Ringing in the New Year with music
The World
PRX
4.6 • 943 Ratings
🗓️ 1 January 2025
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
The World welcomes 2025 with this music holiday special. We look at a middle-school teacher in France who uses rap to teach math. Also, Italian pasta company Barilla released a soundtrack it says was scientifically designed to enhance the taste and texture of its pasta. And, music from Innoss'B tries to combat malnutrition in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Plus, Mexican composer Gabriela Ortiz’s season-long residency at New York's Carnegie Hall that has offered many exciting new pieces.
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| 0:00.0 | This hour on the world rhythms that bounce around the globe. |
| 0:08.7 | The way Falakuti listened to James Brown, the way Django Reinhart, listened to Duke |
| 0:14.6 | Ellington and Louis Armstrong. |
| 0:17.3 | There's so much exchange that goes back and forth. |
| 0:20.3 | Plus, so much classical music is associated with Europe, |
| 0:23.8 | a Mexican composer is working to change that. |
| 0:26.4 | The pulse is very important for us. |
| 0:28.6 | It's always like a heartbeat. |
| 0:30.1 | I mean, it's something that comes really from inside and comes very natural. |
| 0:34.6 | And tens of thousands of kids in France |
| 0:36.7 | who struggle with math |
| 0:37.9 | are turning to this guy. |
| 0:43.4 | Rapping to solve for X, |
| 0:48.1 | all music for you today |
| 0:49.3 | on the special New Year's Day edition |
| 0:51.1 | of the world. |
| 0:59.1 | This is the world. |
| 1:00.0 | I'm Marco Wurman. |
| 1:03.1 | So good to have you with us on the first day of 2025. |
| 1:09.0 | Last night's festivities may be in the rear view, but at least let's keep some semblance of the party going. |
| 1:13.0 | For the next 60 minutes, we've got a show that will bring you music and stories about people who make music around the globe. |
| 1:15.6 | Sounds that'll make you think and sounds that'll make you groove, and in the case of this |
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