September 2004 Articles
Giulini at 90
Part I, Sunday, September 5, 8 p.m.
Part II, Sunday, September 12, 8 p.m.
WFIU is proud to present a two-part profile of the life and career
of the great conductor Carlo Maria Giulini to celebrate the Maestro's
90th birthday. The story of his legendary life and career is told
through orchestral and operatic recordings from his early days in
the 1940s up to his retirement half a century later.
Exclusively for this program, the Maestro allowed producer Jon Tolansky
to interview him in his home in Milan. This rare opportunity to
hear Maestro Giulini speak is enhanced by the voices of no less
than thirteen distinguished contributors who recall their inspirational
experiences with the Maestro over a period of many decades. They
include the great tenor Jon Vickers, celebrated long-time Chicago
Symphony Orchestra artists concertmaster emeritus Victor Aitay and
principal trumpet Adolph 'Bud' Herseth.
The first program will include a composition by Petrassi from a
1949 performance, part of the famous performance of Verdi's La Traviata
at La Scala with Maria Callas in 1955, and extracts from some of
Giulini's most acclaimed classic Philharmonic recordings, including
Bizet's Jeux d'Enfants, Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 2 and Verdi's
Requiem Mass.
The second program begins with Giulini's performance of Verdi's
Don Carlo with the Royal Opera House Covent Garden and proceeds
to his famed association with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, represented
by performances of the fourth symphony of Brahms and Mussorgsky's
Pictures at an Exhibition. Also featured are his associations with
the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Vienna Philharmonic orchestras
as well as extracts from two choral works very close to Maestro
Giulini's heart-Benjamin Britten's War Requiem and Brahms' German
Requiem. Finally we hear a recently discovered live performance
of Beethoven's Egmont Overture that brought the house down at a
concert in Giulini's home country, Italy.
Giulini at 90 is a historic radio documentary packed with music,
recollections and the very rare personal participation of one of
the greatest and most inspirational conductors of the last one hundred
years.
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Carnegie Hall Presents: Highlights
from Fiddlefest
Sunday, September 19, 8 p.m.
In 1991, one hundred and fifty kids in East Harlem public elementary
schools were about to lose their cherished violin program as a result
of budget cuts. But violin teacher Roberta Guaspari refused to let
it happen. Working with parents, other teachers and volunteers,
Guaspari founded Opus 118 Harlem Center for Strings to save the
program and serve public school students in low-income areas. Her
passionate struggle to keep music instruction alive in Harlem's
public schools was later portrayed in the 1999 feature film Music
of the Heart, starring Meryl Streep.
Impressed by what he witnessed in these Harlem music classes, violinist
Arnold Steinhardt engaged colleagues Itzhak Perlman and Isaac Stern
to join in organizing Fiddlefest, a benefit concert at Carnegie
Hall to keep the violin program alive. The concert became the first
in a series of Fiddlefests with acclaimed string musicians such
as Joshua Bell, Yo-Yo Ma, Wynton Marsalis, Bobby McFerrin and Mark
O'Connor joining the Harlem students in performance.
In this program, Fiddlefest celebrates its tenth anniversary with
a special tribute to the late Isaac Stern, who was a strong supporter
of music education and a great friend to Opus 118 Harlem Center
for Strings since its founding. We hear a delightful collection
of classical and modern works performed by top musicians: Joshua
Bell with Simon Mulligan on piano performs Ravel's Tzigane; Yo-Yo
Ma performs O'Connor's Appalachia Waltz; and Pinchas Zukerman and
Itzhak Perlman perform Leclair's Duo for Violins.
Other artists include singer Bobby McFerrin, violinists Natalie
MacMaster and Arnold Steinhardt, cellist Amanda Forsyth, pianist
Dave Grusin, and of course, Roberta Guaspari and the students from
Opus 188.
Come join us for an evening of great performances inspired by the
program that has brought music to the lives of hundreds of children
in cities across the country.
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Creators at Carnegie: Gypsy Sounds
Sunday, September 26, 8 p.m.
This Creators at Carnegie concert features the invigorating music
of Taraf de Haïdouks, a band of Gypsy lautari (traditional
musicians) from the small Romanian village of Clejani.
A dozen instrumentalists and singers ranging in age from 20 to 78,
the group-whose name translates into "band of brigands"-is
known for its eccentricity, exceptional fiddling and singing in
the old Romany style.
