
Click to listen to Chris’s conversation with Ned Sublette. (35 minutes, 16 mb mp3) Ned Sublette: new conditions… new music The conversation here, on the eve of the great deliverance at noon on Tuesday, dwells on one of the signature scars of the Bush era, the wounded city of New Orleans. One last swift kick on [...]
Audio|Mon, 19 Jan 2009
|Mardi Gras Indiansfound at17:14, 9:37
“…a second line again would there be another jazz funeral with the Mardi Gras Indians come out on Mardi Gras day. It was of key importance to the survival of New Orleans not just buying new ones but new loans as a …”
“…in his book was Armstrong's New Orleans tells interesting story about how. Louis Armstrong who news. From uptown on the Anglo American -- the explained one of the you don't descended from -- plantation slaves who had come -- who were dark skinned and spoke English. Who had come in in years after emancipation. Louis Armstrong new Sydney vishay as a says they knew each other's boys' mission it was a creel who lived down on the other side of canal street. But there's still -- sort of the -- invited Armstrong to dinner 19 and Armstrong never showed. Which caused ill feeling between going to read their very young Thomas calls ill feeling between the two men for many years afterward and then brother says some instances but. Louis Armstrong would never have gone down town by himself part. -- it was a different world uptown downtown. Divide. Goes back to the …”
I asked Robero Zurbano for the impossible: a short course on Cuban music. Say, a flight across the 60 years since Chano Pozo met Dizzy Gillespie… in something less than 60 minutes. Click to listen to Chris’s conversation with Roberto Zurbano. (33 minutes, 15 mb mp3) Roberto Zurbano: “the story of the Cuban nation” Teacher, [...]
Audio|Fri, 16 Jan 2009
|brown universityfound at0:02, 1:13
“…I'm Christopher -- this is open source from the Watson institute at brown university. . And these last couple weeks from Cuba. We call it an American conversation with a global attitudes. This one is from and …”
“…Cuban music coming into this 21 century. A translator -- Rodriguez at Brown University undergraduate who spent the fall semester in Cuba. …”
Click to listen to Chris’s conversation with Russ Baker. (36 minutes, 16 mb mp3) Russ Baker: “on assignment… but not ours” A perceptual gap is at the essence of the Bush enterprise. The actuality has tended toward wars for resources and the preservation of class prerogative, all abetted by secrecy, intimidation and the dark arts of [...]
Audio|Wed, 14 Jan 2009
|George W Bushfound at2:30, 3:08
“…their own governments and with all the very apparent deceptions surrounding the Iraq War. . People everywhere I traveled -- asking me well what about your own country how did you get the leadership you have an. What do you folks doing two. Try to get some answers and I realize we weren't doing a very good job and when I got back in you know for I begin with. No agenda at all simply traveling around the country asking people. Who is George W. . Bush how did he rise to this most powerful position in the world. …”
“…the way they happen. Take the story as it's been. Presented. That George W. . Bush for example. President for a few days longer is a kind of west Texas. Evangelical Christian Republican conservatives. Who by other lights …”
George Mathew’s extraordinary musical project unfolds anew tonight at Carnegie Hall. On the bill is the longest symphony in the standard repertoire, Mahler’s Third, with a couple of hundred star performers on stage, all for the benefit of Children of AIDS. The mission, grander even than the materials, might be titled: Music is [...]
Audio|Mon, 12 Jan 2009
|chamber orchestrafound at5:01, 6:01
“…and nukes and and others from the Minnesota focus of the Emerson string quartet. . Humbled chamber orchestra thing oppose him from the New Zealand do you focused that cape -- Monica South Africa. Aren't. It is a quiet. And …”
“…to joy in Kashmir or Verity and four or in this case Gustav Mahler and -- needs. …”
Cuba’s revolutionary vanguard: US medical students Keasha Guerrier, Kereese Gayle and Akua Brown Click to listen to Chris’s conversation with three American medical students in Cuba. (48 minutes, 22 mb mp3) This trip to Cuba turned on an astonishing moment of serendipity. At a bus stop in Havana my colleague Paul McCarthy heard a laugh he [...]
