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Momento Ritmico and Papete aru by Piero Umiliani Opus 13 from Sven Libaek's score to The Set French Doll by Larry Ashmore and David Francis The wonderful Sewentuwa by Hailu Meriga Wave I by Elor Saxl Green by Hiroshi Yoshimura

Notes

I originally learned about the Elephantine Colossus years ago in David McCullough's Brooklyn... and How it Got That Way, which still holds up.

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Un geant dans la mer and Triste soiree III from the score to Marie et les naufrages by the genius, Sebastian Tellier.  Love is Blue by Jackie Mittoo and the Soul Vendors. Rocky Passage by Jeremiah Chiu and Marta Sofia Honer Morris Visits Dr. Pratt from John Barry's score to The Wrong Box Adios Muchachos from Andre Popp Moonlight in Vermont from the great Dorothy Ashby.  Midnight Moon by The Portland Cello Project Dance PM by Hiroshi Yoshimura And we hear Blind Andy Jenkins' "Floyd Collins in Sand Cave" followed by Vernon Dalhart doing the same song under the name, "The Death of Floyd Collins." We also hear Jimmy Osbourne do Andy's, "The Death of Little Kathy Fiscus."

Notes

I have a note in my years-long running list of possible story ideas that says, "event songs," but I could never remember why. Then I was reading Charles Hirschberg and Mark Zwonitzer's, Will You Miss me When I'm Gone?: The Carter Family & Their Legacy in American Music and was reminded of Andy's story (that book is great). I also recommend the always-useful, Country Music USA, by Bill C. Malone for more on Andy and his era as well as Creating Country Music: Fabricating Authenticity by Richard A. Peterson. If you want more about poor Floyd Collins, you could turn to Robert K. Murray and Roger W. Bruckner's, Trapped!: The Story of Floyd Collins.

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Abisme by Shida Shahadi Ellen?s Image from Lalo Schiffiren?s genius score to The Fox Circulation by H. Takahasi Liquid Spear Waltz from Michael Andrews? score to Donnie Darko A8 from a terrific record called NuNu by Clever Austin

Notes

I found a lot of insight in a terrific book called Extraordinary Beliefs by Peter Lamont. In it, there?s a smart historical, psychological exploration of why spiritualism was able to flourish despite all sorts of evidence opposing it. 

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Una Bravata from Carlo Rustichelli?s score to Amici Miei.

Sunshine on Fish Skin by Girls in Airports.

The Vienna Glass Armonica Duo performs Mozart?s Adagio for Glass Harmonium.

The Fellowship by John Shabason

Notes

The best read on Mills is a 2022 article by Nate Hopper in The New Yorker about the challenges of keeping time on the internet.

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Je ne pas si c?est tout le monde - Theme Comedie from Vincent Delerm?s score to the film of the same, long name.

Forbin?s Hi Fi from Michel Colombier?s score to Colossus: The Forbin Project

Boo?s Lullaby by Maria Chiara Agriro and Jamie Leeming

Helle (Ballade) from the great Phillipe Sarde score to that picture.

L?Espagne pour memoire from Michel Portal?s score to Un et a la garoupe

The Rain Never Stops on Venus by Michael Wollney

Je t?ai meme pas dit by Vincent Delerm.

From a Dream by Oregon

A version of Narcisus for Clarinet and Electronics as played by Thea Musgrave.

Notes

Good sources if you want to know more are Peter Manseau?s book about spirit photography and the spiritualist age (Cutting intersects interestingly with that crea), The Apparitionists, as well as this article by Jerry Ryan about the history of aquariums in Boston.

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The Parisienne by the Henri Crolla Ensemble

Violette? by Philippe Sarde

Gift by Makasuta Takagi

The Sammy Herman Sextet plays The Bells of St. Mary?s

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I Believe in the Night by Keith Kenniff

Improvisations sur les folies d?Espagne (extraits) from Marin Marais and Jordi Savall

Finally by Lambert

Voltige by Marin Lizotte

Violin Solo no. 1 by Peter Broderick

Fratres fur violin und klavier by Avro Part as played by Ursula Schloch and Marcel Worms

Dungen by Henrik Lindstom

Notes

There are plenty of places to go to read about Smoky and Bill but why would want to go anywhere else than his book, Yorkie Doodle Dandy?

