WFIU: Directions in Sound

This eight-part series, which starts this month, traces Asian immigration into America and its effect on the building of the nation, subsequent generations, and global ties. It takes an expansive look at the history of Asian immigration into the U.S., from pre-nationhood to post-9/11, relying on scholarly research, archival recordings, and oral histories. Each hour features four to five pan-Asian stories, illuminating the diversity of Asian-American history. The programs incorporate literature and historical documents read by professional actors, as well as original music by Asian-American artists from around the country. The series is hosted by actor George Takei and comedienne Margaret Cho.

May 7
"First Contacts"
International trade brought early Asian travelers to the Americas. This hour reveals previously untold stories of these pioneers, their quests for gold and adventure as well as the hardships they faced in the new land.

May 14
"Frontier Asians"
This program explores the legacy of the frontier in the towns, farms, and ranches settled by Asian Americans, and features the early West's miners, buckaroos, farmers, and physicians.

May 21
"Raising Cane"
Hawaii was a self-contained society when Captain Cook first made contact. Then settlers and missionaries turned Hawaiians into workers and the islands into plantations. This hour weaves a unique cross-cultural American tale through music, descendant histories, and sounds of Hawaii.

May 28
"Exclusion and Resistance"
Beginning with the Exclusion Act of 1882, "keep Asians out" was America's message to Asian immigrants. This program gives detailed accounts of immigration laws designed specifically to restrict Asians.

The dramatic expansion of open media in the Arab world is changing the political landscape of the region. For better or worse, the Internet and scores of pan-Arab radio stations and satellite television channels are fostering the free flow of information and opinion in ways unthinkable two decades ago. How does this rapidly changing spectrum affect the United States, the Middle East, and the world? Will it lead to greater understanding or fuel tension, fear, and hatred?
This program critically examines these questions with reporting from across the region and analysis from a wide range of political and media experts. David Brancaccio, host and editor of the PBS weekly series NOW, hosts.

For Mother's Day, Hearing Voices presents a mix of short documentaries, audio theater, and poetry, hosted by Dmae Roberts.
In "Home From Africa" a Peace Corps volunteer named Jenifir returns from Benin with all thirteen symptoms of "Peace Corps withdrawal." A true tale of two selves, mixed with dirt, disease, music, and voodoo. Produced by This American Life contributor Jake Warga.
The mini-drama "Donna Checks Out Her Life" tells the story of a supermarket checker who scans the items in her existence. It is from Tom Lopez's radio soap opera Saratoga Springs, which deals with the lives and loves of the characters in this charming town.
In 1983, the Kitchen Sisters explored that one-time staple of American housewifery, the Tupperware party. For "Tupperware" they went to local houses and the national convention, talked to Tupperware people, and recorded Tupperware songs. They cooked up an audio ethnography that still sounds fresh today.
"Sisters" is a montage of sisters discussing what it's like to have and be a sister. "I love her, but she still gets on my nerves . . ." First heard on All Things Considered, it was produced by Dmae Roberts.
"Sooner or Later" by Ginger Miles is a sound portrait of Anna Lee, a jazz photographer in lower Manhattan, recently diagnosed with breast cancer. When friends asked her when she was going to get medical help, her answer was "sooner or later."
"Ruby" by Susan Stone is an offbeat syntax of whispers and words that tells the story of a woman and her husbands.
Rounding out the program are poems by spoken-word artists Sonia Sanchez, Tracie Morris, Jill Battson, and Meryn Cadell.

Secret Wars
Sunday, May 21, 8 p.m.

The resignation of Director George Tenet, the inquiry over the agency's intelligence on Iraq, and the verdict of the 9/11 Commission drew criticism to the Central Intelligence Agency. In addition, questions have been raised about the organization's ability to adapt to the post-Cold War world.
In this BBC's The Changing World documentary, BBC Security Correspondent Gordon Corera uses his wide range of intelligence contacts to speak with CIA undercover agents and policymakers. By talking to them and those who have worked alongside them in the Middle East and Afghanistan, he reveals the effect that the agency's work has had in the region and learns how it intends to restore its reputation.

A mother visualizes her son's death at the exact moment it happens. A juvenile delinquent amazes her family by turning into a model soldier. Families of War presents these and other gripping stories of American veterans and their families.
The program weaves a tapestry of conflict from World War I to the war in Iraq. It includes insightful commentary from journalists who illuminate how wars continue after the shooting stops. Author Karen Spears Zacharias tells of her quest to find the facts surrounding her father's death in Vietnam. Marlene Lee, Red Cross volunteer since the 1970s, describes helping families and children in contemporary times deal with the loss of loved ones.
Former Senator and Vietnam veteran Max Cleland is the host.

