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Music

• 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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Music

• 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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Music

• 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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This is a special holiday bonus episode, a sequel to Episode 210. You’ll want to listen to that one first.

Music

• 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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Music

• 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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Music

• 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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Music

• 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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Music

• 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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Music

• 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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Music

• 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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Music
* 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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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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Music

• 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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Music

• 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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Music
*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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Music

* 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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Music

• 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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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

• 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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Music

• 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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Music

• 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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Music

• 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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Music

• 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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Music

• 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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This episode was originally released in October of 2017 and was produced with engineering assistance from Elizabeth Aubert.

Music

• 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.

Music

• 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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Music

• 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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This episode originally appeared in the winter of 2019.

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Music

• 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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Music

• Romantic Lullaby by Simon Rackham

• Happy Whistler by Group Listening.

• The Return by Library Tapes

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Music

• 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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This episode was originally released as Episode 184: Betty Robinson in July of 2021.

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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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• 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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• 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.

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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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• 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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• 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.

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Back with part two on August 12th. 

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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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• Wasser by H.Takahashi

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Music:

• Flowering Jasmine as performed by Gidon Kremer and the Kremerata Batica.

• Kaspburger by Clogs

• 20 (Lichen) by Berndan Eder Ensemble

• Fall Again by Duval Timothy, Lil Silva and Melanie Faye.

• Wurzer by H.Takahashi

• Bone Collector by Julian Lage and Chris Etheridge

• Titan’s Island by Ancient Oceans

Notes:

• My favorite account (among many) of Richard Etheridge and the story of the Pea Island Surfmen is Fire on the Beach by David Wright and David Zoby.

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Music:

• Suite from A Hatful of Rain from the GOAT, Bernard Herrmann

• Sexfaldur from amiina

• Piano 1 from Emily Sprague

• Earring from Julia Wolfe and Lisa Moore

• The Squirrel, from Herrmann’s score to The Three Worlds of Gulliver

• All in Circles by Shida Shinabi

• Them by Nils Frahm

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Music:

• Rosee by Piano Novel

• Eyes Closed and Traveling by Peter Broderick

• Future Waves by Uther Moads

• Go Home by h. hunt

• Juneau from Danny Bensi and Saunder Jurrians score to Wildlike

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Music:

• Individuation by Eluvium

• Kola - Lighthouse Version by amiina

• Seeming by Helios

• Portrait Gallery by Luke Howard

• Disillusionment for the Emotional Type by You’ll Never Get to Heaven

• Clouds by Hiroshi Yoshimura

Notes:

• Leviathan: the History of Whaling in America by Eric Jay Dolan was super useful and very readable.

• You can find the study on Sperm Whale adaptation in the North Pacific here.

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Music:

• Wiegenfield, S. 198 as played Khatia Buniastihivilli

• Van McCoy sings Mr. DJ

• Vier Stucke fur Xylophon

• Love is Blue by Jackie Mittoo

• Calvary by Quicksilver Messenger Service

• Tizita by Tijist Ejigu

• Violin Solo no. 1 by Peter Broderick

• Two Aquerelles 1. Slow

• The Hustle by Van McCoy

• Coffee Beans by Moondog

• Dogs of Straw from Larry Groupe's score to Straw Dogs

• Flowering Jasmine by George Pelecis

• Visit Croatia by Alabaster DePlume

• Absence by Matti Bye

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Music

• The Last Days of Summer by Maria Avnos.

• Broad Channel (Solo Piano) by Bing & Ruth

• Homesickness (v. 1) by the phenomenal Tsegue-Maryam Guebrou

Notes

• Here she is with Steve Harvey.

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Music

• Unsayable by Brambles.

• Kola - Lighthouse Version by amiina

• A Nearer Sun by the Westerlies

• Duet, a Steve Reich composition, performed by Daniel Hope.

• Reading a Wave by Arp

• April by Kanazu Tomoyuki

• Latent Sonata by Brian McBride

Notes

• The oral history mentioned in this episode is available through the Smithsonian Instittion’’s archives.

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• Metaphysical Waltz by Shirley Meyer Blankenship

• ...morphs into Jock O'Hazeldean by Cynthia Boener

• There's Dominique Dumont's La bataille de neige

• The Squimp from the Chico Hamilton Quintet

• Fruit of Dreams by Les Baxter

• Rags to Riches by Tony Bennett

Notes

• Best place to go if you want to learn a lot about Todd Storz is The Birth of Top 40 Radio: The Storz' Stations Revolution of the 1950s and 1960s by Richard Fatherly and David MacFarland.

• For a loving history of the whole era, you'd probably enjoy Ben Fong Torres' The Hits Just Keep on Coming: The History of Top 40 Radio

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Music

• Sarah in Bath from Komeda's great score to The Fearless Vampire Killers

• David Goes Hunting from Larry Groupe's great score to Straw Dogs

• When It's Time to Go by Buddy Fo and His Group (great name for a backing band, btw)

• Completely Gone from Ludwig Gorannson's score to Everything, Everything

• Peri Banu vid sjon (Version) by DUNGEN

• Debut by Christopher Ferreira

This piece was originally released in February, 2017.

• This piece has two selections from Saunder Jurriens and Danny Bensi’s score to Christine, Yes But and Back to Work.

Notes

• This very good article in the Museum of Hoaxes gives a nice overview and links out to the original article.

• Hampton Sides In the Kingdom of Ice has a nice telling of the story with a lot of background on the editor of the Herald.

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Music

• Waltz for Sky by Muriel Botsdorp

• A Gathering to Lead me When You're Gone by Brian McBride

• 20 (Lichen) by Brendan Eder Ensemble

• Electronium Movie Score by Raymond Scott

• Someday We'll Linger in the Sun by Gaelynn Lea

• 32 (Harp) by Nearly Oratorio

Notes

• By far the most fun and helpful thing I read for this episode was Michael O'Malley's, Keeping Watch: A History of American Time.



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• Memory Waltz from Bernard Herrmann's score to The Snows of Kilimanjaro

• Pink Champagne from Harry Warren's score to An Affair to Remember

• Jonalah from the Chico Hamilton Quintet

• Brouillard, version 2 from Delerue's Jules et Jim score

• Living by Sebastian Plano

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• Spiderwebs of Clouds by Oliia Belli

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This episode was originally released in April of 2020. We are deeply, deeply annoyed that this is still relevant and useful.

