Episode 15. 2011 New Year Mix
January 1, 2011
http://archives.wpkn.org/bookmarks/listen/15070
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“I Walked”, Sufjan Steven’s from the Age of Adz http://sufjanstevens.bandcamp.com/track/i-walked 5.
“One Day”, Sharon Van Etten from her EP- EPIC, http://www.myspace.com/sharonvanetten.
“Climbing High Mountains”, Sam Amidon from I See the Sign, http://samamidon.bandcamp.com/album/i-see-the-sign.
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“On Melancholy Hill” Gorillaz, Plastic Beaches http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QBwtHzdSFM.
“The Princess and the Troubadour”, Pierre De Gaillande from Bad Reputation, http://www.barbesrecords.com/brassens.html
“Kingfisher”, Joanna Newsom, Have One on Me http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuMsDbUmyM8&feature=related.
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“If You Call”, Sharon Jones from I Learned the Hard Way. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSvRMiemEGc&feature=related.
“Neil Young”, The Mittenstrings from The Mittenstrings. http://www.mittenstrings.com/about.php
“Love and War”, Neil Young from Le Noise, 2010.
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“A Pizza Hut and Taco Bell”, Das Racist http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQ8ViYIeH04.
“Got Nuffin”, Spoon, Transference http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4Q9zngV52U.
“The Wild Hunt”, The Tallest Man on the Earth from The Wild Hunt http://www.youtube.com/watch?v= pHe-C1sO9LM.
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“A Change is Going to Come”, Darlene Love http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZQyW303XiA&feature=related.
“Tighten Up”, Black Keys from Brother http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpaPBCBjSVc.
“Transcontinental Hustle”, Gogol Bordello from Transcontinental Hustle http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8-3NI7qEjE.
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“Sinner or Saint”, Sarah Vaughn from 16 Most Requested Songs.
“Broadminded” Louvin Brothers.
“Apalachia Spring” Aaron Copeland from Bernstein Classics.
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Mary Oliver from New and Selected Poems Volume One.
Look, the trees
are turning
their own bodies
into pillars
of light,
are giving off the rich
fragrance of cinnamon
and fulfillment,
the long tapers
of cattails
are bursting and floating away over
the blue shoulders
of the ponds,
and every pond,
no matter what its
name is, is
nameless now.
Every year
everything
I have ever learned
in my lifetime
leads back to this: the fires
and the black river of loss
whose other side
is salvation,
whose meaning
none of us will ever know.
To live in this world
you must be able
to do three things:
to love what is mortal;
to hold it
against your bones knowing
your own life depends on it;
and, when the time comes to let it go,
to let it go.
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Wild Geese
You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting–
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.
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The Journey
One day you finally knew
what you had to do, and began,
though the voices around you
kept shouting
their bad advice–
though the whole house
began to tremble
and you felt the old tug
at your ankles.
“Mend my life!”
each voice cried.
But you didn’t stop.
You knew what you had to do,
though the wind pried
with its stiff fingers
at the very foundations,
though their melancholy
was terrible.
It was already late
enough, and a wild night,
and the road full of fallen
branches and stones.
But little by little,
as you left their voices behind,
the stars began to burn
through the sheets of clouds,
and there was a new voice
which you slowly
recognized as your own,
that kept you company
as you strode deeper and deeper
into the world,
determined to do
the only thing you could do–
determined to save
the only life you could save.
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“Ready to Start”, Arcade Fire from The Suburbs, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNn6mimskt0&feature=related.
“Come On Come On”, Poison Tree, from The Poison Tree http://www.facebook.com/#!/video/video.php?v=10150092432676414&comments.
“Be the Man” Jo Williamson from Be the Man www.jowilliamson.bandcamp.com.
http://archives.wpkn.org/bookmarks/listen/14153
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“My Friends Have” by Mary Margaret O’Hare from Miss America, 1988.
