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PREMIERES TUE JULY 14 8 PM July 2026 ALSO INSIDE On WFMT, join us live from Ravinia Festival as Marin Alsop conducts the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s performance of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto, featuring Gramophone’s Young Artist and Instrumentalist of the Year for 2025, María Dueñas, making her CSO and Ravinia debut.

From the President & CEO Dear Member, This month, as the United States reaches its milestone 250th anniversary, WTTW brings you a wide-ranging collection of programming that celebrates our country’s rich history, treasured artifacts, art and performances, and individual achievements that define what it is to be an American. In July, we’ll broadcast two thoughtprovoking documentaries from our Firsthand: Democracy streaming series; a star-spangled Independence Day celebration from Williamsburg, Virginia; a new feature-length documentary, Becoming American: Philadelphia’s Story, exploring the founding of the United States through the lens of Philadelphia, America’s first capital; and a rebroadcast of the six-part film from Ken Burns, The American Revolution, chronicling the political clash between colonists and the British government that forever changed the world. See page 4 for highlights and wttw.com for the complete list.

Also in July on WTTW, enjoy new seasons of Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators and My Life is Murder, plus a new comedy-drama series based in New Zealand: Under the Vines. In addition, a landmark new four-part miniseries, Once Upon a Time in Space, takes you on a fascinating journey from the early days of the space shuttle to the International Space Station through America’s recent return to the moon.

On WFMT, experience the sounds emanating from the Grant Park Music Festival.

Performances this month include the annual Independence Day Salute conducted by Christopher Bell; Ravel’s Piano Concerto featuring Festival favorite Michelle Cann; Rachmaninoff’s virtuosic Piano Concerto No. 3 performed by soloist Olga Kern and led

by Conductor Laureate Carlos Kalmar; the Chicago premiere of Christopher Theofanidis’s Drum Circle with Third Coast Percussion; and to round out the month, Gershwin’s An American in Paris live from Harris Theater. Also join us live at Ravinia Festival as Marin Alsop conducts the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s performance of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto, featuring Gramophone’s Young Artist and Instrumentalist of the Year for 2025, María Dueñas, making her CSO and Ravinia debut.

From all of us at WTTW and WFMT, best wishes during this special month of America at 250 programming. We appreciate your continued support.

Sincerely,

Sandra Cordova Micek President & CEO

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Programmer’s Picks Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators

This feature-length documentary film explores the founding of the United States through the lens of Philadelphia, America’s first capital.

A new season of this mystery series begins with Frank and Lu reuniting to investigate a feuding influencer couple suspected of murder.

Monday, July 6, 9:00 pm

Saturday, July 11, 7:00 pm

Wednesday 1

AFTERNOON Antiques Roadshow: Our 50 States (Part 2) [R] 2:00 10 Monuments That Changed America [R] 3:00 America’s Test Kitchen: Summer Decadence 3:30 Cook’s Country: Reimagining Italian-American Classics 4:00 Shakespeare & Hathaway, Private Investigators: This Promised End 5:00 BBC World News America 5:30 Chicago Tonight

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EARLY MORNING 12:00 Armadillo Man: The Trips of Jim Franklin [R] 12:30 Rick Steves’ Europe: Paris of the Parisians [R] 1:00 Antiques Roadshow: 250 Years of Americana [R] 2:00 Antiques Roadshow: Springs Preserve (Part 2 of 3) [R] 3:00 Declarations: Black Americans and the Revolutionary War [R] 4:00 PBS News Hour [R] 5:00 BBC News 5:30 Chicago Tonight [R] MORNING 6:00-1:00 WTTW Kids

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In the Spotlight

Firsthand: Democracy WTTW’s digital series spotlights two Chicago-area people working to strengthen our democracy on the ground: Miten, a high school teacher motivating his students to directly engage in our political process; and Maryanne, teaching neighbors how to tone down toxic partisanship.

More stories at wttw.com/firsthand.

Thursday, July 2 7:00 pm

Tuesday, July 14, 8:00 pm

AFTERNOON Antiques Roadshow: American Stories 2:00 Finding Your Roots: Secret Lives [R] 3:00 America’s Test Kitchen: Pupusas and Yuca 3:30 Cook’s Country: Southern Specialties 4:00 Shakespeare & Hathaway, Private Investigators: This Rough Magic 5:00 BBC World News America 5:30 Chicago Tonight 1:00

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6:00 PBS News Hour 7:00 NOVA: Athens – Birth of Democracy Follow archaeological investigations into the dramatic origins of democracy in Greece 2,500 years ago.

8:00 NOVA: Revolutionary War Weapons Unpack the real story of technology, innovation, and luck that determined the outcome of the Revolutionary War. 9:00 The Kimberley: Australia’s Wild West – Into the Fire (Part 3 of 3) See a jaw-dropping Australian wonder with terrain that’s as harsh and unforgiving as it is beautiful.

10:00 Chicago Tonight [R] 10:30 BBC News 11:00 Amanpour and Company

6:00 PBS News Hour 7:00 Firsthand: Democracy – Miten Civics teacher and British-born Indian immigrant Miten Patel inspires his students at Evanston Township High School register to vote, question political candidates, and directly engage with the political process.

7:34 Firsthand: Democracy – Maryanne Braver Angels volunteer Maryanne Colter participates in community debates, teaches college students how to disagree about politics without being disagreeable, and shows neighbors how to tone down toxic partisanship.

8:00 Last Battlefront: Quest for the Vote in Washington D.C. Explore Washington, D.C.’s long struggle for self-government and voting rights through the experiences of its citizens.

9:00 American Dendrite This road trip documentary follows the Mississippi River system from Chicago to the Louisiana Bayou, capturing intimate stories along the way.

10:00 Chicago Tonight [R] 10:30 BBC News 11:00 Amanpour and Company

Thursday 2 Miten Patel

Once Upon a Time in Space In this four-part series, follow the trail of the human space program, from the space shuttle to the International Space Station through America’s recent return to the moon.

EARLY MORNING 12:00 Finding Your Roots: Secret Lives [R] 1:00 Lucy Worsley Investigates: The American Revolution – A Messy Divorce (Part 2 of 2) [R] 2:00 Frontline [R] 3:00 Rick Steves’ Europe: Paris of the Parisians [R] 3:30 Armadillo Man: The Trips of Jim Franklin [R] 4:00 PBS News Hour [R] 5:00 BBC News 5:30 Chicago Tonight [R] MORNING 6:00-1:00 WTTW Kids

Friday 3 EARLY MORNING 12:00 NOVA: Athens – Birth of Democracy See Wed. July 1 at 7:00 pm. [R] 1:00 NOVA: Revolutionary War Weapons See Wed.

In the Spotlight Photo: Kristin Barlowe; Courtesy of Capital Concerts

Becoming American: Philadelphia’s Story

Trace Adkins

A Capitol Fourth: 250th Weekend Celebration Celebrate America’s 250th Anniversary live from the U.S. Capitol with a seat at the nation's biggest birthday party full of song and fireworks! This 46th annual concert will include the television debut of an uplifting anthem written and performed by country star Trace Adkins.

Friday, July 3 7:00 pm July 1 at 8:00 pm. [R] The Kimberley: Australia’s Wild West – Into the Fire (Part 3 of 3) See Wed. July 1 at 9:00 pm. [R] 3:00 10 Monuments That Changed America [R] 4:00 PBS News Hour [R] 5:00 BBC News 5:30 Chicago Tonight [R] 2:00

AFTERNOON Antiques Roadshow: Springs Preserve (Part 2 of 3) [R] 2:00 NOVA: Athens – Birth of Democracy [R] 3:00 America’s Test Kitchen: 1:00

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WTTW Celebrates

This month and throughout 2026, WTTW and the PBS America @ 250 initiative bring you a compendium of U.S. history, culture, and children’s programming to mark the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. In July, we’ll broadcast two thought-provoking documentaries from our Firsthand: Democracy streaming series. And don’t miss new mini-documentary series America’s Awesome Kids, which spotlights exceptional young people from across the country. Among them is Kevin, an accomplished Irish step dancer from Illinois, featured in a short film produced by WTTW.

WTTW Productions Firsthand: Democracy – Miten Civics teacher Miten Patel motivates his students at Evanston Township High School to directly engage with the political process.

Braver Angels volunteer Maryanne Colter shows neighbors how to disagree about politics without being disagreeable.

Thursday, July 2, 7:30 pm and Monday, July 20, 9:30 pm

Friday, July 31, 8:00 pm

Other Highlights

Geoffrey Baer

Chicago Stories: The Great Chicago Fire

NOVA: Revolutionary War Weapons

Wednesday, July 1, 8:00 pm

10 Buildings That Changed America

Geoffrey Baer takes viewers on a whirlwind tour of engineering feats that made our civilization possible.

Last Battlefront: Quest for the Vote in Washington, D.C.

Friday, July 17, 8:00 pm

Geoffrey Baer explores the serene spaces that offer city dwellers a respite from the frenetic pace of urban life.

Meet Nobel Peace Prize-winning activist Jane Addams and the women who enriched the lives of thousands of immigrants.

Sunday, July 12, 4:00 pm

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America Made in Virginia: 250 Years Together

Saturday, July 4, 7:00 and 9:00 pm

Sunday, July 12, 6:00 pm

10 Parks That Changed America

Friday, July 3, 7:00 and 8:30 pm; Saturday, July 4, 5:30 pm

Wednesday, July 1, 7:00 pm

Discover military technologies that the American colonies used to achieve one of history’s most unlikely victories.

Chicago Stories: Jane Addams – Together We Rise

Watch America’s grand Fourth of July celebration, complete with music, fireworks, and tributes.

This star-studded live special from Colonial Williamsburg will reflect on America’s past, present, and future, concluding with fireworks.

On October 10, 1871, Chicagoans awoke to a smoking pile of rubble.

Could the city possibly recover?

Geoffrey Baer tells the stories of 10 American architectural marvels.

A Capitol Fourth: 250th Weekend Celebration

Follow archaeological investigations into the dramatic origins of democracy in Greece 2,500 years ago.

10 Modern Marvels That Changed America

Friday, July 10, 8:00 pm

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Geoffrey Baer highlights 10 iconic American streets and the ways they shaped our communities.

NOVA: Athens – Birth of Democracy

Thursday, July 2, 7:00 pm and Monday, July 20, 9:00 pm

Firsthand: Democracy – Maryanne

10 Streets That Changed America

Photo: Teresa Crawford for WTTW

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Celebrate America’s semiquincentennial with these programs:

Examine four turning points in the history of Washington, DC. Thursday, July 2, 8:00 pm

Firsthand: Democracy – Miten Patel

Photo: Tom Hayward.

Reenactors transform George Washington’s backyard into a living history experience.

David Rubenstein examines American history through some of its most iconic objects, symbols, and artifacts.

Sunday, July 19, 12:00 pm

Before America

Declarations: Black Americans and The Revolutionary War

This program traces Indigenous resistance, memory, and sovereignty across the Great Lakes.

Sunday, July 19, 12:30 pm

Follow the stories of enslaved and eventually freed Black Americans who fought for democracy.

The War of 1812 Firsthand: Democracy – Maryanne Colter

The American Revolution In this docuseries from Ken Burns, 13 American colonies wage war to secure their independence and establish a new form of government.

Sunday, July 5, 6:00 am

Becoming American: Philadelphia’s Story Explore America’s founding through the lens of Philadelphia’s diverse communities.

Monday, July 6, 9:00 pm

America the Bountiful: America’s 250th Anniversary Special

This documentary examines the strange and awkward conflict that shaped the destiny of a continent.

Sunday, July 26, 5:30 pm

Amerigo: The Search for the American Dream

Monday, July 27, 9:00 pm Photo: Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Sunday, July 12, 2:00 pm

Frederick Law Olmsted: Designing America

Historian Lucy Worsley examines the 18th-century split between Britain and the American colonies.

Isabel became a naturalized citizen in time to cast her ballot in the 2024 election. She’s now blazing a trail for other immigrants as a volunteer tutor.

Streaming now on wttw.com, the PBS app, and YouTube

Firsthand: Democracy – Camille After being forced to testify in court at age six following her mother’s murder, Camille Williams has dedicated her life to advocating for a more inclusive democracy.

Streaming now on wttw.com, the PBS app, and YouTube

Learn about this visionary whose parks and preservation efforts are an essential part of American life.

Firsthand: Democracy – Julee

Sunday, July 12, 3:00 pm

Sunday, July 19, 11:30 am

Lucy Worsley Investigates: The American Revolution

Firsthand: Democracy – Isabel

This sweeping documentary strives to answer one timeless question: what happened to the American Dream?

Explore America’s first coast-tocoast highway.

During the Great Depression, men and boys restored logged-over forests and created public parks.

Streaming on wttw.com, the PBS app, and YouTube

This renovation of George Washington’s estate has revealed new insights about America’s first president.

A Ride Along the Lincoln Highway

Antiques Roadshow: 250 Years of Americana Discoveries reflect 250 years of American art, artifacts, crafts, and collectibles.

George Washington’s Mount Vernon: Preserving the Legacy

Saturday, July 11, 5:00 pm

Built to Last: The Legacy of the Civilian Conservation Corps in Minnesota

Lucy Worsley Investigates: The American Revolution

Sunday, July 19, 1:00 pm

Host Capri Cafaro highlights the foods and drinks grown and harvested by American colonists.

Iconic America: Our Symbols and Stories with David Rubenstein

Photo: Joan Marcus

Photo: Teresa Crawford for WTTW

Reenacting the Revolution at Mount Vernon

Portrait of George Washington by Charles Willson Peale ca. 1779-81

Retiree Julee Mortensen organizes protests and advocates for voting rights and other causes, inspiring a new generation of local political candidates.

Streaming now on wttw.com, the PBS app, and YouTube

Great Performances: Suffs – Tsilala Brock and Grace McLean

Great Performances: Suffs This hit Broadway musical tells the dramatic story of the American suffragist movement.

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Create-ing with Flowers with J Schwanke

Sunday, July 12, 7:00 pm

Coastal Unit, Season 1 Friday, July 31

This film examines the conflict that shaped the destiny of a continent, revealing how the glories of war become enshrined in history while failures are quickly forgotten, and inconvenient truths ignored forever.

Friday, July 31, 8:00 pm

Watch on WTTW Prime, wttw.com/watch, or the PBS app.

Watch on WTTW Create, wttw.com/watch, or the PBS app.

The War of 1812

J Schwanke

Personalities clash in a colorful precinct in the South of France, with men and women driven by ambition, compassion, and high emotion.

Despite their quirks, they form a solid and effective group led by Captain Janvert.

Flowers aren’t just beautiful to look at … they’re the perfect material for gorgeous crafts and gifts! Let J Schwanke’s expert advice show you how to think about flowers in a whole new way.

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In the Spotlight Symbols and Stories with David Rubenstein – The Golden Gate Bridge [R] 4:00 PBS News Hour [R] 5:00 A Capitol Fourth 2025 Revisit the 2025 edition of America’s grand Fourth of July celebration.

MORNING A Capitol Fourth 2024 Enjoy the 2024 star-studded musical celebration recorded at the U.S. Capitol.

8:00 Opportunity Knocks: A Leap of Faith 8:30 Curious Traveler: Curious Alhambra and Malaga, Spain 9:00 Rick Steves’ Europe: Istanbul – Capital of Emperors and Sultans 9:30 John McGivern’s Main Streets: Grand Rapids, Michigan 10:00 This Old House: Asheville – Out of the Mountains 10:30 Ask This Old House: Planting Arborvitaes, Storage Rack 11:00 J Schwanke’s Life in Bloom: Orange Crush 11:30 Jacques Pépin: Heart & Soul – Offal Good 6:30

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America Made in Virginia: 250 Years Together This live special from Colonial Williamsburg will reflect on America’s past, present, and future through live performance, historical interpretation, and more, concluding with a dramatic fireworks and drone display. Guests will include Ken Burns, Judy Collins, Michael Feinstein, Ryan Speedo Green, Kelli O’Hara, Richard Thomas, and more.

Saturday, July 4 7:00 pm Unexpected Salad 3:30 Cook’s Country: Tri-State Treats 4:00 Shakespeare & Hathaway, Private Investigators: Toil and Trouble 5:00 BBC World News America 5:30 To be announced

EVENING 6:00 PBS News Hour 7:00 A Capitol Fourth: 250th Weekend Celebration 8:30 A Capitol Fourth: 250th Weekend Celebration [R] 10:00 Washington Week with the Atlantic 10:30 BBC News 11:00 Amanpour and Company

Saturday 4 Independence Day EARLY MORNING 12:00 Firsthand: Democracy – Miten See Thurs. July 2 at 7:00 pm. [R] 12:34 Firsthand: Democracy – Maryanne See Thurs.

July 2 at 7:34 pm.

1:00 Last Battlefront: Quest for the Vote in Washington D.C. See Thurs. July 2 at 8:00 pm.

2:00 American Dendrite See Thurs. July 2 at 9:00 pm.

3:00 Iconic America: Our

AFTERNOON 12:00 Cook’s Country: Chicken and Cornbread 12:30 Cook’s Country: ItalianAmerican Feast 1:00 Lidia’s Kitchen: From Italy to Your Table 1:30 Steven Raichlen’s Project Smoke: South American Smoke 2:00 America’s Test Kitchen: Savory and Sweet Italian 2:30 America’s Test Kitchen: Corn Cakes and Chowder 3:00 Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television: Best Italian Desserts 3:30 My Greek Table with Diane Kochilas: Changing the Geography of the Dinner Plate 4:00 Indian as Apple Pie: Curry Means Gravy 4:30 Check, Please! Roka Akor, Mango Pickle, The Dearborn 5:00 Washington Week with the Atlantic [R] 5:30 A Capitol Fourth: 250th Weekend Celebration [R] EVENING 7:00 America Made in Virginia: 250 Years Together 9:00 America Made in Virginia: 250 Years Together [R] 11:00 A Capitol Fourth: 250th Weekend Celebration [R]

Sunday 5 EARLY MORNING 12:30 Iconic America: Our Symbols and Stories with David Rubenstein – The Statue of Liberty [R]

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Iconic America: Our Symbols and Stories with David Rubenstein – The American Bald Eagle [R] 2:30 Iconic America: Our Symbols and Stories with David Rubenstein – The Gadsden Flag [R] 3:30 Rick Steves’ Europe: Istanbul – Capital of Emperors and Sultans [R] 4:00 Rick Steves’ Europe: Art of the High Middle Ages 4:30 Behind the Canvas 5:00 Happy Yoga with Sarah Starr: Summer on the Farm 5:30 Yoga in Practice: Become an Able Vessel

MORNING 6:00 The American Revolution: In Order to Be Free (Part 1 of 6) Opposition in colonial North America to British policies over taxes, land, and sovereignty escalates into violent confrontation.

7:57 The American Revolution: An Asylum for Mankind (Part 2 of 6) Congress puts George Washington in command of a new Continental Army.

10:02 The American Revolution: The Times That Try Men’s Souls (Part 3 of 6) British General Howe soundly defeats General Washington at Long Island and in Manhattan.

AFTERNOON 12:00 The American Revolution: Conquer by a Drawn Game (Part 4 of 6) General Howe takes Philadelphia, forcing Congress to flee the city.

2:00 The American Revolution: The Soul of All America (Part 5 of 6) After Valley Forge and Monmouth, the French-American alliance changes the war and moves it to other theaters.

4:00 The American Revolution: The Most Sacred Thing (Part 6 of 6) Supported by the French, Washington wins the decisive victory at Yorktown, and Americans aspire for a more perfect union.

EVENING Patience: The Timetable (Season 2, Part 4 of 8) A young autistic girl witnesses her father’s murder at the railway museum but is unable to tell anyone what happened.

8:00 Grantchester Season 11 on Masterpiece (Part 4 of 8) Alphy’s trip to reconcile with his mother takes a shocking turn when a passenger is murdered and he becomes the prime suspect.

9:00 Downton Abbey Season 2 on Masterpiece (Part 4 of 7) In the climactic battle of the 7:00

war, Matthew and William go over the top to an uncertain fate. And Daisy faces the severest test of her life.

10:00 Astrid: Time Traveler (Season 4, Part 6 of 8) A famous environmental activist is murdered in public by a young woman, who is arrested on the spot.

11:00 The American Revolution: In Order to Be Free (Part 1 of 6) See 6:00 am. [R]

Monday 6 EARLY MORNING The American Revolution: An Asylum for Mankind (Part 2 of 6) See Sun. July 5 at 7:57 am. [R] 3:05 The American Revolution: The Times That Try Men’s Souls (Part 3 of 6) See Sun. July 5 at 10:02 am. [R] 5:00 BBC News 5:30 Firing Line with Margaret Hoover 1:00

MORNING 6:00-1:00 WTTW Kids

AFTERNOON Antiques Roadshow: 250 Years of Americana [R] 2:00 Lucy Worsley Investigates: The American 1:00

In the Spotlight

The Liberty Bell

Becoming American: Philadelphia’s Story Explore the founding of the United States through the lens of Philadelphia, America’s first capital. From indigenous people and enslaved Africans to lawmakers and artisans, the film reveals how diverse communities shaped a new nation.

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Revolution – A Messy Divorce (Part 2 of 2) [R] 3:00 America’s Test Kitchen: Cast Iron Staples 3:30 Cook’s Country: Holiday Roast and Potatoes 4:00 Shakespeare & Hathaway, Private Investigators: Exit, Pursued by a Bear 5:00 BBC World News America 5:30 Chicago Tonight

6:00 Nature Cat 6:30 Arthur 7:00 Wild Kratts 7:30 Weather Hunters 8:00 Lyla in the Loop 8:30 Carl the Collector 9:00 Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood 9:30 Phoebe & Jay 10:00 Sesame Street 10:30 Work it Out Wombats!

