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FRIENDS OF WILL MEMBERSHIP MAGAZINE August 2020 The long-running radio show bids longtime host Rich Warren a happy retirement! Membership Hotline: 800-898-1065 August 2020 Volume XLVIII, Number 2 WILL AM-FM-TV: 217-333-7300 Campbell Hall 300 N. Goodwin Ave., Urbana, IL 61801-2316 Mailing List Exchange Donor records are proprietary and confidential. WILL does not sell, rent or trade its donor lists. Patterns Friends of WILL Membership Magazine Editor/Art Designer: Sarah Whittington Art Director: Kurt Bielema Printed by Premier Print Group. Printed with SOY INK on RECYCLED, RECYCLABLE paper. RADIO 90.9 FM: A mix of classical music and NPR information programs, including local news. (Also with live streaming on will.illinois.edu.) See pages 4-5. This August, WILL continues to adapt to the 101.1 FM and 90.9 FM HD2: Locally produced COVID-19 crisis, as our former plans for the month music programs and classical music from C24. have morphed. Previously planned live studio (101.1 is available in the Champaign-Urbana concerts for Illinois Country are now at-home videos area.) See page 6. from Illinois musicians, widely shared on social media 580 AM: News and information, NPR, BBC, and airing on WILL-TV. Mid-American Gardener “In news, agriculture, talk shows. (Also heard the Garden” segments are now gardening advice on 90.9 FM HD3 with live streaming on delivered from the homes of our expert gardeners. will.illinois.edu.) See page 7. And coverage of the Democratic and Republican conventions will now be done at a distance from our TELEVISION WILL-HD newsroom instead of the convention floor. All your favorite PBS and local programming, in high definition when available. 12.1; Contact We also got lucky. We asked six central Illinoisans to your cable or satellite provider for channel record what “home life” was like for them, just as our information. See pages 9-16. state’s stay at home orders were put in place. Senior WILL Kids 24/7 director Sarah Edwards will continue to film different Around the clock, award-winning children’s local perspectives for upcoming documentaries . programming. 12.2; also available on Comcast and Mediacom. Meanwhile, WILL’s Illinois Newsroom reporters share stories of educators, education systems, and parents WILL Create Cooking, travel, gardening and home improve- as they manage new mandates to potentially go back ment, arts and crafts. 12.3; also available on to school. Our Education and Outreach department Comcast and Mediacom. See page 8. created Facebook Live Q & A events to give central WILL World Illinoisans direct access to policymakers, educators, PBS documentaries, news and public affairs. and mental health and healthcare providers. 12.3; also available on Comcast and Mediacom. See page 8. As PBS Newshour and NPR provide perspective on what’s happening in our nation and around the ONLINE will.illinois.edu world, I’m so proud your WILL stations are here to contribute local stories. Thank you for your support. While our sense of “together” is different than usual, facebook.com/WILLradiotvonline our sense of who we are is sustained by public media stations like WILL. @willpublicmedia @willpublicmedia Get Aircheck Video previews, behind-the-scenes information, Moss Bresnahan, President and CEO program schedule updates and more, delivered Twitter: @MossILMedia every weekend to your email inbox. will.illinois.edu/aircheck COVER STORY Warren steps down as longtime host The Midnight Special, the long- Future comedian/director Mike Nichols running radio home for “folk music and launched The Midnight Special in 1953 farce, show tunes and satire, madness at Chicago classical station WFMT, and and escape,” will continue from 7-9 set its memorable mix of folk music, pm Saturday nights on WILL-FM, but show tunes, and comedy, which has without its longtime host. Rich Warren is continued under successive hosts. stepping down later this summer, to be “It wasn’t ever boring, it was always succeeded by Marilyn Rea Beyer. something new,” said Warren of the “She’s professional, she’s brilliant,” says program he first heard while a teenager. Warren of Beyer, a Chicago area native “And you could take folk music and put who hosted folk music programs for it in a whole new setting, and give it a several years at WUMB in Boston. “She whole new atmosphere.” gets the music, I think in the way that I Warren, a longtime WFMT staff get the music.” member, became one of The Midnight The 70-year-old Warren says he’s Special’s alternating hosts in 1983, then chosen to retire from the program while its sole host, continuing to work on he’s healthy enough to enjoy himself in the show even after moving from the retirement, and still in top form on the Chicago area to Champaign County. air. He eventually built a home studio to produce the program. “I’m very healthy at the moment,” said Warren, “and I want to leave with Rich Warren’s final broadcast as host of people saying, ‘Rich left at the right The Midnight Special is set for the end time.’” of August on