Art Works Podcast
By National Endowment for the Arts
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Description
The National Endowment for the Arts podcast that goes behind the scenes with some of the nation’s great artists to explore how art works.
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Terence Blanchard: The Music That Speaks | From composing opera to heading SFJAZZ, NEA Jazz Master Terence Blanchard continues to push creative boundaries | 2/25/2025 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Terence Blanchard: A Life in Music, Part 1 | Trumpeter, composer, and 2024 NEA Jazz Master Terence Blanchard joins Art Works for a conversation that traces his extraordinary musical journey. | 2/11/2025 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Strings of Transformation: June Kuramoto and the Journey of the Koto | A National Heritage Fellow Reflects on Tradition, Innovation, and a Lifetime of Music | 2/10/2025 | Free | View in iTunes |
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January 14, 2025 Hana S. Sharif: Curating Conversations at Arena Stage | Arena Stage's first Black artistic director curates bold seasons and builds bridges through art. | 1/14/2025 | Free | View in iTunes |
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December 17, 2024 Andy Statman: Master of Many Musical Traditions | From Klezmer to Jazz, Andy Statman Redefines Musical Boundaries | 12/17/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Opera for All: Breaking Barriers with Opera Praktikos (OPrak) | Exploring Disability Creativity and Accessibility in Opera | 12/10/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Revisiting Author of Interior Chinatown Charles Yu | Revisiting "Interior Chinatown": Charles Yu on Identity, Representation, and Adaptation | 12/3/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Exploring American Routes: A Conversation with Nick Spitzer | Celebrate Thanksgiving with Art Works as we revisit our conversation with Nick Spitzer, the creator and host of the radio program American Routes. | 11/26/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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November 19, 2024 Celebrating Jazz Giants: Roy Haynes and Lou Donaldson | Celebrating the lives and music of NEA Jazz Masters Roy Haynes and Lou Donaldson with excerpts from their interviews and music that defined their careers. | 11/19/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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November 12, 2024 Theater of War: Bridging Greek Tragedy and Veteran Stories | Using ancient Greek tragedy, Theater of War brings veterans together to discuss trauma, honor, and the costs of war. | 11/11/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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November 5, 2024 Native American Artist Rose B. Simpson: Forging Pathways through Heritage and Innovation | Exploring identity, resilience, and community through monumental art. | 11/5/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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October 29, 2024 "Embracing the Darkness: A Conversation with Author Christina Henry" | A Conversation with horror author Christina Henry about the thrill of fear, the allure of haunted spaces, and her approach to crafting atmospheric, character-driven, scary stories. | 10/29/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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October 22, 2024 Meet Todd Goings, the 2024 National Heritage Fellow who keeps carousels spinning! | From restoring century-old masterpieces to building new ones, Todd Goings combines artistry and engineering to preserve the magic of these iconic rides for future generations. | 10/22/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Juan Felipe Herrera: Breaking Boundaries with Poetry and Language | Revisit our 2015 conversation with Juan Felipe Herrera, the first Latino U.S. Poet Laureate and now a MacArthur Fellow! | 10/15/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Family, Identity, and Survival: Showrunner Soo Hugh on the series Pachinko | Soo Hugh joins Art Works to discuss the series Pachinko, the multigenerational story of a Korean family navigating war, displacement, and identity. | 10/8/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Inside Jaja’s African Hair Braiding: A Conversation with Playwright Jocelyn Bioh | Using humor to shine a light on serious issues | 10/1/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Celebrating the Power of Stories with Meg Medina, National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature | In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month: we are revisiting our 2023 interview with award-winning author Meg Medina, the first Latina National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature. | 9/24/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Art and Redemption: A Conversation with Chicano Muralist Fabian Debora | From Gang Life to National Heritage Fellow: Fabian Debora on Art as a Tool for Healing and Transformation | 9/17/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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James Rees: Advocating for Arts Education and Creative Expression | It's Arts Education Week--Meet Artist/Teacher/Advocate James Rees | 9/10/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Professor Thalia Goldstein unpacks the impact of theater education on student development. | In our latest episode, we dive into the impact of theater education on student development with expert Thalia Goldstein. Discover how the arts can shape young minds and foster empathy! | 9/3/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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August 20, 2024 Rhythms of Resilience: Bril Barrett on Tap, Tradition, and Resistance | Bril Barrett reflects on the enduring power of tap to connect past, present, and future and how his teaching philosophy—rooted in history, culture, and improvisation—continues to inspire the next generation of tap dancers. | 8/20/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Healing Through Storytelling: Dr. David Fakunle on Arts, Culture, and Public Health | In this 2023 interview, Dr. David Fakunle shares how storytelling and the arts serve as powerful tools for healing and public health, transforming communities through creativity. | 8/13/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Vijay Iyer: Jazz Virtuoso and Classical Composer | The prolific musician and composer Vijay Iyer discusses his diverse musical background, and his parallel careers in jazz and classical composition. nd the recent release of his CD "Vijay Iyer: Trouble" with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project. | 8/6/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Celebrating Disability Pride Month with Dr. Joel Snyder: A Pioneer in Audio Description | Revisiting Dr. Joel Snyder's pioneering work in audio description for Disability Pride Month | 7/30/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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"The Waters": A Conversation with Bonnie Jo Campbell | Author Bonnie Jo Campbell discusses her novel, "The Waters," a tale set in the rich landscapes of rural Michigan that explores the intricate dynamics within a family of women in a shifting society. | 7/23/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Creating Conversations Through Art: The Vision of Charleston's Gaillard Center | Discover how Charleston's Gaillard Center blends history, community, and the arts. Join CEO Lissa Frenkel on "Art Works" to explore this cultural gem. | 7/16/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Joanie Madden: The Whistleblower of Irish Music | Joanie Madden: Bronx Roots to Global Stages: The Journey of an Irish Music Icon | 7/9/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Revisiting Lin-Manuel Miranda and "Hamilton" | This July 4th, let's revisit Lin-Manuel Miranda and his revolutionary musical "Hamilton." | 7/2/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Embracing Queerness in Ballet: A Conversation with Adriana Pierce | Discover the transformative journey of Adriana Pierce, a trailblazing dancer, choreographer, and director, who is reshaping the ballet world through her initiative, Queer the Ballet. | 6/25/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Celebrating African American History and Heritage with Pat Johnson | Discover how 2024 National Heritage Fellow Pat Johnson transformed her former segregated one room school into a thriving center for Black history and culture and community engagement in Pocahontas Arkansas. | 6/18/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Community and the Speed Art Museum | Curator Tyler Blackwell Discusses the Innovative Initiatives that Make the Speed a Community Hub | 6/11/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Remembering the late blues musician Phil Wiggins | Remembering the late blues musician Phil Wiggins | 6/4/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Transforming Lives Through Music: Shanna Lin and the Paterson Music Project | Join us on Art Works as Shanna Lin discusses the transformative power of the Paterson Music Project. Discover how music education is changing lives! | 5/28/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Lillian Faderman: The Emotional Truth of "My Mother's Wars" | LGBT and Ethnic Scholar and Author Lillian Faderman discusses her book My Mother’s Wars a reconstructed memoir of her mother’s life as an Jewish immigrant in the United States | 5/21/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Theater Unmasked: Challenges and Possibilities | A discussion between the NEA and Actors' Equity about the challenges and opportunities facing theater. | 5/14/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Staging Stories: Psalmayene 24 on Directing Across Time | Staging Stories: Psalmayene 24 on Directing Across Time | 5/7/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Bridging Cultures: A Conversation with Diana Abu-Jaber | Author Diana Abu-Jaber has thoughts about cultural complexity, memoirs, and fiction | 4/30/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Leslie Sainz: A New Voice in Contemporary Poetry | Leslie Sainz: A New Voice in Contemporary Poetry | 4/23/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Suzan-Lori Parks Shows Up! | Suzan-Lori Parks shows up in everything she does! | 4/16/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Bassist and 2017 NEA Jazz Master Dave Holland talks about his life in jazz | Bassist and 2017 NEA Jazz Master Dave Holland talks about his life in jazz | 4/9/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Harmonies of Heritage: The Willard Jenkins Odyssey in Jazz Advocacy | Dive into 'Harmonies of Heritage' with Willard Jenkins, a jazz master shaping the genre's future through advocacy and passion. | 4/2/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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A Special Edition of Art Works: Talking across disciplines with the Chair of the NEA and the Director of the Census Bureau | A Special Edition of Art Works: Talking across disciplines with the Chair of the NEA and the Director of the Census Bureau | 3/26/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Harmonic Convergence of Amina Claudine Myers | Amina Claudine Myers: From gospel to jazz | 3/19/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Building Bridges Through Children's Literature | Kirsten Cappy co-founder of I'm Your Neighbor Books builds bridges through children's literature | 3/12/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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It's complicated: a conversation with author and 2020 NEA Literature Fellow Danielle Evans | A conversation with author and 2020 NEA Literature Fellow Danielle Evans | 3/5/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Meet Tap Dancer and National Heritage Fellow Reginald "Reggio the Hoofer" McLaughlin | Get into the soul of tap dancing with Reggio the Hoofer! | 2/27/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Meet Saxophonist and NEA Jazz Master Gary Bartz | "Listening is more important than playing": so says saxophonist Gary BartzIn this tuneful podcast, 2024 NEA Jazz Master Saxophonist Gary Bartz talks about his life and career, touching on his roots, influences, collaborations, and the philosophical unde | 2/20/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Celebrate Black History Month: Isabel Wilkerson discusses the Great Migration and American Culure | Celebrate Black History Month: Isabel Wilkerson discusses the Great Migration and American Culure | 2/13/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Director/writer Cord Jefferson talks about "American Fiction" | "American Fiction" might be director Cord Jefferson's first film--but it's nominated for five Academy Awards. | 2/6/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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“From Heritage to Health:” Bringing the diverse cultures of everyday life to medical care. | Art Might be the Prescription! “From Heritage to Health” brings the diverse cultures of everyday life to medical care. | 1/30/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Meet American Routes creator and host Nick Spitzer | Meet American Routes creator and host Nick Spitzer | 1/23/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Celebrating 1984 NEA Jazz Master Max Roach’s Centenary | Celebrating 1984 NEA Jazz Master Max Roach’s centenary with a conversation about the documentary “Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes” with co-directors Sam Pollard and Ben Shapiro. | 1/16/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Paula Abreu discusses her comprehensive approach to cultural curation at the McCarter Theatre Center | A conversation with Director of Presented Programming at the McCarter Theatre Center Paula Abreu halfway through her first season on the job! | 1/9/2024 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Exploring the New Horizons of the Folger Shakespeare Theatre with Karen Ann Daniels | Artistic Director of the Folger Karen Ann Daniels says theater starts in the neighborhood | 12/19/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Brandon Victor Dixon--talks about performing in Alicia Keys's "Hells Kitchen" | Brandon Victor Dixon--talks about Alicia Keys and "Hells Kitchen"--and "Hamilton" too! | 12/12/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Filmmaker Irene Taylor Brodsky--Deafness in Three Movements | Filmmaker Irene Taylor Brodsky discusses her own family’s journey through deafness and music. | 12/5/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Revisiting Director and Playwright Randy Reinholz(Choctaw)-- | We’re marking the Indigenous Peoples Month by Revisiting Director and Playwright Randy Reinholz (Choctaw)-- | 11/28/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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“Where there’s flavor, there’s history:” A Look at New Orleans food Culture with Zella Palmer | “Where there’s flavor, there’s history:” A Look at New Orleans Food Culture with Zella Palmer | 11/21/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Author Cynthia Leitich Smith (Muscogee) champions Native Voices | Author Cynthia Leitich Smith (Muscogee) makes it real for young readers. | 11/14/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Marking Veterans Day: Revisiting Sebastian Junger | Sebastian Junger wonders if a fragmented society doesn't contribute to PTSD in Veterans. | 11/7/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Novelist Isabel Cañas delivers gothic horror with a twist | Novelist Isabel Cañas merges gothic terror with actual history | 10/31/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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James LeBrecht and Day Al-Mohamed work to create a space in media for stories by, for and about people with disabilities. | We’re marking National Disability Employment Awareness Month with a conversation with filmmakers and disability rights advocates