Andrew Limbong is a reporter for NPR's Arts Desk, where he does pieces on anything remotely related to arts or culture, from streamers looking for mental health on Twitch to Britney Spears' fight over her conservatorship. He's also covered the near collapse of the live music industry during the coronavirus pandemic. He's the host of NPR's Book of the Day podcast and a frequent host on Life Kit.
Barrie Hardymon is the Senior Editor at NPR's Weekend Edition, and the lead editor for books. You can hear her on the radio talking everything from Middlemarch to middle grade novels, and she's also a frequent panelist on NPR's podcasts It's Been A Minute and Pop Culture Happy Hour. She went to Juilliard to study viola, ended up a cashier at the Strand, and finally got a degree from Johns Hopkins' Writing Seminars which qualified her solely for work in public radio. She lives and reads in Washington, DC.
Violinist Frida Boeker returns to Tuesday Student Takeover in this update from 2 years ago. Now a 9th grader at King Kekaulike H.S., Boeker is a member of Maui Youth Philharmonic Orchestra (MYPO) and YSII Orchestra of the Hawaiʻi Youth Symphony.
To help us celebrate Indigenous Peoplesʻ Day and Discoverersʻ Day, Dr. Shawn Lum follows the ʻuala sweet potato from the Americas to Polynesia, and to our plates. "Humans are capable of great journeys that require skill, bravery ..and an indomitable spirit."The piano prelude, Ombaska (Daylight) by "the father of Native American composition," Louis W. Ballard follows todayʻs Classical Conservation Conversation.