March 2005 Articles

Gray Matters: The Body Clock
Sunday, March 3, 8 p.m.

An internal biological clock is fundamental to all living things. It regulates the daily patterns or rhythms of our lives-when we sleep, when we wake, when we feel at our best and at our worst.
This Gray Matters documentary combines news about pioneering brain research with personal stories. It gives an overview of the structures in the brain that regulate body clocks, discusses what happens when body clocks go wrong, and introduces the field of chronobiology-revealing why taking medicine should coincide with the body's rhythms along with the health implications of interfering with those rhythms.

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Only in America: An exclusive interview with Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Sunday, March 13, 8 p.m

Ruth Bader Ginsburg's life is a paradigm of the American immigrant experience. In one generation, she rose from the daughter of Jewish immigrants to a seat on the Supreme Court. Born in 1933, she credits much of her early success to the influence of her mother, who gave her two pieces of advice: Always be a lady, and be independent.
Justice Ginsburg tells Larry Josephson the story of how after she graduated at the top of her class from Columbia Law School in 1959 no one would hire her because "she was a woman, Jewish and a mother." She also recounts her experiences with anti-Semitism. As a child she saw a sign on a boarding house: "no dogs or Jews allowed."
This conversation offers a rare personal look into the life of a sitting Justice of the Supreme Court; her struggles against gender discrimination, anti-Semitism and severe illness (her mother died of cancer, both she and her husband survived it). One of the Court's centrist liberals, Justice Ginsburg explains her philosophy of judicial restraint. She also talks about the importance of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment-the separation of church and state-to the success of the American experiment. This program offers a fascinating look at a role model for both women and minorities, as well as an American success story of upward mobility.

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Sisters in Pain
Sunday, March 20, 8 p.m.

When a battered woman resorts to violence against her abuser, is she guilty of a crime? Or do her actions qualify as justifiable self-defense?
In this program, three formerly battered women share their riveting and intimate stories of abuse, arrest, imprisonment, and, finally, freedom. These women are among the "sisters in pain"-thirteen battered women in Kentucky who stood up to their brutally abusive husbands and boyfriends, and were subsequently found guilty of violent crimes.
When Kentucky's Governor Brereton Jones learned of the women, he became convinced they had acted in self-defense. In a controversial move, Jones granted all of the women clemency on his last day in office. This was only the third mass clemency for battered women in U.S. history.
The program was written and produced by D. Cameron Lawrence and John Gregory for Down to Earth Productions, in association with WEKU. It won the prestigious George Foster Peabody Award and the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award.
Sisters in Pain is a story of violence and tragedy, a saga of mercy and hope.

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Her Vision, Her Voice, Her Song: A Mountain Stage Celebration
Sunday, March 20, 9 p.m.

WFIU celebrates Women's History Month with Her Vision, Her Voice, Her Song, a vibrant hour-long music program featuring live performances by and interviews with some of the world's most celebrated women artists.
Featured artists include Ani DeFranco, Natalie Merchant, Eliza Gilkyson, Indigo Girls, Margo Timmins, Nanci Griffith, Bettye Levette, Gillian Welch, and others. Their music spans a broad range of forms and genres, from jazz, blues, and country to folk, rock, and world music. Her Vision, Her Voice, Her Song showcases the depth, passion, and heart that these women performers bring to the contemporary music scene.
For twenty years, Mountain Stage has featured national and international acts in almost every style of music: from traditional and Country Western to avant-garde rock and jazz, showcasing both established and emerging artists.
Her Vision, Her Voice, Her Song is hosted by Lisa Mullins of PRI's The World and by Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Larry Groce.

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Leonard Bernstein: An American Life

This eleven-part series concludes this month with these final two installments.

Bernstein: The Composer, Part 2
Sunday, March 6, 9 p.m.

We continue to examine Bernstein's role as a composer-a role that is often overshadowed by his successes as conductor and teacher. This hour features an appraisal of Bernstein's body of composed music. We will discuss both popular and overlooked works, and will attempt a re-evaluation of Bernstein's work as a composer; his musical theatre work and his concert compositions.

A Candle Burned At Both Ends (1979-1990)
Sunday, March 13, 9 p.m.