James LeBrecht and Day Al-Mohamed | 10/24/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Behind the Scenes with Actors Sylvia Kwan and Jacob Yeh | When the Stage Becomes a Hall of Mirrors | 10/17/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with Luthier Manuel Delgado | Manuel Delgado continues his family’s tradition of hand-building stringed instruments and adds a healthy dose of arts advocacy | 10/10/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with Flamenco Artist and Teacher Eva Enciñias | Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with Flamenco Artist and Teacher Eva Enciñias | 10/3/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with Tejano Musician "Little Joe" Hernandez and La Familia | Meet "Little Joe" Hernandez one of the most prominent musicians in Tejano | 9/26/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Conversations with Wood: The Art of Luis Tapia | Luis Tapia carves his own artistic path | 9/19/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Meet Two People Who Make Performing Art Happen | What Inspires a philanthropist and an arts presenter? | 9/12/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Is Storytelling a key to better public Health? | Dr. David Fakunle creates better public health one story at a time | 9/5/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Kinetic Sculpture Race: Art in Motion | Rutabaga Queen and Ace Pilot Kati Texas takes us behind the scenes of the Kinetic Sculpture Race, Grand Championship, where art and science go to play. | 8/29/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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In the Beginning: the Late Stan Lee Gave Us the Marvel Superheroes | Spider-Man, Fantastic Four, the X-Men, Iron Man, the Hulk, Doctor Strange: the late Stan Lee was there at the creation. | 8/22/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Back to School: Teaching artist Emmett Phillips creates dynamic arts education programming through hip-hop. | Back to School: Teaching artist Emmett Phillips creates dynamic arts education programming through hip-hop. | 8/15/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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It's Back to School--Let's talk about Arts Education | Here's what one rural county is doing to provide equitable arts education for all its districts | 8/8/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Meet Artist Elizabeth James-Perry (Wampanoag, Aquinnah) | Elizabeth James-Perry (Wampanoag, Aquinnah) combines tribal knowledge, science, and history to make dazzling art | 8/1/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Phil Wiggins--a Life Playing the Blues | Harmonica player Phil Wiggins talks and demonstrates playing the blues | 7/25/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Author and Disability Advocate Rebekah Taussig Discusses Her Memoir "Sitting Pretty." | Author and Disability Advocate Rebekah Taussig's Memoir "Sitting Pretty" is like talking to a very smart and very funny friend. | 7/18/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Meet a force in Contemporary Music: Gil Rose | Gil Rose--a force in contemporary music | 7/11/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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A Conversation about the Singing Sergeants | Ann Meier Baker went to boot camp so she could sing professionally! | 7/4/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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A Conversation with 2023 NEA Jazz Master Saxophonist Kenny Garrett | Celebrate Black Music Month! It 'sa conversation with 2023 NEA Jazz Master Saxophonist Kenny Garrett | 6/27/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Historian and National Book Award-winner Tiya Miles Meets the Moment | Historian and National Book Award-winner Tiya Miles talks about the challenges of writing fiction | 6/20/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Poet Jericho Brown Discusses his 2020 Pulitzer Prize-winner "The Tradition" | In "The Tradition" Pulitzer Prize winning poet Jericho Brown explores the Black queer body at risk and resilent | 6/13/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Nicole Chung writes of family and loss with a focus on broader societal failures. | Memoirist Nicole Chung explores family and loss with a focus on broader societal failures. | 6/6/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Meet Asian American Choreographer Dana Tai Soon Burgess | We're closing our celebration of AAPI Month with the great choreographer Dana Tai Soon Burgess | 5/30/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Veterans and the Arts | A look at new art programs for veterans and service members | 5/23/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Filmmaker Jason Rhee creates a documentary about EJ Lee "the Korean Magic Johnson of NCAA women's basketball." | Filmmaker Jason Rhee creates a documentary about EJ Lee "the Korean Magic Johnson of NCAA women's basketball." | 5/16/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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A Conversation with Amy Tan | Just in time for Mother's Day, Amy Tan Discusses the Joy Luck Club | 5/9/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Meg Medina is the first Latina to serve as the Library of Congress’s National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature | Author Meg Medina wants young readers to see themselves and others in books | 5/2/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Remembering Jazz Great Ahmad Jamal | A celebration of the music of the late Ahmad Jamal | 4/25/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Behind the Scenes at Washington DC's Arena Stage | Dramaturg and literary manager Otis Cortez Ramsey-Zöe and casting director Joseph Pinzon takes us behind the scenes at Washington DC’s Arena Stage for the revival of “Angels in America.” | 4/11/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Jazz Violinist's Regina Carter's Musical Journey | It's a musical journey as violinist Regina Carter recalls her spectacular career in jazz. | 4/4/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Regina Carter: Portrait of the Jazz Artist as a Young Woman | How violinist Regina Carter moved from classical music to jazz | 3/28/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Meet the New Executive Director of the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities (PCAH) | Let's meet Tsione Wolde-Michael, the execuitve director of the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities (PCAH) | 3/21/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Bushra Rehman's novel celebrates the Pakistani American community in 1980s Corona, Queens | Bsura Rehman's novel gives us a portrait of the artist as a young, queer, Pakistani American growing up in Queens | 3/14/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Presenting Art for the City of Pittsburgh | Janis Burley Wilson Has been bringing the arts to Pittsburgh for over two decades! | 3/7/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Meet 2023 NEA Jazz Master--Drummer Louis Hayes! | Drummer Louis Hayes talks about his lifetime in music | 2/28/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Dr. Maria Rosario Jackson reflects on her first year as Chair of National Endowment for the Arts | Chair Maria Rosario Jackson looks back at her first year leading the Arts Endowment and shares her ideas, plans, and initiatives for the year ahead. | 2/14/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Choreographer Kyle Abraham Creates Dance for the 21st Century | Kyle Abraham creates dance with purpose and artistry | 2/7/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Science and Art: Dr. Alan Lightman has thoughts! | MIT physicist and novelist Alan Lightman looks for meaning in the age of science | 1/31/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Dr. Carolyn Mazloomi talks about the beauty and power of African American quilts | Quilter and curator Carolyn Mazloomi tells stories through quilts | 1/24/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Novelist Kevin Wilson Gives a Voice to the Weird | Novelist Kevin Wilson discusses the serious issues at the heart of his outrageous (and outrageously funny) novel "Nothing To See Here." | 1/17/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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BobFulcher: Connecting Traditional Culture and the Natural Environment | Folklorist and Park Ranger Bobby Fulcher connects traditional culture and the natural environment | 1/10/2023 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Cedric Burnside's Hill Country Blues Sings Out 2022 | Hill Country Blues Musician, Songwriter and 2021 National Heritage Fellow Cedric Burnside talks about bringing his musical roots to the 21st century. | 12/27/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Leonard Bernstein on Broadway! | Composer, conductor, and commentator Rob Kapilow takes us on a musical journey through Leonard Bernstein’s Broadway career. | 12/20/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Signature Theatre's Matthew Gardiner: Making Musical Theatre Magic in Northern Virginia | Signature Theatre: Making Musical Theatre Magic in Northern Virginia | 12/13/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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What Goes Into Writing for Young Adults? Ask Renée Watson | Award-Winning Children's and YA Author Renée Watson Talks About Writing for Young People | 12/6/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Navajo/Diné Weaving: Art That's a Way of Life | Navajo/Diné Textile Artist and Weaver and 2022 National Heritage Fellow TahNibaa Naataanii talks about the practice of Navajo/Diné weaving--an art that is a way of life. | 11/29/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Ties That Bind: A Conversation with Author Kelli Jo Ford (Cherokee) | : In her novel Crooked Hallelujah, Kelli Jo Ford (Cherokee) gives us the stories of four generations of Cherokee women and the love, support, and conflict they share as they navigate their lives in and out of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma | 11/22/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Celebrating Native American Heritage Month by Revisiting Award-Winning Penobscot Basketmaker Theresa Secord | We are celebrating Native American Heritage Month and National Heritage Award by revisiting Penobscot Nation Ash/Sweetgrass Basketmaker and 2016 National Heritage Fellow Theresa Secord who discusses bringing an ancient art into the 21st century. | 11/15/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The founder of Step Afrika! C. Brian Williams explains the art of stepping. | Learn about the dynamic art of stepping--from the founder of Step Afrika! C. Brian Williams! | 11/8/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Remembering Lakota Culture-Bearer Kevin Locke | The late Kevin Locke talks about learning, performing, and teaching Lakota culture and traditions. | 11/1/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Art at the Intersection: A Community Claims Its Legacy | Director of Communications for the Mount Zion Baptist Church Preservation Society in Athens Ohio Dr. Tee Ford-Ahmed talks about repurposing a vacant but historically-significant Black church into a cultural center—with an assist from the Citizens’ I | 10/25/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Meeting Bluegrass Fiddle Virtuoso Michael Cleveland | Bluegrass Fiddler and 2022 NEA National Heritage Fellow Michael Cleveland talks about his life immersed in music | 10/18/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month: A Conversation with Novelist Marisel Vera | Marisel Vera talks about unpacking the history of late 19th century Puerto Rico for her novel “The Taste of Sugar.” | 10/11/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Amalia Ortiz: Making and Teaching Art in San Antonio | Celebrate Hispanic Heritage with Artist and Teacher Amalia Ortiz | 10/4/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Revisiting Afro-Dominican Filmmaker Loira Limbal | Filmmaker Loira Limbal talks about her 2020 documentary Through the Night which examines a home-based 24-hour day-care center | 9/27/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Eva Enciñias: Flamenco as Life | Flamenco Artist and 2022 National Heritage Fellow Eva Enciñias talks about her life's work in flamenco. | 9/20/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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David Serkin Ludwig: Expanding the Language of Music | Composer and educator David Serkin Ludwig talks about his life in music both as a composer and as an educator dedicated to new music and expanding the music community | 9/13/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Sipp Culture: Combining Story and Food Sustainability | Carlton Turner talks about the work of Sipp Culture which uses story to uncover and support cultural and economic development in Utica, Mississippi. | 9/6/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Revisiting: Novelist Vanessa Hua--Shining a Light on Chinese-American Voices | Revisiting: Novelist Vanessa Hua--Shining a Light on the Many Chinese-American Voices | 8/30/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Revisiting: Filmmaker CJ Hunt discusses his Emmy-nominated film The Neutral Ground | Filmmaker CJ Hunt discusses his Emmy Award nominated documentary The Neutral Ground which explores the struggle to remove four Confederate monuments in New Orleans | 8/23/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Jenny Mendez talks about a holistic approach to arts programming | Jenny Mendez talks about a holistic approach to arts programming | 8/16/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Actor Jacob Ming-Trent talks about making a place for himself on the stage | Actor Jacob Ming-Trent making a place for himself on the stage, why he left it, and why he returned. | 8/2/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Legendary Ingramettes--Six Decades of Women-Led Gospel | Almeta Ingram-Miller shares the journey of The Legendary Ingramettes and six decades of women-led gospel | 8/2/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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One Look at Class in Rural America | Sarah Smarsh discusses her book "Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth" which is 2022-2023 NEA Big Read title. | 7/26/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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NEA Jazz Master Henry Threadgill--a master of improvised music | Composer and multi-instrumentalist Henry Threadgill continues creating on music's edge | 7/19/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Artful Lives: Louie Pérez and Los Lobos telling the stories of East LA | Songwriter and instrumentalist Louie Pérez takes us through the 50 year journey of the legendary band Los Lobos | 7/12/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Lincoln Center's Shanta Thake: Bringing the Arts to NYC Streets | Shanta Thake is expanding Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts' programming and audience | 7/5/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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How to Increase Access to Arts Education in Rural Areas | Dr. Lisa Donovan discusses successful ways to Increase access to arts education in rural areas | 6/28/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Director Saheem Ali centers communities of color in his productions of Shakespeare | Theater director Saheem Ali talks about directing Shakespeare that centers on communities of color. | 6/21/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Celebrate Black Music Appreciation Month with singer, composer, and artistic director of Silkroad Rhiannon Giddens | In this 2021 interview, singer, multi-instrumentalist, composer, and artistic director of Silkroad Rhiannon Giddens talks about the Black roots of American music, | 6/14/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Leading an arts center into the future | Sonja Kostich