20 stories, each 20 seconds, to accompany you in the proper washing of hands.

Stay safe, be well, wash your hands.

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Music

• As Old Roads by Goldmund

• Wake by Taylor Duepree and Marcus Fischer

• Sedentary II by Kyle Bobby Dunn

• Talk to the Church by Gaussian Curve

Notes

• The best resources I found for Sally Story (it’s easy to find out more about Reed v. Reed) came from a couple of sources: 100 Americans Making Constitutional History, A Biographical History, edited by Melvin L. Urovsky. And Natalie Wexler’s article, “Sex Discrimination - a Search for a Standard.”

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This episode contains a full reading of Edgar Allan Poe’s short story, The Masque of the Red Death. Use your discretion before listening. It is both one of the more macabre stories from Poe and it is hitting harder than usual during these peculiar times.

This episode of The Memory Palace was commissioned by the KeyBank Rochester Fringe Festival and the New York State Council of the Arts in 2019.

It’s ideally meant to be listened to at the corner of Corinthian and State downtown. But, you’ll likely enjoy it wherever you are.

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It’s ideally meant to be listened to at the Pont du Rennes while viewing High Falls. But, you’ll likely enjoy it wherever you are.

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Music

• Them by Nils Frahm

• Feathers by Poppy Ackroyd

Notes

• You can read Myles Horton’s book.

• I found The Birth of Citizen Schools: Entwining the Struggles for Literacy and Freedom by David P. Levine particularly useful.

• And especially Clare Russell’s “A Beautician Without Teacher Training: Bernice Robinson, Citizen Schools and women in the Civil Rights Movement.”

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Music

• Ruby by Ali Farka Toure

• Party’s End, from Bernard Herrmann’s score to The Egyptian

• Future Green by Masuhiro Sugaya

• The Boy and the Snake Dance by Charles Cohen

• Vier Stucke for Xylophone as performed by Guniid Keetman

• Opening from Marcelo Zarvos’ score to Please Give

• Herbert’s Story from Mark Orton’s score to Nebraska

• Solitary Living by The Flashbulb

Notes

• You should read Dan De Quille. He’s a good writer! I like his book on the Comstock Load, Big Bonanza.

• Also check out The Tall Tales of Dan De Quille, by C. Grant Loomis from 1946.

• I found this article about Twain’s time in Nevada particularly helpful.

In a terrible summer often filled with stories about monuments to terrible men, here is a story about an American hero. Build monuments to Robert Smalls.

Originally released on February 10th, 2016.

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Music
* Julia Rovinsky plays Phillip Glass’ Metamorphosis I, from her album Dusk.
* There’s an excerpt from Paul Drescher’s “Casa Vecchia,” from the Mirrors: Other Fire album.
* There’s a chunk of Jose Gonzalez’ “Instrumental” from his Stay in the Shade EP.
* “Manny Returns Home” from Bernard Hermann’s score to The Wrong Man.
* Branka Parlic plays Philip Glass’ “Mad Rush.” Twice.
* “Quiet Fan for SK,” by P.G. Six.
* Things get heavy to “Particles of the Universe (Heartbeats)” from Dan Romer and Ben Zeitlin’s score to Beasts of the Southern Wild.

Notes
There’s a lot written about Robert Smalls, with a lot of contradictory information. I found Edward A. Miller’s Gullah Statesman: Robert Smalls from Slavery to Congress particularly useful to sorting it all out.
Some other sources I consulted while researching this piece:
* The Negro’s Civil War: How American Blacks Felt and Acted During the War for the Union by the Don, James McPherson
* From Slavery to Public Service: Robert Smalls, 1839-1915, by Okon Uya.
* And, for what it’s worth, Robert Smalls: The Boat Thief from RFK Jr.’s American Heroes Series is an enjoyable and surprisingly thorough version of the story for young readers, if you’re ever looking for that sort of thing.

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Music

• Adrift by Yameneko

• Lagrimas Negras by Antonio Maria Romeau

• Rainfall by Michael Jones and David Darling

• The Big Ocean by Ben Sollee

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Music

• Peri Banu vid Sjon (VERSION) by Dungen

• In a Landscape by John Cage

• Quartet for Four Percussionists IV: Fast by John Cage

• Dream by John Cage

• Completely Gone by Ludwig Gorannson

• The Introduction and Chi C’e Per Farmi i Rici from The Girl of the Golden West

• L’approche Du Nuage by Sylvain Chaveu

Notes

• The story of John Cage in the anechoic chamber was first told to me maybe twenty years ago by my friend Dave Panosky one night while walking around Providence. It was precisely the type of story that I wanted to one day make a show to tell. You can find it in a lot of places including in Cage’s own writing.

• I first came across the second silent room in Alex Ross’ wonderful, The Rest is Noise.

• I also tapped into Puccini and the Girl: History and Reception of Girl of the Golden West by Annie Randall and Rosalind Gray Davis.

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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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• We hear Armellodie by Chilly Gonzales

• And All Now Vibe by Tara Jane O'Neil

Notes

• The Lavender Scare by David K. Johnson

• Trouble in Lafayette Square by Gil Klein

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Music

• Illusion Perdida by Juan Bautista Guido y Su Orquesta Tipico

• Manny Returns Home and Fingerprints from Bernard Herrmann's score to The Wrong Man.

• Niggun for Solo Bassoon Phillipe Hersant

• Rearranging Furniture by Gabriel Yared

• Viona's Lullaby by Peter Sandberg

Notes

• The archives of the Kansas Historical Quarterly were very useful, particularly this article. 

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• We hear a couple from Alabaster DePlume’s To Cy & Lee album, Whisky Story Time and Not My Ask.

• Bibio’s CAPEL BETHANIA.

• The Sage, by the Chico Hamilton Quintet.

• The Last Tears of a Deceased by Emahoy Tsegue-Maryam Guebrou.

• Too Small for Eyes by Mothers.

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Music

• Ruth and Sylvie from Daniel Hart’s score to Ain’t Them Bodies Saints

• The Walk from Bernard Hermann’s score to Tender is the Night

• Reflector by Bing and Ruth

• Requiem from Nico Mulhy’s score to How to Talk to Girls at Parties

• Under Siege from Warren Ellis’ score to Mustang

• Spaces in Time from Per Nargard and the Stavenger Symphony

• Theme de l’eau from Hikaru Hayashi’s score to The Naked Island

• Bus Ride from the score to Wildlike

• Duke Ellington playing Single Petal from a Rose

Notes

• There’s quite a bit written about Isaac Israel Hayes. You can find his own account of his trip to find the non-existant, open polar sea here.

