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FRANCE 24's Genie Godula brings us the latest from the 50th edition of the American Festival in Deauville, as Hollywood stars flock to the beach resort on the Normandy coast. As Michael Douglas receives a special award for his career in cinema, we take a look back at the actor and producer's love affair with France. The seaside setting has always had a starring role in the festival's success and we learn more about the enduring appeal of its iconic boardwalk and celebrity-themed beach huts. 

07.03.24 Pam Cook is joined by Margaret Delillo Storey & Courtney Storey to preview a well known Stark County Event

May is Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month, and the organization Asian American & Pacific Islanders of San Luis Obispo County, or AAPI SLO, is ready to celebrate! Join Lata Murti and her guests from AAPI SLO, co-founders Mia Shin and Kaela Lee, as they discuss this year's third annual AAPI SLO Festival as well as the Asian American and Pacific Islander community of California's Central Coast. Although we cannot take your calls live during this pre-recorded show, you are invited to listen, learn and send your questions to voices@kcbx.org. Listen to Central Coast Voices every Thursday live from 1-2pm on KCBX.

Dr. Sixto F. Montesinos Jr. is assistant professor of music and head of instrumental studies at Saint Mary's College of California in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is an active Mexican-American conductor, flutist, music educator, and scholar researching new and effective ways to strengthen Mexican-American relations through the study and performance of music. These include overcoming stereotypes as well as Mexican, LGBTQ+, and LatinX representation in the field of music education, repertoire, and performance He is the artistic director of the Saint Mary's College Jazz Band as well as its Chamber Musicians program. He also oversees the instrumental private lessons faculty at The College.  Dr. Montesinos is a regular guest conductor with the Awesöme Orchestra, a Bay-Area organization that amplifies voices of marginalized folk, forms deeper partnerships with communities and organizations as well as creates more equity and representation at every level. The mission of the Awesome Orchestra is also to make awesome orchestral adventures accessible to musicians and the public. He has also been a guest conductor with the Youth Musical Theater Company, most recently for their spring 2022 production of Stephen Sodnheim's Sweeney Todd.  He presented a clinic in December  2021 at the 75th Annual Midwest Clinic entitled "Surpassing La Cucaracha dn the Mexican Hat Dance" and spoke to the importance of diversifying Mexican-themed repertoire for instrumental ensembles and debunking common musical stereotypes,   Dr. Montesinos earned a Doctorate of Musical Arts in Wind Conducting from the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey where he studied with Professors William Berz, Kraig Alan Williams, and Darryl J. Bott. His terminal research project focused on the evolution and socio-political influence of wind bands in Mexico from the War of Independence to the Mexican Revolution. During his time at Rutgers, Dr. Montesinos also served as a teaching assistant with the Rutgers University Marching Scarlet Knights participating in performances for President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden. During the fall and spring, he worked as a Graduate Assistant Conductor of the Rutgers Wind Ensemble and Symphonic Winds. In 2016, he programmed and conducted with the Rutgers University Concert Band, the United States premiere of two wind pieces by Colombian composer Victoriano Valencia: Chande and Tango from his larger series Ritmos de la Tierra. He also presented and conducted Valencia's music in March of 2018 at the new music reading session during the College Band Directors National Association (CBDNA) Eastern Division Conference at Yale University. Before moving to California, Dr. Montesinos served as Assistant Professor of Music and Director of Bands at Ferrum College in southwest Virginia where he established The Ferrum College Panther Marching Band, Ferrum College Mountain Winds, and Ferrum College Iron Mountain Brass. Enrollment in the band program doubled under his tenure. He also served as music department coordinator and developed the curriculum to create a Bachelor of Arts in Music degree. Dr. Montesinos led an initiative to establish an Appalachian Folk Music Program and started a guest artist recital series designed to bring live music to the Ferrum College community throughout the year. Before his doctoral studies at Rutgers University, he was a public school high school band director at Jersey Village High School, a high school within the Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District in Northwest Houston. In this capacity, he assisted with the instruction of a 300-member marching band, four concert bands, and conducted the all-school musical. He also taught beginning instrumental classes at the middle school feeder. At Jersey Village, He was the primary conductor of the Symphonic II band. Symphonic II earned division one ratings at the University Interscholastic League (UIL) Concert and Sightreading Contest. Dr. Montesinos completed a Master's Degree in Orchestral Conducting at the University of Texas at Arlington under the tutelage of his long-time mentor and former high school orchestra director, Dr. Clifton Evans. Montesinos also completed additional studies in wind and orchestral conducting at the following programs: The Frederick Fennell Memorial Conducting Masterclass at the Eastman School of Music and the Cincinnati Conservatory, The University of North Texas Conductors Collegium, The Art of Band Conducting at the University of Texas at Austin, The International Conductors Workshop and Competition at Mercer University, and The International Institute for Conductors in Bacau, Romania. Additionally, he worked closely and shared the podium with H. Robert Reynolds as a doctoral conducting student during a week-long residency at Rutgers University. As a flutist, Dr. Montesinos was a featured soloist at the 70th Annual Midwest Clinic International Band and Orchestra Conference performing Gabe Mussella's Cumbia de Xavier with the Ridgeview Middle School Percussion Ensemble. He has also been on the faculty at FlootFire Houston. He completed a Bachelor's Degree in Instrumental Music Education at the University of Houston Moores School of Music where he performed two graduate-level flute recitals and was principal flute of the University of Houston Wind Ensemble and Symphony Orchestra. Upon graduation from the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts in Houston, he was awarded a full-tuition scholarship to study flute performance at Arizona State University in Tempe where he completed two years of flute studies before attending the University of Houston. In high school, he studied flute at the American Festival for the Arts Summer Music Conservatory with Kirsten “Kiki” Larsen and at the Brevard Music Center in North Ca rolina as a pupil of Thomas Robertello. He was a flute student of Judy Dines, second flutist of the Houston Symphony, for two years and performed with the Houston Symphony twice at Jones Hall. He has played for Carol Wincenc at The Juilliard School and Leone Buyse, Christina Jennings, and Robert Langevin in various masterclasses. He is also a proud alumnus and supporter of the Virtuosi of Houston Youth Chamber Orchestra and the Greater Houston Youth Orchestra. In 2004 he toured China extensively as an orchestral flutist with the Northwest Houston Symphony. Dr. Montesinos enjoys working outside of the United States and has established strong ties with high school and middle school band directors in Peru. In March of 2017, he gave a week-long seminar to local high school and middle school band directors in Lima, Peru as part of their required professional development. Most recently he was a featured speaker on marching and concert band techniques in January of 2018 at the PERUBANDAS National Congress in Lima, Peru. Additionally, he held interim teaching positions at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania as conductor of the concert band and at Lewisville High School in Lewisville, Texas as director of the orchestra program. He has also served as the Associate Dean of Students at the Eastern Music Festival in Greensboro, North Carolina. His writing has been published by the Instrumentalist Magazine and internationally by the WASBE Journal. Montesinos is a native of the town of Coyoacan in Mexico City where he began his musical career at the early age of four studying piano at the prestigious Yamaha Institute.