11:00 Donkey Hodie 11:30 Rosie's Rules 12:00 Elinor Wonders Why 12:30 Alma's Way

EVENING 6:00 PBS News Hour 7:00 Antiques Roadshow: Springs Preserve (Part 3 of 3) Finds include a Frank McCarthy oil painting, 1945 baseball autographs, and a 1977 Elvis Presley watch presented to Redd Foxx.

8:00 Antiques Roadshow: Living History Farms (Part 1 of 3) Finds include a 1977 Kenner Darth Vader figure, a Tippco toy motorcycle with a sidecar, and a Ty Cobb professional model bat circa 1925.

9:00 Becoming American: Philadelphia’s Story 10:00 Chicago Tonight [R] 10:30 BBC News 11:00 Amanpour and Company

Aaron Tang

Breaking the Deadlock: How to Fix an Election Moderator Aaron Tang leads nine panelists with political and cultural differences through a hypothetical situation involving an infrastructure threat that expands to include an upcoming election. Participants including entrepreneur Mark Cuban, Claire McCaskill, and Dr. Mark Esper also discuss their vision for America’s next 250 years.

Photo: Peter Wolfes; Courtesy of GBH

Tuesday, July 7 8:00 pm

EARLY MORNING 12:00 Patience: The Timetable (Season 2, Part 4 of 8) See Sun. July 5 at 7:00 pm. [R] 1:00 Grantchester Season 11 on Masterpiece (Part 4 of 8) See Sun. July 5 at 8:00 pm. [R] 2:00 Downton Abbey Season 2 on Masterpiece (Part 4 of 7) See Sun. July 5 at 9:00 pm. [R] 3:00 Astrid: Time Traveler (Season 4, Part 6 of 8) See Sun. July 5 at 10:00 pm. [R] 4:00 PBS News Hour [R] 5:00 BBC News 5:30 Chicago Tonight [R]

Inspector George Gently (New Season) As season 5 opens, Inspector George Gently (Martin Shaw) and his brash sidekick John Bacchus have their eyes opened to the shocking consequences of casual racism after a young Black girl is murdered at a Northern Soul all-night dance.

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work to solve family mysteries for actor Joe Manganiello and football star Tony Gonzalez.

8:00 Breaking the Deadlock: How to Fix an Election 9:00 8 Days: To the Moon and Back 10:30 Chicago Tonight [R] 11:00 BBC News 11:30 Amanpour and Company

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12:30 Antiques Roadshow: Springs Preserve (Part 3 of 3) See Mon. July 6 at 7:00 pm. [R] 1:30 Antiques Roadshow: Living History Farms (Part 1 of 3) See Mon. July 6 at 8:00 pm. [R] 2:30 Becoming American: Philadelphia’s Story See Mon. July 6 at 9:00 pm. [R] 3:30 John McGivern’s Main Streets: Grand Rapids, Michigan [R] 4:00 PBS News Hour [R] 5:00 BBC News 5:30 Chicago Tonight [R]

AFTERNOON Antiques Roadshow: Colonial Williamsburg (Part 1 of 3) 2:00 The Kimberley: Australia’s Wild West – Into the Fire (Part 3 of 3) [R] 3:00 America’s Test Kitchen: Two Modern Stews 3:30 Cook’s Country: PubStyle Seafood 4:00 Shakespeare & Hathaway, Private Investigators: The Fairest Show Means the Most Deceit 5:00 BBC World News America 5:30 Chicago Tonight 1:00

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EVENING 6:00 PBS News Hour 7:00 Finding Your Roots: Family – Lost and Found Henry Louis Gates uses DNA detective

MORNING 6:00-1:00 WTTW Kids

AFTERNOON 1:00 Antiques Roadshow: Colonial Williamsburg (Part 2 of 3) 2:00 Breaking the Deadlock See

Tues. July 7 at 8:00 pm. [R] America’s Test Kitchen: Back to Basics 3:30 Cook’s Country: Regional Seafood Specialties 4:00 Shakespeare & Hathaway, Private Investigators: The Chameleon’s Dish 5:00 BBC World News America 5:30 Chicago Tonight 3:00

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: Black Hole Apocalypse Join astrophysicist and novelist Janna Levin on a mind-blowing voyage to the frontiers of black hole science.

9:00 The American Southwest Journey down the Colorado River.

10:00 Chicago Tonight [R] 10:30 BBC News 11:00 Amanpour and Company

Thursday 9 EARLY MORNING 12:00 Finding Your Roots: Family – Lost and Found See Tues.

July 7 at 7:00 pm. [R]

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In the Spotlight

Host Capri Cafaro (right) with a reenactor

America the Bountiful: America’s 250th Anniversary Special Host Capri Cafaro travels to storied locations of colonial America to learn about the historic foods and drinks that colonists were growing, harvesting, and producing as they became food independent, a critical factor in their victory over the British.

Saturday, July 11 5:00 pm

Friday 10 EARLY MORNING 12:00 Nature: Niagara Falls See Wed. July 8 at 7:00 pm. [R] 1:00 NOVA: Black Hole Apocalypse See Wed. July 8 at 8:00 pm. [R] 2:00 The American Revolution: The Soul of All America (Part 5 of 6) See Sun. July 5 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: Living History Farms (Part 1 of 3) [R] 2:00 NOVA: Black Hole Apocalypse [R] 3:00 America’s Test Kitchen: Italian Vegetarian 3:30 Cook’s Country: Beef Kebabs and Cheese Bread 4:00 Shakespeare & Hathaway, Private Investigators: Ill Met by Moonlight 5:00 BBC World News America 5:30 Chicago Tonight: The Week in Review EVENING

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Breaking the Deadlock See Tues. July 7 at 8:00 pm. [R] 2:00 The American Revolution: Conquer by a Drawn Game (Part 4 of 6) See Sun. July 5 at 12:00 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: Colonial Williamsburg (Part 3 of 3) 2:00 Finding Your Roots: Family – Lost and Found [R] 3:00 America’s Test Kitchen: New English Classics 3:30 Cook’s Country: Taste of Summer 4:00 Shakespeare & Hathaway, Private Investigators: The Rascal Cook 5:00 BBC World News America 5:30 Chicago Tonight EVENING 6:00 PBS News Hour 7:00 Inspector George Gently: Gently Northern Soul (New Season) 8:30 The Brokenwood Mysteries: Fall from Grace A surprise guest interrupts the picnic that Kristin, Breen, and Gina throw for Mike’s birthday.

6:00 PBS News Hour 7:00 Chicago Tonight: The Week in Review [R] 7:30 Washington Week with the Atlantic 8:00 10 Modern Marvels That Changed America Geoffrey Baer takes a whirlwind tour of engineering feats that made our civilization possible.

9:00 JFK: American Experience (Part 1 of 2) Follow JFK’s rise to power from his birth to his election as president in 1960 – the youngest man ever to be elected to the office.

11:00 BBC News 11:30 Amanpour and Company

Saturday 11 EARLY MORNING 12:30 The American Revolution: The Most Sacred Thing (Part 6 of 6) See Sun. July 5 at 4:00 pm. [R] 3:00 The American Southwest See Wed. July 8 at 9:00 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 10 Modern Marvels That Changed America See Fri.

July 10 at 8:00 pm. [R] 7:00 The Legacy of 4-H Explore the origins of the nation’s largest youth organization, tracing its roots to the early 1900s.

8:00 Opportunity Knocks: The First Breakthrough 8:30 Curious Traveler: Curious Marrakech, Morocco 9:00 Rick Steves’ Europe: Istanbul – Turkish Delights 9:30 John McGivern’s Main Streets: Oshkosh, Wisconsin 10:00 This Old House: Asheville – Community Carpenters 10:30 Ask This Old House: Sustainable Grass, Driveway Lights 11:00 J Schwanke’s Life in Bloom: Get Outside 11:30 Jacques Pépin: Heart & Soul – Catch o’ the Day

AFTERNOON 12:00 Cook’s Country: The Perfect Cake 12:30 Cook’s Country: Chips on the Menu 1:00 Lidia’s Kitchen: Let’s Make Dinner 1:30 Steven Raichlen’s Project Smoke: Global Tailgate 2:00 America’s Test Kitchen: Sous Vide for Company 2:30 America’s Test Kitchen: Turkey Lasagna and Chocolate Sorbet 3:00 Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television: The New Chicken Noodle Soup 3:30 My Greek Table with Diane Kochilas: Greens Rule the Day 4:00 Indian as Apple Pie: Indian Food – The Not-So-Basics: Spice Blends and Beyond 4:30 Check, Please!

Sensational Seafood 5:00 America the Bountiful: America’s 250th Anniversary Special

Photo: Adam Lawrence / BBC Studios 2025

In the Spotlight 10:00 Chicago Tonight [R] 10:30 BBC News 11:00 Amanpour and Company

Jo Joyner and Mark Benton

Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators (New Season) As the new season begins, tensions rise as detectives Frank Hathaway (Mark Benton) and Lu Shakespeare (Jo Joyner) are forced to reunite and work together on the case of two warring socialmedia influencers. A handyman’s murder puts both under suspicion.

Saturdays beginning July 11, 7:00 pm

Photo: Matt Klitscher/AcornTV; © 2022 Acorn Media Enterprises

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In the Spotlight

EVENING 6:00 Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries: Murder a la Mode Phryne helps Jack uncover an elaborate jewel smuggling scheme.

7:00 Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators – Such a Mad Marriage Never Was Before (New Season) 8:00 My Life is Murder: It Takes Two (New Season) 8:45 Under the Vines (New Series) 9:30 Queens of Mystery: Murder in the Dark (Season 1, Part 1 of 6) DS Matilda “Mattie” Stone uncovers several publishing-related suspects while trying to clear her Aunt Beth in a murder case.

10:15 Queens of Mystery: Murder in the Dark (Season 1, Part 2 of 6) Mattie’s list of murder suspects includes a publisher, literary agent, and author.

11:00 Downton Abbey Season 2 on

Lucy Lawless

My Life is Murder (New Season) A new season of this Australian mystery-comedy series finds Alexa Crowe (Lucy Lawless) looking into the death of a young teacher at a tango club and it’s not clear who is leading them in a dangerous dance to discover the truth.

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In the Spotlight

Filmmaker Katy Scoggin hikes with her father

Masterpiece (Part 4 of 7) [R]

Sunday 12 EARLY MORNING 12:00 Inspector George Gently: Gently Northern Soul See Thurs. July 9 at 7:00 pm. [R] 1:30 JFK: American Experience (Part 1 of 2) See Fri. July 10 at 9:00 pm. [R] 3:30 8 Days: To the Moon and Back See Tues.

July 7 at 9:00 pm. [R] 5:00 Happy Yoga with Sarah Starr: Majestic Desert 5:30 Yoga in Practice: The Inner Fire of Transformation

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Independent Lens: Flood Katy Scoggin returns home to the Inland Empire to face her differences with her evangelical father. What begins as a project becomes a journey toward empathy and connection, as they confront faith, family, and memory on a cross-country trip.

Photo: Courtesy NASA

Monday, July 13 9:00 pm

6:00 Horizons from PBS News 6:30 Firing Line with Margaret Hoover 7:00 Baking with Julia: Decorative Sourdough Loaves with Joe Ortiz 7:30 In Julia’s Kitchen with Master Chefs: Jody Adams 8:00 Homemade Live!

Feel Good Feasts 8:30 Simply Ming: Cast Iron 9:00 New Scandinavian Cooking: Grain for Food 9:30 Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television: Paris – Bahn Mi, Pork Rice Bowls, and Vietnamese Wings 10:00 Kevin Belton’s Cookin’ Louisiana: Lafayette Parish – Epicenter of Cajun Cuisine 10:30 Steven Raichlen’s Project Smoke: How to Smoke When You Don’t Have A Smoker 11:00 Compass Points from PBS News 11:30 Railroad Stations in American Life A diverse cast of historians examine the role of the railroad station in America and learn how people interacted with stations in their towns through the generations.

AFTERNOON Our Vanishing Americana: Florida This film captures the spirit of Florida’s main streets through short stories from across the state.

2:00 A Ride Along the Lincoln Highway Explore America’s historic Lincoln Highway, the nation’s first coastto-coast highway.

3:00 Frederick Law Olmsted: Designing America This film tells the story of a visionary whose parks and preservation are an essential part of American life.

4:00 10 Parks That Changed America Geoffrey Baer explores the serene spaces that offer city dwellers a respite from the hustle and bustle of urban life.

5:00 Chicago Stories: Pullman 1:00

Jerry Linenger and Michael Foale aboard Mir space station

Once Upon a Time in Space (New Miniseries) In this four-part series, follow the trail of the human space program, from the space shuttle through America’s recent return to the moon. In part one: at the dawn of the Space Shuttle, a pioneering class of astronauts takes flight, but when tragedy strikes, NASA is left reeling.

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and the Railroad Rebellion Railroad titan George Pullman built a company town for the workers who made his sleeping cars. When workers fought back against low wages and harsh conditions, their struggle helped shape America’s labor rights movement.

EVENING 6:00 Chicago Stories: The Great Chicago Fire On October 10, 1871, the citizens of Chicago awoke to a smoking pile of rubble that stretched for miles on end. Could the city possibly recover?

7:00 Patience: The Runes (Season 2, Part 5 of 8) A Viking expert dies before a big controversial speech and Patience finds a coded message hinting at foul play.

8:00 Grantchester Season 11 on Masterpiece (Part 5 of 8) A murder near the Bishop Grey’s home exposes corruption within the Church’s inner circle, shaking Alphy’s faith.

9:00 Downton Abbey Season 2 on Masterpiece (Part 5 of 7) As the war nears its end, a mysterious wounded officer makes a shocking revelation.

10:00 Astrid: The Ankou (Season 4, Part 7 of 8) The heir of a very wealthy family is found dead. But Raphaelle and Astrid discover that the same man died two years earlier.

11:00 Austin City Limits: Samara Joy

Monday 13 EARLY MORNING 12:00 Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators – Such a Mad Marriage Never Was Before See Sat. July 11 at 7:00 pm. [R] 12:50 My Life is Murder: It Takes Two See Sat. July 11 at 8:00 pm. [R] 1:35 Under the Vines See Sat. July 11 at 8:45 pm. [R] 2:25 Queens of Mystery: Murder in the Dark (Season 1, Part 1 of 6) See Sat. July 11 at 9:30 pm. [R] 3:11 Queens of Mystery: Murder in the Dark (Season 1, Part 2 of 6) See Sat. July 11 at 10:15 pm. [R] 4:00 Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries: Murder a la Mode See Sat. July 11 at 6:00 pm. [R] 5:00 BBC News 5:30 Live from the LBJ Library with Mark Updegrove

MORNING 6:00-1:00 WTTW Kids

AFTERNOON Antiques Roadshow: Springs Preserve (Part 3 of 3) [R] 2:00 America The Bountiful: America’s 250th Anniversary Special See Sat. July 11 at 5:00 pm. [R] 3:00 America’s Test Kitchen: Seafood Supper 3:30 Cook’s Country: Grilled Chicken, Two Ways 4:00 My Life is Murder: Call of the Wild 5:00 BBC World News America 5:30 Chicago Tonight 1:00

EVENING 6:00 PBS News Hour 7:00 Antiques Roadshow: Living History Farms (Part 2 of 3) Finds include a 1967 NFL Championship “Ice Bowl” ticket stub, a 1989 Ronald Reagan letter, and a Robert Riggs Saturday Evening Post illustration.

8:00 Antiques Roadshow: Living History Farms (Part 3 of 3) Finds include a 1943 Le Petit Prince signed first edition, an Arnold Schwarzenegger shirt and autograph circa 1990, and a 1907 E. Williams Gollings oil painting.

9:00 Independent Lens: Flood 10:30 Chicago Tonight [R] 11:00 BBC News 11:30 Amanpour and Company

Tuesday 14 EARLY MORNING 12:30 Patience: The Runes (Season 2, Part 5 of 8) See Sun. July 12 at 7:00 pm. [R] 1:30 Grantchester Season 11 on Masterpiece (Part 5 of 8) See Sun. July 12 at 8:00 pm. [R] 2:30 Downton Abbey Season 2 on Masterpiece (Part 5 of 7) See Sun. July 12 at 9:00 pm. [R] 3:30 John McGivern’s Main Streets: Oshkosh, Wisconsin [R] 4:00 PBS News Hour [R] 5:00 BBC News 5:30 Chicago Tonight [R]

MORNING 6:00-1:00 WTTW Kids

AFTERNOON Antiques Roadshow: Grounds for Sculpture (Part 1 of 3) 2:00 Nature: Niagara Falls [R] 3:00 America’s Test Kitchen: The Ultimate Sticky Buns 3:30 Cook’s Country: Tacos Two Ways 4:00 My Life is Murder: Oceans Apart 5:00 BBC World News America 5:30 Chicago Tonight 1:00

EVENING 6:00 PBS News Hour 7:00 Finding Your Roots: Out

of the Past Henry Louis Gates uncovers the lost roots of actors Billy Crudup and Tamera Mowry-Housley, traveling back generations to recount noteworthy events in history in a deeply personal way.

8:00 Once Upon a Time In Space: America First (Part 1 of 4) 9:00 Breaking the Deadlock: A Power Play Moderator Aaron Tang guides panel participants through complex hypothetical scenarios around the use of executive power by a pair of fictional U.S. Presidents from opposite parties.

10:00 Chicago Tonight [R] 10:30 BBC News 11:00 Amanpour and Company

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bugs play on our planet.

10:00 Chicago Tonight [R] 10:30 BBC News 11:00 Amanpour and Company

Thursday 16 EARLY MORNING 12:00 Finding Your Roots: Out of the Past See Tues.

July 14 at 7:00 pm. [R] 1:00 Once Upon a Time In Space: America First (Part 1 of 4) [R] 2:00 Breaking the Deadlock: A Power Play See Tues.

July 14 at 9:00 pm. [R] 3:00 Astrid: The Ankou (Season 4, Part 7 of 8) See Sun. July 12 at 10:00 pm. [R] 4:00 PBS News Hour [R] 5:00 BBC News 5:30 Chicago Tonight [R]

EARLY MORNING

MORNING

12:00 Antiques Roadshow: Living History Farms (Part 2 of 3) See Mon. July 13 at 7:00 pm. [R] 2:00 Antiques Roadshow: Living History Farms (Part 3 of 3) See Mon. July 13 at 8:00 pm. [R] 3:00 Independent Lens: Flood See Mon. July 13 at 9:00 pm. [R] 3:30 Rick Steves’ Europe: Istanbul – Turkish Delights [R] 4:00 PBS News Hour [R] 5:00 BBC News 5:30 Chicago Tonight [R]

6:00-1:00 WTTW Kids

MORNING 6:00-1:00 WTTW Kids

EVENING 6:00 PBS News Hour 7:00 Inspector George Gently: Gently with Class Chief inspector George Gently and Sergeant John Bacchus investigate the death of a beautiful young girl in a car.

8:30 The Brokenwood Mysteries: Stone Cold Dead A death occurring at Brokenwood’s Historic Village brings Mike and his team into contact with the area’s first possible serial killer.

10:00 Chicago Tonight [R] 10:30 BBC News 11:00 Amanpour and Company

AFTERNOON Antiques Roadshow: Grounds for Sculpture (Part 2 of 3) 2:00 Once Upon a Time In Space: America First (Part 1 of 4) See Tues.

July 14 at 8:00 pm. [R] 3:00 America’s Test Kitchen: Hearty One-Pot Meals 3:30 Cook’s Country: Bread, Cheese, and Meat Can’t Be Beat 4:00 My Life is Murder: All That Glitters 5:00 BBC World News America 5:30 Chicago Tonight 1:00

EVENING 6:00 PBS News Hour 7:00 Nature: Soul of the Ocean Take a never-before-seen look at how life underwater co-exists in a marriage of necessity.

8:00 NOVA: Black Hole Universe Black holes may be the key to unlocking the ultimate nature of reality.

9:00 Bugs That Rule the World: Insect Apocalypse (Part 1 of 4) Scientists and enthusiasts investigate the global insect “apocalypse,” revealing the crucial roles

AFTERNOON Antiques Roadshow: Grounds for Sculpture (Part 3 of 3) 2:00 Finding Your Roots: Out of the Past [R] 3:00 America’s Test Kitchen: Outsmarting Thanksgiving 3:30 Cook’s Country: Herbaceous Chicken and Potatoes 4:00 My Life is Murder: Look, Don’t Touch 5:00 BBC World News America 5:30 Chicago Tonight 1:00

Friday 17 EARLY MORNING 12:00 Nature: Soul of the Ocean See Wed. July 15 at 7:00 pm. [R] 1:00 NOVA: Black Hole Universe See Wed. July 15 at 8:00 pm. [R] 2:00 Bugs That Rule the World: Insect Apocalypse (Part 1 of 4) See Wed. July 15 at 9:00 pm. [R] 3:00 Our Vanishing Americana: Florida See Sun. July 12 at 1:00 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 Antiques Roadshow: Living History Farms (Part 3 of 3) [R] 2:00 NOVA: Black Hole Universe [R] 3:00 America’s Test Kitchen: Korean Feast 3:30 Cook’s Country: Italian Comfort Food 4:00 My Life is Murder: Crushed Dreams 5:00 BBC World News America 5:30 Chicago Tonight: The Week in Review 1:00

EVENING 6:00 PBS News Hour 7:00 Chicago Tonight: The Week in Review [R] 7:30 Washington Week with the Atlantic 8:00 10 Buildings That Changed America Geoffrey Baer tells the stories of 10 American architectural marvels.

9:00 JFK: American Experience (Part 2 of 2) Follow Kennedy into the White House through his assassination and the unfulfilled promise of his presidency.

