May 2004 Articles
Lest We Forget
Sunday, May 30 at 8:00 p.m.
World War II forced America to grow up quickly. Fresh-faced young
men left home for the first time and witnessed events they would
never forget. Join former senator and honored war veteran Max Cleland
for Lest We Forget, an hour of personal memoirs told by World War
II veterans-individuals who sacrificed their youth, lost their innocence
and survived unimaginable hardships.
When pilot Lawrence Kubale Sr.'s glider went down in northern France,
he landed in the middle of 1,500 German soldiers. The ground was
littered with dead and wounded American paratroopers. "Some
were in the trees," Kubale remembers, "they had gas poured
on them and were set on fire." When University of Illinois
student Charles McGee heard about an experiment spearheaded by Eleanor
Roosevelt to train black men as pilots, he signed up. McGee earned
his wings and became one of America's first black military airmen.
Known as the Tuskegee Airmen, they were highly skilled at escorting
bombers to safety, and theirs are among the war's most successful
missions.
World War II also produced innumerable acts of courage, strength
and honor-and heightened expressions of love. "I'll always
love you. Distance changes nothing that's been real, darling. It
shatters illusions and ridicules preconceived ideas, but the real,
the sound, it leaves untouched . . . ." During his time in
Europe following the invasion of Utah Beach, Tracy Sugarman wrote
270 sensual and poetic letters to his wife. Her responses kept the
dismal effects of war from being his last thoughts of those nightmarish
days.
Lest We Forget reveals the experiences and raw feelings that veterans
remember from diverse theaters of war as they crossed distant boundaries
and encountered foreign cultures. Join us in honoring their service
and their memories.
A Nation Honors its Veterans
The broadcast of Lest We Forget coincides with the long-anticipated
dedication of the World War II Memorial on Saturday, May 29, in
Washington, DC. Four days of ceremonies, activities, a national
reunion and special guest appearances honoring our World War II
veterans will take place on the National Mall.
The events will collectively honor the sixteen million who served
in the U.S. armed forces, the more than 400,000 who died, and the
millions who supported the war effort from home. Listen to NPR news
during the May 29th weekend for coverage of the ceremonies.
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Rosalyn Tureck: A Tribute in
Words & Music
Sunday, April 2, 8:00 p.m.
On the evening of July 17, 2003, music lovers, students, faculty,
staff and press gathered in the main recital hall at the Mannes
College of Music for a multi-media tribute to Rosalyn Tureck. The
event was part of the 5th Annual International Keyboard Institute
& Festival presented by the distinguished American pianist Jerome
Rose. At the very moment this moving tribute came to a close in
Manhattan, Rosalyn Tureck passed away in the Riverdale section of
the Bronx, New York. She was 88 years old.
This two-hour special program features portions of the tribute concert
at Mannes College, including: comments from David Dubal, guitarist
Sharon Isbin, Ms. Tureck's Rabbi, David Posner and performances
from some of her former students, including Golda Vainberg-Tatz,
Yuan Sheng, and Jung Lin.
There will also be commentaries from several other pianists including
Earl Wild, Abbey Simon and Jerome Rose. And of course, there will
be music from Tureck's extensive discography.
The program examines Tureck's remarkable life and career-from her
modest beginnings as a child in Chicago to her triumphs in New York
and around the world. Join hosts Kerry Frumkin and producer Mark
Travis for this special event celebrating the life and music of
a woman known to many as the "High Priestess of Bach."
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BBC's The Changing World
Holy Wars
May 2, 4:00 p.m.
Mark Duff investigates the extent to which religion is at the root
of armed struggle in the world, and asks whether religiously motivated
conflicts are different from other forms of war.
Is there justification for describing current tensions between Islam
and Christianity as "holy war," and have the terms "jihad"
and "crusade" been corrupted by those looking to define
the world in terms of a clash of civilizations? To answer these
questions, Duff travels to the United States, Pakistan, Israel,
and Sudan, and describes how people with passionately held religious
beliefs justify violence.
Holy Wars considers whether there can ever be an end to religious
conflict when those who fight feel they are blessed by the god they
revere.
Reconciliation: Pt. 1 - South Africa
May 9, 4:00 p.m.
Reconciliation: Pt. 2 - Rwanda
May 16, 4:00 p.m.
In 1994, Fergal Keane covered the historic elections in South Africa
and the horrific genocide in Rwanda. In Reconciliation, he returns
to these nations to see how far each has come.
