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July 2008 Articles
HD Radio broadcasting is
here!
WFIU is now, in effect, two radio stations in one.
As of July 21, we're broadcasting on two digital channels:
HD1 and HD2. We will continue to broadcast our analog signal
on its usual frequencies.
The two channels are mirror images of each other: When one
carries a talk program, the other carries a music program,
and vice versa.
The new second digital channel allows us to bring you information
and music programs that we've never had space for in our
analog program lineup. And some favorite programs broadcast
on our analog station and on HD1 will be aired in a different
time slot on HD2.
Currently the second audio channel is not available in any
of our translator communities (Columbus, French Lick/West
Baden, Greensburg, Kokomo, or Terre Haute). However, if
you have a computer with high-speed Internet connection
you will be able to stream this second audio channel online
from anywhere in the world.
Our Web site (wfiu.org) contains information about digital
radio, the changes coming in television, and tips on how
and where to purchase new radios. You can also call the
station for information at 812-855-1357.
Here are just a few of the many programs you can hear on
our new second channel, HD2:
The Diane Rehm Show
Weekdays 10 a.m.-12 noon
For more than two decades, interviewer Diane Rehm has
offered conversations with the world's most interesting
people with a lively mix of current events and public affairs
programming. Subjects range from hard news analysis of politics
and international affairs to in-depth examinations of religious
issues, health and medical news, education and raising children.
The first hour is news-oriented while the second is typically
devoted to one-on-one interviews with authors of newly released
fiction and nonfiction.
The most popular segment of the program is the News Roundup.
Each Friday, Rehm reviews the week's top national and international
news stories with a panel of journalists. Roundup regulars
include NPR's Daniel Schorr, Gerald Seib of The Wall Street
Journal, William Kristol of The Weekly Standard, Susan Page
of USA Today, E.J. Dionne of The Washington Post, Jodie
Allen of U.S. News & World Report and syndicated columnists
Steve Roberts and Tony Blankley.
Echoes
Weekdays 11 a.m.-12 p.m.
Echoes creates a modern soundscape of music that draws
from a multitude of cultures, traditions and genres. Hosted
by music journalist John Diliberto, this series of evocative,
ground-breaking music bridges new instrumental, world fusion,
new acoustic, impressionistic jazz, and inventive vocal
styles. Special program segments include produced features
that showcase an artist, cover new developments or events
in contemporary music, and present Living Room Concerts,
intimate performances in artists' homes.
World, Have Your Say
Weekdays, 12-1 p.m.
World, Have Your Say is the BBC News discussion program
where people around the world set the agenda. Listeners
phone in, send text messages and e-mails, and write comments
on the program's blog. It's a global conversation where
listeners decide the topics and how they are discussed by
studio guests, who include leading figures, experts and
correspondents.
Produced by the BBC World Service, each program grows and
expands as events and ideas dictate, responding to breaking
news and connecting with other programs in the BBC news
stable to share material as needed.
Talk of the Nation
Weekdays 2-4 p.m.
Talk of the Nation provides a springboard for listeners
and experts to exchange ideas and pose questions about major
events in the news. Monday through Thursday, host Neal Conan
invites callers to discuss areas of topical interest-including
politics and public service, education, religion, music,
and healthcare-with decision-makers, authors, thinkers,
and artists. On Friday, journalist Ira Flatow joins listeners
and studio guests to explore science-related topics ranging
from subatomic particles to earthquakes to the human genome.
You can become part of the conversation by calling 1-800-989-TALK.
Sacred Classics
Saturday and Sunday, 10-11 a.m.
Sacred Classics offers two hours of choral masterpieces
performed by world-famous choirs and accompanying instrumental
works, all selected for their power to speak to the emotions.
Produced by the Classical Public Radio Network and hosted
by Stephanie Wendt.
Michael Feldman's Whad'ya Know?
Saturday, 12 p.m.-1 p.m.
Michael Feldman's Whad'Ya Know? is a comedy-quiz-interview
show originating in Madison, Wisconsin. A regular segment
of every program is a "Whad'Ya Know?" Quiz, in
which host and quiz-master Michael Feldman invites callers
and audience members to test their knowledge from five categories
drawn from his seemingly limitless store of insignificant
(but also somehow, important) information.
