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only weeks after his inauguration governor johnson has closed enrollment to the working poor to do what he called a fine tuning the administration worked quickly to weed out many of those who could not or would not pay the sliding scale premium is now one year later the administration says didn't care is running much smoother but faced with a potential budget shortfall won't say when it will be another open enrollment period it worries tony guard who heads the tennessee health care campaign an organization set up to help the poor access to care again the second year when they're not opening up in rome and now then we were we're on the slippery slope right now if we don't open up roman is going to return very critical point for some us cross has been shifted will not go back to the medicaid plan b and forget all about your card charges that gov sun glistens preoccupied with this crime package in his family's first and lacks the commitment to tenncare like former governor madeleine a quarter order administration created tenncare as a cure all till morning seven hundred and fifty six

million dollar medicaid budget crisis in nineteen ninety three industry analysts say the problem today is not a lack of commitment by southwest but once again boils down to money john hart is with party and associates became clear when it was originally conceived was seen as a gap program it was going to spend the time period between when tennessee took some action on crisis basis and when the federal government enacted national health insurance and it meant for and of course that didn't happen so now it's it's a long term situation and i think they need to and i'm sure they are rethinking the situation given that its long term despite problems that still plague the program mike slowey embarrassments didn't dare i say the state and federal government no it's cutting down on the number of emergency room visits by corporations who had no other option for health care the problem threatens to turn full circle particularly among those were

poor working on the moment they are an obvious thing to say this state worker who wish not to give her name was one of one hundred and twenty thousand who lost their coverage sometime during the middle and latter months of nineteen ninety five ironically she worked part time fielding questions on the team clear how long she has always counted on having health insurance and never imagined that she and her two children would be without it her mistake was buying a new or used cars which put her over the asset limit for tenncare eligibility we have been driving at their peers and i wasn't even play of the city and effectively mccain carried if you never had a playful she could still qualify for a tenncare under the state's medicaid step down program to meet the criteria she would first have to accumulate hundreds of dollars in medical bills governor sonny gray says he has his own budget to wrestle with and the governor is one that nineteen ninety seven will be a year of belt

tightening for tennessee he contends funding for education has welfare to work program and improvements and mental health needs of tin can at least until nineteen ninety eight listeners disagree and then the seasons democratic lawmakers disagree with sun quest particularly on the issue of reopening enrollment democrats say if all working poor art included they will eventually turn to emergency rooms for care sending the state back to where it started when it created ten care veteran state senator and speaker pro temp so i think the administration will will be finding a way to open enrollment again i

don't know when they'll do that under much pressure as to build in the legislature but when the legislature reaches a consensus that something needs to be done executives will either respond or the legislature find another way to accomplish at scale with just under three hundred thousand working poor are still on the rails a tenncare state officials aren't in jeopardy of violating five year waiver agreement with the federal health care and financial industry should it monitors the program annually still health care advocates worry that as the number of working poor and raleigh's continues to diminish so will the concept of team gear for national public radio i'm terri field is the message on the two distant or anyone with a

caseworker meetings doesn't look forward to it nice butt it's an important day for gays meets this day forward she must meet the requirements outline for those who want to keep their government assistance checks this week's is known about this chain and since june in fact after a summer meeting with a caseworker she immediately found a part time joe but less than two months later she decided to quit quitting jobs at will as a cellist is mixed may soon find she no longer hats minutes before this week's scheduled interview with a caseworker he still has denied russian or it will be business as usual coming in

this particular interview lau were different from others businesses have in the past she must decide whether to sign a contract promising to find a full time job search for work get training or go to school these are the only options available idiots needs wants to keep the two hundred and sixty four dollars she gets in wa for each month to feed her four children beverly dugger is a caseworker for the department of human services she sets the requirements or not and as a punishment that is an incentive to go from welfare to work it's not a matter of not donate maybe a sanctions and sanctions even conservatives when i don't know our goal is not to sanction argo suited to find your motivation diverse as the department is doing all it can to help recipients meet the requirements of families first teaching then interviewing techniques resume writing and language skills better says even notification letters are being sent out in simple language leaving little or no

excuse for anyone not to comply but jia time limit a team and then time is up into the case is no reason for it and is something you have done yet you have to weigh yep still from at least three months an hour and a half later the key differences finished her interview and seems happy with the outcome she signed the agreement and is relieved to know she will not be cut off from going to not she'll continue to receive grants from the federal government and healthcare when does needs needs for humans every job working forty hours and we kept training and working part time or be in school she joins an estimated thirty one thousand of the state's welfare recipients with math on their way off the welfare rolls the state is sending a clear message that it is serious this time

five hundred families have reportedly been kicked off for refusing to operate for national public radio i'm teri fields says says it fits it's nice it's for

is it there's nothing better than feeling good which is probably why americans spend billions each year to identify the source of their aches pains and fevers and alleviate them anna by outtakes analgesics transplants and bypass is for many of us drugs and surgery in the primary treatment for our medical

problems dr herbert benson think something is missing in this equation is founder and president of the mind body medical institute and professor of medicine at harvard medical school dr benson says healthcare is only effective when a third element is added the individual's personal healing power one mind body medicine came along our modern medicines that you don't need it we can do it all but sixty to ninety percent of visits to doctors are in the mind body rome where drugs and surgeries really don't work well at all if you view health and wellbeing as being akin to a three legged stool where one leg holding it up is drugs a second way is surgery and procedures were trying to practice or medicine in and in a balanced way there has to be a third leg and that third leg is self care in that self caraway we have relaxation procedures that evoke the relaxation

response prayer we also have nutrition we also have exercise and stress management and your own belief system all coming together for some will claim that wake is enough it's equally foolish to give up the penicillin to give up a cataract surgery bringing them all together we got a balance and i so resist people implying that all medicine is in the mind map or health it will be because it would be a sad world indeed without our searches without court marvelous medicines that we have at our disposal an important component of dr benson's mind body health care plan is the relaxation response a recent study shows fifty five percent of family physicians now use relaxation or meditation techniques with their patients the best way to understand the relaxation response is to look at its opposite the stress response also called the fight or flight response when that is evoked and comes about naturally under

stress there's increased of tablets and increase blood pressure increased heart rate increased rate of breathing the relaxation response in contrast is the opposite bodily state that has the priest metabolism blood pressure heart rate rate of breathing and very slow brain waves fight or flight response the stress response comes about naturally when you're under stress when you have to adjust the relaxation response in contrast requires two steps the first is the repetition of a prayer a word a sow a phrase or even a repetitive muscular activity the second is when other thoughts come to mind just passively let them go and come back to the repetition that is evoked regularly we can treat along with nutrition and exercise the harmful effects of stress according to dr benson another frequently overlooked component to health care as the doctor

patient relationship where the many examples he gives is a recent study of surgical patients who were matched by medical condition and procedure one group received only cursory attention from their surgeon an anesthesiologist prior to their surgery the second group was given caring focused attention by the surge and an anesthesiologist both groups were told they could have as much pain medication as needed after surgery the results were remarkable those who were treated him of caring fashion required half the amount of medication and were discharged from the hospital two point six day sooner than the other group this is an essential feature of care we cannot ratchet down the time of the patient doctor encounter people treated in this fashion require a west visits to an hmo to a pre paid system to attack the tate its system that is money in the bank we

can reduce visits between thirty and fifty percent to an hmo and for that reason this work is blossoming the combination of the science coupled with the economic imperative is now making this occur dr herbert benson founder and president of the mind body medical institute and professor of medicine at harvard university medical school dr benson has written six books on mind body wellness the latest of which is timeless healing the power and the biology of belief for national public radio it is it is

it's big we will be checking with john throughout morning edition for the latest on our friday the thirteenth tragic situations well alex chadwick is back in washington in fact the setting for bob edwards today but earlier in the week alex was in nashville as a featured speaker at two of wpln has member receptions naturally i took the opportunity to ask alex all the things i have been wondering about him for years including what brought him to national public radio well what drew me there was a guy named david molpus who's now our southern regional

correspondent who was then the producer of the morning news service and needed someone for two weeks to come down on filament on the morning program that was amir back then for npr and was the forerunner of morning edition i was working as a reporter at a commercial radio station on and maine david they're called me and said you know come on down for a couple weeks and try public radio so i did you know then two more weeks and then a month and then you just kind of stay i actually have left public radio i quit and went to work for a commercial television station in san francisco as a writer and producer and after year and a half there although i thought the west coast was interesting and i didn't mind the medium of television i quit and went back to npr because npr has a respect for the audience in pure believes in its audience thinks its audience is

smart and wants to know staff and programs accordingly alex was a member of the creative team which developed morning edition and he's been a substitute hosts on many occasions filling in for bob edwards so is kind of like always a bridesmaid never a bride i asked alex if he would like to switch roles with the colonel i would never want a job and it really it in on is a wonderful job you connect with the audience it's really great to be able to talk to writers musicians anywhere you want anything that's interesting to follow the news you know to do what you think is important and interesting but you have to get up to three in the morning after several days of doing that i am out which is not a very good person yeah and the day is when you get a job you're really that's all you do that switch you do

i don't quite know how bob edwards has managed to do it all eight years npr personalities are constantly asked what was your worst moment on the air and i'm afraid i was guilty of the same question actually though most of them won't confess there were slow part but they will share a nervous moment i was interviewing once i was interviewing a congressman lee hamilton alive on morning edition but hamilton a common to talk about whether or not president should extend most favored nation trading status to china i guess mr helton for his position and he'd begun answer the question in the course of the interview when you're the host of the program you're doing several things at one time you're conducting an interview and you're trying to get the story out of the interview we're also keeping an eye on the clock because things have to start and stop a certain times on morning edition you gotta make sure nothing runs more than eight minutes and you're also thinking what am i going to ask next so i asked him the basic question what you think the president should do and in the course of his answer i glanced at the clock to find out how much time i had

left and i thought for one second about what's my next question was where should i go after this then i focused again on mr hamilton and he said his third option is to do a lot of doubt about he said i go what option number two i have no no idea and i was the only person in america who is losing this interview who had no idea that lee hamilton was talking about that was a tough month ah i i sort of fumbled on with a with a couple questions which i thought might logically come next and tried to figure out from his answer one option number two was was never able to quite figured out the interview and i thank god and i just walk away from it thinking that's not an interview that npr listeners go walk away from thinking gee there wasn't another one of those probing inside a