The 1994 election victory of the African National Congress embodied
the promise of a new South Africa, and Keane documented the optimism
of the nation's leadership and its citizenry. But many South African
blacks complain that, in effect, apartheid still exists. At the
same time, many whites feel that they're now discriminated against
in the competition for education and jobs. So how far has South
Africa moved from its painful past, and how ready is it for true
reconciliation and rebuilding?
The program also looks at justice. Some of the people who led the
genocide in Rwanda in 1994 have been arrested and tried, and many
communities have attempted their own process of reconciliation.
But many of the perpetrators of the slaughter have escaped retribution.
Keane tracks down several of the people he met a decade ago to learn
how they have fared. His award-winning 1994 coverage included his
confronting the former mayor of Rusomo, Sylvestre Gacumbitsi, about
his role in the killings. This particular story has come full circle-in
July 2003, Keane testified in the Gacumbitsi trial, part of U.N.'s
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.
The Age of Empire, Pt. 1
May 23, 4:00 p.m.
The Age of Empire, Pt. 2
May 30, 4:00 p.m.
Is the United States really the most successful power in history?
Is it misusing some of its power, and should it more skillfully
adapt its message and methods to preserve its influence in years
to come?
Jonathan Marcus presents Age of Empire, a three-part series that
looks in depth at the United States' pivotal role in world affairs
and asks why and how the U.S. has arrived at this position of global
dominance.
The U.S. provokes strong emotions. How do ordinary Americans see
the world and how do other people see America? How are the apparent
contradictions and paradoxes to be explained? Is Washington's influence
fated to decline just as all previous major "empires"
have seen their powers wane? And if so, what other power centers
might step into the breach?
Marcus talks to influential figures in American society, ordinary
citizens of the U.S., and a cross-section of the global public to
gauge what makes America's role so controversial and how America's
foreign policy might change to encompass some of the concerns of
its critics both at home and abroad.
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Creators at Carnegie: John Adams
Sunday, May 9, 8:00 p.m.
Hosted by NPR's Fred Child, Creators at Carnegie takes you to Zankel
Hall-Carnegie Hall's brand-new "third stage" underground
performance space-for the music of John Adams.
Beginning with highlights from the inaugural Zankel Hall concert
on September 12, 2003, which Adams programmed and conducted, the
show includes a sampling of the Pulitzer Prize-winning composer's
works and an interview with him about the creative process.
Conducting young musicians handpicked for the concert, Adams inaugurated
Carnegie Hall's newest performance space with music by some of his
favorite composers: Charles Ives, Lou Harrison, Thomas Adès
and Esa-Pekka Salonen. That evening's concert was the first of eight
that Adams curated, using his broad musical taste as his guide.
Adams said, "I regularly go to concerts, and more than fifty
percent of the time I can be found in a club or alternative performance
space rather than at an opera or a symphony."
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American Radioworks: Thurgood
Marshall Before the Court
Sunday, May 16, 8:00 p.m.
Thurgood Marshall is best known as the first African-American appointed
to United States Supreme Court. Marshall may also be known to many
as the lead attorney in the landmark school desegregation case,
Brown v. Board of Education. Yet many Americans are unfamiliar with
the full scope of Marshall's thirty-year career before the courts,
which struck at the legal framework of segregation, and established
the foundation for modern civil rights law. In the 1940s and 1950s,
Marshall was one of the most recognized black leaders in the country,
often called "Mr. Civil Rights."
This documentary highlights the contributions made by Marshall,
his legal partners and by the courageous African-Americans across
the South who risked their jobs and safety to press their grievances
in local courts.
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A Sense of Place
Join us for producer Helen Borten's documentary series about the
connections between people and places in America. Each program presents
true stories as compelling as fiction, with unforgettable characters
and subject matter as fresh and provocative as the day's news.
Mme. Blavatsky and the Colonel
Sunday, May 16, 9:00 p.m.
This program profiles the historical personage most responsible
for America's one-hundred-year long love affair with spiritualism-Madame
Blavatsky. Bizarre, brilliant and larger than life, the Madame's
own words bring this dramatic story to life. Her modern-day counterparts
live in Lily Dale-a village in upstate New York reminiscent of Brigadoon.
Join us for a journey though time that is as strange as any piece
of fiction.
Strip Club, USA
Sunday, May 23, 9:00 p.m.