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We move between three different pieces from Camille Saint-Saens': Suite, Op. 90: II Menuet, and two from Carnival of the Animals:Aviary and the Cuckoo in the Heart of the Woods.

We hit Juneau from Danny Bensi and Sander Jurriaans' score to Wildlike.

And The Waltz from their score to 5 to 7.

And there's a total gem from George Mukabi called Dila Ni Dila in there too.

Notes

Do yourself a favor and read Frances Hamerstrom's autobiography, My Double Life: Memoirs of a Naturalist.

Do your kids a favor and Jeannine Atkins take on Frances in her book Girls Who Looked Under Rocks.

And then watch Frances teach David Letterman how to cook a snake.

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Dave Pajo/Aerial M does Plastic Energy Man

Patricia Rossborough played To a Wild Rose

Mal Waldron plays Warm Canto

We hear Muff Gets a Share from Joel P. West?s score to Band of Robbers

We hear another song I absolutely love, Turned Out I Was Everyone, by Sasami

We finish on Popcorn and Life from Ben Sollee?s lovely score to Maidentrip.

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The Theory by Clem Leek

Hiddensee by Caeys

The Clock Tower by Hampshire and Foat

Notes

If you want to know more about Gardner, I?d suggest Witness to an Era: the Life and Photographs of Alexander Gardner, by Mark Katz.

On Brady, Matthew Brady: Portraits of a Nation, by Robert Wilson.

I?d also suggest reading the New York Times? review of the exhibit. It?s pretty stunning.

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Inception by radio.string.quintet.vienna

Julie With by Group Listening

Nice Breeze Isn?t It? by friend of the show, Simon Rackham

Wet by Taylor Deupree

Times Like This II by Jean Kopperud and Stephen Gosling

Broad Channel by Bing and Ruth

Cradle (with Akira) by ghost and tape

Lithosphere by Caoimhin O Raghellagh

and by Caoimhin O Raghelagh and Thomas Bartlett

Notes

You can find the website I mentioned here; it?s a one-stop shop, really, for information on the 6888t. .

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Halcyon and Photosynteses and Embryo by H. Takehashi

Intro by Library Tapes

The Florist Wears Knee Breeches by M. Sage

Notes

I found Andrew Isenberg's book, The Destruction of the Bison, An Environmental History, completely fascinating.

If you want to do a deep dive on Madison Grant, I'd recommend Defending the Master Race: Conservation, Eugenics, and the Legacy of Madison Grant by John Peter Spiro.

If you want to do a deep dive on the Catalina Buffalo, this site is a fun place to start.

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* Under the credits is Harlaamstrat 74 off of John Dankworth?s Modesty Blaise score.
* They first meet to a piece called Brouillard (version 1) from Georges Delaure?s extraordinary score to Jules et Jim. (A second version comes in later when J.J. Audubon is living the high life in England).
* We also hear Waltz by Mother Falcon.
* I go back to the Marcelo Zarvos/Please Give well when the Scotsman arrives at their store. Note: it?s the go-to soundtrack for ?People Arriving at One?s Store With A Life Changing Proposition? here at the Memory Palace. Also: go watch Please Give.
* The little piano piece is from Nathan Johnson?s score to The Day I Saw Your Heart.
* Lucy and John titter like plovers to Andrew Cyrille?s dope, skittering drums on Nuba 1.
* The especially sad bit, right before the end is Dream 3 (in the Midst of my Life), from Max Richter?s giant, From Sleep album.
* A couple times, including the ending, we hear ?the Lark Ascending? from Ralph Vaughn Willliams. It is beautiful. You should buy it.

