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From the President & CEO The Guide The Member Magazine for WTTW and WFMT Dear Member, Renée Crown Public Media Center This month, we are excited to bring you a sweeping new adaptation of Victor Hugo’s 5400 North Saint Louis Avenue Chicago, Illinois 60625 classic novel Les Misérables. This new six-part series, featuring an all-star cast including Dominic West, David Oyelowo, and recent Oscar winner Olivia Colman, tells the story of fugitive Jean Valjean, his relentless pursuer Inspector Javert, and other colorful characters Main Switchboard (773) 583-5000 in turbulent 19th century France. We hope you’ll join us on Sunday nights for this epic Member and Viewer Services drama, and explore extra content on our website including episode recaps and fact vs. (773) 509-1111 x 6 fiction. If spring is a time of renewal, that is also certainly true of some of WTTW’s offerings Websites wttw.com in April, including eagerly awaited new seasons of three very different British detective wfmt.com series – Father Brown, Death in Paradise, and Unforgotten – and Mexico: One Plate at a Time, Jamestown, and Islands Without Cars. On wttw.com, as American Masters features Publisher newspaper magnate Joseph Pulitzer, we profile Chicago winners of the journalism and Anne Gleason arts award that bears his name, and highlight some extraordinary African American Art Director Tom Peth entrepreneurs in Chicago. WTTW Contributors WFMT will present the annual Rising Stars concert of the Ryan Opera Center, and Julia Maish Dan Soles organist Nathan Laube’s four-part international organ festival on Friday evenings, All the WFMT Contributors Stops with Nathan Laube. On wfmt.com, we’ll talk to some Grammy-nominated producers Andrea Lamoreaux about what goes into creating your favorite classical music recordings, celebrate singers David Polk Distribution Manager on World Vocal Day, and spotlight some classical works that originated as literature for Pat Sheppard World Book Day. This April, thank you for supporting WTTW and WFMT. Advertising Sales Sincerely, WTTW Douglas Carleton (773) 279-2128 Sandra Cordova Micek WFMT President & CEO Alexander Stonor Saunders (773) 509-5357 The Guide: The Member Magazine for WTTW and WFMT (ISSN 2329-1338) April 2019 Volume 34, Number 251 The Guide: The Member Magazine for WTTW and WFMT is published monthly (for contributors of $40 or more annually) by Window To The World Communications, Inc., 5400 North Saint Louis Ave., Chicago, IL Inside the Guide 60625-4698. Periodical postage paid at Chicago, IL and additional mailing offices. 3 Member Connections 14 Multi-Channel Primetime Grid 4 Member Perks 17 Do it Yourself Saturdays POSTMASTER: Send address 5 WTTW11 Listings 19 At-a-Glance changes to The Guide: The Member 6 WTTW Multicast Channel Highlights 20 WFMT Listings Magazine for WTTW and WFMT, 5400 North Saint Louis Ave., 8 WTTW Kid Grid 31 Sponsors Chicago, IL 60625-4698. Copyright 2018, Window To The World ON THE COVER: Les Misérables on Masterpiece Dominic West, Lily Collins, Ellie Bamber, David Oyelowo. Communications, Inc., Chicago, IL. Credit: Courtesy of MASTERPIECE/PBS 2 APRIL 2019 MEMBER CONNECTIONS American Creed: Screening & Community Conversation Boss: The Black Experience Don’t miss this screening and community conversation, over two weeks, focusing on the thought-pro- in Business: Screening & voking documentary American Creed. In a fractured nation, what ideals do we share in common? To find out, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David M. Kennedy teams up Discussion with former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to investigate the WHAT idea of a unifying American creed. Their inquiry frames the stories John H. Johnson of American Creed: Screening & Johnson Publishing of activists – including Community Conversation Company Chicago Cubs manager Joe Maddon and others – WHERE Wheaton Public Library who are striving to real- Meeting Room H ize his or her own vision 225 N. Cross Street of America’s promise in Wheaton across a deep divide. David M. Kennedy and The screening on the WHEN Condoleezza Rice Monday, April 8, 6:30 pm 8th will be followed by a (film screening) brief discussion that will be continued in more depth the following Monday, April 15, 7:00 pm week, as Dr. Caroline Kisiel of DePaul University asks attendees to (community conversation) explore who gets to be counted as “American” and why, and ways we can make a difference to our immediate community. These are free events. For more information, please visit wttw.com/events. Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts Join WFMT each Wednesday for the Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts, live from Preston Bradley Hall in the Chicago Cultural Center. Enjoy solo recitals and ensemble performances by emerging classical artists from around the world, produced by the International Music Foundation. Featured artists this month WHAT include pianist Rasa Vitkauskaite, pianist Sophiko Simsive, cellist Juliette Herlin with pianist Kevin Ahfat, Boss: The Black Experience in Business: Screening & Discussion and violinist Ambroise Aubrun with pianist Steven Vanhauwaert. Performances take place beneath the world’s largest Tiffany- WHERE WHAT domed ceiling, part of a landmark building that originally housed Chicago Cultural Center Dame Myra Hess the Chicago Public Claudia Cassidy Theatre Memorial Concerts Library. The series is 78 E. Washington Street in Chicago WHERE named for British pianist Chicago Cultural Center Myra Hess, who orga- WHEN Preston Bradley Hall nized free lunchtime Saturday, April 20, 2:00 pm 78 E. Washington Street in concerts for Londoners Chicago during World War II, in WHEN the years of nightly air Wednesdays, April 3, 10, 17, raids. WTTW, in partnership with the Chicago and 24, 12:15 pm These are free events. Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events, For information, please presents a screening and discussion of Boss: The Juliette Herlin and Kevin Ahfat visit wfmt.com. Black Experience in Business. This new film, direct- ed by Stanley Nelson, Jr., reveals the untold stories of some intrepid African Americans whose skill, in- Urban Nature 2: Screening & Discussion dustriousness, ingenuity, and sheer courage in the If you know where to look, you’ll find the most surprising slices of nature thriving amidst the urban jungle face of overwhelming odds continue to provide the of America’s largest cities. Join WTTW and the Nature Museum for an exclusive screening, discussion and Q backbone of this nation’s economic and social & A for WTTW’s digital growth. series, URBAN NATURE. Tying together the past and the present, Boss: The After the screening, WHAT Black Experience in Business traces the inspiring Urban Nature 2: Doug Taron, PhD, Chief Screening & Discussion history of trailblazing African American entrepre- Curator of the Chicago neurship and the significant contributions of con- Academy of Sciences, WHERE temporary business leaders, bringing audiences on will moderate a discus- Peggy Notebaert a journey from the end of Reconstruction through sion and Q & A with se- Nature Museum the present, tracing the emergence of a stable black Salamander 2430 N. Cannon Drive ries producer/writer business community alongside the greater struggle in Chicago Dan Protess and host/University of Chicago evolutionary biol- for civil rights. The screening will be followed by a ogist Marcus Kronforst. WHEN panel discussion. WTTW members receive $5 off by using code WTTW when Wednesday, April 10, 2019, This is a free event; for more information, please reserving tickets at wttw.com/events. For tickets and more in- 6:30 pm visit wttw.com/events. formation, please visit wttw.com/events. 2019 APRIL 3 MEMBER PERKS 2-for-1 Tickets to MIRACLE at the Royal George Theatre WTTW Members have the opportunity to receive exclusive 2-for-1 tickets to May performances of MIRACLE, beginning May 8 at the Royal George Theatre. Inspired by Chicago’s beloved 2016 World Series Champions the Chicago Cubs, MIRACLE makes its thrilling world premiere this spring. With a book by Jason Brett, music and lyrics by Jeff Award winner Michael Mahler, and produced by William Marovitz, this heartwarming musical tells the story Lionel Hampton of a typical blue collar Chicago family and what it means to have faith and lose it and try to regain it 2-for-1 Tickets for Lionel again. The story chronicles the Delaney family, a tough North Side clan whose lives have been intrin- Hampton Birthday Tribute sically linked to the Cubbies for generations. Each The Music Institute of Chicago presents a member of the family has his or her own story built celebration of the late American vibraphonist around the dynamics of their lives and their love of and bandleader Lionel Hampton on Saturday, the Cubs, and will illustrate how a little faith can take April 20 – what would have been his 111th you further than you ever imagined. birthday. To redeem this special offer, please call (312) 988-9000 or visit miraclethemusical.com and use Performers include jazz vibraphonist, composer, code WTTW when purchasing tickets. This offer is only valid for May performances at the Royal George and bandleader Joe Locke, who has performed and Theatre Mainstage, 1641 N Halsted Street in Chicago. Limit four tickets per WTTW member. Subject to recorded with such notable musicians as Grover availability. Washington Jr., Kenny Barron, Eddie Henderson, The Beastie Boys, and more; jazz vocalist and Artist-in-Residence Tammy McCann, who has $10 Off Idle Muse Theatre Company’s Best For Winter performed with Ramsey Lewis and Von Freeman The ensemble of Idle Muse Theatre Company premieres Best for Winter, being a short Shakespeare and has toured as a “Raelette” with Ray Charles; Adapted from The Winter’s Tale and other works based on Shakespeare’s story with an impossible ending. and vibraphonist Thaddeus Tukes, who grew up Shakespeare’s story of human beings living in a world broken by the unforgivable acts of a man in power on Chicago’s South Side, attended Whitney Young is the basis for this new adaptation focused on feelings and actions and as recognizable in 2019 as they High School, and graduated from Northwestern were in the Bard’s time.