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Episode 176: The Air and the Sea and the Land
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Episode 226: A Wild One
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Bonus Episode: The New Season of You Must Remember This!
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Emma and the Trail
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Episode 224: Two Postcards
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Nate on Atlas Obscura
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Nate DiMeo and Pablo Torre Find Out
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Sutro and the Tides
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Episode 150: Late One Night
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Episode 222: Ferminia Sarras
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Episode 121: Ken Allen
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Episode 220: The Zipper
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Swiming by Explosions in the Sky
Walking Song by Kevin Volans and the Net
Episode 219: Lost Jobs
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A White Horse
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Episode 218: Olga
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L'espagne pour memoire by Michel Portal
Find me Tomorrow from Christophe Beck's score to Charlie Countryman
The old Soviet philharmonic plays some Shostakovich.
The London Symphony Orchestra plays The Blue Danube Waltz.
We hear Walt b
Hazel, Mark, and a One-Time Juliet
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Traffico from Carlo Rustichelli's score to Divorzio All'Italiana and Una Braveta, from his score to Amici Miei.
Tema Grottesco from Giovanni Fusco's score to L'avventura.
Gloving it from Moondog.
Musica Bionda from the score to The Sweet Body of Deborah
The Peter Thomas Sound Orchestra plays Natascha from the score to The Perfect Marriage.
Waltz from the Brendan Eder Ensemble
Christa Schonfeldinger plays Grieg's Smarthol
Episode 216: Awake
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A synth stab from As if it Would Have a Universal and Memorable Ending by Shane Carruth's score to his film, Upstream Color, a movie I love deeply.
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes by the Platters
The Girl Who was Frightened of Ashtrays by Charlie Megira
Sambolero by Luiz Bonfa.
Water by So Percussion
Divertimiento Fur Tenorsaxophon Und Kleines Ensemble (Part 4) from Carl Oesterhelt and Johannes Ender.
Ball by Duval Timothy
Piece
Episode 215: An Eighth Wonder
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Momento Ritmico and Papete aru by Piero Umiliani
Opus 13 from Sven Libaek's score to The Set
French Doll by Larry Ashmore and David Francis
The wonderful Sewentuwa by Hailu Meriga
Wave I by Elor Saxl
Green by Hiroshi Yoshimura
NotesI originally learned about the Elephantine Colossus years ago in David McCullough's Brooklyn... and How it Got That Way, which still holds up.
Episode 214: Newsboy
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Un geant dans la mer and Triste soiree III from the score to Marie et les naufrages by the genius, Sebastian Tellier.
Love is Blue by Jackie Mittoo and the Soul Vendors.
Rocky Passage by Jeremiah Chiu and Marta Sofia Honer
Morris Visits Dr. Pratt from John Barry's score to The Wrong Box
Adios Muchachos from Andre Popp
Moonlight in Vermont from the great Dorothy Ashby.
Midnight Moon by The Portland Cello Project
Dance PM
Episode 213: The Light and the Spirits
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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
NotesI 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
Episode 212: David Mills
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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.
Episode 211: Cutting and Ned
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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 Mic
Smoky and Bill, a Holiday Card
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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
Episode 210: Smoky and Bill
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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 any
Episode 120: The Prairie Chicken in Wisconsin: Highlights of a Study of Counts, Behavior, Turnover, Movement, and Habitat
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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 Hame
Episode 209: Wake
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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.
Episode 208: In the Gallery
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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.
Episode 207: The Six Triple Eight
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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
Episode 206: The Thundering Herd, The Vanishing American
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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
Episode 79: Artist in Landscape
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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 Giv
Episode 205: Alice Ramsay
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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
Episode 204: Wolves
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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.
episode 76: Mary Walker Would Wear what she Wanted
This episode was originally released in 2015.
Proceeds from this episode are being donated to the Transgender Law Center.
