In this podcast Terence Blanchard talks about bringing the sounds of blues and jazz to his opera Fire Shut Up in My Bones, his long collaboration with Spike Lee, and the joy of playing live with his group the E Collective.
Novelist Marjan Kamali talks about her recent novel The Stationery Shop-- a story that begins in 1953 in Iran and spans 60 years. We talk about Persian poetry and food, living on the hyphen between Iranian and American, and the juggling act of writin...
We’re marking Women’s history month by replaying my in-depth interview with the late Valerie Boyd who wrote the acclaimed “Wrapped in Rainbows: the Biography of Zora Neale Hurston.” In this podcast, Boyd discusses Hurston’s life and work, especially...
Violist Ashleigh Gordon is the co-founder and artistic/executive director of Castle of our Skins—a music initiative in Boston that celebrates Black artistry in music. In this podcast, Gordon talks about founding and programming a Black arts organizat...
Meet the new chair of the National Endowment for the Arts, Dr. Maria Rosario Jackson! In this podcast, Chair Jackson shares her thoughts about the arts, an artful life, and the Arts Endowment at this time of reopening, rethinking, and reimagining the...