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September 2006 Articles

I Remember Shostakovich
Sunday, September 24, 8 p.m.

At the centenary of the birth of Dmitri Shostakovich, distinguished musicians and others who had personal contact with the composer recall their conversations with him. We hear firsthand recollections from performing artists and others who spoke with Shostakovich about his music, learning from him how he wanted his works performed. They recount divergent views on the inspiration behind Shostakovich's creativity, and whether or not his music can be related to any specific events or people-as has been claimed by some and rejected by others. Their recollections bring us vitally close to the heart of one of the most complex and profound composers of the twentieth century. The program also includes extracts from a recently discovered recording of Shostakovich answering questions about his music put to him by members of the public at Northwestern University.
Host and producer Jon Tolansky is joined by Vladimir Ashkenazy, Rudolf Barshai, Lord Harewood, Mariss Jansons, Sir Charles Mackerras, Kurt Masur, Mstislav Rostropovich, Elizabeth Wilson, Maxim Shostakovitch, and other luminaries. Music performed includes extracts from Shostakovich's symphonies, quartets, operas, ballets, and film scores.

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Ragtime to the Max
Sundays at 4 p.m.

This thirteen-week series concludes with episodes ten through thirteen. Hosted by Max Morath.

Sunday, September 3
"Ragtime East"
The music that took the odd name "ragtime" developed somewhat independently on the East Coast and in the Mississippi Valley. The eastern composers often worked in theater and dance, making piano rolls, publishing less than their western brethren.

"Ragtime West"
Sunday, September 10
Ragtime in the West was centered in Chicago and St. Louis, as two great World Fairs in those cities created hundreds of jobs for musicians and band leaders. Music here is piano-dominated, along with groups and orchestras.

"Goodbye Ragtime, Hello Jazz"
Sunday, September 17
By 1920, a number of forces had combined to transform ragtime from its original dynamism and excitement to quaintness and neglect. Musically, there was a new style called "jazz" coming east from New Orleans and Chicago, and it was propelled by a new bunch of players and composers, matching the enthusiasm of the kids a generation before who brought ragtime to the nation.

"Ragtime Here and Now"
Sunday, September 24
This final program is devoted entirely to the new ragtime canon, as contemporary composers write rags that fuse the techniques of the past with the harmonies and techniques of the present. Ragtime continues to flourish and bring renewed vigor to America's musical heritage.

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Everything Was Right: The Beatles' "Revolver"
September 3, 8 p.m.

When rock music critics and fans are asked to rank the top rock albums of all time, The Beatles' 1966 release Revolver either heads the list or falls into the top tier. To mark the fortieth anniversary year of the album's release, producer and host Paul Ingles tells the story of this landmark album and of its influence on the pop/rock music scene.
Ingles talks with historians, musicians, music critics, and fans, spotlighting each Revolver track (along with the 1966 single "Paperback Writer/Rain"). The Beatles experimented with new sounds and subject matter on Revolver, pioneering psychedelic rock on some tracks and exhibiting extraordinary song craft on others. You'll hear about the sources for the tunes and the studio experiments the Beatles used to get their ground-breaking sounds.
Among the guest commentators is Mark Lewisohn, author of "The Beatles Recording Sessions." The only journalist to have listened to every second of the Beatles' studio recordings, Lewisohn is a major authority on the band's history.
The program also features music writers Jim Derogatis, Steve Turner, Jeff Sobul, and Stuart Maddow. Musicians Shawn Colvin, Mark Erelli, John Leventhal, Deborah Holland, Richard Goldman, David Gans, Kristy Kruger, and Jon Spurney join other Beatles fans to talk about their favorite tracks on what is arguably the greatest album by the greatest band of all time.

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Making Cities Work
Sundays, September 10 and 17, 8 p.m.

