The saxophone colossus recorded two concerts at the same venue fifty years apart. Only one recording emerged from the vault.
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The Revolution…Without Prince
Hoping to reconnect to their love for the iconic musician, Kevin Sampsell and an old girlfriend go to hear his best known band play without him.
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Diary: How I Write Music
Composer Nico Muhly writes about his primary goal: “to create a piece of art that is better than the same amount of silence.”
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Shelved: Brian Wilson’s Adult/Child
Music from the time after the good vibrations ended.
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Portrait of the Artist: An Oral History of David Berman at UVA
The lead singer of the band Silver Jews was renowned for his music, but he was also an accomplished writer and visual artist. This is the story of his formative years, as told by friends and collaborators, many who learned how to live life as a creative person from Berman’s energetic example.
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‘I couldn’t deal with it, it tore me apart’: surviving child sexual abuse
Tom Yarwood was assaulted by his musical mentor, an unnamed celebrated conductor, more than 20 times over the course of three years. Thirty years later, telling the story hasn’t become any easier.
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Snapshot of Canada: An Accidental Reading List
An incomplete portrait of a nation emerges from a stash of old print magazines.
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Shelved: Fiona Apple’s Extraordinary Machine
How the songwriter’s abandoned third album became two albums.
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Three Decades of Cross-Cultural Utopianism in British Music Writing
The history of England’s fertile music press reveals as much about the opinionated English youth who created it as it does the music they covered in the second half of the 20th century.
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When Black Male Singers Were Sex Symbols
Teddy Pendergrass was the R&B singer women wanted and who men wanted to be. And the one whose life-sized cardboard cutout stood in one family’s living room.
