December 2004 Articles

SymphonyCast: Symphony of a Thousand
Sunday, December 5, 8 p.m.

SymphonyCast presents performances from the world's top orchestras and showcases significant events in the classical music world-the hails, farewells, and compelling celebrations of artistic, historic and musical significance. Hosted by Korva Coleman, the show also features the personalities and passion behind the music.
In this SymphonyCast broadcast, James Levine leads the Boston Symphony Orchestra in his first concert as new music director. For his inaugural concert, Levine leads Mahler's rarely performed Symphony No. 8, "Symphony of a Thousand," a monumental work combining the forces of the Boston Symphony, the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, the American Boy choir, and a cast of internationally renowned vocal soloists-over 325 performers in all. With this concert, Mr. Levine becomes the first American-born music director-and just the 14th music director overall-in the BSO's 124-year history.

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Apollo's Fire: Bach's Christmas Oratorio
Sunday, December 12, 8 p.m.

The Cleveland baroque orchestra Apollo's Fire performs a program of the first three cantatas of Bach's glorious testament of faith in a journey from the stable to the shepherds in the field and back again.
Apollo's Fire is dedicated to the performance of 17th and 18th century music on the period instruments for which it was written. The ensemble unites a select pool of renowned early music specialists from North America and Europe.
The angels in the field spoke to the shepherds in their own language and Bach wrote his cantatas in German with his fellow parishioners in mind. Following the same spirit, Apollo's Fire delivers this magnificent gem to us in our own language: a sensitive translation to English that is meant to give the Christmas story the same immediacy that Bach intended for his fellow men.
Led by charismatic music director Jeannette Sorrell, renowned soloists Jolle Greenleaf (soprano), Rosemarie van der Hooft (mezzo-soprano), Rufus Müller (tenor), and Jeffrey Strauss (baritone) shine with the Apollo's Fire musicians and Apollo's Singers. Robert Conrad, longtime voice of the Cleveland Orchestra, is your host for this rendering of Bach's timeless masterpiece.

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Music of the Baroque Christmas Special
Sunday, December 19, 8 p.m.

Music of the Baroque offers its annual presentation of the Brass and Choral Holiday Concert.
Brass instruments have long been associated with ceremony and celebration. Ubiquitous in Renaissance court pageantry, their connection to royalty and wealth lent an air of respectability to any occasion. In the early modern period, courts and churches capitalized upon the exalted status of brass instruments, flaunting their virtuoso players and cutting-edge repertoire in order to enhance their reputations.
Join Chorus Director Edward Zelnis and conductor Jane Glover as they guide you through music of the 16th and 17th centuries with composers such as Giovanni Gabrieli, Heinrich Schütz, Francisco Guerrero, Henry Purcell and Benjamin Britten, among others.
Diverse in nationality, temporality and musical style, the pieces in this program tell stories that are nonetheless similar in their message. Many are related to the Christmas narrative, shedding light on different facets of the tale, while others offer a timely reminder that the wonder and awe the season inspires can last the entire year. Although the Christian celebration of the birth of Jesus is the dominant theme, it isn't the only one at work in this program. Different nationalities, perspectives and styles are reconciled through the power of music, and glorious harmony is the result. What better way to celebrate the holiday season? Peter Van De Graaff is your host.

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Choral Arts Society: Christmas from Washington
Sunday, December 26, 8 p.m.

Host Martin Goldsmith and The Choral Arts Society of Washington, D.C. invite you to join them as they present the sixth in a series of holiday specials.
Christmas From Washington features a rich array of traditional carols and holiday favorites from a wide variety of nations in as many contrasting styles. The Choral
Arts Society performs with members of the National Symphony Orchestra, soprano Ying Huang, the Carol Ringers of Washington's St. Matthew's United Methodist Church, and organist William Neil.
The program consists of excerpts from Handel's Messiah, in the rarely heard version Mozart prepared for a 1789 performance in Vienna, What Sweeter Music by John Rutter, Psallite by John Pickard, the Rachmaninoff Vocalise sung by Ms. Huang, as well as music from Belgium, including O Magnum Mysterium by Adrian Willaert and seasonal favorites from the Low Countries.
Music director and conductor Norman Scribner introduces some of his personal Christmas favorites that have been recorded by The Choral Arts Society over the years. In a heart-warming finale, the radio audience will be invited to join the chorus, orchestra and organ, as well as the Kennedy Center audience in the singing of familiar carols. This program was recorded live at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

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Compact Discoveries
with Fred Flaxman

Movie Concertos
Sunday, December 5, 4 p.m.