Bernstein continues his moves toward Europe in the '80s. His compositions during this period include the opera A Quiet Place, and the film "The Love of Three Orchestras," which documents Bernstein's work with the Vienna Philharmonic, the New York Philharmonic and the Israel Philharmonic.
We consider Bernstein's role in the launching of the Mahler revival of the last twenty years, as well as his last composition Concerto for Orchestra. We follow Bernstein to his heroic Freedom Concert at the fall of the Berlin Wall, to his last performance at Tanglewood, to the events surrounding his death in 1990.
Finally, we look at his legacy. In has last years, Bernstein races against the clock to complete both new and unfinished compositions that he hopes will cement his reputation as a major composer-the one attainment he feels has somehow eluded him. While his major compositions of his last period do not bring him this kind of acclaim, Bernstein remains the most celebrated conductor in the world up to his death.
His final days are colored by his own sense of failure. Only after his passing do we get a sense of the importance of Bernstein's place in the music of the 20th century.

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Met Opera Grand Finals Concert
Sunday, March 27, 7-10 p.m.

Discover the opera stars of the future at the Metropolitan Opera National Council Grand Finals Concert!
The Grand Finals Concert is the culmination of one of the most important singing competitions in the country. Semi-finalists are selected from more than 1,500 young singers between the ages of 20 and 30 who placed in district and regional auditions throughout the United States, Puerto Rico and Canada.
The final round of auditions takes place in a special concert at the Met. Each finalist will sing two arias accompanied by the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, conducted by Patrick Summers. Up to five singers will be awarded prizes of $15,000 each by a prestigious panel of judges including members of the Metropolitan Opera Artistic staff, with the remaining finalists receiving awards of $5,000 each.
The concert also features performances by guest alumni: mezzo-soprano Susan Graham, baritone Charles Taylor and bass Morris Robinson.
The announcer for the Grand Finals Concert is Margaret Juntwait, host of the live Metropolitan Opera broadcasts.

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Aaron Smith's Job Shadowing Experience

Bloomington resident Aaron Smith "shadowed" WFIU staff members recently as part of an initiative to integrate people with disabilities into the workplace.
"Career Exploration for the 21st Century: A Job Shadowing Experience" was sponsored by The Franklin Initiative, the Community Transition Council and Hire Potential Indiana.
Students also shadowed at Bath and Body Works, Bella Bella Arts, Dee's Little Darlings Day Care, Delilah's Pet Shop, Encore Café, Monroe County United Ministries Day Care, National Education Services, and O'Malia's.
The annual job shadowing day gives students with disabilities a chance to meet people in fields they might wish to pursue. It also provides employers with a better understanding of employment options among students with disabilities.
Shadowing at WFIU was a natural for Aaron, who enjoys music and working with computers. The 20-year-old Bloomington South student has worked as a teacher's assistant on the Monroe County Head Start and as an office assistant at Southern Indiana Pediatrics.
Aaron is one of the more than 2,000 youths with disabilities who live in the Bloomington metropolitan service area. According the 2000 U.S. Census, the unemployment rate among people with disabilities between 20 and 64 in Monroe County is 40%, compared with 3.5% of the general public.

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Amahl Makes a Day Visit

Tony Ponella, 9, visited WFIU recently to talk with George Walker about his appearance in Amahl and the Night Visitors, the opera by Gian Carlo Menotti that Bloomington Music Works produced during the holiday season. (The opera made its stage premiere at IU Bloomington in 1952.)
Tony played the title role of the shepherd boy Amahl. He was accompanied on his visit to the station by former Miss Indiana Bryn Chapman, a lyric soprano who appeared as Pauline in Toy Shop, an opera that shared a double-bill with Amahl.
Tony was bit by the acting bug when he was five years old. That was when a touring company of Peter Pan came to his hometown of Rochester, New York, and Tony's mother took him backstage to meet star Kathy Rigby. He got his start playing Ballo the Bear in The Jungle Book. Tony is the son of Phil Ponella, the new director of the IU School of Music library.

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Community Events

WFIU is the media sponsor for the following events. Find more information on these and other activities on the calendar page of our Web site: www.indiana.edu.

Terre Haute Symphony Orchestra
Saturday, March 5 at 7:30 p.m.
Tilson Auditorium

Brahms' Symphony No. 2 and Beethoven's Egmont Overture complement a new piano concerto by popular THSO Resident Composer Dan Powers. Martha Krasnican is the pianist and David Bowden conducts.

Ana Vidovic
Saturday, March 5 at 8 p.m.
John Waldron Arts Center

Co-produced by the Bloomington Area Arts Council and the Bloomington Classical Guitar Society. Twenty-three-year-old Ana Vidovic is one of the youngest virtuoso guitarists in the world. She has recorded five CDs, performed at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., and is winner of numerous prizes and international competitions.

Live and Free at the MAC
This series offers concerts each week that are free to the public at the Musical Arts Center at Indiana University.

