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Episode #526

A Man and a Woman and a Blackbird Are One

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Friday, February 25, 2005

Perspectives on the voices coming out of the radio and how they got there. Also, a close reading of a Wallace Stevens poem - brought to you by a group of sometimes restless, but more often captivated, fifth graders. And jazz piano from musical guest Kenny Barron.

Insta-Movie

Heard on the street – actors on an impromptu movie set, improvising scenes that moments later are projected onto a screen before a live audience in a theater just a few yards away. It’s the work of the New York improv group Neutrino.

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Hearing Voices

radio God? Satan? The dead? In the early days of transmission, those were just a few of the explanations listeners made up to explain the voices they heard coming out of their radios. Even today, for some, radio hasn’t lost its otherworldly power. Amanda ...

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Western Winds

One Ring Zero Novelist Paul Auster and the band One Ring Zero collaborated on the band's album, "As Smart as We Are." Then they pulled Auster’s 16-year-old daughter Sophie into the mix. We stopped by a modest recording studio in the heart of Brooklyn to ...

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Thirteen Ways

Wallace Stevens Step into a classroom in Queens, New York, filled with restless eleven-year-olds. At the front sits Sam Swope, a visiting writer who is determined to teach these children the pleasures of reading Wallace Stevens’s "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird." Take a ...

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By Heart

Kenny Barron Saxophonist Stan Getz once described pianist Kenny Barron as the "other half of my heart." Barron is known for his soft and soulful playing. Listen in as he joins Dean in the studio to play music and talk about his life as ...

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