11:00 BBC News 11:30 Amanpour and Company

Saturday 18 EARLY MORNING 12:30 The Brokenwood Mysteries: Stone Cold Dead See Thurs.

July 16 at 8:30 pm. [R] 2:00 A Ride Along the Lincoln Highway See Sun. July 12 at 2:00 pm. [R] 3:00 Frederick Law Olmsted: Designing America See Sun. July 12 at 3:00 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 10 Buildings That Changed America See Fri. July 17 at 8:00 pm. [R] 7:00 Once Upon a Time in Space: America First (Part 1 of 4) [R] 8:00 Opportunity Knocks: Progress and Possibility 8:30 Curious Traveler: Curious Mont Saint-Michel and Rennes, France 9:00 Rick Steves’ Europe: London – A Royal Tour 9:30 John McGivern’s Main Streets: Pleasant Prairie and Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin 10:00 This Old House: Asheville – Boulder Dash 10:30 Ask This Old House: Seabees, Paint

Galvanized Railing 11:00 J Schwanke’s Life in Bloom: Farms and Flowers 11:30 Jacques Pépin: Heart & Soul – Julia Remembered

AFTERNOON 12:00 Cook’s Country: Roast Beef and Potatoes 12:30 Cook’s Country: Bar Snacks, Perfected 1:00 Lidia’s Kitchen: Grow in the Kitchen 1:30 Steven Raichlen’s Project Smoke: Project Smoke Road Trip 2:00 America’s Test Kitchen: Childhood Favorites, Grown Up 2:30 America’s Test Kitchen: Farmer’s Brunch 3:00 Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television: New Christmas Cookies 3:30 My Greek Table with Diane Kochilas: Plant-Based in Ancient Greece 4:00 Indian as Apple Pie: Lentils, Beans, and Peas 4:30 Check, Please! Forbidden Root, Miss Saigon, Sofi 5:00 Chicago Stories: Amusement Parks Take a nostalgic look back at the thrills, spills, and decadent treats at these parks and the innovative rides that were created for them. Audio-narrated descriptions are available.

EVENING 6:00 Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries: Marked for Murder When Phryne is duped into investigating a football coach’s missing “lucky cap,” she discovers a gruesome murder instead.

7:00 Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators – The Heavenly Harness’d Team A corporate retreat turns deadly when a CEO dies in a trust fall.

8:00 My Life is Murder: Nothing Concrete Truth is stranger than fiction when a crime novelist is found dead, encased in a public sculpture.

8:45 Under the Vines Daisy gets her hands dirty, while Louis gets more insight from Hilary than he bargained for.

9:30 Queens of Mystery: Death

by Vinyl (Season 1, Part 3 of 6) Mattie is assigned the unglamorous job of searching for a lost dog, but the case is put on hold when one of the band’s members is murdered.

10:15 Queens of Mystery: Death

by Vinyl (Season 1, Part 4 of 6) Mattie investigates a new victim: the band’s manager, stabbed in the back with a kitchen knife.

11:00 Downton Abbey Season 2 on Masterpiece (Part 5 of 7) [R]

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In the Spotlight

Sunday 19 EARLY MORNING 12:00 Inspector George Gently: Gently with Class See Thurs.

July 16 at 7:00 pm. [R] 1:30 JFK: American Experience (Part 2 of 2) See Fri. July 17 at 9:00 pm. [R] 3:30 Railroad Stations in American Life See Sun. July 12 at 11:30 am. [R] 5:00 Happy Yoga with Sarah Starr: Lake Forest 5:30 Yoga in Practice: Honor Your Inner Beauty MORNING

The capsized Eastland

Eastland Tragedy July 24, 1915 This new film recalls the horrific event that took place on the Chicago River in July 1915 when a fully loaded excursion boat suddenly capsized, killing 844 passengers and crew enroute to a picnic hosted by the Western Electric Company.

Photo: Courtesy NASA

Sunday, July 19 5:30 pm

6:00 Horizons from PBS News 6:30 Firing Line with Margaret Hoover 7:00 Baking with Julia: Baba and Savarin with David Blom 7:30 In Julia’s Kitchen with Master Chefs: Zarela Martinez 8:00 Homemade Live! When Life Gives You Lemons 8:30 Kitchen Curious with Vivian Howard: Pasta 9:00 New Scandinavian Cooking: Island Treats 9:30 Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television: Favorite Italian Classics 10:00 Kevin Belton’s Cookin’ Louisiana: Acadia Parish – Rice Central 10:30 Steven Raichlen’s Project Smoke: Big Bad Beef 11:00 Compass Points from PBS News 11:30 Built to Last: The Legacy of the Civilian Conservation Corps in Minnesota At the height of the Great Depression, men and boys took part in a program that would teach them job skills, restore logged-over forests, and create public parks.

AFTERNOON

Apollo 11 crew in quarantine

Chasing the Moon: American Experience Revisit this three-part series that explores the early days of the space race, the struggle to catch up with the Soviet Union and the enormous stakes in the quest to reach the moon. Part one reveals both the breathtaking failures and successes of the developing U.S. space program.

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12:00 Reenacting the Revolution at Mount Vernon Reenactors annually transform George Washington’s backyard into a living history experience.

12:30 Before America This program traces Indigenous resistance, memory, and sovereignty across the Great Lakes.

1:00 The War of 1812 This film examines the strange and awkward conflict that shaped the destiny of a continent.

3:00 America’s Stairway This is the story of the historic Flight of Five locks on the Erie Canal in Lockport, New York.

4:00 Wisconsin Lighthouses Explore the lighthouses that shaped Wisconsin’s maritime history.

5:00 Behind the Canvas 5:30 Eastland Tragedy July 24,1915

EVENING 6:00 Touring Chicago’s Lakefront with Geoffrey Baer Join Geoffrey Baer to traverse Chicago’s legendary “front yard” to learn how it was envisioned, built, and defended.

7:00 Patience: Paco’s Revenge (Season 2, Part 6 of 8) A woman is found dead in the botanical gardens. Was she murdered or did she die of natural causes?

8:00 Grantchester Season 11 on Masterpiece (Part 6 of 8) Cathy’s triumph at CeCe’s turns dark when a club manager is found dead and Alphy is discovered in the depths of an illegal poker game.

9:00 Downton Abbey Season 2 on Masterpiece (Part 6 of 7) The Spanish flu strikes Downton, disrupting one match, hastening another, and transforming the fortunes of all.

11:00 Astrid: Guilty (Season 4, Part 8 of 8) Raphaelle is found amnesic at the wheel of a wrecked car with the corpse of a gunshot victim beside her.

Monday 20 EARLY MORNING 12:00 Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators – The Heavenly Harness’d Team See Sat. July 18 at 7:00 pm. [R] 12:50 My Life is Murder: Nothing Concrete See Sat. July 18 at 8:00 pm. [R] 1:35 Under the Vines See Sat. July 18 at 8:45 pm. [R] 2:25 Queens of Mystery: Death by Vinyl (Season 1, Part 3 of 6) See Sat. July 18 at 9:30 pm. [R] 3:11 Queens of Mystery: Death by Vinyl (Season 1, Part 4 of 6) See Sat. July 18 at 10:15 pm. [R] 4:00 Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries: Marked for Murder See Sat. July 18 at 6:00 pm. [R] 5:00 BBC News 5:30 Live from the LBJ Library with Mark Updegrove

5:30

Chicago Tonight

EVENING 6:00 PBS News Hour 7:00 Antiques Roadshow: Denver Botanic Gardens, Chatfield Farms (Part 1 of 3) Finds include a 1954 Marilyn Monroe military defense I.D. photo, a Panama hat circa 1970, and an Andy Warhol Golden Shoe collage.

8:00 Antiques Roadshow: Denver Botanic Gardens, Chatfield Farms (Part 2 of 3) Finds include Paul Revere Jr. silver tablespoons, a 1942 DC Comics promotional Superman figurine, and a 1974 Sam Gilliam June 5 acrylic painting.

9:00 Firsthand: Democracy – Miten [R] 9:34 Firsthand: Democracy – Maryanne [R] 10:00 Chicago Tonight [R] 10:30 BBC News 11:00 Amanpour and Company

Tuesday 21 EARLY MORNING 12:00 Patience: Paco’s Revenge (Season 2, Part 6 of 8) See Sun. July 19 at 7:00 pm. [R] 1:00 Grantchester Season 11 on Masterpiece (Part 6 of 8) See Sun. July 19 at 8:00 pm. [R] 2:00 Downton Abbey Season 2 on Masterpiece (Part 6 of 7) See Sun. July 19 at 9:00 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 Antiques Roadshow: Vintage Atlantic City (Part 1 of 2) 2:00 Nature: Soul of the Ocean [R] 3:00 America’s Test Kitchen: Pantry Pastas 3:30 Cook’s Country: Pennsylvania Dutch Country 4:00 My Life is Murder: All the Better to See You 5:00 BBC World News America 5:30 Chicago Tonight 1:00

MORNING

EVENING

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6:00 PBS News Hour 7:00 Finding Your Roots: Caribbean Roots Henry Louis Gates, Jr. explores the Caribbean heritage of actors Liza Colon-Zayas and Delroy Lindo.

8:00 Once Upon a Time in Space: The Russian Thing (Part 2 of 4) When the Soviet Union falls, Russia welcomes American astronauts to their space station Mir. But cooperation is threatened by a run of disasters onboard.

9:00 Breaking the Deadlock:

AFTERNOON Antiques Roadshow: Living History Farms (Part 2 of 3) [R] 2:00 Chicago Stories: Amusement Parks See Sat. July 18 at 5:00 pm. [R] 3:00 America’s Test Kitchen: Big Easy Favorites 3:30 Cook’s Country: Chicken and Biscuits 4:00 My Life is Murder: Sleep No More 5:00 BBC World News America 1:00

Do it Yourself Saturdays 8:00

Opportunity Knocks

8:30

Curious Traveler

9:00

Rick Steves' Europe

9:30

John McGivern's Main Streets

10:00

This Old House

10:30

Ask This Old House

11:00

J Schwanke's Life in Bloom

11:30

Jacques Pépin: Heart & Soul

12:00

Cook’s Country

12:30

Cook’s Country

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Lidia’s Kitchen

1:30

Steven Raichlen's Project Smoke

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America’s Test Kitchen

2:30

America’s Test Kitchen

3:00

Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television

3:30

My Greek Table with Diane Kochilas

4:00

Indian as Apple Pie

4:30

Check, Please!

Truth Under Fire Facing a hypothetical dilemma – disinformation about a controversial school board decision spreading rapidly on social media – moderator Aaron Tang and his panel grapple with what is true, and what truth even means today.

10:00 Chicago Tonight [R] 10:30 BBC News 11:00 Amanpour and Company

Wednesday 22 EARLY MORNING 12:00 Antiques Roadshow: Denver Botanic Gardens, Chatfield Farms (Part 1 of 3) See Mon. July 20 at 7:00 pm. [R] 1:00 Antiques Roadshow: Denver Botanic Gardens, Chatfield Farms (Part 2 of 3) See Mon. July 20 at 8:00 pm. [R] 2:00 The War of 1812 See Sun. July 19 at 1:00 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 Antiques Roadshow: Vintage Atlantic City (Part 2 of 2) 2:00 Once Upon a Time in Space: The Russian Thing 1:00

July 21 at 7:00 pm. [R] Once Upon a Time in Space: The Russian Thing (Part 2 of 4) See Tues.

July 21 at 8:00 pm. [R] 2:00 Breaking the Deadlock: Truth Under Fire See Tues.

July 21 at 9:00 pm. [R] 3:00 Wisconsin Lighthouses See Sun. July 19 at 4:00 pm. [R] 4:00 PBS News Hour [R] 5:00 BBC News 5:30 Chicago Tonight [R] 1:00

MORNING 6:00-1:00 WTTW Kids

AFTERNOON Antiques Roadshow: Vintage Denver 2024 (Part 1 of 2) 2:00 Finding Your Roots: Caribbean Roots [R] 3:00 America’s Test Kitchen: Baked Alaska Showstopper 3:30 Cook’s Country: Never Enough Chocolate 4:00 My Life is Murder: Wild Life 5:00 BBC World News America 5:30 Chicago Tonight 1:00

(Part 2 of 4) See Tues.

July 21 at 8:00 pm. [R] 3:00 America’s Test Kitchen: Refreshing Desserts 3:30 Cook’s Country: Motor City Favorites 4:00 My Life is Murder: Hidden Gems 5:00 BBC World News America 5:30 Chicago Tonight

EVENING 6:00 PBS News Hour 7:00 Inspector George Gently: The Lost Child When the adopted child of a middleclass couple is kidnapped, suspicion falls upon the baby’s birth mother.

8:30 The Brokenwood Mysteries: The Scarecrow The team must investigate family, friends, and rival neighbors following a chilling discovery among a local farmer’s crop.

10:00 Chicago Tonight [R] 10:30 BBC News 11:00 Amanpour and Company

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EVENING 6:00 PBS News Hour 7:00 Nature: Big Little Journeys – Home In Canada, a tiny turtle ventures through a forest of giants in search of the lake where she will spend the next 50 years of her life.

8:00 NOVA: Chasing Pluto Join NOVA for New Horizon’s historic flyby of Pluto, the culmination of the spacecraft’s nine-year, three-billion-mile journey.

9:00 Bugs That Rule the World: Lifegivers (Part 2 of 4) Dive into the colorful world of bees, moths, and butterflies.

10:00 Chicago Tonight [R] 10:30 BBC News 11:00 Amanpour and Company

12:00 Nature: Big Little Journeys – Home See Wed. July 22 at 7:00 pm. [R]

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NOVA: Chasing Pluto See Wed. July 22 at 8:00 pm. [R] 2:00 Bugs That Rule the World: Lifegivers (Part 2 of 4) See Wed. July 22 at 9:00 pm. [R] 3:00 America’s Stairway See Sun. July 19 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 Antiques Roadshow: Denver Botanic Gardens, Chatfield Farms (Part 2 of 3) [R] 2:00 NOVA: Chasing Pluto [R] 3:00 America’s Test Kitchen: Italian Chicken 3:30 Cook’s Country: Spring Feast 4:00 My Life is Murder: Pleasure and Pain 5:00 BBC World News America 5:30 Chicago Tonight: The Week in Review 1:00

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MORNING 6:00 10 Monuments That Changed America [R] 7:00 Once Upon a Time in Space: The Russian Thing (Part 2 of 4) [R] 8:00 Opportunity Knocks: Dreams Within Reach 8:30 Curious Traveler: Curious Nantes, France 9:00 Rick Steves’ Europe: London – Yesterday and Today 9:30 John McGivern’s Main Streets: Crown Point, Indiana 10:00 This Old House: Asheville – Bricks, Blinds, and Brews 10:30 Ask This Old House: Regrade Lawn, Solid Core Doors 11:00 J Schwanke’s Life in Bloom: A Dickens of a Christmas 11:30 Jacques Pépin: Heart & Soul – Gloria’s Favorites

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AFTERNOON 12:00 Cook’s Country: Pork and Pie 12:30 Cook’s Country: Southern Sandwiches 1:00 Lidia’s Kitchen: The Start of the Season 1:30 Steven Raichlen’s Project

Photo: Ken Howard / Met Opera

In the Spotlight

Lisette Oropesa as Elvira

Great Performances at the Met: I Puritani For gorgeous melody, spellbinding coloratura, and virtuoso vocal fireworks, Bellini’s I Puritani has few equals. The opera suggests that the veneer of sanity can slip away at any moment, that madness can plunge a person into a destructive abyss.

Sunday, July 26 12:00 pm

6:00 Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries: Blood at the Wheel Phryne’s mechanic Ailsa is preparing for an annual road race. Everything changes when the driver for the ladies’ team is found dead in her roadster.

7:00 Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators – Destruction Block and Massacre A murder mystery reunion turns real when the host dies.

8:00 My Life is Murder: Bloodlines Alexa is determined to prove the innocence of a champion thoroughbred blamed for the death of his handler.

8:45 Under the Vines Daisy informs Gus and Tippy of her plans to have the vineyard represented in the Behind the Vines showcase.

9:30 Queens of Mystery: Smoke & Mirrors (Season 1, Part 5 of 6) The stage adaptation of Jane’s book endures numerous snafus before opening night.

10:16 Queens of Mystery: Smoke & Mirrors (Season 1, Part 6 of 6) With another murder and a missing lead actress to contend with, the theatre company is forced to switch up the cast.

11:03 Downton Abbey Season 2 on Masterpiece (Part 6 of 7) [R]

Sunday 26 EARLY MORNING Touring Chicago’s Lakefront with Geoffrey Baer See Sun. July 19 at 6:00 pm. [R] 2:00 Chasing the Moon: American Experience – A Place Beyond the Sky (Part 1 of 3) See Fri. July 24 at 9:00 pm. [R] 4:00 Reenacting the Revolution at Mount Vernon See Sun. 1:00

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In the Spotlight Smoke: Grilling with Wood 2:00 America’s Test Kitchen: Tasty Thai 2:30 America’s Test Kitchen: Ice Cream Cake 3:00 Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television: Backroads Romania 3:30 My Greek Table with Diane Kochilas: Mushrooms for Our Minds…Not What You Think!

4:00 Indian as Apple Pie: Rice and Biryani 4:30 Check, Please! QXY, Milwalky Trace, Senor Pan 5:00 Chicago Stories: Jane Addams – Together We Rise Meet Nobel Peace Prize-winning activist Jane Addams and the cadre of women who strove to enrich the lives of thousands of immigrants. Audio-narrated descriptions are available.

4:00 PBS News Hour [R] 5:00 Washington Week with the Atlantic [R] 5:30 Chicago Tonight: The Week in Review [R]

July 19 at 12:00 pm. [R] Behind the Canvas [R] Happy Yoga with Sarah Starr: Flowering Sunset Yoga in Practice: Connect to Your Softer Side

MORNING 6:00 Horizons from PBS News 6:30 Firing Line with Margaret Hoover 7:00 Baking with Julia: Savory Puffs and Eclairs with Norman Love 7:30 In Julia’s Kitchen with Master Chefs: JeanGeorges Vongerichten 8:00 Homemade Live!

Protein with a Punch 8:30 Kitchen Curious with Vivian Howard: Fat 9:00 New Scandinavian Cooking: Stone Upon Stone 9:30 Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television: Korean Fried Chicken 10:00 Kevin Belton’s Cookin’ Louisiana: St. Landry Parish – Prairie Sampler 10:30 Steven Raichlen’s Project Smoke: Bacon 24/7 11:00 Compass Points from PBS News 11:30 Eastland Tragedy July 24,1915 [R]

AFTERNOON 12:00 Great Performances at the Met: I Puritani 3:30 To be announced 4:00 Haymarket: The Bomb, The Anarchists, The Labor Struggle In May 1886, a workers' protest rally turns deadly when a bomb is thrown into the ranks of police, resulting in a trial and execution of presumably innocent activists.

5:00 Behind the Canvas 5:30 George Washington's Mount Vernon: Preserving the Legacy The renovation of George Washington’s sprawling estate, Mount Vernon, has revealed new insights about the private person behind the public figure.

EVENING 6:00 Mikva! Democracy is a Verb This sweeping story of Chicago politician Abner Mikva chronicles his rise from an impoverished childhood to an epic career as a legislator in Springfield and Washington, Federal Judge and White House Counsel, and how his work is being carried on today by his legacy organization, the Mikva Challenge.

7:00 Patience: A Monk’s Tale (Season 2, Part 7 of 8) A monk is found dead, kneeling in prayer. Patience and Frankie investigate and secrets surface at the monastery.

8:00 Grantchester Season 11 on

Filmmaker David McCourt interviews actor Sophia Bush

Amerigo: The Search for the American Dream This sweeping documentary strives, through the voices of everyday Americans across all 50 states, to answer one timeless question: what happened to the American Dream? This is a raw, panoramic, and unexpectedly hopeful portrait of a country at a crossroads.

Monday, July 27 9:00 pm Masterpiece (Part 7 of 8) While Alphy seeks redemption and renewed faith, Geordie’s investigation into a local crook ignites a high-stakes siege.

9:00 Downton Abbey Season 2 on Masterpiece (Part 7 of 7) In the season finale, the family gathers at Downton Abbey for Christmas.

11:00 Austin City Limits: Charley Crockett/Waxahatchee

Monday 27 EARLY MORNING 12:00 Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators – Destruction Block and Massacre See Sat. July 25 at 7:00 pm. [R] 12:50 My Life is Murder: Bloodlines See Sat. July 25 at 8:00 pm. [R] 1:35 Under the Vines See Sat. July 25 at 8:45 pm. [R] 2:25 Queens of Mystery: Smoke & Mirrors (Season 1, Part 5 of 6) See Sat. July 25 at 9:30 pm. [R] 3:11 Queens of Mystery: Smoke & Mirrors (Season 1, Part 6 of 6) See Sat. July 25 at 10:16 pm. [R] 4:00 Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries: Blood at the Wheel See Sat. July 25 at 6:00 pm. [R] 5:00 BBC News

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Lizzy Caplan

Finding Your Roots: The Road We Took Henry Louis Gates, Jr. explores the roots of actor Lizzy Caplan and comedian Hasan Minhaj, uncovering ancestors who made brave decisions that forever reshaped their family trees. Follow their journeys from shtetls in Eastern Europe to farmlands in northern India to American shores.

