Volume 43 – Issue 1 January/March 2014
In This Issue:
Page Three WYSU Joins The McDonough Museum In Hosting Mad About The Arts 2014
For 19 years, Mad About the Arts has sponsors and food and beverage vendors been one of the most anticipated cultural who donated support and services. Page Four events in the Mahoning Valley. Always a combined effort of Youngstown Both the McDonough and WYSU State University departments and staffs are already at work planning organizations, this year the event an unforgettable evening celebrating returns to its original presentation – a contemporary art, jazz, wine tasting partnership between the McDonough and food sampling. The event will start Museum of Art, YSU’s center for at 6:30 p.m. with a presentation of wine Page Five contemporary art; and WYSU 88.5 FM, craft and connoisseurship hosted by Ed the valley’s listener-supported public Goist of WYSU 88.5 FM – an expert wine radio station since 1969. distributor in his pre-public radio days! The main event will follow at 7:00 p.m. as The event will take place on Friday, guests enjoy the sounds of the YSU Jazz February 21, from 6:30 p.m. to 10:00 Ensemble 2. At 8:30 p.m., pianist and p.m. at the McDonough Museum of Art. YSU faculty member Dr. Alton Merrell Page Six It is a fundraiser for both organizations; will take the stage with his jazz trio – the last year Mad About the Arts raised highlight of the event. nearly $30,000, thanks to underwriters, Continued On Page Three 88.5 FM 88.5 FM Radio you need to know. 88.5 Youngstown 90.1 Ashtabula 97.5 New Wilmington
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Radio you need to know. Program Listings 2014 January/March MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY Mid. Mid.
1:00 Jazz 1:00 Midnight - 2 a.m. 2:00 Classical Music 2:00 Midnight - 5 a.m. (Mon. - Fri.) 2 a.m. - 6 a.m. (Sat. - Sun.) 3:00 3:00
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6:00 6:00 Hearts of Space Alternative Radio Morning Edition 6 a.m. - 7 a.m. 6 a.m. - 7 a.m. 7:00 5 a.m. - 9 a.m. 7:00 On the Media Being 7 a.m. - 8 a.m. 7 a.m. - 8 a.m. 8:00 8:00
Weekend Edition Weekend Edition 9:00 8 a.m. - 10 a.m. 8 a.m. - 10 a.m. 9:00
10:00 10:00 Car Talk Classical Music with Barbara Krauss 10 a.m - 11 a.m. A Prairie Home 11:00 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. Companion 11:00 Wait, Wait ... Don’t Tell Me! 10 a.m. - Noon 11 a.m. - Noon Noon Noon TED Radio Hour Car Talk Noon - 1 p.m. Noon - 1 p.m. 1:00 1:00 Fresh Air Weekend Wait, Wait ... Don’t Tell Me! Classical Music with 1 p.m. - 2 p.m. 1 p.m. - 2 p.m. 2:00 Classical Music with Gary Sexton Peter van De Graaff 2:00 1 p.m. - 3 p.m. 1 p.m. - 3 p.m. Travel with Rick Steves Says You! 2 p.m. - 3 p.m. 2 p.m. - 3 p.m. 3:00 3:00 Fresh Air Sound Medicine A Way with Words 3 p.m. - 4 p.m. 3 p.m. - 4 p.m. 3 p.m. - 4 p.m. 4:00 4:00 Only A Game The Splendid Table 4 p.m. - 5 p.m. 4 p.m. - 5 p.m. 5:00 5:00 All Things Considered Weekend ATC 4 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. 5 p.m. - 6 p.m. 6:00 6:00 On the Media A Prairie Home Marketplace, 6:30 p.m. - 7 p.m. 6 p.m. - 7 p.m. 7:00 Companion 7:00 Looking Out, 7 - 7:30 Fresh Air 6 p.m. - 8 p.m. Thistle and Shamrock 7 p.m. - 8 p.m. Lft, Rgt & Ctr 7:30 - 8 7 p.m. - 8 p.m. 8:00 8:00 Folk Festival with Charles Darling 9:00 9:00 World of Performance Today The Jazz Sofa with The Jazz Sofa with 8 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. Opera Rick Popovich Rick Popovich 8 p.m. - 11 p.m. Classical Music, 9:30 - 10 10:00 8 p.m. - 11 p.m. 8 p.m. - 11 p.m. 8 p.m. - 11 p.m. 10:00 Harmonia 10 p.m. - 11 p.m. 11:00 11:00 Classical Music Rhythm Sweet & Hot Now’s the Time Classical Music 11 p.m. - Midnight 11 p.m. - Midnight 11 p.m. - Midnight 11 p.m. - Midnight Mid. Mid. All programs are subject to change without notice.