Audio|Thu, 8 Jan 2009
|United Statesfound at39:36, 2:43
“…women divers CNN know like how much how much do we -- United States comes to we have to work with the United States I mean. The the possibilities when we get home are. Limitless and I still like we need to. Stay connected to the students that are here to stay connected to what's going on here. To allow what we learned to be Memphis in the United States. . …”
“…the realization that more -- is it near the -- in the United States starting to be part of mine might like what makes me as a person. As well. This probably isn't the Spanish you …”
Alluring Wreckage: from Robert Polidori’s impressions of Centro Havana, facing the Malecon Click to listen to Chris’s conversation with Architect Mario Coyula. (43 minutes, 20 mb mp3) Havana by now can be imagined as one city in two countries. The fiery splendor of Old Havana has emptied money and momentum and much its future into Miami. [...]
Audio|Tue, 6 Jan 2009
|world travelfound at0:45, 8:05
“…the December night there. -- forty minute conversation here is with the world travel to Cuba an architect Mario -- not. And among the questions are how long can this -- on this glamour of decay and what do you have. The stagnation and -- approved in the long run to have been a blessing. If and when Cuba and Havana take their place back. Hindu culture and commerce. Angle north. And Latin and South America. . …”
“…as large as in other countries. I remember in in central England Dominican Republic. . There is a shanty town. I want to know what's taking my some friends over there and after. Almost two hours we …”
The polite name for it was folklore, but it was the daily stuff of peoples’ lives. Dancing and music were never very far away, It didn’t mean people were happy. It meant that — not for all Cubans, but for many — dancing was the way they walked, and singing was the [...]
Audio|Mon, 5 Jan 2009
|Bobby McFerrinfound at1:11, 4:54
“…man who believes in reincarnation that he lives and loves Italian opera. Miles Davis the blues and Bobby McFerrin his music -- categories. He believes in -- dark unexplainable. Genius and genius. In music. He makes light of his own anti …”
“…music at the music of of the poor people the black people United States. . And is that only. -- really well Ortiz. I'm not include not only who has -- really well but the -- that …”
Click to listen to Chris’s conversation with Barry Posen (33 min, 15 MB) Barry Posen is a very smart, connected foreign-policy “realist” who runs the MIT Security Studies Program. He was one of those prized 33 policy types who signed the New York Times ad in September, 2002, arguing that “War with Iraq is not in [...]
Audio|Fri, 19 Dec 2008
|Saddam Husseinfound at20:26, 9:02
“…insurgency could have confronted. In Iraq it is. Was -- work out Saddam Hussein that was who did Saddam Hussein fight the best or he could afford it. Soul. I would be a little. My advice in this debate would be careful. …”
“…very nice and Susan Rice the voice through this goes to the United Nations. . That -- She'll be there in the you'll find that it. Their half humanitarian intervention I'm guessing -- through you which means …”
Click to listen to Chris’s conversation with Robert Coover. (47 minutes, 22 mb mp3) Robert Coover: Where we’ve always been… Robert Coover — in contrast to Rick Moody — would give you the measure of what doesn’t change. Coover’s parody version of America, going back to The Origin of the Brunists in 1966, is a nutbag [...]
Audio|Tue, 9 Dec 2008
|Barack Obamafound at1:00, 19:14
“…away from the fundamentalist Republican base to -- the African American Democrat. Barack Obama. . Robert over to privileged. …”
“…running the government in to us what really happens. You know the CIA operates pretty much independently if anybody else and they're probably thinking how to get around the -- now. So there's all kinds of …”
Click to listen to Chris’s conversation with Rick Moody. (36 minutes, 16 mb mp3) Rick Moody: Rabbit’s kids reach middle age The novelist Rick Moody is one measure of what has changed. He has been known as a generational figure, the “wrathful” child of the fiction he grew up reading, “striking a blow,” as he puts [...]
Audio|Fri, 5 Dec 2008
|New York Daily Newsfound at9:45, 25:30
“…an important moment you know. My grandfather was the publisher of the New York Daily News switch -- was. You know far to the right and Hebrew. Editorials. In praise of the house -- American activities committee in …”
“…Well he's a really good example because they have been publishing books primarily through. Using the web as a promotional tool and so forth and I'm sure there will be a lot more fat …”