Notes
As per usual, I read a lot about the Audubons and the Bakewells.
I relied most upon the charming and smart, On the Road with John James Audubon by Mary Durant, and Carolyn DeLatte?s lovely, thoughtful book, Lucy Audubon: a Biography.
* Just a quick note: there?s a very enjoyable PBS/American Masters/Nature documentary about Audubon. It?s a fun and informative watch. But, I?ll say, you come out of that thinking that things were fundamentally swell between Lucy and John in a way that I?m not entirely sure is supported by the facts. Or jibes with, you know, human nature.

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This episode was originally released in 2016 in the days after the shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando. It is re-released every year on the anniversary of the incident.

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Notes and Reading:
* Most of the specific history of the White Horse was learned from "Sanctuary: the Inside Story of the Nation's Second Oldest Gay Bar" by David Olson, reprinted in its entirety on the White Horse's website.
* "Gayola: Police Professionalization and the Politics of San Francisco's Gay Bars, 1950-1968," by Christopher Agee.
* June Thomas' series on the past, present, and future of the gay bar from Slate a few years back.
* Various articles written on the occasion of the White Horse's 80th anniversary, including this one from SFGATE.Com
* Michael Bronski's A Queer History of the United States.
* Radically Gay, a collection of Harry Hay's writing.
* Incidentally, I watched this interview with Harry Hay from 1996 about gay life in SF in the 30's multiple times because it's amazing.

Music
* We start with Water in Your Hands by Tommy Guerrero.
* Hit Anne Muller's Walzer fur Robert a couple of times.
* Gaussian Curve does Talk to the Church.
* We get a loop of Updraught from Zoe Keating.
* We finish on Transient Life in Twilight by James Blackshaw

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Pollen and Photosynteses by H. Takehashi

Ediacaran Moonrise by Barry Walker, Jr.

To the Cellar from Krzysztof Komeda?s wonderful score to The Fearless Vampire Killers.

Blue Sutura from Piero Piccioni?s score to Il medico della mutua.

3-Sized PF and Let?s Go Crazy!, both by Takahiro Kido

Emerald Ash by Golden Brown

Merry-Go-Round by Domenique Dumont

Aquel Senor by the mighty, Frankie Reyes

Tesko Me Ja Zaboravit Tebe by Banko Mataja

Notes

You can read the article by Katherin Parkin here.

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In My Heaven All Faucets Have Fountains by yes/and

A snippet of Runaway from Olafur Arnauld?s score to Gimme Shelter

Spectral Canon from Conlon Nancarrow from James Tenney

The Hourglass by Ben Crosland.

This episode was originally released in 2015.

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*Under the credits is Harlaamstrat 74 off of John Dankworth?s Modesty Blaise score.
*The piece opens with Rainfall, by David Darling and Michael Jones.
*Her brief love story is scored by Nathan Johnson?s Penelope?s Theme from his score to The Brothers Bloom.
*When she lands her first gig, we start Garde a Vue, and roll into Le Roi de coeur, from Chantal Martineau.
* The vibraphone piece is ?Opening? by Nathaniel Bartlett.
* The recurring violin piece is called Geometria del Universo by the one-named Colleen.
* It ends on Romain?s First Love, again by Georges Delarue, from his fantastic score to Promise at Dawn.

Notes
* I read a lot about Mary, but by far the most useful and most thorough works I came upon were: Sharon M. Harris? Dr. Mary Walker: An American Radical and A Woman of Honor: Dr. Mary E. Walker and the Civil War, in which author Mercedes Graf does a great job walking the reader through Walker?s unpublished memoir.

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* Under the credits is Harlaamstrat 74 off of John Dankworth?s Modesty Blaise score.
* Then, we have the most obvious crickets/summer night song ever: the fantastic, perpetually delightful Green Arrow from Yo La Tengo?s I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One, which has soundtracked many crickety summer nights for me over the years.
* The cops roll in to a loop of the very beginning of the epic Ptah, the El Daoud, the title track to Alice Coltrane?s album from 1970.
* Then we have a mix of two improvisations from Charles Cohen?s ?Brother I Prove You Wrong?: Cloud Hands and The Boy and the Snake Dance.
* There?s a brief dip into Dorian, by Fang Island.
* The jaunty accordion, typewriter thing is Biking is Better on Wintergatan?s eponymous album.

