Vanity Fair contributing editor Michael Joseph Gross talks about the raging cyber-war. Tyne Daly discusses playing Maria Callas in “Master Class.” Our latest Summer Stuff installment looks at how to make the most out of summer in the city. Plus, we’ll have our latest Underreported and Backstory segments.
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Chuck Leavell, the longtime keyboardist for the Rolling Stones and their musical director, talks about his rock career and his work as an environmentalist. Then, we’ll take a look at how the evolution of the English language has shaped our culinary history. Journalist Nina Darnton tells us about her debut novel, a thriller called An African Affair. Plus, Please Explain is all about lightning and thunder!
Jazz-groove trio Medeski Martin & Wood first sent up "Notes from the Underground" of New York’s downtown scene twenty years ago. Today: we rebroadcast a recent acoustic set performed by the band in The Greene Space that marked two decades of jazz-based jamming. Plus: Brooklyn native Garland Jeffreys has been penning insightful lyrics about race and politics since the 1970s. He performed songs from his first album of new material in 13 years.
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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.
Jazz-groove trio Medeski Martin & Wood first sent up "Notes from the Underground" of New York’s downtown scene twenty years ago. Today: we rebroadcast a recent acoustic set performed by the band in The Greene Space that marked two decades of jazz-based jamming. Plus: Brooklyn native Garland Jeffreys has been penning insightful lyrics about race and politics since the 1970s. He performed songs from his first album of new material in 13 years.
From the New Sounds Live concerts at Merkin Hall, Anonymous 4, the famed early music vocal quartet, teams up with violinist Darol Anger and guitarist Scott Nygaard to revisit early American folk spirituals, shape-note hymns, and Gospel blues. This is part 2 of 2, featuring this revival of 19th century American hymnody.