Get ready for a no-holds-barred look at the strip club scene through
the eyes of strippers, patrons, bouncers and a sociologist. What
draws them to America's thriving sex industry? Who are they? This
fly-on-the-wall documentary takes you to clubs in suburban Detroit,
Los Angeles and New York City. The voices you'll hear are riveting,
surprising and likely to challenge assumptions and stereotypes.
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Hank Williams-Still Cookin'
Sunday, May 23, 8:00 p.m.
Hank Williams-Still Cookin' examines the life of the man beneath
the white cowboy hat and follows his transformation from balladeer
to American icon.
Hank Williams was one of country music's first great icons, and
by age 25, he had become a superstar. Unfortunately, his troubled
life would end just four years later. But in those four years he
racked up dozens of hit songs, and profoundly influenced the history
of country and popular music, setting a standard for performers
who followed through his direct, emotional lyrics and vocals.
Hank Williams-Still Cookin' traces Williams' career from the recording
of his first hit song in 1948 through his ill-fated drive (by powder
blue Cadillac) from Montgomery, Alabama, to a 1953 New Year's Day
concert date in Canton, Ohio. The program invites listeners along
for Williams' final journey, as recalled through the memories of
his driver, Charles Carr, the last person to see the singer alive.
The documentary interweaves recollections of this last road trip
with anecdotes from Williams' life and career-from his musical beginnings
and meteoric rise on the country scene, to the subsequent personal
struggles that ultimately contributed to his death. The program
also considers Williams' influence on generations of musicians and
musical styles through the present day.
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Humankind: Character Education
Sunday, May 30, 9:00 p.m.
In the first half-hour of this program, we hear from students and
staff at a Maryland high school that has been cited as a national
model of a public school "character education" program
presented on a non-sectarian basis. The second half-hour features
a roundtable of mothers and children discussing why they feel that
programs emphasizing community service and tolerance of diversity
add a needed dimension to education.
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NPR's Bob Edwards Takes on New
Assignment
To listeners of Morning Edition, the sonorous voice of host Bob
Edwards intoning It's nineteen minutes past the hour was a part
of their morning for twenty-five years.
At the end of April, the thirty-year NPR veteran who has been praised
by his peers for "creating a standard for the industry"
will step down as Morning Edition host and take on a new assignment
as senior correspondent for NPR News. In this new position, Edwards
will be expanding his news reporting presence in NPR News programs,
including Morning Edition. Steve Inskeep and Renee Montagne will
serve as interim hosts pending selection of Edwards' successor.
Edwards joined NPR in 1974 when the organization was in it third
year. He was a newscaster and later co-host of All Things Considered
before moving to Morning Edition as its host upon its debut. Edwards
is the recipient of many awards, including the prestigious George
Foster Peabody Award for his hosting duties at Morning Edition.
The Peabody committee described Edwards as "a man who embodies
the essence of excellence in radio."
During his quarter-century at the helm of Morning Edition, Edwards
has conducted an estimated 20,000 interviews with artists, statesmen,
politicians, celebrities, musicians and sports legends.
Beginning in May, NPR's Steve Inskeep will co-host the program from
Washington, DC, and NPR's Renee Montagne will share hosting duties
from the NPR West studios in Culver City.
A Letter from Bob:
Dear Listener,
I am delighted that NPR and I have agreed on all of the details
of my new duties as a senior correspondent. My new role will allow
me to continue serving NPR listeners and will include profiling
interesting and noteworthy people from all walks of life.
I plan to be here at NPR for the long haul. I am leaving a post
that I have loved and have given my heart to. I now look forward
to the new challenges ahead of me and will continue to be a significant
part of NPR and the amazing program lineup.
Morning Edition will continue to be my first source for news. I
encourage all of its listeners to stay with the program. It will
continue to bring them the most in-depth and thoughtful journalism
in broadcasting. I hope you continue to listen and support your
public radio station.
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Tom & Ray and WFIU Want
Your Old Clunker
WFIU and Car Talk have joined up with a new charity donation organization-Vehicle
Donations for Any Charity. V-DAC accepts any condition vehicle and
will take care of the entire processing for you. All the net proceeds
from your vehicle will be returned to WFIU to be used for programming
and operations. Best of all, the value of your vehicle is tax deductible!
More information about this program, as well as a donation worksheet,
can be obtained by calling WFIU at (812) 855-1357, or through the
link on our Web site: wfiu.indiana.edu.
Facts About Vehicle Donation
" It's easy! After you call the toll-free number or link through
our web site, all that needs to be done is to send in a little paperwork.
The service will call ahead and pick up your vehicle within a week,
at your convenience.