• I owe the Detroit newspaper quote to this excellent article by Albin Kowaleweski.

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Stay safe, be well, wash your hands.

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Anyway...

Music 

• We hear The Icelandic Society of Phallogy from Rob Simonsen score to The Final Member.

• And one of my favorite songs, Every Day a Sunrise, A Summer from The Telegraph Melts. 

Notes

• I read and enjoyed The Golden Age of the Newspaper by George Douglas. 

• I first learned about Moses Yale Beach and the pigeon reporters in an aside in one of the fantastic stories in Banvard's Folly by Paul Collins, a book you should purchase right now. 

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Music

• Field of Reeds by Leo Svirsky.

• Stellify by Federico Albanese.

• Opening by Nathanial Bartlett.

• Turning 16 by Ben Sollee.

Notes

• I strongly recommend checking out Annelise Orlick's Common Sense and a Little Fire, an exhilarating history of Pauline Newman, Rose Schneiderman and other women at the center of the labor movement in the 20th Century.

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Music

• Philharmonics (Piano Sessions), from Agnes Obel. 

• Pre-Barok by Mica Levi and Oliver Coates. 

• Space in Between by Federico Albanese.

• Warm Canto by Mal Waldron. 

• Blink by Hiroshi Yoshimura.

Notes

• There are two lovely books I relied on heavily for this story: Something to Prove: A Biography of Ann Lowe, Forgotten Designer by Julia Dockery Smith. 

• And Rosemary Read's The Threads of Time, Fabric of History. 

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**Music **

• Artifices from Chapelier Fou.

• A smidge of [Equality Under the Law](http://: https://geo.music.apple.com/us/album/equality-under-the-law/569934319?i=569934714&mt=1&app=music) from John Williams score to Lincoln.

• I Can See Your Tracks (Instrumental) from Laura Veirs.

• Bone Collector by Julian Lage & Chris Eldridge

• Some of Increase by David Lang

• [Serenade for Alto Saxophone and Strings: IV Stella’s Dance](http:// https://geo.music.apple.com/us/album/serenade-for-alto-saxophone-and-strings-v-evensong/462122423?i=462122731&mt=1&app=music) by David Liptak

• Johnny Griffin’s version of [Woody’n You](http:// https://geo.music.apple.com/us/album/woodyn-you-instrumental/1443062797?i=1443063227&mt=1&app=music)

• Last Days of Summer by Maria Avos

Notes

• This story started by reading The War Lovers: Lodge, Hearst, Roosevelt and the Rush to Empire, Evan Thomas’ history of the Spanish American War.

• Doris Kearns Goodwin adds more in The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys.

• Lodge’s memoir is here.

• Robert Grant’s is here.

• Henry Adams’ is here.

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This episode was originally produced for an episode of Radiolab from WNYC, released in August of 2019.

Music

• Cul-de-Sac from Krzysztof Komeda’s Knife in the Water.

• [The Mistral Noir](http:// https://geo.music.apple.com/us/album/the-mistral-noir/973468266?i=973468267&mt=1&app=music) by Daniel Herskedal.

• [Trakors](http:// https://geo.music.apple.com/us/album/tr%C3%A4kors-f%C3%A4ltinspelad/1446106006?i=1446106011&mt=1&app=music) by 1900.

• Eloy by Deaf Center.

• [Leaping Dance](http:// https://geo.music.apple.com/us/album/leaping-dance/265055509?i=265055945&mt=1&app=music) from the Netherlands Wind Ensemble

• And Facing the Obstacles from Rob Simonson’s score to the Final Member.

Notes

• This episode relied heavily on the work and research of Professor Gabriel Rosenberg of Duke, using his article, “No Scrubs: Livestock Breeding, State Power, and Eugenic Knowledge in the Early 20th Century United States” as a guide and jumping off point for other research.

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Music

• First up is Requiem from Nico Muhly’s score to How to Talk to Girls at Parties.

• November by Colleen.

• Edward Hong’s arrangement of Sleep from the Smoke and Mirrors Percussion Ensemble.

• The solo version of Broad Channel by Bing & Ruth

• Won’t Be a Thing to Become by Colin Stetson and Sarah Neufeld

Notes

• Here’s Shane DuBay and Carl Fuldner’s study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, including Fuldner’s remarkable photographs.

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MUSIC

• Amalgamation Waltz 1839 by Joep Beveng

• Now by Goldmund

• Wander On from Joel P West's score to Band of Robbers.

• Tomato Day by Kelpe. 

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Music

• Waveland by Noam Pikelny.

Notes

• I relied a lot on the extensive articles on the Monticello historic home's site maintained by the University of Virginia.

• As well as Dining at Monticello: In Good Taste and Abundance by Damon Lee Fowler.

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Music

• Still Space by Satoshi Ashikawa.

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Music 

• Inside River, Pt. 1 by Akira Kosuemura. .

• Sonata for Solo Cello 1: Dialogo by Ligeti, performed by Miklos Perenyi.

• All the Land Ablaze by Laura Cannell

• Frost Trees from Lalo Schiffren's score to The Fox.

• And Finding the Flag from Georges Delarue's score to The Day of the Dolphin.

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Music 

• We start with 666 from the score to The Omen.

• Transition to Fremd by Lambert.

• Go to Monster Mash by Bobby "Boris" Pickett.

• Hear some of Leonard Berstein's score to Rebel Without a Cause.

• Hit Denmark by the Portland Cello Project

• And hear some of Musette's On the Green Tape.

Notes

• Bobby's story is covered in a lot of histories of one hit wonders and novelty tunes. But, if you want to really dig in, you should read, Monster Mash: Half Dead in Hollywood, his autobiography.

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Music 

• We start with The Dane by Nihls Frahm.

• Move in and out of Reading a Wave by Arp

• Which mixes briefly with Stephen Gosling and Blair Macmillan playing John Adams' Hallelujah Junction.

• We also here Umitaro Abe play Reperages Pour Piano.

• And Brambles play Such Owls as You.