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MORNING 6:00-1:00 WTTW Kids

AFTERNOON Antiques Roadshow: Denver Botanic Gardens, Chatfield Farms (Part 1 of 3) [R] 2:00 Chicago Stories: Jane Addams – Together We Rise See Sat. July 25 at 5:00 pm. [R] 3:00 America’s Test Kitchen: Autumn Desserts 3:30 Cook’s Country: Fried Bites 4:00 Death in Paradise: Christmas 2023, Part 1 5:00 BBC World News America 5:30 Chicago Tonight 1:00

EVENING 6:00 PBS News Hour 7:00 Antiques Roadshow: Denver Botanic Gardens, Chatfield Farms (Part 3 of 3) Finds include a World War II WASP archive, a fire helmet and fire parade hat, and a 1956-1968 Al Oerter Olympic collection.

8:00 Antiques Roadshow: Maryland Zoo (Part 1 of 3) Finds include 1865 Lewis M. Rutherford lunar photographs, a Patek Philippe and Tiffany platinum pocket watch circa 1910, and Lynne Drexler oil paintings.

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9:00 Amerigo: The Search for the American Dream 10:30 Chicago Tonight [R] 11:00 BBC News 11:30 Amanpour and Company

Tuesday 28 EARLY MORNING 12:30 Patience: A Monk’s Tale (Season 2, Part 7 of 8) See Sun. July 26 at 7:00 pm. [R] 1:30 Grantchester Season 11 on Masterpiece (Part 7 of 8) See Sun. July 26 at 8:00 pm. [R] 2:30 Haymarket: The Bomb, The Anarchists, The Labor Struggle See Sun. July 26 at 6:00 pm. [R] 3:30 Built to Last: The Legacy of the Civilian Conservation Corps in Minnesota See Sun. July 19 at 11:30 am. [R] 4:00 PBS News Hour [R] 5:00 BBC News 5:30 Chicago Tonight [R] MORNING 6:00-1:00 WTTW Kids AFTERNOON Antiques Roadshow: Vintage Denver 2024 (Part 2 of 2) 2:00 Nature: Big Little Journeys – Home [R] 3:00 America’s Test Kitchen: Chinese Takeout, Revised 3:30 Cook’s Country: Carne Guisada and Enchiladas 4:00 Death in Paradise: Christmas 2023, Part 2 5:00 BBC World News America 5:30 Chicago Tonight 1:00

EVENING 6:00 PBS News Hour 7:00 Finding Your Roots: The Road We Took Henry Louis Gates, Jr. maps the roots of actor Lizzie Caplan and comedian Hasan Minhaj.

8:00 Once Upon a Time in Space: Politics as Usual (Part 3 of 4) The Mir’s reign in space ends with the arrival of the International Space Station.

9:00 Breaking the Deadlock: Gambling with Your Life Moderator Aaron Tang guides panelists through scenarios to explore dilemmas around online sports gambling and its impact on young men.

10:00 Chicago Tonight [R] 10:30 BBC News 11:00 Amanpour and Company

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Canning Classics Cook’s Country: ItalianAmerican Comforts 4:00 Death in Paradise 5:00 BBC World News America 5:30 Chicago Tonight 3:30

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EVENING

6:00-1:00 WTTW Kids

6:00 PBS News Hour 7:00 Inspector George Gently: Gently in the Cathedral A vicious career criminal who Gently sent down years ago has been released, hell-bent on revenge.

8:30 The Brokenwood Mysteries: As If Nothing Had Happened A resident from a nursing home in Brokenwood goes missing.

10:00 Chicago Tonight [R] 10:30 BBC News 11:00 Amanpour and Company

AFTERNOON Antiques Roadshow: Vintage Madison 2024 (Part 1 of 2) 2:00 Once Upon a Time in Space: Politics as Usual (Part 3 of 4) See Tues.

July 28 at 8:00 pm. [R] 3:00 America’s Test Kitchen: Elegant Fall Dinner 3:30 Cook’s Country: One-Pot Meals 4:00 Death in Paradise 5:00 BBC World News America 5:30 Chicago Tonight 1:00

EVENING 6:00 PBS News Hour 7:00 Nature: Big Little Journeys – Survival In Taiwan, a Formosan pangolin travels through a land of giants to find a mate in a protected forest.

8:00 NOVA: Pluto and Beyond Join the mission as the New Horizons spacecraft attempts to fly by NASA’s most distant target yet: Ultima Thule, four billion miles from Earth.

9:00 Bugs That Rule the World: Eat or Be Eaten (Part 3 of 4) From praying mantises and aquatic insects to dragonflies, nature has equipped these creatures with the necessary hunting skills for survival.

10:00 Chicago Tonight [R] 10:30 BBC News 11:00 Amanpour and Company

Thursday 30 EARLY MORNING 12:00 Finding Your Roots: The Road We Took See Tues.

July 28 at 7:00 pm. [R] 1:00 Once Upon a Time in Space: Politics as Usual (Part 3 of 4) See Tues.

July 28 at 8:00 pm. [R] 2:00 Amerigo: The Search for the American Dream See Mon. July 27 at 9:00 pm. [R] 3:30 Rick Steves’ Europe: London – Yesterday and Today [R] 4:00 PBS News Hour [R] 5:00 BBC News 5:30 Chicago Tonight [R]

EARLY MORNING

MORNING

12:00 Antiques Roadshow: Denver Botanic Gardens, Chatfield Farms (Part 3 of 3) See Mon. July 27 at 7:00 pm. [R] 1:00 Antiques Roadshow: Maryland Zoo (Part 1 of 3) See Mon. July 27 at 8:00 pm. [R]

6:00-1:00 WTTW Kids

AFTERNOON Antiques Roadshow: Vintage Madison 2024 (Part 2 of 2) 2:00 Finding Your Roots: The Road We Took [R] 3:00 America’s Test Kitchen: 1:00

Friday 31 EARLY MORNING 12:00 Nature: Big Little Journeys – Survival See Wed. July 29 at 7:00 pm. [R] 1:00 NOVA: Pluto and Beyond See Wed. July 29 at 8:00 pm. [R] 2:00 reaking the Deadlock: Gambling with Your Life See Tues. July 28 at 9:00 pm. [R] 3:00 Bugs That Rule the World: Eat or Be Eaten (Part 3 of 4) See Wed. July 29 at 9:00 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 Antiques Roadshow: Maryland Zoo (Part 1 of 3) [R] 2:00 NOVA: Pluto and Beyond [R] 3:00 America’s Test Kitchen: Steak and Veggies 3:30 Cook’s Country: Regional Sandwich Roundup 4:00 Death in Paradise 5:00 BBC World News America 5:30 Chicago Tonight: The Week in Review 1:00

EVENING 6:00 PBS News Hour 7:00 Chicago Tonight: The Week in Review [R] 7:30 Washington Week with the Atlantic 8:00 10 Streets That Changed America Geoffrey Baer highlights 10 iconic American streets and the ways that they continue to shape our communities and our lives.

9:00 Chasing the Moon: American Experience – Earthrise (Part 2 of 3) Discover what it took to beat the Soviet Union to the moon in the space race.

11:00 BBC News 11:30 Amanpour and Company

July At-a-Glance • Arts • Performance America Made in Virginia: 250 Years Together Saturday, 7:00 pm, 9:00 pm (7/4) Austin City Limits Sunday, 11:01 pm (7/12) Sunday, 11:00 pm (7/26) A Capitol Fourth: 250th Weekend Celebration Friday, 7:00 pm, 8:30 pm (7/3) Saturday, 5:30 pm, 11:00 pm (7/4) A Capitol Fourth 2024 Saturday, 6:30 am (7/4) A Capitol Fourth 2025 Saturday, 5:00 am (7/4) Great Performances at the Met: I Puritani Sunday, 12:00 pm (7/26)

Drama • Mystery Astrid Sundays, 10:00 pm (7/7/5, 7/12) Sunday, 11:00 pm (7/19) Tuesday, 3:00 am (7/7) Tuesday, 2:59 pm (7/16) Brokenwood Mysteries Thursdays, 8:29 pm (7/9, 7/16, 7/23, 7/30) Saturday, 12:28 am (7/18) Saturday, 1:59 am (7/25) Death in Paradise Monday-Friday, 4:00 pm (7/27-7/31) Downton Abbey on Masterpiece Sundays, 9:00 pm Saturday, 11:01 pm (7/11) Saturday, 11:02 pm (7/18) Saturday, 11:03 pm (7/25) Tuesdays, 2:00 am (7/7, 7/21, 7/29) Tuesday, 2:30 am (7/14) Grantchester on Masterpiece Sundays, 8:00 pm (6/14, 6/21, 6/28) Tuesdays, 1:00 am (7/7, 7/21) Tuesdays, 1:30 am (7/14, 7/28) Inspector George Gently Thursdays, 7:00 pm (7/9, 7/16, 7/23, 7/30) Sundays, 12:00 am (7/12, 7/19) Sunday, 12:30 am (7/25) Miss Fisher Murder Mysteries Saturdays, 6:00 pm (7/11, 7/18, 7/25) Mondays, 4:00 am (7/13, 7/20, 7/27) My Life is Murder Monday-Friday, 4:00 pm (7/13-7/24) Saturdays, 8:00 pm (7/11, 7/18, 7/25) Mondays, 12:50 am (7/7/13, 7/20, 7/27) Patience Sundays, 7:00 pm Tuesdays, 12:30 am (7/14, 7/28) Tuesday, 12:00 am (7/21) Queens of Mystery Saturdays, 9:30 pm, 10:15 pm (7/11, 7/18, 7/25) Saturdays, 10:15 pm (7/11, 7/18) Saturday, 10:16 pm (7/25) Mondays, 2:25 am, 3:11 am (7/13, 7/20, 7/27) Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators Monday-Friday, 4:00 pm (7/1-7/10) Saturdays, 7:00 pm (7/11, 7/18, 7/25) Mondays, 12:00 am (7/13, 7/20, 7/27) Under the Vines Saturdays, 8:45 pm (7/11, 7/18, 7/25) Mondays, 1:35 am (7/13, 7/20, 7/27)

Food • Travel • How to 10 Buildings That Changed America Friday, 8:00 pm (7/17) Saturday, 6:00 am (7/18) 10 Modern Marvels That Changed America Friday, 8:00 pm (7/10) Saturday, 6:00 am (7/11) 10 Monuments That Changed America Friday, 8:00 pm (7/24) Saturday, 6:00 am (7/25) Wednesday, 2:00 pm (7/1) Friday, 3:00 am (7/3)

10 Parks That Changed America Sunday, 4:00 pm (7/12) 10 Streets That Changed America Friday, 8:00 pm (7/31) America the Bountiful: America’s 250th Anniversary Special Saturday, 5:00 pm (7/11) Monday, 2:00 pm (7/13) American Dendrite Thursday, 9:00 pm (7/2) Saturday, 2:00 am (7/4) The American Southwest Wednesday, 9:00 pm (7/8) Saturday, 3:00 am (7/11) America’s Test Kitchen Mondays-Fridays, 3:00 pm Saturdays, 2:00 pm, 2:30 pm Antiques Roadshow Mondays - Fridays, 1:00 pm Mondays, 7:00 pm, 8:00 pm Wednesday, 12:30 am, 1:30 am (7/8) Wednesday, 12:00 am, 1:00 am (7/15, 7/22, 7/29) Ask This Old House Saturdays, 10:30 am Baking with Julia Sundays, 7:00 am (7/12, 7/19, 7/26) Behind the Canvas Sundays, 5:00 pm (7/19, 7/26) Sundays, 4:30 am (7/5, 7/26) Check, Please!

Saturdays, 4:30 pm Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television Saturdays, 3:00 pm Sundays, 9:30 am (7/12, 7/19, 7/26) Cook’s Country Mondays-Fridays, 3:30 pm Saturdays, 12:00 pm, 12:30pm Curious Traveler Saturdays, 8:30 am Happy Yoga with Sarah Starr Sundays, 5:00 am Homemade Live!

Sundays, 8:00 am (7/12, 7/19, 7/26) In Julia’s Kitchen with Master Chefs Sundays, 7:30 am (7/12, 7/19, 7/26) Indian As Apple Pie Saturdays, 4:00 pm J Schwanke’s Life in Bloom Saturdays, 11:00 am Jacques Pepin: Heart & Soul Saturdays, 11:30 am John McGivern’s Main Streets Saturdays, 9:30 am Wednesday, 3:30 am (7/8) Tuesday, 3:30 am (7/14) Kevin Belton’s Cookin’ Louisiana Sundays, 10:00 am (7/12, 7/19, 7/26) Kitchen Curious with Vivian Howard Sundays, 8:30 am (7/12, 7/19, 7/26) Lidia’s Kitchen Saturdays, 1:00 pm My Greek Table with Diane Kochilas Saturdays, 3:30 pm New Scandinavian Cooking Sundays, 9:00 am (7/12, 7/19, 7/26) Opportunity Knocks Saturdays, 8:00 am Our Vanishing Americana: Florida Sunday, 1:00 pm (7/12) Friday, 3:00 am (7/17) Rick Steves’ Europe Saturdays, 9:00 am Thursday, 3:00 am (7/2) Sunday, 3:30 am, 4:00 am (7/5) Wednesday, 3:30 am (7/15) Thursday, 3:30 am (7/30) Steven Raichlen’s Project Fire Saturday, 1:30 pm (7/25) Steven Raichlen’s Project Smoke Sundays, 10:30 am (7/12, 7/19, 7/26) Saturdays, 1:30 pm This Old House Saturdays, 10:00 am Touring Chicago’s Lakefront with Geoffrey Baer Sunday, 6:00 pm (7/19) Sunday, 1:00 am (7/26)

Wisconsin Lighthouses Sunday, 4:00 pm (7/19) Thursday, 3:00 am (7/23) Yoga in Practice Sundays, 5:30 am

History • Documentary 8 Days: To the Moon and Back Tuesday, 9:00 pm (7/7) Sunday, 3:30 am (7/12) A Ride Along the Lincoln Highway Sunday, 2:00 pm (7/12) Saturday, 2:00 am (7/18) The American Revolution Sunday, 6:00 am, 7:57 am, 10:02 am, 12:00 pm, 2:00 pm, 4:00 pm, 11:00 pm (7/5) Monday, 1:00 am, 3:05 am (7/6) Thursday, 2:00 am (7/9) Friday, 2:00 am (7/10) Saturday, 12:30 am (7/11) America’s Stairway Sunday, 1:00 pm (7/19) Friday, 3:00 am (7/24) Amerigo: The Search for the American Dream Monday, 9:00 pm (7/27) Thursday, 2:00 am (7/30) Armadillo Man: The Trips of Jim Franklin Thursday, 3:30 am (7/2) Becoming American: Philadelphia’s Story Monday, 9:00 pm (7/6) Wednesday, 2:30 am (7/8) Before America Sunday, 12:30 pm (7/19) Breaking the Deadlock Tuesday, 8:00 pm (7/7) Tuesdays, 9:00 pm (7/14, 7/21, 7/28) Wednesday, 2:00 pm (7/8) Thursday, 1:00 am (7/9) Thursdays, 2:00 am (7/16, 7/23) Friday, 2:00 am (7/31) Built to Last: The Legacy of the Civilian Conservation Corps in Minnesota Sunday, 11:30 am (7/19) Tuesday, 3:30 am (7/28) Chasing the Moon: American Experience Friday, 9:00 pm (7/24, 7/31) Sunday, 2:00 am (7/26) Chicago Stories: The Great Chicago Fire Sunday, 6:00 pm (7/12) Chicago Stories: Pullman and the Railroad Rebellion Sunday, 5:00 pm (7/12) Chicago Stories: Jane Addams: Together We Rise Saturday, 5:00 pm (7/25) Monday, 2:00 pm (7/27) Chicago Stories: Amusement Parks Saturday, 5:00 pm (7/18) Monday, 2:00 pm (7/20) Finding Your Roots Tuesdays, 7:00 pm Thursdays, 12:00 am, 2:00 pm Frederick Law Olmsted: Designing America Sunday, 3:00 pm (7/12) Saturday, 3:00 am (7/18) George Washington’s Mount Vernon: Preserving The Legacy Sunday, 5:30 pm (7/26) Haymarket: The Bomb, The Anarchists, The Labor Struggle Sunday, 4:00 pm (7/26) Tuesday, 2:30 am (7/28) JFK: American Experience Fridays, 9:00 pm (7/10, 7/17) Sundays, 1:30 am (7/12, 7/19) Iconic America: Our Symbols and Stories with David Rubenstein Saturday, 3:00 am (7/4) Sunday, 12:30 am, 1:30 am, 2:30 am (7/5) Independent Lens: Flood Monday, 9:00 pm (7/13) Wednesday, 2:00 am (7/15) Last Battlefront: Quest for the Vote in Washington D.C. Thursday, 8:00 pm (7/2)

Saturday, 1:00 am (7/4) The Legacy of 4-H Saturday, 7:00 am (7/11) Live from the LBJ Library with Mark Updegrove Mondays, 5:30 am (7/13, 7/20, 7/27) Lucy Worsley Investigates: The American Revolution Thursday, 1:00 am (7/2) Monday, 2:00 pm (7/6) Mikva! Democracy is a Verb Sunday, 6:00 pm (7/26) Railroad Stations in American Life Sunday, 11:30 am (7/12) Sunday, 3:30 am (7/19) Reenacting The Revolution at Mount Vernon Sunday, 12:00 pm (7/19) Sunday, 4:00 am (7/26) The War of 1812 Sunday, 3:00 pm (7/26)

News • Public Affairs Amanpour and Company Mondays-Fridays, 11:00 pm Mondays, 11:30 pm (7/13, 7/27) Tuesday, 11:30 pm (7/7) Friday, 11:30 pm (7/10, 7/17, 7/24) BBC News Mondays-Fridays, 10:30 pm, 5:00 am Tuesday, 11:00 pm (7/7) Friday, 11:00 pm (7/10, 7/17, 7/24, 7/31) Monday, 11:00 pm (7/13, 7/27) BBC World News America Mondays-Fridays, 5:00 pm Chicago Tonight Mondays-Thursdays, 5:30 pm, 10:00 pm Tuesdays-Fridays, 5:30 am Tuesday, 10:30 pm (7/7) Thursday, 10:03 pm (7/9) Monday, 10:30 pm (7/13, 7/27) Chicago Tonight: Week in Review Fridays, 5:30 pm, 7:00 pm Saturdays, 5:30 am (7/11, 7/18, 7/25) Firing Line with Margaret Hoover Monday, 5:30 am (7/6) Sundays, 6:30 am (7/12, 7/19, 7/26) Firsthand: Democracy Thursday, 7:00 pm, 7:34 pm (7/2) Saturday, 12:00 am, 12:34 am (7/4) Monday, 9:00 pm, 9:34 pm (7/20) Compass Points from PBS News Sundays, 11:00 am (7/12, 7/19, 7/26) Horizons from PBS News Sundays, 6:00 am (7/12, 7/19, 7/26) PBS News Hour Mondays-Fridays, 6:00 pm Tuesdays-Saturdays, 4:00 am Washington Week with the Atlantic Friday, 10:00 pm (7/3) Fridays, 7:30 pm (7/10, 7/17, 7/24, 7/31) Saturday, 5:00 pm (7/4) Saturdays, 5:00 am (7/11, 7/18, 7/25)

Science • Nature Bugs that Rule the World Wednesdays, 9:00 pm (7/15, 7/22, 7/29) Fridays, 2:00 am (7/17, 7/24) Friday, 3:00 am (7/31) The Kimberley: Australia’s Wild West Wednesday, 9:00 pm (7/1) Friday, 2:00 am (7/3) Tuesday, 2:00 pm (7/7) Nature Wednesdays, 7:00 pm (7/8, 7/15, 7/22, 7/29) Fridays, 12:00 am (7/10, 7/17, 7/24, 7/31) Tuesdays, 2:00 pm (7/14, 7/21, 7/28) NOVA Wednesdays, 8:00 pm Fridays, 1:00 am, 2:00 pm (7/3, 7/10, 7/17, 7/24, 7/31) Wednesday, 7:00 pm (7/1) Friday, 12:00 am, 2:00 pm (7/3) Once Upon a Time in Space Tuesdays, 8:00 pm (7/14, 7/21, 7/28) Wednesdays, 2:00 pm (7/15, 7/22, 7/29) Thursdays, 1:00 am (7/16, 7/23, 7/30) Saturdays, 7:00 am (7/18, 7/25)

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• Daily Radio Programming

Programming Subject to Change Without Notice

Programmer’s Picks Grant Park Music Festival

Chicago Symphony Orchestra

WFMT Opera Series

This month’s live concerts include the Independence Day Salute, Sibelius Symphony No. 2, Ravel Piano Concerto, and Gershwin An American in Paris.

Live from Ravinia, Marin Alsop leads an all-Beethoven program featuring the “Pastoral” Symphony No. 6 and the Violin Concerto with soloist María Dueñas.

Enjoy recent performances of Aida, The Makropulos Affair, Boris Godunov, and The Marriage of Figaro from Paris, London, and Glyndebourne.

Check Listings

Sunday, July 19, 5:00 pm

Saturdays, 12:00 pm

Mornings with Jan Weller 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 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.

Wednesday 1 12:00 Through the Night with Peter van de Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Jan Weller including Antonio Soler Fandango – L’Arpeggiata/ Christina Pluhar. Virgin 0709502-3. [9:11] 7:00 Rossini La gazza ladra: Overture – London Classical Players/Roger Norrington.

EMI CDC7-54091-2. [9:26] 8:00 Mily Balakirev Islamey – Olga Kern, p. Harmonia Mundi HMU-907399. [9:10] 9:00 Luigi Boccherini String Quintet in E, Op. 11, No. 5

(G 275) – I Stern & CL Lin, v’s; J Laredo, vi; Y Ma & S Robinson, vc’s. Sony SK-53983. [21:05] 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn including Ravel Ma mère l’Oye (Mother Goose): Suite – Rotterdam Phil Orch/ Yannick Nézet-Séguin.

