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THE GUIDE

The Member Magazine for WTTW and WFMT

Brandis Friedman, Black Voices host and Hugo Balta, Latino Voices host

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September 2020 ALSO INSIDE

On WFMT, we celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month featuring works by Spanish and Latin-American composers and musicians, and on wfmt.com, we explore Chicago’s rich cultural landscape as we talk to some of the city’s best Latin music and performing arts groups.

From the President & CEO

The Guide

Dear Member,

The Member Magazine for WTTW and WFMT Renée Crown Public Media Center 5400 North Saint Louis Avenue Chicago, Illinois 60625

As all of us face this uniquely challenging year, WTTW News has been out reporting from the neighborhoods, talking with residents who are sharing their stories. This coverage has illuminated how the COVID-19 crisis disproportionately affects Black and Latino communities in Chicago, and it is moments like these that compel us to sharpen our focus on how we use our public media platform to serve our diverse community. This month, we will launch Chicago Tonight: Latino Voices and Chicago Tonight: Black Voices, two additions to our news and public affairs lineup and an extension of WTTW’s flagship news show. The VOICES series will provide thoughtful and accurate coverage of current events to inform and engage the public, and create opportunities for real conversation. Each week, Latino Voices and Black Voices will offer a mix of analysis and features on a wide range of topics, including arts and life, entrepreneurship and innovation, and equity and justice across the sectors of our society and in the Black and Latino communities in Chicago. And, as the upcoming election will have a profound impact on Chicago area residents, don’t miss Frontline: The Choice – Trump vs. Biden. Meet the renowned producer-director-writer of this definitive biographical documentary, Michael Kirk, on page 4. WFMT will celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month by featuring works by Spanish and Latin-American composers and musicians throughout September and October, including Heitor Villa-Lobos, Alfredo Rolando Ortiz, and Guadalupe Trigo. And don’t miss the legendary soprano Leontyne Price’s performance of Manuel de Falla’s El Amor Brujo with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Impromptu’s visit with the award-winning Catalyst Quartet, a group that advocates for diversity and inclusion in classical music. On wfmt.com, explore Chicago’s rich cultural landscape as we talk to some of the city’s best Latin music and performing arts groups including Mariachi Herencia de México and Sones de México.

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The Guide: The Member Magazine for WTTW and WFMT (ISSN 2329-1338) September 2020 Volume 35, Number 267

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WTTW Listings

18 Do it Yourself Saturdays

Making The Choice 2020

19 At-a-Glance

WTTW Digital Channel Highlights

20 WFMT Listings

WTTW Kid Grid

31 Sponsors

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Daily Television Programming •

Programmer’s Picks on WTTW11

Harbor from the Holocaust In a Holocaust story of hope, 20,000 Jews find refuge in Shanghai during World War II. The film explores the relationship of the refugees and their host city, and the survivors who carried on the traditions that would have been consigned to oblivion.

Tuesday, September 8, 10:00 pm

Frontline: The Choice 2020 - Trump vs. Biden

NOVA: How Writing Changed the World

Every four years Frontline presents a dual biography of the two presidential candidates that takes measure of the two individuals, and the events that have shaped their lives and values.

Follow the evolution of the written word, from ancient carvings to modern-day alphabets. Then, explore how technologies from pen to printing press impacted the spread of information.

Tuesday, September 22, 9:00 pm

Wednesdays, September 23 and 30, 9:00 pm

See page 6 for information about WTTW Prime listings.

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Chicago Tonight [R]

MORNING-AFTERNOON 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Chicago Tonight 8:00 ABBA Forever: A Celebration 9:30 Prince: Rave Un2 The Year 2000 [R] 11:00 BBC World News 11:30 Suze Orman’s Ultimate Retirement Guide [R]

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Björn Ulvaeus and Agnetha Fältskog of ABBA

EARLY MORNING 1:30 Suze Orman’s Ultimate Retirement Guide [R] 3:30 Change Your Brain, Heal Your Mind with Daniel Amen, MD [R] 5:00 Chicago Tonight [R]

ABBA Forever: A Celebration

MORNING-AFTERNOON 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids

Celebrate the supergroup with Neil Sedaka, Donny Osmond, Tim Rice, and the band members themselves. Featuring a greatest hits soundtrack including “Dancing Queen” and “Mamma Mia!,” the program includes original interviews and rare archival footage.

EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Chicago Tonight 8:00 NOVA: Cat Tales [R] 9:30 NOVA: Dog Tales Dogs have long been dependable companions by our sides. But it wasn’t always that way, and a look at their closest living relative, the wolf, makes it clear why. Researchers reveal how humans tamed fearsome canines over tens of thousands of years, and how modern dog intelligence and behaviors have made them indispensable companions. 11:00 BBC World News 11:30 ABBA Forever: A Celebration See Tues. Sept. 1 at 8:00 pm. [R]

Tuesday, September 1 8:00 pm

Tuesday 1 EARLY MORNING 12:00 BBC World News 12:30 Fleetwood Mac: The Dance [R] 2:30 Red, White, and Rock Join Frankie Valli, The Righteous Brothers, Connie Francis, and more for a 2002 patriotic celebration of America and pop oldies music. Featuring a dream lineup of artists from the rock, pop, and doo-wop days of the late ’50s and early to mid-’60s.

Thursday 3 EARLY MORNING 1:00 Prince: Rave Un2 The Year 2000 [R] 2:30 Last of the Breed Celebrate the greatest hits of Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, and Ray Price in this 2007 concert. With the richest

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voices this side of the Rio Grande, the three legends give rousing performances on a treasure trove of honky-tonk and Texas swing tunes. Easy Yoga for Arthritis with Peggy Cappy [R] Chicago Tonight [R]

MORNING-AFTERNOON 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Chicago Tonight 7:30 Chicago by ‘L’ with Geoffrey Baer Geoffrey Baer hops on the CTA’s famous elevated train lines to bring you a fascinating exploration of the colorful and diverse neighborhoods that Chicagoans access via the city’s storied elevated train system. Climb aboard with Geoffrey as he shares untold stories about the history of the ‘L’ and introduces you to many of the attractions you can reach by riding it, the businesses that grew up around it, and the people who live and work in its shadow. 10:30 Sam Smith: Live at the BBC’s Biggest Weekend

side. What makes us so perfect for each other? 9:30 Ken Burns: America’s Storyteller Join Tom Hanks, Meryl Streep, George Lucas, Wynton Marsalis, Yo-Yo Ma, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Sam Waterston, Doris Kearns Goodwin, and more for a tribute to the acclaimed filmmaker, and a look at Ken’s film The Vietnam War. 11:00 BBC World News 11:30 Frontline: From Jesus to Christ - The First Christians (Part 1 of 4) [R]

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In the Spotlight

Sam Smith

Friday 4 EARLY MORNING 12:00 BBC World News 12:30 Chicago by ‘L’ with Geoffrey Baer See Thurs. Sept. 3 at 7:30 pm. [R] 3:30 Suze Orman’s Ultimate Retirement Guide [R] 5:30 Chicago Tonight [R] MORNING-AFTERNOON 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Chicago Tonight: The Week in Review 7:30 Washington Week 8:00 Nature: Equus - Story of the Horse: Origins (Part 1 of 2) Ever since the mysterious beginning of our extraordinary partnership, humans and horses flourished side by

Sam Smith: Live at the BBC’s Biggest Weekend Thrill to the Grammy Award winner’s electrifying performance before a sold-out crowd at the massive summer music festival in May 2018. Songs include the smash hits “Stay With Me,” “Too Good at Goodbyes,” “Money On My Mind,” and more.

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An Interview with FRONTLINE Producer

Michael Kirk about Making THE CHOICE 2020 by DANIEL HAUTZINGER MICHAEL KIRK

Michael Kirk is a veteran Frontline producer who has made scores of political documentaries, including four installments of Frontline’s election-year fixture The Choice. In The Choice 2020: Trump vs. Biden, which premieres Tuesday, September 22 at 9:00 pm, Kirk and his team offer portraits of the two major-party presidential candidates in an effort to understand how they might govern in the next four years. This interview has been edited and condensed. WTTW: At the beginning of this year, you told WTTW that, “It’s a precipice moment. This is really the most important political year coming that I have ever experienced, in all these years of reporting.” Do you still believe that, especially now that the country is experiencing numerous crises—the COVID-19 pandemic, an economic depression, and a reckoning with racial injustice? MICHAEL KIRK: It’s a very, very, very complicated time. The pandemic and the racial reckoning that are overtaking our nation simultaneously have become parts of the political calculus. Who could have predicted them? And the way that they’ve altered

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the potential reelection of Donald Trump is fascinating to try to speculate about and think about and report on. If Trump wins reelection, all of the things that have been set in motion will come true. Many Americans might like that. Many other Americans will be horrified. But whatever happens, a lot more is now known about Trump’s ability as a president, and as a leader, and a lot more has become clear about where a second term would land. WTTW: How are the crises facing this country affecting how you frame The Choice 2020: Trump vs. Biden? KIRK: We decided that we would still use the method of The Choice, which is the idea that personality is destiny. If you want to look closely at the character of the two men who are asking to be President of the United States at this perilous time, there has never been a better time for political biography. So we’ve found essentially eight crisis moments in each of their lives, with the notion that, in looking at those, how they approach them, and what pulls through from those moments to now, we can offer a prediction about how they’ll be as president in what is maybe the most crisis-filled period of our history since the Depression and World War II. WTTW: This is the fifth The Choice documentary you’ve made. Are there ways in which this one seems different? KIRK: None of them are the same. You know so much more about incumbents after a term in office than you did before. This one is an interesting challenge because of Trump. Not only did we make The Choice four years ago about him, but

I think we have made eight other films that more or less always land around Trump. We know him and his policy and presidential sense. So the challenge was, do we make a film about the Trump presidency? Or do we stick to our guns, that this film is really about the life method of the two men who would be president? Now that we know so much about Trump, we wanted to find out where he gets his life method from. Is it real? Is it artifice? Is it a strategy? How much of it is alterable by circumstances? Does the man make the times or do the times make the man? There

If you want to look closely at the character of the two men who are asking to be President of the United States at this perilous time, there has never been a better time for political biography.

is a philosophy at work there that I think needs to be revealed. The thing about Joe Biden that emerges from all of his political biography and his personal biography is the extent to which there really isn’t an identifiable ideology in there. Finding Joe Biden’s politics is a case of finding Joe Biden the man in critical political moments and personal moments where you see who he is. We wanted to know, why is he running, in what has to be the ugliest time to run for president? Where does that come from?

Biden is offering this message of “The world is on its heels. We do not need another level of fighting: Bernie [Sanders], [Elizabeth] Warren, the fighters, the changers. We’ve got a huge crisis on our hands. Maybe what we need is a grief counselor.” The election is probably going to be very close. So if it really comes down to that, maybe people want to know who it is that they might change sides for. WTTW: What do you see as the stakes in this election? KIRK: I think there is a real assault in America on knowledge-based institutions by people who firmly believe they’re right: the press, universities, science, in some cases, law and justice, civil rights institutions. The crisis points it out. It’s an assault on truth. And this is not a commercial for Joe Biden, because all politicians assail and assault and try to undermine and control things. But something is afoot in America. A lot of people on both sides who I talk to understand that they are in a struggle for: whose truth is it? Is it Mitch McConnell’s truth? Is it Nancy Pelosi’s truth? Is it your truth? Is it a suburban working mother who is now a teacher full time with her children’s truth? And the press has a big responsibility for the problem, and a responsibility to fix the problem. And all of that is in play in this election, because when you talk about getting rid of the administrative state, or draining the swamp, or reinstituting the rule of law, what everybody’s arguing about is the truth, and which truth is it. That’s why I think it’s a precipice moment. The differences between the two parties are very stark on this point. 

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WTTW Digital Channel Highlights

Full schedule online at wttw.com/schedules Pictured: Ruth Wilson as Alison Wilson

Latino Americans WTTW Prime WTTW Prime is our “prime time all the time” channel. Free TV, over-the-air antenna viewers can tune to channel 11-2 to find WTTW Prime. WTTW Prime is on Comcast digital cable channel 370 and on RCN channel 37.

Sunday, September 27 at 7:00 pm This series tells the story of early settlement, conquest, and immigration; of tradition and reinvention; of anguish and celebration; and of the gradual construction of a new American identity from diverse sources that connects and empowers millions of people today. The series covers the 1500s to the present day.

Full schedule online at wttw.com/schedules Pictured: An actor portrays Juan Seguín

Pati’s Food and Fiesta Saturday, September 19 at 11:00 am

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.

WTTW Create celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month with a special marathon of Pati’s Mexican Table! Join chef Pati Jinich on her culinary adventures through Mexico as she encounters, then recreates, authentic south-of-the-border dishes.

Full schedule online at wttw.com/schedules Pictured: Chef Pati Jinich

America Reframed: Councilwoman 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.

Tuesday, September 29 at 7:00 pm Carmen Castillo is a first-term city councilwoman who maintains her full-time job as a hotel housekeeper. She advocates for the working families in her community, many of whom work multiple jobs to stay afloat.

Full schedule online at wttw.com/schedules Pictured: Rhode Island Councilwoman Carmen Castillo

Elinor Wonders Why Daily at 2:30 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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This new PBS KIDS series for preschoolers follows the observant and curious bunny rabbit Elinor as she and her friends Ari the bat and Olive the elephant explore science, nature, and community in Animal Town.

Full schedule online at wttw.com/schedules Pictured: Elinor Wonders Why

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.

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WTTW Prime

Meet Alison Wilson, a recent widow who discovers her spy novelist husband lived a double life. Determined to uncover the truth about the man she loved, she soon finds herself at the center of a mystery that proves truth can be stranger than fiction.

Photo: © Photo: Brett Buchanan Photography

Wednesday, September 9 at 7:00 pm

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Mrs. Wilson on Masterpiece

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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.

In the Spotlight

Elinor Wonders Why (New Kids Series) Elinor, the most observant and curious bunny rabbit in Animal Town, explores science, nature, and community along with her friends Ari, a funny and imaginative bat; and Olive, a perceptive and warm elephant. Together, they meet all kinds of interesting, funny, and quirky characters, each with something to teach us about respecting others, the importance of diversity, caring for the environment, and working together to solve problems.

Weekdays beginning September 7, 10:30 am and 1:30 pm Saturdays, 7:00 am

Saturday 5 EARLY MORNING 12:50 Frontline: From Jesus to Christ – The First Christians (Part 2 of 4) [R] 2:10 Frontline: From Jesus to Christ – The First Christians (Part 3 of 4) [R] 3:30 Frontline: From Jesus to Christ – The First Christians (Part 4 of 4) [R] 5:00 Suze Orman’s Ultimate Retirement Guide [R] MORNING 7:00 Suze Orman’s Ultimate Retirement Guide [R] 9:00 This Old House - 40th Anniversary Special Join hosts and cast members to celebrate 40 years of groundbreaking home improvement. Vintage clips, behind-the-scenes stories, and favorite moments from the series are featured. 10:30 Julia Child: Best Bites Celebrate the first lady

of cooking with Martha Stewart, Jacques Pepin, Vivian Howard, Marcus Samuelsson, Jose Andres, Eric Ripert, Rick Bayless, and more. Chefs and celebrities screen Julia’s most beloved episodes. AFTERNOON 12:00 Independent Lens: Won’t You Be My Neighbor? [R] 2:30 Nature: Equus - Story of the Horse: Origins (Part 1 of 2) See Fri. Sept. 4 at 8:00 pm. [R] 4:00 Rick Steves’ The Story of Fascism in Europe [R] 5:30 Chicago’s Loop: A New Walking Tour Written and hosted by Geoffrey Baer, this program traces the fascinating history of downtown Chicago’s rise, fall, and rebirth, revealing the fascinating, fun, and sometimes tragic stories behind the buildings and places that shape our “city-within-a-city.” EVENING 8:00 Linda Ronstadt: Live in Hollywood In April 1980 at Television Center Studios in Hollywood, Linda Ronstadt recorded a concert that featured electrifying performances of many of her greatest songs, captured America’s most popular female rock singer at the peak of her reign. 9:30 Count Basie: Through His Own Eyes [R] 11:00 Soul Legends [R]

Sunday 6 EARLY MORNING 1:00 Suze Orman’s Ultimate Retirement Guide [R] 3:00 Deepak Chopra: Becoming Metahuman (NEW) Through a simple three-step process of tangible actions that anyone can take, Dr. Deepak Chopra unlocks the secrets of moving beyond our present limitations to access a field of infinite possibilities. Become happier, more joyful, and energetic while gaining a deeper understanding of the science behind meditation and consciousness. The program includes interviews with Neil deGrasse Tyson, Martha Beck, and more. 5:00 Longevity Paradox with Steven Gundry, MD [R] MORNING 6:30 Change Your Brain, Heal Your Mind with Daniel Amen, MD [R] 8:30 Suze Orman’s Ultimate Retirement Guide [R] 10:30 America’s Test Kitchen 20th Anniversary Special [R] AFTERNOON 12:00 ABBA Forever: A Celebration [R]

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NOVA: Cat Tales [R] NOVA: Dog Tales See Wed. Sept. 2 at 3:00 pm. [R] Ken Burns: The National Parks Explore the beauty and grandeur of our nation’s magnificent parks, from Acadia to Yosemite, Yellowstone to the Grand Canyon. Filmmakers Burns and Dayton Duncan vividly reveal fascinating behind-the-scenes stories about the making of the series.

EVENING 6:00 Independent Lens: Won’t You Be My Neighbor? [R] 8:30 Ken Burns: America’s Storyteller See Fri. Sept. 4 at 9:00 pm. [R] 10:00 Last of the Breed See Thurs. Sept. 3 at 2:30 am. [R] 11:30 Suze Orman’s Ultimate Retirement Guide [R]

Monday 7 Labor Day EARLY MORNING 1:30 Red, White, and Rock See Tues. Sept. 1 at 2:30 am. [R] 4:00 Suze Orman’s Ultimate Retirement Guide [R] MORNING-AFTERNOON 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Chicago Tonight 7:30 Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner Salute Sid Caesar 9:00 Ken Burns: The Civil War Celebrate the 25th anniversary of the landmark series with this in-depth overview of the iconic documentary. See video clips and interviews with Ken Burns, Geoffrey Ward, Ric Burns, Buddy Squires, and others. 11:00 BBC World News 11:30 Last of the Breed [R]

Sid Caesar

Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner Salute Sid Caesar Comedy legends Mel Brooks and the late Carl Reiner look back on the career and genius of their good friend and collaborator Sid Caesar, reminiscing about some of their favorite moments working with one of the pioneers of TV sketch comedy rooted in the human condition.

Monday, September 7 7:30 pm

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In the Spotlight

Tuesday 8 EARLY MORNING 1:00 Chicago by ‘L’ with Geoffrey Baer [R] 4:00 Longevity Paradox with Steven Gundry, MD See Sun. Sept. 6 at 5:00 am. [R] 5:30 Chicago Tonight [R] MORNING-AFTERNOON 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Chicago Tonight 8:00 The Vote: American Experience (Part 1 of 4) Learn about the first generation of leaders in the decades-long battle to win the vote for women. In the 19th century, a time women had few legal rights, Susan B.