This thirteen-part series continues as it traces the history of female composers from the Middle Ages to the present. The program is hosted by renowned pianist Virginia Eskin.

May 7
"Impressionism and Ragtime"
Lili Boulanger: D'un Matin de Printemps, Three Songs: Le Retour, Attente, Reflets; Germaine Tailleferre: Rondo from Concertino for Harp and Orchestra, Pastorale; Florence Price: Movements from the Mississippi River Suite; Silk Hat and Walking Cane; May Aufderheide: Dusty Rag; Mary Watson: Dish Rag; Judith Laing Zaimont: Judy's Rag; Marjorie Merryman: Dog Day Rag; Adeline Shepherd: Pickles and Peppers Rag.

May 14
"1920s"
Marion Bauer: Piano Prelude in D, Op. 15, No. 1 (unpublished work in Library of Congress), Violin Sonata, Fantasia quasi una sonata; Manna-Zucca (Augusta Zuckerman): Intermezzo; Eili, Eili; Ruth Crawford-Seeger: Suite for Four Strings and Piano; Mixed Accents for Piano; Rebecca Clarke: Prelude for Viola and Piano; Viola Sonata.

May 21
"The Holocaust"
Alma Mahler: Three Songs: Laue Sommernacht, Bei mir ist so Traut, Ich Wandle
unter Blumen; Ilse Weber: Wiegala; Viteslava Kàpràlova: Dubnova Preludia for Piano [April Preludes]; String Quartet.

May 28
"International Viewpoint"
Ruth Schonthal: Sonata Breva; Vivian Fine: Concertante for Piano and Orchestra; Miriam Gideon: Steeds of Darkness for Tenor and Chamber Ensemble, Sonata for Cello and Piano; Grazyna Bacewicz: Violin Sonata No. 5; Piano Tryptich; Elinor Remick Warren: Heart of a Rose; Margo Richter: Blackberry Vines and Winter Fruit.

This month WFIU is pleased to feature the artistry of cellist and IU Professor of Music Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi. Before joining the faculty of the Indiana Jacobs School of Music, Tsutsumi served on the faculty of the University of Western Ontario and the University of Illinois. He is also a first prize winner of the Casals International Competition, the Grand Prize winner of the Arts Festival, Japan, winner of the Mobile Music Prize, Japan, and an Academy of the Arts Award winner. A highly respected teacher and adjudicator, he currently serves as president of the Japanese Cello Society and Suntory Music Foundation and is the music director for Kirishima International Music Festival.
Several live recordings made at the IU Jacobs School of Music will be featured. On Monday, May 1st at 7:07 p.m., Tsutsumi joins pianist Ronald Turini in a 1991 recording of the Cello Sonata of Claude Debussy. Then on Saturday, May 13th, at 12:09 p.m., he joins bassist Bruce Bransby for the Duetto for Cello and Double Bass by Gioacchino Rossini. And on Tuesday, May 23rd at 11:13 p.m., faculty colleagues Emile Naoumoff, piano, Federico Agostini, violin., and Yuval Gotlibovich, viola., join Tsutsumi for the Second Piano Quartet in g, Op. 45 of Gabriel Faure, before he wraps up the month with a solo performance of Zoltan Kodaly's Sonata for Violoncello, Op. 8 on Wednesday, May 31st at 10:12 p.m.

WFIU is the media sponsor for the following events. For more information on these and other activities on the calendar, visit wfiu.indiana.edu.

The only festival of its kind in the Midwest, BLEMF is committed to bringing the treasure of Early Music to life. This years festival helps celebrate Mozart's 250th birthday with a performance of his early opera Il re pastore.

Il re pastore by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Friday, May 19, 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, May 21, 3:00 p.m.
Friday, May 26, 7:30 p.m.
Auer Hall

Bach and before - cantatas by Bach and Johann Kuhnau
Sunday, May 21, 7:30 p.m.
First United Church

Liber unUsualis: Virtue and the Viper
Monday, May 22, 7:30 p.m.
First United Church

Ostraka - Ex Tempore: Improvisations for Bass Viol 1553-1701
Tuesday, May 23, 7:30 p.m.
First Presbyterian Church

BLEMF Orchestra
Thursday, May 25, 7:30 p.m.
Auer Hall

Elisabeth Wright - harpsichord recital
Saturday, May 27, 3 p.m.
First Presbyterian Church

Chiaroscuro - Eavesdropping at the Collegium
Saturday, May 27, 7:30 p.m.
St. Mark's Church

La Monica - On the Amorous Lyre
Sunday, May 28, 7:30 p.m.
First Presbyterian Church

Bloomington Baroque & Classical
Monday, May 29, 3:00 p.m.
Unitarian Universalist Church

More information available at blemf.org. Love Early Music? Don't forget Harmonia, Thursday evenings at 9 p.m.

