From the President & CEO The Guide
Dear Member,
This month, WTTW brings you the all-new Touring Chicago's Lakefront with Geoffrey Baer, a fascinating exploration of the length and breadth of Chicago’s famous “front yard.” Watch as Geoffrey introduces us to Chicago’s founder Jean Baptiste Pointe DuSable, hikes on Northerly Island, fishes for lake trout, learns a surprising fact about Promontory Point, snorkels to a prehistoric reef, and more. And visit the companion website at wttw.com/lakefront to experience a guided tour of the lakefront by bike, read stories about Chicago’s history of shipwrecks, and extend the experience of watching the show on April 14.
Also in April to mark Earth Day, WTTW focuses on the natural world with a new Nature miniseries revealing the devastating effects of a severe drought in southern Tanzania’s Katavi National Park; a new episode of NOVA that takes you to forests in Australia, Costa Rica, and Brazil with scientists confronting the twin threats of climate change and species extinction; and a fourth season of Changing Planet, in which Dr. M. Sanjayan spotlights another threatened ecosystem with a visit to an extensive river restoration project in northern California.
On Live from WFMT this month, we welcome the innovative Grammy Award-winning trio Time for Three for a live performance hosted by Kerry Frumkin from the Fay and Daniel Levin Performance Studio. We know you will enjoy the ensemble’s signature sound – a fusion of classical, Americana, and singer-songwriter styles. Also, WFMT observes Easter and Passover with inspirational content on Baroque&Before, The Midnight Special, Fiesta!, and With Heart and Voice, along with beautiful Easter music throughout that Sunday.
Thank you for your ongoing support, and we hope you enjoy the early days of spring in Chicago!
Sincerely,
Sandra Cordova Micek President & CEO
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The Guide: The Member Magazine for WTTW and WFMT (ISSN 2329-1338) April 2025
Volume 36, Number 320
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Kate: A Queen for the Future
This documentary about the future Queen of England and wife of Prince William is a heartwarming celebration of a figure who embodies the timeless grace of royalty while forging a path of her own.
Sunday, April 6, 6:00 pm Programming Subject to Change Without Notice
In the Spotlight
Liza: A Truly Terrific Absolutely True Story –American Masters
Enjoy this intimate portrait of Liza Minnelli, best known for her Oscar-winning role in Cabaret Following in the footsteps of her mother Judy Garland, Minnelli used her boundless talent to build her own legacy in showbiz.
Tuesday, April 1
8:00 pm
Tuesday 1
EARLY MORNING
12:00 Call the Midwife (Season 14, Part 1 of 8) [R]
1:00 Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light on Masterpiece (Part 2 of 6) [R]
2:00 Marie Antoinette: A Poison Pen (Season 2, Part 2 of 8) [R]
3:00 The Paris Murders: Predators (Season 2, Part 7 of 12) [R]
4:00 Chicago Stories: Jane Addams – Together We Rise [R]
5:00 BBC News
5:30 Chicago Tonight [R]
Daily Television Programming •
Programmer’s Picks
Whitstable Pearl
This new mystery series follows single mother Pearl as she pursues her lifelong dream to start a private detective agency, which she runs from her family restaurant in the coastal English town of Whitstable.
Saturday, April 19, 8:00 pm
Letters from Brno
In a 45-year search for clues to her mother’s past, a woman uncovers the tragic fate of her grandparents in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia. It’s a story of parental love and unspeakable sacrifice.
Sunday, April 27, 6:00 pm
MORNING
6:00-1:00 WTTW Kids
AFTERNOON
1:00 Antiques Roadshow: Modern Icons
2:00 Weekend in Havana with Geoffrey Baer Join Geoffrey Baer as he travels to Havana to experience the color, culture, and history of a beautiful and seductive city only recently reopened to Americans.
3:00 Midsomer Murders: The Debt of Lies (Part 1 of 2)
4:00 Cook’s Country
4:30 America’s Test Kitchen from Cook’s Illustrated: Brunch Favorites
5:00 BBC News America
5:30 Chicago Tonight
EVENING
6:00 PBS News Hour
7:00 Finding Your Roots: Moving On Up Cutting-edge DNA detective work solves longstanding family mysteries for actor Laurence Fishburne and scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., as Gates finds himself a guest on his own show for the first time.
8:00 Liza: A Truly Terrific Absolutely True Story –American Masters
10:00 Chicago Tonight [R]
10:30 BBC News
11:00 Amanpour and Company
Wednesday 2
EARLY MORNING
12:00 Antiques Roadshow: Denver Botanic Gardens, Chatfield Farms (Part 2 of 3) [R]
1:00 Antiques Roadshow: Birmingham (Part 1 of 3) [R]
2:00 Going Your Way [R]
3:00 The Great American Recipe: Home Baked
4:00 Weekend in Havana with Geoffrey Baer See Tues. Apr. 1 at 2:00 pm. [R]
5:00 BBC News
5:30 Chicago Tonight [R]
MORNING
6:00-1:00 WTTW Kids
AFTERNOON
1:00 Antiques Roadshow: Best of 25
2:00 Chicago Stories: Jane Byrne [R]
3:00 Midsomer Murders: The Debt of Lies (Part 2 of 2)
4:00 Cook’s Country: The Cuban Sandwich Show
4:30 America’s Test Kitchen from Cook’s Illustrated: Spring Dinner for Company
5:00 BBC News America
5:30 Chicago Tonight
EVENING
6:00 PBS News Hour
7:00 Nature: Katavi, Africa’s Fallen Paradise – Sanctuary (Part 1 of 3) In Tanzania’s Katavi National Park, meet the hippo, crocodile, and lion families who must prepare to face the worst drought in almost a hundred years.
8:00 NOVA: When Whales Could Walk Egyptian desert fossils reveal clues to the evolution of the biggest animals on Earth.
9:00 The Future of Nature: Grasslands (Part 2 of 4) There’s a growing army of inspiring people fighting to save nature – a movement that’s going to help nature draw down carbon and perhaps save us all from the effects of climate change.
10:00 Chicago Tonight [R]
10:30 BBC News
11:00 Amanpour and Company
Thursday 3
EARLY MORNING
12:00 Finding Your Roots: Moving On Up See Tues. Apr. 1 at 7:00 pm. [R]
1:00 Liza: A Truly Terrific Absolutely True Story –American Masters See Tues. Apr. 1 at 8:00 pm. [R]
3:00 Call the Midwife (Season 14, Part 1 of 8) [R]
4:00 Call the Midwife (Season 13, Part 2 of 8) [R]
5:00 BBC News
5:30 Chicago Tonight [R]
MORNING
6:00-1:00 WTTW Kids
AFTERNOON
1:00 Antiques Roadshow: Best Bargains
2:00 Finding Your Roots: Moving On Up [R]
3:00 Shakespeare & Hathaway, Private Investigators: If Music Be the Food of Love [R]
4:00 Cook’s Country: Texas Cookout
4:30 America’s Test Kitchen from Cook’s Illustrated: How to Braise Everything
5:00 BBC News America
In the Spotlight
Nature: Katavi, Africa’s Fallen Paradise (New Miniseries)
Katavi National Park in southern Tanzania is a remote wilderness. Here, in this new three-part series, Nature’s filmmakers capture a once-in-a-lifetime event – a severe drought followed by heavy rains that test the survival skills of all those that call Katavi home.
Wednesdays, April 2-16 7:00 pm
Liza Minnelli
Photo: Atlas Media Corp
Baby crocodile
Photo: Owen Prümm
Touring Chicago's Lakefront
A Q&A with Host and Writer Geoffrey Baer
This month, Geoffrey Baer is back with an all-new special, Touring Chicago's Lakefront. On Monday, April 14 at 7:00 pm, watch Geoffrey traverse the length and breadth of Chicago’s world-famous “front yard” to explore its many attractions, reveal some of its secrets, and tell colorful stories about how it was created and why it looks as it does today.
We sat down with Geoffrey to ask him about the making of this flagship production.
The Guide: In your specials, you have explored the city from many different perspectives. What makes this program different?
Geoffrey Baer: For many years, my programs were literally tours with me as the tour guide. More recently we’ve included more voices in the form of people I meet and interview along the journey. We have an especially great cast of characters in this show, from a horseman who stages rodeos at the South Shore Cultural
Center showcasing young African American riders, to an “old salt” who takes me on my first-ever fishing trip, to the birder who gave our famous piping plovers their iconic names, Monty and Rose.
The Guide: One of the people you profile in this program is Chicago’s founder, Jean Baptiste Pointe DuSable, for whom Lake Shore Drive was recently renamed. How did the lakefront he found when he arrived here differ from what we see today?
Baer: DuSable would not recognize the lakefront today. First of all, it has been extended almost a mile further into the lake with landfill, so the site of his former lakefront estate is now well inland in the shadow of Tribune Tower. In DuSable’s time, the mouth of the river was a huge sandbar and the river itself was just a trickle only navigable by shallow draft vessels like canoes. The only major building in the landscape aside from his own home was Fort Dearborn directly across the river. There is nothing left of the natural landscape DuSable knew since the river was deepened and straightened, bridges were built, and the banks crowded
Photo: Liz Markel for WTTW
Geoffrey Baer on the lakefront at Fullerton
first with railyards and warehouses, and later skyscrapers. And the lakefront to the north and south is transformed into man-made parkland, Navy Pier, museums, McCormick Place and Soldier Field. Imagine what DuSable would think!
The Guide: Apart from DuSable, were there other historical figures who were influential in the shaping of the lakefront? If you could meet and talk with any of them, whom would you choose and what would you ask them?
Baer: Let’s start with Senator Stephen A. Douglas (debate opponent of Abraham Lincoln). I might give him a piece of my mind. He crafted the land grant that allowed the Illinois Central Railroad to build its tracks right up the lakefront from the south terminating at the river. It’s a condition we’re stuck with to this day. (Douglas owned property along the south lakefront, so there was likely some self-interest there). Mail order magnate Aaron Montgomery Ward fought a 20-year legal battle to force the city to clean up the lakefront, which had become a rather trashy no-man’s land, and to reserve it as parkland free of buildings. City planners Daniel Burnham and Edward Bennett took the idea of a lakefront park to a whole new level with their Plan of Chicago in 1909, much of which was realized. Richard M. Daley filled in the last gap in the lakefront with Millennium Park. As for whom I would want to meet…I would stand with Montgomery Ward, who was embittered by loud opposition from his peers about his idea of reserving the lakefront for the people. And oh yes, I was lucky enough to meet Mayor Daley once or twice.
The Guide: Is there anything in the process of filming this special that you had never done before? And if so, would you encourage viewers to try them?
Baer: Five things!
1. I had never gone fishing on the lake. I didn’t know if we’d catch anything, but we came back with a whole boatload of lake trout and salmon.
2. I put on snorkel gear and dove to a real shipwreck that is just a few feet below the water’s surface and just a few hundred
"I hope this show will remind people how critically important the lake is, and inspire them to do whatever they can to protect it for generations to come."
GEOFFREY BAER
yards offshore at about 47th Street.
3. I borrowed binoculars and joined the birders at Montrose Point who keep watch over the descendants of [piping plovers] Monty and Rose.
4. Our visit to the South Shore Cultural Center really was my first rodeo!
5. NASCAR! I’m not an auto racing fan, but I have to say it was pretty cool.
These are all things people can experience themselves, but if you’re going to go snorkeling, be sure you are a strong swimmer and go in calm weather with a buddy. And if you go to a NASCAR race, bring earplugs!
The Guide: Did you find that there were past events that took place along the lakefront that are echoed in the present?
Baer: McCormick Place can trace its history to the World’s Fair of 1933-34. The Fair was held on that site and set a precedent for using that part of the lakefront for expositions, contrary to the vision of a lakefront “forever open, clear and free.” In Jackson Park, the Museum of Science and Industry is the one building left from the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893. It was the only pavilion that was not a temporary structure, because it was built to house art treasures from around the world. The Japanese garden on Jackson Park’s Wooded Island is also a legacy of that world’s fair. The neighborhood of Streeterville is named for a scoundrel who ran his steamboat aground there in 1886 when it was just a barren patch of sand. Streeter claimed
the land for himself and presided over a vice district until police finally evicted him decades later.
The Guide: What was your favorite experience you had – or discovery you made – in the creation of this special?
Baer: Northerly Island! As an aviation fan, I will controversially confess that I loved when this was a tiny lakefront airport called Meigs Field. But to visit it today, transformed into almost a wilderness area bursting with native plants, within sight of downtown skyscrapers is fantastic. The park plan is only partially realized at this point. It would be great to see it fully completed.
The Guide: What do you hope viewers will take away from Touring the Lakefront?
Baer: As a city built on a flat, soggy landscape, the lake is our one truly spectacular natural feature. As the source of our drinking water, it is critical to our very survival. And thanks to fierce lakefront protectors of the past, we can step out of our crowded metropolis anytime to renew ourselves with inspiring views stretching to the horizon, and we can swim, boat, bike, and relax. But the lake is threatened by many things from climate change to pollution to invasive species. I hope this show will remind people how critically important the lake is, and inspire them to do whatever they can to protect it for generations to come.
This interview was edited for length and clarity.
Geoffrey and cameraman on boat on Lake Michigan
Prime
Agatha Christie: Lucy Worsley on the Mystery Queen
Wednesdays starting April 2, 10:00 pm
Lucy Worsley explores the enigma of Agatha Christie. Over three episodes, she uncovers a complex woman whose life – and work – reflects the upheavals of the 20th century. Watch on WTTW Prime, wttw.com/watch, or the PBS app.
What is Passport?
Create
Dinner Tonight: An Evening of Culinary Inspiration
Friday, April 11, 8:00 pm
Looking to zest up your dinnertime routine? Get some ideas from a wide variety of menus from America’s Test Kitchen and Cook’s Country, and get ready to impress at the table.
Watch on WTTW Create, wttw.com/watch, or the PBS app.
Passport
The Mountain Detective, Season 3
Friday, April 25
WTTW Passport members can binge the entire new 7-episode season of The Mountain Detective. Former policeman Alex Hugo leaves Marseilles in search of a new life, but ends up confronting violence in the mountains of the Hautes-Alpes. In French with English subtitles. For WTTW Passport Members Only
With a WTTW Passport membership, unlock thousands of exclusive WTTW and PBS programs on wttw.com/watch and the PBS app. Look for videos with the blue compass symbol to get members-only access to watch on your computer, smartphone, tablet, smart TV, or TV streaming device.
Ways to Watch
Find full schedules for all channels at wttw.com/schedules.
Lucy Worsley
Pomegranate-Glazed Grilled Lamb Chops
Photo: Tom Hayward
Photo: American Public Television
Photo: Dalva Productions
Samuel Le Bihan as Alex Hugo
Return to Belsen
When British troops liberated the Belsen Nazi death camp in April 1945, war correspondent Richard Dimbleby broadcast to the world for the first time the true horror of the Holocaust. Now, 80 years on, Jonathan Dimbleby traces his father’s footsteps, visiting Anne Frank’s grave and talking with survivors and Germans who lived nearby.
Thursday, April 3
7:00 pm
5:30 Chicago Tonight
EVENING
6:00 PBS News Hour
7:00 Return to Belsen
8:00 The Vietnam War: Riding the Tiger (Part 2 of 10) President Kennedy and his advisors wrestle with how deeply to get involved in South Vietnam.
9:30 Jay’s Chicago
10:00 Chicago Tonight [R]
10:30 BBC News
11:00 Amanpour and Company
Friday 4
EARLY MORNING
12:00 Nature: Katavi, Africa’s Fallen Paradise –Sanctuary See Wed. Apr. 2 at 7:00 pm. [R]
1:00 NOVA: When Whales
Could Walk See Wed. Apr. 2 at 8:00 pm. [R]
2:00 The Future of Nature: Grasslands (Part 2 of 4) See Wed. Apr. 2 at 9:00 pm. [R]
3:00 Call the Midwife (Season 13, Part 3 of 8) [R]
4:00 Call the Midwife (Season 13, Part 4 of 8) [R]
5:00 BBC News
5:30 Chicago Tonight [R]
MORNING
6:00-1:00 WTTW Kids
AFTERNOON
1:00 Antiques Roadshow: Birmingham (Part 1 of 3) [R]
2:00 Call the Midwife (Season 14, Part 1 of 8) [R]
3:00 Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light on Masterpiece (Part 2 of 6) [R]
4:00 Cook’s Country: Fish Tacos and Fried Shrimp
4:30 America’s Test Kitchen from Cook’s Illustrated: A Taste of Brazil
5:00 BBC News America
5:30 Chicago Tonight: The Week in Review
EVENING
6:00 PBS News Hour
7:00 Chicago Tonight: The Week in Review [R]
7:30 Washington Week with the Atlantic
8:00 Miss Fisher Murder Mysteries: Cocaine Blues Phryne Fisher returns to Melbourne after years abroad and is immediately embroiled in mystery: poisoned husbands, cocaine smuggling rings, and illegal abortionists – plus encounters with a handsome Russian dancer.
9:00 Austin City Limits Celebrates 50 Years
11:00 BBC News
11:30 Amanpour and Company
Saturday 5
EARLY MORNING
12:30 Rick Steves’ Europe: Sicilian Delights
1:00 Return to Belsen See Thurs. Apr. 3 at 7:00 pm. [R]
2:00 Call the Midwife (Season 13, Part 5 of 8) [R]
3:00 Call the Midwife (Season 13, Part 6 of 8) [R]
4:00 Call the Midwife (Season 13, Part 7 of 8)
5:00 Washington Week with the Atlantic [R]
5:30 Chicago Tonight: The Week in Review [R]
MORNING
6:00 Great Lakes Now (New Season): Too Many Geese and Too Few Mussels
6:30 Fresh Glass: Cassandra Embraces Sisterhood
7:00 The Great American Recipe
8:00 My Money Mentors
8:30 Curious Traveler: Szczecin, Poland
9:00 Samantha Brown’s Places to Love: Route 66 –Oklahoma City to Texas
9:30 John McGivern’s Main Streets: Red Wing, Minnesota
10:00 This Old House: Westford –Updates Under a New Roof
10:30 Ask This Old House: Tree Diagnosis, Home Checklist
11:00 Steven Raichlen’s Project Fire: Green Meets Grill
11:30 America the Bountiful (New Season): Crawfish in Louisiana
AFTERNOON
12:00 Cook’s Country
12:30 Cook’s Country: Pennsylvanian Melting Pot
1:00 Lidia’s Kitchen: Family Meal
1:30 Essential Pépin: Vegetable Bounty
2:00 America’s Test Kitchen: Crepes Two Ways
2:30 America’s Test Kitchen
3:00 Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television: New Bistro Classics
3:30 Mary Berry’s Fantastic Feasts
4:30 Check, Please!
5:00 Rick Steves’ Europe: Scotland’s Highlands
5:30 PBS News Hour Weekend
EVENING
6:00 The Great Chicago Fire: A Chicago Stories Special Chicago Stories brings to life the Great Chicago Fire of 1871.
7:00 My Life is Murder: All That Glitters Alexa’s personal and professional lives collide when she investigates the death of a drag queen whose star was on the rise.
8:00 Midsomer Murders: A Grain of Truth (in 2 parts) A trendy organic bakery in a restored mill is causing resentment amongst several villagers.
9:30 Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators – Too Much of Water Frank and Luella are employed by Jonathan Skylark to investigate the death of his wife Ophelia.
10:30 Miss Fisher Murder Mysteries: Cocaine Blues See Fri. Apr. 4 at 8:00 pm. [R]
11:30 The Vietnam War: Riding the Tiger (Part 2 of 10) See Thurs. Apr. 3 at 8:30 pm. [R]
Sunday 6
EARLY MORNING
1:00 Austin City Limits Celebrates 50 Years See Fri. Apr. 4 at 9:00 pm. [R]
3:00 Call the Midwife (Season 13, Part 8 of 8) [R]
4:00 Call the Midwife (Season 14, Part 1 of 8) [R]
5:00 To be announced
MORNING
6:30 Joseph Rosendo’s Steppin’ Out (New Season)
7:00 This Old House: Westford – Updates Under a New Roof [R]
7:30 Ask This Old House: Tree Diagnosis, Home Checklist [R]
8:00 J Schwanke’s Life in Bloom (New Season)
8:30 New Scandinavian
Miss Fisher Murder Mysteries
The glamorous “lady detective” Phryne Fisher (Essie Davis) is a thoroughly modern woman of the late 1920s operating in a mostly male world. To the dismay of DI Jack Robinson, Phryne’s investigations take her through the back alleys, jazz clubs, and shady markets of Melbourne as she ignores the dangers all around her.
Fridays beginning April 4, 8:00 pm
Austin City Limits Celebrates 50 Years
Some of the brightest stars in Austin City Limits history return to the fabled ACL stage to celebrate the show’s fiftieth anniversary. The lineup includes Leon Bridges, Billy Strings, Gary Clark Jr., Lyle Lovett, Shawn Colvin, The Avett Brothers, Indigo Girls, Rufus Wainwright, The Mavericks, and more.