Religious Jews on street

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6:00 Pinkalicious & Peterrific 6:30 Nature Cat 7:00 Molly of Denali 7:30 Wild Kratts 8:00 Hero Elementary 8:30 Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum 9:00 Curious George 9:30 Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood 10:00 Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood 10:30 Elinor Wonders Why 11:00 Sesame Street 11:30 Pinkalicious & Peterrific

Afternoons 12:00 Dinosaur Train 12:30 Clifford the Big Red Dog 1:00 Sesame Street 1:30 Elinor Wonders Why 2:00 Hero Elementary 2:30 Let’s Go Luna 3:00 Nature Cat 3:30 Wild Kratts 4:00 Molly of Denali 4:30 Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum

Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton galvanized thousands to demand equal citizenship. 9:00 Frontline: Growing Up Poor The experience of child poverty in America, against the backdrop of the COVID outbreak, increasing racial tensions, and a polarizing election. Set in Ohio, the film follows children and their families navigating issues of poverty, homelessness, and race amid the new challenges of the pandemic. 10:00 Harbor from the Holocaust 11:00 BBC World News 11:30 Amanpour and Company

5:00 Odd Squad 5:30 Arthur

Saturday Mornings 6:00 Sesame Street 6:30 Pinkalicious & Peterrific 7:00 Elinor Wonders Why 7:30 Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood 8:00 Curious George 8:30 Clifford the Big Red Dog 9:00 One-Hour Specials

Sunday Mornings

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5:00 Cat in the Hat 5:30 Arthur 6:00 Let’s Go Luna 6:30 Wild Kratts 7:00 Nature Cat 7:30 Nature Cat 8:00 Molly of Denali 8:30 Molly of Denali 9:00 Hero Elementary 9:30 Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum 10:00 Odd Squad 10:30 Growing Bolder

Elinor, Olive, and Ari in Animal Town Xavier Riddle and Yadina

EARLY MORNING 12:30 Ken Burns: America’s Storyteller [R] 2:00 Chicago on Vacation with Geoffrey Baer In this lively special and companion website, Geoffrey Baer takes you on a nostalgic journey by car to iconic vacation spots that Chicagoans have cherished for generations, and some secret hideaways, too. 4:30 BBC World News 5:00 Chicago Tonight [R] Credit: Courtesy of Pipeline Studios, © SHOE Ink

Monday-Friday Mornings

MORNING-AFTERNOON 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Chicago Tonight 8:00 NOVA: Human Nature 10:00 Hacking Your Mind: Living on Auto-Pilot (Part 1 of 4) In this insightful new four-part series, discover why it’s easy for politicians, marketers, and social media companies to hack your mind, and find out how to hack your own mind to improve your life and the lives of your family and friends. In part one, take a trip around the world to discover how you go through life on auto-pilot, and get an auto-pilot owner’s manual. 11:00 BBC World News 11:30 Amanpour and Company

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ELINOR WONDERS WHY Mondays-Fridays at 10:30 am and 1:30 pm Saturdays at 7:00 am 8

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In the Spotlight

EARLY MORNING 12:30 The Vote: American Experience (Part 1 of 4) See Tues. Sept. 8 at 8:00 pm. [R] 1:30 Frontline: Growing Up Poor See Tues. Sept. 8 at 9:00 pm. [R] 2:30 Harbor from the Holocaust See Tues. Sept. 8 at 10:00 pm. [R] 3:30 Antiques Roadshow: Cleveland (Part 1 of 3) Discover hidden treasures such as 1920 World Series stubs, a Charles Rohlfs music stand from about

Hacking Your Mind (New Series) In this insightful new four-part series, discover why it’s easy for politicians, marketers, and social media companies to hack your mind, and find out how to hack your own mind to improve your life and the lives of your family and friends.

Wednesdays beginning September 9 10:00 pm

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1905, and an Ohio folk art double portrait, circa 1838. BBC World News Chicago Tonight [R]

MORNING-AFTERNOON 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Chicago Tonight 8:00 The War: FUBAR September-December 1944 (Part 5 of 7) By September 1944, the Allies seem to be moving steadily toward victory in Europe. But in the coming months, a generation of young men will learn a lesson as old as war itself: that generals make plans, plans go wrong, and soldiers die. 10:30 9/11 Inside the Pentagon On September 11, 2001, Flight 77 slammed into the Pentagon, killing 184 people. What happened behind the walls of the Pentagon is a largely untold chapter in history. Survivors and first responders shed light on that tragic day. 11:30 BBC World News

Friday 11 EARLY MORNING 12:00 Amanpour and Company

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William Bracewell and Francesca Hayward

Great Performances: Romeo and Juliet Experience Shakespeare’s classic as a ballet from choreographer Kenneth MacMillan performed by dancers from The Royal Ballet set to a score by Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev and filmed on atmospheric sets and locations throughout Budapest.

Friday, September 11 9:00 pm

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NOVA: Human Nature See Wed. Sept. 9 at 8:00 pm. [R] Hacking Your Mind: Living on Auto-Pilot (Part 1 of 4) See Wed. Sept. 9 at 10:00 pm. [R] Travel Detective: World’s Oldest Cruise Ship BBC World News Chicago Tonight [R]

MORNING-AFTERNOON 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Chicago Tonight: The Week in Review 7:30 Washington Week 8:00 Check, Please! Ema, Passero, Whisk Alpana welcomes Villa Park resident and medical science liaison Monica Timmerman, who recommended the River North eatery EMA; writer Helen Weiner, who loves Passero in Arlington Heights; and South Loop business development executive Carlos Vasquez, who chose Whisk in West Town. 8:30 Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television 9:00 Great Performances: Romeo and Juliet 11:00 BBC World News 11:30 Amanpour and Company 10

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Saturday 12 EARLY MORNING 12:30 9/11 Inside the Pentagon See Thurs. Sept. 10 at 10:30 pm. [R] 1:30 The War: FUBAR September-December 1944 (Part 5 of 7) See Thurs. Sept. 10 at 8:00 pm. [R] 4:00 Frontline: Growing Up Poor in Trump’s America [R] 5:00 Chicago Tonight: The Week in Review [R] 5:30 The McLaughlin Group MORNING 6:00-10:00 WTTW Kids 10:00 Ask This Old House: Cable Railing, Painting Shutters 10:30 MEXICO – One Plate at a Time with Rick Bayless: You Don’t Know the Whole Enchilada 11:00 Flavor of Poland: Rzeszow 11:30 Lidia’s Kitchen: Family Favorites AFTERNOON 12:00 Cook’s Country 12:30 Pati’s Mexican Table: South by South of the Border with Vivian Howard 1:00 Simply Ming: Ming Tsai with guest Dr. William Li 1:30 Stephen Raichlen’s Project Fire: Green Meets Grill 2:00 America’s Test Kitchen from Cook’s Illustrated: Chocolate Delights 2:30 America’s Test Kitchen from Cook’s Illustrated: Pork and Potatoes 3:00 My Greek Table with Diane Kochilas: The Athenian Riviera 3:30 A Chef’s Life: Prickly Business 4:00 Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television [R] 4:30 Check, Please! Ema, Passero, Whisk See Fri. Sept. 11 at 8:00 pm. [R] 5:00 Rick Steves’ Europe: Athens and Side Trips 5:30 Travel Detective: Hidden Gems of Anguilla Peter Greenberg explores the hidden gems on the Caribbean island of Anguilla. Later, we learn about a life-saving service that has you covered during an adventurous vacation. EVENING 6:00 Chicago Tonight: Latino Voices This new conversation program from WTTW News is hosted by Hugo Balta, and will provide thoughtful and accurate coverage of current events to inform and engage the public, and create opportunities for real conversation and a platform for different voices and perspectives. Each week, the series will offer a mix of analysis and features on a

wide range of topics, including arts and life, entrepreneurship and innovation, and equity and justice across the sectors of our society and in communities of color in Chicago. 6:30 PBS NewsHour Weekend 7:00 Father Brown: The Fall of the House of St. Gardner A gossip columnist is murdered after threatening to expose the secrets of a fashion house. 8:00 Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators – How the Rogue Roar’d When Frank and Lu are hired to help close down an old bingo hall, Frank is surprised to find an old nemesis at work. But what is he really up to? 9:00 ABBA Forever: A Celebration [R] 10:30 To be announced

Sunday 13 EARLY MORNING 12:00 To be announced MORNING 5:00-11:00 WTTW Kids 11:00 Firing Line with Margaret Hoover 11:30 The Future of America’s Past: School Interrupted AFTERNOON 12:00 Fly Brother with Ernest White: Tajikistan – Crown of the World 12:30 Kitchen Queens: New Orleans 1:00 Hubert Keller: Secrets of a Chef – Culinary Hot Spots in Downtown Las Vegas 1:30 Neven’s Spanish Food Trails: Wild Country 2:00 Beatrix Farrand’s American Landscapes Farrand was responsible for some of the most celebrated gardens in the United States and helped create a distinctive American voice in landscape architecture. The film follows award-winning public garden designer Lynden B. Miller as she sets off to explore the remarkable life and career of America’s first female landscape architect, Beatrix Farrand. 3:00 The Power of Us: Confronting Our Climate Crisis 4:00 A Few Good Pie Places Come along on a tour of small pie shops from Maine to Minnesota. 5:00 A Few Great Bakeries Explore small bakeries from Massachusetts to California. EVENING 6:00 Chicago Tonight: Black Voices This new conversation program from WTTW News is hosted by Brandis Friedman, and will provide thoughtful

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and accurate coverage of current events to inform and engage the public, and create opportunities for real conversation and a platform for different voices and perspectives. Each week, the series will offer a mix of analysis and features on a wide range of topics, including arts and life, entrepreneurship and innovation, and equity and justice across the sectors of our society and in communities of color in Chicago. Lucy Worsley’s Royal Palace Secrets Van Der Valk on Masterpiece: Love in Amsterdam (Part 1 of 3) Art, politics, and passion mix in a case that breaks in Piet’s new assistant, Cloovers, and also prompts discord with police chief Dahlman. A bitter

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Brandis Friedman, Black Voices host and Hugo Balta, Latino Voices host

Chicago Tonight: Latino Voices and Black Voices (New Series) These two new series will seek to provide thoughtful and accurate coverage of current events to inform and engage the public, and create opportunities for real conversation and a platform for different voices and perspectives. Each week, Latino Voices (Saturdays) and Black Voices (Sundays) will offer a mix of analysis and features on a wide range of topics, including arts and life, entrepreneurship and innovation, and equity and justice across the sectors of our society and in the Black and Latino communities in Chicago.

Saturdays and Sundays beginning September 12 and 13, 6:00 pm

Monday 14 EARLY MORNING 12:30 Father Brown: The Fall of the House of St. Gardner See Sat. Sept. 12 at 7:00 pm. [R] 1:30 Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators – How the Rogue Roar’d See Sat. Sept. 12 at 8:00 pm. [R] 2:30 Great Performances: Romeo and Juliet See Fri. Sept. 11 at 9:00 pm. [R] 4:30 BBC World News 5:00 Chicago Tonight: Black Voices See Sun. Sept. 13 at 6:00 pm. [R] 5:30 Chicago Tonight: Latino Voices See Sat. Sept. 12 at 6:00 pm. [R] MORNING-AFTERNOON 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Chicago Tonight 8:00 Antiques Roadshow: 9:00 Antiques Roadshow: 10:00 POV: Love Child With adultery punishable by death in Iran, a young couple make the fateful decision to flee the country with their son. Follow the intimate love story about an illicitly formed family on a journey to plead asylum and start a new life someplace safe. 11:30 BBC World News

Tuesday 15 EARLY MORNING 12:00 Amanpour and Company 1:00 Van Der Valk on Masterpiece: Love in Amsterdam (Part 1 of 3) See Sun. Sept. 13 at 8:00 pm. [R] 3:00 Beatrix Farrand’s American Landscapes See Sun. Sept. 13 at 2:00 pm. [R] 4:00 Chicago Tonight: Black Voices [R] 4:30 BBC World News 5:00 Chicago Tonight [R]

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EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Chicago Tonight 8:00 The Vote: American Experience (Part 2 of 4) Explore the strategies used by a new generation of leaders determined to win the vote for women. Internal debates over radical tactics and the place of African American women in the movement shaped the battle in the crucial period from 1906-1915. 9:00 Frontline: Policing the Police 2020 10:00 Voces: Building the American Dream Travel to Texas, where immigrant construction workers are seeking justice and equality in an industry rife with exploitation. Across the state, there’s an unprecedented building boom, fueled by Latino laborers with little or no rights. 11:00 BBC World News 11:30 Amanpour and Company

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Wednesday 16 EARLY MORNING 12:30 Antiques Roadshow: See Mon. Sept. 14 at 8:00 pm. [R] 1:30 Antiques Roadshow: See Mon. Sept. 14 at 9:00 pm. [R] 2:30 POV: Love Child See Mon. Sept. 14 at 10:00 pm. [R] 4:00 Chicago Tonight: Latino Voices [R] 4:30 BBC World News 5:00 Chicago Tonight [R] MORNING-AFTERNOON 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Chicago Tonight 8:00 Madagascar: Islands of Wonder Journey across ancient Madagascar, the strangest and oldest island on Earth. Over millennia, it has given rise to more unique wildlife than any other island. 9:00 NOVA: Secret Mind of Slime 10:00 Hacking Your Mind: Weapons of Influence (Part 2 of 4) See how politicians, social media companies, and corporate marketers use big data to hack your auto-pilot decision-making system, and learn how to defend yourself. 11:00 BBC World News 11:30 Amanpour and Company

Thursday 17 EARLY MORNING 12:30 The Vote: American Experience (Part 2 of 4) See Tues. Sept. 15 at 8:00 pm. [R]

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Frontline: Policing the Police 2020 See Tues. Sept. 15 at 9:00 pm. [R] Voces: Building the American Dream See Tues. Sept. 15 at 10:00 pm. [R] POV: Portraits and Dreams See Sun. Sept. 13 at 10:30 pm. [R] BBC World News Chicago Tonight [R]

Lucy Worsley dressed as Anne Boleyn

MORNING-AFTERNOON 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Chicago Tonight 8:00 The War: The Ghost Front December 1944-March 1945 (Part 6 of 7) By December 1944, Americans have become weary of the war their young men have been fighting for three long years; the stream of newspaper headlines telling of new losses, and telegrams bearing bad news from the War Department, seem endless and unendurable. 10:01 Dictator’s Playbook: Francisco Franco Learn how Francisco Franco used the tactics of colonial war to win control of Spain. Driven by a deeply conservative vision, he used torture, murder, and incarceration to transform Spanish society. 11:00 BBC World News 11:30 Amanpour and Company

Lucy Worsley’s Royal Palace Secrets Take an exclusive tour of London’s most extraordinary palaces. From the forbidding Tower of London to glorious Hampton Court to treasurefilled Kensington Palace, Lucy takes viewers behind the velvet ropes into each building’s most secret places.

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political campaign counts down to a fateful election. 10:00 Check, Please! Ema, Passero, Whisk [R] 10:30 POV: Portraits and Dreams This film revisits photographs created by Kentucky schoolchildren in the 1970s, and the place where the photos were made. The film is about the students, their work as visionary photographers, and the lives they have led since then, as well as the linkage of personal memory to the passage of time. 11:30 Austin City Limits: The Raconteurs/Black Pumas Nashville’s Raconteurs spotlight their album Help Us Stranger, while Austin’s Black Pumas perform tunes from their self-titled debut.

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In the Spotlight

Friday 18 EARLY MORNING 12:30 Madagascar: Islands of Wonder See Wed. Sept. 16 at 8:00 pm. [R] 1:30 NOVA: Secret Mind of Slime See Wed. Sept. 16 at 9:00 pm. [R] 2:30 Hacking Your Mind: Weapons of Influence (Part 2 of 4) See Wed. Sept. 16 at 10:00 pm. [R] 3:30 A Few Great Bakeries See Sun. Sept. 13 at 5:00 pm. [R] 4:30 BBC World News 5:00 Chicago Tonight [R] MORNING-AFTERNOON 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Chicago Tonight: The Week in Review 7:30 Washington Week 8:00 Check, Please! Steak 48, Chez Moi, Nella Pizza E Pasta Alpana welcomes real estate professional Kurtis Lott of Montgomery, Illinois, who recommended the River North eatery Steak 48; Lincoln Park event specialist Mary MacLaughlin, who loves Chez Moi in Lincoln Park; and

Marc Warren as Van der Valk

Van Der Valk on Masterpiece Street-smart and unapologetic detective Piet Van Der Valk is an everyman of sorts, investigating high profile cases and gritty murders that immerse him and his team in contemporary Amsterdam’s fastpaced worlds of art, politics, addiction, mysticism, and fashion. Marc Warren (Beecham House) stars as Van der Valk in this new three-part series.

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upheaval collide in the works of today’s London artists. Their art rethinks the past, subverts tradition, and is as layered, diverse, and dynamic as the centuries-old city in which these artists live. 11:00 BBC World News 11:30 Amanpour and Company

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Scott Yoo

Great Performances: Now Hear This, Series 2 Join Scott Yoo, renowned violinist and conductor of the Mexico City Philharmonic, for a second season of Now Hear This, as he chases the secret histories of some of the greatest music ever written. Yoo meets and collaborates with musical heroes across many genres, artisan instrument makers, music historians, and others on his travels, finding time to explore and enjoy the culture along the way.