Fred Flaxman presents the most famous of the mini piano concertos written
especially for the movies, mostly in the 1940s: Richard Addinsell's Warsaw
Concerto, the Cornish Rhapsody by Hubert Bath, the Swedish Rhapsody by Charles Wildman, Miklos Rozsa's Spellbound Concerto, George Gershwin's New York Rhapsody, and others. The Cuban-American pianist Santiago Rodriguez performs with the Fairfax Symphony Orchestra conducted by William Hudson.

Music for Hanukkah?
Sunday, December 12, 4 p.m.

What is appropriate music for Hanukkah? Host Fred Flaxman chooses Ravel's Chanson hébraïque; "This Land is Mine" from the movie Exodus; the "Finale" from Live in the Fiddler's House, with Itzhak Perlman as the violinist; harpist Rachel Van Voorhees playing My Little Dreydl, Candles Burning, Hanukkah, and Rock of Ages; Krein's Esquisses hébraïque; Levenson's Two Jewish Folk Songs; and klezmer music by Klezamir.

Vocalise Variations
Sunday, December 19, 4 p.m.

Fred Flaxman presents vocal, instrumental, choral and orchestral transcriptions of one of Rachmaninov's most beautiful melodies.

Christmas Music for Those Who are Sick and Tired of Christmas Music
Sunday, December 26, 4 p.m.

Featured is the Santa Claus Symphony by William Henry Fry, the first native-
born American to compose for large symphonic forces. Tony Rowe conducts the Royal Scottish National Orchestra in this world-premiere recording.

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December Community Events

A Holiday Celebration
Terre Haute Symphony Orchestra
Saturday, December 4, 7:30 p.m.
Tilson Auditorium
Terre Haute

A Terre Haute tradition, the annual holiday concert is the perfect way to kick off your holiday festivities.

Home for the Holidays
Columbus Indiana Philharmonic
Sunday, December 5 at 3 and 7 p.m.
Columbus North High School, Erne Auditorium

Cam Collins comes home to play a little saxophone jazz. The Columbus Indiana Children's Choir and the Columbus Philharmonic Chorus add their distinctive sounds to this annual holiday tradition.

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Around the Station: Highlights from 2004

Herewith, a random roundup of some interesting events that took place at the station in 2004.

Hill House Retreat
In May, Laura Pinhey won the WFIU Arts Weeks 2004 Poetry & Prose Contest for her short story "Flight." Her prize was a weekend retreat at Hill House. Upon her return, she sent us this letter:

Thank you for the complimentary stay at Hill House Arts Retreat. My husband (a painter and sculptor) and I spent Memorial Day weekend there. Our visit was artistically productive and satisfying as well as relaxing. Laura Heffers Bybee has created at Hill House a warm, homey, peaceful space that allows for a genuine retreat from the outside world and into the internal one that artists must inhabit in order to work. I cannot imagine a better prize than that.

Sincerely,
Laura Pinhey

Teacher Gets a Lesson in Radio News

Bloomington High School South teacher Kathleen Mills spent a week watching members of the WFIU news team to learn how radio news is created. It was part of a project of Indiana Workforce Development in which teachers from around the state go to businesses to acquire knowledge that they can bring back to their classroom.
Mills, who teaches classes in print and broadcast journalism and is advisor for the high school newspaper, The Optimist, got a first-hand look at how radio news is gathered and written during her week at WFIU.
"I've learned that in radio journalism it's important to be flexible," Mills said. "Will and Chad [WFIU's news director and assistant news director] could be doing a story and it could fall through, so you've got to juggle a lot of things at once."
The project included a grant to buy minidisk recorders for Mills' students so they could produce radio reports. The equipment was new to them.
"Students must learn about technology to get a job," she said. "Even for those who don't go on to become professional journalists, the skills of writing and editing transfer to other careers."

