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http://www.wnycstudios.org//aria-code-puccini-turandot-fr/ Aria Code Season 3, Episode 1... Reviewed by Marlene Birnbaum, Community Advisory Board Vice-Chair Season 3 of Aira Code kicked-off today with the aria Nessum Dorma from Puccini’s "Turndot," one of the most heroic and hopeful arias ever written. The guests who discuss the aria with host Rhiannon Giddens are, Yanick Nezet- Seguin, Music Director of the Metropolitan Opera, Philadelphia Orchestra, and the Orchestre Métropolitain in Montreal, Anne Midgette, the former classical music critic for The Washington Post, and She and Dr. Michael Cho, a pulmonary and critical care physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. Nezet-Seguin loves the light, hope and uplifting melody of the aria rising above the darkness of the night. Anne Midgette first heard the aria on a Book of the Month Club cassette tape in college. She loves the dramatic and climactic underdog declaration, at the end of the aira, Vincerò - I will win. Dr. Cho likens the aria to the battle he faced nightly in the COVID ICU at his hospital to the battle Calif faced to win the Princess. I hope you will listen to this episode of Aria Code and come away with a new meaning of the aria for yourself.

Review by Community Advisory Board member Stan Ince of the first episode of The Atlantic + WNYCStudios podcast "The Experiment" This month, WNYC Studios and The Atlantic launch a new weekly series, The Experiment. The show reminds us that the United States started as an experiment - a government of the people, by the people, and for the people, with liberty and justice for all - and reports on how that experiment is going. The first episode, titled The Loophole, gives a fasci...nating example of the work still to be done and asks why glitches in the system have not yet been fixed. In 2005, elk hunter Mike Belderrain spotted the biggest bull he had ever seen. He shot and killed the trophy bull while standing 100 feet inside Yellowstone National Park. Mike had committed a serious federal crime, but in that small area of Idaho you could get away not only with hunting elk but, by the letter of the law, with murder. Brian Kalt, a law professor of law at Michigan State University, found a 50 square mile Zone of Death where it would be unconstitutional to prosecute a murder because of a tiny mistake that Congress made. Professor Kalt requested Senator Enzi to fix the loophole but ultimately Senator Enzi instead committed to evaluate the available solutions to determine what is practical and possible. Host Julia Longoria discusses with The Atlantic staffer, Ed Yong, the broader meaning of why this loophole has not been fixed despite widespread media attention. While basking in the self-proclaimed success of The Experiment, has the US become complacent? Episode 2 and 3 are now available. Does anyone have any comments/thoughts about this new podcast? The CAB would appreciate your feedback! The Experiment is available at www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/experiment, or by subscribing via your podcast provider.

WQXR STAR (Salutes The ARTs) Posted by Ed Yim "When I arrived at WQXR in September, six months into a pandemic with no end in sight, I joined an organization that has seen generations of listeners through some of the toughest periods in New York’s history. And at a time when the city we love can feel so quiet and distant, the arts are transformativeoffering us beauty, connection, and hope for the future. Here’s a message we received recently from a listener: I am so very gr...Continue reading

Community Advisory Board Member Stan Ince Reviews New Sounds: A New Sounds Primer This month New Sounds host John Schaefer offers listeners A New Sounds Primer, a two part series that sketches out briefly some of the musical territory that we like to cover. Schaefer takes the listener on a whirlwind tour of time, geography and music genres from the melodies of 12th century mystic Hildegard von Bingen to a recent hypnotic piece by Meara O’Reilly, Hocket II. I learned that ea...ch New Sounds episode used to open with the Brian Eno track Julie With and I was happy to hear Laurie Anderson’s O Superman in its entirety. Schaefer curates a wide array of outstanding artists and the Primer introduced me to NY-based contemporary group Ensemble Signal playing the Steve Reich piece Music for 18 Musicians, actually usually performed by 20 musicians, which Schaefer says New Sounds was kind of built around when we first started in 1982. The Primer is a great way to revisit some favorite pieces if you are a long-time listener of the show, or get an introduction if you have recently stumbled upon the show. New Sounds Episodes #4291 and #4292 are available for streaming at www.newsounds.org/shows/newsounds

