The Guide | April 2021

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April 2021

THE GUIDE

The Member Magazine for WTTW and WFMT

APRIL 5-7 | 8 PM ALSO INSIDE On WFMT, on the Saturday morning before the premiere of Hemingway on WTTW, listen to Soundtrack – featuring the film’s original music score produced by Burns/Novick collaborator and award-winning producer and violinist Johnny Gandelsman.

From the President & CEO Dear Member, This April, we’re excited to bring you a new film from Ken Burns, who will uncover the man behind the myth of one of America’s greatest and most complicated writers.

Over three consecutive nights, Burns tells the story, as only he can, of Ernest Hemingway’s life and work and his enduring influence on literature and culture. On page 4, read how Hemingway’s childhood in Oak Park influenced the rest of his life, and visit wttw.com/hemingwayevent to watch our virtual discussion with Ken moderated by WTTW’s Chicago Tonight co-anchor Paris Schutz.

April also brings Earth Day, and WTTW will present The Power of Us: Confronting Our Climate Crisis, a documentary that follows a local couple educating youth about climate change; Frozen Obsession, a profile of a research expedition to the Canadian Arctic Archipelago; The West is Burning, an exploration of the root causes of the California wildfires; Troubled Waters: A Turtle’s Tale, a look at people who rehabilitate sick sea turtles; and a three-part documentary on the crusading teen climate activist and three-time Nobel Peace Prize nominee Greta Thunberg. On wttw.com, learn about “zero-waste” lifestyles and composting in Chicago with tips on how to compost at home.

WFMT will mark Earth Day with a San Francisco Symphony program featuring Losing Earth, a concerto for percussion and orchestra by the contemporary American composer Adam Schoenberg, a work evoking the effects of climate change in musical terms; and a special episode of With Heart and Voice that will celebrate the beauty and wonder of the natural world through music. On wfmt.com, listen to our playlist of contemporary classical music inspired by the earth and environmentalism, and discover a compendium of easy, eco-friendly solutions to help musicians stay green.

Thank you for watching and listening as spring continues in the Chicago area!

Sincerely, Sandra Cordova Micek President & CEO

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WTTW Listings

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14 Multi-Channel Primetime Grid 16 Do it Yourself Saturdays 19 At-a-Glance

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20 WFMT Listings

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31 Sponsors

ON THE COVER: Ernest Hemingway at his home in Cuba, circa 1950s. Courtesy of A.E. Hotchner.

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The Guide: The Member Magazine for WTTW and WFMT (ISSN 2329-1338) April 2021 Volume 35, Number 274

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Daily Television Programming •

Programming Subject to Change Without Notice

Programmer’s Picks on WTTW11 Diana, 7 Days

Philly D.A.

This landmark documentary tells the inside story of the tumultuous and unprecedented week that followed the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, exploring how she came to have such an extraordinary effect on the nation and people around the world.

Radical civil rights attorney Larry Krasner leads a band of activists attempting to end mass incarceration by taking over the district attorney’s office. When Krasner wins the election, a novel criminal justice experiment unfolds. Can outsiders reform a system from within?

Frontline: The Virus that Shook the World This film, using personal video and local footage from around the world, chronicles COVID-19 from lockdowns to funerals to protests, revealing the differing struggles, beliefs, and responses across cultures, races, faiths, and privilege.

Thursday, April 15, 8:00 pm

Tuesday, April 20, 9:00 pm

Monday, April 26, 9:00 pm

See page 6 for information about WTTW Prime listings.

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Doc Severinsen

American Masters: Never Too Late Doc Severinsen Explore the groundbreaking career of the colorful master trumpeter Doc Severinsen, from his three decades as the colorful bandleader to The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson to his relentless schedule of touring and performing into his nineties.

Friday, April 2 9:00 pm

Thursday 1 EARLY MORNING 12:30 Finding Your Roots: Freedom Tales [R] 1:30 American Experience: The Blinding of Isaac Woodard [R] 3:30 Leah Chase: The Queen of Creole Cuisine [R] 4:30 BBC World News 5:00 Chicago Tonight [R]

6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Chicago Tonight 8:00 Rick Steves’ European Easter Taking you on a spring journey through Spain, Slovenia, Italy, and Greece, Rick celebrates this 2,000-year-old story in a variety of cultures, exploring a rich and fascinating mix of traditions.

9:00 Rick Steves’ Egypt: Yesterday & Today Rick sails beyond Europe, exploring the historic and cultural wonders of Egypt. in Cairo, Rick climbs to the center of a pyramid, greets the Sphinx and marvels at King Tut’s gold. in Alexandria, Rick journeys into a wonderland of back lanes and introduces a traditional shisha (hookah) experience. And on the Nile, after sailing on a timeless felucca, Rick kicks back on a riverboat while enjoying iconic views of palm trees, minarets, and rustic villages.

Finally, Rick shares a tour of Ramesses II’s magnificent temple ruins at Abu Simbel.

10:00 Baseball: The Faith of 50 Million People (Part 3 of 9) The Black Sox scandal reveals how eight members of the Chicago White Sox, including the incomparable “Shoeless” Joe Jackson, “played with the faith of 50 million people,” as F. Scott Fitzgerald later wrote, by taking money from gamblers to throw the 1919 World Series.

Friday 2 EARLY MORNING 12:00 12:30 1:30 2:30

BBC World News Amanpour and Company Extinction: The Facts [R] Climate Change: The Facts [R] 3:30 NOVA: Mystery Beneath the Ice [R] 4:30 BBC World News

5:00 Chicago Tonight [R] MORNING-AFTERNOON 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Chicago Tonight: The Week in Review 7:30 Washington Week 8:00 The Great Chicago Quiz Show with Geoffrey Baer (Part 2 of 4) You think you know Chicago? Geoffrey Baer does, and in this new series, he gives a group of socially distanced Chicagoans a chance to prove that they do, too. Visit wttw.com/quiz to take the quiz yourself!

8:30 Check, Please! Heritage, El Solazo, Fulton Market Kitchen Alpana welcomes West Town resident and esthetician Nanda Wait, who recommended Heritage Restaurant and Caviar Bar in Humboldt Park; teacher Michael Konkoleski of West Lawn, who picked El Solazo in the West Elsdon neighborhood; and performing arts center director Tommy Hensel from Berwyn, who loves Fulton Market Kitchen.

9:00 American Masters: Never Too Late - Doc Severinsen 10:30 Beyond the Canvas: The Greats 11:00 BBC World News 11:30 Amanpour and Company

9:00 Baby Makes 3: Run for the Roses This home improvement series hosted by Melissa Lozoff focuses exclusively on creating nurseries for first-time parents-to-be.

9:30 J. Schwanke’s Life in Bloom 10:00 This Old House: Return to Dorchester 11:00 Lidia’s Kitchen 10:30 Ask This Old House: Power Washing, Deck Lights 11:30 My Greek Table with Diane Kochilas: The World’s Most Famous Olive AFTERNOON 12:00 Cook’s Country: Pennsylvania Dutch Country 12:30 Steven Raichlen’s Project Fire: Gulf Coast Grill

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MORNING-AFTERNOON 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids

Saturday 3 EARLY MORNING 12:30 Baseball: The Faith of 50 Million People (Part 3 of 9) See Thurs.

Apr. 1 at 10:00 pm. [R] 2:30 Independent Lens: ’Til Kingdom Come - The Debate [R] 4:00 Austin City Limits: St. Vincent [R] 5:00 Chicago Tonight: The Week in Review [R] 5:30 Yoga in Practice MORNING 6:00-9:00 WTTW Kids

Ralf Little

Death in Paradise (New Season!)

Detective Inspector Neville Parker (Ralf Little) and his team are back for a tenth season of all-new episodes to solve a new series of baffling murders on the fictional Caribbean island of Saint Marie.

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Photo: Ernest Hemingway Collection. John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston.

Ernest Hemingway and first wife, Hadley Richardson, in Chamby, Switzerland, 1922, the year after they left Chicago for Europe.

Ernest Hemingway’s Youth in Oak Park and Chicago

by Daniel Hautzinger

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rnest Hemingway’s life and fiction were filled with extraordinary experiences and locales: World War I in Italy, Paris at the height of the Jazz Age, bullfighting in Spain, safaris and plane crashes in Africa, drinking and fishing in Cuba. It’s a life explored in detail in the new three-part documentary Hemingway from Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, premiering April 5-7 at 8:00 pm.

But Hemingway was born in the solidly middle-class, Midwestern, middlebrow Chicago suburb of Oak Park – a place he liked to portray as staid and stuffy. (The description “wide lawns and narrow minds” is frequently attributed, seemingly incorrectly, to Hemingway.)

“Turn-of-the-century, affluent suburban life is basically the world that he was born into,” says Verna Kale, the author of a biography of Hemingway, a co-editor of his letters, and an editor of Teaching Hemingway and Gender. “His father was a physician and his mother gave music lessons, and she earned quite a bit of money as a music teacher.”

Hemingway’s mother ensured her children had a background in the arts. Hemingway learned to play the cello, was encouraged in the visual arts, and wrote for his high school paper as well as creating his own stories. “He had a really nice childhood,” Kale says.

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But Heming way was eager to leave Oak Park behind, going first to Kansas City to work as a reporter and then to Italy to drive an ambulance during World War I. He was wounded early in his service and spent several months convalescing in Milan before returning to Oak Park around the age of 20.

“When he comes back from the war, he has definitely changed,” says Kale. “He wants to get out into the world and see a little bit more. Going back home is always so hard when you’re that age. We have to extrapolate a little bit from the fiction here” – stories like “Big Two-Hearted River” and “Soldier’s Home” – “but he may have felt that no one really understood what he had been through. I imagine that he got home from the war and felt like he didn’t fit in anymore.”

Hemingway also seems to have felt that his ambitions had outgrown his suburban birthplace. “He wanted to do something great,” says Kale.

Soon he had moved to Chicago, earning money by writing for a Toronto newspaper.

It was in the city that he first began to experience a literary life. “I think that meeting Carl Sandburg and Sherwood Anderson, and getting a glimpse of that Chicago literary scene, opened up his mind a little bit and made him realize that, ‘This is a different world than the one that I’m coming from.’ ” That sentiment might explain more than anything else Hemingway’s distancing from his Oak Park childhood: he had found the world he wanted to be in, and it was

of Heming way’s goal. Liesl Olson, of the Newberry, argues in her book Chicago Renaissance: Literature and Art in the Midwest Metropolis that Heming way was addressing middle-class Midwestern women as epitomized by the popular Chicago Tribune critic Fanny Butcher in his early work, wanting to scandalize them but also enjoy the conventional approval as well as mass-market success they offered.

Photo: Ernest Hemingway Collection. John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston.

Hemingway family portrait. From left to right: Ursula, Clarence, Ernest, Grace, and Marcelline Hemingway.

October 1903.

nothing like the one from which he came.

Hemingway’s sojourn in Chicago also helped launch him on one of the most cel- Hemingway even struck up a corresponebrated – and integral – parts of his life. He dence with Butcher, whose recommenwanted to return to Italy with his new wife dations offered access to a large audience.

Hadley Richardson, but Sherwood Ander- “Hemingway is always full of these conson convinced him to instead go to Paris tradictions,” says Kale, “because I think after a year and a half in Chicago, giving he wanted those good reviews, he wanted him letters of introduction to such import- that acceptance, but at the same time he felt ant influences and connections as Gertrude like he was doing something beyond their Stein and Ezra Pound. understanding. If they liked his stuff, sometimes he would say it was for the wrong reahile Hemingway never re- sons, or they didn’t really understand what turned to Chicago or Oak Park he was trying to do. for any significant portion of the rest of his life, he did maintain con- “There’s definitely a conflict there between nections to his birthplace when he went Hemingway the conservative Midwestern to Paris. “When he first gets to Paris, he’s guy and Hemingway the modernist expawriting back home and telling his parents triate world traveler. There is still a certain about his success and about the people he’s amount of the suburban Chicago guy even meeting,” says Kale. “He’s doing a little bit when he is in the Latin Quarter of Paris.” of name-dropping and possibly even exaggerating his early success because he wants Those contradictions are one of the main athis parents to be proud of him.” tractions of Hemingway for Kale. “There are just limitless ways to read him. And they’re “I think it’s so sweet that his father ordered not necessarily all the ways that he would multiple copies of his first book,” she con- maybe want us to read him, but his work tinues. “People tend to focus on the fact that is incredibly elastic, and it just holds up to his father hated the kind of obscene stories anything you want to bring to it personally,” that Hemingway was writing. But you have she says. “He wasn’t really writing for a parto kind of cut them some slack, because the ticular purpose. He was just trying to write stuff that he was writing was really inno- as well as he could and put the real world vative.” into his work in a way that would last.

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WTTW Digital Channel Highlights

Frankie Drake Mysteries Thursday, April 1 at 9:00 pm

Full schedule online at wttw.com/schedules Pictured: Lauren Lee Smith as Frankie Drake

American Masters: Toni Morrison – The Pieces I Am Saturday, April 10 at 8:00 pm

WTTW Prime WTTW Prime is our “prime time all the time” channel. Free TV, over-the-air antenna viewers can tune to channel 11-2 to find WTTW Prime. WTTW Prime is on Comcast digital cable channel 370 and on RCN channel 37.

Toni Morrison leads an assembly of her peers and critics on an exploration of the powerful themes she confronted throughout her literary career in this artful and intimate meditation that examines the life and work of the legendary storyteller.

Full schedule online at wttw.com/schedules Pictured: Toni Morrison

Earth Day Sunday, April 18 at 11:00 am

WTTW Create WTTW Create is our how-to and lifestyle programming channel. Free TV, over-the-air antenna viewers tune to channel 11-3. WTTW Create is on Comcast digital cable channel 369 and on RCN channel 38. WTTW Create programming airs from 6:00 am to 6:00 pm.

WTTW Create goes green in honor of Earth Day to highlight sustainable living – from energy-efficient home improvements to earth-friendly gardening – to show how small lifestyle changes can yield long-term benefits for the environment.

Photo: Courtesy of ©Timothy Greenfield-Sanders / Courtesy of Magnolia Pictures

WTTW Prime is our “prime time all the time” channel. Free TV, over-the-air antenna viewers can tune to channel 11-2 to find WTTW Prime. WTTW Prime is on Comcast digital cable channel 370 and on RCN channel 37.

Photo: Courtesy of Hortus, Ltd.

WTTW Prime

Set in 1920s Toronto, this popular series follows the adventures of Frankie Drake (Lauren Lee Smith) and her partner Trudy Clarke (Chantel Riley) at Drake Private Detectives, the city’s only allfemale detective agency, as they find themselves fighting crime in the age of flyboys, gangsters, rum-runners, and speakeasies.

Photo: © 2021 Shaftesbury Films Inc.

These digital channels are available with digital cable or over the air with a digital receiver. For more information about digital television and for complete schedules, visit wttw.com/schedule.

Full schedule online at wttw.com/schedules Pictured: P. Allen Smith

The West is Burning Thursday, April 22 at 7:00 pm

WTTW World features public media’s signature documentary, science, and news programming complemented by original content from emerging producers. Free TV, over-the-air antenna viewers tune to channel 11-3. WTTW World is on Comcast digital cable channel 369 and on RCN channel 38. WTTW World airs from 6:00 pm to 6:00 am.

Full schedule online at wttw.com/schedules Pictured: A helicopter drops water

Dinosaur Train: Adventure Island Friday, April 16 at 6:00 pm

WTTW PBS Kids 24/7 Free TV, over-the-air antenna viewers can tune to channel 11-4. The WTTW PBS Kids 24/7 is on Comcast digital channels 368 and on RCN channel 39.

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Join the Pteranodon family on a trip to Adventure Island! The day is packed with fun until an earthquake erupts, causing the theme park robots to malfunction. It’s up to Buddy, Tiny, Shiny, and Don to navigate safely across the island and reunite with their parents.

Full schedule online at wttw.com/schedules Pictured: Dinosaur Train

Image: Courtesy of TM and © The Jim Henson Company. All Rights Reserved.

WTTW World

This documentary focuses on the state of forests in the western United States and examines the history of forest management and litigation that has contributed to the current conditions and the catastrophic fires plaguing the region. The film also explores the critical need for interdisciplinary approaches to forest restoration, and looks at how local stakeholders are coming together to better manage and steward the land.

Kristin Scott Thomas

My Grandparents’ War In this new four-part series, follow leading Hollywood actors Helena Bonham Carter, Mark Rylance, Kristin Scott Thomas, and Carey Mulligan as they retrace the footsteps of their grandparents, uncover their dramatic stories, and learn how World War II changed the lives of their families and the world.

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Photo: Courtesy of Masterpiece, Julie Vrabelová

Sundays, 7:00 pm

Kyle MacLachlan

1:00 Simply Ming: Ming Tsai with guest Andrew Zimmern 1:30 New Scandinavian Cooking: Flavors of the Eternal Forest 2:00 America’s Test Kitchen from Cook’s Illustrated: Summertime Staples 2:30 America’s Test Kitchen from Cook’s Illustrated 3:00 Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television: Cake and Scones 3:30 Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television: Beirut Fast Food 4:00 A Chef’s Life: Sweet Corn and Expensive Tea 4:30 Check, Please! Heritage, El Solazo, Fulton Market Kitchen See Fri. Apr. 2 at 8:30 pm. [R] 5:00 Rick Steves’ Europe: Swiss Alps 5:30 Samantha Brown’s Places to Love

6:00 Chicago Tonight: Latino Voices 6:30 PBS NewsHour Weekend 7:00 Father Brown: The Hammer of God Father Brown must find a killer before an innocent woman is sent to the gallows.

8:00 Death in Paradise (Season 10, Part 1 of 8) When a TV news presenter is found strangled in her pool, Neville is sure that her popular co-host is guilty. But given that he was live on air at the time of the murder, how could he have done it?

9:00 Mallorca Files: Honour Among Thieves (Part 1 of 10) British police officer Miranda Blake is in Mallorca to escort a known criminal back to the UK. When things don’t go according to plan, she conducts her own investigation.

10:00 Rick Steves’ European Easter See Thurs. Apr. 1 at 8:00 pm. [R] 11:00 Rick Steves’ Egypt: Yesterday & Today See Thurs. Apr. 1 at 9:00 pm. [R]

Sunday 4 EARLY MORNING

Atlantic Crossing on Masterpiece (New Series!)