Beatles Fan Recalls Her Beatlemania

Leslie Barratt, who listens to WFIU in Terre Haute, wrote to us in July to tell us how an issue of Directions in Sound brought back a memory of being a Beatles fan in the 'sixties.
"Having grown up outside of New York City, where I attended many, many concerts and most of the major cultural events of the 1960s (including Woodstock, the Beatles' arrival, the first Jefferson Airplane concert, the demonstrations and Central Park sit-ins, etc.), I naturally look for my face and those of my friends. I rarely find them given the many thousands of people at those vents, but it is still nice to remember them."
To note the broadcast of the documentary The Beatles in America-1964 in July, we printed a photo of a crowd of Beatles fans in front of the Plaza hotel in New York, where the Beatles were scheduled to check in.
The photo, taken by the photojournalist Popsie, showed the 14-year-old Barratt-or rather, part of her.
"You missed my face by one head," Barratt wrote. You caught my arm in the Popsie photo but not my face."
The crowd waited for hours, Barratt recalls. "We were looking up at the window of the rooms where we thought they were, and every time a curtain wiggled, everyone screamed. It was very exciting.
"Some of us got into a phone booth and tried to call their room. Of course, all we got was the hotel clerk." After waiting for hours, the crowd finally learned that the Fab Four had already moved into the hotel-through a back door.
Barratt, who is now a professor of linguistics at Indiana State University, wasn't totally lost to photographic history. Her daughter discovered a photo in a book that showed a wider view of the same scene. It shows Barratt as teenager, watching eagerly from behind a police barricade. The professor sent us a copy of the photo, on which she drew red circles around her face and that of her friend Margie Nestler, who stands behind her.
"I still like the Beatles," Barratt says. "Their music, mostly their later songs, are very poetic. They make you think. And it's interesting to me that my kids like the Beatles too."

News Team Rallies on Election Night

This year the WFIU news department gave listeners greatly expanded election night coverage.
"For the first time, we assigned reporters to each of WFIU's primary service communities: Bloomington, Terre Haute, Columbus and Kokomo," said News Director Will Murphy. "We also had a reporter calling Brown County for results."
Reporters Nicole Beemsterboer and Steve Hofmann interviewed gubernatorial candidates, Kim Huston covered a special forum on election issues of interest to the Latino and Hispanic communities, and Caitlin Boyle providing in-depth reports on environmental issues. Scott Weybright traveled to Terre Haute on a moment's notice to cover a campaign appearance by U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert.
"The breadth and diversity of local and state coverage was due to their hard work," Murphy said. WFIU's Web site expanded its coverage this year as well, featuring profiles and interviews of county candidates in Vigo, Bartholomew, Howard, and Monroe Counties.
On election night itself, the news team covered all the bases of information-Assistant News director Chad Bouchard was at the Monroe County clerk's office for the latest returns; Nicole Beemsterboer interviewed office-seekers at the Monroe County Library, while Steve Hofmann hunted candidates at other post-election venues. Brad Coffman monitored congressional and state legislative races.
"We had to do a lot of multitasking," Will Murphy added. "Monitoring Web sites and TV coverage, candidates' announcements; editing Network Indiana reports; and writing copy under tight deadline pressures. It was a lot to ask of a half-dozen people, but it wouldn't have been possible without the fine efforts of these IU students."

Students Learn the Music Business at WFIU

In August pianist and teacher Monika Herzig brought her IU music business class to WFIU to observe the workings of a non-commercial radio station. Her students came from various programs such as marketing, business, audio technology, and journalism.
The class covers such topics as publishing and licensing musical works. Each semester the class produces, plans, and markets a concert from scratch. The students find sponsors, technical and hospitality people, and they secure a venue.
Business major Rinata Prayogo, was in charge of fundraising, called the course "really practical."
This semester the students produced a free music festival called "Fun Fest @ 7." There were no festivals one through six, but "We wanted to make it sound like a reliable yearly event," said one student.

Herbie Hancock Visits WFIU

Jazz great Herbie Hancock stopped by WFIU in April to appear live on Joe Bourne's afternoon jazz program Just You and Me before he gave a concert at the IU Auditorium.
"I talked about the fact of him having somewhat separate careers," Joe said, "as composer and leader of his own historic dates on Blue Note in the 'sixties, as a member of the Miles Davis remarkable quintet a few years later, as leader of his own popular fusion band of the 'seventies and 'eighties, and as leader of his current acoustic band, which he brought with him to Bloomington." The high-energy musician "didn't look like a man about to celebrate his 64th birthday," Joe observed.
During the concert, Hancock told the audience about Joe and the interview: "That guy seemed to know more about my career than I did."
"The concert was outstanding," Joe said. "Though he did, sure enough, have to succumb to repeated requests for "Eye of the Hurricane," a well known all-electric number, which he played incredibly well at the acoustic piano. The audience loved it, and everything else he did that night. A successful concert, and a very special visit to Just You & Me."