On Episode 140 of the Ballislife In The Paint Show, hosts Ronnie Flores, Ani Umana and Chelsea Hopkins go hard on the Pangos All-American Festival, which brought together 35 of the top players in the nation to compete for regional bragging rights! The ITP crew brings on Michigan St. commit Jeremy Fears (Joliet West, IL) to talk about his MVP performance for the Midwest club. The 2023 point guard was named co-MVP along with Flory Bidunga, the 2024 big man out of Kokomo (Ind,) who might be the No. 1 prospect in his class. Fears talks about playing with Bidunga for the first time, the competition level at the event, why he chose Michigan St., and how he's helping to recruit the Spartans' incoming class. The ITP Crew breaks down the event's top performers, while Ani also talks about the top performers at the recent TCU camp. Chelsea also dishes on the WNBA playoffs as the conference finals heat up and gives her personal insight on a special 2022 WNBA All-Rookie selection. Fears gives some terrific insight in this week's episode, so make sure to tune in from start to finish! (0:00) - Intro (2:43) - Chelsea's WNBA Playoff Updates  (9:00) - Rebekah Gardner's Unique All-Rookie Path (12:50) - Reaction to Chet Holmgren's Injury: What's Next?  (20:35) - Kids & Cameras: Are the Dunk Celebrations Too Much? (28:37) - Ani's Standouts from TCU Elite Camp  (34:00) - Chelsea's Personal Recruiting Experience  (38:30) - Pangos All-American Festival Recap  (46:47) - Rankings Don't Matter Until They Do! (53:41) - More on the Pangos Festival (55:38) - Jeremy Fears Interview  (1:13:45) - Pangos Festival All-Tourney Selections  (1:19:39) - Pod Updates, FAB 50 Target Dates  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