Fridays beginning September 18 9:00 pm

Chicago marketing executive Jim Bloom, who chose Nella Pizza e Pasta in Hyde Park. 8:30 Islands Without Cars: Fire Island 9:00 Great Performances: Now Hear This, Series 2: Haydn King of Strings Join Scott Yoo, renowned violinist and conductor of the Mexico City Philharmonic, for a second season of Now Hear This, as he chases the secret histories of some of the greatest music ever written. Yoo meets and collaborates with musical heroes across many genres, artisan instrument makers, music historians, and others on his travels, finding time to explore and enjoy the culture along the way. In part one, he explores the work of famed composer Joseph Haydn, discovering how Haydn borrowed folk music from Scotland, Hungary, and Austria to create his famous “Emperor Quartet.” 10:00 Art in the Twenty-First Century: London See how British history and modern 12

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EARLY MORNING 12:30 The War: The Ghost Front December 1944-March 1945 (Part 6 of 7) See Thurs. Sept. 17 at 8:00 pm. [R] 2:30 Dictator’s Playbook: Francisco Franco See Thurs. Sept. 17 at 10:01 pm. [R] 3:30 The Power of Us: Confronting Our Climate Crisis See Sun. Sept. 13 at 3:00 pm. [R] 4:30 Rick Steves’ Europe: Athens and Side Trips [R] 5:00 Chicago Tonight: the Week in Review [R] 5:30 The McLaughlin Group MORNING 6:00-10:00 WTTW Kids 10:00 Ask This Old House: Beehive Oven, Jimmy Diresta 10:30 MEXICO – One Plate at a Time with Rick Bayless: Crispy Carnitas 11:00 Flavor of Poland: Bialystok 11:30 Lidia’s Kitchen: Best of Baked Dishes AFTERNOON 12:00 Cook’s Country 12:30 Pati’s Mexican Table: Los Mochis, Street Taco Favorites 1:00 Simply Ming: Ming Tsai with guest Amanda Freitag 1:30 Stephen Raichlen’s Project Fire: Secret Steaks 2:00 America’s Test Kitchen from Cook’s Illustrated: Roast Chicken and Sprouts 2:30 America’s Test Kitchen from Cook’s Illustrated: Spiced and Sweet 3:00 My Greek Table with Diane Kochilas: Tinos - Ancient Marble, Timeless Flavors 3:30 A Chef’s Life: If You Can’t Beet ’Em… 4:00 Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television 4:30 Check, Please! Steak 48, Chez Moi, Nella Pizza E Pasta See Fri. Sept. 18 at 8:00 pm. [R] 5:00 Rick Steves’ Europe: Greece’s Peloponnese 5:30 Islands Without Cars: Fire Island Fri. Sept. 18 at 8:30 pm. [R] EVENING 6:00 Chicago Tonight: Latino Voices 6:30 PBS NewsHour Weekend 7:00 Father Brown: The Tower of Lost Souls Father

Brown joins forces with Chief Inspector Valentine to uncover a dark secret at Helmsley House. 8:00 Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators – See Thyself, Devil! When a washed-up rock star thinks the Devil is trying to kill him, Frank and Lu find themselves in a race to uncover the truth before the killer strikes again. 9:00 Lucy Worsley’s Royal Palace Secrets See Sun. Sept. 13 at 6:30 pm. [R] 10:30 Van Der Valk on Masterpiece: Love in Amsterdam (Part 1 of 3) [R]

Sunday 20 EARLY MORNING 12:30 A Few Great Bakeries [R] 1:30 A Few Good Pie Places See Sun. Sept. 13 at 4:00 pm. [R] 2:30 Check, Please! Steak 48, Chez Moi, Nella Pizza E Pasta [R] 3:00 Great Performances: Now Hear This, Series 2: Haydn - King of Strings See Fri. Sept. 18 at 9:00 pm. [R] 4:00 Art in the Twenty-First Century: London See Fri. Sept. 18 at 10:00 pm. [R]

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Last Tango in Halifax (New Season) Seven years into their marriage, Alan and Celia don’t see eye to eye. Alan’s brother, Ted, plans to visit from New Zealand. Tempers get frayed when money becomes the topic of conversation at Caroline and Gillian’s birthday celebration. 8:00 Van Der Valk on Masterpiece: Only in Amsterdam (Part 2 of 3) A Muslim worker at an addiction clinic is found dead with a symbolic stab wound. Evidence connects her to a rare books library and a Catholic nun. As investigators dig deeper, they enter a world of mysticism, alchemy and the occult. 10:00 Check, Please! Steak 48, Chez Moi, Nella Pizza E Pasta [R] 10:30 Emilio and Gloria Estefan: The Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song An all-star tribute to Emilio and Gloria Estefan, the 2019 recipients of the Library

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MORNING 5:00-11:00 WTTW Kids 11:00 Firing Line with Margaret Hoover 11:30 Afro-Latino Travels with Kim Haas: San Jose AFTERNOON 12:00 Fly Brother with Ernest White: Cape Town – The City Beautiful 12:30 Kitchen Queens: New Orleans 1:00 Hubert Keller: Secrets of a Chef – Eating in Las Vegas, from Peru to Provence 1:30 Neven’s Spanish Food Trails: Malaga 2:00 To be announced 4:00 Last Tango in Halifax Holiday Special (Part 1 of 2) Caroline’s new headship involves moving the family to a ramshackle farmhouse in time for Christmas. Alan has a difficult conversation with Gillian, who’s consumed by thoughts of the afterlife, convinced she’s being haunted by Eddie. 5:00 Last Tango in Halifax Holiday Special (Part 2 of 2) Caroline tells Gillian the truth about why she took the new headship. Gillian’s mounting guilt over Eddie’s death drives her to make a life-changing decision. On the night of Celia’s play, a twist of fate means Alan is forced to confront his fears. EVENING 6:30 PBS NewsHour Weekend

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In the Spotlight

Derek Jacobi as Alan

Last Tango in Halifax (New Season) Alan and Celia, reunited on the internet after leading separate lives for more than half a century, are seven years into their marriage, and they aren’t seeing eye to eye. Celia is baffled when Alan applies for a supermarket job, and Alan can’t understand why their new home needs expensive renovations. Alan’s brother, Ted, has taken up residence in their spare bedroom, and tempers get frayed at the joint birthday celebration of their daughters Gillian and Caroline.

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In the Spotlight of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song and the first married couple or musicianssongwriters of Hispanic descent to receive the honor.

Monday 21 EARLY MORNING 12:00 Austin City Limits: Buddy Guy/August Greene Blues legend Guy plays hits and songs from his latest album The Blues is Alive and Well. Hip-hop supergroup August Greene performs songs from its self-titled debut. 12:59 Father Brown: The Tower of Lost Souls See Sat. Sept. 19 at 7:00 pm. [R] 1:44 Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators – See Thyself, Devil! See Sat. Sept. 19 at 8:00 pm. [R] 2:30 Last Tango in Halifax Holiday Special (Part 1 of 2) See Sun. Sept. 20 at 4:00 pm. [R] 3:30 Last Tango in Halifax Holiday Special (Part 2 of 2) See Sun. Sept. 20 at 5:00 pm. [R] 4:30 BBC World News MORNING-AFTERNOON 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Chicago Tonight 8:00 Antiques Roadshow: 9:00 Raúl Juliá: The World’s a Stage - American Masters Examine the life and career of Raúl Juliá, the charismatic award-winning actor and humanitarian known for his versatility on stage and screen, in everything from Shakespearean plays to The Addams Family. A co-presentation of Voces and American Masters. 10:30 POV: In My Blood it Runs Peek into the life of Dujuan, a 10-year-old Aboriginal boy. Dujuan is a child healer and a good hunter, and speaks three languages. But he is failing in school and facing increasing scrutiny from welfare authorities and the police. 11:30 BBC World News

Tuesday 22 EARLY MORNING 12:00 Amanpour and Company 1:00 Last Tango in Halifax See Sun. Sept. 20 at 6:00 pm. [R] 2:00 Van Der Valk on Masterpiece: Only in Amsterdam (Part 2 of 3) See Sun. Sept. 20 at 7:00 pm. [R] 4:00 Chicago Tonight: Black Voices [R] 4:30 BBC World News 5:00 Chicago Tonight [R] MORNING-AFTERNOON 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids

EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Chicago Tonight 8:00 The Vote: American Experience (Part 3 of 4) Discover how the pervasive racism of the time, particularly in the South, impacted women’s fight for the vote during the final years of the campaign. Stung by a series of defeats in 1915, the suffragists concentrated on passing a federal amendment. 9:00 Frontline: The Choice 2020 – Trump vs. Biden Frontline takes you behind the headlines generated by Donald Trump and Joe Biden in this new and in-depth documentary that investigates what has shaped them, where they came from, and how they lead. 11:00 BBC World News 11:30 Amanpour and Company

Wednesday 23 EARLY MORNING 12:30 Check, Please! Steak 48, Chez Moi, Nella Pizza E Pasta [R] 1:00 Raúl Juliá: The World’s a Stage - American Masters See Mon. Sept. 21 at 9:00 pm. [R] 2:30 Emilio and Gloria Estefan: The Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song See Sun. Sept. 20 at 10:30 pm. [R] 4:00 Chicago Tonight: Latino Voices [R] 4:30 BBC World News 5:00 Chicago Tonight [R] MORNING-AFTERNOON 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Chicago Tonight 8:00 Borneo: Islands of Wonder A journey from Borneo’s rich coral reefs, through lush jungles, to its mountainous heart, reveals it is no paradise, and the struggles to survive are the secret to a greater variety of life than found on than almost any other island. 9:00 NOVA: How Writing Changed the World (Part 1 of 2) This two-part program explores how writing shaped civilization itself, from the trading of goods to tales of ancient goddesses and kings. Follow the evolution of the written word, from millennia-old carvings in an Egyptian turquoise mine to our modern-day alphabets. 10:00 Hacking Your Mind: Us vs. Them (Part 3 of 4) Discover how the auto-pilot biases we all experience fuel our nation’s divisions, see

how authoritarians can hack them and find out how to overcome them. 11:00 BBC World News 11:30 Amanpour and Company

Thursday 24 EARLY MORNING 12:30 The Vote: American Experience (Part 3 of 4) See Tues. Sept. 22 at 8:00 pm. [R] 1:30 Frontline: The Choice 2020 – Trump vs. Biden See Tues. Sept. 22 at 9:00 pm. [R] 3:30 POV: In My Blood it Runs See Mon. Sept. 21 at 10:30 pm. [R] 4:30 BBC World News 5:00 Chicago Tonight [R] MORNING-AFTERNOON 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Chicago Tonight 8:00 The War: A World Without War - March 1945-December 1945 (Part 7 of 7) In spring 1945, although the numbers of dead and wounded have more than doubled since D-Day, the people of Mobile, Sacramento, Waterbury, and Luverne understand all too well that there will be more bad news from the battlefield before the war can end. 10:30 Dictator’s Playbook: Idi Amin Learn how Idi Amin used lessons learned in the colonial British Army to build a powerful dictatorship in Uganda. Through a combination of populist charm and brutal violence, he ruled for eight years - until his strategic blunders brought him down. 11:30 BBC World News

Friday 25 EARLY MORNING 12:00 Amanpour and Company 1:00 Borneo: Islands of Wonder See Wed. Sept. 23 at 8:00 pm. [R] 2:00 NOVA: How Writing Changed the World (Part 1 of 2) See Wed. Sept. 23 at 9:00 pm. [R] 3:00 Hacking Your Mind: Us vs. Them (Part 3 of 4) See Wed. Sept. 23 at 10:00 pm. [R] 4:00 Islands Without Cars: Fire Island [R] 4:30 BBC World News 5:00 Chicago Tonight [R] MORNING-AFTERNOON 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Chicago Tonight: The Week in Review 7:30 Washington Week 8:00 Check, Please! Kitsune, Niche, La Chaparrita Grocery

Frontline: The Choice 2020 – Trump vs. Biden Frontline takes you behind the headlines generated by Donald Trump and Joe Biden in this new and indepth documentary that investigates what has shaped them, where they came from, and how they lead.

Tuesday, September 22 9:00 pm

Alpana welcomes enterprise architect Tracey Coldewey of Evanston, who recommends the Lincoln Square eatery Kitsune; Elburn resident and creative consultant Kerri Lee-Young, who loves Niche in Geneva; and Pilsen lawyer Diego Martinez-Krippner, who chose La Chaparrita Grocery in Little Village. 8:30 Islands Without Cars: Michigan’s Mackinac Island This episode includes a Somewhere in Time experience (after the 1979 cult film), the Lilac Festival, carriage lessons, and islandspecialty fudge-making. 9:00 Great Performances: Now Hear This, Series 2: The Schubert Generation Celebrate the work of Franz Schubert with host Scott Yoo as he plays with young musicians establishing themselves in North America’s musical capitals by attempting to master the composer’s music. 10:00 Art in the Twenty-First Century: Beijing Witness the maturing of this unique contemporary-art hub and meet the artists who call it home. Beijing’s recent economic boom makes it fertile ground for art, and artists have responded to

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Chicago Tonight

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Elza van den Heever as Elisabetta

Great Performances at the Met: Maria Stuarda Spend a memorable Sunday afternoon at the Metropolitan Opera with Great Performances. Mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato, one of the world’s most exciting singers, takes on the virtuosic bel canto role of the doomed Mary, Queen of Scots. Director David McVicar turns to the second opera of Donizetti’s Tudor trilogy, which explores regal characters at fateful moments of their lives. Elza van den Heever sings Elisabetta, and Maurizio Benini conducts.

Sunday, September 27 2:00 pm its relentless evolution with urgency and ambition. 11:00 BBC World News 11:30 Amanpour and Company

Saturday 26 EARLY MORNING 12:30 The War: A World Without War - March 1945-December 1945 (Part 7 of 7) See Thurs. Sept. 24 at 8:00 pm. [R] 3:00 Dictator’s Playbook: Idi Amin See Thurs. Sept. 24 at 10:30 pm. [R] 4:00 Islands Without Cars: Michigan’s Mackinac Island See Fri. Sept. 25 at 8:30 pm. [R] 4:30 Rick Steves’ Europe: Greece’s Peloponnese [R] 5:00 Chicago Tonight: The Week in Review [R] 5:30 The McLaughlin Group MORNING 6:00-10:00 WTTW Kids 10:00 Ask This Old House: Stoop Planters, Fireplace Insert 10:30 MEXICO – One Plate at a Time with Rick Bayless: Always Time for Tacos 11:00 Flavor of Poland: Olsztyn

11:30 Lidia’s Kitchen: Mastering Simplicity AFTERNOON 12:00 Cook’s Country 12:30 Pati’s Mexican Table: How Do You Say Tucson? 1:00 Simply Ming: Ming Tsai with guest Ken Oringer 1:30 Stephen Raichlen’s Project Fire: Primal Grill 2:00 America’s Test Kitchen from Cook’s Illustrated: Chinese Favorites 2:30 America’s Test Kitchen from Cook’s Illustrated: Two Classic Pastas 3:00 My Greek Table with Diane Kochilas: The Navarino Challenge 3:30 A Chef’s Life: A Casserole Says Plenty 4:00 Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television 4:30 Check, Please! Kitsune, Niche, La Chaparrita Grocery See Fri. Sept. 25 at 8:00 pm. [R] 5:00 Rick Steves’ Europe: Copenhagen 5:30 Islands Without Cars: Michigan’s Mackinac Island [R] EVENING 6:00 Chicago Tonight: Latino Voices 6:30 PBS NewsHour Weekend 7:00 Father Brown: The Skylark Scandal The Kembleford Ramblers annual outing takes a tragic turn when the local Lord is found strangled. 8:00 Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators – A Serpent’s Tooth After a fatal accident in a carpet warehouse, the youngest daughter of a carpet king hires Frank and Lu to investigate her own sisters. 9:00 Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators – The Sticking Place Long-buried secrets are unearthed when Frank and Lu come to the aid of a community of allotment holders who are being threatened with eviction. 10:00 Van Der Valk on Masterpiece: Only in Amsterdam (Part 2 of 3) [R]

Sunday 27 EARLY MORNING 12:00 Last Tango in Halifax [R] 1:00 Frontline: The Choice 2020 – Trump vs. Biden [R] 3:00 Great Performances: Now Hear This, Series 2 - The Schubert Generation See Fri. Sept. 25 at 9:00 pm. [R] 4:00 Art in the Twenty-First Century: Beijing See Fri. Sept. 25 at 10:00 pm. [R] MORNING 5:00-11:00 WTTW Kids 2020

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11:00 Firing Line with Margaret Hoover 11:30 Afro-Latino Travels with Kim Haas: Limon, Costa Rica AFTERNOON 12:00 Fly Brother with Ernest White: Double Feature – Bogota and Casablanca 12:30 Kitchen Queens: New Orleans 1:00 Pritzker Military Presents: Dean Reuter, The Hidden Nazi: The Untold Story of America’s Deal with the Devil Author Dean Reuter discusses the harrowing realities of SS commander General Hans Kammler. 2:00 Great Performances at the Met: Maria Stuarda Mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato takes on the role of the doomed Mary, Queen of Scots. Elza van den Heever sings Elizabeth I. 4:30 To be announced EVENING 6:00 Chicago Tonight: Black Voices 6:30 PBS NewsHour Weekend 7:00 Last Tango in Halifax Alan and Celia’s relationship comes under increasing strain. Ted arrives with two young New Zealanders in tow. A giraffe turns up at Far Slack farm, creating anxiety for Gillian. As Judith looks

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Serpent’s Tooth See Sat. Sept. 26 at 8:00 pm. [R] Great Performances at the Met: Maria Stuarda See Sun. Sept. 27 at 2:00 pm. [R] BBC World News

to the future, John begins to look the other way. 8:00 Van Der Valk on Masterpiece: Death in Amsterdam (Part 3 of 3) An eco-fashion vlogger turns up dead during his video feed, and the case uncovers a bitter rivalry between two firms dedicated to ultra-green clothing. Piet and Dahlman confront the vengeful son of a corrupt cop 10:00 Variety Studio: Actors on Actors This episode features Regina King with Reese Witherspoon, Anne Hathaway with Hugh Jackman, and Kieran Culkin with Dan Levy. 10:30 Variety Studio: Actors on Actors This episode features Sandra Oh with Kerry Washington, Tessa Thompson with Ramy Youssef, and Russell Crowe with Nicole Kidman. 11:00 Austin City Limits: Billie Eilish The L.A. singer/ songwriter performs her hits and songs from her debut LP When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?

Monday 28 EARLY MORNING 12:00 Father Brown: The Skylark Scandal See Sat. Sept. 26 at 7:00 pm. [R] 1:00 Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators – A

EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Chicago Tonight 8:00 Antiques Roadshow: 9:00 Antiques Roadshow: 10:00 POV: Our Time Machine When artist Maleonn realizes that his father is suffering from Alzheimer’s disease, he creates Papa’s Time Machine, a magical, autobiographical stage performance featuring life-size mechanical puppets. 11:30 BBC World News

Tuesday 29 EARLY MORNING 12:00 Amanpour and Company 1:00 Last Tango in Halifax See Sun. Sept. 27 at 7:00 pm. [R] 2:00 Van Der Valk on Masterpiece: Death in Amsterdam (Part 3 of 3) See Sun. Sept. 27 at 8:00 pm. [R] 4:00 Chicago Tonight: Black Voices [R] 4:30 BBC World News 5:00 Chicago Tonight [R]

EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Chicago Tonight 8:00 Hawaii: Islands of Wonder Hawaii, a wondrous archipelago that has offered sanctuary for that life that have reached its remote, tropical shores. From humpback whales to waterfallclimbing fish, it’s home to an extraordinary wealth of wildlife. 9:00 NOVA: How Writing Changed the World (Part 2 of 2) The printing press transformed the spread of information, igniting the Industrial Revolution. How did technologies - from pen to paper to printing press - make it all possible? 10:00 Hacking Your Mind: The Wings of Angels (Part 4 of 4) Find out why hacking for good may be the most important scientific discovery of this century, and learn how to hack your mind to improve your life and the lives of your family and friends. 11:00 BBC World News 11:30 Amanpour and Company

In the Spotlight

MORNING-AFTERNOON 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Chicago Tonight 8:00 PBS NewsHour Debates: A Special Report - 2020 Presidential Debate 10:00 The Vote: American Experience (Part 4 of 4) Meet the unsung women whose tireless work would finally ban discrimination at U.S. polls on the basis of sex. Alice Paul and Carrie Chapman Catt advocated different strategies, but their combined efforts led to the amendment’s passage in 1920. 11:00 BBC World News 11:30 Amanpour and Company

Wednesday 30 EARLY MORNING 12:30 PBS NewsHour Debates: A Special Report - 2020 Presidential Debate See Tues. Sept. 29 at 8:00 pm. [R] 2:30 Antiques Roadshow: 3:30 Austin City Limits: Billie Eilish See Sun. Sept. 27 at 11:00 pm. [R] 4:30 BBC World News 5:00 Chicago Tonight [R] MORNING-AFTERNOON 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids

Judy Woodruff

PBS NewsHour Debates: A Special Report - 2020 Presidential Debate The team from PBS NewsHour, including news anchor and managing editor Judy Woodruff, provides coverage and analysis of the first 2020 Presidential Debate between President Donald Trump and Democratic presumptive nominee Joe Biden, live from Case Western Reserve University and the Cleveland Clinic’s Health Education Campus in Cleveland, Ohio.

