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patternFRIENDSs OF WILL MEMBERSHIP MAGAZINE october 2017 Are YOU a nerd for public media? Ne 1010 Nerdium Illinois Public Media rD WILL-TV TM patterns Membership Hotline: 800-898-1065 october 2017 Volume XLV, Number 4 WILL AM-FM-TV: 217-333-7300 Campbell Hall for Public Telecommunication 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 Printed by Premier Print Group. Printed with SOY INK on RECYCLED, TM Trademark American Soybean Assoc. RECYCLABLE paper. Radio 90.9 FM: A mix of classical music and NPR information programs, including local news. (Also heard at 106.5 in Danville and with live streaming on will.illinois.edu.) See pages 4-5. 101.1 FM and 90.9 FM HD2: Locally produced music programs and classical music from C24. (101.1 is available in the Champaign-Urbana area.) 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Around the clock, award-winning children’s programming. 12.2; also available on Comcast Then on pages 18-19, see a photo history of the and Mediacom. great work our community content and engage- WILL-HD ment did this past summer. All your favorite PBS and local programming, in high definition when available. 12.1; Contact your cable or Page 20 invites you to join us for Wake Up with satellite provider for channel information. See pages WILL, where you can hear first-hand the latest 9-16. projects under development at Illinois Public Media. Over the next 3 months, 3 of our directors Online will.illinois.edu will show how you can be involved in the day-to- day ongoings of public media. And finally, we encourage you to get your nerd on for WILL. Read more about it on the right, and facebook.com/WILLradiotvonline be sure to tune in to radio and TV fund drives to let your nerd flag fly! @willpublicmedia @willpublicmedia Get WILL eNews Video previews, behind-the-scenes information, program schedule updates and more, delivered every Wednesday to your email inbox. Moss Bresnahan, go.illinois.edu/WILLsubscribe President and CEO Twitter: @MossILMedia PATTERNS • OCTOBER 2017 Nerd out october 2017 Volume XLV, Number 4 for WILL This month we want to know, are you a nerd for great local pub- lic media? Help Illinois Public Media celebrate our informative and entertaining programming by embracing your inner WILL Nerd. To truly embrace your nerdium, become a sustain- er member of WILL or increase your current sustaining gift. Any Friend who gives $6 or more per month will qualify to receive ex- clusive WILL Nerd-themed socks! Provided by Sock Club, these comfy blue and orange socks highlight all the best aspects of being a #WILLnerd for public media. For more information on our nerd campaign and to make a gift of support, go to will.illinois.edu/nerd. Nerdfest is sponsored by Your favorites return for fall Finding Your Roots returns for its fourth season at 7 pm Tuesdays this month. Join Powerful Henry Louis Gates, Jr. as he explores the genealogy of popular figures. In this season, comedian Larry David and politician Bernie lineage Sanders discover they have more in common than they thought, tracing their roots back to Jewish communities in Eastern Europe. Comedic per- formers Garrison Keillor, Amy Schumer, and Aziz Ansari learn contrasting stories of assimila- tion and independence all over the globe. Actors Fred Armisen and Christopher Walken and musician Carly Simon each learn about a grandparent whose real identity and back- ground had been a mystery to them. Author Ta-Nehisi Coates, filmmaker Ava DuVernay, and author and activist Janet Mock see their basic assumptions about their families challenged, placing their ancestors—of all colors—into the greater context of black history. While the premise of the show remains the same season after season, the surprises continue as Gates, Jr. unburies the past for these celebrities. 