A princess steals the heart of the president of the United States in an epic drama based on the World War II relationship of Franklin Roosevelt and Norwegian Crown Princess Martha. Kyle MacLachlan stars as Roosevelt.

The eight-part series co-stars Tobias Santelmann as Crown Prince Olav and Harriet Sansom Harris as First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt.

Sundays, 8:00 pm

12:00 American Masters: Never Too Late - Doc Severinsen See Fri. Apr. 1 at 9:00 pm. [R] 1:30 Antiques Roadshow: Vintage Louisville 2021 (Part 2 of 2) [R] 2:30 Antiques Roadshow: Meadow Brook Hall (Part 2 of 3) [R] 3:30 Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story – American Masters [R] MORNING 5:00-10:30 WTTW Kids 10:30 Family Travel with Colleen Kelly 11:00 Firing Line with

Photo: Courtesy of Ernest Hemingway Photograph Collection

In the Spotlight Photo: Courtesy of Wild Pictures

In the Spotlight Margaret Hoover 11:30 Chavis Chronicles AFTERNOON 12:00 Pritzker Military Presents: Peter Shinkle, Ike’s Mystery Man Peter Shinkle reveals Bobby Cutler’s full story, showing how valued he was

by Eisenhower as a trusted friend and advisor on security and Cold War policy.

1:00 To Dine For with Kate Sullivan: Michael Tubbs 1:30 To Dine For with Kate Sullivan: Phil Rosenthal 2:00 To be announced 3:00 Finding Your Roots: Freedom Tales [R] 4:00 American Experience: The Blinding of Isaac Woodard [R] EVENING

6:00 Chicago Tonight: Black Voices 6:30 PBS NewsHour Weekend 7:00 My Grandparents’ War: Helena Bonham Carter Follow actress Helena Bonham Carter as she explores the heroism of both sets of her grandparents during World War II - her grandmother, an air warden and outspoken politician, and her grandfather, a diplomat who saved hundreds from the Holocaust.

8:00 Atlantic Crossing on Masterpiece (Part 1 of 8) Norwegian Crown Princess Martha and her husband Prince Olav visit U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt in 1939. A year later, they must flee the Nazi invasion of their country.

9:00 World on Fire on Masterpiece (Part 1 of 7) Follow the intertwining fates of ordinary people as they grapple with the effects of World War II on their everyday lives. Set in Britain, Poland, France and Germany, the events take place during the first year of the war. When war breaks out, young translator Harry vows to help his Polish lover Kasia flee Warsaw, but how will he explain this to his sweetheart Lois, waiting for him at home in Manchester?

10:00 Great Chicago Quiz with Geoffrey Baer (Part 2 of 4) See Fri. Apr. 2 at 8:00 pm. [R] 10:30 The Great British Baking Show: Pastries (Part 7 of 10) The bakers create Signature savory parcels, ranging from pasties to samosas. The Technical challenge throws them into uncharted territory with the kouign amann.

Finally, Showstopper éclairs will give five lucky bakers a

Ernest Hemingway

Hemingway This three-part, six-hour documentary film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick examines the visionary work and the turbulent life of Ernest Hemingway, one of the greatest and most influential writers America has ever produced. Interweaving his eventful biography - a life lived at the ultimately treacherous nexus of art, fame, and celebrity - with carefully selected excerpts from his iconic short stories, novels, and non-fiction, the series reveals the brilliant, ambitious, charismatic, and complicated man behind the myth, and the art he created.

Monday-Wednesday, April 5-7 at 8:00 pm and 10:00 pm

spot in the quarterfinals.

11:30 Austin City Limits: Brandi Carlile The Seattle singer-songwriter performs highlights from her critically lauded album By the Way, I Forgive You.

Monday 5 EARLY MORNING 12:30 Father Brown: The Hammer of God See Sat. Apr. 3 at 7:00 pm. [R] 1:30 Death in Paradise (Season 10, Part 1 of 8) See Sat. Apr. 3 at 8:00 pm. [R] 2:30 Mallorca Files: Honour Among Thieves (Part 1 of 10) See Sat. Apr. 3 at 9:00 pm. [R] 3:30 Rick Steves’ European Easter [R] 4:30 BBC World News 5:00 Chicago Tonight: Black Voices [R] 5:30 Chicago Tonight: Latino Voices [R]

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Monday-Friday Mornings 6:00 Pinkalicious 6:30 Nature Cat 7:00 Molly of Denali 7:30 Wild Kratts 8:00 Hero Elementary 8:30 Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum 9:00 Curious George 9:30 Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood 10:00 Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood 10:30 Elinor Wonders Why 11:00 Sesame Street 11:30 Pinkalicious

Afternoons 12:00 Dinosaur Train 12:30 Clifford the Big Red Dog 1:00 Sesame Street 1:30 Elinor Wonders Why 2:00 Hero Elementary 2:30 Let’s Go Luna!

3:00 Nature Cat 3:30 Wild Kratts 4:00 Molly of Denali 4:30 Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum

5:00 Odd Squad 5:30 Arthur

Saturday Mornings 6:00 6:30 7:00 7:30 8:00 8:30

Sesame Street Pinkalicious & Peterrific Elinor Wonders Why Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood Curious George Clifford the Big Red Dog

Sunday Mornings 5:00 Cat in the Hat 5:30 Arthur 6:00 Let’s Go Luna 6:30 Wild Kratts 7:00 Nature Cat 7:30 Nature Cat 8:00 Molly of Denali 8:30 Molly of Denali 9:00 Hero Elementary 9:30 Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum 10:00 Odd Squad

EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Chicago Tonight 8:00 Hemingway: A Writer (1899-1929) (Part 1 of 3) Hemingway, yearning for adventure, volunteers for the Red Cross during World War I. He marries Hadley Richardson and moves to Paris, publishes The Sun Also Rises and finds critical and commercial success with his second novel, A Farewell to Arms.

10:00 Hemingway: A Writer (1899-1929) (Part 1 of 3) [R]

Tuesday 6 EARLY MORNING 12:00 BBC World News 12:30 Amanpour and Company 1:30 My Grandparents’ War: Helena Bonham Carter See Sun. Apr. 4 at 7:00 pm. [R] 2:30 Atlantic Crossing on Masterpiece (Part 1 of 8) See Sun. Apr. 4 at 8:00 pm. [R] 3:30 World on Fire on Masterpiece (Part 1 of 7) See Sun. Apr. 4 at 9:00 pm. [R] 4:30 BBC World News 5:00 Chicago Tonight [R]

Dinosaur Train Image: Courtesy of TM and © The Jim Henson Company. All Rights Reserved.

EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Chicago Tonight 8:00 Hemingway: The Avatar (1929-1944) (Part 2 of 3) Hemingway, having achieved a level of fame rarely seen in the literary world, settles in Key West with Pauline Pfeiffer but can’t stay put for long. He reports on the Spanish Civil War and begins a tempestuous romance with Martha Gellhorn.

10:00 Hemingway: The Avatar (1929-1944) (Part 2 of 3) [R]

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Thursday 8 12:00 BBC World News 12:30 Amanpour and Company 1:30 Hemingway: The Avatar (1929-1944) (Part 2 of 3) [R] 3:30 My Grandparents’ War: Helena Bonham Carter [R] 4:30 BBC World News 5:00 Chicago Tonight [R] MORNING-AFTERNOON 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour

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MORNING-AFTERNOON 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids

EARLY MORNING 12:00 BBC World News 12:30 Amanpour and Company 1:30 Hemingway: A Writer (1899-1929) (Part 1 of 3) [R] 3:30 Rick Steves’ Egypt: Yesterday & Today [R] 4:30 BBC World News [R] 5:00 Chicago Tonight [R]

Mondays-Fridays at 12:00 pm

8:00 Hemingway: The Blank Page (1944-1961) (Part 3 of 3) Hemingway follows the Army as they advance through Europe. Afterwards, he tries to start a life with Mary Welsh, but is beset with tragedies. He publishes The Old Man and the Sea to acclaim, but is overcome by his declining mental condition.

10:00 Hemingway: The Blank Page (1944-1961) (Part 3 of 3) [R]

Photo: Courtesy of American Public Television

Kid Grid

MORNING-AFTERNOON 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids

Rachel and Kaelyn

My Survivor Who will tell the story of the Holocaust when the last survivor is gone? This film documents the lifechanging experiences of some of the 500 University of Miami students who forge intimate relationships with Holocaust survivors through an innovative internship program.

Building powerful intergenerational bonds, students listen to survivors’ first-hand accounts and come to embrace their cause to preserve the memory and lessons of the Holocaust.

Thursday, April 8 8:00 pm

Mondays-Fridays at 10:30 am and 1:30 pm and Saturdays at 7:00 am

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Oliver Sacks

American Masters: Oliver Sacks His Own Life American Masters dives into the life and work of the legendary neurologist and beloved author (Awakenings, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat) who was a fearless explorer of the brain and mind. Sacks redefined our understanding of the diversity of human experience, and of our shared humanity.

Friday, April 9 9:00 pm 7:00 Chicago Tonight 8:00 My Survivor 9:00 Stories of Survival: Final Transports - The Holocaust Stories of Magda and George in early summer 1944, at the height of the deportation of Hungarian Jewry, Magda Brown and George Brent arrived as teenagers to the notorious Auschwitz-Birkenau killing center. Through their eyes, take a compelling journey across multiple countries and camps to reveal the intensely human aspects of survival, resistance, chance, and luck in the face of Nazi tyranny.

9:30 Stories of Survival: Childhood Lost - The Holocaust Stories of George and Steen Within hours of the Nazi invasion and occupation of Western Europe, George Mueller and Steen Metz had their childhoods engulfed by war.

Their innocence lost as prejudice and persecution spread, this film details their gripping fight for survival within the Nazi camp system, and the endurable spirit of family, courage, and hope.

10:00 Prisoner of Her Past This 10

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film examines a secret childhood trauma that resurfaces, 60 years later, to unravel the life of Holocaust survivor Sonia Reich. The documentary examines late-onset Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and its devastating effect on families, but also shows programs that are aiding young trauma survivors of Hurricane Katrina, in New Orleans, and how such early interventions may have helped Howard’s mother.

11:00 Baseball: A National Heirloom (Part 4 of 9) Babe Ruth, the Baltimore saloonkeeper’s son who became the best-known and bestloved athlete in American history, was described by sportswriter Jimmy Cannon as a “national heirloom.” This inning details how Ruth’s phenomenal performance thrilled the nation throughout the 1920s and rescued the game from the scandal that threatened to destroy it.

Friday 9 EARLY MORNING 1:00 BBC World News 1:30 Amanpour and Company 2:30 Hemingway: The Blank Page (1944-1961) (Part 3 of 3) [R] 4:30 BBC World News 5:00 Chicago Tonight [R] MORNING-AFTERNOON 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Chicago Tonight: The Week in Review 7:30 Washington Week 8:00 The Great Chicago Quiz Show with Geoffrey Baer (Part 3 of 4) 8:30 Check, Please! Ema, Passero, Whisk Alpana welcomes Villa Park resident and medical science liaison Monica Timmerman, who recommended the River North eatery EMA; writer Helen Weiner, who loves Passero in Arlington Heights; and South Loop business development executive Carlos Vasquez, who chose Whisk in West Town.

9:00 American Masters: Oliver Sacks - His Own Life 11:00 BBC World News 11:30 Amanpour and Company

Saturday 10 EARLY MORNING 12:30 Baseball: A National Heirloom (Part 4 of 9) See Thurs. Apr. 8 at 11:00 pm. [R] 2:30 Austin City Limits: Brandi Carlile See Sun.

Apr. 4 at 11:30 pm. [R] 3:30 The Great British Baking Show: Pastries (Part 7 of 10) See Sun. Apr. 4 at 10:30 pm. [R] 4:30 Check, Please! See Fri. Apr. 9 at 8:30 pm. [R] 5:00 Chicago Tonight: The Week in Review [R] 5:30 Yoga in Practice MORNING 6:00-9:00 WTTW Kids 9:00 Baby Makes 3: Kentucky Roots 9:30 J. Schwanke’s Life in Bloom 10:00 This Old House: 3-Decker Heaven 10:30 Ask This Old House: Move Baseboard, Cooler Bench 11:00 Lidia’s Kitchen 11:30 My Greek Table with Diane Kochilas: Flavors of Longevity - Ikaria AFTERNOON 12:00 Cook’s Country: Motor City Favorites 12:30 Steven Raichlen’s Project Fire: Chino-Latino 1:00 Simply Ming: Ming Tsai with guest Jacques Pépin 1:30 New Scandinavian Cooking: King Crab Hotel 2:00 America’s Test Kitchen from Cook’s Illustrated: Pork and Greens 2:30 America’s Test Kitchen from Cook’s Illustrated 3:00 Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television: Weeknight Italian 3:30 Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television: Tuesday Night Italian 4:00 A Chef’s Life: Strawberry Stay at Home 4:30 Check, Please! Ema, Passero, Whisk [R] 5:00 Rick Steves’ Europe: French Alps and Lyon 5:30 Samantha Brown’s Places to Love EVENING 6:00 Chicago Tonight: Latino Voices 6:30 PBS NewsHour Weekend 7:00 Father Brown: The Flying Stars Father Brown becomes embroiled with a theatrical family when he discovers that a supposed tragic drowning was actually murder.

8:00 Death in Paradise (Season 10, Part 2 of 8) The team are baffled when an archaeologist is poisoned during a dig but there is no evidence to prove how it was done. Meanwhile, Neville tests his skills in an island crab-cooking competition.

9:00 Mallorca Files: King of the Mountains (Part 2 of 10) When cyclist Esteban Domenech disappears during a routine training session,

Miranda and Max investigate.

10:00 Atlantic Crossing on Masterpiece (Part 1 of 8) [R] 11:00 My Grandparents’ War: Helena Bonham Carter [R]

Sunday 11 EARLY MORNING 12:00 My Survivor See Thurs.

Apr. 8 at 8:00 pm. [R] 1:00 Stories of Survival: Final Transports - The Holocaust Stories of Magda and George See Thurs.

Apr. 8 at 9:00 pm. [R] 1:30 Stories of Survival: Childhood Lost - The Holocaust Stories of George and Steen See Thurs. Apr. 8 at 9:30 pm. [R] 2:00 Prisoner of Her Past See Thurs. Apr. 8 at 10:00 pm. [R] 3:00 American Masters: Oliver Sacks - His Own Life See Fri. Apr. 9 at 9:00 pm. [R] MORNING 5:00-11:00 WTTW Kids 11:00 Firing Line with Margaret Hoover 11:30 Chavis Chronicles

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Women in STEM fields

NOVA: Picture a Scientist This episode reveals how women make up less than one-quarter of all those employed in STEM, and the numbers are worse for women of color. Science is supposed to be built on objectivity, but these bleak numbers are evidence of deep bias.

Wednesday, April 14 9:00 pm

AFTERNOON 12:00 Hemingway: A Writer (1899-1929) (Part 1 of 3) [R] 2:00 Hemingway: The Avatar (1929-1944) (Part 2 of 3) [R] 4:00 Hemingway: The Blank Page (1944-1961) (Part 3 of 3) [R]

Masterpiece (Part 2 of 7) A month into the war and with Warsaw destroyed, Harry is desperate for news, while Kasia joins the Polish resistance.

10:00 Great Chicago Quiz with Geoffrey Baer (Part 3 of 4) See Fri. Apr. 9 at 8:00 pm. [R] 10:30 The Great British Baking Show: Advanced Dough (Part 8 of 10) The competitors must make enriched sweet fruit loaves for their Signature, followed by a Technical challenge that stretches them to the limit.

Finally, the bakers must make 36 showstopping doughnuts.

11:30 Austin City Limits: Janelle Monae Progressive R&B maverick Janelle Monae performs songs from her acclaimed LP Dirty Computer.

EVENING 6:00 Chicago Tonight: Black Voices 6:30 PBS NewsHour Weekend 7:00 My Grandparents’ War: Mark Rylance Follow actor Mark Rylance as he explores the extraordinary story of his grandfather, who spent nearly four years as a Japanese prisoner of war during World War II, and examines his own beliefs about war and peace in the process.

8:00 Atlantic Crossing on Masterpiece (Part 2 of 8) Olav and the king plan their escape. Meanwhile, Martha and the children take refuge with her Swedish royal relatives. But the Nazis threaten the king if he harbors the crown princess.

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12:30 Father Brown: The Flying Stars See Sat. Apr. 10 at 7:00 pm. [R] 1:30 Death in Paradise (Season 10, Part 2 of 8) See Sat. Apr. 10 at 8:00 pm. [R] 2:30 Mallorca Files: King of the Mountains (Part 2 of 10) See Sat. Apr. 10 at 9:00 pm. [R] 3:30 My Grandparents’ War: Mark Rylance See Sun. Apr. 11 at 7:00 pm. [R] 4:30 BBC World News 5:00 Chicago Tonight: Black Voices [R] 5:30 Chicago Tonight: Latino Voices [R] MORNING-AFTERNOON 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids

Diana, Princess of Wales

Diana, 7 Days This landmark documentary tells the inside story of the tumultuous and unprecedented week that followed the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, exploring how she came to have such an extraordinary effect on the nation and people around the world. The film features in-depth interviews with her sons William and Harry, who speak in detail about that week’s events and reflect more broadly on her life and what she meant to them, then and now.

Thursday, April 15 8:00 pm

EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Chicago Tonight 8:00 Antiques Roadshow: Vintage Las Vegas 2021 (Part 1 of 2) Learn if Las Vegas appraisals still hit the jackpot 14 years after the Roadshow’s visit. Catch an antique Asscher-cut diamond ring, a 1923 Dempsey vs.

Gibbons fight bell, and a 1970 Elvis Presley-signed album and belt. One is now worth $165,000-$175,000!

9:00 Antiques Roadshow: Meadow Brook Hall (Part 3 of 3) Highlights include a Civil War presentation sword and portrait; Danny Lyon Civil Rights posters; and a copy of The First Men in the Moon signed by Neil Armstrong.

One is $40,000-$50,000.

10:00 Independent Lens: Down A Dark Stairwell A Chinese American cop shoots and kills an innocent Black man in the dark stairwell of a

Brooklyn housing project.

Suddenly, two marginalized communities must navigate an uneven criminal justice system together.

