FRIENDS OF WILL MEMBERSHIP MAGAZINE June 2020 WILL presents a virtual concert in Allerton Park Membership Hotline: 800-898-1065 June 2020 Volume XLVII, Number 12 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. Our fiscal year ends at the end of this month and, though our operations have recently changed 101.1 FM and 90.9 FM HD2: Locally produced dramatically, I am incredibly proud of what our station music programs and classical music from C24. has still accomplished over the entirety of the last (101.1 is available in the Champaign-Urbana area.) See page 6. 12 months. We debuted a new documentary and related live performance series with Illinois Country, 580 AM: News and information, NPR, BBC, we introduced Brian Mackey as the new host for news, agriculture, talk shows. (Also heard The 21st, our education team quickly created at on 90.9 FM HD3 with live streaming on will.illinois.edu.) See page 7. home learning curriculum for local students, Vic Di Geronimo celebrated his tenth year hosting Classic TELEVISION Mornings, our Illinois Newsroom revamped its WILL-HD coverage around coronavirus’s local impact, and there All your favorite PBS and local programming, was so much more. in high definition when available. 12.1; Contact your cable or satellite provider for channel In fact, it’s been an incredible couple of years at information. See pages 9-16. WILL. Due to the unexpected disruptions of the WILL Kids 24/7 coronavirus, our plans for including our 2019 Annual Around the clock, award-winning children’s Report in Patterns this spring did not work out. programming. 12.2; also available on Comcast and Mediacom. However, the report is up online and I recommend you take a look to review our great work at WILL Create Cooking, travel, gardening and home improve- will.illinois.edu/about/annualreports. ment, arts and crafts. 12.3; also available on As we look forward to our next fiscal year, we will Comcast and Mediacom. See page 8. continue our role as an essential resource to you. WILL World Predictably, many of our funding sources for next PBS documentaries, news and public affairs. 12.3; also available on Comcast and Mediacom. fiscal year are much more uncertain today than they See page 8. were a few months ago. But thanks to our forward- funded model, the funding we receive from the ONLINE will.illinois.edu Friends of WILL is not uncertain. This makes our end of fiscal year fundraising goal so important. As of press time, we still have another $200,000 total to facebook.com/WILLradiotvonline raise. If you are in a position to make an additional gift right now at willgive.org it would be greatly @willpublicmedia appreciated. Thank you! @willpublicmedia Get Aircheck Video previews, behind-the-scenes information, program schedule updates and more, delivered Moss Bresnahan, President and CEO every weekend to your email inbox. Twitter: @MossILMedia will.illinois.edu/aircheck COVER STORY A concert in the park at home! Allerton Park and WILL are teaming up “As a locally-focused public media to bring you a summer concert inspired station, we are always looking for by Allerton Park, featuring Viktor Krauss new ways to work with Allerton,” says and Friends Bresnahan. “It is such a wonderful gem centrally located in our FM Allerton Park Director Derek Peterson signal’s coverage. They have been and WILL CEO Moss Bresnahan want a great partner to WILL over the you to still enjoy the summer concert years. This seems like the perfect season—on your own! WILL has opportunity to partner with them and teamed up with Allerton to bring you give people a chance to interact with a special concert from bassist Viktor park and stay within current social Krauss, performed especially for people distancing guidelines. And, of course, who love Allerton Park and WILL. The we are thrilled to present Viktor special will air at 7 pm Saturday, June Krauss’ amazing music as the perfect 20 on WILL-FM 90.9. accompaniment.” Krauss grew up in and around Visit will.illinois.edu/fm for more Champaign, Illinois; he has recorded information about how you can enjoy solo albums and recorded alongside this event, wherever you are! musicians of many genres, including his sister, singer and fiddler Alison Krauss. PATTERNS ∙ JUNE 2020 1 JUNE FEATURES Great Performances presents Ann with Emmy Award-winner Holland Taylor’s compelling portrayal of the legendary Texas Governor Ann Richards. Airing at 8 pm Friday, June 19, Ann is a no-holds-barred theatrical portrait of the inimitable Ann Richards, who served as Governor from 1991- 95. The play is a compelling look at the inspiring woman who enriched the lives of her followers, friends, and