Notes
I researched this one primarily through old newspapers. The easiest place to find a number of them is to read the excellent site, The Museum of Hoaxes? page on this event. Also: if you?re in the Atlanta area and ever want to have yourself a day, you can see the actual monkey. It?s preserved in a jar at the Georgia Bureau of Investigations museum in Decatur Georgia.

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We start with the Opening of Craig Armstrong?s score to Far From the Madding Crowd.

Glass Houses no. 13 from Ann Southam.

Earring from Julia Wolf.

Occam II for Violin from Eliane Radigue.

Rearranging Furniture from Gabriel Yared?s score to By the Sea.

A bit of Movement II from Martynov, ?Come in!? by Vladimir Martynov.

Notes

Plenty written about the Willie D.. I found Roger Branfill-Cook?s Torpedo: the Most Revolutionary Weapon in Naval History to be particularly useful.

I also enjoyed stumbling upon this day-by-day breakdown of F.D.R.?s Presidency.

This episode was originally released in August 2016

Note
* Here?s a link to watch an excerpt of the CBS news break.
* One of my favorite things I came across while reading up on the lottery was this site, which includes a remarkable page where folks send in their personal stories of their draft experience.

Music
* Elevator Song by Keaton Henson (feat. Ren Ford)
* Waves by Abby Gundersen

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Blithe Field does RD 1

O Venezia, Venuga, Venusia by Nino Rota

Carthage by Hayden Perdido

Nice Breeze, Isn?t It? from Simon Rackham

Mystere by amiina

Blithe Field also does Racing Backward

as well as Prelude

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Mongali as played by the mighty Tabu Ley Rochereu

2nd Season by Takahiro Kido

Ferde Grofe?s Grand Canyon Suite: 5 Cloudburst as performed by the Detroit Symphony

Nero?s Nocturne by Chilly Gonzalez. Man, that guy is great. You should buy his music.

Opening Titles from Jeff Grace?s score to In the Valley of Violence

Morris Visits Dr. Pratt from John Barry?s score to The Wrong Box

Gift from Masakatsu Takagi?s score to The Boy and the Beast

Nurse Janet from Ludwig Goransson?s score to Everything, Everythin

Notes

My favorite resources on frontier press stuff is by Barbara Cloud, The Coming of the Frontier Press, How the West was Really Won.

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LBS by Duval Timothy

My Favourites, pt. 2 by Patricia Rossborough

Sad Seine by Lambert

Vals Efter Lasse I Lyby by Lofoten Cello Duo

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Strength of a Young Man by Vernon Field

Wave I by Elori Saxl

Rearranging Furniture from Gabriel Yared?s score to By the Sea

Falling Forever and Ever by Ricky Eat Acid

Muff Gets a Share from Joel P West?s score to Band of Robbers

Notes

By far the most fun I had researching this was reading Kaori O?Conner?s Pineapple: A Global History. Really a lovely little book.

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Rauelsson plays Mom, in Ukraine

Group Listening plays Julie With

Richard Birkin plays Vigil II

Colleen plays Les Ondes Silencieueses

Taylor Deupree and Marcus Fischer play Bell

The Ensemble Rescerche plays Morton Feldman?s Something Wild in the City: Mary Ann?s Theme

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Sunset Village by Group Listening

Winter Memory by Dark Dark Dark

Pretty in Plums by Shida Shihabi

With a little bit of The Crumbling by Valgeir Sigurossen

Afternoon in Paris by the incomparable John Lewis

Abstrutions from Max Roach

And Herbert?s Story from Mark Orton?s score to Nebraska

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Arrival by by Domenique Dumont

Bouquet by Bobby Hutcherson

Last Dance by No Vacation

Channels Passing by Paul Dresher

Dilo 4 by Emika

The Kronos Quartet plays II from Phillip Glass? second string quartet, ?Company.?