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Joe Lands a Big One

Afternoon jazzman Joe Bourne knew he had to wear a tie to WFIU's 2004 Listeners' Reception at the IU Art Museum in October. But Joe-who's a casual dresser-didn't know what tie to wear. So he put it to his listeners for a vote.
They had three choices: A fish tie, a paisley model, and one that sported stripes, which, Joe confessed, "Was the one I liked best."
When the ballots were counted, the fish tie emerged as the clear winner. Was the selection process worth the effort?
"All night people have been coming up to me saying, 'Hey Joe, nice tie!'" Joe said during the reception, which was attended by some 400 people. "I just wanted to be noticed. Maybe this will start a tradition."

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Met Opera Returns

Broadcasts of the 2004-05 Metropolitan Opera broadcast season begin this month on WFIU. Highlights of the 20-opera live series include the network premiere of Handel's Rodelinda, and new Met productions of Die Zauberflöte and Faust. Operas returning to the air after several years absence include I Vespri Siciliani, Tannhäuser, Samson et Dalila, and La Clemenza di Tito. In addition to the twenty live broadcasts, two complete operas from the Met's broadcast archives will be aired in mid-January: Les Contes D'Hoffmann and Aida.
Margaret Juntwait is the new announcer for the broadcasts. Ms. Juntwait is only the third regular announcer of the long-standing broadcast series, launched in 1931, and is the first woman to hold the position.
"I am honored to become the announcer for what is probably the most revered live classical radio show in the world," Juntwait said recently. "I simply can't imagine a better focus for my love of opera and live performance."
The Metropolitan Opera's Saturday Afternoon Radio Broadcasts is the longest-running cultural program in American broadcast history, and is heard by over ten million listeners internationally.
Hear it on WFIU Saturdays at 1:30 p.m.

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Musical Highlights for December
by Robert Lumpkin, Music Director

Music for the Holidays
We're coming up on that merry time of year again, with its inexhaustible treasure of music. For Hanukkah, Leonard Bernstein's Chichester Psalms airs Wednesday December 8 at 10:12 p.m. Featured Christmas fare is also scheduled for Wednesday nights at 10:12. The music includes three "oratorios" by composers from three different European countries. From France, Camille Saint-Saëns' Oratorio de Noël airs December 15th. From England, we'll hear Hodie by Ralph Vaughan Williams on the 22nd. And from Italy, Ottorino Respighi's Lauda per la Nativitá del Signore airs December 29th.

Artist of the Month
Our Artist of the Month for December is clarinetist Eli Eban. The maestro was invited by Zubin Mehta to join the Israel Philharmonic and has performed with such conductors as Bernstein, Mehta, Solti, Barenboim and others. Eli Eban has appeared as soloist with the Israel Philharmonic, the English Chamber Orchestra, the Camerata Academica of the Salzburg Mozarteum and the City of London Sinfonia. In addition to his work as an educator, Eli Eban is an active performer today as a soloist and in chamber music and is one of the founding members of Trio Indiana.
Join us on Thursday, December 9 at 7:07 p.m. to hear Eli Eban and pianist Melinda Coffey in Brahms' Clarinet Sonata in E-flat, Op.l20, No. 2. He's joined by Violist Atar Arad and pianist Evelyne Brancart on Wednesday the 15th at 7:07 p.m. in the Clarinet Trio in E-flat, K. 498 by Mozart. Pianist Emile Naoumoff joins Eli Eban in Poulenc's Clarinet Sonata on Monday, December 20 at 7 :07 p.m. And at the same time a week later we'll hear more Brahms. Cellist Marcel Bergman and pianist Alexander Volkov join our clarinetist in the Clarinet Trio in a, Op, 114.