Other segments include Feldman's foray into the live studio
audience to chat with fans, jazz with John Thulin and the
"Whad'Ya Know?" Band, and banter with sidekick
Jim Packard. Feldman opens each broadcast with All the News
That Isn't, a brief monologue filled with his entertaining
brand of political and social satire.
On the Media
Saturday, 1-2 p.m.
On The Media decodes what we hear, read, and see in
the media every day, and arms us with critical tools necessary
to survive the information age. With compelling reporting
and uncommon insight, the program uncovers the significant
issues of the day and carefully exposes the relationship
of the media to culture and society. Hosted by veteran journalists
Brooke Gladstone and Bob Garfield.
Studio 360
Saturday, 6 p.m-7 p.m.
Studio 360 from WNYC is public radio's smart and surprising
guide to what's happening in pop culture and the arts. Each
week, Kurt Andersen introduces you to the people who are
creating and shaping our culture. Studio 360 can steer you
to the must-see movie this weekend, the next book for your
nightstand, or the song that will change your life.
Sound & Spirit
Sunday, 9 a.m.-10 a.m.
Sound & Spirit is a weekly cultural documentary
that explores the universal questions confronting all people.
Each week focuses on a single theme-weddings, harvest, creativity,
the story of Jonah-and explores that theme in a broad range
of words and music. One of the program's primary goals is
to put listeners in touch with traditions, myths, and rituals
that have served the spiritual needs of people around the
world and through the ages.
Sound & Spirit provides an eclectic and appealing mix
of music-from Gregorian chant to West African drumming,
from spirituals or jazz to reggae and Rachmaninov. The series
deals respectfully and intelligently with ideas, customs,
and beliefs from around the world. Each program is rigorously
researched; its only agenda is to present fascinating, stimulating
and engrossing radio for curious listeners. Ellen Kushner
hosts.
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Discoveries at Disney Hall
Sundays at 4 p.m.
Los Lobos
Sunday, July 6
Ranging from traditional Mexican and Spanish music,
to rock, folk, jazz and even experimental, sonic psychedelics,
the East L.A. band Los Lobos has successfully redefined
their sound, collecting three Grammy awards and consistently
topping the charts. This concert features songs from their
latest album, The Town and the City, with its poignant stories
of recent immigrant arrivals, along with tunes spanning
their entire career, going back to the mid-seventies.
Burt Bacharach
Sunday, July 13
Celebrated songwriter and pop icon Burt Bacharach takes
the Disney Hall stage with vocalists and a full string section
to survey some of his greatest hits from the sixties and
seventies: Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head, What the World
Needs Now is Love, and Walk on By, among others; as well
as new songs from his latest album, At This Time.
Yefim Bronfman
Sunday, July 20
Grammy Award-winning piano virtuoso Yefim Bronfman joins
members of the Los Angeles Philharmonic for Schubert's Piano
Trio in B-Flat, D. 898, a piece bursting with melody and
considered one of the composer's most important works. Bronfman's
commanding technique and exceptional lyrical gifts have
won critical acclaim and enthusiastic audiences worldwide.
Also on the program are excerpts of Haydn's String Quartet
in G Minor, Op. 74 No. 3.
Charles Mingus' Epitaph Orchestra
Sunday, July 27
A full jazz orchestra gives a thrilling performance
of Epitaph, a dynamic and highly personal masterpiece by
the late Charles Mingus. The prophetically named work-Mingus
said he "wrote it for my tombstone"-was composed
for an ill-fated performance in 1962, and then discarded.
After Mingus died in 1979, it was reconstructed from his
scores by archivist Andrew Homzy. Epitaph was performed
again in 1989, under the direction of Gunther Schuller,
in a concert the New York Times called "the jazz event
of the decade." This program features extended excerpts
from the work. A full version can be heard at npr.org/music.
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O Beautiful! American Music
Sunday, July 6, 8 p.m.
