The Atlantic’s Derek Thompson looks at what cities with fewer cars can tell us about driving and density. Frank Langella on playing King Lear in the new production of Shakespeare’s tragedy at the BAM. Jamie Ford talks about his latest novel, Songs of Willow Frost. Greg Grandin discusses an 1805 slave rebellion aboard a ship in the South Pacific. and what it reveals about anti-slavery views.
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In this episode: Actress Jessie Mueller plays a very convincing Carole King in the new Broadway musical Beautiful. The young star talks about her one and only meeting with the legendary songwriter and s she performs songs from the show live in the Soundcheck studio.
Then, Nobel Prize-winning Princeton economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman also happens to be a diehard music fan. He shares a few favorite songs as part of Soundcheck's series Pick Three.
And: Beats Music is the latest entry in an already over-crowded market of streaming music services market that includes Spotify, Rdio, Pandora, and others. So how does Beats Music compare? Eliot Van Buskirk, editor at Evolver.fm, gives his first impressions after a week with the new service.
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For this New Sounds, listen to highlights from the 2014 New York Guitar Festival Marathon concert, recorded at and by Merkin Hall. The program was full of music from both North and South America, and took place on January 20, 2014 (Martin Luther King Day.) Listen to California guitarist Connie Sheu, playing music from Canada, along with Jorge Caballero playing music by American composer John Major. There’s also music from Uruguay & Brazil performed by the Uruguayan and Brazilian duo, Duo Siqueira-Lima. Plus, hear music from New York Guitar Festival co-curator William Kanengiser, and still more Brazilian guitar music from the Brasil Guitar Duo.
