It s hard to harpsichord to introduce this 1st segment of open air arts Minerva the bay area nonprofit devoted to resurrecting forgotten operas from the Italian Baroque is presenting to many Co Friskies. This weekend at o.t.c. Theater in San Francisco Friday and Saturday at 730 Sunday afternoon at 230. The artistic director joins me in studio Metz a soprano selling Ricci also executive director of arse Minerva where she sang and and directed several productions was born in Florence Italy and later studied in Paris and London later recognized by renowned conductor William Christie for his academy she s been heard around the world the country and around the bay as during the 201617 season she sang Nero and the west edge opera production of I going to Pina and also at R. s Lyrica at the Berkeley early music festival conducting the opera from the harpsichord is a multi Grammy nominated George even equal or a waltz or joins me in studio and we re hearing him in the background performing so
Also a naturally occurring bacteria may be the key to fighting dengue fever. Family said it s a miserable miserable experience and. You know if. Anyone else experience and the Mexican government is helping victims of the mass shooting in El Paso soon 1st the news. Live from n.p.r. News in Washington I m Jack Speer as part of the House impeachment inquiry a former White House official and a foreign service officer both testified today that Ukraine was made to understand getting what it wanted would depend on Ukraine announcing an investigation as N.P.R. s David Welner reports the target was a gas company with ties to one of President Trump s political rivals former National Security Council Ukraine expert Fiona Hill told the impeachment probe of out of July White House meeting where u.s. Ambassador Corden Sonnen told 2 Ukrainian officials the terms for their president to get a meeting with President Trump he said that he had an agreement with the chief of staff Mulvaney that than retur
And I d be surprised if any of the Ukrainians you said it earlier we discussed earlier you know sophisticated people. When they received no explanation for why that hold was in place they would have drawn that conclusion because the investigations were still being pursued and the hold was still remaining without explanation correct so this to you was the only logical conclusion you could reach correct sort of like 2 plus 2 equals 4 exactly Chairman I yield. That concludes the majority questioning. We re expected to have votes I think fairly soon this we appropriate time to break and we ll resume with the minority 45 minutes if people before they leave Could he says Committee chairman Adam Schiff of California and if committee members could come back up promptly after votes. This is special coverage of the impeachment hearings from n.p.r. News I m Noel King the House Intelligence Committee is taking a break from today s testimony 2 witnesses have testified this morning Fiona Hill a for
To sound a little drunk to you he said it would be one small step for Neil but one big step for me something to that effect Pete Conrad becoming the 3rd human to step on the moon 50 years ago yesterday on November 19th 1969 my parents 2nd anniversary this is the Fog City Blues on your local public radio station 91.7 f.m. K a l w San Francisco blues in the Bay area and beyond that of course just now Tom Waits But what we heard was that transmission from the surface of the moon on November 19th 1969 I don t know you know July we had the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11 Apollo 12 struck by lightning on the launch pad did it get the same t.v. Coverage p. Conrad Allen being on the moon landing near one of the lunar surveyors unmanned craft that had landed earlier as he mentioned in the broadcast as it were from the moon but you don t hear as much about it you see photos of the later Apollo missions bouncing around on the on the. Lunar vehicle the the go cart there whatever it was called. Apo
If comedy makes you feel uncomfortable it s because it works that s on the cultural front 9 after the latest b.b.c. News. Hello I m Tom what s with the b.b.c. News China has warned the United States to stop meddling in its internal affairs after the u.s. Senate passed a bill which could strip Hong Kong of its special trade status if it fails to uphold democracy the Chinese Foreign Ministry threatened strong counter measures if President Trump signs the legislation into law the bill has been welcomed by anti-government protesters in Hong Kong. As among a small group still occupying the university the scene of violent clashes in recent days it has been a. Long. Slow process. It can. Also be. A long. Long. Long. Long if all can the ratio is thing to be pinning all. Next generation Twitter has accused persons governing Conservative Party of attempting to mislead people by rebranding one of its accounts to look like an election fact checking agency the party made the move during the 1st te