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May 2021
THE GUIDE
The Member Magazine for WTTW and WFMT
FRIDAY, MAY 21 8 PM ALSO INSIDE On WFMT, we’ll recognize Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month with a broad range of music selections and composers including Paul Chihara, a Japanese-American composer and Seattle native who spent three years of his childhood with his family in an internment camp.
From the President & CEO Dear Member, This month, WTTW will bring to life the investigative journalist, activist, and suffragist Ida B. Wells as never before with a primetime documentary and companion website. Following up The Great Chicago Fire, our next Chicago Stories special paints a deeply humanizing portrait of a woman who was uncompromising in her quest for racial justice and equity, and places Ida B. Wells’ life and legacy in the context of our present moment. Discover how the battles for civil rights that Wells fought in her lifetime are ongoing, and how contemporary journalists and activists continue to draw inspiration from her work. On page 4, meet the program’s writer and producer Stacy Robinson, who reflects on what made Wells a trailblazer and why her work is more relevant than ever. Also in May, we’ll premiere the new PBS KIDS series Donkey Hodie, filmed in WTTW’s very own Grainger Studio. Inspired by the funny, quirky side of children’s television pioneer Fred Rogers, this imaginative series follows the adventures of Donkey Hodie, the granddaughter of the original Donkey Hodie character from Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood. For Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, WTTW will present new specials on author Amy Tan, Vietnamese American chef Tu David Phu, statesman Norman Mineta, and pioneering meteorologist Ted Fujita. On wttw.com, as racist violence against Asian Americans escalates, learn about the student-led campaign to institute Asian American studies programs in Chicago schools. Also, meet Mary Anne Mohanraj, a Sri Lankan-born, Chicagoland-based writer and University of Illinois professor who has heightened awareness of her homeland by working in genres from science fiction and fantasy to cookbooks while also supporting South Asian writers, advancing speculative fiction, and working on a video game about ancient Sri Lanka. WFMT will also recognize Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month with a broad range of music selections with a focus on Paul Chihara, a Japanese American composer and Seattle native who spent three years of his childhood with his family in an internment camp. On wfmt.com, meet 11 Asian American composers including Bright Sheng, who served as Lyric Opera of Chicago’s composer-in-residence from 1989 to 1992. WFMT will also explore the stories of Asian American composers and musicians such as Yo-Yo Ma and Midori who have changed the face of classical music, and sits down with instructors at Chicago’s Japanese Cultural Center for a discussion about classical dance and music that originated in their country. Thank you for spending this spring with WTTW and WFMT and, as always, for your support.
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The Guide: The Member Magazine for WTTW and WFMT (ISSN 2329-1338) May 2021 Volume 35, Number 275
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WTTW Listings
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A Q&A with Stacy Robinson
19 At-a-Glance
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WTTW Digital Channel Highlights
20 WFMT Listings
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WTTW Kid Grid
31 Sponsors
14 Multi-Channel Primetime Grid ON THE COVER: Photo: Ida B. Wells-Barnett; activist, journalist, teacher, and anti-lynching crusader; 1893/1894; Chicago. Credit: University of Chicago Photographic Archive, apf1-08637, Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library 2
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Daily Television Programming •
Programming Subject to Change Without Notice
Programmer’s Picks on WTTW11 Extra Life: A Short History of Living Longer
Independent Lens: The Donut King
NOVA: High-Risk High-Rise
Examine the science and medical innovations that conquered some of the deadliest diseases. Set in the context of today’s COVID-19 crisis, this new four-part series explores lessons learned from previous global pandemics.
As developers look to maximize limited urban space and nations vie for prestige, skyscrapers are being built higher and higher. NOVA explores the science behind the risks of sky-high buildings, from the structural limits to the threats presented by wind, fire, and earthquakes.
Hear the incredible story of Ted Ngoy. After fleeing Cambodia for the United States, he built a multimillion-dollar fried pastry empire, Christy’s Doughnuts, and began living his American Dream. But a great rise often comes with a great fall.
Tuesdays, May 11-25, 8:00 pm
Wednesday, May 19, 9:00 pm
Monday, May 24, 10:00 pm
See page 6 for information about WTTW Prime listings.
Photo: Courtesy of Fred Rogers Productions
In the Spotlight
Donkey Hodie
Donkey Hodie (New Kids Series!) This new puppet series for children ages 3-5 is inspired by the funny, quirky side of the children’s TV program Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, and follows the adventures of Donkey Hodie, the granddaughter of the original character by the same name on the series. In each episode, Donkey Hodie and her pals empower preschoolers to dream big and overcome obstacles, to work hard and persevere, and discover they can solve problems on their own – and to laugh themselves silly along the way!
Weekdays and Saturdays beginning May 3 10:00 am and 1:30 pm Saturdays, 8:00 pm See the Kid Grid on page 8 for the full schedule
EARLY MORNING 12:30 Baseball: The National Pastime (Part 6 of 9) [R] 3:01 Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World (Parts 1 and 2 of 3) [R] 4:00 The Great British Baking Show (Part 10 of 10) [R] 5:00 Chicago Tonight: The Week in Review [R] 5:30 Yoga in Practice MORNING 6:00-9:00 WTTW Kids 9:00 Baby Makes 3: Beaches, Books, and Baby 9:30 J. Schwanke’s Life in Bloom 10:00 This Old House: A Project for Every Floor 10:30 Ask This Old House: Echinaceas, Kitchen Punch List 11:00 Lidia’s Kitchen 11:30 My Greek Table with Diane Kochilas: Meze Society AFTERNOON 12:00 Cook’s Country: BBQ Brisket and Fritters 12:30 Steven Raichlen’s Project Fire 1:00 Simply Ming 1:30 New Scandinavian Cooking: Southern Ways 2:00 America’s Test Kitchen from Cook’s Illustrated: The Perfect Cake 2:30 America’s Test Kitchen from Cook’s Illustrated 3:00 Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television: Everyday Middle Eastern Cooking 3:30 Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television: Amazing 1-Layer Cakes 4:00 A Chef’s Life: Tomatoes... You Say Heirloom, I Say Old Timey 4:30 Check, Please! Kal’ish, Quiote, Montarra Grill [R] 5:00 Rick Steves’ Europe: Egypt’s Nile, Alexandria, and Luxor 5:30 Samantha Brown’s Places to Love
EVENING 6:00 Chicago Tonight: Latino Voices 6:30 PBS NewsHour Weekend 7:00 Father Brown: The Eye of Apollo When the Church of Apollo comes to Kembleford, Susie is drawn to their charismatic leader Kalon. 8:00 Death in Paradise (Season 10, Part 5 of 8) A celebrated concert pianist is murdered one night in his studio. Catherine’s friendship with the victim’s family puts her in unexpected danger. 9:00 Mallorca Files: Sour Grapes (Part 5 of 10) Miranda and Max head out into wine country to investigate the killing of a dog at a famous vineyard. 10:00 Atlantic Crossing on Masterpiece: Fires Spread (Part 4 of 8) [R] 11:00 Downton Abbey Season 1 on Masterpiece (Part 1 of 4) [R]
Legacy: An American Story Meet the statesman who served as cabinet secretary for Presidents Clinton and George W. Bush. Imprisoned by the U.S. during World War II for his Japanese ancestry, Mineta rose to become the first Asian American to serve in a presidential cabinet. 3:00 Mr. Tornado: American Experience Meet pioneering meteorologist Ted Fujita, who transformed our understanding of tornados.
In the Spotlight Photo: Courtesy of KPJR Films
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Sunday 2 EARLY MORNING 1:00 To be announced MORNING 5:00 Chicago Tonight: Latino Voices [R] 5:30-10:30 WTTW Kids 10:30 Family Travel with Colleen Kelly: Orange County, California - Buena Park 11:00 Firing Line with Margaret Hoover 11:30 The Chavis Chronicles AFTERNOON 12:00 Finding Your Roots: On Broadway [R] 1:00 Reel South: Gimme a Faith Arriving in North Carolina to study filmmaking, Hao Zhang is surprised to find a unique community of Chinese students, connected by a newly discovered evangelical Christianity that is often at stark odds with their communist roots in China. 2:00 Norman Mineta and His
Amy Tan
Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir - American Masters Explore the life of the groundbreaking author of The Joy Luck Club in this intimate American Masters portrait. Archival imagery, home movies, photographs, animation, and original interviews take us on a vivid, colorful journey through Tan’s inspiring life and career.
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Photo: University of Chicago Photographic Archive, apf1-08627, Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library
Family of Ida B. Wells-Barnett and Ferdinand Lee Barnett, publisher of The Conservator, the first African American newspaper. 1917, Chicago.
A Q&A with Stacy Robinson
Writer and Producer of Ida B. Wells: A Chicago Stories Special by DANIEL HAUTZINGER
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da B. Wells is having a moment. A stretch of Chicago’s Congress Parkway was renamed for her a few years ago. Last year, she was awarded a special Pulitzer Prize citation for her "outstanding and courageous reporting.” She’s the subject of a new book by her great-granddaughter. It’s all for a good reason. Wells pioneered investigative journalism techniques to investigate lynching in the South, and resisted segregation on transit decades before Rosa Parks. She was an outspoken suffragist and civil rights leader, and was one of the founders of the NAACP.
On Friday, May 21 at 8:00 pm, WTTW will debut Ida B. Wells: A Chicago Stories Special, a new documentary and companion website examining her life and work. The documentary’s writer and producer Stacy Robinson spoke with us about the project and the relevance of this Chicago leader today.
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The Guide: Why is it a good time to revisit Ida B. Wells’ life and work?
Robinson: I’m not from Chicago originally – I’m from California – but I’ve been in Chicago for well over twenty years. Like many Stacy Robinson: Part of it is that, with the Chicagoans do, I saw Ida B. Wells’ name on Black Lives Matter movement, I think that schools or on public housing, and I would there’s an aspect of America’s race rela- say, “Who is this woman?” And I learned tions that has really come to the surface. that she was a woman of color and a civil We’re looking at the past in a different way, rights activist who lived much of her life at how America and its race relations have in Chicago. changed or not changed. And I think Ida’s work really resonates with people today as we look back at the past, and it has a new importance. I also think that truth in journalism is under attack like never before, so the importance of Ida’s investigative work in journalism resonates. A lot of people don’t realize that she was such a strong investigative journalist, and really one of the first. I think as people start to look at where the fruits of investigative journalism came from, how important they are, and how they can really impact a society and make a difference, her name comes to the forefront. So, people are learning about her afresh.
The Guide: Does she offer lessons for today? Robinson: Absolutely. She almost serves as a guidebook for what can be done by a single person, and what is in a single person’s grasp. The way she approached investigative journalism—those rules and tenets are still used today. She collected data by looking at newspapers from across America to find out where lynchings were going to occur. She traveled and interviewed and spoke to people. She came back and made spreadsheets and put that data together. She really looked at civil rights as sort of a universal issue. She didn’t look at justice and civil rights from the moral standpoints of the day. She didn’t even look at them from the perspective of Black and white, or sexual orientation. That was pretty groundbreaking for her time. She looked at civil rights as human rights, and I think that’s important today. The Guide: What drew you to Ida B. Wells as a subject?
Stacy Robinson Writer and Producer, Ida B. Wells: A Chicago Stories Special
I really started to become more aware of her when I started to read articles, and then even more so during the campaign around the street renaming. I started to become intrigued by her. I had spoken to my sister, who’s also a journalist, about how great she was. As a documentarian, as an African American woman, and as a woman, the opportunity to bring to light the story of a Black woman in history in an hour-long program is like a gift. Women have not gotten enough recognition. Their roles in history are often overlooked; they’re often pushed aside. That is very much true of Ida B. Wells. If she had been an African American man in the late 1890s and early 1900s, her status in American history would be very different. She would be like W.E.B. Du Bois.
The Guide: How does she inspire you, as a documentarian yourself? Robinson: There’s a quote by her that is very famous: “The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.” That is an inspiring thought to me. That means that the work I do has value; and her life proves it. There’s a great opportunity to change things by bringing them to people’s attention. The Guide: Was there anything you discovered about Wells’ life that surprised you? Robinson: The things that she struggled with in the 1890s and 1900s as a woman were very similar to challenges that contemporary women struggle with today. She was a mother of six – a working mom who had young children, so she had to get nannies. She was taking her babies and young children with her on speaking engagements. She was juggling just as women are juggling today, and she was equally conflicted about it. There were times when she chose not to do the work, to stay home with her children. And she got pushback from it from other people who were working in the movement who would say, “How could you? How could you desert us?” That resonated with me for sure. The Guide: How is Wells’ story a Chicago story? Robinson: She is very well known for work that she did before she came to Chicago. But what people don’t realize is that she was in Chicago for longer, and she was a civil rights crusader for her entire time here in Chicago. Ida B. Wells was a groundbreaking pioneer, and she would fight for things before anyone decided they were important enough to fight for. And then she would move on to the next thing or another battle. There’s a lot more to her life, and a lot of that took place in Chicago. EXPLORE THE WEBSITE: wttw.com/wells This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.
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WTTW Digital Channel Highlights
Full schedule online at wttw.com/schedules Pictured: American Aloha: Hula Beyond Hawai’i
The War Sunday, May 30 at 5:00 pm
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.
Full schedule online at wttw.com/schedules Pictured: Near Hurtgen, Germany, December 1944
Lidia’s Kitchen Marathon Friday, May 7 at 9:00 pm
WTTW Create 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.
Master the art of Italian cooking this Mother’s Day weekend when WTTW Create airs a special selection of episodes from Lidia’s Kitchen. Join Lidia Bastianich as she puts on a culinary master class while creating delicious Italian meals for the entire family.
Full schedule online at wttw.com/schedules Pictured: Lidia Bastianich
Ito Sisters: An American Story Wednesday, May 19 at 7:00 pm
WTTW World WTTW World features public media’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.
Explore the lives of three Japanese-American sisters as they recount how their immigrant parents struggled to make a life in America at the beginning of the 20th century. The film is set against the backdrop of the anti-Japanese movement in California – a 60-year campaign by politicians, journalists, landowners, and labor leaders that culminated in the evacuation and incarceration of more than 120,000 Japanese-Americans from the West Coast during World War II.
Full schedule online at wttw.com/schedules Pictured: The Ito family, 1933
Donkey Hodie Friday, May 7 at 6:00 pm
WTTW PBS Kids 24/7 Free TV, over-the-air antenna viewers can tune to channel 11-4. The WTTW PBS Kids 24/7 is on Comcast digital channels 368 and on RCN channel 39.
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Photo: Courtesy of WGBH
WTTW Prime
During Memorial Day weekend, watch a marathon of Ken Burns’ The War. This series, directed and produced by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, explores the history and horror of World War II from an American perspective by following the fortunes of so-called ordinary men and women who become caught up in one of the greatest cataclysms in human history.
Photo: © Unwashed Masses Productions
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.
A new PBS Kids puppet series for children ages 3-5 from Fred Rogers Productions and Spiffy Pictures, this imaginative series staged and filmed in WTTW’s Grainger Studio follows the adventures of Donkey Hodie, the granddaughter of the original Donkey Hodie character from Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood.
Full schedule online at wttw.com/schedules Pictured: Donkey Hodie
Photo: Courtesy of Fred Rogers Productions
WTTW Prime
From revealing exposés to rousing musical performances, this series presents critically acclaimed documentaries that provide an authentic glimpse into the Pacific Islander experience through arts, culture, and intimate human stories. Episodes: The Australian Dream, For My Father’s Kingdom, Stan, Tokyo Hula, American Aloha: Hula Beyond Hawai’i, and Na Kamalei: The Men of Hula.
Photo: Courtesy of National Archives
Pacific Heartbeat Saturday, May 22 at 11:00 am
Photo: © 2021 Pacific Islanders in Communications
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/schedule.
Meet the 13 bakers who make simple sandwich cakes in the Signature challenge, angel food cakes in Mary’s Technical challenge, and all things chocolate in the Showstopper. 11:00 Austin City Limits: John Prine
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Chef Tu David Phu
Bloodline This is an intimate profile of Vietnamese-American chef Tu David Phu and the evolution of his culinary aesthetic - borne from a bloodline that traces back through childhood and his family’s unspoken history of war. The film follows Tu as he returns home to Oakland, California after competing on the cooking series Top Chef.
Friday, May 7 8:30 pm
4:00 The Chinese Exclusion Act: American Experience Examine the origin, history, and impact of the 1882 law that made it illegal for Chinese workers to come to America and for Chinese nationals already here ever to become U.S. citizens. EVENING 6:00 Chicago Tonight: Black Voices 6:30 PBS NewsHour Weekend 7:00 Rise of the Nazis: Politics (Part 1 of 3) Follow the chain of events that propels Hitler from the fringes to the heart of the government. After leading a failed coup in 1923, he turns the Nazis into a legitimate, mainstream party. 8:00 Atlantic Crossing on Masterpiece: Empty Promises (Part 5 of 8) Martha uses dinner-table tactics to help Norway. The first lady gives Martha unusual lessons in public speaking. The president gets on dangerous ground with Martha. 9:00 World on Fire on Masterpiece (Part 5 of 7) Harry and his unit reach Dunkirk, with the odds stacked against them. 10:00 The Great British Baking Show: Cakes (Part 1 of 10)
EARLY MORNING 12:00 Father Brown: The Eye of Apollo See Sat. May 1 at 7:00 pm. [R] 1:00 Death in Paradise (Season 10, Part 5 of 8) See Sat. May 1 at 8:00 pm. [R] 2:00 Mallorca Files: Sour Grapes (Part 5 of 10) See Sat. May 1 at 9:00 pm. [R] 3:00 International Jazz Day 10th Anniversary Celebration [R] 5:00 Chicago Tonight: Black Voices [R] MORNING-AFTERNOON 5:30-5:30 WTTW Kids 5:30 BBC World News America EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Chicago Tonight 8:00 Antiques Roadshow 9:00 Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir - American Masters 11:00 BBC World News 11:30 Amanpour and Company
Tuesday 4 EARLY MORNING
12:30 Rise of the Nazis: Politics (Part 1 of 3) See Sun. May 2 at 7:00 pm. [R] 1:30 Atlantic Crossing on Masterpiece: Empty Promises (Part 5 of 8) See Sun. May 2 at 8:00 pm. [R] 2:30 The Chinese Exclusion Act: American Experience See Sun. May 2 at 4:00 pm. [R] 4:30 Chicago Tonight [R] MORNING-AFTERNOON 5:30-5:30 WTTW Kids 5:30 BBC World News America EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Chicago Tonight 8:00 Finding Your Roots: Laughing on the Inside Henry Louis Gates, Jr. provides comedians Lewis Black and Roy Wood, Jr. with accounts of hardship in their family trees which may have led them to each find humor in adversity. 9:00 Philly D.A. (Part 4 of 8) LaTonya “T” Myers lands her dream job fighting for probation reform, but any slip-up could send her back to prison. 10:00 Frontline: Escaping Eritrea
11:00 BBC World News 11:30 Amanpour and Company
Wednesday 5 EARLY MORNING 12:30 Antiques Roadshow See Mon. May 3 at 8:00 pm. [R] 1:30 Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir - American Masters See Mon. May 3 at 9:00 pm. [R] 3:30 World on Fire on Masterpiece (Part 5 of 7) See Sun. May 2 at 9:00 pm. [R] 4:30 Chicago Tonight [R] MORNING-AFTERNOON 5:30-5:30 WTTW Kids 5:30 BBC World News America EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Chicago Tonight 8:00 Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World (Part 2 of 3) Follow Greta’s journey from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland to Poland, where she speaks with miners who have lost their jobs. She also visits the UK, where she meets with one of her inspirations - Sir David Attenborough. 9:00 NOVA: Hindenburg The New Evidence 10:00 Human: The World Within Pulse (Part 2 of 6) Dive into the world of an ice climber, a bus driver, a woman in labor, and a senior dance club to show how the human heart and the circulatory system power our physical and emotional lives. 11:00 BBC World News 11:30 Amanpour and Company
leads to a surprising event. Downstairs, the shocking former life of Carson, the butler, is unmasked. 10:00 Baseball: The Capital of Baseball (Part 7 of 9) Rare newsreel film and interviews celebrate the glorious heyday of New York City baseball with some of its most memorable moments.
