| Burt Wolf: Travels & Traditions: Cologne, Germany | |
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Thu, May 23rd from 8:30PM - 9:00PM Built by the ancient Romans, Cologne is a mixture of old and new - 60, 000 university students keep it young, a thousand-year-old cathedral gives it maturity. In this program, Burt visits the cathedral which is Germany's most visited tourist attraction and finds out how it can reconnect travelers with their spiritual feelings.[read more] |
| Land of the Dragon: Learning Acrobatics In China | |
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Thu, May 23rd from 9:00PM - 9:30PM Meet a group of African students who were picked to move to China and study with the best Chinese acrobatics teachers in the world. Then, just when everyone is on track see what happens when someone is sent back home to Africa and... [read more] |
| Jazzset with Dee Dee Bridgewater | |
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Thu, May 23rd from 9:00PM - 10:00PM "Edmar Castaņeda and Friends" at the Americas Society, New York The Wall Street Journal calls him "the Hippest Harpist," playing a 32-string instrument from Colombia (his homeland) and Venezuela. To packed houses, the Music of the Americas series presented... [read more] |
| Crazy 'Bout The Blues with Kathleen Lawton | |
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Fri, May 24th from 9:00PM - 11:45PM From the earliest recorded blues to 21st century blues; from the depths of the Mississippi Delta to the grooves of Oaktown. This heartbreaking and unpredictable genre called the blues, lay roots of so much of America's popular music. |