Around Cincinnati

On Highway 61 is the new book from Dennis McNally, subtitled Music, Race, and the Evolution of Cultural Freedom, and he’s on the phone with David Lewis to talk about the importance of music during the 1960’s civil rights turbulence.

Craig Hella Johnson, the musical director for Cincinnati’s Vocal Arts Ensemble, joins Anne Arenstein to preview the upcoming 35th anniversary season, including the holiday tradition, A Candlelit Christmas, happening December 13 and 14.

Actors & Playwrights Initiative with New Edgecliff Theatre present the world premiere of Phil Paradis’ Soldier’s Christmas, a stage production of the WWI night known as The Christmas Truce when enemy soldiers laid down their weapons and celebrated the holiday together. The show’s director, Bob Allen, previews this production, happening at NKU’s Corbett Theatre, with our Jim Stump.

For my Mother at Advent – a poetry reading by Brian Volck.

New York Times bestselling author Mary Higgins Clark is back with the follow-up to her last hit novel, I’ve Got You Under My Skin, called The Cinderella Murder, and she spends a few minutes with Barbara Gray talking about this Under Suspicion series and her writing collaboration with Alafair Burke.