Notes

• There's a pretty comprehensive book on Bayocean by Bert and Margie Webber called Bayocean: the Oregon Town That Fell Into the Sea

• There's also a terrific website that appears to be regularly updating that's filled with all sorts of stories and resources about Bayocean.

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Music 

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

• Glass Houses no. 13 from Ann Southern.

• 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.

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Music 

• We hear Vaggvisa by Henrik Lindstrand.

• Then Kestrel, off the album by the same name from Caoimhin O Raghallaigh.

• Ljuva mekaniska jag by 1900.

• A loop from When it's Time to Go, by Buddy Fo & his Group.

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

• Making Love in the Apartment from Krysztof Komeda's score to Rosemary's Baby.

• And the Mistral Noir, from Daniel Herkedal.

Notes

• There's a lot written about Kelly and his times, none more enjoyable than Bill Bryson's in One Summer: America, 1927.

• The best academic book that touches on Kelly and his times is Dance Marathons: Performing American Culture in the 1920s and 30s, by Carol Martin.

Here in its tenth year in operation, the Memory Palace just got a star turn in the wonderful podcast and radios show, Radiolab. We couldn’t be more delighted.

So, a word of welcome to new listeners and a call to arms for regular listeners and a story perfect for the end of summer.

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Music 

• Absence by Matti Bye.

Notes

• There are a number of excellent books about Viola Liuzzo. I found Selma and the Liuzzo Murder 

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Music

• On-ness by Tom Rogerson and Brian Eno.

• My Mamma Pinned a Rose on Me by Esmerine.

• Some of Eloy by Deaf Center.

• Saturday Evening by Tomasz Benarczyk

• Solitary Living by The Flashbulb

• A Minor by Kid606

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Music

• Duet for Ghosts by Ed Harcourt tops and tails this one.

• We here the top of Pomeriggio Zenzero from Paulo Conte.

• Some of Thankful by Bill Frissell.

• And Ingo Metzmacher's 6th Study for Player Piano

Notes

• The most comprehensive thing I read on George Melendez Wright is from this supplementary piece to the Burns National Parks documentary, by Susan Shumaker.

As on every year, here is an episode I released a few days after the murders at the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, Florida on June 12, 2016.

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Music

• We hear both Baracolle and Ice World from Saloli's album, The Deep End.

• We hear Ensemble Recherche do Morton Feldman's Something Wild in the City: Mary Ann's Theme. 

• As well as De Wolfe Music do Moonbird.

• Harry Kalahiki does that Ukelele version of Claire de Lune

• We get a snipped of Eartheater's Peripheral

• And E Ruscha V's The Hostess

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Music

• We hear Concierto Para Piano Y Orquesta En Sol Mayor - Adagio Assi as played by Martha Argerich.

Notes

• Jacob S. Robinson's Journal of the Santa Fe Expedition Under Colonel Doliphan in 1846.

• Hampton Sides' fantastic Blood and Thunder.

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Music

• We start off with a touch of Hills in the Rain, by Simon Rackham.

• Go to a bit of Narkopop 1 by Gas.

• Then gaze in wonder to Grofe's Grand Canyon Suite: Sunrise, as performed by the Cincinatti Pops Orchestra

• We listen to two versions of Trying Something Again, Again by our friends in Lullatone.

• And go out on Jaybird, by Charlie Parr

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Music

• We start off with Chez Thomas, by Charles Delarue

• Go to The Graceful Ghost, one of William Bolcom's 3 Ghost Rags.

• Then Krzysztof Komeda's Ballet Edude II

• A touch of Ellington playing A Single Petal on a Rose.

• Then Concerto no. 5 en la minuer: Allegro ma non molto, as performed by Wilhelm Friedeman Bach and Brigitte Haudbebourg frames...

• Philharmonics - Piano Sessions found on the Deluxe Edition of Agnes Obel's Philharmonics album.

• Then we go to Nathaniel Johnson's gorgeous, Penelope's Theme from the score to the delightful film, The Brothers Bloom.

• Sneeuwland by Oskar Schuster.

• Judith by Jacob David.

Notes

• I read a bunch of articles on Jackie, but if you're looking for one-stop-shopping that can send you off in other research avenues, I'd probably suggest this article by Zack Harold in Lapham's Quarterly.

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Music

• First up is Requiem from Nico Muhly's score to How to Talk to Girls at Parties.

• November by Colleen.

• Edward Hong's arrangement of Sleep from the Smoke and Mirrors Percussion Ensemble.

• The solo version of Broad Channel by Bing & Ruth

• Won't Be a Thing to Become by Colin Stetson and Sarah Neufeld

Notes

• Here's Shane Dubay and Carl Fuldner's study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, including Fuldner's remarkable photographs.

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Music

• Blink from Hiroshi Yoshimura

• Which comes in and out of Bjolukor Tonlisterakoli Reykjanesbaejar's version of Sigur Ros' Hoppipolla.

• Love Token by Elena Kats-Chernin, performed by Tamara Anna Cislowska

• And Joanna Brouk playing Maggi's Flute - Lifting Off

Notes

• There's
  a ton out there about the sixty starlings, the most comprehensive comes
  from Stephen Marche's book, How Shakespeare Changed Everything.

• I also found Kim Todd's [Tinkering with Eden,](http://%22Tinkering%20With%20Eden:%20A%20Natural%20History%20of%20Exotic%20Species%20in%20America) particularly useful.

On the 80th Anniversary of the night 20,000 Americans attended a Nazi Rally in the heart of Manhattan, the Memory Palace is teaming up with Radio Diaries. We’ll hear their new story about that rally after we listen back to a Memory Palace episode that took place on that same evening, in which some Nazis get punched.

Learn more about this evening at www.radiodiaries.org.

For info on the original Memory Palace episode, head here.

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Music

• Sarah in Bath from Krysztof Komeda's score to the Fearless Vampire Killers. 

• Adagio for Glass Harmonica, K617a as performed by Vienna Glass Armonia Duo.

• Mr. Death Angel Flanders from John Barry's score to Boom!

• And a bit of Imaginary Building from Elana Katz-Cherwin and Tamara-Anna Cislowska

Notes

• There's a great American Heritage article on the history of Delmonico's.

• There's a nice write up on the Swan Dinner in American Phoenix: The Remarkable Story of William Skinner, by Sarah S. Kilborne 

• Society as I Have Found It, Ward McAllister's memoir of the Gilded Age is appropriately bonkers. 