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Musical Guest and dj Nels Andrews who earned his chops hanging out with some questionable characters in his time. He released his first album, Sunday Shoes, independently in 2005. The album was critically well received, earning plaudits from BBC Radio soon after its release. Eventually, Andrews was able to parlay his critical success into gigs at prominent festivals in Europe, which he managed to play while maintaining a regul…ar job in construction in his home of Albuquerque. Andrews eventually signed a deal with Reveal Records, and with an indie all-star band including Todd Sickafoose, pianist Michael Jorgensen, and drummer Ben Perowsky. Andrews recorded and released his second album, Off Track Betting. It saw release in February of 2008. www.myspace.com/nelsandrews
Guest Spot: Elizabeth Ziman of Elizabeth and the Catapults www.myspace.com/elizabethandthecatapults
Personal Portrait David Amram has composed more than 100 orchestral and chamber music works, written many scores for Broadway theater and film, including the classic scores for the films Splendor in the Grass and The Manchurian Candidate; two operas, including the groundbreaking Holo- caust opera The Final Ingredient; and the score for the landmark 1959 documentary Pull My Daisy, narrated by novelist Jack Kerouac. He is also the author of three books, Vibrations, an autobiography, Offbeat: Collaborating with Kerouac, a memoir, and Upbeat: Nine Lives of a Musical Cat, published in the fall of 2007 by Paradigm Publishers. A pioneer player of jazz French horn, he is also a virtuoso on piano, numerous flutes and whistles, percussion, and dozens of folkloric instruments from 25 countries, as well as an inventive, funny improvisational lyricist. He has collaborated with Leonard Bernstein (who chose him as The New York Philharmonic’s first composer-in-residence in 1966), Dizzy Gillespie, Langston Hughes, Dustin Hoffman, Willie Nelson, Thelonious Monk, Odetta, Elia Kazan, Arthur Miller, Charles Mingus, Lionel Hampton, Johnny Depp and Tito Puente. http://david-amram.blogspot.com/
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http://archives.wpkn.org/bookmarks/listen/13228
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“Valvoline” by Scout Niblett from Kidnapped by Neptune, Too Pure 2005.
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Musical Guest Niall Connelly ~From New Mexico to Budapest, Niall Connolly has played over 250 concerts in 10 countries in the last year. Performing at festivals, embassies, theaters, cinemas, bookshops, hot springs, rooftops and basement bars, Connolly has built a fanbase as loyal as it is diverse. In fact, his new album “Brother, The Fight Is Fixed” was funded entirely through an online campaign, www.rockethub.com supported by fans worldwide. Lauded by New York’s Death and Taxes as “being at the head of a new breed of politically engaged eloquent singer-songwriters emerging from New York’s most populous borough”, Cork-born Connolly has crafted a highly regarded niche for himself as one of the leading lights in the New York music scene, curating a variety of music nights each week in the city that never sleeps.
“She Sings a Melody” Ger Wolfe from Word and Rhythm,
“Keep Your Lamps Trimmed and Burning” Warren Malone from Warren Malone, Warren Malone, 2010.
“City Friend” Ian Whitty & the Exchange from The Lucky Caller No. 9, Whimsical River Records 2010.
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SONGS and CMJ in Review 2010
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“Wild Heart” Stevie Nicks from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPEhIoKeTg0&list=QL&playnext=8
“Comic Strip” Serge Gainsbourg and Brigitte Bardot from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSVBH__bgMo&feature=related
“White Knuckles” OKGO from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHlJODYBLKs
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“Vocal Chords” Dale Earnhardt Jr jr from http://www.myspace.com/daleearnhardtjrjr
“Son of a Gun” Oh Land Music from http://www.myspace.com/ohlandmusic
“The Beginning is Near” Reggie Watts from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHlJODYBLKs
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“Birds” Revolver from http://www.myspace.com/popdechambre
“Rainbow” Emilie Simon from http://www.myspace.com/emiliesimonmusic
“Worry for Me” http://www.myspace.com/mysoko
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“Oh the Places You’ll Go” Sydney Wayser from http://www.myspace.com/sydneywayser
“Barcelona Birds” Alfonso Velez from www.myspace.com/alfonsovelez
“She Likes to Fight” 4Tet from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyi7F1yrVTc
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“The Spirit Was Gone” Antony from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzk27ZH53Fs
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**Ran out of time on air and in life but wish had had time to see Andrew Vladeck at CMJ, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55UZoKTpo0M—got some good leads from him and his willow.