Friday 7 EARLY MORNING 12:30 BBC World News 1:00 Amanpour and Company 2:00 Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World (Part 2 of 3) See Wed. May 5 at 8:00 pm. [R] 3:00 Human: The World Within Pulse (Part 2 of 6) See Wed. May 5 at 10:00 pm. [R] 4:00 Samantha Brown’s Places to Love 4:30 Chicago Tonight [R] MORNING-AFTERNOON 5:30-5:30 WTTW Kids 5:30 BBC World News America EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Chicago Tonight: The Week in Review 7:30 Washington Week 8:00 Check, Please!
In the Spotlight Photo: Johan Persson
Photo: CAAM and First Kitchen Media.
In the Spotlight
Thursday 6 EARLY MORNING 12:30 Finding Your Roots: Laughing on the Inside See Tues. May 4 at 8:00 pm. [R] 1:30 Philly D.A. (Part 4 of 8) See Tues. May 4 at 9:00 pm. [R] 2:30 Frontline: Escaping Eritrea See Tues. May 4 at 10:00 pm. [R] 3:30 Mr. Tornado: American Experience See Sun. May 2 at 3:00 pm. [R] 4:30 Chicago Tonight [R] MORNING-AFTERNOON 5:30-5:30 WTTW Kids 5:30 BBC World News America EVENING
6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Chicago Tonight 8:00 Downton Abbey Season 1 on Masterpiece (Part 2 of 4) Mary entertains three suitors, including a Turkish diplomat whose boldness
Richard Armitage and Rosalind Eleazar
Great Performances: Uncle Vanya Experience Anton Chekov’s masterpiece in this Olivier Award-nominated West End production adapted by Conor McPherson starring Toby Jones and Richard Armitage from London’s Harold Pinter Theater.
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Kid Grid Monday-Friday Mornings
4:30 Odd Squad 5:00 Arthur
5:30 Wild Kratts 6:00 Arthur 6:30 Nature Cat 7:00 Molly of Denali 7:30 Hero Elementary 8:00 Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum 8:30 Wild Kratts 9:00 Curious George 9:30 Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood 10:00 Donkey Hodie 10:30 Elinor Wonders Why 11:00 Sesame Street 11:30 Pinkalicious
Saturday Mornings 6:00 6:30 7:00 7:30 8:00 8:30
Sunday Mornings 5:30 Arthur 6:00 Let’s Go Luna 6:30 Arthur 7:00 Wild Kratts 7:30 Clifford 8:00 Nature Cat 8:30 Molly of Denali 9:00 Hero Elementary 9:30 Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum 10:00 Odd Squad
Afternoons 12:00 Dinosaur Train 12:30 Clifford the Big Red Dog 1:00 Sesame Street 1:30 Donkey Hodie 2:00 Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood 2:30 Nature Cat 3:00 Let’s Go Luna 3:30 Molly of Denali 4:00 Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum
Photo: Courtesy of Naiti Gamez
In the Spotlight
POV: Through the Night Explore the personal cost of our modern economy through the stories of two working mothers and a childcare provider, whose lives intersect at a 24-hour daycare center in New Rochelle, New York.
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Sesame Street Pinkalicious & Peterrific Elinor Wonders Why Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood Donkey Hodie Clifford the Big Red Dog
Peppercorns, Pacific Standard Time, Finom Coffee 8:30 Bloodline 9:00 Great Performances: Uncle Vanya 11:30 BBC World News
Saturday 8 EARLY MORNING 12:00 Amanpour and Company 1:00 Baseball: The Capital of Baseball (Part 7 of 9) See Thurs. May 6 at 10:00 pm. [R] 3:30 NOVA: Hindenburg - The New Evidence See Wed. May 5 at 9:00 pm. [R] 4:30 Chicago Tonight: The Week in Review [R] 5:00 Yoga in Practice: Practice is a Journey 5:30 Yoga in Practice: Chair Yoga MORNING 6:00-9:00 WTTW Kids 9:00 Baby Makes 3: Seaside Nursery 9:30 J. Schwanke’s Life in Bloom 10:00 This Old House: Three of Everything 10:30 Ask This Old House: Inspection, Door Restoration 11:00 Lidia’s Kitchen 11:30 My Greek Table with Diane Kochilas: A Bite of Greek Red Wine
AFTERNOON 12:00 Cook’s Country: Italian Comfort Food Classics 12:30 Steven Raichlen’s Project Fire 1:00 Simply Ming 1:30 New Scandinavian Cooking: Southwards Along the Coast 2:00 America’s Test Kitchen from Cook’s Illustrated: Chinese Favorites 2:30 America’s Test Kitchen from Cook’s Illustrated 3:00 Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television: Best European Desserts 3:30 Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television: The Austrian Table 4:00 A Chef’s Life: The World is Your Oyster 4:30 Check, Please! Peppercorns, Pacific Standard Time, Finom Coffee See Fri. May 7 at 8:00 pm. [R] 5:00 Rick Steves’ Europe: Ethiopia – A Development Story 5:30 Samantha Brown’s Places to Love: Lake Geneva and the Valais, Switzerland EVENING 6:00 Chicago Tonight: Latino Voices 6:30 PBS NewsHour Weekend 7:00 Father Brown: The Bride of Christ When two nuns die in mysterious circumstances at St. Agnes convent, Father Brown investigates with the aid of an eager young fan of detective novels. 8:00 Death in Paradise (Season 10, Part 6 of 8) Neville must solve a mystery from the past that unlocks the truth of who murdered the concert pianist and why. Help is at hand, though, with the return of a former sergeant. 9:00 Mallorca Files: To Kill a Stag (Part 6 of 10) When a groom-to-be is found dead in the swimming pool of a luxury villa, Miranda and Max believe it’s the work of a prostitute. 10:00 Atlantic Crossing on Masterpiece: Empty Promises (Part 5 of 8) [R] 11:00 Downton Abbey Season 1 on Masterpiece (Part 2 of 4) See Thurs. May 6 at 8:00 pm. [R]
Sunday 9 EARLY MORNING 1:00 To be announced MORNING 5:00 Chicago Tonight: Latino Voices [R] 5:30-10:30 WTTW Kids
10:30 Family Travel with Colleen Kelly: Orange County, California – Irvine and Dana Point 11:00 Firing Line with Margaret Hoover 11:30 The Chavis Chronicles AFTERNOON 12:00 Roadtrip Nation: A Single Mom’s Story This program follows three single mothers driven to succeed despite the odds stacked against them. Along the way, they hear the inspiring stories of other single mothers who have made it through raising children on their own while paving their own career path. 1:00 Roadtrip Nation: Do It Differently This episode follows three young adults as they travel across the nation in hopes of learning more about themselves and how to live successful lives. 2:00 To be announced 5:00 Fire in the Heartland: The Kent State Story Learn about a generation of students at Kent State University who stood up in the 1960s and 1970s against racism, tyranny, violence, and war…and paid for it with their lives. EVENING 6:00 Chicago Tonight: Black Voices 6:30 PBS NewsHour Weekend 7:00 Rise of the Nazis: The First Six Months in Power (Part 2 of 3) Discover the measures Chancellor Hitler takes to dismantle the German state. The Nazis have the power to ban free speech, books are burned, and Jewish people, gay people, and those holding anti-Nazi beliefs begin to disappear. 8:00 Atlantic Crossing on Masterpiece: The Giant Awakes (Part 6 of 8) America enters the war, and Olav arrives from England. Missy grows suspicious of ties between Martha and the president, as does Olav. Meanwhile, a dastardly Nazi plot unfolds. 9:00 World on Fire on Masterpiece (Part 6 of 7) Paris falls to the Nazis, and Webster and Albert’s lives are turned upside down. 10:00 The Great British Baking Show: Bread (Part 2 of 10) Watch the 12 remaining contestants bake 36 perfectly thin and crispy bread sticks and technically tricky English muffins. The Showstopper features outrageous loaves of bread...from a Christmas wreath to a proud peacock
at $250,000-$300,000? 10:00 POV: Through the Night 11:30 BBC World News
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EARLY MORNING 12:00 Amanpour and Company 1:00 Rise of the Nazis: The First Six Months in Power (Part 2 of 3) See Sun. May 9 at 7:00 pm. [R] 2:00 Atlantic Crossing on Masterpiece: The Giant Awakes (Part 6 of 8) See Sun. May 9 at 8:00 pm. [R] 3:00 World on Fire on Masterpiece (Part 6 of 7) See Sun. May 9 at 9:00 pm. [R] 4:00 Rick Steves’ Europe: Ethiopia – A Development Story [R] 4:30 Chicago Tonight [R]
12:00 Father Brown: The Bride of Christ See Sat. May 8 at 7:00 pm. [R] 1:00 Death in Paradise (Season 10, Part 6 of 8) See Sat. May 8 at 8:00 pm. [R] 2:00 Bloodline See Fri. May 7 at 8:30 pm. [R] 2:30 Great Performances: Uncle Vanya See Fri. May 7 at 9:00 pm. [R] 5:00 Chicago Tonight: Black Voices [R] MORNING-AFTERNOON 5:30-5:30 WTTW Kids 5:30 BBC World News America EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Chicago Tonight 8:00 Antiques Roadshow 9:00 Antiques Roadshow: Celebrating Asian-Pacific Heritage Discover incredible items with Asian and Pacific Islands origins, including a Hawaiian kou bowl, a Gandhi presentation spinning wheel, and an 1888 Joesph Nawahi painting. Which is valued
MORNING-AFTERNOON 5:30-5:30 WTTW Kids 5:30 BBC World News America EVENING
6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Chicago Tonight 8:00 Extra Life: A Short History of Living Longer: Vaccines (Part 1 of 4) Discover the role vaccination plays in our growing ability to prevent the spread of illness, and learn
how new ones are developed when never-before-seen diseases like COVID-19 emerge. 9:00 Philly D.A. (Part 5 of 8) Joseph Chamberlain dreams of freedom, but first he must convince a skeptical parole board and lay down his pride. 10:00 Frontline: Plastic Wars 11:00 BBC World News 11:30 Amanpour and Company
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and a psychic octopus. 11:00 Austin City Limits: Kacey Musgraves/Lukas Nelson
Wednesday 12 EARLY MORNING 12:30 Antiques Roadshow See Mon. May 10 at 8:00 pm. [R] 1:30 Antiques Roadshow: Celebrating Asian-Pacific Heritage See Mon. May 10 at 9:00 pm. [R] 2:30 POV: Through the Night See Mon. May 10 at 10:00 pm. [R] 4:00 Samantha Brown’s Places to Love: Lake Geneva and the Valais, Switzerland 4:30 Chicago Tonight [R] MORNING-AFTERNOON 5:30-5:30 WTTW Kids 5:30 BBC World News America EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Chicago Tonight 8:00 Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World (Part 3 of 3) Join Greta in
David Olusoga
Extra Life: A Short History of Living Longer In this new four-part weekly series, discover the little-known story of the innovations in science and medicine that doubled the human lifespan in less than a century, and celebrate the unsung heroes of public health who believed change was possible and acted on it.
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Billy Graham
American Experience: Billy Graham Explore the life of one of the bestknown and most influential Christian leaders of the 20th century. An international celebrity by age 30, he built a media empire, preached to millions worldwide, and had the ear of tycoons, presidents, and royalty.
Monday, May 17 9:00 pm
EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Chicago Tonight 8:00 Downton Abbey Season 1 On Masterpiece (Part 3 of 4) Growing into his role as heir, Matthew brings out the bitter rivalry between sisters Mary and Edith. 10:00 Baseball: A Whole New Ball Game (Part 8 of 9) This episode, which takes place against the backdrop of the turbulent 1960s, opens with the improbable last-inning home run by the Pittsburgh Pirates’ Bill Mazeroski that wins the 1960 World Series.
Friday 14 EARLY MORNING 12:00 BBC World News 12:30 Amanpour and Company 1:30 Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World (Part 3 of 3) See Wed. May 12 at 8:00 pm. [R] 2:30 NOVA: The Great Electric Airplane Race See Wed. May 12 at 9:00 pm. [R] 3:30 Human: The World Within Fuel (Part 3 of 6) See Wed. May 12 at 10:00 pm. [R] 4:30 Chicago Tonight [R] MORNING-AFTERNOON
Switzerland and Denmark to investigate potential solutions to limit climate change. She looks for lessons from the world’s response to COVID-19. 9:00 NOVA: The Great Electric Airplane Race 10:00 Human: The World Within Fuel (Part 3 of 6) Through the worlds of a religious faster, an ultra-marathon runner, a farmer, and a young girl beating allergies, go deep into the world of the human gut, which processes the fuel our bodies need to keep going. 11:00 BBC World News 11:30 Amanpour and Company
Thursday 13 EARLY MORNING 12:30 Extra Life: A Short History of Living Longer: Vaccines (Part of 4) See Tues. May 11 at 8:00 pm. [R] 1:30 Philly D.A. (Part 5 of 8) See Tues. May 11 at 9:00 pm. [R] 2:30 Frontline: Plastic Wars See Tues. May 11 at 10:00 pm. [R] 3:30 Mallorca Files: To Kill a Stag See Sat. May 8 at 9:00 pm. [R] 4:30 Chicago Tonight [R] MORNING-AFTERNOON 5:30-5:30 WTTW Kids 5:30 BBC World News America
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5:30-5:30 WTTW Kids 5:30 BBC World News America EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Chicago Tonight: The Week in Review 7:30 Washington Week 8:00 Chicago Stories: Great Chicago Fire Chicago Stories brings to life the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 as never before with vivid animations and dramatic re-enactments. This special explores the disaster through eyewitness accounts of the city’s mayor, a newspaper publisher, a heroic janitor, and a successful businesswoman named Catherine O’Leary. 9:00 PBS for the Arts This special edition of Great Performances celebrates and spotlights the performing arts during the COVID-19 pandemic. 10:00 We Are Family: Songs of Hope and Unity 11:00 BBC World News 11:30 Amanpour and Company
Saturday 15 EARLY MORNING 12:30 Baseball: A Whole New Ball Game (Part 8 of 9) See Thurs. May 13 at 10:00 pm. [R] 2:30 Fire in the Heartland: The Kent State Story See Sun.
May 9 at 5:00 pm. [R] 3:30 Roadtrip Nation: Do It Differently See Sun. May 9 at 1:00 pm. [R] 4:30 Chicago Tonight: The Week in Review [R] 5:00 Yoga in Practice: Nature and the Cycle of Creation 5:30 Yoga in Practice: What Makes You Come Alive? MORNING 6:00-9:00 WTTW Kids 9:00 Baby Makes 3: Baby Makes 4 9:30 J. Schwanke’s Life in Bloom 10:00 This Old House: Finish Work Begins 10:30 Ask This Old House: Dishwasher Retrofit, Rolling Pin 11:00 Lidia’s Kitchen 11:30 My Greek Table with Diane Kochilas: The Lesvos Spirit AFTERNOON 12:00 Cook’s Country: Tacos Two Ways 12:30 Steven Raichlen’s Project Fire 1:00 Simply Ming 1:30 New Scandinavian Cooking: Danish Influences 2:00 America’s Test Kitchen from Cook’s Illustrated: The Perfect Cookie 2:30 America’s Test Kitchen from Cook’s Illustrated 3:00 Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television: Milk Street Bakes! 3:30 Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television: Cooking with Chilies 4:00 A Chef’s Life: Muscatine Time 4:30 Check, Please! [R] 5:00 Rick Steves’ Europe: Why We Travel 5:30 Samantha Brown’s Places to Love: Rhine River Cruise EVENING 6:00 Chicago Tonight: Latino Voices 6:30 PBS NewsHour Weekend 7:00 Father Brown: The Devil’s Dust Father Brown joins the search when a girl believed to be radioactive goes missing overnight. But just who is responsible for her disappearance? 8:00 Death in Paradise (Season 10, Part 7 of 8) A stag party goes awry when the host of their fishing trip is found harpooned on a beach the next morning. But as their boat never moved, how could any of them have done it? 9:00 Mallorca Files: Friend Henry (Part 7 of 10) Miranda and Max investigate the death of a world-famous DJ after he plays at Mallorca’s most popular nightclub. 10:00 Atlantic Crossing on
Masterpiece: The Giant Awakes (Part 6 of 8) [R] 11:00 Downton Abbey Season 1 on Masterpiece (Part 3 of 4) See Thurs. May 13 at 8:00 pm. [R]
Sunday 16 EARLY MORNING 1:00 To be announced MORNING 5:00 Chicago Tonight: Latino Voices [R] 5:30-10:30 WTTW Kids 10:30 Family Travel with Colleen Kelly: Best Food – Coastto-Coast Cuisine 11:00 Firing Line with Margaret Hoover 11:30 The Chavis Chronicles AFTERNOON 12:00 Asian Americans: Breaking Ground (Part 1 of 5) Learn how new immigrants from China, Japan, and beyond, despite anti-Asian laws, build railroads, dazzle in Hollywood,
In the Spotlight Photo: Clare Jones
Photo: Courtesy of Billy Graham Evangelistic Association
In the Spotlight
M. Sanjayan
Life at the Waterhole Explore the daily drama as African wildlife flock to a manmade waterhole rigged with cameras. In this three-part series, Dr. M. Sanjayan and his team uncover the complex dynamic of this bustling oasis where elephants, lions, leopards, and more meet and compete for water. In part one: Meet the first animal visitors. Using state-of-the-art cameras, scientists watch as warthogs and elephants discover the new oasis. But things become dangerous when leopards and lions close in.