The music of Taraf de Haïdouks is a mix of local styles and
flavors representing the richness of the Romanian folk tradition,
ranging from haunting heartland ballads to dizzying fiddle dances.
Performing on violin, accordion, cymbalum, upright bass and vocals,
the older members contribute soul and experience, the younger ones
speed and energy.
The group's first recording, Musique des Tsiganes de Roumanie, introduced
Western listeners to the rich musical world of the Romanian Gypsies,
which includes medieval ballads, Turkish-flavored dance tunes from
the Balkans and characteristic vocal inflections reminiscent of
the Gypsy people's origins in the Indian sub-continent. The album
was hailed by the media and immediately topped the European World
Music Chart.
The New York Times wrote, "Their wild energy is the essence
of gypsy music . . . . Their set seemed like the bubbling source
of 20th century rhythm . . . they spun out cadences that recalled
bebop, salsa and the polyrhythms of Zimbabwe and Nigeria."
Between recordings and tours throughout the Western world, the members
of the Taraf return to their village of Clejani and their traditional
lifestyle. They live by and for their music, which punctuates all
the important events of the village's social life: christenings,
weddings, burials, harvests, etc.
Get set for the passion and excitement of Taraf de Haïdouks-music
that's guaranteed to bring out the Gypsy in you!
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Compact Discoveries
Sundays in September at 4 p.m.
September 5: Controversial Comrade Kabalevsky
After the fall of communism in the Soviet Union and the demise of
atonal elitism in the West, Fred Flaxman takes a new look at this
major 20th century Russian composer, and a new listen to his music.
Compositions include his romantic and tuneful first violin concerto,
the Overture to Colas Breugnon and the Comedians.
September 12: Viva Villa-Lobos
The Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos was so prolific, one needs
a guide to pick out the real gems of his output. Fred Flaxman volunteers
and presents you with the hauntingly lyrical Bachianas Brasileiras
No. 5 for soprano and cellos, the melodious, unforgettable and Brazilian-to-the-core
Choros No. 1 for guitar, and the tuneful and rhythmic First Piano
Concerto.
September 19: Love Music, Part I
Classical love music includes Josef Suk's Song of Love, Prokofiev's
march from The Love for Three Oranges, Khrennikov's Love for Love
ballet suite and Grieg's song Jeg elsker Dig. Love music by George
Gershwin concludes the program. Gershwin himself tells the story
behind the failure-turned-success of The Man I Love.
September 26: Love Music, Part II
This program presents popular love music by George Gershwin, Cole
Porter and Irving Berlin, the theme from "Love Story"
by Francis Lai, Sammy Fain's Love is a Many Splendored Thing, Creole
Love Call with the Comedy Harmonists and more. Artists include Michael
Rose and the WXEL Orchestra, Christiane Noll, Kiri Te Kanawa, Ivy
Austin and the Cincinnati Pops conducted by Erich Kunzel.
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September Community Events
Visit the WFIU Web site for links to these and other activities:
wfiu.indiana.edu
Fourth Street Festival of the Arts
Saturday September 4, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.
Sunday, September 5, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.
Fourth and Grant Streets, Bloomington
This annual art festival is a favorite for locals and visitors
alike, who stroll along the tree-shaded streets near Indiana University
which are closed off to traffic. Both local and national award-winning
artists exhibit during this free event. Music, dance and other entertainment
are provided on the Grant Street stage throughout the two-day festival.
For more information call 812-335-3814. Be sure to stop by and visit
the WFIU booth.
Slats Klug and Friends CD Release Concert
Saturday, September 11, 8 p.m.
Brown County High School Auditorium
Nashville
Join Slats Klug and the Sanderson Family for a CD release concert
for Sweet Magnolia. The event is in support of the Brown County
Big Brothers/Big Sisters program. It begins at 8 p.m. with doors
open at 7:15 p.m.. Tickets are on sale at several Brown County locations
or through Big Brothers/Big Sisters. For more information call 812-988-8170.
Chautauqua of the Arts
Saturday and Sunday, September 18 and 19
10 a.m.-5 p.m.
Mill Race Park
Columbus
Admission: $5 for adults and $2 for youth ages 12-17. Children 11
and under are admitted free.
This annual fine arts and crafts festival features works in traditional,
contemporary and folk art styles. Mill Race Park is an open-air
park with contemporary designed shelters, amphitheater, observation
tower, playground and a covered bridge. It has convenient access
and parking, and provisions for people with disabilities. For more
information visit chautauquaofthearts.com.
