Posts Tagged ‘NPR’
Niece on the Nutcracker
Monday, December 20th, 2004My sister’s 7-year-old daughter gets interviewed along with other Nutcracker performers by KQED radio. She’s the one who says, “The hardest thing about it is keeping the beat and getting to my place at the proper time.”
Found in Translation
Saturday, February 28th, 2004I tuned in to KALW on my way home yesterday when I caught a young girl singing the last few stanzas of the Philippine national anthem. She sang them flawlessly. I thought, “Hey, it must be the Asian hour or something.” Then she spoke with an American accent. Then I thought, “Wow, that’s rare for a Fil-Am kid to know the Philippine National Anthem by heart.” She was then urged by someone who turned out to be her father to sing a Cantonese song. She proceeded to sing it. I thought, “Wow, this kid’s talented.” When the segment ended, I found out who the girl was: a young Sofia Coppola. A 1977 NPR interview with her and Francis Ford Coppola was being re-aired.
Ummm, Ahhh…
Thursday, October 2nd, 2003Wanna hear the California gubernatorial candidates breath and stutter through the debates? I caught this funny segment yesterday on NPR. The organization responsible for “silencing” the candidates, Language Removal Services, has stripped words from their speech, leaving just the “breathing and umms and ahhs.” The rest of the candidates’ breathing patterns are available here.