veteran national public radio reporter producer and crowe from host alex chadwick who was in nashville earlier this week is the featured speaker at two of wpln has member receptions my entire conversation with alex we rebroadcast sunday morning and nine o'clock and consider this for national public radio i'm rebecca bain and doing it have you received any christmas letters you know somebody is

one or two page synopsis of the past twelve months twelve writer lee smith has received as christmas letters in her lifetime and she saved them all in fact they were the inspiration for her latest work a novel entitled the christmas everywhere is a document of a lie a n and back in the coffin of the whole family's life the format is setting a saint and they may not think it is so valuable for the rider and was that meant for the greater because he have to say for your home here i write letters to me and then some i don't think it's a ritual and you know how smart money and their volunteer in the christmas letters lee smith has chronicled three generations of women beginning with birds letter home on a lonely christmas in nineteen forty four her daughter mary becomes the family historian and it ends with granddaughter melodies letter written as the nineteen ninety six christmas up well baghdad on this is that my mother was with my father's

parents in nineteen forty four i was born november first nineteen forty four ende my mother was living with his parents and she scarcely know and she was very homesick she was in the mountains and she'd come from shaking a gallon so she was real moms that while he was off in the philippines fighting and so on it a semi that the characters but it is that situation and the korean island saying is none fell is it's a very personal book for me an ally wise because all the women in the family and i've been very involved in cooking and contained lies a big role in this but since it's christmas letter is with a recipe and the recipes i think tell where loesser like ten i had my grandmother's recipes and i had my mother's recipe thousand allied us this economy and then i have nine when a letter that's almost like that i could tell the story of my whole life in recipes you

know what we it away in it and what that child about us you know as women is as a whole culture who are playing and they're saying he's in that first christmas dinner together yesterday it was a right we had a big team which barely fit in the oven i am trying an oyster casserole which did not work out because i use smugglers so instead of the real other hand which i guess you're supposed to say i about these flat mosque where teams of oysters at the piggly wiggly they were very expensive and lena hofer but of the week but i thought you had to have oyster cancer along i thought was the law and it looked back at the cracker crumbs having stormed a nice golden crust just the way they're supposed to but the minute abby at intuit and they suddenly would say and he did not even know the difference because he had never twice divorced years before he was luckily sany will add although it's a slim little book we learn a surprising amount about these women and their lives and about the times in which

they live we also learned how much things have changed the amounts of public discourse as much as anything else would have chives as well as what women expect out of the life that rain women's roles how they were white two husbands are lamb saw tried to pick out again all ready and unify although it's a little tiny book i think a lot is alluded to with these three women and somebody writes a letter they making such choices they're sifting through a hoagie year or a whole group of years and saying okay this is important and lots of other things are a limited so when she had is almost a sense like the tip of an ice bargain i spark a still buyer when someone writes a letter the whole life with fire with just the letters visible it's a wonderful names to get more of a life the direction riding on the path down last letters i think that's why i like to get them and write them summit inspiration for her novels comes from many different sources for lee smith stories told my friends an article in the newspaper even a

prowl in the attic i was my mother my mother has been dead for six years man i slip in and her thank you just break and what it must've been like the car to be living in a strange man to man with difficulty and miles and have my father whom she scarcely newly they're so far away in the philippines and what that first christmas past then like an hour so now is writing and then i realize as the riders there's something that i always think of his pre writing which can go on for years it's where there's some in your land sounds like a rock in humanity can walk in iran or like amanda after well you know which to my kids a few minutes but it it takes along town there something fair and good but i think that the way it sometimes comes again writer lee smith whose latest book an umbrella is titled the christmas letters for national public radio i'm rebecca bain four o'clock hour fast approaching

many of the city's homeless gathered outside nashville and on the city's south side they're anxious for stores soon it will be dark and the temperature will draw a few are bundled against the cold but there is little protection for others they are clad only in insurance plans and white sweaters are jackets exposure is the number one one concern is that if you know that shows you know the idea to start a program at the homeless was conceived on a winter night when father charles stovall find it hard to sleep in the comfort of his own struggling with pastor of a church that serve meals to the poor and homeless during the day what troubled struggle was where they slept at night in their cars in the church parking lot as the wider approach that was hard to go to

get up in a parsonage which right there at the roof overlooking the parking lot so that route say no and that i was inserting a warm place so i invited him coming to the church that was eleven years ago and more than one hundred churches that sas joins troubles effort charges need only to provide transportation and essential where they can provides the cots and blankets the home let's bring other essentials with the homeless population continuing to grow space is limited on this night capacity as two hundred and one as people come through and we lose that number we have to tell those who may still be there that there's no real which then just repeats that original romanian story of two thousand years ago republicans to a small town called that for him and they can find only in some nights were successful overnight programs have been added to help the homeless or drug in appleton is one example this college graduate which not to give his name instead he chose to testify

ms knowles all ram ram robinson says the testimonials like this one in the program simple shelf a concept had gained the room and notoriety and respect among citizens and interest from other states dave pomeroy is among them what i really think it's significant is that they really tried to help these people rebuild their lives and sort of replay and their independence and that sort of taking these people to the church's ii and having them spend the night in the churches are you know as opposed to in some kind of just pomeroy i was so impressed with a program that he is convinced other talented musicians to perform a blue christmas concert to benefit the program for the past ten years the musicians creatively

rearranging record traditional christmas songs each season and sell it to the public proceeds go directly to the room in the end the issues the christmas benefit concert is scheduled for tonight at nine pm a cafe milan a finalist guest will include john allen was gretchen peters and documentary for national public radio they have a business town and they see lots of places that you want to go there is something then that you don't know who the mom all right no no

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fees state officials projected they would generate enough extra money and sales tax revenues last year to cover their new funding obligations for nineteen ninety seven the money was to cover the final installment on tennessee's basic education plan to equalize screw finding support families first and pay for court ordered settlements and mental health despite generating an estimated two hundred and forty million dollars in new revenue the state still can't pay its tap finance commissioner john farver so two hundred million dollars for the

tornado stricken care for a million dollars for four hour than his parts of enrollments year two thousand mr selman not just that those auletta the list rather than fight the courts and federal government officials have begun looking at a number of alternatives to make up the shortfall including a search for hidden reserves and dipping into the state's rainy day for governor signed quest believes the more viable option is to lay off state workers we simply have a chart that we raise taxes or do we cut spending my joyce's we cut spending or very carefully reviewing the costs of doing then this intensely by the state government and exactly right it's a tough process and for working to reduce the costs and that's in fact if it

were reduced cost other than beef your state employees says he's willing to dip into the states one hundred million dollars reserve if he has to that coupled with the suggestion of layoffs as state lawmakers walking particularly democrats who quashed in the governor's claims of a budget crisis dona got a lot of convincing to do that in two years he's been able to take a statement that's managed ad in the country to a financial crisis of great magnitude senator bob rochelle is skeptical because frank wess made some of the declines when he took office two years ago the administration is talking now about how they had a shape financially the state is it's like the little boy who cried wolf without resorting cried wolf on that when he came into office with that we continually have declared there were financial crisis existed that started all the cutbacks and put that the freeze on new employees in and then at the end of the budget guy julio thirty fifty million dollars surplus the general assembly begins its one hundred session january fourteenth with the democratic majority already

there is talk about launching an investigation to see if the state isn't the crisis on course as idiots some lawmakers speculate the governor is creating a crisis for political purposes state representative mike williams says there's no evidence of that now but they're checking it out it at that that's what the delegate that made you try to create a moving in some instances people try to create a crisis so that they can solve a crisis and that that by bringing it out of crisis when but that's it that's what's happening here convincing democrats to go along with his suggested budget cuts may be the most difficult pass on crystal vase that she they are still fuming over november's hard fought and sometimes nasty elections and the numerous controversies last year including the firing of brian millsaps with the tennessee higher education commission and stripping workers are civil service that's senator barbara shell says it boils down to an abuse of power it brings about a realization that you're dealing with someone

who will bear the idea that when you're dealing with someone like that you have to find appropriate responses to abuses of power the challenge to the legislatures to find those appropriate responses without abusing its own rochelle says since for alexander administration legislators are taken for granted there would be no questions about the budget process this year that will change for national public radio i'm terri feel fiction this is morning edition on ninety point three nashville public radio and a poet larry reynolds's daughter relations director for second harvest food bank in nashville he's standing in its cavernous warehouse at the end and twentieth avenue it's bigger than a football field

and unfortunately not as cool as in years past gains of soup serial vegetables stacked three levels high to the ceiling that has reynolds points out there are empty places a year ago it would've been that shows the differential between what's going out the man once supplied the subtle he's a desperate i'll tell you it is the same warehouse year we had a major who were ready for the law and i'm not altogether sure that we are the first three months of this new year are crucial demand is up and as larry reynolds pointed out donations are down not local donations gathered by the reverse raided the boy scouts have the food to families campaign contributions from national manufacturers down thirteen percent from a year ago to see that means two hundred thousand pounds less food i'd seen like chaplains minsk in west orange job seven

years ago these figures the national company illinois and wisconsin where the big boys are located kellogg's general mills general whose craft and polish folks were the major know they were synonyms truckload probably the local dollars were sending us about a quarter or william nash now it's totally reversed the local folks are donating much much more than we're getting from the local oaks like purity the nashville based theory supplies milk products several times a week for second harvest it's a relationship that involved over fifteen years through its public relations director bill johnson

stands between conveyor belts full of containers johnson says purity processes one hundred fifty to one hundred forty thousand gallons of milk a day some of that about ninety branch half gallons a week goes to second harvest plus there's the return father milk ice cream when he's sour cream and other products that don't sell our return to purity it's a win win situation both for us and for second harvest because we've always maintained the dates for us the product is really normally speaking our dairy products from purity will last quite a number of days beyond the cold date assuming they've been properly protected with adequate refrigeration as a result we keep it cold and they come by here are plans and generally about the same time the product comes back and offer the routes pick it up and take it to their operation and distributed either that sign day or the next day to needy families so the community is is assisted in that fashion and in the same breath quite frankly it's good for us because the only thing we could do with that product were

to come back here is dump it into the sewage system locally which means extra treat them problems for the nashville sewage plant the more dubbed the more purity pays so instead of trashing still usable products purity gives them to second harvest it does hurt you to say something going on the brain that someone could use miles he's a junior now runs the business his father founded seventy years ago back when there were hundreds of local dairies well obviously it's easier just to get money you don't have to get other people involved in it that decision can be made by two three executives and then that's it if we give product we've got to have always involved in it and that is a lot more trouble but i don't know we just have a feeling that you know we like to return something to the community that that they have helped us where that might help grow through the years and survived where most of our competitors have not been and i guess we have no special feeling out of seeing some of our products milk and ice cream go out to go directly to

