APM Weekly January 1 – 5, 2024

News

Marketplace Year in Review

Let’s Do the Numbers

  • 2,600 – Broadcast episodes produced
  • 14 – Wah-wahs queued (so far)
  • 10 – Podcasts produced by Marketplace
  • 20K – Students reached by our financial literacy tour
  • Infinity – Thanks to you – for making all of this possible.

What “Marketplace” story, podcast episode, Q, moment, etc., from 2023 stuck out for you, and why?Kimberly Adams

I’m torn among three: Our live show in Seattle, which I loved because we had such a great time with the audience; our 1,000th episode, because it was great fun and good to see Molly; and, on a much more serious note, the recent EoT episode with Reema where she spoke about what it’s been like to try to keep doing journalism while her family is living— and dying — through the war in Gaza.David Brancaccio

For a bit of “Marketplace Morning Report” audio that still haunts my nightmares (and thus makes a fine holiday gift): the time when my team used artificial intelligence to make a cloned version of me.

Marketplace

Marketplace (PM)

Large language models and voice cloning AI could provide new, exciting breakthroughs for people with speech disabilities. “Voice banking”—recording your voice for AI for future use—has also emerged as a popular option for people who may lose the ability to speak because of medical conditions. Marketplace’s Matt Levin explores how this tech is already changing people’s lives, and possible ethical dilemmas going forward.

Marketplace Tech

Wednesday Jan 3: Lily Jamali speaks with Jeff Horwitz, Wall Street Journal, about his new book “Broken Code.”

On Point

Meghna Chakrabarti hosts Monday, Deborah Becker hosts Tuesday and Wednesday, Anthony Brooks hosts Thursday and Friday.

  • Monday, Jan 1: Another chance to hear Meghna’s conversation with Woniya Thibeault, winner of the wilderness survival show, Alone. She wants to show people how to deepen their connection to nature – not just to survive but to thrive.
  • Tuesday, Jan 2: Harvard researchers have been studying how we can live happier and healthier lives since 1938. They’ve tracked people across their entire lives, and more recently their descendants. So, what have they learned?
  • Wednesday, Jan 3: The Money Ladies are back. Michelle Singletary and Rana Foroohar will be our guides for what to watch for in our personal finance and national economy this new year.
  • Friday, Jan 5: January 6, 2021 changed Aquilino Gonells’s life. Gonell was a sergeant in the Capitol police who was attacked by the mob that attempted to stop the certifying of the election results. He speaks with Anthony about that day, his life as an immigrant, a man of color, and his new book, American Shield.

The Splendid Table

Janury 5 – Repeat episode

This week, we talk to one of the founders of food science and cooking, Harold McGee. He is the author of the beloved, bestselling, game-changing culinary guide On Food and Cooking, and he has recently turned his attention to one of the most overlooked dimensions of our world—smell. His new book is Nose Dive: A Field Guide to the World’s Smells.

Classical

Performance Today

  • Jan 1: St. Lawrence String Quartet and the Telegraph Quartet perform works composed by Osvaldo Golijov from the Spoleto Festival in Charleston, SC. Other New Year’s Day highlights include a performance of Faure’s “Masques et bergamasques” by ROCO and highlights from the Vienna Philharmonic
  • Jan 2: Leon Botstein, conducts The Orchestra Now in a performance of William Dawson/s: Negro Folk Symphony, from Bard College
  • Jan 3: Jennifer Frautschi, violin; Max Levinson, piano perform Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Violin Sonata No. 27 in G Major, K. 379 from the Seattle Chamber Music Society
  • Jan 4: Dali Quartet performing Juan R. Ramirez: Suite Latina for String Quartet at the Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts, Clinton, NY
  • Jan 5: Orli Shaham, Francisco Fullana and Nicholas Canellakis perform Antonin Dvorak’s Piano Trio No. 2 in G minor from the most recent Music@Menlo Chamber Music Festival last summer in Menlo Park, CA

Classical 24

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

  • ALBUM: Baroque
  • ARTIST: Milos Karadaglic
  • Titled simply Baroque, the album presents MILOS’ carefully curated selection of baroque works especially transcribed and arranged for the guitar, both solo and in collaboration with Jonathan Cohen and Arcangelo’.

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

  • THIS WEEK: Some blockbusters for full orchestra will be on display in the episode, including Anna Clyne’s “Dance,” Daniel Bjaranson’s “Blow Bright,” and John Adams’s “Harmonium,” which features a chorus of poetry of Emily Dickinson.

Euro Classic
Thurs 12am CT & Sat 8pm CT

  • Jan 4: We’ll head to Ljubljana, Slovenia to hear the rarely-performed “Sinfonia Rustica” by Polish composer Andrei Panufnik in a concert from November 2023.
  • Jan 6: Cellist Pablo Ferrandez plays Shostakovich’s Cello Concerto No. 1 with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony from a concert recording made in October 2023.

Your Classical Discoveries
Sat 4-7pm CT

  • We ring in the new year with music of newness, rebirth, and re-invention, including Josef Suk’s “Toward a New Life,” Darius Milhaud’s “La Creation du Monde,” and Mahler’s mighty “Resurrection” Symphony

APM Presents special of the week

MN Orchestra New Year’s Celebration

Air Window: Now – January 15, 2024

Ring in the new year with the Minnesota Orchestra! The program opens with Bernstein’s animated Overture to Candide. Awadagin Pratt performs the Minnesota premiere of Jessie Montgomery’s Rounds for Piano and Orchestra, a work written for him. A New Year’s celebration wouldn’t be complete without adventure and passion, and the Orchestra brings that in multitudes in Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s beloved Scheherazade. Encore of 2022 live performance.