O Beautiful! American Music presents new American
music for voices with commentary by Meredith Monk, Tania
León, William Bolcom, Eric Salzman, Ronald Gold,
Elliot Levine, Gayla Morgan, and Billy Joel. These composers
share an alert ear for the cultural tradition of ensemble
singing and the imagination to bring it alive for today's
listeners. The excitement of new idioms that spring from
musicians of differing backgrounds interacting with one
another is reflected in the featured works and expresses
the unique ethos and the lively genius of American culture.
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The Changing World: "Countdown
to Olympics"
Sunday, July 6, 9 p.m.
When China won the bidding war to host the 2008 Olympics
in Beijing, it had to promise to clean up its human rights
record or risk censure, even cancellation. Today, human
rights abuses are growing, but the Olympic Committee says
human rights have nothing to do with the games. The committees
insists that the games "transcend politics," despite
its charter's assertion of respect for "universal fundamental
ethical principles" and promotion of "a peaceful
society concerned with the preservation of human dignity."
The BBC's Gerry Northam investigates human rights abuses
relevant to the games and talks to victims as well as to
human rights organizations, athletes and representatives
from several countries taking part and Olympic Committee
members.
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The Doctor
Can't See You Now
Sunday, July 13, 8 p.m.
Primary care physicians are a patient's vital link to
the entire healthcare system. Like the quarterback of
a football team, these doctors are responsible for coordinating
all of their patients' care. Many studies suggest that
better access to primary care means better health-patients
have lower rates of death from diseases such as treatable
cancers, diabetes, and stroke, and are less likely to
wind up in the hospital or emergency room-and it saves
money.
But even in a state like Massachusetts, where there are
more primary care physicians per capita than anywhere
else in the nation, patients are facing longer waits to
see their doctor, and many cannot find a primary care
physician at all.
This Inside Out documentary investigates what lies behind
the primary care crisis and what is being done to address
it. Reporter Rachel Gotbaum examines the changing roles
of the family practitioner and internal medicine doctors
both historically and today. It is the story of how the
complexity of the modern healthcare environment, the aging
population, and new attitudes towards practicing medicine
among doctors, have transformed the pivotal role of the
doctor at the center of a patient's medical journey.
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Intelligence Squared Debate:
"We Should Legalize the Market for Human Organs"
Sunday, July 13, 9 p.m.
Intelligence Squared brings Oxford-style debating
to America-one motion, one moderator, three panelists for
the motion, and three against. With informed and provocative
panelists and strong moderators taking on the hot-button
issues of the day, these debates enlighten, entertain, and
inflame.
The motion tonight: "We Should Legalize the Market
for Human Organs."
Panelists for the motion: Lloyd R. Cohen, professor of law
at George Mason University, who has published scholarship
on a variety of applications of economics to law, including
a market in transplant organs; Amy L. Friedman, M.D., director
of transplantation and professor of surgery at SUNY Upstate
Medical University, whose immediate family includes two
transplant recipients and one donor; and Sally Satel, M.D.,
a psychiatrist, editor of an forthcoming book on donor compensation,
and kidney recipient.
Panelists against the motion: James F. Childress, Hollingsworth
Professor of Ethics and director of the Institute for Practical
Ethics and Public Life at the University of Virginia, author
of numerous articles and several books in bioethics, and
former vice chair of the national Task Force on Organ Transplantation;
Francis L. Delmonico, M.D., professor of surgery at Harvard
Medical School, director of medical affairs of The Transplantation
Society, and medical director of the New England Organ Bank;
and social historian David Rothman, professor of Social
Medicine and author of Trust is Not Enough, which
addresses the ethics of research in third-world countries
and how markets in organs for transplantation have become
a worldwide phenomenon.
The moderator is NPR science correspondent Ira Flatow.
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Saving the Sierra
Sunday, July 20, 8 p.m.
Saving the Sierra tells the stories of three rural
communities where unlikely allies are finding solutions
to urban development pressures for sustaining both the environment
and their ways of life.
Urban development threatens rural communities across America.
People who live and work in these beautiful landscapes face
some tough decisions about the future. Producers Catherine
Stifter and Jesikah Maria Ross traveled California's Sierra
Nevada mountain range to explore communities in the midst
of struggle against the development pressures closing in
on them. Most rural communities within driving distance
of sprawling cities and suburbs face these issues. And most
urban dwellers have been to a place just like the communities
in these three stories:
In a remote Sierra Valley, both ranchers and environmentalists
have begun to use conservation easements to save open space
and preserve the largest wetlands in the mountain range.
