She hosted a public affairs program, "Sunday Night with Muriel Reis," was a guest host of the program "Midday Live," and made numerous appearances on "Good Day New York" as a legal expert.
Ms. Carey was the special guest but the meat of the program was the Philharmonic, and the orchestra played with impressive precision and laid-back swing, even given the flattening, brass-flattering effect of outdoor amplification, familiar to regulars at the ensemble's parks concerts.
Mr. Martins would not divulge the evening's repertory or the identity of the program's mystery guest.
The site of the program was a guest house at Carabobo Park in Valencia, where the troops of Simon Bolivar, the hero of South American independence, defeated a Spanish colonial army in 1821.
The excellent baritone Sanford Sylvan is the guest for a program of Moravian Christmas music and Bach.
He suggests raising the wage floor for guest workers, so that employers have to pay a premium for their specialized skills, following the spirit of the guest worker visa program.
Republicans in Congress, mindful of the Democrats' desire to bring legal status to the nation's 11 million unauthorized immigrants, have made an expansion of the guest worker program a key element of any deal.
Nor, he said, were the critical details of the guest worker program, a major element of any comprehensive package.
And Ruanova has begun to dive into an art project inspired by the history of the bracero program — the guest labor program run by the U.S. government in the 1950s — which has taken him to Stanford University to do research.
Mr. Smith's proposal, for a new program he is calling H-2C, would shift management of the guest worker program from the Department of Labor, where he said farmers face a "culture of hostility," to the Department of Agriculture.
