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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.

Meadowmount School of Music in Westport, New York in the Adirondacks is a summer program for young string players founded by legendary violin teacher Ivan Galamian that has helped mold some of the world’s most prominent musicians, among them Yo-Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman, and Joshua Bell.This summer, “the original practice camp” marks its 78th year with its first fully in-person session since 2019 and two new leaders at the helm: Executive Director Mark Hayman, former Executive Director of Young Concert Artists; and Artistic Director Janet Sung, international violin soloist as well as Head of Strings and Violin Professor at the DePaul University School of Music and Artistic Director and Founder of Chamber Music Chicago.

Dorset Theatre Festival’s season continues with “Back Together Again: The Music of Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway,” a new concert featuring Christina Acosta Robinson and Ken Robinson.

If not Biden, then who?In today’s Congressional Corner, Tim Vercellotti of the Western New England University poll and professor of political science continues his interview with WAMC’s Alan Chartock.

In today’s Congressional Corner, Tim Vercellotti of the Western New England University poll and professor of political science wraps up his interview with WAMC’s Alan Chartock.

Three-term poet laureate Joy Harjo will be the focus of this Saturday’s Spotlight Series at Tanglewood’s Seiji Ozawa Hall in Lenox, MA at 5PM.The event is a journey celebrating creativity through acknowledgement of the ancestors of poetry and music in the story field of the first Native American U.S. Poet Laureate.Harjo offers a vivid, lyrical, and inspiring call for love and justice in an contemplation of her trailblazing life. Harjo invites us to travel along the heartaches, losses, and humble realizations of her "poet-warrior" road. Poet Warrior is also the title of her new memoir.

Beacon, New York based musician Stephen Clair celebrated his new album “To the Trees” with a concert at The Linda a couple of months ago and he’ll be on a little tour supporting the release in early August - heading to Oneonta, Lake Placid, Cambridge, and Red Hook, New York over the next several days.“To the Trees” is Clair’s ninth full-length record and he joins us to talk about it.

The Roundtable Panel: a daily open discussion of issues in the news and beyond. Today's panelists are WAMC’s Alan Chartock, UAlbany Professor of Africana Studies Jennifer Burns, Vice President for Editorial Development at the New York Press Association Judy Patrick, and political consultant and lobbyist Libby Post.

American voters tell pollsters they have tired of President Biden.In today’s Congressional Corner, Tim Vercellotti of the Western New England University poll and professor of political science speaks with WAMC’s Alan Chartock.

We welcome Dr. Amber Mitchell, founder and director of the Epilepsy Monitoring Unit at Northern Dutchess Hospital. Call at 2pm with your question. 800-348-2551. Ray Graf hosts.