My weird oven wants to talk to me today about International Jazz Day, so I will count that as a win.

Still processing our visit to Srebrenica last week.

I mean, that a minor necklace?

Rules from artist (and nun) Sister Corita Kent’s Ten Rules. These used to hang over my desk at NPR, back when I had a desk pre-COVID. (Merce Cunningham also kept them up in his studio.)

Was not expecting Alice Coltrane to be referenced in a paean to patty melts, but Pete Wells did just that.

My review of 'Maestro' from a few weeks ago; reupping it now that it's on Netflix. The film chronicles the brilliant Leonard Bernstein and his disorderly conduct -- but even more so, it's a portrait of Felicia Bernstein and their singular marriage.

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Today on Morning Edition: my take on the Leonard — and Felicia — Bernstein biopic “Maestro.”

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Today on Morning Edition: an opera about Malcolm X arrives tonight at the Met Opera — finally. www.npr.org/2023/11/03/1...

I wrote a thing about the ginormous, scholarly Madonna biography; the Britney Spears memoir; and what each woman’s trajectory illuminates about the other’s. www.npr.org/2023/10/28/1...

I feel so seen

This afternoon on All Things Considered: Even Beethoven got bad reviews. John Malkovich reads them aloud as “The Music Critic.”

(We had to put an explicit language warning in the radio version, due to a not-very-nice thing Tchaikovsky said about Brahms.)

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EXCLUSIVE: I talked to the general manager at WCPE about her plans not to air six of the Met Opera radio broadcasts this season -- all the recent works, with 3 of the 6 written by Black or Mexican composers.

It was an interesting conversation.

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