Wgtd's The Morning Show With Greg Berg

We speak with Alvaro Garcia, Professor of Music at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside and conductor of their orchestras- and soprano Laura Strickling, a two-time Grammy Award nominee, who is serving this week as the Howard Brown Artist-in-Residence at Parkside. She will be performing Mozart's Exultate Jubilate with the Parkside orchestras this Saturday afternoon in a concert that will also include Schubert's so-called Unfinished Symphony.

We speak with Nancy Reese, Director of Nursing at Carthage College, about the grand opening for the college's School of Health on Thursday, April 23rd. (For more information on the schedule of events, go to carthage.edu and click on the link for the grand opening that you'll find on the main page.)

We talk about Carthage College's production of the musical BRIGHT STAR. with Matthew Hougland, director of musical theater at Carthage and the director of this production, and three of the students in the cast: Hannah Duda, Brayden Follett, and Colin Campbell. The play will be performed over the next two weekends.

We speak with Christi Geidner, a theater teacher at Bradford High School in Kenosha, and the stage director of a production there of the musical "The Hello Girls." The show is based on the true story of the hundreds of women who served in the U.S. Army Signal Corps as telephone operators who played a crucial role in keeping lines of communication open during critical battles.

From the archives- Evan Ross Katz, author of "Into Every Generation a Slayer is Born- How Buffy Staked our Hearts." It's a look at the Buffy the Vampire Slayer television series and how it became such a phenomenon.

Veronique Tran, vice provost of the School of Manufacturing and Industrial Technology for Dallas College, is a finalist to be the next president of. Gateway Technical College. Go to gtc.edu and find the presidential search page to offer your input.

Phillip King, executive vice president and provost for the Milwaukee Area Technical College, is a finalist to be the next president of Gateway Technical College. (Go to gtc.edu and find the presidential search page to offer your input.)

Caron Daugherty, president of Flint Hills Technical College in Emporia, KS, is a finalist to be the next president of Gateway Technical College. (Go to gtc.edu and find the presidential search page to offer your input..).

Diana Du Pont talks about her new memoir "Fur Mama: How I found my Best Life Adopting an Ex-Racehorse and a Shelter Dog."

From the archives- Rebecca Sheir, veteran storyteller and public radio reporter (WBUR) - talks about her podcast "Circle Round" that celebrates folktales from around the world.

We preview Saturday evening's concert of the Choral Arts Society - a program titled "Fantasia" - with founder and artistic director James Schatzman, associate director Pat Badger, and guest concert pianist Randy Bush. The concert will include favorites like J.S. Bach's Prelude and Fugue in D minor, Pavane by Gabriel Faure, and Vaughan Williams's Fantasia on Greensleeves. The program's finale is an extraordinary rarity by Vaughan Williams- his Fantasy on Old 104th. The concert also marks the unveiling of First Presbyterian Church's newly restored pipe organ. (Nick Renkosik is the guest organist.)

Dr. Russell Johnson is a member of the faculty at the University of Chicago Divinity School. He is giving a talk at Carthage on April 22nd titled 'Peace, Protest and Polarization: Loving Your Enemy in Divided Times." The talk is part of the Hannibal series- and is free and open to the public. The lecture will be given at 4:30 in the Todd Wehr Center (Jockey Room A.). The event is free and open to the public.

For Kailyn Polamares's April visit to the Morning Show, she introduces us to Dr. Mila Marshall, Clean Water Advocate for Sierra Club-Illinois and a journalist for Chicago News Weekly. The interview includes a conversation about what it means to be an advocate for environmental issues.

From 2010 - We speak with one of the editors of "Autobiography of Mark Twain: the Complete and Authoritative Edition." Twain stipulated in his will that the work he had done on his autobiography could not be released to the public in complete form until 100 years after his death. 2010 marked the release of the first of the three volumes that comprise the autobiography. It yields remarkable insights into the life of one of the most unique and creative figures in American history.

From 2021 - Diane Rehm talks about her book "When My Time Comes: Conversations about whether those who are dying should have the right to determine when life should end." Rehm is an advocate for a practice known as M.A.I.D. (Medical Aid in Dying.). Rehm hosted her own radio program that was distributed by National Public Radio until 2016- and hosted her podcast "On My Mind" until 2025.

From 2004 - Jim. Kuhn, author of "Ronald Reagan: In Private - A Memoir of My years in the White House." Kuhn served as Executive Assistant to the President.

Part One- Parker Munoz talks about the Racine Theater Guild's production of J.R.R. Tolkien's THE HOBBIT, which runs now through April 21st. Munoz is the director of this production; it's his first time directing at the RTG. Part Two- Greg Schroeder, bell choir director at Mount Pleasant Lutheran Church in Racine, talks about the bell choir festival that is coming up on Saturday, April 18th .... in which the bell choirs of five ELCA congregations in southeastern Wiisconsin will join forces. The concert itself is 2:00 and is free and open to the public.

From 2004- Neal Bascomb, author of "The Perfect Mile: Three Athletes, One Goals, and Less than Four Minutes to Achieve it." The book was written to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Roger Bannister running the first sub-four minute mile in history.

From the archives- Doug Stewart, author of "The Boy Who Would be Shakespeare: A Tale of Forgery and Folly." This is the true story of a 19th-century English teenager names William Henry Ireland - who wrote a series of works that he claimed were forgotten works by the great William Shakespeare. The book explores not only how he pulled off this deception- but also why.

Mark Kurlansky, author of "To Catch a FishL. Essays on the Joy, Frustration, Curiosity and Allure of Fishing,"