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and fight for equality. 1:00 Asian Americans: A Question of Loyalty (Part 2 of 5) The first generation of U.S.-born Asian Americans have their loyalties tested during World War II. 2:00 Asian Americans: Good Americans (Part 3 of 5) Learn how Asian Americans are targeted as perpetual foreigners during the Cold War. 3:00 Asian Americans: Generation Rising (Part 4 of 5) A younger generation fights for equality, and new immigrants and war refugees expand the definition of Asian American. 4:00 Asian Americans: Breaking Through (Part 5 of 5) Revisit the turn of the millennium, when Asian Americans face a reckoning of what it means to be an American in an increasingly polarized society. 5:00 The Great Chicago Fire: A Chicago Stories Special See Fri. May 14 at 8:00 pm. [R] EVENING 6:00 Chicago Tonight: Black Voices 6:30 PBS NewsHour Weekend 7:00 Rise of the Nazis: Night of the Long Knives (Part 3 of 3) See how Hitler finds himself caught between Germany’s president and the Nazis’ power base. 8:00 Atlantic Crossing on Masterpiece: The Gift (Part 7 of 8) A Nazi agent slips through the cracks, putting the children at risk. Martha travels to England and gets a shock. A Norwegian war hero meets a tragic fate. 9:00 World on Fire on Masterpiece (Part 7 of 7) Harry has a second chance at saving Kasia from Warsaw. In Manchester, could Lois be set for happiness at last? 10:00 The Great British Baking Show: Desserts (Part 3 of 10) The remaining 11 bakers must create a trifle of biscuit, cake, jelly, or custard in distinct layers; perfect Floating Islands; and a Showstopper of 24 petits fours. 11:00 Austin City Limits: Sam Smith/Anderson East
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12:00 Father Brown: The Devil’s Dust See Sat. May 15 at 7:00 pm. [R] 1:00 Death in Paradise (Season 10, Part 7 of 8) See Sat. May 15 at 8:00 pm. [R] 2:00 Mallorca Files: Friend Henry (Part 7 of 10) See
Sat. May 15 at 9:00 pm. [R] 3:00 Asian Americans: Breaking Ground (Part 1 of 5) See Sun. May 16 at 12:00 pm. [R] 4:00 Asian Americans: A Question of Loyalty (Part 2 of 5) See Sun. May 16 at 1:00 pm. [R] 5:00 Chicago Tonight: Black Voices [R] MORNING-AFTERNOON 5:30-5:30 WTTW Kids 5:30 BBC World News America EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Chicago Tonight 8:00 Antiques Roadshow 9:00 American Experience: Billy Graham 11:00 BBC World News 11:30 Amanpour and Company
Tuesday 18 EARLY MORNING
12:30 Rise of the Nazis: Night of the Long Knives (Part 3 of 3) See Sun. May 16 at 7:00 pm. [R] 1:30 Atlantic Crossing on Masterpiece: The Gift (Part 7 of 8) See Sun. May 16 at 8:00 pm. [R] 2:30 World on Fire on Masterpiece (Part 7 of 7) See Sun. May 16 at 9:00 pm. [R] 3:30 Asian Americans: Good Americans (Part 3 of 5) See Sun. May 16 at 2:00 pm. [R] 4:30 Chicago Tonight [R] MORNING-AFTERNOON
5:30-5:30 WTTW Kids 5:30 BBC World News America EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Chicago Tonight 8:00 Extra Life: A Short History of Living Longer: Data (Part 2 of 4) Track the importance of data mapping and analysis in the quest to improve public health. The painstaking work of past data detectives made us aware of epidemic “curves” as well as the extent of health inequalities among different U.S. communities. 9:00 Philly D.A. (Part 6 of 8) A councilwoman bridges fed-up constituents plagued by the opioid crisis with the D.A.’s unorthodox plans. 10:00 Frontline: The Healthcare Divide 11:00 BBC World News 11:30 Amanpour and Company
Wednesday 19 EARLY MORNING 12:30 Antiques Roadshow See Mon. May 17 at 8:00 pm. [R]
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In the Spotlight 1:30 American Experience: Billy Graham See Mon. May 17 at 9:00 pm. [R] 3:30 Asian Americans: Generation Rising (Part 4 of 5) See Sun. May 16 at 3:00 pm. [R] 4:30 Chicago Tonight [R] MORNING-AFTERNOON 5:30-5:30 WTTW Kids 5:30 BBC World News America EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Chicago Tonight 8:00 Life at the Waterhole (Part 1 of 3) 9:00 NOVA: High-Risk High-Rise NOVA explores the science behind the risks of sky-high buildings, from the structural limits of building materials to the threats presented by wind, fire, and earthquakes. 10:00 Human: The World Within – Defend (Part 4 of 6) Look at a nature survivalist, rancher twins, a doctor who survived Ebola, and the recipient of a cutting-edge cancer therapy to uncover the biology that keeps us alive against all odds. 11:00 BBC World News 11:30 Amanpour and Company
Thursday 20 EARLY MORNING 12:30 Extra Life: A Short History of Living Longer: Data (Part 2 of 4) See Tues. May 18 at 8:00 pm. [R] 1:30 Philly D.A. (Part 6 of 8) See Tues. May 18 at 9:00 pm. [R] 2:30 Frontline: The Healthcare Divide See Tues. May 18 at 10:00 pm. [R] 3:30 Asian Americans: Breaking Through (Part 5 of 5) See Sun. May 16 at 4:00 pm. [R] 4:30 Chicago Tonight [R] MORNING-AFTERNOON 5:30-5:30 WTTW Kids 5:30 BBC World News America EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Chicago Tonight 8:00 Downton Abbey Season 1 on Masterpiece (Part 4 of 4) Rumors fly about Mary’s virtue. Her sister Sybil takes a risk in her secret political life. Anna unearths Bates’ mysterious past, and O’Brien and Thomas plot their exit strategy. 10:00 Baseball: Home (Part 9 of 9) The ninth and final inning covers the most recent history of baseball and explores the future of the game.
Ida B. Wells
Ida B. Wells: A Chicago Stories Special This hour-long documentary and companion website traces Wells’ career as a journalist, activist, and organizer in Chicago. It delves into her battle to keep Chicago Public Schools integrated, her forays into the rough-and-tumble world of Chicago politics, and her ascendance to the national and international stages as an antilynching activist and a powerful Black voice on behalf of women’s suffrage. The project brings to life the journalist and activist as never before, using dramatic reenactments and interviews with historians and Wells’ descendants.
Friday, May 21 8:00 pm
Friday 21 EARLY MORNING 12:30 BBC World News 1:00 Amanpour and Company 2:00 Life at the Waterhole (Part 1 of 3) See Wed. May 19 at 8:00 pm. [R] 3:00 Human: The World Within Defend (Part 4 of 6) See Wed. May 19 at 10:00 pm. [R] 4:00 Rick Steves’ Europe: Why We Travel [R] 4:30 Chicago Tonight [R] MORNING-AFTERNOON 5:30-5:30 WTTW Kids 5:30 BBC World News America EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Chicago Tonight: The Week in Review 7:30 Washington Week 8:00 Ida B. Wells: A Chicago Stories Special 9:00 Inside the Met: The Birthday Surprise (Part 1 of 3) Watch as the Metropolitan
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A visitor celebrates as The Met reopens
Inside the Met In this three-part series, experience the 150th birthday of The Metropolitan Museum of Art amid the COVID-19 pandemic and urgent demands for social justice, as the art institution makes history in ways no one could have predicted.
Fridays, May 21 and 28 9:00 pm Museum of Art’s 150th birthday is upended by the COVID-19 pandemic, forcing the art institution to close its doors for the first time in history, while facing financial losses and a battle to protect artistic treasures. 10:00 Inside the Met: All Things to All People? (Part 2 of 3) Watch as the Met is forced to confront its historical record on inclusion, exclusion, and diversity in art and staffing, following urgent demands for social justice across the country. 11:00 BBC World News 11:30 Amanpour and Company
Saturday 22 EARLY MORNING 12:30 Baseball: Home (Part 9 of 9) See Thurs. May 20 at 10:00 pm. [R] 3:00 NOVA: High-Risk HighRise See Wed. May 19 at 9:00 pm. [R] 4:00 Samantha Brown’s Places to Love: Rhine River Cruise [R] 4:30 Chicago Tonight: The Week in Review [R] 5:00 Yoga in Practice: Find Balance to Find Peace 5:30 Yoga in Practice: A Moving Meditation Gravity and Direction MORNING
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9:00 Baby Makes 3: Side by Side 9:30 J. Schwanke’s Life in Bloom 10:00 This Old House: Roof University 10:30 Ask This Old House: Flood Prevention, Deck Hangers 11:00 Lidia’s Kitchen 11:30 My Greek Table with Diane Kochilas: Greek Mountain Cheeses AFTERNOON 12:00 Cook’s Country: Beef, Dressed Up 12:30 Steven Raichlen’s Project Fire 1:00 Simply Ming 1:30 New Scandinavian Cooking: A Treat for the Holidays 2:00 America’s Test Kitchen from Cook’s Illustrated: Elegant Dinner Party 2:30 America’s Test Kitchen from Cook’s Illustrated 3:00 Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television: Entertaining Favorites 3:30 Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television: Thailand North to South 4:00 A Chef’s Life: A Road Trip for Rice 4:30 Check, Please! Steak 48, Chez Moi, Nella Pizza E Pasta [R] 5:00 Rick Steves’ Island-Hopping Europe Join Rick on a tour of four of Europe’s most intriguing and surprising islands: Malta, Capri, Orkney, and Skye. 5:30 Samantha Brown’s Places to Love: Naples and Paradise Coast of Florida EVENING 6:00 Chicago Tonight: Latino Voices 6:30 PBS NewsHour Weekend 7:00 Father Brown: The Face of Death After a murder at the Kembleford charity treasure hunt, general suspicion falls upon a bereaved man who wants revenge. 8:00 Death in Paradise (Season 10, Part 8 of 8) A man confesses to murdering his boss despite being unable to remember what happened. 9:00 Mallorca Files: Death in the Morning (Part 8 of 10) The brutal murder of a famous British author and anti-bullfighting campaigner brings Max and Miranda to Cazador. 10:00 Atlantic Crossing on Masterpiece: The Gift (Part 7 of 8) [R] 11:00 Downton Abbey Season 1 on Masterpiece (Part 4 of 4) See Thurs. May 20 at 8:00 pm. [R]
Sunday 23 EARLY MORNING 1:00 To be announced
MORNING 5:00 Chicago Tonight: Latino Voices [R] 5:30-10:30 WTTW Kids 10:30 Family Travel with Colleen Kelly: Clearwater, Florida City by the Sea From baseball games to marine life rehabilitation, Clearwater is the hot spot for your next Florida getaway. 11:00 Firing Line with Margaret Hoover 11:30 The Chavis Chronicles AFTERNOON 12:00 Great Performances at the Met: Lise Davidsen in Concert 1:00 Inside the Met: The Birthday Surprise (Part 1 of 3) See Fri. May 21 at 9:00 pm. [R] 2:00 Inside the Met: All Things to All People? (Part 2 of 3) See Fri. May 21 at 10:00 pm. [R] 3:00 Unadopted 3:30 Rust This documentary traces the history of Rust Belt poverty, detailing industrialization, de-industrialization, racism, and mass incarceration, using the city of Newark, New Jersey as microcosm. 5:00 Ida B. Wells: A Chicago Stories Special See Fri. May 21 at 8:00 pm. [R] EVENING 6:00 Chicago Tonight: Black Voices 6:30 PBS NewsHour Weekend 7:00 The Queen at War Learn how the longest reigning monarch in British history was shaped by World War II. Princess Elizabeth’s experiences during the war mirrored those of the public and helped shape her into the Queen she is today. 8:00 Atlantic Crossing on Masterpiece: A Queen Returns (Part 8 of 8) With the war almost over, the president’s health takes a bad turn. Olav tries to keep Norway out of the clutches of the Soviets. He also faces rocky relations with Martha. 9:00 Jane Austen: Behind Closed Doors In her inimitable style, historian and host Lucy Worsley traces Pride and Prejudice author Jane Austen’s life and career as she explores the homes and holiday apartments where Austen lived and stayed. 10:00 The Great British Baking Show: Pies and Tarts (Part 4 of 10) Watch the remaining bakers undertake double-crusted fruit pies, English custard tart, and phyllo pie with dough made from scratch. 11:00 Austin City Limits: Rosalia
Monday 24 EARLY MORNING 12:00 Father Brown: The Face of Death See Sat. May 22 at 7:00 pm. [R] 1:00 Death in Paradise (Season 10, Part 8 of 8) See Sat. May 22 at 8:00 pm. [R] 2:00 Mallorca Files: Death in the Morning (Part 8 of 10) See Sat. May 22 at 9:00 pm. [R] 3:00 Unadopted See Sun. May 23 at 3:00 pm. [R] 3:30 Rust See Sun. May 23 at 3:30 pm. [R] 5:00 Chicago Tonight: Black Voices [R] MORNING-AFTERNOON 5:30-5:30 WTTW Kids 5:30 BBC World News America EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Chicago Tonight 8:00 Antiques Roadshow 9:00 Antiques Roadshow: Ca’ D’zan (Part 1 of 3) Highlights include 1954-1956 Topps baseball cards, a John
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Photo: Taylor Hill; Courtesy of Eddie Knox© Oxford Films, 2021
In the Spotlight
Noel Anaya
Unadopted After 20 years in foster care, Noel Anaya claimed his independence in court at age 21. This film follows Noel on his quest for answers about his family and foster care experience, interweaving his own personal journey with the stories of two other teens in the system. The program examines long-term foster care from the perspective of those intimately familiar with its challenges and failings, and includes open discussions about their feelings on adoption, their relationships with their birth parents and siblings, and issues of identity and permanency.
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Tuesday 25 EARLY MORNING
12:00 Amanpour and Company 1:00 The Queen at War See Sun. May 23 at 7:00 pm. [R] 2:00 Atlantic Crossing on Masterpiece: A Queen Returns (Part 8 of 8) See Sun. May 23 at 8:00 pm. [R] 3:00 Jane Austen: Behind Closed Doors See Sun. May 23 at 9:00 pm. [R] 4:00 Samantha Brown’s Places to Love: Naples and Paradise Coast of Florida [R] 4:30 Chicago Tonight [R] MORNING-AFTERNOON 5:30-5:30 WTTW Kids 5:30 BBC World News America EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Chicago Tonight 8:00 Extra Life: A Short History of Living Longer: Medicine (Part 3 of 4) Learn about the surprisingly recent invention of medicine that combats illness directly, such as antibiotics. From the accidental discovery of penicillin to today’s hunt for antivirals, this history underpins work to find COVID-19 treatments. 9:00 Philly D.A. (Part 7 of 8) When an on-duty officer shoots a Black man, Krasner must decide whether to pursue a rarity: murder charges against a cop. 10:00 PBS NewsHour Special Report: Race Matters America After George Floyd On the one-year anniversary of George Floyd’s death, Judy Woodruff and PBS NewsHour reporters will focus on what has changed, and what hasn’t, since the outrage and protests of last summer. 11:00 Say His Name: Five Days for George Floyd 11:30 BBC World News
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12:00 Amanpour and Company 1:00 Antiques Roadshow See Mon. May 24 at 8:00 pm. [R] 2:00 Antiques Roadshow: Ca’ D’zan (Part 1 of 3) See Mon. May 24 at 9:00 pm. [R] 3:00 Independent Lens: The Donut King See Mon. May 24 at 10:00 pm. [R] 4:30 Chicago Tonight [R]
5:30-5:30 WTTW Kids 5:30 BBC World News America EVENING
6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Chicago Tonight 8:00 Life at the Waterhole (Part 2 of 3) Discover how hotter weather impacts the animals, as the waterhole becomes busier in the evening cool. Nocturnal activity brings a new predator out of the shadows. 9:00 NOVA: The Ship That Changed the World 10:00 Human: The World Within – Sense (Part 5 of 6) Explore the incredible world of human sensation and how it defines our reality. 11:00 BBC World News 11:30 Amanpour and Company
Thursday 27 EARLY MORNING 12:30 Extra Life: A Short History of Living Longer: Medicine (Part 3 of 4) See Tues. May 25 at 8:00 pm. [R] 1:30 Philly D.A. (Part 7 of 8) See Tues. May 25 at 9:00 pm. [R] 2:30 PBS NewsHour Special Report: Race Matters America After George Floyd See Tues. May 25 at 10:00 pm. [R] 3:30 Say His Name: Five Days for George Floyd See Tues. May 25 at 11:00 pm. [R] 4:00 Unadopted [R] 4:30 Chicago Tonight [R] MORNING-AFTERNOON 5:30-5:30 WTTW Kids 5:30 BBC World News America EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Chicago Tonight 8:00 Live at Mister Kelly’s 9:00 Ida B. Wells: A Chicago Stories Special [R] 10:00 The Tenth Inning (Part 1 of 2) In 1994, the national pastime faces its worst crisis in 70 years when a bitter and prolonged strike forces the cancellation of the World Series, infuriating fans dismayed by the athletes and teams they once worshipped.
Friday 28 EARLY MORNING 12:00 BBC World News 12:30 Amanpour and Company 1:30 Life at the Waterhole (Part 2 of 3) See Wed. May 26 at 8:00 pm. [R] 2:30 NOVA: The Ship That Changed the World See Wed. May 26 at 9:00 pm. [R] 3:30 Human: The World Within – Sense (Part 5 of 6) See Wed.
May 26 at 10:00 pm. [R] 4:30 Chicago Tonight [R] MORNING-AFTERNOON 5:30-5:30 WTTW Kids 5:30 BBC World News America EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Chicago Tonight: The Week in Review 7:30 Washington Week 8:00 Check, Please! Roka Akor, Mango Pickle, The Dearborn 8:30 Fighting on Both Fronts: The Story of the 370th This is the little-known story of one of few African American regiments to have fought in combat during World War I – a group of men from Illinois, largely from Chicago’s Bronzeville neighborhood. 9:00 Inside the Met: Love and Money (Part 3 of 3) Watch as the Met faces a new financial reality following its fall 2020 reopening, with philanthropists and art collectors stepping in to help keep the museum alive. 10:00 One Voice: The Songs We Share - Broadway (Part 1 of 4) The American Pops Orchestra celebrates the diverse musical genres and influences of America. 10:30 One Voice: The Songs We Share - The Sacred (Part 2 of 4) 11:00 BBC World News 11:30 Amanpour and Company
Ted Ngoy
Independent Lens: The Donut King Hear the incredible story of Ted Ngoy. After fleeing Cambodia for the United States, he built a multimilliondollar fried pastry empire, Christy’s Doughnuts, and began living his American Dream. But a great rise often comes with a great fall.