It is projected that in the next fifty years, two-thirds of humanity will live in cities. A major challenge will be to minimize poverty, crime, and urban alienation while improving access to basic services and a better quality of life. In this two-part documentary from BBC's The Changing World, architecture critic Devan Sudjic looks at cutting-edge solutions for transportation and housing as well as ways of making cities cleaner and more livable.
Sudjic travels to the U.N.'s World Urban Forum in Vancouver, which brings together the best thinking on creating a better future for cities. "Making Cities Work" examines the lessons learned from New Orleans in the months after the flooding, and looks at Dubai, an oil-rich but population-poor state that is creating a vast modern city. Sudjic goes on to look at Mumbai's attempts to plan its way out of traffic gridlock, and then at the squatter areas of Istanbul where the debate is whether cheap slum housing is worth saving, or whether it is an illegal blemish that should be demolished and replaced.

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Community Events

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

Fourth Street Festival of the Arts and Crafts
Saturday, September 2, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Sunday, September 3, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Fourth and Grant Streets, Bloomington

This annual event hosts more than 100 local and national artisans who offer their work to the public along the tree-shaded streets adjacent to Indiana University. Music, dance, and other entertainment will be provided throughout the two day festival.

Middle Way House Night at the Opera
September 9
Doors open at 6 p.m.
Performance at 7 p.m.
Reception at SoFA Gallery at 8:30 p.m.
IU Fine Arts Auditorium
812-333-7404, ext. 223

This annual event raises funds for Monroe County's shelter for battered women and children. Hors d'oeuvres will be served before the performance and coffee and dessert after. This year's performers include Lisa Williamson and IU faculty member Tim Noble.

Kokomo Community Concert Series
The Buck Ram Platters
Saturday, September 9, 7:30 p.m.
kokomocommunityconcerts.org

The Platters, under the direction of Buck Ram, was one of the hottest groups in the 1950s, recording such hits as Only You, The Great Pretender, and Smoke Gets in Your Eyes. Hear The Buck Ram Platters performing these pop classics as only they can sing them.

Columbus Indiana Philharmonic
"The Queen of Harps"
Saturday, September 16, 7:30 p.m.
Erne Auditorium
812-376-2638, ex 110
www.thecip.org

Susann McDonald, considered one of the finest harpists of the world, performs the stunning Glière Harp Concerto. Also on the program is the Philharmonic's most requested favorite, Dvo?ák's Symphony No. 9 "From the New World," and Overture to the Season by Indiana composer Daniel Powers. David Bowden conducts.

Indiana Shakespeare Festival
"Two Gentleman of Verona"
September 14-16
September 21-23
John Waldron Auditorium
www.artlives.org
Two gentlemen, two ladies, two fools, and three rambunctious robbers. Action, adventure, and redemption. All this, plus a bit with a dog and some doo-wop in Shakespeare's comedy of love lost and love regained

Bloomington Symphony Orchestra
Friday, September 29
7:30 p.m.
Evangelical Community Church, 503 South High St
812-331-2320
www.bloomingtonsymphony.us
The BSO starts off their 37th season with a performance of Beethoven's Symphony No. 3 under the direction of Chris Ludwa, accompanied by visual artworks indicative of when the piece was written.

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Featured Classical Recordings
Selected by Adam P Schweigert

Selections from each week's featured recording can be heard at 9 a.m. and 7 p.m. Monday; 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. Tuesday; 10 a.m. and 10 p.m. Wednesday; 3 p.m. Thursday; and 11:30 a.m. Saturday.

September 4th - 10th
John Jenkins: Six-Part Consorts (Avie AV2099)
Phantasm

In the 1670's Thomas Mace described the works of John Jenkins as "Divine Raptures, Powerfully Captivating all our unruly Faculties, and Affections, and disposing us to Solidity, Gravity, and a Good Temper, making us capable of Heavenly, and Divine Influences." This is music likely written in the 1620s for talented groups of amateurs. Played here by one of the finest professional viol consorts today (including IU faculty member Wendy Gillespie), these works prove to be Divine Raptures indeed.

September 11th - 17th
Arvo Pärt: Da Pacem (Harmonia Mundi HMU 907401)
Paul Hillier/Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir

Following two other critically acclaimed albums Paul Hillier has recorded for Harmonia Mundi dedicated to the choral music of Estonian composer Arvo Pärt, this recording contains some of Pärt's newest works as well as a few older pieces that Hillier had yet to record. Taken as a group, these albums comprise what many consider the definitive survey of Pärt's sacred choral music. The performances here are transcendent and the Harmonia Mundi engineers have produced a clear yet spacious sound.