Philharmonic Orchestra
Wednesday, March 2 at 8 p.m.
Uriel Segal conducts.

Jazz ensemble directed by Pat Harbison
Monday, March 7 at 8 p.m.

Chamber Orchestra
Wednesday, March 9 at 8 p.m in Auer Hall.
Ronald Zollman conducts.

Jazz ensemble directed by David Baker
Monday, March 28 at 8 p.m.

Philharmonic Orchestra
Wednesday, March 30 at 8 p.m.
Gerhard Zimmermann conducts.

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Spotlight On . . . Dianne Iauco

Even after many years of singing and performing, WFIU's Dianne Iauco is still enthralled by "the inestimable gift of music and the role it plays in our lives."
Iauco is one of the announcers on Ether Game, and you'll often hear her hosting the Saturday afternoon opera broadcasts. An opera singer herself, Iauco got her Bachelor and Master of Music in Voice Performance degrees from the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, and spent several seasons as a principal mezzo-soprano at the New York City Opera. She continues her voice study with IU's Dale Moore.
"In a sense, announcing is a form of performing, so I like the challenge of live radio," she says. "I also enjoy presenting great music to people. I like being part of bringing the Metropolitan Opera into people's homes."
The technical aspects of announcing are both a challenge and a source of fascination for Iauco. "The announcer has more than just speaking to deal with. Filling thirty or even fifteen seconds without sounding rushed takes some practice."
Being comfortable on the air, according to Iauco, comes from preparation. "Being prepared is key-another factor that is also true of performance. I am very detailed-oriented and somewhat of a perfectionist, so I receive great satisfaction when all the pieces fit."
Iauco shares a love of music with husband Arizeder Urreiztieta. He's a violinist and a bass who has sung with Chanticleer, Boston Camerata, Pomerium, New York Philharmonic, Voices of Ascension and others. Before coming to Indiana, Urreiztieta was music critic for the Arizona Daily Star and public relations editor for the New York Philharmonic. He was also active with Thomas Binkley at the Early Music Institute. The couple have a three-year old daughter.
"I am still able to marvel at Dvorak's 'American' String Quartet," says Iauco, "which my husband might put on during a Saturday morning, and just enjoy listening to him tell our daughter how it came to be written. I never cease to be amazed at the wonder of music. How poor we would be without it."

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A Karl Haas Remembrance
by George Walker

I came in to WFIU on Monday, February 7th and learned that Karl Haas had died on Sunday. I knew that he had been ill for some time, but it was still a surprise.
Adventures in Good Music has been such a fixture at WFIU-it's been on for at least twenty years-that I can't remember when we didn't broadcast it.
During one of Karl's visits to Bloomington, he came to WFIU to record Adventures in Good Music. Don Glass was on hand to help with production and journalist Peter Jacobi was in the studio to write a piece for the Bloomington Herald-Times. Karl Haas came in and quickly assembled a set of recordings. He had a couple of references in addition to the jacket notes and borrowed one or two volumes of our music encyclopedia. Once in the studio it was almost as if he were doing it live on the air with the script improvised and only a few breaks to tidy things up. Engineer, producer and newspaperman were all pretty impressed.
On another visit, a sadder one, Karl Haas came in to act as the host for Musical Arts Center's memorial celebration for long-time IU Faculty member Joseph Gingold. Haas gave a loving talk about his friend with some tender and some quite funny reminiscences.
Later during this visit, Haas agreed to sit with me for an interview. I had my questions all nicely arranged and even typed up on a clipboard, but as soon as we sat down, he said, "Oh, let's not go through a set of questions. Let's just talk about the music and the art we love." And for nearly half an hour, that's what we did.
In addition to his radio programs, Haas also concertized both as a pianist and as a conductor. I wasn't there, but here's a story from an appearance that he made at a summer conference of music educators in IU's Recital Hall. Now, Karl Haas on the radio was a large-voiced presence and even in televised performances he looked big. In person, however, he was quite a short man. When he came on stage to play, the top of his head was barely level with the top of the grand piano. A few in the audience broke out in surprised titters. Then Karl made the entire audience laugh when he quipped, "Remember, I've never seen you before either."