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Ringling Hotel plate, and a Harry Bertoia bronze. 10:00 Independent Lens: The Donut King 11:30 BBC World News
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In the Spotlight MORNING-AFTERNOON
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A woman works on a mural of George Floyd
Say His Name: Five Days for George Floyd The police killing of George Floyd on May 25, 2020 sparked a global uprising. The epicenter was in director Cy Dodson’s Minneapolis neighborhood, where he captures an immersive observation of unrest in the five days between the murder of Mr. Floyd and the announcement of charges filed against the police officers.
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against the Japanese enemy. 4:00 Remember Pearl Harbor Narrated by actor Tom Selleck, this film chronicles the personal stories of veterans and citizens who witnessed the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. 5:30 Fighting on Both Fronts: The Story of the 370th See Fri. May 28 at 8:30 pm. [R] EVENING 6:00 Chicago Tonight: Black Voices 6:30 PBS NewsHour Weekend 7:00 National Memorial Day Concert 2021 8:30 National Memorial Day Concert 2021 [R] 10:00 Live at Mister Kelly’s [R] 11:00 The Great British Baking Show: Biscuits and Traybakes (Part 5 of 10) The eight bakers produce favorite traybakes. The Technical challenge is a French classictuiles. For the Showstopper, they construct biscuit towers.
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May At-a-Glance • Arts • Performance Great Performances: Uncle Vanya Friday, 9:00 pm (5/7) Monday, 2:30 am (5/10) Great Performances at the Met Sunday, 12:00 pm (5/23) International Jazz Day Monday, 3:00 am (5/3) National Memorial Day Concert Sunday, 7:00 pm, 8:30 pm (5/30) Tuesday, 12:30 am (6/1) One Voice: The Songs We Share Friday, 10:00 pm, 10:30 pm (5/28) We Are Family: Songs of Hope and Unity Friday, 10:00 pm (5/14)
Drama • Comedy • Movies Atlantic Crossing on Masterpiece Saturdays, 10:00 pm Sundays, 8:00 pm (5/2, 5/9, 5/16, 5/23) Tuesdays, 1:30 am (5/4, 5/18) Tuesdays, 2:00 am (5/11, 5/25) Sundays, 11:00 pm (5/2, 5/9, 5/16, 5/23) Monday, 12:00 am (5/31) Death in Paradise Saturdays, 8:00 pm (5/1, 5/8, 5/15, 5/22) Mondays, 1:00 am (5/3, 5/10, 5/17, 5/24) Downton Abbey Season 1 on Masterpiece Saturdays, 11:00 pm (5/1, 5/8, 5/15, 5/22) Thursdays, 8:00 pm (5/6, 5/13, 5/20) Father Brown Saturdays, 7:00 pm Mondays, 12:00 am (5/3, 5/10, 5/17, 5/24) Saturday, 8:00 pm (5/29) Monday, 1:00 am, 2:00 am (5/31) Mallorca Files Saturdays, 9:00 pm Mondays, 2:00 am (5/3, 5/17, 5/24) Thursday, 3:30 am (5/13) Monday, 3:00 am (5/31) World on Fire on Masterpiece Sundays, 9:00 pm (5/2, 5/9, 5/16) Wednesday, 3:30 am (5/5) Tuesday, 3:00 am (5/11) Tuesday, 2:30 am (5/18)
Cooking & Dining • Home Improvement • Travel America’s Test Kitchen from Cook’s Illustrated Saturdays, 2:00 pm, 2:30 pm Antiques Roadshow Mondays, 8:00 pm Wednesdays, 12:30 am (5/5, 5/12, 5/19) Mondays, 9:00 pm (5/10, 5/24) Wednesday, 1:30 am (5/12) Wednesday, 2:00 am (5/26) Antiques Roadshow Recut Monday, 7:30 pm (5/31) Ask This Old House Saturdays, 10:30 am Baby Makes 3 Saturdays, 9:00 am Check, Please! Saturdays, 4:30 pm Fridays, 8:00 pm (5/7, 5/28)
Chef’s Life Saturdays, 4:00 pm Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television Saturdays, 3:00 pm, 3:30 pm Cook’s Country Saturdays, 12:00 pm Family Travel with Colleen Kelly Sundays, 10:30 am Great British Baking Show Sundays, 10:00 pm (5/2, 5/9, 5/16, 5/23) Sunday, 11:00 pm (5/30) J Schwanke’s Life in Bloom Saturdays, 9:30 am Lidia’s Kitchen Saturdays, 11:00 am My Greek Table with Diane Kochilas Saturdays, 11:30 am New Scandinavian Cooking Saturdays, 1:30 pm Rick Steves’ Europe Saturdays, 5:00 pm (5/1, 5/8, 5/15, 5/29) Tuesday, 4:00 am (5/11) Friday, 4:00 am (5/21) Rick Steves’ Island Hopping Europe Saturday, 5:00 pm (5/22) Samantha Brown’s Places to Love Saturdays, 5:30 pm Friday, 4:00 am (5/7) Wednesday, 4:00 am (5/12) Saturday, 4:00 am (5/22) Tuesday, 4:00 am (5/25) Simply Ming Saturdays, 1:00 pm Steven Raichlen’s Project Fire Saturdays, 12:30 pm This Old House Saturdays, 10:00 am
Nature • Science • Technology Extra Life: A Short History of Living Longer Tuesdays, 8:00 pm (5/11, 5/18, 5/25) Thursdays, 12:30 am (5/13, 5/20, 5/27) Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World Wednesdays, 8:00 pm (5/5, 5/12) Friday, 2:00 am (5/7) Friday, 1:30 am (5/14) Human: The World Within Wednesdays, 10:00 pm Fridays, 3:00 am (5/7, 5/21) Fridays, 3:30 am (5/14, 5/28) Life at the Waterhole Wednesdays, 8:00 pm (5/19, 5/26) Friday, 2:00 am (5/21) Friday, 1:30 am (5/28) NOVA Wednesdays, 9:00 pm Saturday, 3:30 am (5/8) Fridays, 2:30 am (5/21, 5/28) Saturday, 3:00 am (5/22) Yoga in Practice Saturdays, 5:00 am (5/8, 5/15, 5/22, 5/29) Saturdays, 5:30 am
Public Affairs • History • Documentary Amanpour and Company Mondays, 11:30 pm (5/3, 5/17, 5/31) Tuesdays, 11:30 pm (5/4, 5/11, 5/18)
Wednesdays, 11: 30 pm Fridays, 1:00 am (5/7, 5/21) Saturday, 12:00 am (5/8) Tuesdays, 12:00 am (5/11, 5/25) Fridays, 12:30 am (5/14, 5/28) Fridays, 11:30 pm (5/14, 5/21, 5/28) Wednesday, 12:00 am (5/26) American Experience: Billy Graham Monday, 9:00 pm (5/17) Wednesday, 1:30 am (5/19) American Masters: Amy Tan – Unintended Memoir Monday, 9:00 pm (5/3) Wednesday, 1:30 am (5/5) Asian Americans Sunday, 12:00 pm, 1:00 pm, 2:00 pm, 3:00 pm, 4:00 pm (5/16) Monday, 3:00 am, 4:00 am (5/17) Tuesday, 3:30 am (5/18) Wednesday, 3:30 am (5/19) Thursday, 3:30 am (5/20) Baseball Thursdays, 10:00 pm Saturday, 1:00 am (5/8) Saturdays, 12:30 am (5/15, 5/22) BBC World News Mondays-Fridays, 11:00 pm BBC World News America Mondays-Fridays, 5:30 pm Bloodline Friday, 8:30 pm (5/7) Monday, 2:00 am (5/10) Chicago Tonight Mondays-Thursdays, 7:00 pm Chicago Tonight: Black Voices Sundays, 6:00 pm Mondays, 5:00 am Chicago Tonight: Latino Voices Saturdays, 6:00 pm Sundays, 5:00 am Chicago Tonight: Week in Review Saturday, 5:00 am (5/1) Fridays, 7:00 pm Saturdays, 4:30 am (5/8, 5/15, 5/22, 5/29) Chinese Exclusion Act: American Experience Sunday, 4:00 pm (5/2) Tuesday, 2:30 am (5/4) Fighting on Both Fronts: The Story of the 370th Friday, 8:30 pm (5/28) Sunday, 5:30 pm (5/30) Finding Your Roots Sunday, 12:00 pm (5/2) Tuesday, 8:00 pm (5/4) Thursday, 12:30 am (5/6) Fire in the Heartland: The Kent State Story Sunday, 5:00 pm (5/9) Saturday, 2:30 am (5/15) Firing Line with Margaret Hoover Sundays, 11:00 am Frontline Tuesdays, 10:00 pm Thursdays, 2:30 am Ida B. Wells: A Chicago Stories Special Friday, 8:00 pm (5/21) Sunday, 5:00 pm (5/23) Thursday, 9:00 pm (5/27) Saturday, 1:30 am (5/29) Independent Lens Monday, 10:00 pm (5/24) Wednesday, 3:00 am (5/26)
Inside the Met Friday, 9:00 pm, 10:00 pm (5/21) Sunday, 1:00 pm, 2:00 pm (5/23) Friday, 9:00 pm (5/28) Sunday, 1:00 pm (5/30) Jane Austen: Behind Closed Doors Sunday, 9:30 pm (5/23) Tuesday, 3:00 am (5/25) Live at Mister Kelly’s Thursday, 8:00 pm (5/27) Saturday, 12:30 am (5/29) Sunday, 10:00 pm (5/30) Mr. Tornado: American Experience Sunday, 3:00 pm (5/2) Thursday, 3:30 am (5/6) Norman Mineta and His Legacy: An American Story Sunday, 2:00 pm (5/2) PBS NewsHour Mondays-Fridays, 6:00 pm PBS NewsHour Weekend Saturdays, 6:30 pm Sundays, 6:30 pm Philly D.A. Tuesdays, 9:00 pm Thursdays, 1:30 am POV Monday, 10:00 pm (5/10) Wednesday, 2:30 am (5/12) Pritzker Military Presents Sunday, 12:00 pm (5/30) Queen at War Sunday, 7:00 pm (5/23) Tuesday, 1:00 am (5/25) Reel South Sunday, 1:00 pm (5/2) The Registry Sunday, 3:00 pm (5/30) Monday, 4:00 am (5/31) Remember Pearl Harbor Sunday, 4:00 pm (5/30) Tuesday, 2:00 am (6/1) Rise of the Nazis Sundays, 7:00 pm (5/2, 5/9, 5/16) Tuesdays, 12:30 am (5/4, 5/18) Tuesday, 1:00 am (5/11) Roadtrip Nation: Do It Differently Sunday, 1:00 pm (5/9) Saturday, 3:30 am (5/15) Roadtrip Nation: Single Mom’s Story Sunday, 12:00 pm (5/9) Rust Sunday, 3:30 pm (5/23) Monday, 3:30 am (5/24) Say His Name: Five Days for George Floyd Tuesday, 11:00 pm (5/25) Thursday, 3:30 am (5/27) Soldier On: Life after Deployment Sunday, 2:00 pm (5/30) Tenth Inning Thursday, 10:00 pm (5/27) Saturday, 2:30 pm (5/29) The Great Chicago Fire: A Chicago Stories Special Friday, 8:00 pm (5/14) Sunday, 5:00 pm (5/16) Tulsa: The Fire and the Forgotten Monday, 9:00 pm (5/31) Unadopted Sunday, 3:00 pm (5/23) Monday, 3:00 am (5/24) Thursday, 4:00 am (5/27) Washington Week Fridays, 7:30 pm
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• Daily Radio Programming
Programming Subject to Change Without Notice
Programmer’s Picks Introductions with Robbie Ellis: Pianist Joshua Mhoon
Exploring Music: Sir William Walton
Listening to Singers with Oliver Camacho: Memorial Day
After making his WFMT debut at age 12 in 2015, young pianist Joshua Mhoon returns to Introductions. The Hyde Park 17-year-old presents Guido Agosti’s fearsome transcription of Stravinsky’s Firebird, and R. Nathaniel Dett’s complete Enchantment Suite.
Host Bill McGlaughlin traces the arc of the composer’s life, focusing on Walton’s love of different musical genres, and his associations with Jascha Heifetz, Paul Hindemith, Sir Laurence Olivier, and Thomas Beecham. Join Bill for a week steeped in British music of the 20th century.
Baritone John Brancy and pianist Peter Dugan join Oliver to present selections from their acclaimed album A Silent Night: A WWI Memorial in Song and to preview their new album The Journey Home, an homage to the centennial of World War I.
Saturday, May 1, 11:00 am
Monday-Friday, May 17-21, 7:00 pm
Saturday, May 29, 4:30 pm
Photo: © Michael Cooper
In the Spotlight
Sondra Radvanovsky
From the Metropolitan Opera: Donizetti’s Roberto Devereux Enjoy this performance from April 2016 that starred Sondra Radvanovsky as Elisabetta, Elīna Garanča as Sara, Matthew Polenzani as Roberto, and Mariusz Kwiecien in the role of the Duke of Nottingham. Maurizio Benini conducted.
Saturday, May 1 12:00 pm
Saturday 1 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 7:00 Weekend Mornings with Maggie Clennon Reberg, including Saturday Morning Listeners’ Choice at 8:00 am and Soundtrack at 9:00 am
11:00 Introductions: 17-year-old Joshua Mhoon, piano 12:00 From the Metropolitan Opera: Donizetti’s “Roberto Devereux” – Maurizio Benini; Sondra Radvanovsky (Elisabetta), Elina Garanca (Sara), Matthew Polenzani (Roberto), Mariusz Kwiecien (Duke of Nottingham) 3:00 Weekend Music with Oliver Camacho • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Violin Cello Concerto in A, Wq 172 – Alison McGillivray, vc; English Concert/Andrew Manze. Harmonia Mundi HMU907403. [20:01] John Adams “Hallelujah Junction” – Orli Shaham & Jon Kimura Parker, p’s. Canary Classics CC-11. [16:10] 4:30 Listening to Singers with Oliver Camacho 5:00 Evening Music on WFMT • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Piano Concerto No. 19 in F, K. 459 – András Schiff, p; Camerata Salzburg/Sándor Végh. Decca 421259-2. [27:10] Chen Yi Chinese Folk Dance Suite for violin and orchestra – Cho-Liang Lin, v; Singapore Sym/Lan Shui. BIS 1352. [15:56] Gabriela Lena Frank Three Latin American Dances, “Introduction: Jungle Jaunt” – Utah Sym Orch/Keith Lockhart Reference RR-105 [4:23] 7:00 Fiesta! with Elbio Barilari: Mexican Soundscapes 8:00 Folkstage hosted by Rich Warren 9:00 The Midnight Special with Marilyn Rea Beyer
Sunday 2 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff
All prerecorded music on 98.7WFMT is provided by the Richard and Mary L. Gray Music Library.
Most live performances on 98.7WFMT are broadcast from the Fay and Daniel Levin Performance Studio.
