A free podcast will be released each Thursday featuring one-on-one interviews with everyone from NEA Jazz Masters to leading arts experts to National Medal of Arts winners and more.
» Next week, writer Terry Tempest Williams.
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Wave Hill Public Garden & Cultural Center The Bronx, NY
Hear about New York City's best kept secret, where nature and art provide a urban unique oasis. [12:42]
Hank Jones Pianist (National Medal ofArts, NEA Jazz Master)
Hank Jones talks about his long career in jazz, including playing with such jazz greats as Charlie Parker and fellow NEA Jazz Master Ella Fitzgerald. [24:52]
Kay Ryan Poet (U.S. Poet Laureate, NEA Literature Fellow)
U.S. Poet Laureate talks about her teaching career, her reaction to that initial phone call from the Library of Congress, and, of course, poetry. [21:52]
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Phoebe Jacobs, former Executive Director of the Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation, discusses hearing the inimitable Louis Armstrong for the first time. [2:05]
