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Episode 108, Met Residency #5: Temple Apr 18, 2017

Show notes

Nate DiMeo is the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Artist in Residence for 2016/2017. He is producing ten pieces inspired by the collection and by the museum itself. This is the fifth episode of that residency.

This residency is made possible by the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Chester Dale Fund.

This episode is written and produced and stuff by Nate DiMeo with engineering assistance from Elyssa Dudley and research Assistance from Andrea Milne. Its Executive Producer is Limor Tomer, General Manager Live Arts, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

The Art Discussed * The Temple of Dendur.

Music * As Much as Possible by Bing & Ruth. * Parcel by Melanie Velarde. * Field Hymn by Syrinx. * Wawa by the Ocean by Mary Lattimore. * Turning 16 and Trading Flags by Ben Sollee.

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Episode 107 (Roots and Branches and Wind-Borne Seeds) Apr 01, 2017

Show notes

The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia, from PRX, a curated network of extraordinary, story-driven shows.

Music

We open with Mary Lattimore's Jimmy V. I love Mary Lattimore.
We hit Hatian guitarist Frantz Casseus' Lullaby from 1954 a few times.
We hear Drifting, by Matthew Robert Cooper.
And A Fool Persists by Infinite Body.
The two piano things are Open Window - For Piano by Yuichiro Fujimoto, and Pale by Akira Kosemura.
We also hear Gareth Dickson's Friday Night Fever for a bit.

Notes

I learned about Ynes while flipping idly through the 1974 edition of Notable American Women: A Biographical Dictionary (volume II, G-O, incidentally), "prepared under the Auspices of Radcliffe College," as it says on the frontispiece.
By far the most comprehensive thing I read was biography for young readers called Ynes Mexia: Botanist and Adventurer by Durlynn Anema.

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Episode 106 (A Washington Monument) Mar 17, 2017

Show notes

The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia, from PRX, a curated network of extraordinary, story-driven shows.

Music

We hear three pieces of Matthew Robert Cooper's score to Some Days Are Better Than Others: Expectation, Drifting, and Katrina Outtake.

Notes

If you want the story of the construction of the actual Washington Monument, you could check out John Steele Gordon's book.

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Episode 105: Amok Feb 27, 2017

Show notes

The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia, from PRX, a curated network of extraordinary, story-driven shows.

Music

This piece has two selections from Saunder Jurriens and Danny Bensi's score to Christine, Yes But and Back to Work.

Notes

This very good article in the Museum of Hoaxes gives a nice overview and links out to the original article.
Hampton Sides In the Kingdom of Ice has a nice telling of the story with a lot of background on the editor of the Herald.

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Episode 104, Met Residency #4 (A Portrait) Feb 15, 2017

Show notes

Nate DiMeo is the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Artist in Residence for 2016/2017. He is producing ten pieces inspired by the collection and by the museum itself. This is the second episode of that residency.

This residency is made possible by the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Chester Dale Fund.

Special thanks to Amelia Peck at The Met.

The Art Discussed * Prince Demah Barnes’ Portrait of William Duguid. * Interwoven Globe: The Worldwide Textile Trade, 1500-1800

Music * Kyu and Njuichi from Sylvain Chauvau’s score to Umarete Wa Mita Keredo. * Moonbow by aAirial. * Gisella by K. Leimer from A Period of Review. * Here’s What You’re Missin and And Then it Rained from Bing & Ruth’s album City Lake.

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Episode 103 (The Rose of Long Island) Feb 04, 2017

Show notes

The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia, from PRX, a curated network of extraordinary, story-driven shows.

Music

We start and end with Daniel Berenboim playing Lizt's 6 Consolations, S. 172: No. 3 in D flat minor.
We hit up Yes But, from Danny Bensi and Saunder Jurriens' score to Christine.
We return to the official Memory Palace love theme of William Henry Harrison, The Gentle Softness, Lalo Schiffrin's score to The Last Dragon
We cruise on the U.S.S. Princeton to Dispute by Yann Tiersen.
Twist comes to Missing Pieces from the Broken City score.

Notes

I read quite a bit about the Tylers, but really, one needs only to read "and Tyler Too," by Robert Seager II.

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Episode 102 (The Presidency of William Henry Harrison, or Back in the Saddle) Jan 20, 2017

Show notes

The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia, from PRX, a curated network of extraordinary, story-driven shows.

Music

We start with (and later return to) And Grace by David Darling.
Robert Farnon and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra play Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. Suite II: The Wind which turns into Niggun for Solo Bassoon by Philippe Hersant.
Then we hit Neon Lights by Kraftwerk from The Man Machine.
And The Gentle Softness, the love theme to Enter The Dragon from Lalo Schifrin’s score.
And hit up our friends Lullatone at the end with Origami Tulips.

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Nate's Episode of the Year: Local Channels Dec 30, 2016

Show notes

The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia, from PRX, a curated network of extraordinary, story-driven shows. Learn more at radiotopia.fm

SPOILERS BELOW

Notes * Much of what I read about Florence was pulled from old newspaper articles. * The biography in Notable American Women: Volume 5 does a nice, thorough job with Florence story. * I first stumbled on Florence Chadwick in a photo in a restaurant in Santa Barbara and was struck by, as the photo suggested, she went on a world tour, swimming local channels.

Music * First up is Solitude, from (delightfully named) Janis Crunch. * Then we’ve got Like a Bell to a Southerly Wind, by Chequerboard. * Modular Body #7 by Machinefabriek. * After Catalunya by Ephemetry and Richard J. Birkin. * Finishing up on The Old Favourite by The Gloaming.

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Episode 101 (Promise) Dec 19, 2016

Show notes

The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia, from PRX, a curated network of extraordinary, story-driven shows.

SPOILERS BELOW

Notes

I first heard about Hazel Scott while reading Rad American Women from A to Z to my daughter. It's a wonderful book. You should buy it for any kid in your life.
I read a lot about Hazel, but Karen Chilton's biography, Hazel Scott: A Pioneering Jazz Pianist from Cafe Society to HUAC was essential.

Music

Starts with Christope Beck and DeadMono's theme to Charlie Countryman.
Prelude for HS by Hakon Stene.
Tezeta (Nostalgia) from Malatu Astatke, from Ethiopiques vol. 4, one of my favorite pieces of music in the world.
Marian Lapansky plays Camille Saint-Saens "Le Sygne."
Which fights with Piero Umiliani's Danza Primitiva.
Warren Ellis rounds it out with his Lale's Theme from his terrific score to Mustang (which you should totally see).
The Hazel Scott pieces can be found here and here.

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Episode 100 (Peregrinar) Dec 01, 2016

Show notes

The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia, from PRX, a curated network of extraordinary, story-driven shows.

Notes

I relied most heavily on The Crusades of Cesar Chavez by Miriam Pawell.
Enjoyed Jaques Levy's oral history, Cesar Chavez: Autobiography of La Causa
I read a lot of the local accounts on Newspapers.com and was informed particularly by the coverage in the Fresno Bee.

Music

Starts with Affinity by Gavin Luke.
Moves into Little Dume by Christian Naujoks.
Finish of with Call from Julianna Barwick.

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