Marge Gravit is an original. A petite woman with an outsized spirit, she is known for her musical expertise, her many talents, and her startling candor.
On May 8, Marjorie Gravit will celebrate her 100 years of a well-lived life.
Commenting on her upcoming milestone, Marge, who now lives in the Meadowood Retirement Community in Bloomington, said, "It's amazing because no one in my family got that old."
WFIU listeners know Marge as a top player of Ether Game, WFIU's musical quiz program heard Tuesday evenings at 8 p.m. While Marge has retired from calling in her answers to Ether Game (though she still listens), her ability to win is legendary.
Fellow top Ether Game player Doug Strong, who played under the pseudonym "The Aquapuncher," recalls when WFIU invited the top scorers of the month to the station. Marge was one of them, but was unable to make it because she was tending to her husband, who was ill. Nevertheless, says Strong, "The world knew she was the best."
Marge was married to Dr. Francis W. Gravit, who taught in IU's French Department, for fifty-five years. She called him "Gravvy."
"They were both very strong-willed and had opinions," recalls Marge's longtime friend David Belbutoski. "He was an earlybird and she loved to stay up and sleep in."
Dr. Gravit never came home for lunch, a friend of Marge's recalls, prompting Marge to quip, "I married him for better or for worse but not for breakfast or lunch." But by five o'clock, Marge always had Gravvy's martini ready.
Marge herself was in her 90s when she gave up her daily afternoon martini, recalls Belbutoski.
"She always said, 'the martinis killed the germs and that's why I don't get very many colds.'"

Bosom Buddy
"She did everything completely," says Mona Houston, former president of Bloomington's Town Theater, whose every performance Marge attended. "You didn't expect so much energy to appear in such a tiny person."
Houston recalls when Marge attended performances of plays at the Town Theater. Especially, she recalls her laugh.
"She loved to laugh and she laughed heartily. None of your ladylike titters. I always hoped Marge would be in the house because if she laughed, other people would too."
Although Marge was never formally trained in music, she became a top Ether Game player. At first, Ether Game listeners believed that "Marge Gravit" was a code word for a group of musicologists. Even after Marge retired from playing Ether Game, her cult status lived on: A group of listeners played as "The Marge Gravit Fan Club."
Alice Leake noted, "The WFIU staff, particularly those associated with Ether Game, became Marge's family. Together they were passionate about music."
WFIU Station Manager Christina Kuzmych first met Marge in 1990.
"I had heard about Marge Gravit," Kuzmych says. "It was impossible to work at WFIU and not know of her. Particularly from the announcers who all considered her their bosom buddy.
"The first time I met Marge I was immediately impressed by this wonderful blend of class and spunk. Marge didn't mince her words-she told me exactly what she didn't like about WFIU. Over the years the staff dubbed Marge the Grande Dame of WFIU. Listeners like Marge are the lifeblood of public radio."
According to David Belbutoski, Marge was slow to embrace early music. "Those sour old instruments," he recalls her saying. Nor was she a fan of Beethoven's ninth symphony. "Those poor singers have to bark like dogs. Just listening to it hurts my throat."

Favorite Listener
Diana Carr got to know the Gravits when she joined the Department of French and Italian in the 1960s. She has fond memories of spending time with the Gravits in France, where they summered off and on for fifty years.
"I remember the lively times we shared on a crossing on the S.S. France and the meals we had together in Paris. I am still in awe of Marge's extraordinary knowledge of France, of its history and art. I think that she had visited every church, cathedral, and chateau in the country and knew everything about them."
According to David Belbutoski, Marge never learned to drive and never owned a TV set. She was a voracious reader of novels, magazines, and newspapers, and she listened to the radio, specifically, WFIU. In fact, she took a proprietary interest over her beloved WFIU. Back in the 1970s when on-air jazz announcer Michael Bourne was here, Marge called him almost daily. "He missed her calls when she didn't call in," Belbutoski says.
"Marge was my favorite listener of all time," says Bourne.
"Soon after I'd started at WFIU thirty-four years ago, Marge called and told me exactly why she liked me, which was very encouraging. She was smart, and charming. And she made me feel as if I must be smart and charming, or at least enough to amuse someone like Marge."
Gregg Richardson, a WFIU announcer in the early 1980s who is now a neuropsychologist in California, recalls that Marge used to call him frequently while he was on the air to correct his pronunciations and provide background information. "And she'd inquire if I didn't seem to be feeling well from the sound of my voice. "She'd ask me, 'Are you all right, dear?'"

