WGTD's The Morning Show with Greg Berg

In Part One, we talk about this weekend's concert by the Choral Arts Society that will be devoted to music of the Beatles.  Our guests include artistic director Jim Schatzman and guest musician Mark Paffrath.   In Part Two, we share a 2004 interview from the Morning Show archives with Tony Barrow, long-time manager of the Beatles.  The occasion for our conversation was the publication of the book "Paul McCartney: Then and Now," which Barrow co-wrote. 

Working with the poor in Cameroon. 

David A. Salomon's book is titled 'The Seven Deadly Sins: How Sin Influenced the West from the Middle Ages to the Modern Era."  

I am often asked what interview is my favorite among the thousands that I have done over the past twenty years as host of "The Morning Show."  This is it.  Alexandra Zapruder's book "Salvaged Pages: Young Writers' Diaries of the Holocaust" is a collection of diaries written by young people during the Holocaust.  These would be diaries somewhat similar to the famous diary of Anne Frank.  Ms. Zapruder's book was initially published in 2002.  It was re-released in a second edition several years ago- and there is also a multi-media edition available. I am sharing this interview because of Holocaust Remembrance Day, which was this past Thursday.  We Must Never Forget. 

Robert Trachtenberg's book "When I Knew" collects the stories of about 100 different gay people who answer the question "When did I know that I was gay?"   Some of the stories shared are hilarious- while others are quite poignant.  

We introduce you to Noah Mercadillo, a sophomore at Tremper High School in Kenosha, who has won first place in both the Kenosha Symphony and Racine Symphony youth auditions.   He performs the opening movement of the Haydn Cello Concerto in C major with the RSO this Saturday evening.  (At one point during the interview, Noah plays his cello.) In part two, we hear from RSO artistic director Pasqual Laurino,  who will conduct Saturday evening's concert. 

Anne Morse Hambrock is a well-known local harpist, harp teacher, and composer - but today we talk about her work as a writer and artist as expressed in her new book "Conversations with the Infinite."  We also talk about the Holocaust Remembrance Day event at the Kenosha Public Museum (for which Anne will be playing harp)  which will feature a talk by Holocaust survivor Nathan Taffel.  We finish out the program by replaying a Morning Show conversation with him recorded back in 2008. 

In part one,  Brian Gill (from the theater faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside) discusses "Love's Labours Lost," an early comedy by William Shakespeare that UW-Parkside will present over the next two weekends.  In part two, we meet Susan Dreyfus, president of the Alliance for Strong Families and Communities, who is the keynote speaker at this Friday's Non-Profit Breakfast at UW-Parkside "Celebrating 50 Years of Powerful Partnerships." 

My guest is Penny Farmer, author of "Dead in the Water: My 40-year search for my Brother's Killer."  

Carthage College's First Lady, Cameron Swallow, talks about her involvement in an organization called Better Angels, which seeks to help people from both sides of the political aisle - 'reds' and 'blues' - to be able to speak more respectfully with one another and be able to develop appreciation for and understanding of each other.  Better Angels has a skills workshop coming up this Saturday morning, May 5th.  In our conversation, Cameron Swallow shares what it is like to be part of a politically divided family.