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Chapter A Day

WISCONSIN PUBLIC RADIO
CHAPTER - A - DAY


Books in 2000 on Chapter a Day:

  • 01/03 - 01/14 Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen : Reflections at Sixty and Beyond by Larry McMurtry
    read by Karl Schmidt
    (Simon & Schuster; ISBN: 0684854961)
    (Samuel Barber: canzone: moderato from Piano Concerto, Op 38; John Browning and Leonard Slatkin, pianos (RCA 60732-2-RC))
  • 01/17 - No broadcast of Chapter a Day on Martin Luther King Day due to special program
  • 01/18 - 01/21 four stories from Women in Their Beds by Gina Berriault read by Karl Schmidt
    (Counterpoint; ISBN: 1887178384)
  • Tuesday 1/18 - "Nights in the Gardens of Spain"
  • Wednesday 1/19 - "The Bystander"
  • Thursday 1/20 - "Sublime Child"
  • Friday 1/21 - "Around the Dead Ruin"
  • (Samuel Barber: Souvenirs Ballet Suite, Op 28; John Browning and Leonard Slatkin, pianos (RCA 60732-2-RC))
  • 01/24 - 02/11 Mountain Time by Ivan Doig read by Jim Fleming
    (Scribner; ISBN: 068483295X)
    (Romance from Suite for Violin & Jazz Piano Trio" by Claude Bolling; Pinchas Zukerman, violin; Claude Bolling, piano (Milan 35735-2))
  • 02/14 - 03/03 The Land, Always the Land by Mel Ellis read by Jim Fleming (The Cabin Bookshelf ISBN 0-9653381-2-6)
    Claude Bolling: Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano Trio - Claude Bolling and Jean-Pierre Rampal (Milan 35735)

  • 03/06 - 03/17 selections from Memories of the Great and the Good by Alistaire Cooke read by Karl Schmidt
    (Arcade Pub; ISBN: 1559704799)
    (Samuel Barber: Souvenirs Ballet Suite, Op 28; John Browning and Leonard Slatkin, pianos (RCA 60732-2-RC))
  • 03/20 - 04/07 Isaac's Storm : A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History by Eric Larson read by Jim Fleming (Crown; ISBN: 0609602330)
    (Maurice Ravel: Daphnis & Chloe - danse generale, bacchanale, lever du jour; Philharmonia Orchestra -- Carlo Maria Giulini, conductor (EMI 7 67723 2))
  • 04/10 - 04/21 My Dog Tulip by J.R. Ackerly read by Karl Schmidt
    (New York Review Books; ISBN: 0940322110)
    Dmitri Shostakovich: Waltz from Jazz Suite #1 & Little Polka from Jazz Suite #2. Both from Shostakovich: The Jazz Album (London 433 702-2) Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra -- Riccardo Chailly
  • 04/24 - 05/15 Hanging Curve by Troy Soos read by Jim Fleming
    (Kensington Publishing Corporation; ISBN: 1575664550 )
    Scott Joplin: Binks' Waltz; Southland Stingers with Ralph Grierson, piano (EMI CDC 7 47193-2)
  • 05/16 - 05/19 Comrades: Brothers, Fathers, Heroes, Sons, Pals by Stephen Ambrose read by Karl Schmidt
    (Simon & Schuster; ISBN: 0684867184)
  • 05/22 - 06/09 A Dangerous Friend by Ward Just read by Karl Schmidt
    (Houghton Mifflin; ISBN: 0395856981)
    Leonard Bernstein: "Candide" - "It Must Be So" and "Make Our Garden Grow" from the album "Bernstein on Guitar" Lucian Plessner, guitar (CPO 999 505-2)
  • 06/12 - 07/07 Timeline by Michael Crichton read by Jim Fleming
    (Random House; ISBN: 0679444815)
    Lennon & McCartney: "In My Life" and "Yesterday"; Trio Rococo (RCA 74321-22488-2)
  • 07/10 - 07/28 The Land Remembers by Ben Logan read by Karl Schmidt
    (NorthWord Press; ISBN: 1559717181)
    Akutagawa: Triptique - berceuse and andante (Angel S-36577)
  • 07/31 - 08/18 Plainsong by Kent Haruf read by Jim Fleming
    (Knopf; ISBN: 0375406182)
    Soundtrack from the film "Brother's Keeper" - "The Streets of Munsville, Roscoe's Waterfall, Fiddler's Elbow" - Jay Ungar & Molly Mason (Angel CDC 0777 7 54828 2 9) (album also called "Waltzing With You")
  • 08/21 - 09/01 Fly Fishing for Sharks: An American Journey by Richard Louv read by Karl Schmidt
    (Simon & Schuster; ISBN: 0-684-83698-X)
    "Blues for Robert, Jr." and "Off the Hook" from "Surrounded by Love" - Ronnie Earl and the Broadcasters (Black Top Records)
  • 09/04 - 09/15 Godforsaken Sea: Racing the World's Most Dangerous Waters by Derek Lundy read by Jim Fleming
    (Algonquin Books; ISBN: 1565122291)(paperback edition: Anchor Books; ISBN: 0385720009) Mendelssohn: Hebrides Overture, Op 26; Gewandhaus Orchestra, Leipzig -- Kurt Masur (Berlin Classics 0091572)
  • 09/18 - 10/13 Horse Heaven by Jane Smiley read by Jim Fleming
    (Knopf; ISBN: 037540600X)
    Louis Spohr: Septet in a, Op 147 - 1st movement - allegro vivace; Midsummer's Music (Centaur CRC 2448)
  • 10/16 - 11/03 Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table by Ruth Reichl read by Karl Schmidt
    (Random House; ISBN: 0679449876)
    "Two Degrees East, Three Degrees West" from the album "Evolution" by John Lewis (Atlantic 83211-2)
  • 11/06 - 11/17 Driving Over Lemons: an Optimist in Andalucia by Chris Stewart read by Jim Fleming
    (Pantheon Books; ISBN: 0375410287)
    Ernesto Lecuona: Andalucia Suite; Frank Emilio Flynn, piano (RCA 43052-20474)
  • 11/20 - 12/19 Nothing Like It in the World : The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1865-1869 by Stephen Ambrose read by Jim Fleming
    (Simon & Schuster; ISBN: 0684846098)
    Big John McNeal, Roxanna Waltz; from the album "Fiddle Fever" (Flying Fish 70303)
  • 12/20 - 12/29 Christmas Remembered by Ben Logan read by Karl Schmidt
    (Northword Pr; ISBN: 1559716363)
    George Butterworth: The Banks of Greenwillow; The Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Neville Marriner, conducting (London 452 707 C)


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