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 Mart
Episode 67: Every Night Ever
This episode was originally released in summer of 2015.
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 tra
Episode 148: Safe Passage
This episode was originally released in September of 2019.
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 Revoluti
Episode 94: Numbers (rebroadcast)
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
Nate's episode of the year 2022: In France or in Heaven
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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
Episode 203: The News from Thar
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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 Th
Episode 202: Better Babies
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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
Episode 201: One Fruit
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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.
Episode 200: Ghost Story
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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
Episode 199: Nee Blinky
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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
Episode 198: Weather Conditions Above Mount Fuji
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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.”
Episode 115: A Brief Eulogy for a Commercial Radio Station
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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 Lov
Episode 124: Junk Room
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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 Unq
Episode 91: Natural Habitat
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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 mor
Episode 197: Kiddo
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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
Episode 90: A White Horse
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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.
A no
Episode 152: Let it Snow
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Music
Still Space by Satoshi Ashikawa.
Episode 196: In France or in Heaven
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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
Episode 195: A New Bronze Man
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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, Fi
Episode 194: Small Sample
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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
Episode 101: Promise
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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,
Episode 193: Classmates (Making Trouble)
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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
Episode 192: Combinations
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Music
Romantic Lullaby by Simon Rackham
Happy Whistler by Group Listening.
The Return by Library Tapes
Episode 191: Crash
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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 Falli
Nate's Favorite Episode of 2021: Betty Robinson
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This episode was originally released as Episode 184: Betty Robinson in July of 2021.
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Episode 190: The Ride
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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
Episode 189: New England Granite
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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 S
Episode 188: Spirits
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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’
Episode 187: The Woods
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Episode 63: Other Bodies
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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 Cl
Episode 186: Shining
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Episode 185: The Life and Works of a Monumental Figure
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Memory Palace Summer Reading: The Great Gatsby, part 3
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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.
Music for Gatsby was composed and performed by Mary Lattimore. Find and buy her music at marylattimoreharpist.bandcamp.com
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Back with the third and final part on August 19th.
Memory Palace Summer Reading: The Great Gatsby, Part 2
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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.
Music for Gatsby was composed and performed by Mary Lattimore. Find and buy her music at marylattimoreharpist.bandcamp.com
The cover art is from Jen Corace. See more of Jen’s work at jencorace.com.
Back with the third and final part on August 19th.
Memory Palace Summer Reading: The Great Gatsby, Part 1
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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.
Music for Gatsby was composed and performed by Mary Lattimore. Find and buy her music at marylattimoreharpist.bandcamp.com
The cover art is from Jen Corace. See more of Jen’s work at jencorace.com.
Back with part two on August 12th.
Episode 184: Betty Robinson
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Episode 183: Goblins
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Episode 90: A White Horse
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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.
A no
Episode 182: The Surfmen
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Episode 181: The Adventures of Pearl
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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
Episode 180: Tracks
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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
Episode 179: Keyhole
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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:
Levia
Episode 178: Crossfade
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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 B
Episode 77: Butterflies
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This episode was originally released in 2015. Sometimes you’re working on an episode (and when I say “you’re” I mean, “I’m,”) working on an episode and you realize it’s just all wrong. That there’s a good episode in there but you nee
Episode 177: A Brief Eulogy for Carla Wallenda
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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.
Episode 176: The Air and the Sea and the Land
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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 McBri
Episode 175: One Hundred Percent a Diner
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Music
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
Episode 174: The Stone
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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)
Co
Episode 105: Amok
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.
Episode 173: 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
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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
Episode 172: The Existential Tourist
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Music
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
Episode 171: Out to Sea and Back Again
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Music
Spiderwebs of Clouds by Oliia Belli
Episode of the Year 2020
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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.
Episode 170: Reed v.
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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 Re
The Masque of the Red Death, by Edgar Allan Poe
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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.