Tuesday, September 29 8:00 pm

September At-a-Glance • ABBA Forever: A Celebration Tuesday, 8:00 pm (9/1) Wednesday, 11:30 pm (9/2) Sunday, 12:00 pm (9/6) Saturday, 9:00 pm (9/12) Austin City Limits Sunday, 11:30 pm (9/13) Monday, 12:00 am (9/21) Sunday, 11:00 pm (9/27) Wednesday, 3:30 am (9/30) Emilio and Gloria Estefan: The Library of Congress Sunday, 10:30 pm (9/20) Wednesday, 2:30 am (9/23) Great Performances Fridays, 9:00 pm (9/11, 9/18, 9/25) Monday, 2:30 am (9/14) Sundays, 3:00 am (9/20, 9/27) Great Performances at the Met Sunday, 2:00 pm (9/27) Monday, 2:00 am (9/28) Last of the Breed Thursday, 2:30 am Sunday, 10:00 pm (9/6) Monday, 11:30 pm (9/7) Linda Ronstadt: Live in Hollywood Saturday, 8:00 pm (9/5) Mel Brooks & Carl Reiner Salute to Sid Caesar Monday, 7:30 pm (9/7) Prince: Rave UN2 the Year 2000 Tuesday, 9:30 pm (9/1) Thursday, 1:00 am (9/3) Red, White, and Rock Monday, 1:30 am (9/7) Sam Smith: Live at the BBC’s Biggest Weekend Thursday, 10:30 pm (9/3) Soul Legends Saturday, 11:00 pm (9/5)

Drama • Comedy • Movies Father Brown Saturdays, 7:00 pm (9/12, 9/19, 9/26) Monday, 12:30 am (9/14) Monday, 1:00 am (9/21) Monday, 12:00 am (9/28) Last Tango in Halifax Sundays, 7:00 pm (9/20, 9/27) Tuesdays, 1:00 am (9/22, 9/29) Sunday, 12:00 am (9/27) Last Tango in Halifax Holiday Special Sunday, 4:00 pm, 5:00 pm (9/20) Monday, 2:30 am, 3:30 am (9/21) Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators Saturdays, 8:00 pm (9/12, 9/19, 9/26) Monday, 1:30 am (9/14) Monday, 1:44 am (9/21) Saturday, 9:00 pm (9/26) Monday, 1:00 am (9/28) Van Der Valk on Masterpiece Sundays, 8:00 pm (9/13, 9/20, 9/27) Tuesday, 1:00 am (9/15) Saturday, 10:30 pm (9/19) Tuesdays, 2:00 am (9/22, 9/29) Saturday, 10:00 pm (9/26)

Cooking & Dining • Home Improvement • Travel Afro-Latino Travels with Kim Haas Sundays, 11:30 am (9/20, 9/27) America’s Test Kitchen 20th Anniversary Special Sunday, 10:30 am (9/6)

America’s Test Kitchen from Cook’s Illustrated Saturdays, 2:00 pm, 2:30 pm (9/12, 9/19, 9/26) Antiques Roadshow Thursday, 3:30 am (9/10) Mondays, 8:00 pm (9/14, 9/21, 9/28) Mondays, 9:00 pm (9/14, 9/28) Wednesdays, 12:30 am, 1:30 am (9/16) Wednesday, 2:30 am (9/30) Ask This Old House Saturdays, 10:00 am (9/12, 9/19, 9/26) Borneo: Islands of Wonder Wednesday, 8:00 pm (9/23) Friday, 1:00 am (9/25) Check, Please! Fridays, 8:00 pm (9/11, 9/18, 9/25) Saturdays, 4:30 pm (9/12, 9/19, 9/26) Sundays, 10:00 pm (9/13, 9/20) Sunday, 2:30 am (9/20) Wednesday, 12:30 am (9/23) Chef’s Life Saturdays, 3:30 pm (9/12, 9/19, 9/26) Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television Friday, 8:30 pm (9/11) Saturdays, 4:00 pm (9/12, 9/19, 9/26) Cook’s Country Saturdays, 12:00 pm (9/12, 9/19, 9/26) Few Good Pie Places Sunday, 4:00 pm (9/13) Sunday, 1:30 am (9/20) Few Great Bakeries Sunday, 5:00 pm (9/13) Friday, 3:30 am (9/18) Sunday, 12:30 am (9/20) Flavor of Poland Saturdays, 11:00 am (9/12, 9/19, 9/26) Fly Brother with Ernest White II Sundays, 12:00 pm (9/13, 9/20, 9/27) Hawaii: Islands of Wonder Wednesday, 8:00 pm (9/30) Hubert Keller: Secrets of a Chef Sundays, 1:00 pm (9/13, 9/20) Islands Without Cars: Fire Island Friday, 8:30 pm (9/18) Saturday, 5:30 pm (9/19) Friday, 4:00 am (9/25) Islands Without Cars: Michigan’s Mackinac Island Friday, 8:30 pm (9/25) Saturday, 4:00 am, 5:30 pm (9/26) Julia Child: Best Bites Saturday, 10:30 am (9/5) Kitchen Queens: New Orleans Sundays, 12:30 pm (9/13, 9/20, 9/27) Lidia’s Kitchen Saturdays, 11:30 am (9/12, 9/19, 9/26) Madagascar: Islands of Wonder Wednesday, 8:00 pm (9/16) Friday, 12:30 am (9/18) Mexico: One Plate at a Time Saturdays, 10:30 am (9/12, 9/19, 9/26) My Greek Table with Diane Kochilas Saturdays, 3:00 pm (9/12, 9/19, 9/26) Neven’s Spanish Food Trails Sundays, 1:30 pm (9/13, 9/20) Pati’s Mexican Table Saturdays, 12:30 pm (9/12, 9/19, 9/26) Rick Steves’ Europe Saturdays, 5:00 pm (9/12, 9/19, 9/26) Saturdays, 4:30 am (9/19, 9/26) Simply Ming Saturdays, 1:00 pm (9/12, 9/19, 9/26) Steven Raichlen’s Project Fire Saturdays, 1:30 pm (9/12, 9/19, 9/26) This Old House: 40th Anniversary Special Saturday, 9:00 am (9/5)

Travel Detective Friday, 4:00 am (9/11) Saturday, 5:30 pm (9/12)

Nature • Science • Technology Change Your Brain, Heal Your Mind with Daniel Amen Sunday, 3:30 am (9/2) Sunday, 6:30 am (9/6) Deepak Chopra: Becoming Metahuman Sunday, 3:00 am (9/6) Easy Yoga for Arthritis with Peggy Cappy Thursday, 4:00 am (9/3) Hacking Your Mind Wednesdays, 10:00 pm (9/9, 9/16, 9/23, 9/30) Fridays, 3:00 am (9/11, 9/25) Friday, 2:30 am (9/18) Longevity Paradox with Steven Gundry, MD Sunday, 5:00 am (9/6) Tuesday, 4:00 am (9/8) Nature Friday, 8:00 pm (9/4) Saturday, 2:30 pm (9/5) NOVA Wednesday, 8:00 pm, 9:30 pm (9/2) Sunday, 1:30 pm, 3:00 pm (9/6) Wednesday, 8:00 pm (9/9) Friday, 1:00 am (9/11) Wednesdays, 9:00 pm (9/16, 9/23, 9/30) Friday, 1:30 am (9/18) Friday, 2:00 am (9/25)

Public Affairs • History • Documentary Amanpour and Company Tuesdays, 11:30 pm (9/8, 9/15, 9/22, 9/29) Wednesdays, 11:30 pm (9/9, 9/16, 9/23, 9/30) Fridays, 12:00 am (9/11, 9/25) Fridays, 11:30 pm (9/11, 9/18, 9/25) Tuesdays, 12:00 am (9/15, 9/22, 9/29) Thursday, 11:30 pm (9/17) Art in the Twenty-First Century Fridays, 10:00 pm (9/18, 9/25) Sundays, 4:00 am (9/20, 9/27) BBC World News Mondays-Fridays, 4:30 am, 11:00 pm Beatrix Farrand’s American Landscapes Sunday, 2:00 pm (9/13) Tuesday, 3:00 am (9/15) Building the American Dream Tuesday, 10:00 pm (9/15) Thursday, 2:30 am (9/17) Chicago by ‘L’ with Geoffrey Baer Thursday, 7:30 pm (9/3) Friday, 12:30 am (9/4) Tuesday, 1:00 am (9/8) Chicago on Vacation with Geoffrey Baer Wednesday, 2:00 am (9/9) Chicago Tonight Mondays-Fridays, 7:00 pm, 5:00 am Chicago Tonight: Black Voices Sundays, 6:00 pm (9/13, 9/20, 9/27) Tuesdays, 4:00 am (9/15, 9/22, 9/29) Chicago Tonight: Latino Voices Saturdays, 6:00 pm (9/12, 9/19, 9/26) Wednesdays, 4:00 am (9/16, 9/23) Thursday, 4:00 am (10/1) Chicago’s Loop: A Walking Tour Saturday, 5:30 pm (9/5) Count Basie: Through His Own Eyes Saturday, 9:30 pm (9/5) Dictator’s Playbook Thursdays, 10:00 pm (9/17, 9/24) Saturday, 2:30 am (9/19) Saturday, 3:00 am (9/26)

Firing Line with Margaret Hoover Sundays, 11:00 am (9/13, 9/20, 9/27) Frontline Tuesdays, 9:00 pm (9/8, 9/15) Thursdays, 1:30 am (9/10, 9/17) Frontline: The Choice 2020: Trump vs Biden Tuesday, 9:00 pm (9/22) Thursday, 1:30 am (9/24) Sunday, 1:00 am (9/27) Future of America’s Past Sunday, 11:30 am (9/13) Growing Bolder Sundays, 10:30 am (9/13, 9/20, 9/27) Harbor from the Holocaust Tuesday, 10:00 pm (9/8) Thursday, 2:30 am (9/10) Independent Lens Saturday, 12:00 pm (9/5) Sunday, 6:00 pm (9/6) Ken Burns: America’s Storyteller Friday, 9:30 pm (9/4) Sunday, 8:30 pm (9/6) Wednesday, 12:30 am (9/9) Ken Burns: The Civil War Monday, 9:00 pm (9/7) Ken Burns: The National Parks Sunday, 4:30 pm (9/6) Lucy Worsley’s Royal Palace Secrets Sunday, 6:30 pm (9/13) Saturday, 9:00 pm (9/19) McLaughlin Group Saturdays, 5:30 am (9/12, 9/19, 9/26) 9/11 Inside the Pentagon Thursday, 10:30 pm (9/10) Saturday, 12:30 am (9/12) PBS NewsHour Mondays-Fridays, 6:00 pm PBS NewsHour Debates: A Special Report Tuesday, 8:00 pm (9/29) Wednesday, 12:30 am (9/30) PBS NewsHour Weekend Saturdays, 6:30 pm (9/12, 9/19, 9/26) Sundays, 6:30 pm (9/20, 9/27) POV Sunday, 10:30 pm (9/13) Mondays, 10:00 pm (9/14, 9/28) Wednesday, 2:30 am (9/16) Thursdays, 3:30 am (9/17, 9/24) Monday, 10:30 pm (9/21) Thursday, 2:30 am (10/1) Pritzker Military Presents Sunday, 1:00 pm (9/27) Raul Julia: The World’s a Stage – American Masters Monday, 9:00 pm (9/21) Wednesday, 1:00 am (9/23) Rick Steves Fascism in Europe Saturday, 4:00 pm (9/5) Suze Orman’s Ultimate Retirement Guide Tuesday, 11:30 pm (9/1) Wednesday, 1:30 am (9/2) Friday, 3:30 am (9/4) Saturday, 5:00 am, 7:00 am (9/5) Sunday, 1:00 am, 8:30 am, 11:30 am (9/6) Monday, 4:00 am (9/7) Variety Studio: Actors on Actors Sunday, 10:00 pm, 10:30 pm (9/27) Vote: American Experience Tuesdays, 8:00 pm (9/8, 9/15, 9/22) Thursdays, 12:30 am (9/10, 9/17, 9/24, 10/1) Tuesday, 10:00 pm (9/29) War Thursdays, 8:00 pm (9/10, 9/17, 9/24) Saturday, 1:30 am (9/12) Saturdays, 12:30 am (9/19, 9/26) Washington Week Fridays, 7:30 pm

2020

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• Daily Radio Programming

Programming Subject to Change Without Notice

Programmer’s Picks From Opera Southwest

Carnegie Hall Live

Set in the natural surroundings of New Mexico, the evocative work Bless Me, Ultima was composed in 2018 by Hector Armienta, based on a novel by Rudolfo Anaya. The main characters are a young boy, and a spiritually-inspired woman.

Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony have won widespread acclaim for performing Mahler. Join us for a 2017 concert that includes his Symphony No. 1 and the Adagio from Symphony No. 10.

Saturday, September 12, 12:00 pm

Thursday, September 17, 9:00 pm

Tuesday 1 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore 9:00 Jean Françaix Divertissement for wind trio – Chicago Chamber Musicians. Cedille CDR-90000040. [10:12] Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart String Divertimento in D, K. 136 – Concerto Cologne. Archive 4775800. [16:44] 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, including today’s new release, plus: Leó Weiner Divertimento No. 1 for Strings, Op. 20, on Old Hungarian Dances – I Virtuosi Italiani. Arcadia ARC-2002-2. [10:03] 11:00 Joaquín Rodrigo Concierto de Aranjuez – John Williams, g; Philharmonia/Louis Frémaux. CBS MDK-45648. [21:40] 12:00 Music in Chicago, plus: Gabriel Fauré Dolly Suite, Op. 56 – Katia, Marielle Labèque, p. Philips 420159-2. [16:41] 1:00 Music for the Afternoon • Giuseppe Verdi Don Carlos: Ballet de la reine – Monte Carlo National Opera Orch/Antonio de Almeida. Philips 422846-2 (2). [16:10] Leonard Bernstein West Side Story: Prologue, Jet Song, Something’s Coming, Rock Blues, Mambo, Cha-Cha, Maria, America – Katia & Marielle Labèque, p’s; Gonzalo Grau & Raphael Séguinier, per. KML 1121. [20:23] 2:00 Afternoon Masterwork: Jean Sibelius Symphony No. 5 in E-Flat, Op. 82 – Gothenburg Sym/Neeme Järvi. Bis CD-622/24 (4). [33:39] 3:00 Fine Arts Calendar • Jessie Montgomery Strum – Catalyst Quartet. Azica ACD-71302.

[6:53] Michael Praetorius Dance Suite – Los Angeles Guitar Quartet. Delos DE-3132. [10:02] Johann Sebastian Bach Three-Part Sinfonias, BWV 787-801: Nos. 4, 11, 14 – Stewart Goodyear, p. Sono Luminus DSL-92220. [5:52] Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Sinfonia in E-Flat, Wq 183/2 – Berlin Academy for Ancient Music. Harmonia Mundi HMC-901622. [10:50] 4:00 Late Afternoon Music with Candice Agree, including a newscast at 4:00 pm and The Unrush Hour between 5:00 pm and 6:00 pm 7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: The Symphony, part 11 8:00 From the CSO’s Archives: Maestro’s Choice – Strauss: Till Eulenspiegel (/Pierre Boulez, 1995). Schumann: Symphony No. 2 (/Fritz Reiner, 1957). Brahms: Tragic Overture (/ Frederick Stock, 1941). Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5, Emperor (Emil Gilels, Jean Martinon, 1966). 10:00 Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center: As Night Descends – Wolf: Italian Serenade. Bloch: Three Nocturnes. Chopin: Two Nocturnes; Cello Sonata. 11:00 Evening Music on WFMT

Wednesday 2 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore 9:00 Henry Purcell The Fairy Queen: Suite from Act 3 – Le Concert des Nations/Jordi Savall. Fontalis ES-8583. [11:01] John Alden Carpenter Krazy Kat – Los Angeles

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Most live performances on 98.7WFMT are broadcast from the Fay and Daniel Levin Performance Studio.

SEPTEMBER

2020

Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin Schubertiades were home music-making parties, where the composer’s friends would play piano music, songs, and chamber scores.

Monday-Friday, September 28October 2, 7:00 pm

Phil/Calvin Simmons. New World 80228-2. [12:52] 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, including today’s new release, plus: John Williams Jurassic Park: Main Theme – Vienna Phil/John Williams. DG. [6:02] 11:00 William Grant Still Africa: Land of Romance – Lara Downes, p. Steinway & Sons 30016. [6:53] 12:00 Music in Chicago Dame Myra Hess Encore: Pianist Lee Dionne 1:00 Music for the Afternoon • Franz Schubert Piano Quintet in A, D. 667, Trout – Thomas Ades, p; members of Belcea Quartet; Colin Long, db. EMI 57664-2. [41:15] 2:00 Afternoon Masterwork: Carl Nielsen Symphony No. 5, Op. 50 – New York Phil/Leonard Bernstein. CBS MK-44708. [33:14] 3:00 Fine Arts Calendar • Manuel de Falla Seven Popular Spanish Songs: Five excerpts – Augustin Hadelich, v; Pablo Sainz Villegas, g. Avie AV-2280. [10:41] Franz Liszt Rhapsodie Espagnole – Joshua Pierce, p; Moscow State Phil/Paul Freeman. MSR Classics MS-1210. [15:12] 4:00 Late Afternoon Music with Candice Agree, including a newscast at 4:00 pm and The Unrush Hour between 5:00 pm and 6:00 pm 7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: The Symphony, part 11 8:00 Music of the Baroque Encore – The MOB Orchestra conducted by Jane Glover; Imogen Cooper, piano – Mozart: Ballet music from Idomeneo; Piano Concerto No. 25. Haydn: Symphony No. 101, Clock. 10:00 Baroque&Before with Candice Agree 11:00 Evening Music on WFMT

Thursday 3 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore 9:00 Edvard Grieg Four Lyric Pieces – Alice Sara Ott, p. DG 4794631. [16:40] George Walker Lyric

In the Spotlight

Emil Gilels and his sister the violinist Elizabeth Gilels

From the CSO’s Archives: Maestro’s Choice The Ukrainian-born pianist Emil Gilels (1916-1985) had an extensive performing career in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe before his first U.S. appearance. In 1966, he returned to perform Beethoven’s Emperor Concerto with the Chicago Symphony under Jean Martinon, the climax of the first September edition of this series curated for WFMT by Riccardo Muti. Also hear Brahms’ Tragic Overture conducted by Frederick Stock. The following week, Muti conducts the rarely performed Lélio: Return to Life by Berlioz, a work for narrator, chorus, and orchestra, narrated by actor Gérard Depardieu. Finally, hear Pierre Boulez conducting Stravinsky’s complete ballet Pulcinella, while Bernard Haitink continues the orchestra’s Richard Strauss connection with Ein Heldenleben, from 2009 and 2008 respectively.