those things but the point is these thursdays and fridays orlando one of three drivers for second harvest makes his big tax increase and this day he slides the usual ninety half gallons of milk into the refrigerated truck and then goes return product quickly built twenty crates of gallon milk and seven points once back at the second harvest warehouse the milk is out the door almost as fast as it comes in she doubts destinations like the mark o'brien center and nashville from the south that scenario seems that techies nathan hamiel this house has been very low a neighborhood community engagement maybe we have been a canned meats because i meet with these families have that she'll be in any new

policing dale volker directs the good bank of the kids can't pay at the center of the cafe serves a weekly meals to low income children the food bank provides emergency boxes of food to families mill is just one of the several commodities which go into these boxes the family's faith each family history would give a family would get three minutes after that upset that account has been a theme for me that they gave to me that were more credit than that and when applied to tripoli and a woman with a baby another woman in her son a man with two children

who daniel finton comes in with his whole year old son jesus christ was just six families are allowed to request a box only three times in the six month period six times in your fruit is meant to last three days weaving and them is we will shortz mary hall pulls out her utility bill she hasn't played november's bill yet it's one hundred dollars and in december and she owes three hundred fifteen dollars or electricity you can't forget them we paid a no ban on the type of course not and you know with as a

close to a cinema we get paid enormous resources out there weren't any but in the coming months those resources will be stretched even further as changes in the welfare system start having an effect and people lose government aid already officials at second harvest believe they're seeing some evidence of the changes in november nineteen eighty five they distributed twenty seven hundred food boxes this november that figure jumped up to forty one hundred emergency boxes now with a national donations on the decline the chance for second harvest is to make up the difference locally larry reynolds says the key to that is to show manufacturers and grocery stores at second harvest does exactly what it says that we are officially at what we do in distributing food that the dollars that are donated to us are used directly in the service of the people that were meant to serve that would basically are honoring our mission that was just to make sure the food is not wasted and their people preach the past three

years second harvest has supplied thirty seven counties of middle tennessee with more than six million pounds of food to soup kitchens daycare centers churches domestic violence shelters and senior citizen centers making sure that things like cartons of milk gets the tables of those who needed most for nashville public radio it did not just like the highways and byways of most places the name of the street where you live here in nashville comes from a variety of sources including nature herself more than a hundred take their titles from trains nearly fifty get their names from flowers forty are from fines bushes grasses or grains twenty year after wildlife and there are four

it's the people who live here and their favorite landmark regional given us some of our most interesting and unusual signposts we can trace these names right back to the first inhabitants more than thirty streets in nashville are named after native americans either trans there's cherokee avenue cherokee court and cherokee place for example also cheyenne boulevard chickasaw avenue and choctaw trace and don't forget a patty lane arapaho band navajo dr pontiac court and sued harris but of course many more strings are named for the white settlers burstein trails to the salt lick look at the bend in the river where nashville stands today people like to think a moment a french traveler from illinois they decided to make his home here in the mid eighteenth century the number and started the first trading post in this area

in a cave near what came to be called the french lick four to member and in the other freshmen who hunted there the member and live to a ripe old age fathering a bewildering number of children and he was one of the honored guests at the festivities surrounding the marquis de lafayette visit to nashville and eighteen twenty five he also has a major thoroughfare named in his honor here although over the years our down home pronunciation has transformed it into lafayette street the names of other early pioneers also graced a number of streets boulevards and suburbs in nashville james robertson and john donaldson who led the first big parties of sequester this area have lent their names to several roads and residential areas so is roberts's wife charlotte a remarkable woman who saved a fledgling economy and seventeen eighty one from almost certain annihilation it and he was committed to community were tricked into chasing a

small group of indians away from the ford only to run into an ambush of nearly four hundred warriors charlotte robertson was standing by the gate of the fort singing the plight of the men she unleashed the fifty or so hound dogs belonging to the settlers which savagely rush the indians breaking their ranks and allowing many of the men to make it back safely such a quick thinking and brave woman deserves to have the town of charlotte in jackson county and charlotte pike and charlotte avenue named for her nashville's most famous citizen andrew jackson married john johnson's daughter and the names of both andrew and his wife rachel adorn many street signs and subdivisions and the area of nashville surrounding jackson's home the hermitage takes its name from this famous landmark as do several rungs tennessee's other two presidents andrew johnson and james k polk award as popular as jackson although each has a nashville street and a theater and he

packed named for him far better represented are several other prominent nashville families like the hard edges and the haze ackman's general william g harding was the founder of bellamy plantation one of the most successful horse breeding and racing establishment of all time in fact not only is the area of town surrounding the plantation and the larger boulevard which once ran through it named for bellamy but harding place and harding roeder tributes to this family and your core way in which what avenues are named for two of their famous racehorse ms hayes street was named for oliver bliss hayes a new englander who settled in nashville in at no way to practice law his eldest daughter was alley shane zach lund one of nashville's best known and most remarkable historical figures she called her famous est belmont after porsche's residents in the merchant of venice and it's well now the belmont university in addition the belmont boulevard nashville also has apple in an appalachian avenues as a tribute to this extraordinary woman but not

all the city's unusual street names come from spain or citizens that data data data for another company built on glass plant here in the fifties creating a subdivision of your first employee or the company name the streets of the neighborhood after its cars company divisions and tensions and employees' names like a comet cougar automatic future and sort of storyline has been well no quote receive its name from the solitary oak tree stands cut down which grew at the intersection of wild elk and castleman drive magazine street was named for the union army powder magazine built on the site of the old lunatic asylum after it was destroyed by fire in eighteen sixty three and union street was named during the union occupation of nashville during the civil war

interesting to note it was the smallest street downtown i was originally referred to as union holly and what about white rage wrote this well traveled thoroughfare was originally called what's worth playing although most maps of the period simply referred to it as a county road and narrow somewhat dangerous wagon crossing led to a half hearted around nineteen twelve county officials and ellen and railroad officers thought the crossing should be replaced by a real bridge and several months later the project was completed the new structure was covered with a glistening white cement coding to smooth and protect it and it was such a dazzling landmark could be seen from so far away that residents in began referring to it as the white bridge and to the street as white bridge road so think about our city's heritage the next time you travel one of these bits of national history if i've left out your street balling out in you ben

allen rode craighead or homs or any of the other thousands of national street names you can easily find out who or what your street commemorates the impressive are searchers international room of the band was public library have really done their homework and an index to the naming of many of nashville's highways and my ways both large and small as part of their collection for national public radio i'm rebecca bain no no in nineteen

forty eight a group of struggling greenwich village artist asked for young classical musicians to play a concert for them being poor painters the artist had no money to offer so a member of the group gave each of the performers a small painting not well known themselves the quartet was content with the terrain today those paintings are each worth more than a hundred fifty thousand dollars for the artist to produce them was willem de kooning however no one could think those musicians overpaying for the world and on the juilliard string quartet this past october the juilliard string quartet marked its fiftieth season as america's premier chamber ensemble tonight they are in nashville to perform at the historic ryman auditorium earlier in the week i spoke by telephone with the group's violist samuel roads europeans yourself the oversight while i remember the juilliard string quartet dave restoring but the

reality it also the responsibility and the or all the different facets of our activity continued teaching the recording contract writing poetry and figure very good especially for time saw that we will take your extraordinary lee high level of musicianship as a given here but what else has to be there or what else has to happen to make for musicians can act as a quartet cities in order for ways you have to work character year old musical problems all the technical problems then you have to kind of to get a barrel that and we create around the state every fifteen composer at the moment that you're in and here you get to create an energy with all the knowledge and with all the work that you've done behind you have a reform that can actually were going to source for what's involved it's more than expert musicianship which characterizes the juilliard string quartet

over the course of their five decades they have performed over five hundred established works premier of nearly eighty others given over five thousand concerts and produced an extraordinary number of recordings including countless collaboration is with most of the major centers instrument was another ensemble for the latter part of the century again violist samuel remix the children of a very important part of our philosophy is that the individual personality for these former at the right point and interact with each other and i think that's one of our strongest characters last year musical american named the juilliard string quartet musicians of the year and in his billowing article about you mark swed says what has been the juilliard profound and radical difference is that the quartet was formed of americans and from the very start its members have played like americans do you agree with those comments well i'm not sure play like american actually i don't know

it's quite to that we will american trained in the early days before a joint they start out as your reaction to the type of music making that they hurtle comfortable so called european he reviewed nineteen when i'm not looking beyond that they're looking back to the sources of the music and the court heard in those days and this animators may also look back front until you play beethoven we are very aware that matter the market the composer rosenfeld will go back to those of the day rather than the traditional performance that he's built up later on the music itself to settle much from you as an artist and as a human being used to respond to their complicity in burnette have no place in our vocabulary at all viola samuel roads of the juilliard string quartet that will be performing

tonight in nashville at the ryman auditorium the program includes bart talks court at number five it was courted in e flat minor opus fifty member three and they are joined by pianist ursula oppens piano quintet for national public radio i'm rebecca bain anyway no money any