Multi-talented
Marge met her husband Francis at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. "They were both bohemian," recalls friend Alice Leake. "They would get together over a glass of beer and discuss matters of mind, music, and politics."
During World War II, Leake recalls, Marge and Dr. Gravit worked for the government in Washington, D.C. decoding secret enemy messages. "That must have gone well with Marge because her powers of reasoning and her fitting things together would suit code-breaking assignments."
When the Gravits came to Bloomington in 1948 they lived in a house on Fess Avenue where Marge indulged in another activity she's famous for-gardening.
"Her garden was perfection," Alice Leake recalls. "Each flower had been chosen for color, design, placement. It was a gem."
Decades later, when Marge and Dr. Gravit moved to the Meadowood Retirement Community, Marge set up a garden in a huge window box the size of a twin bed on her deck. Before she moved, she gave away plants to her friend Diana Carr. "She gave us innumerable plants, many native to Indiana, which now adorn our garden year after year."
Mona Houston recalls a day she got an urgent call from Marge.
"One day she phoned and said 'Are you free right now?' I said, 'Can be.' 'The garden is just perfect. Come see it right now.'
"So we dropped everything and went to see the garden. That was pure Marge. It was perfect then, she wanted us to see it."
"I don't know how I can put into a short phrase the amount Marge has known and done about everything," says Alice Leake, who along with her late husband Roy, were two of Marge's close friends. "From domestic skills to art and architecture. I've always been in awe of her."

Ether Fame
Marge is also an accomplished embroider who worked with needlepoint and bargello stichery. Alice Leake was fascinated by her attention to detail, color, and design. Diana Guiragossian-Carr says, "She made us some beautiful pillows that we still have."
Leake also describes Marge as an excellent cook. She and Gravvy would always eat dinner in the French style with five courses. "One of the recipes in my file is called 'Boeuf à la mode à la Gravit.'"
But it was as an Ether Game player that Marge drew fame, at least in south-central Indiana.
As Alice Leake recalls, "I never knew anyone who knew more about the composers, the date on which something was performed, who had performed it, whether it was typical or atypical, classic, popular, jazz, anything-she seemed to know."
Leake once asked Marge how she knew all those titles, names, and dates.
"She said, 'Oh, I heard it on WFIU.' Once she had heard it on WFIU she never forgot it."
Violinist and pedagogue Josef Gingold was another Ether Game player who was impressed with Marge's musical knowledge. David Belbutoski recalls when Gingold hugged her and said in his accented English, "Oh, Marge, I don't know how you do it."
It's Marge's voice that is heard at the end of WFIU's locally-produced program Hometown giving the production credit. When producer/host Tom Roznowski wanted someone who had been present in the summer 1926-the period in which Hometown takes place-he chose Marge.
"Marge's reading has become legendary," Roznowski says. "The most frequently asked question I get with regard to Hometown is, 'Who is that charming woman at the end of every episode?'"
Musing on why Tom asked her to do voice the credit, Marge quipped, "I'm properly antique."

Giving to the Future
Marge gives back to the music world through her two scholarships that she has endowed to the IU Jacobs School of Music.
Each year the School awards two scholarships through the Society of the Friends of Music. For the current academic year, the Marjorie Gravit Friends of Music Guarantor Scholarship was given to Nicolle Atkinson, a sophomore from Sandy, Utah, studying viola with Alan de Veritch. And the Marjorie F. Gravit Friends of Music Piano Scholarship was awarded to Min-Sun Kim, a pianist from South Korea who is studying for a performer's certificate with Jean-Louis Haguenauer. An unusual feature of the piano scholarship is that it is eligible for the Matching the Promise Campaign, which means that the interest from the original gift will be matched in perpetuity.
These days Marge doesn't feel well enough to leave her Meadowood dwelling. David Belbutoski calls her there frequently.
"She gives me reviews of her meals. She'll say, 'It was a real dog's breakfast today,' or 'Today's was really good, I hit the jackpot.' That spark is still there."
Those wishing to send Marge birthday wishes can send them to WFIU at wfiu@indiana.edu or call them in to our listener line: 812-856-5352.