September 18th - 24th
Joseph Schmitt: Early Symphonies and Chamber Music (Pentatone Classics PTC 5186 039)
Simon Murphy: New Dutch Academy Chamber Orchestra and Soloists

One of the most prolific composers in 18th century Amsterdam, Joseph Schmitt is known as "The Dutch Haydn." Many of his works have only recently come to light due to a series of unfortunate events that left them either buried in libraries or attributed to other composers (including Haydn himself). This disc features the premiere recordings of five of Schmitt's works in energetic period instrument performances by the New Dutch Academy.

September 25th - October 1st
La Gitana (Beneficence Recordings)
Mihai Tetel, vlc.; Robert Palmer, p.

The music department at Ball State University has recently launched their own classical record label-Beneficence Recordings. Their debut release is this disc of music for cello and piano played by two of Ball State's faculty members, cellist Mihai Tetel and pianist Robert Palmer. The album features a colorful mix of music from Brahms, Haydn, Debussy, and others.

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The Iron Curtain Lifts a Bit Higher

Phase Two of the US-Ukrainian exchange program took place in July when three staff members from Radio Mix, a commercial radio station in Dnipropetrovsk, came to observe radio operations at WFIU.
The first phase had taken place earlier this year when WFIU Station Manager Christina Kuzmych (who is of Ukrainian descent) and Operations Director Cary Boyce traveled to Dnipropetrovsk.
Program Director Vyacheslav (Slava) Ibryayev, Station Director Dmytro (Dmitri) Zapashchykov, and Broadcasting Director Ylena Kotova were accompanied by interpreters Yuliya Churakova and Ismayil Khairedinov.
The Ukrainians met with WFIU personnel for ten days to discuss such topics as administration, operations, news, marketing, hardware, software, policies, public relations, digital streaming and Webcasting, and the future of radio.
Their trip was funded by the International Research and Exchanges Board, an international nonprofit organization that provides leadership and programs to improve the quality of education, strengthen independent media, and foster pluralistic civil society development. The organization is supported by government, business, and private individuals.
The visit began with a meeting between IREX representative Halina Izdebska and IU Dean of International Programs Patrick O'Meara, who provided an overview of IU's international programs and activities. After settling into their accommodations at the Indiana Memorial Union, the exchange began.
"Some of our most interesting and intense discussion centered around differences in our mission and operation," says Station Manager Christina Kuzmych. "While WFIU exists to serve our community and society, Radio Mix is a commercial station that seeks a solid return on investment through programming that will attract advertisers. It's an interesting difference, not unlike the one between commercial and public radio stations in the U.S. The Ukrainians, however, do take local news much more seriously. Our Ukrainian colleagues were also a bit intrigued with the idea of public service through radio."
Among their many activities during their whirlwind visit, the Ukrainians got a taste of public service American-style when they helped out at the Red Cross Book Drive, which WFIU staff members volunteer for each year.
"Watching listeners unload boxes of books at the Bloomington Borders was an interesting experience for them," Marketing Director Scott Witzke says. "Volunterism is not as rampant in the ex-Soviet union counties as it is in the U.S."
The Ukrainian radio ambassadors also made an appearance on Noon Edition with hosts Bob Zaltsburg and Mary Catherine Carmichael, with some assistance from interpreters Yuliya and Ismayil.
Of special interest to the Ukrainians were sessions with Robert Potter, assistant professor of telecommunications. They sought his opinions on devising strategies for an upcoming change in musical format and accompanying marketing campaign.
"They wanted to know ways in which I would suggest they market their station in their city of over a million people," says Potter. "We talked about hot clocks, rotations, jingles, and stopsets-all through the interpreters. It was an amazing experience."
They also met with about twenty teachers and students in IU's summer Russian language program, where two of the Ukrainians gave a panel presentation in Russian on their work.
The visit was not all work and no play. Side trips included a visit to Jazz in July at the IU Art Museum, drives to Chicago and Indianapolis, a tour of campus including the Jacobs School of Music, the Lilly Library, and the Kinsey Institute. Activities also included a barbeque and several meals with WFIU staff.
The third phase of the IREX exchange will take place in December when radio journalists from Radio Mix travel to Bloomington to spend time with the WFIU news department.
Should you hear some occasional Ukrainian or Russian spoken at WFIU or coming over the airwaves, don't be surprised. It's détente of the best kind.