Resort development will blanket the hills of Martis Valley,
an area north of Lake Tahoe, with million-dollar luxury
homes. But after a long legal battle, a deal was struck
that will provide permanent, ongoing funding for affordable
housing, public transit, and habitat restoration.
The city of Los Angeles was forced to become a leader in
water conservation because of a landmark legal ruling that
kept them from draining the entire watershed of Mono Lake
in pursuit of drinking water.
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America Abroad: "Holy
Diplomacy"
Sunday, July 20, 9 p.m.
The Catholic Church is one of the world's longest-standing
institutions, and throughout its history has played a unique
role on the global stage. The Church figured prominently
in the fall of communism and contributed to solving conflicts
across the globe. "Holy Diplomacy" travels to
the Vatican to examine the inner workings of the Holy See's
foreign policy machinery, and to Colombia, where the Catholic
Church is attempting to build peace in a troubled country.
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La Symphonie des Mille
Sunday, July 27, 8 p.m.
This two-hour special celebrates Québec City's 400th
anniversary with a historic performance of Mahler's eighth
symphony live from Collisee Pepsi in Québec City,
Québec. The Québec Symphony Orchestra, the
Three Rivers Orchestra, and members of the Québec
Conservatory of Music are joined by a chorus of over 800
singers and conducted by Maestro Yoav Talmi to perform Mahler's
monumental musical work, known as the "Symphony of
One Thousand."
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The
Al Cobine Recognition Endowment Fund
by Nancy Krueger, Major Gifts and
Grants Officer
WFIU and WTIU are spearheading an effort to recognize local
jazz luminary Al Cobine with the creation of the Al Cobine
Recognition Endowment Fund.
Tenor saxophonist Al Cobine and his wife Marian have lived
in Bloomington for more than 50 years. Operating from Bloomington,
Al has had a major impact on the American jazz scene. His
circle of friends and colleagues reads like a Who's Who
of twentieth century popular music performers: diverse artists
as Tony Bennett, Eddy Arnold, Perry Como, Glenn Campbell,
Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme, Tom Jones, Elvis Presley,
and Doc Severinsen.
Cobine served as the primary musical contractor for Henry
Mancini, Andy Williams, and Johnny Mathis, and performed
as Henry Mancini's primary saxophone soloist, creating the
sound of Mancini's Pink Panther with every major symphony
orchestra east of the Rockies. Al is a composer and arranger
as well, having published more than 100 works of choral,
brass, big band, jazz, and concert band music. Through his
musical arrangements and instructional clinics, his role
in high school and college music education has contributed
to his lasting musical legacy.
Funds donated to the Al Cobine Recognition Endowment Fund
will be placed in a permanent endowment that will be used
for many projects. These include the production of a radio
documentary on Cobine's life in jazz and expanded jazz programming
on WFIU and WTIU. Other activities may include, but are
not limited to, bringing in guest jazz artists for Just
You and Me and The Weekly Special, providing
a intern to work in the WFIU jazz archives, and showcasing
young jazz performers from our community.
If you would like to help us create the Al Cobine Recognition
Endowment Fund and let the world know how important Al has
been to the jazz world, I would be happy to discuss ways
you can make a tax deductible gift. My contact information
is below.
Al Cobine Recognition Endowment Fund
Radio-TV Services
Indiana University
1229 East Seventh Street
Bloomington, IN 47405-5501
812-855-2935
nkrueger@indiana.edu
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Artist of
the Month
WFIU's Artist of the Month for July is pianist Shigeo Neriki.
Shigeo Neriki is active as a soloist and a chamber musician
in Europe and the United States. He has performed with many
major orchestras in Boston, Chicago, and Pittsburgh. Neriki
also teaches young talents as a professor of music at Indiana
University's Jacobs School of Music and at Japan's Souai
University and Toho Gakuen, where he attended as a teenager.
Born in Tokyo in 1951, Neriki started the piano at three.