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Karl Haas Brought Classical Music to Millions

"He was the ultimate music educator," said WFIU Station Manager Christina Kuzmych of Karl Haas, who died on February 6 in Detroit. The host of Adventures in Good Music was 91.
Millions of classical music lovers around the world mourned Haas' passing. AGM is the longest-running classical music program in broadcast history, and for many years it was the most listened-to classical music radio program in the world. Robert Conrad, president of Cleveland radio station WCLV, which had produced AGM said, "Throughout his broadcasting career, Karl Haas had the knack of informing and delighting his listeners with his vast knowledge of music, ranging from humor to etiquette and everything in between."
"And who can forget his penchant for punning the titles of his programs: The Joy of Sax, Baroque and in Debt, May the Source be With You and No Stern Untoned. Karl leaves a valuable legacy of music appreciation that is unparalleled. And because his programs are timeless, WCLV will continue to distribute these priceless musical treasures available to radio stations." AGM will continue to be heard on WFIU weekdays at 2 p.m.
"We have lost the world's most passionate voice for good music," said Haas' long-time executive producer and editor Jane Johansen. "He was a dedicated musician who shared his musical talents and passion for good music. Listeners responded to his 'Hello, everyone' across international boundaries, across socio-economic lines, across races, across religious beliefs. His passing brings sorrow to generations of music lovers."
WFIU's A Moment of Science producer Don Glass met Haas when he visited Bloomington. Glass found the musicologist "very pleasant."
"One thing that sticks in my mind is that although he was quite proper he liked saucy jokes, and we shared several after lunch one day."
Christina Kuzmych praised Haas as "America's music teacher. Countless radio listeners took their first forays into classical music literature through his explanations. We will miss him-he is irreplaceable."
Haas was born in 1913 in Speyer-on-the-Rhine, Germany, where his deep appreciation for classical music began at the age of 6 with his first piano lesson given by his mother. Upon moving to the United States when he was 16, his family settled in Detroit, where Karl taught piano, studied at Detroit's Netzorg School of Music, and commuted to New York to study with the renowned pianist Arthur Schnabel.
In 1950 Haas began his broadcasting career hosting a weekly preview of Detroit Symphony Orchestra concerts on WWJ, Detroit. Soon the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation asked him to talk about the music on the air. In 1959 Adventures in Good Music was born when WJR in Detroit offered him the prime-time morning hour of 10 a.m. to create a one-hour program of classical music and commentary. For two decades it was Detroit's number one program in its time period.
From 1967 to 1971, Haas was president of the Interlochen Academy of Arts in Interlochen, Michigan. His 1984 book "Inside Music" is in its tenth reprinting. Haas produced three best-selling compact discs: The Romantic Piano, Story of the Bells, and Song and Dance.
Haas received many major awards, including two George Foster Peabody Awards for excellence in broadcasting. He was decorated with the French Order of Arts and Letters, and received the First Class Order of Merit from the Federal Republic of Germany for service in the cause of cultural relations between the United States and West Germany.
Haas served as visiting professor at leading universities in the U.S. and received eight honorary doctorates in music, fine arts and humanities, among other academic awards. In 1991 he was received at the White House where President George H. W. Bush awarded him the National Endowment for the Humanities Charles Frankel Award. He was the first classical music personality to be inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame. And in 2000, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Fine Arts Radio International Awards presented by Missouri Southern State University.
Karl Haas' wife Trudie preceded him in death in 1977. He is survived by his daughter Alyce, sons Jeffrey and Andrew, and grandchildren, Jessie Knox-Haas and Sophie Haas.

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Musical Highlights for March
by Robert Lumpkin, Music Director

Artist of the Month
WFIU's Artist of the Month for March is baroque bassoonist Michael McCraw. He began his career in New York City as a member of the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and is a pioneer in the field of baroque performance with original instruments. Mr. McCraw has played with such ensembles as Musica Antiqua Köln, Concentus Musicus Wien, London Baroque, and many others. He is also active as a pedagogue and has taught at festivals and workshops all over the world. He serves as Director of the Early Music Institute at Indiana University.
We sample McCraw's most recent Centaur recording of Vivaldi concertos in which he's joined by the Seattle Baroque led by Byron Schenkman. On Thursday, March 10 at 7:07 p.m., we'll hear the Bassoon Concerto in d, RV 481, and on Wednesday the 16th at the same time, join us for the Bassoon Concerto in f, RV 489. The Bassoon Concerto in a, RV 498 comes your way on Wednesday, March 23 at 10:12 p.m. Oboist Washington McClain joins bassoonist Michael McCraw in the Concerto in G for Oboe and Bassoon, RV 545 on Thursday the 31st at 7:07 p.m.

