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Music

• Drywall from Johann Johannson's score to Sicario.
• Castle Song by Green-House
• Tea by Resevoir
• La Valse du Progres by Delphine Dora
• Arrival by Domenique Dumont
• Sarah in Bath from Kryzystof Komeda's score to Fearless Vampire Killers
• Thread of Light by Golden Retriever
• In Some Spirit World by Geotic

Notes

• This one was pulled together with tiny threads of information, much provided by the NCRA's website itself. 
• You can find links to three fascinating (really!) studies on the brains of transcribers here, here, & here. 

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This episode originally dropped in 2018.

• We start with Facing the Obstacles, from Robert Simonson's score to The Final Member.
• Nice Breeze Isn't It? by Simon Rackham
• The Things Left Unsaid, by Caleb Burhans.
• View from a Balcony by Isorinne.
• 1979 by Deru.
• The Julianna Barwick remix of This Will Destroy You's The Puritan.

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Music

• Marisa Anderson plays He is Without His Guns
• Bing & Ruth play Broad Channel (Solo Piano)
• Greg Haines plays Peter's Advice

Notes

• You can listen to the full recording here. 

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Music

• Unseen Forces by Justin Walter
• Peperomia Seedling by Green-House
• Ebb Tide by Houston & Dorsey
• Little Miss Echo by Raymond Scott
• Stellify by Francesco Albanese
• Chain Home by Rogerson and Eno
• Luna by Digitonal
• Caroline Shaw plays The Orangery from Plan & Elevation

Notes

The place to start with all of this is here. It'll lead you out to the Bishop Museum's work, the lovely documentary produced by Hawai'ian Public Television, everywhere where you'd want to go. 

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Starting off the year with a new tradition: the first annual Public Domain Theater, in which Nate reads an important work of American literature that entered the public domain on January 1st of a given year. First up, the first Nancy Drew mystery, The Secret of the Old Clock. 

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Music

• Sincerely Yours by LLLL
• Across the Other Side by Infinite Scale
• Sunset by Resavoir
• Mammoth by Golden Brown
• Unassigned by Vernon Spring
• Swimming by Explosions in the Sky
• Pure (Ride the World) by The Brendan Eder Ensemble
• Le Tunnel by Sylvain Chauveau
• Floating Away by Lullatone

Notes

• There's a ton written about Emma Rowena Gatewood but so much of it, including this story, owes a huge debt to Ben Montgomery's book, Grandma Gatewood's Walk, which excavated the story of her life with her husband. Besides that, it is wonderfully written. Totally recommend it. 

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Music

• The Lady With the Golden Stockings from the Sun Ra Arkestra
• The Sage from the Chico Hamilton Quintet
• Falling in Love with a New York Pigeon by Birb
• Bocherini's fourth quintet as performed by the Ensemble of St. Martin of the Fields
• From a Dream by Oregon
• Jaybird from the great Charlie Parr
• Pool of Love by Les Baxter
• And House Tuner Theme from Will Bates' gorgeous score to The Sound of Silence.

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Music

• Kara-Lis Coverdale's A480
• Palimpsest from Will Bate's score to The Sound of Silence
• Harriett Smith and Robert Martin Meet in the Rain from Isobel Waller Bridge's score to Emma.
• The Play from Dan Romer's score to (the terrific) Station Eleven.
• Cutting Branches from a Temporary Shelter from the Penguin Cafe Orchestra.
• Sustainable from H. Takahashi.

Notes

• There's a particularly good article by Colin Dickey about Jacobs and The Crypt in American Scholar. 
• You can read all 1100 pages of Jacobs' autobiography here, if you haven't already.

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Music

• On-ness by Tom Rogerson and Eno.
• Etude by Joep Beving
• Ebb Tide by Houston & Dorsey

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Music

• We start with the very English, Voluntary No. 4 in b-flat Minor, by Margaret Phillips.
• Hear Nero’s Nocturne from Chilly Gonzales.
• Some of The Stars vs. Creatures by Colleen.
• Abide with Me from the Thelonious Monk Septet off his Monk’s Music album.
• Walzer fur Robert by Anne Muller off of Erased Tapes Volume 5.
• Evening at Eight by Keith Kenniff.
• and Berceuse by Alexandra Streliski.

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Music

• A couple by C. Diab: Tiny Umbrellas and Crypsis
• The beginning of Cats Cradle (Iris) by Hannah Epperson
• Dawning and Wind by Shida Shihabi
• A couple from Ceeys: Neighbour II and Union

Notes

• I really enjoyed reading both Lew Irwin's Deadly Times: the 1910 Bombing of the L.A. Times and America's Forgotten Decade of Terror, and Bread and Hyacinths: the Rise and Fall of Utopian Los Angeles, by Lionel Rolfe
• As an, at this point, long-time Angeleno, I highly recommend visiting the Hollywood Forever Cemetery.

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While Nate takes a little summer break, he reads you two poems. 

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Music

• Joy, by Jeffrey Cantu-Ledesma
• The Cradle by Frederico Albanese

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Notes

• Go to adoptastation.org and pitch in.
• Listen to the incredible documentaries by Lloyd Newman, LeAlan Jones, and David Isay, at David's (Corporation for Public Broadcasting funded) Storycorps.org

Music

• Herbert's Story from Mark Orton's score to Nebraska.
• Kyu from Sylvain Chaveau
• Smygkatt by Shida Shahabi
• Roedelius plays Rolling

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Music

• Jobs, Winter Memory, and Slow Flood by Dark Dark Dark
• Carla et Roger aux sports l'hiver from the score to Le bel age by Georges Delareau
• Mt Baker by Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith
• All Creatures will Drink Joy by American Cream Band
• Every High (Piano Solo) by Kyson
• Vals Efter Lasse I Lyby by Lofoten Cello Duo

Notes

• You can read The President's Daughter here. 

This episode was originally released in 2016 in the days after the shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando. It is re-released every year on the anniversary of the incident.

On June 13th, 2025, I'll do a special, one-night-only live show at the Tribeca Audio Festival in New York City, joined by two of the audiobook's readers: Carrie Coon and Lili Taylor! www.thememorypalace.us/events.

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Music

• Pale by Akira Koresuma
• The Things Left Unsaid by Caleb Burhans
• VIII. Juliet by Matthew Bourne
• Dream House III: After Dust from Mary Ellen Child's beautiful album, Ethel.
• Here I Am, Two Warships, by Spirituals

Notes

• You can listen to the whole, original recording here, and an enhanced, speed corrected version, here. 
• One of the best places to learn about Herb's life is this documentary. 

During mid-May, 2025, I'm doing a Midwestern book tour, with stops in Minneapolis, Cincinatti, Indianapolis, and Chicago. Find out more at www.thememorypalace.us/events.

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Music

• That Moment by Antonymes
• Nocturne by Sololi
• Watching it Unfold by Lawrence English

Notes

• You can access the self-produced history of the Sophie Bibb Chapter of the UDC here.  
• The Alabama Encyclopedia site does a nice job with some of this stuff. 
• You might want to check out Caroline Janney's book, Burying the Dead but Not the Past: Ladies' Mermorial Associations and the Lost Cause. 

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Music

• Hallway Rug and a bit of Watering Plants by Omni Gardens
• Dripping Icicles from Lalo Schiffrin's great score to The Fox.
• Girl Talk by the Howard Roberts Quartet
• Jules et Therese from the score to Jules et Jim
• Franz Waxman's main title theme to Woman of the Year
• Your Love from the legend, Frankie Knuckles
• Then we go back and forth between Joe Morello's Timeless and Lara Downes playing Leonard Bernstein's Big Stuff.