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Jazz Notes
by David Brent Johnson

As a new school year starts at Indiana University, there will be an increasing number of live jazz and cultural events for music lovers to attend-and you can hear about those events every weekday afternoon on Joe Bourne's Just You and Me. In addition to the great music and artist interviews that Joe likes to feature, he provides an arts and entertainment calendar, letting you know about the many movies, festivals, and concerts going on throughout the WFIU listening area. You can find out even more information by going to the show's Web site at justyouandme.indiana.edu and clicking on the links to calendars from the IU School of Music and Jazz From Bloomington.
Playing jazz on the radio is Joe's first love, and you can continue to hear him do that on Friday nights, when he hosts The Big Bands from 9 to 10 p.m. Preceding The Big Bands is the long-running Piano Jazz With Marion McPartland; Marian's guests this month include guitarist Jim Hall; singer Norah Jones, running through a set of standards at Tanglewood; piano prodigy Taylor Eigsti; pianist and arranger Jon Weber; and Grammy-winning vocalist Linda Ronstadt, who's been drawing from the Great American Songbook since the early 1980s.
The Great American Songbook gets more-than-periodic visits every Friday evening on WFIU at 10:05 p.m. with Afterglow. This month on Afterglow we'll feature samplings from a massive new collection of Nat King Cole's late-1950s Capitol recordings; a live 1973 Tokyo performance from Sarah Vaughan; sultry, smoky-voiced Lee Wiley's 1957 record West of the Moon; releases both old and new from Nancy Wilson; and, in an ongoing Afterglow tradition, "Songs of the Season" on September 29, ushering in October and the spell of autumn. Whatever the season, you can always hear Afterglow via our Web site, at afterglow.indiana.edu.
Jazz continues on Saturday evenings with Night Lights, a historical program devoted to jazz artists and jazz in culture from 1945 to 1990-an era that roughly parallels the career of Miles Davis on record as well as the Cold War. This month's shows include "I Want to Live!," with music and dialogue from the 1958 Susan Hayward movie about a wayward woman and jazz fan on death row; the score was written by Johnny Mandel and recorded by a host of West Coast jazz stars, Gerry Mulligan and Art Farmer among them. "Jazz Does Disney" takes a look at the numerous jazz interpretations of music from the wonderful cinematic world of Walt, while "Red Trane" celebrates the 80th anniversary of John Coltrane's birth with collaborations between the tenor giant and pianist Red Garland. Other Night Lights programs focus on jazz impresario Norman Granz's 1950 coffeetable anthology The Jazz Scene and the scant but impressive encounters between vocalist Betty Roche and the 1940s Duke Ellington Orchestra. All Night Lights programs become available for listening two days after broadcast in the archives section of the show's Web site at nightlights.indiana.edu.
For the best in late night blues, stick around after Night Lights for Bob Porter's Portraits in Blue, a showcase for many of the legendary musicians who have graced the musical landscape of America for the past 70 years. We hope you'll stick around in general-and let us know your thoughts about the jazz programming at WFIU by e-mailing us at wfiu@indiana.edu, or by calling our listener response line at 812-856-5352.

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Marketplace Returns, From the Top Moves to Archives

Marketplace, the daily magazine on business and economics news "for the rest of us," is back on WFIU's schedule! American Public Media worked with us to make this possible. The half-hour program airs weekdays at 6:30 p.m. Our brief loss of Marketplace is a reminder of the importance of your continued financial support of public radio. To find out how to contribute to WFIU, visit our Web site at: wfiu.indiana.edu.
A program leaving our airwaves is From the Top, a weekly show of skits, interviews, and music, focusing on young pre-collegiate performers. In its place, WFIU is planning to produce programming of performances by local and Indiana young musicians that will concentrate more on the young artists and the musical performances.
You can continue to enjoy From the Top by listening to the current show and archived editions on the program's Web site: www.fromthetop.org. The site also contains a music library with audio of the entire repertoire featured on the program, activity pages, community forums for students, teacher lesson plans, articles about the music world, and fun factoids.