" It's tax deductible! You are entitled to an itemized tax
deduction of the fair market value of your vehicle. This is the
full retail value less the cost of any repairs. You are responsible
for estimating your vehicle's value, but assistance is available
through the Kelley Blue Book web site at: www.kbb.com.
" It's often a better deal! Your car can be worth more to you
as a donation than as a trade-in to a dealer. Just compare what
a dealer offers against the value of your tax deduction, and you'll
see why a donation may be a better deal. Plus WFIU will receive
the net proceeds to put towards programming!
" You can donate anything! Cars, truck, airplanes, boats-any
type of vehicle is accepted. There are different appraisal rules
for different vehicles so make sure you check IRS publication 526
and consult with your tax advisor or attorney.
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Join WFIU for a Christmas Tour
of Mozart's Musical Cities
WFIU is offering listeners a unique travel opportunity-a guided
journey of Mozart's old stomping grounds at the time of year when
they are at their most beautiful.
Travel with WFIU to Europe on an eight-day tour featuring the Christmas
markets of Salzburg, Linz, Vienna and Prague. View the Mozarthaus,
where Mozart composed his Linz Symphony; visit the Jewish Quarter
with its Old World synagogues, museums and cemetery. Other tour
highlights include:
" a leisurely-paced walking tour of Salzburg's Old Town, highlighting
the Cathedral
" Mozart's birthplace
" the Mirabell Gardens
" Prague's 1,000-year-old Hradcany Castle
" the imposing St. Vitus Cathedral
" and much more!
The entire travel package from Collette Vacations includes roundtrip
airfare from Indianapolis departing on November 26, 2004, all accommodations,
ground transportation, guided tours and most meals. An informational
session presented by Collette Vacations will take place in May.
Additional information and reservation materials are available from
WFIU by calling: (812) 855-1357.
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WFIU Presents Top Prize to Fiction
Writer
Laura Pinhey of Bloomington won first prize in WFIU's Poetry and
Prose Contest for her short story "Flight." The Indiana
native has worked as a writer, editor and researcher. She lives
with her husband in Bloomington.
George Walker described "Flight" as being a story inside
a story. "The outside story is a little tragedy with all the
little irritations of air travel," he said. "But inside
there's something quite remarkable happening."
Both first prize winners for poetry and prose are featured on the
WFIU Web site: wifu.indiana.edu.
"Flight" by Laura Pinhey
The flight attendant moves briskly up the aisle, running her blood-red
fingernails along the edges of the overhead compartments to ensure
that they are securely shut and will not dump their contents on
passengers' heads. A carton of oil paints. Three jars of barbecue
sauce. Two dozen annual reports, still cold from the printer. This
is what I imagine is in the overhead compartments, one sprung latch
away from snapping a neck or cracking a skull.
I hawk the wares of a privately-funded project on self-esteem for
elementary school students. Yes, the musty old money of some rich
guy with a foundation, sending me to Palm Beach, or is it Fargo
this month, or Overland Park, that needs a shot of self-esteem?
Doesn't matter, really. You've been to one guidance counselors'
convention, you've been to them all. To me, it's just a colossal
karmic debt that I accrued in a previous life of, apparently, untold
wickedness.
The attendant seals the cabin door. I crunch ice from my Coke and
fix my eyes on the woman demonstrating how to buckle a seatbelt.
A recorded voice announces corresponding instructions. I resist
the urge to mouth the words along with it.
The woman next to me, slim, silver-haired, in a V-neck sweater,
jeans, and spotless orange Merrills, digs around in her huge tote
bag, monogrammed "VSL." Victoria Serena Lord? Velma Sue
Lewis? Very Sporty Lady? The bag is crammed with books, magazines,
some needlework, and two jumbo bottles of water, enough to keep
a person occupied and quenched for a week. Maybe VSL thinks this
is a trans-Atlantic flight. I hope her bagful of busyness is a sign
that she won't be a talker, and therefore won't ask what I do. People
never understand. "You get to go so many exciting places,"
they say. I used to say, "It's not like that. I have to work."
No one buys that. I don't bother anymore to explain how often I
scan the dull airport landscape, or gaze around the exhibit hall
with its glaring fluorescent lights and pasty-faced counselors lugging
rolling suitcases, or stare at the mauve walls of a hotel room that
smells like hair, a sweating, spewing air conditioner clanging,
and have no idea where I am. People think I never unpack my swimming
suit. I never unpack my Advil. Maybe a better person would appreciate
the dream job that everyone seems to think this is.