At ten, he won first place at the Children's Music Competition,
which led him to receive Japan's Minister of Education Award.
After graduating from Toho Gakuen, he enrolled at Indiana
University, studying with G. Shebek. In 1976 he took first
at the Tucson Piano Competition and again at the Pittsburgh
Piano Competition in 1978. In 1991, Neriki formed the TOKYO
Soloists '91 with violinist Hamao Fujiwara to much success.
The quartet was awarded the 24th Suntory Music Award in
1993.
Mr. Neriki's most successful collaboration to date has been
with renowned cellist Janos Starker. Together they have
recorded several albums including the works of David Popper.
Neriki's solo recording of music by Popper was nominated
for a Grammy Award in 1991.
WFIU highlights Shigeo Neriki throughout July and in this
month's Broadcasts from the Jacobs School of Music.
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Change
is in the air
Dear WFIU Members,
WFIU and WTIU have combined our news departments, forming
an integrated unit that will provide radio, television,
and Internet news.
This structure has been adopted by many news networks in
public radio because it provides more news over a greater
variety of platforms, and addresses the growing need for
on-demand programming.
Ann Shea will serve as WFIU/WTIU News Bureau Chief and Stan
Jastrzebski joins us as the new WFIU News Director. The
Bureau will be completed in the coming months with the addition
of a WFIU Assistant News Director and a WTIU General Assignment
Manager.
All personnel will be cross-trained in audio, video, and
online reporting. Much of this transition has been funded
through our state appropriation. For listeners and viewers,
this will mean more coverage and increased on-demand listening
and viewing.
The second change has been prophesied and much anticipated.
WFIU 103.7 will become two stations, expanding both cultural
and talk programming. Beginning on July 21st, we will test
the new channel and try out programming options. Digital
technology (HD Radio) offers the opportunity to provide
multiple streams of programming, satisfying more listener
expectations. If you're one of the many listeners who prefers
music to news in your morning hours and listen on 103.7,
you'll be able to indulge your classical music habit! You
will need to purchase a new digital radio, or you can listen
on your computer. Your new listening choices are:
- If you like WFIU just like it is, do nothing.
- If you listen on 103.7 and want to hear new talk and
cultural programs, purchase a new digital radio.
- If you listen on the Internet, do nothing, as you will
be able to access both channels.
At this time the FCC does not allow for HD broadcasting
on translators. Unfortunately our second channel is available
only on the 103.7 frequency. WFIU will have several HD Radio
models on display at the station. Feel free to drop in during
business hours and inspect them. More information about
HD Radio is available on our Web site at WFIU.org, and our
HD2 schedule (subject to change) is on the back cover on
this guide.
Thanks to the many people who joined Sandy and Fred Churchill
in establishing the WFIU Future Fund. Their investment makes
this new technology possible. For a complete list of names,
see the Future Fund article on page 18.
As always, thanks for making WFIU public radio possible!
Technology is changing and expanding the way we come to
you, but we remain committed to serving you with the best
programming public radio has to offer.
Christina Kuzmych
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Contemporary Music Highlights
WFIU's featured contemporary composer for the month of
July is Lou Harrison.
Harrison grew up in Burlingame, California and moved to
San Francisco in 1934, where he immersed himself in a rich
music scene that included Cantonese opera, Native American
music, Mexican music, and jazz; as well as classical music,
which was to have a major influence on him.
He later went to the University of California at Los Angeles
to work at the dance department as a dancer and accompanist.
While there, he took lessons from Arnold Schoenberg which
led to an interest in twelve-tone technique.
In 1943, Harrison moved to New York City where he worked
as a music critic for the Herald Tribune. There he met Charles
Ives, became his friend, and did a good deal in bringing
Ives to the attention of the musical world. When Ives won
the Pulitzer Prize for Music for that piece, he gave half
of the money to Harrison.
Harrison's mature musical style is based on "melodicles,"
short motifs that are turned backwards and upside down to
create a musical mode the piece is based on. His music is
typically spartan in texture but lyrical. The harmonies
are simple or sometimes lacking altogether, with the focus
instead being on rhythm and melody. Listeners to Harrison's
music are often surprised that such a modern, innovative
composer actually wrote lyrical melodies and richly harmonized
and orchestrated them, much in the tradition of the late
Romantic composers.
