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Thanksgiving Day 2020 with Classical IPR

By Amanda Sewell • 2 hours ago

No matter how you're spending your Thanksgiving this year, Classical IPR has a day of special music programming to keep you company.

Repose playlists for the week of November 23, 2020

By Frank Slaughter • 5 hours ago

Repose has been a listener favorite since the 1980s.

Listen every weeknight at 10 p.m. on Classical IPR, with new episodes every Saturday night at 10 p.m.

This week's playlists are available below.

The 'TC Bear' spotted in Meijer parking lot still on the loose

By Daniel Wanschura • 5 hours ago

Michigan DNR biologist Steve Griffith checks on one of several bear traps set up around Traverse City on November 20, 2020. — Dan Wanschura / Interlochen Public Radio

In October, a black bear was spotted roaming the Meijer parking lot in Traverse City. That bear, now dubbed the "TC Bear" by the Michigan Department of Natrual Resources, is still on the loose.

Now, the DNR is trying to lure the bear into various traps in Traverse City with things like syrup and bacon, but so far ― it isn't taking the bait.

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When the Morning Stars Sang Together: this week on the Storyteller's Night Sky

By Mary Stewart Adams • 6 hours ago

In many traditions, this last full week of November draws to a close the season of honoring loved ones who have died, and now ceremonial tradition turns toward the celebration of light that comes at the darkest time of year with Winter Solstice, next month.

Kids Commute - Request Week!

By Kate Botello • 6 hours ago

It's Request Week on Kids Commute - you're in charge!

Hi Kids Commuters! It's a short school week leading up to Thanksgiving, so we're having some fun together with REQUEST WEEK! You're in charge! We're hearing music chosen by you all week.

Tune in Monday through Friday at 7:40 a.m., school or no - or listen any time at the links on this page if you're sleeping in.

Listen for daily doses of gratitude from your fellow Kids Commuters, too!

All eyes on MI election certification as Trump doubles down on Hail Mary strategy

By Abigail Censky • 6 hours ago

The Michigan Board of State Canvassers meets Monday at 1 p.m. — Maxim Jenkins / WKAR-MSU

At the Michigan Board of State Canvassers meeting on Monday, two Democrats and two Republicans will meet to certify the results of Michigan’s election. Unofficial results, which have been certified by all of Michigan’s 83 counties, show President-Elect Joe Biden with a lead of more than 154,000 votes, roughly 14 times the margin by which President Donald Trump won the state in 2016.

Music by Request for November 21, 2020

By Gretchen Carr • Nov 21, 2020

Today's playlist featured The Prayer of Thanksgiving, often known to many as "We Gather Together." This Christian hymn was written by Dutch composer and poet, Andrian Valerius to honor the Dutch victory over the Spanish forces in the battle of Turnout. At the turn of the twentieth century, it became popular in the United States, and is often associated with Thanksgiving Day services and celebrations.

1. Johann Sebastian Bach/trans. Feruccio Busoni, Nun komm der Heiden Heiland, Vikingur Olaffson

The Interlochen Collection: At the Opera

By Amanda Sewell • Nov 20, 2020

Drama, humor, passion, tragedy, love and death - opera has it all.

This week's program features decades of Interlochen students performing music from the operatic stage, including works composed by Aaron Copland, Umberto Giordano, Richard Strauss and Richard Wagner.

Episode details

Richard Wagner, Tannhäuser Overture; Joseph Maddy/National High School Symphony Orchestra (1957)

Aaron Copland, The Promise of Living (from The Tender Land); Craig Dieterich/Interlochen Arts Academy Choir/David Lake (1981-82 academy year)

GAMEPLAY: Film and TV Composers

By Keith Brown • Nov 20, 2020

On GAMEPLAY this week: a celebration of some versatile composers who are just as much at home scoring for videogames, film, and TV!

We’ll hear game music from Spider-Man, Dante’s Inferno, The Last of Us, Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands, and many more by some of the giants of the game industry, including Garry Schyman and multiple Emmy-winner and Interlochen alumna Laura Karpman.

Join us for an adventure on Classical IPR Saturday at 1 p.m. This week’s full episode and playlist are available below.

Essay: Thanksgiving Poem

By Karen Anderson • Nov 20, 2020

I was home from college for Thanksgiving and asked if I could read a poem at the dinner table. Having just taken my first serious poetry class, I was in love with Emily Dickinson. My family didn’t read much poetry, but my mother welcomed my suggestion and said I could use the poem as our blessing.

And so I opened my book and began reading:

“Because I could not stop for Death—
He kindly stopped for me—
The Carriage held but just Ourselves—
and Immortality.”