Friday, April 4
9:00 pm
Jonathan Dimbleby
Photo: ITV Studios and American Public Television
Essie Davis
Photo: Every Cloud Productions
Gary Clark, Jr.
Photo: Austin City Limits
In the Spotlight
Kate: A Queen for the Future
Kate, Princess of Wales and future Queen of England, has a nation’s hopes resting on her shoulders. Marrying into royalty is a scenario straight from a fairytale, but what happens when she becomes Queen Consort? Learn about a figure who embodies the timeless grace of royalty while forging a path of her own.
Sunday, April 6
6:00 pm
Independent Lens: We Want the Funk!
In this new and revealing documentary produced by Stanley Nelson, take a syncopated voyage through the history of funk music, spanning from African, soul, and early jazz roots to its rise into the public consciousness, and explore funk’s influences on both the new wave and hip-hop genres.
Tuesday, April 8
8:00 pm
Cooking: Southern Ways
9:00 A Chef’s Life: Don’t Tom Thumb Your Nose at Me! Part 2
9:30 A Chef’s Life: Apples
10:00 The Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra Plays Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony To mark the third anniversary of the Russian invasion into Ukraine, the Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra performs Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony at the Teatr Wielki in Warsaw.
11:30 Southwest Suburbs: Birthplace of Chicago
Geoffrey Baer travels by train, tugboat, and 1958 Edsel as he takes you on a lively and informative journey through the Southwest suburbs.
AFTERNOON
1:37 Jay’s Chicago
2:00 JFK: The Making of a President John F. Kennedy’s assassination transformed him from man into legend. But that reading of history can disguise the contradictory man behind the myth.
3:00 RFK: America’s Lost President What if Robert F. Kennedy, brother of the murdered JFK, had not himself been assassinated? This documentary reveals his journey and transformation.
4:00 Jackie: A Tale of Two Sisters Jackie Kennedy Onassis remains an iconic figure of high fashion and tragedy. Her sister Lee Radziwill, however, is less well known. Yet it is impossible to understand one without the other.
5:00 Rick Steves’ Europe: Scotland’s Islands
5:30 PBS News Hour Weekend
EVENING
6:00 Kate: A Queen for the Future
7:00 Call the Midwife (Season 14, Part 2 of 8) In April 1970, rising rates of gonorrhea in the district cause alarm, and Trixie cares for an unmarried first-time mother.
8:00 Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light on Masterpiece (Part 3 of 6) Rebels in the North demand Cromwell’s head and a return to the old Catholic ways. With King Henry VIII beginning to contemplate his chief advisor’s failings, Cromwell receives unexpected news from across the sea.
9:00 Marie Antoinette: Treacherous Legacy (Season 2, Part 3 of 8) When Marie Antoinette takes steps to protect herself and her unborn child, she unwittingly fuels the perception of her as an extravagant tart while Paris starves.
10:00 The Paris Murders: Between
Weekday Lineup
6:00 Odd Squad
6:30 Arthur
7:00 Wild Kratts
7:30 Alma’s Way
8:00 Lyla in the Loop
8:30 Carl the Collector
9:00 Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood
9:30 Rosie’s Rules
10:00 Sesame Street
10:30 Work it Out Wombats!
11:00 Donkey Hodie
11:30 Elinor Wonders Why 12:00 Nature Cat
12:30 Molly of Denali
Two (Season 2, Part 8 of 12) When the lifeless body of a sports teacher is found, the prime suspect is a woman who seems to have a personal vendetta against men.
11:00 Austin City Limits Celebrates 50 Years [R]
Monday 7
EARLY MORNING
1:00 My Life is Murder: All That Glitters See Sat. Apr. 5 at 7:00 pm. [R]
2:00 Midsomer Murders: A Grain of Truth (in 2 parts) See Sat. Apr. 5 at 8:00 pm. [R]
3:30 Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators – Too Much of Water See Sat. Apr. 5 at 9:30 pm. [R]
4:30 Rick Steves’ Europe: Scotland’s Highlands [R]
5:00 BBC News
5:30 Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
MORNING
6:00-1:00 WTTW Kids
AFTERNOON
1:00 Antiques Roadshow: Denver Botanic Gardens Chatfield Farms (Part 2 of 3)
2:00 The Great American Recipe
3:00 My Life is Murder: All That Glitters [R]
Arthur @ 6:30 am
4:00 Cook’s Country: Never Enough Citrus
4:30 America’s Test Kitchen from Cook’s Illustrated: Classic Chinese at Home
5:00 BBC News America
5:30 Chicago Tonight
EVENING
6:00 PBS News Hour
7:00 Antiques Roadshow: Denver Botanic Gardens Chatfield Farms (Part 3 of 3)
8:00 Antiques Roadshow: Birmingham (Part 2 of 3) Finds include 1968 letters from a young Bill Clinton; a Lalique hood ornament in an uncommon amethyst color; and a 1952 John Falter illustration.
9:00 Rick Steves’ Europe: A Symphonic Journey Rick teams up with the Cascade Symphony Orchestra on a musical tour that begins in the United States, then touches down in seven different European countries.
10:00 Chicago Tonight [R] 10:30 BBC News 11:00 Amanpour and Company
Tuesday 8
EARLY MORNING
12:00 Call the Midwife (Season 14, Part 2 of 8) See Sun.
Catherine, Princess of Wales
Photo: Alamy
Stanley Nelson
Photo: Firelight Films
Apr. 6 at 7:00 pm. [R]
1:00 Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light on Masterpiece (Part 3 of 6) See Sun. Apr. 6 at 8:00 pm. [R]
2:00 Marie Antoinette: Treacherous Legacy (Season 2, Part 3 of 8) See Sun. Apr. 6 at 9:00 pm. [R]
3:00 The Paris Murders: Between Two (Season 2, Part 8 of 12) See Sun. Apr. 6 at 10:00 pm. [R]
4:00 PBS News Hour [R]
5:00 BBC News
5:30 Chicago Tonight [R]
MORNING
6:00-1:00 WTTW Kids
AFTERNOON
1:00 Antiques Roadshow: Harrisburg (Part 1 of 3)
2:00 Kate: A Queen for the Future See Sun. Apr. 6 at 6:00 pm. [R]
3:00 Midsomer Murders: A Grain of Truth (Part 1 of 2) [R]
4:00 Cook’s Country: Sisig and Wings
4:30 America’s Test Kitchen from Cook’s Illustrated: Middle Eastern Dinner
5:00 BBC News America
5:30 Chicago Tonight
EVENING
6:00 PBS News Hour
7:00 Finding Your Roots: Finding My Roots Henry Louis Gates, Jr. explores the long-lost roots of actor Sheryl Lee Ralph and historian Lonnie Bunch – two African Americans whose ancestors broke boundaries.
8:00 Independent Lens: We Want the Funk!
9:30 Jay’s Chicago
10:00 Chicago Tonight [R]
10:30 BBC News
11:00 Amanpour and Company
Wednesday 9
EARLY MORNING
12:00 Antiques Roadshow: Denver Botanic Gardens Chatfield Farms (Part 3 of 3) See Mon. Apr. 7 at 7:00 pm. [R]
1:00 Antiques Roadshow: Birmingham (Part 2 of 3) See Mon. Apr. 7 at 8:00 pm. [R]
2:00 Rick Steves’ Europe: A Symphonic Journey See Mon. Apr. 7 at 9:00 pm. [R]
3:00 JFK: The Making of a President See Sun. Apr. 6 at 2:00 pm. [R]
4:00 PBS News Hour [R]
5:00 BBC News
5:30 Chicago Tonight [R]
MORNING
6:00-1:00 WTTW Kids
AFTERNOON
1:00 Antiques Roadshow: Harrisburg (Part 2 of 3)
2:00 The Great Chicago Fire: A Chicago Stories Special See Sat. Apr. 5 at 6:00 pm. [R]
3:00 Midsomer Murders: A Grain of Truth (Part 2 of 2)
4:00 Cook’s Country: Hawaiian Melting Pot
4:30 America’s Test Kitchen from Cook’s Illustrated: Better Breakfast
5:00 BBC News America
5:30 Chicago Tonight
EVENING
6:00 PBS News Hour
7:00 Nature: Katavi, Africa’s Fallen Paradise – Purgatory The natural order of life seems to have fallen apart as hippos fight to the death, a rogue lion wreaks devastation on a cub family, and fire and ash sweep across the parched land.
8:00 NOVA: Revolutionary War Weapons
9:00 The Future of Nature: Forests (Part 3 of 4)
10:00 Chicago Tonight [R]
10:30 BBC News
11:00 Amanpour and Company
Thursday 10
EARLY MORNING
12:00 Finding Your Roots: Finding My Roots See Tues. Apr. 8 at 7:00 pm. [R]
1:00 Independent Lens: We Want the Funk! See Tues. Apr. 8 at 8:00 pm. [R]
2:30 Jay’s Chicago See Tues. Apr. 8 at 9:30 pm. [R]
3:00 RFK: America’s Lost President See Sun. Apr. 6 at 3:00 pm. [R]
4:00 PBS News Hour [R]
5:00 BBC News
5:30 Chicago Tonight [R]
MORNING
6:00-1:00 WTTW Kids
AFTERNOON
1:00 Antiques Roadshow: American Stories
2:00 Finding Your Roots: Finding My Roots [R]
3:00 Shakespeare & Hathaway, Private Investigators: Too Much of Water [R]
4:00 Cook’s Country: Grilled Lamb and Cheesecake
4:30 America’s Test Kitchen from Cook’s Illustrated: Updated Italian
5:30 Chicago Tonight
EVENING
6:00 PBS News Hour
7:00 Pioneers of Television: Westerns Gunsmoke, Bonanza, The Rifleman, Wild Wild West, Maverick, Big Valley, and Daniel Boone are among the iconic series profiled in this episode.
8:00 The Vietnam War: The River Styx (Part 3 of 10)
With South Vietnam in chaos, Hanoi accelerates the insurgency, sending combat troops to the South.
10:00 Chicago Tonight [R]
10:30 BBC News
11:00 Amanpour and Company
Friday 11
EARLY MORNING
12:00 Nature: Katavi, Africa’s Fallen Paradise –Purgatory See Wed. Apr. 9 at 7:00 pm. [R]
1:00 NOVA: Revolutionary War Weapons See Wed. Apr. 9 at 8:00 pm. [R]
2:00 The Future of Nature: Forests See Wed. Apr. 9 at 9:00 pm. [R]
3:00 Jackie: A Tale of Two Sisters See Sun. Apr. 6 at 4:00 pm. [R]
4:00 PBS News Hour [R]
5:00 BBC News
5:30 Chicago Tonight [R]
MORNING
6:00-1:00 WTTW Kids
AFTERNOON
1:00 Antiques Roadshow: Birmingham (Part 2 of 3) [R]
2:00 Call the Midwife (Season 14, Part 2 of 8) [R]
3:00 Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light on Masterpiece (Part 3 of 6) [R]
4:00 Cook’s Country: Puerto Rican Classics
4:30 America’s Test Kitchen from Cook’s Illustrated: Italian Classics
5:00 BBC News America
5:30 Chicago Tonight: The Week in Review
EVENING
6:00 PBS News Hour
7:00 Chicago Tonight: The Week in Review [R]
7:30 Washington Week with the Atlantic
8:00 Miss Fisher Murder Mysteries: Murder on the Ballarat Train Phryne decides to travel to the country by train to collect her new Hispano-Suiza motor car. But she unexpectedly has to use her trusty pearl-handled pistol to save a young woman’s life.
9:00 Great Performances: Now Hear This – Chopin’s Polish Heart Follow Scott Yoo and pianist Jan Lisiecki as they explore Chopin’s life, his Polish roots, and his journey to Paris – taking a closer look at the composer’s musical evolution.
10:00 Great Performances: The Magic of Nureyev Revisit the legendary October 1964 production of Swan Lake that starred and was choreographed by Rudolf Nureyev,
In the Spotlight
NOVA: Revolutionary War Weapons
In 1775, a ragtag group of farmers and tradesmen went to war against the world’s most powerful army, ultimately winning American independence. What military technologies did the American colonies use in their fight for freedom, and what role did they play in one of history’s most unlikely victories?
Wednesday, April 9
8:00 pm
who shared the stage with the great British prima ballerina Margot Fonteyn. 11:00 BBC News
11:30 Amanpour and Company
Saturday 12
EARLY MORNING
12:30 Pioneers of Television: Westerns See Thurs. Apr. 10 at 7:00 pm. [R]
1:30 Southwest Suburbs: Birthplace of Chicago See Sun. Apr. 6 at 11:30 am. [R]
3:37 Jay’s Chicago [R]
4:00 PBS News Hour [R]
5:00 Washington Week with the Atlantic [R]
5:30 Chicago Tonight: The Week in Review [R]
MORNING
6:00 Great Lakes Now: Killer Trees and Sacred Waters
6:30 Fresh Glass: Cassandra Experiences Napa
7:00 The Great American Recipe
8:00 My Money Mentors
8:30 Curious Traveler: England’s Great West Way
9:00 Samantha Brown’s Places to Love: Northern Costa Rica
9:30 John McGivern’s Main Streets: Oak Park, Illinois
10:00 This Old House: Westford – Heavy Metal
10:30 Ask This Old House:
In the Spotlight
Pioneers of Television (New Season)
More than 200 breakthrough stars bring their stories to life in in this documentary series, melding compelling interviews with irresistible clips to offer a fresh take on TV’s biggest celebrities. This season highlights stories about television Westerns, funny ladies, superheroes, doctors and nurses, science fiction, and sitcoms.
Thursdays beginning April 10, 7:00 pm
Retaining Wall, Mini Split Upkeep
11:00 Steven Raichlen’s Project Fire: Secret Steaks
11:30 America the Bountiful: Mushrooms in Pennsylvania
AFTERNOON
12:00 Cook’s Country
12:30 Cook’s Country: Cajun Country
1:00 Lidia’s Kitchen: Think Seasonally
1:30 Essential Pépin: Family Favorites
2:00 America’s Test Kitchen: Rustic Italian Fare
2:30 America’s Test Kitchen
3:00 Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television: Mexico’s Riviera
3:30 Mary Berry’s Fantastic Feasts
4:30 Check, Please!
5:00 Rick Steves’ Europe: Glasgow and Scottish Passions
5:30 PBS News Hour Weekend
EVENING
6:00 The Jewish Journey: America Learn about Jewish life in the old country, the reasons why Jews left their homes and journeyed to the U.S., and the establishment of communities
and accomplishments made in America.
7:00 My Life is Murder: Look, Don’t Touch Alexa is confronted by her own history when she investigates the death of a museum curator.
8:00 Midsomer Murders: Dressed to Kill (in 2 parts) Parish chairwoman Lois Springfield is found dead in a local theatre. The detectives assume it’s because of her hostility toward a drag show being organized, but other motives are at play.
9:30 Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators – Most Wicked Speed Frank and Luella are employed by American private investigator Joe Venice.
10:30 Miss Fisher Murder Mysteries: Murder on the Ballarat Train See Fri. Apr. 11 at 8:00 pm. [R]
11:30 The Vietnam War: The River Styx (Part 3 of 10) See Thurs. Apr. 10 at 8:00 pm. [R]
Sunday 13
EARLY MORNING
1:30 Rick Steves’ Europe: Scotland’s Islands [R]
2:00 Kate: A Queen for the Future [R]
3:00 Great Performances: Now Hear This – Chopin’s Polish Heart See Fri. Apr. 11 at 9:00 pm. [R]
4:00 Great Performances: The Magic of Nureyev See Fri. Apr. 11 at 10:00 pm. [R]
5:00 To be announced
MORNING
6:30 Joseph Rosendo’s Steppin’ Out
7:00 This Old House: Westford –Heavy Metal [R]
7:30 Ask This Old House: Retaining Wall, Mini Split Upkeep [R]
8:00 J Schwanke’s Life in Bloom
8:30 New Scandinavian Cooking: Southwards Along the Coast
9:00 A Chef’s Life: The Fish Episode, Y’all
9:30 A Chef’s Life: Obviously, It’s Pecans
10:00 South of Chicago: Suburbs, Steel Mills, Shoreline
Geoffrey Baer takes you on a journey through the vast region one historian called “America writ large.”
11:43 Chicago’s North Shore Learn some little-known facts as Geoffrey Baer’s tour winds its way through Evanston, Winnetka, Glencoe, Wilmette, Kenilworth, and much more.
AFTERNOON
1:18 Northwest of Chicago: From Farm Fields to Boomtowns Geoffrey’s journey through the Northwest suburbs
begins in Park Ridge and follows I-90 and the historic Northwest Highway, concluding in far northwest suburban Woodstock.
3:08 The Most Beautiful Places in Chicago People from all over the city and suburbs take Geoffrey Baer to the places they find most breathtaking and explain why they are so meaningful, and Geoffrey reveals some of his own favorites.
4:00 Chicago Mysteries Geoffrey Baer and a team of super sleuths attempt to solve some of Chicago’s most baffling mysteries.
5:00 PBS News Hour Weekend
5:30 Defying the Nazis: The Sharps’ War Join an American couple’s courageous mission in 1939 to help refugees escape Nazi-occupied Europe, risking their lives so that hundreds can live in freedom.
EVENING
7:00 Call the Midwife (Season 14, Part 3 of 8) Rosalind requires her skills as a midwife when a disabled baby is delivered, and a gas explosion in an old tenement building shocks the community.
8:00 Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light on Masterpiece (Part 4 of 6) The birth of a prince comes at a terrible price and Cromwell must help the King remarry. With European politics in disarray, Cromwell sees a chance to form a new alliance.
9:00 Marie Antoinette: The Pursuit of Happiness (Season 2, Part 4 of 8) The King and Queen find happiness when they experience a taste of “ordinary” life. However, Marie’s efforts to present herself as a sensible mother and regal Queen are doomed by an impending scandal.
10:00 The Paris Murders: In My Son’s Name (Season 2, Part 9 of 12) A serial killer dies in a car crash while carrying an abducted woman in the trunk.
11:00 Austin City Limits: Juanes Colombian superstar Juanes performs music from his acclaimed smash Vida Cotidiana, his 10th studio album.
Monday 14
EARLY MORNING
12:00 My Life is Murder: Look, Don’t Touch See Sat. Apr. 12 at 7:00 pm. [R]
1:00 Midsomer Murders: Dressed to Kill (in 2 parts) See Sat. Apr. 12 at 8:00 pm. [R]
2:30 Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators – Most
Wicked Speed See Sat. Apr. 12 at 9:30 pm. [R]
3:30 The Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra Plays Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony See Sun. Apr. 6 at 10:00 am. [R]
5:00 BBC News
5:30 Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
MORNING
6:00-1:00 WTTW Kids
AFTERNOON
1:00 Antiques Roadshow: Denver Botanic Gardens Chatfield Farms (Part 3 of 3) [R]
2:00 The Great American Recipe
3:00 My Life is Murder: Look, Don’t Touch [R]
4:00 Cook’s Country: A Love Letter to the South
4:30 America’s Test Kitchen from Cook’s Illustrated: New Flavors on the Grill
5:00 BBC News America
5:30 Chicago Tonight
EVENING
6:00 PBS News Hour
7:00 Touring Chicago’s Lakefront with Geoffrey Baer
8:30 Touring Chicago’s Lakefront with Geoffrey Baer [R]
In the Spotlight
Great Performances: Now Hear This (New Season)
Travel with Mexico City Philharmonic chief conductor and host Scott Yoo in this special miniseries taking viewers on a voyage of musical discovery for aficionados and neophytes alike. Each episode reveals the creative process behind a diverse range of classical music in both historic and modern-day periods.
Fridays beginning April 11 9:00 pm
Lucille Ball
Photo: Atlas Media Corp
Pianist Jan Lisiecki and host Scott Yoo
Photo:
Arcos Film + Music LLC
10:00 Chicago Tonight [R]
10:30 BBC News
11:00 Amanpour and Company
Tuesday 15
EARLY MORNING
12:00 Call the Midwife (Season 14, Part 3 of 8) See Sun. Apr. 13 at 7:00 pm. [R]
1:00 Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light on Masterpiece (Part 4 of 6) See Sun. Apr. 13 at 8:00 pm. [R]
2:00 Marie Antoinette: The Pursuit of Happiness (Season 2, Part 4 of 8) See Sun. Apr. 13 at 9:00 pm. [R]
3:00 The Paris Murders: In My Son’s Name (Season 2, Part 9 of 12) See Sun. Apr. 13 at 10:00 pm. [R]
4:00 PBS News Hour [R]
5:00 BBC News
5:30 Chicago Tonight [R]
MORNING
6:00-1:00 WTTW Kids
AFTERNOON
1:00 Antiques Roadshow: Newport (Part 1 of 3)
2:00 Miss Fisher Murder Mysteries: Murder on the Ballarat Train [R]
In the Spotlight
Touring Chicago’s Lakefront with Geoffrey Baer
Join Geoffrey to explore Chicago’s legendary “front yard” and learn how it was envisioned, built, and defended, and the ways it has evolved. Geoffrey recalls colorful characters in the lakefront’s history, highlights beloved birds and submerged secrets, fishes for lake trout, discovers a rodeo, and much more.