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Sunrise Through the Dusty Nebula by Hannah Peel

Keep by Nils Frahm

Horizon Variations by Max Richter

She cycles through: Where or When by Hal Kemp & His Orchestra, Smarty (You Know it All) by Fats Waller, Dear Mr. Gable: You Made Me Love You by Judy Garland, Hellhounds on My Trail by Robert Johnson, and The Big Apple by Tommy Dorsey and his Clambake Seven.

Future Waves by Uther Moads.

And Vapour Trail by Ride, forever.

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This episode was originally released in the spring of 2018. It?s being re-released today because Nate?s on book leave for the summer.

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We start off with Theme de Simon from Georges Delerue.

Go to Alpine Sketch from Christian Loffler?s Young Alaska.

Hear some of Three Dances: II Pavane arranged for the Chromos Tuba Quartet.

The Plum Blossom from Yusuf Lateef?s great Eastern Sounds record.

Juve & Fandor by amiina.

The Unquestioned Answer by Laura Spiegel.

Etude by Joep Beving.

Rainfall by David Darling and Michael Jones.

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This episode was originally released in July of 2016. It?s being re-released today because Nate?s on book leave for the summer and because it?s a total banger.

Notes and Reading:
* I came to this story the old fashioned way (for me): I saw Su Lin at the Field Museum and needed to know more. That led me inevitably to Vicki Croke's The Lady and the Panda from 2006. It's a terrific read. If you have any interest at all in learning more about Ruth Harkness, that's the place to go. I've got a few quibbles here and there, but, for real, it's delightful.
* Quentin Young's (slightly strange and contested) version of events is told in Chasing the Panda by Michael Kiefer.
* If you've got a few hundred bucks (or a library with more liberal lending policies with old books than mine), why not read Ruth's own book, The Baby Giant Panda?
* If you're interested in zoos writ large, I'm a fan of Animal Attractions: Nature on Display in American Zoos by Elizabeth Hansen.

Music:
* We start with Hush-Maker by Moon Ate the Dark.
* Roll on with Freudian Slippers by Chilly Gonzales.
* Hear Bibio's Cherry Blossom Road a couple of times.
* Hit up Nice Dream by radio.string.quartet.vienna
* Hear Don Redman and his Orchestra play Blue Eyed Baby from Memphis.
* The centerpiece of the middle section is Snow Again by Lambert.
* We hear a couple of pieces by Dan Romer: An Old Fashioned Man and End of the World.
* We finish up on Lullatone's Falling Asleep With a Book on Your Chest.

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Arrival by Dominique Dumont

Bouquet by Bobby Hutcherson off of his phenomenal album, Happenings.

Wrench and Numbers from Jeff Russo?s score to Fargo, the FX show.

Melodrames telegraphies (in B flat Major 7th), part 1 by Brian McBride

Kembang Andyani from the Gamelan Orchestra

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This episode was originally released in 2016 in the days after the shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando. It is re-released every year on the anniversary of the incident.

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Notes and Reading:
* Most of the specific history of the White Horse was learned from "Sanctuary: the Inside Story of the Nation's Second Oldest Gay Bar" by David Olson, reprinted in its entirety on the White Horse's website.
* "Gayola: Police Professionalization and the Politics of San Francisco's Gay Bars, 1950-1968," by Christopher Agee.
* June Thomas' series on the past, present, and future of the gay bar from Slate a few years back.
* Various articles written on the occasion of the White Horse's 80th anniversary, including this one from SFGATE.Com
* Michael Bronski's A Queer History of the United States.
* Radically Gay, a collection of Harry Hay's writing.
* Incidentally, I watched this interview with Harry Hay from 1996 about gay life in SF in the 30's multiple times because it's amazing.

Music
* We start with Water in Your Hands by Tommy Guerrero.
* Hit Anne Muller's Walzer fur Robert a couple of times.
* Gaussian Curve does Talk to the Church.
* We get a loop of Updraught from Zoe Keating.
* We finish on Transient Life in Twilight by James Blackshaw

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Still Space by Satoshi Ashikawa.

