WGLT Program Guide, October, 1988
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Illinois State University ISU ReD: Research and eData WGLT Program Guides Arts and Sciences Fall 10-1-1988 WGLT Program Guide, October, 1988 Illinois State University Follow this and additional works at: https://ir.library.illinoisstate.edu/wgltpg Recommended Citation Illinois State University, "WGLT Program Guide, October, 1988" (1988). WGLT Program Guides. 80. https://ir.library.illinoisstate.edu/wgltpg/80 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Arts and Sciences at ISU ReD: Research and eData. It has been accepted for inclusion in WGLT Program Guides by an authorized administrator of ISU ReD: Research and eData. For more information, please contact [email protected]. WGLT fm89.1 . October 1988 Program Guide Public Radio from IS U Manager's Memo- October Schedule- Another school-year well actually to present on the air. time well spent, well worth 23 October 23 October underway and another Extend that to 15 hours of it, when listeners respond- -SIDRAN ON RECORD Anabaptists Murial Spark's "First Year of My Life" Kyle Sessions , read by calendar-year nearing an end! music and multiply that by especially when the response Saturdays at 3:00 PM One's perspective on time is 7, and you get 105 hours per is complimentary. But it is !SU History Department Linda Hunt I October Tobias Wolfs "Rich Brother" read by subject to so many variable week. A bit more of a equally appreciated and 30 October Featured Guest: Jonathon Hidari circumstances. Years seem to challenge? Well, the next satisfying when we receive Boris Gudunov Kareem Abdul-Jabbar go by faster as you age. The step, of course, is to multiply constructive criticism. Let us Don Davis , 30 October end of a set project or, say, a by 52, and you can see what hear from you! 8 October !SU History Department Amy Hempill's "The Most Girl Part of school -year seems so far off; keeps several members of the By the way, your Featured Guest: Bruce Forman You" read by Kate Burton yet as you reach that end, the WGLTstaffbusy during the response the first week of this Barry Hannah's "Water Liars" read by time often seems to have year. Programming a variety month - October 3-9 (a 15 October -SELECTED SHORTS Steven Gilborn flown by. Where did the of tastes and moods, to shift by a week in the dates Featured Guests: Sonny Rollins Sundays at 6:00 PM Gordon Lisch's "Resurrection" read by Joseph Summer summer go? attract and maintain the previously announced)-is a 22 October 2 October For broadcasters, time interest of several thousand very tangible way to express Calvin Trillin's "Dinner at the Featured Guest: Wynron Marsalis Heinrich Boll's "The Man with the DeLaurentas" read by has additional significance. listeners is certainly time-con- your appreciation for all the Knives" read by Isaiah Sheffer 29 October The broadcast day is divided suming. But it can also be hours of news, information Charles Keating not only into hours but also very rewarding when you and music produced and Featured Guest: Archie Shepp S. J. Perelman's "Farewell My Lovely into minutes and even know that there are several aired by your public radio Appetizer" read by -NIGHTMUSIC-THE BLUES Harris Yul in seconds. A program may be thousand listeners and when station, WGLT. Thanks for Hosted by Marc Boon THE PAST JS PROLOGUE so many minutes or hours you hear from a few of them your continued pledges of - Moishe Nadir's "The Man Who Slept Sundays at 8:00 PM long; an announcement may every now and then! support. Sundays at 3:00 PM Through the End of the World" read by Eli Wallach 2 October be as long as a minute (just A similar scenario may Great Villains Moses Rascoe l0-11 PM 60 seconds) or as short as 10 be described for the news staff 2 October 9 October seconds. And it is amazing of WGLT and NPR as they Theodoric Ostrogoths john Rolfe Gardiner's "A Crossing" read 9 October by Paul Hecht how much information can be compile and present materials John Freed , TBA communicated in just 10 of some 35 hours of news and JSU History Department Marguerire Yourcenar's" How Wang Fo Was Saved" read by Marian Seldes 16 October seconds! information programs each 9 October 16 October Mississippi john Hurt Live l0-11 PM A block of 4 hours of week. And, once again, it is Clovis, King ofFrancs classical music or of jazz John Freed, James Stephens's "The Srory of a Good 23 October doesn't seem to be a difficult !SU History Department Dog" read by Eric Clapron 9- 11 PM Malachy McCourt challenge to prepare nor 16 October Eva Konrad's "Levkady and Other Sid 30 