [15:00] 3:00 Fine Arts Calendar • Weber Oberon Overture – Chicago Sym/Sir Georg Solti. London 460982-2 (2). [9:33] Thomas Mignon: Aria, Ah, pour ce soir... Je suis Titania – Sumi Jo, s; English Chamber Orch/Giuliano Carella. Erato 23140-2. [5:16] Mendelssohn A Midsummer Night’s Dream Overture, Op 21 – London Sym/Claudio Abbado. DG 423104-2. [12:00] 4:00 Music with Candice Agree, including a Newscast at 4:00 pm and The Unrush Hour between 5:00 pm and 6:00 pm 7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin
8:00 Ravinia Festival 2016 10:00 Critical Thinking with Andrew Patner 11:00 Nielsen Symphony #6, Op 116, Sinfonia semplice – New York Phil/Alan Gilbert. Dacapo 6.220625. [34:28] Grieg Peer Gynt Suite #2, Op 55 – New York Phil/Leonard Bernstein. CBS MYK-36718. [17:17]
Tuesday 30 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Carl Grapentine 9:00 News Summary • Music from summer festivals 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, including new releases this hour 11:00 Schumann Piano Quintet in E-Flat, Op 44 – Emanuel Ax, p; Cleveland Quartet. RCA 6498-2-RC. [29:21] 12:00 Newscast • Mozart Symphony #17 in G, K 129 – Amsterdam Baroque Orch/Ton Koopman. Warner Classics 62334-2 (8). [11:56] Lanner Waltzes, Die Mozartisten, Op 196 – Ensemble Wien. Sony SK-47672. [13:10] 1:00 Afternoons with Kerry Frumkin • Elgar Cockaigne Overture (In London Town), Op 40 – BBC Sym/Sir Colin Davis. Phi 420085-2. [15:13] Taken from a Last Night of the Proms performance. Join us tomorrow at 8:00 pm for the first of five broadcasts from this year’s Promenade concerts. Brahms Academic Festival Overture, Op 80 – Philadelphia Orch/Riccardo Muti. Philips 470942-2. [10:30] Shostakovich Festive Overture, Op 96 – Simon Bolivar Youth Orch/Gustavo Dudamel. DG B0013458-02. [5:59] 2:00 Beethoven String Quartet #5 in A, Op 18/5 – Jerusalem Quartet. Harmonia Mundi HMC 902207.08 (2). [29:16] 3:00 Fine Arts Calendar • Telemann Tafelmusik, Bk 1: Overture (Suite) in e – Freiburg Baroque Orch/Gottfried von der Goltz. Harmonia Mundi HMC-902042.45 (4). [22:42] Chopin Three Waltzes, Op 34 – Maurizio Pollini, p. DG B0011939-02. [11:39] Darzins Valse mélancolique – Detroit Sym/Neeme Järvi. Chandos CHAN-9227. [5:12] 4:00 Music with Candice Agree, including a Newscast at 4:00 pm and The Unrush Hour between 5:00 pm and 6:00 pm 7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin 8:00 Music with Dennis Moore
Wednesday 31 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff
6:00 Mornings with Carl Grapentine 9:00 News Summary • Music from summer festivals 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, including new releases this hour 11:00 Beethoven Leonore Overture #1 in C, Op 138 – Vienna Phil/Claudio Abbado. DG 429762-2 (2). [9:08] Beethoven Fidelio, Op 72: Prisoners’ Chorus – Berlin Deutsche Oper Cho & Orch/Giuseppe Sinopoli. DG 415283-2. [9:00] 12:00 Newscast 12:15 Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts: Pianist Samuel Deason live from the Cultural Center 1:00 Afternoons with Kerry Frumkin • Pergolesi Flute Concerto in G – James Galway, f; I Solisti Veneti/ Claudio Scimone. RCA 61164-2. [12:04] Stravinsky Pulcinella Suite – New York
Phil/Leonard Bernstein. CBS MK-44709. [22:36] 2:00 Beethoven Quartet #12 in E-Flat, Op 127 – Tokyo String Quartet. Harmonia Mundi HMU-807481.83 (3). [35:29] 3:00 Fine Arts Calendar • Herrmann The Day the Earth Stood Still Suite – National Phil/Bernard Herrmann. Lon 443899-2. [11:39] Williams Star Wars: Suite for Five Pianos – The 5 Browns. E1 E1E-CD-2041. [9:39] Williams Air and Simple Gifts – Anthony McGill, cl; Itzhak Perlman, v; YoYo Ma, vc; Gabriela Montero, p. Sony 70636-2. [4:30] 4:00 Music with Candice Agree, including a Newscast at 4:00 pm and The Unrush Hour between 5:00 pm and 6:00 pm 7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin 8:00 BBC Promenade Concerts 2016: The West-Eastern Divan
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Orchestra conducted by Daniel Barenboim; Martha Argerich, piano – Jörg Widmann: Con Brio. Liszt: Piano Concerto #1. Wagner: Tannhäuser Overture; Dawn, Siegfried’s Rhine Journey, and Funeral Music fr Götterdämmerung; Prelude to act 1 of Die Meistersinger. 10:00 The Sounds of Spain with David Dubal: The Spanish Spirit revealed through the country’s piano music. 11:00 Mozart Clarinet Concerto in A, K 622 – Sabine Meyer, cl; Berlin Phil/Claudio Abbado. EMI CDC5-56832-2. [26:41] Mozart Divertimento in D, K 205 – Amsterdam Baroque Orch/Ton Koopman. Erato 45713-2. [18:24] Mendelssohn Hear My Prayer/O for the Wings of A Dove – King’s College Cambridge Choir/ Sir David Willcocks. London B0006918-02 (2). [5:56]
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