Monday, April 14
7:00 and 8:30 pm
3:00 Midsomer Murders: Dressed to Kill (Part 1 of 2) [R]
4:00 Cook’s Country: Biscuits and Chicken
4:30 America’s Test Kitchen from Cook’s Illustrated: Latin Summer Favorites
5:00 BBC News America
5:30 Chicago Tonight
EVENING
6:00
PBS News Hour
7:00 Finding Your Roots
Trailblazing journalists Jim Acosta and Van Jones are introduced to the ancestors who blazed a trail for them.
8:00 Finding Your Roots David Duchovny and Richard Kind trace their roots from Jewish communities in Eastern Europe to the United States.
9:00 Chicago Stories: Union Stockyards Experience the sights, sounds, and awful smells of Chicago’s Union Stockyards and the complex of meat factories next to it.
10:00 Chicago Tonight [R]
10:30 BBC News
11:00 Amanpour and Company
Wednesday 16
EARLY MORNING
12:00 Northwest of Chicago: From Farm Fields to Boomtowns
See Sun. Apr. 13 at 1:18 pm. [R]
1:50 South of Chicago: Suburbs, Steel Mills, Shoreline See Sun. Apr. 13 at 10:00 am. [R]
3:30 John McGivern’s Main Streets: Oak Park, Illinois [R]
4:00 PBS News Hour [R]
5:00 BBC News
5:30 Chicago Tonight [R]
MORNING
6:00-1:00 WTTW Kids
AFTERNOON
1:00 Antiques Roadshow: Newport (Part 2 of 3)
2:00 Pioneers of Television: Westerns [R]
3:00 Midsomer Murders: Dressed to Kill (Part 2 of 2) [R]
4:00 Cook’s Country: Jamaican Feast
4:30 America’s Test Kitchen from Cook’s Illustrated: Pork Two Ways
5:00 BBC News America
5:30 Chicago Tonight
EVENING
6:00 PBS News Hour
7:00 Nature: Katavi, Africa’s Fallen Paradise – Salvation At last, the rains return but become floods of biblical proportion. Finally, when things begin to normalize, the buffalo herds resurface and lion cubs witness their first hunt.
8:00 NOVA: Secrets of the Forest 9:00 The Future of Nature: Humans (Part 4 of 4)
10:00 Chicago Tonight [R]
10:30 BBC News
11:00 Amanpour and Company
Thursday 17
EARLY MORNING
12:00 Finding Your Roots See Tues. Apr. 15 at 7:00 pm. [R]
1:00 Chicago Stories: Union Stockyards See Tues. Apr. 15 at 9:00 pm. [R]
2:00 The Most Beautiful Places in Chicago See Sun. Apr. 13 at 3:08 pm. [R]
3:00 The Jewish Journey: America See Sat. Apr. 12 at 6:00 pm. [R]
4:00 PBS News Hour [R]
5:00 BBC News
5:30 Chicago Tonight [R]
MORNING
6:00-1:00 WTTW Kids
AFTERNOON
1:00 Antiques Roadshow: Newport (Part 3 of 3)
2:00 Finding Your Roots [R]
3:00 Shakespeare & Hathaway, Private Investigators: Most Wicked Speed [R]
4:00 Cook’s Country: New Mexican Bounty
4:30 America’s Test Kitchen from Cook’s Illustrated: Summer Picnic Party
5:30 Chicago Tonight
EVENING
6:00 PBS News Hour
7:00 Pioneers of Television: Funny Ladies Celebrate the first standup comediennes to appear on television – legends including Phyllis Diller and Joan Rivers. We also recall Lucille Ball’s breakthrough on I Love Lucy and the sitcom stars that followed.
8:00 The Vietnam War: Resolve (Part 4 of 10) Defying American airpower, North Vietnamese troops and materiel stream down the Ho Chi Minh Trail, while Saigon struggles to pacify the countryside.
10:00 Chicago Tonight [R]
10:30 BBC News
11:00 Amanpour and Company
Friday 18
EARLY MORNING
12:00 Nature: Katavi, Africa’s Fallen Paradise –Salvation See Wed. Apr. 16 at 7:00 pm. [R]
1:00 NOVA: Secrets of the Forest See Wed. Apr. 16 at 8:00 pm. [R]
2:00 The Future of Nature: Humans (Part 4 of 4) See Wed. Apr. 16 at 9:00 pm. [R]
3:00 Mary Berry’s Fantastic Feasts [R]
4:00 PBS News Hour [R]
5:00 BBC News
NOVA: Secrets of the Forest
Can forests help cool the planet? Follow scientists working in spectacular forest landscapes in Costa Rica, Brazil, Australia, and beyond as they try to untangle complex networks of trees, fungi, and creatures large and small – all in a quest to tackle the twin threats of climate change and species extinction.
Wednesday, April 16
8:00 pm
5:30 Chicago Tonight [R]
MORNING
6:00-1:00 WTTW Kids
AFTERNOON
1:00 Antiques Roadshow: Birmingham (Part 3 of 3) [R]
2:00 Call the Midwife (Season 14, Part 3 of 8) [R]
3:00 Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light on Masterpiece (Part 4 of 6) [R]
4:00 Cook’s Country: Mediterranean Meze
4:30 America’s Test Kitchen from Cook’s Illustrated: Latin Comfort Food
5:00 BBC News America
5:30 Chicago Tonight: The Week in Review
EVENING
6:00 PBS News Hour
7:00 Chicago Tonight: The Week in Review [R] 7:30 Washington Week with the Atlantic
8:00 Miss Fisher Murder Mysteries: The Green Mill Murder Phryne had thought she would dance the night away at the hottest dancehall in town, the Green Mill. That was before death spoiled the evening.
9:00 Great Performances: Now
Geoffrey Baer
Photo: Liz Markel for WTTW
Restoration ecologist Rebecca Cole with film crew
Photo: Courtesy of Vivien Cumming, Windfall Films
Do it Yourself Saturdays
6:30 Fresh Glass
7:00 Great American Recipe
8:00 My Money Mentors
8:30 Curious Traveler
9:00 Samantha Brown’s Places to Love
9:30 John McGivern’s Main Streets
10:00 This Old House
10:30 Ask This Old House
11:00 Steven Raichlen’s Project Fire
11:30 America the Bountiful
12:00 Cook’s Country
12:30 Cook’s Country
1:00 Lidia’s Kitchen
1:30 Essential Pépin
2:00 America’s Test Kitchen
2:30 America’s Test Kitchen
3:00 Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television
3:30 Mary Berry’s Fantastic Feasts
4:30 Check, Please!
5:00 Rick Steves’ Europe
Hear This – Boccherini: Night Music Join Scott Yoo and musicians on a night tour of Madrid to uncover Boccherini’s deep love for the city and learn how his iconic “Night Music of the Streets of Madrid” was inspired by his time in Spain.
10:00 Art Spiegelman: Disaster is My Muse – American Masters Discover the career of cartoonist Art Spiegelman and the groundbreaking impact of his Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel Maus, about the story of his parents’ survival of the Holocaust.
11:00 BBC News
11:30 Amanpour and Company
Saturday 19
EARLY MORNING
12:00 BBC News
12:30 Amanpour and Company
1:30 Pioneers of Television: Funny Ladies See Thurs. Apr. 17 at 7:00 pm. [R]
2:30 Defying the Nazis: The Sharps’ War See Sun. Apr. 13 at 5:30 pm. [R]
4:00 PBS News Hour [R]
5:00 Washington Week with the Atlantic [R]
5:30 Chicago Tonight: The Week in Review [R]
MORNING
6:00 Great Lakes Now
6:30 Fresh Glass: Cassandra’s Sunday Favorites
7:00 The Great American Recipe
8:00 My Money Mentors
8:30 Curious Traveler: Brussels
9:00 Samantha Brown’s Places to Love: New Orleans, Louisiana
9:30 John McGivern’s Main Streets: Waukesha, Wisconsin
10:00 This Old House
10:30 Ask This Old House: Electric Bill Investigation
11:00 Steven Raichlen’s Project Fire: Primal Grill
11:30 America the Bountiful: Walleye in Ohio
AFTERNOON
12:00 Cook’s Country
12:30 Cook’s Country: Endless Dessert
1:00 Lidia’s Kitchen: Take the Time
1:30 Essential Pépin: All Puffed Up
2:00 America’s Test Kitchen: Mediterranean Comfort Food
2:30 America’s Test Kitchen
3:00 Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television: Vegetables for Meat Lovers
3:30 Mary Berry’s Fantastic Feasts
4:30 Check, Please!
5:00 Rick Steves’ Europe:
Austrian and Italian Alps
5:30 PBS News Hour Weekend
EVENING
6:00 Rick Steves European Easter Taking you on a spring journey through Spain, Slovenia, Italy, and Greece, Rick celebrates this 2,000-year-old story in a variety of cultures.
7:00 My Life is Murder: Crushed Dreams Alexa will need all five senses to solve the mysterious death of an ambitious young winemaker.
8:00 Whitstable Pearl: The Free Waters Pearl Nolan discovers the body of her friend and oyster supplier chained to the anchor of his ship. The police, led by Chief Inspector Mike McGuire, believe it was an accident but Pearl suspects foul play.
9:00 Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators –Hunger for Bread Frank and Luella are employed to investigate a slimming company.
10:00 Miss Fisher Murder Mysteries: The Green Mill Murder See Fri. Apr. 18 at 8:00 pm. [R]
11:30 The Vietnam War: Resolve (Part 4 of 10) See Thurs. Apr. 17 at 8:00 pm. [R]
Sunday 20
Easter Sunday
EARLY MORNING
1:00 Chicago Mysteries See Sun. Apr. 13 at 4:00 pm. [R]
2:00 Art Spiegelman: Disaster is My Muse – American Masters See Fri. Apr. 18 at 10:00 pm. [R]
4:00 Great Performances: Now Hear This – Boccherini: Night Music See Fri. Apr. 18 at 9:00 pm. [R]
5:00 To be announced
MORNING
6:30 Joseph Rosendo’s Steppin’ Out
7:00 This Old House [R]
7:30 Ask This Old House: Electric Bill Investigation [R]
8:00 J Schwanke’s Life in Bloom
8:30 New Scandinavian Cooking: Danish Influences
9:00 A Chef’s Life: Turnips – The Roots
9:30 A Chef’s Life: Turnips –The Greens
10:00 Great Performances at the Met: Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffmann Bartlett Sher’s evocative production of Offenbach’s opera stars tenor Benjamin Bernheim in the title role of the tormented poet.
AFTERNOON
1:00 Stories of Survival: Final Transports – The Holocaust
Stories of Magda and George In early summer 1944, Magda Brown and George Brent arrived as teenagers to the notorious AuschwitzBirkenau killing center.
1:30 Stories of Survival: Childhood Lost – The Holocaust Stories of George and Steen Within hours of the Nazi invasion and occupation of Western Europe, George Mueller and Steen Metz had to fight for survival within the Nazi camp system.
2:00 Prisoner of Her Past This film examines a secret childhood trauma that resurfaces, 60 years later, to unravel the life of Holocaust survivor Sonia Reich.
3:00 Rick Steves’ Europe: A Symphonic Journey [R]
4:00 Rick Steves European Easter See Sat. Apr. 19 at 6:00 pm. [R]
5:00 PBS News Weekend
5:30 Touring Chicago’s Lakefront with Geoffrey Baer [R]
EVENING
7:00 Call the Midwife (Season 14, Part 4 of 8) It is May 1970, and the Nonnatus team prepares for the arrival of a new nun and trainee midwife, Sister Catherine.
8:00 Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light on Masterpiece (Part 5 of 6) Cromwell brings Anne of Cleves to England to be Henry’s new wife, a marriage that will cement an alliance between the powerful reforming princes of Europe and defend England from attack.
9:00 Marie Antoinette: Enemies Assemble (Season 2, Part 5 of 8) When Marie Antoinette is implicated in the diamond necklace theft, she is determined to prove her innocence and punish those responsible.
10:00 The Paris Murders: Until the Break of Dawn (Season 2, Part 10 of 12) A woman is found running half-naked and covered in blood in the middle of the night.
11:00 Austin City Limits: Brandi Carlile Americana singer/ songwriter Brandi Carlile performs songs from her acclaimed album In These Silent Days
Monday 21
EARLY MORNING
12:00 My Life is Murder: Crushed Dreams See Sat. Apr. 19 at 7:00 pm. [R]
1:00 Whitstable Pearl: The Free Waters See Sat. Apr. 19 at 8:00 pm. [R] 2:00 Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators –Hunger for Bread See Sat.
Apr. 19 at 9:00 pm. [R]
3:00 Mary Berry’s Fantastic Feasts [R]
4:00 Curious Traveler: Brussels [R]
4:30 Samantha Brown’s Places to Love: New Orleans, Louisiana [R]
5:00 BBC News
5:30 Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
MORNING
6:00-1:00 WTTW Kids
AFTERNOON
1:00 Antiques Roadshow: Maryland Zoo (Part 1 of 3)
2:00 The Great American Recipe
3:00 My Life is Murder: Crushed Dreams [R]
4:00 Cook’s Country: The Best Diner Food
4:30 America’s Test Kitchen from Cook’s Illustrated: Grown-Up Comfort Classics
5:00 BBC News America
5:30 Chicago Tonight
EVENING
6:00 PBS News Hour
7:00 Antiques Roadshow: Maryland Zoo (Part 1 of 3)
8:00 Antiques Roadshow: Maryland Zoo (Part 2 of 3)
9:00 Water for Life Follow Indigenous community leaders in Latin America as they fight to save their precious water resources from mining and hydroelectric projects.
10:30 Chicago Tonight [R]
11:00 BBC News
11:30 Amanpour and Company
Tuesday 22
EARLY MORNING
12:30 Call the Midwife (Season 14, Part 4 of 8) See Sun. Apr. 20 at 7:00 pm. [R]
1:30 Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light on Masterpiece (Part 5 of 6) See Sun. Apr. 20 at 8:00 pm. [R]
2:30 Marie Antoinette: Enemies Assemble (Season 2, Part 5 of 8) See Sun.
Apr. 20 at 9:00 pm. [R]
3:30 Rick Steves’ Europe: Swiss Alps
4:00 PBS News Hour [R]
5:00 BBC News
5:30 Chicago Tonight [R]
MORNING
6:00-1:00 WTTW Kids
AFTERNOON
1:00 Antiques Roadshow: Vintage Albuquerque
2:00 Pioneers of Television: Funny Ladies [R]
3:00 Miss Fisher Murder
Mysteries: The Green Mill Murder [R]
4:00 Cook’s Country: FrenchInspired Dinner
4:30 America’s Test Kitchen from Cook’s Illustrated: Flavors of Thailand
5:00 BBC News America
5:30 Chicago Tonight
EVENING
6:00 PBS News Hour
7:00 Finding Your Roots Henry Louis Gates uncovers the lost roots of actors Billy Crudup and Tamera Mowry-Housley.
8:00 Simon Schama: The Holocaust, 80 Years On
9:00 Frontline: Alaska’s Vanishing Native Villages Frontline focuses on Alaska Native villages fighting for survival against climate change. Also: an investigation into Russian atrocities in Bucha, Ukraine.
10:00 Chicago Tonight [R]
10:30 BBC News
11:00 Amanpour and Company
Wednesday 23
EARLY MORNING
12:00 Antiques Roadshow: Maryland Zoo (Part 1 of 3) See Mon. Apr. 21 at 7:00 pm. [R]
1:00 Antiques Roadshow: Maryland Zoo (Part 2 of 3) See Mon. Apr. 21 at 8:00 pm. [R]
2:00 Prisoner of Her Past See Sun. Apr. 20 at 2:00 pm. [R]
3:00 The Paris Murders: Until the Break of Dawn (Season 2, Part 10 of 12) See Sun. Apr. 20 at 10:00 pm. [R]
4:00 PBS News Hour [R]
5:00 BBC News
5:30 Chicago Tonight [R]
MORNING
6:00-1:00 WTTW Kids
AFTERNOON
1:00 Antiques Roadshow: Vintage Hot Springs
2:00 Rick Steves’ Europe: A Symphonic Journey See Sun. Apr. 20 at 3:00 pm. [R]
3:00 Whitstable Pearl: The Free Waters [R]
4:00 Cook’s Country: Sausages and Salad
4:30 America’s Test Kitchen from Cook’s Illustrated: How to Roast Everything
5:00 BBC News America
5:30 Chicago Tonight
EVENING
6:00 PBS News Hour
7:00 Nature: Penguins – Meet the Family A celebration of one of Earth’s most iconic and beloved birds, featuring footage of all 17 species of penguins for the first time.
8:00 NOVA: Arctic Sinkholes Scientists investigate colossal explosions in Siberia and other evidence that rapidly melting soil in
the Arctic is releasing vast amounts of methane.
9:00 Changing Planet: River Restoration
10:00 Chicago Tonight [R]
10:30 BBC News
11:00 Amanpour and Company
Thursday 24
EARLY MORNING
12:00 Finding Your Roots See Tues. Apr. 22 at 7:00 pm. [R]
1:00 Simon Schama: The Holocaust, 80 Years On See Tues. Apr. 22 at 8:00 pm. [R]
2:00 Frontline: Alaska’s Vanishing Native Villages See Tues. Apr. 22 at 9:00 pm. [R]
3:00 Rick Steves’ Europe: A Symphonic Journey [R]
4:00 PBS News Hour [R]
5:00 BBC News
5:30 Chicago Tonight [R] MORNING
6:00-1:00 WTTW Kids
AFTERNOON
1:00 Antiques Roadshow: Vintage Austin
2:00 Finding Your Roots [R]
3:00 Shakespeare & Hathaway, Private Investigators: Hunger for Bread [R]
4:00 Cook’s Country: Cast Iron Everything
4:30 America’s Test Kitchen from Cook’s Illustrated: All Chocolate, All the Time
5:30 Chicago Tonight
EVENING
6:00 PBS News Hour
7:00 Pioneers of Television: Superheroes This genre crosses many eras: Superman in the 1950s; Batman and The Green Hornet (with Bruce Lee) in the ’60s; Wonder Woman and The Incredible Hulk in the ’70s, and The Greatest American Hero in the ’80s.
8:00 The Vietnam War: This is What We Do (Part 5 of 10) Enemy body counts and American casualties mount as GIs chase an elusive foe and face deadly ambushes and artillery.
9:30 Jay’s Chicago
10:00 Chicago Tonight [R]
10:30 BBC News
11:00 Amanpour and Company
Friday 25
EARLY MORNING
12:00 Nature: Penguins – Meet the Family See Wed. Apr. 23 at 7:00 pm. [R]
1:00 NOVA: Arctic Sinkholes See Wed. Apr. 23 at 8:00 pm. [R]
2:00 Changing Planet: River Restoration See Wed. Apr. 23 at 9:00 pm. [R]
3:00 Austin City Limits: Brandi Carlile See Sun.
In the Spotlight
Whitstable Pearl (New Series)
Follow single mother Pearl Nolan (Kerry Godliman) as she pursues her lifelong dream to start a private detective agency, which she runs from her family restaurant in Whitstable. Locals soon flock to her with all kinds of cases. But when a friend dies, Pearl is confronted with a gruff new cop in town.
Saturdays beginning April 19, 8:00 pm
Apr. 20 at 11:00 pm. [R]
4:00 PBS News Hour [R]
5:00 BBC News
5:30 Chicago Tonight [R]
MORNING
6:00-1:00 WTTW Kids
AFTERNOON
1:00 Antiques Roadshow: Santa Clara (Part 1 of 3) [R]
2:00 Call the Midwife (Season 14, Part 4 of 8) [R]
3:00 Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light on Masterpiece (Part 5 of 6) [R]
4:00 Cook’s Country: New England for Everyone
4:30 America’s Test Kitchen from Cook’s Illustrated: Ultimate Italian
5:00 BBC News America
5:30 Chicago Tonight: The Week in Review
EVENING
6:00 PBS News Hour
7:00 Chicago Tonight: The Week in Review [R]
7:30 Washington Week with the Atlantic
8:00 Miss Fisher Murder
Mysteries: Death at Victoria Dock A young man with a blue tattoo lies cradled in Phryne’s arms. Sadly, it’s not another scene of glorious seduction. This time it’s murder.
Kerry Godliman
STREAM EPISODES EARLY NEW SEASON
9:00 Great Performances: Now Hear This – Rachmaninoff Reborn Follow Rachmaninoff’s journey from a Russian aristocrat to an American artist after the Bolshevik revolution.
