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09-27-24 Vocalist Mark Murphy - Jazz After Dinner

This week, Joe is featuring Vocalist Mark Murphy,” from his 1997 Capitol Records compilation recording titled “The Best of Mark Murphy.”

09-21-24 New York Times Bestselling Authors Allison Pataki and Emily Franklin discuss their books: Finding Margaret Fuller and The Lioness of Boston - Ocean House Author Series

Join Ocean House owner and author Deborah Goodrich Royce for a conversation with our featured authors. This week, New York Times bestselling authors Allison Pataki and Emily Franklin discuss their books Finding Margaret Fuller (Pataki) and The Lioness of Boston (Franklin).
About Allison Pataki: Allison Pataki is the New York Times bestselling author of FINDING MARGARET FULLER, THE MAGNIFICENT LIVES OF MARJORIE POST, THE QUEEN’S FORTUNE, THE TRAITOR’S WIFE, THE ACCIDENTAL EMPRESS, SISI: EMPRESS ON HER OWN, WHERE THE LIGHT FALLS, as well as the nonfiction memoir BEAUTY IN THE BROKEN PLACES and two children’s books, NELLY TAKES NEW YORK and POPPY TAKES PARIS. Allison’s novels have been translated into more than twenty languages. A former news writer and producer, Allison has written for The New York Times, ABC News, The Huffington Post, USA Today, Fox News and other outlets. She has appeared on The TODAY Show, Good Morning America, Fox & Friends, Good Day New York, Good Day Chicago and MSNBC’s Morning Joe. Allison graduated Cum Laude from Yale University with a major in English.
About Finding Margaret Fuller: A “sweeping” (Entertainment Weekly) novel of America’s forgotten leading lady, the central figure of a movement that defined a nation—from the New York Times bestselling author of The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post
About Emily Franklin: Emily Franklin is the bestselling author of more than twenty books. Her work has been published in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Kenyon Review, and The Journal of the American Medical Association among many other places as well as featured and read aloud on National Public Radio, and named notable by the Association of Jewish Libraries. She lives outside of Boston with her family including four children and two dogs large enough to be lions. Her novel The Lioness of Boston, based on the life of trailblazer Isabella Stewart Gardner is in its sixth printing.
About The Lioness of Boston: “Brings Isabella Stewart Gardner fully, intimately alive—irrepressible and avid for life. In this richly compelling novel, Emily Franklin beautifully conjures this extraordinary woman and her world.”—Claire Messud, author of The Emperor’s Children.
For more information about bestselling author Allison Pataki, visit allisonpataki.com; for Emily Franklin, visit emilyfranklin.com. For information on Deborah Goodrich Royce and the Ocean House Author Series, visit deborahgoodrichroyce.com

09-19-24 Under My Nose - A Walk In The Park

This week on A Walk In The Park, Jane states there are times when we just need to reboot.

09-20-24 Saxophonist Michael Brecker & Trumpeter Randy Brecker - Jazz After Dinner

This week, Joe is featuring Saxophonist Michael Brecker and Trumpeter Randy Brecker from their 1992 GRP Records recording, “Return of the Brecker Brothers.”
 
 

09-22-24 Trevor Neal, Artistic Director of Newport Classical - Conducting Conversation

Newport Classical is the program's subject with Trevor Neal, Artistic Director, this week. We talked about their past concert season, which ran at many venues throughout Newport and listened to music related to their upcoming performances. For more information, you can go to www.newportclassical.org

09-14-24 New York Times Bestselling Author Beatriz Williams and Her New Novel Husbands & Lovers - Ocean House Author Series

Join Ocean House owner and author Deborah Goodrich Royce for a conversation with our featured author. This week, New York Times bestselling author Beatriz Williams will be discussing her new novel, Husbands & Lovers.
About Beatriz Williams: Beatriz Williams is the New York Times and internationally bestselling author of nineteen novels, including four novels in collaboration with bestselling authors Karen White and Lauren Willig. She graduated from Stanford University with an MBA in finance from Columbia University. Williams has won numerous awards for her novels, which have been translated into more than a dozen languages. She lives near the Connecticut shore with her husband and four children.
About Husbands & Lovers: Two women—separated by decades and continents and united by an exotic family heirloom—reclaim secrets and lost loves in this sweeping novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Summer Wives.
New England, 2022. Three years ago, single mother Mallory Dunne received the telephone call every parent dreads—her ten-year-old son, Sam, had been airlifted from summer camp with acute poisoning from a toxic death cap mushroom, leaving him fighting for his life. Now, searching for the donor kidney that will give her son a chance for a normal life, Mallory’s forced to confront two harrowing secrets from her past: her mother’s adoption from an infamous Irish orphanage in 1952 and her all-consuming summer romance fourteen years earlier with her childhood best friend, Monk Adams— one of the world’s most beloved singer-songwriters—a fairy tale cut short by a devastating betrayal.
Cairo, 1951. After suffering tragedy beyond comprehension in the war, Hungarian refugee Hannah Ainsworth has forged a respectable new life for herself—marriage to a wealthy British diplomat with a coveted posting in glamorous Cairo. But a fateful encounter with the enigmatic manager of a hotel bristling with spies leads to a passionate affair that will reawaken Hannah’s longing for everything she once lost. As revolution simmers in the Egyptian streets, a pregnant Hannah finds herself snared in a game of intrigue between two men . . . and an act of sacrifice that will echo down the generations.
Timeless and bittersweet, Husbands & Lovers takes readers on an unforgettable journey of heartbreak and redemption, from the revolutionary fires of midcentury Egypt to the moneyed beaches of contemporary New England. Acclaimed author Beatriz Williams has written a poignant and beautifully voiced novel of deeply human characters entangled by morally complex issues—of privilege, class, and the female experience—inside worlds brought shimmeringly to life.
For more information about bestselling author Beatriz Williams, beatrizwilliams.com. For information on Deborah Goodrich Royce and the Ocean House Author Series, visit deborahgoodrichroyce.com

