APM Weekly July 29 – August 2, 2024

Marketplace (PM)

  • The Federal Reserve begins its two-day meeting on Tuesday, with their decision about interest rates expected on Wednesday. You’ve heard us talk a lot in the last couple of years about the Fed’s efforts to bring inflation down, and you probably know what its target rate is… two percent. You’ve also heard us talk about how the Fed has a dual mandate, price stability (or – keeping inflation down), and maximum employment. So, what’s the Fed’s target for maximum employment? Turns out – it’s complicated. Marketplace’s Samantha Fields reports.

Marketplace Tech

  • Tuesday July 30: Marketplace’s Lily Jamali speaks to Annie Gilbertson, Proof News, about her recent investigation into AI companies using YouTube videos to train AI models.
  • Wednesday July 31: Marketplace’s Lily Jamali speaks with Heather Woods about her new book, “Threshold: How Smart Homes Change Us Inside and Out.”

On Point

***Meghna Chakrabarti hosts Monday – Wednesday. Deborah Becker hosts Thursday & Friday.***

  • Monday, July 29: Pulitzer prize-winning journalist and historian Anne Applebaum joins Meghna for a conversation about her new book, ‘Autocracy Inc.: Dictators Who Want to Run the World’ and her call for the democracies to fundamentally reorient their policies to fight a new kind of threat.
  • Tuesday, July 30: Black voters propelled Joe Biden’s candidacy in 2020. And Democrats are hoping they can do it again for Kamala Harris in 2024, particularly Black female voters. So, how are organizers mobilizing this specific demographic just days into the campaign.
  • Wednesday, July 31: J.D. Vance has been linked to “The New Right,” a rag-tag band of conservative intellectuals and activists. We look into this ascendant school of thought — and find out how it has influenced the Republican vice-presidential candidate’s beliefs
  • Thursday, August 1: Tourism accounts for one in ten jobs worldwide but at the same time can drive out locals and degrade what makes somewhere so great to visit in the first place. So, how can governments encourage the right kind of tourism? And what does it look like when they do.

The Splendid Table

August 2 – Repeat episode

This week we’re looking at how food defines who we are and where we come from with Anya von Bremzen, author of National Dish: Around the World in Search of Food, History and the Meaning of Home. And then we turn to the national drink of Argentina with Tomás Martín Sanchez of Mate & Co.

Classical

Performance Today

  • July 29: World Premiere of Eleanor Alberga’s Piano Concerto performed by Alim Beisembayev and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
  • July 30: Brandon Patrick George and Mahan Esfahani perform music by J.S. Bach at the San Antonio Chamber Music Society in San Antonio, TX
  • July 31: Organist Daryl Robinson and the Apollo Chamber Players perform a new work by Wang Jie from Rice University in Houston, TX.
  • August 1: Augustin Hadelich performs Sergei Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No. 2 in G minor, with the Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra conducted by Sir Donald Runnicles from Grand Teton Music Festival in Jackson Hole, WY.
  • August 2: Music inspired by the 100th birth anniversary of James Baldwin

Classical 24

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

  • Musical partners: Duos and duets, featuring the Concierto Ecuanime for guitar and vibraphone by Javier Lopez de Guerena, Richard Danielpour’s “In the Arms of the Beloved,” and works by Steve Reich and Jessie Montgomery.

Euro Classic
Thurs 12am CT & Sat 8pm CT

  • August 1: Violinist Ana Maria Valderrama and pianist David Kadouch play Reynaldo Hahn’s rarely heard Violin Sonata in C from a May concert in Madrid.
  • August 3: The buoyant and triumphant Symphony No. 3 by Jean Sibelius, in concert from March with the Polish National Radio Orchestra.

Your Classical Discoveries
Sat 4-7pm CT

  • Competition and Fanfare: As we mark the midway point of the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, we’ll hear music about sports, triumph, and competition, including Michael Torke’s “Javelin,” John Williams’s “Olympic Fanfare,” and much more.

APM Presents special of the week

Off the Path

Air Window: August 5 – September 30, 2024

Follow host Davis Dunavin as he travels the coast from New York to Boston, looking for unusual stories and fascinating histories — including nautical tales of sea monsters and pirates.

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