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Tuesday 13 EARLY MORNING 12:00 Amanpour and Company 1:00 My Grandparents’ War: Mark Rylance [R] 2:00 Atlantic Crossing on Masterpiece (Part 2 of 8) See Sun. Apr. 11 at 8:00 pm. [R] 3:00 World on Fire on Masterpiece (Part 2 of 7) See Sun. Apr. 11 at 9:00 pm. [R] 4:00 Chicago Tonight: Latino Voices [R] 4:30 BBC World News 5:00 Chicago Tonight [R] MORNING-AFTERNOON 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Chicago Tonight 8:00 Finding Your Roots: The New World Henry Louis Gates, Jr. traces ancestors of actor John Lithgow and journalist Maria Hinojosa who thrived in North America long before the birth of the United States.

9:00 Frontline: American Insurrection Investigating the rising threat of far-right violence in America. With ProPublica, exposing the individuals and ideologies behind a wave of crimes, culminating in the attack on the Capitol.

10:00 American Experience: Ruby Ridge Examine the 1992 FBI siege at Ruby Ridge that helped launch the modern militia movement through eyewitness accounts, including Randy Weaver’s daughter and federal agents involved in the deadly confrontation.

11:00 BBC World News 11:30 Amanpour and Company

Wednesday 14 EARLY MORNING 12:30 Antiques Roadshow: Vintage Las Vegas 2021 (Part 1 of 2) [R] 1:30 Antiques Roadshow: Meadow Brook Hall (Part 3 of 3) See Mon. Apr. 12 at 9:00 pm. [R] 2:30 Independent Lens: Down a Dark Stairwell See Mon. Apr. 12 at 10:00 pm. [R] 4:00 Chicago Tonight: Black Voices [R] 4:30 BBC World News [R] 5:00 Chicago Tonight [R]

MORNING-AFTERNOON 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Chicago Tonight 8:00 Nature: The Leopard Legacy Follow the story of a leopard mother as she raises her cubs near the Luangwa River, facing a constant battle to hunt successfully, defend her territory, and protect her cubs against enemies.

9:00 NOVA: Picture a Scientist 11:00 BBC World News 11:30 Amanpour and Company

Thursday 15 EARLY MORNING 12:30 Finding Your Roots: The New World See Tues.

Apr. 13 at 8:00 pm. [R] 1:30 Frontline: American Insurrection See Tues.

Apr. 13 at 9:00 pm. [R] 2:30 American Experience: Ruby Ridge See Tues.

Apr. 13 at 10:00 pm. [R] 3:30 Austin City Limits: Janelle Monae See Sun. Apr. 11 at 11:30 pm. [R] 4:30 BBC World News 5:00 Chicago Tonight [R] MORNING-AFTERNOON 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Chicago Tonight 8:00 Diana, 7 Days 9:30 Charles & Di: The Truth About Their Wedding This documentary reveals the shocking story of the seven days that led up to Charles and Diana’s July 1981 wedding, comparing what the jubilant public saw with what was really going on with the individuals behind the scenes.

10:30 Baseball: Shadow Ball (Part 5 of 9) Part five looks at baseball’s desperate attempts to survive the Great Depression and Babe Ruth’s fading career, while a new generation of stars, including Joe DiMaggio and Ted Williams, is on the rise.

It also presents the parallel world of the Negro Leagues, and the greatest showdown in its history: Satchel Paige, arguably the best pitcher ever, against Josh Gibson, “the black Babe Ruth,” in the Negro League World Series.

Friday 16 EARLY MORNING 12:36 BBC World News 1:04 Amanpour and Company 2:02 NOVA: Picture a

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L. Frank Baum

American Experience: American Oz American Experience explores the life of L. Frank Baum, the man behind one of the most beloved, enduring, and quintessential American classics. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, published in 1900, has been reinterpreted through the generations in films, books, and musicals.

Monday, April 19 9:00 pm

Scientist See Wed. Apr. 14 at 9:00 pm. [R] 4:00 Rick Steves’ Europe: French Alps and Lyon [R] 4:30 BBC World News 5:00 Chicago Tonight [R] MORNING-AFTERNOON 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Chicago Tonight: The Week in Review 7:30 Washington Week 8:00 The Great Chicago Quiz Show with Geoffrey Baer (Part 4 of 4) 8:30 Check, Please! Madison Bar, Chicago Culinary Kitchen, Chiya Chai Alpana welcomes three Chicagoans: sales executive Julian Ferguson, who recommended the West Loop eatery The Madison Bar; YouTuber Sean Ely, who picked Chicago Culinary Kitchen in Palatine; and special education teacher Christine Beukema, who loves Chiya Chai in Logan Square.

9:00 Great Performances: Beethoven in Beijing Experience the international impact of the Philadelphia

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Orchestra’s historic 1973 trip to China, offering a story of cultural reversals and a glimpse into the worldwide future of classical music.

10:30 Beyond the Canvas: The Greats 2 11:00 BBC World News 11:30 Amanpour and Company

Saturday 17 EARLY MORNING 12:30 Baseball: Shadow Ball (Part 5 of 9) See Thurs.

Apr. 15 at 10:30 pm. [R] 2:30 Diana, 7 Days See Thurs.

Apr. 15 at 8:00 pm. [R] 4:00 Charles & Di: The Truth About Their Wedding See Thurs. Apr. 15 at 9:30 pm. [R] 5:00 Chicago Tonight: The Week in Review [R] 5:30 Yoga in Practice MORNING 6:00-9:00 WTTW Kids 9:00 Baby Makes 3: All Star Baby 9:30 J. Schwanke’s Life in Bloom 10:00 This Old House: House Fire Reclamation 10:30 Ask This Old House: Flickering Lights, Brick Stairs 11:00 Lidia’s Kitchen 11:30 My Greek Table with Diane Kochilas: Ancient Grains for Modern Cooks AFTERNOON 12:00 Cook’s Country: Never Enough Chocolate 12:30 Steven Raichlen’s Project Fire 1:00 Simply Ming: Ming Tsai with guest Kristen Kish 1:30 New Scandinavian Cooking: Fairytale Land 2:00 America’s Test Kitchen from Cook’s Illustrated: Chocolate Delights 2:30 America’s Test Kitchen from Cook’s Illustrated 3:00 Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television: Mexican Favorites 3:30 Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television: Holiday Entertaining 4:00 A Chef’s Life: Pimp My Grits 4:30 Check, Please! Madison Bar, Chicago Culinary Kitchen, Chiya Chai See Fri. Apr. 16 at 8:30 pm. [R] 5:00 Rick Steves’ Europe: Germany’s Fascist Story Traveling across Germany, Rick learns how fascism rose and then fell, taking millions of people with it.

5:30 Samantha Brown’s Places to Love EVENING 6:00 Chicago Tonight: Latino Voices 6:30 PBS NewsHour Weekend

7:00 Father Brown: The Wrong Shape Leonard Quinton is found hanging in the conservatory. When Father Brown realizes that he could not have committed suicide, the search begins for a murderer.

8:00 Death in Paradise (Season 10, Part 3 of 8) Neville is left perplexed when a lottery winner is found dead, but her body then disappears.

JP has an unruly new officer to train while preparing for the birth of his twins.

9:00 Mallorca Files: The Oligarch’s Icon (Part 3 of 10) When the icon of St. Nicholas is stolen by a masked assailant, Miranda and Max enter the world of Russian oligarchs.

10:00 Atlantic Crossing on Masterpiece (Part 2 of 8) [R] 11:00 To be announced

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4:00 Finding Your Roots: The New World [R] 5:00 Frontline: American Insurrection [R] EVENING 6:00 Chicago Tonight: Black Voices 6:30 PBS NewsHour Weekend 7:00 My Grandparents’ War: Kristin Scott Thomas Follow actress Kristin Scott Thomas as she pieces together a lost chapter of her family history, learning how her grandfather, a Royal Navy officer, saved thousands at Dunkirk and survived some of World War II’s most devastating battles.

8:00 Atlantic Crossing on Masterpiece (Part 3 of 8) While bombs fall on Olav and the king in London, Martha and the children are in the U.S., where President Roosevelt extends

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5:00-10:30 WTTW Kids 10:30 Family Travel with Colleen Kelly 11:00 Firing Line with Margaret Hoover 11:30 Chavis Chronicles AFTERNOON 12:00 The Power of Us: Confronting Our Climate Crisis Retired Chicagoland engineer Jim Goodman and his wife Annie work with Northwestern University students to help create an exhibit that ensures children that they have the power and responsibility to make a difference in climate change.

1:00 Frozen Obsession This film follows the 2,000-mile Northwest Passage Project expedition through the Canadian Arctic Archipelago aboard the Swedish research icebreaker Oden to study water chemistry, microbiology, birds, mammals, and physical oceanography.

2:00 The West is Burning This documentary traverses the western U.S. to trace the history of forest management and litigation that has contributed to the catastrophic fires plaguing the region.

3:00 Troubled Waters: A Turtle’s Tale Narrated by awardwinning actor Peter Coyote, this film features interviews with marine biologists, ocean conservation experts, and volunteers who rehabilitate injured, sick sea turtles and return them to the wild.

Larry Krasner

Philly D.A. (New Series!)

In 2017, Larry Krasner, a civil rights attorney who sued the Philadelphia Police Department 75 times throughout his career, mounted a longshot campaign supported by activists and organizers, and ultimately won the District Attorney’s seat in a city that has the highest incarceration rate of any large city in the United States. This new eight-part docuseries goes inside the emotional, high-stakes work that Krasner and an ensemble of idealistic outsiders from different walks of life take on as they attempt a fundamental overhaul of an expansive, entrenched criminal justice system.

Tuesdays beginning April 20 at 9:00 pm

debut LP When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?

Monday 19 EARLY MORNING 12:30 Father Brown: The Wrong Shape See Sat. Apr. 17 at 7:00 pm. [R] 1:30 Death in Paradise (Season 10, Part 3 of 8) See Sat. Apr. 17 at 8:00 pm. [R] 2:30 Mallorca Files: The Oligarch’s Icon (Part 3 of 10) See Sat. Apr. 17 at 9:00 pm. [R] 3:30 Troubled Waters: A Turtle’s Tale See Sun. Apr. 18 at 3:00 pm. [R] 4:30 BBC World News 5:00 Chicago Tonight: Black Voices [R] 5:30 Chicago Tonight: Latino Voices [R] MORNING-AFTERNOON

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Tiger Shark

Nature: Sharks of Hawaii Under the waves and tropical sun, each of Hawaii’s volcanic islands host a unique ocean landscape teeming with biodiversity. But one predator reigns supreme – the shark. With 40 species of shark calling these warm waters home, scientists are seeing new animal behavior around every corner.

Whitetip reef sharks “sleep” in tight volcanic tunnels. in the deep water, everything is on the menu for the hunting Tiger shark, from birds to Humpback whales. Hopping from island to island, uncover surprising moments of cooperation, rarely seen hunting tactics and striking insights into these predators of the world’s paradise.

Wednesday, April 21 8:00 pm

EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Chicago Tonight 8:00 Antiques Roadshow: Vintage Las Vegas 2021 (Part 2 of 2) Have the values of Vegas treasures – including a 1943 Albert Einstein letter, an early 20th-century gold signet ring collection, and a Louis Comfort Tiffany seascape oil from around 1880 – gone up, down, or stayed the same since 2007?

9:00 American Experience: American Oz 11:00 BBC World News 11:30 Amanpour and Company

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12:30 My Grandparents’ War: Kristin Scott Thomas See Sun. Apr. 18 at 7:00 pm. [R] 1:30 Atlantic Crossing on Masterpiece (Part 3 of 8) See Sun. Apr. 18 at 8:00 pm. [R] 2:30 Great Performances: Beethoven in Beijing See Fri. Apr. 16 at 9:00 pm. [R] 4:00 Beyond the Canvas: The Greats 2 [R] 4:30 BBC World News 5:00 Chicago Tonight [R] MORNING-AFTERNOON 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Chicago Tonight 8:00 Finding Your Roots: Laughing on the Inside Henry Louis Gates, Jr. provides comedians Lewis Black and Roy Wood, Jr. with accounts of hardship

in their family trees that may have led each of them to find humor in adversity.

9:00 Philly D.A. (Part 1 of 8) in 2017, Krasner, a civil rights attorney who sued the Philadelphia Police Department 75 times throughout his career, mounted a longshot campaign supported by activists and organizers, and ultimately won the District Attorney’s seat in a city that has the highest incarceration rate of any large city in the United States. This new eight-part docuseries goes inside the emotional, high-stakes work that Krasner and an ensemble of idealistic outsiders from different walks of life take on as they attempt a fundamental overhaul of an expansive, entrenched criminal justice system.

11:00 BBC World News 11:30 Amanpour and Company

Wednesday 21 EARLY MORNING 12:30 Antiques Roadshow: Vintage Las Vegas 2021 (Part 2 of 2) [R] 1:30 American Experience: American Oz See Mon. Apr. 19 at 9:00 pm. [R] 3:30 The Power of Us: Confronting Our Climate Crisis See Sun. Apr. 18 at 12:00 pm. [R] 4:30 BBC World News 5:00 Chicago Tonight [R]

NOVA: Reef Rescue As climate change warms the oceans, coral reefs are dying, putting marine ecosystems and the billions of humans that rely on them at grave risk. To counteract this catastrophe, scientists are scrambling to find new ways to save the reefs using a technique called assisted evolution.

Wednesday, April 21 9:00 pm

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9:00 World on Fire on Masterpiece (Part 3 of 7) Tom faces the fight of his life aboard HMS Exeter, while Harry and Lois have a more personal battle to fight.

10:00 Great Chicago Quiz with Geoffrey Baer (Part 4 of 4) See Fri. Apr. 16 at 8:00 pm. [R] 10:30 The Great British Baking Show: Patisserie (Part 9 of 10) First, the semifinalists take on Signature baklava.

Next is the tricky German schichttorte, cooked in stages under a grill to create 20 layers. The Showstopper requires the final four to create two elegant entremets.

11:30 Austin City Limits: Billie Eilish The L.A. singer/ songwriter performs her hits and songs from her

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MORNING-AFTERNOON 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Chicago Tonight 8:00 Nature: Sharks of Hawaii 9:00 NOVA: Reef Rescue 10:00 Critical Care: America vs. the World - PBS NewsHour Presents 11:00 BBC World News 11:30 Amanpour and Company Thursday 22 EARLY MORNING 12:30 Finding Your Roots: Laughing on the Inside See Tues. Apr. 20 at 8:00 pm. [R] 1:30 Philly D.A. (Part 1 of 8) See Tues. Apr. 20 at 9:00 pm. [R] 3:30 Frozen Obsession See Sun. Apr. 18 at 1:00 pm. [R] 4:30 BBC World News 67H 5:00 Chicago Tonight [R] MORNING-AFTERNOON 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Chicago Tonight

Critical Care: America vs. the World: PBS NewsHour Presents PBS NewsHour examines the highs and lows of America’s health care system, and travels to four other nations to see how they provide health coverage affordably and thoroughly, even in the face of the pandemic.

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David Rubenstein

11-2

11-3

PBS NewsHour

PBS NewsHour …

Rick Steves

Great British Baking Show

11-2

11-3

6:30 pm

PBS NewsHour

11-1

6:00 pm

Primetime Grid

2021

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30

THU

29

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27

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26

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Latino Voices

11-1

PBS NewsHour

11-1

PBS NewsHour

Great British Baking Show

NOVA

PBS NewsHour

11-1

11-2

11-3

11-1

PBS NewsHour

To be announced

Margaret Mitchell: American Masters

11-1

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To be announced

11-2

NOVA

PBS NewsHour

11-1

11-3

To be announced

Frontline

11-2

PBS NewsHour

11-1

11-3

To be announced

Reluctant Radical

11-2

11-3

PBS NewsHour

11-1

David Rubenstein

To be announced

PBS NewsHour

Connected: A Search for Unity

David Rubenstein

11-1

11-2

To be anounced

11-2

11-3

PBS NewsHour

11-3

America ReFramed

Black Voices

11-1

To be announced

11-2

11-3

Latino Voices

11-1

PBS NewsHour …

My World Too

Man Who Tried to Feed the World …

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11-3

Rick Steves

Moveable Feast …

Independent Lens

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Joanne Weir

Milk Street …

Jim Crow of the North

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America’s Test …

PBS NewsHour

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POV Shorts

Chicago Tonight

Nature

Baseball

My Grandparents’ War: Kristin Scott …

Antiques Roadshow

Father Brown

Hemingway: The Avatar (1929-1944)

Durrells in Corfu

The Week in Review Washington Week

7:00 pm

Nature

Reel South

To be announced

Antiques Roadshow

To be announced

Actors on Actors

Actors on Actors

The Week in Review Washington Week

Austin City Limits Actors on Actors

BBC World News

BBC World News

DW The Day

Chicago Tonight BBC World News

Critical Care: America vs. the World

DW The Day

Chicago Tonight

DW The Day

Chicago Tonight

Finding Your Roots

Chicago Quiz Show Great British …

Actors on Actors

DW The Day

Chicago Tonight

PBS NewsHour

Philly D.A.

PBS NewsHour

Actors on Actors

Finding Your Roots

Check, Please!

PBS NewsHour

Actors on Actors

BBC World News

Great British …

BBC World News

DW The Day

Chicago Tonight

Baseball

DW The Day

Chicago Tonight

DW The Day

BBC World News

The Week in Review Washington Week

BBC World News

BBC World News

Human: The World Within

DW The Day

Chicago Tonight

Frontline: The Virus That Shook … (Part 2)

DW The Day

Chicago Tonight

International Jazz Day 10th Anniversary Celebration

PBS NewsHour

PBS NewsHour

BBC World News Atlantic Crossing on Masterpiece

DW The Day

The Week in Review Washington Week

Frontline: The Virus That Shook the World (Part 1)

To be announced

World on Fire on Masterpiece

Mallorca Files

PBS NewsHour

Doc Martin

BBC World News

11-1 is WTTW 11-2 is WTTW Prime 11-3 is WTTW Create and World

Downton Abbey Season 1 on Masterpiece

Frontline

Greta Thunberg: A Year to Save the …

American Experience: American Oz

BBC World News

Atlantic Crossing on Masterpiece

DW The Day

Great Performances: The National Theatre – Romeo and Juliet

PBS NewsHour

Frankie Drake Mysteries

Greta Thunberg: A Year to … (Part 1 of 3) NOVA

Reel South

Finding Your Roots

Stories from the …

Human

Chicago Tonight

Chicago Tonight

America ReFramed

Chicago Tonight

Actors on Actors

Atlantic Crossing on Masterpiece

AfroPop: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange Reel South

Chicago Tonight

Nature

My Grandparents’ War: Carey Mulligan

Death in Paradise

To be announced

Actors on Actors

Grantchester

The Week in Review Washington Week

Father Brown

Beyond the Canvas

10:30 pm

The Week in Review Washington Week

10:00 pm

Greta Thunberg: A Year to … (Part 1 of 3) Greta Thunberg: A Year to … (Part 2 of 3) Greta Thunberg: A Year to … (Part 3 of 3)

PBS NewsHour

Mallorca Files

NOVA

Nature Death in Paradise

PBS NewsHour

My Mother and Other Strangers

Philly D.A.