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6:00 With Heart and Voice: Spring 7:00 Weekend Mornings with Maggie Clennon Reberg 12:00 Sunday Afternoons with Robbie Ellis • Daniel François Esprit Auber “La Muette de Portici,” Overture – Lamoureux Orch/Igor Markevitch. DG 447406-2 [08:18] Maurice Ravel “Daphnis and Chloe,” Suite No. 2 – Chicago Sym/ Jean Martinon. RCA 636832. [6:51] Johann Sebastian Bach Clavier Partita No. 2 in c, BWV 826 – András Schiff, p. ECM 2001/02 (2) 1:00 Victor Herbert “American Fantasia” – St. Louis Sym/ Leonard Slatkin. RCA 60983-2. [10:01] Adolphus Hailstork Two Romances, No. 1, “Moderato,” and No. 2, “Amoroso” – Beverly Baker, vi; Virginia Chamber Players. Albany TROY-612 [13:42] Edvard Grieg Old Norwegian Romance with Variations, Op. 51 – Iceland Sym Orch/ Petri Sakari Chandos CHAN-9028 [24:23] 2:00 Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 12 in A-Flat, Op. 26 – Angela Hewitt, p. Hyperion CDA-67797. [19:11] Antonín Dvořák “Rusalka Fantasy” – Pittsburgh Sym/Manfred Honeck. Reference FR-720. [20:11] 3:00 Camille Saint-Saëns “Danse macabre,” Op. 40 – Andrew Wan, v; Montreal Sym/Kent Nagano. Decca 4830396. [7:23] Florence Price “Dances in the Canebrakes” – Althea Waites, p. Cambria CD-1097. [9:21] Claude Debussy “Jeux (Poème dansé)” – San Francisco Sym/Michael Tilson Thomas. SFS Media 0069. [18:22] Maurice Ravel “Jeux d’eau” – Stewart Goodyear, p. Orchid Classics ORC-100061. [4:53] 4:00 Antonio Vivaldi Violin and Organ Concerto in C, R. 774 – Modo Antiquo/ Federico Maria Sardelli. Glossa GCD-924601. [10:09] Carl Maria von Weber Piano Concerto #1 in C, Op. 11 – Ronald Brautigam,
fp; Cologne Academy/ Michael Alexander Willens. BIS BIS-2384. [18:45] Georg Philipp Telemann “Concerto Polonoise” in B-Flat – Holland Baroque. Pentatone PTC5186878. [9:04] Traditional “I hē-a Hotumatu’a” – Enrique Icka, voice; Mahani Teave, p. Rubicon RCD-1066. [05:57] 5:00 Evenings with Kerry Frumkin • Claude Debussy Prelude No. 19, “La terrasse des audiences du clair de Lune,” and Prelude No. 24, “Feux d’artifice” – Jorge Federico Osorio, p. Cedille CDR-90000098 (2). [8:43] Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 7 in A Major, Op. 92 – Vienna Phil/Carlos Kleiber. DG 447400-2. [38:39] 6:00 Bernard Herrmann Idyll, “Silent Noon” – New Zealand Sym Orch/James Sedares. Koch 3-7224-2. [10:35] Ralph Vaughan Williams “The House of Life,” “Silent Noon” (1902-5) and “Linden Lea” – Bryn Terfel, b-br; Malcolm Martineau, p. DG B000421602. [6:00] Frederick Delius “North Country Sketches” – Welsh National Opera Orch/ Sir Charles Mackerras. Argo 430202-2. [27:02] 7:00 Ryan Opera Center Recital Series 8:00 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Radio Broadcasts: Riccardo Muti, conductor; Nathan Cole and Akiko Tarumoto, violins; Max Raimi, viola; Kenneth Olsen, cello – Beethoven: Leonore Overture. Beethoven: Symphony No. 4. Beethoven: Grosse fuge in B-flat Major for String Quartet, Op. 133. Beethoven: Symphony No. 6. 10:00 Collectors’ Corner with Henry Fogel: Nathan Milstein in Live Performance
Monday 3 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore 9:00 Louise Farrenc “Cavatine
de Norma” – Joanne Polk, p. Steinway & Sons30133. [06:46] Sergei Prokofiev “Romeo and Juliet,” Op. 64, Act IV: Epilogue – St. Petersburg Kirov Orch/ Valery Gergiev.Philips 432166-2 (2). [11:42] 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, including today’s new release, plus: Jacques Offenbach “Orpheus in the Underworld” – Cincinnati Pops Orch/ Erich Kunzel. Telarc CD-80116 Overture. [9:55] 11:00 Amy Beach “From Blackbird Hills,” Op. 83 – Lara Downes, p. Sono Luminus. DSL-92207. [3:50] Amy Beach “The Fair Hills of Éire, O!” – Joanne Polk, p. Arabesque Z-6704. [4:37] 12:00 Music in Chicago, plus: Franz Liszt “Les Préludes” – Philadelphia Orch/Riccardo Muti. EMI CDC7-47022-2. [16:35] 1:00 Music for the Afternoon • Domenico Scarlatti Keyboard Sonata in f/C, Kk 466 – Yuja Wang, p. DG B0014108-02. [5:36] Sergei Rachmaninoff Symphonic Dances, Op. 45 – Berlin Phil/ Sir Simon Rattle. Warner Classics 84519-2. [35:31] 2:00 Afternoon Masterwork: Franz Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 82 in C, “Bear” – Tafelmusik/Bruno Weil. Sony SK-66295. [25:20] 3:00 Johannes Brahms Three Intermezzi, Op. 117 – Hélène Grimaud, p. Erato 14350-2. [15:06] Gabriel Pierné Fantaisie-Ballet” in Bb, Op. 6 – Joel Fan, p; Northwest Sinfonietta/ Christophe Chagnard. Reference RR-134. [11:33] 4:00 Late Afternoon Music with Candice Agree, including The Unrush Hour at 5:00 pm 7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin • From the Mountains to the Sea Sweeping expansive music that expresses the breadth of land and seascapes, with a sense of coming together to where these elements touch each other—land meeting water, mountain stretching to heavens above, and distant horizons where oceans and skies blend. We’ll journey to islands with fiery volcanoes and molten earth, and in the quiet of the night sit on soft grass in front of a bonfire, and listen to their music. This image brings together many genres: symphonies and folksongs from the hills of Appalachia, ballads of conquering heroes and lost souls. We will hear the music
of Liszt, Strauss, Moeran, and forgotten composers we call Traditional and Anonymous. 8:00 Music from Nichols Hall 10:00 Evenings with Kerry Frumkin
Tuesday 4 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore 9:00 Johann Sebastian Bach Clavier Concerto No. 5 in f minor, BWV 1056 – Apollo’s Fire/Jeannette Sorrell, hc. Avie AV-2207 (2). [10:10] Ferruccio Busoni “Duettino concertante after Mozart’s K 459” – Anderson & Roe Piano Duo.Steinway & Sons 30022. [7:01] 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, including today’s new release, plus: Leonard Bernstein Clarinet Sonata – Patrick Messina, cl; Fabrizio Chiovetta, p. Aparté AP-231. [11:00] 11:00 William Walton “Portsmouth Point” Overture (1925) – London Sym Orch/ André Previn. EMI CDC7-47624-2. [5:28] 12:00 Music in Chicago, plus: Arcangelo Corelli Concerto grosso in F, Op. 6, No. 12 – English Concert/ Trevor Pinnock. Archiv 423626-2 (2). [10:32] 1:00 Music for the Afternoon • Johannes Brahms Piano Trio No. 3 in c, Op. 101 – Florestan Trio. Hyperion CDA-67251/52 (2). [20:07] Bright Sheng “Black Swan” (after Brahms Op. 118 No. 2) – Seattle Sym/Gerard Schwarz. Naxos 8.559679. [6:49] 2:00 Afternoon Masterwork: Claude Debussy: Three Nocturnes – Philharmonia/ Carlo Maria Giulini. EMI CDM7-69184-2. [26:48] 3:00 François-Adrien Boieldieu Harp Concerto in C (in Three Tempi), Finale, Rondeau, “Allegro agitato” – Lily Laskine, h; Paillard Chamber Orch/Jean-François Paillard. Erato ECD-88069. Carl Maria von Weber Symphony #1 in C – Hanover Band/Roy Goodman. Nimbus NI-5180. [24:28] 4:00 Late Afternoon Music with Candice Agree, including The Unrush Hour at 5:00 pm 7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin • From the Mountains to the Sea See Mon. May 3 at 7:00 pm. 8:00 From the CSO’s Archives: The First 130 Years, World’s Columbian Exposition in 1893—Schumann: Piano Concerto in A Minor, Op. 54
Asian American & Pacific Islander HERITAGE MONTH WFMT recognizes Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month with a broad range of musical selections. Chen Yi: Chinese Folk Dance Suite for violin and orchestra, Cho-Liang Lin, violin; Singapore Symphony Orchestra; Lan Shui
Saturday, May 1
Japanese American composer Paul Chihara: String Trio, Jade Trio
Wednesday, May 12 3:30 pm
5:30 pm
Kenji Bunch: “Night Flight” from Swing Shift, NZTrio
Singer Enrique Icka and pianist Mahani Teave perform the traditional Rapa Nui tune “I hē-a Hotumatu’a”
Saturday, May 15
Sunday, May 2 4:50 pm
Introductions: Brandon Cheng, Principal Cello of the Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra, presents works by Ludwig van Beethoven, Gaspar Cassadó, Giovanni Sollima, and Philip Lasser
Saturday, May 8 11:00 am
Listening to Singers: Brian Asawa, countertenor and Nicholas Phan, tenor
Saturday, May 8 4:30 pm
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Beata Moon: Piano Fantasy, Nancy Boston, piano
Saturday, May 22 5:00 pm
Wang Jianmin: At Night on the Lake, Lang Lang, piano
Thursday, May 27 11:00 am
Qigang Chen: Violin Concerto The Joy of Suffering, Maxim Vengerov; Shanghai Symphony Orchestra/Long Yu
Saturday, May 29 5:30 pm
Tōru Takemitsu: Beyond the Sea III, flutist Aurèle Nicolet, harpist Naoko Yoshino
Sunday, May 30 1:45 pm
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Photo: Alfred Cox; Courtesy of the Rosenthal Archives of the CSO Association
In the Spotlight
Theodore Thomas
From the CSO’s Archives: The First 130 Years On the 4th: Theodore Thomas led the Exposition Orchestra (an expanded Chicago Orchestra) in the World’s Fair’s 1893 inaugural concerts, which included Schubert’s Unfinished Symphony, Beethoven’s Third Symphony, and Schumann’s Piano Concerto featuring Polish pianist Ignace Paderewski. On the 11th: Sir Georg Solti was the conductor on a recording of Johann Sebastian Bach’s Mass in B minor in January 1990, for which founder and longtime chorus director Margaret Hillis and her ensemble received their eighth Grammy Award. On the 18th, hear a tribute to Fritz Reiner with Deal with the Devil, inspired by the Faust legend: works by Franz Liszt, Richard Wagner, and Hector Berlioz; and on the 25th, Reiner Rarities includes Rolf Liebermann’s Concerto for Jazz Band and Symphony Orchestra and Mahler’s Fourth Symphony, featuring Swiss soprano Lisa Della Casa.
Tuesdays 8:00 pm (/Carlo Maria Giulini); Schubert: Symphony No. 8 in B Minor, D. 759 (Unfinished) (/Seiji Ozawa); Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 in E-flat Major, Op. 55 (Eroica) (/Sir Georg Solti) 10:00 Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, with guest artists Gloria Chien, piano; Bella Hristova, violin; Dmitri Atapine, cello; Michael Brown, piano; Erin Keefe, violin; Mihai Marica, cello – Shostakovich: Trio No. 2 in E minor for Piano, Violin, and Cello, Op. 67; Ravel: Trio in A minor for Piano, Violin, and Cello 11:00 Evening Music on WFMT
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Wednesday 5 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore 9:00 Carlos Salzedo “Variations on a Theme in the Ancient Style” – Mariko Anraku, h. EMI CDC5-67270-2. [9:47] Manuel de Falla “The ThreeCornered Hat” Suite—Simón Bolivar Sym Orch/Eduardo Mata. Dorian 90210. [12:26] 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, including today’s new release, plus: Johannes Brahms “F-A-E Scherzo (Sonatensatz)” – Christian Tetzlaff, v; Lars Vogt, p. Ondine ODE 1284-2. [05:23] 11:00 Antonín Dvořák “In Nature’s Realm” Overture, Op. 91 – Vienna Phil/Seiji Ozawa. Philips 432996-2. [14:26] 12:00 Music in Chicago 12:15 Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts: David Griffin, horn, and Mio Nakamura, piano, live from the Cultural Center 1:00 Music for the Afternoon • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: “Eugene Onegin,” Op. 24, Polonaise and Waltz – Radio France Phil/Paavo Järvi. Virgin Classics 45609-2. [10:52] George Gershwin “Catfish Row” (suite from “Porgy and Bess”) – Cincinnati Pops Orch/Erich Kunzel. Telarc CD-80086. [25:56] 2:00 Afternoon Masterwork: Franz Joseph Haydn Symphony No. 83 in g minor, “The Hen” – Handel & Haydn Society/Harry Christophers. Coro COR-16139. [30:18] 3:00 Franz Schubert Piano Sonata in C, D 279 – András Schiff, p. Decca 440310-2. [18:05] George Enescu Orchestra Suite No. 3 in D, Op. 27, “Villageoise” – Rumanian Radio-TV Orch/ Josif Conta. Marco Polo 8.223145. [28:43] 4:00 Late Afternoon Music with Candice Agree, including The Unrush Hour at 5:00 pm 7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin • From the Mountains to the Sea See Mon. May 3 at 7:00 pm. 8:00 Music of the Baroque 2021 9:00 Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival 10:00 Baroque&Before with Candice Agree 11:00 Evening Music on WFMT
Thursday 6 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore
9:00 Hector Berlioz “Roméo et Juliette,” Op. 17: Queen Mab Scherzo – London Sym Orch/Sir Colin Davis. Philips 456143-2 (6). [7:50] Frédéric Chopin Scherzo No. 4 in E, Op. 54 – Benjamin Grosvenor, p. Decca 4783206. [9:59] 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, including today’s new release, plus: “Introduction and Allegro” – Isabelle Moretti, h; Quatuor Parisii. Naive V-4919. [11:03] 11:00 Hugo Alfvén Swedish Rhapsody No. 1, Op. 19, “Midsommarvaka” – Minnesota Orch/Eiji Oue. Reference RR-80. [12:54] 12:00 Music in Chicago, plus: Johann Sebastian Bach “Brandenburg” Concerto No. 2 in F Major, BWV 1047 – Berlin Academy for Ancient Music. Harmonia Mundi HMC-901634/5 (2). [11:11] 1:00 Music for the Afternoon • Franz Schubert String Quartet No. 10 in E-Flat, D. 87 – Casals Quartet. Harmonia Mundi HMC90212.1 [23:33] Ambroise Thomas “Mignon,” Overture – Royal Scottish National Orch/Lance Friedel. Naxos 8.573418. [08:24] 2:00 Afternoon Masterwork: Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 4 in G – Cleveland Orchestra/Pierre Boulez. DG 463257-2. [53:32] 3:00 Mauro Giuliani Gran Duetto Concertante in A, Op. 52 – Michala Petri, r; Lars Hannibal, g. Our Recordings 6.220601. [17:13] Cécile Chaminade “Contes bleus” – Enid Katahn, p. Gasparo GSCD-247. [08:45] 4:00 Late Afternoon Music with Candice Agree, including The Unrush Hour at 5:00 pm 7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin • From the Mountains to the Sea See Mon. May 3 at 7:00 pm. 8:00 Evenings with Kerry Frumkin 9:00 San Francisco Symphony in Concert 11:00 Evening Music on WFMT
Friday 7 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore 9:00 Joaquín Rodrigo “Sones en la Giralda (Fantasia sevillana)” – Pepe Romero, g; St. Martin’s Academy/ Sir Neville Marriner. Philips 416357-2. [9:08] Johannes Brahms “Academic Festival” Overture, Op. 80 – Houston Sym/Christoph
Eschenbach. Virgin Classics 61360-2 (4). [11:08] 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, including today’s new release, plus: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Variations on “Ah! vous dirai-je, Maman,” K. 265 – Fazil Say, p. Atlantic 21970-2. [11:39] 11:00 George Frideric Handel “Water Music” Suite No. 3 in G – English Baroque Soloists/John Eliot Gardiner. Philips 434122-2. [10:05] 12:00 Impromptu Encore: Fretwork Viol Consort 1:00 Music for the Afternoon • Antonio Vivaldi Violin Concerto in E, RV. 269, “The Four Seasons”: “Spring” – English Chamber Orch/Nigel Kennedy, v. EMI 42738-2. [9:41] Florence Price “Five Folksongs in Counterpoint” – Apollo Chamber Players. Navona NV-6038. [17:49] 2:00 Afternoon Masterwork: Aaron Copland: “Appalachian Spring” – St. Louis Symphony/ Leonard Slatkin. EMI CDC7-49766-2. [36:37] 3:00 Jean-Philippe Rameau “Nouvelles Suites de Pièces de Clavecin”: “Allemande” – Sergio Assad & Odair Assad, g’s. Nonesuch 79292-2. [3:45] Sergio Assad “Jobiniana No. 1” – Sergio Assad & Odair Assad, g’s. Nonesuch 79179-2. [5:07] Zoltán Kodály “Marosszék Dances” – Buffalo Phil Orch/JoAnn Falletta. Naxos 8.573838. [13:37] 4:00 Late Afternoon Music with Candice Agree, including The Unrush Hour at 5:00 pm 7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin • From the Mountains to the Sea See Mon. May 3 at 7:00 pm. 8:00 Evening Music on WFMT 9:00 The New York Philharmonic This Week 11:00 Best of Studs Terkel: Tony Bennett interviewed in 1989.
Saturday 8 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 7:00 Weekend Mornings with Maggie Clennon Reberg, including Saturday Morning Listeners’ Choice at 8:00 am and Soundtrack at 9:00 am 11:00 Introductions Brandon Cheng, Principal Cello of the Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra, presents an Introductions recital of works by Ludwig van Beethoven, Gaspar Cassadó, Giovanni Sollima and Philip Lasser 12:00 From the Metropolitan Opera: Anna Netrebko Puccini Gala – Yannick
In the Spotlight Nézet-Séguin; “La bohème”, Act I: Anna Netrebko (Mimi), Matthew Polenzani (Rodolfo), Quinn Kelsey (Marcello), Davide Luciano (Schaunard), Christian Van Horn (Colline), Arthur Woodley (Benoit); “Tosca”, Act I: Anna Netrebko (Tosca), Yusif Eyvazov (Cavaradossi), Evgeny Nikitin (Scarpia) , Patrick Carfizzi (Sacristan); “Turandot”, Act 2: Anna Netrebko (Turandot), Yusif Eyvazov (Calaf) 3:00 Weekend Music with Oliver Camacho • Ferruccio Busoni Piano Concerto in C, Op. 39, I. “Prologo e Introito”: Allegro, dolce e solenne – Kirill Gerstein, p; Tanglewood Festival Chorus, Boston Symphony Orchestra/Sakari Oramo. Myrios MYR-024. [15:24] Anthony DiLorenzo “Go” – Seraph Brass. Summit DCD-709. [03:33] Duke Ellington Suite from “The River” (1970) – Buffalo Phil Orch/JoAnn Falletta. Naxos 8.559737. [21:04] Joseph
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In the Spotlight
7:00 8:00 9:00 Yannick Nézet-Séguin
From the Metropolitan Opera: Puccini Gala On New Year’s Eve 2019, Anna Netrebko took on three Puccini heroines: Mimì, Tosca, and Turandot in one gala evening. The star soprano is featured in Act I of La bohème, opposite tenor Matthew Polenzani, and Act I of Tosca and Act II of Turandot, opposite tenor Yusif Eyvazov. The Puccini Gala was conducted by Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin and featured an outstanding cast that also included baritones Quinn Kelsey and Davide Luciano and bass-baritones Evgeny Nikitin and Christian Van Horn.
Saturday, May 8 12:00 pm
Turrin “Fandango” – Mary Elizabeth Bowden, tpt; Zenas Kim-Banther, trb; Milana Strezeva, p. Summit DCD-655. [07:02] Johann Sebastian Bach Clavier Concerto No. 1 in d minor, BWV 1052 – Alexandre Tharaud, p; Les Violons du Roy/Bernard Labadie. Virgin 070913-2. [21:44] Niccolò Paganini Caprice No. 24 in A minor – Yo-Yo Ma, vc. CBS MK-37280. [05:04] Listening to Singers with Oliver Camacho Evening Music on WFMT • Ethel Smyth Violin and Horn Concerto – Sophie Langdon, v; Richard Watkins, fh; BBC Phil/Odaline de la Martinez. Chandos CHAN-9449. [28:06] Manuel de Falla Seven Popular Spanish Songs, No. 4, “Jota” – Thibaut Garcia, g; Edgar Moreau, vc. Erato 0190295954635. [03:31] Leonard Bernstein “West Side Story” Symphonic Dances – New York Phil/ Leonard Bernstein. Sony SM3K-47154 (3). [21:08] Michael Torke Concerto for Orchestra – Royal Liverpool Phil Orch/Vasily Petrenko. Ecstatic Records ER-092261. [25:34] Caroline Shaw “and the swallow” – Ars Nova Copenhagen/ Paul Hillier. Naxos 8.574281. [03:37] Josef Strauss Waltz, “Village Swallows from Austria” – Chicago Sym/Fritz Reiner. RCA 68160-2. [07:29] Zoltán Kodály “Summer Evening” – Helsinki Phil/ János Fürst. Kontrapunkt 32153/54 (2). [17:02] Fiesta! with Elbio Barilari: Claudio Santoro, Brazilian Composer Folkstage hosted by Rich Warren The Midnight Special with Marilyn Rea Beyer
Sunday 9 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 With Heart and Voice: Mother’s Day 7:00 Weekend Mornings with Maggie Clennon Reberg including listener requests from 7am-5pm for Mother’s Day 12:00 Sunday Afternoons with Robbie Ellis • including listener requests from 7am-5pm for Mother’s Day 1:00-5:00 Mother’s Day: Listener Requests 5:00 Evenings with Kerry Frumkin • Antonín Dvořák Piano Quintet in A, Op. 81 – Andreas Haefliger, p; Takács Quartet. Decca 466197-2.