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down the halls of the state legislature pushing a metal cart stacked high with tintin snack cakes chips and candy forecasters predict bad weather so the two plan to go home early but in skating words steal the nature of needing machine isn't the first legally blind dog quickly and efficiently youngest nation of only five percent and sees well enough to handle right snacks to flipping who has only one percent even counts and feels the dry it is work that staffers and lawmakers have come to depend on any job young and i've been enjoying doing it's part of a program for the blind young says she decided to join much too late in life i didn't have a positive attitude about it because some people mention that usually mentioned it negatively as if that was the only thing that one person who didn't operate vending stands and that being

the case i never looked into that and therefore i miss an opportunity to have at least twenty years experience in the program by now it's the freedom that flipping enjoys he worked in a metro hospital several years ago as an x ray technician developing family for nearly all of his vision deteriorating basically places and there's billy young and flipping began working on capitol hill ten years ago at the urging of their mother carolyn davidson their family suffers from hereditary black alma which can cause gretel loss of eyesight davison has lost all of her vision she stayed home most of her adult life caring for eight children but was forced to find work after the death of her husband and the late seventies it was then that she decided to join tennessee business enterprise it's competitive state wide program that helps the visually impaired by offering training and license says to manage bending facilitates the family

operates vending machines in the state capital war memorial and john severe buildings that's a case of this i never happened and people lack the program have been updated bad being able to go to work even though i was forty when i got into the program and more and more its rating out more facilities are being acquired more many jews are being trained in lessons and were able to serve more people people are being are able in to get acquainted with this and know that would not be a place for it in that as many people fall off of years while the family has been able to operate vending business successfully there are still challenges competition is one of the it is illegal for outside vendors to compete with facilities run by the blind through this federally funded program still davidson says it hasn't stopped them from trying what they would do as far as arsenal competition is concerned become entire sale

products are customers and when they're not supposed to be with anyone except them a snack bar manager in the building the family has been able to stave off potential competitors and enjoy for the most part honest customers davidson operates the tail and the snack bar stand on the ground floor of the state capitol and now the real elevator and beneath and that's going to be a problem i think that they know they have no way out of there when the open window an outlet for the most part they've been honestly and reveals that changed the things that cholera now that the legislature's in session businesses that thinking mom is fresh the service then that means the snag is an assassin here is extremely limited area they say they proposed that

would force this much and what has happened is that people are so really gets deleted bell says it's very useful for now the families niche but unlike most family businesses the snack bar cannot be handed down salmon alto will have to go through a competitive bidding process what they do hope is that the time they have spent on capitol hill will be a valuable advantage when it comes time when they make a bid for the business for national public radio terry phillips he's been called the renaissance man of american music and according to the new york times he was multicultural before multiculturalism existing he refers to himself as the mr rogers of ethanol from college

he is david cameron and he's written more than a hundred symphonic works operas film scores music for broadway and he's one of the great jazz composer performers as well david and ran as a nashville to prepare his latest composition with the national symphony orchestra this friday and saturday night they had to pack this new work as a tribute to the late flutist maria pena my theme and variations which jewish baker recorded for from strings was written for the twentieth anniversary of kerrville music festival and is dedicated in memory of hondo crouch the former mayor luken bach whose mother was everybody's somebody in lincoln park which had a population of seven i wrote this piece never dreaming that julie's pick would record hello my sixty fifth birthday npr at a national broadcast and they played that piece i received a phone call from memory palace's widow marta paris who lives in nashville she said david i love that piece i would like you to write something in memory of my husband murray who's the

solo flutist with a full of yorkshire she said are you familiar with the national severe cds the conductor can strum or and i were in the senate i recently nineteen fifty three of their friends for over forty years and they've been a terrific orchestra one of our national treasures for a long time so i was thrilled with the idea and he arranged for it mr amidon weren't an odds for many years and i had great admiration for the flutist who was not only an extremely talented musician with someone who encouraged inspired young musicians to pursue excellence and graham decided to call his composition called openly called a coca cola because he was legendary native american so of planting seeds of hope of life could force and i thought about very personal a great musicians we have in this country and symphony and jazz and folk and country music who gives so much every time they go out and play and marie was one of those special people so the first movement is based on a melody i wrote myself

which he very similar to the kind of music that we're native american music introduced by the flu and then played by the whole orchestra have the flu plant seeds the second was called ms water problem which is a hebrew name for a song of antiquity kind of a description of horne song come to dispersal song on the last movement is called gunshot that window or dance of joy and i use the law one called a mumble assignment to know the great latin american rhythms and american twelve bar blues something to review is fueling joyous and think about marie in our great american musicians in a happy way at the very end all themes from the first to convince come back wall of the themes are all playing at the same time one would expect such a versatile composer and musician to drive his inspiration from many sources and i am ram does in fact he says a major regret of his is that he can't live a thousand years the minimum amount of time he thinks would be necessary to study thoroughly the music of the world's people that native american people when i played with floyd

red crow westerman who talk the melodies played with dizzy gillespie on and off for thirty five years of my own group i'm a wonderful jazz and latin american musicians wanted to work for the state department i was without my instrument swiftly and after the concert i would spend time with the musicians and one is so i was receptive they were sick days check this out and they would show me some extraordinary music from wherever they were so if you're open you willing to always be a good student and share what you know with others that sharon will give you gifts that you couldn't buy a tall slim man with curly hair david am ram stands out for many reasons including the large native american necklaces he wears around his neck nestled among them is a gourd shaped clay flute the perfect instrument for impromptu her side i was in the jungles of el salvador to meet this wonderful flute player someone was simply to me it says re dangerous to send navy said you look like a peaceful person so that we can go there and i'm led a man up there

applying food everyone came around and actually spree old jam session fall afternoon learned a bunch of music i've done that the airport in india where they were charging people a dollar for a glass of water i start playing the flute and the person who is selling new star wars and i've still plentiful the red to the gift shop and out of food in about two hours later we're having a jam session in the forest or supper so this was a magical powers of being able to play or sing something anywhere oh so this sunday

evening at seven the national symphony orchestra will present let freedom ring a musical tribute to dr martin luther king jr the problem not only honors the civil rights leader it also highlights the artistic legacy of african american composers joining the symphony will be singer actor and recited list william warfield whose most famous role was porgy from gershwin's porgy and bess william warfield will be narrating legacy of vision martin luther king jr this is a work by jonathan bruce brown who dedicated to morphine premier of the work on the string arbor michigan one for you one of the works to concentrate on the i have a dream speech which was a major provider of the martin luther king was basically a guy with that vote the tradition of speaking of film within the minto way or for information that

we would use for shakespeare company that particular for the black minister father was thank you think they're going to approve an intermission or so and i do that in a kid martin luther king full burqa my own virtual mentors become a baptist preacher your behavior a special segment of the concert will be dr war feels reading of an essay by thirteen year old ban apple metals middle school students were asked to explore the famed it to have a drink telling how they would involve themselves in the work of dr king if he were alive today a

dense essay won out over the hundreds injured my teacher loves contests and she told us about it i think that there's a lot of violence and stuff in the us so i have this i got our computer known to serve her and what were you surprised when your essay one over all the other essays i guess i didn't really think about when i got a call morefield was quite impressed by the incessant in fact so was more phil's pharmacist there are from my apartment here border correctly to ensure women are in charge of the head or you know that your

character dora bruder oh sure you know do we use dr martin luther king i too have a dream that one day when their yards without having to fear and every day one hears of people being hurt or killed by violent people i can even watch the news because it makes me mad to see how cruel people let freedom ring a musical tribute to dr martin luther king jr is sunday night at seven it packs jackson hole in addition to dr warfield in nashville symphony and ensemble of more than one hundred singers from area churches would be performing at a concert and dr ralph simpson will perform the finale from sad songs oregon symphony mr as tickets for nashville public radio

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has been partying all weekend long as a prelude to today the official inauguration of president bill clinton for his second term in the white house are millions of eyes around the world will watch the president take his oath of office just as many will watch the coverage of the ball's taking place around the city tonight a good time should be had by all and it out according to dr marean need an associate professor of dance history at vanderbilt university there's all lot more happening on the dance floor then a quick tuesday this is where i first impressions are made where the president presents himself to the public just as in the inaugural festivities through the day the parade he's presenting himself as the political leader of the country and everybody standing around tiny gauge this new president or the case of clinton the new administration are going to be changes which can be like it's you know they're all tried to project and understand this person and in the same way i have the balls or the perfect

persona this is how he is in terms of the social either and that's where the women coming in because the first lady passed conveys a certain part of that she keeps her hands off a political party supposedly but she's allowed to be the social media according to dr nate i'm bill clinton has used the dance floor to signal change ever since the nineteen ninety two democratic convention when the clintons and the gores dance the carolina shag don't stop thinking about tomorrow he was a really groundbreaking at the first inaugural ball the summit he played less well what is it my mama don't dance in my day don't rock n roll that was almost like a real snout bush made a point in his inaugural of saying oh i don't know how to dance and besides the dot dot dot of that dancing is from an sec and i've been called wimp and i got to be careful here about my age so he made it very clear i don't get sculptures was it doesn't look like it he was right but clinton was saying i do dance and my wife does rock n roll

and furthermore when they dance to modify clear it was very obvious he dropped her and she stood alone you don't know how the poor men always also the woman is a free agent santana so what clinton's doing was enabling video while he hurting president clinton may have to use that signal something that they certainly not the first president to enjoy cutting around dancing has been a part of every inauguration since washington was president and our nation's leaders and their wives have taken a turn in the spotlight you enjoyed it as much though is lbj the one who was call themself a dancing fool was lyndon johnson and at his inaugural he amazed people by disorder grabbing up a woman who was standing next to

him and just it's twitter must have been a thrill for life but he is a daily gas very very well the radiance i think were performance and did a nice cool foxtrot inaugural balls may have been a part of every inauguration since george washington took the oath of office but that doesn't mean the events haven't changed over time and grown enormously in fact with the exception of calvin coolidge's more austere festivities each inaugural has cost more than the ones preceding it still more money isn't the only way things have changed i think one of the interesting changes at the inaugural balls has been the fact that in the nineteenth century it became more and more conspicuous consumption and lavish from the point of view of display but it was display for a local audiences sat side newspaper reporters to come in would spend pages describing it but it was basically a small audience from the time of eisenhower it's become a television

spectacle for television viewers and as a result i think is a change in how that book but it's still a stable thing they're too crowded dance you're lucky if you get a drink with an ag center you get five thousand gallons of oysters to choose amongst you get when lobster salad to eat all this lavish dinner here insist the displays for the television and less for the people who were attending dr marean need an associate professor of dance history at vanderbilt university in nashville public radio it's bleak oh no and ninety

nine the rules schools filed suit complaining the state's funding formula was unfair they charged urban schools were spending three times the amount per student that they could the federal court agreed declaring tennessee's funding that unconstitutional the order for remedies set in motion and president at funding levels for schools but lawmakers demanded that they be held accountable for the extra money board of regents chancellor charles smith was state education commissioner at the top our feeling was that we had some safeguards built in three quarters are better of the of the money they receive from the state had to be earmarked for instruction classroom purposes whether the hiring teachers for class size buying textbooks water they had to show every year they were committing that's that said the facts are funny local governments are expected to make up the final twenty five percent although the deadline to lore pupil teacher ratio is just for years a way wanda coakley with the tennessee education association says only a few schools are making gains in that direction six you don't have to have full compliance and to let four years after

its funded that you know many times local governments think that we won't do this and then there'll be waivers granted and i'm afraid that that's what some of them think that instead of thumb and issues could shake instead of biting the bullet and raising local taxes in building the buildings that they need that they're doing nothing thinking that somehow there be a grace period at the end of that for years a study last year but at a show's out of the one hundred and thirty nine school systems only seven are in compliance of the dept that eta pointed out that only thirty five percent of the new money has been spent to reduce classroom size in grades k through twelve the agency's graham greece and compiled the data it is a serious situation a great part of the money has been spent for just for away year by year operational increases rather than decreasing the class size either bp class enrollment in kindergarten through there used to be no more than twenty five students grades for through twelve a maximum of thirty five some educators argue that only small communities that have little or no population growth are in the