Rebels with a Cause

Home Fires

Finding Your Roots

PBS NewsHour

Great Yellowstone Thaw

To be announced

The Roosevelts

American Experience: American Oz

That Way Madness Lies …

Hemingway: The Blank Page (1944-1961)

To be announced Reel South World on Fire on Masterpiece

Mallorca Files

PBS NewsHour

Doc Martin

Antiques Roadshow

To be announced

Durrells in Corfu

9:30 pm

Great Performances: Beethoven in Beijing

9:00 pm

To be announced

Stories from the …

Atlantic Crossing on Masterpiece

Independent Lens

Independent Lens: Coded Bias

Death in Paradise

To be announced

West Is Burning

Grantchester

Chicago Tonight

Father Brown

Chicago Tonight

America ReFramed

Call the Midwife

Chicago Tonight

8:30 pm

Chicago Quiz Show Check, Please!

8:00 pm

AfroPop: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange Reel South

Ask This Old House NOVA

Motorweek

Connected: A Search for Unity

11-2

PBS NewsHour

11-1

David Rubenstein

11-3

History Detectives

David Rubenstein

11-2

11-3

Black Voices

11-1

PBS NewsHour

Poldark on Masterpiece (5:00)

America ReFramed

11-2

11-3

PBS NewsHour …

W.S. Merwin: To Plant a Tree

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Rick Steves

My World Too

11-2

6:30 pm

PBS NewsHour

6:00 pm

11-1

Do it Yourself Saturdays

8:00 Greta Thunberg: A Year to Save the Planet (Part 1 of 3) 9:00 Greta Thunberg: A Year to Save the Planet (Part 2 of 3) 10:00 Greta Thunberg: A Year to Save the Planet (Part 3 of 3) 11:00 BBC World News 11:30 Amanpour and Company

9:00 Baby Makes 3 9:30

J. Schwanke’s Life in Bloom

10:00 This Old House 10:30 Ask This Old House

Friday 23

11:00 Lidia’s Kitchen

EARLY MORNING 12:30 Nature: Sharks of Hawaii See Wed. Apr. 21 at 8:00 pm. [R] 1:30 NOVA: Reef Rescue See Wed. Apr. 21 at 9:00 pm. [R] 2:30 Critical Care: America vs. the World - PBS NewsHour Presents See Wed. Apr. 21 at 10:00 pm. [R] 3:30 The West is Burning See Sun. Apr. 18 at 2:00 pm. [R] 4:30 BBC World News 69H 5:00 Chicago Tonight [R]

11:30 My Greek Table with Diane Kochilas 12:00 Cook’s Country 12:30 Steven Raichlen’s Project Fire Simply Ming

1:30

New Scandinavian Cooking

2:00

America’s Test Kitchen

2:30

America’s Test Kitchen

3:00

Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television

3:30

Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television

4:00

A Chef’s Life

4:30

Check, Please!

5:00

Rick Steves’ Europe

5:30

Samantha Brown’s Places to Love

MORNING-AFTERNOON 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids

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EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Chicago Tonight: The Week in Review 7:30 Washington Week 8:00 Variety Studio: Actors on Actors Jodie Foster (The Mauritanian) with Anthony Hopkins (The Father), and Riz Ahmed (The Sound of Metal) with Steven Yeun (Minari).

8:30 Variety Studio: Actors on Actors George Clooney (The Midnight Sky) with Michelle Pfeiffer (French Exit), Zendaya (Malcolm and Marie) with Carey Mulligan (Promising Young Woman), and Glenn Close (Hillbilly Elegy) with Pete Davidson (The King of Staten Island).

9:00 Great Performances: The National Theatre – Romeo and Juliet 11:00 BBC World News 11:30 Amanpour and Company

Saturday 24

Chef Ming Tsai shows you how to cook delicious food with easy-to-follow recipes. In this all-new season of Simply Ming, he’s joined by his son Henry.

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In the Spotlight

EARLY MORNING 12:30 Greta Thunberg: A Year to Save the Planet (Part 1 of 3) See Thurs.

Apr. 22 at 8:00 pm. [R] 1:30 Greta Thunberg: A Year to Save the Planet (Part 2 of 3) See Thurs.

Apr. 22 at 9:00 pm. [R] 2:30 Greta Thunberg: A Year to Save the Planet (Part 3 of 3) See Thurs.

Apr. 22 at 10:00 pm. [R] 3:30 World on Fire on Masterpiece (Part 3 of 7) See Sun. Apr. 18 at 9:00 pm. [R] 4:30 Check, Please! Libanais,

Josh O’Connor as Romeo

Great Performances: The National Theatre – Romeo and Juliet Just in time for Shakespeare’s birthday, experience a contemporary rendering of the Bard of Avon’s romantic tragedy from Great Britain’s National Theatre, where a company of actors in a shuttered theater bring to life the timeless tale of two young lovers.

Friday, April 23 9:00 pm

S.K.Y., Federales Alpana welcomes Lincolnwood resident and clinical psychologist Jennifer Panning, who recommended her local eatery Libanais; warehouse worker Mario Torres of Bridgeport, who picked S.K.Y. in Pilsen; and Mary Losey, works in client services and lives in River North, who loves Federales in the West Loop.

5:00 Chicago Tonight: The Week in Review [R] 5:30 Yoga in Practice MORNING 6:00-9:00 WTTW Kids 9:00 Baby Makes 3: The Homestretch 9:30 J. Schwanke’s Life in Bloom 10:00 This Old House: Urban Oasis 10:30 Ask This Old House: Spring Projects – Paint, Prune, Spigots 11:00 Lidia’s Kitchen 11:30 My Greek Table with Diane Kochilas: Olive Oil Everything AFTERNOON 12:00 Cook’s Country: Spring Feast

Frontline: The Virus that Shook the World (in 2 parts) In this new two-part Frontline, relive the year of the pandemic around the world, from lockdowns to funerals to protests. Using extensive personal video and local footage, discover how people and countries responded to the virus across cultures, race, faith, and privilege.

Monday, April 26 at 9:00 pm and Tuesday, April 27 at 10:00 pm

12:30 Steven Raichlen’s Project Fire 1:00 Simply Ming 1:30 New Scandinavian Cooking: Packed School Lunch 2:00 America’s Test Kitchen from Cook’s Illustrated: Roast Chicken and Sprouts 2:30 America’s Test Kitchen from Cook’s Illustrated 3:00 Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television: From Spain with Love 3:30 Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television: The New Paris 4:00 A Chef’s Life: Cracklin’ Kitchen 4:30 Check, Please! Libanais, S.K.Y., Federales See 4:30 am. [R] 5:00 Rick Steves’ Europe: Egypt’s Cairo 5:30 Samantha Brown’s Places to Love EVENING 6:00 Chicago Tonight: Latino Voices 6:30 PBS NewsHour Weekend 7:00 Father Brown: The Man in the Tree When Lady Felicia finds a stripped and injured man stuck up a tree, Sid is

implicated as the perpetrator.

Can Father Brown prove his innocence, or has Sid gone too far this time?

8:00 Death in Paradise (Season 10, Part 4 of 8) Neville’s attempts to embrace island life backfire when, during a game of beach volleyball, a sandfly bite lands him in hospital. His time on the ward takes a shocking turn when a nurse takes her own life during a night shift.

9:00 Mallorca Files: Number One Fan (Part 4 of 10) When a supermodel goes missing, Max and Miranda try to discover how someone can vanish from a moving train.

10:00 Atlantic Crossing on Masterpiece (Part 3 of 8) [R] 11:00 To be announced

Sunday 25 EARLY MORNING 12:00 To be announced MORNING 5:00-10:30 WTTW Kids 10:30 Family Travel with Colleen Kelly 11:00 Firing Line with Margaret Hoover 11:30 Chavis Chronicles AFTERNOON 12:00 Great Performances at the Met: Jonas Kaufman in Concert Enjoy a concert from the renowned tenor at the historic Polling Abbey in the Bavarian countryside as he performs selections including “Nessun dorma” from Turandot, “E lucevan le stelle” from Tosca, and more.

1:00 When My Time Comes Renowned radio host Diane Rehm addresses the hotly contested right-to-die movement. Through interviews with terminally ill patients and their relatives, as well as physicians, ethicists, religious leaders, and representatives of both those who support and vigorously oppose this urgent movement, Rehm gives voice to a broad range of people personally linked to the realities of medical aid in dying.

2:00 Life in Synchro Synchronized ice skating is a cold and unforgiving world, but to the women and girls who find family here, it’s home. Journey alongside incredible athletes around the country as they push their teams and themselves beyond the routine and up towards greatness.

3:00 To be announced

5:00 Finding Your Roots: Laughing on the Inside [R] EVENING 6:00 Chicago Tonight: Black Voices 6:30 PBS NewsHour Weekend 7:00 My Grandparents’ War: Carey Mulligan Follow actress Carey Mulligan as she travels to Japan to learn about her grandfather’s experience as a British naval officer during World War II, including the Kamikaze attack he survived, and the extent of the devastation he witnessed.

8:00 Atlantic Crossing on Masterpiece (Part 4 of 8) Martha is pressured to exploit her friendship with the president, who defies isolationists to push the Lend-Lease Act. Martha and the children get a surprise Christmas present.

9:00 World on Fire on Masterpiece (Part 4 of 7) Harry’s courage is tested at Louvain, while Kasia’s resistance activity in Warsaw intensifies.

10:00 Check, Please! Libanais, S.K.Y., Federales [R] 10:30 The Great British Baking Show (Part 10 of 10) Just three challenges lie between the three finalists and the trophy: mastery of a classic pastry technique in just three hours; a Technical test that requires mastering the basics with no recipe; and a Showstopper that demands delivery of perfect sponge, caramel, choux pastry and petit four.

11:30 Austin City Limits: H.E.R. The singer-songwritermulti-instrumentalist plays tracks from her self-titled album and numerous EPs.

EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Chicago Tonight 8:00 Antiques Roadshow: Vintage Wichita 2021 What are wonderful Wichita treasures from 13 years ago worth today? Discover updated appraisals such as an Edward Onslow Ford bronze, a 1962 left-handed Fender Stratocaster, and Goldsmith Chandlee surveyor’s compass from around 1790. One is now appraised at $55,000!

9:00 Frontline: The Virus That Shook the World, Part 1 11:00 BBC World News 11:30 Amanpour and Company

Tuesday 27 EARLY MORNING 12:30 My Grandparents’ War: Carey Mulligan See Sun. Apr. 25 at 7:00 pm. [R] 1:30 Atlantic Crossing on Masterpiece (Part 4 of 8) See Sun. Apr. 25 at 8:00 pm. [R] 2:30 World on Fire on Masterpiece (Part 4 of 7) See Sun. Apr. 25 at 9:00 pm. [R] 3:30 Mallorca Files: Number

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In the Spotlight

Monday 26 EARLY MORNING 12:30 Father Brown: The Man in the Tree See Sat. Apr. 24 at 7:00 pm. [R] 1:30 Death in Paradise (Season 10, Part 4 of 8) See Sat. Apr. 24 at 8:00 pm. [R] 2:30 Great Performances: The National Theatre Romeo and Juliet See Fri. Apr. 23 at 9:00 pm. [R] 4:30 BBC World News 5:00 Chicago Tonight: Black Voices [R] 5:30 Chicago Tonight: Latino Voices [R] MORNING-AFTERNOON 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids

Dr. Adaora Okoli

HUMAN: The World Within This six-part series uncovers not only the science behind how our bodies work, but how what’s inside powers every moment of what we do out in the world. Radiolab’s Jad Abumrad narrates the journey through this universe within, and reveals what makes us tick.

Wednesdays at 10:00 pm 2021

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Herbie Hancock with Annie Lennox

International Jazz Day 10th Anniversary Celebration Take a look back at 10 years of historic International Jazz Day concerts featuring dozens of music icons. Watch unforgettable performances by Herbie Hancock, Wynton Marsalis, Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, Annie Lennox, Hugh Masekela, and many more.

Friday, April 30 9:00 pm

One Fan (Part 4 of 10) See Sat. Apr. 24 at 9:00 pm. [R] 4:30 BBC World News 5:00 Chicago Tonight [R] MORNING-AFTERNOON 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids EVENING

6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Chicago Tonight 8:00 Finding Your Roots: On Broadway Henry Louis Gates, Jr. investigates the family histories of Broadway stars Audra MacDonald and Mandy Patinkin, discovering ancestors whose struggles laid the groundwork for their success.

9:00 Philly D.A. (Part 2 of 8) 10:00 Frontline: The Virus That Shook the World, Part 2 11:00 BBC World News 11:30 Amanpour and Company

Wednesday 28 EARLY MORNING 12:30 Antiques Roadshow: Vintage Wichita 2021 See Mon. Apr. 26 at 8:00 pm. [R] 1:30 Frontline: The Virus That Shook the World, Part 1 See Mon. Apr. 26 at 9:00 pm. [R] 3:30 When My Time Comes See

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Sun. Apr. 25 at 1:00 pm. [R] 4:30 BBC World News 5:00 Chicago Tonight [R] MORNING-AFTERNOON 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Chicago Tonight 8:00 Greta Thunberg: A Year to Save the Planet (Part 1 of 3) [R] 9:00 NOVA: Fighting for Fertility 10:00 Human: The World Within React (Part 1 of 6) Through the lens of a boxer, a first responder, a cell tower climber and a man with a bionic limb, go deep into the universe of the most powerful machine on earth: the human brain and the vast nervous system it controls.

11:00 BBC World News 11:30 Amanpour and Company

Thursday 29 EARLY MORNING 12:30 Finding Your Roots: On Broadway See Tues.

Apr. 27 at 8:00 pm. [R] 1:30 Frontline: The Virus That Shook the World, Part 2 See Tues. Apr. 27 at 10:00 pm. [R] 2:30 Philly D.A. (Part 2 of 8) See Tues. Apr. 27 at 9:00 pm. [R] 3:30 Life in Synchro See Sun. Apr. 25 at 2:00 pm. [R] 4:30 BBC World News 5:00 Chicago Tonight [R] MORNING-AFTERNOON 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Chicago Tonight 8:00 Downton Abbey Season 1 on Masterpiece (Part 1 of 4) Revisit this popular series centering on the lives of the noble Crawley family and the staff who serve them at their Edwardian country house in 1912. in part one: when the Titanic goes down, Lord Grantham loses his immediate heirs and his daughter Mary loses her fiancé, throwing Downton Abbey and its servants into turmoil.

10:00 Baseball: The National Pastime (Part 6 of 9) The sixth “inning” leads off with the baseball season of 1941, as Joe DiMaggio hits in 56 straight games, Ted Williams becomes the last man to hit .400, and the Brooklyn Dodgers win their first pennant in 20 years. After the war, Branch Rickey integrates baseball when Jackie Robinson takes the field.

Friday 30 EARLY MORNING 12:30 BBC World News 1:00 Amanpour and Company 2:00 NOVA: Fighting for Fertility [R] 3:00 Human: The World Within React (Part 1 of 6) See Wed. Apr. 28 at 10:00 pm. [R] 4:00 Rick Steves’ Europe: Egypt’s Cairo [R] 4:30 BBC World News 5:00 Chicago Tonight [R] MORNING-AFTERNOON 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Chicago Tonight: The Week in Review 7:30 Washington Week 8:00 Variety Studio: Actors on Actors Ben Affleck (The Way Back) with Sacha Baron Cohen (Borat, The Trial of the Chicago 7), Andra Day (The United States vs. Billie Holiday) with Leslie Odom Jr. (One Night in Miami), and Jared Leto (The Little Things) with John David Washington (Malcolm and Marie).

8:30 Variety Studio: Actors on Actors Jamie Dornan (Wild Mountain Thyme) with Eddie Redmayne (The Trial of the Chicago 7), Vanessa Kirby (Pieces of a Woman) with Amanda Seyfried (Mank), and Tom Holland (Cherry) with Daniel Kaluuya (Judas and the Black Messiah).

9:00 International Jazz Day 10th Anniversary Celebration 11:00 BBC World News 11:30 Amanpour and Company

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In the Spotlight

Dame Maggie Smith

Downton Abbey Season 1 on Masterpiece The return of the most popular public television series ever!

Created by acclaimed writer Julian Fellowes, the six-time Emmy-winning Downton Abbey depicts the lives of the noble Crawley family and the staff who serve them, set at their Edwardian country house in 1912. Featuring an all-star cast, including Dame Maggie Smith, Penelope Wilton, and Elizabeth McGovern; Laura Linney hosts.

When the Titanic goes down, Lord Grantham (Hugh Bonneville) loses his immediate heirs and his daughter Mary (Michelle Dockery) loses her fiancé, throwing Downton Abbey and its servants into turmoil. The new heir turns out to be Matthew (Dan Stevens), a lowly lawyer with novel ideas about country life.