10:00 International Jazz Day from Morocco This program showcases today’s finest artists celebrating and performing jazz music, including Herbie Hancock, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Kurt Elling, and more.
11:00 BBC News
11:30 Amanpour and Company
Saturday 26
EARLY MORNING
12:30 Pioneers of Television: Superheroes See Thurs. Apr. 24 at 7:00 pm. [R]
1:30 Water for Life See Mon. Apr. 21 at 9:00 pm. [R]
3:00 Stories of Survival: Final Transports – The Holocaust Stories of Magda and George See Sun. Apr. 20 at 1:00 pm. [R]
3:30 Stories of Survival: Childhood Lost – The Holocaust Stories of George and Steen See Sun. Apr. 20 at 1:30 pm. [R]
4:00 PBS News Hour [R]
5:00 Washington Week with the Atlantic [R]
5:30 Chicago Tonight: The Week in Review [R]
MORNING
6:00 Great Lakes Now: Fading Stars and River Bugs
6:30 Fresh Glass: Cassandra Gets Down and Dirty
7:00 The Great American Recipe
8:00 My Money Mentors
8:30 Curious Traveler: Cardiff
9:00 Samantha Brown’s Places to Love: 25th Anniversary Special
9:30 John McGivern’s Main Streets: Decorah, Iowa
10:00 This Old House
10:30 Ask This Old House: Irrigation Add-On, Stripped Holes
11:00 Steven Raichlen’s Project Fire: Tex Meets Mex
11:30 America the Bountiful: Wheat in Kansas
AFTERNOON
12:00 Cook’s Country
12:30 Cook’s Country: Old New Mexico
1:00 Lidia’s Kitchen: A Frugal Feast
1:30 Essential Pépin: Shell-Ebration
2:00 America’s Test Kitchen: Schnitzel and Roest
2:30 America’s Test Kitchen
3:00 Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television: In
Search of Cacio E Pepe
3:30 Mary Berry Love to Cook: For Beginners
4:00 Mary Berry Love to Cook: On a Budget
4:30 Check, Please!
5:00 Rick Steves’ Europe: Austrian and Italian Alps
5:30 PBS News Hour Weekend
EVENING
6:00 Rick Steves’ Europe: A Symphonic Journey [R]
7:00 My Life is Murder: Sleep No More A frosty reception awaits Alexa when she investigates how the chef at a resort died in his own walk-in freezer.
8:00 Whitstable Pearl: Random Acts When a woman hires Pearl to look into a large sum of cash left in her mailbox, Pearl discovers Whitstable may have a mysterious benefactor.
9:00 Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators – Die We Must Frank and Luella are employed by an eccentric SciFi author to find the stolen last chapter of his final book.
10:00 Miss Fisher Murder Mysteries: Death at Victoria Dock See Fri. Apr. 25 at 8:00 pm. [R]
11:00 The Vietnam War: This Is What We Do (Part 5
of 10) See Thurs. Apr. 24 at 8:00 pm. [R]
Sunday 27
EARLY MORNING
12:30 Finding Your Roots [R]
1:30 Nature: Penguins – Meet the Family [R]
2:30 Jay’s Chicago [R]
3:00 Great Performances: Now Hear This – Rachmaninoff Reborn See Fri. Apr. 25 at 9:00 pm. [R]
4:00 International Jazz Day from Morocco See Fri. Apr. 25 at 10:00 pm. [R]
5:00 To be announced
MORNING
6:30 Joseph Rosendo’s Steppin’ Out
7:00 This Old House [R]
7:30 Ask This Old House: Irrigation Add-On, Stripped Holes [R]
8:00 J Schwanke’s Life in Bloom
8:30 New Scandinavian Cooking: Grain for Food
9:00 A Chef’s Life: Chicken Lickin’
9:30 A Chef’s Life: RampIng Up to Spring
10:00 Wine, Women, & Dementia A dementia family caregiver traverses the U.S. to swap caregiver stories of love, humor, devotion, and death with other dementia caregivers.
In the Spotlight
Pati Jinich Explores Panamericana
(New Miniseries)
In this three-part series, Pati Jinich embarks on a journey inspired by the Pan-American Highway, a series of roads and a symbol of connection and collaboration extending from Alaska to Argentina. Pati begins her epic adventure at the top of Alaska and then travels along the Western Hemisphere to southern Alberta.
Tuesdays beginning April 29, 8:00 pm
11:00 The Corridors of Power After the Soviet Union’s collapse, America became the world’s sole superpower. Rare archives and in-depth testimony offer insights into the “what” and “why” behind the White House’s key decision makers.
AFTERNOON
1:00 Prohibition: A Nation of Drunkards (Part 1 of 3) In 1917, the 18th Amendment sails through both Houses of Congress. Prohibitionists rejoice that America has become officially dry.
3:00 Walkable USA Noted planner and walkable city advocate Jeff Speck partners with Hammond, Indiana, in an attempt to breathe new life into the city’s oncethriving downtown core.
4:00 The Piping Plovers of Moonlight Bay Set against the backdrop of the ever-dynamic Atlantic shoreline, this film features a pair of courageous plovers and the adventures of their blended brood of chicks.
5:30 PBS News Hour Weekend
EVENING
6:00 Letters from Brno In a 45-year search for clues to her mother’s past, a woman
uncovers the tragic fate of her grandparents in Nazioccupied Czechoslovakia.
7:00 Call the Midwife (Season 14, Part 5 of 8) A solo delivery puts Sister Julienne’s skills to the test. The Nonnatus team oversees the care of a man living inside an iron lung after being paralyzed from a polio infection. Cyril returns from Jamaica.
8:00 Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light on Masterpiece (Part 6 of 6) Fortune’s wheel turns as Cromwell finally finds himself in Henry’s crosshairs. Charged with treason and feeling the axe’s edge, only a masterstroke of political maneuvering can save him from the scaffold now.
9:00 Marie Antoinette: Hated, Humbled, Mortified (Season 2, Part 6 of 8) When Rohan and Jeanne are brought to public trial, events spiral beyond Marie Antoinette and Louis’s control. In defending her reputation, Marie Antoinette unwittingly destroys it and delivers a fatal blow to Louis’s political authority.
10:00 The Paris Murders: Forever (Season 2, Part 11 of 12) The entire team is attending Hyppolite’s wedding, when a dramatic turn of events turns the ceremony into yet another bloodbath.
11:00 Austin City Limits: Bonnie Raitt Blues, rock, and soul maestro Bonnie Raitt returns to Austin City Limits for the first time in a decade, performing classics and highlights from her triple 2023 Grammy-winning album Just Like That
Monday 28
EARLY MORNING
12:00 My Life is Murder: Sleep No More See Sat. Apr. 26 at 7:00 pm. [R]
1:00 Whitstable Pearl: Random Acts See Sat. Apr. 26 at 8:00 pm. [R]
2:00 Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators –Die We Must See Sat. Apr. 26 at 9:00 pm. [R]
3:00 The Corridors of Power See Sun. Apr. 27 at 11:00 am. [R]
4:00 PBS News Hour [R]
5:00 BBC News
5:30 Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
MORNING
6:00-1:00 WTTW Kids
AFTERNOON
1:00 Antiques Roadshow: Maryland Zoo (Part 2 of 3) [R]
2:00 The Great American Recipe
3:00 My Life is Murder: Sleep No More [R]
4:00 Cook’s Country: Low Country Party
4:30 America’s Test Kitchen from Cook’s Illustrated: Modern Weeknight Meals
5:00 BBC News America
5:30 Chicago Tonight
EVENING
6:00 PBS News Hour
7:00 Antiques Roadshow: Maryland Zoo (Part 3 of 3)
8:00 Antiques Roadshow: Santa Clara (Part 2 of 3) Finds include a 1900 Lambert magician automaton that is still in working condition; a Ray Bradbury archive collected by Bradbury’s high school English teacher; and Fred Myrick scrimshaw tooth circa 1830.
9:00 Nine Parts One woman, nine stories. Set in Michigan at the height of the pandemic, an Iraqi American woman torn by her father’s death – and by a divided nation – attempts to grieve at the site of the oldest Iraqi Church in North America. Nine Parts is based on the internationally acclaimed one-woman play Nine Parts of Desire.
10:00 Chicago Tonight [R]
10:30 BBC News
11:00 Amanpour and Company
Tuesday 29
EARLY MORNING
12:00 Call the Midwife (Season 14, Part 5 of 8) See Sun. Apr. 27 at 7:00 pm. [R]
1:00 Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light on Masterpiece (Part 6 of 6) See Sun. Apr. 27 at 8:00 pm. [R]
2:00 Marie Antoinette: Hated, Humbled, Mortified (Season 2, Part 6 of 8) See Sun. Apr. 27 at 9:00 pm. [R]
3:00 The Paris Murders: Forever (Season 2, Part 11 of 12) See Sun. Apr. 27 at 10:00 pm. [R]
4:00 PBS News Hour [R]
5:00 BBC News
5:30 Chicago Tonight [R]
MORNING
6:00-1:00 WTTW Kids
AFTERNOON
1:00 Antiques Roadshow: Vintage Cleveland
2:00 Pioneers of Television: Superheroes [R]
3:00 Miss Fisher Murder Mysteries: Death at Victoria Dock [R]
4:00 Cook’s Country: Midwestern Favorites
4:30 America’s Test Kitchen from Cook’s Illustrated: Vegan for Everyone
5:00 BBC News America
5:30 Chicago Tonight
EVENING
6:00 PBS News Hour
7:00 Finding Your Roots Henry Louis Gates, Jr. meets Valerie Bertinelli and Brendan Fraser: two actors who found fame when they were young and lived their lives in the limelight, cut off from their roots. Each discovers ancestors who paved the way for their success.
8:00 Pati Jinich Explores Panamericana: Alaska –Wild Harvest
9:00 Independent Lens: Free for All – The Public Library
10:30 Chicago Tonight [R]
11:00 BBC News
11:30 Amanpour and Company
Wednesday 30
EARLY MORNING
12:30 Antiques Roadshow: Maryland Zoo (Part 3 of 3) See Mon. Apr. 28 at 7:00 pm. [R]
1:30 Antiques Roadshow: Santa Clara (Part 2 of 3) See Mon. Apr. 28 at 8:00 pm. [R]
2:30 Nine Parts See Mon. Apr. 28 at 9:00 pm. [R]
3:30 Rick Steves’ Europe: French Alps and Lyon
4:00 PBS News Hour [R]
5:00 BBC News
5:30 Chicago Tonight [R]
MORNING
6:00-1:00 WTTW Kids
AFTERNOON
1:00 Antiques Roadshow: Vintage Seattle
2:00 10 Homes That Changed America
3:00 Whitstable Pearl: Random Acts [R]
4:00 Cook’s Country: Fried Chicken and Biscuits
4:30 America’s Test Kitchen from Cook’s Illustrated: Just Add Apples
5:00 BBC News America
5:30 Chicago Tonight
EVENING
6:00 PBS News Hour
7:00 Nature: Niagara Falls Embark to this geological wonder and witness its stunning beauty and a wide variety of wildlife mammals, birds, and reptiles that call it home.
8:00 NOVA: Critical Condition –Health in Black America Filmmaker Stanley Nelson traces the roots of systemic racism in our medical system to understand why Black Americans experience such disproportionately poor health outcomes.
10:00 Chicago Tonight [R]
10:30 BBC News
11:00 Amanpour and Company
Pati Jinich
Photo: EJuliette Flora for Early Light Media
Arts • Performance
Austin City Limits
Sundays, 11:00 pm (4/13, 4/20, 4/27)
Friday, 3:00 am (4/25)
Austin City Limits Celebrates 50 Years
Friday, 9:00 pm (4/4)
Sunday, 1:00 am, 11:00 pm (4/6)
Great Performances
Fridays, 9:00 pm (4/11, 4/18, 4/25)
Friday, 10:00 pm (4/11)
Sunday, 3:00 am, 4:00 am (4/13)
Sunday, 4:00 am (4/20)
Sunday, 3:00 am (4/27)
Great Performances at the Met
Sunday, 10:00 am (4/20)
International Jazz Day from Morocco
Friday, 10:00 pm (4/25)
Sunday, 4:00 am (4/27)
Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra Plays Beethoven’s 9th
Sunday, 10:00 am (4/6)
Monday, 3:30 am (4/14)
Vietnam War
Thursdays, 8:00 pm
Saturday, 11:30 pm (4/5)
Saturdays, 11:00 pm (4/12, 4/19, 4/26)
Drama • Comedy • Movies
Call the Midwife
Sundays, 7:00 pm
Fridays, 2:00 pm
Thursday, 3:00 am, 4:00 am (4/3)
Friday, 3:00 am, 4:00 am (4/4)
Saturday, 2:00 am, 3:00 am, 4:00 am (4/5)
Sunday, 3:00 am, 4:00 am (4/6)
Tuesdays, 12:00 am (4/8, 4/15, 4/29)
Tuesday, 12:30 am (4/22)
Marie Antoinette
Sundays, 9:00 pm
Tuesdays, 2:00 am (4/8, 4/15, 4/29)
Tuesday, 2:30 am (4/22)
Midsomer Murders
Saturdays, 8:00 pm, 8:45 pm (4/5, 4/12)
Tuesdays, 3:00 pm (4/1, 4/8, 4/15)
Wednesdays, 3:00 pm (4/2, 4/9, 4/16)
Monday, 2:00 am, 2:45 am (4/7)
Monday, 1:00 am, 1:45 am (4/14) Miss Fisher Murder Mysteries
Fridays, 8:00 pm
Saturdays, 8:30 pm (4/5, 4/12)
Tuesday, 2:00 pm (4/15)
Saturdays, 10:00 pm (4/19, 4/26)
Tuesdays, 3:00 pm (4/22, 4/29)
My Life is Murder
Saturdays, 7:00 pm
Mondays, 12:00 am, 3:00 pm
Paris Murders
Sundays, 10:00 pm
Tuesdays, 3:00 am (4/8, 4/15, 4/29)
Wednesday, 3:00 am (4/23)
Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators
Thursdays, 3:00 pm
Saturdays, 9:30 pm
Monday, 3:30 am (4/7)
Monday, 2:30 am (4/14)
Mondays, 2:00 am (4/21, 4/28) Whitstable Pearl
Saturdays, 8:00 pm (4/19, 4/26)
Mondays, 1:00 am (4/21, 4/28)
Wednesdays, 3:00 pm (4/23, 4/30)
Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light on Masterpiece
Fridays, 3:00 pm
Sundays, 8:00 pm
Tuesdays, 1:00 am (4/8, 4/15, 4/29)
Tuesday, 1:30 am (4/22)
Cooking & Dining • Home
Improvement • Travel
America the Bountiful
Saturdays, 11:30 am
America’s Test Kitchen
Saturdays, 2:00 pm, 2:30 pm
Mondays-Fridays, 4:30 pm
Antiques Roadshow
Mondays, 7:00 pm, 8:00 pm (4/7, 4/21, 4/28)
Mondays-Fridays, 1:00 pm
Wednesdays, 12:00 am, 1:00 am (4/2, 4/9, 4/23)
Wednesday, 12:30 am (4/30)
Ask This Old House
Saturdays, 10:30 am
Sundays, 7:30 am
Check, Please!
Saturdays, 4:30 pm
Chef’s Life
Sundays, 9:00 am, 9:30 am
Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street
Television Saturdays, 3:00 pm
Cook’s Country Mondays-Friday, 4:00 pm
Saturdays, 12:00 pm
Curious Traveler
Saturdays, 8:30 am
Monday, 4:00 am (4/21)
Essential Pépin
Saturdays, 1:30 pm
Fresh Glass
Saturdays, 6:30 am
Great American Recipe
Wednesday, 3:00 am (4/2)
Saturdays, 7:00 am
Mondays, 2:00 pm (4/7, 4/14, 4/21, 4/28)
J Schwanke’s Life in Bloom
Sundays, 8:00 am
John McGivern’s Main Streets
Saturdays, 9:30 am
Wednesday, 3:30 am (4/16)
Joseph Rosendo’s Steppin’ Out
Sundays, 6:30 am
Lidia’s Kitchen
Saturdays, 1:00 pm
Mary Berry Love to Cook
Saturday, 3:30 pm, 4:00 pm (4/26)
Mary Berry’s Fantastic Feasts
Saturdays, 3:30 pm (4/5, 4/12, 4/19)
Friday, 3:00 am (4/18)
Monday, 3:00 am (4/21)
New Scandinavian Cooking
Sundays, 8:30 am
Pati Jinich Explores Panamericana
Tuesday, 8:00 pm (4/29)
Rick Steves’ Europe
Saturdays, 5:00 pm
Saturday, 12:30 am (4/5)
Sundays, 5:00 pm (4/6, 4/27)
Monday, 4:30 am (4/7)
Sunday, 1:30 am (4/13)
Tuesday, 3:30 am (4/22)
Wednesday, 3:30 am (4/30)
Rick Steves’ Europe: A Symphonic Journey
Monday, 9:00 pm (4/7)
Sunday, 3:00 pm (4/20)
Wednesday, 2:00 pm (4/23)
Thursday, 3:00 am (4/24)
Saturday, 6:00 pm (4/26)
Rick Steves European Easter
Saturday, 6:00 pm (4/19)
Sunday, 4:00 pm (4/20)
Samantha Brown’s Places to Love
Saturdays, 9:00 am
Monday, 4:30 am (4/21)
Steven Raichlen’s Project Fire
Saturdays, 11:00 am
This Old House
Saturdays, 10:00 am
Sundays, 7:00 am
April At-a-Glance
Nature • Science • Technology
Changing Planet
Wednesday, 9:00 pm (4/23)
Friday, 2:00 am (4/25) Future of Nature
Wednesdays, 9:00 pm (4/2, 4/9, 4/16)
Fridays, 2:00 am (4/4, 4/11, 4/18)
Great Lakes Now Saturdays, 6:00 am
Nature
Wednesdays, 7:00 pm
Fridays, 12:00 am
Sunday, 1:30 am (4/27) NOVA
Wednesdays, 8:00 pm Fridays, 1:00 am
Piping Plovers on Moonlight Bay Sunday, 4:00 pm (4/27) Water for Life
Monday, 9:00 pm (4/21)
Saturday, 1:30 am (4/26)
Public Affairs • History • Documentary
10 Homes that Changed America
Wednesday, 2:00 pm (4/30) Amanpour and Company
Mondays-Fridays, 11:00 pm
American Masters
Tuesday, 8:00 pm (4/1)
Thursday, 1:00 am (4/3)
Friday, 10:00 pm (4/18)
Sunday, 2:00 am (4/20)
BBC News
Mondays-Fridays, 10:30 pm, 5:00 am
BBC News America Mondays-Fridays, 5:00 pm
Chicago Mysteries Sunday, 4:00 pm (4/13)
Sunday, 1:00 am (4/20)
Chicago Stories: The Great Chicago Fire Saturday, 6:00 pm (4/5)
Wednesday, 2:00 pm (4/9)
Chicago Stories: Jane Byrne Wednesday, 2:00 pm (4/2)
Chicago Stories: Union Stockyards
Tuesday, 9:00 pm (4/15) Thursday, 1:00 am (4/17)
Chicago Tonight Mondays-Thursdays, 5:30 pm, 10:00 pm Tuesdays-Fridays, 5:30 am
Chicago Tonight: The Week in Review Fridays, 5:30 pm, 7:00 pm
Saturdays, 5:30 am
Chicago’s North Shore Sunday, 11:45 am (4/13)
The Corridors of Power Sunday, 11:00 am (4/27)
Monday, 3:00 am (4/28)
Defying the Nazis: The Sharps’ War
Sunday, 5:30 pm (4/13)
Saturday, 2:30 am (4/19)
Finding Your Roots
Tuesdays, 7:00 pm
Tuesday, 8:00 pm (4/15)
Thursdays, 12:00 am, 2:00 pm
Sunday, 12:30 am (4/27)
Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
Mondays, 5:30 am
Frontline
Tuesday, 9:00 pm (4/22)
Going Your Way
Wednesday, 2:00 am (4/2)
Independent Lens
Tuesday, 8:00 pm (4/8)
Thursday, 1:00 am (4/10)
Tuesday, 9:00 pm (4/29)
Jay’s Chicago
Sunday, 1:30 pm (4/6)
Tuesday, 9:30 pm (4/8)
Thursday, 2:30 am (4/10)
Saturday, 3:30 am (4/12)
Thursday, 9:30 pm (4/24)
Sunday, 2:30 am (4/27)
Jewish Journey: America
Saturday, 6:00 pm (4/12)
Thursday, 3:00 am (4/17)
Kate: A Queen for the Future
Sunday, 6:00 pm (4/6)
Tuesday, 2:00 pm (4/8)
Sunday, 2:00 am (4/13)
Kennedy Documentaries
Sunday, 2:00 pm, 3:00 pm, 4:00 pm (4/6)
Wednesday, 3:00 am (4/9)
Thursday, 3:00 am (4/10)
Friday, 3:00 am (4/11)
Letters from Brno
Sunday, 6:00 pm (4/27)
The Most Beautiful Places in Chicago Sunday, 3:00 pm (4/13)
Thursday, 2:00 am (4/17)
My Money Mentors
Saturdays, 8:00 am
Nine Parts
Monday, 9:00 pm (4/28)
Wednesday, 2:30 am (4/30)
Northwest of Chicago: From Farm Fields to Boomtown
Sunday, 1:15 pm (4/13)
Wednesday, 12:00 am (4/16)
PBS News Hour
Mondays-Fridays, 6:00 pm
Tuesdays, 4:00 am (4/8, 4/15, 4/22, 4/29)
Wednesdays, 4:00 am (4/9, 4/16, 4/23, 4/30)
Thursdays, 4:00 am (4/10, 4/17, 4/24, 5/1)
Fridays, 4:00 am (4/11, 4/18, 4/25)
PBS News Weekend
Saturdays, 5:30 pm
Sundays, 5:30 pm (4/6, 4/27)
Sundays, 5:00 pm (4/13, 4/20) Pioneers of Television
Thursdays, 7:00 pm (4/10, 4/17, 4/24)
Saturdays, 12:30 am (4/12, 4/29)
Wednesday, 2:00 pm (4/16)
Saturday, 1:30 am (4/19)
Tuesdays, 2:00 pm (4/22, 4/29)
POV
Monday, 9:00 pm (4/7)
Wednesday, 2:00 am (4/9)
Prisoner of Her Past
Sunday, 2:00 pm (4/20)
Wednesday, 2:00 am (4/23) Prohibition Sunday, 1:00 pm (4/27) Return to Belsen
Thursday, 7:00 pm (4/3)
Saturday, 1:00 am (4/5)
Simon Schama: The Holocaust, 80 Years On
Tuesday, 8:00 pm (4/22)
Thursday, 1:00 am (4/24)
South of Chicago: Suburbs, Steel Mills
Sunday, 10:00 am (4/13)
Wednesday, 1:50 am (4/16)
Southwest Suburbs: Birthplace of Chicago
Sunday, 11:30 am (4/6)
Saturday, 1:30 am (4/12)
Stories of Survival
Sunday, 1:00 pm, 1:30 pm (4/20)
Saturday, 3:00 am, 3:30 am (4/26)
Touring Chicago’s Lakefront with Geoffrey Baer
Monday, 7:00 pm, 8:30 pm (4/14)
Sunday, 5:30 pm (4/20)
Walkable USA
Sunday, 3;00 pm (4/27)
Washington Week with the Atlantic Fridays, 7:30 pm
Saturdays, 5:00 am
Weekend in Havana with Geoffrey Baer
Tuesday, 2:00 pm (4/1)
Wednesday, 4:00 am (4/2)
Wine, Women, & Dementia
Sunday, 10:00 am (4/27)
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Daily Radio Programming
Programmer’s Picks
Live from WFMT
Guests include the award-winning quintet WindSync, Chicago’s own Oriana Singers, and the genre-bending trio Time for Three. Mondays, 8:00 pm
Mornings with John Clare at 6:00 am
With news and weather on the hour between 6:00 am and 9:00 am; and Carl’s Almanac at 7:30 am.