WFIU will feature the works of Lou Harrison, Wednesday nights
at 11:30 p.m. and throughout the month of May.
July 2nd
Varied Trio; Abel Steinberg Winant Trio
July 9th
String Quartet Set; Kronos Qt.
July 16th
Concerto in slendro; Maria Bachmann, vla.; Barry Jekowsky/California
Sym.
July 23rd
Double Music; Robert Stroker/Meadows Percussion Ens.
July 30th
Strict Songs; Leroy Kromm, bar.; Nicole Paiement/Univ. of
California Ch. Singers and Orch.
Other selected new music highlights:
Tuesday, July 1st
9am PANUFNIK-Sinfonia Sacra; Andrzej Panufnik/Concertgebouw
Orch.
Thursday, July 3rd
3pm TAILLEFERRE-Three Pieces for Violin and Piano; Ruth
Ehrlich, vln.; Marica Eckert, p.
Tuesday, July 15th
9am DE FALLA-Spanish Folksongs; Saint Louis Brass Quintet
Thursday, July 17th
11am KHACHATURIAN-MASQUERADE: Excerpts; Alexander Lazarev/Bolshoi
Sym. Orch.
Monday, July 21st
11am ARNOLD, M.-Two Marches; Jerry Junkin/Dallas Wind Symphony
Wednesday, July 23rd
11:30pm TUUR-Crystallisatio; Kaljuste, Tonu/Tallinn Ch.
Orch.
Friday, July 25th
11am WAXMAN-Tristan and Isolde Fantasia; Leonard Slatkin/Royal
Phil. Orch.
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Featured Classical Recordings
Selections from each week's featured recording can be heard
at 9 a.m. and 7 p.m. Monday; 11 a.m. Tuesday; 10 a.m. Wednesday;
3 p.m. Thursday; and 12 p.m. Saturday.
And audio podcasts of our Featured Classical CDs are available
through our website, wfiu.org. Just click on the "podcasts"
link on the homepage.
July 1st-6th
Aaron Copland: Piano Concerto, The Tender Land (Suite)
and Old American Songs
(Naxos 8.559297)
Benjamin Pasternack, piano
St. Charles Singers
Elgin Symphony Orchestra
Robert Hanson, conductor
As we prepare to celebrate Independence Day, it's appropriate
to highlight one of the masters of fusing Americana with
classical music. Aaron Copland's works harness the spirit
of America in this recording from the Elgin Symphony Orchestra.
From the lush sonorities of The Tender Land to the familiar
refrains of the Old American Songs, you'll be more than
ready to celebrate our nation's birth.
July 7th-13th
Weimar Preludes and Fugues
(Gothic G-49260)
Joan Lippincott, organ.
Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier represents the pinnacle in
the development of the Baroque prelude and fugue. It is
the fruition of many years of effort which flowered during
the composer's time as court organist in Weimar (1708-1717).
At the time, Bach's patron encouraged the composer with
passion that "fired him with the desire to try every
possible artistry." Organist Joan Lippincott performs
with mastery on the Paul Fritts Organ (Opus 24) at the University
of Notre Dame.
July 14th-20th
After Baroque: Music for the Natural Trumpet
(Origin Classics OC 33001)
Seattle Trumpet Consort
The "Golden Age" of the natural trumpet is found
in the High Baroque. The instrument itself (invented around
1830) was slow to adapt valves and persisted well past the
end of the era. That is where the Seattle Trumpet Consort
takes up the story on this recording. With works ranging
from Leopold Mozart to Benjamin Britten, the ensemble proves
that the art of the natural trumpet is alive and well, even
into the 21st century.
July 21st-27th
Chopin
(EMI Classics 50999 5 14899 2 2)
Ingrid Fliter, piano
Recordings of Chopin abound, but this recording shines
with a new patina. Pianist Ingrid Fliter's sensitivity and
musicality breathes new life into the Romantic composer's
time-testing repertoire. Dances from the waltz to the mazurka
rest easily beside the third piano sonata.