Thursdays beginning April 29, 8:00 pm

April At-a-Glance • Arts • Performance Austin City Limits Saturday, 4:00 am (4/3) Sundays, 11:30 pm Saturday, 2:30 am (4/10) Thursday, 3:30 am (4/15) Great Performances Fridays, 9:00 pm (4/16, 4/23) Tuesday, 2:30 am (4/20) Monday, 2:30 am (4/26) Great Performances at the Met Sunday, 12:00 pm (4/25) International Jazz Day Friday, 9:00 pm (4/30)

Samantha Brown’s Places to Love Saturdays, 5:30 pm

Nature • Science • Technology

Atlantic Crossing on Masterpiece Sundays, 8:00 pm Tuesday, 2:30 am (4/6) Saturdays, 10:00 pm (4/10, 4/17, 4/24) Tuesday, 2:00 am (4/13) Tuesdays, 1:30 am (4/20, 4/27) Death in Paradise Saturdays, 8:00 pm Mondays, 1:30 am Downton Abbey Season 1 on Masterpiece Thursday, 8:00 pm (4/29) Father Brown Saturdays, 7:00 pm Mondays, 12:30 am Mallorca Files Saturdays, 9:00 pm Mondays, 2:30 am (4/5, 4/12, 4/19) Tuesday, 3:30 am (4/27) World on Fire on Masterpiece Sundays, 9:00 pm Tuesdays, 3:30 am (4/6, 4/24) Tuesday, 3:00 am (4/13) Tuesday, 2:30 am (4/27)

Climate Change – The Facts Friday, 2:30 am (4/2) Extinction: The Facts Friday, 1:30 am (4/2) Frozen Obsession Sunday, 1:00 pm (4/18) Thursday, 3:30 am (4/22) Greta Thunberg: A Year to Save the Planet Thursday, 8:00 pm, 9:00 pm, 10:00 pm (4/22) Saturday, 12:30 am, 1:30 am, 2:30 am (4/24) Wednesday, 8:00 pm (4/28) Human Wednesday, 10:00 pm (4/28) Friday, 3:00 am (4/30) Nature Wednesdays, 8:00 pm (4/14, 4/21) Friday, 12:30 am (4/23) NOVA Friday, 3:30 am (4/2) Wednesdays, 9:00 pm (4/14, 4/21, 4/28) Fridays, 2:00 am (4/16, 4/30) Friday, 1:30 am (4/23) Power of Us: Confronting Our Climate Crisis Sunday, 12:00 pm (4/18) Wednesday, 3:30 am (4/21) Troubled Waters: A Turtle’s Tale Sunday, 2:00 pm (4/18) Monday, 3:30 am (4/19) West is Burning Sunday, 3:00 pm (4/18) Friday, 3:30 am (4/23)

Cooking & Dining • Home Improvement • Travel

Public Affairs • History • Documentary

Drama • Comedy • Movies

Antiques Roadshow Sunday, 1:30 am, 2:30 am (4/4) Monday, 8:00 pm, 9:00 pm (4/12) Wednesday, 12:30 am, 1:30 am (414) Mondays, 8:00 pm (4/19, 4/26) Wednesdays, 12:30 am (4/21, 4/28) Check, Please!

Fridays, 8:30pm (4/2, 4/9, 416) Saturdays, 4:30 pm Saturdays, 4:30 am (4/10, 4/24) Sunday, 10:00 pm (4/25) Family Travel with Colleen Kelly Sundays, 10:30 am Great British Baking Show Sundays, 10:30 pm Saturday, 3:30 am (4/22) Rick Steves’ Egypt: Yesterday & Today Thursday, 9:00pm (4/1) Saturday, 11:00 pm (4/3) Wednesday, 3:30 am (4/7) Rick Steves’ Europe Saturdays, 5:00 pm Fridays, 4:00 am (4/16, 4/30) Rick Steves’ European Easter Thursday, 8:00 pm (4/1) Saturday, 10:00 pm (4/3) Monday, 3:30 am (4/5)

Amanpour and Company Friday, 12:30 am, 11:30 pm (4/2) Tuesday, 12:30 am (4/6) Wednesdays, 12:30 am (4/7, 4/14) Thursday, 12:30 am (4/8) Friday, 1:30 am, 11:30 pm (4/9) Tuesday 12:00 am, 11:30 pm (4/13) Friday, 1:00 am, 12:30 pm (4/16) Mondays, 11:30 pm (4/19, 4/26) Tuesdays, 11:30 pm (4/20, 4/27) Wednesdays, 11:30pm (4/21, 4/28) Thursday, 11:30pm (4/22) Fridays, 11:30 pm (4/23, 4/30) Friday, 1:00 am (4/30) American Experience: The Blinding of Isaac Woodward Sunday, 4:00 pm (4/4) American Experience: American Oz Monday, 9:00 pm (4/19) Wednesday, 1:30 am (4/21) American Experience: Ruby Ridge Tuesday, 10:00 pm (4/13) Thursday, 1:30am (4/15) American Masters: Never Too Late – The Doc Severinsen Story Friday, 9:00 pm (4/2) Sunday, 12:00 am (4/4)

American Masters – Oliver Sacks: His Own Life Friday, 9:00 pm (4/9) Sunday, 3:00 am (4/11) Baseball Thursdays, 10:00 pm (4/1, 4/29) Saturdays, 12:30 am (4/3, 4/10, 4/17) Thursday, 11:00 pm (4/8) Thursday, 10:30 pm (4/15) BBC World News Mondays-Fridays, 4:30 am, 11:00 pm Beyond the Canvas Fridays, 10:30 pm (4/2, 4/16) Tuesday, 4:00 am (4/20) Charles & Di: The Truth behind Their Wedding Thursday, 9:30 pm (4/15) Saturday, 4:00 am (4/17) Chavis Chronicles Sundays, 11:30 pm Chicago Tonight Mondays-Thursdays, 7:00 pm, 5:00 am Chicago Tonight: Black Voices Sundays, 6:00 pm Wednesday, 4:00 am (4/14) Chicago Tonight: Latino Voices Saturdays, 6:00 pm Tuesday, 4:00 am (4/13) Chicago Tonight: Week in Review Fridays, 7:00 pm Critical Care: America vs. the World Wednesday, 10:00 pm (4/21) Friday, 2:30 am (4/23) Diana, 7 Days Thursday, 8:00 pm (4/15) Saturday, 2:30 am (4/17) Finding Your Roots Sunday, 3:00 pm (4/4) Tuesdays, 8:00 pm (4/13, 4/20, 4/27) Thursdays, 12:30 am (4/15, 4/22, 4/29) Sunday, 4:00 pm (4/18) Sunday, 5:00 pm (4/25) Firing Line with Margaret Hoover Sundays, 11:00 am Frontline Tuesday, 9:00 pm (4/13) Tuesday, 10:00 pm (4/27) Thursday, 1:30 am (4/15) Sunday, 5:00 pm (4/18) Monday, 9:00 pm (4/26) Wednesday, 1:30 am (4/28) Thursday, 1:30 am (4/29) Great Chicago Quiz Show Fridays, 8:00 pm (4/2, 4/9, 4/16) Sundays, 10:00 pm (4/4, 4/11, 4/18) Hedy Lamar: American Masters Sunday, 3:30 am (4/4) Hemingway Monday, 8:00 pm, 10:00 pm (4/5) Tuesday, 8:00 pm, 10:00 pm (4/6) Wednesday, 1:30 am, 8:00 pm, 10:00 pm (4/7) Thursday, 1:30 am (4/8) Friday, 2:30 am (4/9) Sunday, 12:00 pm, 2:00 pm, 4:00 pm (4/11) Independent Lens Saturday, 2:30 am (4/3) Monday, 10:00 pm (4/12) Wednesday, 2:30 am (4/14)

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• Daily Radio Programming

Programming Subject to Change Without Notice

Programmer’s Picks The New York Philharmonic This Week

Exploring Music: Carl Nielsen

Fiesta

A September 2011 concert featured mezzosoprano Stephanie Blythe in One Sweet Morning, a commission by John Corigliano who commemorated the 9/11 anniversary by using poems from Poland, China, ancient Greece, and modern America.

Bill McGlaughlin takes a look at the life and music of Carl Nielsen, who rose from humble beginnings to become one of Denmark’s most prominent composers. An original and appealing composer, he wrote in every genre and composed six symphonies.

Tomas Luis de Victoria, born in Renaissance Spain, spent years in Rome as a composer, organist, and teacher. Florencio Asenjo grew up in 20th-century Argentina, emigrated to the United States, and worked as both a composer and mathematician.

Friday, April 9, 9:00 pm

Monday-Friday, April 12-16, 7:00 pm

Saturdays, April 17 and 24, 7:00 pm

12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore 9:00 Henry Charles Litolff Concerto Symphonique No. 4 in d, Op. 102: Scherzo – Yuja Wang, p; San Francisco Sym/ Michael Tilson Thomas.

SFS Media SFS-0060.

[7:36] A new season of San Francisco Symphony broadcasts begins tonight at 9:00. Richard Strauss Capriccio, Op. 85: Prelude for String Sextet – Amsterdam Sinfonietta. Channel Classics CCS-36620. [12:06] Henry Purcell Chacony in g – English Concert/Trevor Pinnock.

Archive 415518-2. [5:19] 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, including today’s new release, plus: Franz Liszt Les Préludes, Symphonic Poem No. 3 – Chicago Sym/Daniel Barenboim.

DG 415851-2. [15:55] 11:00 John Ireland Ballade of London Nights – Eric Parkin, p.

Chandos CHAN-9250. [7:27] 12:00 Music in Chicago, plus: Johannes Brahms Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Op. 56a – London Sym/ Valery Gergiev. LSO Live LSO-0733 (2). [17:05] 1:00 Music for the Afternoon Manuel Ponce Sonata Romántica – Andrés Segovia, g. MCA 42072. [21:23] Aaron Copland The Tender Land Suite – Elgin Sym/ Robert Hanson. Naxos 8.559297. [20:39] 2:00 Afternoon Masterwork: Johannes Brahms String Quartet No. 1 in c, Op. 51, No. 1 – Takács Quartet.

London 425526-2. [32:45] 3:00 Josquin des Prez Missa Pange Lingua: Agnus Dei – Stile Antico. Decca 4851341.

[8:34] George Frideric Handel Concerto grosso in F, Op. 6, No. 9 – Academy of Ancient Music/Andrew Manze. Harmonia Mundi HMU-907228.29 (2). [13:08] Camille Saint-Saëns Le Rouet d’Omphale, Op. 31 – Malmö Sym/Marc Soustrot.

Naxos 8.573139. [8:19] 4:00 Late Afternoon Music with Candice Agree, including The Unrush Hour at 5:00 pm 7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: How Strange the Change from Major to Minor 8:00 Evenings with Kerry Frumkin • Anna Russell The Ring of the Nibelungs: An Analysis – Anna Russell, vocalist & piano. Sony MDK-47252. [21:40] 9:00 The San Francisco Symphony in Concert: Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor – Mahler: Symphony No. 6 in a, Tragic.

11:00 Evening Music on WFMT

Friday 2 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore 9:00 George Butterworth Two English Idylls – St. Martin’s Academy/Sir Neville Marriner.

London 421391-2. [9:44] Henry Purcell The Fairy Queen: Suite from Act 5 – Le Concert des Nations/Jordi Savall. Fontalis ES-8583.

[9:27] Felix Mendelssohn A Midsummer Night’s Dream Overture, Op. 21 – Age of

All prerecorded music on 98.7WFMT is provided by the Richard and Mary L. Gray Music Library.

Most live performances on 98.7WFMT are broadcast from the Fay and Daniel Levin Performance Studio.

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Enlightenment Orch/Sir Charles Mackerras. Virgin Classics 90725-2. [11:53] 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, including today’s new release, plus: Ludwig van Beethoven Violin Sonata No. 8 in G, Op. 30, No. 3 – Isabelle Faust, v; Alexander Melnikov, p. Harmonia Mundi HMC902025.27 (4). [15:08] 11:00 Ron Nelson Savannah River Holiday – Boston Pops/Keith Lockhart.

RCA 68786-2. [8:39] 12:00 Impromptu Encore: The male vocal ensemble Cantus visited our Levin Studio in 2014; Dave Schwan hosts.

1:00 Music for the Afternoon Erich Wolfgang Korngold Passover Psalm – Slovak Phil Chorus & Vienna Phil/ Riccardo Chailly. London 460213-2. [8:23] Johann Sebastian Bach St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244: Aria, Erbarme dich, mein Gott – Yo-Yo Ma, vc; Amsterdam Baroque Orch/Ton Koopman.

Sony SK-60680. [7:20] Luigi Boccherini Symphony No. 21 in C, Op. 37/1 (G. 515) – London Festival Orch/Ross Pople. Hyperion CDA-66904. [13:55] 2:00 Afternoon Masterwork: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Sinfonia Concertante in E-Flat, K. 364 – Rachel Barton Pine, v; Matthew Lipman, vi; ASMF/Sir Neville Marriner.

Avie AV-2317. [30:29] 3:00 Sergei Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet, Op. 64: Romeo and Juliet Before Parting – Royal Concertgebouw Orch/MyungWhun Chung. DG 439870-2.

[9:14] Dmitri Shostakovich The Gadfly: Spanish Dance; Short Piece; The Age of Gold: Polka – Vladimir Ashkenazy, p.

London B0001846-02. [6:09] Carl Nielsen Maskarade Suite – Swedish Radio Sym/Esa-Pekka Salonen.

CBS MK-44547. [15:10] 4:00 Late Afternoon Music with Candice Agree, including The Unrush Hour at 5:00 pm 7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: How Strange the Change

In the Spotlight Photo: Roger Mastroianni

Thursday 1

Jeannette Sorrell

O Jerusalem: Crossroads of Three Faiths Named for the classical god of music, healing, and the sun, the Grammy Award-winning period-instrument orchestra Apollo’s Fire was founded by award-winning harpsichordist and conductor Jeannette Sorrell, and is dedicated to the baroque ideal that music should evoke various passions in the listeners. Apollo’s Fire is a collection of creative artists who share Sorrell’s passion for drama and rhetoric, and in this special, Sorrell and the group present music associated with Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, all of which hold the city of Jerusalem in special regard.

WFMT airs this program in honor of Passover, Holy Week, Easter, and the upcoming Ramadan holiday.

Friday, April 2 8:00 pm

from Major to Minor 8:00 O Jerusalem: Crossroads of Three Faiths—Apollo’s Fire, directed by Jeannette Sorrell, presents an hour of music celebrating Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. A musical observance of the approaching end of Passover; of Holy Week

Renée Fleming

From the Metropolitan Opera: Rusalka This fairy-tale opera by Antonin Dvorak, with some plot similarities to The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen, became an important part of the repertory of superstar soprano Renée Fleming.

In 2014, she once again portrayed the title role at the Metropolitan Opera, and that performance leads off the April sequence of vintage rebroadcasts from the Met (running through June 5). The production set the work in traditional fashion, with an enchanted forest, a serene lake, and evocative nighttime lighting.

Fleming as Rusalka, the water nymph who longs to be human, is joined by tenor Piotr Beczala, universally praised by critics for his interpretation of the role of the Prince – who’s actually the bad guy, since he first embraces and then rejects Rusalka, leaving her in a kind of half-human, half-underwater limbo. Mezzo-soprano Dolora Zajick sings the role of the witch, Jezibaba, who transforms Rusalka but then mocks her. The romantic orchestral music, reminiscent of Dvorak’s symphonies, is led by Yannick Nezet-Seguin, whose passionate conducting was singled out by every reviewer.

Saturday, April 3 12:00 pm and Easter; and of the start, on April 12, of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

9:00 The New York Philharmonic This Week: Alan Gilbert, conductor; Alexander Romanovsky, piano – Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini; Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker, act 2.

11:00 Best of Studs Terkel: Studs observes Good Friday (from 1966).

Saturday 3 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 7:00 Weekend Mornings with Maggie Clennon Reberg, including Saturday Morning Listeners’ Choice at 8:00 am and Soundtrack at 9:00 am 11:00 Introductions: Spotlighting the Chicago area’s young musicians 12:00 From the Metropolitan Opera: Dvorak’s “Rusalka” – Renee Fleming (Rusalka); Piotr Beczala (Prince); Emily Magee (Princess); Dolora Zajick (Jelibaba); Metropolitan Opera Cho & Orch/Yannick Nezet-Seguin. From 2014.

3:30 Weekend Music with Oliver Camacho 4:30 Listening to Singers with Oliver Camacho 5:00 Evening Music on WFMT • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Piano Concerto No. 17 in F, K. 453 – Vienna Phil/Maurizio Pollini, p. DG 4775795. [28:57] Carlos Salzedo Variations on a Theme in the Old Style – Yolanda Kondonassis, h. Telarc CD-80581. [14:58] Fernando Sor Variations on a theme from Mozart’s Magic Flute, Op. 9 – Christopher Parkening, g. EMI CDC556730-2. [6:12] Walter Piston The Incredible Flutist Suite – Oregon Sym/Carlos Kalmar.

Pentatone PTC-5186481.

[17:10] Leonard Bernstein West Side Story Suite – Joshua Bell, v; Philharmonia/ David Zinman. Sony SK-89358. [19:01] Various Africa: Land of Romance; Three Piano Pieces, Op. 59: No. 3, Pastoral Sonatina; Tango in d – Lara Downes, p.

Steinway & Son 30016. [14:53] 7:00 Fiesta! with Elbio Barilari: Superstring Theory 8:00 Folkstage hosted

by Rich Warren 9:00 The Midnight Special with Marilyn Rea Beyer

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137 – Brandenburg Collegium/ Anthony Newman. Newport Classic NCD-60137. [12:59] Johann Sebastian Bach Oboe d’Amore Concerto (BWV 209) – English Concert/ Albrecht Mayer, ob d’amore.

London 4781517. [18:54] Bach Mass in b, BWV 232: Et resurrexit – Tabernacle Choir, Orch/Jerold D Ottley.

Sony MDK-48296. [3:57] Richard Strauss Don Juan, Op. 20 – Chicago Sym/ Fritz Reiner. RCA 633012. [16:21] Franz Liszt Réminiscences de Don Juan, after Mozart – Anderson & Roe Piano Duo. Steinway & Sons 30022. [15:28] Béla Bartók Hungarian Sketches – Chicago Sym/Pierre Boulez.

DG 445825-2. [10:51] Robert Schumann Three Romances, Op. 94 – Keisuke Wakao, ob; Christoph Eschenbach, p. Denon CO-18090. [15:34] Arthur Foote String Suite in E, Op. 63 – London Sym members/Kenneth Klein.

Albany TROY-235. [17:16] Charles Tomlinson Griffes Poem – Mary Stolper, f; Czech National Sym/Paul Freeman.

Cedille CDR-90000046.

[10:14] Ottorino Respighi Poema autunnale – Julia Fischer, v; Monte Carlo Phil/ Yakov Kreizberg. London B0015535-02. [14:23] Antonio Vivaldi Viola d’amore and Lute Concerto in d, R. 540 – Rachel Barton Pine, vi d’amore; Hopkinson Smith, l; Ars Antigua. Cedille CDR90000159. [12:04] Domenico Scarlatti Clavier Sonata in E, Kk. 162 (L. 21) – Sergio & Odair Assad, g’s. Nonesuch 79292-2. [5:58] Isaac Albéniz Suite Espagnola – Emerald Brass Quintet.