Episode 12. September 4th, 2010 Labor Day Mix
September 4, 2010
http://archives.wpkn.org/bookmarks/listen/11096
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“The Wild is Rising” Jonathan Hart Makwaia from The Wild is Rising, 2000.
“Hounds of Love” Kate Bush from Hounds of Love, Noble & Brite Ltd. 1985.
“Cosmos and Demos” from The Way the Day Goes by the Sun is Setting Dogs, Young God Records, 2002.
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“Ol’ Lady Sally” Odetta from Odetta, Silverwolf 2003.
“The Pleasure is all Mine” from Medulla, from Atlantic Recording Corp 2004.
“You go to my Head” from Billie Holiday, from Universe 2010.
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“Jennie’s Gone Down” Cat Martino from www.myspace.com/Catmartino.
“Love Letter” Brent Ballantyne from http://www.myspace.com/henrysparrow.
“ Dreamland” Valgeir Sigurosson from http://www.myspace.com/bedroomcommunity & http://www.myspace.com/valgeirs.
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“I Don’t Know” Lisa Hannigan from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WwaPv1rZiQ.
“Walk the Long Road” Ger Wolfe from The Garden Sessions, July 26th 2008.
“An Clar Bog Deil” Finola O Siochru from Searc Mo Chleibh/Love of my Heart, 1999.
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“Turtle Dove” The Finzi Singers/Paul Spicer from Holst Vaughn Williams Choral Music, Candos, 1995.
“Garden of Flowers”Peggy Seeger, Folkways Years 1955-1992 Songs of Love and Politics, Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, 1992.
“Skin and Bones” Niall Connelly from Brother, the Fight is Fixed, C.V. Records, 2010.
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“A German Governess with a Class of Children” Ruth Draper from Ruth Draper and Her Company of Characters: Selected Monologues, from RCA Records, 1972.
“Sailor Boys” Liza Minelli from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9jjEsgqun4.
“September Songs” Lenya Lotta from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdc4oBnu_fw.
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“The Partisan” Leonard Cohen from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UrfeIkIoi0
“Lincoln and Liberty” Pete Seeger from Songs of the Civil War, Folkway Records, 2004.
“Masters of War” Bob Dylan from Freewheelin Bob Dylan, released Sony Music Entertainment, 1963.
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“Labor Day” John McCutcheon from John McCutcheon’s Four Season’s: Autumn Songs, Rounder, 1998.
“Religion” Yo-Yo Ma: Philip Glass Ensemble from Naqoyqatsi: Life as War, Sony BMG Music, 2002.
“The Last Rose of Summer” Tom Waits from The Black Rider, The Island Def Jam Music, 1993.
Episode 11. August 7th 2010 Hawaii’s Bee Sisters & American Idol Auditions~ East Rutherford, NJ
August 8, 2010
http://archives.wpkn.org/bookmarks/listen/10224
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Show Synoposis
Born and raised in Oahu Hawaii, Esther Lani Bee and Carol Momi come from a musical family. They gained their musical chops from touring with their Aunt the legendary Hawaiian singer Aunty Genoa Keawe, and by playing in Don Ho’s restaurant in the early days. When they were 17 and 13 they recorded The Hukilau song as part of the 49th street recording, rec…orded by Johnny Almeada the Dean of Hawaiian music in the Islands. Now 79 and 83 respectively, these ladies are still performing 4 times a week. “Music keeps us going”, affirms Esther Lani Bee.