EMI 66342-2. [16:51] 11:00 Fanny Mendelssohn Songs Without Words, Op. 8: Nos. 1, 3, 4 – Sylviane Deferne, p. Radio Canada Int’l MVCD-1122. [11:26] 12:15 Dame Myra Hess Concerts Violist Miranda Werner and pianist Yoshino Toi perform music by Amy Beach, George Rochberg, Florence Price, and George Gershwin live from Seventeenth Church of Christ, Scientist, Chicago.

1:00 Verdi La forza del destino: Overture – La Scala Phil/ Riccardo Muti. Sony SK-68468. [7:36] 2:00 Haydn Symphony No. 101 in D, Clock – Scottish Chamber Orch/Robin Ticciati. Linn CKD-500. [26:50] 3:00 Afternoon Music with Candice Agree including Kurt Weill Kleine Dreigroschenmusik (Little Threepenny Music) – London Sym Orch/ Michael Tilson Thomas.

CBS MK-44529. [21:19] 4:00 William Walton Troilus and Cressida: Symphonic Suite: IV. Finale – City of Birmingham Sym Orch/Mirga GražinyteTyla. DG 4861547. [6:39] 5:00 Michio Miyagi Haru No Umi (The Sea in Springtime) – Gidon Kremer, v; Naoko Yoshino, h.

Philips 456016-2. [5:55] 6:00 Bach-Gounod Ave Maria – Eaken Piano Trio.

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.

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Naxos 8.554714. [7:51] Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: George Gershwin (1898-1937) Gershwin was a true American original who broke musical boundaries, writing everything from Broadway musicals and popular songs to symphonic works and jazz. Bill shares how Gershwin’s life and work “flashed across the world like a comet,” and gives fresh insights into the people and experiences that shaped him.

8:00 Evening Music 10:00 Baroque&Before with Candice Agree: The Lullists Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer, Georg Muffat, and Georg Philipp Telemann sometimes are known as “Lullists” because of JeanBaptiste Lully’s influence on their works. El Gran Teatro Del Mundo under the direction of Julio Caballero Pérez present a program of German Baroque Music à la française recorded live in concert January 10, 2020.

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Thursday 2 12:00 Through the Night with Peter van de Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Jan Weller including Ferdinando Carulli Serenade No. 1 in A, Op. 96 – Waller & Maxwell Guitar Duo. Senti SP-2810012. [9:08] 7:00 Holst Seven Scottish Airs for Piano and Strings – Michael Freyhan, p; London Festival Orch Strings/Ross Pople.

Arte Nova 34022-2. [6:38] 8:00 Schubert Violin Sonatina No. 1 in D, D 384 – Josef Suk, v; Jan Panenka, p. Boston Skyline BSD-146. [12:02] 9:00 Zdenek Fibich Impressions from the Countryside, Op 54: Fireside Talk;Village Dance – Czech National Sym Orch/Marek Štilec.

Naxos 8.572985. [15:10] 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn including Samuel ColeridgeTaylor Othello, Op. 79: Suite – Chineke! Orch/Fawzi Haimor.

Decca 4853322. [15:06] 11:00 Henryk Wieniawski Légende, Op. 17 – Gil Shaham, v;

London Sym Orch/Lawrence Foster. DG 431815-2. [7:33] 12:00 Rossini Il turco in Italia: Overture – Prague Sinfonia/ Christian Benda. Naxos 8.572735. [9:00] 1:00 Byrd The Fitzwilliam Suite – Canadian Brass.

CBS MK-45792. [11:17] 2:00 Gershwin Piano Concerto in F – Xiayin Wang, p; Royal Scottish National Orch/ Peter Oundjian. Chandos CHSA-5128. [31:53] 3:00 Afternoon Music with Candice Agree including Chopin Rondo à la Krakowiak, Op. 14 – Idil Biret, p; Slovak State Phil/Robert Stankovsky.

Naxos 8.550369. [16:22] 4:00 Haydn Symphony No. 96 in D, Miracle – Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orch/Ádám Fischer.

Nimbus NI-5135. [23:25] 5:00 Gwyneth Walker Full Circle: II. The Grace of the World – Palisades Virtuosi.

Albany TROY-1339. [5:43] 6:00 Prokofiev The Love for Three Oranges, Op. 33: Suite, Op. 33a – National Sym Orch/Leonard Slatkin.

RCA 68801-2. [15:41] 7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: George Gershwin (1898-1937) See Wednesday’s listing.

8:00 Evening Music 10:00 The New York Philharmonic This Week Please visit wfmt. com for more information.

Friday 3 12:00 Through the Night with Peter van de Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Jan Weller including Debussy Danses sacrée et profane – Yolanda Kondonassis, h; Oberlin 21/ Bridget-Michaele Reischl.

Telarc CD-80694. [10:10] 7:00 Vivaldi Violin Concerto in B-Flat, R. 362 (Op. 8/10), La caccia – Accademia Bizantina/Carlo Chiarappa, v. Denon CO-75447. [7:44] 8:00 Arnold Bax The Happy Forest – BBC Phil/ Vernon Handley. Chandos CHAN-10446. [9:42] 9:00 Francis Poulenc Sinfonietta (1947) – San Diego Chamber

In the Spotlight

Saturday 4 Independence Day 12:00 Through the Night with Peter van de Graaff 7:00 Weekend Mornings with Kristina Lynn with news at 7:00 am. Michael Torke Bliss – University of Kansas Wind Ensemble/Paul W. Popiel. Ecstatic Records ER-092261. [11:30]

8:00 Saturday Morning Listener’s Choice 9:00 Soundtrack 10:00 Herbert Clarke Valse Brillante, Sounds from the Hudson – Wynton Marsalis, cornet; Eastman Wind Ensemble/Donald Hunsberger.

CBS MK-42137. [8:07] 11:00 Introductions WFMT features talented young classical musicians from around the Chicago area.

Please visit wfmt.com for details on today’s program.

12:00 From The Paris Opera: Verdi’s Aida Saioa Hernández (Aida); Piotr Beczala (Radamès); Eve-Maud Hubeaux (Amneris); Roman Burdenko (Amonasro); Alexander Köpeczi (Ramfis); Paris Opera Chorus and Orchestra; Michele Mariotti, conductor. Sung in Italian.

3:00 Afternoon Music including Sousa The Stars and Stripes Forever – Canadian Brass. Opening Day ODR-7382. [2:51] 4:00 Listening to Singers with Oliver Camacho A celebration of American vocal music performed by American artists.

5:00 Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival. JS Bach Concerto in D Minor, BWV 1043; Chad Hoopes, Bryan Lee, violins; Santa Fe Opera Orchestra musicians; Debussy Jane and Romance: Silence ineffible; Liv Redpath, soprano; George Fu, piano; Bridge Piano Trio No. 2, H. 178; Orion Weiss, piano; Jennifer Frautschi, violin; Felix Fan, cello.

6:00 Weekend Evening Music including Morton Gould American Salute – Cincinnati Pops Orch/Erich Kunzel.

Vox CDX-5132 (2). [4:18] 7:00 Charles Ives Variations on America – United States Marine Band/Timothy W Foley. Naxos 8.570559. [6:18] 7:30 Grant Park Music Festival 2026: Independence Day Salute Live from the Pritzker Pavilion, Christopher Bell conducts the Grant Park Orchestra in this annual Chicago tradition. The familyfriendly celebration includes patriotic favorites alongside Gershwin’s Three Preludes with principal clarinetist Dario Brignoli and Carlos Gardel’s Tango (Por Una Cabeza) with concertmaster Jeremy Black.

9:00 The Midnight Special with Marilyn Rea Beyer While we mark the 250th anniversary of our nation’s founding document, The Declaration of Independence, we also lift up America’s first popular songwriter, Stephen Foster, 200 years after his birth.

Sunday 5 12:00 Through the Night with Peter van de Graaff 6:00 With Heart and Voice America at 250. In celebration of the semi quincentennial of the Declaration of Independence, host Peter DuBois focuses on American sacred choral and organ music in both composition and performance.

7:00 Weekend Mornings with Kristina Lynn including Dvorák Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95, From the New World – Berlin Phil/Claudio Abbado. DG 457651-2. [44:32] 8:00 Dana Suesse Blue Moonlight – Sara Davis Buechner, p. eOne 7770. [5:32] 9:00 Handel Music for the Royal Fireworks – Alison Balsom, tr; Balsom Ensemble. Warner 0190295370060. [16:05] 10:00 Grace Williams Sea Sketches: No. 5, Calm Sea in Summer – BBC Phil Strings/ John Andrews. Resonus RES-10349. [5:49] 11:00 Barber Knoxville: Summer of 1915, Op. 24 – Leontyne Price, s; New Philharmonia Orch/Thomas Schippers.

RCA 61983-2. [16:18] 12:00 Sunday Afternoons with Robbie Ellis including Bernstein Candide: XXXI. Finale, Make Our Garden Grow – Hadley, Anderson, Green, Ludwig, London Sym Cho, Orch/Leonard Bernstein.

DG 429734-2 (2). [5:38] 1:00 Stacy Garrop Jubilation – Lincoln Trio. WFMT. [7:11] 2:00 Mozart Symphony No. 36 in C, K. 425, Linz – Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood. L’Oiseau-Lyre 452496-2 (19). [38:01] 3:00 Eduardo Martín Suite Habana – Nora Lee García, f; René Izquierdo, g. Centaur CRC-3937. [8:15] 4:00 Margaret Bonds Montgomery Variations – Royal Scottish National Orch/Kellen Gray.

Linn CKD-731. [22:50] 5:00 Ryan Opera Center Recital Series Baritone Sihau Hu, bass-baritone Benjamin R. Sokol, and pianist Michael Banwarth perform arias and songs by Bellini, Verdi, Borodin, Zhao Jipling, Misha Veksler, Mark Markovich Warshawsky, and Cole Porter in the Fay and Daniel Levin Performance Studio.

Hosted by Candice Agree.

6:00 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Radio Broadcasts.

Rimsky-Korsakov Capriccio espagnol, Op. 34; Tchaikovsky Francesca da Rimini, Op. 32; Bruckner Symphony No. 4 in E-Flat, Romantic; Daniel

Photo: Deborah Robison

Orch/Donald Barra. Koch 3-7094-2. [29:32] 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn including Bach Oboe d’amore Concerto in A (after BWV 1055) – Gonzalo Ruiz, ob d’amore; Portland Baroque Orch/Monica Huggett.

Avie AV-2324. [12:41] 11:00 Peter Boyer Fanfare, Hymn and Finale – London Sym Orch/Peter Boyer.

Naxos 8.559915. [7:47] 12:00 Felix Mendelssohn Piano Concerto No. 2 in D minor, Op. 40 – Stephen Hough, p; City of Birmingham Sym Orch/Lawrence Foster.

Hyperion CDA-66969. [21:02] 1:00 George Whitefield Chadwick Symphonic Sketches: No. 1, Jubilee – Grant Park Orch/ David Loebel. Grant Park Music Festival CD-1. [8:08] 2:00 Louis Moreau Gottschalk Caprice americaine, Columbia, Op 34 – Alan Feinberg, p.

Argo 444457-2. [5:37] 3:00 Afternoon Music with Candice Agree including Haydn Symphony No. 53 in D, L’impériale – Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orch/Ádám Fischer.

Nimbus NI-5530/4 (5). [22:23] 4:00 Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 in F Major, BWV 1046 – Tafelmusik/Jeanne Lamon.

Sony TMK-1004 (2). [19:10] 5:00 Copland Appalachian Spring – Chamber Orch/ Aaron Copland. CBS MK-42431. [32:27] 6:00 Bruch Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. 26: II. Adagio – Gil Shaham, v; Philharmonia Orch/Giuseppe Sinopoli.

DG 427656-2. [9:04] 7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: George Gershwin (1898-1937) See Wednesday’s listing.

8:00 Evening Music 11:00 Best of Studs Terkel: Michael Tilson Thomas (6/11/1985) WFMT remembers Michael Tilson Thomas (1944–2026), the beloved and deeply admired American conductor, who died earlier this year.

“MTT” spoke with Studs about his interest in American composers Gershwin, Ives, and Ruggles, all of whom he knew personally.

Michael Tilson Thomas

Best of Studs Terkel WFMT mourns the passing of Michael Tilson Thomas, Music Director Laureate of the San Francisco Symphony, Conductor Laureate of the London Symphony Orchestra, and Co-Founder, Artistic Director Laureate of the New World Symphony, Distinguished Professor of Music at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and twelve-time Grammy Award winner. In 1985, Tilson Thomas joined Studs to discuss his interest in the American composers George Gershwin, Charles Ives, and Carl Ruggles, all of whom he knew personally. A year later, he returned to WFMT with his father Ted Thomas, who worked broadly in Hollywood and on Broadway. They shared stories of MTT’s grandparents Boris and Bessie Thomashefsky, pioneering stars of turn of the century Yiddish Theater.

Friday, July 3 and 10 11:00 pm Barenboim, conductor.

8:00 Fiesta! with Elbio Barilari: Guitar, Piano and Orchestral Music from Colombia Elbio shares music by Columbian composer and guitar virtuoso Gentil Montaña. Plus, works by living composers Amparo Ángel and Luis Carlos Figueroa.

9:00 Collectors’ Corner with Henry Fogel: Marston Records A sample of the historic vocal and instrumental recordings on the Marston label.

11:00 Through the Night with Peter van de Graaff

Monday 6 12:00 Through the Night with Peter van de Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Jan Weller including Telemann Whimsical Symphony – Apollo’s Fire/Jeannette

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Esa-Pekka Salonen

San Francisco Symphony In June 2025, Esa-Pekka Salonen concluded his tenure as music director of the San Francisco Symphony with performances of Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 — an emotional farewell hailed by critics as both “staggering” (Los Angeles Times) and deeply moving. Salonen’s interpretation balanced ferocity with transcendence, capturing the symphony’s existential sweep and ultimate vision of renewal. Mezzosoprano Sasha Cooke leant her decadent tone to an expressive reading of the fourth movement “Urlicht,” with the luminous soprano Heidi Stober and the SFS Chorus joining in for the symphony’s rapturous final movement. The reviewer for Seen and Heard International reported that the audience at Davies Symphony Hall “listened with breathless rapture and rewarded the performance with one of the longest ovations I can recall in my five decades in San Francisco.”

Monday, July 6 10:00 pm Sorrell. Koch 7576. [8:38] Tchaikovsky String Quartet No. 1 in D, Op. 11: II. Andante cantabile – Steven Isserlis, vc; Chamber Orch of Europe/John Eliot Gardiner.

Virgin 91134-2. [6:41] 8:00 William Walton Crown Imperial – Bournemouth Sym Orch/Andrew Litton.

Decca 448134-2. [6:57] 9:00 Saint-Saëns Septet in E-Flat, Op. 65 – Guerrier; R Capuçon; Hoppe; Muthelet; G Capuçon; Saksala; Braley.

Virgin 45603-2. [16:04] 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn including Wagner Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg: Act 1 Prelude – Oslo Phil/ Mariss Jansons. Seraphim 73299-2. [9:48] 11:00 William Grant Still Vignettes 7:00

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Cambria CD-1083. [11:14] 12:00 Tomaso Albinoni Oboe Concerto in B-Flat, Op. 7, No. 3 – Alison Balsom, tr; Scottish Ensemble.

EMI 56094-2. [7:22] 1:00 Josef Lanner Abendsterne Waltzes, Op. 180 – Vienna Phil/Franz Welser-Möst.

DG 4763793. [8:20] 2:00 Max Bruch Scottish Fantasy, Op. 46 – Anne Akiko Meyers, v; Royal Phil Orch/Jesús López-Cobos.

RCA 60942-2. [27:26] 3:00 Afternoon Music with Candice Agree including Clara Schumann Variations on a Theme by Robert, Op. 20 – Sarah Cahill, p. First Hand Records FHR-132. [12:21] 4:00 Jens Kruger Roan Mountain Suite: VII. Finale, Overmountain Men – Kruger Brothers; Kontras Quartet. Double Time Music DTM-027. [7:11] 5:00 Michael Torke Unseen: No. 5 – East Coast Chamber Orch; Michael Torke Orch/ Michael Torke. Ecstatic Records ER-092402. [5:37] 6:00 Tchaikovsky Romeo and Juliet Overture-Fantasy – Suisse Romande Orch/ Leopold Stokowski. Decca 448950-2. [19:49] 7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Voices from the East Bill explores music by composers from the Baltic states, travel to Chistopol in western Russia, and finish in Georgia including works by Arvo Pärt, Sofia Gubaïdulina, and Giya Kancheli.

8:00 Evening Music 10:00 The WFMT Orchestra Series: San Francisco Symphony.

Mahler Symphony No. 2 in C minor; Heidi Stober, soprano; Sasha Cooke, mezzo-soprano; SFS Chorus; Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor.

Tuesday 7 12:00 Through the Night with Peter van de Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Jan Weller including Sibelius Suite mignonne, Op. 98a – Tapiola Sinfonietta/Tuomas Ollila.

Ondine ODE-991-2. [5:45] 7:00 Haydn Scherzando No. 3 in D – Berlin Haydn Ensemble.

EMI CDC5-56577-2. [8:05] 8:00 William Boyce Symphony No. 1 in B-Flat – Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood. L’OiseauLyre 436761-2. [7:11] 9:00 Gordon Jacob Five Pieces for Harmonica and Strings – Tommy Reilly,

harmonica; St Martin’s Academy/Neville Marriner.

Chandos CHAN-8617. [13:19] 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn including George Whitefield Chadwick Melpomene, Dramatic Overture – Czech State Phil/José Serebrier.

Reference RR-64. [13:03] 11:00 Johann David Heinichen Dresden Concerto in G, S 213 – Musica Antiqua Cologne/Reinhard Goebel.

Archiv 437549-2 (2). [15:26] 12:00 Villa-Lobos Bachianas Brasileiras No. 9 – New World Sym/Michael Tilson Thomas.

RCA 68538-2. [9:39] 1:00 Mozart Piano Concerto No. 9 in E-Flat, K. 271, Jeunehomme – Alexandre Tharaud, p; Les Violons du Roy/Bernard Labadie.

Erato 462626-8. [31:00] 2:00 Piazzolla Tango Suite – Yo-Yo Ma, vc; Sérgio Assad & Odair Assad, g’s.

Sony SK-63122. [9:51] 3:00 Afternoon Music with Candice Agree including Bologne Violin Concerto in G, Op. 8 – Lausanne Chamber Orch/Renaud Capuçon, v.

Erato 5419718972. [18:26] 4:00 Falla Seven Popular Spanish Songs – Stephen Burns, tr; Kuang-Hao Huang, p. WFMT. [12:10] 5:00 Edward MacDowell Woodland Sketches, Op 51: Will-o’-the-Wisp; To a Wild Rose; A Deserted Farm – Paula Robison, f; Eliot Fisk, g. Musicmasters MMD-60115. [5:46] 6:00 Chopin Andante spianato and Grande polonaise brillante in E-Flat, Op. 22 – Sandro Russo, p. WFMT. [13:38] 7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Voices from the East See Monday’s listing.

8:00 Evening Music 10:00 Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. Corigliano Soliloquy; David Shifrin, clarinet; Francisco Fullana, Arnaud Sussmann, violins; Matthew Lipman, viola; Nicholas Canellakis, cello; Bernstein Three Meditations from Mass; Nicholas Canellakis, cello; Michael Stephen Brown, piano; Ian Rosenbaum, percussion; Copland Appalachian Spring Suite for Ensemble.

11:00 Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival. See listing on Saturday, July 4.

Wednesday 8 12:00 Through the Night with Peter van de Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Jan Weller including François-Joseph Gossec Symphony in E-Flat, Op. 5, No. 2 – London Mozart

Players/Matthias Bamert.

Chandos CHAN-9661. [13:02] 7:00 Saint-Saëns Le rouet d’Omphale, Op. 31 – Les Siècles/François-Xavier Roth. Harmonia Mundi HMM-902614.15. [8:23] 8:00 Gershwin Girl Crazy: Overture – Grant Park Orch/ David Loebel. Grant Park Music Festival CD-1. [5:56] 9:00 Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 in G Major, BWV 1049 – Apollo’s Fire/ Jeannette Sorrell. Avie AV-2207 (2). [15:24] 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn including Margaret Bonds Troubled Water – Ashley Jackson, h. Decca 7572822. [6:35] 11:00 Purcell Abdelazer: Suite – Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood. L’Oiseau-Lyre 433523-2 (5). [12:41] 12:15 Dame Myra Hess Concerts Pianist Sunmi Han performs music by Lili Boulanger, Chopin, and Korngold, live from Seventeenth Church of Christ, Scientist, Chicago.

1:00 Eric Coates London Again Suite – Royal Liverpool Phil Orch/John Wilson.

Avie AV-2070. [15:41] 2:00 Schubert Overture in D, In the Italian Style, D 590 – La Scala Phil/Riccardo Chailly.

Decca 4852944. [8:17] 3:00 Afternoon Music with Candice Agree including Beethoven Cello Sonata No. 1 in F, Op. 5, No. 1 – Zuill Bailey, vc; Simone Dinnerstein, p. WFMT. [20:29] 4:00 Borodin Prince Igor: Polovtsian Dances – Boston Pops Orch/Arthur Fiedler.

RCA 68132-2. [10:57] 5:00 Dorothy Gates Imaginings – Sheona White, tenor hn; Studio Orch/ Kyle Ritenauer. Phoenix USA PHCD-190. [5:48] 6:00 Grieg Peer Gynt, Op. 23: Suite No. 1, Op. 46 – Berlin Phil/Herbert von Karajan.

DG 410026-2. [14:00] 7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Voices from the East See Monday’s listing.

8:00 Grant Park Music Festival 2026: Sibelius Symphony No. 2 Live from the Pritzker Pavilion, featuring the Grant Park Orchestra conducted by Carlos Kalmar. Christopher Theofanidis Drum Circles; Third Coast Percussion, percussion; Sibelius Symphony No. 2 in D major.

