Candice Agree
@voicecandy.bsky.social
Unitasker. Voice for CBS Sunday Morning, Evening & Weekend News; talk, write, produce for WFMT Classical, Baroque&Before, The Spanish Hour, Media Attic Radio. Shares may indicate assent. Then again, they mayn’t. Nōn est respondendum ad omnia.
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#EarlyMusicWednesday Love is complicated, but not as complicated as ars subtilior, the 14th-century musical style that celebrates it. Join me tonite, 10CT for @baroqueandbefore.bsky.social on WFMT www.wfmt.com/2026/02/11/a...
Ars Subtilior: Ballades, Rondeaux & Virelais | WFMT
Love is complicated, but not as complicated as the music that celebrates it.
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February 11, 2026 at 8:42 AM
#EarlyMusicWednesday Love is complicated, but not as complicated as ars subtilior, the 14th-century musical style that celebrates it. Join me tonite, 10CT for @baroqueandbefore.bsky.social on WFMT www.wfmt.com/2026/02/11/a...
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#EarlyMusicWednesday Guillaume de Machaut was 14th-century Europe’s greatest poet and composer. Marc Mauillon and friends bring us Guillaume’s romance “Le Remède de Fortune” by this exemplar of the ars nova musical style. Join me 2nite, 10CT for “Baroque&Before” on WFMT. www.wfmt.com/2026/02/04/g...
Guillaume de Machaut: Le Remède de Fortune | WFMT
Marc Mauillon and friends (Maud Haering, Angélique Mauillon, Nolwenn Le Guern, and Pierre Hamon bring us the romantic Le Remède de Fortune, a “dit,” or narrative poem with music by Guillame de Machaut...
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February 4, 2026 at 10:48 PM
#EarlyMusicWednesday Guillaume de Machaut was 14th-century Europe’s greatest poet and composer. Marc Mauillon and friends bring us Guillaume’s romance “Le Remède de Fortune” by this exemplar of the ars nova musical style. Join me 2nite, 10CT for “Baroque&Before” on WFMT. www.wfmt.com/2026/02/04/g...
Prophetic, writing his own death notice here. 😔
February 2, 2026 at 5:55 AM
Prophetic, writing his own death notice here. 😔
#FirstSundayOfTheMonth: From Handel to Billie Holiday! Members of Lyric Opera of Chicago’s Ryan Opera Center regale us with these vocal gems, plus arias and art song by Mozart, Schumann and Alma Mahler. Join us this evening at 5 CT on WFMT! www.wfmt.com/2026/02/01/m...
Mezzo-Soprano Alexis Peart, Tenor Travon D. Walker, and Pianist Michael Banwarth | WFMT
Our Recital begins with music of Handel and Mozart as we’ll hear selections from the operas Semele, Ariodante, and Così fan tutte. Later, Alexis Peart will perform Alma Mahler’s exquisite “Fünf Lieder...
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February 1, 2026 at 4:51 PM
#FirstSundayOfTheMonth: From Handel to Billie Holiday! Members of Lyric Opera of Chicago’s Ryan Opera Center regale us with these vocal gems, plus arias and art song by Mozart, Schumann and Alma Mahler. Join us this evening at 5 CT on WFMT! www.wfmt.com/2026/02/01/m...
“The scene of a reporter standing before a judge and facing federal charges for doing his job once seemed unimaginable in the U.S.,” writes @stevebattaglio.bsky.social www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
Don Lemon's arrest escalates Trump's clashes with journalists
The former CNN anchor arrested Friday has never been afraid of controversy, despite some career setbacks.
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January 31, 2026 at 7:05 PM
“The scene of a reporter standing before a judge and facing federal charges for doing his job once seemed unimaginable in the U.S.,” writes @stevebattaglio.bsky.social www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
Gotta have a song
January 31, 2026 at 6:07 PM
Gotta have a song
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Alex Pretti "used to tell people off when they made sexist comments to female physicians. He bought me coffee when I had a really bad day as an intern...I laughed alongside him daily. He made a point to teach medical residents without judgement, but with a smile on his face and a joke."
January 24, 2026 at 9:41 PM
Alex Pretti "used to tell people off when they made sexist comments to female physicians. He bought me coffee when I had a really bad day as an intern...I laughed alongside him daily. He made a point to teach medical residents without judgement, but with a smile on his face and a joke."