On Sunday August 1st I woke up at 5 am and took the subway to the path train to Hoboken and from Hoboken caught a train to Seacaucus Junction where I squeezed into a taxi with seven other American Idol auditionees and their guardians. I stood on line for 3 hours in the muggy heat outside the Izod Center at the Meadowlands with thousands of other teenagers and young adults ranging from the age of 15-28. As I waited to collect my red wrist band and audition seat ticket, so I could return at 5 am on Tuesday morning to then actually audition for the show, I kept wondering why we were all there. I interviewed a handful of hopeful contestants asking them why they came out and what their definition of an American Idol was.
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The text for my American Idol Adventures is posted below.
I apologize for the poor technical sound quality on the last narratives.
Thank you for reading and for listening!
jo
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This year I turned 28. It’s my last chance to audition to be the next American Idol. So, On Sunday August 1st I woke up at 4 am and took the subway to the path train to Hoboken Station. From Hoboken I caught the New Jersey train to Seacaucus Junction where I squeezed into a taxi with seven other American Idol auditionees and their guardians. I stood on line for 3 hours in the muggy heat outside the Izod Center at the Meadowlands with thousands of other teenagers and young adults ranging from the age of 15-28. As I waited to collect my red wrist band and audition seat ticket, so I could return at 5 am on Tuesday morning to then actually audition for the show, I kept wondering why we were all there. I interviewed a handful of hopeful contestants asking them why they came out and what their definition of an American Idol is.
[Interview with Jose Alvarez 21.] (Whitney Houston- “I will Always Love You”)
[Interview with Bianca 19.] (Musiq SoulChild- “Love”)
[Interview with Wilton 21] “Keep your Dreams”
[Partial Interview with Ryan 27]
It was then that I ran out of memory on my memory card… But Ryan continued to tell me that he was a singer songwriter who’d been living in Brooklyn for several years making music. He actually lived right down the street from me! We immediately shared a kinship and spent the remaining two and a half hours standing in line swapping stories and discussing music.
“What’s your guilty pleasure?” he asked me.
” What do you mean?” I responded.
“Oh you know everyone has a favorite artist they like to indulge in but are afraid to admit to their friends that they like.”
I sat thinking for a moment. “You know,” I confessed, “I really love Celine Dion.”
(Celine Dion-”My Heart Will Go On”)
Every so often a camera man would walk by and the crowd would burst into cheers. Sometimes a zealous singer would bust out a song and everyone would listen until they finished and give a supporting whoop and clap of encouragement. The crowd was excited.
At around 9:50 am we were ushered into the Izod Center. We showed two badges of identification and then received a red wrist band which we were told we had to wear until Tuesday morning. We were also given an event ticket with a seat number to sit in while we waited to audition and an information packet telling us what to bring and what time to return on Tuesday morning. Ryan offered to pick me up at 4 am on Tuesday so we’d be there right at 5 am.
[American Idol the Second Day. Conversation with Ryan at 4:46 am in the morning.]
(Bon Iver-”Skinny Love”)
Parking cost fifteen dollars. We grabbed our things, left the car and postulations and went and sat down in the line with everybody else, which already wrapped 3/4 around the IZOD center. Ryan got out his guitar and started playing around with it and I started interviewing other participants…
[Interview with Timothy Phillips 25] (Trey Songz-”Jupiter Love”)
[Interview with Rodney Phillips 28] ( Dru Hill- “5 Steps)
Not played [Interview with Bianca Spinal 17]
At around 7 am they opened the Izod Center and we walked up the ramps showed our tickets and wrist bands, opened our bags for brief inspection and walked through the halls filled with excited hopefuls, Dunkin Donut coffee vendors and shampoo vanity advertisements.
“Here’s the room where we get famous”, said Ryan.
It seemed to be on everyone’s mind. We walked down to our seats.