New Releases
Almost all of our featured new releases for March are orchestral. From Philips there's a recent re-issue of The Miraculous Mandarin, a ballet by Bela Bartok, which airs on Wednesday, March 9 at 10:12 p.m. Ivan Fischer conducts the Budapest Festival Orchestra. One week later at the same time, we hear a new recording from LSO Live of the Symphony No. 7 in d, Op. 70 by Antonin Dvorak. Sir Colin Davis leads the London Symphony Orchestra on that recording. We've selected a choral work to air Thursday the 24th at 7:07 p.m. Join us then for a new release of Vivaldi's Gloria on EMI Classics, featuring the Academy of Ancient Music and the Choir of King's College Cambridge, conducted by Stephen Cleobury. For Easter Week, we present a recent release of Mahler's "Resurrection" Symphony, the Symphony No. 2, from Deutsche Grammophon. Claudio Abbado conducts the Lucerne Festival Orchestra, and we'll also hear the chorus Orfeón Donostiarra, soprano Eteri Gvazava and mezzo-soprano Anna Larsson.

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Profiles

March 6 - Sally McKinney
In her 20 years as a travel writer, Bloomington resident Sally McKinney has visited 33 countries in five continents. Her books include "Adventures in Nature: New Zealand," "The Indiana University Experience," and "Hiking Indiana." She's dined on crocodile cabobs and pit pit (an edible grass), hiked with the Maoris of New Zealand, rafted down rivers in Fiji, and cruised by clipper ship from Phuket to Singapore. She talks about how she started her career in mid-life after leaving a "conventional" lifestyle. Adam Schwartz conducts the hour-long interview.

March 13 - Julia Alvarez
Julia Alvarez is the author of "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents," "In the Time of the Butterflies" (a National Book Award finalist), and "¡Yo!" She has published three collections of poetry, the collection of essays "Something to Declare," and books for young readers. "In the Time of the Butterflies" was made into a feature film starring Salma Hayak. Alvarez's latest book is "The Woman I Kept to Myself." She speaks with Glenn Mitchell of KERA's The Writers Studio.

March 20 - Patricia Pizzo
Patricia Pizzo was awarded the 2005 Arts Advocate Award by the Bloomington Area Arts Council. The award recognizes her leadership, service, and financial support of the arts. Patty Pizzo has selflessly supported the arts in Bloomington since the 1950s. She founded the IU School of Fine Arts Bookstore and has volunteered thousands of hours there. She helped establish the Friends of Art at IU; and has been actively involved with other area arts and cultural organizations, such as the IU Theatre Circle, IU Society of Music, the Lilly Library and the IU Art Museum. Pizzo served on the board of the BAAC for some fifteen years. She speaks with Shana Ritter in this hour-long interview.

On March 27 - Metropolitan Opera National Council Grand Finals Concert
Profiles is pre-empted this evening so we can bring you the Met Opera's Grand Finals Concert.

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The Radio Reader
with Dick Estell

"Savannah or A Gift for Mr. Lincoln"
by John Jakes
Begins: Monday, March 7

The author of 16 consecutive New York Times bestsellers, called by the Los Angeles Times "the godfather of the historical novel," now brings to life an almost-forgotten moment in the Civil War.
Georgia, 1864. Sherman's army marches inexorably from Atlanta to the sea. In its path is the charming old city of Savannah, where the Lester ladies-attractive widowed Sara and her feisty 12-year-old daughter Hattie-struggle to save the family rice plantation.
When Sherman offers the conquered city to President Lincoln as a Christmas gift, Hattie and the feared general find themselves on a collision course that will astonish both of them.
The author brings to life an almost forgotten moment in the Civil War: a season of simmering hostilities, rising hopes, and empty stockings. This is one of the most strife-torn yet heartwarming stories in American history.

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Broadcasts from the IU School of Music

KIBBE-Shtetl Tanzen; Trio Indiana
Airs: 3/1 at 10 a.m., 3/4 at 3 p.m.

ELLERBY-New World Dances; Stephen Pratt/IU Wind Ens.
Airs: 3/7 at 7 p.m., 3/8 at 10 a.m., 3/11 at 3 p.m.

SIBELIUS-Impromptu for String Orchestra; Paul Biss/IU University Orch.
Airs: 3/14 at 7 p.m., 3/15 at 10 a.m., 3/18 at 3 p.m.

HINDEMITH-Symphony in B-flat; Stephen Pratt/IU Wind Ens.
Airs: 3/21 at 7 p.m., 3/22 at 10 a.m.

FRANCK-Symphony in d; David Effron/IU Phil. Orch.
Airs: 3/23 at 10 p.m.

WELCHER-Zion; Stephen Pratt/IU Wind Ens.
Airs: 3/28 at 7 p.m., 3/29 at 10 a.m.

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