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County Mayo

oin WYSU on Friday, November 4 at the Lemon Grove Café from 6:30–9:00 pm as we present County Mayo for the 2011 Folk Festival Concert. Bill Davis, Marcy Dubec, Bill Lewis and Ted Miller make up County Mayo. Bill Davis comes from a long line of singers and musicians. As a child, he and his sisters staged elaborate musical shows in their parents’ kitchen. While serving in the navy, he learned to play the guitar and developed a strong love for traditional ballads (which he sang with gusto.) His skills with the banjo, mandolin and fiddle were acquired later. Bill played in The Shanachies for a time. He now sings leads and harmonies. Marcy Meiers grew up listening to her mother’s a capella singing and her father’s guitar-accompanied ballads. She played the concert flute as a child and was a member of the Warren, Ohio Jr. Military Band. At a Wolfe Tones concert she attended in high school years she became enchanted by the complexity, strength and beauty of traditional Irish reels, hornpipes and songs. She taught herself to play the tin whistle and the bodhran and studied music at Gormanston College in Ireland. While attending Youngstown State University she became a founding member of The Shanachies. Bill Lewis studied orchestral brass and woodwind instruments in grade school, but was always drawn to other musical forms, from blues to jazz, to country, swing and folk—an attraction that proved irresistible. French horn and trumpet gave way to guitar, banjo, mandolin and fiddle. Sousa and Schubert surrendered to Pete Seeger, the Kingston Trio and the Clancy Brothers. Bill has played in several folk groups in the Eastern Ohio region.

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At the age of two, Ted Miller would sing to visitors and relatives who came to the family home. He would listen when the adults gathered around the piano for a song at family gatherings. At parochial school he learned all of the Irish American songs that were sung on St. Patrick’s Day. In later years, he developed a taste for folk music, but a particular love for the more traditional Irish ballads and a knack for the sea shanties and humorous song. He has a versatile, powerful baritone voice, which is perfectly suited to every type of Irish song. The members of County Mayo search through dusty old library stacks, pour over old tomes, listen to old recordings and work with older traditional musicians in their search for rare and unusual versions of songs. They frequently

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or more than 40 years WYSU has provided quality programming to its listeners, including the finest in jazz, classical and folk music, news from NPR, and diverse and educational programming covering an array of pertinent subjects. Recently WYSU created a forum for community leaders to come together to discuss global and national issues, many of vital concern to the area. WYSU’s Looking Out approaches issues from often unexplored angles, where a moderator and panelists sit in a round-table configuration for a frank but respectful exchange of ideas. Under the guidance of WYSU director Gary Sexton and associate director David Luscher, station intern John D. Matthews is the program researcher and associate producer for Looking Out. With topic material covering subjects such as ecology, economy, foreign policy and education, the show’s format and approach gives new life to finding solutions, with content that is geared toward overturning the proverbial stone on a path less traveled. The host and moderator is Dr. George McCloud, Youngstown State University professor of communication, who has had extensive experience in foreign relations and journalism. Panelists for Looking Out include Youngstown City Clerk of Courts Sarah Brown-Clark, Dr. Paul Sracic, chair of YSU’s Political Science Department, and Andrea Wood, founder and publisher of The Business Journal. You can hear the show Friday nights at 7:00 pm with an encore on Monday evenings at 7:30 pm. All shows will be archived and available on the station’s web-site, http://wysu.org/focus.php.

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om Zocolo’s interest in electronics predates his recollections. His mother says that as a toddler, Tom removed the backs from the televisions in the house to watch the glowing tubes. Fortunately, he was already bright enough to stay away from things that could hurt him, and he’s managed to stay out of serious trouble all of these years.Tom’s affiliation with WYSU began as a student board operator in the late ’70s while he was studying electrical engineering at Youngstown State University. In 1987 he accepted the title of assistant chief engineer, a part-time position he held for almost 25 years. Tom’s professional journey has been a circuitous one. He served as chief engineer for Mahoning Valley Cablevision, worked as an independent contract engineer, was involved in a family business, and for the past 13 years has held the full-time job of chief engineer for the ABC/CBS/Fox TV complex. One of his most impressive contributions there was to successfully combine all of the television services into one central location at the WKBN broadcast site, a feat that won accolades from management. Tom has given WYSU years of faithful service, and has always been ready to share his vast expertise whenever needed. We sincerely thank him for all of his invaluable help; we are the richer for it. Unfortunately

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for us, we lost Tom’s position in this year’s budget cuts, but we won’t be entirely without his talents. He can usually be found (at almost any hour) at the 58-year-old WKBN complex, where WYSU’s main transmitter resides, and he has always been generous with his assistance. We wish Tom all the best!