07/06/22 - Pam speaks with Margaret Delillo-Story about the upcoming Italian/American Festival. Take a listen for all the details

The Wire places Sara Schoenbeck in the "tiny club of bassoon pioneers" at work in contemporary music today, while the New York Times has called her performances "galvanizing" and "riveting.” She has performed with or been a member of Anthony Braxton's 12+1(tet) and Tri-Centric Orchestra, Wayne Horvitz's Gravitas Quartet, Harris Eisenstadt's Golden State, Wavefield Ensemble, SEM Ensemble, Wet Ink, Marty Ehrlich's Duende Winds, Nels Cline's Lovers, Adam Rudolph's Organic Orchestra, and the Michael Leonhart Orchestra. She has worked with many of creative music's luminaries including Roscoe Mitchell, Henry Threadgill, Butch Morris, Yusef Lateef, Wadada Leo Smith, George Lewis, and Pamela Z. She can be heard on music and film recordings including Matrix 2 and 3, Spanglish and Dahmer. She has performed at major venues throughout North America and Europe. A partial list includes Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center Out of Doors, the Kitchen, Iridium, Disney Hall, Redcat, the Kennedy Center, the Free Music Festival in Antwerp Belgium, Biennale Musica in Venice Italy, the American Festival of Improvised Music, MicroFest, SXSW, New Orleans, Newport, Berlin, Victoriaville and Ottawa Jazz Festivals; the Vancouver International Jazz Festival, Angel City Jazz Festival in Los Angeles; San Francisco, Saalfelden and Tempere Jazz festivals. Sara received her BFA from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and MFA from the California Institute of the Arts. Sara has been adjunct faculty at California Institute of the Arts, Citrus College, and Pasadena Conservatory and has given master classes at Amherst College, Hampshire College, Cornish College, University of Denver, and Western Washington University. She is currently on faculty at Brooklyn Conservatory of Music and Packer Collegiate Institute. In this episode, I speak to Sara about her musical journey, how her career developed and took off, and the inspiration behind her recent self-titled album release, she gives me some practical tips on how to become a better improviser and how to approach free improvisation, tips on creativity, her main musical influences, the challenges of working as a female musician, tips for young musicians and she fills me in on the jazz/music scene in New York, and which jazz clubs I should visit in New York. Listen to her album here: https://open.spotify.com/album/6SMnwqkm8odd2KXNaUqku9?si=3JzotXziSY6u_InOokxYfA Find out more about Sara: https://www.saraschoenbeck.com LOR podcast is being sponsored by Baron Cane, use the coupon code "legendsofreed", to enjoy free shipping on Barton Cane. https://www.bartoncane.com/

Fiesta in Las Vegas! Traditionally, Filipinos celebrate fiestas in the Philippines to honor a patron saint with a parade in the streets and food to share with everyone. On Friday, May 13 - Sunday, May 15, the Filipino American Festival will be held at Craig Ranch Park. Our guests today are Judith Bolda, the event organizer of the Las Vegas Filipino American Festival, and The Dollheads, a local siblings rock band composed of Angela (Guitarist/Vocals), Samantha (Bassist) and Austin (Drummer) Avery. Tune in for more information about the event this weekend!

The Problem Solvers interviews Mike and Judith Bolda from The Filipino American Festival

As Columbus Day approaches, so does the 14thAnnual Italian Festival in Kingston, sponsored by the Ulster County Italian American Foundation. Festival Chair Anna Brett and Highland Rotarian Tony Marmo join Jonah Triebwasser and Kathy Kruger for a fun-filled program on the fun-filled festival, which takes place beside the Roundout Creek in T.R. Gallo Park at the lower end of Broadway in Kingston, NY. The Festival celebrates the Italian heritage of Ulster Country with foods and music that came to American from Italy along with the many immigrants to Ulster County. The event and parking are free, but many vendors at the Festival sell pizza, Italian desserts, other foods. There is music from local bands and singers all day (and also a world-famous accordionist), a puppet show, a spaghetti-eating contest, activities for children, and even a fire-breather. Community heroes are recognized, including the Festival's Signore and Signora. Learn more: Ulster Country Italian American Foundation: http://www.ucitalianamericanfoundation.org/ Kingston, NY, Waterfront: http://thekingstonwaterfront.com/ American Italian Heritage Museum in Albany: http://www.americanitalianmuseum.org/ Highland Rotary: https://highlandrotaryclub.com/ CATEGORIES Events Hudson Valley Service Organizations --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/radiorotary/support

2020 has has tested the hearts and minds of many. In this Oh My Goodness Special Podcast, complete with uplifting stories and soothing music, Aled and Canon Ann are joined by contributors on both sides of The Pond in a unifying act of Thanksgiving.