As we taxi toward the runway, the pilot welcomes us aboard flight
blah-blah-blah. VSL sips her water. "They say you need to drink
double your normal water intake to stay hydrated on these long flights,"
she says.
Long flights? I think. I don't consider Louisville to Palm Beach
long, but maybe it's all in what you're used to. "Water makes
me gag," I say. She makes an "O" shape with her lips.
"Besides, with all the money I'm paying, I figure the airline
can give me a cup of coffee on the house."
"Coffee," VSL says, touching her chest. "I hardly
ever fly. I'm so nervous, if I drank caffeine, I'd be a basket case."
"Well, to each his own," I say. I face forward, lean into
the headrest, and fold my hands in my lap in the way that one must
do to signal to one's seatmate that the conversation is over.
VSL nods. "That's right. To each his own." She thumbs
through the airline magazine. Then she starts screwing little plastic
cones into her ears.
I used to thrill at the opportunity to converse with so many people.
After a couple of years, though, when I returned from a trip, my
vocal chords ached from mmhmming and my jaws were taut from stifling
yawns. I'd heard all the chit chat I wanted to hear. Internally
shut my nostrils to blasts of bad breath for the last time. Now
when I can get away with it, I nod and then pretend to doze.
The plane's engines roar and we hurtle down the runway. VSL unzips
her fanny pack and pulls out a pack of gum. "Gum?" she
asks. "Keeps your ears from popping."
"No, thanks. I'll take my chances," I say.
As we lift into the air, VSL white-knuckles the armrest between
us. We push through thick clouds, buffeting them like someone trying
to escape a crowd. The cabin is stuffy, close. The overweight businessman
across the aisle mops his forehead with a handkerchief.
I take the exhibitor's manual and a legal pad from my briefcase.
The glossy cover of the manual looks like all the others: a photo
of a white-sand beach alongside transparent aqua water, a scene
I'll never see. I'd have to leave the convention center to see the
beach, and that's not in my job description. I flip through the
tour schedules.
A visit to an ancient burial ground. A tour of historic homes. An
educational river cruise. These are the activities that entice attendees
away from the exhibit hall, leaving it so deserted that you could
shoot an arrow down any aisle and not hit a soul.
VSL has finished the in-flight magazine and moved on to Woman's
Day. I tuck the brochure in the seat pocket and doodle on the legal
pad. VSL takes a tube of Blistex from her fanny pack and applies
it liberally. I pick at the chapped edges of my lips. Between planes,
hotels, and convention centers, they are hopelessly parched.
I check the want ads every week. But they read like a history textbook,
which can't say much for the jobs. So I'm stuck with this one, for
now. We hit a patch of rough air and the plane lurches. Across the
aisle the businessman snorts awake. VSL says, "Oh, my,"
and plants her feet.
The intercom clicks on. "Welcome aboard flight 1229 to . .
. " I can't understand the rest. "1229" doesn't sound
familiar, though. I skim my ticket for the flight number. It says
1229 for the flight there, 228 for the return flight. The plane
drops, then rises, like a car on a hilly road. Some of the passengers
whoop and squeal. The hot dog I ate in the airport disagrees with
me. I check the airline itinerary. 1229 to Palm Springs. "Currently
in Palm Springs," the pilot continues, "it is clear and
71 degrees." The exhibitor's manual stares at me from the seat
pocket. "Join Us in Palm Beach," it reads. The yellow
letters seem to pulse. I feel hot and chilled, the sensation that
comes over me before I vomit, or worse. I unbuckle my seatbelt and
stand to head for the bathroom. Parked in front of it is the beverage
cart. I sit down. The floor shakes as the flight attendants stock
the cart. I imagine the plane tipping, tumbling wing over wing,
the green and brown rectangles below looming larger until everything
goes black. "Poor Denise," they'd say at the office, tears
glistening, tissues crumpled in their fists, "if only she hadn't
booked the wrong flight." But I'm familiar with aviation safety
statistics, and odds are, I will return to Earth alive, eliciting
no sympathy for having carelessly wasted precious grant money. I
hold very still and eye the airsickness bag.
VSL glances at me over her reading glasses. "Are you all right?"
she asks.
"I feel a little sick."
VSL rummages around in her bag. She opens a small tin and pushes
it toward me. "Ginger. Have some. Very good for nausea."
The capsules look harmless, packed with powder that could be brown
sugar. I look at her. Definitely a grandmother. Probably volunteers
at her church. Power walks every morning. My stomach is a vat of
simmering toxins. I may already be unemployed.