July 28th-August 1st
The Balcarres Lute Book
(ATMA Classique ACD2 2562)
Sylvain Bergeron, baroque lute
The Balcarres lute book is one of the largest, and perhaps
most important, sources of British lute music from the late
17th century. Alongside native Scottish music lay French
and English lute works and even compositions for violin.
Written for 11-course lute, the works are played here by
Sylvain Bergeron on 13-course Baroque lute by Richard Berg
of Ottawa.
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Community Events
WFIU is the media sponsor for the following events. For
more information on these and other activities on the calendar,
visit wfiu.org.
Indiana University Jacobs School of Music
Summer Music Festival
through August 9
www.music.indiana.edu
Featuring more than 40 free and ticketed events performed
by guests, faculty and students from the IU Jacobs School
of Music, the 2008 IU Summer Music Festival offers an array
of orchestral concerts, opera, chamber music, jazz evenings,
recitals and outdoor band concerts.
Indiana State University
Crossroads Repertory Theater
through July 26
The Underpants
Adapted from Carl Sternheim's original by comedian Steve
Martin
The Last 5 Years
A moving and humorous musical about a five-year marriage,
from his and
her points of view. Book and music by Jason Robert Brown.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Opens Wednesday
July 2nd
A classic story for the whole family to enjoy
Macbeth, Opens Friday July 11th
An exciting new staging of William Shakespeare's classic
Jazz in July 2008
The Indiana University Art Museum's Jazz in July concert
series is entering its eighteenth year. Concerts take place
on the museum's outdoor sculpture terrace. WFIU's Joe Bourne
and David Brent Johnson will emcee.
July 11
Indianapolis Guitar Summit with a tribute to Charlie
Smith
Indy's top guitarists (backed by bass and drums) play
everything from straight ahead jazz to funk.
July 18
Rachel and Sara Caswell
Sisters Sara (a jazz violinist) and Rachel (a jazz vocalist)
come together for a night of concert entertainment.
July 25
Bill Lancton Quartet
Veterans from the Indianapolis studio and performing scene,
the Bill Lancton Quartet blends contemporary funk and
Latin with straight ahead styles.
August 1
Bleu Django
This acoustic swing quartet was recently featured at the
Chautauqua Jazz Fest in New York. Preceding the concert,
join curator Nan Brewer for a tour of the special exhibition
Blooming Town.
Concerts are free and open to the public but seating is
limited, so come early. In the event of rain, the concert
will be moved inside the IU Art Museum. Refreshments will
be available for purchase. Donations are appreciated. For
more information call 812-855-5445.
Brown County Playhouse
How the Other Half Loves
July 11-13, 17-20, 23-27, July 30-August 3
www.theatre.indiana.edu
Alan Ayckbourn's comedy is a tale of well-to-do people
getting lost in the mix between social graces and personal
misunderstandings.
Red Cross Book Drive
Saturday, July 19
Border's Books and Music
Eastland Plaza
9 a.m.-noon
WFIU assists the Red Cross in collecting items for the
group's annual sale in October. Drop off your books, DVDs,
VHS tapes, and music.
Shawnee Theatre
Dracula
July 31-August 3
www.shawneetheatre.org
Thursday through Saturday at 8 p.m. with a Sunday matinee
at 2.
A world-premiere adaptation of Bram Stoker's novel by Alan
Shepard. Shawnee audiences will remember Shepard from his
striking performance of George in last season's Of Mice
and Men.
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Profiles
Sunday at 7 p.m.
July 6 - James Pellerite
James J. Pellerite works tirelessly to elevate the Northern
Plains flute to the status of a significant new voice on
the contemporary concert stage. A former Professor of Flute
at Indiana University and classical flutist, he has performed
with prestigious orchestras in the U.S. and around the world.