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Music

• La Copla from Atahualpa Yupanqui
• Yes, Brick by Brick and Waende by Caeys
• Space in Between by Federico Albanese
• Kieke by Shida Shihabi

Notes

• My favorite work on Mays is James Hirsch's glorious biography, Willie Mays: The Life, the Legend. I also recommend John Klima's Willie's Boys, about the Black Baron's 1948 season.
• If you're looking to get more context for the city during those years, I'd recommend Diane McWhorter's history, Carry Me Home. 

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Music

• Two from Lambert: Fremd and The Open
• Plantasia from Mort Garson's amazing, ridiculous album of the same name.
• Two from Danny Bensi and Saunder Jurriaans' score to Christine: Paranoia and Newsroom. 

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Music

• Pockets of Light by Ludomyr Melnyk
• All in Circles and Janvie by Shida Shahabi
• Between Trees by Akria Kosemura

Notes

• There are a million things to read about Stonewall, but the thing that I feel like deepened my understanding enough was The New York Public Library's The Stonewall Reader. Particularly the audiobook. Couldn't recommend it enough.

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Order Eliza McGraw's wonderful new book, Astride: Women, Horses and a Partnership that Changed America. 

This episode originally aired in February of 2021. 

Music

• Unsayable by Brambles.
• Kola - Lighthouse Version by amiina
• A Nearer Sun by the Westerlies
• Duet, a Steve Reich composition, performed by Daniel Hope.
• Reading a Wave by Arp
• April by Kanazu Tomoyuki
• Latent Sonata by Brian McBride

Notes

• The oral history mentioned in this episode is available through the Smithsonian Instittion’’s archives.

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Order Eliza McGraw's wonderful new book, Astride: Women, Horses and a Partnership that Changed America. 

Music

• Hallogallo from Neu!, basically one of the best songs there is. 

Notes

• There is a lot written about Bessie, including some wonderful children's books. The best thing I read about her was in Ann Farrar (a journalist and biker herself)'s book Hear Me Roar: Women, Motorcycles, and the Rapture of the Road. 

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Music

• Sincerely Yours by LLLL
• Across the Other Side by Infinite Scale
• Sunset by Resavoir
• Mammoth by Golden Brown
• Unassigned by Vernon Spring
• Swimming by Explosions in the Sky
• Pure (Ride the World) by The Brendan Eder Ensemble
• Le Tunnel by Sylvain Chauveau
• Floating Away by Lullatone

Notes

• There's a ton written about Emma Rowena Gatewood but so much of it, including this story, owes a huge debt to Ben Montgomery's book, Grandma Gatewood's Walk, which excavated the story of her life with her husband. Besides that, it is wonderfully written. Totally recommend it. 

Buy the audiobook wherever you get audiobooks (like libro.fm!)

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Music

• Berceuse by Felix Rosch.
• Low Tide by Johnny Nash
• Ultraviolet by James Heather

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This is a special bonus episode of the podcast sharing a particularly good interview I did with the folks at Atlas Obscura. 

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This is a special bonus episode of the podcast sharing with you my extremely fun appearance on the wonderful podcast, Pablo Torre Finds Out. You can watch it on Youtube, including the dynamite animation from my friend, Arthur Jones, here. 

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Music

• Two versions of Good Morning Melody by Lullatone.
• Peter Maxwell Davies plays his own composition, Farewell to Stromness.
• Dominique Dumont plays Gone for a Wander

This episode was originally released in October 2019.

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Music

• Riverside by Ann Annie
• Walking to Town by Lullatone
• Alice Lake by North Americans
• Gone for a Wander by Domenique Dumont

Notes

• The definitive source on Ferminia Sarras (as far as definitive can be in her case) A Mine of Her Own: Women Prospectors in the American West, 1850-1950 by Sally Zanjani.

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Music

• Pure (Ride the World) by (the extraordinary) Brendan Eder Ensemble
• Violette... from Philippe Sarde's score to Violette et Francois
• Merry-go-Round and People on Sunday by Domenique Dumont
• Dane by Nils Frahm
• Two different versions of Debussy's Passepied, the piano one is performed by Seong-Jin Cho, the synth one by Isao Tomita
• Love from Matthew Herbert
• Memorial Park from Bernard Herrmann's score to Obsession.
• Phantom Signals by Tvarvargen

Notes

• There's plenty written about Ken Allen, but I particularly appreciated Jason Hribal's book Fear of the Animal Planet: The Hidden History of Animal Resistance.

Music

• Swiming by Explosions in the Sky
• Walking Song by Kevin Volans and the Netherlands Wind Ensemble
• I Walk on Guilded Splinters by Johnny Jenkins
• Seduction by the Balanescu Quartet
• Lunette by Les Baxter and Dr. Samuel J. Hoffman
• Running Around by Buddy Ross
• September by Giles Lamb

Notes

• This episode was pieced together from a ton of little fragments but I wanted to steer folks to a couple of resources in particular: this excellent article from a few years back in the Toronto Star by Katie Daubs, and this documentary from filmmaker, Amy Nicholson, that primarily uses the Zipper as a way to talk about changes at Coney Island but has some great details from Harold Chance and his sons. 

Notes

• Read about the change in policy here. And the article that helped prompt the policy change here. 

Music

• Pipeline by H.Takahashi
• Sad Seine by Lambert
• Dance PM by Hiroshi Yoshimura

This episode was originally released in 2016 in the days after the shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando. It is re-released every year on the anniversary of the incident. 

A note on notes: We’d much rather you just went into each episode of The Memory Palace cold. And just let the story take you where it well. So, we don’t suggest looking into the show notes first.

Notes and Reading:
* Most of the specific history of the White Horse was learned from "Sanctuary: the Inside Story of the Nation's Second Oldest Gay Bar" by David Olson, reprinted in its entirety on the White Horse's website.
* "Gayola: Police Professionalization and the Politics of San Francisco's Gay Bars, 1950-1968," by Christopher Agee.
* June Thomas' series on the past, present, and future of the gay bar from Slate a few years back.
* Various articles written on the occasion of the White Horse's 80th anniversary, including this one from SFGATE.Com
* Michael Bronski's A Queer History of the United States.
* Radically Gay, a collection of Harry Hay's writing.
* Incidentally, I watched this interview with Harry Hay from 1996 about gay life in SF in the 30's multiple times because it's amazing.

Music
* We start with Water in Your Hands by Tommy Guerrero.
* Hit Anne Muller's Walzer fur Robert a couple of times.
* Gaussian Curve does Talk to the Church.
* We get a loop of Updraught from Zoe Keating.
* We finish on Transient Life in Twilight by James Blackshaw

A Note on Notes:

I always prefer that the listener goes into each episode cold, not knowing what it's going to be about. So, you might want to tread carefully, as there are spoilers in the notes below. 

Music

• L'espagne pour memoire by Michel Portal
• Find me Tomorrow from Christophe Beck's score to Charlie Countryman
• The old Soviet philharmonic plays some Shostakovich.
• The London Symphony Orchestra plays The Blue Danube Waltz.
• We hear Walt by Mother Falcon.
• Sombolero by Luiz Bonfa

Notes

• Like a lot of people below, say, 55, I first heard about Olga Fikotova-Connolly when reading her obituary in the New York Times.
• By far the best thing you can do if you want to know more about her is track down her out-of-print memoir, The Rings of Destiny, which, despite its rather puffed-up title, is so warm and detailed and intimate. It's a delight. 
• You might also enjoy this late-in-life interview with Olga as well. 

Music

• Traffico from Carlo Rustichelli's score to Divorzio All'Italiana and Una Braveta, from his score to Amici Miei.
• Tema Grottesco from Giovanni Fusco's score to L'avventura.
•  Gloving it from Moondog.
• Musica Bionda from the score to The Sweet Body of Deborah
• The Peter Thomas Sound Orchestra plays Natascha from the score to The Perfect Marriage. 
• Waltz from the Brendan Eder Ensemble
• Christa Schonfeldinger plays Grieg's Smarthold - der Kobold, on the glass armonica.