New Releases
Our featured new releases for December include music from the late romantic era and the early 20th century. On Thursday, December 9 at 7:07 p.m., soprano Felicity Lott joins Steuart Bedford conducting the English Chamber Orchestra in a recent Naxos release of Benjamin Britten's song cycle, Les Illuminations, Op. 18. On Wednesday the 12th at 10:12 p.m., we have Hilary Hahn's newest release on Deutsche Grammophon. She plays Elgar's Violin Concerto in b, Op. 61 joined by the London Symphony Orchestra led by Colin Davis.
Pianist Jon Nakamatsu, a Van Cliburn International Piano Competition Grand Prize Winner, comes your way with his new recording of music of Johannes Brahms on harmonia mundi. He plays the Piano Sonata No. 3 in f, Op. 5 on Thursday the 23rd at 7:07 p.m. And the new ensemble, Triple Helix Piano Trio, has a new release on MSR Classics of Ravel's Piano Trio in a, and you can tune in for that performance Wednesday, December 29 at 10:12 p.m.

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Profiles

December 5 - Sallyann Murphey
Sallyann Murphey began her career at age 23 as the then-youngest producer in the British Broadcasting Corporation. She went on to produce the current events program The World At One and later established the American news operation for Good Morning Britain. She has also worked as an investigative journalist for a number of publications. In her first of four books, "Bean Blossom Dreams: A City Family's Search for a Simple Country Life," Murphey wrote about her experiences moving to Indiana. She teaches history, government and media studies at Harmony High School in Bloomington, where she is a leader for their First Amendment program. This hour-long interview is hosted by Shana Ritter. (repeat)

December 12 - Billy Collins
With seven collections of poetry and exceptional popularity with critics and the public alike, former Poet Laureate of the United States Billy Collins is a unique literary figure. He has a wide and appreciative readership: His last three collections-"Nine Horses," "Sailing Alone Around the Room," and "Picnic, Lightning"-broke records for poetry sales. Proving that poetry is still a significant force in the modern day, Collins has also published the anthology "Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry," which was inspired by the poet's national poem-a-day program with the Library of Congress. From KQED City Arts & Lectures.

December 19 - Nicholson Baker
Nicholson Baker is known for his complex and idiosyncratic novels such as "Vox" which depicts an imaginative phone sex marathon, and "The Fermata," the tale of an office worker who can stop time and uses his powers to undress women. His first novel, "The Mezzanine," takes place on an escalator, and "U and I" is an essay describing the author's obsessive admiration for John Updike. Baker won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction for "Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper," a controversial look at the death of the library card catalog. Co-Hosted by Gary Reaves and Randy Gordon for The Writer's Studio.

December 26 - E. L. Doctorow (tentative depending on seasonal specials scheduling)
E.L. Doctorow is a master at blending fact and fiction in his novels. His work explores American mythology, revealing that historical memory is often as fabricated as fiction. A common backdrop for his novels is the splendor and chaos of 19th and 20th century New York life, through which he addresses history, politics and human emotion. "Ragtime" is a powerful recreation of America's past and stands as Doctorow's most widely read work. Other works include "Billy Bathgate," "City of God," and his most recent collection "Sweet Land Stories." He spoke with Michael Krasny for KQED's City Arts & Lectures.

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The Radio Reader
with Dick Estell

"Between a Rock and a Hard Place"
by Aron Ralston
Begins: Monday, December 27

Aron Ralston's searing account of his six days trapped in one of the most remote spots in America, and how one inspired act of bravery brought him home, is one of the most extraordinary survival stories ever told.
It started out as a simple hike in the Utah canyon lands on a warm Saturday afternoon. For Aron Ralston, a twenty-seven-year-old mountaineer and outdoorsman, a walk into the remote Blue John Canyon was a chance to get a break from a winter of solo climbing Colorado's highest and toughest peaks. He'd earned this weekend vacation and though he met two charming women along the way, by early afternoon he finally found himself in his element: alone, with just the beauty of the natural world all around him.
In a deep and narrow slot canyon, Aron was climbing down off a wedged boulder when the rock suddenly, and terrifyingly, came loose. Before he could get out of the way, the falling stone pinned his right hand and wrist against the canyon wall. And so began six days of hell for Aron Ralston. What does one do in the face of almost certain death? Aron was forced to commit the most extreme act imaginable to save himself.

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Broadcasts from the IU School of Music

KREISLER-Liebesleid & Liebesfreud; Emilio Colón/Indiana Cello Ens.
Airs 12/6 at 7 p.m., 12/7 at 10 a.m., 12/10 at 3 p.m.

STRAUSS, R.-Eine Alpensinfonie [An Alpine Symphony], Op. 64; Thomas Baldner/IU Phil. Orch.
Airs 12/8/04 at 11 p.m.

