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Music
“I Immediately Began to Weep.” How “Both Sides Now” Made Joni Mitchell a Superstar
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Listening To Africa: Three African Writers Discuss the History and Future of African Music
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How Stephen Sondheim Brought Neo-Impressionism to the Stage
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How a Young Michael Stipe Found Creative Camaraderie in Art School
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How Greenwich Village’s Iconic, Iconoclastic Music Scene Came to Be
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On the Yemeni Jewish Tradition of Musical Storytelling
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Page Turns: On Literary Translations on the American Ballet Theater's Summer Stage
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Emma Golden
| August 16, 2024
Setting the Tone: How Listening to Music Can Inspire Fiction Writers
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Liz Riggs
| July 11, 2024
Why Play At All? On Perfectionism, Perseverance and Prodigies
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