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The Roundtable Panel: a daily open discussion of issues in the news and beyond. Today's panelists are WAMC’s Alan Chartock, Investigative Journalist and Adjunct Professor, Rosemary Armao, Tetherless World Chair of Computing, Web and Cognitive Sciences and Founding Director of the Institute for Data, Artificial Intelligence and Computation at RPI Jim Hendler, and director, actor, educator and co-founder and Artistic Director of WAM Theatre Kristen van Ginhoven.

The Roundtable Panel: a daily open discussion of issues in the news and beyond.Today's panelists are WAMC’s Alan Chartock, research professor and Stuart Rice Honorary Chair at the University of Massachusetts Amherst’s College of Information and Computer Sciences (CICS) and Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University Fran Berman, Cohoes City Director of Operations Theresa Bourgeois, Siena College Professor of Comparative Politics Vera Eccarius-Kelly, Former EPA Regional Administrator, Visiting Professor at Bennington College, and President of Beyond Plastics Judith Enck.

Could former President Donald Trump face criminal charges?In today’s Congressional Corner, WAMC’s Alan Chartock wraps up his interview with former Deputy Solicitor of the United States Philip Lacovara.

Ancram Opera House in Ancram, New York will conclude its 2022 Summer Play Lab Series with “POOF!” an all-natural solo performance by Celeste Lecesne, directed by Kevin Hourigan, with music by Truth Future Bachman and costumes by Michael Krass.

The Tanglewood Music Center Fellowship Program is the Boston Symphony Orchestra's summer academy for advanced musical study. The TMC offers an intensive schedule of study and performance for emerging professional instrumentalists, singers, conductors, and composers who have completed most of their formal study. We welcome Todd Seeber who joined the Boston Symphony Orchestra's double bass section in May 1988, and TMC Fellow bass player Kebra-Seoyoun Charles, a double-bassist originally from Miami, Florida. They received their Bachelor of Music degree from the New England Conservatory of Music.

Conductor of the Boston Pops and Artistic Director of the Brevard Music Center in North Carolina, Keith Lockhart join us to discuss this summer's Pops' programs at Tanglewood - which include live score accompaniment of a screening of “The Empire Strikes Back” on July 15 and a special Remembering Stephen Sondheim concert on August 19.

Virtuoso Swedish trumpeter and frequent Boston Symphony Orchestra collaborator Håkan Hardenberger is the beneficiary of a new BSO commissioned concerto from the British composer Helen Grime, a former Tanglewood Music Center Fellow with a dynamic, sparkling compositional style. Andris Nelsons will conduct the piece "Trumpet Concerto: night-sky-blue" on Sunday afternoon at 2:30 p.m. along with Sergei Rachmaninoff’s “Vocalise” for orchestra, which closes with the composer’s substantial Symphony No. 3, a late work characterized by scintillating orchestration. The Grime concerto, which is inspired by images of nocturnal gardens, has been commissioned by the Koussevitzky Foundation, Library of Congress, the London Symphony Orchestra and the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

Each weekday morning, WAMC’s President and CEO and Political Observer, Alan Chartock, and Roundtable Host Joe Donahue are joined by various experts, journalists, educators, and commentators to discuss current events. On Roundtable Panel: The Week in Review, we feature your favorite panelists discussing news items from the previous week.

This week, we’re going to attempt to find some common ground. I’ll give you three descriptions, and the names of the things I’m describing all share exactly one word. You tell me what that word is.

Roe v. Wade is now a thing of the past.In today’s Congressional Corner, WAMC’s Alan Chartock continues his interview with former Deputy Solicitor of the United States Philip Lacovara.