The Roundtable

We welcome Mallory McDuff and speak about her book, Sacred Acts: How Churches are Working to Protect Earth's Climate.

We welcome journalist and author, Laney Salisbury, who will become visiting assistant professor of journalism at the University at Albany this fall.

We welcome Ian Bremmer, founder and president of Eurasia Group, and speak with him about his book, Every Nation for Itself: Winners and Losers in a G-Zero World

We welcome Joe Jackson and speak with him about his book, Atlantic Fever: Lindbergh, His Competitors, and the Race to Cross the Atlantic.

In this week’s “Classical Music According to Yehuda”  segment, Dr. Alan Chartock and Yehuda Hanani continue their discussion of the Gypsy influence on classical music, hearing Brahms’ piano quartet in D minor’s final movement.

We speak with Ted Williams about his life and his book, A Golden Voice: How Faith, Hard Work, and Humility Brought Me from the Streets to Salvation .

Marcia Rachel Clark is an American prosecutor, author, and television correspondent who gained fame as the head prosecutor in the O.J. Simpson murder case. We welcome Marcia Clark and speak with her about her second D.A. Rachel Knight novel, Guilt by Degrees .

As the Miami Heat flirt with danger in the NBA playoffs, WAMC's Ian Pickus speaks with Esquire writer-at-large Scott Raab, a Cleveland native whose broken heart and anger became the subjects of his book The Whore of Akron: One Man's Search for the Soul of LeBron James.

Taps, the eloquent and haunting military bugle call played at funerals, and wreath-laying and memorial services, turns 150 this year. The man responsible for coming up with the tune is Daniel Butterfield, a member of Union’s Class of 1849.

We welcome Jari Villanueva, a retired Air Force veteran and author of Twenty-Four Notes That Tap Deep Emotions: The History of America’s Most Famous Bugle Call.

The Albany Symphony's first CEO and Executive Director, Brian Ritter, joins us to talk about the integration of artistic and financial planning to ensure exciting, compelling, and inspiring concerts and programs; aggressively growing the orchestra’s audience and donor base; and the improving of all business functions of the institution.