family. Through excerpts from public speeches and private phone calls with famous figures including the likes of Bill Clinton, Ann Richards is revealed as a complex, colorful, and captivating character with a personality even bigger than 2 PATTERNS ∙ JUNE 2020 the state from which she hailed. American Masters presents Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am, an artful and intimate meditation on the legendary storyteller that examines her life, her works and the powerful themes she has confronted throughout her literary career. Toni Morrison, author of 11 novels and recipient of the 1988 Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award for her novel, Beloved, as well as the 1993 Nobel Prize for Literature, among many other honors, leads an assembly of her peers, critics and colleagues on an exploration of race, history, America and the human condition. The film premieres at 7 pm Tuesday, June 23. Mae West achieved great acclaim in every entertainment medium that existed during her lifetime, spanning eight decades of the 20th century. She possessed creative and economic powers unheard of for a female entertainer in the 1930s and still rare today. Though she was a comedian, West grappled with some of the more complex social issues, including race, class tensions, gender conformity, and moral hypocrisy. This is the first major documentary film to explore West’s life and career, as she “climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong” to become a writer, performer and subversive agitator for social change. American Masters premieres Mae West: Dirty Blonde at 7 pm PATTERNS ∙ JUNE 2020 3 Tuesday, June 16 Wednesday: WEEKDAYS Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra 6/3 Vasily Petrenko, conductor 6 am Ray Chen, violin Elgar: Cockaigne Overture NPR Morning Edition Sibelius: Violin Concerto with Steve Inskeep, Rachel Martin, David Greene, and Ravel: Daphnis et Chloe – Suites No. 1 and 2 Noel King 6/10 Leonard Slatkin, conductor Conrad Tao, piano 9 am Tao: Pangu Classic Mornings with Vic Di Geronimo Gershwin: Piano Concerto in F Join Vic for music and companionship and make each Strauss: Symphonia Domestica morning a classic morning! 6/17 Jukka-Pekka Saraste, conductor Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 Sibelius: Symphony No. 5 Noon 6/24 Juraj Valcuha, conductor Glazunov: Valse de Concert No. 1 Afternoon Classics Prokofiev: Symphony No. 3 NPR News Headlines at 12:01, 1:01, and 3:01. Debussy: La Mer Ravel: La Valse 5 pm NPR All Things Considered Thursday: with Ailsa Chang, Audie Cornish, Mary Louise Kelly, Deutsche Welle Festival Concerts and Ari Shapiro 6/4 Academy of Early Music Berlin CPE Bach: Symphony in F Major, Wq. 175 Beethoven: Symphony No. 2 in D Major, 7 pm Op. 36 The Evening Concert CPE Bach: Symphony in G Major, Wq. 183, Great performances from the gr eat No. 4 concert venues. Also on Sundays from Beethoven: Symphony No. 1 in C Major, 7-9. Listings are subject to change. Op. 21 6/11 Music of our Times West German Radio Symphony Orchestra Monday: Conductor: Cristian Macelaru The New York Philharmonic This Week Patricia Kopatchinskaja, violin 6/1 Sir Andrew Davis conducts Illes: Violin concerto (world premiere) Berlioz and Saint-Saëns Furrer: Phaos for orchestra (2006) Berlioz: Overture to Les Francs-juges 6/18 BTHVN Week Saint-Saëns: Symphony No. 3 in C minor Chiaroscuro Quartet 6/8 America, the Beautiful Beethoven: String Quartet in C Minor, Op. 18, Ives: Holidays Symphony No. 4 Copland: Lincoln Portrait Armida Quartet William Warfield, narrator Beethoven: String Quartet in F, Op. 18, No. 1 Blitztein: Airborne Symphony 6/25 Kissingen Summer Orson Welles, narrator Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen 6/15 Prokofiev and Shostakovich Bavarian Radio Chorus Prokofiev: Selections from Romeo and Juliet Mozart: Overture to Don Giovanni, K. 527 Shostakovich: Symphony No. 14 Mozart: Exsultate, jubilate: motet for soprano 6/22 Slatkin Conducts Copland and Ravel and orchestra, K. 165 Copland: El Salon Mexico Mozart: Mass in C Minor for soloists, chorus Ravel/Constant: Gaspard de la nuit and orchestra, K. 427 Ravel: Bolero 6/29 Brahms and Tchaikovsky Friday: Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 Prairie Performances Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6, “Pathetique” Concerts are subject to availability. 6/5 Champaign-Urbana Symphony Tuesday: Stephen Alltop, conductor “Brass Blowout” (04/15/2016) Chicago Symphony Orchestra Wagner: Overture to Rienzi 6/2 David Afkham conducts Schumann: Konzertstuck for Four Horns Brahms’s Third Symphony de Falla: The Three Cornered Hats Haydn: Symphony No.