2 WYSU Joins The McDonough Museum In Hosting Mad About The Arts 2014 Continued From Page One Throughout the evening, guests will sample delectable appetizers, beverages and desserts from a dozen local vendors who have developed creative new menu items just for Mad About the Arts. Tickets are limited, and in great demand! Get your tickets and more information by going to www.wysu.org/madaboutthearts.
Tickets For Mad About The Arts On Sale Online
Tickets for Mad About the Arts 2014 are on sale as of January 2! They are $80 each, with discounted tickets at $65 each available for the following people:
• WYSU 88.5 FM current members; McDonough Museum of Art current members
• YSU faculty members, staff and students
• YSU Fine & Performing Arts (now Creative Arts & Communication) alumni
Mad About The Arts Supports StoryCorps Event At YSU To purchase tickets go to www.wysu. org/madaboutthearts. Tickets will be StoryCorps to Youngstown. StoryCorps mailed. Tickets can also be purchased is an independent nonprofit project with a check or credit card by going to whose mission is to honor and celebrate WYSU offices, located in the basement the lives of everyday Americans by of Cushwa Hall on the campus of listening to their stories. “Voices of Youngstown State University. Tickets the Valley,” StoryCorps Youngstown cannot be purchased with cash. represents the kind of programs that are made possible by events like Mad You must have a ticket to attend Mad Money raised at Mad About the About the Arts. More information About the Arts 2014. Arts 2014 will help to support an about this will be posted at www.wysu. exciting new project planned for this org or mcdonoughmuseum.ysu.edu as For more information call Tricia at 330- summer. WYSU is working with The it becomes available. 941-1777 or email [email protected]. McDonough Museum of Art to bring
3 Now’s The Time with Martin Berger, Saturday, 11 pm
1/4 Illinois Jacquet. Best known as a screaming, high-energy tenor saxophonist, also a mellow ballad player; mostly from 1940s-’50s small group sessions.
1/11 Al Cohn. Lean, linear tenor sax, also a deft arranger.
1/18 Jimmy Rushing. “Mr. Five by Five,” mostly in Basie-flavored sessions.
1/25 Duke Ellington. How fortunate that Duke’s long and splendid career was so frequently recorded! Here are some of those recordings.
2/1 Roy Eldridge. Perhaps the most intense of jazz trumpeters, in varied and excellent company.
2/8 Andrew Hill. Original, fascinating modern-jazz pianist.
2/15 Ralph LaLama. YSU’s own, a pillar of jazz tenor saxophone. Staff Flashbacks 2/22 Stan Getz. An alternate universe We thought you might like to see a few of us “back in the day” – just because! where tenor saxophone combines lightness, precision, and apparent ease.
3/1 Louis Armstrong. We’ll check the master’s several eras, but lean on the virtuosic performances of the ’30s and ’40s.
3/8 Horace Parlan. Modern pianist, firmly based in the blues.
3/15 North Sea Festival. Selections from a major, long-lived European jazz Right: festival. Gary – circa 1979 3/22 Charles Mingus. Fierce, varied performances from the Bottom left: bassist and leader. Tricia – circa 1981
3/29 Terry Waldo. One of the most Top left: persuasive and entertaining of trad- Ed – circa 1990 revival pianists and leaders.
4 A Glimpse, Chapter 4
Every now and then, we ask one of our staff Most influential inventor members to provide a little glimpse into their of the 20th century lives. This issue it is Ron Krauss, who joined Two. Nikola Tesla and Edwin Howard WYSU as chief broadcast engineer in 2005. Armstrong.
Hobbies Most helpful development The editing and restoration of classic of the 20th century live radio and music performances. Antibiotics/vaccines. Also, photography and attempting to play the trombone. Ron with two of his large friends – Least useful development the WYSU transmitters. of the 20th century My ideal job Weapons of any sort. And most modern I have it. I enjoy (in no particular order) Ideal retirement location commercial media programming. the music, the staff and the technical It still seems far off, but somewhere challenges. warm and bright would be nice. If I won the lottery I would find a large piece of land to live Short life philosophy Dog or cat person away from the grid, then give the rest to Leave it better than you found it. If that Dogs because they are grateful for the worthwhile causes. is not possible, don’t mess with it. attention. Cats because they permit it.