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Music

• Only in the Dark by Ben Lukas Boysen

• Dream House III: After Dust by Mary Ellen Childs and Ethel

• Cello Gonzalez by Chilly Gonzalez

Notes

• A Brief History of Teratology to the Early 20th Century by Mark V. Barrow

• Environment and Birth Defects by James G. Wilson

• Six Principals of Teratology by James G. Wilson

Each year for the last three years, Nate picks his personal favorite. Here’s 2018. See you in 2019.

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Music

• We start off with an absolute banger from my old friends in Lightning Bolt, their track King Kandy.

• Then an old favorite, Blues to Elvin from the unstoppable, Coltrane Plays the Blues.

• We move to Everything is an Illusion by Kaada

• Hear Rolling by Collectress

• And finish out on The Dog by Group Listening.

Notes

• I read quite a bit for this one but nothing was more helpful (or more charming) than Save Womens Lives History of Washing Machines by Lee Maxwell, who bills himself on the cover as "Collector of Old and Unusual Washing Machines." God bless Lee and his patient wife.

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Notes
* There are a gajillion things that you can and should read about this period. I’m almost loathe to tell you where to begin. So: some of the details for this story were found in this remarkable article by Claude Sitton.

Music
* We hear a segment of Holding Pattern, by Loscii.
* Secrets you Could Sift, by Mr. Maps.
* And Requiem on Frankfort Ave, by Eluvium.

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Music

• We hear both Easter and The Attachment by Michael Price.

• Some of DNA by Akira Kosemura.

• Piano & Violoncello 1 by Irena and Voltech Havel.

• Zucht 2 by Machinefabriek

• The Walk from the score to Tender is the Night.

• Rendez-vous from Allesandro Cicognini's score to The Indiscretion of an American Wife.

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Music

• We start with the very English, Voluntary No. 4 in b-flat Minor, by Margaret Phillips.

• Hear Nero's Nocturne from Chilly Gonzales.

• Some of The Stars vs. Creatures by Colleen.

• Abide with Me from the Thelonious Monk Septet off his Monk's Music album.

• Walzer fur Robert by Anne Muller off of Erased Tapes Volume 5.

• Evening at Eight by Keith Kenniff.

• and Berceuse by Alexandra Streliski.

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Music

• We hear Waltz from the score to Angels & Insects.

• Movements IV and II from David Liptak’s Serenade for Alto Sax and Strings.

• A bit of Violin Solo no. 1 from Peter Broderick.

• Some of Zucht 2 from Machienfabrik.

• A bit of Origami Tulips from Lullatone.

• Unseen Forces from Justin Walter.

• Midnight Moon from Annalisa Tornfelt and Gideon Freudman

• Ida Lupino from Paul Bley’s Changes album from 1965.

• And Lost Fur (Reprise) from the score to Where the Wild Things Are.

Notes

• Many of my favorite things I read for this piece were contemporary newspaper tributes upon her death in 1911. They’re easy to find.

• By far the most useful thing I read was Lenore Skomal’s *The Lighthouse Keeper’s Daughter: The Remarkable True Story of American Heroine, Ida Lewis. *It’s very well researched and highly readable.

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Music

• The music on this one comes from High Aura'd, a project from my old friend, John Kolodij. The main drone piece is All the Spirits that Dance. The beginning and end were composed specifically for this episode.

Notes

• I read a lot of articles from a lot of sources on this one, but the linchpin here is Jeffrey Lockwood's book that, to my mind, convincingly solves the mystery of the vanishing locusts.

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Music

• We start with Penguins from Michael Hurley.
• Hit Lullaby (the 1st) by the legendary, Lauren Connors, twice.
• Hear Gentle Threat, from Chilly Gonzalez.
• Equality Under the Law from John Williams' Lincoln score.
• Start talking Philadelphia with Sun Ra's Arkestra doing The Lady with the Golden Stockings.
• Maggi's Flute - Lifting Off, by Joanna Brouk
• In an 18th Century Drawing Room from Raymond Scott.
• And Evelop from Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith

Music

* Under the credits is Harlaamstrat 74 off of John Dankworth’s Modesty Blaise score. * The opening loop is from Mr. Knight from Coltrane Plays the Blues, which you should own. * The violin piece is Occam II for Violin, a piece by Silvia Tarozzi, played by Pauline Oliveros. * Next up is Mikuro’s Blues from the mighty David S. Ware’ mighty Go See the World. * The amazing orchestral pieces is Triumph by Miguel Atwood-Ferguson and Carlos Nino from Fill the Heart- Shaped Cup * Finally, there’s 13 Ghosts II by Nine Inch Nails from Ghosts I-IV

White Heat, White Lights

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Music

• The Bundt Diaries from Ludwig Goransson's score to Everything, Everything.
• Kola (Lighthouse Version) by Amiina.
• Snow Canon by Group Listening.
• The Morning After by the Chico Hamilton Quintet. (Man, I just watched The Sweet Smell of Success recently; the Chico Hamilton Quintet makes the best, sustained appearance in a great, great movie).
• Colleen's Geometria del Universo.
• Bug's Walk by Peter Storby Jutbring.
• Touch Me & Die by Kara-Lis Coverdale
• The Last Tears of a Deceased by the inimitable Tsegue-Maryam Guebrou.

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Music

• Drunken Aviator by Ida.
• Back to Paris by Cyril Morin.

Notes 

• There's a great resource of old ads and articles, including the one referenced in the piece here.
• The definitive work on this subject is Help Me to Find My People by Heather Andrea Williams.

This piece was originally released a few days after the shooting deaths of 49 people at the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, Florida. It is re-released here on the second anniversary of the event. 

If you are so moved, please donate to any of these charities:

Equality Florida.

Human Rights Campaign.

Everytown for Gun Safety.

Trans Lifeline

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Music

• White Light by Chihei Hatekeyama
• Between the Trees by Akira Kosemura
• Clockwork Toccatta, Op. 68 from Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet.
• End of Summer Part 3 by Hildur Gudnadottir and Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe
• A Gathering to Lead Me When You're Gone by Brian McBride

Notes

• While the most comprehensive and useful thing I read for this piece was The Year Without a Summer: 1816 and the Volcano that Darkened the World and Changed history by William and Nicholas Klingaman, my favorite thing was this video of a news report on the work of Vermont historian, Howard Coffin.