and Stella Abrera both Asian- Americans, former dancers, and co-leaders of Kaatsbaan Cultural Park talk about the organization's role as both artistic incubator and arts presenter, and their commitment to diversity in programming, performe | 6/9/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Just in time for the Tony Awards, Playwright Michael R. Jackson's "Strange Loop" | Composer, lyricist, and playwright Michael R. Jackson talks about creating his Pultizer-Prize winning musical "A Strange Loop." | 6/7/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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US Army Veteran Jaymes Poling and Jazz Trumpeter Dominick Farinacci | US Army Veteran Jaymes Poling and Jazz Trumpeter Dominick Farinacci | 5/23/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Daniel K. Isaac | Daniel K. Isaac | 5/16/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Peng Shepherd | Peng Shepherd | 5/10/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Revisiting Taiko Leaders PJ and Roy Hirabayashi and Slack Key Guitarist Ledward Kaapana | Revisiting Taiko Leaders PJ and Roy Hirabayashi and Slack Key Guitarist Ledward Kaapana | 5/2/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Huascar Medina | Huascar Medina | 4/25/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Stanley Clarke | Stanley Clarke | 4/18/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Revisiting Tracy K. Smith and Melissa Range | Revisiting Tracy K. Smith and Melissa Range | 4/11/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Terence Blanchard | Terence Blanchard | 4/4/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Cassandra Wilson | Cassandra Wilson | 3/28/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Revisiting Lynsey Addario | Revisiting Lynsey Addario | 3/21/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Marjan Kamali | Marjan Kamali | 3/14/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Valerie Boyd on Zora Neale Hurston | Valerie Boyd on Zora Neale Hurston | 3/7/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Ashleigh Gordon | Ashleigh Gordon | 2/25/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Dr. Maria Rosario Jackson | Dr. Maria Rosario Jackson | 2/18/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Celebrating the late Hank Jones | Celebrating the late Hank Jones | 2/14/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Donald Harrison, Jr. | Donald Harrison, Jr. | 2/7/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Sade Lythcott | Sade Lythcott | 1/31/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Dr. Joel Snyder | Dr. Joel Snyder | 1/24/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Dr. Nicole Fleetwood | Dr. Nicole Fleetwood | 1/17/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Joy Jones | Joy Jones | 1/10/2022 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Andrew Krivak | Andrew Krivak | 12/17/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Revisiting Maria Schneider | Revisiting Maria Schneider | 12/13/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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David Rodriguez | David Rodriguez | 12/5/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Revisiting Kelly Church (Ottawa/ Pottawatomi) | Revisiting Kelly Church (Ottawa/ Pottawatomi) | 11/29/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Arlo Iron Cloud (Oglala-Sioux) | Arlo Iron Cloud (Oglala-Sioux) | 11/22/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Cedric Burnside | Cedric Burnside | 11/15/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Dr. Niyati Dhokai | Dr. Niyati Dhokai | 11/8/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Louie Pérez | Louie Pérez | 11/1/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Snehal Desai | Snehal Desai | 10/18/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Marisel Vera | Marisel Vera | 10/12/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Kate DiCamillo | Kate DiCamillo | 10/4/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Elena Martínez | Elena Martínez | 9/27/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Angel Blue | Angel Blue | 9/20/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Reginald “Reggio the Hoofer” McLaughlin | Reginald “Reggio the Hoofer” McLaughlin | 9/12/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Come From Away | Come From Away | 9/3/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Revisiting Karen Ann Hoffman (Oneida Nation of Wisconsin) | Revisiting Karen Ann Hoffman (Oneida Nation of Wisconsin) | 8/31/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Revisiting Terri Lyne Carrington | Revisiting Terri Lyne Carrington | 8/23/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Arts Education: Helping Students Move Forward | Arts Education: Helping Students Move Forward | 8/16/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Creativity, Culture & Capital | Creativity, Culture & Capital | 8/9/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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David Henry Gerson | David Henry Gerson | 8/2/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Anita Fields (Osage/Muscogee) | Anita Fields (Osage/Muscogee) | 7/26/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CJ Hunt | CJ Hunt | 7/19/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Katie Bowler Young | Katie Bowler Young | 7/12/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Madeline Sayet | Madeline Sayet | 7/1/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Maestro William Henry Curry | Maestro William Henry Curry | 6/25/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Kaitlyn Greenidge | Kaitlyn Greenidge | 6/17/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Jericho Brown | Jericho Brown | 6/10/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Michael R. Jackson | Michael R. Jackson | 6/3/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Jenny Koons | Jenny Koons | 5/27/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Ethan Heard | Ethan Heard | 5/20/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Charles Yu | Charles Yu | 5/13/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Mequitta Ahuja | Mequitta Ahuja | 5/6/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Darrel Alejandro Holnes | Darrel Alejandro Holnes | 4/29/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Terri Lyne Carrington | Terri Lyne Carrington | 4/22/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Camille T. Dungy | Camille T. Dungy | 4/15/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Albert “Tootie” Heath | Albert “Tootie” Heath | 4/8/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Phil Schaap | Phil Schaap | 4/1/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Sally Wen Mao | Sally Wen Mao | 3/25/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Tana French | Tana French | 3/18/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Nataki Garrett | Nataki Garrett | 3/12/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Rhiannon Giddens | Rhiannon Giddens | 3/4/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Henry Threadgill | Henry Threadgill | 2/25/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Danielle Evans | Danielle Evans | 2/19/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Tracy K. Smith | Tracy K. Smith | 2/11/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Amanda Morgan | Amanda Morgan | 2/4/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Duke Dang, GM of Works & Process at the Guggenheim | Duke Dang, GM of Works & Process at the Guggenheim | 1/28/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Violinist and Social Entrepreneur Aaron Dworkin | Violinist and Social Entrepreneur Aaron Dworkin | 1/14/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Suni Paz | Suni Paz | 1/7/2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Joy Harjo (Muscogee/Creek) | Joy Harjo (Muscogee/Creek) | 12/22/2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Lora Bottinelli | Lora Bottinelli | 12/10/2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Rick Dildine | Rick Dildine | 12/4/2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Rebekah Taussig | Rebekah Taussig | 11/19/2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Meet 2020 National Heritage Fellow Wayne Valliere (Lac du Flambeau Ojibwe) | Meet 2020 National Heritage Fellow Wayne Valliere (Lac du Flambeau Ojibwe) | 11/13/2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Scott Yoo | Scott Yoo | 11/6/2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Halloween 2020 | Halloween 2020 | 10/30/2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Jacob Lawrence: The American Struggle | Jacob Lawrence: The American Struggle | 10/16/2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Erika L. Sánchez | Erika L. Sánchez | 10/8/2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Maria Manuela Goyanes | Maria Manuela Goyanes | 10/1/2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Loira Limbal | Loira Limbal | 9/25/2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Hugo Morales | Hugo Morales | 9/21/2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Sonny Rollins | Sonny Rollins | 9/10/2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Amanda C. Burdan | Amanda C. Burdan | 9/7/2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Dorthaan Kirk | Dorthaan Kirk | 9/6/2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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William Bell | William Bell | 9/6/2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Karen Ann Hoffman (Oneida Nation of Wisconsin) | Karen Ann Hoffman (Oneida Nation of Wisconsin) | 7/30/2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Gordon Sasaki | Gordon Sasaki | 7/23/2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Director Jenna Worsham and Playwright Catya McMullen | Director Jenna Worsham and Playwright Catya McMullen | 7/16/2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Randall Kline | Randall Kline | 7/10/2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Clifford Murphy | Clifford Murphy | 6/25/2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Adrian Matejka | Adrian Matejka | 6/19/2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Michael R Jackson | Michael R Jackson | 6/12/2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Jesmyn Ward | Jesmyn Ward | 6/4/2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Brent Benjamin | Brent Benjamin | 5/29/2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Vanessa Hua | Vanessa Hua | 5/21/2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Pt 1 Brandon Gryde Director of Presenting and Multidisciplinary Works -- Pt 2 Peter Szep Founding director of New York Opera Fest and co-founder of New York Opera Alliance | Pt 1 Brandon Gryde Director of Presenting and Multidisciplinary Works -- Pt 2 Peter Szep Founding director of New York Opera Fest and co-founder of New York Opera Alliance | 5/14/2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Elizabeth Acevedo | Elizabeth Acevedo | 5/7/2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Chick Corea | Chick Corea | 5/1/2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Joy Harjo | Joy Harjo | 4/16/2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Roscoe Mitchell | Roscoe Mitchell | 4/3/2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Amy Stolls | Amy Stolls | 3/27/2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Charlotte Mangin | Charlotte Mangin | 3/19/2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Anna Needham (Red Lake Anishinaabe) | Anna Needham (Red Lake Anishinaabe) | 3/13/2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Lauren Gunderson | Lauren Gunderson | 3/6/2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Cord Jefferson | Cord Jefferson | 2/28/2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Trey Ellis | Trey Ellis | 2/20/2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Nate Powell | Nate Powell | 2/14/2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Reggie Workman | Reggie Workman | 2/6/2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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James F. Jackson | James F. Jackson | 1/31/2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Colonel Don Schofield, U.S. Air Force | Colonel Don Schofield, U.S. Air Force | 1/24/2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Ken Ludwig | Ken Ludwig | 1/15/2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Bob Fulcher | Bob Fulcher | 1/9/2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Kevin Gover | Kevin Gover | 12/19/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Jenifer McShane | Jenifer McShane | 12/11/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Ayana Workman | Ayana Workman | 12/3/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Jeffrey Palmer | Jeffrey Palmer | 11/22/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Sam Pressler and Brian Jenkins | Sam Pressler and Brian Jenkins | 11/14/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Daniel Mason | Daniel Mason | 11/7/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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John Kevin Jones | John Kevin Jones | 10/30/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Crys Matthews | Crys Matthews | 10/23/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Madeline Miller | Madeline Miller | 10/15/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Pam Muñoz Ryan | Pam Muñoz Ryan | 10/3/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Irene Taylor Brodsky | Irene Taylor Brodsky | 10/2/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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R.O. Kwon | R.O. Kwon | 9/24/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Dan Ansotegui | Dan Ansotegui | 9/18/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Rosa Joshi | Rosa Joshi | 9/12/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Rich Smoker | Rich Smoker | 9/5/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Julia Alvarez | Julia Alvarez | 8/22/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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J. Dash | J. Dash | 8/15/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Matthew Nicola | Matthew Nicola | 8/7/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Junious Brickhouse | Junious Brickhouse | 7/31/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Stephanie Kline | Stephanie Kline | 7/25/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Dr. Nina Kraus | Dr. Nina Kraus | 7/18/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Ursula von Rydingsvard | Ursula von Rydingsvard | 7/11/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Phil and Lauren Grucci | Phil and Lauren Grucci | 7/3/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Victor Lodato | Victor Lodato | 6/26/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Linda Goss | Linda Goss | 6/19/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Jeff VanderMeer | Jeff VanderMeer | 6/11/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Stephan Wolfert | Stephan Wolfert | 5/23/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Jennifer Croft | Jennifer Croft | 5/14/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Edward Gero | Edward Gero | 5/7/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Mary Rand Hess | Mary Rand Hess | 4/30/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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David Horn | David Horn | 4/25/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Abdullah Ibrahim | Abdullah Ibrahim | 4/18/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Christian McBride | Christian McBride | 4/10/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Maria Schneider | Maria Schneider | 4/3/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Grace Cavalieri | Grace Cavalieri | 3/27/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Julia Wolfe | Julia Wolfe | 3/20/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Aislinn Clarke | Aislinn Clarke | 3/13/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Renée