Music

• A synth stab from As if it Would Have a Universal and Memorable Ending by Shane Carruth's score to his film, Upstream Color, a movie I love deeply. 
• Smoke Gets in Your Eyes by the Platters
• The Girl Who was Frightened of Ashtrays by Charlie Megira
• Sambolero by Luiz Bonfa. 
• Water by So Percussion
• Divertimiento Fur Tenorsaxophon Und Kleines Ensemble (Part 4) from Carl Oesterhelt and Johannes Ender.
• Ball by Duval Timothy
• Piece 3 by the great Warren Ellis.
• Chora tua Tristeza from Lalo Schiffrin
• Growing Up from Ben Sollee's score to Maidentrip
• (Vibraphone, Marimbaphone, Malletted Wood, Two Synthesizers) and (Two Bells) by Josiah Steinbrick
• Main et lee from Michel Portal

Music

• Momento Ritmico and Papete aru by Piero Umiliani
• Opus 13 from Sven Libaek's score to The Set
• French Doll by Larry Ashmore and David Francis
• The wonderful Sewentuwa by Hailu Meriga
• Wave I by Elor Saxl
• Green by Hiroshi Yoshimura

Notes

• I originally learned about the Elephantine Colossus years ago in David McCullough's Brooklyn... and How it Got That Way, which still holds up.

Music

• Un geant dans la mer and Triste soiree III from the score to Marie et les naufrages by the genius, Sebastian Tellier. 
• Love is Blue by Jackie Mittoo and the Soul Vendors.
• Rocky Passage by Jeremiah Chiu and Marta Sofia Honer
• Morris Visits Dr. Pratt from John Barry's score to The Wrong Box
• Adios Muchachos from Andre Popp
• Moonlight in Vermont from the great Dorothy Ashby. 
• Midnight Moon by The Portland Cello Project
• Dance PM by Hiroshi Yoshimura
• And we hear Blind Andy Jenkins' "Floyd Collins in Sand Cave" followed by Vernon Dalhart doing the same song under the name, "The Death of Floyd Collins." We also hear Jimmy Osbourne do Andy's, "The Death of Little Kathy Fiscus."

Notes

• I have a note in my years-long running list of possible story ideas that says, "event songs," but I could never remember why. Then I was reading Charles Hirschberg and Mark Zwonitzer's, Will You Miss me When I'm Gone?: The Carter Family & Their Legacy in American Music and was reminded of Andy's story (that book is great).
• I also recommend the always-useful, Country Music USA, by Bill C. Malone for more on Andy and his era as well as Creating Country Music: Fabricating Authenticity by Richard A. Peterson.
• If you want more about poor Floyd Collins, you could turn to Robert K. Murray and Roger W. Bruckner's, Trapped!: The Story of Floyd Collins.

Music

• Abisme by Shida Shahadi
• Ellen’s Image from Lalo Schiffiren’s genius score to The Fox
• Circulation by H. Takahasi
• Liquid Spear Waltz from Michael Andrews’ score to Donnie Darko
• A8 from a terrific record called NuNu by Clever Austin

Notes

• I found a lot of insight in a terrific book called Extraordinary Beliefs by Peter Lamont. In it, there’s a smart historical, psychological exploration of why spiritualism was able to flourish despite all sorts of evidence opposing it. 

Music

• Una Bravata from Carlo Rustichelli’s score to Amici Miei.

• Sunshine on Fish Skin by Girls in Airports.

• The Vienna Glass Armonica Duo performs Mozart’s Adagio for Glass Harmonium.

• The Fellowship by John Shabason

Notes

• The best read on Mills is a 2022 article by Nate Hopper in The New Yorker about the challenges of keeping time on the internet.

Music

• Je ne pas si c’est tout le monde - Theme Comedie from Vincent Delerm’s score to the film of the same, long name.

• Forbin’s Hi Fi from Michel Colombier’s score to Colossus: The Forbin Project

• Boo’s Lullaby by Maria Chiara Agriro and Jamie Leeming

• Helle (Ballade) from the great Phillipe Sarde score to that picture.

• L’Espagne pour memoire from Michel Portal’s score to Un et a la garoupe

• The Rain Never Stops on Venus by Michael Wollney

• Je t’ai meme pas dit by Vincent Delerm.

• From a Dream by Oregon

• A version of Narcisus for Clarinet and Electronics as played by Thea Musgrave.

Notes

• Good sources if you want to know more are Peter Manseau’s book about spirit photography and the spiritualist age (Cutting intersects interestingly with that crea), The Apparitionists, as well as this article by Jerry Ryan about the history of aquariums in Boston.

This is a special holiday bonus episode, a sequel to Episode 210. You’ll want to listen to that one first.

Music

• The Parisienne by the Henri Crolla Ensemble

• Violette… by Philippe Sarde

• Gift by Makasuta Takagi

• The Sammy Herman Sextet plays The Bells of St. Mary’s

Music

• I Believe in the Night by Keith Kenniff

• Improvisations sur les folies d’Espagne (extraits) from Marin Marais and Jordi Savall

• Finally by Lambert

• Voltige by Marin Lizotte

• Violin Solo no. 1 by Peter Broderick

• Fratres fur violin und klavier by Avro Part as played by Ursula Schloch and Marcel Worms

• Dungen by Henrik Lindstom

Notes

• There are plenty of places to go to read about Smoky and Bill but why would want to go anywhere else than his book, Yorkie Doodle Dandy?

Music

• We move between three different pieces from Camille Saint-Saens': Suite, Op. 90: II Menuet, and two from Carnival of the Animals:Aviary and the Cuckoo in the Heart of the Woods.

• We hit Juneau from Danny Bensi and Sander Jurriaans' score to Wildlike.

• And The Waltz from their score to 5 to 7.

• And there's a total gem from George Mukabi called Dila Ni Dila in there too.

Notes

• Do yourself a favor and read Frances Hamerstrom's autobiography, My Double Life: Memoirs of a Naturalist.

• Do your kids a favor and Jeannine Atkins take on Frances in her book Girls Who Looked Under Rocks.

• And then watch Frances teach David Letterman how to cook a snake.

Music

• Dave Pajo/Aerial M does Plastic Energy Man

• Patricia Rossborough played To a Wild Rose

• Mal Waldron plays Warm Canto

• We hear Muff Gets a Share from Joel P. West’s score to Band of Robbers

• We hear another song I absolutely love, Turned Out I Was Everyone, by Sasami

• We finish on Popcorn and Life from Ben Sollee’s lovely score to Maidentrip.

Music

• The Theory by Clem Leek

• Hiddensee by Caeys

• The Clock Tower by Hampshire and Foat

Notes

• If you want to know more about Gardner, I’d suggest Witness to an Era: the Life and Photographs of Alexander Gardner, by Mark Katz.

• On Brady, Matthew Brady: Portraits of a Nation, by Robert Wilson.

• I’d also suggest reading the New York Times’ review of the exhibit. It’s pretty stunning.

Music

• Inception by radio.string.quintet.vienna

• Julie With by Group Listening

• Nice Breeze Isn’t It? by friend of the show, Simon Rackham

• Wet by Taylor Deupree

• Times Like This II by Jean Kopperud and Stephen Gosling

• Broad Channel by Bing and Ruth

• Cradle (with Akira) by ghost and tape

• Lithosphere by Caoimhin O Raghellagh

• and by Caoimhin O Raghelagh and Thomas Bartlett

Notes

• You can find the website I mentioned here; it’s a one-stop shop, really, for information on the 6888t. .