Hosted by Dave Schwan.

10:00 Baroque&Before with Candice Agree: A Portuguese Pilgrimage Giulio Prandi leads the Ghislieri Chorus, Orchestra, and

soloists in Davide Perez’s Mattutino de’ Morti, considered the most significant musical work of 18th century Portugal. The concert includes selections from Grzegorz Gerwazy Gorczycki’s Conductus funebris. Recorded live in concert at the 2021 Misteria Paschalia Festival.

(Spanish Overture No. 1) – Nicholas Walker, p. ASV CDDCA-1048. [10:29] 7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Voices from the East See Monday’s listing.

8:00 Evening Music 10:00 The New York Philharmonic This Week Please visit wfmt. com for more information.

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12:00 Through the Night with Peter van de Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Jan Weller including Domenico Caudioso Mandolin Concerto in G – Julien Martineau, m; Concerto Italiano/Rinaldo Alessandrini.

Naïve V-5455. [13:08] 7:00 George Macfarren Concert Overture, Chevy Chace – English Northern Phil/David Lloyd-Jones. Hyperion CDA-66515. [8:00] 8:00 Rodrigo Sones en la Giralda (Fantasía sevillana) – Isabelle Moretti, h; Royal Seville Sym Orch/Edmon Colomer.

Valois V-4815. [8:07] 9:00 Chopin Grand Fantasy on Polish Airs, Op. 13 – Emanuel Ax, p; Age of Enlightenment Orch/Charles Mackerras.

Sony SK-63371. [14:01] 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn including Vivaldi La Cetra Concerto No. 1 in C, R. 181 – Rachel Podger, v; Holland Baroque Society. Channel Classics CCSSA-33412 (2). [9:35] 11:00 Amy Beach Symphony in E minor, Op. 32, Gaelic: Finale, Allegro di molto – Detroit Sym Orch/Neeme Järvi.

Chandos CHAN-8958. [9:16] 12:00 Korngold Overture to a Play, Op. 4 – Minería Sym Orch/Carlos Miguel Prieto.

Naxos 8.570791. [13:31] 1:00 Debussy Piano Trio in G – Renaud Capuçon, v; Edgar Moreau, vc; Bertrand Chamayou, p. Erato 0190295773960. [20:36] 2:00 Josef Myslivecek Concertino in E-Flat – Concerto Köln.

Archiv 4776418. [14:45] 3:00 Afternoon Music with Candice Agree including Bach Clavier Concerto No. 2 in E, BWV 1053 – Richard Egarr, hc; Academy of Ancient Music/Andrew Manze. Harmonia Mundi HMU-907283.84 (2). [20:10] 4:00 Mahler Symphony No. 5 in C-sharp minor: IV. Adagietto – New York Phil/Leonard Bernstein. Sony (Classical Fan Favorites). [11:00] 5:00 Arthur Foote Piano Trio No. 2 in B-Flat, Op. 65 – Neave Trio. Chandos CHAN-10924. [21:43] 6:00 Mikhail Glinka Jota aragonesa

12:00 Through the Night with Peter van de Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Jan Weller including CPE Bach Hamburg Symphony No. 2 in B-Flat, Wq 182/2 – Berlin Academy for Ancient Music. Harmonia Mundi HMC-901622. [11:10] 7:00 Traditional Jewish Introduction and Two Klezmer Dances – Leo Chelyapov, cl; Los Angeles Guitar Quartet. Sony 60274. [8:01] 8:00 William Schuman American Festival Overture – St. Louis Sym Orch/Leonard Slatkin.

RCA 61282-2. [9:14] 9:00 Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30: III. Finale, Alla breve – Yunchan Lim, p; Fort Worth Sym Orch/Marin Alsop.

Decca 4871023. [13:46] 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn including Rossini L’Italiana in Algeri (The Italian Girl in Algiers): Overture – Chamber Orch of Europe/Claudio Abbado. DG 431653-2. [7:45] 11:00 Fauré Elégie in C minor, Op. 24 – Sheku KannehMason, vc; Cello Ensemble.

Decca B0031491-02. [7:28] 12:00 Truman Harris Flowers – Eclipse Chamber Orchestra.

Naxos 8.559858. [7:48] 1:00 Dvorák Symphony No. 8 in G, Op. 88 – Los Angeles Phil/Gustavo Dudamel.

DG 4863413. [35:40] 2:00 Samuel Scheidt Suite for Brass – German Brass/ Enrique Crespo. EMI CDC7-47692-2. [9:46] 3:00 Afternoon Music with Candice Agree including Sibelius Four Legends from the Kalevala, Op. 22: No. 1, Lemminkäinen and the Maidens of Saari – Helsinki Phil Orch/Susanna Mälkki.

BIS 2638. [17:34] 4:00 Bach Motet, Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied, BWV 225 – Sinfonia Voci, Bach Sinfonia/Daniel Abraham.

Dorian DSL-92119. [13:08] 5:00 Mozart Oboe Concerto in C, K. 314 – Albrecht Mayer, ob; Mahler Chamber Orch/Claudio Abbado.

DG 476235-2. [21:16] 6:00 Mario CastelnuovoTedesco Guitar Quintet, Op. 143: I. Allegro, vivo e

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schietto – Sharon Isbin, g; Pacifica Quartet. Cedille CDR-90000190. [5:53] 7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Voices from the East See Monday’s listing.

8:00 Evening Music 11:00 Best of Studs Terkel: Michael Tilson Thomas and Ted Thomas (10/08/1986) WFMT remembers Michael Tilson Thomas (1944–2026), the beloved and deeply admired American conductor, who died earlier this year.

In 1986, Michael and his father Ted Thomas shared a lively hour of music and memories with Studs Terkel.

Saturday 11 12:00 Through the Night with Peter van de Graaff 7:00 Weekend Mornings with Kristina Lynn with news at 7:00 am. Gershwin Someone to Watch Over Me – Romain Leleu, tr; Julien Gernay, p. Harmonia Mundi HMM-905381. [4:25] 8:00 Saturday Morning Listener’s Choice 9:00 Soundtrack 10:00 Dmitri Kabalevsky The Comedians, Op. 26 – National Phil/Leonard Slatkin. RCA 5661-2-RC. [15:00] 11:00 Introductions WFMT

features talented young classical musicians from around the Chicago area.

Please visit wfmt.com for details on today’s program.

12:00 From The Royal Ballet and Opera in London: Janácek’s The Makropulos Affair Aušrine Stundyte (Emilia Marty); Sean Panikkar (Albert Gregor); Johan Reuter (Baron Jaroslav Prus); Henry Waddington (Dr. Kolenatý); Peter Hoare (Vítek); Daniel Matoušek (Janek); Alan Oke (Count Hauk-Šendorf); Heather Engebretson (Kristina); Royal Opera House Chorus and Orchestra; Jakub Hruša, conductor. Sung in Czech.

2:00 Afternoon Music including Ravel Valses nobles et sentimentales – Lyon National Orch/Leonard Slatkin.

Naxos 8.572888. [15:23] 3:00 Prokofiev Cinderella, Op. 87: Waltz – Yevgeny Kutik, v; Timothy Bozarth, p. Marquis MAR-81453. [6:51] 4:00 Listening to Singers with Oliver Camacho Highlights from the 2025 Last Night at the Proms featuring soprano Louise Alder, the BBC Singers, and the BBC Symphony Chorus and Orchestra conducted by Elim Chan. The 2026 Proms season runs from

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Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival. Ravel Sonata for Violin and Cello, M. 73; Leila Josefowicz, violin; Paul Watkins, cello; Dohnányi Sextet in C major, Op. 37; David Shifrin, clarinet; Stefan Dohr, horn; Jennifer Frautschi, violin; Toby Appel, viola; Eric Kim, cello; Soyeon Kate Lee, piano.

6:00 Weekend Evening Music including Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30: I. Allegro ma non tanto – Yunchan Lim, p; Fort Worth Sym Orch/Marin Alsop. Decca 4871023. [16:58] 7:00 Price Fantasie Nègre No. 2 in G minor – Michelle Cann, p.

Platoon PLAT-18088. [8:26] 8:00 Folkstage hosted by Marilyn Rea Beyer From the archives: The Limeliters performed at the Byron Colby Barn of Prairie Crossing, Grayslake, Illinois July 22, 2000. We replay this raucous show on the birth anniversary of longtime band member Alex Hassilev.

9:00 The Midnight Special with Marilyn Rea Beyer An encore of the program celebrating the groundbreaking Chicago journalist and activist icon, Ida B. Wells.

Also, songs that highlight the heroic and selfless work people who put others first.

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Sunday 12 12:00 Through the Night with Peter van de Graaff 6:00 With Heart and Voice Oh, Canada and… Vive le France!

Host Peter DuBois explores sacred choral and organ music from Canada and France, as well as a few works influenced by those two countries.

7:00 Weekend Mornings with Kristina Lynn including Bologne 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] 8:00 Richard Strauss Dance Suite after Couperin: Gavotte; Tourbillon; Allemande; March – Dresden Staatskapelle/ Rudolf Kempe. EMI CMS764350-2 (3). [13:56] 9:00 Praetorius Terpsichore: Five Dances – Collegium Terpsichore/Fritz Neumeyer. Boston Skyline BSD-118. [12:15] 10:00 Villa-Lobos Valsa da dor – Nelson Freire, p. Decca B0017179-02. [4:12] 11:00 Eric Whitacre All Seems Beautiful to Me – Voces8/ Eric Whitacre. Decca 4853970. [4:50]

12:00 Sunday Afternoons with Robbie Ellis including Amy Beach Romance, Op. 23 – Shea-Kim Duo. Blue Griffin BGR-643. [6:05] 1:00 Evaristo Dall’Abaco Concerto in D a più istrumenti, Op. 5, No. 6 – Concerto Köln.

Teldec 22166-2. [11:23] 2:00 Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-Flat, Op. 73, Emperor – Van Cliburn, p; Chicago Sym Orch/Fritz Reiner. RCA 7943-2-RG. [38:11] 3:00 Leroy Anderson Bugler’s Holiday; The Syncopated Clock; The Waltzing Cat – St. Louis Sym Orch/Leonard Slatkin. RCA 68048-2. [7:21] 4:00 Anton Arensky String Quartet No. 1 in G, Op. 11 – Ying String Quartet. Sono Luminus DSL-92143. [20:53] 5:00 Mozart Concert Aria, Misero!...Aura che intorno spiri, K. 431 – Rolando Villazón, t; London Sym Orch/Antonio Pappano. DG 4791054. [10:52] 6:00 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Radio Broadcasts.

John Stafford Smith The Star-Spangled Banner; Copland Appalachian Spring Suite; Barber Knoxville: Summer of 1915, Op. 24; Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha, soprano; Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue; James P. Johnson Victory Stride; Michael Cann, piano; Charleston; Marin Alsop, conductor; Gould Spirituals for Orchestra; Ives Variations on America; Morton Gould, conductor.

8:00 Fiesta! with Elbio Barilari: Baroque Music from the New World Elbio shares Baroque music written in Boliva and 20th century music from Spain and Latin America inspired by music from the Colonial period.

9:00 Collectors’ Corner with Henry Fogel: The Art of Emanuel Feuermann – Program 1 Recordings of the great cellist Emanuel Feuermann.

11:00 Through the Night with Peter van de Graaff

Monday 13 12:00 Through the Night with Peter van de Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Jan Weller including Tchaikovsky Valse-Scherzo in C, Op. 34 – Jennifer Koh, v; Odense Sym Orch/ Alexander Vedernikov. Cedille CDR-90000166. [6:20] 7:00 Smetana Festive Symphony: III. Scherzo – Prague Sym Orch/Jirí Belohlávek.

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RAVINIA.ORG 8:00 Ernest John Moeran Overture for a Masque (1944) – Ulster Orch/JoAnn Falletta.

Naxos 8.573106. [9:22] 9:00 Carlos Guastavino Jeromita Linares – Pablo Cohen, g; Camerata Bariloche. Dorian DOR-90202. [11:44] 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn including Giuseppe Tartini Trumpet Concerto in D – Alison Balsom, tr; Scottish Ensemble.

EMI 56094-2. [9:49] 11:00 Felix Mendelssohn The Hebrides (Fingal’s Cave) Overture, Op 26 – Freiburg Baroque Orch/Pablo Heras-Casado. Harmonia Mundi HMM-902325. [9:48] 12:00 Gluck Orpheus and Eurydice: Dance of the Blessed Spirits – James Galway, f; National Phil Orch/Charles Gerhardt.

RCA 63950-2 (2). [7:56] 1:00 Barber Violin Concerto, Op. 14 – James Ehnes, v; Vancouver Sym/Bramwell Tovey. Radio Canada Int’l SMCD-5241. [23:32] 2:00 Peter Warlock Capriol Suite – Los Angeles Guitar Quartet. Delos DE-3132. [8:21] 3:00 Afternoon Music with Candice Agree including Mozart Idomeneo ballet music, K. 367 – Apollo’s Fire/Jeannette Sorrell.

Avie AV-2159. [16:20] 4:00 Beethoven Cello Sonata No. 4 in C, Op. 102, No. 1 – Wendy Warner, vc; Irina Nuzova, p. WFMT. [14:28] 5:00 Joaquín Turina Sinfonía sevillana, Op. 23 – Cincinnati Sym Orch/Jesús López-Cobos.

Telarc CD-80574. [21:34] 6:00 Copland El Salón México – Claire Aebersold & Ralph Neiweem, p. WFMT. [10:31] 7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Symphony, Part IV This week features the symphonic form at its Romantic apex with composers Anton Bruckner, Gustav Mahler and Edward Elgar.

8:00 Evening Music 10:00 The WFMT Orchestra Series: Berlin Philharmonic. Ravel Piano Concerto in G major; Debussy Claire de lune; Lang Lang, piano; Hans Rott Symphony No. 1 in E major; Paavo Järvi, conductor.

Tuesday 14 12:00 Through the Night with Peter van de Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Jan Weller including Johann Friedrich Fasch Sinfonia in G minor – Tempesta di Mare. Chandos CHAN-0783. [10:10] 7:00 Schubert String Trio in B-Flat, D 471 – Trio 826. Blue

Griffin BGR-403. [11:56] 8:00 Villa-Lobos Fantasia for soprano saxophone & chamber orchestra – John Harle, ssx; St. Martin’s Academy/Sir Neville Marriner.

EMI CDC7-54301-2. [10:31] 9:00 Schubert Piano Quintet in A, D. 667, Trout: I. Allegro vivace – The Kanneh-Masons.

Decca 4871265. [12:25] 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn including Prokofiev Cinderella, Op. 87: Court Dance; Mazurka & Entrance of the Prince; Cinderella’s Arrival; Grand Waltz – St. Louis Sym Orch/Leonard Slatkin.

RCA RCD1-5321. [13:27] 11:00 Jennifer Higdon Dance Card: II. Breeze Serenade – Chicago Sinfonietta/ Mei-Ann Chen. Cedille CDR-90000185. [6:34] 12:00 Weber Grand Duo Concertant in E-Flat, Op. 48 – Andreas Ottensamer, cl; Yuja Wang, p. DG 4836069. [16:06] 1:00 William Boyce Symphony No. 5 in D – Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood. L’Oiseau-Lyre 436761-2. [7:29] 2:00 Liszt Piano Concerto No. 2 in A – Van Cliburn, p; Philadelphia Orch/Eugene Ormandy.

RCA 7834-2-RG. [21:12] 3:00 Afternoon Music with Candice Agree including

Nicola Matteis Sett of Ayres in G major – Théotime Langlois de Swarte, v; Thomas Dunford, l. Harmonia Mundi HMM-902305. [12:21] 4:00 Alfredo Casella Paganiniana, Op. 65 – La Scala Phil/ Riccardo Muti. Sony SK-53280. [18:03] 5:00 Bach Orchestra Suite No. 2 in B minor, BWV 1067 – Barthold Kuijken, f; La Petite Bande/ Sigiswald Kuijken. RCA-DHM 77008-2-RG (2). [21:07] 6:00 Gershwin Second Rhapsody: 1931 original version – Kevin Cole, p; National Orchestral Institute Phil/David Alan Miller.

Naxos 8.559934. [15:10] 7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Symphony, Part IV See Monday’s listing.

8:00 Evening Music 10:00 Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. Ives Five Songs; Randall Scarlata, baritone; Gilbert Kalish, piano; Ellington Clarinet Lament; David Shifrin, clarinet; Gloria Chien, piano; Gottschalk The Union, Concert Paraphrase on Nation Airs, Op. 48; Rzewski Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues from Four North American Ballads; Giles Vonsattel, piano; Gershwin An American in Paris; Alessio Bax, Robert Spano, pianos.

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In the Spotlight

Michelle Cann

Grant Park Music Festival Celebrated as a champion of the music of Florence Price, pianist Michelle Cann’s most recent local performance was her solo recital The Women of Chicago’s Black Renaissance for UChicago Presents. She made her Grant Park Music Festival debut in 2022 playing Price’s Piano Concerto in One Movement under Carlos Kalmar, then returned for the Independence Day Concert in 2023 to perform Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue with Christopher Bell leading the Grant Park Orchestra — a concert that was severely hindered by heavy rain. Fortunately, Cann got another chance to showcase Rhapsody in Blue in her debut with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Marin Alsop at Ravinia in 2024 (encore broadcast on WFMT on July 12).

Cann has become a sought-after interpreter of Maurice Ravel’s jazzinfused Piano Concerto in G major, the vehicle for her return to Grant Park in a program conducted by Jeri Lynne Johnson which includes William Grant Still’s Festive Overture and Florence Price’s Symphony No. 3.

Later this month, the Festival will present Michelle Cann and soprano Karen Slack for a CenterStage recital of works by Florence Price.

Wednesday, July 15 6:30 pm 11:00 Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival. See listing on Saturday, July 11.

Wednesday 15 12:00 Through the Night with Peter van de Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Jan Weller including John Rutter Four Miniatures for Orchestra – Royal Phil Orch/John Rutter.

Decca 4871478. [9:25] 7:00 Antonio Casimir Cartellieri Two-Clarinet Concerto in

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B-Flat: III. Rondo. Allegro – Dieter Klocker & Sandra Arnold, cl’s, Czech Phil Chamber Orch. MD+G 3010960-2. [8:07] 8:00 Price Piano Quintet (possibly unfinished) – Catalyst Quartet; Michelle Cann, p.

Azica ACD-71346. [8:38] 9:00 Stravinsky Pulcinella: Suite – Orpheus Chamber Orch. DG 445541-2. [22:38] 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn including Telemann Tafelmusik, Book 3: Two-Horn Concerto in E-Flat – Teunis van der Zwart & Bart Aerbeydt, hn’s; Freiburg Baroque Orch/Gottfried von der Goltz. Harmonia Mundi HMC-902042.45 (4). [15:15] 11:00 Clara Schumann Three Romances, Op. 11 – Isata Kanneh-Mason, p. Decca 4850020. [13:44] 12:15 Dame Myra Hess Concerts Violist JungAhn Shin and pianist Umi Garrett perform music by Go-San Baek, Ernest Bloch, and York Bowen, live from Seventeenth Church of Christ, Scientist, Chicago.

1:00 Puccini Preludio sinfonico – La Scala Phil/Riccardo Muti.

Sony SK-63025. [8:48] 2:00 Schubert Arpeggione Sonata in A minor, D. 821 – David Finckel, vc; Wu Han, p.

ArtistLed 10401-2. [26:13] 3:00 Afternoon Music with Candice Agree including Purcell The Fairy Queen: Suite – New York Kammermusiker/ Ilona Pederson. Dorian DOR-90189. [13:31] 4:00 Louise Farrenc Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 32: II. Adagio cantabile – Insula Orch/Laurence Equilbey.

Erato 5419752210. [9:09] 5:00 Respighi The Birds – St. Paul Chamber Orch/Hugh Wolff.

Teldec 18970-2 (2). [18:21] 6:30 Grant Park Music Festival 2026: Ravel Piano Concerto Live from the Pritzker Pavilion, featuring the Grant Park Orchestra conducted by Jeri Lynne Johnson. Still Festive Overture; Ravel Piano Concerto in G major; Michelle Cann, piano; Price Symphony No. 3 in C minor.

Hosted by Dave Schwan.

8:00 Evening Music 9:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Symphony, Part IV See Monday’s listing.

10:00 Baroque&Before with Candice Agree: Sonate Italiane Violinist Fabio Biondi leads Europa Galante in sonatas by Corelli, Vivaldi, Geminiani, Tartini, Veracini and Locatelli. Recorded live in concert July 22, 2023 at Swidnica, Poland’s Church of Peace, the world’s

largest wooden Baroque church and a Unesco World heritage site, as part of the International Bach Festival.

Thursday 16 12:00 Through the Night with Peter van de Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Jan Weller including Alice Mary Smith Symphony in A minor: IV. Allegro – London Mozart Players/Howard Shelley.

Chandos CHAN-10283. [6:21] 7:00 Richard Strauss Romanze in F – Heinrich Schiff, vc; Leipzig Gewandhaus Orch/Kurt Masur. Philips 426262-2. [9:26] 8:00 Malcolm Arnold English Dances, Set 2, Op. 33 – London Phil Orch/ Malcolm Arnold. Lyrita SRCD.201. [9:38] 9:00 Felix Mendelssohn String Symphony No. 12 in G minor – Amsterdam Sinfonietta/ Lev Markiz. Brilliant Classics 93777 (7). [21:51] 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn including Henry Cowell Hymn and Fuguing Tune No. 10 – Celia Nicklin, ob; St Martin’s Academy/Sir Neville Marriner.