Watson | Renée Watson | 3/4/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Gordon Quinn and Tracye A. Matthews | Gordon Quinn and Tracye A. Matthews | 2/26/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Rachel L. Swarns and Darcy Eveleigh | Rachel L. Swarns and Darcy Eveleigh | 2/19/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Raymond O. Caldwell | Raymond O. Caldwell | 2/12/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Wil Haygood | Wil Haygood | 12/18/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Eddie Bond (Part 2) | Eddie Bond (Part 2) | 12/4/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Eddie Bond (Part 1) | Eddie Bond (Part 1) | 11/28/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Randy Reinholz (Choctaw) | Randy Reinholz (Choctaw) | 11/13/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Jeffrey Wright | Jeffrey Wright | 11/6/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Kiersten White | Kiersten White | 10/30/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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David Tomas Martinez | David Tomas Martinez | 10/23/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Marion Coleman | Marion Coleman | 10/16/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Kelly Church | Kelly Church | 10/9/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Herman Cornejo | Herman Cornejo | 10/2/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Ofelia Esparza | Ofelia Esparza | 9/25/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Don and Cindy Roy | Don and Cindy Roy | 9/18/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Juliane Dressner, Karoline Jimenez, Christine Rodriguez, and Enoch Jemmott | Juliane Dressner, Karoline Jimenez, Christine Rodriguez, and Enoch Jemmott | 9/11/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Dana Nachman and Don Hardy | Dana Nachman and Don Hardy | 8/16/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Rob Kapilow | Rob Kapilow | 8/10/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Douglas Hegley, Samantha Porter and Colin McFadden | Douglas Hegley, Samantha Porter and Colin McFadden | 8/2/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Sunni Fass and LuAnne Holladay | Sunni Fass and LuAnne Holladay | 7/26/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Malcolm J. Merriweather | Malcolm J. Merriweather | 7/19/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Todd Barkan | Todd Barkan | 7/13/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Sergeant 1st Class Juan Munoz | Sergeant 1st Class Juan Munoz | 6/29/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Artemio Posadas | Artemio Posadas | 6/21/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Ilya Tovbis | Ilya Tovbis | 6/15/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Kiran Singh Sirah | Kiran Singh Sirah | 6/8/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Dria Brown | Dria Brown | 5/31/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Creative Forces and Finding A Tribe | Creative Forces and Finding A Tribe | 5/24/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Nora Atkinson | Nora Atkinson | 5/18/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Liz Reed | Liz Reed | 5/11/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Michael Fields | Michael Fields | 5/4/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Jennifer Haigh | Jennifer Haigh | 4/26/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Seema Reza | Seema Reza | 4/20/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Pat Metheny | Pat Metheny | 4/13/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Melissa Range | Her poetry collection Scriptorium illuminate her Appalachian Roots. | 4/5/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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JoAnne Brackeen | Uncovering new dimensions of music. | 3/29/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Robert Wood And Susan Derry | Contemporary opera for contemporary audiences. | 3/23/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Emily St. John Mandel | A novel about what endures when civilization ends. | 3/14/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Dianne Reeves | Making music without boundaries. | 3/8/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Dessa | Finding the intersection of science and love. | 3/2/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Dion Graham | An aural shape-shifter. | 2/23/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Mat Johnson | His novels take a satirical look at race and identity. | 2/16/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Meta Golding | Taking on the role of a lifetime: Rosa Parks in Behind the Movement | 2/9/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Rob Meyer | The making of the independent film Little Boxes. Please note: This interview took place before the unexpected death of Nelsan Ellis who stars in the film Little Boxes. | 2/1/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Kyle Donnelly | Interpreting history with All the Way and The Great Society. | 1/25/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Seth Gadsden | More than a film festival. | 1/19/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Shelley Ritter | Keeping the blues alive and honoring its history | 1/11/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Matthew Willey | The Good of the Hive is more than an art project. | 1/5/2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Walter Ware III | Casting Director Walter Ware III brings the right people together. Read all about the behind-the-scenes crew in NEA Arts. | 12/19/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Guy Mendilow | Embracing and reinterpreting Ladino music. Watch the video Una Noche Al Borde De La Mar. | 12/15/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Jake Gyllenhaal | An iconic role in the iconic play Sunday in the Park with George. | 12/7/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Roz Chast | Roz Chast | 12/1/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Bryan Akipa | Reinvigorating a traditional First Nation art. | 11/15/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Sebastian Junger | His book Tribe rethinks PTSD. | 11/9/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Steve Ellis and David Gallaher | They combined gun slingers with werewolves and created a classic, High Moon. | 11/2/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Kimberly Brooks | Creating language with paint. | 10/25/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Pam Muñoz-Ryan | Opens up worlds of complications and riches. | 10/19/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Muriel Miguel | Forty years on, the first Native-American women’s theater is still going strong. | 10/12/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Junot Diaz | The National Book Award winner talks about Julia Alvarez, Oscar Wao, and the wonder of reading. | 10/6/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Jeff Malmberg and Chris Shellen | Their film Spettacolo looks at a small Tuscan village where each year life is translated into art. | 9/28/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Jennifer Cole | Creating places for the arts and for artists. | 9/21/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Thomas Maupin | Making music with his feet. | 9/14/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Sonny Rollins | The great tenor saxophonist reflects on his life in music. | 9/6/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Stephanie Monseu | Circus arts by way of the East Village performance scene. | 8/17/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Director Amanda Lipitz and Coach Gari McIntyre | Behind the scenes of the award-winning documentary STEP. | 8/11/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Ron Simons | Shining a light on untold stories. | 8/3/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Paul Binder | Finding artistry in intimacy | 7/28/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Julianne Brienza | Making theater happen in DC | 7/21/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Rae Eighmey | Marries food with history to create culinary biographies. | 7/14/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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T. Geronimo Johnson | Welcome to Braggsville: A madcap and tragic satire that unpacks attitudes about race. | 7/7/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Bryan “Flash” Turner | Living the dream. | 6/29/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Phil Wiggins | Bringing It All Home. | 6/23/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Ira Gitler | Celebrated by his son Fitz Gitler. | 6/16/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Renée Fleming | The power of music to make us whole. | 6/8/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Susan Edwards | Art is alive at the Frist Center! | 6/1/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Aaron Bryant | Photographs that illuminate history, community and culture. | 5/26/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Dana Tai Soon Burgess | Creating a cultural mosaic of dance. | 5/18/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Lucy Gray | Her book Balancing Acts takes us backstage with dancers who are mothers. | 5/12/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Cory Doctorow | The prolific award-winning novelist talks about sci-fi and technology. | 5/4/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Kim Roberts | Kim Roberts brings a poet’s eye to The Scientific Method | 4/28/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Thomas Dooley | His collection Trespass shines a light in dark places | 4/20/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Dick Hyman | A musical shape-shifter. | 4/13/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Dave Holland | Jazz as a way of life | 4/7/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Dee Dee Bridgewater | Going her own way. | 3/31/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Liz Carroll, Seamus Connolly, Kevin Doyle and Billy McComiskey | Celebrate Traditional Irish Music. | 3/16/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Jacqueline Lawton | Her play Intelligence is a political drama that centers on accountability. | 3/9/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Jacqueline Woodson | With Another Brooklyn, acclaimed children’s author Jacqueline Woodson creates an adult novel that reads like poetry. | 3/2/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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John Dickerson | Author and moderator of Face the Nation, Dickerson’s book Whistlestop is a witty, rollicking tour of presidential campaign history. | 2/23/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Dr. Lonnie Smith | One of the best jazz organists, ever…and one of the most sampled jazz musicians, | 2/17/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Rachel Howzell Hall | With her character Lou Norton, Hall creates one of the few African American female detectives. | 2/9/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Bob Mondello | Bringing a love of art to the craft of criticism. | 2/2/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Marsha Mason | Living a full life on and off the stage. | 1/25/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Bowman Wright | Wright on the transformative power of theater and his two portrayals of MLK. | 1/13/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Kimmie Dobbs Chan | Creating a new language of dance. | 1/4/2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Lynsey Addario | With her memoir, It’s What I Do, Lynsey Addario explains how and why she covers war. | 12/14/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Rohan Spong | Winter at Westbeth shines a light on artists and aging. | 12/9/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Nicholas Rodriguez | Bringing a modern sensibility to classic characters. | 11/30/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Vaddey Ratner | Surviving the Khmer Rouge and honoring those who didn’t. | 11/17/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Voices from the Art League’s IMPArt Program | Creating art; changing lives. | 11/10/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Ted Nash | With Presidential Suite, Ted Nash transforms iconic political speeches into an inventive jazz composition. | 11/4/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Kelly Link | Pretty Monsters combines the ordinary and the magical—with flair. | 10/27/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Marcus Samuelsson | Creating new flavors with traditional food. | 10/21/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Alex Lacamoire | Alex Lacamoire on bringing Hamilton and In the Heights to life on the stage. | 10/13/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Adriana Sananes | Moving between Spanish and English on stage and on the page. | 10/6/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Theresa Secord | Bringing an ancient art form into the 21st century. | 9/29/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Ron Rash | No one tells stories embedded in Southern Appalachia with more grit or more beauty. | 9/22/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Mike Vlahovich | Restoring wooden boats and keeping alive the culture of the working waterfront. | 9/15/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Earl Mosley | The Earl Mosley Institute of the Arts uses dance to create a community of young men. | 9/8/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Michael Berry | Michael Berry reflects on the art of translating Yu Hua’s influential novel and new Big Read title To Live into English. | 8/18/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Joe Standart | Using empty storefront windows as his gallery, Standart exhibits “WE ARE- A Nation of Immigrants” in the heart of New London, CT. | 8/11/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Mickela Mallozzi | As host of the Emmy Award-winning series, Mickela Mallozzi travels the world learning the traditional dances and music of each place she visits. | 8/5/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Shannon O'Neill and Brandon Scott Jones | Pushing the boundaries of improvisation. | 8/1/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Amy Saidman | Everyone has a story; Story District helps tell it. | 7/22/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Frances McElroy | Black Ballerina looks at different generations of dancers, but is it the same story? | 7/15/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Justin Cronin | Justin Cronin brings his post-apocalyptic Passage trilogy to a close with The City of Mirrors. | 7/8/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Billy McComiskey | Building a community for traditional Irish music. | 7/1/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Kao Kalia Yang | A personal story that speaks to the moment. | 6/27/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Lin-Manuel Miranda | His life in the theater didn’t begin with Hamilton. | 6/16/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Amy Jordan | Founding her company after a near-fatal accident, Amy’s work is an exuberant affirmation. | 6/9/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Rachel Moore | In her new book, Rachel Moore gives practical advice and strategic insight for creating a career in the performing arts. | 6/2/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Brian McDonald | Creating opportunities for veterans who are artists. | 5/25/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Kassie Hilgert | Reclaiming the abandoned Bethlehem Steel Plant for the arts gives a region new life. | 5/19/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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James McBride | McBride’s latest book looks to understand what shaped James Brown-- one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. | 5/12/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Lin-Manuel Miranda | Making history on Broadway. | 5/6/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Michael Witmore | Shakespeare’s World and Ours. | 4/29/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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407 |