position to meet the goal they say it's a more difficult proposition for systems overwhelmed by new residents so the montgomery county clarksville school system is one of twenty five systems in this predicament the community straddles the tennessee kentucky border line or fort campbell's military base is located low property taxes and a growing industry make it a magnet for those retiring from the military while its close proximity to nashville has produced a number of bedroom commuter communities school superintendent david baker says a decade ago the student population was fourteen thousand it is now grown to twenty three thousand with all the rapid growth we've made it and all the racket downsizing that's expected is taking all the money we can muster foods from that source just to meet payroll so we're not having any money left over that you can go and build these questions is best was i think the legislature maybe did not rule was projecting a significant impact of what they were saying what they were

necessary even before the bp plant officials foresaw the phenomenal world they built a lebanese schools tacked on classrooms and renovated several older scoop was one hundred and forty three million dollars in debt they steal davis i mean one of your

students next superintendent david baker burrows to make to be free and to cope with the growth of qatar shortly well we will lead to build five elementary schools we will lead to not only last to have reversed that will open and all of my seventh year we were laid open yet a second rescue before we're looking at about seventy eight million more dollars for july fourth two thousand and one officials here fear raising the sales tax will send residents of the border so they're looking at other ways to increase funding like imposing additional fees on home by us steel making ends meet will be difficult says county commissioner joe creek i'm just not sure that we can continue at the rate we're going to look back and maybe think of that they had the ambulance service we've got roads to confirm their concerned with we've got in jail were concerned with now though franco got to come and we can let them go because they've been focused all

repetitive goes now that we gonna have to do that either as well it's going to really put it in a bind craig is doubtful the school system here will meet the bt people he hopes there will be a way for or that state lawmakers will make an exception and give them more finding chances of that happening are slim representative gene davidson chairs the state house education committee he says there's no way for a provision in the bp law some of your poor systems across to say how are the poorest but what many systems across tennessee have done what was expected and i have been in the book so it's not only for those systems at thy have done or come close to doing what was expected we entered in the agreement on good fight ms ona ball double situation and we expect to hear the results today that the local systems have lived up to their end of commitment as the status is live the kitchen those schools that are not in compliance risk losing funding or having their system taken over by the state for the last two years

the legislatures differed on many issues with governor don son puts that this is one issue in which they stand in firm agreement state lawmakers plan to call for audits this year to see just how committed schools have been to meeting the bp requirements for national public radio i'm teri fields they're the kinds of kids parents dream of having teenagers who make the honor roll are involved in lots of extracurricular activities appeared to trust and confide in their parents and who exude responsibility high achievers the golden children destined for a glorious future but a recent survey by who's who among american high school students shows that high achievers have lots of problems too many of them on his honest with their parents as their parents perceive and values are a huge issue for the family of high achievers sixty eight percent of these teams think that cheating is no big deal sixty seven

percent of the parents don't either i spoke recently to joe kraus the assistant executive editor at who's who about the issue of cheating that's something that we've focused on quite a bit because it really is it is a symbol of just some real core values or may be misguided values that i would say are if you look at the parental myth as we call it thirty seven percent of the parents believed that their students may have cheated in actuality family six percent over three fourths of the students indicated that they had cheated and as you said two thirds of both the parents and the students main reason for cheating was there did nothing like a big deal so there's obviously a real poor message being sent by the parents here how can we expect that he used to think that it's it's bad if the parents are setting the example or voicing the opinion that it really doesn't feel like a big deal that's kind of the mindset of winning isn't everything at the only thing any means to the achievement is ok that's something a deadly needs a closer look and parents need to set a better example many of the questions on the hutu survey deal with issues common to most teens alcohol and drug usage

violence sex and thoughts of suicide set not just they're not just being melodramatic they're facing serious issues and they're looking for some assistance early other biggest reason for contemplating suicide is a general depression forty percent of the student indicated that their main reason for contemplating suicide with a fight with their parents and the parents did underscore this value only twenty six percent of the parents that their influence meeting a fight with their child would have led her to contemplate actually need to realize the effect of fighting of having on the student and the effect that they have on their students as well one other findings in this survey talking about driving drunk and is also something that's very disconcerting three percent of the parents thought that their students may have driven drunk in actuality three times as many ten percent of the team for him and they've driven drunk twenty four percent of the students indicate the reason they got into a car with someone else who had been fighting to take it a step further what we could

do you know i call their parents weren't which is showing you no fear of punishment or what we are getting in trouble and then something else that's disconcerting that we've seen it is talking about why they're sexually active teens what do they worry about being sexually active and this is another illustration of this the real difference i think between the parental mindset and the teen mindset for parents they believe that students world most concerned about aids followed by stds and then pregnancy at the bottom but in reality it's completely reversed the teams worry about pregnancy and then a few beats and then aid and it takes kind of a level of invulnerability that the fifth these teams feel they say oh well you know i'm worried about pregnancy because that's how it's going to affect the debts could affect my wife immediately and get aids or stds the other thing that happened at the old people feel it's really a you know in a difference in the perception for maturity level or just a sense of

vulnerability not all survey results were worrisome now in fact one finding was extremely good news for both parents and their high achieving teens students have a great deal profited from their parents knowing the parents have a great deal of confidence that their children so that's a real good starting point for an open dialogue continue its honest discussion about all the concern that america got a critical where i would say for example i hope you won't drink and drive bert kreischer and i'm worried about your not being critical it's not that i don't trust you i just want you to be shaping healthy and we didn't have indicated that they are looking for the captain guidance from their parents became literal mercer report that was joe kraus assistant executive editor at who's who among american high school students for national public radio i'm rebecca bain it's been very

nice boy we often gazed the stars come to putting our dreams destroys charity celeste your body's to search for scientific data artistry like astronomers and their ability to recognize the value and details all scientific discoveries tangibly affect our lives are just attempt awaken our spirit the sculptor michael ward has based a series of installations an essential spirit a cycle of learning in teaching it's called the astronomers dream the main thrust of the exhibitions to tell large story of our visions but also to tell a number of other stories about as a teacher michael shares his knowledge but he also seeks wisdom from every person he comes in

contact with with each new show michael relies on help from others for specialty social considerations during his installation at the cigarette gallery at vanderbilt university michael got to connect with several students ryan denning and women role in hillary hufnagel share their impressions and experiences that way we have to live is just beginning i asked forgiveness intricately concept of conception because that would help the smallest details of a philosophical thing with news and she made his decision making those decisions came with a lot of planning my god there's such detailed blueprint of his installations he isn't required to be there but he drives a personal interaction during an installation by transforming it's nice basically astronomers dream continues its evolutionary process which includes not just the party of the people

the process what the students how michael prepare is a large room filled with five sculptor works beck composed the astronomers dream the main pieces called the young visionary a young androgynous blue figure stands inside a charge skeletal q becky restaurant three thousand pounds of shimmering glass pieces the figure gazes at an elliptical spiral that covers an entire wall called a coalescing dream the spiral is made from kurt bryan sticks a shadow also born on sticks leitz from the figures speak and rests on the glass mount the shadow representing the charity connects the visionary sell to the spiritual nature of the spiral another important aspect of the installation is a piece entitled the ancient spirit by scar wax buster represent the wisdom of a man or a woman or child anatomical and hermaphrodite behind each head is a piece of anti chalkboard next to the head gold leed

perfect silent rest inside skeletal pyramids symbolize the astronomers question so the idea behind those five licenses is just for personal reflection on things that a bunch of important allies but also realizing that in every person's life there's a number of people that have been a major influence whether you're aware of it over the last five years pursuing don't want to go back and touch people and tell them specifically what they did that made a big difference in my life no matter what a schumer what expression woodpecker on there something that you can present someone about your wife's experience that could be about it was something else i think it is and i'm dying on the job well overdue cheat curator for surround witness the interaction among michael and students the stooges became very involved with michael going into

great detail about what these pieces men fiona first glance looks on all kind of thing i mean so in that sense i think michael's mentor ship came through michael s instructor michael as an example in her kind of instilling in the students what goes into peace peace has just built like the astronomer michael warrick believes in connecting with his past and present and hopes to have a better future the astronomers dream accomplishes this vision that only by the communal experience of its installation about witnessing its power in person michael warrick is giving a lecture in february six answer a gallery at vanderbilt for more information caught three to two to four seven worn i'm aging out long for national public radio are you

in a matter of months the state will be taking applications for the baccalaureate education trust system or hp best it's a way to prepare a at today's rates for a future college education to see officials have studied similar programs and fifteen other states and say can be successful here state treasurer still atoms might arise while where once do this is to set up a situation where eric were youngster in the state can go to college or at least have the opportunity to save four of those expenses surveys show most parents want their children to attend college but don't know if they can afford it the general accounting office says over the past sixteen years tuition has increased more than two hundred percent of both public and private schools leading parents much to worry about state officials hope that will ease some of those fears it

works like this are to suppress will set up an account for child who must be a tennessee resident and then by to wish you knew that's a unit is one percent of the average to wish him at a public state university and should cost about twenty three dollars by today's rates one hundred unit should pay for your four hundred units for four years at an average cost in school for instance it has shia may require one hundred to wishing units you'd see one hundred tim austin peay ninety five anyone can buy the units not just parents but grandparents and friends and affordable on maps cj first ipad you can buy twenty two by our unit a month you can buy a forty four value of the mud for gary get their units are if you are in a christmas tale of what my for cash contribution you can and send him file on abolishing buy as many illnesses found out about the point in time where we are trying our best to be user friendly to make this work the board of trustees must invest the money and reaper rate of return better than tuition

inflation over the past decade the state would have achieved that earning better than ten percent yearly on its investments while tuition inflation increased by about eight percent a year because it is a trust the money can't be touched until the child is college age the funds can even be used at any accredited school public or private in the nation and if a child doesn't want to go to college a refund will be granted with hefty interest earned adam says the advantages are obvious to dispense can't be tempted to dip into the savings for a bolder car because the money is earmarked for education and because it's a state program annual taxes or deferred into the money is used even then that actually only on the money earned at the student's right not the parents when they did the marsh hudson says she her husband are busy with their careers strapped for time but still want the best for stepson dylan we don't have the time to be shopping around and so if we know that the state has the program and we also know that he has the option of going to private schools with this program he also can go to tennessee

