Jim Fleming talks with Classical pianist Christopher O’Riley who’s just released “True Love Waits” - a CD of arrangements of songs by the alternative rock band Radiohead.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Irish poet Dennis O'Driscoll has eight books of poetry. The latest one is "New and Selected Poems."
Blogger Mark Manson on embracing our negativity as a means of consciously choosing what we really care about.
For as closely linked as the voice is to our body and sense of identity, there are also a lot of external forces affecting our voices, both social and technological. In fact, when we're talking about mediated voices—voices we hear in music, film, and of course, on the radio—we're actually not talking about "voices" any more. We're talking about signal processing. And, as media historian Jonathan Sterne tells Craig Eley, signal processing shapes the sound of all vocal media, from your telephone calls to the music of T-Pain.
The celebrated Irish novelist Colm Toibin talks about his admiration for the poet Elizabeth Bishop and the kinship he feels for her.
Music critic Bill Friskics-Warren is the author of “I’ll Take You There: Pop Music and the Urge for Transcendence.” He talks with Anne Strainchamps about the spiritual aide of popular music.
Dave Barry went on the campaign trail with some of the lesser known presidential candidates and describes some of the humiliation they encounter.
NRBQ has been called the world’s greatest bar band, but prefer to say they play “omni-pop,” and explain that’s why they’ve lasted for over 35 years.
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