His programs, lectures, and recordings reflect his commitment
to enhancing the capabilities of this traditional Native
American instrument. Pellerite's company, Zalo/JP-Publications,
produces a catalog featuring a wide selection of works by
living composers who share his vision of bringing the Northern
Plains instrument into the twenty-first century. Peter Jacobi
conducted the interview. (repeat)
July 13 - Marietta Simpson
Mezzo-soprano Marietta Simpson has sung roles with Mobile
and Minnesota Operas, the New York City Opera, the Royal
Opera House, and numerous others. She has performed with
many of the world's great conductors, including the late
Robert Shaw, Kurt Masur, and Lorin Maazel. As a recitalist,
Ms. Simpson has performed in the United States and Europe,
and she has sung with all the major orchestras in the United
States and most of those in Europe. She has made many recordings
and television appearances, including the Covent Garden
production of Porgy and Bess. Your host is Peter Jacobi.
July 20 - Daniel Orr
Daniel Orr is the chef owner of FARMbloomington. He
draws from a lifelong curiosity about individual ingredients,
extensive training in the art of finding food's essence
and flavor, and worldwide travel. He calls his cuisine "real
food." Orr spent two years working at some of the top
restaurants in France, including Auberge des Templiers,
Restaurant Daguin, the three-star L'Espérance, and
the three-star Restaurant Bruneau in Belgium. He was executive
chef at Guastavino's and La Grenouille, both in New York
City; and at age 34 received a three-star review from the
New York Times. He is author of the cookbook Real Food,
and has created Kitchen D'Orr, a line of ten spice blends.
Yaël Ksander is the host.
July 27 - Mark McMath
Mark McMath is chief information officer for Bloomington
Hospital. He began his career at IBM in 1981 and has since
held leadership roles with both for-profit and not-for-profit
health care providers. Under McMath's leadership, Bloomington
Hospital completed a five-year information technology plan
for the hospital, and the management and oversight of the
selection process, contract negotiations, and board approval
for a new enterprise-wide system to provide Bloomington
Hospital with state-of-the-art information technology. McMath
spoke with Moya Andrews. (repeat)
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The Radio Reader
with Dick Estell
Weekdays at 11:25 a.m.
Charlatan by Pope Brock
Airs: July 14 through August 13
In 1917, after years of selling worthless patent remedies
throughout the Southeast, John R. Brinkley, America's most
brazen young con man, arrived in the tiny town of Milford,
Kansas. He set up a medical practice and introduced an outlandish
surgical method using goat glands to restore the fading
virility of local farmers.
It was all nonsense, but thousands of paying customers quickly
turned "Doctor" Brinkley into America's richest
and most famous surgeon. His notoriety captured the attention
of the great quackbuster Morris Fishbein, who vowed to put
the country's "most daring and dangerous" charlatan
out of business.
Their cat-and-mouse game lasted throughout the 1920s and
'30s, but despite Fishbein's efforts Brinkley prospered
wildly. When he ran for governor of Kansas, he invented
campaigning techniques still used in modern politics. Thumbing
his nose at American regulators, he built the world's most
powerful radio transmitter just across the Rio Grande to
offer sundry cures, and maimed or killed patients by the
score, yet his warped genius produced innovations in broadcasting
that endure to this day. By introducing country music and
blues to the nation, Brinkley also became a seminal force
in rock 'n' roll. In short, he is the most creative criminal
this country has ever produced.
Culminating in a decisive courtroom confrontation that pit
Brinkley against his nemesis Fishbein, Charlatan is a portrait
of a boundlessly audacious rogue on the loose in an America
that was ripe for the bamboozling.
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Broadcasts from the IU
Jacobs School of Music
Airs at 7 p.m. Mondays, 10 a.m. Tuesdays, and
3 p.m. Fridays
July 1st-4th
ELGAR-Romance in d, Op. 62; Kim Walker, bsn.; Shigeo Neriki,
p.
July 7th-11th
SCHUMANN-Phantasiestücke, Op. 73; Janos Starker, vlc.;
Shigeo Neriki, p.
July 14th-18th
DEVIENNE-Sonata in G, Op. 24, No. 5; Kim Walker, bsn.; Shigeo
Neriki, p.
July 21st-25th
POPPER-Fantasy on a little Russian Theme; Janos Starker,
vlc.; Shigeo Neriki, p.
July 28th-31st
BARTOK-Contrasts for Violin, Clarinet and Piano; James Campbell,
cl.; Ik-Hwan Bae, vln.; Shigeo Neriki, p.
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