From a Parking Lot, a special bonus episode for the KeyBank Rochester Fringe Festival
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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High Falls, a bonus episode for the KeyBank Rochester Fringe Festival
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 Pont du Rennes while viewing High Falls. But, you’ll likely enjoy it wherever you are.
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Episode 169: Beautician
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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
Episode 168: The Traveling Stones
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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 a
The Wheel
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”
Episode 167: A Brief Eulogy for a Minor League Baseball Team
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Music
Adrift by Yameneko
Lagrimas Negras by Antonio Maria Romeau
Rainfall by Michael Jones and David Darling
The
Episode 166: The Silent Room
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Music
Peri Banu vid Sjon (VERSION) by Dungen
In a Landscape by John Cage
Quartet for Four Percussionists IV: Fast
A White Horse
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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 Christophe
Episode 165: A Park
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Music
We hear Armellodie by Chilly Gonzales
And All Now Vibe by Tara Jane O'Neil
Notes
The Lavender Scare by
Episode 164: Dora Salter
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Music
Illusion Perdida by Juan Bautista Guido y Su Orquesta Tipico
Manny Returns Home and Fingerprints from Berna
Episode 163: Freds
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Music
We hear a couple from Alabaster DePlume’s To Cy & Lee album, Whisky Story Time and Not My Ask.
Bibio’s
Episode 162: A Strange Land
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Ruth and Sylvie from Daniel Hart’s score to Ain’t Them Bodies Saints
The Walk from Bernard Hermann’s score
Episode 161: Stories to Wash Hands By
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20 stories, each 20 seconds, to accompany you in the proper washing of hands.
Stay safe, be well, wash your hands.
Episode 160: Wong Kim Ark
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Episode 159: The Newest News
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Music
We hear The Icelandic Society of Phallogy from Rob Simonsen score to The Final Member.
And one
Episode 158: Life's Work
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Music
Field of Reeds by Leo Svirsky.
Stellify by Federico Albanese.
Opening by Nathanial Bartl
Episode 157: The House of Lowe
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Episode 156: That's How it Goes Whenever it Snows
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**Music **
Artifices from Chapelier Fou.
A smidge of [Equality Under the Law](http://: https://geo.mus
Episode 155: Lost Bulls
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This episode was originally produced for an episode of Radiolab from WNYC, released in August of 2019.
Nate's Favorite Episode of 2019
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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 re
Episode 154: Dotting I's
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A Conversation About the Memory Palace with Robert Krulwich
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Episode 153: Dinner at Jefferson's
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Episode 152: Let it Snow
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Music
Still Space by Satoshi Ashikawa.
Episode 151: The Story of Maria Barberi
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Music
Inside River, Pt. 1 by Akira Kosuemura. .
Sonata for Solo Cello 1: Dialogo by Ligeti, performed
Episode 150: Late One Night
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Music
We start with 666 from the score to The Omen.
Transition to Fremd by Lambert.
Go to Monster Mas
Episode 149: Dance by the Ocean
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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 bri
Episode 148: Safe Passage
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Music
We start with the Opening of Craig Armstrong's score to Far From the Madding Crowd.
Glass House
Episode 147: Shipwreck Kelly
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Music
We hear Vaggvisa by Henrik Lindstrand.
Then Kestrel, off the album by the same name from Caoimh
A Welcome! And Dreamland!
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.
Episode 146: Two Memorials, Last Week of July, 2019
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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
Episode 145: Stories about the St. Louis
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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
Episode 144: Nature Naturally
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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.
A White Horse
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.
Episode 143: The Only One
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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
Episode 142: Private Robinson on Pawnee Rock
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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.
Episode 141: This Story Climbed Mount Washington
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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
Rebroadcast: Origin Stories
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Episode 140: Jackie Mitchell
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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 fo
Episode 139: 1,347 Birds
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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 re
Episode 138: Sixty Starlings
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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
A Memory Palace/Radio Diaries Crossover Event
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.