[39:13] Antonín Dvořák “Humoresques,” Op. 101, No. 7 in G-flat, “Poco lento e grazioso” – Itzhak Perlman, v; Yo-Yo Ma, vc; Boston Sym/Seiji Ozawa. Sony SK-46687. [03:29] Johann Sebastian Bach Prelude & Fugue in e, BWV 548 – Yo Ma, vc; Chris Thile, mandolin; Edgar Meyer, db. Nonesuch 558933-2. [11:47] 6:00 Josef Suk String Serenade in E-Flat, Op. 6 – Appassionata/ Daniel Myssyk. Fidelio FACD-036. [27:48] Fanny Mendelssohn Piano Sonata in g minor – Anna Shelest, p. Sorel Classics SCCD-015. [16:39] Caroline Shaw Three Essays, No. 1, “Nimrod” – Calidore String Quartet. Signum SIGCD-850. [08:34] 7:00 Felix Mendelssohn Piano Trio No. 1 in d minor, Op. 49 – Wu Han, p; Philip Setzer, v; David Finckel, vc. Artist Led 11102-2. [28:30] Florence Price “Mississippi River Suite” – Women’s Phil/Apo Hsu. Koch 7518-2. [27:46] 8:00 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Radio Broadcasts: Neeme Järvi and Fritz Reiner, conductors; Alisa Weilerstein, cello; Inge Borkh, soprano – Smetana: Selections from The Bartered Bride. Barber: Cello Concerto. Dvořák: Symphony No. 5. Strauss: Final Scene from Salome. 10:00 Collectors’ Corner with Henry Fogel: Charles Munch, conductor – Live Performances
Monday 10 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore 9:00 Alexander Scriabin Waltz in A-Flat, Op. 38 – Benjamin Grosvenor, p. Decca 4785334. [05:38] Léo Delibes “Sylvia,” Suite – London Sym Orch/ Anatole Fistoulari. Decca 473171-2 (2). [15:36] 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, including today’s new release, plus: Frédéric Chopin Polonaise no.6 in A-flat, Op.53, “Heroic” – Seong-Jin Cho, p. DG 4795332. [07:23] 11:00 Emmaneul Chabrier “España” Rhapsody – Vienna Phil/Sir John Eliot Gardiner. DG 447751-2. [06:01] 12:00 Music in Chicago, plus: Ottorino Respighi “The Birds” – Orpheus Chamber Orch. DG 437533-2. [18:04] 1:00 Music for the Afternoon • Gabriel Fauré Piano Trio
Mother’s Day Requests WFMT Celebrates Mother’s Day Join Maggie Clennon Reberg and Robbie Ellis for a whole day of music for the mothers in your life. Whether it’s for your own mom or you’re a mother yourself, Maggie and Robbie want to play what you want to hear. Call (773) 279-2421 to leave a voice message, or visit wfmt.com in the week prior to submit a request and dedication to be shared on air. Happy Mother’s Day!
Sunday, May 9 throughout the day in D minor, Op. 120 – Neave Trio. Chandos CHAN-10996 [18:52] Henry Purcell “The Gordian Knot Untied” Suite – English Chamber Orch/Raymond Leppard. CBS MDK-44644. [11:57] 2:00 Afternoon Masterwork: George Gershwin: Piano Concerto in F – Jean-Yves Thibaudet, p.; Baltimore Symphony Orchestra/ Marin Alsop. London B0014091-02. [31:28] 3:00 Constant Lambert Ballet, “Pomona” – English Northern Philharmonia/David LloydJones. Hyperion CDA67049. [19:45] Engelbert Humperdinck “Hansel and Gretel” Overture—Dresden Staatskapelle/Otmar Suitner. Berlin Classics 0220007 (2). [07:48] 4:00 Late Afternoon Music with Candice Agree, including The Unrush Hour at 5:00 pm 7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin 8:00 Music from Nichols Hall 10:00 Evenings with Kerry Frumkin
Tuesday 11 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 2021
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In the Spotlight
Simon Rattle
From the Metropolitan Opera: Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde Met audiences were fascinated by Mariusz Treliński’s gripping, visionary production of Wagner’s epic opera. In the daunting title roles of the doomed lovers are Nina Stemme and Stuart Skelton. René Pape is King Marke, betrayed not only by Isolde but by Tristan, the man he most trusts and loves like a son. With Ekaterina Gubanova as Isolde’s confidante Brangäne and Evgeny Nikitin as Kurwenal, Tristan’s loyal lieutenant. Simon Rattle conducts Wagner’s monumental score in this performance from October 8, 2016.
Saturday, May 15 12:00 pm
6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore 9:00 George Frideric Handel “Alcina” Overture – Orchestre Baroque de Montréal/Joël Thiffault – Atma ACD22157. [06:11] Georges Bizet “L’Arlésienne” Suite No. 1 – Chicago Sym/Jean Martinon. Sony Classical 88843062752 (10). [17:38] 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, including today’s new release, plus: Alan Hovhaness “Alleluia and Fugue,” Op. 40b – Seattle Sym/Gerard Schwarz. Delos DE-3157. [09:13] 11:00 Hector Berlioz “Roman Carnival” Overture, Op.9 – Berlin Phil/Claudio Abbado. DG 471627-2 (2). [08:28] 12:00 Music in Chicago, plus: Ludwig van Beethoven Violin Sonata No. 5 in F, Op. 24, “Spring” – Andrew Wan, v; Charles Richard-Hamelin, p. Analekta AN2-8795. [23:42] 1:00 Music for the Afternoon • Camille Saint-Saëns 24
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“Samson and Delilah”: “Bacchanale” – Pittsburgh Sym Orch/Lorin Maazel. Sony SK-53979. [07:10] Sergei Rachmaninoff “Trio élégiaque” No. 1 in g – Lang, p; Vadim Repin, v; Mischa Maisky, vc. DG B0013504-02. [14:56] 2:00 Afternoon Masterwork: Igor Stravinsky: “Petrouchka,” Suite – Chicago Symphony Orchestra/Carlo Maria Giulini. EMI CDC585974-2 (3) [24:29] 3:00 Alberto Ginastera ”Estancia,” Op. 8: Four dances – Simón Bolívar Youth Orch/Gustavo Dudamel. DG B0011340-02. [12:00] Michael Praetorius “Terpsichore,” Five Dances – Collegium Terpsichore/ Fritz Neumeyer. Boston Skyline BSD-118. [12:15] 4:00 Late Afternoon Music with Candice Agree, including The Unrush Hour at 5:00 pm 7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin 8:00 From the CSO’s Archives: The First 130 Years, Solti Conducts Bach Mass in B Minor—Bach: Mass in B Minor, BWV 232 (/Sir Georg Solti) 10:00 Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, with guest artists Adam Walker, flute; Michael Brown, piano; Juho Pohjonen, piano; Danbi Um, violin; Richard O’Neill, viola; Jan Vogler, cello – Fauré: Fantasy for Flute and Piano, Op. 79; Brahms: Quartet No. 2 in A major for Piano, Violin, Viola, and Cello, Op. 26 11:00 Evening Music on WFMT
Wednesday 12 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore 9:00 Charles Gounod “Faust,” Ballet music – Royal Opera House Orch/Sir Georg Solti. Decca 421396-2. [15:54] Edvard Grieg Lyric Pieces,” Op. 57, No. 6, “Homesickness” – Leif Ove Andsnes, p. EMI CDC5-57296-2. [04:49] 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, including today’s new release, plus: Johann Sebastian Bach Violin Concerto No. 1 in a minor, BWV 1041 – Andrew Manze, v; Academy of Ancient Music. Harmonia Mundi HMU-907155. [13:13] 11:00 Aaron Copland “An Outdoor Overture” – Colorado Sym/Andrew Litton. BIS 2164. [08:17] 12:00 Music in Chicago
12:15 Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts 1:00 Music for the Afternoon • Malcom Arnold Four Cornish Dances, Op. 91 – London Phil/Sir Malcolm Arnold. Lyrita SRCD.201, [12:26] 2:00 Afternoon Masterwork: Felix Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4 in A, Op. 90, “Italian” – Vienna Philharmonic/John Eliot Gardiner. DG 459156-2. [27:36] 3:00 Claude Debussy String Quartet in g minor, Op. 10 – Takács Quartet. Hyperion CDA-68061. [25:09] 4:00 Late Afternoon Music with Candice Agree, including The Unrush Hour at 5:00 pm 7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin 8:00 Evening Music on WFMT 9:00 Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival 10:00 Baroque&Before with Candice Agree 11:00 Evening Music on WFMT
Thursday 13 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore 9:00 Arcangelo Corelli Concerto grosso in B-Flat, Op. 6, No. 5 – Philharmonia Baroque Orch/Nicholas McGegan. Harmonia Mundi HMU-907014. [09:40] Mikhail Glinka “Russlan and Ludmila” Overture – Chicago Sym Orch/Fritz Reiner. RCA 61958-. [05:16] 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, including today’s new release, plus: Claude Debussy “Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun” – Los Angeles Phil/Esa-Pekka Salonen. Sony SK-62599. [10:09] 11:00 Sofiane Pamrat “Alaska” – Sofiane Pamart, p. Urban PIASU-166D. [04:00] 12:00 Music in Chicago, plus: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Oboe Concerto in D, K. 314 – Heinz Holliger, ob; St Martin’s Academy/Neville Marriner. Philips 422509-2 (5). [19:43] 1:00 Music for the Afternoon • Domenico Scartlatti Clavier Sonata in b minor, Kk 197 (L 147) – Igor Kamenz, p. Naive V-5399. [06:26] Ottorino Respighi Ancient Airs and Dances for the Lute, Set 2 – Los Angeles Chamber Orch/ Sir Neville Marriner. EMI CDFB5-69358-2 (2). [17:50] 2:00 Afternoon Masterwork: Frédéric Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor, Op. 21 – Daniil Trifonov, p; Mahler Chamber Orch/ Mikhail Pletnev. DG
4797518 (2). [34:48] 3:00 Johann Sebastian Bach Flute Sonata in E-Flat, BWV 1031 – Michala Petri, r; Keith Jarrett, hc. RCA 61274-2. [09:06] Maurice Ravel “Rapsodie espagnole” – Seattle Sym/Ludovic Morlot. SSM-1002. [15:28] 4:00 Late Afternoon Music with Candice Agree, including The Unrush Hour at 5:00 pm 7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin 8:00 Evenings with Kerry Frumkin 9:00 San Francisco Symphony in Concert 11:00 Evening Music on WFMT
Friday 14 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore 9:00 Franz Joseph Haydn Trumpet Concerto in E-Flat – German Chamber Phil Bremen/Alison Balsom, tr. EMI 16213-0. [14:44] Antonín Dvořák “Prague Waltzes” – Detroit Sym/Antal Dorati. Decca 414370-2. [08:52] 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, including today’s new release, plus: Carl Maria von Weber “Oberon” Overture – Vienna Phil/Christian Thielemann. DG 474502. [10:15] 11:00 Edward Elgar “From the Bavarian Highlands” (Three Bavarian Dances), Op. 27 – Bournemouth Sinfonietta/ Norman Del Mar. Chandos CHAN-6544. [12:40] 12:00 Impromptu Encore: Anthony McGill & Friends 1:00 Music for the Afternoon • Ludwig can Beethoven “Egmont” Overture – New York Phil/Kurt Masur. Teldec 77313-2. [08:30] George Frideric Handel Organ Concerto No. 13 in F, “The Cuckoo and the Nightingale” – Simon Preston, o; English Concert/Trevor Pinnock. Archiv 415338. [13:09] 2:00 Afternoon Masterwork: Franz Schubert: String Quartet No. 13 in a minor, D. 804 “Rosamunde” – Emerson String Quartet. DG 459151-2 (3). [32:38] 3:00 Alexander Borodin Symphony No. 3 in a – Seattle Sym/Gerard Schwarz. Naxos 8.572786. [17:36] Antonio Vivaldi Violin Concerto in e, R. 277 “Il Favorito” – Salvatore Accardo, v; Naples Soloists. EMI CDC7-49320-. [17:24] 4:00 Late Afternoon Music with Candice Agree, including The Unrush Hour at 5:00 pm
7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin 8:00 Evening Music on WFMT 9:00 The New York Philharmonic This Week 11:00 Best of Studs Terkel: Merce Cunningham & John Cage interviewed in 1971.
