APM Weekly Jan 15 – 19

News

Marketplace

Marketplace (PM)

Breaking Ground: Kai with a preview piece of our new government spending series—Breaking Ground—takes the audience to a location not usually associated with the New Deal—-we usually think big entitlement programs that continue to shape our economy—this week a story about the historical reach as current major spending from the Inflation Reduction Act, the Chips Act, and the Infrastructure law…starts to flow to cities, towns, and states.

Rights of Rivers: Back in 2017, the island country of New Zealand passed a revolutionary law. Its parliament voted to grant the Whanganui River legal personhood status. That’s right, this river is considered a person. It can even sue you. This is part of a growing movement, rooted in Indigenous values, to give nature — rivers, fish, crops and trees — the same rights as people (and corporations). It’s known as Rights of Nature. Some environmental activists and lawyers think this could even be a way to save the Colorado River, which has been carved up and relentlessly fought over for decades. Amy Scott asks if what worked in New Zealand will work for us as part of the podcast series “How We Survive: The Worth of Water.”

Sales: This past holiday sales season was the longest yet, with deals starting as early as the day after Halloween. Then came the end-of- -year, now new year sales. There will be Valentine’s Day, President’s Day, Mother’s Day, and every other “Day” deals after that. Now there are the sales that inspire sales. When Amazon has Prime Day, Target counters with Target Circle week. When Sephora has its Beauty Insider event, Ulta does 21 Days of Beauty. And at this point, some brands seem to perpetually be on sale. You’d almost be silly to buy anything at Macy’s or the Gap for full price. (But also…if something is always on sale, is it ever actually on sale?) Marketplace’s Kristin Schwab reports.

Marketplace Tech

Jan 15: At CES this week, Lily Jamali spoke with Dor Skuler, CEO and co-founder of Intuition Robotics about their ElliQ AI robot companion which is intended to help older adults stay social and engaged.

Jan 16: One consequence of climate change is more frequent and severe droughts. And that has water-stressed communities looking for new sources of drinking water. Marketplace’s climate podcast…How We Survive…has been looking at how technology can help. Host Amy Scott has this story.

On Point

  • Monday, Jan 15: From Roots, to the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, to Abbott Elementary, Bethonie Butler’s new book, Black TV, shows how TV series centered on Black characters have evolved over the past 50 years.
  • Tuesday, Jan 16: Remote work and the pandemic have changed how workers and companies see commuting. Workers are now more likely to see it as part of their workday. Employers are not. On days when workers don’t spend time commuting they say they spend that time working. But employers value the in-person experience. So shouldn’t they be rewarding that time, whether it’s at home or getting to the office?
  • Wednesday, Jan 17: 2016 and 2020 saw coordinated disinformation and misinformation campaigns both from foreign governments as well as from domestic actors trying to influence election results. This year, the advancement of AI is raising serious questions about how it may be applied nefariously in political campaigns.

The Splendid Table

January 19 – Repeat episode

This week, we are checking in on Lunar New Year celebrations with Andrea Nguyen, author of Vietnamese Food Any Day, Simple Recipes for True Fresh Flavors, Hooni Kim, author of My Korea, Traditional Flavors, Modern Recipes and the sister team behind the blog and new book The Woks of Life, Sarah and Kaitlin Leung.

Classical

Performance Today

  • Jan 15: Music honoring the memory of Dr, Martin Luther King Jr. , including Valerie Coleman’s composition “Shotgun Houses” performed by Anthony McGill and the Pacifica Quartet; Michael Abels’ “Delights and Dances” performed by Chicago Sinfonietta and Harlem Quartet and conducted by Mei0Ann Chen and a performance by The King’s Singers at Spivey Hall at Clayton State University in Morrow, GA.
  • Jan 16: A performance of Jessie Montgomery’s composition “Strum” from the Geneva Music Festival in Geneva, NY.
  • Jan 17: Romuald Grimbert-Barre performs the Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 4 No. 2 by Joseph Bologne Chevalier de Saint-Georges at last year’s Colour of Music Festival in Charleston, SC.
  • Jan 18: Sabine Meyer performs Max Reger’s ‘Clarinet Quintet’ with the Armida Quartett in Hohenems, Austria.
  • Jan 19: Yeri Roh and Hyeyeon Park perform the Violin Sonata by Leos Janacek at the Music@Menlo Chamber Music Festival and Institute in Menlo Park, CA

Classical 24

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

  • ALBUM: Hymn of the Universe
  • ARTIST: Tina Davidson
  • Drawing on sacred and spiritual texts, Hymn of the Universe explores a musical connection with larger metaphysical and divine themes.

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

  • THIS WEEK: We head to South America to hear from Venezuelan pianist and composer Gabriela Montero, Argentinian composer Osvaldo Golijov, and Brazilian-American composer Clarice Assad. And we’ll pound the pavement with Mauricio Yazihi’s “Roads” and Gity Razaza’s “The Strange Highway.”

Euro Classic
Thurs 12am CT & Sat 8pm CT

  • Jan 18: Andrei Korobeinikov plays Beethoven’s final piano sonata in a concert from Lisbon, Portgual.
  • Jan 20: Adam Fischer made a name for himself recording all of Joseph Haydn’s 104 symphonies, but in this concert with the Danish Chamber Orchestra from November 2023, he takes a decidedly more modern turn in Bartok’s Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta.

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

  • Featured Artist: Sheku Kenneh-Mason

Saturday Cinema
Sat 10am – 12pm CT

  • Award Previews, Past Award Winners and In Memoriam Part Two

Your Classical Discoveries
Sat 4-7pm CT

  • It’s never too late! We’ll explore late great works by various composers, including final symphonies by Bruckner and Tchaikovsky, Bach’s “Art of Fugue,” and more.

APM Presents special of the week

Blue Centennial from YourClassical: Celebrating a Century of Gershwin’s Rhapsody

Air Window: February 5 – February 29, 2024

Exploring Gershwin’s jazz-age showstopper with interviews and performances by the artists who’ve brought it to life over the last 100 years.

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