Mickey Rowe | A young professional autistic actor makes his difference work on the stage. | 4/21/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Jan Beatty | The poetry of the working class. | 4/15/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Gary Burton | One of the great jazz virtuosos take us through his musical journey. | 4/11/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Wendy Oxenhorn | Keeping the music alive and the musicians playing. | 3/31/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Dr. Johnnetta Cole | Dr. Cole’s mission is to inspire a love of art especially in girls from under-represented communities. | 3/24/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Belinda McKeon | In her novels, Solace and Tender, she paints an unsentimental picture of Ireland. | 3/17/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Akua Kouyate-Tate | Wolf Trap is integrating art with fundamental science and math learning for young children and the data show significant results. | 3/10/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Kirsten Greenidge | In her new work Baltimore, playwright Kirsten Greenidge grapples with the issue of race on college campuses. | 3/3/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Archie Shepp | Archie Shepp shares his musical biography—and his thoughts about the legacy of African-American music. | 2/26/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Nnamdi Chukwuocha and Albert Mills | Poets and social workers, the twins’ primary audience have been Wilmington’s underserved children. | 2/18/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Rashod Ollison | In his memoir Soul Serenade, Ollison describes how music was a lifeline during a difficult upbringing. | 2/11/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Lynn Nottage | Giving voice to the human cost of workers without work. | 2/4/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Harrell Fletcher | Harrell Fletcher shares his passion for social practice—creative projects in communities that are by, for, and of the residents. | 1/29/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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John Adams | Creating American music that’s intense, sensual, and meaningful. | 1/21/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Kasandra Ver Brugghen | Teaching the next generation of digital artists. | 1/14/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Julianna Baggott | Harriet Wolf’s Seventh Book of Wonders took Julianna Baggott 18 years to write… Julianna discusses how writing 14 other novels in a variety of genres, three collections of poetry, and a children’s series helped her finish Harriet Wolf. | 1/7/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians | A half-century of musical innovation and self-determination, told by AACM co-founder (currently AACM-New York president) and 2010 NEA Jazz Master Muhal Richard Abrams, current AACM-Chicago chairman Ernest Dawkins, and AACM member and 2014 NEA Jazz Maste | 12/17/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Dave Porter | Dave Porter’s iconic music is an essential part of the story: Think Breaking Bad, and Better Call Saul. | 12/10/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Wayne T. Carr | From Pericles to Tupac Shakur, Wayne Carr embodies fully-realized characters on the stage. | 12/3/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Tazewell Thompson | Tazewell Thompson may be wowing critics and audiences with his direction of the opera Appomattox, but he’s an equally brilliant theater director and playwright. | 11/19/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Joseph P. Riley | After 40 years, Joseph Riley steps down from being mayor of Charleston, South Carolina, leaving a legacy that demands art and beauty in the everyday. | 11/12/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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428 |
Jane Alexander | Jane Alexander reflects on her time at the NEA, her life-long love affair with theater, and the centrality of art to the human experience. | 11/5/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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429 |
Mike Mignola | Mike Mignola, the creator of Hellboy, still loves drawing monsters. | 10/29/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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430 |
Richard Hunt | Richard Hunt talks about creating large pieces of abstract art for public spaces and reflects on his time on the National Council of the Arts. | 10/22/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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431 |
Karen Zacarias | Karen Zacarias is the most produced Latina playwright in the nation. Now, she brings the telenovela to the stage with Destiny of Desire. | 10/15/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Kevin Locke | By performing and teaching Lakota flute and dance, Kevin Locke brings the past and the future together. | 10/8/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Dolly Jacobs | Most kids run away from home to join the circus. For Dolly Jacobs, it was a family affair. | 10/1/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Kevin McKenzie | They got the first grant from the NEA back in 1965 and are celebrating their own long history. | 9/24/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Juan Felipe Herrera | The new poet laureate of the United States and two-time NEA fellow calls for everyone's heart to speak out. | 9/17/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Dan Sheehy | A life in the folk and traditional arts. | 9/10/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Sara Colangelo | Her debut feature film Little Accidents takes us into the heart of a coal-mining town. | 8/20/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Vicente Gutierrez | How a writer created the music magazine he wanted to read. | 8/13/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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439 |
Howard Herring | Reimagining the presentation of classical music. | 8/6/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Squonk Opera Revealed | Find out about the artistic exuberance that is Squonk Opera. | 7/31/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Simi Linton | Equality, justice, and a place on the dance floor. | 7/23/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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442 |
Rebecca Makkai | From beautifully crafted short fiction to page-turning gothic novels, Rebecca Makkai puts art at the heart of her work. | 7/17/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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443 |
Wayne Henderson | Wayne Henderson on his distinctive guitars and his distinctive sound. | 7/9/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Ann Meier Baker | Meet a woman who crawled under barbed wire to get on a professional stage. | 7/2/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Donald Sanders | Ensemble for the Romantic Century blends chamber music with fully staged dramas and changes both theater and concerts in the process. | 6/25/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Jilann Spitzmiller | Still Dreaming documents octogenarian actors taking on Shakespeare at the Lillian Booth Actors' Home. | 6/18/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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447 |
Rahim AlHaj | Speaking the universal language of music. | 6/11/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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448 |
Edwidge Danticat | We explore the writing of her powerful memoir, Brother, I’m Dying. | 6/5/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Joe Wilson | 2001 NEA National Heritage Fellow Joe Wilson weaves his storytelling spell into the history of Blue Ridge Mountain culture. | 5/28/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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450 |
Graham Beal | Graham Beal takes us behind the scenes of the new exhibit Frida Kalho and Diego Rivera in Detroit and shares his support for the Blue Star Museum Program. | 5/21/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Ric Burns | Ric Burns' documentary American Ballet Theatre: A History celebrates dance and ABT’s 75th Anniversary. | 5/14/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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452 |
Vera Nakonechny | Ukrainian embroiderer, weaver and bead worker Vera Nakonechny keeps a traditional culture alive. | 5/8/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Dan Vera | Speaking Wiri Wiri and translating the immigrant experience. | 5/1/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Brando Skyhorse | He had a childhood no one could make up—with his memoir, he creates order from the chaos. | 4/23/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Carla Bley | Writing for big bands, choirs, and small ensembles, Carla Bley remains a graceful and innovative voice for progressive jazz. | 4/17/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Taylor Mali | Four-time National Poetry Slam champion Taylor Mali connects stage and page. | 4/10/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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457 |
Charles Lloyd | The saxophonist/flutist/composer talks about expanding the tradition and language of jazz. | 4/2/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Sam White | Sam White loves Shakespeare and loves her hometown Detroit. So she emptied her bank account and started a site-specific professional theater company, Shakespeare in Detroit. It’s amazing. | 3/26/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Tonya Beckman | Actor Tonya Beckman: a core member of the Taffety Punk Theater Company and a Riot Grrrl in good standing. Classical theater with a difference. | 3/19/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Deborah Bond | Dual Lives: Deborah Bond sings like a dream, has three cds and tours internationally. But she still needs a day job to pay the bills. | 3/12/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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461 |
Tayari Jones | Tayari Jones: an author who loves the process of writing. | 3/6/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Raymond Arsenault | Raymond Arsenault's book The Sound of Freedom examines the 30-minute concert by Marian Anderson that helped move a nation forward. | 2/27/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Sam Pollard | Filmmaker Sam Pollard talks about his new documentary August Wilson: The Ground on which I Stand. | 2/18/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Thomas W. Jones II | Makes sense of the world through theater. | 2/12/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Carolyn Mazloomi | Carolyn Mazloomi shines a powerful light on the African-American community through narrative quilts. | 2/5/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Harold Kyle | Auto Mechanic Harold Kyle plays with movement, balance, and shadows in his sculpture. | 1/29/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Maria Rosario Jackson | Maria Rosario Jackson talks about urban planning with art at its heart. | 1/22/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Philadelphia Museum of Art celebrates 200 years of African American Art! | Organizing curator John Vick and consulting curator/editor Dr. Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw tell us about its rich history. | 1/15/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Dinaw Mengestu | In All Our Names, Dinaw Mengestu explores unlikely love in the midst of conflict. | 1/9/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Barry Bergey | Barry Bergey shares some memories about a lifetime immersed in folk and traditional arts. | 12/18/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Ping Chong | Ping Chong, a visionary citizen-artist and six-time NEA grantee, connects racial history to our current unrest in his recent play, Collidescope: Adventures in Pre- and Post-Racial America. | 12/11/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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A Lesson from ELI (Education Leadership Institute): work together to bring the arts to all students | Diana Green and Cathy Gassenheimer have a mission: Arts Education for Every Alabama pre-k thru 12 Student! | 12/4/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Nathaniel Philbrick | In a slim, lucid and compulsively readable book, Nathaniel Philbrick makes an enthusiastic case for taking a look at Melville’s classic Moby-Dick. | 11/20/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Cleveland: At the intersection of the arts and healing | Find out from Maria Jukic, executive director of Cleveland’s Clinic’s Arts and Medicine Institute and Tom Schorgl, director of the Community Partnership for Arts and Culture. | 11/13/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Fred Foote | The neurologist/holistic practioneer knows first-hand the healing power of the arts for veterans. | 11/6/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Max Brooks | Max Brooks, author of World War Z, really isn’t kidding when it comes to zombies. | 10/30/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Jesmyn Ward | In her memoir Men We Reaped, Jesmyn Ward attempts to understand the links in the untimely deaths of her brother and four friends. | 10/23/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Nicole Gomez Fisher | Nicole Gomez Fisher brings it all back home in her film, Sleeping with the Fishes. And goes on to win the award for Best New Director at the Brooklyn Film Festival. | 10/16/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Yvonne Walker Keshick | Quill worker and 2014 National Heritage Fellow brings a Native-American tradition into the 21st century. | 10/9/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Ramón “Chunky” Sánchez | For 40 years, Chunky Sanchez has playing and singing the stories of the Chicano people. | 10/2/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Carla Perlo | How Dance Place’s open door policy helped transform an underserved neighborhood into a vital arts district. | 9/25/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Singing and Praying Bands of Maryland and Delaware | Rev. Jerry Colbert shares one of the oldest African-American music traditions. | 9/18/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Kevin Doyle | Kevin Doyle talks about his life-long passion for dance. | 9/9/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Curator Leslie Umberger on artist Ralph Fasanella | Blue-collar worker and union organizer Ralph Fasanella would have been 100 this week. His paintings of urban working class people struggling and thriving continue to live on. | 9/4/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Jonathan Tucker | The DC Youth Slam Team is an award-winning internationally acclaimed poetry group. Listen to their poems and find out how it all comes together. | 8/21/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Elizabeth McCracken | Elizabeth McCracken gives us her take on the differences in writing novels, short stories, and tweets. | 8/14/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Dorothy Lawson and Ralph Farris, of the new music quartet ETHEL | Believing that music is a unifying force, ETHEL has joined forces with musicians across genres and regions and built a family of artists along the way. | 8/7/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Francisco Nunez | 2011 MacArthur Fellow Francisco Nunez brings together New York youth of all backgrounds and together they create beautiful music and an inclusive community. | 7/31/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Ellsworth Kelly | Ellsworth Kelly: the gloriousness of color and form. | 7/24/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Bora Yoon | Bora Yoon talks about building the sonic design of her album Sunken Cathedral. | 7/17/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Julie Otsuka | Julie Otsuka’s first novel When the Emperor Was Divine explores her family’s history in the Japanese-American internment camps during World War II. | 7/10/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Roy Haynes and Gerald Wilson | Two legends look at their careers in jazz. | 7/3/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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493 |