Episode 137: Swans
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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
Episode 136 (Ten Fingers, Ten Toes)
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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
Nate's Episode of the Year for 2018
Each year for the last three years, Nate picks his personal favorite. Here’s 2018. See you in 2019.
Episode 135: Revolutions
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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 Wa
2018 Fundraiser Bonus Episode!
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Election Eve Rebroadcast (In Line)
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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,
Episode 134 (The Dress in the Closet)
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A note: this here is a Halloween episode. They get creepy.
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.
Episode 133: Antidisestablishmentarianism
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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.
Episode 132 (Ida Lewis)
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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 s
Episode 131 (Lost Locusts)
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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.
Episode 130 (Independence Hall 2: The Legend of Walter Knott)
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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
Summer Re-run: Episode 68 (White Heat, White Light)
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
Episode 129: Uplift
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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 &
Episode 128 (Patience)
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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.
A White Horse, re-released on the second anniversary of the shooting at the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando.
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
No Summer (Episode 127)
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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 hi
Episode 126 (The 8th Story)
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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 & Machin
Episode 125: Snakes!
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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 Umi
Episode 124 (Junk Room)
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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 bonus episode
A quick update and a brief little bonus episode.
Episode 123: Outliers
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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.
Big Block of Cheese - Bonus episode
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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
Episode 122 (Hercules)
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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
Episode 121 (The Nickel Candy Bar)
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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.
N
Episode 120 (The Prairie Chicken in Wisconsin: Highlights of a Study of Counts, Behavior, Turnover, Movement, and Habitat)
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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
Nate's Episode of the Year: If You Have to be a Floor
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, Th
Episode 119 (John C. Calhoun from the Opposite Side of the Line that Divides the Living from the Dead)
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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 "mirac
Episode 118 (On the Shores of Assawompset)
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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. Bake
Episode 117 (Elizabeth)
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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,
Episode 116 (Hoover)
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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
Episode 115 (A Brief Eulogy for a Commercial Radio Station)
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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.
Sometimes the Rain Just Doesn't Stop
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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.
Two Small Sculptures (The Met Residency Episode 8)
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 Metr
Orbes Cintilantes - A special summer episode
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
"Relics": A Special Bonus Episode
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.
A Scavenger Hunt (The Met Residency Episode 7)
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 M
Episode 113 (Elmer McCurdy Rides Again and Again)
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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
Episode 112 (The Taking of Tom Sawyer's Island)
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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
A White Horse, re-released on the second anniversary of the shooting at the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando.
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
Episode 111 (Cipher, or Greenhow Girls)
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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, Confed
If You Have to be a Floor (The Met Residency Episode 6)
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
Episode 110 (Lost Camels)
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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 R
Episode 109 (The Year Hank Greenberg Hit 58 Home Runs)
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
Notes on a Plaque, Still Imagined
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.
Episode 108, Met Residency #5: Temple
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, Gener
Episode 107 (Roots and Branches and Wind-Borne Seeds)
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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 fo
Episode 106 (A Washington Monument)
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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.
Episode 105: Amok
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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.
Episode 104, Met Residency #4 (A Portrait)
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, Gene
Episode 103 (The Rose of Long Island)
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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
Episode 102 (The Presidency of William Henry Harrison, or Back in the Saddle)
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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 Sch
Nate's Episode of the Year: Local Channels
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SPOILERS BELOW
Notes * Much of what I read about Florence was pulled from old newspaper articles. * The biography in Notable American Women: Volume 5 does a nice, thorough job with Florence story. * I first stumbled on Florence Chadwick in a photo in a restaurant in Santa Barbara and was struck by, as the photo suggested, she went on a world
Episode 101 (Promise)
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SPOILERS BELOW
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.
Music
Starts with Christope Beck and DeadMono's
Episode 100 (Peregrinar)
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Notes
I relied most heavily on The Crusades of Cesar Chavez by Miriam Pawell.