Tuesdays, September 1-15 8:00 pm for Strings – Chicago Sinfonietta/Paul Freeman. Cedille 90000061. [5:17] 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn,

Eric Owens

Music of the Baroque Encore Enjoy these past performances by Music of the Baroque. Highlights include a Haydn-Mozart concert conducted by music director Jane Glover with pianist Imogen Cooper, a former student of Alfred Brendel. Glover is also on the podium for Mendelssohn’s Elijah, which reveals in its inspiration and structure the composer’s reverence for the works of Bach and Handel; bass-baritone Eric Owens portrays Elijah. Carl Grapentine narrates The Grand Tour, a 2019 concert led by Harry Bicket that follows an aristocratic English traveler of the 18th century through the major musical capitals of Europe. For The Family Bach, first presented in 2016, Glover combines works by Johann Sebastian with those of three of his sons. And to conclude the month, hear Pulpit and Playhouse under the direction of MOB’s principal guest conductor, Nicholas Kraemer – the concert includes an early Handel work, the psalm setting Dixit Dominus.

Wednesdays 8:00 pm including today’s new release, plus: Anton Arensky Variations on a Theme by Tchaikovsky, Op. 35a – Camerata Tchaikovsky/Yuri Zhislin. Orchid Classics ORC-100136. [13:20] 11:00 Bedrich Smetana Má Vlast (My Fatherland): Vltava (The Moldau) – Detroit Sym/ Neeme Järvi. Chandos CHAN-7047. [11:25] 12:00 Music in Chicago, plus: Camille Saint-Saëns Samson and Delilah: Bacchanale – Pittsburgh Sym/Lorin Maazel. Sony SK-53979. [7:10] 1:00 Music for the Afternoon • Jean Sibelius Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 47 – Lisa Batiashvili, v; Berlin Staatskapelle/Daniel Barenboim. DG 4796038. [33:15]

2:00 Afternoon Masterwork: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Piano and Wind Quintet in E-flat, K. 452 – Mitsuko Uchida, p; Neil Black, Thea King, Frank Lloyd, Robin O’Neill. Philips 422592-2. [24:43] 3:00 Fine Arts Calendar • Sergei Prokofiev Cinderella: The Morning After; Prince’s Visit; Slow Waltz; Amoroso – Fort Worth Sym/Miguel HarthBedoya. FWSO Live. [14:57] Jukka Linkola Music for the film The Snow Queen: Kai and Gerda on the Beach through Gerda’s Journey – Orch/ Jukka Linkola. Finlandia FACD-920. [14:08] 4:00 Late Afternoon Music with Candice Agree, including a newscast at 4:00 pm and The Unrush Hour between 5:00 pm and 6:00 pm 7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: The Symphony, part 11 8:00 New from the Festival: The Pacifica Quartet 9:00 Carnegie Hall Live: The Mahler Chamber Orchestra conducted by Leif Ove Andsnes, piano, in February 2015 – Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 2, 3, and 4. 11:00 Evening Music on WFMT

Friday 4 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore 9:00 Zoltán Kodaly Marosszék Dances – Buffalo Phil/JoAnn Falletta. Naxos 8.573838. [13:37] Various Mazurkas, Op. 6: No. 1 in f-sharp; Solo Violin Sonata No. 1 in g: Finale, Presto – Béla Fleck, banjo; Joshua Bell, v; Evelyn Glennie, marimba. Sony SK-89610. [4:13] George Frideric Handel (Oboe) Concerto No. 1 in B-flat – Alison Balsom, tr; English Concert/Trevor Pinnock. EMI 40329-2. [7:28] 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, including today’s new release, plus: Niccolo Paganini Sonata Concertata in A – Augustin Hadelich, v; Pablo Sainz Villegas, g. Avie AV-2280. [13:13] 11:00 Alberto Ginastera Estancia, Op. 8: Four dances – Simon Bolivar Youth Orch/ Gustavo Dudamel. DG B0011340-02. [12:00] 12:00 Impromptu Encore: In 2012, Lisa welcomed four pianists to play four-hand piano music – Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Anne-Marie McDermott, AndreMichel Schub, and Wu Han – all associated with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. 1:00 Music for the Afternoon • Gustav Holst Symphony in F, Op. 8, The Cotswolds – Ulster

Orch/JoAnn Falletta. Naxos 8.572914. [23:11] 2:00 Afternoon Masterwork: Johann Sebastian Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D Major, BWV 1050 – Jaime Martin, f; Kenneth Sillito, v; St. Martin’s Academy/Murray Perahia, p. Sony 82429-2 (3). [21:13] Astor Piazzolla Invierno Porteño – TenThing. EMI 88326-2. [6:24] 3:00 Fine Arts Calendar • Edward Elgar There Is Sweet Music – Gabrieli Consort/ Paul McCreesh. Signum SIGCD-490. [4:42] Aaron Copland Quiet City – Wynton Marsalis, tr; Phillip Koch, eh; Eastman Wind Ensemble. CBS MK-44916. [10:52] 4:00 Late Afternoon Music with Candice Agree, including a newscast at 4:00 pm and The Unrush Hour between 5:00 pm and 6:00 pm 7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: The Symphony, part 11 8:00 Evening Music on WFMT 9:00 The New York Philharmonic This Week: Kurt Masur, conductor; Yo-Yo Ma, cello; Sylvia McNair, soprano; Florence Quivar, mezzosoprano; Stuart Neil, tenor; Rene Pape, bass; NY Choral Artists & American Boychoir – Dvorak: Cello Concerto; Beethoven: Symphony No. 9. 11:00 Best of Studs Terkel: This Train, part 1, traveling in 1963 with Studs and hundreds of other Chicagoans to Dr Martin Luther King’s March on Washington.

Amadeus Mozart The Marriage of Figaro, K. 492: Aria, E Susanna non vien... Dove sono – Renée Fleming, s; London Sym/Sir Georg Solti. London 455760-2. [6:16] 3:00 Grier Flute Concertino, Renascence – Mary Stolper, f; Czech National Sym/Paul Freeman. Cedille CDR90000046. [10:55] Charles Tomlinson Griffes Fantasy Pieces, Op. 6 – Drew Petersen, p. Steinway & Sons 30095. [16:37] Claude Debussy La Mer – Lucerne Festival Orch/Claudio Abbado. DG B0003397-02 (2). [24:04] Franz Liszt Années de pèlerinage: 3rd Year, Rome: Les jeux d’eau à la Villa d’Este – André Watts, p. EMI CDM7-64599-2. [7:48] Ottorino Respighi The Fountains of Rome – Oregon Sym/James DePreist.

In the Spotlight Photo: Sheila Rock licensed to EMI Classics

Photo: Dario Acosta

In the Spotlight

Saturday 5 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 7:00 Weekend Mornings with Maggie Clennon Reberg, including Saturday Morning Listener’s Choice at 8:00 am and Soundtrack at 9:00 am 10:00 Fine Arts Calendar • Today’s New Release 11:00 Introductions: Spotlighting the Chicago area’s young musicians 12:00 From the Royal Opera House Covent Garden: Beethoven’s “Fidelio” – Lise Davidsen (Leonore); Jonas Kaufmann (Florestan); Georg Zeppenfeld (Rocco); Amanda Forsythe (Marzelline); Robin Tritschler (Jaquino); Michael Kupfer-Radecky (Don Pizarro); ROH Cho & Orch/ Sir Antonio Pappano. 2:15 Weekend Music with Oliver Camacho • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Piano Concerto No. 24 in c minor, K. 491 – Cleveland Orch/ Mitsuko Uchida, p. London B0013276-02. [32:42] Wolfgang

Sir Antonio Pappano

Operatic Classics from the Royal Opera House Covent Garden First up in this series is Beethoven’s Fidelio, starring Jonas Kaufmann as Florestan and conducted by Sir Antonio Pappano. The production, from last winter, also featured Norwegian-born soprano Lise Davidsen making her role debut as the title character. Then, from 2019, Mozart’s Don Giovanni stars bassbaritone Erwin Schrott in the title role and bass Roberto Tagliavini as his servant Leporello. Some have singled out this work as Mozart’s greatest opera, combining comic elements with romance, plus satirical, yet pointed, commentary on the victimization of women. Hartmut Haenchen conducts.

Saturdays, September 5 and 26, 12:00 pm 2020

SEPTEMBER

[6:17] Cimarosa Sinfonia Concertante in G – Aurele Nicolet, f; Heinz Holliger, ob;St. Martin’s Academy/Kenneth Sillito. Philips 416359-2. [17:06] Bernstein Candide: The best of all possible worlds; Oh happy we; Paris Waltz Scene; Make Our Garden Grow – Jerry Hadley, other soloists, London Sym/Leonard Bernstein. DG 449656-2 (2). [13:45] 7:00 Fiesta! with Elbio Barilari: Five centuries of Latin-American music 8:00 Folkstage hosted by Rich Warren 9:00 The Midnight Special with Marilyn Rea Beyer

Delos DE-3287. [17:14] 4:30 Arias and Songs Encore: Music in celebration of Labor Day Break 5:00 Evening Music on WFMT • Josef Suk String Serenade in E-Flat, Op. 6 – Bavarian Radio Sym/Mariss Jansons. BR Klassik 900145. [25:43] Leonard Bernstein Serenade After Plato’s Symposium – Anne Akiko Meyers, v; London Sym/Keith Lockhart. EOne EOMCD-7792. [29:28] Domenico Cimarosa Serenade – James Galway, f; Kazuhito Yamashita, g. RCA 5679-2. [11:39] Various The Tales of Hoffmann: Barcarolle (Belle nuit); Hansel and Gretel: Evening Prayer – Hei-Kyung Hong, Jennifer Larmore, Munich Radio Orch/Jesús López-Cobos. Teldec 22801-2.

Sunday 6

In the Spotlight

Amanda Majeski

New from the Ravinia Festival The Ravinia Festival invited a group of outstanding artists, based in or near Chicago, to present short concerts for airing and streaming, in these programs hosted by Kerry Frumkin. Participating artists include: the acclaimed Pacifica Quartet performing a sequence of stringquartet movements; soprano Amanda Majeski, an alumna of Lyric’s Ryan Opera Center, who performs works by Hugo Wolf and Robert Schumann along with baritone Edward Parks in Vaughan Williams’ Songs of Travel; baritone Quinn Kelsey also a Ryan Opera Center veteran, whose program includes several Verdi arias plus art songs; and finally, a recital featuring longtime Ravinia CEO and pianist Welz Kauffman partnering with soprano Michelle Areyzaga.

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SEPTEMBER

2020

12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 With Heart and Voice: Honoring Labor Day 7:00 Weekend Mornings with Maggie Clennon Reberg 10:00 Fine Arts Calendar • Today’s New Release 12:00 Sunday Afternoons with Robbie Ellis • George Frideric Handel Concerto a due cori No. 3 in F – Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Harmonia Mundi HMM-905272. [17:35] Johann Sebastian Bach Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1, BWV 846/69: Preludes & Fugues Nos. 21, 22 – Keith Jarrett, p. ECM 1362/3 (2). [9:06] Gustav Holst A Fugal Concerto, Op. 40, No. 2 – J Bogorad, f; K Greenbank, ob; St. Paul Chamber Orch/C Hogwood. London 440376-2. [7:19] Holst Choral Hymns from the Rig Veda, Op. 26, No. 3 – Thelma Owen, h; Holst Singers/Hilary Davan Wetton. Hyperion CDA-66175. [13:00] 1:00 William Grant Still Prelude for flute, string quartet, double-bass and piano – A Still, f; M Steer, db; S D Smith, p; New Zealand String Quartet. Koch 3-7192-2. [10:10] George Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue – Orch/Morton Gould, p. RCA 63276-2. [16:05] Gould Spirituals – Chicago Sym/Morton Gould. RCA AGL1-4213. [19:15] Traditional Shenandoah – Kansas City Chorale/Charles Bruffy. Nimbus NI-5449. [3:17] 2:00 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Fantasia in c, K. 475 – Alfred Brendel, p. Philips 446921-2 (5). [12:27] Johann Sebastian Bach-Edward Elgar Fantasia and Fugue in c, BWV 537 – BBC Phil/Leonard Slatkin. Chandos CHAN-9835. [9:04] Bach Orchestra Suite No. 3 in D, BWV 1068 – La Stravaganza Cologne/Andrew Manze. Denon CO-78965/66 (2). [23:08] Michael Praetorius

Terpsichore: Courante – Collegium Terpsichore/Fritz Neumeyer. Boston Skyline BSD-118. [4:17] FJ Haydn Wind Divertimento in B-Flat – Ensemble Vienna-Berlin. CBS MK-39558. [10:55] Johannes Brahms Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Op. 56b – Martha Argerich & Nelson Freire, p’s. DG 4778570. [17:09] 4:00 George Gershwin Second Rhapsody – San Francisco Sym/Michael Tilson Thomas, p. RCA 68931-2 (2). [17:34] Maurice Ravel Rapsodie espagnole – Lyon National Orch/Leonard Slatkin. Naxos 8.572887. [15:04] 5:00 Evening Music on WFMT • Paul Hindemith Symphonic Metamorphoses on Themes by Weber – San Francisco Sym/Herbert Blomstedt. London 421523-2. [20:16] Blomstedt guest-conducts the Chicago Symphony on our CSO broadcast tonight at 8:00. Paul Taffanel Fantasy on themes from Weber’s Der Freischütz – Mathieu Dufour, f; Kuang-Hao Huang, p. Cedille CDR-90000121. [12:23] Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Trio in G, Op. 121a, Kakadu Variations – Joseph Kalichstein, p; Jaime Laredo, v; Sharon Robinson, vc. MCA Classics MCAD-25193. [18:27] Franz Danzi Sinfonia Concertante in B-flat, Op. 41 – Demarre McGill, f; Anthony McGill, cl; Chicago Youth Sym/Allen Tinkham. Cedille CDR-90000187. [20:38] Gershwin Piano Concerto in F – Kirill Gerstein, p; St. Louis Sym/David Robertson. Myrios Classics MYR-022. [33:32] 7:00 Ryan Opera Center Recital Series 8:00 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Radio Broadcasts: Herbert Blomstedt, conductor; Bertrand Chamayou, piano – Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 23 in A; Brahms: Symphony No. 2 in D. 10:00 Collectors’ Corner with Henry Fogel: In-concert recordings conducted by Pierre Monteux (1875-1964)

Monday 7 Labor Day 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, including today’s new release, plus: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Flute Concerto No. 2 in D, K. 314 – Emmanuel Pahud, f; Berlin Phil/Claudio Abbado. EMI CDC5-56365-2. [18:44] 11:00 Ferde Grofé Mississippi Suite – Boston Pops/Keith Lockhart. RCA 68786-2. [13:38]

12:00 Music in Chicago, plus: George Frideric Handel Water Music Suite No. 3 in G – Aradia Ensemble/Kevin Mallon. Naxos 6.110115. [10:52] 1:00 Music for the Afternoon • Virgil Thomson The Plow that Broke the Plains Suite – PostClassical Ensemble/Angel Gil-Ordonez. Naxos 8.559291. [26:52] Aaron Copland Fanfare for the Common Man – London Sym/Aaron Copland. CBS MK-42430. [3:16] Joan Tower Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman No. 1 – Colorado Sym/Marin Alsop. Koch 3-7469-2. [2:32] 2:00 Afternoon Masterwork: Franz Joseph Haydn Symphony No. 45 in f-sharp minor, Farewell – St. Luke’s Orch/Sir Charles Mackerras. Telarc CD-80156. [34:03] 3:00 Fine Arts Calendar • Richard Wagner Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg: Act 1 & Act 3 Preludes; Dance of the Apprentices; Entrance of the Mastersingers – Chicago Sym/ Fritz Reiner. RCA 63301-2. [22:04] Reinhold Gliere The Red Poppy: Scene & Dance; Russian Sailors’ Dance – New Jersey Sym/ Zdenek Macal. Delos DE-3178. [12:11] Giuseppe Verdi Il Trovatore: Anvil Chorus & Soldiers’ Chorus – Chicago Sym & Cho/Sir Georg Solti. London 430226-2. [5:34] 4:00 Late Afternoon Music with Candice Agree, including a newscast at 4:00 pm and The Unrush Hour between 5:00 pm and 6:00 pm 7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: The life and music of Bela Bartok 8:00 Mondays at the Martin: A Ravinia Festival Encore 10:00 Evening Music on WFMT

Tuesday 8 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore 9:00 Frédéric Chopin Polonaise No. 5 in f-sharp, Op. 44 – Benjamin Grosvenor, p. London 4785334. [10:24] Franz Lehár Die lustige Witwe (The Merry Widow): Waltz – Philharmonia Hungarica/Antal Dorati. Mercury 434338-2. [6:20] Peter Tchaikovsky Andante cantabile, Op. 11 – Yo-Yo Ma, vc; Pittsburgh Sym/Lorin Maazel. Sony S2K-93927 (2). [8:22] 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, including today’s new release, plus: Béla Bartók Romanian Folk Dances – Les Violons du Roy/Jean-Marie Zeitouni. Atma ACD2-2576. [7:07] Bill McGlaughlin’s Exploring Music topic this is Bartok. 11:00 Jacques Offenbach

Photo: Tammie Arroyo Photo

In the Spotlight

Ennio Morricone

Voices from the Silence In 2003, Riccardo Muti’s Ravenna Festival commissioned a work from the late Italian film and concert-music composer Ennio Morricone (19282020). Voices from the Silence is presented in memory of the victims of September 11, 2001, though the dedication also pays tribute to the worldwide victims of racism, terrorism, and ethnic persecution. In addition to the chorus and orchestra, this moving piece features a narrator and prerecorded African music; the text is by the South African poet Richard Moore Rive, who was murdered for his antiapartheid activism. Join WFMT for this performance by the CSO from 2014.