George Sarantou discusses Friday's Taste of Greece, a drive-thru Greek-American Festival

On this episode, Gideon and Richard chat with Dr Megan Williams from the Welsh North American Association about the upcoming annual North American Festival of Wales, a weekend long event that includes performances, poetry, literature, singing, dancing, seminars, a marketplace and an Eisteddfod. Sadly, due to the ongoing coronavirus threat, this year's entire event will be virtual, the first time in the festival's 91 year history. The good news is that anyone can now attend for free online when proceedings kick off on Sept 4th, or screen it at their own leisure through Sept 30 via their event page. During their conversation, Gideon and Richard speak with Megan about the importance of the festival to the Welsh North American community, the challenges of adapting to a virtual format and the history of the event and Welsh heritage in North America.

RadioRotary interviews Highland Rotarian Tony Marmo and Anna Palazzo Brett about the annual Italian-American Festival on the Strand Walkway at the Roundout in Kingston, NY, also known as the Kingston Waterfront. Ulster Country, like much of the Hudson Valley, has a rich Italian heritage, much of it stemming from the skilled masons and quarry workers imported to build the mansions and dams throughout the Valley. The Festival celebrates this with emphasis on the foods and music that came to American from Italy along with the workers. The event is free, but the Ulster Italian-American Society realizes a profit from the many vendors of all kinds who rent space at the Festival and from several local sponsors such as the Reis Group of insurance brokers. The money raised goes to good causes such as the several scholarships awarded to local students who have an Italian heritage. Learn more: Ulster Country Italian American Foundation: http://www.ucitalianamericanfoundation.org/ Kingston, NY, Waterfront: http://thekingstonwaterfront.com/ American Italian Heritage Museum in Albany: http://www.americanitalianmuseum.org/ Reis Group: https://www.reisinsurance.com/ Highland Rotary: https://highlandrotaryclub.com/ CATEGORIES Events Hudson Valley --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/radiorotary/support

Join us for an episode featuring Johnny Reinhard, legendary bassoonist and head of the American Festival of Microtonal Music. We shoot the breeze, discuss 128 tuning, and talk about microtonal performance and practice on the bassoon. Other topics include polymicrotonality, improvisation, and playing technique. His latest work in 128-note tuning, “String Theory,” will be coming out soon!   Music Intro: Johnny Reinhard - Odysseus 13 and last [polymicrotonal] Kite Giedraitis - I Hear Numbers [JI] John C.L. Jansen - Harmonic Fields [JI] Charles Ives - Concord Sonata, mvts. III and IV (transcendentally performed at AFMM 2016) [25-note Pythagorean]Harry Partch - In the Springtime on the South Side of the Yangzee Kyang [JI]Johnny Reinhard, Michael Hafftka, and Jeroen Thesseling - Oak (AFMM 2019) [128 tuning] Georg Friedrich Haas - For Johnny Reinhard [128 tuning] Peter Thoegersen - Summer in Helsinki [128 tuning]Anton Rovner - Dawn on the Horizon [128 tuning]Johnny Reinhard and Michael Hafftka - ON A BEVY OF STRINGS [improvisation, from IMAGINE in 128 tuning] (AFMM 2018) Outro - Johnny Reinhard: Zanzibar [polymicrotonal] Socials/Projects  http://www.afmm.org/ https://johnnyreinhard.bandcamp.com/   Follow http://nowandxen.libsyn.com https://twitter.com/now_xen https://www.facebook.com/nowxen/   Subscribe RSS: http://nowandxen.libsyn.com/rss iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/n… Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1mhnGsH… Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/nowxen Twitter: https://twitter.com/now_xen Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nowxen/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnmYNMpemAIq8DnK5HJ9gsA