state schools or the university of tennessee system or he can go out of state it's one stop shopping if you will we know the programs there and we don't have to do any other search engine hudson as were more than a thousand tennesseans who has inquired about the new program that officials say that's encouraging still financial advisors are a bit skeptical and they say protests against her and controlling their investments over to the state and possibly could miss out on maximizing their money malcolm getz teaches economics at vanderbilt university are you a wide ranging even more aggressive higher rate of return all those strategies are many of the strategies may well heeled higher rate of return than the state will keep

investing program state officials admit that this program is not for everyone those already adept at investing may do better on their own however for those not yet involved in the stock market best maybe a simple solution to saving for college hi cindy surprise president of tennessee independent colleges and universities which represents the state's thirty five private schools he says we've gotten away from a basic philosophy that funding college is a family responsibility and he hopes this program will help reverse the trend loans have simply skyrocketed the last five to seven years there's been enormous upward trajectory in student loans are both in federally a guaranteed student loans and private loans are offered to the colleges and because of that things are going more and more into debt and we're very concerned about student debt burden down the road fifteen twenty years from now if this trend lines keep going in the direction you're going to have all kinds of debt

problems that impact on long term economy of the country and this this could be you love a program that would buy into that the best program is to be as self sufficient it is not backed by the full faith and credit of the state of tennessee so taxpayers are not at risk if the program gets in trouble it will be halted officials hope to have the best online sometime this spring they're setting up the computer system and waiting to see what impact budget shortfalls will have on tuition prices this year for national public radio i'm anita park this friday night at that school theater national law will present an original musical revue called operatic cabaret the brainchild of national opera's artistic director john hart music director the rochester philharmonic operetta cabaret is designed to look white audiences with a musical art form many people have never experienced what we want to do was to expose people to their the

art form known as operetta know if you don't hear it that much it was one most popular forms of turn the century and that also is the most awkward for his rally for love of broadway musical came from but nowadays it has not done that much and i think one reason is because it's very upbeat not fledermaus it's very very bubbly and exciting it was very light hearted and i was very proper in the twenties and thirties and the more work to hit of the world changed and operatic of fell by the wayside we couldn't quite believe this innocent message appreciable operettas are generally designed to appeal to a larger audience than serious opera they're lighter people don't usually die and there's more talking again john holmes they're set pieces connected by dialogue more like broadway but it does require a really trained voice to say operetta so you have an opera singer's it can also act into the dialogue now the form that we're using is more of a musical revue so instead the dialogue all robert mr waterson narration to connect the pieces and ill be more of a year a greatest hits album thing of operetta we

want to be very light hearted very glitzy were doing were to act format and the first act are works of people liked it on strauss and france leonhardt wrote the merry widow romberg who wrote the prince and desert song victor herbert oh we're actually doing things like the the indian love call very famous piece de la people are never heard the original version they've only heard bugs bunny parity at this about parody of something has got to be very famous or well what the work can be parodied because know i saved a joke and these songs everyone knows the melodies because they're used all time and cartoons groucho marx but when they were first written which is where we're present when they were not comedy there were not a silly parodies of themselves have a serious piece of music amen yeah well yeah and again i wrote the merry widow which is what most popular works of the stage musical stage ever written

and as a rule that was going to come across with you have accomplished all he was the librettist for a lot of recourse strauss's work so straus never really wrote operettas he wrote much more heavy duty opera published all has a great quote recession old rules and cavalier had the chance to be really good if only way harvard written the music the first half of up reading cabaret will feature works by such composers as rahm very lighthearted strauss an andrew lloyd webber in the second half of the second half we devoted to resolve on the mikado with on a compact mercado no dialogue but love the musical selections even though gilbert and sullivan wrote operetta it's its own thing it's night and day from a robber wrote rich ross what i found so fascinating is it such a wide reaching format in on bacon act one really knew and one selection for a mile from south pacific rim some enchanted evening with a full orchestra remarks around sixty players brian steele who was in traviata is a big verdi

baritone will be singing and i get to hear this live with a voice like that with a full orchestra its rulings and booth from arizona this is a lot of this that the radicals all along without pops programs around the country and the tenor is the car peterson was the plants and the magic flute the last year to me no he's agreed to allow the woods on the country in cities and becoming here with us and a sausage rio are also using an ensemble of national opera chorus people were confidential wrote operettas ensemble sixteen eighteen people do some singing and dancing on a second john artistic director of nashville operatic cabaret will be presented for one

night only and that's tomorrow night at eight o'clock and keep that school theater tickets are available through ticketmaster for national public radio i'm rebecca bain it's b there's bees

i mean we can oh yeah then on ah sideshow many as kernel of wonders visited person performance at for free get worse they like to call themselves a sideshow circus act daley's

diseases a forty two year old artist also known as benjamin way we've created this version of performance art while he in a sideshow partner jane martin discuss the crowd and uses humor to let the note this is olen fine i carefully crafting a show in order to get people especially nashville to accept their differences last year then asked jay to be in the show a former wrestler college day wears his old wrestling uniform were the performances they with a mexican style wrestling mask days transformed into

what is wonderful is that these guys are so when people see that and then meeting and personally i'm at their manners your thoughtfulness and their intelligence very very jarring how do you do it you know that is the expression here in the mountains and outward expressions when they're acting or the war years as its chief then describes himself as a torture king james as the sideshow as a method of almost ritualistic expression this is a big job a

lawyer who will listen that job in his talons include using his arm as a cushion to sew buttons on line and that electric nails what people stand on top of him and using his naked back as a dull boy neely how many drinks several shows he's seen the audience react there are males are some women girls that everybody threw well many people can't stomach the show everybody i interviewed agreed that sideshow benny and has credible and wonders is important for nashville's artistic development well you know we have a strong country mr tappan lapierre really needed the theater and the different type of live bait so to me and then i think that might have many are there as almost a celebration the human body is

and if you miss it and then his last performance you can check them out tonight at the subtler and the public loved bob graham they bring it through the twenty seconds or more information call eight five nine seven two seven one i made her an outlaw for national public radio as ga ga ga ga ga ga ga ga is

travel to any branch of the public library and you'll have no doubts that february is black history month thousands of students all over davidson county are doing book reports on everyone from booker t washington the martin luther king jr jesse jackson as noble and notable as these figures are there are certainly other people who deserve to be recognized as important to black history both past and present which is one reason why jesse connie smith has written and edited notable black american women dr smith is professor at fisk university and curator of the special collections and fists library and if she didn't have enough to do she took on this project as well we had a little over one thousand names very elusive down

a book for many poles we were considering the area in which the woman made a contribution we really going to wear a big area we were looking at the period of time in which the woman liane we specially wanted to include women from the significant periods our history says the civil rights era women are active in the women's movement women who acted now the pioneers in this country and that sort of thing the earliest one was one about seventeen thirty and the latest in nineteen sixty two quite the range and the women featured are wide ranging to is doctors lawyers teachers authors and homemakers like this one example is an emirate that this was her first line is we're about hear me she taught history and we married we have children anyone who knows anything about fredrick douglas will know us great art that he

traveled a lot in this country and abroad so bernie was never home home what they had some children home very little stephen really supported him see curry helped make him when he was when they moved to rochester new york and they had an underground railroad station in the whole world you know he was not at home to manage the station and that was that fell on hard to do cr made sure that he was neat and clean and impeccably dressed him before he went out and so she really don't make the frederick douglass that we know a remarkable woman with five hundred entries and noble black american women it's impossible for dr smith to pick a favorite but who else is high on that list stagecoach mary had seen as many things and a cowgirl she was a stagecoach driver knows where the name stagecoach mary c arm that that morning visiting someplace intimacy in slavery end joined a convent as a servant they loved her sweet love the mother they are they live in

ohio they moved out to the west to wyoming so you still think of blacks a moment during that time but stagecoach rare black mary was the that figure who has been associated with early black history of the area and she delivered mail was always on time she just as a male and black hand that co smoked a cigar you know what you do as an elite athlete on this truck she was loved their she did a lot for the poor and needy she started a restaurant if you would demand money off they set up a year later she accepted that she had a laundry shifted from a business is she was so well loved there that she decided she wanted a birthday she was celebrating the school's recall rosen so we see that she died and her picture hangs in the bank home in wyoming i heard dr jessie connie smith professor at fisk university curator the special collections at physics library and author and editor of notable black american women for national public radio i'm rebecca de

lange yeah ah william oscar smith was a self taught musician although with bessie smith once married your stepfather he definitely had some good connections still there was his abilities as a jazz bass player which put him on stage with fats waller hot lips page and coleman hawkins his talents as a violist made him a professor of music at issue for thirty years and earned him a position with the national symphony in nineteen sixty one he was the orchestra's first black performer but william oscar better known as w o

dismissed most lasting contribution to this community grow out of the question he asked his friends over and over again how could a place that prides itself on the nickname music city usa failed to provide a venue where underprivileged children could receive music instruction for a minimal fee eventually his friends bill sawyer and frank sutherland submitted a proposal to the news a consortium of nashville for a school where low income students would pay nominal fees for instruction by volunteer teachers recruited from the many professional musicians in nashville it took three years but in nineteen eighty four the w o smith national community music school open its doors on its eleven into the first group of students today the school has grown to seventy eight volunteer teachers and two hundred ad students to be eligible to attend the w o smith school a student must be at least eight years old and his or her family must qualify for metro schools free lunch program

each lesson costs fifty cents and the student must be preparing school director jonah rabinowitz we consider america's the same as it was in the course of the year that there was sort of a hawk was everything that their future requires a must go directly after that we also though of course tear for all of our rules with the fact that many of our children will have trouble complying with our rules due to circumstances that are doing problems like the family's only color is broken down the buses light where there's no place to practice still a number of the w o smith graduates are pursuing careers in music although jonas says that's not what's most important the success of the school goes a lot deeper than the success of the schools that children who have interest are welcomed into the school

and they spend time with an individual from the community who cares about them not in their person present relationship that developed between the teachers the students the staff is really a success story however we have been very fortunate in that there had been students who have gone because when conservatories his school of music my favorite story is one that we just had last year as a young man who's now a freshman at the university of chocolate and sean came here or at least he thought you were it's very disruptive to the point where they were going to ask i'm going to continue to try to teach a graduate with us last year he spent nine years that here we are the only whiskey ever and music education is now a state university on a full scholarship there are many similar programs across the country to the w o smith school what makes it unique so