I take a capsule and swallow.
I thank her and close my eyes for a moment. I wonder if I'm about
to die. I try to distract myself by focusing on what to do about
this mess I've made. I could use my credit card to buy a ticket
to Palm Beach, and no one would have to know about this little detour.
It would take years to pay off, but at least I'd still have the
job. That thought echoes in my brain and sinks to the bottom of
my stomach like a brick. Still have the job.
At the sound of cans opening, passengers stir and pull down their
trays. Carbonation sprays the dry air. I burp a few times. The nausea
recedes, like a tide turning. I don't know if it's the pills VSL
gave me or not, but I order a ginger ale. "Feeling any better?"
VSL asks.
"A little." I point to my ginger ale. "You made a
believer out of me."
"It really is the best thing for an upset stomach," she
says. "I'm glad if it helped."
I open my legal pad. I should be writing something, an explanation,
a list of pros and cons, an apology, a plan. I don't know what they'll
say at the office. Maybe they'll fire me, maybe they'll laugh. Probably
it will be something in-between, passive-aggressive and vaguely
unsatisfying. This isn't what I thought I would do with my life.
But you have to make a living, so you take a shortcut or a wrong
turn, you get stuck, mired down, and there you are, completely out
of your element, a fish in the sand. Still, if I lose my job, what
will become of me? What will become of me if I don't? I'm hot, which
is making me feel sick again. I realize that I'm still wearing my
coat, since it was thirty-five degrees when I left Louisville. I
slip off the coat. I feel foolish admitting it, but what I really
am is relieved, and let down when I think that I might not be fired.
At the top of the page I write, "My Element," like the
title of a grade school essay. I've forgotten what that is, my element.
The notion of it, though, is teasing me, popping out from behind
trees and peeking over rocks.
I feel something wet and cold on my shoulder. Flowing from the compartment
above is a pencil-lead-thin stream of clear liquid. I scoot to the
edge of my seat, out of the path of the stream. VSL is squirting
something into her nose. She stops when she notices what's happening.
"Oh, no," she says. "My water." She squeezes
past me and opens the compartment. Water gushes out all over me.
At the compartment's edge is a grocery sack on its side, containing
two plastic liter bottles burst from the high pressure. VSL's Adam's
apple bobs. A flight attendant arrives with towels and a blanket.
She drapes the blanket over me and dabs at the water in the compartment
and on the floor. "I'm so sorry," VSL says. She presses
her fingers against her mouth.
"It's okay," I say. I tilt my head, hoping to convey my
sincerity. For the rest of the flight we are silent, our energy
spent in the excitement of the water bottle incident. The plane
begins its slow descent, alternately coasting and something that
feels like braking.
After awhile there's a shudder and a thud below. "What was
that?" VSL whispers. I touch her hand and say, "Just the
landing gear lowering. Not to worry."
She touches my hand with her chilly fingers. "I thought for
sure we were goners," she laughs.
"Your hands are cold," I say.
She kneads her hands. "It's my nerves, from flying."
My hands have been cold for years. I touch my fingers to my face.
They are warm. I remember my error, my royal screw-up. If I heard
that it had happened to someone else, I would be envious. I smile
a cheesy grin, my cheek muscles tugging upward, pulling my lips
tight across my teeth. I rub my fingers together and marvel at their
warmth.
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May Community Events
An Evening with WFIU at the Columbus Jazz Festival
Saturday, May 8, 6:30 p.m.
The Commons Mall - Columbus, IN
Come join the staff of WFIU at the Columbus Jazz Festival as we
welcome the Buselli-Wallarab Jazz Sextet to the stage of The Commons.
The evening will be hosted by WFIU Jazz Director Joe Bourne, and
will feature refreshments, a cash bar and many members of the WFIU
staff.
WonderLab
Brain Teasers
308 West 4th Street - Bloomington
Brain Teasers challenges individuals or groups of people to solve
intriguing puzzles by looking for patterns and using creative thinking.
The exhibit runs through May 30, 2004.
Columbus Indiana Philharmonic
Symphony Under Lock and Key
Sunday, May 1, 7:30 p.m.
Columbus North High School - Erne Auditorium
David Bowden, Conductor
Chris Ludwa, Assistant Conductor
Nancy Hass, oboe
A friend of Franz Peter Schubert found this treasure buried in
a trunk, 39 years after Schubert's death. Symphony No. 9 in C Major,
D. 944, "The Great Symphony," provides a great ending
to an unforgettable storybook season for the Columbus Philharmonic.