George Sarantou previews the 2019 Greek American Festival

Andrew Beevis previews the 54th German American Festival

54th Annual German American Festival. Toledo’s oldest, largest and greatest ethnic festival! Savor delicious German food and import beer. Experience authentic German music, folk dancing and entertainment. Participate in traditional German contests and feats. And enjoy lots of fun activities and rides for the kids.For over half a century, the German-American Festival has been promoting the German and Swiss cultures, generating revenue to support the German and Swiss cultural center and other philanthropic programs in the Toledo area…and providing a great time for visitors of all ages! Prost!GAF Hours:Fri: 4:00 PM - 1:00 AMSat: Noon - 1:00 AMSun: Noon - 11:00 PMGAF Location:Oak Shade Grove3624 Seaman RoadOregon, Ohio(just ½ mile east of Coy Road.)For more info & tickets go to germanamericanfestival.net

John Harrod has documented, recorded, and performed traditional music for more than 45 years. Born and raised in Shelby County, Kentucky, he has a B.A. from Centre College (1967) and an M.A. from Oxford University (1969) which he attended as a Rhodes Scholar. Recently retired, he taught history and English at Owen County High School and Frankfort High School. In the 1970s and ’80s, he played with a number of bands including the Progress Red Hot String Band, the Bill Livers String Ensemble, and the Gray Eagle Band that re-introduced traditional musicians such as Bill Livers and Lily May Ledford to Kentucky audiences. During this time he also worked for three years as a Kentucky Arts Council folk artist-in-residence in Wolfe, Estill, and Trimble Counties. Along with Mark Wilson and Guthrie Meade, he produced a series of field recordings of Kentucky fiddle and banjo players that is still available on Rounder Records. In 2015 the Field Recorders Collective issued his recordings of Carlton Rawlings and Darley Fulks, two exceptional and heretofore unknown fiddlers who have had a great impact on his life. John's field recordings are housed at both Berea College and the Kentucky Center for Traditional Music at Morehead. He has taught fiddle and conducted workshops at the Augusta Heritage Center, the American Festival of Fiddle Tunes in Port Townsend, Washington, the Berea College Celebration of Traditional Music, and the Cowan Creek Mountain Music School. He continues to perform with Kentucky Wild Horse, a band that draws on a wide variety of Kentucky music past and present. In 2004 John received the Folk Heritage Award of the Governor’s Awards in the Arts for his work in traditional music. Here, John shares rare recordings and stories about black Kentucky fiddlers. Thumbnail photo by Bill Burke of Bill Livers. The following links might enhance your listening experience: Bill Livers Jim Booker Nathan Salsburg https://www.oxfordamerican.org/magazine/item/1378-camp-nelson-blues Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/cogdelldjedje http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/product_info.php?products_id=54621 George Gibson https://nativeground.com/banjo-history-by-george-r-gibson/ https://www.appalshop.org/store/june-appal-recordings-by-format/cd-compact-disc/george-gibson-last-possum-up-the-tree/ Clifford Hayes Curtis Hayes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcw3k5NTzCY Michael Jones https://www.amazon.com/Louisville-Jug-Music-McDonald-National/dp/1626194963 Louisville Jugband Jubilee Jess Ferguson Jerron Paxton: https://www.blindboypaxton.net/ The Ebony Hillbillies: https://www.theebonyhillbillies.com/ Rhiannon Giddens: https://www.rhiannongiddens.com/ Dom Flemons: https://theamericansongster.com/ The Carolina Chocolate Drops: https://www.carolinachocolatedrops.com/band/about.html Katie Peabody

Merry Cobrasmas! This week Loose and Bakko countdown the official Cobras & Fire top 5 albums of 2018. They also open all of your presents while they discuss Styx hitting the road with Larry The Cable Guy, Growin' Up Rock hitting the high seas in 2019 for the Monsters of Rock Cruise, and Adam Levine making headlines regarding whether mismatched jumpsuits make you an expert on Rock music or not. Plus a tease to a future EP as we discuss a major falling out in the American Festival scene. What’s our Top 5? Listen! Intro music - Them Evils, Outro - Jesus Chrysler (Spit on Me)

