Fresh Air, Chris Hedges and Christoph Eschenbach (Nonfiction‪)‬

Former New York Times Balkans Bureau Chief and Middle East Bureau Chief Chris Hedges. In the past few weeks, he's been covering terrorist cells in France and Belgium. He recently published a piece in Harper's Magazine called "A Gaza Diary". He currently is a correspondent for the paper and lives in New York. Conductor and Pianist Christoph Eschenbach. He becomes the music director of the Philadelphia Orchestra in 2003. Formerly music director for the Houston Symphony, Eschenbach is currently Conductor Laureate for that symphony. He is the music director of the Orchestre de Paris and Germany's Hamburg NDR Symphony Orchestra. He has also been the music director of the Ravinia Festival, summer home to the Chicago Symphony since 1994. (Broadcast Date: October 30, 2001)