Overture to the Bartered Bride
Bedrich Smetana (1824 - 1884)
The Flower-Clock for Oboe and Orchestra
Jean Francaix (b. 1912)
Capriccio Italien, Op. 45
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893)
Symphony No. 9 in C Major, D. 944 (The Great)
Franz Schubert (1797 - 1828)
Phil's Family Jam - 2:00 p.m.
Musically Speaking - 6:45 p.m.
Red Cross Book Drive
Saturday, May 8
Borders: Eastland Plaza - Bloomington
9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Do you have any old books just collecting dust in your closet?
Now is your chance to get rid of them, help your local Red Cross
and meet the WFIU staff and personalities. WFIU is once again sponsoring
a book drive to support the Red Cross's annual Fall Book Fair. Volunteers
from WFIU and the Red Cross will be available to take your good
condition boxed books, CDs or records. Your donation is tax-deductible
through the Red Cross.
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Meet the Mayor
Join mayors from WFIU listening areas as they take your calls and
discuss issues of concern to your community. Meet the Mayor airs
Wednesdays from 12 noon to 12:30 p.m. Fresh Air follows at 12:30.
May 5: Columbus Mayor Fred Armstrong
May 12: Terre Haute Mayor Kevin Burke
May 19: Bloomington Mayor Mark Kruzan
May 26: Kokomo Mayor Matt McKillop
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Musical Highlights for May
by Robert Lumpkin, Music Director
Artist of the Month
WFIU's Artist of the Month for May is conductor Stephen Pratt. Stephen
Pratt conducts and teaches graduate wind conducting courses at Indiana
University. He's active as a guest conductor, clinician and adjudicator
of wind bands and orchestras across the country. Stephen Pratt is
also an acclaimed educator. He will be conducting the IU Wind Ensemble
throughout our program in May.
On Thursday, May 6 at 7:07 p.m., join us for Edward Gregson's Concerto
for Piano and Winds. John McCabe is the featured soloist. That soloist
appears next in our schedule as composer. On Sunday the 9th at 11:08
p.m., we'll hear McCabe's Canyons.
Stephen Pratt leads the IU Wind Ensemble in Kentucky Harmony by
Donald Grantham on Thursday, May 20th at 7:07 p.m. On Wednesday,
May 26 at 7:07 p.m. it is music of Haydn Wood. Stephen Pratt and
the IU Wind Ensemble perform Wood's Mannin Veen.
New Releases
Orchestral, choral and chamber music are included in our featured
new releases for May. On Wednesday, May 5 join us for Ein Heldenleben
by Richard Strauss played by the Vienna Philharmonic conducted by
Christian Thielemann on a new Deutsche Grammophon release. Schubert's
Octet in F, Op. 166 comes your way from Hyperion on Wednesday, May12
at 10:12 p.m. We will hear that played by the Gaudier Ensemble.
Arsis Audio has a new recording of the Requiem by John Rutter, and
that is scheduled to air Wednesday, May19 at 7:07 p.m. That same
Wednesday at 10:12 p.m., join us for Bruckner's Symphony No. 4 in
E-Flat, called the "Romantic." Günter Wand leads
the Berlin Philharmonic on this new RCA release. A week later on
May 26, also at 10:12 p.m., we will hear the Sinfonia Concertante
for Cello and Orchestra in e, Op. 125 by Sergei Prokofiev. This
new EMI recording features cellist Han-Na Chang and the London Symphony
Orchestra conducted by Antonio Pappano.
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Profiles
May 2 - Gene Wilder
Gene Wilder is one of the most respected comic actors in film
and television.
From his on-screen debut as a kidnapped, timid undertaker in "Bonnie
and Clyde" to his work in the Mel Brooks movies "The Producers,"
"Young Frankenstein" and "Blazing Saddles,"
his performances are noted for their humor and honesty. This interview
is a production of KQED in San Francisco.
May 9 - Eavan Boland and Robert Hass
Poet Eavan Boland is known for her feminist voice and her devotion
to both the pleasures of domesticity and to her native Ireland.
San Francisco-born poet Robert Hass used his platform as United
States Poet Laureate (1995-1997) as a means to promote literacy,
the environment, and the value of poetry. They are both the guests
of this interview originating from KQED in San Francisco.
