Hey, everybody. This is Kai. Last week I had the pleasure of hosting a launch party for

a new podcast. It's called Every Voice with Terence McKnight. Now, you've heard Terence

on our show a few times in the past. He's a host on our partner radio station, WQXR,

which is dedicated to classical music. And Terence has spent decades, frankly, interrogating

the classical world, raising questions about its Eurocentric ideas, about representations

of people of color in the work, and introducing his listeners to new voices. His new podcast

does all of those things and more through interviews, through historical investigation, and

through some personal storytelling. Terence uners the hidden voices that have been shaping

our musical traditions all along. We kicked off the podcast with a live event at the

Green Space last week here in New York City. And I want to share some of the night with you.

We talked about history. We meet a composer writing operas about Black stories in Atlanta

today. And we hear some pretty beautiful music. So check it out.

We are excited to be here tonight to celebrate the new podcast Every Voice with Terence

McKnight. That was the theme music that you were listening to that we were coming out to.

There's going to be a lot of great music tonight and a lot of great music in this podcast.

But some of it quite complicated. And one of the first things that is clear at Terence

when I mean from the very beginning of episode one is how personal this podcast is going

to be and how much you can just hear how much at stake you have in the conversation. And

I wonder if we can start there and talk about that. What does this mean to you to be telling

this story?

I start the first episode of the show started with a very personal story talking about

my father. I don't know if you heard this but my pops used to come home every evening.

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