Lotus World Music Festival
Wednesday through Sunday, September 15-19
The eleventh Lotus World Music and Arts Festival features music
from more than thirty performing artists from around the world.
This year's festival includes a mix of free and ticketed events.
WFIU is the media sponsor of the Women's Voices series. "Women's
Voices" is shorthand for the contingent of female singers who
will be at the event. All are new to the Lotus Festival stage. They
include: Detroit blues diva Thornetta Davis; contemporary Irish
singers Susan McKeown and Maura O'Connell; Indian ghazal singer
Kiran Aluwhalia; Peruvian Creole singer Eva Ayllón; Norwegian
Sámi singer Mari Boine; and the young American singer-songwriter
Rachael Davis. For information on performance times and locations,
visit lotusfest.org.
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Dick Yoakam Remembered
Current and former Indiana University Radio-TV employees recalled
Richard Yoakam, the former WFIU news director and IU journalism
professor who passed away in June at the age of 80.
Yoakam was remembered for being tough but fair news director and
as a passionate teacher who inspired many students into successful
careers in broadcast journalism.
Yoakam was WFIU news director when George Walker came to the station
in 1967 as a volunteer newsreader. George recalls, "It's an
overused word, but Dick had 'presence.' He had a big, wonderful,
broadcast voice. Its depth and intelligent expression was something
that I admired very much. Frankly, it was a bit daunting to announce
things either before or after one of his announcements."
Former director of programming at WFIU and WTIU Herb Seltz recalled
working with Yoakam, who walked with crutches due to childhood polio.
"One of my fondest and early memories of Dick Yoakam was seeing
this big guy on crutches bounding into the small WFIU newsroom with
its cast-off furniture, aging typewriters and noisy wire machines
rallying his students to get the news ready for air."
Yoakam taught courses in IU's journalism and telecom departments.
Seltz describes Yoakam's approach to teaching as "more like
a coach and player than a professor and student."
"Dick loved to teach. He excelled at creating special broadcast
events such as election coverage and the Little 500. Many students
got their first real taste of live radio when reporting-in from
the Courthouse or from turn three in the old stadium.
Dick Bishop, host of WFIU's Afterglow, was one of Yoakam's students.
"Dick would be available to his students before, during and
after class. He had total dedication. We loved him for it. In the
1950s and 1960s Dick was on a first-name basis with virtually all
the faculty of Radio-TV, and his students had open access. I heard
horror stories from friends of mine on campus of faculty who had
two or three hours of posted time when students could see them.
Not Dick. His door was always open.
"We would pester him for his incomparable stories of the real
world and what it
was like 'out there' and he never disappointed us. We would later
repeat some
of his lines verbatim at our bull sessions. We learned so much practical
stuff."
Bishop recalls Yoakam's unsparing evaluations of his WFIU newscasts.
He and the other news writers feared the critiques that were posted
on the bulletin board with the initials "RDY."
"RDY were Dick's initials and he would sign everything with
them. He was RDY to us. His critiques could be a little rough, but
we didn't mind. It was great fun and one of the best times of our
lives."
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The Daring Young Reporter on the
Flying Trapeze
For WFIU Assistant News Director Chad Bouchard the moment of truth
had arrived.
He was sitting on a trapeze bar swinging back and forth, his waist
strapped into a harness connected to two safety ropes. In a few
moments he was going to perform a move called the hanging ankle
drop, in which he would hook his ankles around the iron bar and
swing back and forth. Ten feet below him there was no safety net,
only a thin crash pad.
Chad was filing a live report for Public Radio Weekend on the Circus
City Festival in Peru, Indiana, an annual children's circus camp.
He spoke into a satellite phone to PRW host Barbara Bogaev.
"I'm feeling a mix of having a childhood dream come true,"
Chad told the radio audience, "and absolute terror."
"Are you ready, Chad?" asked Bogaev.
"Let's get to this before I lose my nerve," came the reply.
Chad handed the satellite phone to camp member Chelsey Day, 16,
who was to talk him through the move.
"I'm going to swing you three times," Chelsey said. "On
the third time let go. One . . . two . . . three!
The next thing the radio audience heard was the sound Chad made
swinging upside down by his ankles. "Eeeeyyyaaah!"
"You're looking great!" Chelsey exclaimed. "He's
blowing kisses to the audience."
As entertaining as Chad's report was, it could have taken a darker
turn.