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Music

• We start with Waveland by Norm Pikelny.
• Then a smidge of N.Y.C. from the original Broadway cast recording of Annie.
• The Stars vs. Creatures by Colleen.
• Wiese by Roedelius & Arnold Kasar.
• Then there's some chaos built out of Missing Piece from the score to Broken City, Fog Tropes by Ingram Marshall, Spindrift by Colin Stetson, and Longing for a Frozen Sky by Ernst Reijseger.
• That heads into Wake by Aaron Martin & Machinfabriek.
• Galaxies Like Grains of Sand by Hampshire & Foat.
• Finishing on Minuet for Cheap Piano by Winged Victory for the Sullen

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Music

• We hear Ferris Wheel by Gabor Szabo from one of his better late sixties records.
• Herman's Malt from Jeff Russo's score to Fargo Season 2.
• David Goes Hunting from Larry Groupe's score to Straw Dogs.
• Double Portrait by Double Edge from the album, U.S. Choice.
• A snippet of Idea of Order at Kyson Point from an album Brian Eno did with Tom Rogerson.
• Bicycles and Flasks by Dan Romer.
• A bit of Il Tamoure dei Bambini from Piero Umiliani's score to Le Isole Dell'amore
• A Naga Swaram-Snake Charmers Melody from Folk Music of India
• Finishes out on Completely Gone from Ludwig Goransson's score to Everything Everything.

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Music

• 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.

A quick update and a brief little bonus episode. 

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Music

• We hear Valentine My Funny by Nils Frahm and F.S. Blumm from the album Tag Eins Tag Zwei.

Notes

• This idea came to me a long time ago while researching an old episode. I read an extraordinary article from the 1890s that hung with me, particularly the notion of folks writing in to try to become sideshow attractions.

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This special episode was originally made for a live episode of The West Wing Weekly. To hear a live version of this story (and the rest of a particularly delightful TWWW episode), visit thewestwingweekly.com. 

Music

• Moonbow by aAirial
• Two from scores by Marcelo Zavros: Wipe the Slate Clean, from The Beaver and Awkward Ride from his score to Please Give.
• Justine and Sami from Nathan Johnson's lovely score to The Day I Saw Your Heart.

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Music

• We start with Facing the Obstacles, from Robert Simonson's score to The Final Member.
• Nice Breeze Isn't It? by Simon Rackham
• The Things Left Unsaid, by Caleb Burhans.
• View from a Balcony by Isorinne.
• 1979 by Deru.
• The Julianna Barwick remix of This Will Destroy You's The Puritan.

Notes

• I found this article by Chelsea Lenhart particularly useful.
• As I did this one by Edward Lawler, Jr.
• And this one by Kathryn Gehred.
• As well as W.E.B. DuBois' The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study.
• Fritz Herschfield's George Washington and Slavery, A Documentary Study. 

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Music

• We hit two sections from Bernard Herrmann's score to Tender is the Night: The Embrace and The Breakdown.
• A bit of Sambolero by Luiz Bonfa.
• Labyrinth II by Caitlin Aurelia Smith.
• Walter Meets the Beaver from Marcel Zavros' score to The Beaver.
• Two tracks, "1" & "2" from AAESPO's album, Layers.
• Maria Arvos' Last Days of Summer.
• And Time Times Three by Palm.

Notes

• The most comprehensive article I encountered on Doug Davis is here.
• I found this biographical essay on Otto Schnering particularly useful.
• The Oxford Companion to American Food & Drink, edited by Andrew F. Smith.

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Music

• 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 France 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.

Show Notes

Nate DiMeo is the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Artist in Residence for 2016/2017. He is producing ten pieces inspired by the collection and by the museum itself. This is the sixth episode of that residency.

This residency is made possible by the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Chester Dale Fund.

This episode is written and produced and stuff by Nate DiMeo with engineering assistance from Elizabeth Aubert. Its Executive Producer is Limor Tomer, General Manager Live Arts, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Special thanks to Jimmy LaValle and Mark Kozelek.

The Art Discussed

• Gallery 719, the Alexandria Ballroom.

Music 

• The piece features excerpts of two, instrumental outtakes from Ceiling Gazing from Mark Kozelek and Jimmy LaValle's album, Perils from the Sea.
• California Dawn and Mountain Path from WMD.
• An instrumental version of Retune by The Range.

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Music

• Sad Seine by Lambert.
• Titan's Island by Ancient Ocean
• Flowering Jasmine as performed by Georgs Pelicis and Gidon Kremer
• Malpensa by Julia Kent

Notes

• I first came upon the Calhoun bit while re-reading Talking to the Dead: Kate and Maggie Fox and the Rise of Spiritualism by Barbara Weisberg.
• Which us, among other places to J.H. Fowler's New Testament "miracles" and Modern "miracles" 
• And to the delightfully named, The Ordeal of Life: Graphically Illustrated in the Experiences of Fifteen Hundred Individuals Promiscuously Drawn from All Nations, Religions, Classes, & Conditions of Men Alphabetically Arranged and Given Psychometrically, Through the Mediumship of John C. Grinnell, In the Presence of the Compiler, Thomas R. Hazard. 

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Music

• Musica Seqenza play Schreza Infida
• Frederico Durand plas Lluvia de Estrellas
• The Martin Hayes Quintet plays The Boy in the Gap
• East Forest by Provenance
• There's a bit of Madame Ovary from Bensi and Jurriaans and Christine
• It finishes on Three Dances: II. Pavane from Chromo Tuba Quartet

Notes

• Thanksgiving: The Biography of an American Holiday by James W. Baker and Peter J. Gomes sent me first down a Charlotte Mitchell rabbit hole.
• History of Plymouth, Norfolk, and Barnstable Counties, Massachusetts by Elroy S. Thompson
• History of the Town of Lakeville, 1852-1952 by Gladys De Maranville (which you probably own all ready but, here it is anyway).
• Indian History, Genealogy, Pertaining to the Good Sachem, Massasoit and his Descendants by Ebenezer Weaver Pierce.
• The great, The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity, by Jill Lepore.
• Massasoit of the Wamponoags: With Commentary on the Indian Character, by Alvin Gardner Weeks
• "Baby Pilgrims, Sturdy Forefathers, and One Hundred Percent Americanism: the Mayflower Tercentenary of 1920," by Christine Arnold-Lourie in the Massachusetts Historical Review.
• "The Daughter of a King," by Mike Maddigan in Southcoast Today.
• "The Last of the Wamponoags," by Charles T. Scott in New England Magazine, vol. 33.
• I also looked at a number of news paper articles, most found at Newspapers.com through the expected search terms.