Argo 417818-2. [6:52] 11:00 Shostakovich Ballet Suite No. 1 – Royal Scottish National Orch/Neeme Järvi. Chandos CHAN-7000/1 (2). [13:34] 12:00 Jean-Marie Leclair Violin Concerto in A minor, Op. 7, No. 5 – Leila Schayegh, v; La Cetra. Glossa GCD-924206. [14:17] 1:00 Haydn Symphony No. 94 in G, Surprise – Philharmonia Orch/Leonard Slatkin.

RCA 62549-2. [22:52] 2:00 Sergei Rachmaninoff Etudes-tableaux, Op. 33: Nos. 5-9 – Boris Giltburg, p.

Naxos 8.573629. [13:32] 3:00 Afternoon Music with Candice Agree including Bach Orchestra Suite in G minor, BWV 1070 – Stuttgart Chamber Orch/Dennis Russell Davies. MD+G 3210940-2. [19:54] 4:00 Liszt Les Préludes, Symphonic Poem No. 3 – Chicago Sym Orch/Daniel Barenboim.

DG 415851-2. [15:55] 5:00 Handel Music for the Royal Fireworks – Orpheus Chamber Orch. DG 435390-2. [18:34] 6:00 Henry Thacker Burleigh From the Southland – Rochelle Sennet, p. Albany TROY-1910-12. [18:22] 7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Symphony, Part IV See Monday’s listing.

8:00 Evening Music 10:00 The New York Philharmonic This Week Please visit wfmt. com for more information.

Friday 17 12:00 Through the Night with Peter van de Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Jan Weller including Anthony Holborne Five Dances – London Gabrieli Brass Ensemble.

ASV CDQS-6013. [6:18] 7:00 Morten Lauridsen O Magnum Mysterium – Grant Park Cho/Christopher Bell.

Lexicon LC-2511. [5:58] 8:00 Saint-Saëns Caprice andalous, Op. 122 – María Dueñas, v; Berlin German Sym Orch/Mihhail Gerts.

DG 4865708. [11:08] 9:00 Vaughan Williams English Folk Song Suite – London Wind Orch/Denis Wick.

ASV CDQS-6021. [10:19] 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn including Tchaikovsky Capriccio italien, Op. 45 – Cincinnati Sym Orch/ Erich Kunzel. Telarc CD-80041. [15:20] 11:00 Augusta Holmès Trois petites pièces – Juliette Hurel, f; Hélène Couvert, p. Alpha 573. [6:47] 12:00 Handel Almira: Suite – Berlin Academy for Ancient Music. Harmonia Mundi HMC-901852. [14:32] 1:00 Chopin Waltz in A-Flat, Op. 34, No. 1, Valse brillante – Stephen Hough, p.

Hyperion CDA-67686. [5:41] 2:00 Nielsen Maskarade: Suite – Swedish Radio Sym/Esa-Pekka Salonen.

CBS MK-44547. [15:10] 3:00 Afternoon Music with Candice Agree including Edward MacDowell New England Idyls, Op. 62 – Michel Legrand, p. Erato 96386-2. [20:43] 4:00 Brahms Academic Festival Overture, Op. 80 – Chicago Sym Orch/Sir Georg Solti.

Decca 414488-2. [10:35] 5:00 Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D Major, BWV 1050 – Michele Barchi, hc; Il Giardino Armonico/Giovanni Antonini.

Teldec 98442-2 (2). [20:45] 6:00 Sibelius Karelia Suite, Op. 11 – Helsinki Phil Orch/Susanna Mälkki. BIS 2638. [16:56] 7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Symphony, Part IV See Monday’s listing.

8:00 Evening Music 11:00 Best of Studs Terkel: James Baldwin (11/22/1985) In 1985, Studs spoke with the distinguished American author, playwright, and civil rights activist, James Baldwin (1924-1987), whose book, The Evidence of Things Not Seen, had recently been published.

In the Spotlight 12:00 Through the Night with Peter van de Graaff 7:00 Weekend Mornings with Kristina Lynn with news at 7:00 am. Karl Goldmark Symphony No. 1 in E-Flat, Op. 26, Rustic Wedding: IV. In the Garden: Andante – Utah Sym/Maurice Abravanel.

Vanguard OVC-5002. [8:38] 8:00 Saturday Morning Listener’s Choice 9:00 Soundtrack 10:00 Francesco Geminiani Concerto grosso in A, Op. 2, No. 6 – Tafelmusik/

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In the Spotlight

Leticia “Tish” Hinojosa

Folkstage SingeSinger/songwriter Leticia “Tish” Hinojosa was born in San Antonio, Texas, to Mexican immigrant parents, the youngest of thirteen. The prolific Hinojosa has released 16 albums in both English and Spanish and performs a duet on Susan Werner’s recent Halfway to Houston. She bridges Tejano, folk, country, and border music with poignant writing and her rootsy, warm signature sound. Americana Highways likens her voice to classic country singers and says her tone is “vaguely retro…a purely countrytraditional & Latino ferment rather than the current pop-country mix.” Cultural diversity recurs in her work as well as her personal life. She actively supports causes of bilingual education, children’s welfare, immigration rights, and farmworkers’ rights. In advance of her set at the 41st Annual Woodstock Folk Festival on Sunday July 19, Tish Hinojosa performs live from the Levin Performance Studio.

Saturday, July 18 8:00 pm

Jeanne Lamon. Sony SK-48043. [6:20] 11:00 Introductions WFMT features talented young classical musicians from around the Chicago area.

Please visit wfmt.com for details on today’s program.

12:00 From The Royal Ballet and Opera in London: Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov Bryn Terfel (Boris Godunov); Adam Palka (Pimen); John Daszak (Prince Shuisky); Alexander Roslavets (Varlaam); Mingjie Lei (Holy Fool); Andrei Kymach (Andrei Shchelkalov); Jamez McCorkle (Grigory Otrepiev); Alasdair Elliott (Missail); Hannah Edmunds (Xenia); Carolyn Holt (Xenia’s Nurse); Royal Opera House Chorus and Orchestra; Mark Wigglesworth, conductor. Sung in Russian.

2:30 Afternoon Music 3:00 Abbie Betinis Songs of Smaller Creatures: No. 3, envoi – Grant Park Cho/ Christopher Bell. Cedille CDR-90000131. [3:43] 4:00 Listening to Singers with Oliver Camacho A remembrance of Dame Felicity Lott (1947–2026), a superb interpreter of English song, French mélodie and operetta, and Mozart and Strauss operatic heroines.

5:00 Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival. Giovanni Benedetto Platti Trio Sonata in G minor; Frank Rosenwein, oboe; Felix Fan, cello; Paolo Bordignon, harpsichord; Mendelssohn Andante and Scherzo for String Quartet, Op. 81; Escher String Quartet; Trio in C Minor, Op. 66; Gilles Vonsattel, piano; Yura Lee, violin; Mark Kosower, cello.

6:00 Weekend Evening Music including Fanny Mendelssohn Song, Der frühen Gräber, Op. 9, No. 4 – Chen Reiss, s; Jewish Chamber Orch Munich/Daniel Grossmann.

Onyx 4231. [4:11] 7:00 Pablo de Sarasate Caprice basque, Op. 24 – María Dueñas, v; Itamar Golan, p. DG 4865708. [7:25] 8:00 Folkstage hosted by Marilyn Rea Beyer Live from the Levin Performance Studio: A Woodstock Folk Festival preview featuring the queen of Tex-Mex Tish Hinojosa.

9:00 The Midnight Special with Marilyn Rea Beyer Have you heard about the heat?

The Old Farmer’s Almanac predicts an unusually hot July this year, and we feel it!

Sunday 19 12:00 Through the Night with Peter van de Graaff 6:00 With Heart and Voice Peeters and Finzi. Belgian composer Flor Peeters and Gerald Finzi of Great Britain perhaps don’t receive as much attention as some of their 20th century compatriots. Host Peter DuBois shares wonderful sacred choral and organ music from both gentlemen.

7:00 Weekend Mornings with Kristina Lynn including Joplin When Your Hair is Like the Snow – Chicago Brass Quintet. Centaur CRC-3159. [2:41] 8:00 Eric Whitacre Three Songs of Faith: No. 3, i thank You God for most this amazing day – Polyphony/Stephen Layton.

Hyperion CDA-67543. [5:57] 9:00 CPE Bach Württemberg Sonata No. 2 in A-Flat, Wq 49/2 – Bruno Procopio, hc.

Paraty 515501 (2). [13:06] 10:00 Howard Hanson Merry Mount, Op. 31: Suite – Cincinnati Pops Orch/Erich Kunzel.

Telarc CD-80649. [15:00] 11:00 Mozart String Divertimento in D, K. 136 – I Musici de Montréal/Yuli Turovsky.

Chandos CHAN-9045. [15:13] 12:00 Sunday Afternoons with Robbie Ellis including Friedrich von Flotow Martha: Overture – Royal Scottish National Orch/Lance Friedel.

Naxos 8.573418. [8:24] 1:00 Libby Larsen Deep Summer Music – Colorado Sym/Marin Alsop. Koch 3-7520-2. [7:17] 2:00 Copland Clarinet Concerto – Charles Neidich, cl; I Musici de Montréal/Yuli Turovsky.

Chandos CHAN-9848. [16:12] 3:00 Giuseppe Torelli Sinfonia in C – La Serenissima/Adrian Chandler. Avie AV-2371. [7:45] 4:00 Antonio Salieri Sinfonia, Il Giorno Onomastico – London Mozart Players/ Matthias Bamert. Chandos CHAN-9877. [17:54] 5:00 Ravinia Festival 2026: The Chicago Symphony Orchestra Live from the Hunter Pavilion – Beethoven’s “Pastoral” Symphony and Violin Concerto featuring violinist María Dueñas, conducted by Marin Alsop.

7:00 Weekend Evening Music 8:00 Fiesta! with Elbio Barilari: Fiesta CD Grab Bag Amazed by the level of talent and artistry of contemporary composers and performers, Elbio is thrilled to share their music with Fiesta listeners.

9:00 Collectors’ Corner with Henry Fogel: The Art of Emanuel Feuermann – Program 2 Recordings

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María Dueñas

Ravinia Festival Gramophone’s Young Artist and Instrumentalist of the Year for 2025, María Dueñas makes her Chicago Symphony Orchestra debut joining Marin Alsop for Beethoven’s Violin Concerto. In only a few seasons, Dueñas has taken the classical music world by storm, rapidly rising to international prominence after winning first prize at the 2021 Yehudi Menuhin Competition. Critics continually laud her luminous, goldentoned interpretations. The New York Times praises her ability to breathe “new life into well-known pieces,” proclaiming her to be a “violinist who has something to say, and the skill to say it brilliantly.” The all-Beethoven program includes the audiencefavorite “Pastoral” Symphony No. 6, where storm music swirls and brightly passes with Midwestern energy and grace. Together, Dueñas and Alsop illuminate two sides of Beethoven— virtuosic brilliance and symphonic serenity—in a live broadcast from Ravinia’s new Hunter Pavilion.

Sunday, July 19 5:00 pm of the great cellist Emanuel Feuermann.

11:00 Through the Night with Peter van de Graaff

Monday 20 12:00 Through the Night with Peter van de Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Jan Weller including Johann David Heinichen Dresden Concerto in F, S 234 – Musica Antiqua Cologne/Reinhard Goebel.

Archiv 437549-2 (2). [8:30] 7:00 Piazzolla Histoire du Tango: I. Bordel 1900; III. Nightclub 1960 – Emmanuel Pahud, f; Manuel Barrueco, g.

Warner 5565782. [9:41] 8:00 George Dyson Overture, At the Tabard Inn – London

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Sym Orch/Richard Hickox. Chandos CHAN9531 (2). [11:35] 9:00 Brahms Horn Trio in E-Flat, Op. 40 – Barry Tuckwell, hn; Itzhak Perlman, v; Vladimir Ashkenazy, p.

Decca 414128-2. [27:27] 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn including William Bolcom Dream Shadows – Spencer Myer, p. Steinway & Sons 30041. [6:29] 11:00 Purcell Dido and Aeneas: Suite – Freiburg Baroque Orch/Thomas Hengelbrock.

RCA-DHM 77231-2. [17:47] 12:00 Smetana Vyšehrad (The High Castle) – Czech Phil/ Rafael Kubelík. Supraphon SU-19102031. [15:40] 1:00 Arturo Márquez Danzón No. 4 – Camerata de las Américas/Joel Sachs. Dorian DOR-93230. [10:27] 2:00 Delius In a Summer Garden – Hallé Orch/John Barbirolli. EMI ZDMB565119-2 (2). [14:57] 3:00 Afternoon Music with Candice Agree including Ravel Piano Concerto in G – Francesco Piemontesi, p; Suisse Romande Orchestra/ Jonathan Nott. Pentatone PTC-5186949. [21:26] 4:00 Bologne Symphonie concertante in A, Op. 9, No. 2 – Yury Revich & Libor Ježek, v’s; Czech Chamber Phil Orch/Michael Halász.

Naxos 8.574306. [14:47] 5:00 Weber Clarinet Concerto No. 2 in E-Flat, Op. 74 – Alexander Fiterstein, cl; San Francisco Ballet Orch/Martin West. Bridge 9416. [22:44] 6:00 Bach Orchestra Suite No. 1 in C, BWV 1066 – Brazilian Guitar Quartet.

Delos DE-3254. [20:29] 7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Get the Picture? Bill shares works inspired by wellknown paintings and poems including Granados’s Goyescas, Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition, Hindemith’s Matthias der Maler, and Rachmaninoff’s Isle of the Dead.

8:00 Evening Music 10:00 The WFMT Orchestra Series: WDR Symphony Orchestra.

Sibelius Pohjola’s Daughter, Op. 49; Symphony No. 2 in D, Op. 43; Shostakovich Violin Concerto No. 1 in A minor, Op. 77; ColeridgeTaylor Perkinson Louisiana Blues Strut; Augustin Hadelich, violin; Dima Slobodeniouk, conductor.

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Tuesday 21 12:00 Through the Night with Peter van de Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Jan Weller including Mozart Divertimento in E-Flat, K. 113 – Camerata Salzburg/Sándor Végh.

Laserlight 15861. [10:50] 7:00 Weber Andante e Rondo Ungarese, Op. 35 – Bernard Garfield, bn; Philadelphia Orch/Eugene Ormandy.

Sony SBK-62652. [8:57] 8:00 Debussy Violin Sonata in G minor – Augustin Hadelich, v; Robert Kulek, p. Avie AV-2216. [13:14] 9:00 Bizet Jeux d’enfants, Op. 22 – Michel Béroff & Jean-Philippe Collard, p. EMI CDC5-55347-2. [19:45] 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn including Copland Duo for Flute (Violin) and Piano – Alexa Still, f; Susan DeWitt Smith, p. Koch 3-7144-2. [14:05] 11:00 Weber Clarinet Concertino in E-Flat, Op. 26 – Jon Manasse, cl; Brooklyn Phil/Lukas Foss.

XLNT Music CD-18005. [9:20] 12:00 Franz von Suppé Poet and Peasant: Overture – Vienna Phil/Zubin Mehta.

CBS MK-44932. [9:58] 1:00 Telemann Paris Quartet No. 2 in D – Freiburg Baroque Consort. Harmonia Mundi HMC-901787. [10:29] 2:00 Rodrigo Fantasía para un gentilhombre – Sharon Isbin, g; Lausanne Chamber Orch/Lawrence Foster.

Virgin 91192-2. [22:26] 3:00 Afternoon Music with Candice Agree including Prokofiev Flute Sonata (Violin Sonata No. 2) in D, Op. 94 – Augustin Hadelich, v; Robert Kulek, p. Avie AV-2216. [23:23] 4:00 Bach Two-Violin Concerto in D minor, BWV 1043 – Zachary Carrettin & Yu-Eun Kim, v’s; Boulder Bach Festival Orch. Sono Luminus DSL-92265. [14:00] 5:00 Vincent d’Indy Fantasy on Popular French Themes, Op. 31 – Albrecht Mayer, ob; St Martin’s Academy/ Mathias Mönius. Decca 4782564. [14:51] 6:00 Ricardo Castro Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 22: III. Polonaise – Jorge Federico Osorio, p; Minería Sym Orch/ Carlos Miguel Prieto. Cedille CDR-90000221. [7:23] 7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Get the Picture? See Monday’s listing.

8:00 Evening Music 10:00 Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. Ibert Trois pièces brèves; Sooyun Kim, flute; Stephen Taylor, oboe; Tommaso Lonquich, clarinet; Marc Goldberg, bassoon; Eric

Reed, horn; Paul Taffanel Quintet in G minor; Demarre McGill, flute; Juri Vallentin, oboe; Romie de GuiseLanglois, clarinet; Eleni Katz, bassoon; Hugo Valverde, horn; Martinu Nonet; Tara Helen O’Connor, flute; James Austin Smith, oboe; Sebastian Manz, clarinet; Marc Goldberg, bassoon; David Byrd-Marrow, horn; Alexander Sitkovetsky, violin; Paul Neubauer, viola; Dmitri Atapine, cello; Blake Hinson, double bass.

11:00 Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival. See listing on Saturday, July 18.

Wednesday 22 12:00 Through the Night with Peter van de Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Jan Weller including Beethoven Trio in B-Flat, Op. 11: I. Allegro con brio – Leonidas Kavakos, v; Yo-Yo Ma, vc; Emanuel Ax, p. Sony G010005464289W. [9:12] 7:00 Michel Mazuel Orchestra Suite in G minor – Le Concert des Nations/Jordi Savall.

Fontalis ES-9908. [11:34] 8:00 Poulenc Brass Sonata – Nash Ensemble. Hyperion CDA-67255/6 (2). [7:42] 9:00 Price Mississippi River Suite – Vienna Radio Sym Orch/John Jeter. Naxos 8.559897. [26:20] 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn including Robert Schumann Papillons, Op. 2 – Vladimir Ashkenazy, p. Decca 414474-2. [15:17] 11:00 Giuseppe Verdi Aida: Chorus, Gloria all’Egitto (Triumphal Scene) – Chicago Sym Cho & Orch/Sir Georg Solti.

Decca 430226-2. [11:48] 12:15 Dame Myra Hess Concerts Pianist Carter Johnson performs music by Béla Bartók, György Kurtág, Robert Schumann, and Ludwig van Beethoven, live from Seventeenth Church of Christ, Scientist, Chicago.

1:00 Franz Ignaz Beck Symphony in G, Op. 4, No. 5 – Czech Chamber Phil Orch/Marek Štilec.

Naxos 8.573249. [17:57] 2:00 Richard Strauss Horn Concerto No. 2 in E-Flat – Martin Owen, hn; BBC Phil/ John Wilson. Chandos CHAN-20168. [19:02] 3:00 Afternoon Music with Candice Agree including Jocelyn Hagen Variations on a theme by Brahms (2019) – Ann DuHamel, p. Furious Artisans FACD-6821. [8:10] 4:00 Debussy Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun – Los Angeles Phil/

Esa-Pekka Salonen. Sony SK-62599. [10:09] 5:00 Mozart Eine kleine Nachtmusik, K. 525 – Orpheus Chamber Orch.

DG 419192-2. [17:17] 6:00 Felix Mendelssohn A Midsummer Night’s Dream Overture, Op. 21 – Boston Sym Orch/Seiji Ozawa.

DG 439897-2. [11:51] 6:30 Grant Park Music Festival 2026: Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 3 From the Pritzker Pavilion, featuring the Grant Park Orchestra conducted by Carlos Calmar.

Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30; Olga Kern, piano; Stravinsky Game of Cards; Elgar In the South (Alassio), Op. 50. Recorded July 3.

Hosted by Dave Schwan.

8:00 Evening Music 9:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Get the Picture? See Monday’s listing.

10:00 Baroque&Before with Candice Agree: Napoli illustrissima Violinist Eva Saladin, cellist Daniel Rosin, and harpsichordist Johannes Kellerbring perform works by 18th-century Neapolitan composers Mascitti, Matteis, Cailò, Scarlatti, Lonati, and Piani.

Recorded live in concert in Basel’s Stadtcasino as part of the Basel Early Music Festival.

Thursday 23 12:00 Through the Night with Peter van de Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Jan Weller including Handel Violin Sonata in D, HWV 371 – James Ehnes, v; Andrew Armstrong, p. Onyx 4234. [12:06] 7:00 Alexander Borodin String Quartet No. 2 in D: III. Nocturne – Gothenburg Sym Orch/Neeme Järvi.

DG 435757-2 (2). [8:19] 8:00 Chick Corea Piano Concerto No. 1: Part Three – London Phil Orch/Chick Corea, p.

Sony SK-61799. [10:17] 9:00 Mahler Symphony No. 1 in D, Titan: I. Langsam, schleppend – Baltimore Sym Orch/Marin Alsop.

Naxos 8.572207. [16:23] 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn including Alberto Ginastera Estancia, Op. 8: Ballet Suite (Four Dances) – Simón Bolívar Youth Orch/Gustavo Dudamel.

DG B0011340-02. [12:00] 11:00 Still Violin and Piano Suite – Randall Goosby, v; Zhu Wang, p. Decca B0033878-02. [14:17] 12:00 Ravel Pavane for a Dead Princess – Seong-Jin Cho, p. DG 4866814. [6:38] 1:00 Haydn String Quartet in D,

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Carl’s Almanac at 7:30 am

Carl’s Almanac at 7:30 am

Carl’s Almanac at 7:30 am

Carl’s Almanac at 7:30 am

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Midday with Lisa Flynn

Midday with Lisa Flynn

Midday with Lisa Flynn

Midday with Lisa Flynn

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Op. 64, No. 5, Lark – Hagen Quartet. DG 423622-2. [18:10] 2:00 Michael Torke Bright Blue Music – Baltimore Sym Orch/David Zinman.