[Special Cohost Ryan Mikolos-Conversation on Idolatry versus Model]
The producers greeted us warmly, passed out release forms and gave us Idol pep talk. Something about leaving our anxiety in our seats and singing our hearts out in front of the judges. The catch catch phrase, “All it takes is a moment to change your life forever.” They then filmed a few crowd shots of us standing and rooting for New Jersey, brought out former American Idol contestant Constantine to pomp us up with his version of Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” and then the auditioning began.
The system was simple 10 black curtains and posts and twelve tables placed between them where the judges would sit. We would be divided up in groups of four and sent to one of the stations. The person on the farthest left facing the judges would step forward and sing for 30 seconds and then step back. If they were good they might be asked to sing more. After everyone had sung the judges called people forward. If your group didn’t cut it you were brought up as a group and sent home. If you advanced you were given a golden ticket and ushered to another room to continue your journey.
[Interview with Angel 15] (Aleshia Keys- “Superman”)
The auditioning began around 9 am. Sections were emptied out and contestants flooded the floor–people costumed, girls in dresses, girls in jeans, girls scantily clad, boys in suits, boys in flannel shirts.
“They aren’t are giving a lot of golden tickets out” Ryan commented.
My neighbors passed the time by singing their songs for each other and being coached by each others mothers. I slept. Ryan paced and practiced. One girl went to puke. One boy kept leaving to pee. My bottom started breathing, as my neighbor politely put it. We were all dealing with nerves as best we knew how. Hours passed and sections emptied. At around 1:30 our section was prepared to go down to the audition floor.
“Ryan what should I sing?” I asked panicked now aware the moment of performance was almost
upon us. “I can’t believe you”, he kept saying. We walked downstairs onto the arena. I had been so certain last night. I was going to sing Townes Van Zandt, “If I needed You”, until Ryan suggested I sing a Joni Mitchell song earlier that morning. Now I had no idea what to sing. We were placed in rows of four. We moved slowly to the front of the line. We were directed to section 6.
“This guy next to me is really good”, Ryan said. “He has a smooth R& B voice he is going to get in.”
“You are good too Ryan” I countered. We were walking to the judges table and I still couldn’t decide what to sing it felt like time stretched. The R& B singer was stepping forward. Ryan was stepping forward. Now I was I swallowed, feebly smiled and opened my mouth…
(Joni Mitchell-”California”)
Panic was squeezing my belly. The man judge stared at me blankly, hiding his feelings underneath his baseball cap. I set my focus on the pretty woman judge. Honestly, she couldn’t have been more than my own age. I could barely hear myself. My voice was a whisper. My thoughts a twirl. “Why is she listening to me?” Suddenly my brain was screaming at her, “Tell me to stop. When are you going to ask me to stop?”
She got the message. “That’s enough, thank you.”
I hung my head and stepped back into the line. I know I didn’t advance.
The last girl went and we waited as the judges conferred, brought us all forward and the pretty lady judge said, “Thank you, some very nice singing today but not good enough to be the next American Idol.”
They clipped our wrist bands and threw them out. Ryan and I walked to the car.
“That R&B guy was really good he should have advanced” he said. “I don’t get it.”
I didn’t get it either. We rode home back to our real lives leaving the giddy halls of pop stardom for the lucky few who advanced.
(Pop song singalong in the halls of the Izod Center) [outro]
http://archives.wpkn.org/bookmarks/listen/9161 (Again Sorry for the audio Snaffoes)
This episode asks the questions:
What does independence mean to you?
What does freedom mean to you?
What song invokes a feeling of freedom/independence in you?
**…I went walking the streets of New York and CT synchronistically surveyed the passerbys their replies….**
The Boys Definition of Independence…
As defined by the OED, 1971
Independence: The condition or quality of being independent. The fact of not depending on another with various shades of meaning. Exemption from external control or support. Freedom from subjugation or from the influence of others. Individual Liberty or thought or action rarely in a bad sense. Want of subjection to rightful authority.
