May 21, 2001 -
May 21, 2001 - MPR’s Tasha Rosenfeld interviews local jazz-pianist Herb Pilhofer about his CD "Full Circle.” Pilhofer was a standout in the Twin Cities jazz scene during the 1950's and 60's. He's spent the last three decades exploring other aspects of the music business, as a composer, producer and owner of the recording studio Sound 80.
May 22, 2001 - Minnesota Public Radio's William Wilcoxen reports that a handful of teams are surprising the baseball world with strong starts this season, but none is more surprising than the Twins. The Twin Cities will get a look at the top two teams in baseball, when the Minnesota Twins host the Seattle Mariners at the Metrodome.
May 23, 2001 - Democratic Senator Paul Wellstone is cautiously optimistic about news that Senator James Jeffords of Vermont is leaving the Republican party. Jeffords' aides say he'll announce tomorrow that he's becoming an independent. Wellstone says the switch would be good for Democrats AND Minnesota:
May 23, 2001 - MPR’s Cathy Wurzer interviews Minnesota musicians John Koerner and Peter Ostroushko about tribute CD for Bob Dylan and their personal memories of the famed musician.
May 24, 2001 - The Duluth native has seen his life and music career documented over the airwaves, on television and film and on pages and pages of print. But perhaps no single person has written as much as music historian Michael Gray. Gray's latest book, "Song and Dance Man 3: The Art of Bob Dylan” is a detailed analysis of Dylan's 40 year career.
May 24, 2001 - A profile on Finnish conductor Osmo Vänskä, who has been named new music director of the Minnesota Orchestra. Report contains various commentaries and interviews about the conductor and his leadership style.
May 25, 2001 - Word of Mouth Host Chris Roberts talks with Osmo Vänskä, the Minnesota Orchestra's new music director. Osmo Vanska, of Finland, says he's honored to have been chosen to lead what he called one of the great orchestras in the world. He says one of his primary goals is to build a team spirit and intimacy among musicians to engender a feeling and sound closer to a chamber ensemble, than a huge symphony orchestra.
May 28, 2001 - If you're on your way back from a long weekend at the lake- a little sad thinking about the work week ahead- don't despair, your trip to the northwoods isn't over yet. Minnesota author Douglas Wood is out with a new book about an island on sprawling Rainy lake near the Canadian border. Wood owns the island, and the small cabin a local craftsman built there in 1925. Woods book, "Fawn Island," is a collection of essays that explores how the wilderness retreat has shaped Wood's innermost thoughts and his view of the larger world. In the book, he writes "Fawn Island is a rugged but poetic outcrop of granite in the heart of the northwoods." He told Minnesota Public Radio's Lorna Benson that his rustic cabin reflects that landscape.
May 28, 2001 - A Common Place Memorial Day special. The program is the story of four World War II chaplains who went down together with their torpedoed ship in 1943. Plus a conversation with Bruce Weigl, a Vietnam veteran who writes poetry.