"While swinging on the trapeze," Chad later recalled,
"I made a dangerous mistake. I let go of the bar with my hands
at the wrong moment, and fell back into the upside-down position
with my head close to the ground-perhaps four feet away. My ankles
wrapped around the trapeze ropes as planned, but the force was nearly
enough to pull me off the apparatus."
Chad was extricated from the harness by head trainer Bill Anderson,
a former circus performer who has been with the circus camp for
twenty-five years. Anderson's demeanor was calm, but, in Chad's
words, "his face flushed a shade of Bobby Knight red."
"Bill told me that I had dropped back late. I could've done
a pile driver-a head-first fall-in the crash pad and had a paralyzing
injury like that of Christopher Reeve."
With his childhood dream fulfilled, is Chad finished with the circus?
Not likely.
"I absolutely will return next year to the Circus City Festival,"
he says. "I've been invited to join the stagehands to help
with the rigging during the performance, and to attend the trainer's
wild after-circus parties. And I'm looking for a trapeze class somewhere
in the Bloomington area so I can try it again. It's addictive."
Public Radio Weekend isn't carried on WFIU, but you can listen to
Chad's report online. Go to publicradioweekend.org and click on
"Programs," then "July 17th, 2004." Then scroll
down to "Live Event: Circus City Weekend."
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I Say Siz-Em, You Say Skiz-Em: Let's
Call the Whole Thing Off: Behind the scenes with Kee Malesky, NPR's
Reference Librarian
To many of us, it's a familiar tune-"po-TAY-to/po-TAH-to,
to-MAY-to/to-MAH-to-an analogy about the give and take of relationships.
But Kee Malesky might relate to it in a much different way. It speaks
to something she faces regularly as part of her job in the NPR reference
library: deciding on how NPR reporters should pronounce words.
Every day, Malesky fields questions and complaints about the proper
pronunciations for words of all kinds, from geographic locations
to common and proper nouns. In most cases, she will start with a
running list of words that she has researched before. If the word
in question is not yet on that list, they'll begin the search, relying
on various dictionaries and other reference resources she has developed
over the years.
While it's important to have some consistency with pronunciations,
NPR also encourages diversity, and regional or foreign accents are
welcomed on the air. In fact, unlike the BBC, Malesky points out,
NPR does not strive for a consistent accent among their on-air staff.
"The BBC has an official Received Standard English that they
are supposed to speak," she explains. "That's why their
accents sound so similar. NPR has quite the opposite policy. So
if you say 'EN-velope' or 'ON-velope,' or if you say 'NEE-ther'
or 'NYE-ther,' it doesn't matter because the listener isn't confused."
This speaks to what Malesky considers the main point of pronunciation:
clarity. If listeners hear a word that makes them stop to think
about what the word is and whether a reporter said it correctly,
then NPR has failed to communicate clearly.
"Clarity is the only thing we're looking for," says Malesky.
"Also consistency, in the sense that once we choose a particular
way to say a word, we stick with it."
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Musical Highlights for September
by Robert Lumpkin, Music Director
Artist of the Month
WFIU's Artist of the Month for September is cellist Janos Starker.
Known throughout the world as one of the greatest cellists of our
time, Janos Starker is active internationally as soloist, chamber
musician, teacher and adjudicator. It's our special pleasure at
WFIU to join in the celebration of the 80th year of this remarkable
musician.
Tune in to WFIU to hear Janos Starker on Thursday the 9th at 7:07
p.m. playing J. S. Bach's Suite No. 2 in d for Solo Cello, BWV 1008.
On Wednesday, September 15 at 10:12 p.m. Janos Starker is joined
by conductor Walter Susskind and the Philharmonia Orchestra in a
performance of the Cello Concerto in b, Op. 104 by Antonin Dvorak.
Pianist Shigeo Neriki joins the cellist in Rachmaninov's Cello Sonata
in g, Op. 19 on Thursday, September 23 at 7:07 p.m. On Wednesday
the 29th at 7:07 p.m. Janos Starker joins us again as solo cellist
playing the Cello Sonata, Op. 8 by Zoltan Kodaly.
The WFIU Profiles interview with Janos Starker and Mstislav Rostropovich
can be downloaded from: www.indiana.edu/~wfiu/profiles_others.htm.
The link is in the middle of the page on the left hand side.
The following URL has links to Janos Starker biographies (with photos),
a 1996 interview, an article Starker wrote for Mademoiselle magazine
and IU's Janos Starker Web page: cello.org/cnc/starker/starcont.htm.