Music

• Halcyon and Photosynteses and Embryo by H. Takehashi

• Intro by Library Tapes

• The Florist Wears Knee Breeches by M. Sage

Notes

• I found Andrew Isenberg's book, The Destruction of the Bison, An Environmental History, completely fascinating.

• If you want to do a deep dive on Madison Grant, I'd recommend Defending the Master Race: Conservation, Eugenics, and the Legacy of Madison Grant by John Peter Spiro.

• If you want to do a deep dive on the Catalina Buffalo, this site is a fun place to start.

This episode was originally released in November, 2015.

Music
* Under the credits is Harlaamstrat 74 off of John Dankworth’s Modesty Blaise score.
* They first meet to a piece called Brouillard (version 1) from Georges Delaure’s extraordinary score to Jules et Jim. (A second version comes in later when J.J. Audubon is living the high life in England).
* We also hear Waltz by Mother Falcon.
* I go back to the Marcelo Zarvos/Please Give well when the Scotsman arrives at their store. Note: it’s the go-to soundtrack for “People Arriving at One’s Store With A Life Changing Proposition” here at the Memory Palace. Also: go watch Please Give.
* The little piano piece is from Nathan Johnson’s score to The Day I Saw Your Heart.
* Lucy and John titter like plovers to Andrew Cyrille’s dope, skittering drums on Nuba 1.
* The especially sad bit, right before the end is Dream 3 (in the Midst of my Life), from Max Richter’s giant, From Sleep album.
* A couple times, including the ending, we hear “the Lark Ascending” from Ralph Vaughn Willliams. It is beautiful. You should buy it.

Notes
As per usual, I read a lot about the Audubons and the Bakewells.
I relied most upon the charming and smart, On the Road with John James Audubon by Mary Durant, and Carolyn DeLatte’s lovely, thoughtful book, Lucy Audubon: a Biography.
* Just a quick note: there’s a very enjoyable PBS/American Masters/Nature documentary about Audubon. It’s a fun and informative watch. But, I’ll say, you come out of that thinking that things were fundamentally swell between Lucy and John in a way that I’m not entirely sure is supported by the facts. Or jibes with, you know, human nature.

This episode was originally released in 2016 in the days after the shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando. It is re-released every year on the anniversary of the incident.

A note on notes: We’d much rather you just went into each episode of The Memory Palace cold. And just let the story take you where it well. So, we don’t suggest looking into the show notes first.

Notes and Reading:
* Most of the specific history of the White Horse was learned from "Sanctuary: the Inside Story of the Nation's Second Oldest Gay Bar" by David Olson, reprinted in its entirety on the White Horse's website.
* "Gayola: Police Professionalization and the Politics of San Francisco's Gay Bars, 1950-1968," by Christopher Agee.
* June Thomas' series on the past, present, and future of the gay bar from Slate a few years back.
* Various articles written on the occasion of the White Horse's 80th anniversary, including this one from SFGATE.Com
* Michael Bronski's A Queer History of the United States.
* Radically Gay, a collection of Harry Hay's writing.
* Incidentally, I watched this interview with Harry Hay from 1996 about gay life in SF in the 30's multiple times because it's amazing.

Music
* We start with Water in Your Hands by Tommy Guerrero.
* Hit Anne Muller's Walzer fur Robert a couple of times.
* Gaussian Curve does Talk to the Church.
* We get a loop of Updraught from Zoe Keating.
* We finish on Transient Life in Twilight by James Blackshaw

Music

• Pollen and Photosynteses by H. Takehashi

• Ediacaran Moonrise by Barry Walker, Jr.

• To the Cellar from Krzysztof Komeda’s wonderful score to The Fearless Vampire Killers.

• Blue Sutura from Piero Piccioni’s score to Il medico della mutua.

• 3-Sized PF and Let’s Go Crazy!, both by Takahiro Kido

• Emerald Ash by Golden Brown

• Merry-Go-Round by Domenique Dumont

• Aquel Senor by the mighty, Frankie Reyes

• Tesko Me Ja Zaboravit Tebe by Banko Mataja

Notes

• You can read the article by Katherin Parkin here.

Music

• In My Heaven All Faucets Have Fountains by yes/and

• A snippet of Runaway from Olafur Arnauld’s score to Gimme Shelter

• Spectral Canon from Conlon Nancarrow from James Tenney

• The Hourglass by Ben Crosland.

Proceeds from this episode are being donated to the Transgender Law Center.

Music
*Under the credits is Harlaamstrat 74 off of John Dankworth’s Modesty Blaise score.
*The piece opens with Rainfall, by David Darling and Michael Jones.
*Her brief love story is scored by Nathan Johnson’s Penelope’s Theme from his score to The Brothers Bloom.
*When she lands her first gig, we start Garde a Vue, and roll into Le Roi de coeur, from Chantal Martineau.
* The vibraphone piece is “Opening” by Nathaniel Bartlett.
* The recurring violin piece is called Geometria del Universo by the one-named Colleen.
* It ends on Romain’s First Love, again by Georges Delarue, from his fantastic score to Promise at Dawn.

Notes
* I read a lot about Mary, but by far the most useful and most thorough works I came upon were: Sharon M. Harris’ Dr. Mary Walker: An American Radical and A Woman of Honor: Dr. Mary E. Walker and the Civil War, in which author Mercedes Graf does a great job walking the reader through Walker’s unpublished memoir.

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Music

* Under the credits is Harlaamstrat 74 off of John Dankworth’s Modesty Blaise score.
* Then, we have the most obvious crickets/summer night song ever: the fantastic, perpetually delightful Green Arrow from Yo La Tengo’s I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One, which has soundtracked many crickety summer nights for me over the years.
* The cops roll in to a loop of the very beginning of the epic Ptah, the El Daoud, the title track to Alice Coltrane’s album from 1970.
* Then we have a mix of two improvisations from Charles Cohen’s “Brother I Prove You Wrong”: Cloud Hands and The Boy and the Snake Dance.
* There’s a brief dip into Dorian, by Fang Island.
* The jaunty accordion, typewriter thing is Biking is Better on Wintergatan’s eponymous album.

Notes
I researched this one primarily through old newspapers. The easiest place to find a number of them is to read the excellent site, The Museum of Hoaxes’ page on this event. Also: if you’re in the Atlanta area and ever want to have yourself a day, you can see the actual monkey. It’s preserved in a jar at the Georgia Bureau of Investigations museum in Decatur Georgia.

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Music

• We start with the Opening of Craig Armstrong’s score to Far From the Madding Crowd.

• Glass Houses no. 13 from Ann Southam.

• Earring from Julia Wolf.

• Occam II for Violin from Eliane Radigue.

• Rearranging Furniture from Gabriel Yared’s score to By the Sea.

• A bit of Movement II from Martynov, “Come in!” by Vladimir Martynov.

Notes

• Plenty written about the Willie D.. I found Roger Branfill-Cook’s Torpedo: the Most Revolutionary Weapon in Naval History to be particularly useful.

• I also enjoyed stumbling upon this day-by-day breakdown of F.D.R.’s Presidency.

Note
* Here’s a link to watch an excerpt of the CBS news break.
* One of my favorite things I came across while reading up on the lottery was this site, which includes a remarkable page where folks send in their personal stories of their draft experience.

Music
* Elevator Song by Keaton Henson (feat. Ren Ford)
* Waves by Abby Gundersen

A note on notes: We’d much rather you just went into each episode of The Memory Palace cold. And just let the story take you where it well. So, we don’t suggest looking into the show notes first.

Music

• Blithe Field does RD 1

• O Venezia, Venuga, Venusia by Nino Rota

• Carthage by Hayden Perdido

• Nice Breeze, Isn’t It? from Simon Rackham

• Mystere by amiina

• Blithe Field also does Racing Backward

• as well as Prelude

Music

• Mongali as played by the mighty Tabu Ley Rochereu

• 2nd Season by Takahiro Kido

• Ferde Grofe’s Grand Canyon Suite: 5 Cloudburst as performed by the Detroit Symphony

• Nero’s Nocturne by Chilly Gonzalez. Man, that guy is great. You should buy his music.