is the fact that its instructors are all volunteers we have such a diverse group of people and that's the real strength of the school is that the faculty themselves are as diverse as our student body everything from the professors at the world where colleges to their students so for many many years and their lawyers doctors or other professions have decided they want to come and give their time and also a lot of teachers in the community to take their homes parted instrument teachers to really quite special according to director jonah rabinowitz the w o smith national community music school owes its success to the generosity of our citizens not just its volunteers in fact leadership of music has chosen a school to share the profits from the nashville music awards which take place wednesday february twelfth at the ryman auditorium ticketmaster has taken and we'll conclude with a short for subtle by fourteen year old abbie a

student at the ws as school do i have no doubts will be an award winner herself something she opened this feature with the scott joplin rag and she closes with beethoven's moonlight sonata for national public radio i'm rebecca bain for the sixteenth consecutive year the metro historical commission and tennessee state university will sponsor the afro american culture and history conference its tomorrow from eight until three

thirty it as she is yvonne williams jr building in downtown nashville this award winning conference is designed to raise awareness of the contributions of african americans to the history and development of middle tennessee and to encourage future research and publications want the presentations this year will be daily dealings research into his own family history research which was triggered by a family reunion here in davidson county in nineteen ninety three i realized i knew nothing about my family and i didn't know how these people related to me and i'm going to a family reunion talent piqued my interest to find out who are the international and i literally went to the state library archives knowing nothing about genealogy nothing about research and just started from scratch what david's research into his family history turned out was quite remarkable my great great grandfather and his name was prince albert ewing and his twin brother tailored to

you and they're both attorneys here in nashville in the eighteen families making at this is truly amazing when you consider the fact that they were both born into slavery march twenty eight eighteen forty nine they were both born the day before my birthday and they were born out near traverse rest because that's where the ewing family live near the overtones in the back stairs out there they were really help out by the eu and family as far as the white young team and their slave owners as far as helping them get educated both of them are sent a fisk university press our graduate and eighteen seventy one the very same year he was skin mina to bar here and it's uncanny his brother taylor went fell slightly different route taylor had a job where on as a tax collector and went to law school at night and at eighty six he was invited to the board and the funny thing about it with your twin brother identical twin brother they were so identical that people really cannot tell them apart in a matter of fact according to this relative he was told if one person was said for one person was out of town to the other with take their place

in court and represent their client discovering these previously unknown ancestors wasn't all that intrigued david ewing the parallels between their lives and he is fascinated by graduate from denver law school in nineteen ninety two i thought i was the first lawyer my family had no idea that not only was that not that you know my great great grandfather prince albert and his brother taylor were turning their attorneys here in this town and i never knew it that is probably the biggest link that i have to prince albert ayler that you know we have sheared professions that they really started coming to life when i went out to prince albert's old house prince albert and that his wife and now many of his children are buried about ten feet away from that house that a family cemetery so walking out in the land that has truly been anathema for overtime june twenty five years our family still lives on his current bought you know them to life for me attorney david ewing his presentation of his

family history opens the afro american culture and history conference time ophelia pain of the metro historical commission has been a planner for the conference since it first began she's excited about all the people who were scheduled to address this year's attendees we have a history of the hanes high school for african americans and it's uncanny and that was the first county high school for african americans and it's uncanny robbie jones from nashville is going to talk about the history of african americans in severe county tennessee in the last few years we've got to have at least one paper that dealt with an african american community outside the middle tennessee area were broadening the scope of the presentations in the conference jesse smith from fisk university is going to be talking about her most recent bug powerful african american women in history and she is always goes she's been on the program before we always have a cancer in the middle of the day this year the meister singers tennessee state university meister singers are going to give a mini can certainly a bad mr darrow nettles and carol kaplan from the library's going to be talking about nationals negro carnegie library

wanna for libraries public libraries and thereby andrew carnegie the first part of this century they a lot of people who do not know that the libraries also were segregated and finally sarah harlow at vanderbilt university library is going to talk about african americans in the tennessee centennial exposition of eighty ninety seven a feel your pain of the metro historical commission conference takes place tomorrow at the avon williams jr campus at issue in downtown nashville the seven dollar registration fee includes a box lunch for more information or to register call the historical commission at eight six to seven nine seven zero for national public radio i'm rebecca bain nice job

adult adoptees in tennessee are one step closer to seeing their birth records in a decision handed down yesterday the six circuit court of appeals ruled against those trying to keep the records sealed once again more than one thousand adoptees who have implied or just weeks away from acts as the priest east says adoptees across the state are celebrating their emotions ryan sure absolute tear it and saw a joint op ed levi get caught or birth parent you have no idea there's no way to tell you it's like there's no way to a new website just to talk to the only other living so it looks like you and for you an adult adoptees who has her records he spent years lobbying for the state law which would allow access at the age of twenty one the law was supposed to go into effect last july the two birth mothers an adoptive couple an adoption agency sued

saying the state had promised confidentiality at the time of the adoption and the new law would violate their privacy however the three judge panel of the sixth circuit court of appeals not only rejected the argument yesterday and tonight a preliminary injunction against the law but also ordered the case be dismissed in federal court attorney larry kramer represents those challenging the law he says he's not surprised by the ruling given the argument that took place in december at the court ducked many of the federal issues and seemed to be most interested in why the plaintiffs have not first got into state court with this case for ten pages they did not duck the issue they have it they touch down every one of the constitutional claims and specifically dealt with each one and dismissed each one i don't consider that ducking the issue attorney bob stoops filed several friend of the court briefs for adoptees he's an adopted parents who served on the commission which developed the new law this decision shows that the statute is a balanced statute it

balances the interests of persons who been adopted to know their roots to know basic information about themselves with the interest of biological parents do have privacy if they wish thirty year old adoptee tracy pac has watched the legal wranglings for months now she was one of the first to apply to see her records when us district judge john mixson denied the first legal challenge she's been waiting nervously for the six circuit court ruling is an affirmation to re affirmation of georgia's nixon's decision yes as an inductee you do have the right to know something about yourself you have a right to know what not and non adopting just take for granted with a copy of the supreme court ruling in hand and without borders until heck of a fellow adoptee which immediately to the states most productive services after wandering the halls for several minutes she met up with adoption services director james she

ran away for further direction of the attorney general's office saying that we will pick up with where we left off before later in the afternoon the attorney general's office announced that the processing of files will start immediately however the court battle to keep their records closed will likely be prolonged attorney larry crane says he will continue to fight we are tracking the next step a falling an emergency appeal we nine state supreme court seeking audience without justice stevens who is the justice assigned to the sixth circuit and that too of ineffectiveness they will re established and to get the supreme court to hear the case if you had to pursue with in state court would you do sell it if the supreme court tells us that is our only remedy and certainly we will we're very prepared to take this

back up the ladder and the state of course do safely is director of small world adoption in nashville one of the challengers to the law who's willing privacy horror should be protected as well in that when we feel that more than just in the pit of the question here and say they were in some ways trying to the option of private the option of confidentiality of our country so once again several tennessee adoptees are just weeks away from obtaining the records but once more defined the files close by a court for nashville public radio since today

is valentine's day perhaps it is acceptable to ask a rather personal question and you ever daydream about travel to another time about meeting a handsome noble wiener lusty wench in a century different from the one in which you were born they drink forms the crux of diana gavel dance four novels all of which center around the twentieth century woman named claire who is transported back in time to an eighteenth century scotland and into the arms of what jenny frasier latest of gavel dogs boxes on drum and its premier of the new york times bestseller list of the number three spot these books may sound like run of the mill romances but neither the novel's nor their offer have followed a conventional path for one thing gambled on was a marine biologist with a phd in behavioral ecology i'd always wanted to be a writer from a very early age from as far back as i can remember i've been a storyteller side and i was what i was supposed to do and he had and it was it would chancy career and i came from a very conservative family background so as i said when the

science i like science i was good at it that day i still felt that i was supposed to be writing books and so i said what i want it to be sixty five and think i should have tried it when i was younger so on my next birthday which would be my three sixth i will try writing a novel once that decision was made gambled on had to decide what type of book to write a big fan of mysteries she considered that genre first but feared the plotting necessary for a good whodunit might be beyond her fledgling talents however her call tj degrees it made her an expert at research so she decided to try a historical novel but when and where in time to say that i have been to see a doctor who he ran on public television was a very very old episode in which you've picked up a young man from scotland and seventeen forty five and nice boy they killed seventeen or eighteen and jamie mclennan and having always had a strong weakness for fuzzy knees i was sitting in church the next day thinking about this so i said well you have a star a novel when it doesn't really matter where it says no one's ever going to see it that the skull an eighteenth century

sailor at the parking lot greg a piece of paper out from under the seat of my car and that's where i began to write out lander lot of characters not just a time and a place so over the next six months or so gambled on used her spare time to ride she was enjoying the process thoroughly but didn't really plan to show this first book to anybody it was to practice on to help or improve her writing skills however a quirk of fate soon provided her with a bevy of readers i had been hanging around and can be served one of the big online services for year or so before i began writing out whether i had fallen into that as a result of doing software reviews for biden infoworld and the membership and stumbled into the literary forum there i was having an argument with a man on line one night about what it feels like to be pregnant and he said i know what that's like my wife said three children and left electronically city of esther had three children feasible what's it like any tele and bicycles a little complicated to explain and a brief message and i have this piece i wrote in which a woman expressed her brother in some detail what it's like to be pregnant cell put that up in the library here you can read separate

up and everyone who had been now following the argument went read the piece of mail came rushing back unless it was as great what is it there's a lot of know and that was the beginning of a senator at that yet and there's a real person or if it gets over a period of months whenever i had a trunk twitter stand by itself without much explanation oberlander and people kept reading these are getting more excited insanely really extreme publish this is a school i said well if i wanted to know what i do in some of the published authors that i was accustomed to chat with said well you really should get a nation gabaldon had a writer friend who was represented by harry norton a highly respected agency counts tony hillerman frederick forsyth and robertson davies among his clients the friend gave geduld on norton's address she sent him a letter and some selections from her book and knowlton to a girl and he sold that book in record time and also gave gambled on some excellent advice on choosing an editor when lai finished the book he sent it to five editors without might like get him within four days three of them a callback with offers silver set off to the races he negotiated amongst them and he came back and he said well it's down below

