Each week, Fritz exchanges thoughts with Aly Krajewski about the Song of the Week featured on Jazz Spectrum Saturday.By Fritz ByersDear Aly, Anyone who’s been through law school, or at least the caricature of law school that fetishizes the Socratic method, knows that enormous power derives from being the person who asks the questions. Ms. Read More
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Each week, Fritz exchanges thoughts with Aly Krajewski about the Song of the Week featured on Jazz Spectrum Saturday.By Fritz ByersHi Aly, I didn’t mention to you when we were talking last night that any impairment you detected in my capacity for linear thought was likely due to my having spent excessive time recently with the movies of the French New Wave. I think mostly the movies go way over my head, but I find them funny; often, I think, unintentionally so. Read More
Congratulations to The Philharmonik for winning NPR's 2024 Tiny Desk Contest! Hailing from Sacramento, California, The Philharmonik is a producer, singer, rapper and multi-instrumentalist whose entry video, "What's It All Mean," floored this year's panel of judges.NPR Tiny Desk Contest WebsiteDid you know there were nearly 7,000 entries this year? Check out a few of our favorite local submissions below! Read More
Each week, Fritz exchanges thoughts with Aly Krajewski about the Song of the week featured on Jazz Spectrum Saturday.By Fritz ByersHi Aly, Yesterday the sky’s vast cloudless expanse was so striking that it set me to wondering what it was reminding me of. Do you remember the Peanuts strip when Linus asks Lucy, “Why is the sky blue?” And she answers, “Because it isn’t green.” Yesterday, it was a blue on blue, like an English weave It was very nearly one of those impossible Renoir blues we talked about a couple of weeks ago. It was a sweeping heartache blu Read More
Each week, Fritz exchanges thoughts with Aly Krajewski about the Song of the Week featured on Jazz Spectrum Saturday.By Fritz ByersHi Aly,
I checked the rules, but I don’t see one that prohibits beginning consecutive Song of the Week emails with a reference to a poem. So, last week, e.e. cummings, this week, Frank O’Hara.
Frank’s affecting poem, “St. Paul and All That,” has this perfectly cadenced stanza:
I walk in
sit down and
face the frigidaire
it’s April
no May
it’s May Read More
The “Rethinking Jails + Justice” project is in collaboration with The Board of Lucas County Commissioners and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Safety + Justice ChallengeTOLEDO, OHIO – April 26, 2024 – WGTE Public Media’s “Rethinking Jails + Justice”, in collaboration with The Board of Lucas County Commissioners and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Safety + Justice Challenge, is set to launch the latest phase of the project on Tuesday, April 30th at 7 p.m. Read More
Each week, Fritz exchanges thoughts with Aly Krajewski about the Song of the Week featured on Jazz Spectrum Saturday.By Fritz ByersHi Aly,
e.e. cummings was right to say that
“Spring is like a perhaps hand
(which comes carefully out of Nowhere)arranging Read More
