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11-13-25 Quiet - A Walk In The Park

In this week's A Walk In The Park with Jane Andrews...Jane states that we should reduce the noise and choose a different path.

11-14-25 Herbie Hancock-Directions In Music - Jazz After Dinner

This week on Jazz After Dinner, Joe features Pianist and Composer Herbie Hancock from his 2002 Verve Records recording titled “Directions In Music.” 

11-16-25 - Newport Classical-Holiday Concerts 2025 - Conducting Conversations

This week, Newport Classical is the subject of the program, with Trevor Neal, Artistic Director. We talk about their upcoming Annual Holiday Concerts, which will run at many locations in the Newport area, and listen to music related to those performances. For more information, go to www.newportclassical.org

11-07-25 N.Y. Times Bestselling Author Lisa Genova - More or Less Maddy - Ocean House Author Series

Join us as Ocean House owner and award-winning author Deborah Goodrich Royce moderates a conversation with our featured author, Lisa Genova, a N.Y. Times bestselling author.
About the Author: Lisa Genova graduated valedictorian, summa cum laude from Bates College with a degree in Biopsychology and has a Ph.D. in Neuroscience from Harvard University.
​Acclaimed as the Oliver Sacks of fiction and the Michael Crichton of brain science, Lisa has captured a special place in contemporary fiction, writing stories that are equally inspired by neurological conditions and our shared human condition. She is the New York Times bestselling author of the novels STILL ALICE, LEFT NEGLECTED, LOVE ANTHONY, and INSIDE THE O'BRIENS. 
Her first work of nonfiction, REMEMBER: The Science of Memory and the Art of Forgetting, was an instant New York Times bestseller. Her newest novel, MORE OR LESS MADDY, was released in January 2025 and became an instant #1 bestseller in Canada.
About The Book: A “riveting page-turner” (Jean Kwok, New York Times bestselling author of Searching for Sylvie Lee) about a young woman diagnosed with bipolar disorder who rejects the stability and approval found in a traditionally “normal” life for a career in stand-up comedy.
Maddy Banks is just like any other stressed-out freshman at NYU. Between schoolwork, exams, navigating life in the city, and a recent breakup, it’s normal to feel overwhelmed. It doesn’t help that she’s always felt like the odd one out in her picture-perfect Connecticut family. But Maddy’s latest low is devastatingly low, convincing her to go on an antidepressant. She begins to feel good, dazzling good in fact, and she soon spirals high into a wild and terrifying mania that culminates in a diagnosis of bipolar disorder.
As she struggles to find her way in this new reality, navigating the complex effects bipolar has on her identity, her relationships, and her life dream, Maddy will have to figure out how to manage being both too much and not enough.
With her signature “deep empathy and insight” (Booklist), Harvard-trained neuroscientist and New York Times bestselling author Lisa Genova has crafted an “affecting, harrowing, beautiful, and enlightening” (Shelf Awareness) novel that makes complicated mental health issues accessible and human. More or Less Maddy is destined to become another classic like Still Alice.
 
Please find out more about Lisa Genova and her books at lisagenova.com. For details on Deborah Goodrich Royce and the Ocean House Author Series, visit deborahgoodrichroyce.com

11-06-25 Terrariums - A Walk In The Park

This week, Jane recalls how nature can bring this planet we call home into perspective.

11-07-25 Drummer & Pianist Jack DeJohnette - Jazz After Dinner

This week on Jazz After Dinner, Joe features Drummer and Pianist Jack DeJohnette from his 1984 ECM Records recording, titled “Album, Album.”

11-09-25 - Westminster Youth String Ensemble - Conducting Conversations

This week, Westminster Youth String Ensemble is the subject of the program with Kathleen Curran Monroe, Director. We talk about the upcoming season and the Holiday Concert on Saturday, December 6th, at 3 PM at the Westerly Armory, and we listen to some selections from past concerts. For more information, you can call 401.596.5225 or go to www.westminsterstrings.org
 

11-01-25 Native American Heritage Month - WCRI's Kids Hour

In this week's WCRI's Kids Hour, hosts Jamie and Spencer listen to music about Native American composers, culture, cinema, and more to celebrate Native American Heritage Month. You'll hear music from Dances with Wolves, Pocahontas, Andrew Balfour, R. Carlos Nakai, The Last of the Mohicans, and many more!

10-31-25 Drummer & Band Leader Mel Lewis-"The Lost Art" - Jazz After Dinner

This week, Joe is featuring Drummer and Band Leader, Mel Lewis, from his 1989 Music Masters Records recording titled “The Lost Art.”

10-30-25 Fall Leaves - A Walk In The Park

This week, Jane explores how fall gives us many reasons to bathe in the season.

11-02-25 - Jamestown Community Chorus - Conducting Conversations

This week, the Jamestown Community Chorus is the subject of the program with B. J. Whitehouse, Music Director. We talk about their successful season last year and listen to some selections planned for the holiday concerts that will be held Saturday, December 13th and 14th at the Jamestown Recreational Center. For more information, you can call 401-207-0771 or go to www.jamestownchorus.com

10-23-25 Geese - A Walk In The Park

This week, Jane observes the parallels between airplanes and the behavior of birds in flight.