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BBC Proms Concerts and Lucerne Festival

On Monday and Wednesday evenings in September, WFIU brings you a series of live broadcasts from the BBC Proms and the Lucerne Festival. (see daily listings for more detailed information on each program)

BBC Proms Concerts

  • Minnesota Orchestra (Monday, September 4th at 8 p.m.)
  • Orchestra of St. Luke's (Wednesday, September 6th at 8 p.m.)
  • Philharmonia Orchestra (Monday, September 11th at 8 p.m.)
  • Philadelphia Orchestra (Wednesday, September 13th at 8 p.m.)

Lucerne Festival

  • Festival Orchestra (Monday, September 18th at 8 p.m.)
  • Chamber Music (Wednesday, September 20th at 8 p.m.)
  • Festival Orchestra (Monday, September 25th at 8 p.m.)
  • hamber Music (Wednesday, September 27th at 8 p.m.)

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Profiles
Sundays at 7 p.m.

September 3 - Portia Maultsby
Portia K. Maultsby is a professor of ethnomusicology in the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology and directs the Archives of African American Music and Culture at IU Bloomington. Her specialties are African-American music and black American music, with a focus on popular tradition, transnationalism, and the music industry. A composer, pianist, and ethnomusicologist, she has served as a researcher and advisor for radio and television documentaries on the history of black radio and black religious music. She teaches classes on the popular music of black America and the music industry, and is the co-editor of "African American Music: An Introduction." David Brent Johnson conducted the interview.

September 10 - Keith Sawyer
Keith Sawyer is professor of psychology and education at Washington University in St. Louis, where he is one of the country's leading researchers on creativity, innovation, and learning. He is the author or editor of eight books, including "Explaining Creativity: The Science of Human Innovation," and "The Cambridge Handbook of the Learning Sciences," a manifesto of the new science of learning. Utilizing a hands-on approach to research, Dr. Sawyer has spent a year in a preschool observing how children learn and studied Chicago improvisational theater groups to study group dynamics. He is also a jazz pianist, and has studied improvisation among jazz musicians. He spoke with Adam Schwartz.

September 17 - Michael McRobbie
Michael A. McRobbie is Interim Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at Indiana University Bloomington. As Vice President for Information Technology and Vice President for Research, McRobbie led an extensive transformation in information technology and oversaw the development of major new research projects and initiatives. These include the development of a high-speed, integrated information-technology infrastructure, the Internet2 project and the ILight and ILight2 networks, IU's Pervasive Technology Laboratories, and the New Frontiers in the Arts and Humanities Program. He spoke with Patrick O'Meara. (repeat)

September 24 - Dick Bishop
Dick Bishop grew up in Fort Wayne where he played in high school bands. While working towards his doctorate in Education at IU Bloomington, he set the local collegians on fire with his percussion talents in fraternity jazz sessions. Dick has served as producer and host of a series of programs on WFIU, starting with Journey Into Jazz in the 1950s, followed by Jazz Sounds in the Night, Jazz Yesterdays, and Afterglow-named for a piece by his friend, Marian McPartland. Dick has interviewed hundreds of jazz musicians and counts many of them among his friends, and he retired from broadcasting in 2005. He spoke with Steve Sanders. (repeat)

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The Radio Reader
with Dick Estell

"The Ride of Our Lives"
by Mike Leonard
Begins: Thursday, August 31
Number of episodes: fifteen

Mike Leonard is a lucky man. It's not everyone who gets parents like Jack and Marge.
But what was their son Mike thinking about when he took a sabbatical from his job with
NBC News so he could pile his parents, his grown kids, and a daughter-in-law into a pair
of rented RVs and hit the road for a month?
Mike was thinking that he wanted to give his parents the ultimate family reunion. And so, one February morning, three generations of Leonards set out on their journey under the dazzling Arizona sky.
In the course of their humorous and often poignant cross-country tour, from the desert Southwest to the New England coastline, the Leonards reminisce about their loves, their losses, and their rich and heartwarming (and sometimes heartbreaking) lives, while encountering a veritable Greek chorus of roadside characters along the way. Through it all, Mike pieces together a century of family lore and lunacy-and discovers surprising sides to his parents that allow him to see them in a whole new light.
Author Mike Leonard has captivated millions of television viewers with his wry and witty feature stories for NBC's Today.