Still spring, almost summer . . . May usually brings fair weather to the WFIU listening areas in Indiana, and we'll strive to bring you jazz programming that's equally appealing. For new releases and new re-issues, as well as interviews with local and visiting musicians, tune into Joe Bourne's Just You and Me every weekday afternoon from 3:30 to 5. Some of the new releases you're likely to hear this month include bassist Ben Allison's Cowboy Justice, vocalist Karrin Allyson's Footprints, and Ralph Towner's new solo acoustic guitar release Time Line, recorded in the St. Gerold Monastery. We're also looking forward to new CDs from former Young Lions (what are they now-Middle-Aged Lions?) Christian McBride and Roy Hargrove.
Joe also hosts The Big Bands every Friday night at 9, as part of our long-running block of jazz programming for that weekend evening. The Big Bands is preceded by Piano Jazz at 8, and among host Marion McPartland's guests this month are singer and saxophonist Curtis Stigers, critic Whitney Balliett, guitarist Mimi Fox, and pianist and educator John Harmon. Following The Big Bands at 10:05 is Afterglow; this month's featured artists and CDs include Bing Crosby's Musical Autobiography, alto saxophonist Herb Geller's recent tribute to songwriter Arthur Schwartz, small-group and vocal recordings from drummer Buddy Rich (Buddy sang? That's right!), and an 80th birthday salute to Miles Davis on May 26. You can now hear all of the Afterglow programs in archived form on the show's new webpage: www.afterglow.indiana.edu. While there, check out the "Afterglow Legacy" link, where you can hear program creator and longtime host Dick Bishop's farewell broadcast from January of 2005. (We continue to turn to Dick for his considerable expertise and musical knowledge, and roundly consider him to be a generous consultant to our current efforts.)
Another WFIU jazz program that's archived online is Night Lights, which airs Saturday evenings at 11:05. This month we note the passing of illustrious Cincinnati DJ Oscar Treadwell with "Jivin' With the DJs," a program of musical tributes to jazz DJs from artists such as Cannonball Adderley, Lester Young, Charlie Parker, J.J. Johnson, Oliver Nelson, and more. For tributes of a more melancholic nature, on Memorial Day weekend it's "Turn Out the Stars II," a sequel to last year's show of elegies for jazz musicians. Other offerings include "Sonny Rollins: Live in London," featuring 1965 club recordings from the legendary tenor saxophonist, and "The Subterraneans," a program about the 1960 movie based on Jack Kerouac's novel, with a jazz soundtrack by Andre Previn and a performance by Gerry Mulligan as a hip, saxophone-playing priest. To hear all of these programs after they've aired, go to www.nightlights.indiana.edu.
If you've still got a late-night craving for more music, stick around for Portraits in Blue, immediately following Night Lights. Host Bob Porter's succinct and svelte delivery will guide you through programs about Smokin' Joe Kubek, Lil Green, Wynonie Harris, and the Five Keys. When it comes to midnight blues and old-school R & B, we remember what a listener once said about Mr. Porter-he's worth staying up for. Whatever the clock says, we hope that you'll always find tuning into WFIU worth your time.

J.S. Bach: Concertos for Oboe (Analekta AN 2 9910)
John Abberger, ob. and dir./Four Centuries of Bach
" Concerto in A, BWV 1055: Thursday, May 4th at 7:07 p.m.
" Concerto in g, BWV 1056: Monday, May 8th at 7:07 p.m.
" Concerto in c, BWV 1060: Wednesday, May 17th at 7:07 p.m.
" Concerto in E-flat, BWV 1053: Saturday, May 27th at 12:09 p.m.
John Abberger is among the leading performers on historical oboe, and the principal oboist of Tafelmusik and the American Bach Soloists. Here he is with the newly formed ensemble Four Centuries of Bach in a recording of new reconstructions of the oboe concertos of J.S. Bach.

Mozart: Serenades for Wind Ensemble (EMI 3 43424 2)
Berlin Philharmonic Wind Ensemble
" Serenade in B-flat, K. 361 "Gran Partita": Wednesday, May 3rd at 10:12 p.m.
" Serenade in E-flat, K. 375: Thursday, May 11th at 7:07 p.m.
The Berlin Philharmonic sounds just as good sans strings on this recent disc from EMI featuring the wind music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Henri Dutilleux: Concertos (Virgin Classics 545502 2)
Truls Mørk, vlc.; Renaud Capuçon, vln.; Myung-Whun Chung/Orch. Phil. de Radio France
" 3 Strophes sur le nom de Sacher: Sunday, May 7th at 11:25 a.m.
" L'arbre des songes [The Tree of Dreams]: Thursday, May 18th at 7:07 p.m.
" Tout un monde lointain [A whole far-off world]: Tuesday, May 30th at 11:13 p.m.
Made in the presence of the composer, this recording features two concertos by French 20th century master Henri Dutilleux in spellbinding performances by soloists Truls Mørk and Renaud Capuçon.