Séamus Connolly | It's a tuneful podcast as we go to the heart of Irish music with Seamus Connolly. | 6/26/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Janet Kagan | Art-Force: Artists revitalizing rural manufacturing. | 6/12/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Jennifer Pickering | For Jennifer Pickering, all art is both local and global and LEAF is that philosophy in action. | 6/5/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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496 |
Dinaw Mengestu | The author discusses the NEA Big Read selection, The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears, his novel about an Ethiopian exile in a gentrifying Washington, DC neighborhood. | 5/29/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Remembering War through Art | This Memorial Day Weekend, conversations about Blue Star Museums and the healing power of art, Jacob Lawrences's War Series, and a poem by veteran Lynn Hill. | 5/22/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Adam Sherlock | Behind the scenes of “Sending Messages,” the award-winning monthly podcast produced by incarcerated youth. | 5/15/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Sheila Black | Disability through the lens of poetry. | 4/24/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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David Mura | David Mura uses his considerable talents as a poet, novelist, memoirist and performer to explore what it means to be Japanese-American. | 4/17/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Shailja Patel | With a trunk full of her mother’s saris, Kenyan author and performer Shaija Patel reclaims a lost history. | 4/10/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Sherrie Maricle | Sherrie Maricle has played with jazz legends, leads an all-woman big band, and forges new roads for women in jazz. | 4/3/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Verónica Castillo | In Translation: Verónica Castillo expands a traditional Mexican art form, the Tree of Life, to express the need for social justice in the 21st century. | 3/27/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Carol Fran | Louisiana Swamp blues singer, composer and pianist Carol Fran looks back at her 60-year career. | 3/20/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Morgan Neville | Meet some of the greatest back-up singers! It may be only Twenty Feet from Stardom but director Morgan Neville shows us just how long that walk can be. | 3/13/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Brian Kisida | "Art Makes You Smart" and Brian Kisida co-published a study that proves it! [27:05] | 3/5/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Allen Toussaint | It's a music-filled podcast with New Orleans composer, producer, and pianist Allen Toussaint who combines elegance with funk. [29:29] | 2/27/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Pratibha Parmar | Pratibha Parmar discusses making the recent documentary about an iconic American writer, Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth, which can be seen on the American Masters’ website. | 2/19/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Daniel Beaty | Daniel Beaty's play and bravura performance in The Tallest Tree in the Forest shines a light on the artistry and activism of Paul Robeson. | 2/14/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Tope Folarin | Tope Folarin becomes the first writer born outside of Africa to win the Caine Prize with his short story set in Texas in an evangelical Nigerian church. | 2/5/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Jen Masengarb | Jen Masengarb explains Chicago's rich architectural legacy and CAF’s role in bringing it public awareness. | 1/30/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Jeff Orlowski | Jeff Orlowski goes to the Arctic to film James Balog’s documentation of the rapidly disappearing glaciers. We hear all about it. | 1/23/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Kathy Connell | Here’s a peak at the Screen Actors’ Guild or SAG Award--the show where actors honor actors. | 1/15/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Keith Jarrett | Pianist Keith Jarrett - letting the music happen. [34:27] | 1/9/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Anthony Braxton | Anthony Braxton may be considered avant garde but he embraces all musical traditions. | 12/19/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Richard Davis, Part 2 | Bassist Richard Davis talks about his musical life outside of jazz -- working with folks like Van Morrison, Bruce Springsteen, Leonard Bernstein and Igor Stravinsky. | 12/12/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Richard Davis, Part 1 | One of the great bassists Richard Davis remembers a few of jazz musicians he's played with -- like Sun Ra, Ahmad Jamal, Sarah Vaughan, Elvin Jones, and Eric Dolphy. | 12/5/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Jamey Aebersold | Musician and teacher Jamey Aebersold believes that anyone can improvise and he's developed the tools to show them how. [27:11] | 11/21/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Kati Texas | Kati Texas takes us behind the scenes of the Kinetic Sculpture Race, Grand Championship, where art and science go to play. [28:10] | 11/14/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Tarell McCraney | McCraney shares his exuberant passion for live performance and his determination to bring theater to underserved kids in Miami. | 11/7/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Matt Kaplan | Matt Kaplan takes a scientific look at the monsters that scare us…and why we love it. | 10/30/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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David Ivey | Sacred Harp singer David Ivey both preserves the tradition and widens the circle. | 9/25/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Nicholson Baker | Nicholson Baker may have written three exuberant sex novels, but he turns to his other passion in his latest book, Traveling Sprinkler: the extraordinary details of the ordinary. | 9/18/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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524 |
Sheila Kay Adams | In the second part of a two-part interview, we hear Sheila as storyteller and learn about some of the folks who lived in Sodom, North Carolina. | 9/11/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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525 |
Sheila Kay Adams | Singer, musician and storyteller Sheila Kay Adams talks about (and sings) songs brought over from England, Scotland, and Ireland in the mid-17th century and kept alive by the people in the mountains of North Carolina. | 9/5/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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526 |
Benjamin Percy | In his current novel, Red Moon, Ben Percy serves up a hybrid of horror and literature to tell a story about our lives today. [35:10] | 8/29/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
|
527 |
Old Fiddlers' Convention in Galax, VA | The 78th Old Fiddlers' Convention in Galax, Virginia. Where music happens on and off the stage. [32:13] | 8/22/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
|
528 |
Tony Kushner | In the second of our two-part interview, talk about his latest play and his screenplay for the movie, Lincoln. | 8/7/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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529 |
Tony Kushner | In part 1 of a two-part interview, Tony Kushner talks about his early attraction to theater and writing Angels in America. [28:50] | 7/31/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
|
530 |
Laurie Olin | Laurie Olin on the work of landscape architecture—balancing nature and cultivation. [32:45] | 7/24/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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531 |
Nancy Buirski | Nancy Buirski discusses her prize-winning documentary, The Loving Story, a look at a couple’s decision to remain a family and challenge Virginia’s miscegenation laws. | 7/17/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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532 |
Joan Myers Brown | Founder of Philadanco!, Joan Myers Brown reflects on what goes into building a leading African-American dance company and school. [27:29] | 7/10/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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533 |
Daisy Castro | 16 year-old Daisy Castro gets to the heart of gypsy jazz. | 6/27/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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534 |
Heather Wood | Heather Wood talks about the joys and challenges of performing Shakespeare. | 6/19/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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535 |
Andre Dubus III | Andre Dubus III's memoir Townie isn’t a literary coming of age story. It’s an exploration of violence and absence. | 6/12/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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536 |
Manil Suri | The City of Devi, an apocalyptic sex comedy and love story, is the third book in Manil Suri’s trilogy centered on Mumbai. [26:08] | 6/6/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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537 |
Marna Stalcup | Teaching Portland's children core curriculum through the arts. [30:06] | 5/30/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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538 |
Stephan Jost | Stephan Jost discusses how the Honolulu Museum of Art works to serve its military community. | 5/23/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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539 |
Robert Ward | Toward the end of his life, Robert Ward discussed his remarkable career in music. | 5/16/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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540 |
Terry Tempest Williams | In her latest book, When Women Were Birds, Terry Tempest Williams explores the legacy of her mother’s journals. [28:11] | 5/9/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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541 |
Elda Rotor and John Morgan | The team behind the new app Poems by Heart discuss how they combine great gaming with classic poetry. | 5/2/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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542 |
Adam Johnson | 2010 NEA Literature Fellow Adam Johnson talks the challenges of setting a novel in North Korea. | 4/25/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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543 |
Antonio Sanchez | Antonio Sanchez talks about the melody of jazz drumming and his new CD, New Life. | 4/18/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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544 |
Lynn Hill | Lynn Hill discusses her participation in "Holding It Down" -- Vijay Iyer's and Mike Ladd's performance piece based on the dreams of veterans of color. [26:44] | 4/10/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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545 |
George Wein | A conversation with George Wein, the man who launched the first outdoor jazz festival in the US--the legendary Newport Jazz Festival. | 4/4/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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546 |
Lillian Faderman | Lillian Faderman's writes a "reconstructed memoir" about her mother's life as an immigrant factory worker and single mother during the Great Depression. | 3/28/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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547 |
Rachael Holmes | At the intersection of theater and social activism: Citizen Artist Rachael Holmes. | 3/21/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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548 |
M. Evelina Galang | M. Evelina Galang's work spans generations with her writing of young Filipina-Americans and the surviving World War II "comfort women." | 3/13/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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549 |
Mary Zimmerman | Mary Zimmerman discusses her approach to creating a play. | 3/7/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
|
550 |
Jennie C. Jones | The winner of the 2012 Joyce Wein Artist Prize discusses the relationship in her work between visual art and sonic art. | 2/27/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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551 |
Frank Price, part 2 | In the 2nd part of our interview, Frank Price talks about the business of film making as well as some of the iconic films he’s made, including Tootsie, Gandhi, and Boyz in the Hood. | 2/20/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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552 |
Frank Price, part 1 | In the first of a two-part interview, Frank Price talks about his early days as a television writer and producer of shows like The Virginian and Columbo. | 2/14/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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553 |
Nick Cave | Nick Cave, chosen to participate in the U.S. State Department's Arts-in-Embassies program, talks about his Sound Suits, a unique blend of sculpture, fashion, and dance. | 2/7/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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554 |
Michael Tilson Thomas | Conductor Michael Tilson Thomas discusses his dual career as conductor and educator. [30:49] | 2/1/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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555 |
Caron Atlas | Bread and Roses in a Brooklyn shelter: Caron Atlas demonstrates how the arts can be a critical component of disaster relief. | 1/24/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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556 |
Taylor Branch | Taylor Branch discusses his trilogy of the Civil Rights Movement America in the King Years. | 1/17/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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557 |
Eddie Palmieri | Pianist, bandleader, composer and 2013 NEA Jazz Master talks about his innovative music blending Afro-Cuban rhythms with jazz. | 1/3/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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558 |
Lorraine Gordon | The owner of the legendary club, The Village Vanguard, talks about her life in jazz. | 1/3/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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559 |
Lou Donaldson | Sweet Poppa Lou talks about the musical roots of his swinging bop saxophone sound. [38:23] | 12/21/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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560 |
Pete Seeger | Pete Seeger returns to talk about his music and its roots. [31:50] | 12/14/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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561 |
Pete Seeger | Pete Seeger remembers his friend, Woody Guthrie. [21:13] | 12/6/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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562 |