5 Shortened On-Air Drive is a Hit once again – On the Air and Off!
During the recent Fall Fund Drive, Downtown. Additional gifts came from W. Beeghly Family Foundation, Internet WYSU raised $115,454, the second Covelli Enterprises – which donated Data Management Inc. (idmi.net), highest amount ever raised during a Panera Bread gift cards to the drive. the Law Firm of Mansell & Andrews, WYSU fund drive! A total of 1,123 Stambaugh Auditorium, Hersh listeners contributed to the station during This year the drive featured many Exterminating Service, Youngstown State the drive, including 116 new members. giveaways and other incentives and University and its Master’s Program in challenges, including; An Early Bird Interdisciplinary Communication, and WYSU staff members were on the air Prize Package, Daily Prize Packages, The Youngstown Symphony Orchestra, throughout the 72-hour drive, sharing a New Member Prize Package, and a all of which provided matches during the benefits of membership and the Pennsylvania Member Prize Package. pledge periods. importance of supporting public radio. Cindy Glass, a WYSU listener from In the office, close to 40 volunteers took Greenville won the Grand Prize trip for The WYSU staff would like to thank all shifts answering the phones and taking two to France. of the listeners, volunteers, vendors, and pledges. They kept busy, but did not go sponsors who helped to make our 2013 Fall hungry! Breakfast, lunch and dinner Corporate and foundation support Membership Drive such a great success! was provided by local restaurants, for the fund drive was provided by including Chick fil A, Dowtown The Nathalie and James Andrews THANK YOU! Circle Convenience Store and Avalon Foundation, The Bruce R. and Nancy
6 MODERN PREMIERE OF PASSION ACCORDING TO ST. LUKE – C.P.E. BACH
WYSU is proud to be a major sponsor of a modern-era world premiere of C.P.E. Bach’s 1775 Passion according to St. Luke. The performance will take place on Monday, March 31 at 8:00 pm at Trinity United Methodist Church in Youngstown.
The Passion according to St. Luke was performed only once. It was never published in Bach’s lifetime, and survived only in manuscript form, but was lost after World War II and only rediscovered in 1999. A modern, critical edition has been prepared by Dr. Randall Goldberg, assistant professor of Music History at Youngstown State University for the Packard Humanities Institute.
Listen to WYSU for more information about this unique performance.
7 Why Should Your Company Sponsor WYSU?
88.5 FM WYSU offers you an upscale environment and will reach a select group audience of trend-setters and decision of consumers. Daily on-air credits will THANKS makers. Our listeners are choice identify your business or product, linking FOR YOUR consumers, savvy business leaders, and you to quality programming – and our influential individuals who react positively rates are very reasonable. to our sponsors’ underwriting messages. SUPPORT To find out how to get your message If you are the owner of a small business or out on WYSU, please contact Ed Goist, To put it simply: Because WYSU’s private practice, consider how supporting Development Officer at 330-941-3364 or listening community has the potential public radio can help both you and the by e-mail at: [email protected]. to be a great target audience for the station. Underwriting on WYSU is a marketing plan of any business, highly cost-effective marketing strategy. We look forward to your business becoming organization or institution. Your message is delivered in an uncluttered one of our underwriting partners!
8 Monday’s Still A Great Deal At The Local Movie Theater! World of Opera Monday, 8:00 pm Every Monday at Shenango Valley Cinema in Hermitage is Mighty Movie Monday. Tickets are just $5.50 each, for every movie at every time, all day. 1/6 Vivaldi: The Coronation of Dario. Accademia Bizantina; Ottavio At that price you also get a FREE 32oz. popcorn. Dantone, conductor. Baroque operas, On Mondays, you choose the movie, you choose the time, especially after 1700, tend to be filled you get the popcorn, for just $5.50! with long numbers – both recitatives and arias – that tend to slow down the For all movies and times, and for directions to action. But this unusual and neglected Shenango Cinema go to http://www.moviescoop.com/shenango-valley-cinemas/. drama has a torrent of brief arias that make it one of Vivaldi’s most colorful See you at the movies! scores, and an opera particularly well- suited to modern day performances.
1/11 Rossini: L’Italiana in Algeri. Rossini Opera Festival, Pesaro; Teatro Communale Orchestra and Chorus of Bologna; José Ramón Encinar, conductor. The story may be a little silly – OK, a lot silly – and it’s politically incorrect in the extreme! But nobody did wackiness better, more beautifully, or with a finer instinct for pure comedy than Rossini displays in this sparkling score.