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he was murdered for doing public health
It seems clear Alex Pretti, a healthcare worker, was murdered for engaging in the exact kind of community care we hope all care workers to embody: the kind that doesn’t stop at the threshold of the hospital, the clinic, but that aims to care for and support the community where and how they can
January 25, 2026 at 4:50 PM
he was murdered for doing public health
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A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.
January 25, 2026 at 1:18 AM
A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.
"The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies,…and the Ministry of Plenty with starvation. These contradictions are not accidental, nor do they result from ordinary hypocrisy; they are deliberate exercises in doublethink."
— George Orwell, 1984
— George Orwell, 1984
Bookmark that Vice President and future presidential candidate JD Vance retweeted a post that said Alex Pretti was “an assassin who tried to murder federal agents.”
January 25, 2026 at 6:06 PM
"The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies,…and the Ministry of Plenty with starvation. These contradictions are not accidental, nor do they result from ordinary hypocrisy; they are deliberate exercises in doublethink."
— George Orwell, 1984
— George Orwell, 1984
A little viola, a little stand-up www.instagram.com/reel/DTvE8oB...
January 25, 2026 at 6:01 PM
A little viola, a little stand-up www.instagram.com/reel/DTvE8oB...
No proofreaders, no copy editors, no line editors. 😔
January 20, 2026 at 8:02 AM
No proofreaders, no copy editors, no line editors. 😔
You’re not married till you’re married in Billboard. 29 years and still prime numbers 🥂
January 18, 2026 at 8:14 AM
You’re not married till you’re married in Billboard. 29 years and still prime numbers 🥂
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Not if you know Hungarian
January 17, 2026 at 5:06 PM
Not if you know Hungarian
That’s my answer too.
January 17, 2026 at 5:02 PM
That’s my answer too.
Babies with flashbangs? Serving suggestion: “ICE uses flashbangs to gas suspected….” #BriefcaseForMenWithZippers
January 17, 2026 at 4:55 PM
Babies with flashbangs? Serving suggestion: “ICE uses flashbangs to gas suspected….” #BriefcaseForMenWithZippers
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Dear beltway reporters, the next time she appears in public, please ask her to prove her citizenship right there on the spot. Does she carry her birth certificate? Her passport?
“Noem: U.S. Citizens Should Be Prepared To Show Proof.”
Did you vote for a “Show Me Your Papers” society?
Did you vote for a “Show Me Your Papers” society?
January 16, 2026 at 12:45 AM
Dear beltway reporters, the next time she appears in public, please ask her to prove her citizenship right there on the spot. Does she carry her birth certificate? Her passport?
“Simply by joining the fight for independence, Longchamps had become an American citizen in the eyes of many citizens—and they saw the official attempt to delegitimize his claim to citizenship as an attack on their citizenship.” daily.jstor.org/contesting-a...
Contesting American Citizenship... in 1784 - JSTOR Daily
The Longchamps Affair shows how early Americans struggled to define citizenship amid conflicting laws and revolutionary values.
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January 16, 2026 at 7:34 AM
“Simply by joining the fight for independence, Longchamps had become an American citizen in the eyes of many citizens—and they saw the official attempt to delegitimize his claim to citizenship as an attack on their citizenship.” daily.jstor.org/contesting-a...
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#EarlyMusicWednesday Vibrato on a (non-electronic) keyboard? This effect and more is possible with the clavichord. Join me tonight, 10CT for “Baroque&Before” on WFMT for an intimate program of works for clavichord by Johann Jakob Froberger. www.wfmt.com/2026/01/14/s...
Sound Out of Silence: The Baroque Clavichord | WFMT
Early keyboardist Terence Charlston presents the first recording on clavichord of the complete fantasias and canzonas from Johann Jacob Froberger's Libro Secondo, written in 1649.
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January 15, 2026 at 12:54 AM
#EarlyMusicWednesday Vibrato on a (non-electronic) keyboard? This effect and more is possible with the clavichord. Join me tonight, 10CT for “Baroque&Before” on WFMT for an intimate program of works for clavichord by Johann Jakob Froberger. www.wfmt.com/2026/01/14/s...