Mel Tillis | Singer/songwriter Mel Tillis tells stories about his career and how performing helped him cope with his stutter. [29:43] | 11/29/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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563 |
Dennis Yerry | Dennis Yerry discusses his multi-faceted career as Native American composer, arranger and musician AND as a jazz pianist and cabaret performer. [29:27] | 11/15/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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564 |
Bonnie Fogel | The founder of a young people's theater organization discusses the critical need children have for theater and arts education. [29:40] | 11/8/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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565 |
Josh McManus | Josh McManus talks about the thousand little things that make up creative placemaking. [27:17] | 11/2/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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566 |
Laura Lippman on Edgar Allan Poe | Mystery Writer Laura Lippman talks about the terrifying brilliance of Edgar Allan Poe. [29:32] | 10/25/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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567 |
Josh Ritter | Indie singer Josh Ritter talks about writing, composing, and performing. [27:58] | 10/18/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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568 |
Clive Gillinson | Clive Gillinson on bringing Carnegie Hall to all New Yorkers. [34:36] | 10/11/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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569 |
The Paschall Brothers | Three generations of Paschalls have brought beautiful harmonies to their community. | 10/3/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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570 |
Harold Burnham | Harold Burnham keeps the Essex shipbuilding tradition alive and vibrant. | 9/26/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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571 |
Margot Livesey | Author Margot Livesey discusses The Flight of Gemma Hardy -- her reimagining of Jane Eyre. [32:40] | 9/19/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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572 |
Al Head | Arts Advocate Al Head discusses the profound impact of traditional arts on communities. [28:50] | 9/12/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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573 |
John Collins | Backstage with the director of Gatz, a play that takes as its text F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic of and about the Jazz Age. | 9/5/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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574 |
Christopher Paul Curtis | Christopher Paul Curtis | 8/22/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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575 |
Bryan Doerries | Bryan Doerries discusses how bringing Greek tragedies to service members opens up new conversations. | 8/15/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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576 |
Richard Currey | A writer and Vietnam Veteran discusses Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried. | 8/8/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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577 |
Michele Lowe | Michele Lowe discusses the process that moved her award-winning play Inana from page to stage. [32:07] | 8/1/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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578 |
Ron Capps | Ron Capps helps returning service members write their way home. | 7/25/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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579 |
Luke Stewart and Gio Russonello | Capital Bop expanding the DC’s jazz audience in unexpected places. [32:22] | 7/18/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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580 |
Yeohlee Teng | Yeohlee Teng talks about her design philosophy and her work with Making Midtown, an initiative to reinvigorate creative production in NYC’s garment district. | 7/11/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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581 |
Sarah Cash | Sarah Cash discusses the making of a great collection of American art. | 7/4/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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582 |
Andy Statman | In part 2 of our conversation with Andy Statman, we follow his musical path as he blends klezmer, jazz, blues, and bluegrass into a distinctive musical voice. | 6/27/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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583 |
Andy Statman | In the first of two-part interview, musical wonder Andy Statman talks about his early musical career, including the importance of bluegrass for a boy born in Brooklyn. [31:04] | 6/20/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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584 |
Dean Bakopoulos | Dean Bakopoulos discusses his first novel about fathers and sons in middle America's working class. | 6/13/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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585 |
William Wegman | You may know him as the guy who takes surreal pictures of his Weimaraners; but that's just one strand of William Wegman's long and varied career. | 6/6/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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586 |
Na'alehu Anthony | Na'alehu Anthony discusses his documentary about traditional Polynesian open sea canoeing and its significance to the revitalization of Hawaiian culture. [29:47] | 5/30/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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587 |
Melissa Walker | Melissa Walker discusses healing wounded service members through art at Walter Reed. | 5/23/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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588 |
Natalie Merchant | Natalie Merchant discusses her love of poetry. | 5/16/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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589 |
Maxine Hong Kingston | Maxine Hong Kingston discusses her path-breaking books. | 5/9/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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590 |
Jonah Lehrer | Jonah Lehrer, author of Imagine: How Creativity Works, discusses the new science of creativity. | 5/2/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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591 |
Delfeayo Marsalis | Delfeayo Marsalis: it's all in the family. [34:32] | 4/25/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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592 |
Claudia Rankine | Claudia Rankine discusses her play The Provenance of Beauty: A South Bronx Travelogue. | 4/19/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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593 |
Benny Golson | Benny Golson ‘s life is a who's who in jazz! [40:38] | 4/11/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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594 |
Ahmad Jamal | Ahmad Jamal discusses his long and celebrated career. | 4/4/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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595 |
Sheila Jordan | Sheila Jordan talks about her life in jazz. | 3/28/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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596 |
Sarah Greenough | The editor of My Faraway One: Selected Letters of Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz, Vol 1 discusses the relationship of the two artists. | 3/21/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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597 |
Liz Carroll | Liz Carroll talks about and demonstrates the multiplicity of Irish music. | 3/14/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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598 |
Laura Lippman | Laura Lippman talks about crime fiction, journalism and the social novel. | 3/7/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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599 |
Aditi Brennan Kapil | Aditi Brennan Kapil discusses the ways her mixed cultural background informed her play, Agnes Under the Big Top: A Tall Story. [29:32] | 2/29/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
|
600 |
André Watts | André Watts remembers the early years of his career. | 2/22/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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601 |
Rita Dove | Former U.S. Poet Laureate Rita Dove talks about her writing with a focus on her most recent book of poems, Sonata Mullatica. | 2/15/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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602 |
Stanley Nelson | Stanley Nelson discusses his award-winning documentary Freedom Riders. [29:39] | 2/8/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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603 |
Robert Battle | Robert Battle discusses his first season as artistic head of the Alvin Ailey company. | 2/1/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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604 |
Meredith Monk | Meredith Monk reflects on her 45-year career as a performance artist. | 1/25/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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605 |
Meejin Yoon | Meejin Yoon talks about creating work at the intersection of art, architecture, landscape, and technology. | 1/18/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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606 |
Jack DeJohnette | Part 2: The 2012 Jazz Master discusses his approach to music. | 1/11/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
|
607 |
Jack DeJohnette | Part 1: Legendary drummer Jack DeJohnette talks about his early career. | 1/4/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
|
608 |
Aaron Diehl | The gifted 26-year-old pianist talks about making a career in jazz. | 12/20/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
|
609 |
Stephen Manes | Stephen Manes discusses his book Where Snowflakes Dance and Swear, his inside look at a full season of Seattle's Pacific Northwest Ballet. [24:58] | 12/14/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
|
610 |
Jimmy Owens | Trumpeter and flugelhorn player, composer, arranger, educator, and advocate Jimmy Owens talks about his life in jazz. | 12/7/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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611 |
Brenda Wineapple | Literary biographer Brenda Wineapple discusses her book, White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson. [28:47] | 11/30/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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612 |
Keri Putnam | Keri Putnam discusses Film Forward, an initiative of the Sundance Institute and the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities. Now in its second year, the program aims to enhance cross-cultural understanding, collaboration and dialogue thro | 11/16/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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613 |
Tim O'Brien | Tim O'Brien, who served in Vietnam, talks about his novel (and Big Read selection) The Things They Carried and how fiction can often tell a deeper truth about war. [29:34] | 11/8/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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614 |
Jimmy Heath | Saxophonist, composer and arranger Jimmy Heath talks about his storied career and some of the jazz greats he’s played with. | 11/2/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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615 |
Marc Scorca | Marc Scorca celebrates opera in America and the 2011 NEA Opera Honorees. | 10/26/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
|
616 |
Kerry Henderson | Kerry Henderson talks about co-creating a festival from scratch in a small mountain town with little money and a lot of help from friends and neighbors. | 10/19/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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617 |
John Conklin | Stage Designer John Conklin discusses opera as a collaborative event. | 10/12/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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618 |
Billy Luther | Billy Luther explores different facets of his heritage in his documentaries. His latest looks at a little known celebration of the Laguna Pueblo, Grab Day. | 10/5/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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619 |
Morris Robinson | Meet Morris Robinson, who was an All-American at The Citadel, started studying voice at the age of 30, and sings at the great opera houses throughout the country. | 9/28/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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620 |
Simon Shaheen | The 1994 NEA National Heritage Fellow, violinist, and oud player discusses his merging of Arab and western musical traditions. | 9/21/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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621 |
Led Kaapana | Slack key guitar master Led Kaapana talks about making music the Hawaiian way. | 9/14/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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622 |
Wesley Stace (AKA John Wesley Harding) | A conversation with songwriter/novelist Wesley Stace who performs under the stage name John Wesley Harding. | 9/7/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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623 |
Sara Coffey | Co-Founder of the Vermont Performance Lab, Sara Coffey talks about creating spaces and community support for contemporary dance in rural Vermont. [26:06] | 8/31/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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624 |
Roy and PJ Hirabayashi | Co-founders of San Jose Taiko, Roy and PJ Hirabayashi talk about the importance of this traditional art in the Asian American community. [28:34] | 8/24/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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625 |
Nic Muni | Innovative director Nic Muni talks about the challenges and rewards of producing opera. | 8/17/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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626 |
David Seidler | David Seidler talks about his film, The King's Speech, and his own struggle with stuttering. | 8/10/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
|
627 |
Gary Giddins | Jazz writer Gary Giddins on the incomparable Louis Armstrong. | 8/3/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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628 |
Jay Salinas | A look at Wormfarm where art, agriculture, community, and creativity blossom. | 7/27/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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629 |
Creative Placemaking in Miami | Three of Miami’s cultural organizers talk about the power of art in building community. | 7/20/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
|
630 |
John Maeda | John Maeda: designing at the intersection of art and technology. | 7/13/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
|
631 |
Liz Lerman, Part 2 | In part 2 of our conversation with Choreographer Liz Lerman, we explore false dichotomies, including the one that opposes art to science. | 7/6/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
|
632 |
Liz Lerman, Part 1 | Liz Lerman: Conversing through dance. | 6/29/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
|
633 |