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Music

• Up Niek Mountain by Peter Broderick
• El cascabel de plata by Federico Durand
• We hear just a little bit of imgs/ r by Kara-Lis Coverdale
• Dissolving Clouds by Biosphere
• Nebula by Julianna Barwick
• Only in the Dark by Ben Lukas Boysen

Notes

• Bittersweet: Diabetes, Insulin, & the Transformation of Illness by Chris Feudtner
• Breakthrough: Elizabeth Hughes, the Discovery of Insulin, and the Making of A Medical Miracle by Thea Cooper and Arthur Ainsberg
• I'd also recommend searching the New York Times archive for Elizabeth Hughes and Diabetes. It's remarkable to go back and watch the story unfold.

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Music

• Afkald by Bremer/McCoy
• Peace by Oliver Coates.
• Day One Four by F.S. Blumm and Nils Frahm
• Displacement by Rafael Anton Irisarri

Notes

• Some sources for this one were The Glory and the Dream by William Manchester.
• Herbert Hoover: A Life by Glen Jeansonne
• Herbert Hoover in the White House: The Ordeal of The Presidency, by Charles Rappleye
• The Life of Herbert Hoover, Humanitarian, by George H. Nash

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Music

• 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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SPOILERS AHEAD

Music

• Memory as Mist by C. Diab
• Low Sudden by Daniel Lanois and Rocco DaLuca
• Beyond Romance by Lubomyr Melnyk

Notes

• By far the most comprehensive resource I found was Florida's Hurricane History by Jay Barnes. If you're looking to learn more, I'd definitely start there.

Show Notes

Nate DiMeo was the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Artist in Residence for 2016/2017. He produced 8 episodes inspired by the collection and by the museum itself. This is the eigth episode of that residency.

This residency is made possible by the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Chester Dale Fund.

This episode is written and produced and stuff by Nate DiMeo with engineering assistance from Elizabeth Aubert. Its Executive Producer is Limor Tomer, General Manager Live Arts, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Artwork Discussed

• Hiawatha, Edmonia Lewis, 1868.
• Minnehaha, Edmonia Lewis, 1868.

Music

• L'oree Du Bois, by Sylvain Chauvau.

In lieu of your standard end-of-summer re-run, here is a very special re-run. No! Wait! I mean it. It's pretty cool. Here's the thing: Todavia, a new literary publisher in Brazil has just put out a book of Memory Palace stories translated into Brazilian Portuguese. (Purchasable world-wide through this site, if you happen to be interested),

This very special re-run has all sorts of Brazil-related bonus content, including a full episode of Helen Zaltzman's, The Allusionist. Subscribe to that fine podcast, here.

This special, bonus episode was commissioned by Freepoint Hotel in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It's intended to be listened to while walking around Fresh Pond, across the street from the hotel, though it can be enjoyed anywhere. 

Show Notes

Nate DiMeo was the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Artist in Residence for 2016/2017. He produced eight pieces inspired by the collection and by the museum itself. This is the eighth episode of that residency.

This residency is made possible by the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Chester Dale Fund.

This episode is written and produced and stuff by Nate DiMeo with engineering assistance from Elizabeth Aubert. Its Executive Producer is Limor Tomer, General Manager Live Arts, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

This episode was produced in collaboration with composer, Mary Lattimore.

Artwork Discussed

• The Henry R. Luce Center for the Study of American Art.

Music

• The music in this piece was composed and performed by Mary Lattimore.

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SPOILERS AHEAD

Music

• We start with Moonlight by Masayoshi Fujita.
• We hear a couple from Warren Ellis: Piece 3 and Lala's Theme.
• We hear Paranoid and Credits 2 from the score to Christine.
• And Junkman's Song by Stark Reality.

Notes

• There's a succinct, well-written telling of the ins and outs of Elmer's life and after-life in Christine Quigley's Modern Mummies: The Preservation of the Human Body in the 20th Century.
• I also enjoyed The Career of Elmer McGurdy, Deceased, by Basgall and Arthur.

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Music

• Max Och's Ain't Nobody High Raga.
• Frog's Eyes by Evan Ziporyn
• Cooped up at Home with a Fever and a Tape Loop, by Lullatone
• Medieval Waters, from Carter Burwell's score to In Bruges.
• Frost Trees, from Lalo Schifrin's score to The Fox

Notes

• By far my favorite and the most thorough examination of the Pow Wow I came across was actually Disney Historian Todd James Pierce's three (!) part series about the incident on his podcast Disney History Institute.

This piece was originally released a few days after the shooting deaths of 49 people at the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, Florida. It is re-released here on the second anniversary of the event. 

If you are so moved, please donate to any of these charities:

Equality Florida.

Human Rights Campaign.

Everytown for Gun Safety.

Trans Lifeline

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Notes

• The most comprehensive book about Rose has to be Ann Blackman's Wild Rose: The True Story of a Confederate Spy.
• I also found an old book, Rebel Rose: Life of Rose O'Neale Greenhow, Confederate Spy, by Ishbel Ross particularly useful (if pretty rah-rah Confederacy, which gets kind of intense).
• Rose's memoir is very readable, too.

Music

• Marnie, from Bernard Hermann's score
• Don't Worry, by Zoe Keating
• Debut, by Christopher Ferreira
• El cascabel de plata, by Federico Durand
• Technology, by Gareth Dickson
• Longest Road, by Gaussian Curve
• Troubles, by Sylvain Chauvau
• Compesicion en Rojo, by Bernardo Bonezzi

Nate DiMeo is the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Artist in Residence for 2016/2017. He is producing ten pieces inspired by the collection and by the museum itself. This is the sixth episode of that residency.

This residency is made possible by the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Chester Dale Fund.

This episode is written and produced and stuff by Nate DiMeo with engineering assistance from Elizabeth Aubert. Its Executive Producer is Limor Tomer, General Manager Live Arts, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Special thanks to Jimmy LaValle and Mark Kozelek.

The Art Discussed

• Gallery 719, the Alexandria Ballroom.

