Marketplace
Marketplace (PM)
- One lasting change from the pandemic has been elevated levels of entrepreneurship in the United States. Monthly new business applications remain about 40% higher than they were in 2019. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, roughly 20 percent of those new businesses will fail during their first two years. Marketplace’s Maria Hollenhorst visits a fair in Phoenix, Arizona where hopeful entrepreneurs look to with customers.
- Kai talks with Bryan Walsh, editorial director at Vox, about why honeybees didn’t go extinct despite alarm that they would a decade ago.
- Lower natural gas prices drove electricity prices lower in 2023 for most of the US… minus one big exception: Texas. Despite the state producing the bulk of the nation’s natural gas (and prices of that natural gas in some cases dipping into the negatives), Texas has a volatile electricity market where consumers don’t just pay more but are also more frequently subjected to outages. Marketplace’s Elizabeth Trovall reports.
Marketplace Morning Report
- Marketplace’s David Brancaccio speaks with Ken Doctor, a news industry analyst and the author of “Newsonomics: Twelve New Trends That Will Shape the News You Get.” He also runs the book’s companion website, newsonomics.com. Hear more on the Marketplace Morning Report and on marketplace.org.
Marketplace Tech
Monday May 20: Marketplace’s Lily Jamali speaks with Gabriel Dance, deputy investigations editor at The New York Times, about recent legislation in states setting up legal protections for crypto miners and the pushback against that movement.
Wednesday May 22: Marketplace’s Lily Jamali speaks with Adam Riess, Johns Hopkins University, about his latest research working with the James Webb Space Telescope.
On Point
- Monday, May 20: David Autor is a labor economist. His research has shown that in the past, technological advances have repeatedly hurt the incomes of middle and working class Americans. But when it comes to AI, Autor says, the exact opposite could happen.
- Tuesday, May 21: Erik Hoel is a neuroscientist who argues that “AI-generated garbage is polluting our culture” and potentially harming the development of the human brain.
- Wednesday, May 22: Glenn C. Loury has been described as “one of the most prominent public intellectuals of our time.” He joins Meghna to talk about his journey from growing up on the south side of Chicago to becoming the first Black tenured professor of economics at Harvard at the age of thirty-three. His new memoir is Late Admissions: Confessions of a Black Conservative.
The Splendid Table
May 24 – New episode
We’re bringing you a literary show to set you up for summer reading! First, we’re learning about the extraordinary life of Knopf editor Judith Jones who launched some of the biggest names in the culinary world including Julia Child, Claudia Roden and James Beard not to mention The Diary of Anne Frank. Our guide is Sarah B. Franklin author of The Editor: How Publishing Legend Judith Jones Shaped Culture in America. Then we talk to bestselling author of World of Wonders, the poet and essayist Aimee Nezhukumatathil about her newest work Bite By Bite, Nourishments and Jamborees.
Classical
Performance Today
- May 20: Amy Schwartz Moretti, Ettore Causa, and Kyung-A Yoo perform Rebecca Clarke’s “Dumka” as part of The Fabian Concert Series at Mercer University in Macon, GA.
- May 21: Sterling Elliott and Evren Ozel perform George Walker’s Sonata for Cello and Piano from ChamberFest Cleveland at the Cleveland Institute of Music.
- May 22: ROCO performs Jennifer Higdon’s Celestial Hymns from Rothko Chapel in Houston, TX
- May 23: A Far Cry performs Michi Wiancko’s arrangement of JS Bach’s Partita for violin no. 2 in d minor, from Jordan Hall in Boston, MA
- May 24: Mei-Ann Chen, conduct’s the Minnesota Orchestra in a performance of Jessie Montgomery:’s Rounds for Piano and Strings, featuring Awadagin Pratt on the piano, from Orchestra Hall in Minneapolis.
Classical 24
New Classical Tracks with Julie Amacher
Wed 7:15am/5pm CT & Sat 9am CT
- Hauser is a ‘Rebel with a Cello’, which is also the name of his first big world solo tour. Just before he left on that tour, Julie Amacher spoke with him about his latest recording, ‘Classic II,’ which highlights some of classical music’s most beautiful melodies played on the cello featuring Hauser with the London Symphony Orchestra.
Extra Ecclectic with Steve Seel
Wed 10pm-12am CT
- Rock influences: Bryce Dessner, best known as the guitarist for The National, has written a number of “classical” works, including a piano concerto. We’ll hear that along with Anna Meredith’s “Tribute to Teenage Fanclub,” among other selections.
Euro Classic
Thurs 12am CT & Sat 8pm CT
- May 23: Pianist Sergiu Tuhutiu and the Arcadia String Quartet play the epic Piano Quintet in F Minor by Johannes Brahms, in a concert from December 2023 in Bucharest, Romania.
- May 25: The Norrköping Symphony Orchestra and conductor Chloé van Soeterstède offer up a snappy performance of Beethoven’s 8th Symphony, from a January 2024 concert in Norrköping, Sweden.
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 clarinetist Anthony McGill.
Saturday Cinema
Sat 10am – 12pm CT
- Memorial Day Weekend. Music from films about service and sacrifice.
Your Classical Discoveries
Sat 4-7pm CT
- Memorial Day Weekend: Music of remembrance and honor for those who made the ultimate sacrifice.
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.
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