Name: JFK on poetry and power (Amherst College, 1963) by brainpicker in lectures & readings
Duration: 14 min 41 s
Description: Background, context, and transcript: http://www.brainpickings.org/2015/05/01/jfk-amherst-speech/

lectures & readings

Jake Blount 'The New Faith' will be released on on CD/digital/streaming on September 23, 2022, on LP on early 2023, and is available for pre-order now.

The New Faith tells an Afrofuturist story set in a far-future world devastated by climate change. Jake Blount and his collaborators embody a group of Black climate refugees as they perform a religious service, invoking spirituals that are age-old even now, familiar in their content but extraordinary in their presentation. These songs, which have seen Black Americans through countless struggles, bind this future community together and their shared past; beauty and power held in song through centuries of devastation, heartbreak, and loss.

Jake Blount - Didn't It Rain

Story:  https://www.themarginalian.org/2022/06/05/the-cello-and-the-nightingales-beatrice-harrison

STORY

Beatrice Harrison and the nightingales (1920s)

You can learn to play this piece. FREE scores and parts, among other materials, are available online: 50ftf.kronosquartet.org

Composed by Bryce Dessner
© 2019 Kronos Arts Publishing
℗ 2021 Kronos Performing Arts Association
Commissioned for Fifty for the Future: The Kronos Learning Repertoire

Produced by Kronos Quartet and Reshena Liao
Recorded July 2021 at 25th Street Recording, Oakland, CA
Engineered by Zach Miley
Assistant engineer: Gabriel Shepard
Mixed by Zach Miley and David Harrington, December 2021

Bryce Dessner - Le Bois

Transcript, context, and related artwork: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2014/02/17/dfw-leadership-debbie-millman/

TRANSCRIPT / DETAILS

David Foster Wallace on leadership, read by Debbie Millman

Context and illustrations: https://www.themarginalian.org/2022/11/10/love-at-first-sight-szymborska-queirazza/

CONTEXT

"Love at First Sight" by Wisława Szymborska (read by Maria Popova)

Recorded at TED 2014. Transcript and context: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2014/03/20/neil-gaiman-ghost-stories/

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Neil Gaiman on why there is no such thing as "children's" books

Recorded live at Top Floor in Bydgoszcz, Poland on 11 October 2022.

Six Seven Times (Live At Top Floor October 2022)

So Low

Echolocations: Canyon

Sweep The Field

Zachary Cale "Blue Moth"

Background, context, and transcript: http://www.brainpickings.org/2015/05/01/jfk-amherst-speech/

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JFK on poetry and power (Amherst College, 1963)

Background and context: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/03/18/tolstoy-reading-rare-1909-recording/

The fascinating story of A Calendar of Wisdom, with selected highlights: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/03/15/a-calendar-of-wisdom-tolstoy/

Leo Tolstoy reads from "A Calendar of Wisdom," 1909

Excerpt from Orwell's fantastic 1946 essay outlining his 11 "golden" rules of tea perfection: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/05/14/george-orwell-a-nice-cup-of-tea/

George Orwell on how to make the perfect cup of tea

An inspiring commencement address delivered to the graduating class at San Jose State University. Transcript and discussion: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/05/15/debbie-millman-look-both-ways-fail-safe/

Debbie Millman: Fail Safe

Listen and Buy Guy Buttery's music available on CD, LP and digital download here - http://guybuttery.bandcamp.com/

Taken from Guy Buttery's album "Live in KwaZulu"

Guy Buttery - acoustic guitar, eBow, loops

JFK on poetry and power (Amherst College, 1963)

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