Jim 'Texas Shorty' Chancellor | 2010 National Heritage Fellow Jim "Texas Shorty" Chancellor talks about the great tradition of Texas fiddling. [25:43] | 6/22/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
|
634 |
Debra Granik | Director Debra Granik discusses her award-winning film, Winter's Bone. [24:16] | 6/15/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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635 |
Youngblood | Youngblood co-directors Graeme Gillis and R.J. Tolan talk about a unique organization for up-and-coming playwrights. [22:25] | 6/8/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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636 |
Sean Wilentz | Here's part 2 of our conversation with Sean Wilentz, author of Bob Dylan in America. [28:26] | 6/1/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
|
637 |
Sean Wilentz | Sean Wilentz discusses his biography of 2009 National Medal of Arts recipient Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan in America. | 5/25/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
|
638 |
Charles Randolph-Wright | Charles Randolph-Wright talks about directing Lynn Nottage's play Ruined at Arena Stage. | 5/18/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
|
639 |
Howard Shalwitz | Howard Shalwitz talks about the theater company’s production of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Bruce Norris, Clybourne Park. | 5/11/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
|
640 |
Gary Giddins | The great jazz writer Gary Giddins talks about the great jazz legend Duke Ellington. | 5/4/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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641 |
Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz | Poet Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz talks about slam poetry and community. | 4/27/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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642 |
Randy Weston | Jazz Master Randy Weston talks about the music he loves. | 4/20/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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643 |
Kevin Young | Poet Kevin Young talks about his book, Ardency: A Chronicle of the Amistad Rebels. [23:45] | 4/13/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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644 |
Christian McBride | Bassist Christian McBride talks about jazz. | 4/6/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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645 |
Milton Glaser | A talk about art and design with National Medal of Arts recipient, Milton Glaser. | 3/30/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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646 |
Jennifer Egan | Novelist Jennifer Egan talks about her National Book Critics Circle Award-Winning book, A Visit from the Goon Squad. [29:24] | 3/23/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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647 |
Linda Murray | Linda Murray talks about her organization Solas Nua, the only organization in the United States dedicated exclusively to contemporary Irish arts. | 3/15/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
|
648 |
Valerie Boyd | Biographer Valerie Boyd talks about the life and work of Zora Neale Hurston. | 3/9/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
|
649 |
John Williams | 2009 National Medal of Arts recipient, composer John Williams discusses the art of scoring films. | 3/2/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
|
650 |
Mary Jackson | NEA National Heritage fellow Mary Jackson talks about the art and tradition of sweetgrass basketmaking. | 2/23/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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651 |
Ron Carter | NEA Jazz Master Ron Carter, bassist/cellist/educator extraordinaire, talks about his career playing jazz and classical music. | 2/16/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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652 |
Anna Deveare Smith | Playwright, actor, and activist Anna Deveare Smith talks about her extraordinary career and her current one-woman show, Let Me Down Easy. | 2/9/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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653 |
Isabel Wilkerson | Isabel Wilkerson talks about her book, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration, focusing on the transfer of Southern culture to the North, creating a new, vibrant culture in the country. | 2/2/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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654 |
Azar Nafisi | Author of two memoirs about her life in Iran, Reading Lolita in Tehran and Things I've Been Silent About, Azar Nafisi talks about her books, her life in Iran, her parents, the Iranian Revolution, and, of course, the power of literature. | 1/26/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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655 |
Bert Crenca | Bert Crenca talks about founding the community arts center AS220, its interaction with the city Providence, and its arts education offshoot AS220 Youth. | 1/19/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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656 |
Luis Alberto Urrea | Author Luis Alberto Urrea talks about the inspiration for and writing of his novel Into the Beautiful North, which takes place from Sinaloa, Mexico, all the way up north to Kankakee, Illinois. | 1/12/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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657 |
Dan Morgenstern | Dan Morgenstern, recipient of the 2007 A.B. Spellman NEA Jazz Masters Award for Jazz Advocacy, discusses the 2011 class of NEA Jazz Masters. [27:27] | 1/5/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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658 |
Molly Smith | Molly Smith talks about American theater, including the often-overlooked musical, her commitment to new play development, and her vision for the newly-renovated Arena Stage at the Mead Center. | 12/22/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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659 |
Shirley Sneve | Shirley Sneve talks about the mission of the Native American Public Telecommunications organization, which shares stories of Native American people through the creation, promotion, and distribution of Native media on television and radio. | 12/15/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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660 |
Sebastian Ruth | 2010 MacArthur Fellow Sebastian Ruth talks about the community-based arts organization he founded, Community MusicWorks, which won a 2010 National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award for its teaching, mentoring, and performing activities with urban | 12/8/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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661 |
Parker Esse | Choreographer Parker Esse talks about his experience creating new choreography for Arena Stage's revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein's classic musical Oklahoma!. | 12/1/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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662 |
Jeffrey Sweet | Jeffrey Sweet talks about the revitalization of theater in Chicago through the Second City and other theater companies, as well as his own experience as a playwright and the art of theater and musical theater. | 11/17/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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663 |
Frank Stella | One of the most well-regarded postwar American artists still working, Frank Stella discusses his five-decade career in the visual arts, from paintings to sculptures to murals to architecture. | 11/3/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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664 |
Chuck Brown | Musician Chuck Brown talks about his career, from honing his chops in prison in Lorton, Virginia, to developing his own musical genre in DC: go-go music. | 10/27/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
|
665 |
David DiChiera | The only general director to found and lead two opera companies (Michigan Opera Theatre and Opera Pacific), David DiChiera talks about his career, bringing opera to Detroit audiences, and composing his first opera in his 60s. | 10/20/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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666 |
Martina Arroyo | Legendary soprano Martina Arroyo talks about her career in opera, including working with such luminaries as Leonard Bernstein, Plácido Domingo, and Luciano Pavarotti. | 10/13/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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667 |
Natasha Wimmer | Natasha Wimmer was awarded an NEA Literature Fellowship in 2007 to translate Roberto Bolaño's epic novel 2666. In this interview, she discusses the complexities of translating Bolaño's work and other tribulations of working as a translator. [27:08] | 10/6/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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668 |
Rudolfo Anaya | Rudolfo Anaya talks about the writing of his acclaimed novel Bless Me, Ultima as well as in the influence of the oral tradition and folk tales on his writing and his life growing up in New Mexico. | 9/29/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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669 |
Judy McCulloh | Awarded the 2010 Bess Lomax Hawes Award for the preservation of cultural heritage, Judith McCulloh talks about her extensive work as a folklorist and editor at the University of Illinois Press. | 9/22/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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670 |
Mike Rafferty | Mike Rafferty talks about growing up in East Galway, Ireland, and learning flute playing from his father, as well as coming to America and eventually returning to Irish music in his 50s as both a performer and teacher. | 9/15/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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671 |
Del McCoury | Bluegrass legend Del McCoury discusses his 50-year career, from joining Bill Monroe’s Blue Grass Boys in the 1960s to multiple appearances at the Bonnaroo music and arts festival in the 2000s. | 9/8/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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672 |
Julia Alvarez | Writer Julia Alvarez discusses how her life as a reader led to her life as a writer and the rich source material she finds in her family's immigrant experience. | 9/1/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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673 |
Ed Herendeen | Ed Herendeen talks about founding and sustaining a theater festival committed to supporting bold, daring new works for the stage. [18:27] | 8/25/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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674 |
Unai Elorriaga | Basque writer Unai Elorriaga and Amaia Gabantxo, translator of Elorriaga's novel Plants Don’t Drink Coffee, discuss the book as well as the art of translation and the Basque language. [25:50] | 8/18/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Joel Nelson | Joel Nelson talks about how he grew to love poetry and how he writes and recites poetry, as well as growing up on a ranch and his love of horses, among other subjects. [27:00] | 8/11/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Ken Burns | Ken Burns talks about his most recent documentary series on the National Park system, as well as his approach to filmmaking and his attraction to iconic American subjects. [22:24] | 8/4/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Everett McCorvey | Operatic tenor Everett McCorvey talks about how he was drawn into the music, how he helped build the opera program at University of Kentucky, and the difference between spirituals and gospel, among other topics. [26:17] | 7/28/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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John Hickenlooper | John Hickenlooper discusses his efforts to use the arts to revitalize Denver and promote economic development and increased livability. [23:37] | 7/21/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Duke Ellington | A look at the Washington, DC roots of Duke Ellington and their impact on his development as a musician and composer. [8:40] | 7/14/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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U Street NW | U Street NW | 7/7/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Amy Tan | Amy Tan talks about her first novel, The Joy Luck Club, her relationship with her mother, and the art of writing. [27:49] | 6/30/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Carlisle Floyd | Carlisle Floyd talks about his extensive career in opera, including writing some of his most famous pieces, Susannah, Of Mice and Men, Willie Stark, and Cold Sassy Tree. [29:55] | 6/23/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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David Baker | David Baker discusses his immersion into jazz, from playing to composing to teaching. [26:46] | 6/16/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Birmingham Sunlights | The Birmingham Sunlights discuss the creation of their group and their unique "Birmingham sound" [28:50] | 6/9/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Alan Gilbert | Recipient of the 1997 NEA/Seaver Conductors Award, Alan Gilbert discusses his first year as Music Director of the New York Philharmonic. [28:49] | 5/26/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Rajiv Joseph | Rajiv Joseph talks about developing and writing his play Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, a 2010 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Theater, and his burgeoning career as a playwright. [22:13] | 5/26/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Rita Moreno | Star of stage and screen--and winner of just about every performance award--Rita Moreno talks about her life as a performing artist. [28:06] | 5/19/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Merce Cunningham | An appreciation of the life and legacy of one of our greatest choreographers. [22:52] | 5/12/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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David Stull | Dean Stull talks about the latest developments at one of the nation's outstanding music conservatories. [28:07] | 4/28/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Wave Hill Public Garden & Cultural Center | Hear about New York City's best kept secret, where nature and art provide a urban unique oasis. [12:42] | 4/28/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Hank Jones | Hank Jones talks about his long career in jazz, including playing with such jazz greats as Charlie Parker and fellow NEA Jazz Master Ella Fitzgerald. [24:52] | 4/21/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Kay Ryan | U.S. Poet Laureate talks about her teaching career, her reaction to that initial phone call from the Library of Congress, and, of course, poetry. [21:52] | 4/14/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Olivia de Havilland | One of America's most beloved stars spills some backstage secrets while discussing career highlights. [27:52] | 3/25/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Richard Sherman | A world without Mary Poppins? No way. The two-time Oscar winner lets us in on how great show tunes get written. [29:58] | 3/25/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Stan Lee | Spider-Man, Fantastic Four, the X-Men, Iron Man, the Hulk, Doctor Strange: Stan Lee was there at the creation. [29:56] | 3/25/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Queen Ida Guillory | Queen Ida Guillory discusses the Zydeco tradition and how she became a part of the band. [25:22] | 3/11/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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