• Opening Titles from Jeff Grace’s score to In the Valley of Violence

• Morris Visits Dr. Pratt from John Barry’s score to The Wrong Box

• Gift from Masakatsu Takagi’s score to The Boy and the Beast

• Nurse Janet from Ludwig Goransson’s score to Everything, Everythin

Notes

• My favorite resources on frontier press stuff is by Barbara Cloud, The Coming of the Frontier Press, How the West was Really Won.

Music

• LBS by Duval Timothy

• My Favourites, pt. 2 by Patricia Rossborough

• Sad Seine by Lambert

• Vals Efter Lasse I Lyby by Lofoten Cello Duo

Music

• Strength of a Young Man by Vernon Field

• Wave I by Elori Saxl

• Rearranging Furniture from Gabriel Yared’s score to By the Sea

• Falling Forever and Ever by Ricky Eat Acid

• Muff Gets a Share from Joel P West’s score to Band of Robbers

Notes

• By far the most fun I had researching this was reading Kaori O’Conner’s Pineapple: A Global History. Really a lovely little book.

Music

• Rauelsson plays Mom, in Ukraine

• Group Listening plays Julie With

• Richard Birkin plays Vigil II

• Colleen plays Les Ondes Silencieueses

• Taylor Deupree and Marcus Fischer play Bell

• The Ensemble Rescerche plays Morton Feldman’s Something Wild in the City: Mary Ann’s Theme

Music

• Sunset Village by Group Listening

• Winter Memory by Dark Dark Dark

• Pretty in Plums by Shida Shihabi

• With a little bit of The Crumbling by Valgeir Sigurossen

• Afternoon in Paris by the incomparable John Lewis

• Abstrutions from Max Roach

• And Herbert’s Story from Mark Orton’s score to Nebraska

Music

• Arrival by by Domenique Dumont

• Bouquet by Bobby Hutcherson

• Last Dance by No Vacation

• Channels Passing by Paul Dresher

• Dilo 4 by Emika

• The Kronos Quartet plays II from Phillip Glass’ second string quartet, “Company.”

This episode was originally released in October of 2017 and was produced with engineering assistance from Elizabeth Aubert.

Music

• Sunrise Through the Dusty Nebula by Hannah Peel

• Keep by Nils Frahm

• Horizon Variations by Max Richter

• She cycles through: Where or When by Hal Kemp & His Orchestra, Smarty (You Know it All) by Fats Waller, Dear Mr. Gable: You Made Me Love You by Judy Garland, Hellhounds on My Trail by Robert Johnson, and The Big Apple by Tommy Dorsey and his Clambake Seven.

• Future Waves by Uther Moads.

• And Vapour Trail by Ride, forever.

This episode was originally released in the spring of 2018. It’s being re-released today because Nate’s on book leave for the summer.

Music

• We start off with Theme de Simon from Georges Delerue.

• Go to Alpine Sketch from Christian Loffler’s Young Alaska.

• Hear some of Three Dances: II Pavane arranged for the Chromos Tuba Quartet.

• The Plum Blossom from Yusuf Lateef’s great Eastern Sounds record.

• Juve & Fandor by amiina.

• The Unquestioned Answer by Laura Spiegel.

• Etude by Joep Beving.

• Rainfall by David Darling and Michael Jones.

This episode was originally released in July of 2016. It’s being re-released today because Nate’s on book leave for the summer and because it’s a total banger.

Notes and Reading:
* I came to this story the old fashioned way (for me): I saw Su Lin at the Field Museum and needed to know more. That led me inevitably to Vicki Croke's The Lady and the Panda from 2006. It's a terrific read. If you have any interest at all in learning more about Ruth Harkness, that's the place to go. I've got a few quibbles here and there, but, for real, it's delightful.
* Quentin Young's (slightly strange and contested) version of events is told in Chasing the Panda by Michael Kiefer.
* If you've got a few hundred bucks (or a library with more liberal lending policies with old books than mine), why not read Ruth's own book, The Baby Giant Panda?
* If you're interested in zoos writ large, I'm a fan of Animal Attractions: Nature on Display in American Zoos by Elizabeth Hansen.

Music:
* We start with Hush-Maker by Moon Ate the Dark.
* Roll on with Freudian Slippers by Chilly Gonzales.
* Hear Bibio's Cherry Blossom Road a couple of times.
* Hit up Nice Dream by radio.string.quartet.vienna
* Hear Don Redman and his Orchestra play Blue Eyed Baby from Memphis.
* The centerpiece of the middle section is Snow Again by Lambert.
* We hear a couple of pieces by Dan Romer: An Old Fashioned Man and End of the World.
* We finish up on Lullatone's Falling Asleep With a Book on Your Chest.

Music

• Arrival by Dominique Dumont

• Bouquet by Bobby Hutcherson off of his phenomenal album, Happenings.

• Wrench and Numbers from Jeff Russo’s score to Fargo, the FX show.

• Melodrames telegraphies (in B flat Major 7th), part 1 by Brian McBride

• Kembang Andyani from the Gamelan Orchestra

This episode was originally released in 2016 in the days after the shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando. It is re-released every year on the anniversary of the incident.

A note on notes: We’d much rather you just went into each episode of The Memory Palace cold. And just let the story take you where it well. So, we don’t suggest looking into the show notes first.

Notes and Reading:
* Most of the specific history of the White Horse was learned from "Sanctuary: the Inside Story of the Nation's Second Oldest Gay Bar" by David Olson, reprinted in its entirety on the White Horse's website.
* "Gayola: Police Professionalization and the Politics of San Francisco's Gay Bars, 1950-1968," by Christopher Agee.
* June Thomas' series on the past, present, and future of the gay bar from Slate a few years back.
* Various articles written on the occasion of the White Horse's 80th anniversary, including this one from SFGATE.Com
* Michael Bronski's A Queer History of the United States.
* Radically Gay, a collection of Harry Hay's writing.
* Incidentally, I watched this interview with Harry Hay from 1996 about gay life in SF in the 30's multiple times because it's amazing.

Music
* We start with Water in Your Hands by Tommy Guerrero.
* Hit Anne Muller's Walzer fur Robert a couple of times.
* Gaussian Curve does Talk to the Church.
* We get a loop of Updraught from Zoe Keating.
* We finish on Transient Life in Twilight by James Blackshaw

This episode originally appeared in the winter of 2019.

A note on shownotes. In a perfect world, you go into each episode of the Memory Palace knowing nothing about what's coming. It's pretentious, sure, but that's the intention. So, if you don't want any spoilers or anything, you can click play without reading ahead.

Music

• Still Space by Satoshi Ashikawa.

A note on notes: We’d much rather you just went into each episode of The Memory Palace cold. And just let the story take you where it well. So, we don’t suggest looking into the show notes first.

Music

• Blithe Field does RD 1

• O Venezia, Venuga, Venusia by Nino Rota

• Carthage by Hayden Perdido

• Nice Breeze, Isn’t It? from Simon Rackham

• Mystere by amiina

• Blithe Field also does Racing Backward

• as well as Prelude

A note on notes: We’d much rather you just went into each episode of The Memory Palace cold. And just let the story take you where it well. So, we don’t suggest looking into the show notes first.

Music

• The Return by Library Tapes

• Erased Duet by Valgeir Sigurdossen

• 3-sized PF by Takahiro Kido

• Vals Efter Lasser I Lyby by Lofoton Cello Duo

Notes

• Totally recommend Bruce Levine’s Thaddeus Stevens: Civil War Revolutionary, Fighter for Racial Justice.