Albany TROY-1839. [11:33] William Byrd Mass Propers for Easter Day: Sequence, Victimae paschali laudes – The Cardinall’s Musick. ASV CDGAU-214. [5:11] Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov Russian Easter Overture, Op. 36 – Atlanta Sym/Robert Spano.

Telarc CD-80568. [15:21] Ralph Vaughan Williams Romance and Pastorale – Schubert Ensemble. Chandos CHAN-10465. [8:36] Dmitri Shostakovich The Gadfly, Op. 97: Romance and Intermezzo – Berlin Radio Sym/Leonid Grin.

Capriccio 10298. [12:28] Evenings with Kerry Frumkin Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Two-Piano Concerto in E-flat, K. 365 – Murray Perahia, p; Chicago Sym Orch/Sir Georg Solti, p. London 4784884.

[24:58] Robert Chen conducts an all-Mozart concert on our Chicago Symphony broadcast tonight at 8:00.

Peter Tchaikovsky Hamlet, Op. 67 – Oregon Sym/James DePreist. Delos D/CD-3081.

[19:56] Giuseppe Verdi Macbeth: Witches’ chorus, Tre volte miagola; Patria oppressa – Chicago Sym Cho & Orch/Sir Georg Solti. London 430226-2. [8:57] Claire Cowan Hansel and Gretel: Entry of the Dew Fairies to Act I finale – New Zealand Sym/Hamish McKeich.

Claire Cowan 2020. [16:02] Gioachino Rossini William Tell: Ballet Suite – Monte Carlo National Opera Orch/Antonio de Almeida. Philips 422843-2.

In the Spotlight Photo: Anna Maggy

Photo: Andrew Eccles

In the Spotlight

Anna Thorvaldsdottir

The Chicago Chamber Choir Celebrating its 25th season with online performances, the Chicago Chamber Choir and its director, Christopher Windle, have put together a radio retrospective that Kerry Frumkin will host as a special edition of Live from WFMT. Kerry and Christopher will hold a virtual conversation about the performances. They include some Renaissance music – by William Byrd and Tomas Luis de Victoria – some traditional American folksongs, and a Christmas-themed spirituals medley. Also featured will be a number of women who have written choral music, including Iceland’s Anna Thorvaldsdottir and American Caroline Shaw, whose work is entitled To the Hands. Rounding out the evening will be choices from music by Samuel Barber, Gerald Finzi, and Bobby McFerrin.

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Eine kleine Nachtmusik; Flute Concerto No. 2; Violin Concerto No. 3; Symphony No. 25 in g, K. 183.

10:00 Collectors’ Corner with Henry Fogel: Recordings conducted by Erich Kleiber (1890-1956), week 1

Monday 5

Murray Perahia

From the CSO’s Archives: The First 130 Years The Chicago Symphony has assembled some retrospective programs that spotlight important soloists from the orchestra’s century-plus history, starting this month with clarinetist Benny Goodman playing Weber, Nielsen, and the novelty tune Chicago. The Hungarian-American violinist Victor Aitay (1921-2012) joined the CSO at the invitation of Fritz Reiner and was named concertmaster in 1967, a post he held for nearly 20 seasons, leading the violins and performing numerous solos, which are featured in a tribute broadcast including the Benedictus movement from Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis, with its luminous violin solo. Great pianists are in the spotlight on a subsequent Tuesday: Van Cliburn, the late Peter Serkin, Ivo Pogorelich, and Murray Perahia. The Chicago Symphony Chorus was founded in the 1950s

by Margaret Hillis at the request of Reiner, and its stellar performances have enhanced many a CSO concert and recording. Along with shorter pieces, the chorus-spotlight show will feature Poulenc’s Gloria (on CSO ReSound) and one of the landmark recordings from the Reiner era, Prokofiev’s Alexander Nevsky.

Tuesdays 8:00 pm

[17:42] Sergei Prokofiev Six Pieces from Cinderella, Op. 102: Gavotte, Orientale & Valse – Arcadi Volodos, p. Sony SK-62691. [10:35] 7:00 Ryan Opera Center Recital Series 8:00 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Radio Broadcasts: Robert Chen, conductor & violin; Stefan Ragnar Hoskuldsson, flute – Mozart:

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12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore 9:00 Giuseppe Tartini Violin Sonata in E minor, Op. 1, No. 5 – Adrian Chandler, v; La Serenissima. Signum SIGCD-663. [11:06] RossiniRespighi La Boutique fantasque: Mvts 1-5: Overture; Tarantella; Vivo; Mazurka, Cossack Dance – Boston Pops/Arthur Fiedler. RCA 61847-2. [11:55] Johann Sebastian Bach Aria variata alla maniera italiana, BWV 989 – Glenn Gould, p.

Sony SMK-52620. [9:42] 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, including today’s new release, plus: George Gershwin I Got Rhythm Variations – JeanYves Thibaudet, p; Baltimore Sym/Marin Alsop. London B0014091-02. [9:05] 11:00 Ottorino Respighi The Fountains of Rome – Oslo Phil/Mariss Jansons. EMI CDC5-55600-2. [16:37] 12:00 Music in Chicago, plus: Frédéric Chopin Introduction and Polonaise brillante in C, Op. 3 – Gautier Capuçon, vc; Yuja Wang, p. Erato 0190295392260. [9:04] 1:00 Music for the Afternoon Hector Berlioz Roman Carnival Overture, Op. 9 – Lyon National Orch/Leonard Slatkin. Naxos 8.573297.

[8:37] Claude Debussy La Mer – Cleveland Orch/Pierre Boulez. DG 439896-2. [23:32] 2:00 Afternoon Masterwork: Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-Flat, Op. 73, Emperor – Maurizio Pollini, p; Berlin Phil/Claudio Abbado. DG 4777244 (3). [38:34] 3:00 William Grant Still Pastorela – Alexa Still, f; Susan DeWitt Smith, p. Koch 3-7192-2.

[10:35] George Frideric Handel Suite from the operas Florindo and Daphne – Parley of Instruments/Peter Holman.

Hyperion CDA-67053. [15:50] Emmanuel Chabrier Le roi malgré lui: Féte polonaise – Detroit Sym/Neeme Järvi.

Chandos CHAN-9227. [6:53] 4:00 Late Afternoon Music with Candice Agree, including The Unrush Hour at 5:00 pm 7:00 Exploring Music with

Bill McGlaughlin: How Strange the Change from Major to Minor, week 2 8:00 Chicago Chamber Choir: A virtual anniversary performance featuring highlights from the group’s recent seasons. Presented by Kerry Frumkin as a special edition of Live from WFMT. 10:00 Evenings with Kerry Frumkin

The WFMT Fine Arts Circle spring membership drive begins tomorrow, April 6, and is scheduled to run through Thursday, April 22. During this time our listings will feature only programming highlights.

Be sure to listen to WFMT live for special offers and programming surprises every day throughout the drive.

2021: The MOB Orchestra conducted by Jane Glover; Inon Barnatan, piano; performed March 29 at the Harris Theater – Handel: Arrival of the Queen of Sheba fr Solomon; Concerto grosso, Op. 6/4. Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 14 in E-flat, K. 449; Symphony No. 29 in A, K. 201.

9:00 Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival – Dowland: Come, Heavy Sleep; Pavana Lachrymae. Dvorak: Piano Quintet in A, Op. 81.

10:00 Baroque&Before with Candice Agree 11:00 Evening Music on WFMT

In the Spotlight Photo: Marco Borggreve

Photo: Felix Broede

In the Spotlight

Tuesday 6 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore 6:30 WFMT membership drive programming 7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: How Strange the Change from Major to Minor, week 2 8:00 From the CSO’s Archives: The First 130 Years – Weber: Oberon Overture (/Sir Georg Solti); Clarinet Concerto No. 2 in E-flat (Benny Goodman/ Jean Martinon); Euryanthe Overture (/Frederick Stock).

Nielsen: Symphony No. 2, The Four Temperaments (/Morton Gould). Weber-Berlioz: Invitation to the Dance (/Daniel Barenboim). Nielsen: Clarinet Concerto; Fisher-Gould: Chicago (Goodman/Gould).

10:00 Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center – Brahms: Two Songs, Op. 91; Dvorak: Piano Trio in f, Op. 65.

11:00 Evening Music on WFMT

Wednesday 7 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore 6:30 WFMT membership drive programming 12:15 Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts: The Trio Internazionale (clarinet, bassoon, piano) live from the Cultural Center.

1:00 WFMT membership drive programming 7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: How Strange the Change from Major to Minor, week 2 8:00 Music of the Baroque

Inon Barnatan

Music of the Baroque 2021 A concert of Handel and Mozart, livestreamed from Chicago’s Harris Theater on March 29, reflects music director Jane Glover’s desire to expand the group’s repertory from the Baroque era to include other composers of the 18th century, especially Mozart and Haydn.

Mozart’s Piano Concerto in E-Flat, K. 449, features guest soloist Inon Barnatan, and the program ends with Glover and the MOB Orchestra playing the Symphony No. The 29 in A, K. 201. Barnatan, a native of Tel Aviv who now resides in New York City, has specialized in works by Mozart, Beethoven, and Schubert as well as composers of our own day. He won widespread praise for his CD called Darknesse Visible, with literature-inspired works by Ravel, Debussy, and Thomas Ades.

Dame Jane Glover led the London Mozart Players before coming to Music of the Baroque in 2002.

Wednesday, April 7 8:00 pm

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11:00 Evening Music on WFMT

12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore 6:30 WFMT membership drive programming 7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: How Strange the Change from Major to Minor, week 2 8:00 Evenings with Kerry Frumkin 9:00 The San Francisco Symphony in Concert: Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor; Daniil Trifonov, piano – Adams: I Still Dance. Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 4 in g. Schumann: Symphony No. 3, Rhenish.

Friday 9 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore 6:30 WFMT membership drive programming 7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: How Strange the Change from Major to Minor, week 2 8:00 Evenings with Kristina Lynn 9:00 The New York Philharmonic This Week: Alan Gilbert, conductor; Stephanie Blythe, mezzo-soprano – Barber: Essay No. 1. Corigliano: One Sweet Morning.

Dvorak: Symphony No. 7.

11:00 Best of Studs Terkel: From the series This Is Our Story, an episode about the Civil War, first aired in 1959.

Photo: Marco Borggreve

In the Spotlight

Kirill Gerstein

From the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival Since this prestigious festival couldn’t happen last summer, our Santa Fe radio producers, Kerry Frumkin and Louise Frank, have assembled a new season of performances from the recent past that feature some of this country’s leading chambermusic performers. Three of the first four broadcasts include quintets for piano and strings: by Dvorak (with Peter Serkin), Franck (with Kirill Gerstein), and Elgar (with Jeremy Denk). There’s also music on these first presentations by Dowland, Bach, Haydn, and Bartok. Coming up later in the 13-week series will be Schubert’s String Quintet, Mozart’s Clarinet Trio, and chamber works by Korngold, Viktor Ullmann, and Mieczyslaw Weinberg. Kerry is the host for each show, with commentary from the artists and from festival director Marc Neikrug.

Wednesdays 9:00 pm

Saturday 10 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 WFMT membership drive programming 12:00 From the Metropolitan Opera: Puccini’s “La Bohème” – Dmytro Popov (Rodolfo); Angel Blue (Mimi); Lucas Meachem (Marcello); Brigitte Kele (Musetta); Metropolitan Opera Cho & Orch/Alexander Soddy. From 2017.

2:30 Weekend Music with Oliver Camacho 4:30 Listening to Singers with Oliver Camacho 5:00 Evening Music on WFMT • Edouard Lalo Symphonie espagnole in d, Op. 21 – Anne-Sophie Mutter, v; French National Orch/Seiji Ozawa. EMI CDC7-47318-2.

[32:45] Manuel de Falla Four Spanish Pieces – Jorge Federico Osorio, p. Cedille CDR-90000075. [16:30] Aaron Copland Three Latin-American Sketches: II. Paisaje mexicano – Los Angeles Guitar Quartet.

Telarc CD-80593. [3:05] 6:00 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Symphony No. 36 in C, K. 425, Linz – Prague Chamber Orch/Sir Charles Mackerras.

Telarc CD-80148. [31:34] Sergei Prokofiev Ten Pieces from Romeo and Juliet, Op. 75: Folk Dance; The Street Awakens; Arrival of the Guests; The Young Juliet – Frederic Chiu, p. Harmonia Mundi HCX-3957150. [12:02] Jules Massenet Manon: En fermant les yeux...C’est un rêve (Des Grieux’ Dream); Je suis seul!... Ah! fuyez, douce image – Marcelo Álvarez,

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Sony SK-89650. [7:33] 7:00 Fiesta! with Elbio Barilari: A Fresh Look at the Brazilian Piano 8:00 Folkstage hosted

by Rich Warren 9:00 The Midnight Special with Marilyn Rea Beyer

Sunday 11 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 With Heart and Voice: More music for the Easter season 7:00 Weekend Mornings with Maggie Clennon Reberg 12:00 Sunday Afternoons with Robbie Ellis • Clara Schumann Piano Concerto in a minor, Op. 7 – Isata KannehMason, p; Royal Liverpool Phil/Holly Mathieson. Decca 4850020. [21:17] Johannes Brahms Four Songs (Women’s Chorus, Two Horns & Harp), Op. 17: No. 1, Es tönt ein voller Harfenklang – RIAS Chamber Choir/ Marcus Creed. Harmonia Mundi HMC-901592. [4:16] Maurice Ravel Introduction and Allegro – Rachel Masters, h; Ulster Orch/Yan Pascal Tortelier. Chandos CHAN-8972. [11:12] Claude Debussy Six Épigraphes antiques – Zofo Duet. Sono Luminus DSL-92151. [14:53] 1:00 Johann Sebastian Bach Cantata No. 140, Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme (Sleepers Wake): Opening chorus – Monteverdi Cho, English Baroque Soloists/ Sir John Eliot Gardiner. Soli Deo Gloria SDG-171 (2).

[6:13] Bach Violin Concerto No. 1 in a minor, BWV 1041 – Andrew Manze, v; Academy of Ancient Music. Harmonia Mundi HMU-907155. [13:13] Peter Tchaikovsky Andante Cantabile, Op. 11 – Yo-Yo Ma, vc; Pittsburgh Sym/ Lorin Maazel. Sony S2K93927 (2). [8:22] Joaquín Rodrigo Sones en la Giralda (Fantasia sevillana) – Pepe Romero, g; St. Martin’s Academy/Sir Neville Marriner.

Philips 416357-2. [9:08] 2:00 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Divertimento No. 16 in B-Flat, K. 289 – Danzi Wind Quintet.

Seon SB2K-60115 (2).

[16:45] Richard Strauss Der Rosenkavalier, Op. 59: First Waltz Sequence – Scottish National Orch/Neeme Järvi.

Chandos CHAN-8834.

[12:03] Frédéric Chopin Waltzes, Op. 34 – Samson François, p. EMI CMS762569-2 (2). [12:45] 3:00 Camille Saint-Saëns Henry

Angel Blue

From the Metropolitan Opera: La Bohème The Metropolitan has presented La Bohème more often than any other opera. This could probably be said of some other houses, too.

The overwhelmingly popular Puccini work is beloved of audiences and has endured at the top of “favorites” lists for decades. In 2017, the Met resurrected its classic Franco Zeffirelli production, originally seen in 1981 and noted for its boisterous Act 2, outdoors at Paris’ Café Momus. The re-mounting featured the Met debut of American soprano Angel Blue as Mimi; critics were almost unanimous in their praise for her interpretation. Also making a house debut was the English conductor Alexander Soddy. The role of the poet Rodolfo, Mimi’s lover, was taken by the Ukrainian tenor Dmytro Popov, and he was singled out in reviews along with the Romanian-born soprano Brigitta Kele as Musetta.

Saturday, April 10 12:00 pm

VIII: Ballet et Divertissement – Royal Air Force College Band/ Jun Märkl. Naxos 8.574234.

[14:10] George Frideric Handel Music for the Royal Fireworks – Orpheus Chamber Orch. DG 435390-2. [18:34] Sylvius Leopold Weiss Allemande; Courente Royale – David Russell, g. Telarc CD-80693. [5:23] Hector Berlioz Les Troyens: Ballet music – Baltimore Sym/David Zinman. Telarc CD-80164.

[15:46] Francis Poulenc Suite française – London Wind Orch/Denis Wick.

ASV CDWHL-2067. [12:20] Pietro Locatelli Sonata da Camera in F, Op. 6/2 – Trio Settecento. Cedille CDR90000099. [16:31] Ottorino

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Respighi Ancient Airs and Dances for the Lute, set 1 – Los Angeles Chamber Orch/Sir Neville Marriner.

EMI CDC7-47116-2. [15:15] 5:00 Evenings with Kerry Frumkin • Gustav Mahler Songs of a Wayfarer – Thomas Quasthoff, b-br; Vienna Phil/ Pierre Boulez. DG B000389402. [16:51] Boulez conducts more Mahler, plus Stravinsky and Webern, on our Chicago Symphony broadcast tonight at 8:00. William Grant Still Symphony No. 5, Western Hemisphere – Fort Smith Sym/John Jeter. Naxos 8.559603. [19:35] Various Wayfaring Stranger; The Nightingale; Black is the color of my true love’s hair; Go ‘Way from My Window – Susanne Mentzer, ms; Sharon Isbin, g. Erato 23419-2. [15:34] 6:00 Antonin Dvorák Symphony No. 9 in e minor, Op. 95, From the New World – Seattle Sym/Ludovic Morlot. Seattle Symphony Media SSM-1006.

[43:50] Richard Strauss Ständchen; Schlechtes Wetter; Allerseelen (All Souls’ Day); Malven – Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, s; Sir Georg Solti, p. London 430511-2. [3:20] Franz Schubert String Quintet in C, D. 956 – Stern, v; Lin, v; J

Laredo, vi; Ma, vc; Robinson, vc. Sony SK-53983. [54:56] 8:00 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Radio Broadcasts: Pierre Boulez, conductor – Stravinsky: Four Etudes.

Webern: Passacaglia.

Mahler: Symphony No. 7 in e, Song of the Night.