Midday with Lisa Flynn at 10:00 am
With Daily Excursion at 11:00 am, and Music in Chicago at 12:00 pm ( Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert on Wednesdays at 12:15 pm).
Afternoon Music with Candice Agree at 3:00 pm
With The Unrush Hour at 5:00 pm and Friday Afternoon at the Movies on Fridays at 4:30 pm.
Tuesday 1
12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff
6:00 Mornings with John Clare
6:30 WFMT Membership Drive until 7:00 pm. Enjoy the best classical music through the day with your favorite WFMT personalities and special guests, and support the music you love by calling (773) 2792100 or by visiting wfmt.com.
7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Leopold Stokowski (1882-1977) The renowned conductor was
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known for creating more than 200 orchestral transcriptions. His works are colorful and varied, spanning a wide range from the organ pieces of JS Bach to the operas of Wagner. Stokowski played a pivotal role in the early development of orchestral recordings, and in 1940, he partnered with Walt Disney to produce the groundbreaking film Fantasia.
8:00 Evenings with Kerry Frumkin including Bach English Suite No. 6 in D minor, BWV 811 –Rochelle Sennet, p. Albany TROY-1869-71 (3). [26:45]
9:00 Louise Farrenc Symphony No. 2 in D, Op. 35 – Solistes Européens Luxembourg/ Christoph König. Naxos 8.573706. [32:41]
10:00 Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. Françaix Trio (1933); Yura Lee, violin; Richard O’Neill, viola; Nicholas Canellakis, cello; Schoenfield Trio (1986); David Shifrin, clarinet; Ida Kavafian, violin; Anne-Marie McDermott, piano; Prokofiev Quartet No. 2 in F major, Op. 92; Calidore String Quartet.
11:00 Evenings with Kerry Frumkin including Joachim Raff Symphony No. 3 in F, Op. 153, In The Forest –Czecho-Slovak State Phil Orch/Urs Schneider. Marco Polo 8.223321. [38:33]
Wednesday 2
12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff
6:00 Mornings with John Clare 6:30 WFMT Membership Drive until 7:00 pm. Enjoy the best classical music through the day with your favorite WFMT personalities and special
All prerecorded music on WFMT is provided by the Richard and Mary L. Gray Music Library.
Most live performances on WFMT are broadcast from the Fay and Daniel Levin Performance Studio.
San Francisco Symphony
Esa-Pekka Salonen leads exciting new works and Michael Tilson Thomas returns to conduct Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9. Mondays, 10:00 pm
guests, and support the music you love by calling (773) 2792100 or by visiting wfmt.com.
7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Leopold Stokowski (1882-1977)
See Tuesday’s listing.
8:00 Evenings with Kerry Frumkin including Georges Onslow String Quintet in A, Op. 75 – Elan Quintet. Naxos 8.574187. [27:23]
9:00 Lalo Cello Concerto in D minor – Daniel Müller-Schott, vc; Berlin German Sym Orch/ Alexandre Bloch. Orfeo ORF-C988211. [26:13]
10:00 Baroque&Before with Candice Agree: Music of the Angels Historical brass ensemble Oltremontano Antwerp and the female vocal ensemble Tiburtina join forces for a program focused on fifteenthcentury monophonic chant and polyphony. Recorded live in concert July 16, 2024 as part of Prague’s Summer Festivities of Early Music.
Thursday 3
12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff
6:00 Mornings with John Clare
6:30 WFMT Membership Drive until 7:00 pm. Enjoy the best classical music through the day with your favorite WFMT personalities and special guests, and support the music you love by calling (773) 2792100 or by visiting wfmt.com.
7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Leopold Stokowski (1882-1977) See Tuesday’s listing.
8:00 Evenings with Kerry Frumkin including Beethoven Violin Concerto in D, Op. 61 – Gil Shaham, v; The Knights/ Eric Jacobsen. Canary Classics CC-20. [39:42]
9:00 Korngold Piano Trio in D, Op. 1 – NZTrio. Rattle RAT-D121. [32:08]
10:00 The New York Philharmonic This Week. Beethoven Symphony No. 1; Bruckner Symphony No. 7; Kurt Masur, conductor.
Friday 4
12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff
6:00 Mornings with John Clare
6:30 WFMT Membership Drive until 7:00 pm. Enjoy the best classical music through the day with your favorite WFMT personalities and special guests, and support the music you love by calling (773) 2792100 or by visiting wfmt.com.
7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Leopold Stokowski (1882-1977) See Tuesday’s listing.
8:00 Friday Evening with Kristina Lynn including Mark O’Connor Strings and Threads Suite – Mark O’Connor, v; Metamorphosen/Scott Yoo. Sony SK-89660. [15:29]
9:00 Omar Thomas Of Our New Day Begun – Western Kentucky U Wind Ensemble/ Gary Schallert. Mark Records 52287-MCD. [10:44]
10:00 Price Songs of the Oak –Württemberg Phil/John Jeter. Naxos 8.559920. [16:21]
11:00 Best of Studs Terkel The interview with William Warfield (1920-2002) was originally broadcast July 11, 1963, when the distinguished American bass-baritone was in Chicago to perform in Pablo Casals’s oratorio El Pessebre.
Saturday 5
12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff
7:00 WFMT Membership Drive until 12:00pm. 12:00 Metropolitan Opera: Golijov’s Ainadamar Angel Blue (Margarita Xirgu); Daniela Mack (Frederico García Lorca); Elena Villalón (Nuria); Alfredo Tejada (Ramón Ruiz Alonso); Metropolitan Opera Cho & Orch/Miguel Harth-Bedoya. Sung in Spanish. Recorded fall 2024.
2:00 Saturday Afternoon Music with Jan Weller including Haydn Piano Concerto in F, H XVIII:3 – Marc-André Hamelin, p; Les Violons du Roy/Bernard Labadie.
Hyperion CDA-67925. [20:14]
3:00 Grace Williams Castell Caernarfon – BBC Phil/ John Andrews. Resonus RES-10349. [10:17]
4:00 Listening to Singers with Oliver Camacho On Chicago’s Musicians Club of Women which is celebrating its 150th anniversary. Soprano Patrice Michaels shares the history of the philanthropic organization as well as performances by past winners including Nicole Cabell, Susanna Phillips, and Elizabeth DeShong.
5:00 Saturday Evening Music with Jan Weller including Alexander Goedicke Concert Etude, Op. 49 – Matilda Lloyd, tr; London Sym Orch/ Lee Reynolds. Chandos CHSA-5339. [3:15]
6:00 Mozart Piano Concerto No. 23 in A, K. 488 – Northern Sinfonia/Imogen Cooper, p. Avie AV-2100. [27:19]
7:00 Sounds Classical: Comedy in Classical Music Hosts LaRob K. Rafael and Kristina Lynn welcome comedy songwriter and fellow WFMT host Robbie Ellis to explore the intersections of comedy and classical music.
8:00 Folkstage hosted by Marilyn Rea Beyer From the archives: Selections from the Folkstage tradition of hosting summer festival previews through the years.
9:00 The Midnight Special with Marilyn Rea Beyer Music in the air, in our hearts and on the streets of Chicago.
Sunday 6
12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff
6:00 With Heart and Voice Lent 5. Host Peter DuBois explores sacred choral and organ music evoking prayers of petition, repentance, thanksgiving, and longing during this season of Lent.
7:00 Weekend Mornings with LaRob K. Rafael including Elgar Lux Aeterna (after Nimrod, Op. 36, No. 9) – Voces8. Decca B0022601-02. [3:51]
8:00 Dvorák Romance in F minor, Op. 11 – Christian Tetzlaff, v; Helsinki Phil Orch/ John Storgårds. Ondine ODE-1279-5. [12:27]
9:00 Giuseppe Sammartini Oboe Concerto in C, S-Skma Xe-R 166:30 – Albrecht Mayer, ob; I Musici de Roma. DG 4797144. [17:26]
10:00 Chausson Poème, Op. 25 –Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, v; London Sym Orch/ Michael Tilson Thomas. EMI
CDC7-54855-2. [17:24]
11:00 Adolphus Hailstork Adagio for Strings –Ambrosia Quartet. Albany TROY-1680. [5:10]
12:00 Sunday Afternoons with Robbie Ellis including Vivaldi Concerto in C con molti strumenti, R. 558 – English Concert/Trevor Pinnock. Archiv 415674-2. [10:00]
1:00 Thomas Benjamin That Old Second-Viennese-School Rag; John Musto Five Concert Rags: No. 1, Recollections –Michael Adcock, p. Centaur CRC-3639. [9:27]
2:00 Ignaz Pleyel Symphonie périodique in F, B 140 – Zürich Chamber Orch/Howard Griffiths. CPO 999759. [17:50]
3:00 Alyssa Morris Four Personalities – Courtney Miller, ob; Ayako Yoda, p. Centaur CRC-3421. [11:16]
4:00 Eric Ewazen Trio for horn, violin and piano – Michael Thornton, hn; Yumi HwangWilliams, v; Andrew Litton, p. Albany TROY-1616. [19:56]
5:00 Evenings with Kerry Frumkin including George Whitefield Chadwick Symphony No. 2 in B-flat, Op. 21 – Detroit Symphony Orchestra/ Neeme Järvi. Chandos CHAN-9685. [34:56]
6:00 Beethoven Piano and Wind Quintet in E-Flat, Op. 16 – Radu Lupu, p; H de Vries, ob; G Pieterson, cl; V Zarzo, hn; B Pollard, bn. Decca 414291-2. [27:02]
7:00 Ryan Opera Center Recital Series Baritone Ian Rucker, bass-baritone Christopher Humbert, Jr. , and pianist Michael Banwarth perform arias and songs by Korngold, Still, Schubert, Poulenc, and Stevie Wonder. Hosted by Candice Agree.
8:00 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Radio Broadcasts. Rossini The Barber of Seville Overture; Georg Solti, conductor; Strauss Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40; Karina Canellakis, conductor; Robert Schumann Piano Concerto in A Minor, Op. 54; Chopin Waltz in A-flat Major, Op. 42; Kirill Gerstein, piano; Augusta Read Thomas Brio; Karina Canellakis, conductor.
10:00 Fiesta! with Elbio Barilari: Four Latin American Composers We Need to Know Better Elbio shares music by the Argentine Constantino Gaito, Chilean Luis Saglie, Mexican Jose Elizondo and Cuban Joaquin Nin.
11:00 Collectors’ Corner with Henry Fogel: Music by Heinrich Kaminski
Featuring his Concerto Grosso; Quintet; Prelude and Fugue on ABEGG; and Work for String Orchestra.
Monday 7
1:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff
6:00 Mornings with John Clare 6:30 WFMT Membership Drive until 7:00 pm. Enjoy the best classical music through the day with your favorite WFMT personalities and special guests, and support the music you love by calling (773) 2792100 or by visiting wfmt.com.
7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Symphony, Part I. Starting with a sinfonia by Biaggio Marini from 1618, Bill slowly makes his way through symphonies of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, finishing at the brink of the Romantic era with the second symphony by Beethoven.
8:00 Live from WFMT Pianist Marc-André Hamelin performs Ives’s Second Piano Sonata, Robert Schumann’s Forest Scenes, and Ravel’s Gaspard de la nuit. Originally broadcast July 1, 2024.
10:00 The WFMT Orchestra Series: The Cleveland Orchestra. Einojuhani Rautavaara Cantus Arcticus; Sibelius Symphony No. 2 in D Op. 43; Dalia Stasevska, conductor.
Tuesday 8
12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff
6:00 Mornings with John Clare
6:30 WFMT Membership Drive until 7:00 pm. Enjoy the best classical music through the day with your favorite WFMT personalities and special guests, and support the music you love by calling (773) 2792100 or by visiting wfmt.com.
7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Symphony, Part I. See Monday’s listing.
8:00 Evenings with Kerry Frumkin including Jan Ladislav Dussek Piano Sonata in E-Flat, Op. 44, The Farewell – Ian Hobson, p. Arabesque Z-6594. [28:27]
9:00 Sibelius Symphony No. 3 in C, Op. 52 – Oslo Phil/ Klaus Mäkelä. Decca 4852256. [29:55]
10:00 Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. Henry T. Burleigh Southland Sketches; Chad Hoopes, violin; Wu Han, piano; Dvorák Quintet in G major, Op. 77; Calidore String Quartet; Xavier Foley, double bass.
In the Spotlight
Listening to Singers
In 1875, five pioneering women gathered with a simple mission: to share and explore their musical passions. Dedicated to creating a vibrant local classical music community, Musician’s Club of Women (MCW) is now one of the oldest musical organizations in Chicago, continuously supporting emerging and established women musicians through scholarships and performance opportunities. Composer and soprano Patrice Michaels, a MCW member, joins WFMT to share performances of past award winners (including Susanna Phillips, Michelle Areyzaga, Elizabeth DeShong, and Nicole Cabell) and some of the history of the organization as MCW celebrates its 150th anniversary this year.
Saturday, April 5 4:00 pm
11:00 Evenings with Kerry Frumkin including Bach Orchestra Suite No. 1 in C, BWV 1066 – Le Concert des Nations/Jordi Savall. Alia Vox AVSA-9890 (2). [27:14]
Wednesday 9
12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff
6:00 Mornings with John Clare 6:30 WFMT Membership Drive until 7:00 pm. Enjoy the best classical music through the day with your favorite WFMT personalities and special guests, and support the music you love by calling (773) 2792100 or by visiting wfmt.com.
7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Symphony, Part I. See Monday’s listing.
8:00 Evenings with Kerry Frumkin including Dvorák Violin Concerto in A minor, Op. 53 –Hilary Hahn, v; Frankfurt Radio
Patrice Michaels
Symphony/Andrés OrozcoEstrada. DG 4862383. [33:25]
9:00 Kevin Puts Contact – Time for Three; Philadelphia Orch/Xian Zhang. DG 4863066. [29:10]
10:00 Baroque&Before with Candice Agree: Songs & Laments of the Sephardim As Passover begins on the evening of April 12, WFMT commemorates the deliverance of the Jewish people from slavery in Egypt with a program of sacred, paraliturgical, celebratory, and secular music of the Jews of the Mediterranean: Spain, Greece, Italy, and the Ottoman Empire. Preeminent interpreters of this repertoire will be featured including Alia Musica, New York Baroque, Hespèrion XXI, and La Capella Reial de Catalunya.
In the Spotlight
Introductions
Pianist Edie Park, 15, is a sophomore at the Latin School of Chicago and a Scholarship Fellow at the Music Institute of Chicago Academy. She has been invited to perform at prestigious venues such as Carnegie Hall, Beethoven Haus (Bonn), and London’s Royal Albert Hall. Edie is Director of Community Outreach at Musicians for Hope, a non-profit organization founded by Academy students that supports music education in underfunded schools in the Chicago area. As a longtime fan of WFMT, she initiated a collaboration between WFMT’s Bach to School program and Musicians for Hope, raising $9,600 to impact eight schools. For her Introductions recital, Edie performs music by Scarlatti, Beethoven, Chopin, and the San Francisco-based composer Jean Ahn. Hosted by Robbie Ellis. Saturday, April 12
11:00 am
Thursday 10
12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff
6:00 Mornings with John Clare
6:30 WFMT Membership Drive until 7:00 pm. Enjoy the best classical music through the day with your favorite WFMT personalities and special guests, and support the music you love by calling (773) 2792100 or by visiting wfmt.com.
7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Symphony, Part I. See Monday’s listing.
8:00 Evenings with Kerry Frumkin including Robert Schumann Symphony No. 1 in B-Flat, Op. 38, Spring – Leipzig Gewandhaus Orch/Riccardo Chailly. Decca 4780037. [30:20]
9:00 Ravel String Quartet in F – Takács Quartet. Hyperion CDA-68400. [27:35]
10:00 The New York Philharmonic This Week. Korngold Violin Concerto; Hilary Hahn, violin; Wagenaar Cyrano de Bergerac Overture; Beethoven Symphony No. 7; Jaap van Zweden, conductor.
Friday 11
12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff
6:00 Mornings with John Clare including Beethoven Romance No. 1 in G, Op. 40 – Gil Shaham, v; Orpheus Chamber Orch. DG 449923-2. [6:13]
7:00 Vivaldi Bassoon Concerto in E minor, R. 484 – Nadina Mackie Jackson, bn; Ensemble/ Nicholas McGegan. MSR Classics MS-1451. [10:08]
8:00 Debussy La plus que lente – Hélène Grimaud, p. DG B0029051-02. [4:15]
9:00 Copland Rodeo: HoeDown – Buffalo Phil Orch/ JoAnn Falletta. Naxos 8.559240. [3:24]
10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn including Bologne (Chevalier de Saint-Georges) Symphonie concertante in C, Op. 9, No. 1 – Yury Revich & Libor Ježek, v’s; Czech Chamber Phil Orch/Michael Halász. Naxos 8.574306. [12:59]
11:00 Eduardo Martín Suite Habana – Nora Lee García, f; René Izquierdo, g. Centaur CRC-3937. [8:15]
12:00 Saint-Saëns Danse macabre, Op. 40 – Lyon National Orch/ Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider. Bru Zane BZ-2007. [6:57]
1:00 Borodin Symphony No. 2 in B minor – Toronto Sym Orch/Sir Andrew Davis. Sony SB2K-62406 (2). [26:19]
2:00 Vivaldi Oboe Concerto in F, R. 455 – Zefiro/
Alfredo Bernardini, ob. Naïve OP-30478. [8:36]
3:00 Afternoon Music with Candice Agree including Haydn Cello Concerto No. 1 in C – Yo-Yo Ma, vc; English Chamber Orch/ José-Luis García. CBS MK-36674. [23:41]
3:30 Mozart Divertimento in D, K. 205 – Amsterdam Baroque Orch/Ton Koopman. Erato 45713-2. [18:24]
4:00 Ravel Daphnis et Chloé: Suite No. 2 – Vienna Phil/ Yannick Nézet-Séguin. Sony 19658818942. [16:40]
5:00 Coleridge-Taylor Four Characteristic Waltzes, Op. 22 – RTÉ Concert Orch/Adrian Leaper. Naxos 8.555191. [13:35]
6:00 Sibelius Karelia Suite, Op. 11 – Bergen Phil Orch/ Sir Andrew Davis. Chandos CHSA-5134. [15:51]
7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Symphony, Part I. See Monday’s listing.