Declare Independence~Bjork
*Interview with LINDSAY 34 -Redemption Song~Bob Marley
*Interview with CODY 65- Hotel California~Eagles
*Interview with YUJI 31- Darn that Dream~ Ahmad Jamal
*Interview with BOB & LOUISE 84- Star Spangled Banner~ 82 Airborne Division
*Interview with STACEY 23- Hey Mama~ Kanye West
*Interview with HAROLD 34- We are the World~ Michael Jackson
*Interview with JACQUES 44- Heureux qui Comme Ulysses~Georges Brassen
*Interview with INGA 73, DAVID 74, MIRIAM 78- The House I Live In~ Frank Sinatra
*Interview with MARGARET 20, DYLAN 21, RYMMIE 19- Me and Bobby McGee~ Janis Joplin
*Interview with Hi Lee 40- Find the Cost of Freedom~ Crosby Stills and Nash
*Interview with LIAM 23- -song title? ~The Knife
*Interview with CELIA 38- And She Was~ Talking Heads
*Interview with MICHALEA 36- Born in the USA~ Bruce Springstein
*Interview with LEN 49-Born Free~ Roger Williams
*Interview with KATE 24- Huddle Formation~ The GO TEAM
*Interview with AMIT 32- Return to Innocence~ Enigma
*Interview with RUTH 72- Over There~ Mormon Tabernacle Choir
*Interview with VINCENT 47- Rebel Girl~ Bikini Kill
*Interview with GWEN 43- Love Supreme~ John Coltrane
Free~ Catpower
As defined by the OED 1971.
Freedom: Exemption or release from Slavery or imprisonment, personal liberty. Exemption from arbitrary, despotic, or autocratic control. Independence, civil liberty. The state of being able to act without hindrance or restraint, liberty of action. The quality of being free from the control of fate or necessity. The power of self determination attributed to the will. Readiness to act, of action, activity, ease, facility, abcense of encumbrance, boldness or vigor of conception or execution, capability of motion. The state of not being effected by exemption, exemption of a specific burden or charge or service, an immunity, privelege.
Episode 9. June 5th, 2010 Mary Cleaver Interview, Musical Guest Emily Hope Price, Interview with Sarah Small
June 10, 2010
http://archives.wpkn.org/bookmarks/listen/8511
“Bird of Cuzco” from Nina Nastasia, On Leaving, 130701 Records Ltd, 2006.
“Oil on the Water” from Randall Namanworth, Randall’s Island 1972.
Mary Cleaver, President and Founder of The Cleaver Company~chef and caterer owner of The Green Table in Chelsea Market. The Cleaver Company, a full-service event-planning and catering operation, incorporates a concern and respect for the environment and makes every effort to avoid waste and safely recycle. Because of Mary’s commitment to seasonal based cuisine and local sustainable farms, Cleaver Company and The Green Table successfully sit at the forefront of the organic and sustainable food movement. www.cleaverco.com
Emily Hope Price is a cellist, composer, songwriter and singer based in New York City. She is in the band, Pearl and the Beard, based out of Brooklyn, and performs and tours both with PatB as well as solo all around the great US of A. In 2004, Emily received a master’s degree in Cello Performance from Carnegie Mellon University studying with Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Principle cellist Anne-Martindale Williams and PSO Associate cellist David Premo. Emily relocated to complete a one year post-graduate program in cello performance at SUNY Purchase with cellist Julia Lichten of The Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. Since graduating, she has performed and recorded for musicians and recording studios all over the east coast and abroad.
On January 4, 2010, Emily undertook The 365 Project, a year long, song-a-day exercise that is posted and blogged about daily at www.emilyhopeprice.wordpress.com.