Ocrober john Calvin Chances" read by Roy Buchanon "Live Stock" I0-11 PM Kyle Sessions , Rochelle Oliver !SU History Department Roberr Olmsread's "How to Bury a Dog " read by Stephen Lang An Open Letter- Halloween Horrors- fromJohn Schafer, onWGLT Host of New Sounds Dear Listeners , New Sounds also deals unfamiliar territory to music The thrilling drama that Phillips, the first news- Although New Sounds has with recordings, of course. listeners. By calling the show terrified many radio listeners person to see the been coming to you from Some of October's features New Sounds, we leave the door 50 years ago is coming to Martian invaders. National Public Radio for include new works by Lou open for ancient music that WGLT in October. A new The 50th more than two years , this Harrison , new instruments the classical tradition has version of "The War of the anniversary October is almost like a new like the Baschet Crystal (a passed by (Hildegard von Worlds" will be broadcast at production beginning for us . This bowed glass instrument Bingen or music from the 7:00 PM, Friday, October 30 will take month, NPR begins offering played by composer Michael Crusades) and such things as and rebroadcast Halloween place over a five-night-a-week service Deneuve), and private tapes 1930's electronic experi night at 11:00 PM on WGLT. today's media - a cool and of new and peculiar music. from composers all over the ments, or an overlooked On Halloween Eve seamless flow of information . stand at attention for the Now to some people, world . outtake from an old Miles 1938, radio listeners were Director David Ossman master of horror. this is good news. To others, One basic premise of Davis album . startled and suddenly comments, "What gives At midnight on it's just one step above New Sounds - and a com I guess what it boils panicked at the news that Howard Koch's script its Halloween, tune to WGLT chewing tin foil. But to pletely unoriginal thought is down to is this : New Sounds Martians were invading tremendous impact is the and hear "The Black Cat ," many, it will mean having an about to come your way - is has something for everybody; Grovers Mill, New Jersey. compression of time from an the tale of a guilt-ridden, opportunity to hear some of that the world is getting but not everybody's going to Orson Welles eventually innocent beginning to the middle-aged man driven to today's most intriguing (and smaller and smaller. New have a chance to hear it. If announced the broadcast, end of the world. Also , it's murder. The man responds to often offbeat) music for the music can be found anywhere: you haven't had the chance based on a science fiction pure radio for the ear - his mid-life crisis by killing first time. The old days when in India, Ghana, or in before , I hope you' II take story by H. G. Wells, was a timeless. " Executive his wife and his cat ... bur the "modern music" meant only Western Java. In the tradi advantage of it now. Just be Halloween prank. No one producer Judith Walcutt cat comes back to life to one thing (usually a style that tions of the British Isles or prepared. For anything. who heard the broadcast promises, ''An exceptional torment the evil man . some cynics call "honk would ever forger it. event for public radio. " Our second tale is "The the Andes. And despite often John Schaefer squeak" music) are over. trying circumstances and The entirely new This thrilling event will Pit and the Pendulum" - a Today, there's a lot of music official resistance, behind the production of "The War of be broadcast at 7:00 PM, story of horror confronting a that's accessible, enjoyable, Iron curtain. Our program on Editor's Nore: You can the Worlds" will star Jason Friday, October 30, and prisoner of the Inquisition . and still intelligently crafted . October 10 is devoted to hear New Sounds with host Robards as Princeton rebroadcast on Halloween Decending from the ceiling An important part of music made in Eastern John Schaefer weeknights at astronomer Richard Pierson , night at 11:00 PM, so lock of his cell is a swinging sword New Sounds has always been Europe: Yugoslavia, Czechos 9:00 PM beginning October one of a handful to survive your doors and windows and which drives him inexorably the opportunity to hear live lovakia, and Poland, 10th on 89.1 FM , WGLT. the initial Martian attack on hide under your bed, but towards an aperture in the performances in our studios including a haunting tape of Grovers Mill, New Jersey. keep your radio tuned to floor - the deep pit. and to hear the composers voice and harmonium secretly Also included in the 89.1 FM.