Saturday 15 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 7:00 Weekend Mornings with Maggie Clennon Reberg, including Saturday Morning Listeners’ Choice at 8:00 am and Soundtrack at 9:00 am 11:00 Introductions 12:00 From the Metropolitan Opera: Wagner’s “Tristan und Isolde” – Simon Rattle; Nina Stemme (Isolde), Ekaterina Gubanova (Brangane), Stuart Skelton (Tristan), Evgeny Nikitin (Kurwenal), René Pape (King Marke) 2:55 Weekend Music on WFMT • Robert Schumann “Fantasiestücke,” Op. 88 – Renaud Capuçon, v; Gautier Capuçon, vc; Martha Argerich, p. Erato 0190295634216. [18:52] 4:30 Listening to Singers with Oliver Camacho 5:00 Evening Music on WFMT • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Piano Concerto No. 12 in A, K. 414 – Evgeny Kissin, p; Moscow Virtuosi/Vladimir Spivakov. RCA 60707-2. [26:12] Joseph Bologne String Quartet No. 1 in C, Op. 1, No. 1 – Juilliard String Quartet. Sony 19075862152 (10). [09:28] Florence Price Symphony No. 1 in E minor – Fort Smith Symphony/John Jeter. Naxos 8.559827. [37:22] Stephen Sondheim “The Demon Barber” – Anthony de Mare, p. ECM 2470-72. [05:01] Kenji Bunch “Swing Shift”: II. “Night Flight” – ZTrio. Rattle RAT-D064 [04:52] 7:00 Fiesta! with Elbio Barilari: Another Imaginary Concert 8:00 Folkstage hosted by Rich Warren 9:00 The Midnight Special with Marilyn Rea Beyer
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Simon Rattle. EMI CDC557691-2. [04:15] Johann Sebastian Bach French Suite No. 6 in E, BWV 817 – Murray Perahia, p. DG 4796565 (2). [14:59] Anthony Ritchie French Overture, Op. 138 – Zealand Sym Orch/Tecwyn Evans. Atoll ACD-. [10:43] Louise Farrenc “Nonetto,” Op. 38: IV. Adagio-Allegro – Bernold, Leleux, Guyot, Cazalet, Audin, Sutre, Da Silva, Salque, Pasquier. Naive V-5033. [05:35] William Grant Still Symphony No. 1, “AfroAmerican” – London Sym Orch/Paul Freeman. Sony 19075862152 (10). [24:33] Antonín Dvořák Cello Concerto in b minor, Op. 104, Finale: Allegro moderato – Weilerstein, vc; Czech Phil Orch/Jiri Belohlávek. Decca B0019765-02. [12:28] Vítězslava Kaprálová “Legenda” – Dawn Wohn, v; Esther Park, p. Delos DE-3547. [06:16] Silvestre Revueltas “Sensemayá” – Simón Bolívar Sym Orch/Eduardo Mata. Dorian DOR-90178. [06:48] Lennox Berkeley String Serenade, Op. 12 – Sinfonia of London/John Wilson. Chandos CHSA-5264. [13:10] Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Divertimento in F, K. 439b/2 – Chicago Sym Winds. CBS M2K-42144 (2). [17:10] Francis Poulenc Flute Sonata – Emmanuel Pahud, f; Eric Le Sage, p. EMI CDC5-56488-2. [12:27] Germaine Tailleferre Flute and Piano Concerto – Leta Miller, f; Josephine Gandolfi, p; UC Santa Cruz Orch/ Nicole Paiement. Helicon HE1048. [17:13] Gabriel Fauré Harp Impromptu, Op. 86 – Yolanda Kondonassis, h. Telarc CD-80418. [08:24] Frédéric Chopin “FantaisieImpromptu” in c-sharp minor, Op.66 – Maria João Pires, p. DG 457585-2. [05:44] Margaret Bonds “Troubled Water” – Joel Fan, p. Reference RR-119. [05:21] Maurice Ravel “Jeux d’eau” – Philharmonia Orch/Geoffrey Simon. Cala CACD-1004. [05:35] George Gershwin “Rialto Ripples” – Richard Glazier, p. Centaur CRC-2486. [02:25] George Gershwin “Lullaby” – Brodsky Quartet. Chandos CHAN-10801. [09:02] Antonio Vivaldi Two-Cello Concerto in g minor, R. 531 – Apollo’s Fire/Jeannette Sorrell. Avie AV-2211. [10:45] Evenings with Kerry Frumkin • Ludwig van
Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Op. 37: III. Rondo – Till Fellner, p; St Martin’s Academy/Neville Marriner. Erato 98539-2. [09:05] Samuel Barber “Dover Beach,” Op. 3 – Kelly Markgraf, br; Escher String Quartet. Music@Menlo Live 2012. [07:36] Samuel Barber Violin Concerto, Op. 14 – Vadim Gluzman, v; São Paulo Sym Orch/John Neschling. BIS SACD-1662. [23:45] Astor Piazzolla “Libertango” – Cavatina Duo. Bridge 9330. [02:25] Carlos Gardel “El día que me quieras” – Quartet San Francisco. ViolinJazz JCCD-104. [04:41] 6:00 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky String Serenade in C, Op. 48 – Moscow Soloists/ Yuri Bashmet. RCA 60368-2. [29:02] Florence Price Piano Sonata in e minor: II. “Andante – Maria Corley, p. Albany TROY-857 “ [06:59] Ludwig van Beethoven “Andante favori” in F, WoO 57 – András Schiff, p. ECM 1945/46. [08:22] 7:00 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart “The Magic Flute”: Aria, “Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen” – Jonathan Lemalu, b-br; New Zealand Sym Orch/
James Judd. EMI CDC557605-2. [04:12] Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart “The Marriage of Figaro”: Aria, “Non più andrai” – Jonathan Lemalu, b-br; New Zealand Sym Orch/James Judd. EMI CDC5-57605-2. [03:42] Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky “Eugene Onegin”: Prince Gremin’s Aria – Jonathan Lemalu, b-br; New Zealand Sym Orch/James Judd. EMI CDC5-57605-2. [05:56] Lil Boulanger “D’un soir triste” – Women’s Phil/JoAnn Falletta. Koch 3-7169-2. [11:30] 8:00 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Radio Broadcasts: Riccardo Muti, conductor; Till Fellner, piano – Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 25. Mozart: Symphony No. 5. 10:00 Collectors’ Corner with Henry Fogel: Jon Vickers in Live Performance
Monday 17 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore 9:00 Felix Mendelssohn “The Hebrides” (“Fingal’s Cave”) Overture, Op. 26 – Leipzig Gewandhaus Orch/Kurt 2021
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Masur. Berlin Classics 0091572-BC. [09:41] Hugo Wolf “Italian Serenade” in G – Cremona Quartet. Avie AV-2436. [06:50] 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, including today’s new release, plus: Johann Pachelbel Canon and Gigue in D—Tafelmusik. Reference RR-13. [05:43] 11:00 Jean Sibelius “Finlandia” – Berlin Phil/ Herbert von Karajan. DG 413755-2. [09:23] 12:00 Music in Chicago, plus: Richard Strauss “Salome”: “Dance of the Seven Veils” – Vienna Phil/Gustavo Dudamel. B0017175-02. [10:13] 1:00 Music for the Afternoon • Richard Wagner “Forest Murmurs” – Vienna Phil/Sir Georg Solti. Decca 410137-2. [08:57] Antonio Vivaldi Mandolin Concerto in D, R. 93 – Julien Martineau, mandolin; Concerto Italiano/ Rinaldo Alessandrini. Naïve V-5455. [10:12] 2:00 Afternoon Masterwork: Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: “Scheherazade,” Op. 35 – Chicago Sym Orch/Seiji Ozawa; Victor Aitay, v. EMI CDC7-47617-2. [43:08] 3:00 Michael Haydn Divertimento in C – David Taylor, v; Gary Stucka, vc; Jerry Fuller, db. Musical Arts Society. SCD-41595. [11:55] Johann Sebastian Bach Clavier Partita No. 3 in a minor, BWV 827 – Vladimir Ashkenazy, p. Decca 4782163 (2). [16:24] 4:00 Late Afternoon Music with Candice Agree, including The Unrush Hour at 5:00 pm 7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin • Sir William Walton (1902-1983) Composer Benjamin Britten once wrote that hearing William Walton’s music was a “great turning point in his musical life.” We’ll trace the arc of Walton’s life and his associations with the greatest artists of his time, including Heifetz, Hindemith, Olivier, and Beecham. Bill features Walton’s love of different musical genres; Film music from Henry V, the poem Façade set to music performed by the London Mozart Players narrated by Prunella Scales (Sybil from BBC’s Fawlty Towers), the orchestral march Crown Imperial, the cantata Belshazzar’s Feast, and his viola concerto, which is studied and performed by all serious violists. This is a week steeped in British music of the 20th century. 8:00 Music from Nichols Hall 26
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Tuesday 18 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore 9:00 Heitor Villa-Lobos “Bachianas Brasileiras” No. 4: III. “Aria (Cantiga)” – Justin Badgerow, p. Divine Art 25201. [05:15] Johann Strauss II “Emperor Waltz,” Op. 437 – Vienna Phil/ Nikolaus Harnoncourt. DG 474250-2. [11:56] 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, including today’s new release, plus: Modest Mussorgsky “Night on Bald Mountain” – Lucerne Festival Orch Brass Ensemble/Lutz Köhler. Accentus ACC-30296. [11:14] 11:00 Manuel Ponce “Canciones Mexicanas” (“Estrellita”; “La Barca del Marino”; “Cuiden Su Vida”) – Jorge Federico Osorio, p. Cedille CDR-90000086. [09:18] 12:00 Music in Chicago, plus: Felix Mendelssohn “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” Overture, Op. 21 – Leipzig Gewandhaus Orch/Riccardo Chailly. Decca 4756939. [12:00] 1:00 Music for the Afternoon • Ralph Vaughan Williams “The Lark Ascending” – Hilary Hahn, v; London Sym Orch/Sir Colin Davis. DG 474504-2. [16:14] Johann Sebastian Bach Flute Sonata in C, BWV 1033 – Andrea Oliva, f; Angela Hewitt, p. Hyperion CDA-67897. [09:05] 2:00 Afternoon Masterwork: Robert Schumann: Symphony No. 3 in E-Flat, Op. 97, “Rhenish” – San Francisco Sym/Michael Tilson Thomas. SFS Media 821936-0071-2. [36:53] 3:00 Muzio Clementi Sonata for Piano Four-Hands, Op. 3/2 – Genevieve Chinn, p; Allen Brings, p. Centaur CRC2046. [14:40] Francesco Geminiani Concerto grosso in d minor, “La Follia” (after Corelli) – Academy of Ancient Music/Andrew Manze. Harmonia Mundi HMU-907261/62 (2). [11:18] 4:00 Late Afternoon Music with Candice Agree, including The Unrush Hour at 5:00 pm 7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin • Sir William Walton (1902-1983) See Mon. May 17 at 7:00 pm. 8:00 From the CSO’s Archives: The First 130 Years, “Deal with the Devil” – Liszt: “Mephisto Waltz” No. 1 (“The Dance in the Village Inn”) (/
Fritz Reiner); Wagner: “A Faust Overture” (/Claudio Abbado); Berlioz: Selections from “The Damnation of Faust” (/Sir Georg Solti); Liszt: “A Faust Symphony” (/Sir Georg Solti) 10:00 Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, with guest artists Kristin Lee, violin; Arnaud Sussmann, violin; Paul Neubauer, viola; Dawn Upshaw, soprano; Gilbert Kalish, piano – Dvorák: Terzetto in C major for Two Violins and Viola, Op. 74; Bartók: “Fekete fod,” “Annyi bánat,” “Régi keserves,” and “Eddig való” for Voice and Piano; Bartók: Divertimento for Strings, BB 118 11:00 Evening Music on WFMT
Wednesday 19 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore 9:00 Dmitri Shostakovich “Festive Overture” – Russian National Orch/Mikhail Pletnev. DG 439892-2. [05:33] Franz Schubert String Quartet No. 12 in c minor, D. 703, “Quartettsatz” – Juilliard String Quartet. CBS MP-39553. [07:25] 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, including today’s new release, plus: Florence Price “Fantasie nègre” – Lara Downes, p. Sono Luminus DSL-92207. [07:07] 11:00 Franz Liszt “Hungarian Rhapsody” No. 2 in c-sharp minor – Cincinnati Pops Orch/Erich Kunzel. Vox CDX-5132 (2). [09:40] 12:00 Music in Chicago 12:15 Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts: The Colere Quartet (saxophones) live from the Cultural Center 1:00 Music for the Afternoon • Robert Schumann “Kinderszenen,” Op. 15 – Martha Argerich, p. DG 4795096 (2). [17:45] Otto Nicolai “The Merry Wives of Windsor” Overture – Royal Scottish National Orch/ Lance Friedel. Naxos 8.573418. [08:22] 2:00 Afternoon Masterwork: Edward Elgar: “Enigma Variations” – City of Birmingham Symphony/ Simon Rattle. EMI CDC 5 55001 2. [32:27] 3:00 Otto Klemperer “Merry Waltz” – Philharmonia/Otto Klemperer. EMI CDM763917-2. [07:29] Richard Rodgers “Carousel” Waltz – John Wilson Orchestra. Warner 5099998443529. [07:26] Jacques Ibert
“Escales” (“Ports of Call”) – Orchestre National de l’O.R.T.F./Jean Martinon. EMI CDM7-64276-2. [15:28] 4:00 Late Afternoon Music with Candice Agree, including The Unrush Hour at 5:00 pm 7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin • Sir William Walton (1902-1983) See Mon. May 17 at 7:00 pm. 8:00 Evening Music on WFMT 9:00 Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival 10:00 Baroque&Before with Candice Agree 11:00 Evening Music on WFMT
Thursday 20 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore 9:00 Samuel Scheidt Suite for Brass – German Brass/ Enrique Crespo. EMI CDC747692-2. [09:26] Maurice Ravel “La valse” – Rotterdam Phil/Yannick Nézet-Séguin. EMI 66342-2. [12:27] 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, including today’s new release, plus: Sergei Prokofiev “Romeo and Juliet,” Op. 64: “Romeo and Juliet Before Parting” – Royal Concertgebouw Orch/ Myung-Whun Chung. DG 439870-2. [09:14] 11:00 Traditional “Bound for California” medley – James Galway, f, Jay Ungar, fiddle, Molly Mason, g. RCA 63883-2. [04:12] 12:00 Music in Chicago, plus: Antonín Dvořák Wind Serenade in d minor, Op. 44 – Netherlands Wind Ensemble/Edo de Waart. Philips 472678-2 (2). [24:16] 1:00 Music for the Afternoon • Jacques Offenbach “The Tales of Hoffmann”: “Barcarolle” (“Belle nuit”) – Gothenburg Sym Orch/ Neeme Järvi. DG 429494-2. [04:33] Giuseppe Verdi “Aida”: Chorus, “Gloria all’Egitto” (Triumphal Scene) – La Scala Cho & Orch/Claudio Abbado. DG 4777645. [11:52] 2:00 Afternoon Masterwork: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 5 in A, K. 219, “Turkish” – Julia Fischer, v; Netherlands Chamber Orch/Yakov Kreizberg. Pentatone PTC-5186453 (2). [29:41] 3:00 Joseph Joachim “Notturno,” Op. 12 – Daniel Hope, v; Royal Stockholm Phil/Sakari Oramo. DG B0015312-02. [09:23] Anatol Liadov “Eight Russian Folksongs,” Op. 58 – Mexico City
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Friday 21 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore 9:00 Claude Debussy “L’isle joyeuse” – Maurizio Pollini, p. DG 445187-2. [05:41] George Frideric Handel Harp Concerto in B-Flat, Op. 4, No. 6 – Valérie Milot, h; Les Violons du Roy/ Bernard Labadie. Analekta AN2-9990. [13:10] 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, including today’s new release, plus: Paul Dukas “La Péri” – New York Phil/Pierre Boulez. Sony SMK. [19:11] 11:00 Heitor Villa-Lobos “Chôros” No. 5, “Alma Brasileira” – Sergio Assad & Odair Assad, g’s. Nonesuch 79179-2. [04:40] 12:00 Impromptu Encore: Pianist Victor Santiago Asuncion, violinist Giora Schmidt, and cellist Leonardo Altino 1:00 Music for the Afternoon • Darius Milhaud “Le boeuf sur le toit,” Op. 58 – London Sym Orch/Antal Dorati. Mercury 434335-2. [18:35] Johann Sebastian Bach “Brandenburg” Coliveroncerto No. 3 in G Major, BWV 1048 – Apollo’s Fire/Jeannette Sorrell. Avie AV-2207 (2). [11:29] 2:00 Afternoon Masterwork: Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 23 in f, Op. 57 “Appassionata” – Paul Lewis, piano. Harmonia Mundi HMX-2901902.11 (10). [29:49] 3:00 Edward MacDowell Orchestra Suite #1 in d, Op. 42 – Ulster Orch/Takuo Yuasa. Naxos 8.559075. [20:23] Carl Nielsen Piano Trio in G – Trio Ondine. Da Capo 8.226064. [10:52] 4:00 Late Afternoon Music with Candice Agree, including The Unrush Hour at 5:00 pm 7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin • Sir William Walton (1902-1983) See Mon. May 17 at 7:00 pm. 8:00 Evening Music on WFMT 9:00 The New York Philharmonic This Week 11:00 Best of Studs Terkel
Saturday 22 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 7:00 Weekend Mornings with Maggie Clennon Reberg, including Saturday Morning Listeners’ Choice at 8:00 am and Soundtrack at 9:00 am 11:00 Introductions 12:00 From the Metropolitan Opera: Bellini’s “I Puritani” – Maurizio Benini; Diana Damrau (Elvira Walton), Javier Camarena (Lord Arturo Talbot), Alexey Markov (Riccardo Forth), Luca Pisaroni (Giorgio Walton) 3:30 Weekend Music on WFMT Michael Torke “Bliss” – University of Kansas Wind Ensemble/Paul W. Popiel. Ecstatic Records ER-092261. [11:30] Gary Washington “Back Transcendental Suite”: Finale – Nadia Vasileva & Raye Harvey, v’s; Natalia Senior Brown, vi; Gary Washington (TheUrbanCellist), vc. TheUrbanCellist. [08:29] Traditional “My Soul’s Been Anchored in the Lord” – Leontyne Price, s; Cho & Orch/Leonard de Paur. Sony 88691928242. [02:11] Florence Price Violin Concerto No. 1 in D – ErGene Kahng, violin; Janacek Phil/Ryan Cockerham. Albany TROY-1706. [24:07] 4:30 Listening to Singers with Oliver Camacho 5:00 Evening Music on WFMT • Beata Moon “Fandango” – L’Arpeggiata/Christina Pluhar. Virgin Classics 0709502-3. [09:11] Antonio Soler “King Arthur” Suite – Alison Balsom, tr; English Concert/ Trevor Pinnock. EMI 40329-2 Suite. [14:20] Henry Purcell “Lachrimae Pavan” (after John Dowland)” – Ground Floor. Harmonia Mundi HMN916117. [05:09] Dobrinka Tabakova Concerto for cello and strings – Kristina Blaumane, vc; Lithuanian Chamber Orch/Maxim Rysanov. ECM 2239. [20:55] 7:00 Fiesta! with Elbio Barilari: Latin American Piano from Three Centuries 8:00 Folkstage hosted by Rich Warren 9:00 The Midnight Special with Marilyn Rea Beyer
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From the Metropolitan Opera: Bellini’s I Puritani For his final masterpiece before a premature death at age 34, Bellini created an opera that relies heavily on a quartet of superb bel canto singers. In this performance from February 2017, tenor Javier Camarena is Arturo. Diana Damrau’s Elvira slowly unravels in three achingly beautiful mad scenes, while Alexey Markov brings his rich baritone to Riccardo, the unsuccessful suitor for Elvira’s hand. Luca Pisaroni is Elivira’s loving uncle Giorgio, and Maurizio Benini leads the Met Orchestra and Chorus.
Saturday, May 22 12:00 pm Angeles Guitar Quartet. Delos DE-3205 Toccata. [01:44] Claudio Monteverdi Scherzi Musicali (1607), Balletto, “De la bellezza” – Monteverdi Cho, English Baroque Soloists/John Eliot Gardiner. Erato ECD-88032. [09:30] Cécile Chaminade Piano Sonata in c minor, Op. 21 – Joanne Polk, p. Steinway & Sons30037. [16:44] Vincent d’Indy Fantasy on Popular French Themes, Op. 31. Albrecht Mayer, ob; St. Martin’s Academy/Mathias Mönius. Decca 4782564. [14:51] 5:00 Evenings with Kerry Frumkin • György Ligeti Six Bagatelles for Winds – Westwood Wind Quintet. Crystal CD-750. [11:58] Carl Nielsen Symphony No. 4, Op. 29, “The Inextinguishable” – Chicago Sym Orch/Jean Martinon. RCA 21296-2. [32:37] 6:00 Henryk Wieniawski Violin Concerto No. 2 in d minor, Op. 22 – Michael Rabin, v; Philharmonia Orch/ Eugene Goossens. EMI 2021
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CMS7-64123-2 (6). [23:52] Anna Bon Flute Sonata in g minor, Op. 1, No. 5 – Sabine Dreier, f; Irene Hegen, hc. CPO 999181-2. [07:46] Alexander Scriabin “Poème-Nocturne,” Op. 61 – Sviatoslav Richter, p. Decca 4758130 (2). [08:24] 7:00 Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Clarinet Quintet, Op. 10 – Wright, cl; Hawthorne String Quartet. Koch 3-7056-2. [35:39] Barbara Strozzi Cantata, “L’Astratto,” Op. 8 (1664) – Emöke Baráth, s; Il Pomo d’Oro/ Francesco Corti. Erato 0190295632212. [09:50] 8:00 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Radio Broadcasts: Riccardo Muti, conductor; Robert Chen, violin – Debussy: Symphonic Fragments from The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian. Ravel: Mother Goose Suite. Ligeti: Violin Concerto. Debussy: La mer. Ravel: Valses nobles et sentimentales. 10:00 Collectors’ Corner with Henry Fogel: Music of Antonin Reicha
Monday 24 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore 9:00 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Piano Sonata No. 16 in C, K. 545 – Mitsuko Uchida, p. Philips 412122-2. [13:40] Aaron Copland “Quiet City” – New York Phil/ Leonard Bernstein. DG 419170-2. [10:35] 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, including today’s new release, plus: Arcangelo Corelli Variations in d minor on “La Follia,” Op. 5, No. 12 – Hesperion XXI/Jordi Savall. Alia Vox AV-9844. [11:00] 11:00 George Gershwin “An American in Paris” – Buffalo Phil Orch/JoAnn Falletta. Analekta AN2-9299. [18:01] 12:00 Music in Chicago, plus: Alexander Borodin “In the Steppes of Central Asia” – St Petersburg Kirov Orch/Valery Gergiev. Philips 470840-2. [07:46] 1:00 Music for the Afternoon • Franz Schubert “Arpeggione” Sonata in a minor, D. 821 – David Finckel, vc; Wu Han, p. ArtistLed 10401-2. [26:13] Pietro Mascagni “Cavalleria rusticana”: Intermezzo – Chicago Sym/Riccardo Muti. CSO ReSound CSOR 9011801. [04:32] 2:00 Afternoon Masterwork: 28
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César Franck: Symphony in d minor – Orchestre Métropolitain/Yannick Nézet-Séguin. Atma ACD2-2647. [41:28] 3:00 Ignaz Pleyel Clarinet Concerto in B-Flat: III. Allegro – Paul Meyer, cl; Franz Liszt Chamber Orch/ Jean-Pierre Rampal. Denon CO-78911. [05:57] Ludwig van Beethoven “Fidelio” Overture – Consortium Classicum. CPO 999437-2. [05:55] Johann Joachim Quantz Flute Concerto #216 in c – Rachel Brown, f; Brandenburg Consort/ Roy Goodman. Hyperion CDA-66927. [16:29] 4:00 Late Afternoon Music with Candice Agree, including The Unrush Hour at 5:00 pm 7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin • Mozart Piano Concertos Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart breaks a concerto tradition in his Piano Concerto No. 9, known as the Jeunehomme Concerto, with his placement of a piano solo near the opening of the piece. Mozart wrote countless concertos, many of which are sprightly and elegant to the ear, even at the fingers of an eightyear-old. While exploring various sounds into his teens, Mozart was so heavily inspired by Johann Christian Bach’s writing that he reinterpreted it, making it his own. Bach and Mozart bonded over music, as well as over tricky keyboard games. 8:00 Music from Nichols Hall 10:00 Evenings with Kerry Frumkin
Tuesday 25 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore 9:00 Edward Elgar String Serenade in e, Op. 20 – Orpheus Chamber Orch. DG 419191-2. [12:18] Isaac Albéniz “Suite española”, Op. 47, No. 1, “Granada” (Serenade) – Nicola Hall, g. Decca 430839-2. [05:08] 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, including today’s new release, plus: Gabriel Fauré “Pavane,” Op. 50 – St Martin’s Academy and Cho/Sir Neville Marriner. Argo 410552-2. [05:41] 11:00 Cecil Burleigh “Four Rocky Mountain Sketches,” Op. 11 – Rachel Barton Pine, v; Matthew Hagle, p. Cedille CDR-90000097. [09:56] 12:00 Music in Chicago, plus: Johannes Brahms Variations on a Theme by Haydn,
Op.56a – Philadelphia Orch/Riccardo Muti. Philips 426299-2. [19:00] 1:00 Music for the Afternoon • Franz Liszt “Transcendental Etudes,” No. 9, “Ricordanza” – Daniil Trifonov, p. DG 4795529 (2). [11:07] Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Flute Concerto No. 2 in D, K. 314 – Emmanuel Pahud, f; Berlin Phil/Claudio Abbado. EMI CDC5-56365-2. [18:44] 2:00 Afternoon Masterwork: Claude Debussy: “La Mer” – Los Angeles Philharmonic/ Esa-Pekka Salonen. Sony SK-62599. [24:19] 3:00 Eduard Tubin Symphony #4 in A, “Sinfonia lirica”: Finale, “Allegro” – Bergen Sym Orch/Neeme Järvi. BIS CD-227. [09:24] Johann Baptist Vanhal Bassoon Concerto in C: II. Adagio (Andante molto) – John Miller, bn; St Mary’s Chamber Players/Neville Marriner. Pro Arte CDD-195. [06:01] 4:00 Late Afternoon Music with Candice Agree, including The Unrush Hour at 5:00 pm 7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin • Mozart Piano Concertos See Mon. May 24 at 7:00 pm. 8:00 From the CSO’s Archives: The First 130 Years, Reiner Rarities – Kabalevsky: Colas Breugnon Overture (/ Fritz Reiner); Hovhaness: Symphony No. 2, Op. 132 (“Mysterious Mountain”) (/ Fritz Reiner); Weinberger: Polka and Fugue from “Schwanda the Bagpiper” (/ Fritz Reiner); Liebermann: Concerto for Jazz Band and Orchestra (/Fritz Reiner); Mahler: Symphony No. 4 in G Major (/Fritz Reiner) 10:00 Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, with guest artists Michael Brown, piano I; Orion Weiss, piano II; Anne-Marie McDermott, piano – Messiaen: Visions de l’Amen for Two Pianos; Mendelssohn: Lied ohne Worte in E major for Piano, Op. 19b, No. 1 11:00 Evening Music on WFMT
Wednesday 26 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore 9:00 Igor Stravinsky Suite No. 2 for Small Orchestra – London Sinfonietta/Riccardo Chailly. Decca 417114-2. [06:17] Richard Strauss Horn Concerto No. 1 in E-flat – Dale Clevenger, fh; Chicago Sym Orch/Daniel Barenboim.