Enjoyed Jaques Levy's oral history, Cesar Chavez: Autobiography of La Causa
I read a lot of the local accounts on Newspapers.com and was informed particularly by the coverage in the Fresno Bee.
Music
Starts with Affinity by Gavin Luke.
Moves into Little Dume by Christian Naujoks.
Finish
Episode 99, Met Residency #3 (Full Circle)
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 Kathy Tu and research Assistance from Andrea Milne. Its Executive Producer is Limor Tomer, General M
An odd, pre-election bonus episode: a full reading of Song of Myself
As counter-programming to the clamor and nonsense of these last days before the American Presidential election, here is Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself" in its entirety. Really.
VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE
New episode next week.
Episode 98 (Under Our Feet)
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Notes * This episode came by special request from my daughter, who heard about Waterhouse Hawkins in her second grade classroom. She came home and said, “Dad, I think I’ve got a good Memory Palace story for you.” * She and I found a great kids book called The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins, by Barbara Kerley. * Grownup readers might want to check out All in the Bones by
Episode 97 (In Line)
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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,
The Met Residency Episode M2: One Bottle, Any Bottle
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 Kathy Tu. Its Executive Producer is Limor Tomer, General Manager of Concerts & Lectures, The Met
The Met Residency Episode 1: Recent Acqusition
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 first 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 Kathy Tu and research assistance from Andrea Milne. Its Executive Producer is Limor Tomer, General Ma
Episode 96 (Canali)
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Notes * I’ve read a bunch about the canals over the years, but the most fun I’ve had was going through the New York Times’ archive and just searching for Canals and Mars and reading article by article through the years, watching the debates, seeing conjecture reported as news, and then watching it all unravel. * For more on Lowell, I recommen
Episode 95 (Haunting)
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Notes * Like anyone else, I became fascinated by Washington Phillip’s story through the music. So, go buy the music. * I backed into the research on this one when I should’ve just started at the source: Michael Corcoran’s amazing excavation of Phillips’ real story, as originally printed in Texas Monthly. There’s a lot of stuff that links out
Episode 94 (Numbers)
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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
From the Vault: Dreamland
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MusicMusic in this one is track 6 in Nine Inch Nails’ Ghosts I then a track called “Ashley” from Yo La Tengo’s soundtrack to Junebug.
Episode 93 (Local Channels)
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Notes * Much of what I read about Florence was pulled from old newspaper articles. * The biography in Notable American Women: Volume 5 does a nice, thorough job with Florence story. * I first stumbled on Florence Chadwick in a photo in a restaurant in Santa Barbara and was struck by, as the photo suggested, she went on a world
Episode 92 (Oil, Water)
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Notes *Great stuff in the Cleveland Plain Dealer from waaaaaay back to fire #1, if you want to dive in. * Found Jonathan Joseph Wlasiuk’s dissertation, Refining Nature (etc.) quite helpful in sorting out the early days of the Rockefeller refineries. * If you want to know more about the complicated relationship of Cleveland and
Episode 91 (Natural Habitat)
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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
Episode 90 (A White Horse)
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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. *
Episode 89 (Family Snapshot)
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Music * First up is The Homeless Wanderer from Tsegue-Maryam Guebrou off of the Emahoy (Piano Solo) album, number 21 in the unimpeachable Ethiopiques series. * Then we get some of To the Right the Enemy, to the Left the Sea from Simon Rakham. * We finish with Stellify by Francesco Albanese.
Notes * The bulk of the non-technical details from this one comes from Charles Duke’s highly readable memoir, Moonwalker:
Episode 88 (Open Road)
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* Up top, looped, is the first bit of the great, Foreign Fields, by Kacy Hill. * Then we hear some of Sun Will Set, by Zoe Keating. * The song on the radio is Sonny Thompson’s Long Gone, as heard on the Mellow Blues album.
