Yo-Yo Ma and “Songs of Joy and Peace” Album
A collection of music produced by Yo-Yo Ma in connection with the winter holiday season, which exemplifies his wide-ranging and talented musical family – including traditional and modern and world music arrangements from the USA, Brazil, medieval Ireland and closer to home. Yo-Yo Ma is his normal charming, charismatic and virtuosic self.
Profile: Yo-Yo Ma, Peaceful Virtuoso (VOA 2009)
A profile of the great (and eminently personable) cellist Yo-Yo Ma based on personal interviews and archival recordings.
Profile: Pamelia Kursten and the Art of the Theremin
Pamelia Kursten is the 21st century’s greatest theremin virtuosa, who has turned an instrument most associate with creepy sci-fi “woo-woo” music into an art form. Hear what she has to say and how she does it in this sound-rich piece, originally produced for the Voice of America’s “Our World” science program.
Gifts of the Rainforest: Indigenous Healing Systems of Belize (NPR)
A sound-rich odyssey in which Adam explores various healing systems that use the plants of the rainforest for physical and spiritual healing. Includes interviews with Mayan shamans, and peasant Catholic and Creole healers.
NYC “Cricket Crawl”
In which Adam goes out with an intrepid group of artist-citizen-scientists as they explore Brooklyn’s Gowanus Canal on canoes looking for seven species of crickets and katydids. Also includes some Madison Square Park exploration.
The Romance and Poetry of Space (VOA 1995)
In which Adam explores the biological and the spiritual pull toward the great “Out There” through interviews with an astronaut, Terence McKenna, astrophysicists, and many others. Cameo appearance by his son Noah as an infant.