New Releases
Highlights of recent recordings this month span the monumental to
the intimate. Tchaikovsky Competition winner, violinist Jennifer
Koh, joins pianist Reiko Uchida in a performance of Schubert's Fantasy
in C, D. 934 on Wednesday, September 8 at 7:07 p.m. That's a recent
release from Cedille Records. Later that same evening at 10:12 p.m.,
Roger Norrington conducts the SWR Radio Symphony Orchestra on a
new Hänssler Classic release of Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique,
Op. 24.
On Wednesday the 15th at 7:07 p.m., join us for Haydn's Symphony
No. 85 in B-flat "La Reine" played by the Heidelberg Symphony
led by Thomas Fey on another new Hänssler Classic recording.
Naxos has a new recording of British composer Havergal Brian's Symphony
No. 1 "The Gothic," a work that is probably the largest-scale
symphony ever written with a total performance length on this recording
of no less than one hour and fifty-four minutes. Ondrej Lenárd
conducts the four soloists, eight choirs and two orchestras (the
Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra and the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra).
We'll hear it in two parts. Part 1 airs Wednesday, September 22
at 10:12 p.m. and Part 2 comes your way the following Wednesday
at the same time.
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Night Lights
Premieres
"Jazz just sounds so good in the evening," says David
Brent Johnson, host of the new WFIU-produced jazz program Night
Lights. "It sounds good any time, but it's really a nighttime
music at heart. It's romantic, it's intellectual, and it has a kind
of perpetual cool."
Night Lights premiered recently on Saturday at 11:10 p.m. It takes
its place in our eclectic Saturday-night line-up following Portraits
in Blue, bringing yet another facet of classic and modern jazz to
our weekend programming.
Jazz plays an important part in WFIU's music programming, with Joe
Bourne hosting Just You and Me every weekday afternoon from 3:30-5.
On Friday nights Joe's The Big Bands and Dick Bishop's Afterglow
provide listeners with a warm, familiar and engaging brand of swing
and American popular song.
Host David Brent Johnson is a former Indiana University student
who has worked at WFIU as a substitute host for Joe Bourne for the
past two years. Previous to that he had spent four years as the
host of Bloomington community radio station WFHB's weekly program
All That Jazz. "I've been a huge fan of Joe and Dick for years,"
he says. "Coming here was kind of like joining the 1927 Yankees
and batting behind Ruth and Gehrig."
Johnson doesn't actually date back that far (he's 38) but his love
of jazz extends to nearly all eras and styles. He has produced WFIU
documentaries about 1920s jazz legend Bix Beiderbecke and Duke Ellington's
1941 civil-rights musical Jump for Joy. With Night Lights, he plans
to focus primarily on 1950s and 60s artists such as Charles Mingus,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk and Nina Simone, in addition to playing jazz
from 1970 to the present that has a late-night sensibility.
The role of jazz in mid-20th century American popular culture is
something else that Johnson will explore in Night Lights. "I
have shows planned around the TV series Peter Gunn and The Subterraneans,
which was a pretty bad 1960 movie based on a Jack Kerouac novel,"
he says. "Gerry Mulligan and a number of other jazz musicians
acted and played in it. This month I'm doing a show on The Connection,
which was a Living Theater play and movie about addicts that featured
jazz artists like Jackie McLean in the cast." Johnson is also
using spoken-word pieces by poets and monologists such as Frank
O'Hara and Ken Nordine to develop what he calls "cultural narratives"
about jazz.
"I'm very influenced by some of the new jazz historians like
Scott DeVeaux (The Birth of Bebop) and Krin Gabbard (Jammin' at
the Margins), who have a passionate love for the music and a keen
interest in all of the cultural forces that helped to shape it,"
Johnson says. "I want Night Lights to be a program of jazz
in sound, story and song. Joe and Dick have such unique and wonderful
ways of making the music come alive for listeners, and I'm hoping
to create yet another perspective for our audience."
Music, literature and history are long-held enthusiasms for Johnson,
but he came to jazz only in his mid-twenties. "I had a handful
of jazz LPs and a friend who was really immersed in the music,"
he says, "but there was one day when I was sitting in a coffeehouse
reading and heard a Count Basie song coming from the overhead speakers.
It was my 'light-on-the-road-to-Damascus' moment. I also gave up
smoking around that time, and all of my addictive energy and cigarette
money went into buying jazz CDs instead."