• I encourage you to check out the Thaddeus Stevens Society.

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Music

• Dance PM from Horishi Yoshimura

• Amor - C.B. Rework by Clark

• Here’s What You’re Missin by Bing and Ruth

• Meredith Monk’s Ellis Island as played by Bruce Brubaker

• Alto Paraiso by Aukai

• Opening from Nathaniel Bartlett

• Rivers That you Cannot See by North Americans

• First of the Tide by Erland Cooper featuring Benge

Notes

• The episode old episode I mention in the credits as a companion to this one is here.

• Most of the biographical details in this were found in the official biography written for the National Academy of Sciences by his Uranium-hunting colleague, George Tilton, and a terrific, entertaining oral history interview.

• Also, if you’ve left episode in the mode where you’d just like to know some more, I came across this old Mental Floss article by Lucas Reilly that I thought did a particularly good job of weaving a lot of the back story (some of which I’d covered before in the Midgely episode linked above) into Patterson’s story. Just wanted to shine a light on it.

This episode was originally released in December of 2016

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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.

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

• Fragment I by Library Tapes

• Don’t Forget to Breathe Eh by Kelpe

• Here I Am, Two Warships by Spirituals

• Elfe by Dario Lessing

• Jahrzeit from American Contemporary Music Ensemble

• Alarm Will Sound’s version of Jynweythek ylow

• 2400 by Martyn Hynes

Notes

• I found a couple of books particularly useful if you want to learn more about Barbara Johns. Richard Kluger’s classic Simple Justice and a really lovely book for younger readers called The Girl From the Tar Paper School by Teri Kanefield.

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Music

• Romantic Lullaby by Simon Rackham

• Happy Whistler by Group Listening.

• The Return by Library Tapes

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Music

• Time Beat by Ray Cathode

• Rabbits of the Void by Tomaga

• Weightless by the Neil Cowley Trio

• Scenes from the Poet’s Dreams I: Racing Through the Stars by The Lark Quartet

• Switchcraft by Chilly Gonzalez

• Sky Breaking, Clouds Falling by Mason Lindahl

Notes

• There’s a ton written about The Crash at Crush but the one I’d recommend is Train Crash at Crush, Texas: America’s Deadliest Publicity Stunt, by Mike Cox

This episode was originally released as Episode 184: Betty Robinson in July of 2021.

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Music

• Pollen by H.Takahashi and, later, Photosynthese.

• The New York Herald Tribune by Martial Solal

• Trying Something Again, Again by Lullatone

• Wiffle Ball from Joel P. West’s score for Short Term 12

• The title theme to Cani Arrabbiati

• Increase by David Lang and Alarm Will Sound

• Nijuichi by Sylvain Chaveau

• Occam II for Violin by Eliane Radigue

• Drunken Aviator by the (great, truly) Ida.

• Eyes Closed and Travelling by Peter Broderick

Notes

• If you are looking to read more about Betty, I’d suggest Rosanne Montillo’s terrific book, Fire on the Track.

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Music

• How to be Invisible, by Thruppence.

• Motion by Peter Sandberg.

• Art Blakey’s magical, Come out and See Me Tonight

• And, of course, So What, from Kind of Blue

Notes

• I relied a lot on this extensive oral history interview from The Smithsonian.

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Music

• Midnight Moon from Annalisa Tornfelt and Gideon Fraudmann’s album, Spring Breakup: Songs for Alaska.

• A couple of numbers from Marcelo Zarvos’ wonderful score to the wonderful, Please Give.

• A remarkable piece of music called Spectacle of Ritual by Kali Malone

• And another called Pauvre Simon from Sylvain Chauveau

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Music

• Feminist from Danny Bensi and Saunder Jurrian’s score to Christine.

• Under Siege from the great Warren Ellis’ score to Mustang

• Warm Canto from Mal Waldren

• M is for Man, Music, Mozart: the Eisenstein Song from Louis Andriessen’s De Stijl album.

• The them to Le Doulo from Paul Misraki

• Manny Returns Home from Bernard Hermann’s score to the Wrong Man

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Music

• By the Ash Tree and Semolina by Slow Meadow

• Opals by Catching Flies

• Mechanical Fair by Ola Kvernberg and the Trondheim Singers

• La Copla by the great Atahualpa Yupanqui

• Holm Sound by Erland Cooper

Notes

• You can find the original recordings, photos, and film clips taken on the 1935 expedition and after in the remarkable online library of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

• Of the many books on the Ivory Billed Woodpecker, the one I enjoyed and relied upon most here is Phillip Hoose’s The Race to Save the Good Lord Bird.

The music in this one: “An Ending, A Beginning” by Dustin O’Halloran. “I am Piano” by Peter Broderick. Two songs from the soundtrack to “With a Song in my Heart”: American Medley, and That Old Feeling. The one at the end is “I’ll Never be the Same.” My version’s on a collection called “Can’t get out of this Mood.” There are also a couple of other Jane things that I found on You Tube. The plane crash stuff is scored by a piece of Claudia Serne and Leopold Ross’ soundtrack for “Broken City,” called “Missing Pieces.” Then there’s a sound by The Caretaker called “Stairway to the Stars.”

I read a lot about Jane for this but nothing was as useful as Ilene Stone’s lovely book, “Jane Froman: Missouri’s First Lady of Song.”

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Music

• Mother's Love by The Vernon Spring

• Avinu Malkenu by Lofoten Cello Duo

• Vakenatt by Daniel Herskedal

• Computer Love by Balenescu Quartet

• Sunshine on Fish Skin by Girls in Airports

• Cabiria e el ragioniere from Nino Rota's score to Nights of Cabiria

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Music

• Honesty by Thrupence

• El Noi de la Mare, Eldegard by Lofoten Cello Duo

• 2400 by Martyn Hyne

• White Light by Chihei Hatekeyama

• Valse Efter Valle I Lybe by Lofoten Cello Duo

Notes

• There's obviously nearly-infinite amounts to read about Jane Addams. I found Citizen: Jane Addams and the Struggle for Democracy by Louise Knight particularly useful.





In lieu of my usual re-runs filling out August, I’m doing something different: a full-reading of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, presented in three parts.This is part 2.

Music for Gatsby was composed and performed by Mary Lattimore. Find and buy her music at marylattimoreharpist.bandcamp.com

The cover art is from Jen Corace. See more of Jen’s work at jencorace.com.

Back with the third and final part on August 19th. Back with new episodes of The Memory Palace in September.

In lieu of my usual re-runs filling out August, I’m doing something different: a full-reading of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, presented in three parts.This is part 2.

Music for Gatsby was composed and performed by Mary Lattimore. Find and buy her music at marylattimoreharpist.bandcamp.com

The cover art is from Jen Corace. See more of Jen’s work at jencorace.com.

Back with the third and final part on August 19th. Back with new episodes of The Memory Palace in September.

In lieu of my usual re-runs filling out August, I’m doing something different: a full-reading of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, presented in three parts.

Music for Gatsby was composed and performed by Mary Lattimore. Find and buy her music at marylattimoreharpist.bandcamp.com

The cover art is from Jen Corace. See more of Jen’s work at jencorace.com.

Back with part two on August 12th. 

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Music

• Pollen by H.Takahashi and, later, Photosynthese.

• The New York Herald Tribune by Martial Solal

• Trying Something Again, Again by Lullatone

• Wiffle Ball from Joel P. West’s score for Short Term 12

• The title theme to Cani Arrabbiati

• Increase by David Lang and Alarm Will Sound

• Nijuichi by Sylvain Chaveau

• Occam II for Violin by Eliane Radigue

• Drunken Aviator by the (great, truly) Ida.