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J oin us for the next WYSU station-sponsored tour as we experience the elegance, mystique and beauty of Vienna, budapest and Prague, plus the chance to spend three additional nights in Salzburg! In June of 2012, WYSU-FM and Go Ahead Tours of Boston invite you to immerse yourself in the stunning beauty of three major European capitals. Cobbled streets, magnificent castles, and majestic mountains and rivers grace this beautiful and under-explored region of Central Europe. Experience first-hand places that have evoked glorious works from composers like Haydn, Mozart, Smetana and Liszt, while you marvel at the modern beauty and sophistication that each city offers to today’s visitors. We’ll take in the opulent architecture of budapest, including its gold and bejeweled Parliament building, modeled after London’s Westminster Palace, and ascend the imposing castle Hill for a fabulous view of the Royal Palace. In Vienna, enjoy a cruise down the legendary Danube River and take a ride on the Prater Ferris wheel, which offers a spectacular panoramic view of the city and the surrounding countryside, nestled at the foot of the Austrian Alps.

Next June you’re invited to enjoy a spectacular visit to

Vienna, Budapest, Prague and Salzburg!

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In Prague, discover why this beautiful city is known as the city of One Hundred Spires as you admire the soaring Gothic vaults of St. Vitus cathedral and the many other surrounding medieval castles. You’ll also spend time in the Old Town, walking in the footsteps of Kafka and Dvorak. An optional three extra days in Salzburg, Mozart’s birthplace, offers the opportunity for an elegant dinner with live music, and a trip through the bavarian Alps to visit the Eagle’s nest, a mountaintop lodge built for Hitler’s 50th birthday. You’ll also see many familiar sites from The Sound of Music.

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transportation in Europe• Lovely accommodations with a private bath or shower

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Spaces are limited so please don’t wait! Call or write me, Barbara Krauss, for a free detailed brochure. 330-941-3363 or [email protected]

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love read-ing Cormac

McCarthy, but I couldn’t make

my goal of all 10 novels this summer. As great as the novels are individually, their collective unrelenting bleakness and nonchalant violence got to be too much. I’ll finish them off during the winter when I really need something cheery. In the meantime, I’ve been digging into The Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey and The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris by David McCullough. The Greater Journey is an engaging backdoor history of 19th-Century United States, and Paris, through the eyes and experience of American artists (Morris, Healey, Cas-sat, Whistler), writers (Cooper, Stowe), doctors (Holmes, Sr.), politicians (Sumner), inventors (Morris) and others lucky enough to have extended educational residencies in Paris. Who knew anyone important went to Paris after Franklin and Jefferson and before Hemingway and Stein! —Gary

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DEPARTURE DATE:JUNE 11, 2012

11-day tour includes:

• Round-trip air transportationwith a major airline andairport transfers

• The services of a Go AheadTour Director

• A licensed local city guide

• Accommodations inwell-located hotels

• All hotel service charges andtips, baggage handling andlocal taxes

• Buffet breakfast daily andselect other meals

• Private motorcoach

• Guided sightseeing andentrance fees to select sights

• Go Ahead travel gift andmembership in our WorldTraveler Club, which includescredit toward your next tour

• Visit Schonbrunn Palace

• See The Prague Castle

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Vienna, Budapest,and Prague


11-day tour includes:

• Round-trip air transportationwith a major airline andairport transfers

• The services of a Go AheadTour Director

• A licensed local city guide

• Accommodations inwell-located hotels

• All hotel service charges andtips, baggage handling andlocal taxes

• Buffet breakfast daily andselect other meals

• Private motorcoach

• Guided sightseeing andentrance fees to select sights

• Go Ahead travel gift andmembership in our WorldTraveler Club, which includescredit toward your next tour

• Visit Schonbrunn Palace

• See The Prague Castle

For more informationcontact Barbara Krauss:

(330) 941-3363

[email protected]

http://wysu-barbarakrauss.grouptoursite.com

Call Go Ahead Tours today to save your spot (800) 438-7672Space is Limited!

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11-DAY TOUR INCLUDES:

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• Accommodationsinwell-located hotels

• Allhotelservicechargesand tips, baggage handling and local taxes

•Buffetbreakfastdailyandselect other meals

• Privatemotorcoach

• Guidedsightseeingandentrance fees to select sights

• GoAheadtravelgiftandmembership in our World Traveler Club, which includes credit toward your next tour

• VisitSchonbrunnPalace

• SeeThePragueCastle

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County Mayo

Folk Festival Concert2011embellish shows with Australian or Scottish ballads. They consider themselves to be historians and researchers as much as musicians. WYSU is very excited to welcome County Mayo to this year’s Folk Festival Concert! As always, the concert is hosted by Charles Darling. It is a free event and for all ages. County Mayo will be performing on Friday, November 4 from 6:30–9:00 pm at the Lemon Grove Café on West Federal Street in downtown Youngstown.