Teldec 23913-2. [16:49] 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, including today’s new release, plus: Franz Schubert Impromptus, D. 935 (Op. 142), No. 3 in B-flat – Shai Wosner, p. Onyx 4172. [11:06] 11:00 Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov “Capriccio espagnol,” Op. 34 – Gothenburg Sym/Neeme Järvi. DG 423604-2 (2). [15:42] 12:00 Music in Chicago 12:15 Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts: Duo Dotto-Cho (violin and piano) live from the Cultural Center 1:00 Music for the Afternoon • Sergei Rachmaninoff “The Sea and the Gulls” (after Etude-Tableau, Op. 39, No. 2) – Cincinnati Sym Orch/Jesús LópezCobos. Telarc CD-80396. [08:06] Henry Purcell “The Fairy Queen,” Suite from Act 3 – Le Concert des Nations/Jordi Savall. Fontalis ES-8583. [11:01] 2:00 Afternoon Masterwork: Ottorino Respighi: “Roman Festivals” (“Feste Romane”) – Oregon Symphony Orchestra/James de Preist. Delos D/CD-3070. [25:42] 3:00 Antonio Salieri Sinfonia, “Il Giorno Onomastico” – London Mozart Players/ Matthias Bamert. Chandos CHAN-9877. [17:53] Johann Nepomuk Hummel Theme and Variations in F, Op. 97 – London Mozart Players/ Howard Shelley, p. Chandos CHAN-9886. [16:01] 4:00 Late Afternoon Music with Candice Agree, including The Unrush Hour at 5:00 pm 7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin • Mozart Piano Concertos See Mon. May 24 at 7:00 pm. 8:00 Evening Music on WFMT 9:00 Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival 10:00 Baroque&Before with Candice Agree 11:00 Evening Music on WFMT
Thursday 27 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore 9:00 Gioachino Rossini “The Barber of Seville” Overture – Santa Cecilia Orch/Antonio Pappano. Warner 24344. [07:15] Luigi Boccherini String Quintet in e, Op. 31/4 – Ensemble 415. Harmonia Mundi HMC-901378. [16:39] 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, including today’s new release, plus: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky “Swan Lake” Suite – London Sym
In the Spotlight Orch/André Previn. EMI CDM4-89485-2. [22:54] 11:00 Jianmin Wang “At Night on the Lake Beneath the Maple Bridge” – Lang Lang, p; Ji Wei, zither. DG B0008233-00. [09:09] 12:00 Music in Chicago, plus: Richard Strauss Wind Serenade in E-flat, Op. 7 – Stockholm Phil Winds/ Paavo Berglund. RCA 60173-2-RC. [09:14] 1:00 Music for the Afternoon • George Frideric Handel Harpsichord Suite No. 5 in E – Murray Perahia, p. Sony SK62785. [08:52] Alexander Borodin “Prince Igor”: Two Polovtsian Dances – London Sym Cho, Orch/Georg Solti. Decca 417689-2. [13:42] 2:00 Afternoon Masterwork: Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Trio in B-Flat, Op. 97, “Archduke” – Itzhak Perlman, v; Lynn Harrell, vc; Vladimir Ashkenazy, p. EMI CDC7-47010-2. [37:26] 3:00 Jean-Marie Leclair String Sonata in B-Flat, Op. 4/2 – Purcell Quartet. Chandos CHAN-0536. [11:00] Camille Saint-Saëns Violin Sonata No. 1 in d minor, Op. 75 – Joshua Bell, v; Jeremy Denk, p. Sony 82026-2. [22:29] 4:00 Late Afternoon Music with Candice Agree, including The Unrush Hour at 5:00 pm 7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin • Mozart Piano Concertos See Mon. May 24 at 7:00 pm. 8:00 Evenings with Kerry Frumkin 9:00 San Francisco Symphony in Concert 11:00 Evening Music on WFMT
Friday 28 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore 9:00 George Gershwin “Cuban Overture” – Cincinnati Pops Orch/Erich Kunzel. Telarc CD-80542. [09:46] Ralph Vaughan Williams “Three Preludes on Welsh Hymn Tunes” (Household Music), 1940 No. 3, “Aberystwyth” – Nash Ensemble. Hyperion CDA-67381/2 (2). [07:40] 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, including today’s new release, plus: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Horn Concerto No. 2 in E-Flat, K. 417 – Barry Tuckwell, hn; St. Martin’s Academy/Sir Neville Marriner. EMI CDM7-69569-2. [12:52] 11:00 Jacques Offenbach “Gaîté Parisienne,” Suite – Boston Sym/Seiji Ozawa. DG 423698-2. [19:14]
12:00 Impromptu Encore: Pablo Villegas, guitar 1:00 Music for the Afternoon • Dmitri Shostakovich “The Gadfly” Suite, Op. 97a – Thomas Yang, v; Chicago Sinfonietta/ Paul Freeman. Pro Arte CDD-551. [10:41] Claude Debussy Cello Sonata in d minor – Jean-Guihen Queyras, vc; Alexandre Tharaud, p. Harmonia Mundi HMX-2908796.97. [10:41] 2:00 Afternoon Masterwork: Camille Saint-Saëns: Symphony No. 3 in c minor, Op. 78, “Organ” – Utah Symphony/Thierry Fischer; Paul Jacobs, o. Hyperion CDA-68201. [36:01] 3:00 Anton Rubinstein “Don Quixote”, Op. 87 – Slovak Phil/Michael Halász. Marco Polo 8.220359. [21:01] Franz Liszt “Rhapsodie espagnole” – Murray Perahia, p. Sony SK-47180. [13:25] 4:00 Late Afternoon Music with Candice Agree, including The Unrush Hour at 5:00 pm 7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin • Mozart Piano Concertos See Mon. May 24 at 7:00 pm. 8:00 Evening Music on WFMT 9:00 The New York Philharmonic This Week 11:00 Best of Studs Terkel
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Sunday 30 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 With Heart and Voice: Memorial Day 7:00 Weekend Mornings with Maggie Clennon Reberg 12:00 Sunday Afternoons with Robbie Ellis • Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 21 in C, Op. 53, “Waldstein” – Jonathan Biss, p. Onyx 4115. [23:00] Russell Garcia “Variations on a Five Note Theme” – Los Angeles Horn Club/Russell Garcia. EMI CDM7-63764-2. [11:26] Erwin Schulhoff Five Pieces for String Quartet (1923) No. 4, “Alla Tango Milonga” – Alma Quartet. Gutman Records CDNR-161 (2). [04:05] Florence Price “Five
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From the Metropolitan Opera: Verdi’s Otello In Bartlett Sher’s production from October 2015, conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin was at the helm for Verdi’s dynamic setting of Shakespeare’s great tragedy. Aleksandrs Antonenko is the Moor Otello, and his friend Iago is sung by Željko Lučić. Sonya Yoncheva continued to win fans as Desdemona, Otello’s faithful and long-suffering wife; also starring Günther Groissböck as Lodovico and Dimitri Pittas as Cassio.
Saturday, May 29 12:00 pm Folksongs in Counterpoint”: II. “Clementine” – Apollo Chamber Players. Navona NV-6038. [02:45] 1:00 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky “The Tempest,” Op. 18 – Chicago Sym Orch/Claudio Abbado. CBS MK-39359. [21:55] Rolando Alfredo Ortiz “Cuban Dream After the Storm” – Chicago Harp Quartet. Chicago Harp Quartet 2013. [07:52] Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky “The Storm,” Op. 76 (Overture to Ostrovsky’s Drama) – Royal Concertgebouw Orch/ Bernard Haitink. Philips 442061-2 (6). [12:23] Toru Takemitsu Toward the Sea” III – Aurèle Nicolet, f; Naoko Yoshino, h. Philips 442012-2. [10:52] 2:00 Leoš Janáček Sinfonietta (1926) – Vienna Phil/Charles Mackerras. Decca 410138-2. [24:09] Erich Wolfgang Korngold “Die tote Stadt”: Marietta’s Song – Yo-Yo Ma, vc; Kathryn Stott, p. Sony 19439822372. [06:09] Johann Sebastian Bach Cantata No. 76, “Die Himmel erzählen die Ehre Gottes” 2021
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(“The Heavens Declare”): Chorale, “Thanks, God, and praise be given to you” – Yo-Yo Ma, Baroquevc; Amsterdam Baroque Orch/Ton Koopman. Sony SK-60681. [03:00] Johann Sebastian Bach Schübler Chorale, “Wachet auf” (“Sleepers Awake”), BWV 645 – Yo-Yo Ma, vc; Amsterdam Baroque Orch/Ton Koopman. Sony S2K-93927 (2). [03:48] Johann Sebastian Bach “The Art of Fugue,” BWV 1080, Contrapunctus XIII – Yo-Yo Ma, vc; Chris Thile, man; Edgar Meyer, db. Nonesuch 558933-2. [04:42] 3:00 Miriam Hyde Piano Concerto No. 1 in e-flat minor – Miriam Hyde, p; West Australian Sym Orch/Geoffrey Simon. ABC Classics 4817995 (2). [30:22] Sergei Prokofiev Ten Pieces from “Romeo and Juliet,” Op. 75, X. “Romeo and Juliet Before Parting” – Jorge Federico Osorio, p. Cedille CDR-90000153. [07:39] Frederick Delius “A Village Romeo and Juliet”: “The Walk to the Paradise Garden” – London Sym Orch/Sir John Barbirolli. EMI CDZ7-62527-2 [09:45]
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4:00 Sergei Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 1 in D-Flat – Vladimir Ashkenazy, p; Utah Sym Orch/Maurice Abravanel. Intaglio INCD-7181. [15:16] Dmitri Shostakovich String Quartet No. 1 in C, Op. 49 – Pacifica Quartet. Cedille CDR-90000130 (2). [14:43] Pauline Viardot “Six Morceaux,” No. 4, “Mazourke” – Laura Kobayashi, v; Susan Keith Gray, p. Albany TROY1081.[03:48] Pauline Viardot “Six Morceaux,” No. 3, “Berceuse” – Laura Kobayashi, v; Susan Keith Gray, p. Albany TROY-1081. [02:58] Pauline Viardot “Six Morceaux,” No. 2, “Bohémienne” – Laura Kobayashi, v; Susan Keith Gray, p. Albany TROY-1081. [02:19] 5:00 Evenings with Kerry Frumkin • Gustav Mahler “Rückert Lieder” – Magdalena Kozena, ms; Berlin Phil/Sir Simon Rattle. DG B0016761-02. [19:36] John Dowland “Go from My Window” – David Russell, g. Telarc CD-80659. [02:55] John Dowland “Flow my tears” – Stile
Antico. Harmonia Mundi HMM-902266. [05:10] John Dowland “The Frog Galliard” – Paul O’Dette, l. Harmonia Mundi HMU907163. [02:00] Jennifer Higdon “An Exaltation of Larks” – Lark Quartet. Bridge 9379. [15:53] 6:00 Johannes Brahms Piano Quartet No. 1 in g minor, Op..25 – Philharmonia Orch/ Robert Craft. Koch 3-7493-2. [42:46] Samuel ColeridgeTaylor “Twenty-Four Negro Melodies,” Op. 59, No. 23, “Steal Away” – David Shaffer-Gottschalk, p. Albany TROY-930/31. [04:40] Samuel ColeridgeTaylor “Twenty-Four Negro Melodies,” Op. 59, No. 11, “Didn’t My Lord Deliver Daniel?” – David ShafferGottschalk, p. Albany TROY930/31. [03:26] Samuel Coleridge-Taylor “TwentyFour Negro Melodies,” Op. 59, No. 18, “My Lord Delivered Daniel” – David Shaffer-Gottschalk, p. Albany TROY-930/31. [02:09] 7:00 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Symphony No. 40 in g minor, K. 550 – Los Angeles Chamber Orch/ Gerard Schwarz. Delos D/ CD-3012. [26:18] Ludwig van Beethoven “Grosse Fuge” in B-Flat, Op. 133 – Quartetto Italiano. Philips 4758685 (3). [18:52] 8:00 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Radio Broadcasts: Andrés Orozco-Estrada, conductor; Kelley O’Connor, soprano; Women of the Chicago Symphony Chorus; Duain Wolfe, director; Anima Young Singers of Greater Chicago; Charles Sundquist, director – Mahler: Symphony No. 3. 10:00 Collectors’ Corner with Henry Fogel: The Art of Christopher Keene – Program 1
Monday 31 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore 9:00 Richard Wagner “Rienzi” Overture – Berlin Phil/Klaus Tennstedt. EMI CDC747030-2. [13:34] Christoph Willibald Gluck “Orpheus and Eurydice,” “Dance of the Blessed Spirits” – Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood. L’Oiseau-Lyre 410553-2. [07:35] 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, including today’s new release,
plus: Maurice Ravel “Le tombeau de Couperin” – Lyon Opera Orch/Kent Nagano. Erato 14331-2. [17:21] 11:00 Astor Piazzolla “Four Seasons of Buenos Aires,” “Primavera Porteña (Spring)” – Jason Vieaux, g; Julian Labro, bandoneon; Far Cry Chamber Orch. Azica ACD-71270. [06:36] 12:00 Music in Chicago, plus: Robert Schumann Cello Concerto in a minor, Op. 129 – Yo-Yo Ma, vc; Bavarian Radio Sym/ Sir Colin Davis. CBS M2K-44562 (2). [24:37] 1:00 Music for the Afternoon • Giuseppe Verdi “La forza del destino,” Overture – La Scala Phil/Riccardo Chailly. Decca 4783559. [07:11] Franz Joseph Haydn Piano Sonata No. 46 in E, H XVI:31 – MarcAndré Hamelin, p. Hyperion CDA-67710 (2). [12:20] 2:00 Afternoon Masterwork: Antonin Dvořák: String Quartet No. 12 in F, Op. 96, “American” – Takács Quartet. London 430077-2. [25:54] 3:00 Samuel Barber “Adagio for Strings” (from Op. 11) – Los Angeles Phil/Leonard Bernstein. DG 439521-2. [10:01] Aaron Copland “Appalachian Spring” – New York Phil/Leonard Bernstein. Sony SMK-47543. [24:31] 4:00 Late Afternoon Music with Candice Agree, including The Unrush Hour at 5:00 pm 7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin • American Masters, Part VI: American Composers from the age of Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon Our first episodes begin at the turn of the 20th century, and over the years we have worked our way to composers who were active in the time of Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and beyond. You’ll hear all the usual suspects (Copland, Gershwin, Stravinsky, and Schoenberg), but we’ll also weave in beautiful and intriguing music from Peter Menin, Augustus Hailstork, Charles Wuorinen, Joan Tower, Charlie Parker, and, yes, Fats Domino. We’ll end the week with an elegiac symphonic work from George Walker, the first African American composer to win the Pulitzer Prize. 8:00 Music from Nichols Hall 10:00 Evenings with Kerry Frumkin
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