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Volume 44 – Issue 2 April/May/June In This Issue: Still MAD! Page Four Event Raises Record Amount On Friday, February 20, 500 people came out on a very cold night for the 20th annual Mad About the Arts event. Thanks to the many guests and generous underwriters, this year’s event raised $40,000, the most ever for Mad. Proceeds benefit both event partners – 88.5 WYSU and the McDonough Museum of Art at YSU. The party was held at Stambaugh Auditorium, a special location for this landmark year. Guests enjoyed food and Page Seven wine from 17 local vendors, as well as music by YSU Jazz Ensemble 2 directed by Dr. Kent Engelhardt and YSU Jazz Combo directed by Dr. Alton Merrell. In-kind donations and gifts from several businesses and individuals ensured that every detail was just right. The evening ended with the band Redline, and the dance floor was busy! Enjoy the photos from the 20th Mad About the Arts on page seven. Page Eight MAD ABOUT THE ARTS 88.5 FM 88.5 FM Radio you need to know. 88.5 Youngstown 88.1 Ashtabula 97.5 New Wilmington Radio you need to know. 88.5 FM Radio you need to know. Program Listings 2015 April/May/June 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 4:00 4:00 5:00 5:00 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 On 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 Radiolab Wait, Wait ... Don’t Tell Me! Performance 1 p.m. - 2 p.m. 1 p.m. - 2 p.m. 2:00 Classical Music with Gary Sexton Today 2:00 1 p.m. - 3 p.m. 1 p.m. - 3 p.m. Bullseye with Jesse Thorn A Way With Words 2 p.m. - 3 p.m. 2 p.m. - 3 p.m. 3:00 3:00 Fresh Air Fresh Air Weekend Travel with Rick Steves 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 Marketplace, 6:30 p.m. - 7 p.m. A Prairie Home 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. The Allegheny Front 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 Jazz 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 SCANDINAVIA theby Barbara Capitals Krauss to the Fjords RUSSIA Our WYSU-sponsored Go Ahead Tour includes: • Expert Tour Directors • Local cuisine with beer or wine • Handpicked hotels • Sightseeing with local guides With the roster now full for our Alaska trip this • Private transportation summer, it’s time to start planning for next year’s tour, and • Personalized flight we’d love to have you be a part of it. options In the spring of 2016, WYSU is planning one of our most requested tours ever – an exciting trip to four Scandinavian countries, with an optional three-day trip to St. Petersburg, Russia. From seafaring histories to fantastic fjords, there’s a lot For more information, including to love about Scandinavia. Marvel at Norway’s amazing pricing, please call 330-941-3363. You can green cliffs and blue water, then set sail from Oslo to also email [email protected] for details. Denmark’s waterside capital. Hit the remaining Nordic capitals – Stockholm and Helsinki, two of the world’s most livable cities – and explore their maritime pasts and modern architecture. 3 YOU CAN’T PAULA POUNDSTONE’S JOKES MAKE THIS TICKLE A PACKED HOUSE IN STUFF UP! YOUNGSTOWN A flight attendant, a foot doctor, and a retired librarian – all Mahoning Valley residents – found themselves in the spotlight and the focus of some clever ribbing when they bought a ticket to see comedian Paula Poundstone Feb. 27 at the DeYor. But no one seemed to mind! A star of NPR’s Wait, Wait…Don’t Tell Me, Poundstone has a huge following among WYSU listeners, who made up a large portion of the audience. They seemed well aware of Poundstone’s unique style of finding her jokes in the audience. She entertained the crowd with her brilliantly adlibbed observations for two hours, then spent another two hours meeting fans at a special reception catered by Jeff and Nora Chrystal. WYSU sponsored the event and benefited from a portion of ticket sales. Wait, Wait…Don’t Tell Me airs on 88.5 WYSU on Saturday at 11:00 am, and Sunday at 1:00 pm. Check out photos of the Poundstone event on pages 6 and 7. 4 WYSU SPRING 2015 PLEDGE DRIVE: WE HOPE YOU NEVER HEAR IT! Our spring fund drive is scheduled to have to compromise the very programming that has made us begin on Saturday, April 11 and go until the the best on the radio. following Friday, the 17th. But we’re sincerely After all, even people who say they enjoy fundraising will hoping it will never happen. agree that less is more! Yes, you read that right! Our goal this drive is to raise So when you hear the short pledge drive spots on the $130,000, and we are hoping we can achieve that before air over the next few weeks, please renew your membership the drive even begins. support sooner rather than later. Every call will eliminate For decades now, public radio has led the pack in several minutes or even several hours of the drive, depending news and entertainment, and no commercials, but the on the amount of your gift. If enough people respond early, drawback has always been semi-annual fund drives. we can bypass the drive altogether! We at WYSU are on a mission to change that, because We can do this, but we need your help. Renew your it shouldn’t take a sledgehammer to convince listeners membership to WYSU, and be as generous as you can. that public radio is something worth supporting. If we can persuade people to become new members, or renew Thanks, in advance, for your support. their support through some gentle reminders, we won’t WYSU NEEDS VOLUNTEERS FOR SPRING DRIVE 2015 We are preparing for our annual Spring Fund Drive! Our official Fund Drive week is going to begin on Saturday, April 11, 2015 and run (if necessary) through Friday, April 17th. We are going to mount a ‘soft campaign’ with on-air spots and intermittent pledge requests for four weeks beginning March 16 through April 10, prior to the official Spring Fund Drive, which will kick off on Saturday, April 11, if need be. Our goal this year is $130,000. Once we reach our goal, we will be done. If we should be successful in reaching our goal during our ‘soft campaign,’ there will be no need SAVE THE DATE for an ‘official’ full-throttle campaign. FOR EVENTS COMING UP THIS We do, however, still want and need to be ready to go SUMMER and FALL with our April 11 thru April 17 campaign, and to that end we will still need you, our wonderful volunteers to help us Times and more info will be forthcoming make it successful. at wysu.org. If you are interested, call Cindy Bella at 330-941-3363. July 11 & 12 We promise to feed you and you will have fun! YSU Summer Festival of the Arts, YSU August 26 WYSU Party for Members, Location TBA September 19 YSO Pops at the Ballpark, Eastwood Field September 25 Apollo’s Fire Baroque Ensemble, St. John’s Episcopal Church 5 MAD ABOUT THE ARTS 20th Year and Paula Poundstone’s Visit! We’ve had a busy winter. WYSU thanks all who helped to make Mad About the Arts: the 20th Year and Paula Poundstone’s visit a success.