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Music

Blithe Field does RD 1

O Venezia, Venuga, Venusia by Nino Rota

Carthage by Hayden Perdido

Nice Breeze, Isn?t It? from Simon Rackham

Mystere by amiina

Blithe Field also does Racing Backward

as well as Prelude

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Music

The Return by Library Tapes

Erased Duet by Valgeir Sigurdossen

3-sized PF by Takahiro Kido

Vals Efter Lasser I Lyby by Lofoton Cello Duo

Notes

Totally recommend Bruce Levine?s Thaddeus Stevens: Civil War Revolutionary, Fighter for Racial Justice.

I encourage you to check out the Thaddeus Stevens Society.

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Music

Dance PM from Horishi Yoshimura

Amor - C.B. Rework by Clark

Here?s What You?re Missin by Bing and Ruth

Meredith Monk?s Ellis Island as played by Bruce Brubaker

Alto Paraiso by Aukai

Opening from Nathaniel Bartlett

Rivers That you Cannot See by North Americans

First of the Tide by Erland Cooper featuring Benge

Notes

The episode old episode I mention in the credits as a companion to this one is here.

Most of the biographical details in this were found in the official biography written for the National Academy of Sciences by his Uranium-hunting colleague, George Tilton, and a terrific, entertaining oral history interview.

Also, if you?ve left episode in the mode where you?d just like to know some more, I came across this old Mental Floss article by Lucas Reilly that I thought did a particularly good job of weaving a lot of the back story (some of which I?d covered before in the Midgely episode linked above) into Patterson?s story. Just wanted to shine a light on it.

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Music

Starts with Christope Beck and DeadMono?s theme to Charlie Countryman.

Prelude for HS by Hakon Stene.

Tezeta (Nostalgia) from Malatu Astatke, from Ethiopiques vol. 4, one of my favorite pieces of music in the world.

Marian Lapansky plays Camille Saint-Saens ?Le Sygne.?

Which fights with Piero Umiliani?s Danza Primitiva.

Warren Ellis rounds it out with his Lale?s Theme from his terrific score to Mustang (which you should totally see).

The Hazel Scott pieces can be found here and here.

Notes

I first heard about Hazel Scott while reading Rad American Women from A to Z to my daughter. It?s a wonderful book. You should buy it for any kid in your life.

I read a lot about Hazel, but Karen Chilton?s biography, Hazel Scott: A Pioneering Jazz Pianist from Cafe Society to HUAC was essential.

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Music

Fragment I by Library Tapes

Don?t Forget to Breathe Eh by Kelpe

Here I Am, Two Warships by Spirituals

Elfe by Dario Lessing

Jahrzeit from American Contemporary Music Ensemble

Alarm Will Sound?s version of Jynweythek ylow

2400 by Martyn Hynes

Notes

I found a couple of books particularly useful if you want to learn more about Barbara Johns. Richard Kluger?s classic Simple Justice and a really lovely book for younger readers called The Girl From the Tar Paper School by Teri Kanefield.

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Romantic Lullaby by Simon Rackham

Happy Whistler by Group Listening.

The Return by Library Tapes

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Time Beat by Ray Cathode

Rabbits of the Void by Tomaga

Weightless by the Neil Cowley Trio

Scenes from the Poet?s Dreams I: Racing Through the Stars by The Lark Quartet

Switchcraft by Chilly Gonzalez

Sky Breaking, Clouds Falling by Mason Lindahl

Notes

There?s a ton written about The Crash at Crush but the one I?d recommend is Train Crash at Crush, Texas: America?s Deadliest Publicity Stunt, by Mike Cox

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Music

Pollen by H.Takahashi and, later, Photosynthese.

The New York Herald Tribune by Martial Solal

Trying Something Again, Again by Lullatone

Wiffle Ball from Joel P. West?s score for Short Term 12

The title theme to Cani Arrabbiati

Increase by David Lang and Alarm Will Sound

Nijuichi by Sylvain Chaveau

Occam II for Violin by Eliane Radigue

Drunken Aviator by the (great, truly) Ida.

Eyes Closed and Travelling by Peter Broderick

Notes

If you are looking to read more about Betty, I?d suggest Rosanne Montillo?s terrific book, Fire on the Track.