8:00 Friday Evening with Kristina Lynn including Jessie Montgomery Strum – Catalyst Quartet. Azica ACD-71302. [6:52]
9:00 Brahms Symphony No. 3 in F, Op. 90 – Berlin Phil/Claudio Abbado. DG 429765-2. [37:42]
10:00 Schubert Moments musicaux, D 780 – András Schiff, p. Decca 430425-2. [30:32]
11:00 Best of Studs Terkel With the passing of Peter Tarrow earlier this year, WFMT revisits Studs Terkel’s interview with folk singers Peter, Paul, and Mary. Originally broadcast April 12, 1961.
Saturday 12
12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff
7:00 Weekend Mornings with LaRob K. Rafael with news at 7:00 am. Brahms String Quintet No. 1 in F, Op. 88 –Alexander String Quartet; Toby Appel, vi. Foghorn Classics CD-2012 (2). [26:03]
8:00 Saturday Morning Listener’s Choice
9:00 Soundtrack
10:00 Michael Abels Winged Creatures – Demarre McGill, f; Anthony McGill, cl; Chicago Youth Sym Orch/ Allen Tinkham. Cedille CDR-90000187. [11:38]
11:00 Introductions LIVE | Edie Park, 15, piano. Scarlatti Keyboard Sonata in D, K.29; Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 3 in C, 1st mvt; Chopin Scherzo No. 2 in B-flat minor, Op. 31; Jean Ahn Ongheya
12:00 Metropolitan Opera: Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte
Ben Bliss (Tamino); Golda Schultz (Pamina); Thomas Oliemans (Papageno); Kathryn Lewek (Queen of the Night); Stephen Milling (Sarastro); Thomas Ebenstein (Monostatos); Shenyang (Sprecher); Metropolitan Opera Cho & Orch/Evan Rogister. Sung in German.
3:30 Saturday Afternoon Music with Jan Weller including Mahler Blumine – Frankfurt Radio Sym/Paavo Järvi. Virgin 216576-2. [7:22]
4:00 Listening to Singers with Oliver Camacho Conductor Jeff Hunt, founder and Music Director of St. Charles Singers, joins WFMT as the ensemble celebrates its 40th anniversary with concerts this weekend.
5:00 Saturday Evening Music with Jan Weller including Dora Pejacevic Symphony in F-sharp minor, Op. 41: III. Scherzo – BBC Sym Orch/ Sakari Oramo. Chandos CHSA-5299. [7:08]
6:00 Georg Anton Benda Clavier Concerto in B minor – Il Pomo d’Oro/Francesco Corti, hc. Arcana A-573. [17:59]
7:00 Sounds Classical: Kishi Bashi Singer, multi-instrumentalist, and songwriter Kaoru Ishibashi (Kishi Bashi) on his uniquely cinematic composition, classical influences, and the importance of storytelling in music.
8:00 Folkstage hosted by Marilyn Rea Beyer Live from St. Tim’s Coffeehouse in Skokie : Eloquent, evocative, and wholly entertaining, singer/ songwriter Kray Van Kirk makes his Folkstage debut with guest host Louise Frank.
9:00 The Midnight Special with Marilyn Rea Beyer On the first night of Passover, songs and stories of passages and freedom including selections by The Maxwell Street Klezmer band performed live on WFMT.
Sunday 13
12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff
6:00 With Heart and Voice Palm/ Passion Sunday. Beginning with music to mark Jesus’s triumphal entry into Jerusalem, followed by the Passion that unfolds, host Peter DuBois shares some of the most powerful music of the church year.
7:00 Weekend Mornings with LaRob K. Rafael including Mauro Giuliani Rossiniana No. 1, Op. 119 – Eliot Fisk, g. Musicmasters 67079-2. [16:33]
Edie Park
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In the Spotlight
Time for Three
Live from WFMT
Time for Three — Charles Yang (violin/vocals), Nick Kendall (violin/ vocals), and Ranaan Meyer (double bass/vocals) — is a groundbreaking, boundary-shattering musical trio whose charismatic and energetic performances combine Americana, modern pop, and classical music. They have collaborated with artists as diverse as Ben Folds, Branford Marsalis, and Joshua Bell, and have premiered original works by composers such as Chris Brubeck, Jennifer Higdon, and William Bolcom. Their album Letters for the Future won two Grammy awards: Best Classical Instrumental Solo and Best Contemporary Classical Composition for Kevin Puts’s Contact. WFMT is thrilled to welcome this remarkable ensemble for a distinct performance that is sure to captivate audiences with their exceptional talent.
Monday, April 14
8:00 pm
8:00 Khachaturian Spartacus: Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia – London Sym Orch/Stanley Black. Decca 433880-2. [9:58]
9:00 Guillaume de Machaut Motet, Christe qui lux es et dies – London Early Music Consort/David Munrow. DG 4794648. [4:14]
10:00 Whitacre Cloudburst –Polyphony/Stephen Layton. Hyperion CDA-67543. [8:22]
11:00 Rachmaninoff Two-Piano Suite No. 2, Op. 17 – Martha Argerich & Gabriela Montero, p’s. EMI 58472-2 (3). [22:18]
12:00 Sunday Afternoons with Robbie Ellis including Coleridge-Taylor Petite Suite de Concert, Op. 77 – RTÉ Concert Orch/Adrian Leaper. Naxos 8.555191. [15:56]
1:00 Léa Freire Mamulengo –Toomai String Quintet.
Toomai String Quintet (Passos Brasileiros). [6:00]
2:00 Robert Schumann
Symphony No. 3 in E-Flat, Op. 97, Rhenish – Royal Concertgebouw Orch/ Bernard Haitink. Philips 442079-2 (2). [32:23]
3:00 Milhaud Le boeuf sur le toit, Op. 58: Cinéma-Fantaisie, Op. 58b – Manon Galy, v; Jorge González Buajasán, p. Aparté AP-306. [17:50]
4:00 Reynaldo Hahn Piano Quartet in G – Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective. Chandos CHAN-20326. [24:24]
5:00 Evenings with Kerry Frumkin including Cherubini Symphony in D – Orch della Toscana/Donato Renzetti. Koch 350221. [28:55]
6:00 Balys Dvarionas Violin Concerto in B minor –Vadim Gluzman, v; Hague Residentie Orch/Neeme Järvi. BIS CD-1822. [29:31]
7:00 Mozart String Quintet in G minor, K. 516 – Quatuor Ébène; Antoine Tamestit, vi. Erato 5419721332. [35:33]
8:00 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Radio Broadcasts. Bruckner Psalm 150; Ruth Welting, soprano; Daniel Barenboim, conductor; Bartók Cantata profana; John Aler, tenor; John Tomlinson, baritone; Pierre Boulez, conductor; Brahms A German Requiem; Kiri Te Kanawa, soprano; Bernd Weikl, baritone; Margaret Hillis, director; Chicago Symphony Chorus; Georg Solti, conductor.
10:00 Fiesta! with Elbio Barilari: Guitar Music from Argentina Fiesta presents original compositions for guitar by Argentine musicians from different generations. We will hear works from the 19th century composer Julián Aguirre to the present-day including music by Angel Lasala, Máximo Diego Pujol, Astor Piazzolla and more.
11:00 Collectors’ Corner with Henry Fogel: Music of Barbara Harbach Featuring her Spirituals, Symphony No. 11, “Retourner,” Choices and remembrance,; Arabesque Noir, Suite Luther, Spandango, a Tango Caprice; and Recitative and Aria
Monday 14
1:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff
6:00 Mornings with John Clare including Gabriel Pierné Trois pièces en trio: No. 3, Les trois clercqs de Sainct-Nicholas –Black Oak Ensemble. Cedille CDR-90000212. [5:24]
7:00 Copland Fanfare for the Common Man – St. Louis Sym Orch/Leonard Slatkin. RCA 60778-2-RC. [3:03]
8:00 Falla La vida breve : Spanish Dance No. 1 – Janine Jansen, v; Antonio Pappano, p. Decca 48518173. [3:33]
9:00 Eric Ewazen Symphony in Brass: III. Allegro vivace – Summit Brass. Summit DCD-380. [5:47]
10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn including Chopin PolonaiseFantaisie in A-Flat, Op. 61 – Ingolf Wunder, p. DG 4779634. [13:42]
11:00 Ron Nelson Savannah River Holiday – Boston Pops Orch/Keith Lockhart. RCA 68786-2. [8:39]
12:00 Ravel Valses nobles et sentimentales – Zürich Tonhalle Orch/Lionel Bringuier. DG 4795524 (4). [14:34]
1:00 Robert Schumann Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 54 – Angela Hewitt, p; Berlin German Sym Orch/ Hannu Lintu. Hyperion CDA-67885. [31:29]
2:00 William Lawes Royall Consort No. 6 in D –Phantasm Viol Consort. Linn CKD-470 (2). [6:12]
3:00 Afternoon Music with Candice Agree including Mozart Piano Sonata
No. 14 in C minor, K. 457 – Yeol Eum Son, p. Naïve V-8049. [22:40]
4:00 Giuseppe Sammartini Cello Concerto in C – Elinor Frey, vc; Rosa Barocca/ Claude Lapalme. Analekta AN2-9163. [11:05]
5:00 Morricone Once upon a Time in America: Deborah’s Theme/Amapola – London Phil Orch/John Mauceri. LPO 0086. [5:40]
6:00 Dvorák Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95, From the New World: IV. Finale, Allegro con fuoco – Los Angeles Phil/Gustavo Dudamel. DG 4863413. [11:39]
7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Dona Nobis Pacem (Grant Us Peace) Bill hopes that you find some peace in his selections including works by William Byrd, Edvard Grieg, as well as a performance of “Angel Eyes” by Ella Fitzgerald.
8:00 Live from WFMT. Time for Three (violinists and vocalists Nicolas Kendall and Charles Yang, and bassist Ranaan Meyer) perform live in the Levin Studio. Hosted by Kerry Frumkin. 10:00 The WFMT Orchestra Series: San Francisco Symphony. Jesper
Gail Anita Flagler
WTTW is honored to play a role in celebrating the memory of Gail Anita Flagler.
Gail was an avid lover of both animals and PBS, as well as an award-winning quilter whose wide-ranging talents spanned business, arts and crafts, and more.
We are grateful to the Gail Anita Flagler Foundation for support of animal and nature programming that shares Gail’s enthusiasm with our audience.
Photo: Shervin Lainez
WFMT Programming Grid
Programming Subject to Change Without Notice
6 am Mornings with John Clare News and weather on the hour between 6:00 am and 9:00 am Carl’s Almanac at 7:30 am
10 am Midday with Lisa Flynn Daily Excursion at 11:00 am Music in Chicago at 12:00 pm
Afternoon Music with Candice Agree The Unrush Hour at 5:00 pm.
Mornings with John Clare News and weather on the hour between 6:00 am and 9:00 am Carl’s Almanac at 7:30 am
Midday with Lisa Flynn Daily Excursion at 11:00 am Music in Chicago at 12:00 pm
Afternoon Music with Candice Agree The Unrush Hour at 5:00 pm.
Mornings with John Clare News and weather on the hour between 6:00 am and 9:00 am Carl’s Almanac at 7:30 am
Midday with Lisa Flynn Daily Excursion at 11:00 am Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert at 12:15 pm.
Afternoon Music with Candice Agree The Unrush Hour at 5:00 pm.
Mornings with John Clare News and weather on the hour between 6:00 am and 9:00 am Carl’s Almanac at 7:30 am
Through the Night … With Heart & Voice 7
Weekend Mornings … Weekend Mornings with LaRob K. Rafael 8
Midday with Lisa Flynn Daily Excursion at 11:00 am Music in Chicago at 12:00 pm
Afternoon Music with Candice Agree The Unrush Hour at 5:00 pm.
Mornings with John Clare News and weather on the hour between 6:00 am and 9:00 am Carl’s Almanac at 7:30 am
Midday with Lisa Flynn Daily Excursion at 11:00 am Music in Chicago at 12:00 pm
Afternoon Music with Candice Agree Friday Afternoon at the Movies at 4:30 pm The Unrush Hour at 5:00 pm
Listener’s Choice
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Evenings with Kerry Frumkin
Evenings with Kerry Frumkin
Friday Evening with Kristina Lynn Folkstage Chicago Symphony Orchestra Radio Broadcasts 9
The Midnight Special with Marilyn Rea Beyer 10 pm San Francisco Symphony Chamber Music … Baroque&Before The New York Philharmonic This
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Studs Terkel ... Collectors’ Corner with Henry Fogel
Through the Night … Through the Night … Through the Night … Through the Night … Through the Night … Through the Night …
Nordin Convergence; Pekka Kuusisto; Adams Naïve and Sentimental Music; EsaPekka Salonen, conductor.
Tuesday 15
12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff
6:00 Mornings with John Clare including Franz von Suppé Pique Dame: Overture –Vienna Phil/Sir Georg Solti. Decca 460982-2 (2). [7:07]
7:00 CPE Bach Flute Concerto in G, Wq 169 (H 445): I. Allegro di molto – Patrick Gallois, f; CPE Bach Chamber Orch/Peter Schreier. DG 439895-2. [11:11]
8:00 Grainger Lincolnshire Posy : Lord Melbourne; The Lost Lady Found – Chicago Sym Orch Brass/Mark Ridenour. CSO Resound 9011101. [5:21]
9:00 Castelnuovo-Tedesco Guitar Quintet, Op. 143: IV. Finale – Sharon Isbin, g; Pacifica Quartet. Cedille CDR-90000190. [6:02]
10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn including Elgar String Serenade in E minor, Op. 20 – Orpheus Chamber Orch. DG 419191-2. [12:18]
11:00 Fauré Barcarolle No. 3
in G-Flat, Op. 42 – Carol Rosenberger, p. Delos DE-3172. [8:17]
12:00 Telemann Paris Quartet No. 2 in D – Freiburg Baroque Consort. Harmonia Mundi HMC-901787. [10:29]
1:00 Verdi Don Carlos: Ballet de la Reine – Monte Carlo Opera Orch/Antonio de Almeida. Philips 422846-2 (2). [16:10]
2:00 Arturo Márquez Danzón No. 2 – Simón Bolívar Youth Orch/Gustavo Dudamel. DG B0013458-02. [9:39]
3:00 Afternoon Music with Candice Agree including Debussy La Mer –Philharmonia Orch/Pablo Heras-Casado. Harmonia Mundi HMM-902310. [23:26]
4:00 Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade, Op. 35: III. The Young Prince and the Young Princess – Philharmonia Orch/Vladimir Ashkenazy; Christopher Warren-Green, v. Decca 417301-2. [9:52]
5:00 Grieg Peer Gynt, Op. 23: Suite No. 1, Op. 46 – San Francisco Sym/Herbert Blomstedt. Decca 425857-2. [15:47]
6:00 Beethoven Horn Sonata in F, Op. 17 – Anthony Halstead, hn; Robert Levin, fp. Decca
455994-2. [14:29]
7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Dona Nobis Pacem (Grant Us Peace) See Monday’s listing.
8:00 Evenings with Kerry Frumkin including Bach English Suite No. 5 in E minor, BWV 810 –Piotr Anderszewski, p. Warner 0825646219391. [20:27]
9:00 Haydn Symphony No. 67 in F – Philharmonia Baroque Orch/Nicholas McGegan. Philharmonia Baroque PBP-08. [24:15]
10:00 Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. Britten Suite, Op. 6; Todd Phillips, violin; Gloria Chien, piano; Mendelssohn Quartet in B minor, Op. 3; Juho Pohjonen, piano; Erin Keefe, violin; Paul Neubauer, viola; Narek Hakhnazaryan, cello.
11:00 Evenings with Kerry Frumkin including Dvorák Symphony No. 8 in G, Op. 88 – Chicago Sym Orch/Carlo Maria Giulini. DG 4779628. [40:16]
Wednesday 16
12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff
6:00 Mornings with John Clare
including Mozart Clarinet Quintet in A, K. 581: IV. Finale, Allegretto con variazioni – Anthony McGill, cl; Pacifica Quartet. Cedille CDR-90000147. [8:57]
7:00 Bach Cantata No. 140, Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme (Sleepers Wake): Chorale, Zion hört die Wächter (Zion hears the watchmen sing) – E. Power Biggs, o; Columbia Chamber Orch/Zoltán Rosznyai. CBS MK-42646. [5:01]
8:00 Karl Jenkins The Armed Man – A Mass for Peace: XII. Benedictus – Guy Johnston, vc; National Youth Choir of Great Britain; London Phil Orch/Karl Jenkins. Decca 4817826. [7:35]
9:00 Schubert String Quartet No. 12 in C minor, D 703, Quartettsatz – Hagen Quartet. DG 419171-2. [9:41]
10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn including Glazunov Concert Waltz No. 1 in D, Op. 47 –Bamberg Sym/Neeme Järvi. Orfeo C-148101-A. [8:34]
11:00 Gabriel Pierné Konzertstück in G-Sharp, Op. 39 – Isabelle Moretti, h; Southwest German Radio Sym Orch/Klaus Arp. Koch 3-1142-2. [13:45]
12:15 Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts Violinist Sirena Huang and pianist Chih-Yi Chen perform music by Beethoven, Price, and Stravinsky live from Seventeenth Church of Christ, Scientist, Chicago.
1:00 Dvorák The Hero’s Song, Op. 111 – BBC Sym Orch/ Jirí Belohlávek. Warner Classics 63235-2. [20:20]
2:00 Carl Friedrich Abel Cello Concerto in B-flat major –Bruno Delepelaire, vc; Berlin Baroque Soloists. Hännsler Classic HC-22022. [14:18]
3:00 Afternoon Music with Candice Agree including Janácek Taras Bulba –North German Radio Sym Orch/John Eliot Gardiner. DG 445838-2. [22:01]
4:00 Grieg Lyric Pieces, Op. 54: Lyric Suite – Ulster Orch/ Vernon Handley. Chandos CHAN-8723. [15:18]
5:00 Mozart Eine kleine Nachtmusik, K. 525 – Takács Quartet; Joseph Carver, db. Decca 460034-2. [16:50]
6:00 Britten The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra, Op. 34 – Philharmonia Orch/ Carlo Maria Giulini. EMI CDZB7-67723-2 (2). [18:42]
7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Dona Nobis Pacem (Grant Us Peace) See Monday’s listing.
8:00 Evenings with Kerry Frumkin including Beethoven Piano Trio in B-Flat, Op. 97, Archduke – Isabelle Faust, v; Jean-Guihen Queyras, vc; Alexander Melnikov, fp. Harmonia Mundi HMC-902125. [37:26]
9:00 Mieczyslaw Weinberg Symphony No. 7 in C, Op. 81 – Kirill Gerstein, hc; German Chamber Phil/ Mirga Gražinyte-Tyla. DG 4862402. [30:49]
10:00 Baroque&Before with Candice Agree: Stabat Mater Douglas Bostock leads vocal soloists and Camerata Polifonica Siciliana in two settings of the Stabat Mater by Emanuele d’Astorga (ca. 1707) and Alessandro Scarlatti (1724).
Thursday 17
12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff
6:00 Mornings with John Clare including Traditional African-American Spiritual, Steal Away – Imani Winds. Koch 3-7599-2. [6:30]
7:00 Michael Torke Javelin –Atlanta Sym Orch/Yoel Levi. Argo 452101-2. [8:30]
8:00 Britten Simple Symphony,
Op. 4 – Guildhall String Ensemble/Robert Salter. RCA 7846-2-RC. [16:02]
9:00 Wilhelm Stenhammar Serenade in F, Op. 31: V. Finale – Swedish Radio Sym Orch/Esa-Pekka Salonen. Musica Sveciae MSCD-626. [8:50]
10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn including Price Village Scenes – Josh Tatsuo Cullen, p. Blue Griffin BGR-615. [9:35]
11:00 Tartini Violin Sonata in G minor, Devil’s Trill – La Pietà/Angèle Dubeau, v. Analekta AN2-8723. [12:14]
12:00 Wagner Tannhäuser: Overture – Berlin Phil/Claudio Abbado. DG 439768-2. [14:22]
1:00 Vaughan Williams Romance and Pastorale – Schubert Ensemble. Chandos CHAN-10465. [8:36]
2:00 Shostakovich Ballet Suite No. 1 – Royal Scottish National Orch/Neeme Järvi. Chandos CHAN-7000/1 (2). [13:34]
3:00 Afternoon Music with Candice Agree including Purcell The Married Beau – La Stravaganza Cologne. Denon 81757-9250-2. [14:48]
4:00 Poulenc Les biches: Suite – Radio Luxembourg Orch/Louis de Froment. Vox ACD-8157. [19:58]
5:00 Tchaikovsky Swan Lake, Op. 20: Suite – Philadelphia Orch/Eugene Ormandy. CBS MBK-42252. [14:40]
6:00 Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G Major, BWV 1048 –English Baroque Soloists/ John Eliot Gardiner. Soli Deo Gloria SDG-138 (2). [12:03]
7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Dona Nobis Pacem (Grant Us Peace) See Monday’s listing.