William Bolcom: Songs of Innocence and of Experience (Naxos 8.559216-18)
Measha Brueggergosman, Ilana Davidson, Carmen Pelton, Christine Brewer, and Linda Hohenfield, s.; Joan Morris, ms.; Marietta Simpson, a.; Thomas Young, t.; Nmon Ford, bar.; Peter "Madcat" Ruth, voc. and harm.; Nathan Lee Graham, voc.; MSU Children's Choir; Leonard Slatkin/University of Michigan Symphony Orchestra and Combined Choruses
" Songs of Innocence: Wednesday, May 17th at 10:12 p.m.
" Songs of Experience, Volume 1: Wednesday, May 24th at 10:12 p.m.
" Songs of Experience, Volume 2: Wednesday, May 31st at 10:12 p.m.
The recipient of three Grammy Awards including Best Classical Album, Best Choral Performance, and Best Classical Contemporary Composition, William Bolcom's monumental "Songs of Innocence and of Experience" are heard here in a performance featuring IU alumnus, conductor Leonard Slatkin, and new voice faculty member, mezzo-soprano Marietta Simpson.

May 7 - Phillip Seymour Hoffman
Philip Seymour Hoffman is known for his well-observed portrayals of disparate roles. His characters have ranged from the transgender Rusty in "Flawless" to a male nurse in "Magnolia," an adult film star in "Boogie Nights," and Brandt, a chipper personal assistant in "The Big Lebowski." For his performance in the biopic "Capote" Hoffman was awarded an Academy Award. On stage, he starred in "Long Day's Journey into Night" and "True West." In addition to his work as an actor, Hoffman directed "The Last Days of Judas Iscariot" and is co-artistic director of LAByrinth Theater Company in New York City. Hosted by Roy Eisenhardt for City Arts & Lectures.

May 14 - Mary Goetze
Mary Goetze chairs the IU Music in General Studies department and conducts the International Vocal Ensemble, a chorus specializing in vocal music from the world's cultural traditions. She is founder of the University Children's Choir and is active as a composer, clinician, and guest conductor. She co-founded the Mountain Lake Colloquium for Teachers of General Music Methods, and is in demand as a clinician in the U.S. and abroad, presenting regularly at national and international music education conferences. Her publications include numerous arrangements and compositions for treble voices and Share the Music, a K-6 series book used widely throughout the United States. She spoke with Sarah Stevens. (repeat)

May 21 - Studs Terkel
Chicago favorite son Studs Terkel is a broadcaster and writer who began his legendary radio interview show Studs Terkel's Almanac in 1952. He is also a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer whose oral histories illuminate the lives of everyday people. His books include "Working," "The Good War," "Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression," and "Will the Circle Be Unbroken: Reflections on Death, Rebirth, and Hunger for a Faith." The inimitable 91-year-old sat down with host Mike Cuthbert of Prime Time Radio.

May 28 - Ravdan Bold
Ravdan Bold became ambassador of Mongolia to the United States in 2003. He previously served as executive secretary of the National Security Council of Mongolia, adviser to the Parliament and director of the Institute of Strategic Studies, and deputy director of the Mongolian Central Intelligence Agency. He also held various posts in the Institute of Strategic Studies, the Ministry of Defense, the Embassy of Mongolia in Japan, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Ambassador Bold attended the Military Institute in Ulaanbaatar, the Military Diplomatic School in Moscow, and the Defense Resources Management Training of Naval Postgraduate School in the United States. He spoke with Patrick O'Meara. (repeat)

Prate Marshbanks proposed to his future wife, Irene, in the summer of '52. Irene was a college graduate and daughter of a prominent lawyer, and as such, was an unlikely match for Prate, a high school dropout and a house painter. Their marriage not only survived for fifty years, but flourished, which was a constant wonder for Prate. But now, he faces a new challenge with Irene.
"The Pleasure was Mine" takes place during a critical summer when Prate retires to care for his wife who is gradually slipping away to Alzheimer's disease. To complicate things, Prate's son, Newell, a recently widowed single father, asks his father to keep nine-year-old Jackson for the summer. Though Prate is irritated at first by the presence of his moody grandson, over the summer his feelings toward Jackson change as his grandson helps him tend Irene. As Irene's memory fades, Prate, a hard-working man who has kept to himself most of his life, has little choice but to get to know his family.
Author Tommy Hays has written a quietly wrenching portrayal of grief, a romantic story about the power of love, and an unexpectedly moving take on the resilience of family.

DEBUSSY-Cello Sonata; Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi, vlc.; Ronald Turini, p.
Airs: 5/1 at 7 p.m., 5/2 at 10 a.m., 5/5 at 3 p.m.