2 PATTERNS • OCTOBER 2017 Travel to la dolce vita PBS presents Rick Steves’ Heart of Italy at 6 pm Sunday, October 1. In this exciting special, join Rick Steves as he delves deep into the Italian heartland—the place where “la dolce vita” is a way of life. Starting in Umbria, we connect with rustic, traditional culture: sleeping at an agriturismo (farm- house inn), seeing how prosciutto and pecorino cheese are made (and eaten), and hiking down into ancient and fragrant wine cellars. Then we visit Assisi, with its inspirational story of St. Francis, stop-and-smell-God’s-roses spirituality, delicate Giotto masterpieces, and awe-inspiring basilica. In Siena, we enjoy a front-row seat at its wild horse race—the venerable Palio—and marvel at cultural treasures from the city’s glory days, when it rivaled Florence for dominance in Tuscany. We finish with the ultimate Riviera getaway: the Cinque Terre, where we get to know each of the “five lands”—from dramatic, vineyard-surrounded Vernazza to hardscrabble Riomaggiore to the pint-sized resort of Monterosso. Fishing for anchovies, sipping wine out of rustic barrels, bringing flowers to hilltop cemeteries, and savoring twinkling Mediterranean vistas, we enjoy Rick’s favor- ite stretch of Mediterranean coastline. From hill towns to harbors, and from vino rosso to Giotto, Rick Steves’ Heart of Italy savors the good life in the Italian heartland. The reign of terror Does George Warleggan finally have the upper hand against his archenemy, Ross Poldark? Can George’s growing power in Cornwall cement his control over the fate of his populist foe? Dream on! Masterpiece Classic presents the latest thrilling exploits of Ross Poldark and his fiery partner, Demelza, starring Aidan Turner and Eleanor Tomlinson as the intrepid 18th-century duo, on Poldark, Season 3, airing in eight action-packed episodes at 8 pm Sundays.The new season costars Jack Farthing as the dastardly George and Heida Reed as his bewitching wife, Elizabeth, now estranged from her first love, Ross—or is she? Also returning are Caroline Blakiston as Ross’s crusty Aunt Agatha, whose passion in life is tormenting George; Beatie Edney as the irascible servant Prudie; Luke Norris as stalwart Dr. Dwight Enys; and Gabriella Wilde as Dwight’s secret fiancée, the fetching heiress Caroline Penvenen. PATTERNS • OCTOBER 2017 5 weekdays 10/9 Mahler: Three Rückert Lieder Jennie Tourel, mezzo-soprano 6 am Leonard Bernstein, conductor Mahler: Symphony No. 2 NPR Morning Edition Jessica Jones, soprano with Steve Inskeep, Rachel Martin, and David Greene New York Choral Artists Cornelia Kallisch, mezzo-soprano 9 am 10/16 Mahler: Symphony No. 3 Yvonee Minton, soprano Classic Mornings with Vic Di Geronimo Camerata Singers Join Vic for music and companionship and make each Boys’ Choir of the Little Church Around the morning a classic morning! Corner and Trinity School Pierre Boulez, conductor Noon 10/23 Mahler: Des Knaben Wunderhorn Christa Ludwig, mezzo-soprano Afternoon Classics Walter Berry, baritone Garrison Keillor’s The Writer’s Almanac is at 1:01. NPR Leonard Bernstein, conductor News Headlines at 3:01. Mahler: Symphony No. 4 Irmgard Seefried, soprano 5 pm Sir Georg Solti, conductor NPR All Things Considered 10/30 Mahler: Kindertotenlieder Thomas Hampson, baritone with Robert Siegel, Audie Cornish, Kelly McEvers, and Alan Gilbert, conductor Ari Shapiro Mahler: Symphony No. 5 Zubin Mehta, conductor Tuesday: Chicago Symphony Orchestra The month of October marks the start of the last 10/3 Resound Showcase quarter of 2017. It’s also the beginning of the Shostakovich: Suite on Verses of Michelangelo new home for The New York Philharmonic This Buonarroti, Op. 145a Week, Monday nights at 7 pm starting October 2. Ildar Abdrazakov, bass This move from Thursdays to Mondays gives us Bates: Anthology of Fantastic Zoology a little more time between the release of the epi- 10/10 Muti conducts Italian Opera Masterworks sodes and the broadcast day. That way we can Verdi: Va, pensiero from Nabucco make any necessary corrections to pre-broadcast Chicago Symphony Chorus announcements for greater accuracy in publiciz- Verdi: Vedi! Le fosche notturne from Il ing these concerts. trovatore We’ll also be starting a couple of new quarterly- Chicago Symphony Chorus length series: The Cleveland Orchestra, 10/17 Riccardo Muti conducts Beethoven Wednesday nights at 7 pm and the Milwaukee Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 61 Symphony Orchestra, Thursday nights at 7 pm. Julia Fischer, violin The Chicago Symphony Orchestra is always Brahms: Serenade No. 1 in D Major, Op. 11 heard on Tuesday evenings, with the Chamber Prokofiev: Symphony No. 1 (Classical) Music Society of Lincoln Center on Sunday 10/24 Semyon Bychkov conducts Rachmaninov evenings, followed (usually) by more chamber Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 1 in music.