The Hudson Valley has a rich heritage of Italian immigration, making Putnam, Dutchess, Orange, Ulster, and Rockland counties among those with the highest percentages of Italian-Americans in the entire nation. The annual Italian-American Festival on the Kingston Waterfront celebrates this heritage with food, music, and Italian-American-themed products—free admission and free parking. It is a project of the Ulster County Italian-American Foundation, whose president, Highland Rotarian Tony Marmo, is this week’s guest on RadioRotary along with Anna Brett, who is chair of the fourth annual festival. The Italian-American Foundation supports its legacy in part with a dozen annual scholarships to college for students with an Italian heritage. The festival not only features many popular Italian food items, but also a wide selection of Italian wines and beers, as well as a spaghetti-eating contest and lessons in pizza-dough tossing. Learn more: Ulster Country Italian American Foundation: http://www.ucitalianamericanfoundation.org/ Kingston, NY, Waterfront: http://thekingstonwaterfront.com/ American Italian Heritage Museum: http://www.americanitalianmuseum.org/ Highland Rotary: https://highlandrotaryclub.com/ CATEGORIES Events Hudson Valley Nutrition --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/radiorotary/support

It only took them four times this week to try to do this show. Maybe it was divine intervention, or just a Romanian Centennial Festival to bring these two together for the show of shows. They figure out the next great American Festival, and which country to appropriate it from. They talk baseball of course, because it's kinda like a virus. But then they talk NBA Playoffs and Chris's favorite topic, Brad Stevens. Kinda feels like he has a weird man-hatting crush on him, right?

More about the upcoming Korean American Festival

Learn all about the upcoming Korean American Festival

In honor of Presidents Day, we are rerunning not one, but TWO very presidential episodes of Classical Classroom. Originally, our discussion with AFA’s ‎executive and artistic director Michael Remson was so epic — spanning John Adams’ entire Nixon in China opera — that we divided it into two episodes. For your listening pleasure, we’ve merged the two episodes into one here. So, go get some apple pie, your whittling tools, and a glass of whiskey (this is how we imagine you listen to all Classical Classroom episodes) and settle in. In the first part of our conversation with composer, author, educator, and executive director of the American Festival for the Arts, Dr. Michael Remson, we cover Act 1 of Nixon in China:  world history, music history, and singing politicians. In Act 2, we meet the ladies. You don’t want to miss Mme. Mao yelling, opera-style. Richard Nixon playing piano in Beverly Hills, Calif., 1962 Audio production by Todd “The Toddler” Hulslander, with management oversight by Mr. Torey Malatia. JK! It was Dacia Clay. Music used in this episode includes: John Adams, Nixon in China. Libretto by Alice Goodman, Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Edo De Waart conducting. Nonesuch 79177.

We all know The Nutcracker, right? Wrong! In this episode of Classical Classroom, Shelly Power (director, Houston Ballet Academy) and Michael Remson (executive director, American Festival of the Arts) blow your minds with the history of the ballet and a behind-the-scenes look at the massive undertaking that putting on the show entails every year. Audio production by Todd “Pas de Todd” Hulslander with sugarplum fairies dancing in her head by Dacia Clay. The Nutcracker: – Score by Pyotr Illyich Tchaikovsky – Original choreography by Marius Petipas and Lev Ivanov – Libretto adapted from E.T.A. Hoffmann’s story, The Nutcracker and the Mouse King For more about the Houston Ballet, go to www.houstonballet.org. For more about American Festival for the Arts, go to www.afatexas.org.

Hear the second part of our conversation with composer, author, educator, and Executive Director of the American Festival for the Arts, Dr. Michael Remson, about John Adams'minimalist opera, Nixon in China! In this episode: Act 2, wherein we meet the ladies. You don't want to miss Mme. Mao yelling, opera-style. Audio production by Todd “the Toddler” Hulslander, with management oversight by Mr. Torey Malatia. JK! It was Dacia Clay. Music used in this episode includes: – John Adams, Nixon in China, Act 1. Libretto by Alice Goodman, Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Edo De Waart conducting. Nonesuch 79177.

All about Act 1 of John Adams' minimalist opera, Nixon in China! In this episode, the first part of our conversation with composer, author, educator, and Executive Director of the American Festival for the Arts, Dr. Michael Remson. World history, music history, and singing politicians?? This episode has pretty much everything you didn't know you'd been waiting for. Audio production by Todd "Hot Toddy" Hulslander with snarky but - let's face it - spot-on suggestions from Dacia Clay. Music used in this episode includes: - John Adams, Nixon in China, Act 1. Libretto by Alice Goodman, Orchestra of St. Luke's, Edo De Waart conducting. Nonesuch 79177.   Click here to hear all of Act 1!