Sarah Small was born in 1979 into a family of musicians. Fueled by her constant curiosities and fascination with entangling herself in human drama, Sarah spent her high-school years wandering the streets of her hometown of Washington, D.C., always equipped with her Pentax K1000. Sarah was trained at the Rhode Island School of Design. Sarah’s work explores the unlikely interactions born when dissociated characters are brought together into the same space. Small’s work has appeared in publications including Vogue, Life, and The New York Times. Her images have been exhibited in the U.S. and internationally. She has been the recipient of numerous awards, and was recently named by American Photo as one of the “ Top 13 Emerging Photographers” working today. When not photographing, Sarah sings and arranges vocal scores with her Balkan a Cappella quartet, Black Sea Hotel.
(“Makedonsko”, “Panju Pashata” , “Zakukala” sung by Black Sea Hotel & Lid On the box created and sung by Sarah Small) www.sarahsmall.com
Episode 8. May 1st, 2010 Singer/Performer Songwriter Richard McGraw and Partial Interview with Mary Cleaver
May 1, 2010
http://archives.wpkn.org/bookmarks/listen/7665
Featuring musical guest Richard McGraw “Nick Cave. Bob Dylan. Leonard Cohen. Tom Waits…. a man who is following in the footsteps of the greats in a massively competent way… He sings of misery, memorial, mortality, and loss. He evokes religious imagery, erecting church houses to pray in and supreme beings to beseech.”
-Chronogram
www.myspace.com/richardmcgraw
Also, Featuring Mary Cleaver, President and Founder of The Cleaver Company~chef and caterer owner of The Green Table in Chelsea Market. The Cleaver Company, a full-service event-planning and catering operation, incorporates a concern and respect for the environment and makes every effort to avoid waste and safely recycle. Because of Mary’s commitment to seasonal based cuisine and local sustainable farms, Cleaver Company and The Green Table successfully sit at the forefront of the organic and sustainable food movement. www.cleaverco.com
http://archives.wpkn.org/bookmarks/listen/6932
(There are some factual errors in this episode to include bits about the clips, lives and origins of folks, and of course a few malapropisms…).
“Let me Be Your Teddy” Aunt Molly Jackson from Aunt Molly Jackson, Library of Congress Recordings Collected by Alan Lomax, 1971?
“La Foule” Martha Wainwright from Sans Fusils, Ni Souliers, A Paris, Drowned in Sound Recordings 2009.
“Hurting Heart” Richard McGraw from Burying the Dead, 2010 www.myspace.com/RichardMcgraw.
“Kaufman’s Ballad” Megafaun from www.myspace.com/megafaun.
“Love More” Sharon Van Etten from www.myspace.com/sharonvanetten.
“A Needle in your Eye 16″ The War on Drugs from www.myspace.com/thewarondrugs
“Tunnelvision” Here We Go Magic from www.myspace.com/herewegomagic.
“Thieves of Memory” Parlour Steps from Ambiguoso, Nine Mile Records 2009 www.myspace.com/parloursteps.
“Please Don’t” Santigold (David Byrne and Fat Boy Slim) from Here Lies Love. Todomundo/Nonesuch Records, 2010.
“Once in a Lifetime” Talking Heads from Sands in the Vaseline, Sire Records/Warner Brothers 1992.
“Freight Train” Elizabeth Cotten from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMSYzFdloqY.
“Soliado” Amalia Rodriguez from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ke2F9vwpOCA.
“Max” Paolo Conte from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kDZXHmC4Cs.
“Bubblegum” Tall Tall Trees from TallTallTrees, Good Neighbor Records 2009 www.myspace.com/talltalltreees.
“Amateur Night” Alfonso Velez from Russian Bear, tbr 2010 www.myspace.com/alfonsovelez.
“Manzanas” My Brightest Diamond from Shark Remixes, Robert C. Lange 2009. www.myspace.com/mybrightestdiamond.
“Thursday” Morphine from Cure for Pain, Rikodisc 1993.
“If I needed You” Townes Van Sant, Live at the Old Quarter, Houston Texas, Tomato 1977.
“O Day” Bessie Jones from Southern Journey Voices from the American South from Rounder 1997.
“Whispering Words” Jenifer Jackson from unreleased 2007 www.myspace.com/jeniferjackson.