the national version of the show that airs on WILL-FM. PATTERNS ∙ AUGUST 2020 1 Endeavour is back In Season 7, Endeavour and his colleagues enter a new decade and era of change. Opening on New Year’s Eve1969, normal or- der has been resumed and the team reunit- ed at Castle Gate CID, with Chief Superin- tendent Bright back in charge. However, the events of the past year have left their mark: old friendships will be challenged, and new relationships will blossom. Amidst the dawn of women’s liberation, social progression and scientific growth, the 1970s begin for Oxford’s finest with the discovery of a body at the canal towpath on New Year’s Day. With the only clue in the investigation a wit- ness who heard whistling on the night of the crime, the team have their work cut out to uncover their culprit. The series returns at 8 pm Sunday, August 9. Jupiter String Quartet performs at Lincoln Center At 7 pm Sunday, August 30, the Jupiter String Liz Freivogel (Meg’s sister), and cellist Daniel Quartet performs with the Chamber Music McDonough (Meg’s husband). Their Evening Society of Lincoln Center on WILL-FM 90.9. Concert is entitled As Night Descends and Artists-in-residence at the University of Illinois includes their performance of Hugo Wolf’s since 2012, the quartet consists of violinists 1887 piece “Italian Serenade for String Nelson Lee and Meg Freivogel, violist Quartet.” 2 PATTERNS ∙ AUGUST 2020 New Prairie Performances for Friday nights As part of our mission to provide arts access to everyone in central Illinois, we wanted to offer more opportunities to help local orchestras share their performances when it’s not possible to gather at concert halls. And, of course, we thought of Prairie Performances—our Friday night program hosted by Roger Cooper—that has for many decades played concerts from orchestras across Illinois. Therefore, this month we are releasing four recent concerts, one each from Champaign-Urbana Symphony Orchestra, Illinois Symphony Orchestra, Millikin-Decatur Symphony Orchestra, and Sinfonia da Camera, to refresh our hearts and minds and to deliver great music, well performed by our friends and neighbors across the state. Tune in to WILL-FM 90.9 at 7 pm on Friday nights in August to hear some of classical music’s most cherished works, cleverly programmed with less familiar pieces to compliment them. You can find the listings on pages 4-5 of Patterns. In early fall, we hope to program more recent performances from area symphonies, so stay tuned! t Sergey Bogza conducts the Millikin-Decatur Symphony Orchestra t Ian Hobson, conductor of Sinfinia da Camera t Ken Lam, conductor of the Illinois Symphony Orchestra t Barbara Hedlund, principal cellist, Champaign-Urbana Symphony Orchestra PATTERNS ∙ AUGUST 2020 3 8/25 Rafael Payare and Keith Buncke WEEKDAYS Bernstein: Symphonic Dances from West Side Story 6 am Mozart: Bassoon Concerto in B-flat Major, K. 191 NPR Morning Edition Keith Buncke, bassoon with Steve Inskeep, Rachel Martin, David Greene, and Noel King Wednesday: San Franscisco Symphony 9 am 8/5 Conductor: Esa-Pekka Salonen Classic Mornings with Vic Di Geronimo Thorvaldsdottir: Metacosmos Join Vic for music and companionship and make each R. Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30 morning a classic morning! Sibelius: Four Legends from the Kalevala 8/12 Conductor: Herbert Blomstedt Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 in F Major Noon Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 3 in A Minor, Afternoon Classics Op. 56 “Scottish” at 12:01, 1:01, and 3:01. 8/19 Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas NPR News Headlines Gil Shaham, violin S. Mackey: Portals, Scenes and Celebrations 5 pm (SFS co-commission, world premiere) NPR All Things Considered Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 1 in D Major with Ailsa Chang, Audie Cornish, Mary Louise Kelly, Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 in F Minor and Ari Shapiro 8/26 Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas Christian Tetzlaff, violin Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin 7 pm Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 3 in G Major, The Evening Concert K.216 Sibelius: Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 43 Great performances from the gr eat concert venues. Also on Sundays from 7-9. Listings are subject to change. Thursday: Carnegie Hall Live! Monday: 8/6 Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique The New York Philharmonic This Week Sir John Eliot Gardiner, conductor The Monteverdi Choir 8/3 Beethoven and Stravinsky Beethoven: Symphony No. 8 in F Major Beethoven: Violin Concerto Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D Minor Frank Peter Zimmerman, violin 8/13 Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra Stravinsky: Symphony in Three Movements Gustavo Dudamel, conductor 8/10 Beethoven and Korngold Brahms: Academic Festival Overture Beethoven: Coriolan Overture Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Haydn Korngold: Violin Concerto Brahms: Symphony No.