• Eyes Closed and Travelling by Peter Broderick

Notes

• If you are looking to read more about Betty, I’d suggest Rosanne Montillo’s terrific book, Fire on the Track.

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Music

• Wasser by H.Takahashi

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Music:

• Flowering Jasmine as performed by Gidon Kremer and the Kremerata Batica.

• Kaspburger by Clogs

• 20 (Lichen) by Berndan Eder Ensemble

• Fall Again by Duval Timothy, Lil Silva and Melanie Faye.

• Wurzer by H.Takahashi

• Bone Collector by Julian Lage and Chris Etheridge

• Titan’s Island by Ancient Oceans

Notes:

• My favorite account (among many) of Richard Etheridge and the story of the Pea Island Surfmen is Fire on the Beach by David Wright and David Zoby.

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Music:

• Suite from A Hatful of Rain from the GOAT, Bernard Herrmann

• Sexfaldur from amiina

• Piano 1 from Emily Sprague

• Earring from Julia Wolfe and Lisa Moore

• The Squirrel, from Herrmann’s score to The Three Worlds of Gulliver

• All in Circles by Shida Shinabi

• Them by Nils Frahm

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Music:

• Rosee by Piano Novel

• Eyes Closed and Traveling by Peter Broderick

• Future Waves by Uther Moads

• Go Home by h. hunt

• Juneau from Danny Bensi and Saunder Jurrians score to Wildlike

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Music:

• Individuation by Eluvium

• Kola - Lighthouse Version by amiina

• Seeming by Helios

• Portrait Gallery by Luke Howard

• Disillusionment for the Emotional Type by You’ll Never Get to Heaven

• Clouds by Hiroshi Yoshimura

Notes:

• Leviathan: the History of Whaling in America by Eric Jay Dolan was super useful and very readable.

• You can find the study on Sperm Whale adaptation in the North Pacific here.

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Music:

• Wiegenfield, S. 198 as played Khatia Buniastihivilli

• Van McCoy sings Mr. DJ

• Vier Stucke fur Xylophon

• Love is Blue by Jackie Mittoo

• Calvary by Quicksilver Messenger Service

• Tizita by Tijist Ejigu

• Violin Solo no. 1 by Peter Broderick

• Two Aquerelles 1. Slow

• The Hustle by Van McCoy

• Coffee Beans by Moondog

• Dogs of Straw from Larry Groupe's score to Straw Dogs

• Flowering Jasmine by George Pelecis

• Visit Croatia by Alabaster DePlume

• Absence by Matti Bye

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This episode was originally released in 2015. Sometimes you’re working on an episode (and when I say “you’re” I mean, “I’m,”) working on an episode and you realize it’s just all wrong. That there’s a good episode in there but you need to take a few days and go at it again. Because you (and, again, “you”=”I”) think it, and you (this time I mean you, the listener) deserve better. And you put out a re-run. It’s a good one, though.

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Music

• The Last Days of Summer by Maria Avnos.

• Broad Channel (Solo Piano) by Bing & Ruth

• Homesickness (v. 1) by the phenomenal Tsegue-Maryam Guebrou

Notes

• Here she is with Steve Harvey.

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Music

• Unsayable by Brambles.

• Kola - Lighthouse Version by amiina

• A Nearer Sun by the Westerlies

• Duet, a Steve Reich composition, performed by Daniel Hope.

• Reading a Wave by Arp

• April by Kanazu Tomoyuki

• Latent Sonata by Brian McBride

Notes

• The oral history mentioned in this episode is available through the Smithsonian Instittion’’s archives.

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Music

• Metaphysical Waltz by Shirley Meyer Blankenship

• ...morphs into Jock O'Hazeldean by Cynthia Boener

• There's Dominique Dumont's La bataille de neige

• The Squimp from the Chico Hamilton Quintet

• Fruit of Dreams by Les Baxter

• Rags to Riches by Tony Bennett

Notes

• Best place to go if you want to learn a lot about Todd Storz is The Birth of Top 40 Radio: The Storz' Stations Revolution of the 1950s and 1960s by Richard Fatherly and David MacFarland.

• For a loving history of the whole era, you'd probably enjoy Ben Fong Torres' The Hits Just Keep on Coming: The History of Top 40 Radio

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Music

• Sarah in Bath from Komeda's great score to The Fearless Vampire Killers

• David Goes Hunting from Larry Groupe's great score to Straw Dogs

• When It's Time to Go by Buddy Fo and His Group (great name for a backing band, btw)

• Completely Gone from Ludwig Gorannson's score to Everything, Everything

• Peri Banu vid sjon (Version) by DUNGEN

• Debut by Christopher Ferreira

• 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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Music

• Waltz for Sky by Muriel Botsdorp

• A Gathering to Lead me When You're Gone by Brian McBride

• 20 (Lichen) by Brendan Eder Ensemble

• Electronium Movie Score by Raymond Scott

• Someday We'll Linger in the Sun by Gaelynn Lea

• 32 (Harp) by Nearly Oratorio

Notes

• By far the most fun and helpful thing I read for this episode was Michael O'Malley's, Keeping Watch: A History of American Time.



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Music

• Memory Waltz from Bernard Herrmann's score to The Snows of Kilimanjaro

• Pink Champagne from Harry Warren's score to An Affair to Remember

• Jonalah from the Chico Hamilton Quintet

• Brouillard, version 2 from Delerue's Jules et Jim score

• Living by Sebastian Plano

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Music

• Spiderwebs of Clouds by Oliia Belli

This episode was originally released in April of 2020. We are deeply, deeply annoyed that this is still relevant and useful.

20 stories, each 20 seconds, to accompany you in the proper washing of hands.

Stay safe, be well, wash your hands.

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Music

• As Old Roads by Goldmund

• Wake by Taylor Duepree and Marcus Fischer

• Sedentary II by Kyle Bobby Dunn

• Talk to the Church by Gaussian Curve

Notes

• The best resources I found for Sally Story (it’s easy to find out more about Reed v. Reed) came from a couple of sources: 100 Americans Making Constitutional History, A Biographical History, edited by Melvin L. Urovsky. And Natalie Wexler’s article, “Sex Discrimination - a Search for a Standard.”

This episode contains a full reading of Edgar Allan Poe’s short story, The Masque of the Red Death. Use your discretion before listening. It is both one of the more macabre stories from Poe and it is hitting harder than usual during these peculiar times.

It’s ideally meant to be listened to at the corner of Corinthian and State downtown. But, you’ll likely enjoy it wherever you are.

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It’s ideally meant to be listened to at the Pont du Rennes while viewing High Falls. But, you’ll likely enjoy it wherever you are.

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Music

• Them by Nils Frahm

• Feathers by Poppy Ackroyd

Notes

• You can read Myles Horton’s book.

• I found The Birth of Citizen Schools: Entwining the Struggles for Literacy and Freedom by David P. Levine particularly useful.

• And especially Clare Russell’s “A Beautician Without Teacher Training: Bernice Robinson, Citizen Schools and women in the Civil Rights Movement.”

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Music

• Ruby by Ali Farka Toure

• Party’s End, from Bernard Herrmann’s score to The Egyptian

• Future Green by Masuhiro Sugaya

• The Boy and the Snake Dance by Charles Cohen

• Vier Stucke for Xylophone as performed by Guniid Keetman

• Opening from Marcelo Zarvos’ score to Please Give

• Herbert’s Story from Mark Orton’s score to Nebraska

• Solitary Living by The Flashbulb

Notes

• You should read Dan De Quille. He’s a good writer! I like his book on the Comstock Load, Big Bonanza.

• Also check out The Tall Tales of Dan De Quille, by C. Grant Loomis from 1946.

• I found this article about Twain’s time in Nevada particularly helpful.

