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(Ned Rorem (Christian Steiner))
Talk radio, Next-Big-Thing style. Plus the voices of professional runners talking about the race. And of one woman who will not be allowed to vote in this election. Also this week, an interview with composer Ned Rorem, and dispatches from writer and performer Deborah Margolin on the days when she was doing battle with cancer and other demons.
Halloween Earful
Lost Votes
Susan Hallett has voted just once in her life – but her lack of political participation is by no means a reflection of apathy. She is one of four million Americans who have lost the right to vote as the result of a felony conviction. Now she works as a ...
Track & Field
The Mike and Mary Show
High and Low Notes
Composer Ned Rorem, now 80 years old, has composed art songs, symphonies, and other works. Perhaps less well-known are his compositions for organ, some of which he performed this past spring in New York’s Riverside Church. Rorem and Dean talk life, death, and music, and we hear organ excerpts performed ...
Salve
A few years ago, writer and performer Deborah Margolin got very sick. She spent many hours in hospitals, with doctors, and anywhere else she could find relief. And later, perhaps inevitably, she made a play out of those experiences. Here, excerpts from "Three Seconds in the Key," and from her ...
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