HANDEL-RODELINDA: "Dove sei"; Russell Oberlin, countertenor; Thomas Dunn/IU Baroque Ch. Orch.
Airs: 5/4 at 7 p.m.

FROBERGER-Suite in C; Duo Geminiani
Airs: 5/8 at 7 p.m., 5/9 at 10 a.m., 5/12 at 3 p.m.

ROSSINI-Duetto in D for Cello and Bass; Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi, vlc.; Bruce Bransby, db.
Airs: 5/13 at 12 p.m.

CHOPIN-Three Nocturnes, Op. 15; Edward Auer, p.
Airs: 5/15 at 7 p.m., 5/16 at 10 a.m., 5/19 at 3 p.m.

DAUGHERTY-Desi; Stephen Pratt/IU Wind Ensemble
Airs: 5/22 at 7 p.m., 5/23 at 10 a.m., 5/26 at 3 p.m.

FAURE-Piano Quartet No. 2 in g, Op. 45; Emile Naoumoff, p.; Federico Agostini, vln.; Yuval Gotlibovich, vla.; Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi, vlc.
Airs: 5/23 at 11 p.m.

SIBELIUS-Impromptu for String Orchestra; Paul Biss/IU University Orch.
Airs: 5/29 at 7 p.m., 5/30 at 10 a.m., 6/2 at 3 p.m.

This year Congress is considering a proposal to cut over 200 million dollars in federal support for public broadcasting.
National Public Radio, in association with PBS, has created Tell Them Public Matters, a Web site that makes it possible for listeners to share their thoughts on public broadcasting in the face of proposed budget cuts. To learn about how public broadcasting is funded or to send a message to Congress, visit tellthempublicmatters.org or visit the WFIU Web site: wfiu.indiana.edu.