Friday, September 11 8:00 pm

Le voyage dans la lune: Overture – Gulbenkian Orch/Michel Swierczewski. Nimbus NI-5303. [7:44] 12:00 Music in Chicago, plus: Benjamin Britten The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra, Op. 34 – Royal Phil/André Previn. Telarc CD-80126. [17:08] 1:00 Music for the Afternoon • Jean Sibelius Karelia Suite, Op. 11 – Bergen Phil/Sir Andrew Davis. Chandos CHSA-5134. [15:51] Peter Maxwell Davies An Orkney Wedding, with Sunrise – Atlanta Sym/Donald Runnicles. Telarc CD-80677. [13:15] 2:00 Afternoon Masterwork: Hector Berlioz Harold in Italy, Op. 16 – Gérard Caussé, vi; Orch Révolutionnaire et Romantique/Sir John Eliot Gardiner. Philips 446676-2. [40:50] Tonight at 8:00 on Maestro’s Choice, Riccardo Muti conducts a Berlioz rarity: Lelio, or The Return to Life. 3:00 Fine Arts Calendar • Antonio Vivaldi Oboe and Bassoon Concerto in G, R. 545 – Rachel

Chaplin, ob; Peter Whelan, bn; La Serenissima/Adrian Chandler. Avie AV-2392. [10:33] Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Symphony No. 31 in D, K. 297, Paris – London Mozart Players/ Jane Glover. ASV CDDCA-647. [18:23] Maurice Ravel Pavane for A Dead Princess – Stewart Goodyear, p. Orchid Classics ORC-100061. [5:44] 4:00 Late Afternoon Music with Candice Agree, including a newscast at 4:00 pm and The Unrush Hour between 5:00 pm and 6:00 pm 7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: The life and music of Bela Bartok 8:00 From the CSO’s Archives: Maestro’s Choice – Berlioz: Lelio, or The Return to Live (/ Riccardo Muti, 2010; Gerard Depardieu, narrator). We also hear some Verdi, and the prologue to Boito’s Mefistofele with bass Riccardo Zanellato. 10:00 Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center – Tchaikovsky: Souvenir d’un lieu cher. Schubert: Song, Death and the Maiden. Bloch: Suite hebraique. Prokofiev: Two-Violin Sonata. 11:00 Evening Music on WFMT

Wednesday 9 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore 9:00 Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 22 in F, Op. 54 – Paul Lewis, p. Harmonia Mundi HMX-2901902.11 (10). [12:47] Jean-Baptiste Arban Variations on Casta Diva – Alison Balsom, tr; Gothenburg Sym/ Edward Gardner. EMI 53255-2. [6:26] Various The Firebird: Berceuse; Six Morceaux: Berceuse – Rachel Barton Pine, v; Matthew Hagle, p. Cedille CDR-90000139. [5:29] 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, including today’s new release, plus: Maurice Ravel Le Tombeau de Couperin – Cleveland Orch/Pierre Boulez. DG B0002121-02. [17:46] 11:00 Peter Tchaikovsky Souvenir d’un lieu cher, Op. 42: No. 1, Meditation – Daniel Lozakovich, v; National Phil of Russia/Vladimir Spivakov. DG 4836086. [10:30] 12:00 Music in Chicago 12:15 Dame Myra Hess Encore: Cellist Juliette Herlin and pianist Kevin Ahfat 1:00 Music for the Afternoon • Igor Stravinsky Jeu de cartes – Mariinsky Orch/Valery Gergiev. Mariinsky MAR-0594. [22:10] Claude Debussy Children’s Corner Suite – André Watts, p. Philips 456985-2 (2). [15:11] 2:00 Afternoon Masterwork: Johannes Brahms Symphony No. 1 in C

minor, Op. 68 – Boston Sym/Andris Nelsons. BSO Classics 1701/03. [45:39] 3:00 Fine Arts Calendar • John Williams Star Wars: Suite for Five Pianos – The 5 Browns. E1 E1E-CD-2041. [9:39] Peter Tchaikovsky Swan Lake Suite – Berlin Phil/Mstislav Rostropovich. DG 469271-2. [25:17] 4:00 Late Afternoon Music with Candice Agree, including a newscast at 4:00 pm and The Unrush Hour between 5:00 pm and 6:00 pm 7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: The life and music of Bela Bartok 8:00 Music of the Baroque Encore – The MOB Chorus and Orchestra conducted by Jane Glover; Susanna Phillips, Elizabeth DeShong, William Burden, Eric Owens, vocal soloists – Mendelssohn: Oratorio, Elijah. 10:30 Baroque&Before with Candice Agree 11:30 Evening Music on WFMT

Thursday 10 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore 9:00 Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov Russian Easter Overture,

Op. 36 – Chicago Sym/Daniel Barenboim. DG 419407-2. [14:01] Hector Berlioz Requiem, Op. 5 (Grande messe des morts): Rex tremendae – Atlanta Sym & Cho/Robert Shaw. Telarc CD-80458. [5:44] 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, including today’s new release, plus: Michael Haydn Horn Concertino in D – Barry Tuckwell, fh; St. Martin’s Academy/Sir Neville Marriner. London B0006249-02 (2). [14:24] 11:00 Richard Wagner Götterdämmerung: Dawn and Siegfried’s Rhine Journey – Berlin Phil/Tennstedt. EMI CDC7-47007-2. [10:33] 12:00 Music in Chicago, plus: Ralph Vaughan Williams The Lark Ascending – Pinchas Zukerman, v; English Chamber Orch/Daniel Barenboim. DG 469376-2 (4). [13:32] 1:00 Music for the Afternoon • Johann Sebastian Bach English Suite No. 3 in g minor, BWV 808 – Simone Dinnerstein, p. Sony 81742-2. [19:42] Richard Strauss Der Rosenkavalier Suite – Buffalo Phil/JoAnn Falletta. Naxos 8.572041. [23:47] 2:00 Afternoon Masterwork: Franz Schubert String Quintet in C, D. 956 – Emerson String 2020

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Quartet; Mstislav Rostropovich, vc. DG 459151-2 (3). [53:25] 3:00 Fine Arts Calendar • Howard Hanson Merry Mount Suite – Seattle Sym/Gerard Schwarz. Delos DE-3105. [16:02] Robert Nathaniel Dett Eight Bible Vignettes: Other Sheep – Denver Oldham, p. New World NW-367-2. [9:19] 4:00 Late Afternoon Music with Candice Agree, including a newscast at 4:00 pm and The Unrush Hour between 5:00 pm and 6:00 pm 7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: The life and music of Bela Bartok 8:00 New from the Ravinia Festival: Soprano Amanda Majeski and baritone Edward Parks 9:00 Carnegie Hall Live: The Budapest Festival Orchestra conducted by Ivan Fischer in February 2016; Marc-Andre Hamelin, piano – Weber: Der Freischuetz Overture. Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 1. Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5. 11:00 Evening Music on WFMT

Friday 11 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore 9:00 Antonin Dvorák Slavonic Rhapsodies, Op. 45: No. 3 in A-Flat – Dresden Staatskapelle/ Paavo Berglund. EMI CDFB568649-2 (2). [12:40] Clara Schumann Three Romances, Op. 11 – Isata Kanneh-Mason, p. Decca 4850020. [13:36] 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, including today’s new release, plus: Richard Strauss Capriccio, Op. 85: Prelude for String Sextet – Vienna Phil/André Previn. DG 437790-2. [9:54] 11:00 Georges Bizet L’Arlésienne Suite No. 1 – Granada City Orch/Josep Pons. Harmonia Mundi HMC-901675. [16:53] Donald Grantham We Remember Them – Conspirare/ Craig Hella Johnson. Harmonia Mundi HMU-807518. [4:37] 12:00 Impromptu Encore: From 2019, violinist Anne Akiko Meyers and pianist Marta Aznavoorian; Lisa hosts. 1:00 Music for the Afternoon • Henry Purcell Suite of Theater Music – Taverner Players/Andrew Parrott. Virgin Classics 61304-2. [7:54] Aaron Copland Appalachian Spring – Boston Sym/Aaron Copland. RCA 61505-2. [25:25] 2:00 Afternoon Masterwork: Johannes Brahms Symphony No. 2 in D, Op. 73 – New York Phil/Leonard Bernstein. Sony SMK-61829. [40:05] 3:00 Fine Arts Calendar • Edvard Grieg Old Norwegian Romance With Variations, 24

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Op. 51 – Iceland Sym/Petri Sakari. Chandos CHAN-9028. [24:23] Traditional Shenandoah; Beautiful River (Shall We Gather at the River) – St. Charles Singers/Jeffrey Hunt. MSR Classics MS-1660. [5:59] Traditional Steal Away – Imani Winds. Koch 3-7599-2. [6:26] 4:00 Late Afternoon Music with Candice Agree, including a newscast at 4:00 pm and The Unrush Hour between 5:00 pm and 6:00 pm 7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: The life and music of Bela Bartok 8:00 An Archive Performance from the Chicago Symphony: Riccardo Muti conducts the CSO and its chorus in Voices from the Silence by the late Ennio Morricone, a work he composed in memory of the victims of 9/11. A performance from 2014. 8:30 Evening Music on WFMT 9:00 The New York Philharmonic This Week – Adams: On the Transmigration of Souls (/Lorin Maazel); Brahms: A German Requiem (/Kurt Masur). With the New York Choral Artists, soprano Heidi Grant Murphy, and baritone Thomas Hampson. 11:00 Best of Studs Terkel: This Train, part 2, traveling in 1963 with Studs and hundreds of other Chicagoans to Dr. Martin Luther King’s March on Washington.

Saturday 12 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 7:00 Weekend Mornings with Maggie Clennon Reberg, including Saturday Morning Listener’s Choice at 8:00 am and Soundtrack at 9:00 am 10:00 Fine Arts Calendar • Today’s New Release 11:00 Introductions: Spotlighting the Chicago area’s young musicians 12:00 From Opera Southwest: Hector Armienta’s “Bless Me, Ultima” – Kirsten Chavez (Ultima); Daisy Beltran (Tony); Javier Abreu (Gabriel); Carelle Flores (Maria); Opera Southwest Cho & Orch/Anthony Barrese. 3:35 Weekend Music with Oliver Camacho • Domenico Scarlatti Clavier Sonata in d, Kk 90 (L 106) – Scott Ross, hc; Instrumental Ensemble. Erato 45309-2 (34). [9:00] George Frideric Handel Water Music Suite No. 2 in D – Berlin Academy for Ancient Music. Harmonia Mundi HMC-902216. [11:07] Frederick Delius Two Aquarelles (to be sung of a summer night on the water) – Cambridge Singers/John Rutter. Collegium CSCD-505. [4:34] Lawrence Ashmore

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Four Seasons (Suite on English folksongs) – Richard Stoltzman, cl; Guildhall String Ensemble. RCA 60437-2. [21:26] Arias and Songs Encore: Songs of Many Colors Evening Music on WFMT • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Piano Concerto No. 20 in d minor, K. 466 – Martha Argerich, p; Orch Mozart/Claudio Abbado. DG 4791033. [30:58] Benjamin Britten Gloriana: Courtly Dances – Julian Bream Consort. RCA 61589-2. [10:05] Various Folksong setting, Down by the Salley Gardens; Music, When Soft Voices Die; Love’s Philosophy; Lerner/ Loewe Camelot: Before I Gaze at You Again – Arleen Auger, s; Dalton Baldwin, p. Delos D/CD-3029. [2:19] Peter Tchaikovsky Variations on a Rococo Theme, Op. 33 – Zuill Bailey, vc; San Francisco Ballet Orch/Martin West. Telarc CD-80724. [18:48] Various Eugene Onegin: Polonaise; La Valse – Lara Downes, p. Postcards 772001-2. [18:34] Maurice Ravel Boléro – London Sym/Claudio Abbado. DG 439512-2. [14:22] Fiesta! with Elbio Barilari: New works by Latinx composers currently living in the US. Folkstage hosted by Rich Warren The Midnight Special with Marilyn Rea Beyer

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Sunday 13 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 With Heart and Voice: Listener favorites 7:00 Weekend Mornings with Maggie Clennon Reberg 10:00 Fine Arts Calendar • Today’s New Release 12:00 Sunday Afternoons with Robbie Ellis 12:00 Scott Joplin Paragon Rag; Pineapple Rag; Elite Syncopations – Alexander Peskanov, p. Naxos 8.559114. [11:34] Leonard Bernstein On the Town: Three Dance Episodes – Bournemouth Sym/Marin Alsop. Naxos 8.559177. [10:31] Franz Joseph Haydn Symphony No. 96 in D, Miracle – New York Phil/Leonard Bernstein. Sony SM3K-47553 (3). [23:20] Haydn Mass No. 9 in C, Missa in Tempore Belli (Paukenmesse), H XXII:9: Agnus Dei – Norman Scribner Cho, New York Phil/ Leonard Bernstein. Sony SM2K-47653 (2). [6:28] 1:00 Sergei Rachmaninoff Fourteen Songs, Op. 34: No. 14, Vocalise – Northwestern University Cello Ensemble/Hans Jorgen Jensen. Sono Luminus SLE-70004. [7:26] Sergei

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Prokofiev Symphony No. 1 in D, Op. 25, Classical – London Phil/Leonard Slatkin. RCA 61350-2. [13:16] Rachmaninoff Variations on a theme by Corelli, Op. 42 – Vladimir Ashkenazy, p. Philips 456715-2 (2). [19:45] Felix Mendelssohn The Hebrides (Fingal’s Cave) Overture, Op. 26 – Boston Pops/Keith Lockhart. RCA 68901-2. [9:48] James Horner Braveheart film music: main title – Boston Pops/ Lockhart. RCA 68901-2. [4:48] Hugo Alfvén A Legend of the Skerries, Op. 20 – Royal Stockholm Phil/Neeme Järvi. Bis CD-725. [16:15] Fanny Mendelssohn Das Jahr: Excerpts – Jennifer Eley, p. Koch 3-7197-2. [18:22] Franz Joseph Haydn String Quartet in E-flat, Op. 64, No. 6 – London Haydn Quartet. Hyperion CDA-68221. [20:50] Gerald Finzi Eclogue, Op. 10 – Joshua Pierce, p; Slovak Radio Sym/ Kirk Trevor. Kleos Classics KL-5137. [8:56] Darius Milhaud Pastorale, Op. 147; Suite d’après Corrette, Op. 161b – Chicago Chamber Musicians. Cedille CDR-90000040. [12:39] Ernest John Moeran Symphonic Impression, In the Mountain Country – Ulster Orch/JoAnn Falletta. Naxos 8.573106. [6:24] Robert Beaser Mountain Songs – Waller & Maxwell Guitar Duo. Berto Records 1801. [11:19] Johann Sebastian Bach Two-Violin Concerto in D Minor, BWV 1043 – Jennifer Koh & Jaime Laredo, v’s; Curtis 20/21 Ensemble/Vinay Parameswaran. Cedille CDR-90000146. [15:07] Evening Music on WFMT • Giuseppe Verdi Quattro Pezzi Sacri: Te Deum – Chicago Sym & Cho/Sir Georg Solti. London 425498-2. [14:35] Riccardo Muti conducts Verdi’s Requiem on our CSO broadcast tonight at 8:00. Verdi String Quartet in e – Vienna Phil Strings/ André Previn. DG 463579-2. [22:24] Various Liebesleid; Tango Song; Hungarian Dance #6; Summertime fr Porgy and Bess – Anne-Sophie Mutter, v; Lambert Orkis & André Previn, p. DG B0007189-02. [15:29] Joseph Canteloube Rustiques for wind trio – Chicago Chamber Musicians. Cedille CDR-90000040. [16:00] Joseph Canteloube Songs of the Auvergne, Set 1: Bailero (Shepherd’s Song) – Karina Gauvin, s; Canadian Chamber Ensemble/Raffi Armenian. Radio Canada Int’l SMCD-5224. [7:07] Claude Debussy Three Nocturnes – Philharmonia/ Carlo Maria Giulini. EMI CDM7-69184-2. [26:27] Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Clarinet Concerto in A, K. 622 – Sabine Meyer, cl; Berlin Phil/Claudio Abbado. EMI CDC5-56832-2. [26:41] Valerie Coleman Portraits of Langston: No. 2, Danse Africaine – Demarre McGill, f; Anthony McGill, cl; Michael McHale, p. Cedille CDR-90000172. [5:32] Alan Thomas Out of Africa: Call at Sunrise; Morning Dance – Denis Azabagic, g. Cedille CDR-7005. [6:45] Leonard Cohen Hallelujah – Anderson & Roe Piano Duo in Levin Studio. WFMT recording. [11:21] 8:00 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Radio Broadcasts: Riccardo Muti, conductor; Vittoria Yeo, Daniela Barcellona, Piotr Beczala, Dmitry Belosselskiy, vocal soloists; CSO Chorus – Verdi: Messa di Requiem. 10:00 Collectors’ Corner with Henry Fogel: In-concert recordings conducted by Pierre Monteux (1875-1964)

Monday 14 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore 9:00 Carl Maria von Weber Invitation to the Dance, Op. 65 – Garrick Ohlsson, p. Arabesque Z-6584 (2). [9:49] Amilcare Ponchielli La Gioconda: Dance of the

Hours – La Scala Phil/Riccardo Chailly. Decca 4831148. [9:44] 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, including today’s new release, plus: Paul Dukas La Péri – New York Phil/Pierre Boulez. Sony SMK-68333. [19:11] 11:00 Joaquín Turina Tres Danzas Andaluzas, Op. 8 – Martin Jones, p. Nimbus NI-1710. [12:17] 12:00 Music in Chicago, plus: Giuseppe Antonio Brescianello Violin Concerto in G major – La Serenissima/ Adrian Chandler, v. Signum SIGCD-641. [10:13] 1:00 Music for the Afternoon • Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 17 in d, Op. 31/2, Tempest – Maurizio Pollini, p. DG 4794120 (8). [20:42] Jean Sibelius Finlandia, Op. 26 – Estonian National Male Cho & Sym/Paavo Järvi. Virgin Classics 45589-2. [8:36] 2:00 Afternoon Masterwork: Richard Strauss Don Quixote, Op. 35 – John Sharp, vc; Charles Pikler, vi; Samuel Magad, v; Chicago Sym/Daniel Barenboim. Erato 45625-2. [43:36] 3:00 Fine Arts Calendar • Antonio Vivaldi Trio Sonata in d, R. 63, La Folia (Op. 1/12) – La Pietà/ Angèle Dubeau. Analekta AN2-8719. [10:45] Ottorino Respighi Ancient Airs and 2020

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Dances for the Lute, set 2 – Los Angeles Chamber Orch/Sir Neville Marriner. EMI CDFB5-69358-2 (2). [17:50] 4:00 Late Afternoon Music with Candice Agree, including a newscast at 4:00 pm and The Unrush Hour between 5:00 pm and 6:00 pm 7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin 8:00 Mondays at the Martin: A Ravinia Festival Encore 10:00 Evening Music on WFMT

