wttw11 wttw Prime wttw Create wttw World wttw PBS Kids wttw.com THE GUIDE 98.7wfmt The Member Magazine wfmt.com for WTTW and WFMT PREMIERES SUN SEPT 15 | 7 PM Streaming at wttw.com/watch September 2019 ALSO INSIDE On WFMT, enjoy four performances from London’s great summertime tradition, the BBC Promenade Concerts in Royal Albert Hall, and don’t miss one of our final Carnegie Hall concerts of this season, Les Violons du Roy and La Capelle de Québec performing Bach’s B Minor Mass. From the President & CEO The Guide The Member Magazine for WTTW and WFMT Dear Member, Renée Crown Public Media Center This month, we are excited to bring you the latest masterpiece from Ken 5400 North Saint Louis Avenue Chicago, Illinois 60625 Burns – an epic 16-hour series tracing the history of Country Music. 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Copyright 2018, Window To The World ON THE COVER: Country Music: A Film by Ken Burns, Courtesy of PBS Communications, Inc., Chicago, IL. 2 SEPTEMBER 2019 MEMBER CONNECTIONS Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts POV: The Feeling of Being Join WFMT each Wednesday for the Dame Myra Hess Memorial WHAT Dame Myra Hess Watched – Screening & Concerts, live from Preston Bradley Hall in the Chicago Cultural Memorial Concerts Center. Enjoy solo Discussion recitals and ensemble WHERE performances by emerg- Chicago Cultural Center, ing classical artists Preston Bradley Hall 78 E. Washington Street from around the in Chicago world, produced by the Genevra Petrucci Photo: ©Roy Cox Photography International Music WHEN Foundation. Featured Wednesdays, September 4, 11, artists this month are and 25, 12:15 pm flutist Genevra Petrucci with pianist Jory Vinikour; violinist Sara Domjanic with pianist Tanya Gabrielian; and Aruna Quartet. Performances take place Photo: ©2019 Impact Partners Film Services LLC Photo: Nuccio DiNuzzo beneath the world’s largest Tiffany-domed ceiling, part of a land- mark building that originally housed the Chicago Public Library. Jory Vinikour The series is named for British pianist Myra Hess, who organized free lunchtime concerts for Londoners during World War II, in the years of nightly air raids. These are free events; for information, please visit wfmt.com. WHAT POV: The Feeling of Being Watched – Screening & Discussion Chicago Tonight Behind the Scenes Join the all-star Chicago Tonight team at the WTTW studios WHERE Chicago Cultural Center for a behind-the-scenes look at Springfield and City Hall, and a Claudia Cassidy Theatre discussion about how 78 E. Washington Street WTTW News covers the in Chicago WHAT vibrant political scene in Chicago Tonight Chicago and the state. WHEN Saturday, September 21 Behind the Scenes Each ticket includes a Phil Ponce and Jay Smith 2:00 pm WHERE presentation, a meet & WTTW Studios greet with the hosts and producers, beer, wine, 5400 N St. Louis Avenue WTTW and the Department of Cultural in Chicago and hors d’oeuvres. Affairs and Special Events present a free screen- Don’t miss this very spe- ing and discussion of POV: The Feeling of Being WHEN cial event, and reserve Friday, September 20 Watched. your seats now! 5:00 pm In the Arab-American neighborhood outside of Tickets are available Chicago where director Assia Boundaoui grew up, at wttw.com/events. Paris Schutz most of her neighbors believe they have been under surveillance for over a decade. While investigating their experiences, Assia discovers they were right, as Introductions at Youth Arts Showcase, Live from Millennium Park she uncovers hundreds of pages of declassified FBI WFMT welcomes young musicians to Introductions’ live broadcast from Jay Pritzker Pavilion in documents that prove her hometown was the sub- Millennium Park, part of the second annual Youth Arts Showcase (YAS! Fest). Attend in person or listen ject of one of the largest counterterrorism investiga- live on WFMT as host Michael San Gabino welcomes a brass en- tions ever conducted in the U.S. before 9/11 – code- semble from Merit School of Music and Latin Grammy-nominated WHAT named “Operation Vulgar Betrayal.” Introductions at Youth Mariachi Herencia de With unprecedented access, The Feeling of Being Arts Showcase, Live México. In addition to a from Millennium Park Watched weaves the personal and the political as it diverse selection of mu- explores why Assia’s friends and neighbors fell under sic, the program will also WHERE blanket government surveillance; confronts include interviews with Jay Pritzker Pavilion long-hidden truths about the FBI’s relationship to the student musicians, in Millennium Park the community; examines why it feels as if they are 201 E. Randolph Street who will join forces to still being watched today; and reveals how Assia in Chicago perform a medley of grapples with the effects of a lifetime of surveillance Leonard Bernstein’s WHEN on herself and her family. iconic music from West Saturday, September 21 The screening will be followed by a panel discus- Side Story, honoring 11:00 am sion. The film airs on WTTW11 and wttw.com on DCASE’s Year of Chicago Monday, October 14 at 10:00 pm. Mariachi Herencia de México Theatre. YAS! Fest is presented by Allstate Insurance Company. This is a free event. For more information, For more information, please visit wfmt.com/events. please visit wttw.com/events. 2019 SEPTEMBER 3 MEMBER PERKS $10 Off Tickets to Lifeline Theatre’s Whose Body? Lifeline Theatre re-explores this beloved and charming whodunit for a new generation! When a dead body turns up in a bathtub wearing nothing but a pair of pince-nez, amateur detective Lord Peter Wimsey assigns himself to the case. However, when the mys- tery becomes labyrinthine, he enlists the help of close friend Inspector Parker to follow his only lead, a teaching hospital near the scene of the crime. Could it be a harmless prank by a medical student or some- thing more sinister? Follow the clues and uncover the truth in this beloved 1923 novel by Dorothy L. Sayers. For tickets, please visit lifelinetheatre.com or call (773) 761-4477 and use code WTTW. This offer is valid for performances at Lifeline Theatre, 6912 North Glenwood in Chicago, through October 27. 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