Music 

• The piece features excerpts of two, instrumental outtakes from Ceiling Gazing from Mark Kozelek and Jimmy LaValle's album, Perils from the Sea.
• California Dawn and Mountain Path from WMD.
• An instrumental version of Retune by The Range.

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Music

• We hear a bunch of Ryland, by Julian Lage off his World's Fair LP.
• We hear the Flamingos do Where or When.
• We hear Chilly Gonzalez' Salon Salloon
• And finish out on Small Memory by Jon Hopkins

Notes

• There's a bunch out there about the Camel Corps. You'll have fun Googling around. But some of the best details in here, including the remarkable thing about the Red Ghost, comes from this article from a 1961 issue of American Heritage. 

Music, Footnotes & Ephemera

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Music

• We start out with some of Pound for Pound from The Bad Plus
• Go to Waltz by Mother Falcon
• Into the Light by Marisa Anderson
• With Everything that Breathes by Greg Haines
• Day One Four by F.S. Blum and Nils Frahm
• Andrew Cyrille, Jimmy Lyons, and Jeanne Lee do Nuba
• And then Davis S. Ware does Mikuro’s Blues, which I’ve loved for a long time.

This episode was originally released in August of 2015. It was re-released upon hearing that the city of New Orleans has begun the process of removing four monuments to the confederacy and post-civil war era, starting with an obelisk erected in 1891 honoring members of the Crescent City White League who suppressed the African American vote through violence and intimidation and who launched a failed military overthrow of the city’s elected government and integrated police force in 1874.

Music * First up (and returning at the end) is Sandra's Theme, from Heather McIntosh's fantastic score to Compliance, a very good, very disturbing movie. * We hit Frank Glazer leading Charles Ives' Largo for Clarinet, Violin and Piano a couple of times, framing... * Runaway from Olafur Arnalds.

Notes: *The key to researching this episode turned out to be an article in The Journal of Southern History from 2001 by Court Carnay called, "The Contested Image of Nathan Bedford Forrest.". * Also particularly useful was Nathan Bedford Forrest: a Biography, by Jack Hurst. * As was Lynching in America: A History in Documents, compiled by Christopher Waldrep. * Much of my information about the contents of the ceremony and speeches was gathered from this, the digitized journal and scrapbook of Charles Henry Niehaus, the sculptor of the monument. It's an extraordinary resource. * And let us all read Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All its Phases, by Ida B. Wells. And let's put her on the $10 while we're at it.

Nate DiMeo is the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Artist in Residence for 2016/2017. He is producing ten pieces inspired by the collection and by the museum itself. This is the fifth episode of that residency.

This residency is made possible by the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Chester Dale Fund.

This episode is written and produced and stuff by Nate DiMeo with engineering assistance from Elyssa Dudley and research Assistance from Andrea Milne. Its Executive Producer is Limor Tomer, General Manager Live Arts, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

The Art Discussed * The Temple of Dendur.

Music * As Much as Possible by Bing & Ruth. * Parcel by Melanie Velarde. * Field Hymn by Syrinx. * Wawa by the Ocean by Mary Lattimore. * Turning 16 and Trading Flags by Ben Sollee.

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Music

• We open with Mary Lattimore's Jimmy V. I love Mary Lattimore.
• We hit Hatian guitarist Frantz Casseus' Lullaby from 1954 a few times.
• We hear Drifting, by Matthew Robert Cooper.
• And A Fool Persists by Infinite Body.
• The two piano things are Open Window - For Piano by Yuichiro Fujimoto, and Pale by Akira Kosemura.
• We also hear Gareth Dickson's Friday Night Fever for a bit.

Notes

• I learned about Ynes while flipping idly through the 1974 edition of Notable American Women: A Biographical Dictionary (volume II, G-O, incidentally), "prepared under the Auspices of Radcliffe College," as it says on the frontispiece.
• By far the most comprehensive thing I read was biography for young readers called Ynes Mexia: Botanist and Adventurer by Durlynn Anema.

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Music

• We hear three pieces of Matthew Robert Cooper's score to Some Days Are Better Than Others: Expectation, Drifting, and Katrina Outtake.

Notes

• If you want the story of the construction of the actual Washington Monument, you could check out John Steele Gordon's book.

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Music

• This piece has two selections from Saunder Jurriens and Danny Bensi's score to Christine, Yes But and Back to Work.

Notes

• This very good article in the Museum of Hoaxes gives a nice overview and links out to the original article.
• Hampton Sides In the Kingdom of Ice has a nice telling of the story with a lot of background on the editor of the Herald.

Nate DiMeo is the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Artist in Residence for 2016/2017. He is producing ten pieces inspired by the collection and by the museum itself. This is the second episode of that residency.

This residency is made possible by the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Chester Dale Fund.

This episode is written and produced and stuff by Nate DiMeo with engineering assistance from Elyssa Dudley and research Assistance from Andrea Milne. Its Executive Producer is Limor Tomer, General Manager Live Arts, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Special thanks to Amelia Peck at The Met.

The Art Discussed * Prince Demah Barnes’ Portrait of William Duguid. * Interwoven Globe: The Worldwide Textile Trade, 1500-1800

Music * Kyu and Njuichi from Sylvain Chauvau’s score to Umarete Wa Mita Keredo. * Moonbow by aAirial. * Gisella by K. Leimer from A Period of Review. * Here’s What You’re Missin and And Then it Rained from Bing & Ruth’s album City Lake.

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Music

• We start and end with Daniel Berenboim playing Lizt's 6 Consolations, S. 172: No. 3 in D flat minor.
• We hit up Yes But, from Danny Bensi and Saunder Jurriens' score to Christine.
• We return to the official Memory Palace love theme of William Henry Harrison, The Gentle Softness, Lalo Schiffrin's score to The Last Dragon
• We cruise on the U.S.S. Princeton to Dispute by Yann Tiersen.
• Twist comes to Missing Pieces from the Broken City score.

Notes

• I read quite a bit about the Tylers, but really, one needs only to read "and Tyler Too," by Robert Seager II.

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Music

• We start with (and later return to) And Grace by David Darling.
• Robert Farnon and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra play Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. Suite II: The Wind which turns into Niggun for Solo Bassoon by Philippe Hersant.
• Then we hit Neon Lights by Kraftwerk from The Man Machine.
• And The Gentle Softness, the love theme to Enter The Dragon from Lalo Schifrin’s score.
• And hit up our friends Lullatone at the end with Origami Tulips.