Tuesday 15 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore 9:00 Johann Sebastian Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F Major, BWV 1047 – Wynton Marsalis, tr; English Chamber Orch/Anthony Newman. Sony SK-66244. [12:30] Domenico Scarlatti Clavier Sonatas in a, Kk 54 (L 241), and D, Kk 33 (L 424) – Vladimir Horowitz, p. Sony SK-53460. [6:51] 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, including today’s new release, plus: Charlie Chaplin City Memories (Themes from Charlie Chaplin films) – Lisa Batiashvili, v; Berlin Radio Sym/ Nikoloz Rachveli. DG [7:16] 11:00 Ottorino Respighi The Pines of Rome – Philadelphia Orch/Riccardo Muti. EMI CDC7-47316-2. [22:08] 12:00 Music in Chicago, plus: Ernest Bloch Baal Shem: Prayer – Braimah Kanneh-Mason, v; Sheku Kanneh-Mason, vc. Decca B0031491-02. [4:34] Edward Elgar Enigma Variations, Op. 36: Nimrod – Sheku Kanneh-Mason, vc; Cello Ensemble. Decca B0031491-02. [4:00] 1:00 Music for the Afternoon • Armstrong Gibbs A Spring Garland, Op. 84 – Guildhall Strings/Robert Salter. Hyperion CDA-67093. [11:20] William Grant Still Summerland; Scherzo – Meisha Adderley & Stacey Holliday, p’s. Albany TROY-1383. [7:40] Antonio Vivaldi Oboe Concerto in C, R. 447 – Alex Klein, ob; New Brandenburg Collegium/ Anthony Newman. Cedille CDR-7003. [14:00] 2:00 Afternoon Masterwork: Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 1 in C Major, Op. 21 – Chicago Sym/ Sir Georg Solti. London 4759090 (6). [26:01] 3:00 Fine Arts Calendar • Johann Sebastian Bach French Suite No. 6 in E, BWV 817 – Murray Perahia, p. DG 4796565 (2). [14:59] Maurice Ravel Daphnis and Chloe Suite No. 2 – Cleveland Orch/Pierre

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Boulez. Cleveland Orch ANNIV (10). [16:20] Boulez is a featured conductor on tonight’s edition of From the CSO’s Archives: Maestro’s Choice at 8:00. Vincent Persichetti Pastoral, Op. 21 – Borealis Wind Quintet. MSR Classics MS-1128. [5:55] 4:00 Late Afternoon Music with Candice Agree, including a newscast at 4:00 pm and The Unrush Hour between 5:00 pm and 6:00 pm 7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin 8:00 From the CSO’s Archives: Maestro’s Choice – BachCrees Passacaglia and Fugue (CSO Brass, 2010). Stravinsky: Pulcinella (/Pierre Boulez, 2009). Strauss: Ein Heldenleben (/ Bernard Haitink, 2008). 10:00 Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center – Mozart: Wind Serenade in c, K. 388; Dvorak: Wind Serenade in d, Op. 44. 11:00 Evening Music on WFMT

Wednesday 16 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore 9:00 Ricardo Castro Vals capricho, Op. 1 – Joel Fan, p; Northwest Sinfonietta/Christophe Chagnard. Reference RR-124. [7:57] Arturo Márquez Danzón No. 2 – Phil Orch of the Americas/Alondra de la Parra. Sony 88697755552. [9:32] 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, including today’s new release, plus: Carl Heinrich Graun Horn Concerto in D major – Ursula Paludan Monberg, fh; Arcangelo/Jonathan Cohen. Hyperion CDA-68289. [8:15] 11:00 Manuel Ponce Canciones Mexicanas (Estrellita, La Barca del Marino, Cuiden Su Vida) – Jorge Federico Osorio, p. Cedille CDR-90000086. [9:18] 12:00 Music in Chicago 12:15 Dame Myra Hess Encore: Pianist Huiping Cai 1:00 Music for the Afternoon • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Divertimento in F, K. 439b/3 – CSO Winds. CBS M2K-42144 (2). [21:06] Leonard Bernstein Divertimento for Orchestra – Bournemouth Sym/Marin Alsop. Naxos 8.559245. [14:50] 2:00 Afternoon Masterwork: Joaquín Rodrigo Concierto de Aranjuez – Alfonso Moreno, g; London Sym/Enrique Bátiz. EMI CZS7-67435-2 (4). [21:19] 3:00 Fine Arts Calendar • Johann Sebastian Bach Three Fantasies for Anna Magdalena Bach (Two Minuets, Musette) – Canadian Brass. Opening Day B0010559-02. [9:01] Gioachino Rossini The Barber of Seville Overture – Orpheus Chamber Orch. DG 415363-2.

[7:34] José Alfredo Jiménez Song, Si nos dejan – Mariachi Herencia de México. Mariachi Heritage Foundation (2020). [2:39] Guadalupe Trigo Song, Mi Ciudad – Mariachi Herencia de México. Mariachi Heritage Foundation (2020). [3:20] 4:00 Late Afternoon Music with Candice Agree, including a newscast at 4:00 pm and The Unrush Hour between 5:00 pm and 6:00 pm 7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin 8:00 Music of the Baroque Encore: Harry Bicket, conductor; Carl Grapentine, narrator; The Grand Tour. 10:00 Baroque&Before with Candice Agree 11:00 Evening Music on WFMT

Chopin Barcarolle in F-Sharp, Op. 60 – Garrick Ohlsson, p. Arabesque Z-6686. [8:41] 4:00 Late Afternoon Music with Candice Agree, including a newscast at 4:00 pm and The Unrush Hour between 5:00 pm and 6:00 pm 7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin 8:00 New from the Ravinia Festival: Baritone Quinn Kelsey 9:00 Carnegie Hall Live: The San Francisco Symphony conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas in April 2017 – Mahler: Adagio fr Symphony No. 10; Symphony No. 1 in D. 11:00 Evening Music on WFMT

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12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore 9:00 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart The Marriage of Figaro, K. 492: Voi che sapete; Giunse alfin il momento... Deh vieni, non tardar; No. più andrai – Amadeus Ensemble/ Julius Rudel. Musicmasters MMD-60117-Y. [8:19] Franz Liszt Réminiscences de Don Juan, after Mozart – Anderson & Roe Piano Duo. Steinway & Sons 30022. [15:28] 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, including today’s new release, plus: Benjamin Britten Simple Symphony, Op. 4 – Orpheus Chamber Orch. DG 423624-2. [17:43] 11:00 Franz Liszt Venezia e Napoli: Finale, Tarantella – Stephen Hough, p. Virgin Classics 90700-2. [8:24] 12:00 Impromptu Encore: The Catalyst Quartet, a Sphinx ensemble, performing in 2013; Kerry Frumkin hosts. 1:00 Music for the Afternoon • Heitor Villa-Lobos Concerto for Guitar & Small Orchestra – Manuel Barrueco, g; São Paulo Sym/Giancarlo Guerrero. Naxos 8.574018. [17:24] Carl Maria von Weber Clarinet Concertino in c minor/E-flat major, Op. 26 – Richard Stoltzman, cl; Slovak Radio Sym/Kirk Trevor. Navona Records NV-5801. [10:30] Richard Rodney Bennett Little Suite – Royal Ballet Sinfonia/Gavin Sutherland. ASV CDWHL-2116. [9:49] 2:00 Afternoon Masterwork: Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 36 – San Francisco Sym/ Michael Tilson Thomas. SFS Media 0058. [34:48] 3:00 Fine Arts Calendar • Antonio Vivaldi Sinfonia in G, R. 146 – Venice Baroque Orch/Andrea Marcon. Archive B0006728-02. [7:16] Alfredo Rolando

12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore 9:00 Antonio Soler Fandango – Alain Lefèvre, p. Koch 3-7389-2. [12:30] Antonio Vivaldi TwoGuitar Concerto in G, R. 532 – Pepe & Celín Romero, g’s; San Antonio Sym/Victor Alessandro. London 4780192 (2). [10:59] 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, including today’s new release, plus: Aaron Copland The Red Pony Suite – Buffalo Phil/JoAnn Falletta. Naxos 8.559240. [23:42] 11:00 Chinese Traditional Spring Flowers in the Moonlit Night on the River – Lang Lang, p; Fan Wei, pipa. DG B0008233-00. [7:29] 12:00 Music in Chicago, plus: Johann Sebastian Bach Keyboard Concerto in d, BWV 1059 – Masato Suzuki, hc; Bach Collegium Japan. Bis BIS-2401. [15:55] 1:00 Music for the Afternoon • Ralph Vaughan Williams Symphony No. 5 in D – Philharmonia/Leonard Slatkin. RCA 60556-2. [37:38] 2:00 Afternoon Masterwork: Felix Mendelssohn Quartet No. 6 in f, Op. 80 – Calidore String Quartet. Signum SIGCD-551. [26:34] Fanny Mendelssohn Songs Without Words, Op. 8 – Sylviane Deferne, p. Radio Canada Int’l MVCD-1122. [11:26] 3:00 Fine Arts Calendar • Clemens No. Papa Motet, Ego flos campi – Stile Antico. Harmonia Mundi HMU-807489. [6:05] Johann Sebastian Bach Prelude, Fugue and Allegro in E-Flat, BWV 998 – Manuel Barrueco, g. EMI CDM5-66575-2. [12:45] Tomaso Albinoni Adagio in g – Orpheus Chamber Orch. DG 429390-2. [7:19] Frédéric

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Ortiz Cuban Dream After the Storm – Chicago Harp Quartet. Chicago Harp Quartet 2013. [7:52] George Gershwin Porgy and Bess Fantasy for Violin and Orchestra – Joshua Bell, v; London Sym/John Williams. Sony SK-60659. [20:27] 4:00 Late Afternoon Music with Candice Agree, including a newscast at 4:00 pm and The Unrush Hour between 5:00 pm and 6:00 pm 7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin 8:00 Evening Music on WFMT 9:00 The New York Philharmonic This Week: Alan Gilbert, conductor; Emanuel Ax, piano – Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 25; Bruckner: Symphony No. 3. 11:00 Best of Studs Terkel: Remembering Big Bill, a tribute to blues great Big Bill Broonzy from 1958

Cortese. RCA 68350-2. [10:24] Mendelssohn Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage Overture, Op. 27 – London Sym/Claudio Abbado. DG 471467-2 (4). [13:08] Richard Strauss Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks, Op. 28 – Berlin Phil/Gustavo Dudamel. DG B0018913-02. [15:51] Manuel de Falla The Three-Cornered Hat – Jennifer Larmore, ms; Chicago Sym/Daniel Barenboim. Teldec 17145-2. [37:47] 7:00 Fiesta! with Elbio Barilari: Harpsichord music from Spain and Latin America, with special guest David Schrader. 8:00 Folkstage hosted by Rich Warren: A live performance by Deidre McCalla 9:00 The Midnight Special with Marilyn Rea Beyer

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12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 With Heart and Voice: Honoring the upcoming 75th birthday of sacred-music composer John Rutter. 7:00 Weekend Mornings with Maggie Clennon Reberg 10:00 Fine Arts Calendar • Today’s New Release 12:00 Sunday Afternoons with Robbie Ellis • Ludwig van Beethoven Seven Bagatelles, Op. 33: Nos. 1-3 – Paul Lewis, p. Harmonia Mundi HMM902416. [8:53] Beethoven Variations on Mozart’s Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen, Op. 66 – Antonio Meneses, vc; Menahem Pressler, p. Avie AV-2103. [10:24] Zoltán Kodaly Variations on a Hungarian folksong, The Peacock – Buffalo Phil/JoAnn Falletta. Naxos 8.573838. [26:37] 1:00 Heitor Villa-Lobos Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5: AriaCantilena – Daniel Barenboim, p, Emmanuel Pahud, f, Alex Klein, ob, Larry Combs, cl. Teldec 21482-2. [5:21] Johann Sebastian Bach Orchestra Suite No. 2, BWV 1067 – Gonzalo Ruiz, ob; Ensemble Sonnerie/Monica Huggett. Avie AV-2171. [17:45] Benjamin Britten Suite on English Folk Tunes, Op. 90, A Time There Was – City of Birmingham Sym/Sir Simon Rattle. EMI CZS5-73983-2 (2). [14:42] Traditional I Love My Love; Greensleeves – St. Charles Singers/Jeffrey Hunt. MSR Classics MS-1606. [7:29] Ralph Vaughan Williams Fantasia on Greensleeves – Royal Liverpool Phil/Vernon Handley. EMI CDM7-64613-2. [4:06] 2:00 Franz Joseph Haydn String Quartet in A, Op. 9, No. 6 – Angeles Quartet. Philips

12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 7:00 Weekend Mornings with Maggie Clennon Reberg, including Saturday Morning Listener’s Choice at 8:00 am and Soundtrack at 9:00 am 10:00 Fine Arts Calendar • Today’s New Release 11:00 Introductions: Spotlighting the Chicago area’s young musicians 12:00 From Opera Southwest: Wagner’s “Lohengrin” – Corey Bix (Lohengrin); Michelle Johnson (Elsa); Sean Anderson (Telramund); Claudia Chapa (Ortrud); Harold Wilson (King Henry); Opera Southwest Cho & Orch/Anthony Barrese. 3:00 Weekend Music with Oliver Camacho • Claude Debussy Sarabande; Danse (Tarantelle styrienne) – Lyon National Orch/Leonard Slatkin. Naxos 8.573124. [10:23] Joaquín Rodrigo Zarabanda Lejana y Villancico – London Sym/ Enrique Bátiz. EMI CZS767435-2 (4). [9:20] Debussy Images, set 3 – New York Phil/Leonard Bernstein. Sony SMK-47545. [37:12] Henry Purcell Suite of Ayres for the Theatre – Trio Settecento. Cedille CDR-90000135. [11:42] Pietro Locatelli Concerto Grosso in B-Flat, Op. 1/3 – Concerto Cologne. Teldec 94551-2. [12:46] 4:30 Arias and Songs Encore: A Coloratura Spectacular 5:00 Evening Music on WFMT • Felix Mendelssohn Symphony No. 4 in A, Op. 90, Italian – London Sym/Claudio Abbado. London 4758677. [29:49] Various Core ‘ngrato; Marechiare; ‘A Vucchella – Jerry Hadley, t; Ensemble/Dominic

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464650-2 (21). [14:35] José White Violin Concerto in f-sharp minor – Rachel Barton Pine, v; Encore Chamber Orch/Daniel Hege. Cedille CDR-90000035. [21:34] LA Guitar Quartet: Latin Cuban Landscape with Rain; Paisaje Mexicano; Danza de Jalisco – Los Angeles Guitar Quartet. Telarc CD-80593. [13:42] John McEwen Scottish Rhapsody, Prince Charlie – Rachel Barton Pine, v; Scottish Chamber Orch/Alexander Platt. Cedille CDR-90000083 (2). [12:55] Traditional Colourful Clouds Chasing the Moon; In That Place Wholly Faraway – Yundi Li, p. EMI 88658-2. [7:14] Haydn Symphony No. 103 in E-Flat, Drum Roll – Philharmonia/Leonard Slatkin. RCA 68424-2. [28:03] Franz Lehár Melodies from Paganini – Montreal Musica Camerata. Radio Canada Int’l MVCD-1112. [11:31] Nicolo Paganini 24 Caprices for Solo Violin, Op. 1: Nos. 23-24 – Itzhak Perlman, v. EMI CDC7-47171-2. [9:06] Sergei Rachmaninoff Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini – Daniil Trifonov, p; Philadelphia Orch/Yannick Nézet-Séguin. DG 4794970. [24:56] Evening Music on WFMT • Johannes Brahms Four Songs (Women’s Chorus, Two Horns & Harp), Op. 17 – D Everson & S Multer, fh’s; E Nielsen, h; Kansas City Chorale/Charles Bruffy. Nimbus NI-5524. [14:37] Riccardo Muti conducts more Brahms on our Chicago Symphony concert tonight at 8:00. Robert Schumann Carnaval, Op. 9 – Alicia de Larrocha, p. London 421525-2. [32:14] The CSO and Muti also perform a Schumann symphony tonight. Carl Reinecke Flute Concerto in D, Op. 283 – James Galway, f; London Phil/Hiroyuki Iwaki. RCA ATC1-4034. [20:34] William Alwyn Lyra Angelica – Rachel Masters, h; City of London Sinfonia/Richard Hickox. Chandos CHAN-9065. [30:25] Ennio Morricone The Mission: Gabriel’s Oboe – Renaud Capuçon, v; Brussels Phil/Stéphane Denève. Erato 0190295633936. [3:42] Sound the Shofar: An Ancient Instrument in Modern Times – Kerry Frumkin explores the traditional role of the shofar to announce Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, and its use in music of our own time. Chicago Symphony Orchestra Radio Broadcasts: Riccardo Muti, conductor; Stephanie Jeong, violin; Kenneth Olsen, cello – Wagner: The Flying Dutchman Overture. Brahms: Double Concerto in A Minor.

Photo: Kyle Zimmerman

In the Spotlight

Anthony Barrese

From Opera Southwest In March 2019, Opera Southwest presented the first performance of Richard Wagner’s Lohengrin ever mounted in the state of New Mexico. Tenor Corey Bix sang Lohengrin, the Swan Knight from the sacred company of Knights of the Holy Grail, and soprano Michelle Johnson portrayed Elsa, the rightful Duchess of Brabant, accused of murdering her brother until Lohengrin arrives to defend her. Sean Anderson and Claudia Chapa portray Telramund and Ortrud, who seek to overthrow Elsa and rule Brabant themselves. Set in early medieval times, Lohengrin uses a libretto by Wagner himself that draws on ancient Germanic legends. Anthony Barrese is the conductor.