From the banks of the Jordan River to the edge of the frozen Dnipro River in Ukraine and back again-WFIU public radio was carried much further than usual in late February and early March. Station Manager Christina Kuzmych and Operations Director Cary Boyce traveled to Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine to exchange information with the Ukrainian station "Radio Mix."
The trip was sponsored by IREX-the International Research & Exchanges Board, a U.S.-based nonprofit organization that promotes international education in academic research, professional training, and technical assistance. Southern Indiana experienced a similar exchange two years ago, when representatives from the Herald-Times visited a local Ukrainian newspaper in Feodosia, Ukraine.
The exchange was more than cultural. Issues such as business, technology, marketing, music programming, and journalistic practices crossed the table.
"On the surface WFIU and Radio Mix look like two different stations; one public, the other commercial," Christina Kuzmych said. "Yet aside from this initial difference, the stations have strong similarities. They are both committed to serving their audience and making a real difference in their communities."
Another similarity was the dire need for upgraded equipment. Both WFIU and Radio Mix are challenged to keep abreast of evolving technology and find money for equipment replacement. The Ukrainians however, had the edge on equipment deprivation-some of their computers had not been replaced after fire damage, but were still operating with severely melted monitors and gaping circuitry.
Now just eight years old, Radio Mix is one of two independent stations in Dnipropetrovsk. The station started with Vyacheslav Ibryayev and Dmitry Zapashchykov, who met years ago as students at university, began producing programs and a broadcast more as a hobby and an experiment. Changing times, an entrepreneurial spirit, and a love of "foreign music" led to a full broadcast station covering the Dnipropetrovsk region.
Dnipropetrovsk (formerly Yekaterinoslav) is located in the south-central part of Ukraine, on the Dnipro River. It was a closed city until the mid 1990s post-Glasnost period. The city was one of the main centers of the nuclear, arms, and space industries of the former Soviet Union, and foreigners were not allowed to enter into the area. Today it's a bustling industrial center of about 1.5 million, full of contrasts and definitely looking to the future.
Though Radio Mix devotes much time to broadcasting entertaining music, it also invests heavily in news and information. Ukraine is a nation that has been torn by political upheaval for centuries. Politics is the order of the day for the average Ukrainian. In addition, global coverage of the Orange Revolution cast the spotlight on Ukraine, and perhaps for the first time, created a mass awareness of the country as a nation, and a better understanding of its political issues. This attention raises the bar for all Ukrainian media to report on Ukrainian affairs.
"At the time of our visit, Ukrainian Parliamentary elections were coming up, with over forty candidates vying for positions," Kuzmych says. "Radio Mix had to make some hard decisions as to how to effectively cover the elections as well as the divisive issues the populace was grappling with."
Radio Mix offers what it calls "foreign music," essentially pop, and a few minutes of news each hour. As an independent commercial station, it survives solely on advertising.
"We have differences," says Kuzmych. "But our issues and challenges are similar. We both exist to serve our communities. We both need money to survive. We both need to market ourselves so people know what we offer."
New technologies are already in use at Radio Mix, and the WFIU representatives found much in common.
"Both stations are heavily vested in new digital technologies, and are monitoring listening trends carefully," says Cary Boyce. (Radio Mix streams online at www.rmix.dp.ua/live.php.) WFIU shared information about public radio, NPR, underwriting concepts, and new initiatives in public radio digital broadcasting. This represented new material for Radio Mix, and a different way of looking at the radio business model. Cary and Christina brought along CDs from Indiana University and Bloomington artists as well, to give the Ukrainian partners a feel for WFIU programming.
The rules of balanced news and information broadcasting are still evolving in Ukraine. By the time this article goes to press, the country will have run their hotly contested, often controversial parliamentary elections. Various political factions, of which there are many, pressure Ukraine's media outlets to support one or another party, or to at least ignore some volatile issues.
Ukraine media in all forms has been dictated to since the Soviet takeover in 1920, and radio has been struggling to find its voice since the dissolution of the USSR in 1991. The spirit of 31-year-old reporter, Georgy Gongadze, murdered for his reports on corruption during the Kuchma administration, still haunts the media.
"The luxury of free speech is coveted in Ukraine," says Kuzmuch, "though much has changed for the better. The Orange Revolution helped to further the separation of media from government decree."
The Ukrainian broadcasters noted that broadcast journalism in the U.S. was born of different values. Public radio in the U.S. was established in the late 1960s to provide an alternative source of news and information, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting was set up to fund the system with tax dollars. In this way, public broadcasting would find a safeguard against whatever political party might hold sway, and safely report the facts as best they could. This is a concept that intrigued the Ukrainian partners.
Communication in a foreign country can be trying. Christina, who is of Ukrainian heritage, speaks the language and had visited Ukraine before. She was able to communicate fluently with Ukrainian speaking residents, and tenuously "feel" her way through the closely related Russian. Dnipropetrovsk lies squarely in the part of Ukraine where Russian still predominates, though many people speak both languages.
Cary Boyce was proud of some early success with the Cyrillic alphabet (kindly and patiently tutored by the interpreters) and a few useful, if ill-pronounced, words. "It helps to be able to read a sign and ask for coffee," he says, "especially with seven hours of jetlag."
Christina and Cary extend their thanks to IREX and to their gracious hosts at Radio Mix for their hospitality and openness to the free exchange of ideas. WFIU foresees a long and fruitful partnership between stations and new bridges between cultures and countries. IREX is sending some Radio Mix representatives to Bloomington in July and November. WFIU will serve as the host, and will try to incorporate as many local visits for the Ukrainian team as possible.

Radio broadcasting is undergoing rapid change. One of WFIU's missions is to keep up with change, ensuring the best possible service to both our current listeners and listeners of the future.
This future takes us beyond today's broadcasting, into a world where anyone, anywhere will be able to access our programs at any time. These changes require a major investment in technology that go well beyond the resources we generate through our annual membership program that supports our daily operation.
To financially support these new initiatives, we created the WFIU Future Fund. Thoughtful gifts to the Fund have come in many forms-from direct cash gifts of support, to stock, retirement, insurance policies, and estate plans. The Future Fund Charter Donors are listed below, with WFIU's gratitude.
We welcome your participation in helping WFIU stay in the broadcasting forefront. Listeners may support the WFIU Future Fund, or any number of giving and naming opportunities beginning at $1,000 that permit individuals and businesses to become involved beyond an annual membership or underwriting gift.
To learn how you can become involved, contact Judy Witt, WFIU/WTIU Major and Planned Gifts Officer, at jwitt@indiana.edu or 812-855-2935.
We would like to express our gratitude to the 2004-2005 Future Fund Charter Donors:

Becky Cape
Fred and Sandra Churchill
Anna Marie and Matthew Dalle-Ave
Kenneth Gros Louis
Harold and Dorothy Hammel
Diane M. Hawes
Ross Jennings
Stephen and Diane Keucher
Christina Kuzmych
Bob and Allison Lendman
Jeanette Calkins Marchant
Celeste and Mike McGregor
Perry and Nancy Metz
William Murphy
John and Susan Nash
James and Barbara Randall
Frederick Risinger
Marie-Louise and David Smith
Maurice and Linda Smith
Ron and Sally Stephenson
Rex and Nancy Stockton
Mary and Joseph Walker
Lee and Judy Witt
Eva Zogorski