8:00 Evenings with Kerry Frumkin including Telemann Flute (Recorder) Suite in A minor – Frédéric de Roos, r; Ricercar Consort. Ricercar RIC-044021. [27:39]
9:00 Schubert Fantasy in C, D 934 – Jascha Heifetz, v; Brooks Smith, p. RCA 61773-2. [20:00]
10:00 The New York Philharmonic This Week. Berg Violin Concerto; Pinchas Zuckerman, violin; Christoph Eschenbach, conductor; Lyric Suite; Pierre Boulez, conductor; Berg Wozzeck, Act III; Mack Harrell, baritone; Eileen Farrell, soprano; Dmitri Mitropoulos, conductor; Janacek Glagolitic Mass; Helga Plarczyk, soprano; Janis Martin, contralto; Nicolai Gedda, tenor; George Gaynes, bass; Leonard Raven, organ; Westminster Choir; Leonard Bernstein, conductor.
Friday 18
12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff
6:00 Mornings with John Clare including Grieg Two Elegiac Melodies, Op. 34 – Gothenburg Sym Orch Strings/Neeme Järvi. DG 437520-2. [8:06]
7:00 Rachmaninoff Vocalise, Op. 34, No. 14 – Demarre McGill, f; Anthony McGill, cl; Michael McHale, p. Cedille CDR-90000172. [5:14]
8:00 Handel Concerto grosso in D, Op. 3, No. 6 – Handel & Haydn Society/Christopher Hogwood. L’Oiseau-Lyre 421729-2. [6:44]
9:00 Stravinsky The Soldier’s Tale : Tango; Waltz; Ragtime; Devil’s Dance – Chicago Pro Musica. Reference RR-17. [7:30]
10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn including Barber Souvenirs, Op. 28 – London Sym Orch/José Serebrier. ASV CDDCA-737. [18:29]
11:00 Brahms Rhapsody in G minor, Op. 79, No. 2 –Hélène Grimaud, p. DG B0006904-02. [7:06]
12:00 Telemann Whimsical Symphony – Apollo’s Fire/Jeannette Sorrell. Koch 7576. [8:38]
1:00 Beethoven Violin Sonata No. 5 in F, Op. 24, Spring –Andrew Wan, v; Charles Richard-Hamelin, p. Analekta AN2-8795. [23:42]
2:00 Michael Abels Global Warming – Sphinx Virtuosi. DG 4865014. [8:29]
3:00 Afternoon Music with Candice Agree including Bizet Carmen: Suite – Bastille Opera Orch/Myung-Whun Chung. DG 431778-2. [19:51]
4:00 Stravinsky Le Baiser de la fée: Divertimento – Chicago Sym Orch/Fritz Reiner. RCA 5733-2. [24:02]
5:00 Vaughan Williams English Folk Song Suite – Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orch/Timothy Reynish. Chandos CHAN-9697. [15:02]
6:00 Boccherini Guitar Quintet No. 4 in D, Fandango, Op. 50, G 448 – Jason Vieaux, g; Escher Quartet. Azica ACD-71328. [18:52]
7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Dona Nobis Pacem (Grant Us Peace) See Monday’s listing.
8:00 Friday Evening with Kristina Lynn including Paul Chihara Ellington Fantasy – Lark Quartet. Bridge 9488. [11:36]
9:00 Paul Taffanel Wind Quintet in G minor – Aulos Wind Quintet. Koch CD-310087. [22:40]
10:00 Valerie Coleman Tracing Visions – Sphinx Virtuosi.
DG 4865014. [10:59]
11:00 Best of Studs Terkel Led by artistic director and founder Bill Chin, the Oriana Singers performed a collection of 18th and 19th century American parlor music on the Studs Terkel Program in 1989. The ensemble performs on Live from WFMT on April 21.
Saturday 19
12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff
7:00 Weekend Mornings with LaRob K. Rafael with news at 7:00 am. Bernstein Divertimento for Orchestra – Boston Pops Orch/John Williams. Philips 416360-2. [13:55]
8:00 Saturday Morning Listener’s Choice
9:00 Soundtrack
10:00 Holst St Paul’s Suite, Op. 29, No. 2 – Lake Effect Clarinet Quartet. Lake Effect Clarinet Quartet (Cooler By The Lake). [12:53]
11:00 Introductions Jeffrey Wang, 17, piano. Bach Siciliano from BWV 1031 (arr. Hughes); Mozart Piano Sonata No. 12 in F, K. 332; Ravel Oiseaux tristes; Chopin Nocturne in B-flat minor, Op. 9, No. 1; Niedermaier Bluebird, Bluebird.
12:00 Metropolitan Opera: Rossini’s L’assedio di Corinto Beverly Sills (Pamira); Shirley Verrett (Neocle); Harry Theyard (Cleomene); Justino Díaz (Maometto); Metropolitan Opera Cho & Orch/Thomas Schippers. Sung in Italian. Recorded April 19, 1975.
3:30 Saturday Afternoon Music with Jan Weller including Purcell Chacony in G minor, Z 730 – Protean Quartet. Linn CKD-744. [4:21]
4:00 Listening to Singers with Oliver Camacho On Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas with soprano Hannah De Priest who sings the title role with Bella Voce next month.
5:00 Saturday Evening Music with Jan Weller including Mahler Symphony No. 7 in E minor, Song of the Night: III. Scherzo: Schattenhaft – Chicago Sym Orch/Sir Georg Solti. Decca 414675-2 (2). [9:15]
6:00 George David Weiss What a Wonderful World – ChristianPierre La Marca, vc; Orchestre de Paris members; Nathanaël Gouin, p. Naïve V-7362. [2:41]
7:00 Sounds Classical Hosts LaRob K. Rafael and Kristina Lynn welcome two special guests to explore the crossover between classical music and climate change activism.
Singer and conductor Kirsten Hedegaard discusses co-founding the EcoVoice Project, and composer Sarah Kirkland Snider shares the impetus for creating the Mass for the Endangered.
8:00 Folkstage hosted by Marilyn Rea Beyer From the archives: Just in time for National Poetry Month, we present “Scarlet Confessions” with Michael Smith , Anne Hills, Jamie O’Reilly, and Paul Amandes, a poetic expression of deep emotion, beautifully performed by some of Chicago’s finest artists live at WFMT in 2000.
9:00 The Midnight Special with Marilyn Rea Beyer Celebrating Mother Earth and the spirit of rebirth, awakenings, and new beginnings on Easter weekend.
Sunday 20
Easter Sunday
12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff
6:00 With Heart and Voice An Easter Celebration. Music of exaltation and triumph greets the dawn on Easter, as host Peter DuBois celebrates the Resurrection with glorious choral and organ music!
7:00 Weekend Mornings with LaRob K. Rafael including Julius Williams Easter Celebration: Meditation –Bohuslav Martinu Phil/ Julius Williams. Albany TROY-104. [5:53]
8:00 Arnold Bax The Tale the Pine-Trees Knew – Royal Scottish National Orch/ David Lloyd-Jones. Naxos 8.554509. [16:33]
9:00 Bach Easter Oratorio, BWV 249 – Amsterdam Baroque Cho and Orch/Ton Koopman. Erato 23416-2. [41:02]
10:00 Jenni Brandon The Sequoia Trio : IV. The Noble Trees –Lindabeth Binkley, ob; Kennen White, cl; MaryBeth Minnis, bn. Blue Griffin BGR-545. [5:13] Gary Schocker Memory of Trees – Yolanda Kondonassis, h. Azica ACD-71349. [3:15]
11:00 Mascagni Cavalleria rusticana: Easter hymn, Regina coeli laetare – Soloists; Slovak Phil Cho, Slovak Radio Sym Orch/Alexander Rahbari. Naxos 8.572923. [7:18]
12:00 Sunday Afternoons with Robbie Ellis including Rimsky-Korsakov Russian Easter Overture, Op. 36 – Baltimore Sym Orch/David Zinman. Telarc CD-80378. [14:26]
1:00 Bach Cantata No. 4, Christ lag
in Todesbanden (Christ lay in death’s bonds) – Soloists; Amsterdam Baroque Cho & Orch/Ton Koopman. Erato 98536-2 (3). [18:55]
2:00 Smetana Piano Trio in G minor, Op. 15 – Beaux Arts Trio. Philips 432125-2. [28:30]
3:00 Paul Ben-Haim Three Songs Without Words – Zina Schiff, v; MÁV Sym Orch/ Avlana Eisenberg. MSR Classics MS-1459. [8:42]
4:00 Fanny Mendelssohn Easter Sonata – Isata Kanneh-Mason, p. Decca 4870256. [23:09]
5:00 Evenings with Kerry Frumkin including Adolphe Adam Giselle: Act 2 – Vienna Phil/Herbert von Karajan. Decca 4757507. [31:49]
6:00 Mozart Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, K. 466 –Vassily Primakov, p; Odense Sym Orch/Simon Gaudenz. Bridge 9339. [28:57]
7:00 Felix Mendelssohn String Quartet No. 6 in F minor, Op. 80 – Pacifica Quartet. Cedille CDR90000082 (3). [25:35]
8:00 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Radio Broadcasts. Hindemith Nobilissima visione; Jean Martinon, conductor; Mozart Symphony No. 36 in C Major, K. 425; Sinfonia Concertante in E-flat Major; Stephanie Jeong, violin; Tchaikovsky Meditation from Souvenir d’un lieu cher, Op. 42; Beethoven Overture to The Creatures of Prometheus, Op. 43; Julien Rachlin, violin, viola, and conductor.
10:00 Fiesta! with Elbio Barilari The celebration of Easter has a strong musical tradition in both Latin American and the Iberian Peninsula. Fiesta highlights this deep and fresh water well of music from different latitudes featuring colonial music from South America as well as Spain.
11:00 Collectors’ Corner with Henry Fogel: Music of Franz Berwald Featuring his Symphony No. 1, “Serieuse,” Estrella de Soria Overture, Symphony No. 4, Piano Concerto in D, and Symphony No. 3.
Monday 21
1:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff
6:00 Mornings with John Clare including Byrd Sellinger’s Round – Glenn Gould, p. Sony 52589. [5:39]
7:00 Bach Fugue in G minor, BWV 578, Little – Canadian Brass.
Steinway & Sons 30008. [3:17]
8:00 Mozart Don Giovanni, K. 527: Overture – London Phil Orch/Georg Solti. Decca 455500-2 (3). [5:27]
9:00 Wagner Die Walküre : Ride of the Valkyries – Vienna Phil/Georg Solti. Decca 410137-2. [3:03]
10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn including Bartók Romanian Folk Dances – Orpheus Chamber Orch. DG 415668-2. [6:18]
11:00 Leonardo Leo Cello Concerto in D minor – Pulcinella/ Ophélie Gaillard, vc. Aparté AP-326. [11:53]
12:00 Aram Khachaturian Gayaneh: Gopak; Sabre Dance; Ayesha’s Dance; Dance of the Rose Maidens – Royal Phil Orch/Yuri Temirkanov. EMI CDC7-47348-2. [10:27]
1:00 Franck Symphonic Variations –Jorge Federico Osorio, p; Royal Phil Orch/Enrique Bátiz. ASV CDQS-6092. [15:32]
2:00 Gershwin Fantasy on themes from Porgy and Bess – Rachel Kolly d’Alba, v; Pays de la Loire National Orch/John Axelrod. Warner 65765-7. [21:20]
3:00 Afternoon Music with Candice Agree including Franz Schubert Symphony No. 3 in D, D. 200 – The Knights/Eric Jacobsen. Ancalagon ANC-137. [21:46]
4:00 Fanny Mendelssohn Piano Sonata in C minor – Sylviane Deferne, p. Radio Canada Int’l MVCD-1122. [13:52]
5:00 Johan Svendsen Norwegian Rhapsody No. 4, Op. 22 –Trondheim Sym Orch/ Ole Kristian Ruud. Simax PSC-1085. [14:10]
6:00 Rodrigo Concierto de Aranjuez: II. Adagio (En Aranjuez con mi amor) – Alison Balsom, tr; Britten Sinfonia/ Scott Stroman. Warner 9029622991. [14:18]
7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Robert Schumann (1810-1856). A musical biography of the torrid life of one of Germany’s early romantics. This week we will listen to Maurizio Pollini play the Davidsbündlertänze, Murray Perahia perform his Piano Concerto in A minor, and the Cleveland Orchestra conducted by George Szell play his “Rhenish” Symphony No. 3.
8:00 Live from WFMT Led by artistic director William Chin, the Oriana Singers perform music by Meredith Monk, Philip Glass, Eric Whitacre, and others live in the Levin Studio. Hosted by Kerry Frumkin.
10:00 The WFMT Orchestra Series: San Francisco Symphony. Anders Hillborg Piano
Concerto No. 2; Emanuel Ax, piano; Brahms Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Op. 56a; Beethoven Symphony No. 2 in D, Op. 36; Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor.
Tuesday 22
12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff
6:00 Mornings with John Clare including Debussy Prelude No. 12, Minstrels – PierreLaurent Aimard, p. DG B0017386-02. [2:25]
7:00 Poulenc Violin Sonata: II. Intermezzo, Très calme – Paul Huang, v; Helen Huang, p. Naïve V-8617. [6:23]
8:00 Bach Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Aria da Capo –Nevermind. Alpha 1116. [5:07]
9:00 Michael Torke Unseen: No. 8 – East Coast Chamber Orch; Michael Torke Orch/ Michael Torke. Ecstatic Records ER-092402. [4:51]
10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn including Granados Goyescas (piano suite): No. 4, Quejas, o La Maja y el ruiseñor – Javier Perianes, p. Harmonia Mundi HMM-902626. [7:40]
11:00 Handel Water Music Suite No. 3 in G – Philharmonia Baroque Orch/Nicholas McGegan. Harmonia Mundi HMU-907010. [9:39]
12:00 Amy Beach Bal Masqué, Op. 22 – Moravian Phil Orch/ Hector Valdivia. Centaur CRC-2990. [5:04]
1:00 Chabrier España – St. Louis Sym Orch/Leonard Slatkin. RCA 68511-2. [6:34]
2:00 Kodály Háry János Suite, Op. 35a – Chicago Sym Orch/Neeme Järvi. Chandos CHAN-8877. [24:33]
3:00 Afternoon Music with Candice Agree including Mozart Violin Concerto No. 4 in D, K. 218 – Julia Fischer, v; Netherlands Chamber Orch/ Yakov Kreizberg. Pentatone PTC-5186453 (2). [22:34] 4:00 Tchaikovsky Romeo and Juliet Overture-Fantasy –Royal Concertgebouw Orch/ Bernard Haitink. Philips 442061-2 (6). [20:16]
5:00 Liszt Transcendental Etude No. 6, Vision – Daniil Trifonov, p. DG 4795529 (2). [5:41]
6:00 Schubert Rosamunde, D 797: Overture; Entr’acte No. 1 – Chamber Orch of Europe/Claudio Abbado. DG 431655-2. [18:08]
7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Robert Schumann (1810-1856) See Monday’s listing.
8:00 Evenings with Kerry Frumkin including Robert Schumann Piano Trio No. 1
in D minor, Op. 63 – Emil Gilels, p; Leonid Kogan, v; Mstislav Rostropovich, vc. DG 4777476 (2). [28:56]
9:00 Holst Symphony in F, Op. 8, The Cotswolds – Munich Sym/Douglas Bostock. Classico CD-284. [27:19]
10:00 Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. Franck Prélude, choral, et fugue; Alessio Bax, piano; Fauré Quartet No. 1 in C minor, Op. 15; Wu Han, piano; Paul Huang, violin; Matthew Lipman, viola; Clive Greensmith, cello.
11:00 Evenings with Kerry Frumkin including Clementi Symphony No. 2 in D – Rome Sym Orch/ Francesco La Vecchia. Naxos 8.573071. [24:32]
Wednesday 23
12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff
6:00 Mornings with John Clare including Marco Uccellini Aria sopra la Bergamasca –Palladian Ensemble. Honest Entertainment CD-5010. [3:33]
7:00 Richard Strauss Le bourgeois gentilhomme, Op. 60: Das Diner (The Dinner) – Orpheus Chamber Orch. DG 435871-2. [10:01]
8:00 Mozart Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, K. 466: I. Allegro – Hélène Grimaud, p; Camerata Salzburg. DG 4837854. [13:53]
9:00 Prokofiev Violin Concerto No. 1 in D, Op. 19: III. Finale, Moderato – Allegro moderato – Janine Jansen, v; Oslo Phil Orch/Klaus Mäkelä. Decca 4854748. [8:15]
10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn including Corelli Violin Sonata in A, Op. 5, No. 6 – Barton Pine, v; Rozendaal, vc; Acker, theorbo; Schrader, o. Cedille CDR-90000232. [9:36]
11:00 Franz von Suppé Morning, Noon and Night in Vienna –Vienna Phil/Zubin Mehta. Sony 88875037912. [8:21]
12:15 Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts Violinist Brendon Elliott and pianist Ingrid Bick perform music by Bologne, Lili Boulanger, Poulenc, Sarasate, and Massenet live from Seventeenth Church of Christ, Scientist, Chicago.
1:00 Grieg Holberg Suite, Op. 40 –Metamorphosen/Scott Yoo. Archetype 60105. [16:33]
2:00 Mozart Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, K. 478 – Munich String Trio; Ralf Gothóni, p. Calig CAL-50897. [25:10]
3:00 Afternoon Music with Candice Agree including Bizet Jeux d’enfants,
Op. 22 – San Francisco Ballet Orch/Martin West. Reference RR-131. [23:35]
4:00 Offenbach Orpheus in the Underworld: Overture – Slovak State Phil/Alfred Walter. Naxos 8.553627. [10:11]
5:00 Rimsky-Korsakov Capriccio espagnol, Op. 34 – New York Phil/Leonard Bernstein. Sony SMK-60737. [15:04]
6:00 Rachmaninoff Symphonic Dances, Op. 45: I. Non allegro – Philadelphia Orch/ Yannick Nézet-Séguin. DG 4839839. [11:48]
7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Robert Schumann (1810-1856) See Monday’s listing.
8:00 Evenings with Kerry Frumkin including Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 3 in C, Op. 2, No. 3 – Garrick Ohlsson, p. Bridge 9207. [29:16]
9:00 Brahms Symphony No. 2 in D, Op. 73 – Berlin Phil/Simon Rattle. EMI 67254-2 (3). [39:48]
10:00 Baroque&Before with Candice Agree: The Huelgas Codex The female vocal group Psallentes performs a program of medieval works preserved in the Hueglas Codex. Recorded live in Madrid on March 3, 2024.
Thursday 24
12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff
6:00 Mornings with John Clare including Alessandro Stradella Trio Sonata in D minor –Barokkbandið Brák. Sono Luminus SLE-70026. [6:51]
8:00 Paganini Caprice No. 24 in A minor – María Dueñas, v. DG 4865708. [7:09]
9:00 Einaudi In Memory of a Dream – Ludovico Einaudi, p; etc.; Royal Phil Orch Strings/Robert Ames. Decca 6806162. [5:12]
10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn including Haydn Piano Trio in B-Flat, H XV:8 –Beaux Arts Trio. Philips 454098-2 (9). [13:05]
11:00 Ernesto Lecuona Rapsodia Cubana – Thomas Tirino, p; Polish National Radio Sym Orch/Michael Bartos. BIS CD-794. [8:13]
12:00 Anthony Holborne Elizabethan Dance Suite – Empire Brass. Telarc CD-80257. [5:59]
1:00 Dvorák String Serenade in E, Op. 22 – Los Angeles Chamber Orch/ Gerard Schwarz. Delos D/CD-3011. [27:56]
2:00 Verdi Aida: Chorus, Gloria all’Egitto (Triumphal Scene) –La Scala Cho & Orch/Claudio
Abbado. DG 4777645. [11:52]
3:00 Afternoon Music with Candice Agree including Brahms Clarinet Sonata No. 2 in E-Flat, Op. 120, No. 2 – Anthony McGill, cl; Gloria Chien, p. Cedille CDR-90000207. [21:55]
4:00 Copland Rodeo: Four Dance Episodes – James Tocco, p. Pro Arte CDD-183. [19:25]
5:00 Richard Strauss Horn Concerto No. 1 in E-Flat, Op. 11 – Martin Owen, hn; BBC Phil/John Wilson. Chandos CHAN-20168. [15:25]
6:00 Rossini La gazza ladra: Overture – Zagreb Festival Orch/Michael Halász. Naxos 8.553627. [10:07]
7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Robert Schumann (1810-1856) See Monday’s listing.
