APM Weekly May 6 – 10, 2024

Marketplace

Marketplace (PM)

  • At the end of last year, the Biden Administration announced an initiative for “recovery ready workplaces”–designed to better support employees in recovery from –or struggling with –substance abuse. Amazon is one company that was already promoting its “recovery readiness”, and Google was part of the White House’s announcement. But it’s an area where things are in the beginning stages –both with the initiative and companies that have or are signing on. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino reports.

Marketplace Morning Report

  • As we head toward the business end of the 2024 general election campaign, you may be seeing some pretty generic-sounding names in campaign ad disclosures — “Biden Victory Fund”, “Trump Save America”… “Protect the House 2024”. They are Joint Fundraising committees …. there are HUNDREDS of them … and they play a pretty big role when it comes to high dollar donors. So far this cycle, they’ve pulled in close to a billion and counting. Marketplace Senior Washington Correspondent Kimberly Adams joins Marketplace Morning Report host David Brancaccio to explain.

On Point

  • Monday, May 6: The Ukraine war has been grinding on for more than two years now. But, just weeks after Russia’s 2022 invasion, both sides came close to a settlement that could have ended the war, saving thousands of lives. We hear the story behind those secret, thwarted negotiations.
  • Tuesday, May 7: Dyslexia affects one in every five Americans, according to the National Institute of Health. But only a fraction receives the diagnosis and assistance they need to help manage their difficulty with reading. We hear about efforts underway to rethink how dyslexia is assessed.
  • Wednesday, May 8: A three-years’ long review of gender-affirming care in the UK has concluded that gender questioning children there were ‘let down’ by the country’s National Health Service. Written by Dr. Hilary Cass, the former president of the UK’s Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, the review could change the way gender-questioning children and young people are treated everywhere. Meghna speaks with Dr. Cass about her findings.
  • Thursday, May 9: Buy Now Pay Later loans grew by more than 1,000 percent in the U.S. from 2019 to 2021 with about half of BNPL users being 33 or under. What’s behind the surge in this kind of credit and what does it mean for Gen Z’s finances?

The Splendid Table

May 10 – Repeat episode

We’re exploring the world of food with a sense of humor this week with help from two comedians . Ivy Le host of the podcast Fear of Going Outside, aka FOGO and Dan Ahoot author of the new book Undercooked: How I Let Food Become My Life Navigator and How Maybe That’s a Dumb Way to Live.

Classical

Performance Today

  • May 6: Pianist Avery Gagliano, PT’s latest Young Artist in Residence, joins Fred for music and conversation.
  • May 7: Jaime Martin conducts the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra in a performance of Felix Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 4 in A Major, the “Italian”, at Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, CA.
  • May 8: Amelia Lukas and Stewart Goodyear perform music for flute and piano by Tania Leon from the Kaul Auditorium at Reed College in Portland, Oregon
  • May 9: Sir Donald Runnicles leads the Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra in a performance of Maurice Ravel’s “Alborado del gracioso”, from Walk Festival Hall in Jackson Hole, WY.
  • May 10: Yannick Nezet-Seguin conducts the Lucerne Festival Orchestra in a performance of the final movement of Anton Bruckner’s Symphony No. 8 in C minor from Lucerne, Switzerland.

Classical 24

May 7: 200th Anniversary of the premiere of Beethoven’s 9th Symphony
Beginning with the morning drive, C24 will feature a different version of the “Ode to Joy” in each host’s shift.

  • 8 am CT: Leonard Bernstein conducting a combined group of orchestras from the East and the West in Berlin, 1989 (the “Ode to Freedom” concert).
  • 12 pm CT: Bach Collegium of Japan/Maasaki Suzuki
  • 5 pm CT: Minnesota Orchestra/Osmo Vanska
  • 9 pm CT:  East-West Divan Orchestra/Daniel Barenboim

New Classical Tracks with Julie Amacher
Wed 7:15am/5pm CT & Sat 9am CT

  • Global cello sensation HAUSER discusses new album Classic II.

Extra Ecclectic with Steve Seel
Wed 10pm-12am CT

  • The Oxford Dictionary defines gallimaufry as “a confused jumble or medley of things.” And it’s a real grab bag this week on Extra Eclectic, as we sample music by Hans Werner Henze, Gity Razaz, Olafur Arnalds, Howard Skempton, and even a piece called “Gallimaufry” by Rob Deemer.

Euro Classic
Thurs 12am CT & Sat 8pm CT

  • May 9: James MacMillan is best known these days as a composer, but we’ll hear him conducting Benjamin Britten’s “Sinfonia da Requiem” from a concert in March with the BBC Symphony at the Barbican Hall in London.
  • May 11: Jakub Hrusa leads the Dresden State Orchestra from a concert in March featuring the “Liturgical” Symphony No. 3 by Swiss composer Arthur Honegger.

Rhapsody in Black
Thurs 9pm CT & Sun 4pm CT

  • Where we turn up the voices of Black artists in the world of classical music. This week focuses on Billie Holiday Strange Fruit

Saturday Cinema
Sat 10am – 12pm CT

  • Mothers’ Day. Celebrating Moms, grandmas human and otherwise. Music from “Steel Magnolias”, “Forrest Gump”, “Dumbo” and more.

Your Classical Discoveries
Sat 4-7pm CT

  • The weather is getting warmer and it’s definitely barbecue season (well, for many folks, anyway). We’ll celebrate with music for food and drink, including Bohuslav Martinu’s “Kitchen Revue,” Sibelius’s “Belshazzar’s Feast,” and even the banquet scene from John Williams’s score to “Hook.”

APM Presents special of the week

Folk Classics Across the Globe from YourClassical

Air Window: Now – May 31, 2024

An hour special featuring never-before recorded folk tunes from three contrasting countries and cultures: Iran, Venezuela and Ukraine/Russia. These tunes have been composed and/or arranged by composers from these locations, two of which are currently living. They will also be performed by professional musicians from the respective countries/cultures. Exploring the intersection of folk and classical music, while also placing the spotlight on present-day communities.

Questions? Please contact your Station Representative.