Guest Host Marcus Samuelsson - Tonight at 7 pm https://www.wqxr.org//thursday-chef-marcus-samuelsson-tak/

Lead Listener Review of a segment of The Anthropocene by Community Advisory Board Member, Stan Ince The radio program, The Anthropocene, hosted by John Green, tackled the most topical of subject matter Plague and gives a fascinating account of the history of pandemics and their impact on society. ‘The unprecedented times we are living in,’ says Green, ‘are actually quite precedented’ and numerous examples support this view. Some of the themes are remarkable in their rel...evance to today’s events - the ancient chroniclers noted that the poor were disproportionally affected by the plague. Green highlights the frequency and severity of historical plagues: for example, London suffered plagues in 1563, 1592, 1603 and the Great Plague in 1665, in which a quarter of the population perished. Green tells the story of the English town of Eyam which is an uplifting tale of strength of spirit in the face of great suffering: the village went into lockdown when the Great Plague arrived, seemingly in a box of cloth. The village cut off contact with the outside world for fourteen months, leaving money on boundary stones in exchange for food. At the start of the pandemic Eyam had a population of 700; by the end, 257 villagers had died, but nobody fled the village. The fortitude of the villagers is still remembered each year. One hopes that likewise in the current pandemic self-control and discipline will quickly halt the spread of the virus. A podcast of this program is available.

First Zoom NYPR Community Advisory Board public meeting, Wednesday, October 28th, at 6:30 pm. Featured speaker, Audrey Cooper, Editor-in-Chief, WNYC. Registration Link: Register in advance for this webinar:... https://nypr.zoom.us/web/register/WN_LZLZ0XlrRh6d5wCe99Pk_A After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar. Meeting Details When: Oct 28, 2020 06:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) Topic: NYPR Community Advisory Board Meeting Featured Speaker: Audrey Cooper, Editor in Chief, WNYC

Terrance McKnight to write a book about The Black Experience in the Concert Hall https://www.wqxr.org//terrance-mcknight-book-leave-wqxr-a/

Don't Have Time To Watch The Confirmation Hearings For Judge Amy Coney Barrett? Brian Lehrer and Jami Floyd will host a talk show tonight to discuss the day's events. The Show starts at 8 pm.

WQXR New Chief Content Officer - Ed Yim https://www.wqxr.org//meet-ed-yim-wqxrs-new-chief-content/ Please share your thoughts/comments/questions on WQXR content with our new Chief Content Officer, Ed Yim.

Get Lit Tonight at 7 pm Watch a live video stream as Alison Stewart, host of WNYC’s All of It, continues her virtual book club series with acclaimed author Brit Bennett. They’ll discuss her novel, The Vanishing Half, a New York Times best-seller about identical twin sisters growing up in a southern Black community and their lives decades later after fate has pulled them apart. Allyson Hobbs, writer and Director of African and African American Studies at Stanford University, joins Bennett and Stewart to illuminate some of the issues that the novel touches on.

Vladimir Horowitz Vladimir Horowitz was born October 1, 1903. Today would be his 117th birthday. Does anyone have any memories to share of hearing him in concert?

https://www.wnyc.org/s/second-wave-covid-19-lockdowns-ahead For Those Who Missed Brian Lehrer's show today.

https://www.wqxr.org//tonight-watch-2020-avery-fisher-pri/ Awarded to NY Philharmonic's Principal Clarinetist, Anthony Mc Gill.

The next Get Lit book club selection is All Adults Here by Emma Straub The next Get Lit book club will be held on August 31st at 7 pm. You can stream the event live on the Green Space website or on their YouTube page. https://www.wnyc.org/shows/all-of-it/get-lit/ Has anyone read it yet? What did you think about the book?