Night Lights has a Web page where additional information on each
week's program and musicians can be found, as well as archived versions
of past programs. Go to indiana.edu/~wfiu/nightlights.htm.
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Profiles
Sept. 5 - 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 more 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. (repeat)
Sept. 12 - Michael Martone
Michael Martone is the author of several fiction and nonfiction
collections, including "The Blue Guide to Indiana," "Seeing
Eye," "Pensée: The Thoughts of Dan Quayle,"
"Fort Wayne is Seventh on Hitler's List" and "The
Flatness and Other Landscapes," a collection of essays about
the Midwest. Praised for his wit, sarcasm and passionate language,
Martone often writes about Indiana life with what Louise Erdrich
describes as a "deep affection for the ordinary." Born
and raised in Fort Wayne, Martone studied at Butler University in
Indianapolis and graduated from Indiana University with a degree
in English. He is now Professor of English and Director of the Creative
Writing Program at the University of Alabama. Michael Wilkerson
hosts this hour-long interview.
Sept. 19 - 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. (repeat)
Sept. 26 - Ann Patchett
In her four novels, author and essayist Ann Patchett brings
to life a sweeping array of characters, from a Catholic nun to a
black blues drummer to a gay magician. She explores themes such
as abandonment, unorthodox love and the surprising ways people make
emotional connections. Her best-known novel is "Bel Canto,"
which focuses on a diverse group of people in an unnamed country
thrown together when the posh birthday party they are attending
is crashed by terrorists and they are all taken hostage. Her other
novels are "Taft," "The Patron Saint of Liars"
and "The Magician's Assistant." Pat Holt conducted the
interview for KQED's City Arts and Lectures. (Repeat due to technical
difficulties on August 1.)
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Red
Cross Book Drive a Success
WFIU staff members helped out on a recent Saturday at the annual
American Red Cross book drop-off at Borders in Bloomington. The
donated books filled two trucks, a cargo van and six cars. Red Cross
Executive Director Carol Bentley remarked, "What a day! It
was tremendous, by far the best we've ever had!"
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Broadcasts from the IU School of
Music
Torelli-Concerto in g, Op. 8, No. 6; Stanley Ritchie, vln.; David
Wish vln.; Helen Byrne, vlc.; Janet Scott, org.; Stanley Ritchie/IU
Baroque Orch.
Airs: 8/30 at 7 p.m., 8/31 at 10 a.m., 9/3 at 3 p.m.
Vivaldi-Flute Concerto in F, Op. 10, No. 1, RV 433 "La
tempesta di mare"; Jennifer Streeter, rec.; Ritchie, Stanley/IU
Baroque Orch.
Airs: 9/6 at 7 p.m., 9/7 at 10 a.m., 9/10 at 3 p.m.
Stravinsky-L'HISTOIRE DU SOLDAT [THE SOLDIER'S TALE]: Suite;
James Campbell, cl.; Paul Biss, vln.; Luba Edlina, p.
Airs: 9/13 at 7 p.m., 9/14 at 10 a.m., 9/17 at 3 p.m.
Bach-Cantata BWV 82, "Ich habe genug"; Matthew Leese,
bar.; Nathan Whittaker, vlc.; Beth Garfinkel, org.
Airs: 9/20 at 7 p.m., 9/21 at 10 a.m.
Chopin-Barcarolle in F-sharp, Op. 60; Edward Auer, p.
Airs: 9/27 at 7 p.m., 9/28 at 10 a.m., 10/1 at 3 p.m.
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The
Radio Reader
with Dick Estell
"The Known World"
by Edward P. Jones
begins September 30
Henry Townsend, a black farmer, bootmaker and former slave, has
a fondness for an unusual mentor-William Robbins, perhaps the most
powerful man in antebellum Virginia's Manchester County. Under Robbins's
tutelage, Henry becomes proprietor of his own plantation, as well
as of his own slaves. When he dies, his widow, Caldonia, succumbs
to profound grief, and things begin to fall apart at their plantation.
Slaves take to escaping under the cover of night, and families who
had once found love beneath the weight of slavery begin to betray
one another.
Beyond the Townsend estate, the known world also unravels: low-paid
white patrollers stand watch as slave "speculators" sell
free black people into slavery, and rumors of slave rebellions set
white families against slaves who have served them for years.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, "The Known World"
weaves together the lives of freed and enslaved blacks, whites and
Indians and allows all of us a deeper understanding of the enduring
multidimensional world created by the institution of slavery.
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