Argo 433071-2. [9:07] 3:00 Afternoon Music with Candice Agree including Smetana Vltava (The Moldau) – Czech Phil/ Jirí Belohlávek. Decca 4833187. [12:08] 4:00 Ravel Daphnis et Chloé: Suite No. 1 – Vienna Phil/Lorin Maazel. RCA 68600-2. [11:53] 5:00 Handel Rinaldo: Suite – Septura. Naxos 8.573386. [21:19] 6:00 Sarah Kirkland Snider Mass for the Endangered: IV. Credo – Gallicantus/ Gabriel Crouch. Nonesuch 640767. [8:00] 7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Get the Picture? See Monday’s listing.

8:00 Evening Music 10:00 The New York Philharmonic This Week Please visit wfmt. com for more information.

Friday 24 12:00 Through the Night with Peter van de Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Jan Weller including Manuel Ponce Gavota – Mexico State Sym Orch/Enrique Bátiz.

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ASV CDDCA-926. [6:17] Rachmaninoff Vocalise, Op. 34, No. 14 – Septura.

Naxos 8.573475. [6:01] 8:00 Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody No. 3 in D – London Phil Orch/Willi Boskovsky. EMI CDM7-69011-2. [7:52] 9:00 Peter Schickele Serenade for Three – Orion Ensemble. Orion Ensemble 707541717021. [11:39] 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn including Dmitri Kabalevsky Violin Concerto in C, Op 48 – Gil Shaham, v; Russian National Orch/Mikhail Pletnev.

DG 457064-2. [14:31] 11:00 Jean-Philippe Rameau Les Boréades: Overture, Rondeau, Two Gavottes – Orch of the 18th Century/Frans Brüggen.

Philips 420240-2. [8:35] 12:00 Teresa Carreño Ballade, Op. 15 – Clara Rodríguez, p. Fundación MMG FD2522002237. [7:22] 1:00 Debussy La Mer – Philharmonia Orch/Pablo Heras-Casado. Harmonia Mundi HMM-902310. [23:26] 2:00 Daniel-François Auber Fra Diavolo: Overture – Royal Scottish National Orch/Lance Friedel. Naxos 8.573418. [8:13] 3:00 Afternoon Music with Candice Agree including Korngold Violin Concerto in D, Op. 35 – Philippe 7:00

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Naxos 8.570791. [23:43] Arvo Pärt Spiegel im Spiegel – Daniel Hope, v, Simon Mulligan, p.

Nimbus NI-5631. [8:50] Haydn Symphony No. 6 in D, Le Matin – Lausanne Chamber Orch/Jesús López-Cobos.

Denon 81757-9612-2. [18:04] Vaughan Williams Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis – Sinfonia of London/ John Wilson. Chandos CHSA-5291. [15:04] Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Get the Picture? See Monday’s listing.

Evening Music Best of Studs Terkel: Musical Americana (7/2/1981) Studs Terkel conjures a musical reminiscence of days gone by. The hour includes the mighty Wurlitzer organ heard in so many movie palaces of the past; Scott Joplin’s Treemonisha; a tribute to Lucky Lindbergh, Eagle of the USA; jazz by Louis Armstrong and Earl Hines; and so much more. jazz by Louis Armstrong and Earl Hines; and so much more.

Saturday 25 12:00 Through the Night with Peter van de Graaff 7:00 Weekend Mornings with Kristina Lynn with news at 7:00 am. Henry Mayer The Summer Wind – Boston Pops Orch/John Williams.

Sony 88985417792. [2:51] 8:00 Saturday Morning Listener’s Choice 9:00 Soundtrack 10:00 Victor Herbert Irish Rhapsody – Ulster Orch/ JoAnn Falletta. Naxos 8.573517. [15:58] 11:00 Introductions WFMT features talented young classical musicians from around the Chicago area.

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12:00 From The Glyndebourne Festival: Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro Tommaso Barea (Figaro); Johanna Wallroth (Susanna); Huw Montague Rendall (Count); Louise Alder (Countess); Alessandro Corbelli (Bartolo); Madeleine Shaw (Marcellina); Adèle Charvet (Cherubino); Robert Forrest (Don Basilio); Elisabeth Boudreault (Barbarina); Alexander Vassiliev (Antonio); Glyndebourne Festival Opera Chorus; Orchestra of

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In the Spotlight

Louise Alder and Huw Montague Rendall

Glyndebourne Festival Opera Glyndebourne Festival’s 2025 production of Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro was met with widespread critical acclaim for its periodaccurate charm and stellar vocal performances. The young, talented cast received glowing reviews. In particular, soprano Louise Alder and baritone Huw Montague Rendall, as the noble Almaviva couple, were highly commended for their compelling chemistry and portrayals. “[Rendall] gave us an Almaviva who swung from cold hauteur to seething bestiality in a heartbeat; a rampaging aristocrat never told no or spanked by nanny, unused to defiance,” said the review in Bachtrack. “By contrast, Louise Alder’s Rosina was a study in still melancholy. Her soprano was totally secure at the top and showed delicate phrasing. Her ‘Dove sono’ was one of the finest I’ve heard: both sophisticated and yet achingly simple.” The acclaim continued for the production’s transfer to the BBC Proms at Royal Albert Hall with an audience of almost 6,000 — the performance presented here on the WFMT Opera Series.

Saturday, July 25 12:00 pm the Age of Enlightenment; Riccardo Minasi, conductor. Sung in Italian.

3:00 Afternoon Music including Carlos Simon Tales: A Folklore Symphony: I. Motherboxx Connection – National Sym Orch/ Gianandrea Noseda. National Symphony Orchestra NSO-0014-D. [4:46] 4:00 Listening to Singers with Oliver Camacho Highlights of previous interviews with Frederica von Stade and Susan Graham. The legendary mezzo-sopranos give a joint recital with pianist Kevin

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Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival. Schubert Ganymed, D. 544; Liv Redpath, soprano; George Fu, piano; Brahms Piano Quartet in A Major, Op. 26; Kirill Gerstein, piano; Joel Link, violin; Toby Appel, viola; Camden Shaw, cello.

6:00 Weekend Evening Music including Clara Schumann Three Romances, Op. 22: No. 3 in B-Flat, Leidenschaftlich schnell – Raphaela Gromes, vc; Festival Strings Lucerne/ Daniel Dodds. Sony 19658710712. [3:37] 7:00 Traditional American Calling My Children Home – Chanticleer/Joseph Jennings.

Teldec 48556-2. [5:11] 8:00 Folkstage hosted by Marilyn Rea Beyer Live from the Levin Performance Studio: A songwriter from England’s South Coast, Ruth Theodore began busking at age 14 and is now a Righteous Babe recording artist. from the UK. 9:00 The Midnight Special with Marilyn Rea Beyer This date presents a confluence of historic events and celebrations including Steve Goodman’s birthday, Bob Dylan plugging in at Newport, and the famous photo of a face on Mars snapped by NASA’s Viking 1 spacecraft.

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Sunday 26 12:00 Through the Night with Peter van de Graaff 6:00 With Heart and Voice Mid-Summer Reverie. As the more relaxed pace of summer continues, host Peter DuBois features sacred choral and organ music that inspires rest and reflection.

7:00 Weekend Mornings with Kristina Lynn including Vincent d’Indy Chanson et danses, Op. 50 – Sylvan Winds. Koch 3-7081-2. [15:35] 8:00 Arnold Bax In the Faery Hills – Ulster Orch/Bryden Thomson.

Chandos CHAN-6525. [15:15] 9:00 Bach Fantasia and Fugue in C minor, BWV 537 – BBC Phil/ Leonard Slatkin. Chandos CHAN-9835. [9:04] 10:00 Douglas Lilburn Forest – New Zealand Sym Orch/James Judd. Naxos 8.557697. [15:54] 11:00 Gerald Finzi Five Bagatelles, Op. 23 – Todd Levy, cl; Jeannie Yu, p.

Avie AV-2367. [15:40] 12:00 Sunday Afternoons with Robbie Ellis including William Walton Portsmouth Point Overture – London Sym Orch/André Previn.

EMI CDC7-47624-2. [5:28] 1:00 John Field Nocturne in C,

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Afternoon Music including Franz Xaver Mozart Rondo in E minor – Barthold Kuijken, f; Luc Devos, fp. Accent ACC-97125-D. [8:14] John Field Irish Concerto – Benjamin Frith, p; Royal Scottish National Orch/ Andrew Mogrelia. Naxos 8.573262. [22:40] Anonymous English Greensleeves – Z Wilder, t; M Vialle, viol; T Roussel, archl; R Khalil, vir. Harmonia Mundi HMM-902505. [5:02] Chicago Symphony Orchestra Radio Broadcasts.

Mahler Rückert Lieder; Hanna Schwarz, mezzo-soprano; Claudio Abbado, conductor; Symphony No. 7; Jaap van Zweden, conductor; Goldmark Ballet Music from The Queen of Sheba; Frederick Stock, conductor.

Fiesta! with Elbio Barilari: Peruvian composer Celso Garrido-Lecca Elbio shares music by the 20th century composer including his double string quartet and bass work, Antaras.

Collectors’ Corner with Henry Fogel: The Art of Michael Rabin – Program 1 Recordings of the great American violinist Michael Rabin.

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Monday 27 12:00 Through the Night with Peter van de Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Jan Weller including Bach Concerto in D minor, BWV 974 (after A Marcello) – Víkingur Ólafsson, p. DG 4835022. [9:54] 7:00 Bartók Romanian Folk Dances – Orpheus Chamber Orch. DG 415668-2. [6:18] 8:00 Georges Auric Ouverture – London Sym Orch/ Antal Dorati. Mercury 434335-2. [7:51] 9:00 Robert Schumann Piano Quintet in E-Flat, Op. 44 – Emanuel Ax, p; Cleveland Quartet. RCA 6498-2-RC. [29:21] 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn including Fanny Mendelssohn Piano Sonata in G minor – Anna Shelest, p. Sorel Classics SCCD-015. [16:39]

11:00 Fauré Pelléas et Mélisande, Op. 80 – National Sym Orch of Ireland/Jean-Luc Tingaud.

Naxos 8.574619. [16:46] 12:00 Praetorius Terpsichore: Suite in D – Christopher Parkening, g. EMI CDC5-55052-2. [11:51] 1:00 Haydn Trumpet Concerto in E-Flat – Håkan Hardenberger, tr; St Martin’s Academy/ Neville Marriner. Philips 420203-2. [14:33] 2:00 Charlotte Sohy Histoire sentimentale, Op. 34 – AvignonProvence National Orch/ Debora Waldman. La Boîte à Pépites BAP01.03. [11:29] 3:00 Afternoon Music with Candice Agree including Beethoven Violin Sonata No. 5 in F, Op. 24, Spring – Anne Akiko Meyers, v; Reiko Uchida, p. eOne EOM-CD-7780. [23:48] 4:00 Dvorák Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95, From the New World: II. Largo – Los Angeles Phil/Gustavo Dudamel. DG 4863413. [11:47] 5:00 Price Clouds – Michael Clark, p. Navona NV-6591. [5:27] 6:00 Copland The Tender Land: Introduction and Love Music – Boston Sym Orch/Aaron Copland. RCA 61505-2. [10:14] 7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Nadia Boulanger (1887-1979) Nadia Boulanger taught and influenced an entire generation of musicians, from Aaron Copland and Ástor Piazzolla to Philip Glass and Quincy Jones. This week, Bill shares some of her compositions and performances alongside those of her prolific students.

8:00 Evening Music 10:00 The WFMT Orchestra Series: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Robert Schumann Symphony No. 2 in C, Op. 61; Stravinsky The Firebird Suite; Sir Simon Rattle, conductor.

Tuesday 28 12:00 Through the Night with Peter van de Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Jan Weller including Beethoven Symphony No. 8 in F, Op. 93: I. Allegro vivace e con brio – Leipzig Gewandhaus Orch/Kurt Masur. Pro Arte 375. [10:00] 7:00 Emile Waldteufel Pomone Waltzes, Op. 155 – Gulbenkian Orch/Michel Swierczewski.

Nimbus NI-5264. [8:26] 8:00 Robert Schumann Carnaval, Op. 9: Excerpts – Lyon National Orch/ Leonard Slatkin. Naxos 8.573124. [9:58] 9:00 Fauré Masques et Bergamasques, Op. 112 – Orpheus Chamber Orch.

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10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn including Lukas Foss Three American Pieces – Nikki Chooi, v; Buffalo Phil Orch/ JoAnn Falletta. Naxos 8.559938. [12:59] 11:00 Handel Water Music Suite No. 3 in G – English Baroque Soloists/John Eliot Gardiner.

Philips 434122-2. [10:05] 12:00 Verdi Les Vêpres siciliennes: Overture – Chicago Sym Orch/Riccardo Muti. CSO Resound 9011801. [9:16] 1:00 Bologne Concertante Quartet No. 6 in B-Flat – Arabella String Quartet.

Naxos 8.574360. [9:50] 2:00 Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition – Vienna Phil/Gustavo Dudamel.

DG 4796297. [32:17] 3:00 Afternoon Music with Candice Agree including Vaughan Williams The Lark Ascending – Michael Bochmann, v; English Sym Orch/William Boughton.

Nimbus NI-7009. [13:42] 4:00 Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 1 in F minor, Op. 2, No. 1 – Inna Faliks, p. WFMT. [19:01] 5:00 Poulenc Mass in G: Agnus Dei – Ensemble Altera/ Christopher Lowrey.

Alpha 1029. [5:30] 6:00 Amanda Maier Piano Trio in E-Flat: I. Allegro – Frank Almond, v; Alexander Hersh, vc; Victor Santiago Asuncion, p. Avie AV-2612. [8:51] 7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Nadia Boulanger (1887-1979) See Monday’s listing.

8:00 Evening Music 10:00 Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. Previn Vocalise; Jennifer Johnson Cano, mezzo-soprano; Keith Robinson, cello; Gloria Chien, piano; Marsalis At the Octoroon Balls; Daniel Phillips, Todd Phillips, violins; Steven Tenenbom, viola; Timothy Eddy, cello; Adams Quartet No. 2; St. Lawrence String Quartet.

11:00 Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival. See listing on Saturday, July 25

Wednesday 29 12:00 Through the Night with Peter van de Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Jan Weller including Aldemaro Romero Suite for Strings No. 1: Fuga con Pajarillo – Sphinx Virtuosi. DG 4865014. [8:01] 7:00 Doppler Brothers Fantasy on Verdi’s Rigoletto, Op. 38 – Daniel Ottensamer & Andreas Ottensamer, cl’s; Ernst Ottensamer, basset hn; Vienna Virtuosi. DG 4811917. [10:01] 8:00 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] 9:00 Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp minor, Op. 27, No. 2, Moonlight – Evgeny Kissin, p. RCA 68910-2. [15:37] 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn including Emmanuel Chabrier Le roi malgré lui: Fête polonaise – Vienna Phil/John Eliot Gardiner.

DG 447751-2. [7:22] 11:00 Leslie Adams Ecstasy of Love – Jordan Bak, vi; Lara Downes, p. Rising Sun Music RS-012. [7:26] 12:15 Dame Myra Hess Concerts Pianist Yi-Chen Feng performs music by Robert Schumann and Isaac Albéniz , live from Seventeenth Church of Christ, Scientist, Chicago.

1:00 CPE Bach Hamburg Symphony No. 1 in G, Wq 182/1 – Berlin Academy for Ancient Music. Harmonia Mundi HMM-902317. [11:04] 2:00 Respighi The Fountains of Rome – Philadelphia Orch/Riccardo Muti. EMI CDR5-69831-2. [15:20] 3:00 Afternoon Music with Candice Agree including Ravel Miroirs: Une barque sur l’océan – Beatrice Rana, p. Warner Classics 0190295411091. [7:57] 4:00 Chopin Andante spianato and Grande polonaise brillante in E-Flat, Op. 22 – Garrick Ohlsson, p; Warsaw Phil Orch/ Kazimierz Kord. Arabesque Z-6702 (2). [14:07] 5:00 Rodrigo Concierto de Aranjuez – Xuefei Yang, g; Barcelona Sym/Eiji Oue. EMI 98361-2. [22:34] 6:00 Bach Prelude, Fugue and Allegro in E-Flat, BWV 998: II. Fugue – Plínio Fernandes, g. Decca 4859359. [6:54] 7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Nadia Boulanger (1887-1979) See Monday’s listing.

8:00 Evening Music 10:00 Baroque&Before with Candice Agree: Apollo’s Fire & Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610 Jeannette Sorrell leads Apollo’s Fire in Claudio Monteverdi’s masterful Vespers for the Blessed Virgin. Recorded in concert at Trinity Cathedral Cleveland in November 2014.

Thursday 30 12:00 Through the Night with Peter van de Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Jan Weller including Antonio Lotti Trio Sonata in G – Eroica Trio.

EMI CDC5-56873-2. [8:51] Enrique Fernández Arbós Pequeña suite española, Op. 7: I. Ausencia – Madrid Sym Orch/Jesús López-Cobos.

Verso VRS-2027 (2). [7:45] 8:00 Alexander Glazunov Triumphal March, Op. 40 – Royal Phil Orch/Yondani Butt.

ASV CDDCA-699. [7:47] 9:00 Britten Matinées musicales, Op. 24 (after Rossini) – Helsingborg Sym Orch/ Okko Kamu. Ondine ODE-825-2. [14:27] 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn including Liszt Années de pèlerinage: 1st Year, Switzerland: Vallée d’Obermann – Jorge Federico Osorio, p. Cedille CDR-90000098 (2). [13:30] 11:00 Virgil Thomson Harp Concertino, Autumn – Ann Mason Stockton, h; Los Angeles Chamber Orch/ Sir Neville Marriner. EMI CDM7-64306-2. [9:05] 12:00 Vivaldi Sinfonia in G, R. 149 – Academy of Ancient Music/ Andrew Manze. Harmonia Mundi HMU-907230. [6:57] 1:00 Robert Schumann Symphony No. 3 in E-Flat, Op. 97, Rhenish – Chamber Orch of Europe/Yannick Nézet-Séguin.

DG 4792437 (2). [31:19] 2:00 Joplin Solace (A Mexican Serenade) – Gregory Brown, p. eOne E1E-CD-2041. [7:09] 3:00 Afternoon Music with Candice Agree including Ravel Valses nobles et sentimentales – Ulster Orch/Yan-Pascal Tortelier.

Chandos CHAN-8756. [17:18] 4:00 Alexander Arutiunian Trumpet Concerto in A-Flat – Alison Balsom, tr; BBC Scottish Sym Orch/Lawrence Renes. EMI 78590-2. [15:08] 5:00 Piazzolla Four Seasons of Buenos Aires – Cavatina Duo. Bridge 9330. [17:05] 6:00 Arno Babajanian Piano Trio in F-sharp minor: III. Finale, Allegro vigoroso – Lincoln Trio.

Cedille CDR-90000165. [6:25] 7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Nadia Boulanger (1887-1979) See Monday’s listing.

8:00 Evening Music 10:00 The New York Philharmonic This Week Please visit wfmt. com for more information.

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Friday 31 12:00 Through the Night with Peter van de Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Jan Weller including Rodrigo Sonata a la española – Celil Refik Kaya, g. Naxos 8.574004. [8:03] 7:00 Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson Worship, A Concert Overture – Royal Scottish National Orch/Kellen Gray.

Linn CKD-731. [6:19] 8:00 Carlos Simon The Block – National Sym Orch/ Gianandrea Noseda. National Symphony Orchestra NSO-0015-D. [6:27] 9:00 Dvorák Scherzo capriccioso, Op. 66 – Baltimore Sym Orch/Marin Alsop.

Naxos 8.570995. [15:04] 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn including Manuel Ponce Balada Mexicana – Eva Suk, p; Mexico State Sym Orch/Enrique Bátiz. ASV CDDCA-926. [11:18] 11:00 Mozart String Divertimento in F, K. 138 – Amsterdam Baroque Orch/Ton Koopman.

Erato 45471-2. [13:36] 12:00 Peter Boyer Celebration Overture – London Phil Orch/Peter Boyer. Naxos 8.559769. [6:40] 1:00 Bach Italian Concerto in F, BWV 971 – Murray Perahia, p. Sony 82429-2 (3). [12:33] 2:00 Falla Nights in the Gardens of Spain – Josep Colom, p; City of Granada Orch/ Josep Pons. Harmonia Mundi HMC-901606. [25:01] 3:00 Afternoon Music with Candice Agree including Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 30 in E, Op. 109 – Gerardo Teissonnière, p. Steinway & Sons 30188. [21:12] 4:00 Gershwin I Got Rhythm Variations – Jean-Yves Thibaudet, p; Baltimore Sym Orch/Marin Alsop. Decca B0014091-02. [8:58] 5:00 Ambroise Thomas Hamlet: Ballet Music – London Phil Orch/Antonio de Almeida. EMI CDC7-54820-2 (3). [17:17] 6:00 Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco Love’s Labour’s Lost, Op. 167: Four Dances – Malmö Sym/Andrew Mogrelia.

Naxos 8.572823. [15:57] 6:30 Grant Park Music Festival 2026: Gershwin An American in Paris Live from Harris Theater, featuring the Grant Park Orchestra conducted

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Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson Sinfonietta No. 1; Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Violin Concerto in G minor, Op. 80; Gabriela Lara, violin; Ellington The Three Black Kings, arr.

Luther Henderson; Gershwin An American in Paris.

Hosted by Dave Schwan.

8:00 Evening Music 9:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Nadia Boulanger (1887-1979) See Monday’s listing.

10:00 Evening Music 11:00 Best of Studs Terkel: Agnes de Mille (5/11/1960) The American dance visionary Agnes de Mille (1905–1993) discusses her career as a dancer and choreographer.

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