10:00 Collectors’ Corner with Henry Fogel: Recordings conducted by Erich Kleiber (1890-1956), week 2

Monday 12 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore 6:30 WFMT membership drive programming 7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: The life and music of the Danish composer Carl Nielsen (1865-1931) 8:00 Live from WFMT Encore 10:00 Evenings with Kerry Frumkin

Tuesday 13 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore 6:30 WFMT membership drive programming 7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: The life and music of the Danish composer

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Esa-Pekka Salonen

From the Metropolitan Opera: From the House of the Dead From the House of the Dead, based on a novel by Feodor Dostoevsky, is set in a prison camp. The inmates in these bleak surroundings divert themselves from day-to-day miseries with improvised plays and, especially, reminiscences; writing in The New York Times, critic Anthony Tommasini noted the score’s “volatile mix of restless tension and crushing boredom.” When the Metropolitan Opera presented the work for the first time in 2009, it marked the house debuts of conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen and stage director Patrice Chereau. The opera itself was first performed in 1930, two years after the composer Leos Janacek’s death.

The three short acts were presented by the Met without intermission, making the drama unrelenting.

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In the Spotlight

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12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore 6:30 WFMT membership drive programming 12:15 Dame Myra He Memorial Concerts: Bass-baritone David Weigel and pianist Chris Reynolds live from the Cultural Center.

1:00 WFMT membership drive programming 7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: The life and music of the Danish composer Carl Nielsen (1865-1931) 8:00 Evenings with Kerry Frumkin 9:00 Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival – Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 in B-Flat; Dvorak: Sextet in A, Op. 48.

10:00 Baroque&Before with Candice Agree 11:00 Evening Music on WFMT

12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 WFMT membership drive programming 12:00 From the Metropolitan Opera: “From the House of the Dead” by Leos Janacek – Stefan Margita (Filka Morozov/Kuzmich); Eric Stoklassa (Alyeya); Peter Mattei (Shishkov); Willard White (Gorlanchikov) pm.

2:00 Weekend Music with Oliver Camacho 4:30 Listening to Singers with Oliver Camacho 5:00 Evening Music on WFMT • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Piano Concerto No. 20 in d minor, K. 466 – Norwegian Chamber Orch/Leif Ove Andsnes, p. EMI 00281-2.

[29:42] Joaquín Rodrigo Fantasía para un gentilhombre – Julian Bream, g; Chamber Orch/Leo Brouwer.

RCA 61611-2. [23:23] 6:00 Claude Debussy Petite Suite – Pascal & Ami Rogé, p. Onyx 4047. [11:38] Hector Berlioz Les Troyens: Trojan March; Royal Hunt and Storm Music – BBC Sym & Cho/ Sir Andrew Davis. Chandos CHSA-5169 (2). [15:08] Jean-Philippe Rameau Pièces de Clavecin Suite in e minor: Rigaudon, Musette, Tambourin – Jory Vinikour, hc.

Sono Luminus DSL-92154.

[6:49] Johann Sebastian Bach Two-Violin Concerto in D Minor, BWV 1043 – Jennifer Koh & Jaime Laredo, v’s; Curtis 20/21 Ensemble/ Vinay Parameswaran. Cedille CDR-90000146. [15:07] 7:00 Fiesta! with Elbio Barilari: The Spanish Renaissance composer Tomas Luis de Victoria (1548-1611) 8:00 Folkstage hosted

by Rich Warren 9:00 The Midnight Special with Marilyn Rea Beyer

Thursday 15 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore 6:30 WFMT membership drive programming 7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: The life and music of the Danish composer Carl Nielsen (1865-1931) 8:00 Evenings with Kerry Frumkin 9:00 The San Francisco Symphony in Concert: Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor; Nicholas Phan, tenor; Tyler Duncan, baritone; Oliver Herbert, cello; SF Symphony Chorus – Stravinsky: Canticum Sacrum; Symphony of Psalms. Haydn: Cello Concerto No. 2 in D. Stravinsky: Symphony in Three Movements.

11:00 Evening Music on WFMT

Friday 16 Carl Nielsen (1865-1931) 8:00 From the CSO’s Archives: The First 130 Years – Honoring longtime concertmaster Victor Aitay – Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade (/Seiji Ozawa).

Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2; Weiner: Prince Csongor and the Goblins (/Sir Georg Solti). Bartok: Hungarian Sketches (/Fritz Reiner).

Kodaly: Hary Janos Suite (/ Neeme Jaervi). Beethoven: Benedictus fr Missa Solemnis (Aitay, Popp, Minton, Walker, Howell, CSO Chorus/Solti).

10:00 Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center – Bruce Adolphe: Couple, for cello and piano; Spohr: Grand Nonetto in F. 11:00 Evening Music on WFMT

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12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore 6:30 WFMT membership drive programming 7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: The life and music of the Danish composer Carl Nielsen (1865-1931) Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin 8:00 Evenings with LaRob Payton 9:00 The New York Philharmonic This Week: Alan Gilbert, conductor & violin; Frank Zimmerman, violin – Bach: Two-Violin Concerto in d. Berg: Violin Concerto.

Brahms: Symphony No. 3.

11:00 Best of Studs Terkel: Poet Allen Ginsberg from the 1980s.

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Sunday 18 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 With Heart and Voice: Music that celebrates creation, in view of the return of spring, the ongoing Easter season, and Earth Day this coming Thursday.

7:00 Weekend Mornings with Maggie Clennon Reberg 12:00 Sunday Afternoons with Robbie Ellis • Georg Philipp Telemann Quadro in g – Ensemble Florilegium.

Channel Classics CCS-5093.

[7:32] Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach Flute Concerto in A – Emmnauel Pahud, f;

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EMI 84220-2. [19:07] Fanny Mendelssohn String Quartet in E-Flat – Nash Ensemble.

Hyperion CDA-68307. [18:42] Isaac Albéniz Iberia, Book 1 – Cincinnati Sym/ Jesús López-Cobos. Telarc CD-80470 (2). [18:31] Manuel Ponce Canciones Mexicanas (Estrellita, La Barca del Marino, Cuiden Su Vida) – Jorge Federico Osorio, p. Cedille CDR-90000086.

[9:18] Aaron Copland Four Dance Episodes from Rodeo – Cincinnati Pops/Erich Kunzel.

Telarc CD-80339. [19:03] Franz Joseph Haydn Quartet in d, Op. 42 – Leipzig String Quartet. MDG 3071860-2.

[16:10] Johann Strauss II Waltz, Tales from the Vienna Woods, Op. 325 – Vienna Phil/Lorin Maazel. Sony SK-46694. [12:53] Various Canciónes y Danzas (Cançons i Danses): No. 6; Modern Love Waltz – Gloria Cheng, p. Telarc CD-80549. [7:18] Tomas Luis de Victoria Motet, Salve Regina – Cambridge Singers/John Rutter.

Collegium COLCD-131. [10:33] Isaac Albéniz Iberia, Book 2 – Cincinnati Sym/Jesús López-Cobos. Telarc CD80470 (2). [21:43] Anon 16th c Suite of Dances – Piffaro.

Archive 445883-2. [10:07] Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Symphony (Serenade) in D, K. 100 – Tafelmusik/Bruno Weil.

Sony S2K-47260 (2). [15:57] Hugo Wolf Italian Serenade in G – Cremona Quartet. Avie AV-2436. [6:50] Ottorino Respighi Adagio con variazioni – Mstislav Rostropovich, vc; Moscow Phil/Gennady Rozhdestvensky. Russian Disc RDCD-11104. [12:04] Evenings with Kerry Frumkin • Sergei Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet Suite – Chicago Sym/Riccardo Muti.

CSO ReSound CSOR9011402. [48:50] Tonight’s Chicago Symphony concert at 8:00 pm is conducted by music director Riccardo Muti.

Edouard Lalo Cello Concerto in d – Lynn Harrell, vc; Berlin Radio Sym/Riccardo Chailly. London 414387-2.

[27:48] Amy Beach Ballade, Op. 6 – Alan Feinberg, p.

Argo 430330-2. [10:10] Maurice Ravel Tzigane; Une Barque sur l’Ocean – Ray Chen, v; Zürich Tonhalle Orch/Lionel Bringuier.

DG 4795524 (4). [16:51] Franz Schubert Song, Die Forelle, D. 550 – Bryn Terfel, br; Malcolm Martineau, p. DG 445294-2. [2:03] Schubert Piano Quintet in A, D. 667,

Trout – Thomas Ades, p; members of Belcea Quartet; Colin Long, db. EMI CDC557664-2. [41:15] Various O Mistress Mine; On the Idle Hill of Summer; Whither Must I Wander – Bryn Terfel, br; Malcolm Martineau, p.

DG 445946-2. [9:26] 8:00 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Radio Broadcasts: Riccardo Muti, conductor; Xavier De Maistre, harp – Chabrier: Espana.

Ginastera: Harp Concerto.

Chabrier: Impressions of Italy. Ravel: Bolero. We also hear some music by Albeniz conducted by Fritz Reiner.

10:00 Collectors’ Corner with Henry Fogel: Music composed by Dame Ethel Smyth (1858-1944)

Monday 19 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore 6:30 WFMT membership drive programming 7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: From the Black Sea to the Caspian Sea 8:00 Live from WFMT Encore 10:00 Evenings with Kerry Frumkin

Tuesday 20 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore 6:30 WFMT membership drive programming 7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin From the Black Sea to the Caspian Sea 8:00 From the CSO’s Archives: The First 130 Years – MacDowell: Piano Concerto No. 2 (Van Cliburn/Walter Hendl). Bartok: Piano Concerto No. 1 (Peter Serkin/ Seiji Ozawa). Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 2 (Ivo Pogorelich/Claudio Abbado).

Mozart: Two-Piano Concerto in E-flat, K. 365 (Murray Perahia/Sir Georg Solti).

10:00 Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center – Telemann: Gulliver Suite. Corelli: Concerto grosso in g, Op. 6/8, Christmas. Telemann: Funeral Music for a Songbird.

Vivaldi: Four-Violin and Cello Concerto in b, Op. 3/10.

11:00 Evening Music on WFMT

Wednesday 21 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore 6:30 WFMT membership

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In the Spotlight

Adam Schoenberg

The San Francisco Symphony: Honoring Earth Day A new radio series from the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra includes a newly commissioned work for Earth Day. Losing Earth

by American composer Adam Schoenberg (no relation to Arnold) is a concerto for percussion and orchestra in three movements, reflecting Schoenberg’s concern over climate change, and also his fascination with the long history of percussion instruments, which, as he notes, go back to the very beginning of human existence.

“Second only to the human voice,” he wrote, “[percussion instruments have] watched the earth endure all its phases…Losing Earth pays homage to this history.” The serene second movement, featuring a vibraphone, stands out for its portrait of the worldwide loss of coastal territories, and potentially, coastal communities, as the rising oceans encroach. The percussion battery for the work is enormous; the soloist is San Francisco Symphony principal percussionist Jake Nissley.

The Romanian-born conductor Cristian Macelaru conducts.

Thursday, April 22 9:00 pm

drive programming 12:15 Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts: The Illinois Philharmonic String Quartet live from the Cultural Center.

7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: From the Black Sea to the Caspian Sea 8:00 Evenings with Kerry Frumkin 9:00 Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival – Haydn: String Quartet in d, Op. 76/2, Fifths; Franck: Piano Quintet in f.

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Thursday 22 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore 6:30 WFMT membership drive programming 7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: From the Black Sea to the Caspian Sea 8:00 Evenings with Kerry Frumkin 9:00 The San Francisco Symphony in Concert: Cristian Macelaru, conductor; Jacob Nissly, percussion – Adam Schoenberg: Losing Earth.

Lili Boulanger: D’un Matin de Printemps. Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition.

11:00 Evening Music on WFMT

Friday 23 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore 9:00 Hector Berlioz Béatrice et Bénédict Overture – London Sym/Sir Colin Davis. Philips 456143-2 (6). [7:44] Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Violin Concerto No. 2 in D, K. 211 – Giuliano Carmignola, v; Orch Mozart/Claudio Abbado.

Archive 4777371 (2). [17:28] 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, including today’s new release, plus: George Frideric Handel Water Music Suite No. 2 in D – Berlin Academy for Ancient Music. Harmonia Mundi HMC-902216. [11:07] 11:00 Bedrich Smetana Má Vlast (My Fatherland): From Bohemia’s Meadows and Forests – Czech Phil/ Sir Charles Mackerras.

Supraphon SU-34652031. [12:07] 12:00 Impromptu Encore: The Neave Trio performing live in 2018; Lisa Flynn hosts.

1:00 Music for the Afternoon Jacques Ibert Suite Élisabéthaine – Manhattan Chamber Orch/Richard Auldon Clark. Newport Classic NPD-85531. [23:42] William Walton As You Like It: A Poem for Orchestra after Shakespeare – Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields/Sir Neville Marriner. Chandos CHAN-8842. [12:30] 2:00 Afternoon Masterwork: César Franck (Violin) Sonata in A – Gautier Capuçon, vc; Yuja Wang, p. Erato 0190295392260. [29:03] 3:00 Johann Sebastian Bach Orchestra Suite No. 1 in C, BWV 1066 – Tafelmusik/ Jeanne Lamon. Analekta

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FL2-3134. [25:37] Howard Hanson Merry Mount Suite – Seattle Sym/Gerard Schwarz.

Delos DE-3105. [16:02] Late Afternoon Music with Candice Agree, including The Unrush Hour at 5:00 pm Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: From the Black Sea to the Caspian Sea Evenings with Kristina Lynn The New York Philharmonic This Week: Lorin Maazel, conductor; Robert Langevin, flute; Nancy Allen, harp – Mozart: Symphony No. 38, Prague; Flute and Harp Concerto. Debussy: Jeux; Iberia fr Images III. Best of Studs Terkel: Jazz singer Kurt Elling from 1997.

Saturday 24 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 7:00 Weekend Mornings with Maggie Clennon Reberg, including Saturday Morning Listeners’ Choice at 8:00 am and Soundtrack at 9:00 am 11:00 Introductions: Spotlighting the Chicago area’s young musicians 12:00 From the Metropolitan Opera: Strauss’ “Die Frau ohne Schatten” – Anne Schwanewilms (Empress); Torsten Kerl (Emperor); Ildiko Komlosi (Nurse); Johan Reuter (Barak, the dyer); Christine Goerke (Dyer’s Wife); Metropolitan Opera Cho & Orch/Vladimir Jurowski. From 2013.

4:00 Weekend Music with Oliver Camacho 4:30 Listening to Singers with Oliver Camacho 5:00 Evening Music on WFMT • Isaac Albéniz Iberia, Book 3 – Cincinnati Sym/Jesús LópezCobos. Telarc CD-80470 (2).

[21:55] Various Clavier Sonata in D; El amor brujo: Dance of Terror; Ritual Fire Dance – Alicia de Larrocha, p. London 417795-2. [9:02] Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Six German Dances, K. 567 – Orpheus Chamber Orch. DG 429783-2.

[11:34] Antony Holborne The Fairy Round; Alman, The Honie Suckle or Hartes Ease; Heigh Ho Holiday – Julian Bream, l.

RCA 61587-2. [5:34] Ralph Vaughan Williams Three Portraits from The England of Elizabeth – London Sym/ André Previn. RCA LSC-3280.

[17:37] Richard Rodgers The Sound of Music: My Favorite Things; The King and I: Hello, Young Lovers; Carousel Waltz – Jenny Lin, p. Steinway & Sons 30011.

[12:00] Alexander Glazunov

Suite, From the Middle Ages in E, Op. 79 – Scottish National Orch/Neeme Järvi. Chandos CHAN-8804. [23:20] 7:00 Fiesta! with Elbio Barilari: Music by the Argentinean composer-mathematician Florencio Asenjo (1926-2013) 8:00 Folkstage hosted

by Rich Warren 9:00 The Midnight Special with Marilyn Rea Beyer

Sunday 25 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 With Heart and Voice: Hymns and anthems of praise 7:00 Weekend Mornings with Maggie Clennon Reberg 12:00 Sunday Afternoons with Robbie Ellis • Peter Tchaikovsky Variations on a Rococo Theme, Op. 33 – Mstislav Rostropovich, vc; Boston Sym/Seiji Ozawa.

Erato ECD-88224. [17:31] Jerome Moross Variations on a Waltz – London Sym/ JoAnn Falletta. Koch 3-7188-2. [14:16] Frédéric Chopin Andante Spianato and Grand Polonaise in E-Flat, Op. 22 – Benjamin Grosvenor, p. London 4785334. [12:56] 1:00 Johann Sebastian Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D Major, BWV 1050 – Jaime Martin, f; Kenneth Sillito, v; St. Martin’s Academy/Murray Perahia, p. Sony 82429-2 (3). [21:13] Ernesto Cordero Concertino Tropicale – Guillermo Figueroa, v; I Solisti di Zagreb. Naxos 8.572707.

[10:44] Emmanuel Chabrier Larghetto for horn and orchestra – Hermann Baumann, fh; Leipzig Gewandhaus Orch/Kurt Masur. Philips 416380-2. [8:29] 2:00 Franz Schubert Notturno in E-Flat, D. 897 – AnneSophie Mutter, v; Maximilian Hornung, vc; Daniil Trifonov, p. DG 4797570. [8:01] Manuel de Falla Nights in the Gardens of Spain – Artur Rubinstein, p; Philadelphia Orch/Eugene Ormandy.

RCA 61863-2. [21:10] 3:00 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Symphony No. 31 in D, K. 297, Paris – Berlin Phil/ Claudio Abbado. Sony SK-48385. [16:47] Anton Bruckner Mass No. 2 in E minor: II. Gloria – King’s College Choir & St. Martin’s Academy/Stephen Cleobury.

King’s College Cambridge KGS-0035D. [6:50] Richard Strauss Intermezzo, Op. 72: Four Symphonic Interludes – Seattle Sym/Gerard Schwarz.

Delos D/CD-3052. [24:34]

4:00 Frédéric Chopin Ballade No. 4 in f minor, Op. 52 – Dmitry Paperno, p. Cedille CDR-90000026. [10:29] Leos

In the Spotlight

Christine Goerke

From the Metropolitan Opera: Die Frau Ohne Schatten The title means “The Woman Without a Shadow,” and it refers to the character known only as the Empress, who is half-human and half-spirit, married to a mortal, known only as the Emperor. The work is considered one of the most important collaborations between Richard Strauss and his renowned librettist, Hugo von Hofmannsthal. It’s an enigmatic tale, heavily symbol-laden. There are just two characters with actual names: Keikobad, ruler of the spirits, whom we never see, and Barak, the dyer, who with his (nameless) wife represent ordinary human life.