1/20 Handel: Agrippina. Grand Liceu Theater, Barcelona; Harry Bicket, conductor. Handel’s Italian operas made him the toast of London long before his famous English oratorios caught the public’s ear. Agrippina is named for Nero’s shrewd and savvy mother, without whom the infamous emperor could never have fiddled while Rome burned.
1/27 Verdi: La Traviata. La Scala, Milan; Daniele Gatti, conductor. It’s hard to think of an opera house more closely associated with Verdi than La Scala, or a more beloved Verdi opera than La Traviata. So it’s fitting that this stellar production kicks off La Scala’s 2013-2014 season, culminating Verdi’s bicentennial year.
9 Folk Festival, with Charles Darling, Sunday, 8:00 pm WYSU STAFF April Antell-Tarantine - Announcer/Producer 1/5 Folk Sampler 1969-2014. Looking 3/2 Folk Sampler, Part LXVII. We Ed Goist - Development Officer Chris Hartman - back at selections from the first program explore the wide range of folk music: Assistant Broadcast Engineer for IT & Operations on WYSU to almost 45 years later. from traditional to contemporary, from Barbara Krauss - Announcer/Producer white country to black blues. Ron Krauss - Broadcast Engineer 1/12 Back to the ’20s and ’30s. String David Luscher - Associate Director Tricia Perry - Funding Officer band and country blues sounds with The 3/9 The Best of Folk-Legacy. Musicians Rick Popovich - Announcer/Producer Skillet Lickers, North Carolina Ramblers, who recorded for the Connecticut folk Gary Sexton - Director Lemon Jefferson, and Robert Johnson. label: Gordon Bok, Anne Mayo Muir, Laurie Wittkugle - Administrative Assistant Helen Schneyer, Bob Zetz, Harry Tuft, VOLUNTEER PROGRAM HOSTS/PRODUCERS 1/19 Extended Sets, Part XLIV. Frank Proffitt, et al. Martin Berger - Now’s the Time 30-minute sets with suave, sophisticated, Sarah Brown-Clark - Looking Out folk singer/actor Theodore Bikel;3/16 More Strictly Irish. On St. Patrick’s Bonnie Burdman - Looking Out 12-string guitar wizard Fred Gerlach; and Day eve, assorted Irish musicians from Charles Darling - Folk Festival Willie Lofton - Production Assistant British balladeers Rory and Alex McEuen. the olde sod perform along with North George McCloud - Looking Out American emigrants. David Porter - Looking Out 1/24 Folk Music from A to Z, Part VI. Folk musicians M through N continue the 3/23 Folk Groups, Part I. From both STUDENT STAFF Sherry Bobosky - Office Assistant survey: Taj Mahal, Ed McCurdy, Brownie sides of the Atlantic with Peter Paul & Carolyn Briley - Weekend Announcer McGhee, Don McLean, Joni Mutchell, Mary, Mumford & Sons, New Landers, Aamber Hopson - Office Assistant New Lost City Ramblers, and more. Cherish the Ladies, Colcannon, Waterson Daniel Paterson - Weekend Announcer Family, etc. Gregory Sili - Music Librarian Rachael Swanson - Music Librarian, Weekend Announcer 1/31 Great Female Folk Singers. The Paul Tatar - Production Assistant best! Wolf, Odetta, Collins, Baez, Prior, 3/30 Folk Groups, Part II. More groups: Tyler Tsangaris-Braatz - Office Assistant Denny, Ritchie, Seeger, Matheson. Brains Behind Paw, Capercaillie, Brady’s Leap, Steeleye Span, Lumineers, Patrick 2/2 Contemporary Folk, Part LIX. Street, Tempest, New Barleycorn, Old Recent groups Mumford and Sons and Crow Medicine Show, etc. ADVISORY BOARD the Lumineers compete with older 2008/2011 2011 Fred Alexander Gary Davenport contemporaries Bob Dylan and Peter Member Privacy – Just Wanted You to Know Ralph Peters Maggie McClendon Paul & Mary. 1. WYSU-FM does not sell, rent, lease, loan, trade, give, Joan Lawson donate, transfer or exchange their membership Susan Stewart 2012 or donor names to, with or from any candidate for 2/9 Play it Again, Sam, Part VI. We Shelley Odille Stacey Adger federal, state or local office, political committees, or LuWayne Annos compare two or more versions of the political parties for any purpose whatsoever, except 2009/2012 Judy Barron as otherwise required by law or judicial process. same song, including “The Two Sisters,” Lark Dickstein Fr. Bob Bonnot
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The Butler Institute of American Art
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The Ruth H. Beecher Charitable Trust National City Bank, Co-Trustee John Weed Powers, Co-Trustee
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