Notes * You can read all of the 1948 Green Book (and the rest of the Green Books) at the New York Public Library’s fantastic digital collection.
From the Vault: A Special Mother's Day Re-Run
The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia. In Toronto? Chicago? Milwaukee? Minneapolis? Come see a live Memory Palace show. For Mothers' Day, this episode is a re-mixed version of a story originally released as Episode 10, in 2009. Back with new episodes next time out. The two piano pieces that bookend the piece are by Max Richter from his “24 Postcards in Full Color” record. The one in the middle is “Maybelle” by Ida. It popped up on shuffle the other day and stunned me.
Episode 87 (Victory)
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Music * We hear Portrait Gallery from Luke Howard. * A smidgen of Julia Kent's lovely Dorval. * The incomparable Moondog's Gloving It pops up a couple times (as it tends to do around these parts). * Denmark by the Portland Cello Project rolls out for quite awhile. * John Lewis and Sacha Distel pla
Episode 86 (Finishing Hold)
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A Selected Bibliography * Dr. Sam: An American Tragedy by Jack Harrison Pollack * Summer of Shadows: a Murder a Pennant Race and the Twilight of the Best Location in the Nation, by Jonathan Knight, a very readable popular history book that pulls off a maybe-ill-advised trick of balancing the st
Episode 85 (AKA Leo)
Notes Research for this story was largely culled from contemporary newspaper accounts. Check back for a list.
Music * We start off (and end) with You by Nils Frahm. * We’ve got Krolock on the Sledge from Komeda’s great, great score to The Fearless Vampire Hunters. * Jett Rink Theme from Dimitri Tiomkin’s score to Giant. * A little loop of Bandstand, from Thomas Newman’s Little Children score. * And Opening, the vibes pieces, by Nathan Bartlett (making a return appearance). * Oh! And Me
Episode 84 (Homesteading)
Notes * I first came the story of Ross, North Dakota, while reading Muslims in America: A Short History, by Edward E. Curtis. * The full WPA interview with Mary Juma (and another member of the Ross community) can be found in Curtis’ The Columbia Sourcebook of Muslims in the United States. * A contemporary account of the Ross community can be found here.
Music *The first bit is a loop from the opening of a song called I. Permafrost by a long-defunct band called Jerseyturnpike made up of
Episode 83 (Overland)
Notes Nearly all the research for this one comes straight out of the highly-readable, Cap’n George Fred, G.F. Tilton’s 1925 autobiography. I got my copy at a used bookstore for $11. It’s easy to find on eBay and Amazon and whatnot. Totally money well spent.
Music * First up is Lacrymae by Melodium. * Then we mix in Every Mournful Breath by Slow Meadow * Meeting the Neighbors from Marcelo Zarvos’ score to the delightful, Please Give, makes a return appearance. * There’s Steve Reich’s “M
Episode 82 (The Wheel)
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 ShadeEP. * “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 Ro
Episode 81 (Below, from Above)
Music
* We start off with Wien, by Labradford. * The guys head out to the work site to Piano 3, from Jon Brion's score to Synecdoche, New York. * Then we hear a bit of Metamorphosis by Vladamir Ussachevsky before being bombarded with bits of Fast Pasture by Todd Reynolds. * There's a long stretch of Fog Tropes by Ingram Marshall * Followed by Fragment I by Library Tapes * Before ending on Berceuse, by Alexandra Sileski.
Notes * This is a story I've been wanting to do forever. In fact,
Episode (M): Gallery 742
A special episode of the Memory Palace commissioned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art to coincide with the opening of Rockefeller-Worsham Dressing Room in Gallery 742 of The American Wing and with Artistic Furniture of the Gilded Age, an exhibition open now through May 1st, 2016.