pocketbooks and ella court press if you go a pocketbook to have this person has an excellent editor but she has sued all these bestselling authors already in her stable you would be low man on the totem pole physically go a checking counter this is her first week in the job you'll be your first acquisition shall make you a star you for advice and that's probably the best single business decision on every page there are now more than two million copies of catalans books in print and she adds quit her teaching job to write full time diana gabaldon is my guest on the fine print this week's broadcast damien and sunday morning at nine i hope you can join me for her entire conversation and for a brief survey of some other time travel novels for national public radio i'm rebecca bain top tip off unwelcome

central african american artist and only in the gallery concentrate and expressive spiritual side of the modern blackmail he's created a photography and poetry series called the african a male museum to pay homage and to counteract negative feelings our society has about black men i haven't seen a positive images or just the fear of you know who's the black male is so i felt that there needed to be something to say something about her failed to quell wilkinson started this project in nineteen ninety the first part is composed of central figure to photographs of black males coupled with poetry bright white reflection this is fresh air the second part of this series features wilkinson's transcripts of interviews with black man he photographed and then and displays their likenesses next to their words the knick black male image gained attention and notoriety in the eighties with robert maple birch photography wilkinson use maple birch work as a

jumping off point for his own i'm proud to say that my work tends to trends in that type of a comparable level sleep deprived family one of the ways wilkinson creates powerful expressionist images is by working closely with the models that were in the new report i'm proud of what my mom in the world and they do have the first visit that what the grasses called can i fly a blackmail tries to lift his body from his knees as it is about to take off in flight with his head facing the ground his arms are outstretched like wings behind his body he's been using another card withdraw from white space was inspired by one of wilkens and former student at vanderbilt university student told wilkinson that he felt intimidated by their predominantly white setting and this piece an

african american man sits with his back toward us rapping his arms tightly around his body to protect himself from the world of white light that surrounds his figure from that piece came a more hopeful image called reaching out here man sits in essentially the same pose but extends one arm as if reaching out into the white light reaches this world in addition to his favorite of work wilkinson has interviewed over a hundred black men between the ages of eighteen and forty five perhaps someone of the republican vote than other than the father of twelve and still unknown still though they're in support know that we'll know these interviews allow audiences to learn about the person in the photograph as the individual wants to be perceived they have the last word to explain themselves and that has made a lot of positive feedback an exhibit at nashville's airport about a year and a half

ago similar concerns work was vandalized one of the men he interviewed commented that he thought the white power structure is intimidated by the capabilities of the african american male workshops so i had a positive outcome but it took this raw power of true for now people for the first time may not have a lot of blackmail way whose only experience with blackmail them from a distance it will prevent their chest to have imaginary dialog with a black person like me that losing the size of the fire and are not being to arrive at this solution

this is weekend edition it is the process has begun yesterday to tennessee adult adoptees were allowed to see their once sealed birth records last year the state legislature passed a new law allowing those adopted after nineteen fifty one access to the records at age twenty one last week the us six circuit court of appeals ordered that a case challenging the law be dismissed clearing the way for access from the bag fortune tracy picks house in smyrna all seems

peaceful it's inappropriate reflection of how tracy tech feels a friend was allowed to see his record at age thirty yesterday morning at eleven they said a small office with two department of children services workers and opened her once sealed fine it's one of those that has the two red dots with the strain that you rap a and you could say where the tape that sealed it years ago had been taken off with hands shaking in tears falling she ran at yourself because i finally feel a sense of closure inside hey a piece about the home does the whole adoption you see a sense of completeness many that's it now i have the full story you know i had the perspective from when i was born i had that missing term from the time i was born until i was placed in a parent's home i

have a history and it feels complete she declines to talk about any of the specifics in her file this saying that there were no startling surprises her when tuition about the circumstances of her birth and adoption was on target before she opened her records though that first have to sign an affidavit swearing that she would not an easy way to try to contact her birth family but when they have an opportunity to request context bingo state lawmakers say that's the compromise that assures privacy for birth parents are allowing access for adoptees however opponents still say that's not enough and they haven't thrown in the towel on the fight the fantasies and understand their position they had been at their doors have been now not gone quiet but i'm sure the last few weeks by these people very anxious to get their records but we are we have yet to see the final chapter in the story and we're hoping that the courts will act promptly and letting us know what we will have a

stay reinstated on larry crane represents those trying to keep production records sealed because they say it invades their privacy crane says he's a bit surprised that the state move so quickly to open records after last week's circuit court ruling there's a twenty one day window of time following the sixth circuit's decision that were waiting decision from the highest court or whether they will hear this case after which time if they do not we will proceed in a state court there where we're on we were hoping that the state tennessee would give and the significant interests are involved in are at stake that they would proceed cautiously before releasing all these files and understands can take quite a while for them to do that in any event given the number of applications pending crane is hoping to hear from supreme court justice john paul stevens in the next two weeks marean that the next step will be to request a state from the davidson county chancery court and bad has been tracking tennessee's new adoption law she's president of the american adoption congress a group which

supports the law that says last week's court ruling will have an impact on pending legislation across the country for the last week to find out why the ruling as an and how realistic is the fuel the correct you know nobody was a wily the competition but all i have to be counted for the great prophet of mali but for the whole nation back in smyrna tracy henke says she understands the ongoing fight says she hopes others will be in to see their records the way she gets tedious as there are two sides to this story and neither side is well you know what i'm sayin neither side is in any better and i do feel like that this law is a good compromise between those two sides but in london i

think and i'm very excited that i hope that more copies of fortune of dictators hope because it's different while opponents exhaust their legal appeals the state will continue to open records for adult adoptees more than one thousand tennessee adoptees have requested access for national public radio i'm anita park the nashville chamber orchestra loves to dispel stereotypes also was introducing people to classical music a surefire way they do both is to commission new works with a broader reform in places other than the concert hall like kevin a lot of for example the national chamber orchestra will perform there this sunday evening at seven o'clock and in addition to works by vivaldi britain and could die and orchestra will perform khan el a source like mary winter a concerto for a mountain dulcimer and string orchestra and they will premier a new is like john

mark titled the story it's an original celtic work for ten or so guitar power in an orchestra which features nashville violinist david davidson according to paul gamble music director and conductor of the national chamber orchestra it was the desire to showcase what led to the commission the whole atmosphere in the piece was that i wanted to have something that showcases david's and so i cast him we need a new pc user without constantly exciting and different and so we are the best in town and so they would enjoy it and i threw their conversations really great this was a labor of love does or jon lauck he had written three original celtic tunes when paul contact so he was able to add a fourth and arrange them fairly quickly john mark titled his piece the stone after the most interesting trip to ireland i went to an island called an issue that was

hanging around and there's this old house all star and a wall around a typical american fashion i there's a stone in the wall of his life those the wall with is one that i particularly grabbed candy the iconic rabbit kept in my pocket and had night as for the next two days really really strange as clearly disturbed by my dreams i went to this bookstore owners as older woman and man unlike anything on around his art is not much but there's all kinds of stuff go on the aran islands the trouble arises why this is we're to postpone it until about what happens because i returned to stone throwing back to michigan i know it's really silly but then i messed up i felt a lot better the stone features violinist david davidson john mark on the tin whistle guitarists and baxter and kellyanne o'sullivan on the irish

drum known as the best drummers around in circumference and it's made of goat skin the drummer holds a wooden beater in his or her hand gripped like you would a pencil and strikes alternating ends of the beater in a rhythmic pattern here kelly and demonstrates it pointed out it's a huge difference you pay one can't help but wonder how hard it was to find a world class violence and amazing irish drummer wasn't hard oh are you

are my style and also you know sessions in old age you know i mean it's just incredible that that in and what we have to do with this project is also to reach out to the rest world and say if you wanna make it happen musically nashville is the place to make it happen and end this is such a celebration of the possibilities of this town musically that it's one of most exciting parts for me the rock was commissioned as a vehicle to showcase the talents of david davidson and he is very happy with the results my role in this piece on classical violinist but i want to play something celtic no one's making this type of music that i'm intimate with an orchestra and i think it's gonna be a great opportunity for people who haven't heard a lot of this music to hear it may be for the first time or at least for a new and different time and that's what excites me that it's just can be a great sound experience and this can really groove towards the upper south the stone will premier concert by the national chamber

orchestra at capitol on a sunday evening and seven reservations would be a very good idea for national public radio i'm rebecca bain these are but beth levison house enjoys a worker and special collections and just university's library she spends most of her time helping to pass on tradition through old swept barracks articles and other artifacts her job hold special significance she is the great

granddaughter of fisk jubilee singer ella shepherd heritage house says she never fully appreciate it until her early twenties it actually got down to being able to physically home front the money we got to the village of it was that the bacteria that that actually being able to pull her diary will prisoners that they carry a valley economy shepherds image appears forth from the right in the famous eighteen seventy one painting of the original nine member ensemble steel much is left to imagination and interpretation of tattered old song books and of telling articles which describe the sinking as exquisite gentle and very like you know i was you know in the end that that they are and it's like i'm taken back at the only one it wasn't until six years after the group began performing that recordings were made available on cylinders and desks the records this is the earliest known recording of the fisk jubilee singers in your quartet from the

nineteen forties while these singers are several decades removed from the original group current music director paul tommy steele has been able to learn from that i listen to that duty principle of a lot of the sentiment your voices i can seen my mind these people expressing themselves them body movements you know showing how much understanding they had of the songs how much they're enjoying the songs you know like you know seeing them physically i can see that in my mind and you know the whole thing a memo to bring to the prison group kwame a jubilee singer himself says while he cannot pass on the sound quality of the old songs it means more to him for the jubilee singers of today to capture the word song in yesteryear communicate them and most importantly enjoy singing them it

oh many many boston's of the years that we have recruited they have always had you know we've always managed to find a small band of students live wonderful voice of john butler is director of the school's alumni affairs department mother believes it is important to remember the distinction between gospel music and negro spirituals songs that told of the sorrow pain and suffering of a people and slate gospel is good news as spirituals there was no the news about that it came from the fund the very pits of your soul it was that our yearning to be free to be better and you could hear it in the song and the songs of the jubilee singers and i submit that the spirituals are really one of the few real

american folk songs that have that has sustained itself throughout the ages here on the fisk university campus the only visible evidence of the past is fiscally haul the massive victorian gothic structure sits in the center it was the first built here and it's a tribute to the original its presence alone is enough to evoke memories and prod freshman cannot afford it really is this year marks the one hundred and twenty fifth year the jubilee singers success the number of events are planned during this black history month an odd during the course of the year community policing his past and present are scheduled for a man for national public radio i'm terry the painting

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