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Music

How to be Invisible, by Thruppence.

Motion by Peter Sandberg.

Art Blakey?s magical, Come out and See Me Tonight

And, of course, So What, from Kind of Blue

Notes

I relied a lot on this extensive oral history interview from The Smithsonian.

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Music

Midnight Moon from Annalisa Tornfelt and Gideon Fraudmann?s album, Spring Breakup: Songs for Alaska.

A couple of numbers from Marcelo Zarvos? wonderful score to the wonderful, Please Give.

A remarkable piece of music called Spectacle of Ritual by Kali Malone

And another called Pauvre Simon from Sylvain Chauveau

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Music

Feminist from Danny Bensi and Saunder Jurrian?s score to Christine.

Under Siege from the great Warren Ellis? score to Mustang

Warm Canto from Mal Waldren

M is for Man, Music, Mozart: the Eisenstein Song from Louis Andriessen?s De Stijl album.

The them to Le Doulo from Paul Misraki

Manny Returns Home from Bernard Hermann?s score to the Wrong Man

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Music

By the Ash Tree and Semolina by Slow Meadow

Opals by Catching Flies

Mechanical Fair by Ola Kvernberg and the Trondheim Singers

La Copla by the great Atahualpa Yupanqui

Holm Sound by Erland Cooper

Notes

You can find the original recordings, photos, and film clips taken on the 1935 expedition and after in the remarkable online library of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

Of the many books on the Ivory Billed Woodpecker, the one I enjoyed and relied upon most here is Phillip Hoose?s The Race to Save the Good Lord Bird.

This episode was originally released in October, 2014.

The music in this one: ?An Ending, A Beginning? by Dustin O?Halloran. ?I am Piano? by Peter Broderick. Two songs from the soundtrack to ?With a Song in my Heart?: American Medley, and That Old Feeling. The one at the end is ?I?ll Never be the Same.? My version?s on a collection called ?Can?t get out of this Mood.? There are also a couple of other Jane things that I found on You Tube. The plane crash stuff is scored by a piece of Claudia Serne and Leopold Ross? soundtrack for ?Broken City,? called ?Missing Pieces.? Then there?s a sound by The Caretaker called ?Stairway to the Stars.?

I read a lot about Jane for this but nothing was as useful as Ilene Stone?s lovely book, ?Jane Froman: Missouri?s First Lady of Song.?

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Music

Mother's Love by The Vernon Spring

Avinu Malkenu by Lofoten Cello Duo

Vakenatt by Daniel Herskedal

Computer Love by Balenescu Quartet

Sunshine on Fish Skin by Girls in Airports

Cabiria e el ragioniere from Nino Rota's score to Nights of Cabiria

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Music

Honesty by Thrupence

El Noi de la Mare, Eldegard by Lofoten Cello Duo

2400 by Martyn Hyne

White Light by Chihei Hatekeyama

Valse Efter Valle I Lybe by Lofoten Cello Duo

Notes

There's obviously nearly-infinite amounts to read about Jane Addams. I found Citizen: Jane Addams and the Struggle for Democracy by Louise Knight particularly useful.

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In lieu of my usual re-runs filling out August, I?m doing something different: a full-reading of F. Scott Fitzgerald?s The Great Gatsby, presented in three parts.This is part 2.

Music for Gatsby was composed and performed by Mary Lattimore. Find and buy her music at marylattimoreharpist.bandcamp.com

The cover art is from Jen Corace. See more of Jen?s work at jencorace.com.

Back with the third and final part on August 19th. Back with new episodes of The Memory Palace in September.

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In lieu of my usual re-runs filling out August, I?m doing something different: a full-reading of F. Scott Fitzgerald?s The Great Gatsby, presented in three parts.This is part 2.

Music for Gatsby was composed and performed by Mary Lattimore. Find and buy her music at marylattimoreharpist.bandcamp.com

The cover art is from Jen Corace. See more of Jen?s work at jencorace.com.

Back with the third and final part on August 19th. Back with new episodes of The Memory Palace in September.