This piece is ideally consumed on site, in Gallery 742 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Written and Produced by Nate DiMeo of [The Memory Palace.](thememorypalace.us)
Musical score by Jimmy LaValle of Th
Episode 80 (Shore Leave)
Music* Under the credits is Harlaamstrat 74 off of John Dankworth's Modesty Blaise score.* First up is one of my very favorite recordings of all time: Andromeda from Chris McGregor's Brotherhood of Breath. One of the finest bands ever assembled. * The sailors get grumpy to Sito from Pierre Favre and the European Chamber Ensemble. (The end drum loop comes from that piece too). * The guys run off to save the day to Edgar Meyer and Mark O'Connor doing the Green Groves of Erin.* That turns
Episode 79 (Artist in Landscape)
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
Episode 78 (no. 116,842)
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Music* Under the credits is Harlaamstrat 74 off of John Dankworth's Modesty Blaise score.* First bit is called Steep Hills of Vicodin Tears by A Winged Victory for the Sullen from their self-titled album. * A brief bit of Occam II for Violin by
Episode 77 (Butterflies)
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Music* Under the credits is Harlaamstrat 74 off of John Dankworth's Modesty Blaise score.* First up is "Adultere bourgeoise," a piece from Paul Misraki's score to A Double tour.* Then we've got a piece called "Night Time Talk" by Stephen J. Ande
Episode 76 (Mary Walker Would Wear What She Wanted)
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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 Th
Episode 75 (The Ballad of Captain Dwight)
The finale of the 2015 Summer Season.
Music
* Under the credits is Harlaamstrat 74 off of John Dankworth's Modesty Blaise score.
* There's Branches, by Keith Kenniff
* Then The Big Ocean, from Ben Sollee's score to Maidentrip.
* Then End of the World from Dan Romer's score to Beasts of the Southern Wild.
* There's The Sage, pulling once more from the dope-as-hell self-titled album from the Chico Hamilton Quintet.
* There's a loop pulled from Worm is Green's song, Brand Ne
Episode 74 (Craning)
Episode 9 of the 2015 Summer Season.
Music
* Under the credits is Harlaamstrat 74 off of John Dankworth's Modesty Blaise score.
* There're too pieces from Per Storby Jutbring's album, Dance of the Diaper Fairy. Snowbound, up top, and the title track at the end.
Notes
* Hoo boy, have I read a ton of books about the space program, thanks to my stint on the writing staff of ABC's Astronauts' Wives Club last year. So, most of this piece is just "stuff
Episode 73 (Notes on an Imagined Plaque to be Added to the Statue of General Nathan Bedford Forrest, Upon Hearing that the Memphis City Counci has Voted to Move it and the Exhumed Remains of General Forrest and his Wife, Mary Ann Montgomery Forrest, from
Episode 8 of the 2015 Summer Season
Music
* Under the credits is Harlaamstrat 74 off of John Dankworth's Modesty Blaise score.
* 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 episo
Episode 72 (Run-of-the-River)
Episode 7 of the 2015 Summer Season.
Music
* Under the credits is Harlaamstrat 74 off of John Dankworth's Modesty Blaise score.
* First up (and returning a bit later) is Mr. Reincarnation from Alexander Desplat's dope-as-hell score to the fairly dope movie, Birth.
* There's Lost Fur, Reprise from Carter Burwell's Where the Wild Things Are score.
* Then there's a Charles Ives piece called Remembrance, played by Yesaroun' Duo, Eric Hewitt and Samuel Z.
Episode 71 (Zulu Charlie Romeo)
Episode 6 of the 2015 Summer Season.
Music
* Under the credits is Harlaamstrat 74 off of John Dankworth's Modesty Blaise score.
* First up, A Nice Day from a truly wonderful album, The Original Chico Hamilton Quintet Complete Studio Recordings.
* Then there's Ohnono/Kiwembo, Andrew Bird's contribution to Tradi-Mods Vs. Rockers - Alternative Takes on Congotronics, Vol. 1 (which is a great rabbit hole to go down).