10-24-25 Pianists Ramsey Lewis & Billy Taylor-“We Meet Again" - Jazz After Dinner

This week, Joe is featuring Pianists Ramsey Lewis and Billy Taylor from their 1989 CBS Records recording titled “We Meet Again.”

10-26-25 - Rhode Island Civic Choral & Orchestra - Conducting Conversations

The RI Civic Choral and Orchestra is the subject of this week's program with Dr. Joshua Rohde, Music Director. We talk about their upcoming concerts and listen to some of the music being presented on Saturday, November 8th, in Providence and on November 9th in Cumberland. For more information, you can call 401-521-5670 or go to www.ricco.org

10-16-25 Responsibility - A Walk In The Park

This week, Jane shares a full circle event, a long time coming.

10-17-25 Saxophonist Gerry Mulligan - “The Gerry Mulligan Songbook" - Jazz After Dinner

This week on Jazz After Dinner, Joe features Saxophonist Gerry Mulligan from his 1958 Pacific Jazz Records recording titled “The Gerry Mulligan Songbook.”

10-19-25 - Narragansett Bay Symphony Orchestra Oct. 2025 - Conducting Conversations

The Narragansett Bay Symphony Community Orchestra is the subject of this week's program with John Eells, Interim Conductor, and President Greg Henninger. We discussed their upcoming concert and listened to some of the music that will be presented on November 2nd at 3 PM at the E. Providence H.S. Auditorium. For more information, you can call (401) 274-4578 or go to www.nabsco.org

10-11-25 New York times Bestselling Author Beatriz Williams - Under The Stars - Ocean House Author Series

Join us as Ocean House owner and award-winning author Deborah Goodrich Royce moderates a conversation with our featured author, Beatriz Williams, a N.Y. Times bestselling author.
About the Author: Beatriz Williams is the New York Times, USA Today, and internationally bestselling author of Husbands and Lovers,  The Summer Wives, The Secret Life of Violet Grant, A Hundred Summers, the Wicked City series, and several other works of historical fiction, including five novels in collaboration with fellow bestselling authors Karen White and Lauren Willig. A graduate of Stanford University with an MBA in Finance from Columbia University, Beatriz worked as a communications and corporate strategy consultant in New York and London before her first novel was published in 2012. Beatriz’s books have won numerous awards, have been translated into more than a dozen languages, and appear regularly in bestseller lists around the world.
Born in Seattle, Washington, Beatriz now lives in southeastern Connecticut with her husband and four mostly-grown children.
About The Book: A devastating secret haunts the women of an old New England family in this rich new novel set on Winthrop Island. Audrey Fisher has struggled all her life to emerge from the shadow of her famous mother by forging a career as a world-class chef. Meredith Fisher’s glamorous screen persona disguises the trauma of the tragic accident that haunts her dreams. Neither woman wants to return to the New England island they left behind and its complicated emotional ties, but Meredith has one last chance to sober up and salvage her big comeback, and where else but discreet, moneyed Winthrop Island can a famous actress spend the summer without the intrusion of other people? Until Audrey discovers an old wooden chest among the belongings of her estranged father—Mike Kennedy, proprietor of the island’s only watering hole—and the astonishing contents draw the women deep into Winthrop’s past and its many secrets . . . attracting the interest of their handsome neighbor, Sedge Peabody. How did a trove of paintings from one of America’s greatest artists wind up in the cellar of the Mohegan Inn? And who is the mysterious woman portrayed on every canvas?
On a stormy November night in 1846, Providence Dare flees Boston and boards the luxury steamship Atlantic one step ahead of the law….or so she believes. But when a catastrophic accident leaves the ship at the mercy of a mighty gale, Providence finds herself trapped in a deadly game of cat and mouse with the one man who knows her real identity—the detective investigating the suspicious death of her employer, the painter Henry Irving. As the Atlantic fights for her life and the rocky shore of Winthrop Island edges closer, a desperate Providence searches for her chance to escape…before the sea swallows her without a trace.
In Under the Stars, the destinies of three women converge across centuries, as a harrowing true disaster at the dawn of the steamship era evokes a complex legacy of family secrets in modern day New England.
 
Find out more about Beatriz Williams and her books at beatrizwilliams.com. For details on Deborah Goodrich Royce and the Ocean House Author Series, visit deborahgoodrichroyce.com
 

10-09-25 Human Behavior - A Walk In The Park

This week, Jane explores how acknowledging our feelings can shed light on a sensitive subject.

10-10-25 Guitarist Barney Kessel-“Autumn Leaves” - Jazz After Dinner

This week on Jazz After Dinner, Joe features Guitarist Barney Kessel from a 1989 Heritage Records recording compilation titled “Autumn Leaves.”