Person Place Thing With Randy Cohen: Composer Carlos Simon

About this event Person Place Thing is an interview show hosted by Randy Cohen based on the idea that people are particularly engaging when they speak not directly about themselves, but about something they care about. Cohen’s guests talk about one person, one place, and one thing that are important to them. The result? Surprising stories from great talkers. Past guests have included Paul Shaffer, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Maya Lin, Laurie Anderson, Andy Borowitz, A.O. Scott, Jonathan Safran Foer, and Julianne Moore. This installment of Person Place Thing will be a conversation with Carlos Simon, presented for the first time at Klavierhaus. Tickets are free and can be reserved below; attendance is limited. This event will be recorded for broadcast on Northeast Public Radio, a 23-station regional network, and a dozen other public radio stations around the country. For more information and to hear past episodes, visit PersonPlaceThing.org [hidden] Cohen, Host, Person Place ThingCarlos Simon, composer ● Date: Thursday, November 6, 2025, 6:30 – 7:30 PM (Doors open at 6:00 PM) ● Sponsored by: Klavierhaus ● Address: 730 Eleventh Avenue, NYC ● RSVP by November 3 Carlos Simon is a native of Atlanta, Georgia, whose music ranges from concert music for large and small ensembles to film scores with influences of jazz, gospel, and neo-romanticism. Simon is the Composer-in-Residence for the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the inaugural Boston Symphony Orchestra Composer Chair, and was nominated for a 2023 GRAMMY award for his album Requiem for the Enslaved. Azica Records and Chiarina Chamber Players have recently announced the release of The Best Cuisine, a new album that celebrates the collaborative spirit of composer Carlos Simon. Randy Cohen’s first professional work was writing humor pieces, essays, and stories for newspapers and magazines (The New Yorker, Harpers, The Atlantic, Young Love Comics). His first television work was writing for “Late Night With David Letterman,” for which he won three Emmy awards. His fourth Emmy was for his work on Michael Moore’s “TV Nation.” He received a fifth Emmy as a result of a clerical error, and he kept it. For twelve years he wrote “The Ethicist,” a weekly column for The New York Times Magazine. His most recent book, Be Good: How to Navigate the Ethics of Everything, was published by Chronicle. More Info below.