* Anita gets introduced to Hay Tantos Muertos, by
Episode 70 (Developments in the Design and Manufacture of American Menswear 1840-1860, a Fable)
Episode 5 of the 2015 Summer Season.
Music
* Under the credits is Harlaamstrat 74 off of John Dankworth's Modesty Blaise score.
* The main mountain theme is Mort D'Eurydice, by Pierre Favre as played by the European Chamber Ensemble.
* There's a second string-y snippet of another by them called, Sito.
* We learn about beavers to Stereo Music for Acoustic Guitar, Buchla Music Box 100 (etc.)...Pt. 2 from Keith Fullerton Whitman's old Multiples album.
* The soft
Episode 69 (Charlie: God of Rain)
Episode 4 of the 2015 Summer Season.
Music
* Under the credits is Harlaamstrat 74 off of John Dankworth's Modesty Blaise score.
* Charlie on the ladder is scored with the Prologue to the fantastic score to the film Birth, by Alexandre Desplat
* It ends with Opus 30, by Dustin O'Hallaran.
* The upbeat, fair music is a piece called Love on Matthew Herbert's contribution to the Life in a Day soundtrack.
* Don Stewart surveys the damage to 01 Ghosts I by NIN
Episode 68 (White Heat, White Lights)
Episode 3 of the Summer Season.
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 N
Episode 67 (Every Night Ever)
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
Episode 66 (The Pirate Queen)
The music:
*Under the credits is Harlaamstrat 74 off of John Dankworth's great, ridiculous Modesty Blaise score.
*The recurring piano theme is Les Marionettes by Zbigniew Preisner from his score to La Double Vie de Veronique (And, have you seen The Double Life of Veronique? Man, that's good)
*Eugenia's dreamy little theme is Just Saying by Jamie XX off of In Colour
*That organ track is called Organ Track by Nicolai Dunger from The Cloud is Learning
*Al Davis' dance theme is Watu
HIgh Above Lake Michigan: Special Platinum Edition
Something to listen to while you wait for the new season of The Memory Palace, launching June 21st with weekly episodes through the whole summer.
Forgotten Things: A Failed Pilot
Did a pilot for Fox Digital Studios some time ago. Didn't actually go anywhere (except for a film festival or two).
Itty Bitty Bombs: Special Platinum Edition
While you wait until June 21st for the Season of the Memory Palace, here's a new version of an old favorite.
The Brothers Booth Schmancy Platinum Remaster Edition
While you wait until June 21st for the Season of the Memory Palace, here's a new version of an old favorite.
Episode 65 (Two-Dimensional Projectile Motion Problems)
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Episode 64 (The 7th Story)
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Episode 63 (Other Bodies)
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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
Episode 62 (We've Forgotten James Powell)
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The music pulled from "Blue Sands" by the Chico Hamilton Trio.
Episode 61 (The Glowing Orbs)
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There are two pieces of music in this: one is a tweaked loop from "To Here Knows When" by MBV. The other is "Stereo Music for Acoustic Guitar, Bucla Music Box 100, HP Model 236 Oscillator, Electric Guitars, and Computer - Part One" by Keith Fullerton Whitman.
Episode 55 (O, How We Danced)
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Episode 54 (Origin Stories)
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Episode 50 (Fifty Words Written After Learning That the Arctic Bowhead Whale Can Live up to 200 Years)
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Episode 49 (Dreamland)
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Episode 47 (The Rise and Fall of Rising and Falling) *NOTE: semi-adult language in this one.
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Episode 46 (After Party)
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Episode 42 (What They Saw)
This piece was originally commissioned by Slate.com.
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Episode 37 (Natural Curiosity)
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Episode 1 (Horrible Deaths)
This is the very first episode of The Memory Palace. Done a gajillion years ago to test out a theory about radio storytelling. You do not have to start here. In fact, maybe you shouldn't. It's a little grim. The rest are not.
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