David Nagler

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musician

David Nagler is a Brooklyn-based musician and composer. He is the founder and frontperson of NY metropolitan area pop group Nova Social, the musical director for Wesley Stace’s Cabinet of Wonders at City Winery, and the host of The Oracle Show at NYC piano bar Sid Gold's Request Room.

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Works
Image of Carl Sandburg's Chicago Poems
Interviews
Chicago skyline Setting Sandburg’s City of Broad Shoulders to Music

A hundred years ago, the poet Carl Sandburg turned Chicago into an American icon. He called it "The city of broad shoulders" a gritty Midwestern metropolis, teeming with hard working immigrants. Composer David Nagler celebrated the 100th anniversary of Carl Sandburg’s famous Chicago poems by dusting them off and setting them to music, featuring heavy hitting artists like Jeff Tweedy of Wilco. Nagler talked to us about what Sandburg's poems mean to him personally, and what it feels like to contribute to the continuum of the Chicago experience.
Shows
Writing poems The Poem is You: New Voices in American Poetry
Chicago skyline Putting Music to the City of Broad Shoulders