Saturday, September 19 12:00 pm

Schumann: Symphony No. 3 in E-Flat, Rhenish. 10:00 Collectors’ Corner with Henry Fogel: In-concert recordings conducted by Pierre Monteux (1875-1964)

Monday 21 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore 9:00 Tomas Luis de Victoria Motet, Salve Regina – Cambridge Singers/John Rutter. Collegium COLCD-131. [10:33] Peter Warlock Capriol Suite – Christopher Parkening, g; St. Martin’s Academy/Iona Brown. EMI CDC5-55052-2. [10:55] Edvard Grieg Lyric Pieces: Wedding Day at Troldhaugen – Leif Ove Andsnes, p. EMI 57296-2. [6:21] 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, including today’s new release, plus: Hector Berlioz Béatrice et Bénédict Overture – London Sym/Sir Colin Davis. Philips 2020

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456143-2 (6). [7:44] 11:00 Maurice Ravel Rapsodie espagnole – Seattle Sym/Ludovic Morlot. Seattle Symphony Media SSM-1002. [15:28] 12:00 Music in Chicago, plus: Arcangelo Corelli Concerto grosso in F, Op. 6/6 – English Concert/Trevor Pinnock. Archive 423626-2 (2). [12:28] 1:00 Music for the Afternoon • Joaquín Turina Sinfonía sevillana, Op. 23 – Cincinnati Sym/Jesús López-Cobos. Telarc CD-80574. [21:34] Journey to the Amazon: Latin-American Waltzes Waltz, Op. 8/4; El Marabino; Natalia – Sharon Isbin, g; Thiago de Mello, per. Teldec 19899-2. [7:47] 2:00 Afternoon Masterwork: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Piano Quartet No. 1 in g, K. 478 – M Argerich, p; D Schwarzberg, v; N RomanoffSchwarzberg, vi; M Drobinsky, vc. EMI CDC5-57506-2. [27:51] 3:00 Fine Arts Calendar • Various Rodeo: Hoe-Down; Strike Up the Band – Boston Pops/John Williams. Philips 454391-2. [6:15] Paul Bowles Six Latin-American Pieces – Ramon Salvatore, p. Cedille CDR90000010. [9:03] Johann David Heinichen Dresden Concerto in G, S 217 – Musica Antiqua Cologne/Reinhard Goebel. Archive 437549-2 (2). [14:49] 4:00 Late Afternoon Music with Candice Agree, including a newscast at 4:00 pm and The Unrush Hour between 5:00 pm and 6:00 pm 7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Music by Edvard Grieg and Jean Sibelius 8:00 Mondays at the Martin: A Ravinia Festival Encore 10:00 Evening Music on WFMT

Tuesday 22 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore 9:00 Paul Dukas The Sorcerer’s Apprentice – Yuja Wang, p. DG B0016606-02. [9:49] Chinese Traditional When Will the Acacia Bloom?; The Flowing Stream; Jasmine Flower – Shanghai String Quartet. Delos DE-3233. [5:41] Gerald Finzi The Fall of the Leaf, Op. 20 – Northern Sinfonia/Richard Hickox. EMI CDM7-64721-2. [11:00] 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, including today’s new release, plus: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Horn Concerto No. 3 in E-Flat, K. 447 – Dale Clevenger, fh; Chicago Sym/Claudio Abbado. DG 415104-2. [15:56] 11:00 Heitor Villa-Lobos Bachianas Brasileiras No. 2: No. 4, Toccata (The Little Train

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of the Caipira) – Oslo Phil/ Mariss Jansons. EMI CDC5-56576-2. [4:14] 12:00 Music in Chicago, plus: Gioachino Rossini La gazza ladra Overture – Royal Opera House Orch/Carlo Rizzi. Conifer 55004-2. [9:57] 1:00 Music for the Afternoon • Ellis Marsalis Fourth Autumn – Karen Walwyn, p. Albany TROY-384. [5:45] KosmaDeRosa Tenderly/Autumn Leaves – Anne Akiko Meyers, v; Reiko Uchida, p. E1 EOMCD-7780. [5:34] Alexander Glazunov The Seasons, Op. 67: Spring, Summer, Autumn – Royal Scottish National Orch/José Serebrier. Warner Classics 61434-2. [28:13] 2:00 Afternoon Masterwork: Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 3 in E-flat Major, Op. 55, Eroica – Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique/ Sir John Eliot Gardiner. Archive 439900-2 (5). [44:29] 3:00 Fine Arts Calendar • Emmanuel Chabrier Suite pastorale – Vienna Phil/Sir John Eliot Gardiner. DG 447751-2. [18:48] Antonio Vivaldi The Four Seasons, Concerto No. 3 in F major, Op. 8, RV 293, Autumn – Viktoria Mullova, v; Chamber Orch of Europe/ Claudio Abbado. Philips 420216-2. [10:06] Martin Mailman Autumn Landscape – Eastman Rochester Orch/ Howard Hanson. Mercury SR-90053. [5:01] 4:00 Late Afternoon Music with Candice Agree, including a newscast at 4:00 pm and The Unrush Hour between 5:00 pm and 6:00 pm 7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Music by Edvard Grieg and Jean Sibelius 8:00 Evening Music on WFMT 10:00 Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center – George Crumb: Processional; Unto the Hills for soprano, amplified piano, and percussion. 11:00 Evening Music on WFMT

Wednesday 23 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore 9:00 Carlos Chávez Symphony No. 2, Sinfonía India – New World Sym/Michael Tilson Thomas. Argo 436737-2. [12:22] Heitor Villa-Lobos Five Preludes for Guitar: Nos. 1-2 – Pepe Romero, g. Philips 420245-2. [8:05] 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, including today’s new release, plus: Sergei Prokofiev Lieutenant Kijé Suite, Op. 60 – Utah Sym/ Thierry Fischer. Reference Recordings FR-735. [18:26]

11:00 Johann Strauss II Waltz, Tales from the Vienna Woods, Op. 325 – Vienna Phil/Riccardo Muti. Sony 88985477002. [12:29] 12:00 Music in Chicago 12:15 Dame Myra He Memorial Concerts: The Fischoff competition winners live from the Cultural Center 1:00 Music for the Afternoon • Franz Joseph Haydn Symphony No. 101 in D, Clock – Chamber Orch of Europe/Claudio Abbado. DG 429776-2. [26:44] Hugo Wolf Italian Serenade in G – I Solisti Italiani. Denon 81757-9150-2. [7:02] 2:00 Afternoon Masterwork: Franz Liszt Piano Sonata in b – André Watts, p. EMI CDM7-64601-2. [32:09] 3:00 Fine Arts Calendar • Luigi Boccherini Night Music in the Streets of Madrid – Orquestra Barocca Casa da Música/ Andreas Staier. Harmonia Mundi HMM-902337. [16:10] Georges Bizet Carmen Suite No. 2 – Cincinnati Pops/Erich Kunzel. Telarc CD-80703. [16:55] Gabriel Fauré Sicilienne, Op. 78 – Martin Ruderman, f; Laurindo Almeida, g. EMI CDM7-63256-2. [4:00] 4:00 Late Afternoon Music with Candice Agree, including a newscast at 4:00 pm and The Unrush Hour between 5:00 pm and 6:00 pm 7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Music by Edvard Grieg and Jean Sibelius 8:00 Music of the Baroque Encore: The Family Bach conducted by Jane Glover. 10:00 Baroque&Before with Candice Agree 11:00 Evening Music on WFMT

Thursday 24 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore 9:00 Peter Tchaikovsky The Months (The Seasons), Op. 37b: September-OctoberNovember – Christoph Eschenbach, p. Ondine ODE-1104-5. [10:49] George Butterworth Rhapsody, A Shropshire Lad – Hallé Orch/Sir John Barbirolli. Nixa NIXCD-6003. [10:45] Charles Tomlinson Griffes Poem – Carol Wincenc, f; Buffalo Phil/JoAnn Falletta. Naxos 8.559164. [9:58] 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, including today’s new release, plus: Claude Debussy Cello Sonata in D Minor – JeanGuihen Queyras, vc; Alexandre Tharaud, p. Harmonia Mundi HMX-2908796.97. [10:41]

11:00 Ron Nelson Savannah River Holiday – Boston Pops/Keith Lockhart. RCA 68786-2. [8:39] 12:00 Music in Chicago, plus: Ralph Vaughan Williams The Wasps Overture – London Phil/ Vernon Handley. Chandos CHAN-8330. [10:08] 1:00 Music for the Afternoon • Richard Strauss Violin Sonata in E-flat, Op. 18 – Itzhak Perlman, v; Emanuel Ax, p. DG B0023611-02. [27:13] Antonio Vivaldi Two-Mandolin Concerto in G, R. 532 – Lito Romero, g; St. Martin’s Academy/Angel Romero, g. RCA 68291-2. [12:17] 2:00 Afternoon Masterwork: Sergei Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet Suite – Chicago Sym/ Riccardo Muti. CSO ReSound CSOR-9011402. [48:50] 3:00 Fine Arts Calendar • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Piano Sonata No. 4 in E-Flat, K. 282 – Alfred Brendel, p. Philips B000395702. [13:10] Walter Leigh Harpsichord Concertino – Colin Tilney, hc; CBC Vancouver Orch/Mario Bernardi. Radio Canada Int’l SMCD-5168. [9:23] 4:00 Late Afternoon Music with Candice Agree, including a newscast at 4:00 pm and The Unrush Hour between 5:00 pm and 6:00 pm 7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Music by Edvard Grieg and Jean Sibelius 8:00 New from the Ravinia Festival: Soprano Michelle Areyzaga with Welz Kauffman, piano 9:00 Carnegie Hall Live: The National Youth Orchestra of the USA conducted by Sir Antonio Pappano; Isabel Leonard, soprano – Berlioz: Les Nuits d’Ete. Strauss: An Alpine Symphony. For an encore: Elgar: Nimrod fr Enigma Variations. The final broadcast in this series. 11:00 Evening Music on WFMT

Friday 25 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore 9:00 Nicolo Paganini Guitar Sonata in A – Eduardo Fernández, g. London 414160-2. [15:45] Nino Rota Concerto for Strings – La Scala Phil/Riccardo Muti. Sony SK-66279. [15:28] 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, including today’s new release, plus: Ludwig van Beethoven Egmont Overture – Royal Concertgebouw Orch/ Bernard Haitink. Philips 442073-2 (5). [8:54] 11:00 Edvard Grieg Norwegian Folk Dances, Op. 72: Nos. 4 and 5 – Leif Ove Andsnes, p.

EMI CDC5-56541-2. [4:57] Grieg Symphonic Dances, Op. 64: No. 3, Allegro giocoso – Royal Stockholm Phil/Gennady Rozhdestvensky. Chandos CHAN-9113. [5:38] 12:00 Impromptu Encore: The Lincoln Trio, performing in Levin Studio in 2019; Lisa hosts. 1:00 Music for the Afternoon • Traditional Steal Away – Imani Winds. Koch 3-7599-2. [6:26] Gustav Holst St. Paul’s Suite, Op. 29, No. 2 – Guildhall String Ensemble/Robert Salter, v. RCA 7761-2. [12:08] William Byrd The Bells; The Earl of Oxford’s March – Canadian Brass. Opening Day Entertainment OD-7347. [7:22] 2:00 Afternoon Masterwork: Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 4 in B-flat Major, Op. 60 – Montreal Sym/Kent Nagano. Analekta AN2 9150-5 (6). [32:09] 3:00 Fine Arts Calendar • Emmanuel Chabrier España Rhapsody – Philadelphia Orch/ Eugene Ormandy. RCA 633132. [6:59] Joaquín Rodrigo Concierto madrigal – Pepe & Angel Romero, g’s; St. Martin’s Academy/Sir Neville Marriner. London 4780192 (2). [29:21] 4:00 Late Afternoon Music with Candice Agree, including a newscast at 4:00 pm and The Unrush Hour between 5:00 pm and 6:00 pm 7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Music by Edvard Grieg and Jean Sibelius 8:00 Musical Memories of the High Holidays with Itzhak Perlman – The great violinist shares memories and music for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. 9:00 The New York Philharmonic This Week 11:00 Best of Studs Terkel: Tenor Ben Heppner interviewed in 1997

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Sunday 27 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 With Heart and Voice: Autumn Leaves 7:00 Weekend Mornings with Maggie Clennon Reberg 10:00 Fine Arts Calendar • Today’s New Release 12:00 Sunday Afternoons with Robbie Ellis • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Oboe Quartet in F, K. 370 – Ray Still, ob; Itzhak Perlman, v; Yo-Yo

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In the Spotlight

J. Lawrie Bloom

Chicago Symphony Orchestra Radio Broadcasts This program focuses on longtime CSO clarinetist J. Lawrie Bloom, a member of the CSO for 40 seasons. Last winter, he performed Ophelia’s Tears, the world premiere of a commission from the French composer Nicolas Bacri, in which the solo instrument is a bass clarinet. The piece tells the sad story of Ophelia in Shakespeare’s Hamlet, from her rejection by the title character through her suicide. The program opens with Riccardo Muti conducting Beethoven’s Symphony No. 2 and ends with the famous Beethoven Fifth.

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v; Yo-Yo Ma, vc; Emanuel Ax, p. Sony 88985407292. [36:21] Robert Shaw: Choruses A German Requiem: Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnungen; Elijah: Lift Thine Eyes to the Mountains and He Watching Over Israel; L’Enfance du Christ: The Shepherds’ Farewell; Mass in b, BWV 232: Dona Nobis Pacem – Atlanta Sym & Cho/Robert Shaw. Telarc CD-80119. [18:19] 8:00 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Radio Broadcasts: Riccardo Muti, conductor; J. Lawrie Bloom, clarinet – Beethoven: Symphony No. 2 in D. Bacri: Ophelia’s Tears (worldpremiere performance). Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 in c. We also hear Mozart’s Eine kleine Nachtmusik conducted by Fritz Reiner. 10:00 Collectors’ Corner with Henry Fogel: The art of the Danish-born Wagnerian tenor Lauritz Melchior (1890-1973).

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Monday 28 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore 9:00 Gustav Holst The Morning of the Year: Dances – London Sym/David Atherton. Lyrita SRCD.209. [13:45] Frédéric Chopin Andante Spianato and Grand Polonaise in E-Flat, Op. 22 – Garrick Ohlsson, p; Warsaw Phil/Kazimierz Kord. Arabesque Z-6702-2 (2). [14:07] 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, including today’s new release, plus: Georg Philipp Telemann Sinfonia Melodica – Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra/Barthold Kuijken. Naxos 8.573900. [11:06] 11:00 Béla Bartók Hungarian Sketches – Chicago Sym/Pierre Boulez. DG 445825-2. [10:51] 12:00 Music in Chicago, plus: Johann Kaspar Mertz Bardenklänge, Op. 13: Four Pieces – Eduardo Fernández, g. Delmark DE-5033. [11:09] 1:00 Music for the Afternoon • Carl Nielsen Maskarade Suite – Swedish Radio Sym/ Esa-Pekka Salonen. CBS MK-44547. [15:10] Gioachino Rossini Otello: Ballet music, part 1 – Monte Carlo Opera Cho, Orch/Antonio de Almeida.

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Philips 422843-2. [13:38] 2:00 Afternoon Masterwork: A Mozart pair Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Violin Concerto No. 4 in D, K. 218 – London Phil/Anne-Sophie Mutter, v. DG B0005078-02 (2). [23:01] Mozart Horn Concerto No. 3 in E-Flat, K. 447 – Dale Clevenger, fh; Franz Liszt Chamber Orch. CBS MDK-44906. [16:36] 3:00 Fine Arts Calendar • Manuel de Falla Pièces espagnoles (Cuatro Piezas españolas) – Jorge Federico Osorio, p. Cedille CDR90000075. [16:30] Frank Bridge Spring Song – Sheku Kanneh-Mason, vc; String Quartet. Decca 003149102. [2:13] Traditional Scarborough Fair – Sheku Kanneh-Mason, vc; Plinio Fernandes, g. Decca B0031491-02. [3:14] Randall Thompson Alleluia – Kansas City Chorale/Charles Bruffy. Nimbus NI-5568. [7:36] 4:00 Late Afternoon Music with Candice Agree, including a newscast at 4:00 pm and The Unrush Hour between 5:00 pm and 6:00 pm 7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Schubertiade 8:00 Ravinia Festival Encore 10:00 Evening Music on WFMT

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12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore 9:00 Georg Philipp Telemann Paris Quartet (Deuxième Suite) in b – Freiburg Baroque Consort. Harmonia Mundi HMC-901787. [9:46] Claude Debussy Printemps – Cleveland Orch/Pierre Boulez. DG 435766-2. [16:43] 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, including today’s new release, plus: Richard Wagner Tannhäuser Overture – Boston Sym/Andris Nelsons. BSO Classics 1401. [15:53] 11:00 Aaron Copland Our Town Suite – St. Louis Sym/Leonard Slatkin. RCA 61699-2. [9:05] 12:00 Music in Chicago, plus: Henry Purcell The Indian Queen: Instrumental suite – Tafelmusik/Jeanne Lamon. Sony SK-66169. [12:45] 1:00 Music for the Afternoon • Johann Nepomuk Hummel Trumpet Concerto in E – Wynton Marsalis, tr; English Chamber Orch/Raymond Leppard. Sony SK-57497. [18:47] Domenico Scarlatti Sonatas: in b, Kk 87; in D, Kk 140 – Angela Hewitt, p. Hyperion CDA-67613. [8:28] Scarlatti Sonata, Kk 162 – Sergio & Odair Assad, g’s. Nonesuch 79292-2. [5:58] Gabriel Fauré Pavane, Op. 50 – Branford Marsalis, sx, English Chamber Orch/Andrew Litton. CBS M-42122. [5:42] 2:00 Afternoon Masterwork: César Franck Symphony in d minor – Orchestre Métropolitain/ Yannick Nézet-Séguin. Atma ACD2-2647. [41:33] 3:00 Fine Arts Calendar • Igor Stravinsky Three Movements from Petrouchka – Yuja Wang, p. DG B0014108-02. [15:23] Claude Debussy Danses sacrée et profane – Bridget Kibbey, h; Erin Keefe & Kristin Lee, v’s; Paul Neubauer, vi; Dane Johansen, vc; Scott Pingel, db. Music@Menlo Live 2012 (6). [8:50] Jean-Philippe Rameau Pièces de Clavecin Suite in e minor: Rigaudon, Musette, Tambourin – Jory Vinikour, hc. Sono Luminus DSL-92154. [6:49] 4:00 Late Afternoon Music with Candice Agree, including a newscast at 4:00 pm and The Unrush Hour between 5:00 pm and 6:00 pm 7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Schubertiade 8:00 Evening Music on WFMT 10:00 Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center – Reicha: Wind Quintet in D; Mozart: String Quartet in F, K. 590. 11:00 Evening Music on WFMT

12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore 9:00 Johann Sebastian Bach Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Aria – Stewart Goodyear, p. Sono Luminus DSL-92220. [4:02] Johannes Brahms Piano Pieces, Op. 118: No. 2, Intermezzo in A – Stewart Goodyear, p. Sono Luminus DSL-92220. [5:47] Manuel de Falla The Three-Cornered Hat Suite No. 2 – Philadelphia Orch/Riccardo Muti. EMI CDM7-63572-2. [12:04] 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, including today’s new release, plus: François Couperin Concert royal No. 1 – Les Talens Lyriques/Christophe Rousset. Aparté AP-196. [11:36] 11:00 Gustav Holst Symphony in F, Op. 8, The Cotswolds – Ulster Orch/JoAnn Falletta. Naxos 8.572914. [23:11] 12:00 Music in Chicago 12:15 Dame Myra He Memorial Concerts: Violist Jordan Bak and pianist Ji Yung Lee live from the Cultural Center 1:00 Music for the Afternoon • Manuel Ponce Concierto del sur – Junhong Kuang, g; Czech Chamber Phil/Darrell Ang. Naxos 8.579053. [25:10] John Knowles Paine In the Country, Op. 26 – Denver Oldham, p. New World 80424-2 (2). [17:21] 2:00 Afternoon Masterwork: Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 6 in F, Op. 68, Pastoral – Minnesota Orch/Osmo Vänskä. Bis SACD-1716. [41:36] 3:00 Fine Arts Calendar • Josef Strauss Dynamiden Waltz, Op. 173 – Vienna Phil/Andris Nelsons. Sony. [10:34] Erich Wolfgang Korngold Violin Concerto in D, Op. 35 – Anne-Sophie Mutter, v; London Sym/André Previn. DG B0003526-02. [23:43] 4:00 Late Afternoon Music with Candice Agree, including a newscast at 4:00 pm and The Unrush Hour between 5:00 pm and 6:00 pm 7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Schubertiade 8:00 Music of the Baroque Encore: Pulpit and Playhouse conducted by Nicholas Kraemer – Bach: Cantata No. 131. Purcell: Excerpts fr The Fairy Queen. Albinoni: Two-Oboe Concerto. Handel: Dixit Dominus. Featuring soloists with the MOB Chorus and Orchestra. 10:00 Baroque&Before with Candice Agree 11:00 Evening Music on WFMT

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