This music special was recorded last night (24 hours before the original date – Feb. 10 and the DC blizzard). “In Performance at the White House” will broadcast tomorrow (Thursday) February 11 on PBS stations (check local listings). It is heartening to see Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon, a member of the original Freedom Singers and [...]
SYMPOSIUM: Cuba in the World: Literature, Politics, Performance Over the weekend, I had the pleasure of meeting Ariel Fernandez at the Future of Music Policy Summit. Ariel’s working on a new documentary “Hip-Hop in Cuba: a Revolution Within the Revolution.” He sent me an email to let me know that he’s in DC this week [...]
My friends at WETA TV 26 are probably thrilled to the gills because they’re at the White House right now taping the first “In Performance at the White House” for the Obama Presidency. Presdient Obama presents Stevie Wonder with the second Library of Congress’s Gershwin Prize for Popular Song named for song writers George and [...]