"The Whistling Season"
by Ivan Doig
Begins: Friday, September 22
Number of episodes: approx. twenty-two

"Can't cook but doesn't bite." So begins the newspaper ad offering the services of an "A-1 housekeeper with sound morals and exceptional disposition" that draws the hungry attention of widower Oliver Milliron in 1909.
And so begins the unforgettable season that deposits the noncooking, nonbiting, ever-whistling Rose Llewellyn and her fount-of-knowledge brother, Morris Morgan, along with a stampede of homesteaders drawn by the promise of the Big Ditch-a gargantuan irrigation project intended to make the Montana prairie bloom. When the schoolmarm runs off with an itinerant preacher, Morris is pressed into service, setting the stage for the "several kinds of education" Morris and Rose will bring to Oliver, his three sons, and the rambunctious students in the region's one-room schoolhouse.
A paean to a vanished way of life and the eccentric individuals and institutions that nourished it.

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Robert Samels Memorial Fund

As we have in previous months, we would like to thank the following WFIU staff members and listeners who have made donations to the Robert Samels Memorial Fund. To date we have received more than ten thousand dollars in donations to the Fund, which was established in Robert's name to support ongoing training needs of our personnel. We invite you to join us by making a voluntary contribution. Information on how to contribute to the Fund is on our Web site: wfiu.indiana.edu. Together we can preserve his memory and teach those who, like Robert, come to WFIU to learn the art and craft of public radio.

Jane Clay and Gary Hafner
James and Cheryl Koryta
Mary McGann
Wesley Martin
Mr. and Mrs. Eliot Smith
Janis Starcs/Caveat Emptor
Rex and Nancy Stockton
Eugene and Frances Weinberg

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Broadcasts from the IU Jacobs School of Music

FREUND-Framing 'Bitter Sweetness'; Kristie Withers, hp.; Dongmin Kim/IU New Music Ens.
Airs: 9/1 at 3 p.m.

DZUBAY-Capriccio for Violin and Piano; Corey Cerovsek, vln.; Shigeo Neriki, p.
Airs: 9/2 at 11:30 a.m.

SCHUMANN-FOUR SONGS FOR DOUBLE CHOIR, OP. 141: An die Sterne; Jan Harrington/IU Univ. Singers
Airs: 9/4 at 7 p.m., 9/5 at 10 a.m., 9/8 at 3 p.m.

TORELLI-Concerto in g, Op. 8, No. 6; Stanley Ritchie and David Wish, vln.; Helen Byrne, vlc.; Janet Scott, org.; Stanley Ritchie/IU Baroque Orch.
Airs: 9/11 at 7 p.m., 9/12 at 10 a.m., 9/15 at 3 p.m.

WEBER-DER FREISCHUTZ: Overture; Ray E.Cramer/IU Univ. Orch.
Airs: 9/13 at 7 p.m.

BACH-Flute Sonata in b, BWV 1030; Thomas Robertello, fl.; Martin Kennedy, p.
Airs: 9/13 at 7 p.m.

VILLA-LOBOS-Bachianas Brasilieras No. 1; Emilio Colón/Indiana Cello Ens.
Airs: 9/18 at 7 p.m., 9/19 at 10 a.m., 9/22 at 3 p.m.

SANDSTRÖM, S-D.-Concerto for Flute and Orchestra; Thomas Robertello, fl.; David Dzubay/IU New Music Ens.
Airs: 9/20 at 10 p.m.

HANSON-Serenade, Op. 35; Thomas Robertello, fl.; Ray E. Cramer/IU Wind Ens.
Airs: 9/25 at 7 p.m., 9/26 at 10 a.m., 9/29 at 3 p.m.

ROSSINI-IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA [THE BARBER OF SEVILLE]: Selections; Kathryn Lukas and Thomas Robertello, fl.
Airs 9/30 at 12 p.m.

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Public Matters on the Web

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

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WFIU Future Fund

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

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

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