May 16 - William F. Schultz
Dr. Schulz serves as Executive Director of Amnesty International
USA. An ordained Unitarian Universalist minister, he assumed the
position in March of 1994. A quote from The New York Review of Books
sums up his contributions: "William Schulz…has done more
than anyone in the American human rights movement to make human
rights issues known in the United States." You can meet this
extraordinary humanitarian in an interview hosted by WFIU News Director
Will Murphy. (repeat)
May 23 - Daniel Baron
Daniel Baron has spent more than twenty-five years working in
public, private and Native American education, pre-K through college,
as a teacher, coach, and curriculum developer. He began his teaching
career as a student teacher at Bank Street School for Children in
New York City. He went on to become Education Specialist for the
Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians. In 1977, he was a founder and
teacher-coordinator of the Harmony Elementary School in Bloomington.
Currently Daniel is Co-Director of the National School Reform Faculty
and the Director of National Programs for Harmony School Education
Center. Shana Ritter is the host.
May 30 - Rebecca MacKinnon
Rebecca MacKinnon is CNN's former Toyko Bureau Chief and correspondent,
where she was responsible for the global news network's coverage
of Japan. Previously she served for than three years as CNN's Beijing
bureau chief and correspondent, covering China and North Korea.
As a child she lived in China for two years. She is a media fellow
at the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public
Policy, and Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, where
she specializes in Web-based technologies to improve international
news coverage. Will Murphy is the host.
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Public Health in the Headlines
Friday, May 7, Noon to 1:00 p.m.
This second segment of statewide public radio and television broadcasts
about emerging health issues focuses on healthy eating and exercise.
Guests include Judy Rose, R.D., Community Nutrition Director for
Indiana State Department of Health; Bob Teclaw, D.V.M., Ph.D., State
Epidemiologist; and a representative of the Governor's Council on
Physical Fitness.
WBAA General Manager Dan Skinner will serve as host and moderator
of the program. Throughout the broadcast, Indiana public radio listeners
can submit their questions by calling 765-496-1999 or (outside of
the West Lafayette listening area) 1-888-922-2101 (1-888-WBAA-101).
Prior to the program, questions can be sent by e-mail to: mail@wbaa.org.
Public Health in the Headlines is being produced in partnership
with the Indiana State Department of Health, through a grant from
the Centers for Disease Control. For more information on this special
three-part series, visit WFYI Public Broadcasting's Web site: www.wfyi.org.
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The Radio Reader
with Dick Estell
"No Greater Glory"
by Dan Kurzman
Begins: May 27
During the night of February 5, 1943, the SS Dorchester was pushing
through the chill seas off the coast of Greenland when a torpedo
shattered her starboard side. Some of the 904 men aboard managed
to fight their way onto lifeboats. Many did not have life jackets
and panicked as the ship gradually sank, and would have drowned
if not for the four chaplains aboard-the Rev. George L. Fox (Methodist),
the Rev. Clark V. Poling (Dutch Reformed), Father John P. Washington
(Roman Catholic), and Rabbi Alexander Goode (Jewish). These four
men courageously distributed life jackets and, in the end, gave
up their own.
Author Dan Kurzman has penetrated the lives of these four extraordinary
men, showing the influences and spiritual forces that led to their
ultimate sacrifice. "No Greater Glory" is a riveting story
of four men of the cloth who came from different backgrounds but
found common ground in serving God and country.
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Broadcasts from the IU School
of Music
Schumann-Four Songs for Double Choir, OP. 141: 1. An die Sterne;
Jan Harrington/IU Univ. Singers
Airs: 5/3 at 7:00 p.m., 5/4 at 10:00 a.m., 5/7 at 3:00 p.m.
Brahms-Two Part Songs; Bo Hyun Lee, p.; Yoonkyung Nam/IU Univ.
Singers
Airs: 5/10 at 7:00 p.m., 5/11 at 10:00 a.m., 5/14 at 3:00 p.m.
Arad-Caprices: No.4 (George), No. 3 (Béla); Atar Arad, vla.;
Jeannette Koekkoek, p.
Airs: 5/17 at 7:00 p.m., 5/18 at 10:00 a.m., 5/21 at 3:00 p.m.
Monteverdi-Two Madrigals; Jan Harrington/IU Univ. Singers
Airs: 5/24 at 7:00 p.m., 5/25 at 10:00 a.m., 5/28 at 3:00 p.m.
Rochberg-Sonata for Viola and Piano; Atar Arad, vla.; Jeannette
Keokkeok, p.
Airs: 5/31 at 7:00 p.m.
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