At the Met in 2013, the highlight of the production, according to nearly every review, was the performance of soprano Christine Goerke as the Dyer’s wife. The Empress offers to buy the wife’s shadow, so she can become fully human and not have to be taken back to the spirit world by Keikobad (her father). The staging depicted the spirit world as a realm of light and mirrors; the human world of Barak and his wife is humdrum and cluttered. Listeners on the radio will lose the visual impact of the Falcon Scene in Act 2, which features dancing; the wounded falcon in some way represents the broken, incomplete nature of so many of the characters. But listeners will not miss Strauss’ music as it is interpreted by Goerke, soprano Anne Schwanewilms as the Empress, and the rest of the strong cast, with the orchestra led by Vladimir Jurowski.

Saturday, April 24 12:00 pm

Janácek Ballad, The Fiddler’s Child – Royal Stockholm Phil/Sir Andrew Davis.

Finlandia 21449-2. [11:43] Traditional Medley of Scots Tunes – Rachel Barton Pine & Alasdair Fraser, v’s; Scottish Chamber Orch/Alexander Platt. Cedille CDR-90000083 (2). [5:56] John Field Irish Concerto – Benjamin Frith, p; Royal Scottish National Orch/Andrew Mogrelia.

Naxos 8.573262. [22:40] 5:00 Evenings with Kerry Frumkin • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Piano Concerto No. 25 in C, K. 503 – David Fray, p; Philharmonia/Jaap van Zweden. Virgin Classics 641964. [31:11] Fray is the guest soloist on our Chicago Symphony broadcast tonight at 8:00. Felix Mendelssohn A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Op. 61: Wedding March & Finale – Branagh, n; McNair, s; Kirchschlager, ms; Ernst Senff Women’s Chorus, Berlin Phil/Claudio Abbado. Sony SK-62826. [11:25] Guest conductor Christoph Eschenbach leads more Mendelssohn on tonight’s CSO broadcast.

Mozart Violin Sonata in G, K. 301 – Alina Ibragimova, v; Cédric Tiberghien, p. Hyperion CDA-68091 (2). [13:02] Peter Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op. 36 – Colorado Sym/Marin Alsop.

Naxos 8.555714. [44:05] 7:00 Franz Liszt Années de pèlerinage: 2nd Year, Italy: Après une Lecture du Dante: Fantasia Quasi Sonata – Lise de la Salle, p.

Naive V-5267. [16:54] Leó Weiner Serenade for small orchestra, Op. 3 – Budapest Festival Orch/Sir Georg Solti.

London 458929-2. [19:58] Liszt Mephisto Waltz No. 1 – Chicago Sym/Sir Georg Solti.

London 443444-2. [10:40] 8:00 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Radio Broadcasts: Christoph Eschenbach, conductor; David Fray, piano – Weber: Der Freischuetz Overture.

Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 2 in f. Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night’s Dream Overture; Symphony No. 4.

10:00 Collectors’ Corner with Henry Fogel: Music by Mieczyslaw Weinberg (1919-1996)

Monday 26 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore 9:00 Astor Piazzolla Four Seasons

of Buenos Aires: Spring; Summer – Daniel Barenboim, p; Rodolfo Mederos, bandoneon; Hector Console, db. Teldec 13474-2. [8:01] Johann Strauss II Emperor Waltz, Op. 437 – Chicago Sym/Daniel Barenboim. Erato 45998-2. [11:42] Orlando Gibbons Lord Salisbury’s Pavan and Galliard – Stewart Goodyear, p. Sono Luminus DSL-92220. [6:07] 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, including today’s new release, plus: Paul Dukas The Sorcerer’s Apprentice – Montreal Sym/Kent Nagano.

Decca 4830396. [10:42] 11:00 Edward Elgar Cockaigne Overture (In London Town), Op. 40 – BBC Sym/ Sir Colin Davis. Philips 420085-2. [15:13] 12:00 Music in Chicago, plus: Johann Sebastian Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 in G Major, BWV 1049 – Apollo’s Fire/ Jeannette Sorrell. Avie AV-2207 (2). [15:24] 1:00 Music for the Afternoon Isaac Albéniz Iberia, Book 4 – Cincinnati Sym/Jesús LópezCobos. Telarc CD-80470 (2). [19:41] Federico Moreno Torroba Castles of Spain – Christopher Parkening, g.

EMI CDC7-49404-2. [9:10] 2:00 Afternoon Masterwork: Ludwig van Beethoven Violin Concerto in D, Op. 61 – Isaac Stern, v; New York Phil/ Leonard Bernstein. Sony SMK-47521. [43:47] 3:00 Joseph Canteloube Rustiques for wind trio – Chicago Chamber Musicians.

Cedille CDR-90000040.

[16:00] Ferde Grofé Grand Canyon Suite – Cincinnati Pops/Erich Kunzel. Telarc CD-80086. [31:52] 4:00 Late Afternoon Music with Candice Agree, including The Unrush Hour at 5:00 pm 7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: The World of the Virtuoso 8:00 Live from WFMT Encore 10:00 Evenings with Kerry Frumkin

Tuesday 27 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore 9:00 Johann Sebastian Bach French Suite No. 4 in E-flat, BWV 815 – Vladimir Ashkenazy, p. Decca 4832150. [11:59] Leo Délibes Coppélia: Hungarian Dance & Act I Finale – Lyon Opéra Orch/Kent Nagano. Erato 96368-2. [8:00] Antonin Dvorák Slavonic Dances,

Op. 72: No. 2 in e minor – Itzhak Perlman, v; Yo-Yo Ma, vc; Boston Sym/Seiji Ozawa.

Sony SK-46687. [5:00] 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, including today’s new release, plus: Maurice Ravel Piano Sonatine – Stewart Goodyear, p. Orchid Classics ORC-100061. [10:45] 11:00 Jens Kruger Roan Mountain Suite: Slow Clouds – Kruger Brothers & Kontras Quartet. Double Time Music DTM-027. [5:37] 12:00 Music in Chicago, plus: Richard Wagner Tannhäuser Overture – Boston Sym/ Andris Nelsons. BSO Classics 1401. [15:53] 1:00 Music for the Afternoon Gabriel Fauré Masques et Bergamasques, Op. 112 – Seattle Sym/Ludovic Morlot.

Seattle Symphony Media SSM-1004. [13:40] Ron Nelson Courtly Airs and Dances – Dallas Wind Sym/ Jerry Junkin. Reference RR76. [12:02] Claude Debussy Suite bergamasque: III. Clair de lune – Angel Romero, g.

Telarc CD-80134. [5:37] 2:00 Afternoon Masterwork: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Quartet No. 18 in A, K. 464 – Emerson String Quartet.

Andante 123 (3). [32:13] 3:00 Igor Stravinsky The Firebird: Suite (1919) – Israel Phil/Leonard Bernstein.

DG 415127-2. [22:27] 4:00 Late Afternoon Music with Candice Agree, including The Unrush Hour at 5:00 pm 7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: The World of the Virtuoso 8:00 From the CSO’s Archives: The First 130 Years – Spotlighting the CSO Chorus – Poulenc: Gloria (Jessica Rivera, s/Bernard Haitink). Barber: Prayers of Kierkegaard (Sarah Reese, s/Andrew Schenck).

Bruckner: Helgoland (/ Daniel Barenboim).

Gorecki: Euentes ibant et flebant (Lyric & CSO Cho’s/ John Nelson). Prokofiev: Alexander Nevsky (Rosalind Elias, ms/Fritz Reiner).

10:00 Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center – Burleigh: Southland Sketches for violin and piano; Dvorak: String Quintet in G, Op. 77.

11:00 Evening Music on WFMT

Wednesday 28 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore 9:00 George Frideric Handel Harp Concerto in B-Flat, Op. 4,

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No. 6 – Andrew LawrenceKing, h; Taverner Consort/ Andrew Parrott. Virgin Classics 57876-2 (2). [13:53] Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Flute Quartet No. 1 in D, K. 285 – Midsummer’s Music.

Solstice Records. [14:30] Claude Debussy L’isle joyeuse – Pascal Rogé, p. Decca 4785437. [5:40] Francis Poulenc L’Embarquement pour Cythère – Pascal & Ami Rogé, p’s. Onyx 4047. [2:01] 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, including today’s new release, plus: Franz Joseph Haydn Piano Trio in B-Flat, H XV:8 – Beaux Arts Trio.

Philips 454098-2 (9). [13:05] 11:00 Aaron Copland El Salón México – New Philharmonia/ Aaron Copland. CBS MK-42429. [11:27] 12:00 Music in Chicago 12:15 Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts: Trumpeter James Vaughen and pianist Ann Newton Vaughen live from the Cultural Center.

1:00 Music for the Afternoon Johannes Brahms Hungarian Dances: Nos. 2, 4, 8, 9 – Swedish Chamber Orch/Thomas Dausgaard.

Bis BIS-2383. [11:59] Claude Debussy Danses sacrée et profane – Marisa Robles, h; Chamber Orch of Europe/James Galway.

RCA RCD1-7173. [10:51] 2:00 Afternoon Masterwork: Richard Strauss Don Quixote, Op. 35 – Yo-Yo Ma, vc; Boston Sym/Seiji Ozawa.

CBS MK-39863. [45:01] 3:00 Johann Sebastian Bach English Suite No. 3 in g minor, BWV 808 – Simone Dinnerstein, p. Sony 81742-2.

[19:45] Ernest John Moeran Symphonic Impression, In the Mountain Country – Ulster Orch/JoAnn Falletta.

Naxos 8.573106. [6:24] Ottorino Respighi Brazilian Impressions – Cincinnati Sym/Jesús López-Cobos.

Telarc CD-80356. [19:02] 4:00 Late Afternoon Music with Candice Agree, including The Unrush Hour at 5:00 pm 7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: The World of the Virtuoso 8:00 Evenings with Kerry Frumkin 9:00 Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival – Bartok: Contrasts; Elgar: Piano Quintet in a, Op. 84.

10:00 Baroque&Before with Candice Agree 11:00 Evening Music on WFMT

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Thursday 29 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore 9:00 Jean Françaix Piano Concertino – Claude Françaix, p; London Sym/Antal Dorati.

Mercury 434335-2. [7:52] Richard Strauss Capriccio, Op. 85: Prelude for String Sextet – Amsterdam Sinfonietta. Channel Classics CCS-36620. [12:06] Paul Pierné Bucolique variée for wind trio – Chicago Chamber Musicians. Cedille CDR-90000040. [7:57] 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, including today’s new release, plus: Antonin Dvorák Carnival Overture, Op. 92 – Bavarian Radio Sym/Mariss Jansons.

BR Klassik 900145. [9:45] 11:00 Carl Nielsen Helios Overture, Op. 17 – Chicago Sym/Jean Martinon.

RCA 29255-2. [12:18] 12:00 Music in Chicago, plus: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Quartet No. 17 in B-Flat, K. 458, Hunt – American String Quartet. Musicmasters 67194-2 (6). [22:16] 1:00 Music for the Afternoon Johann Sebastian Bach Orchestra Suite No. 2 in B minor, BWV 1067 – Emmanuel Pahud, f; Berlin Baroque Soloists/Rainer Kussmaul. EMI CDC5-57111-2. [19:34] Muzio Clementi Piano Sonata in A major, Op. 50, No. 1 – JeanEfflam Bavouzet, p. Chandos CHAN-20128. [21:50] Bach-Respighi Prelude and Fugue in D, BWV 532 – Liège Royal Phil/John Neschling.

Bis BIS-2350. [10:02] 2:00 Afternoon Masterwork: Sergei Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2 in c minor, Op. 18 – Stewart Goodyear, p; Czech National Sym/Heiko Mathias Förster. Steinway & Sons 30047. [34:16] 3:00 Felix Mendelssohn Symphony No. 5 in d, Op. 107, Reformation – Chamber Orch of Europe/ Yannick Nézet-Séguin.

DG 4797337 (3). [31:13] 4:00 Late Afternoon Music with Candice Agree, including The Unrush Hour at 5:00 pm 7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: The World of the Virtuoso 8:00 Evenings with Kerry Frumkin 9:00 The San Francisco Symphony in Concert: Karina Canellakis, conductor; Alexander Gavrylyuk,

piano – Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 1; Shostakovich: Symphony No. 7, Leningrad.

11:00 Evening Music on WFMT

Friday 30 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore 9:00 Franz Schubert Impromptus, D. 935 (Op. 142): No. 1 in f – Maria João Pires, p.

DG 457550-2 (2). [12:25] Various Variations on an Elizabethan Theme (Sellinger’s Round) – Guildhall String Ensemble/Robert Salter.

RCA 7846-2. [15:53] 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, including today’s new release, plus: Antonio Vivaldi Violin Concerto in D, R. 208, Grosso Mogul – Nicola Benedetti, v; Scottish Chamber Orch/ Christian Curnyn. London B0016412-02. [14:41] 11:00 William Grant Still Danzas de Panama – Oregon String Quartet. Koch 7546-2. [12:36] 12:00 Impromptu Encore: Pianist Marc-Andre Hamelin, performing live in 2016; Lisa Flynn hosts.

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españoles – Manuel Barrueco, g. EMI CDM5-66577-2.

[11:25] Luigi Boccherini Cello Concerto in D, G. 476 – Yo-Yo Ma, Baroque-vc; Amsterdam Baroque Orch/Ton Koopman.

Sony SK-60681. [16:37] Afternoon Masterwork: Modest Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition – Vienna Phil/Gustavo Dudamel.

DG 4796297. [32:17] Aaron Copland Billy the Kid Suite – San Francisco Sym/ Michael Tilson Thomas. RCA 63511-2. [21:06] Charles Tomlinson Griffes Fantasy Pieces, Op. 6 – Drew Petersen, p. Steinway & Sons 30095. [16:35] Late Afternoon Music with Candice Agree, including The Unrush Hour at 5:00 pm Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: The World of the Virtuoso Evenings with LaRob Payton The New York Philharmonic This Week: Kurt Masur, conductor – Schubert: Symphony No. 8, Unfinished; Shostakovich: Symphony No. 13, Babi Yar. Best of Studs Terkel: Pianist Ursula Oppens interviewed in 1994.

April Sponsors Arts Coverage on Chicago Tonight JCS Fund of DuPage Foundation Antiques Roadshow Senior Lifestyle/The Breakers at Edgewater Beach Arts Programming An anonymous donor, in memory of Arthur Wike City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs & Special Events Donna Van Eekeren, CEO & President of Springboard Arts Chicago Illinois Arts Council Agency Jim and Kay Mabie BBC World News Howard and Ursula Dubin Foundation British Programming Robert Ammann Patricia Duff Grisemer Family Charitable Trust Erika and Dietrich Gross Illinois Secretary of State Gary and Mary Walther Chicago Tonight, A WTTW News Production Anonymous Barnes & Thornburg Diane and Michael Beemer Tom Dacey Carr and Holly Johnson Carr Clifford Law Offices Abe and Ida Cooper Foundation The Dauntless Charitable Fund Howard and Ursula Dubin Foundation Gail M. Elden David and Janet Fox Julius N. Frankel Foundation Lloyd A. Fry Foundation The Gecht Family – Robert, Rachel, Amanda, and Maddy The Joseph B. Glossberg Foundation Illinois Secretary of State The Koplin Family in memory of Jean Koplin Jim and Kay Mabie John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Mollenhauer Progressive Philanthropic Fund Monica and Sanford Morganstein Alexandra and John Nichols William F. O’Connor Foundation Laurie and Michael Petersen Polk Bros. Foundation Rose Pest Solutions Steve & Delores Sarovich Foundation Richard and Cynthia Schilsky Jill and John Svoboda Robert J. and Roberta L. Washlow

Science Segments on Chicago Tonight Joel M. Friedman, President, Alvin H. Baum Family Fund Chicago Tonight: Black Voices, A WTTW News Production AARP Chicago Nicholas Antoine Abe and Ida Cooper Foundation Hiranda and Paul Donoghue The Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Fifth Third Bank Fifth Third Chicago Foundation Greenberg Traurig, LLP Judy and John McCarter Gertrude Dyane and James H. Wooten, Jr. Chicago Tonight: Latino Voices, A WTTW News Production AARP Chicago CIBC Abe and Ida Cooper Foundation Judy and John McCarter Cooking Programming BMO Wealth Management Frontline David Snyder and Dr. Margaret Salamon The Great Chicago Quiz Show with Geoffrey Baer Carl Buddig and Company The Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Mollenhauer Progressive Philanthropic Fund in honor of Ida Mollenhauer The Negaunee Foundation Joyce and Matt Walsh UChicago Medicine Hemingway American Writers Museum Rita and John Canning Marshall Field V UChicago Medicine Donna Van Eekeren, CEO and President of Springboard Arts Chicago

Thank You Leo J. & Roslyn L. Krupp Family Foundation Sonia T. Marschak, in loving memory of Ann Iltis George and Sarah Ohlhausen Foundation Eleanor Parker Masterpiece Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois Walter E. Smithe NOVA Brinson Foundation PBS NewsHour Abe and Ida Cooper Foundation Programming Celebrating Diverse Voices ComEd Strategic Growth and Transformation Partners, LLC Trailblazers Programming Elizabeth B. Yntema

Chicago Symphony Orchestra Radio Broadcast Series Albank Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts Admiral at the Lake Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin Paul M. Angell Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. William G. Brown Sasha Gerritson and Eugene Jarvis Julian Family Foundation Earl and Brenda Shapiro Foundation Wintrust Helen Zell Fiesta Joyce Saxon Impromptu Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation International Programs and Remote Broadcasts Friends of Oliver Dragon

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Introductions Kiphart Family Foundation The Negaunee Foundation Steve and Delores Sarovich Foundation Introductions in the Community James and Brenda Grusecki Ms. D. Elizabeth Price Live from WFMT Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation The Midnight Special The Wieseneck Family Spoken Word Programming Poetry Foundation Studs Terkel Radio Archive Laura and Bob Watson, in memory of Charles Benton The Becca Kopf Memorial Circle of Friends Weather Reports AARP Experience Corps Rose Pest Solutions Physicians Immediate Care

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