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11/12 Harry James. Swing-Era icon on trumpet, and leader of formidable postwar bands.

11/19 Don Ewell. One of the finest second-generation pianists in the traditional style.

11/26 Jimmy noone. One of the greatest of New Orleans clarinetists.

12/3 Yusef Lateef. Modern-jazz multi-reed master (tenor, oboe and more).

12/10 Pharoah Sanders. Intense avant-garde saxophonist, more than a Coltrane disciple.

12/17 Elvin Jones. An astonishing modern drummer, including a newly-acquired early-’60s session with his brothers.

12/24 buck clayton and bobby Hackett. Eloquent trumpeter and cornetist, offering a bit of serenity.

12/31 Avant-garde. Mostly from the ’60s, stretching ears and boundaries as never before or since.

12/31 TbA.

Folk Festivalwith Charles Darling Sunday, 8:00 pm10/2 Roots Music, Part V. Traditionalists include Dock Boggs and Lightnin’ Hopkins, while early interpreters include the Carter Family and Brownie McGhee and Sony Terry.

10/9 Extended Sets, Part XXXVI. Covers three areas of folk music: country with Linda and Robin Williams, blues with Chris Smithers, and folk-rock with Tempest.

10/16 Fund Drive Preview. Due to the shortened fund drive, I won’t be live in the studio to take your requests and pledges, so this program thanks you for supporting folk music on WYSU. Features songs requested by listeners.

10/23 brits and Yanks. Both sides of the Atlantic are represented, including Shirley Collins and Eric Andersen.

10/30 Supernatural Tales. In time for Halloween is this collection of both magical and menacing tales with Steeleye Span, Roberts and Barrand, and Gordon Bok.

11/6 Folk Sampler, Part cX. Numerous artists including Judy Collins, Pete Seeger, Peter Paul & Mary, Doc Watson, and John Lee Hooker.

11/13 country cookin’, Part LXXXVI. Another batch of musical stew with both traditional and contemporary artists from Uncle Charlie Osborne to Johnny Cash.

11/20 Moe Asch’s “children.” The founder of Folkways Records left a legacy of over 2000 albums, recorded by such singers as Woody Guthrie, Leadbelly, Pete Seeger, Ella Jenkins, Elizabeth Cotten, et al.

11/27 Musical bios. Stories of fictional and real life persons, including John Henry, Buddy Holly, Hattie Carroll, Jack London, Nellie Bly, and more.

Now’s the Timewith Martin BergerSaturday, 11:00 pm10/1 nat Adderley. Cannonball’s cornetist little brother, a wry, assertive performer.

10/8 Sun Ra. Keyboards, composition, extraterrestrial hoopla, and a lot of powerful music.

10/15 Gene Ammons. Unsurpassable soul tenor sax.

10/22 Arnett cobb. Another, grittier tenor-sax juggernaut.

10/29 Jazz during the Second world war. The Traditional jazz movements, with Bunk Johnson, Eddie Condon, et al.

11/5 Jazz during the war. The emergence of Modern jazz, with Bird, Diz, et al.



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12/4 contemporary Folk, Part LII. The amazing Will White is joined by Tamarack, The Traveling Wilburys, Sandy Denny, and others.

12/11 Extended Sets, Part XXXVII. Contrasts three folk genres with Shirley Collins and the Albion Country Band, Bob Dylan, and folk collector Max Hunter.

12/18 (not Quite) Year End Review. Samples music presented during the 2011 season of Folk Festival.

12/25 christmas with the Folks. Various artists contribute to the celebration including Dan Fogelberg, John Baez, and Magpie.

nPR world of OperaMonday, 8:00 pm10/3 weber: Der Freischütz. Proms Concerts; Royal Albert Hall, London; Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, Monteverdi Chorus; John Eliot Gardiner, conductor. This is a chance to hear Weber’s atmospheric drama in its fascinating arrangement by Hector Berlioz, who set the spoken dialogue to music and included his own, brilliant orchestration of Weber’s famous “Invitation to the Dance.”

10/10 Verdi: Rigoletto. Chorégies d’Orange Festival (Orange, France); National Orchestra of France; Roberto Rizzi Brignoli, conductor. It takes genius like Verdi’s to successfully combine true, heartfelt sentiment in the love between father and daughter, with over-the-top passion and appalling violence. Rigoletto has all of that, in spades.

10/17 Rossini: Moses in Egypt. Rossini Opera Festival, Pesaro; Bologna Municipal Theater Orchestra and Chorus; Roberto Abbado, conductor. To skirt the official prohibition of opera performances during Lent, Rossini came up with an operatic take on the biblical story of Moses and the exodus from Egypt, complete with the parting of the Red Sea, as in Hollywood’s The Ten Commandments.