SCHMELZER-SONATAE UNARUM FIDIUM: Sonata VI; Stanley Ritchie, vln.; Nigel North, theorbo
Airs 12/13 at 7 p.m., 12/14 at 10 a.m., 12/17 at 3 p.m.

CASSADÓ-Sérénade and Fandanguillo; Emilio Colón/Indiana Cello Ens.
Airs 12/20 at 7 p.m., 12/21 at 10 a.m., 12/24 at 3 p.m.

FARINA-Sonata detta la desperata; Stanley Ritchie, vln.; Nigel North, theorbo
Airs 12/27 at 7 p.m., 12/28 at 10 a.m., 12/31 at 3 p.m.

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New Terry Gross Book: "All I Did Was Ask"

She's one of public radio's most revered hosts, an intelligent and provocative voice that more than four million people tune to and count on each week. And to think Terry Gross almost didn't find her way behind the microphone.
"I always liked to read, and early in my life, my ambition was to be a writer," said Gross, host of NPR's Fresh Air, heard weekdays on WFIU. "And then when I got to college I realized I didn't have my own stories I wanted to tell. When I found radio, it was a way of combining reading, telling stories and learning-the whole world was filled with stories waiting to be told."
Now, nearly 30 years after Gross began posing challenging questions to actors, authors, musicians and politicians on Fresh Air, she has written a book: All I Did Was Ask-a collection of 40 interviews with people in the arts from the Fresh Air archive. NPR's Anna Christopher used the occasion to ask Gross to reflect on her career as an interviewer.

Q: You cover the arts and politics on Fresh Air. Can you talk about your favorite aspects of both types of interviews?

A: I have different styles for both. For the political interviews, I try to be fair. Objective is a difficult word because I think we all have our opinions, but the goal is to not drag them into the interview. And I try to be as fair as possible. That doesn't mean I don't ask challenging questions. I think that's what part of being fair is: asking questions of power. I try to be as cool and detached as possible in the political interviews.
But in the arts, I think the arts are pointless unless you're passionate about them. Unless you really engage, unless you love music, unless you really enjoy movies, unless you really like reading, what's the point?

Q: Is there any person who you have a desire to interview and for whatever reason have not been able to do it?

A: If I could go back and revive the dead, I would do a series at the piano with some of the great America songwriters: Irving Berlin, the Gershwins, Harold Arlen, Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn. They'd be at the piano, and they'd be performing throughout the interview.

Q: After doing thousands of interviews, how are you still curious?

A: If you're talking about things that you love, you're going to be curious about it. And likewise about the world. When we have soldiers in Iraq, how can you not care about that? How can you not care about our health insurance policies? That's the greatest blessing of the work: it encompasses the most interesting things in the world.

Q: Typically, the guests you interview on Fresh Air are not with you in the studio at WHYY. How do you maintain that level of intimacy in your interviews without having eye contact?

A: There's something that's very comfortable about the long distance interview, because I never feel like I'm invading their space. We're all so used to talking on the telephone with people, so if you look at it that way, it's not that big a deal. The assumption is always that if you're in the same room, it's going to add to the magical chemistry between you. The truth is, sometimes when you're in the same room it adds to the distance between you because sometimes you can just see that you're not going to work together. Without that cue, there's more open-mindedness on both sides.

Q: When you're asking someone about religion or sexuality or drug habits, how do you work up the nerve? Is that still challenging?

A: It's not as hard as it was, but it is still challenging. I always try to be aware of the fact that I'm not talking to an "interviewee," I'm talking to a person with a life and maybe with a spouse and children and close friends and parents, and they want to protect those people in their life from anything that's going to hurt them.

Q: Given these tough questions that you often ask, how do you think that people respond when they find out that you describe yourself as shy?

A: I'm different off the air than I am on the air. As a professional interviewer, I'm not shy-I can ask anything. But when I'm on my own, no microphone, out in the world, that's where I'm much more shy and self-conscious and basically uncomfortable. And in terms of courage to ask questions, that's the only place that I'm really courageous. In terms of the physical world, I'm an incredible coward.

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Together, We Did It!

Fund Drive 2004 was a great success. We met and surpassed this year's goal of $280,000. We couldn't have done it without help from volunteers, local businesses-and of course-all of you who made your pledge.
Next month in Directions in Sound we'll present a complete list of the volunteers who made it possible to reach our goal. Until then, pat yourself on the back for a job well done!

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