November 28, 2001 - MPR's Music Director Rex Levang has phone interview with famed Italian operatic tenor Luciano Pavarotti. They spoke about the fundraising concerts the singer has played over the years.
November 29, 2001 - MPR’s Euan Kerr interviews Osmo Vänskä, Minnesota Orchestra’s new music director. Vänskä discusses his approach in building relationship with musicians as he raised his baton to conduct the Minnesota Orchestra for the first time since being named music director. While he doesn't officially assume the post until 2003, it's apparent he and the orchestra are keen to get working.
November 30, 2001 - Eric Begoshian's play "Talk Radio," based on a true story where a radio personality was murdered in 1984. Franklin Artworks features art by Roland Marquette.
November 30, 2001 - Public Good Guys, Twin Cities technicians, come to the rescue of Twin Cities technical problems. The Stepping Stone Theater is starting its 15th year.
December 5, 2001 - Three decades after the Swedish pop group ABBA first started toping charts, the group's songs became the basis of a musical "Mama Mia". MPR’s Lorna Benson talks with songwriter Björn Ulvaeus, who says he told musical producer Judy Cramer she could do whatever she wanted. He said he gave the project his blessing on one condition…don’t change the lyrics.
December 5, 2001 - The stage show Triple Espresso started humbly enough in a church basement in 1995. Since then, the production has become the foundation for a burgeoning business enterprise. Minnesota Public Radio's Andrew Haeg reports.
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December 7, 2001 - Minnesota Musher Keith Aili (EYE-lee) is headed to Alaska tonight for a rookie orientation leading up to the 2002 Iditarod Sled Dog Marathon. The 27-year-old almost didn't sign-up for the race because he hadn't raised enough money to register. But last week the Minnesota Wild Hockey team kicked in the last $20-thousand to help him qualify. Aili has been mushing competively for about nine years. While he's won several events in the lower 48, he isn't trying to WIN the Iditerod...he just wants to get some experience on the course and hopefully finish the race. Aili says he's dreamed of being a musher since he was 13 years old.
December 7, 2001 - A Voices of Minnesota special, featuring an exclusive interview with Carl Pohlad, and on Pearl Harbor Day, an interview with World War II Army nurse Avis Schorer.
December 10, 2001 - Joseph Giannetti painted a mural in the Soudan Underground Iron Mine near Tower, Minnesota. It was in collaboration with the University of Minnesota.