10/24 Gounod: Faust. Royal Opera House, Covent Garden; Evelino Pidò, conductor. Goethe’s immortal drama, with it’s legendary deal with the devil, has been adapted in countless ways, from symphonic poems to rock musicals, but few if any can match the power and romance of Gounod’s opera.

10/31 Gluck: Telemaco. 2011 Schwetzingen Festival; Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, Basel Theatre Chorus; Anu Tali, conductor. Gluck was among the most influential composers in the history of opera. This opera is something of a rarity, but Gluck thought highly enough of its music to resurrect some of its finest numbers for use in both of his popular Iphigenie operas.

11/7 Menotti: The Medium, Saariaho: Émilie. Spoleto Festival USA, Charleston, SC; Joseph Flummerfelt, conductor (The Medium), John Kennedy, conductor (Émilie). Menotti’s early opera The Medium ran on Broadway for more than 200 performances in 1947-48. Émilie, by the Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho, is a mesmerizing one-act, one-woman opera.

11/14 Verdi: La Traviata. Vienna State Opera; Betrand de Billy, conductor. This production stars the charismatic French soprano Natalie Dessay in the demanding role of Violetta, with rising star Charles Castronovo, a New York native, as Alfredo.



STAFFWYSU-FM STAFFApril Antell-Tarantine—Announcer/ ProducerMelinda Bowen-Houck—Development OfficerEd Goist—Development OfficerChris Hartman—Assistant Broadcast Engineer for IT & Operations Barbara Krauss—Announcer/ProducerRon Krauss—Broadcast EngineerDavid Luscher—Associate DirectorRick Popovich—Announcer/ProducerGary Sexton—DirectorLaurie Wittkugle—Administrative Assistant

VOLUNTEER PROGRAMHOSTS/PRODUCERSMartin Berger—Now’s the TimeSarah Brown-Clark—Looking OutCharles Darling—Folk FestivalSherry Linkon—Lincoln AvenueWillie Lofton—Production AssistantGeorge McCloud—Looking OutPaul Sracic—Looking OutVictor Wan-Tatah—Focus: Africana StudiesAndrea Wood—Looking Out

STUDENT STAFFMatthew Browning—Weekend Announcer, Production AssistantAamber Hopson—Office AssistantTawni McClendon—Office Assistant, Production AssistantJohn Matthews—Production InternPatrick Shelton—Office Assistant, Weekend Announcer

ADVISORY BOARD

2006/2009Sherry Linkon

Sarah LownMollie Hartup

Madelon SabineSusan Yerian

2007/2010Richard Hahn

Paul KobulnickyIsadore MendelAndrea Wood

2008/2011Fred Alexander

Ralph Peters Susan Stewart Shelley Odille

2009Tyler Clark

Lark DicksteinLynn GriffithJohn Polanski

2010Matthew D. Gurbach

Nancy MarshBill Brennan

Gina SchiavoneRebekah Sheeler

2011James F. CollierGary Davenport

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11/21 Dvorak: The Jacobin. Prague National Theatre. Tomás Netopil, conductor. Sometimes described as one of Dvorak’s most quintessentially Czech operas, this romantic drama portrays a father and son who are estranged by family intrigue and politics, then reconciled by the power of music.

11/28 wagner: The Flying Dutchman. Royal Opera House, Covent Garden (London); Jeffrey Tate, conductor. The Royal Opera has assembled another top-notch cast for Wagner’s stormy drama of legendary determination, undeniable love, and ultimate redemption.

12/5 britten: The Turn of the Screw. Theater an der Wien, Vienna; ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra; Cornelius Meister, conductor. Based on a Henry James’s ghost story about two orphans tormented by seductive spirits, Britten’s opera goes beyond spooky to become genuinely disturbing.

12/17 Ponchielli: La Gioconda. Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus; Bruno Bartoletti, conductor. Ponchielli’s masterpiece, a drama of politics, passion and murder, is so over-the-top sensational that you can’t help but love it—one of opera’s most delicious “guilty pleasures.”

12/24 Rossini: La donna del lago. La Scala, Milan; Roberto Abbado, conductor. In 1819, Rossini cashed in on an Italian taste for all things Scottish with this overtly Romantic opera based on a story by Sir Walter Scott.

12/26 Rimsky-Korsakov: The Golden Cockerel. Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow; Vassily Sinaisky, conductor. This fairy-tale extravaganza is considered by some to be Rimsky-Korsakov’s finest work. Based on a poem by Pushkin, it’s a story of incompetent politicians and unfulfilled promises, featuring a doddering Tsar who is ultimately pecked to death by the opera’s glittering title character.

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