March 20, 1998 - The musician known as the king of the flute makes his Twin Cities debut tonight. Chen Tao is lauded in China as one of the country's most accomplished musicians. The New York Times calls him a 'poet in music. Chen and two other acclaimed Chinese musicians will perform a concert of traditional Chinese music tonight in Minneapolis, as Minnesota Public Radio's John Bischoff reports: The flute is usually thought of as a gentle instrument... best suited for melodies about love, flowers and spring. But 2,000 years ago in China, generals used flutes to fire up the blood of warriors on horseback:
March 20, 1998 - Like a church recipe book that weaves together parishioners' favorite banana breads, cobblers and bean dips....Eleanor Ostman's first cookbook, "Always on Sunday" samples some of her favorite recipes collected during her 30 years as Food Columnist for the St. Paul Pioneer Press. Ostman's newspaper column called "Tested Recipes", generated thousands of reader contributions over the years... including a submission by former Minnesota first Lady Lola Perpich, who started a lengthy controversy when she submitted a pie crust recipe which readers couldn't seem to make work. Ostman says she eventually learned how to eyeball a recipe to figure out if it had potential.
March 23, 1998 - MPR movie maven Stephanie Curtis previews the 70th Academy Awards. Curtis makes predictions on nominations, including Titanic, L.A. Confidential, and Good Will Hunting, amongst others. Curtis also answers listener questions.
March 23, 1998 - At the Academy Awards tonight, the odds-on favorite to win best picture and possibly set the record for winning the most awards is Titanic. $200-million film about the great ship that struck an iceberg is now the biggest grossing film of all time. Thomas Pope, a local screenwriter who's out with a new book called Good Scripts, Bad Scripts says Hollywood would probably like to see a money-maker rewarded with the industry's highest honors: Thomas Pope is the author of Good Scripts, Bad Scripts. His screenwriting credits include "The Lords of Discipline" "FX" and "Someone to Watch Over Me."
March 24, 1998 - MPR’s Euan Kerr interviews Minnesota poet Susan Carol Hauser about her book “Sugartime: The Hidden Pleasures of Making Maple Syrup with a Primer for the Novice Sugarer.”
March 26, 1998 - Minnesota Opera Artistic Director Dale Johnson discusses Un bel di Puccini's "Madame Butterfly" as one of four operas selected as part of the 1999 Minnesota Opera season. The company will also perform Gounod's "Faust", Verdi's "Otello," and Britten's "Turn of the Screw."
March 31, 1998 - Nature photographer Jim Brandenburg created the "Ninety Days Project" to challenge himself, and to reconnect with the wilderness. He will appear tonight at the Bell Museum of Natural History in Minneapolis. His talk and slide show will feature images from the project, which will also be the subject of an upcoming book. Minnesota Public Radio's Amy Radil has this report: One photograph a day for ninety days. That was the task Jim Brandenburg set himself. The results -- all ninety of them -- will appear in a forthcoming book, titled "Chased by the Light." The images first appeared in National Geographic last November. Brandenburg says professional pho
April 1, 1998 - Olympic silver medal figure skater Michelle Kwan says she will not turn professional and instead has her sights on the 2002 Olympic competition in Salt Lake City when she will be 21-years old. Kwan told reporters at the World Figure Skating Championships in Minneapolis today (Wednesday) she is struck with the youthfulness of figure skaters getting high marks in competition. Kwan says she will get her high school diploma this summer and intends to start taking some college courses soon after. Sun 28-MAY 11:50:34 MPR NewsPro Archive - Wed 04/11/2001
April 1, 1998 - MPR’s Euan Kerr presents yet another April Fools’ Day treat. In a secret location just a few miles over the Minnesota border into Wisconsin. Kerr interviews Milt Whiting, who is an attempting to bring the little known, but possibly illegal, European practice of fish-grooming to the Midwest.
April 1, 1998 - Today officials from the Minnesota Historical Society will visit Saint Peter to survey tornado damage to the city's historic buildings. Hundreds of homes business and civic buildings were badly damaged Sunday night. Many others were destroyed. Some of those buildings were part of Saint Peter's early history, a town once chosen as the state capital. Minnesota Public Radio's Lynette Nyman reports.