“Where can we go but Nowhere” Elysian Fields from The Afterlife from Diviluian www.myspace.com/elysianfieldsnyc.
“The Water” Leah Siegel from Little Mule, Unknown Indie 2006 http://www.myspace.com/leahsiegel.
“Marked Man (Live) ” Mieka Pauley from Rockwood Musichall 2007 from http://www.myspace.com/mieka.
“Off I Go” Greg Laswell from Off I Go Single from Vanguard Records 2009 www.myspace.com/greglaswell.
Bill DiPaola is the Environmentalist/Executive Director of TIME’S UP! TIME’S UP! is a grassroots environmental group that uses educational outreach and direct action to promote a more sustainable, less toxic city. For more than 20 years, TIME’S UP! has worked to educate people about the environmental impacts of everyday decisions, from the food we buy to the means of transportation we use.
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Cynthia Hopkins is a musical performance artist: Playwright, performer, composer and songwriter. She is the definition of postmodern artistry. Her work, which she describes as being united in some kind of singular tapestry, transcends single genres and mediums and defies definition. In combining non-fiction documentary with traditional narrative story, science fiction, space opera and introspective autobiography, Hopkins weaves a new kind of story. Her latest piece, “The Truth, a Tragedy” will be at SoHo rep in May http://www.gloriadeluxe.com/home/index.html
Annie Varnot was born to a farmer and a forester in Barre, Massachusetts in 1972. She earned a BS from Skidmore College in studio art and a MFA in painting from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She has exhibited her work throughout New York, New England, California, Michigan, and in France and Canada. She has served as a visiting fellow at the La Napoule Art Foundation in France, Ross Creek Centre for the Arts in Nova Scotia, I-Park Artists’ Enclave in Connecticut, Stonehouse Residency for the Contemporary Arts in California, and the Islip Art Museum in New York and will be the artist- in-residence at Weir Farm in Connecticut for August 2010. She is the proud recipient of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award, Change Inc. Grant, Artists’ Fellowship Inc. Grant, the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation Emergency Grant, and the Pat Hearn and Colin De Land Cancer Foundation Grant. http://www.annievarnot.com/
Director and educator Rachel Chavkin with the TEAM Rachel has directed/co-authored Particularly In the Heartland, Particularly in the Heartland, Give Up! Start Over! (In the darkest of times I look to Richard Nixon for hope), Howl, based on the poem by Allen Ginsberg, and Architecting – produced by the National Theatre of Scotland. Outside of her work with the TEAM she is currently collaborating on a number of new works, including collaborations with performer/playwright/composer Taylor Mac on The Lily’s Revenge at HERE. Rachel is an Artistic Associate at Classic Stage Company, a New Georges affiliated artist, a member of the Women’s Project Lab, and a Drama League alumnus. She earned her BFA at NYU where she now serves on the directing faculty at Playwrights Horizons Theater School, and earned her MFA at Columbia University. www.theteamplays.org
Hope Hall is a freelance documentary filmmaker, cinematographer, and performer in new york city. She is the recipient of honorable mentions at the sundance, louisville, humboldt, and black maria film festivals in the short documentary category and a yearlong independent study fellowship at the whitney museum. In july of ’08 she joined the new media department at obama for america as a full-time staff filmmaker, photographer, and journalist, where she worked through the election (http://hopevideo.tumblr.com).She is currently doing the same in the new media department of the presidential transition team in dc (http://www.change.gov). currently her cinematography work can be seen in the independent feature documentary ‘beyond conviction,’ a feature documentary on mediation between victim and perpetrator in pennsylvania prisons. her work is also in various current tv productions: bravo’s ‘tabloid wars;’ vh-1′s ‘live @ vh-1′ and ‘little beauties;’ and mtv’s ‘overdrive’ and ‘first year,’ a feature documentary following entrepreneur kenny lao’s opening of ‘rickshaw dumpling bar.’ www.hopehall.com
