patternFRIENDSs OF WILL MEMBERSHIP MAGAZINE november 2017 And the EMMY® goes to... Barns: An Illinois Story! WILL-TV TM patterns Membership Hotline: 800-898-1065 november 2017 Volume XLV, Number 5 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 Cover Photo: Courtesy of Oliver Peng 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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The orchestra will wait; the will.illinois.edu stage is all yours. facebook.com/WILLradiotvonline @willpublicmedia @willpublicmedia Get WILL eNews Moss Bresnahan, Video previews, behind-the-scenes President and CEO information, program schedule updates and more, delivered every Wednesday to your Twitter: @MossILMedia email inbox. go.illinois.edu/WILLsubscribe PATTERNS • NOVEMBER 2017 Illinois Public Media Illinois Public Media is proud Volume XLV, Number 5 to announce that our original wins 2 regional november 2017 documentary film, Barns: An Illinois Story, has won EMMYs® for two Mid-America Regional Emmy Awards. The awards, for program promo and Barns: An Illinois Story photography, are a huge honor for IPM. “The goal of local public media is to bring alive the stories of our area. For Barns, such an integral part of our local farming community, to be the winner of not just one but two Emmy awards is a huge honor,” said President and CEO Moss Bresnahan. Danda Beard, director of development and producer of Barns, couldn’t agree more. “Our inspiration for this program was the photography book Barns of Illinois by Larry and Alaina Kanfer. We wanted to further explore the beauty that many often believe is just flyover country. Our goal was to make a show that adequately conveyed the history and purpose of these structures, and that’s exactly what producer Oliver Peng accomplished. These awards are just icing on the cake!” Photo: Courtesy of Oliver Peng Start the holiday season with the classics Photo: Courtesy of Joan Marcus Ella Ballentine and Martin Sheen return “Feel good show as Anne Shirley and Matthew Cuthbert in Anne of Green Gables-The Good Stars at of the fall” 7 pm Thursday, November 23. The Thanks- giving Day special is the second part of the The festive Roundabout Theatre Company classic Lucy Maud Montgomery story of a production of Irving Berlin’s Holiday Inn, a Great free-spirited teenager on Prince Edward Performances production, comes to PBS at 8 pm Island at the start of the 20th century. Friday, November 24. “We are excited to bring Anne of Green The musical tells the story of Jim, who leaves the Gables back to our viewers with a second bright lights of Broadway—as well as his fiancé installment, as it continues to be a delight- dance partner Lila—to settle down at an old ful addition to our Thanksgiving lineup,” farmhouse in Connecticut… but life just isn’t the said Beth Hoppe, chief programming same without a bit of song and dance. Jim’s luck executive and general manager of General takes a turn for the better when he meets Linda, Audience Programming, PBS. “Anne of a spirited schoolteacher with talent to spare. Green Gables continues to provide our Together they turn the farmhouse into a seasonal viewers with family-friendly programming inn with show-stopping performances to celebrate year-round, especially during the holiday each holiday, from Thanksgiving to the Fourth season.” of July. But when Jim’s best friend, Ted, tries to lure Linda away to be his new dance partner in Watch as Anne turns 13 and faces complex Hollywood, will Jim be able to salvage his latest situations with friends, learns from inspira- chance at love? tional adults, and experiences an escalating friendship with Gilbert. Her free-spirited Songs include such Irving Berlin all-time classics nature is challenged by her perceived as “Blue Skies,” “Cheek to Cheek,” “It’s a Lovely need to be sensible, a journey fraught with Day Today,” “Easter Parade,” and, of course, confusion and some unfortunate—albeit “White Christmas.” Produced in association with amusing—mishaps. Universal Stage Productions, it stars Tony Award® nominee Bryce Pinkham, Lora Lee Gayer, Tony Award® nominee Megan Lawrence, Danny Ruti- gliano, Megan Sikora and Corbin Bleu. Return to 2 PATTERNS • NOVEMBER 2017 Avonlea Start the holiday season with the classics Four young men from Liverpool On February 9, 1964, 73 million people watched The Beatles perform on The Ed Sullivan Show—the largest TV audience to date. But what the band did next would introduce them to the entire world, permanently transforming the music industry, forever ingraining them into the fabric of popular culture. From June 1962 to August 1966, The Beatles performed a staggering 815 times in 15 different countries and 90 cities around the world. This incredible period gave birth to “Beatlemania,” and showed the world something completely new: youth-culture unchained! From Academy Award®-winning director Ron Howard, The Beatles: Eight Days a Week–The Touring Years tells the story of these exceptional years from the point of view of the band, its world and the fans. The film premieres on PBS at 8 pm Saturday, Photo: Courtesy of Joan Marcus Photo: Courtesy of © Apple Corps Ltd. November 25. Photo: Courtesy of Breakthrough Entertainment/ © 2017 Gables 23 Productions Inc PATTERNS • NOVEMBER 2017 3 weekdays Wednesday: Cleveland Orchestra 6 am 11/1 Archival concerts from 1973 and 1966 NPR Morning Edition Daniel Barenboim and Louis Lane, conductors Jacqueline du Pré, cello with Steve Inskeep, Rachel Martin, and David Greene Elgar: Cello Concerto (Lane) Lalo: Cello Concerto (Barenboim) 9 am 11/8 Blossom Festival Concert Classic Mornings with Vic Di Geronimo Franz Welser-Möst, conductor Wagner: “Tristan and Isolde”: Prelude and Join Vic for music and companionship and make each Love Death morning a classic morning! Bruckner: Symphony No. 9 (unfinished) 11/15 Mitsuko Uchida, conductor and piano Noon Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 17 in G, K. 453 Afternoon Classics Mozart: Concerto Rondo in D, K. 382 (07-24) Garrison Keillor’s The Writer’s Almanac is at 1:01. NPR Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 25 in C, K. 507 News Headlines at 3:01. 11/22 Mitsuko Uchida, conductor and piano Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 23 in A, K. 488 5 pm Mozart: Divertimento in F, K. 138 Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 24 in C, K. 491 NPR All Things Considered 11/29 Blossom Music Festival Concert with Robert Siegel, Audie Cornish, Kelly McEvers, and Jahja Ling, conductor Ari Shapiro Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 22 in Eb, K. 482. Emanuel Ax, piano Nicolai: “Merry Wives of Windsor” Overture 7 pm Chopin: Andante Spianato and Grande The Evening Concert Polonaise Brillante. Emanuel Ax, piano Great performances from the gr eat Thursday: concert venues. Also on Sundays from The Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra 7-9 pm. Listings are subject to change. 11/2 Conductor: Carlos Kalmar Monday: Britten: Concerto No. 1 for Violin and The New York Philharmonic This Week Orchestra, Opus 15. 11/6 Mahler: Symphony No. 6 Elina Vähälä, violin Semyon Bychkov, Conductor Shostakovich: Symphony No. 10 in E Minor 11/13 Mahler: Symphony No. 7 11/9 Conductor: Asher Fisch Rafael Kubelik, Conductor Tchaikovsky: Concerto No. 1 in B-flat Minor for 11/20 Mahler: Symphony No. 8 Piano and Orchestra Christine Brewer, soprano; Nancy Gustafson, Joyce Yang, piano soprano; Jeanine De Bique, soprano; Mary Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 in F Minor Phillips, mezzo-soprano; Nancy Maultsby, 11/16 Conductor: Christoph König mezzo-soprano; Anthony Dean Griffey, tenor; Poulenc: Gloria.