WNMU-FM :: Public Radio 90, Marquette, MI

A Prairie Home Companion
Monday at 1pm
Coming to you this week from the fabulous Fox Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia, it’s a live broadcast performance of A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor. With special guest, road-tested Texas troubadour Joe Ely. Plus, the Royal Academy of Radio Actors; Tim Russell, Sue Scott and sound effects wizard Fred Newman, and sitting in with The Guy’s All-Star Shoe Band, the King of Newgrass, grammy-award winner Sam Bush — and Garrison will have all the latest News from the little town that time forgot and the decades can’t improve, Lake Wobegon.

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Monday at 8pm
Alain Altinoglu makes his CSO debut in a program of French music. On the program, Chabrier’s España, Bizet’s Symphony in C and Chopin’s Piano Concerto No 1 in E Minor, Op 11 with guest soloist Lang Lang

New Jazz Archive
Monday at 11pm (repeats Sunday at 4pm)
This week on The New Jazz Archive, it’s an hour-long salute to jazz Americana. We’ll talk with Irving Berlin biographer Laurence Bergreen about the rags to riches story of one of America’s greatest songwriters, and explore the role jazz musicians played in shaping the glory years of the USO. And we’ll chat with our producer and go-to research man Lou Blouin about some of the best and strangest attempts by jazz musicians to define the American experience, and explore how the classic American musical West Side Story helped revive jazzers’ interest in the American stage. That plus music from Billie Holiday, Benny Goodman, Pat Metheny and Bill Frisell

Jazz at Lincoln Center
Tuesday at 10pm (repeats Wednesday at 3am)
Bird with Strings
In 1949, Charlie Parker envisioned an album that would link jazz to pop and influence artists to come. His legendary venture with strings has done just that. Parker with Strings set his searching solos against a lush string quartet. And on stage Bird lives – as we feature saxophonists Wes Anderson and Charles McPherson and the Philharmonic Orchestra of the Americas. Wendell Pierce hosts.

Public Radio 90 is excited to announce our latest overseas adventure—Reflections of Italy! This 10 day journey lifts off November 5, 2012 and returns November 14, 2012.

You’ll start your adventure in The Eternal City—Rome! Visit the Coliseum, the famous Piazza Navona, feast on regional delicacies and fine Italian wine. From there you’ll travel north through Assisi, Perugia, Siena, Florence, Venice, Murano Island, Lugano (Switzerland), and Como. Check out our brief slideshow below of some of the tour highlights!

Space for this once in a life time journey is limited, so don’t wait. Get the full details here!

Photos courtesy of Jonathan Paul