848; 05 French "Melodie" Meets Jazz in Chicago; 01 The Toll of War on Illinois; 02 Digital Diaries in a Warzone; 03 The Power of the Local School Council; 04 Fear In The Heartland
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- 848
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- 01 The Toll of War on Illinois
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- 02 Digital Diaries in a Warzone
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- 04 Fear In The Heartland
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- WBEZ
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- WBEZ (Chicago, Illinois)
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- 05 French composer Gabriel Faure had quite a resume. He studied under Saint-Saens, worked with Debussy, and was teacher to Ravel. Faure is widely regarded as the master of the melodie. Also known as the French Art Song, the melodie lies somewhere between classical and folk, and often involves music set to French poetry. Chicagos Jazz Faure Project reinterprets and puts some swing into many of Faures best-known tunes on their new CD Au bord de l'eau. Singers Claudia Hommel and Sean Harris recently sat down with Eight Forty-Eights Richard Steele to talk about the project. Claudia says that Faure and his students made a big impact on Jazz in America.
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- Episode We talk with Illinois Department of Veterans Affairs Director Tammy Duckworth about what Illinois is doing to take care of its war vets. Then, we hear from former U.S. Army Major and Chicagoan Matthew Currier Burden about his new book, The Blog of War: Front-Line Dispatches From Soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. Plus, a roundtable of experts discusses the role of the Local School Council in Chicago. And, melodie meets jazz in the Jazz Faure Project.
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- 01 We mark the 4th anniversary of the war in Iraq by talking with Chicagoans about their impressions of the war, and Illinois Department of Veterans Affairs Director Tammy Duckworth tells us what Illinois is doing to take care of its war vets.
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- 02 Media coverage of the war in Iraq has come under intense criticism over the last four years. There have been questions about the use of embedded journalists, media blackouts, security breaches and the breadth and balance of coverage from all sides. But the mass media and the Department of Defense havent been the only ones writing the news. So-called military blogsor milblogs have become a primary source of information for many. They refer to the thousands of personal websites created and written by soldiers in Iraq or Afghanistan or their loved ones. Chicago resident and former U.S. Army Major Matthew Currier Burden has just published a collection of entries from many of the most popular sites. The book is called The Blog of War: Front Line Dispatches from Soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. He says he structured the book to shed light on the experience of war from beginning to end. Music Button: Life Force Trio, "Luminous" from the CD Living Room (Plug Research Records)
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- 03 For more than a month, a standoff between the popular principal of a Southwest Side high school and the elected body that oversees the school has played out in the press. On February 10, the local school council of Curie Metro High School voted to fire Jerrelyn Jones, despite her success in raising student test scores. Mayor Richard M. Daley then criticized the decision, calling Jones a superstar principal. Amid pressure from City Hall and the public outcry from students and parents, the council voted again earlier this month but upheld their decision to oust Jones. The LSC hasnt given specific reasons for firing Jones. Some parents and students have called the decision racially motivated, because Jones is black and a majority of the council is Latino. All of this raises questions about the power of LSCs and whether theyre functioning the way they should. We talk with Patrick Rocks, general counsel for Chicago Public Schools; Veronica Anderson, editor in chief of Catalyst Chicago, a magazine that focuses on school reform; and Carol Johnson, an Austin resident and mother of five whos served five terms on local school councils. Music Button: Ursula 1000, "Descarga en La Discoteca" from the CD Here Comes Tomorrow (ESL records)
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- 04 Chicago Public Radio's Michael Puente has the story of how arrest for working in this country without documentation is affecting one Indiana woman's life.
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Distributor: WBEZ
Producing Organization: WBEZ
Production Unit: 848
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Chicago Public Radio (WBEZ-FM) and Vocalo.org
Identifier: 10719 (WBEZ)
Format: Data CD: CD-R
Generation: Master
Duration: 01:00:00?
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- Chicago: “848; 05 French "Melodie" Meets Jazz in Chicago; 01 The Toll of War on Illinois; 02 Digital Diaries in a Warzone; 03 The Power of the Local School Council; 04 Fear In The Heartland,” WBEZ, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed June 10, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-50-94vhhx3m.
- MLA: “848; 05 French "Melodie" Meets Jazz in Chicago; 01 The Toll of War on Illinois; 02 Digital Diaries in a Warzone; 03 The Power of the Local School Council; 04 Fear In The Heartland.” WBEZ, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. June 10, 2025. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-50-94vhhx3m>.
- APA: 848; 05 French "Melodie" Meets Jazz in Chicago; 01 The Toll of War on Illinois; 02 Digital Diaries in a Warzone; 03 The Power of the Local School Council; 04 Fear In The Heartland. Boston, MA: WBEZ, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-50-94vhhx3m