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Fresh Air, Maria Rose Menocal and Jamie Bernstein Thomas
- Narrated by: Terry Gross
- Length: 46 mins
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Fresh Air, Maria Rose Menocal and Jamie Bernstein Thomas
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Summary
Spanish and Portuguese professor Maria Rose Menocal and writer, musician, and broadcaster Jamie Bernstein Thomas on this edition of Fresh Air. Maria Rose Menocal is a R. Selden Rose Professor of Spanish and Portuguese and Director of the Whitney Humanities Center at Yale University. She is also the author of the new book: The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews, and Christians created a culture of tolerance in Medieval Spain. Menocal details Andalucia, Spain from 786 to 1492 where literature, science, and tolerance flourished. Jamie Bernstein Thomas is the daughter of composer-conductor Leonard Bernstein. She hosts The New York Festival of Song on WQXR which features highlights from that concert series. She and her siblings founded the Bernstein Education through the Arts (BETA) Fund. On Friday, May 24th she will be the speaker for a production of Leonard Bernstein's Symphony No. 3, Kaddish based on the Jewish liturgical prayer. The concert will be part of the Cinncinnati May Festival held at Cincinnati's historic Music Hall. (Broadcast Date: May 14, 2002)