wttw11 wttw Prime wttw Create wttw World wttw PBS Kids wttw.com THE GUIDE 98.7wfmt wfmt.com The Member Magazine for WTTW and WFMT COMPOSER • CONDUCTOR • PIANIST Leonard Bernstein at100 Celebrate the centenary throughout the month on 98.7WFMT and wfmt.com. August 2018 ALSO INSIDE On WTTW, explore the Australian Outback, Wonders of Mexico, and three Ancient Invisible Cities: Cairo, Athens, and Istanbul. And after 10 weeks of competition, The Great British Baking Show crowns its winning baker! From the President & CEO The Guide The Member Magazine for Dear Member, WTTW and WFMT Renée Crown Public Media Center Arguably, there are few figures in American music history who have left a bigger imprint on 5400 North Saint Louis Avenue our culture – and on future generations of artists – than the flamboyant composer, conductor, Chicago, Illinois 60625 pianist, educator, and visionary Leonard Bernstein, whose 100th birthday will be celebrated across the globe this month. Bernstein, whose many works include West Side Story, On the Town, Main Switchboard (773) 583-5000 and Candide, will also be a focus on WFMT where you can hear his music all month long, and Member and Viewer Services notably throughout the day on Bernstein’s actual birthday: Saturday, August 25. (773) 509-1111 x 6 On WTTW11 and wttw.com/watch, we take you to the Australian Outback, across Mexico, to Websites Ancient Invisible Cities – Cairo, Athens, and Istanbul – and on an informative journey along our wttw.com own Chicago River in winter with Geoffrey Baer. We bring you a variety of music specials, recall wfmt.com the life and work of artist Eva Hesse, and crown a new winner on The Great British Baking Show. Publisher Frontline follows a journalist checking in with everyday Iranians in Our Man in Tehran; on wttw. Anne Gleason com, take a closer look at this special via a related interview. Also on our website, meet the stellar Art Director local performers taking part in Great Performances: Chicago Voices, and discover the Chicago Jazz Tom Peth WTTW Contributors Festival through an exclusive story. Julia Maish Dan Soles On WFMT, wfmt.com/listen, and the WFMT app, as mentioned above, we will mark the WFMT Contributors centenary of Leonard Bernstein with a wide variety of content, including a birthday broadcast Andrea Lamoreaux of his own recording of Candide and a special week from Bill McGlaughlin and Exploring Music. David Polk Distribution Manager On wfmt.com, test your knowledge of the composer’s music by taking our interactive quiz. Pat Sheppard In non-Bernstein news, we will have three more live concerts from Grant Park Music Festival, highlighted by Carl Orff’s rousing Carmina Burana. You can experience the excitement of Grant Advertising Sales Park on WFMT’s Facebook page, where you will also find a live Saturday morning stream of young WTTW: Douglas Carleton (773) 279-2128 violinist Joshua Brown performing on Introductions. WFMT: Alexander Stonor Saunders (773) 509-5357 We are honored that you have chosen to spend your summer with WTTW and WFMT. Thank you for your continuing support. The Guide: The Member Magazine Sincerely, for WTTW and WFMT (ISSN 2329-1338) August 2018 Volume 33, Number 243 Sandra Cordova Micek The Guide: The Member Magazine for WTTW and WFMT is published President & CEO monthly (for contributors of $40 or more annually) by Window To The World Communications, Inc., 5400 North Saint Louis Ave., Chicago, IL 60625-4698. Periodical postage paid at Chicago, IL and additional mailing offices. 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Live from Lincoln Center: New York Philharmonic New Year’s Eve will air on WTTW Prime (11.2) on August 25 at 5:00 pm and, coming on Friday, December 28, a brand new special, Great Performances: Bernstein Centennial Celebration. 2 AUGUST 2018 MEMBER CONNECTIONS Screening & Discussion: inCommon with Mike Leonard – Screening & Discussion: Global Generation Exit Zero WTTW, in partnership with the Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events, presents a free screening of the new WHAT inCommon documentary Global Generation. Screening & Discussion: inCommon spent an academic year with students from 41 inCommon with Mike Leonard – countries around the world – all represented at Lake Forest Global Generation Academy – to discover WHERE how it is to live and Chicago Cultural Center learn together; over- 78 E. 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Beginning explore the campaigns and the candidates in a freewheeling discussion, and you can join in the conversation. in the late 19th century, the steel mills along Lake Discover how Chicago Tonight correspondents cover the turbulent political scene in the city and throughout Michigan employed hundreds of thousands of Illinois, this is the event for you! people: immigrants from every region of the Tickets are limited, so don’t miss this opportunity. Your ticket includes beer, wine, and hors d’oeurves. world; workers of all ethnicities; people searching For more information and tickets, please visit wttw.com/events. for a better life. But that all began to change in the 1980s. One by one, the mills closed, leaving a region devastated by a crumbling economy and WHAT a toxic environment left behind by heavy industry. Chicago Tonight: Election 2018 A forgotten region, even the exit ramp here is Behind the Scenes numbered Zero. 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