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'Vedrò Con Mio Diletto', an opera aria by Antonio Vivaldi (1724), arranged by Garrett Sholdice.

Ergodos Musicians

Michelle O’Rourke – voice
Seán Mac Erlaine – saxophone
Kate Ellis – cello

Taken from the Ergodos Musicians release, 'Songs'.

For the 'Songs' project, composers Garrett Sholdice and Benedict Schlepper-Connolly have arranged, re-composed, weaved and stitched material drawn from the songs they love.

Working closely with vocalist Michelle O’Rourke, reed player Seán Mac Erlaine and cellist Kate Ellis, they celebrate the way a melody or a lyric can live in memory, heart and limb— turning, dissolving and re-forming, but never vanishing.

Experiences become transformed and transfigured, while other perspectives and insights come in the form of deeply reflective improvisations.

www.ergodos.ie/shop/songs/

Vedrò Con Mio Diletto (1724) / Antonio Vivaldi / arranged by Garrett Sholdice

Ara Dinkjian - Keesher Bar

In the third installment of Culture Reinvents Itself: Conversations with Greil Marcus, journalist and essayist John Jeremiah Sullivan speaks with author Greil Marcus (Music, The Graduate Center, CUNY).
Visit our site for more event information: http://www.centerforthehumanities.org/program/unnamed-caves-unknown-bards-travels-american-cultural-underground%E2%80%94john-jeremiah-sullivan

From Unnamed Caves to Unknown Bards: John Jeremiah Sullivan in Conversation with Greil Marcus

I Am Not Yours - David Dickau

Recercada No. 1 - Diego Ortiz

Sarah Vaughan & The Jimmy Rowles Quintet

A House Is Not A Home

Jazz Afternoon – Energy Jazz Music, Add Positive Energy for All Day, Beautiful Piano Bar, Cocktail Party

Coffee Time

Marcel Duchamp reads his 1957 essay, "The Creative Act." Full text + background here: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/08/23/the-creative-act-marcel-duchamp-1957/

Marcel Duchamp: The Creative Act (1957)

Excerpt from Debbie Millman's <i>Design Matters</i> interview with cartoonist Chris Ware. 

Full interview: https://soundcloud.com/designmatters/chris-ware

Related article about his incredible <i>Building Stories</i>: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/11/05/building-stories-chris-ware/

Chris Ware on destiny, literature, and unlived lives

"The arrows of adverse criticism cannot scratch, let alone pierce, the shield of what disappointed archers call my 'self-assurance.'"

Background and context:  http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/01/18/vladimir-nabokov-james-mossman-interview/

Vladimir Nabokov on literature and life (1969)

Recorded live at Founder's Chapel of the University of San Diego on April 13, 2013. Featuring William Wilson, guitar and Jeff Basile, cello.

Reverie - Debussy - Live!

Caffeinated Joy: Cheerful Dixieland Banjo Jazz. Relaxing, Mood Improving Café, Confectionery and Bakery Background Music

Caffeinated Joy

TIM RILEY BIOGRAPHY

NPR Critic and Emerson College Journalism professor Tim Riley has written five critically-acclaimed books on rock history, including Lennon: the Man, the Myth, and the Music (Hyperion, 2011). Kirkus Reviews chose it one of their best biographies from that year, The New York Times praised it as "potently descriptive... a critical tour-de-force," and Rolling Stone called it "…the most reliable, least star-struck volume on Lennon to date...”

For over twenty-five years, Riley has reviewed pop and classical music for NPR's Here And Now, while contributing to shows like On Point, All Things Considered and Morning Edition, as well as Radio Silence, The Huffington Post, The Washington Post, Slate.com and Salon.com.

He was trained as a classical pianist at Oberlin and Eastman. In 2008, Brown University hosted Riley as its Critic-In Residence, and his first book, Tell Me Why: A Beatles Commentary (Knopf/Vintage 1988), often gets assigned in pop culture and rock history courses. Since 1990, Riley has given lively multi-media lectures at colleges and cultural centers like the Chautauqua Festival on "Censorship in the Arts." His current projects include the Riley Rock Index.com, music's meta-portal, and the Emerson journalism department's social media initiative.

For more info and hi-rez media, visit: http://timrileyauthor.com


Vladimir Nabokov on literature and life (1969)

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