09-12-24 Memories - A Walk In The Park

This week on A Walk In The Park, Jane finds that nature seems to claim fond memories like we do.

09-15-24 URI Guitar Festival - Conducting Conversation

The URI Guitar Festival is the subject of this week's program with Adam Levin, Artistic Director. We talk about the concerts that will be presented from October 13th to the 20th at several different locations. The event will feature over a dozen performers. For more information, you can go to uriguitarfestival.org

09-13-24 Pianist Marian McPartland - Jazz After Dinner

This week, Joe is featuring Pianist Marian McPartland,” from her 2000 Concord Records recording titled “The Single Petal of a Rose.”

09-07-24 The Musical Duo of Bridge & Wolak - WCRI‘s Kids Hour

On this month's WCRI's Kids Hour episode, host Jamie listens to Bridge & Wolak! Bridge & Wolak is a globe-trotting musical duo from Canada that creates life-affirming concerts full of beauty, virtuosity, and humor. Michael Bridge, accordion, and Kornel Wolak, clarinet (both are also skilled pianists) share a love for classical, jazz, and world music, a fascination with fusing genres, and a passion for performance on Sunday, October 6 at 2:30 PM at the Newport Classical Recital Hall. They invite you to join them on their slightly unruly musical adventure in this free concert, which is fun for the whole family! To register for this free performance, please call 401-846-1133 ex. 1 or visit newportclassical.org/event/bridge-wolak

09-05-24 Counter Intuitive - A Walk In The Park

This week on A Walk In The Park, Jane finds that sometimes it works better even if it doesn't make sense.

09-08-24 Salt Marsh Opera’s production of “Barber of Seville” - Conducting Conversation

Salt Marsh Opera’s “Barber of Seville” production is the subject of this week's program with Simon Holt, Artistic Director and General Manager. We talked about the company and the opera and listened to some of the viral songs from the score. For more information, you can call (860) 535-3456 or go to www.saltmarshopera.org

09-06-24 Saxophonist Jackie McLean - Jazz After Dinner

This week, Joe is featuring Saxophonist Jackie McLean,” from his 1995 Blue Note/Capitol Records recording titled “Jackie’s Bag.”

08-29-24 Tables Turned - A Walk In The Park

This week on A Walk In The Park, Jane discusses what wildlife might think about humans.

08-30-24 Pianist & Composer Sarah Jane Cion - Jazz After Dinner

This week, Joe is featuring Pianist and Composer Sarah Jane Cion from her 1999 Naxos Records recording titled “Moon Song.” 

09-01-24 Alzheimer's Association Walk - Conducting Conversation

Tonight, we talk about The Alzheimer’s Association Walk, a great fundraiser that helps the Association find a cure for the disease. Annie Murphy, Program Manager of the RI Chapter, talks about the five upcoming walks around the state, the first being on Block Island on September 8th. For more information, you can call (401) 400-3778 or go to www.alz.org
 

08-24-24 The Emancipation Oak - This Old Tree

In this episode, host Doug Still introduces us to a 300-year-old Live Oak tree on the campus of Hampton University in Virginia that stuns visitors with its strength and beauty. It’s also an enduring symbol of a watershed moment in American history - the issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation during the Civil War, which freed enslaved people in the rebel states. How could a tree play a role in that momentous event locally? What did emancipation truly mean to African Americans in 1863? How does the tree still inspire the hearts and imagination of people today?

08-22-24 Man On A Boat - A Walk In The Park

This week on A Walk In The Park, Jane detaches just enough to be aware of a situation.

08-25-24 Steven Feinberg Executive Director of The RI Film & TV Office - Conducting Conversation

This week The RI Film & TV Office is the subject of the program, with Steven Feinberg, Executive Director. We talk about many of the movie and television events that have been filmed in RI and listen to the music from them and others. For more information, call 401 222-3456 or go to www.film.ri.gov 

08-23-24 Trombonist & Vocalist Wycliffe Gordon and Bassist & Vocalist Jay Leonhart - Jazz After Dinner

On this week's Jazz After Dinner, Joe Features Trombonist and Vocalist Wycliffe Gordon and Bassist and Vocalist Jay Leonhart,” from their 2006 Bluesback Records recording “This Rhythm On My Mind.”