8:00 Evenings with Kerry Frumkin including Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet Suite No. 2, Op. 64ter – National Sym/ Mstislav Rostropovich. DG 410519-2. [30:16]
9:00 Beethoven String Quartet No. 2 in G, Op. 18, No. 2 –Tokyo String Quartet. Harmonia Mundi HMU907436.37 (2). [22:32]
10:00 The New York Philharmonic This Week. Hindemith Violin Concerto; Charles Rex, violin; Corigliano Clarinet Concerto; Stanley Drucker, clarinet; Zubin Mehta, conductor; Beethoven Triple Concerto; Leonard Bernstein, piano; John Corigliano, Sr., violin; Laszlo Varga cello; Vivaldi/ Casella Concerto for Diverse Instruments in C; Leonard Bernstein, conductor.
Friday 25
12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff
6:00 Mornings with John Clare including Reynaldo Hahn Piano Quartet in G: II. Sérénade. Allegro assai – Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective. Chandos CHAN-20326. [2:14]
7:00 Stravinsky Mavra: Chanson russe (Russian Maiden’s Song) – Itzhak Perlman, v; Samuel Sanders, p. Angel SZ-37560. [3:29]
8:00 Leopold Kozeluch Wind Symphony in D: II. Romance –Consortium Classicum. Orfeo C-442981-A. [4:14]
9:00 Elgar Enigma Variations, Op. 36: No. 9, Nimrod –Chicago Sym Orch/Sir Georg Solti. Decca 4781484. [3:09]
10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn including Telemann Tafelmusik, Book 2: Trio in E minor – Karl Kaiser, f; Ann-Kathrin Brüggermann, ob;
Metropolitan Opera
March was a watershed month for German conductor (and pianist) Joana Mallwitz. At the start of the month, she made her debut conducting the Berlin Philharmonic in music by Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev, Hindemith, and Ravel. Mallwitz then traveled to Los Angeles to lead three performances of the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto with Agustin Hadelich and Schubert’s “Great” Symphony No. 9, marking her debut with the LA Philharmonic. On March 31, she made her Metropolitan Opera debut, a third debut in one month, conducting Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro Mallwitz has been chief conductor of the Konzerthausorchester Berlin since the beginning of the 2023/24 season, making her the first woman to head one of Berlin’s major orchestras. Mallwitz’s international profile has risen sharply since her acclaimed debut at the 2020 Salzburg Festival. Last August, Deutsche Grammophon released The Kurt Weill Album, her first recording with the Konzerthausorchester.
Saturday, April 26 12:00 pm
Stefan Mühleisen, vc; Michael Behringer, hc. Harmonia Mundi HMC-902042.45 (4). [14:55]
11:00 Elgar From the Bavarian Highlands, Op. 27: Three Bavarian Dances –Bournemouth Sinfonietta/ Norman Del Mar. Chandos CHAN-6544. [12:40]
12:00 Copland Letter from Home – Buffalo Phil Orch/ JoAnn Falletta. Naxos 8.559240. [6:23]
1:00 Johan Halvorsen Passacaglia (after Handel’s HWV 432) – Itzhak Perlman, v; Pinchas Zukerman, vi. RCA 68768-2 (2). [6:42]
Joana Mallwitz
Photo: Simon Pauly
In the Spotlight
San Francisco Symphony
Music Director Laureate Michael Tilson Thomas leads Beethoven’s seminal Symphony No. 9, which celebrates the bonds of humanity and the glory of the creator in its triumphant “Ode to Joy,” recorded in 2023. In February, Michael Tilson Thomas announced that he will conclude his conducting career after learning that his brain cancer, first diagnosed in 2021, has returned. His remaining engagements include a concert with San Francisco Symphony celebrating his 80th birthday later this month. “A coda is a musical element at the end of a composition that brings the whole piece to a conclusion,” wrote Michael Tilson Thomas in his announcement. “A coda can vary greatly in length. My life’s coda is generous and rich.”
Monday, April 28
10:00 pm
2:00 Emilie Mayer Symphony No. 3 in C, Military –Bremerhaven Phil Orch/ Marc Niemann. Hännsler Classic HC-22016. [30:46]
3:00 Afternoon Music with Candice Agree including Bruch Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. 26 – Jascha Heifetz, v; London New Sym Orch/Malcolm Sargent. RCA 61779-2 (5). [21:59]
4:00 Johann Strauss II Waltz, On the Beautiful Blue Danube, Op. 314 – Vienna Phil/ Daniel Barenboim. Sony 19439962512. [10:12]
5:00 Bach Violin Partita No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1004: V. Chaconne – Anna Shelest, p. Sorel Classics SCCD-001. [15:37]
6:00 Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody No. 1 – Vienna State Opera Orch/Anatole Fistoulari. Vanguard SVC-75. [10:57]
7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
See Monday’s listing.
8:00 Friday Evening with Kristina Lynn including Conrad Kocher For the Beauty of the Earth – Cantus. Cantus Recordings CTS-L04. [3:05]
Claude Debussy Suite bergamasque – Inon Barnatan, p. Avie AV-2256. [16:52]
9:00 Beethoven Symphony No. 6 in F, Op. 68, Pastoral – Chicago Sym Orch/Fritz Reiner. RCA 60002-2. [40:52]
10:00 Christopher Tin The Lost Birds: XII. Hope is the Thing with Feathers – Voces8, Royal Phil Orch/Christopher Tin. Decca 4858030. [4:44]
11:00 Best of Studs Terkel Words and music on the American Revolution woven together by Studs Terkel in his customary, impressionistic fashion from a program that originally aired in the 1970s.
Saturday 26
12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff
7:00 Weekend Mornings with LaRob K. Rafael with news at 7:00 am. Borodin String Quartet No. 2 in D: III. Nocturne – Brodsky Quartet. Teldec 46319-2. [8:39]
8:00 Saturday Morning Listener’s Choice
9:00 Soundtrack
10:00 Ibert Flute Sonatina, Jeux – Emmanuel Pahud, f; Eric Le Sage, p. EMI CDC5-56488-2. [5:14]
11:00 Introductions LIVE | Kevin Hernandez, 17, cello. Bach Cello Suite No. 3, Prelude; Rachmaninoff Cello Sonata in G minor, 1st & 3rd mvts; Cassadó Solo Cello Suite, 1st & 3rd mvts; Belford Hernandez Mockingbird With pianists Summer Baek and Belford Hernandez.
12:00 Metropolitan Opera: Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro Michael Sumuel (Figaro); Olga Kulchynska (Susanna); Frederica Lombardi (Countess); Joshua Hopkins (Count); Sun-Ly Pierce (Cherubino); Elizabeth Bishop (Marcellina); Maurizio Muraro (Dr. Bartolo); Metropolitan Opera Cho & Orch/Joana Mallwitz. Sung in Italian.
4:00 Listening to Singers with Oliver Camacho A preview of the 2025 Opera Festival of Chicago season with Music Director Emanuele Andrizzi
5:00 Saturday Evening Music with Jan Weller including Liszt Concert paraphrase on Verdi’s Aida: Duetto finale:
Meno mosso – Emanuel Ax, p. Sony SK-48484. [5:05]
6:00 Vivaldi String Concerto in G minor, R. 155 – Orchestre Le Consort/Théotime Langlois de Swarte, v. Harmonia Mundi HMM-902757-58. [8:29]
7:00 Sounds Classical: Sounds Classical Playlist Vol. 4 Kristina Lynn and LaRob K. Rafael showcase the diverse influences woven into contemporary classical music. The playlist includes works by Mason Bates, Jennifer Thomas, and Xavier Foley.
8:00 Folkstage hosted by Marilyn Rea Beyer From the archives: The indelible songs of the late Dave Carter recorded live with Tracy Grammer in 2000.
9:00 The Midnight Special with Marilyn Rea Beyer For the last week of National Poetry Month, songs about words, about poets, and the reasons for rhyme.
Sunday 27
12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff
6:00 With Heart and Voice Octave of Easter. Host Peter DuBois continues the celebration of the Resurrection with music of joy and praise.
7:00 Weekend Mornings with LaRob K. Rafael including Lili Boulanger D’un matin de printemps – Lyon National Orch/Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider. Bru Zane BZ-2007. [6:32]
8:00 Britten Peter Grimes, Op. 33: Four Sea Interludes, Op. 33a – English Sym Orch/William Boughton. Nimbus NI-7017. [15:40]
9:00 CPE Bach Oboe Concerto in E-Flat, Wq 165 – Xenia Löffler, ob; Berlin Academy for Ancient Music/Georg Kallweit. Harmonia Mundi HMM-902601. [19:36]
10:00 Adolphus Hailstork Symphony No. 1 – Virginia Sym Orch/JoAnn Falletta. Naxos 8.559722. [21:10]
11:00 Tchaikovsky Serenade for Strings in C, Op. 48: II. Valse, Moderato – Tempo di valse – St Martin’s Academy/ Sir Neville Marriner. Decca 4787305. [3:36]
12:00 Sunday Afternoons with Robbie Ellis including Robert Schumann Toccata in C, Op. 7 – Ada Gorbunova, p. LP Classics 1007 A/B. [5:24]
1:00 Fanny Mendelssohn String Quartet in E-Flat –Quatuor Ébène. Virgin 464546-2. [20:31]
2:00 Bartók Suite No. 1, Op. 3: 1905 version – BBC Scottish Sym Orch/Thomas Dausgaard. Onyx 4210. [40:53]
3:00 Corelli Variations in D minor on La Follia, Op. 5, No. 12 – Barton Pine, vida; Rozendaal, vc; Acker, theorbo; Schrader, hc & o. Cedille CDR-90000232. [11:54]
4:00 John Alden Carpenter Skyscrapers – Boston Modern Orchestra Project/Gil Rose. BMOP Sound 1100. [27:20]
5:00 Evenings with Kerry Frumkin including Bach Clavier Partita (French Overture) in B minor, BWV 831 – Rosalyn Tureck, p. Philips 456979-2 (2). [33:47]
6:00 Vaughan Williams Symphony No. 5 in D – Atlanta Sym Orch/Robert Spano. Telarc CD-80676. [40:00]
7:00 Weber Clarinet Quintet in B-Flat, Op. 34 – Richard Stoltzman, cl; Tokyo String Quartet. RCA 68033-2. [27:50]
8:00 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Radio Broadcasts. Strauss Excerpt from Don Juan, Op. 20; Fritz Reiner, conductor; Shostakovich Cello Concerto No. 1 in E-flat Major, Op. 107; Peteris Vasks Gramata cellam: II. Dolcissimo; Sol Gabetta, cello; Sauli Zinovjev Batteria; Shostakovich Symphony No. 10 in E Minor, Op. 93; Klaus Mäkelä, conductor.
10:00 Fiesta! with Elbio Barilari: String Music by Living Latin American Composers Elbio delves into recent works written for string instruments by the Chilean composer Eduardo Gamboa and Mexican composers Francisco Cortés Álvarez, and Eduardo Angulo.
11:00 Collectors’ Corner with Henry Fogel: Fou Ts’ong –Concerts in Dublin Schubert Impromptu, D. 935, No. 3 in B-Flat; Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 31 in A-Flat; Debussy Etude: Book 2, No. 7 “Pour les degrés chromatiques;” Preludes, Book 2, No. 7-12; Chopin Piano Sonata No. 2 in B-Flat minor; Piano Concerto No. 2.
Monday 28
1:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff
6:00 Mornings with John Clare including Bach Lute Suite in G minor, BWV 995: I. Prelude –Paul Galbraith, g. Guitar Coop GC01-PGA17. [6:37]
7:00 Beethoven String Quartet No. 1 in F, Op. 18, No. 1: IV. Finale, Allegro – Calidore String Quartet. Signum Classics SIGCD-883. [6:37]
8:00 Brahms Viola Sonata No. 2 in E-Flat, Op. 120, No. 2: I., Allegro amabile – James
Michael Tilson Thomas
Photo: © Kristen Loken
Ehnes, vi; Andrew Armstrong, p. Onyx 4256. [8:49]
9:00 Bernstein Candide: Overture – London Sym Orch/Yannick Nézet-Séguin. DG 4865466. [4:34]
10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn including Vaughan Williams The Wasps: Overture – BBC Sym Orch/Sir Andrew Davis. Warner 256469667-7. [9:22]
11:00 Schubert Moments musicaux, D 780: No. 6 in A-Flat – Daniele Pollini, p. DG 4866398. [8:05]
12:00 Tchaikovsky The Tempest, Op. 18 – Chicago Sym Orch/Claudio Abbado. CBS MK-39359. [21:55]
2:00 Debussy Estampes – JeanYves Thibaudet, p. Decca 452022-2 (2). [14:32]
3:00 Afternoon Music with Candice Agree including Haydn Symphony No. 85 in B-Flat, La Reine – New York Phil/Leonard Bernstein. Sony SM2K-47550 (2). [21:45]
4:00 Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 in C-sharp minor – Philharmonia Orch/ Herbert von Karajan. EMI CDZ7-62860-2. [10:59]
5:00 Prokofiev Symphony No. 1 in D, Op. 25, Classical – London Sym Orch/André Previn. EMI CDFB5-68604-2 (2). [14:01]
6:00 Mozart Horn Quintet in E-Flat, K. 407 – Pip Eastop, hn; Eroica Quartet. Hyperion CDA-68097. [16:44]
7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Baltic Music. The countries around the Gulf of Finland have given us a wealth of composers like Erkki Melartin, Leevi Madetoja, Heino Eller, and Arvo Pärt, who worked under the long shadow of Sibelius to create violin concertos, symphonies, tone poems, choral works, and chamber works.
8:00 Live from WFMT. WindSync (flutist Garrett Hudson, oboist Noah Kay, clarinetist Graeme Steele Johnson, bassoonist Kara LaMoure, and hornist Anni Hochhalter) performs live in the Levin Studio. Hosted by Kerry Frumkin.
10:00 The WFMT Orchestra Series: San Francisco Symphony. Beethoven Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125; Angel Blue, soprano; Tamara Mumford, mezzo-soprano; Ben Bliss, tenor; Dashon Burton, baritone; SFS Chorus; Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor.
Tuesday 29
12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff
6:00 Mornings with John Clare including Liszt Liebestraum
No. 3 in A-Flat – Yundi Li, p. DG 4828050. [4:33]
7:00 Gershwin Piano Concerto in F: II. Andante con moto – Daniil Trifonov, p; Philadelphia Orch/ Yannick Nézet-Séguin. DG 4865756. [11:55]
8:00 Mozart Clarinet Quintet in A, K. 581: IV. Finale, Allegretto con variazioni – David Shifrin, cl; Emerson String Quartet. DG 459641-2. [9:01]
9:00 Britten Suite on English Folk Tunes, Op. 90, A Time There Was... – New York Phil/Leonard Bernstein. Sony SMK-47541. [14:28]
10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn including Barber The School for Scandal Overture, Op. 5 – Baltimore Sym Orch/David Zinman. Argo 436288-2. [8:16]
11:00 Poulenc Flute Sonata –Emmanuel Pahud, f; Eric Le Sage, p. EMI CDC5-56488-2. [12:27]
12:00 Dvorák Slavonic Rhapsody in D, Op. 45, No. 1 – Leipzig Gewandhaus Orch/ Kurt Masur. Philips 416623-2. [11:55]
1:00 Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 18 in E-flat, Op. 31, No. 3, The Hunt – Paul Lewis, p. Harmonia Mundi HMC-901902. [24:24]
2:00 Carl Friedrich Christian Fasch Trumpet Concerto in E – John Wallace, tr; Philharmonia/Warren-Green. Nimbus NI-7016. [14:38]
3:00 Afternoon Music with Candice Agree including Ravel Gaspard de la nuit –Benjamin Grosvenor, p. Decca 4783206. [20:46]
5:00 Walter Piston The Incredible Flutist Suite – St. Louis Sym Orch/Leonard Slatkin. RCA 60798-2-RC. [16:47]
6:00 Handel Water Music Suite No. 2 in D – Le Concert des Nations/Jordi Savall. Alia Vox AVSA-9860. [19:56]
7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Baltic Music See Monday’s listing.
8:00 Evenings with Kerry Frumkin including Rameau Dardanus: Suite – Orch of the 18th Century/Frans Brüggen. Philips 420240-2. [24:54]
9:00 Rodrigo Concierto madrigal –Pepe & Angel Romero, g’s; St. Martin’s Academy/ Sir Neville Marriner. Decca 4780192 (2). [29:21]
10:00 Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. Balakirev Variations on a theme of Mozart; Michael Stephen Brown, piano; RimskyKorsakov Quintet in B-flat; Adam Walker, flute; David Shifrin, clarinet; Marc
Goldberg, bassoon; David Byrd-Marrow, horn; Michael Stephen Brown, piano; Does not the wind, blowing from the heights; Op. 43, No. 2; Select songs by Glinka, Mussorgsky, and Rachmaninoff; Erika Baikoff, soprano; Gilles Vonsattel, piano.
11:00 Evenings with Kerry Frumkin including Niels Gade Symphony No. 7 in F, Op. 45 –Stockholm Sinfonietta/Neeme Järvi. BIS CD-355. [30:47]
Wednesday 30
12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff
6:00 Mornings with John Clare including Puccini Crisantemi – Enso Quartet. Naxos 8.573108. [5:52]
7:00 Robert Schumann Adagio and Allegro, Op. 70 –Christian-Pierre La Marca, vc; Jean-Frédéric Neuburger, p. Naïve V-7364. [9:24]
8:00 Piazzolla Introducción al ángel – Anne Akiko Meyers, v; Akira Eguchi, p. Koch KICCD-7762. [4:38]
9:00 Copland Symphony No. 3: II. Allegro molto – New York Phil/Leonard Bernstein. DG 419170-2. [8:04]
10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn including Jean-Baptiste Arban Fantaisie brillante (Theme and Variations) –Romain Leleu, cornet; Julien Gernay, p. Harmonia Mundi HMM-905381. [7:18]
11:00 Smetana The Bartered Bride: Three Dances – Royal Liverpool Phil Orch/Libor Pešek. Virgin 59285-2. [10:35]
12:15 Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts Pianist Dmytro Choni performs live from Seventeenth Church of Christ, Scientist, Chicago.
1:00 Respighi Trittico botticelliano – Orpheus Chamber Orch. DG 437533-2. [19:41]
2:00 Coleridge-Taylor Fantasiestücke, Op. 5 –Takács Quartet. Hyperion CDA-68413. [19:38]
3:00 Afternoon Music with Candice Agree including Tchaikovsky Variations on a Rococo Theme, Op. 33 –Yo-Yo Ma, vc; Pittsburgh Sym Orch/Lorin Maazel. Sony SK-48382. [18:59]
4:00 Earl Wild Virtuoso Etudes after Gershwin – Earl Wild, p. Ivory Classics 70702. [18:06]
5:00 Boccherini Guitar Quintet No. 1 in D minor, G 445 –Pepe Romero, g; St Martin’s Academy Chamber Ensemble. Philips 438769-2 (2). [17:44]
6:00 Arvo Pärt Fratres – Lausanne Chamber Orch/Renaud Capuçon, v. Warner
0190295029579. [10:06]
7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Baltic Music See Monday’s listing.
8:00 Evenings with Kerry Frumkin including Antonio Soler Keyboard Quintet No. 1 in C – Cuarteto Bretón; Rosa Torres-Pardo, p. Columna Música 1CM-0319. [19:39]
9:00 Saint-Saëns Cello Concerto No. 1 in A minor, Op. 33 –Janos Starker, vc; London Sym Orch/Antal Dorati. Mercury 4786754. [18:42]
10:00 Baroque&Before with Candice Agree: Handel in Rome Nisi Dominus, Dixit Dominus, and Salve Regina, three outstanding works of sacred music written during Handel’s years in Italy, performed in concert by the Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Chorus, and vocal soloists led by Václav Luks.
In the Spotlight
Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts
Ukrainian pianist Dmytro Choni is internationally recognized for his impeccable technique, stupendous virtuosity, clarity of articulation, and refined sensitivity. In recent years, his profile has risen by winning numerous awards, including the bronze medal at the 2022 Van Cliburn Competition and fourth prize at the 2021 the Leeds International Piano Competition. “Being successful for me means to continuously grow as a musician and as a person, and not to stop searching for the truth in music,” says Choni. His Dame Myra Hess recital comes on the heels of the release of his second solo album Pilgimage, which can be previewed at wfmt.com/newreleases.
Wednesday, April 30 12:15 pm
Dmytro Choni
Photo: Andrej Grilc
