We’ll look at the human cost of overseas drug tests. Then, New Yorker fiction editor Deborah Treisman and two of the writers who were featured in the 20 under 40 series talk about their work. Phoebe Hoban discusses the unconventional life of unconventional artist Alice Neel. Plus, our resident language expert Patricia T. O’Conner discusses the derivation of holiday words!
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We’ll get some tips about the etiquette of tipping during the holiday season. Then Jeffrey Wright and Mos Def talk about their roles in the Lincoln Center production of John Guare’s “A Free Man of Color.” Also, Joan Nathan tells us about her search for Jewish cuisine in France. Plus, our latest underreported segment takes a look at the widespread use of DNA databases in law enforcement, and why that may pose civil liberties problems.
In the past year, the Metropolitan Opera's high tech Ring Cycle wowed, and Ted Hearne's Katrina Ballads invited a closer listen. Today, Soundcheck's Critics Week continues with a look back at the year in classical and opera with Washington Post critic, Anne Midgette. And: We take a look at the holiday tradition of Handel's "Messiah." Plus: A live performance from Depedro - the solo project from Spanish guitarist-singer-songwriter Jairo Zavala.
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Tell Me More focuses on the way we live, intersect and collide in a culturally diverse world. Capturing the headlines, issues and pleasures relevant to multicultural life in America, the daily one-hour series is hosted by award-winning journalist Michel Martin. Tell Me More marks Martin's first role in hosting a daily program. She views it as an opportunity to focus on the stories, experiences, ideas and people important in contemporary life but often not heard.
In the past year, the Metropolitan Opera's high tech Ring Cycle wowed, and Ted Hearne's Katrina Ballads invited a closer listen. Today, Soundcheck's Critics Week continues with a look back at the year in classical and opera with Washington Post critic, Anne Midgette. And: We take a look at the holiday tradition of Handel's "Messiah." Plus: A live performance from Depedro - the solo project from Spanish guitarist-singer-songwriter Jairo Zavala.
For this New Sounds, we’ll hear an hour of songs without words, maybe even without voices. This kind of tradition reaches back to Felix Mendelssohn and his Lieder ohne Worte (Songs without Words), and his series of short, lyrical piano pieces. Two Norwegian musicians, saxophonist Trygve Seim & pianist Andreas Utnem, have just released a new recording of similarly lyrical songs – without voices or words – called Purcur. It was recorded in a church in Oslo, and manages to work in the sound of the room’s personality. We’ll hear some of these folk-rootsy lyrical songs for saxophone and piano and more.