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Music
* Julia Rovinsky plays Phillip Glass’ Metamorphosis I, from her album Dusk.
* There’s an excerpt from Paul Drescher’s “Casa Vecchia,” from the Mirrors: Other Fire album.
* There’s a chunk of Jose Gonzalez’ “Instrumental” from his Stay in the Shade EP.
* “Manny Returns Home” from Bernard Hermann’s score to The Wrong Man.
* Branka Parlic plays Philip Glass’ “Mad Rush.” Twice.
* “Quiet Fan for SK,” by P.G. Six.
* Things get heavy to “Particles of the Universe (Heartbeats)” from Dan Romer and Ben Zeitlin’s score to Beasts of the Southern Wild.

Notes
There’s a lot written about Robert Smalls, with a lot of contradictory information. I found Edward A. Miller’s Gullah Statesman: Robert Smalls from Slavery to Congress particularly useful to sorting it all out.
Some other sources I consulted while researching this piece:
* The Negro’s Civil War: How American Blacks Felt and Acted During the War for the Union by the Don, James McPherson
* From Slavery to Public Service: Robert Smalls, 1839-1915, by Okon Uya.
* And, for what it’s worth, Robert Smalls: The Boat Thief from RFK Jr.’s American Heroes Series is an enjoyable and surprisingly thorough version of the story for young readers, if you’re ever looking for that sort of thing.

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Music

• Adrift by Yameneko

• Lagrimas Negras by Antonio Maria Romeau

• Rainfall by Michael Jones and David Darling

• The Big Ocean by Ben Sollee

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Music

• Peri Banu vid Sjon (VERSION) by Dungen

• In a Landscape by John Cage

• Quartet for Four Percussionists IV: Fast by John Cage

• Dream by John Cage

• Completely Gone by Ludwig Gorannson

• The Introduction and Chi C’e Per Farmi i Rici from The Girl of the Golden West

• L’approche Du Nuage by Sylvain Chaveu

Notes

• The story of John Cage in the anechoic chamber was first told to me maybe twenty years ago by my friend Dave Panosky one night while walking around Providence. It was precisely the type of story that I wanted to one day make a show to tell. You can find it in a lot of places including in Cage’s own writing.

• I first came across the second silent room in Alex Ross’ wonderful, The Rest is Noise.

• I also tapped into Puccini and the Girl: History and Reception of Girl of the Golden West by Annie Randall and Rosalind Gray Davis.

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Notes and Reading:
* Most of the specific history of the White Horse was learned from “Sanctuary: the Inside Story of the Nation’s Second Oldest Gay Bar” by David Olson, reprinted in its entirety on the White Horse’s website.
* “Gayola: Police Professionalization and the Politics of San Francisco’s Gay Bars, 1950-1968,” by Christopher Agee.
* June Thomas’ series on the past, present, and future of the gay bar from Slate a few years back.
* Various articles written on the occasion of the White Horse’s 80th anniversary, including this one from SFGATE.Com
* Michael Bronski’s A Queer History of the United States.
* Radically Gay, a collection of Harry Hay’s writing.
* Incidentally, I watched this interview with Harry Hay from 1996 about gay life in SF in the 30’s multiple times because it’s amazing.

Music
* We start with Water in Your Hands by Tommy Guerrero.
* Hit Anne Muller’s Walzer fur Robert a couple of times.
* Gaussian Curve does Talk to the Church.
* We get a loop of Updraught from Zoe Keating.
* We finish on Transient Life in Twilight by James Blackshaw

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Music

• We hear Armellodie by Chilly Gonzales

• And All Now Vibe by Tara Jane O'Neil

Notes

• The Lavender Scare by David K. Johnson

• Trouble in Lafayette Square by Gil Klein

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Music

• Illusion Perdida by Juan Bautista Guido y Su Orquesta Tipico

• Manny Returns Home and Fingerprints from Bernard Herrmann's score to The Wrong Man.

• Niggun for Solo Bassoon Phillipe Hersant

• Rearranging Furniture by Gabriel Yared

• Viona's Lullaby by Peter Sandberg

Notes

• The archives of the Kansas Historical Quarterly were very useful, particularly this article. 

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Music

• We hear a couple from Alabaster DePlume’s To Cy & Lee album, Whisky Story Time and Not My Ask.

• Bibio’s CAPEL BETHANIA.

• The Sage, by the Chico Hamilton Quintet.

• The Last Tears of a Deceased by Emahoy Tsegue-Maryam Guebrou.

• Too Small for Eyes by Mothers.

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Music

• Ruth and Sylvie from Daniel Hart’s score to Ain’t Them Bodies Saints

• The Walk from Bernard Hermann’s score to Tender is the Night

• Reflector by Bing and Ruth

• Requiem from Nico Mulhy’s score to How to Talk to Girls at Parties

• Under Siege from Warren Ellis’ score to Mustang

• Spaces in Time from Per Nargard and the Stavenger Symphony

• Theme de l’eau from Hikaru Hayashi’s score to The Naked Island

• Bus Ride from the score to Wildlike

• Duke Ellington playing Single Petal from a Rose

Notes

• There’s quite a bit written about Isaac Israel Hayes. You can find his own account of his trip to find the non-existant, open polar sea here.

• I owe the Detroit newspaper quote to this excellent article by Albin Kowaleweski.

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Music 

• We hear The Icelandic Society of Phallogy from Rob Simonsen score to The Final Member.

• And one of my favorite songs, Every Day a Sunrise, A Summer from The Telegraph Melts. 

Notes

• I read and enjoyed The Golden Age of the Newspaper by George Douglas. 

• I first learned about Moses Yale Beach and the pigeon reporters in an aside in one of the fantastic stories in Banvard's Folly by Paul Collins, a book you should purchase right now. 

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Music

• Field of Reeds by Leo Svirsky.

• Stellify by Federico Albanese.

• Opening by Nathanial Bartlett.

• Turning 16 by Ben Sollee.

Notes

• I strongly recommend checking out Annelise Orlick's Common Sense and a Little Fire, an exhilarating history of Pauline Newman, Rose Schneiderman and other women at the center of the labor movement in the 20th Century.

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Music

• Philharmonics (Piano Sessions), from Agnes Obel. 

• Pre-Barok by Mica Levi and Oliver Coates. 

• Space in Between by Federico Albanese.

• Warm Canto by Mal Waldron. 

• Blink by Hiroshi Yoshimura.

Notes

• There are two lovely books I relied on heavily for this story: Something to Prove: A Biography of Ann Lowe, Forgotten Designer by Julia Dockery Smith. 

• And Rosemary Read's The Threads of Time, Fabric of History. 

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**Music **

• Artifices from Chapelier Fou.

• A smidge of [Equality Under the Law](http://: https://geo.music.apple.com/us/album/equality-under-the-law/569934319?i=569934714&mt=1&app=music) from John Williams score to Lincoln.

• I Can See Your Tracks (Instrumental) from Laura Veirs.

• Bone Collector by Julian Lage & Chris Eldridge

• Some of Increase by David Lang

• [Serenade for Alto Saxophone and Strings: IV Stella’s Dance](http:// https://geo.music.apple.com/us/album/serenade-for-alto-saxophone-and-strings-v-evensong/462122423?i=462122731&mt=1&app=music) by David Liptak

• Johnny Griffin’s version of [Woody’n You](http:// https://geo.music.apple.com/us/album/woodyn-you-instrumental/1443062797?i=1443063227&mt=1&app=music)

• Last Days of Summer by Maria Avos

Notes

• This story started by reading The War Lovers: Lodge, Hearst, Roosevelt and the Rush to Empire, Evan Thomas’ history of the Spanish American War.

• Doris Kearns Goodwin adds more in The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys.

• Lodge’s memoir is here.

• Robert Grant’s is here.

• Henry Adams’ is here.