On today's show:
A Director's Leading Man
(Starts at :45)
John Horn spoke with Adam Driver, the co-star of "Marriage Story," at the Telluride Film Festival about his ongoing collaboration with writer/director Noah Baumbach. And John spoke with Baumbach at the Middleburg Film Festival about how he wrote the script based on conversations with friends about marriage and divorce.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHi-a1n8t7M
AN ORCHESTRAL TAKE ON SLAVERY IN MEXICO
(Starts at 20:10)
The Los Angeles Philharmonic recently premiered “Yanga”, a new work by Mexican composer Gabriela Ortiz. The piece was inspired by a slave and abolitionist from the late 1500s in colonial Mexico. The Frame contributor Betto Arcos has the story on Ortiz's history with the orchestra, which now includes four commissions.