Tickets are now available for our special night at the festival, Sunday, August 3rd. For about the price of a regular show, you'll get a tasty box dinner from the Garlic Press Market Café, pre-show jazz from the Joe Metzka Trio and a performance of Taming of the Shrew.Don't hesitate to get your tickets early .Get all the details of this event by listening to the GLT Ticket podcast.
You're the biggest kept secret of the GLT Recycled Music Sale. Without your old records, CDs, sheet music and working stereo equipment the sale wouldn't be a success. Every year the GLT Recycled Music Sale pumps much needed cash in our Equipment Fund and every year you get a chance to clear the clutter. The sale doesn't being until August 14th, with our members preview sale. But you can donate your stuff right now at more than a dozen central Illinois locations. You're also the secret to getting the sale organized and volunteers are needed. Learn more about this event by listening to GLT Ticket.
You'll be suprised at just how much stuff we have planned for you. There's the Recycled Music Sale. It's blues festival season and you'll get a rundown of all the fests and who's playing (we'll be at all of them). We know who our NPR guest is for our next Radio Faces event in November, and you'll know when you get yours. Heck, we're even signing on a new radio station. Read about all of it in the new GLT Guide.
Speaking of Faith, Sundays at 6 AM Speaking of Faith, hosted by Krista Tippett is public radio's conversation about religion, ethics and ideas. This Sunday, (07/27) you'll hear about the benefits of play. Who knew that we learn empathy, trust, irony, and problem solving through what the dictionary defines as "pleasurable and apparently purposeless activity." Dr. Stuart Brown directs the National Institute for Play. He suggests that the rough-and-tumble play of children actually prevents violent behavior, that play can grow human talents and character across a lifetime, that play can be a glimpse of the divine. Listen for Speaking of Faith, Sunday morning at 6.
The latest Murrow award snagged by Schlenker is for writing. It's his second Murrow for writing. He has also won in the sports category. GLT competed in a field of 3,459 entries from several hundred news organizations from round the country. The station is one of 54 to actually win awards and GLT is the only Illinois Radio station to win a national Edward R. Murrow Award this year. This latest recognition is on top of a slew of other awards including a regional Edward R. Murrow and state wide Associated Press awards. Send your congratulations to Charlie.
We're transitioning to digital radio. This means our main signal will sound a bit better and we'll be able to bring you two new radio stations. To accomplish this, we have to install a new transmitter. During the installation, we'll broadcast on our back up for up to a week beginning Monday (07/21). That means you may not be able to hear us as clearly or at all, depending up on where you're listening. We're sorry for any inconvenience, but we think you'll like the new listening options coming soon.
You're looking at the new wglt.org. After months of sweating every detail we've launched a site we think is more navigable, easier on the eye and better organized (and easier for us to update and maintain). But our opinion is not the one that matters. Let us know what think about this new web site and be sure to let us know if you encounter a problem. Thanks to GLT staff Pat Peterson and Mike McCurdy for shepherding this project and thanks to Jacob DeGeal and Alex Skorpinski with Institutional Web Support Services at Illinois State University.
When you need to know meal options for GLT Night at the Illinois Shakespeare Festival or need to know what you can donate to the GLT Recycled Music Sale, turn to GLT Ticket. This podcast keeps you posted on GLT events and gives you the details you need. Listen to episodes now about GLT Night at the Illinois Shakespeare Festival and our annual Recycled Music Sale.
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