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A free podcast will be released each Thursday featuring one-on-one interviews with everyone from NEA Jazz Masters to leading arts experts to National Medal of Arts winners and more.

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Andre Dubus III
Author

Andre Dubus III's memoir Townie isn’t a literary coming of age story. It’s an exploration of violence and absence. [30:37]

transcript | download mp3   Posted June 13, 2013

Photo courtesy of Mr. DiChiera

David DiChiera
NEA Opera Honors recipient

The only general director to found and lead two opera companies (Michigan Opera Theatre and Opera Pacific), David DiChiera talks about his career, bringing opera to Detroit audiences, and composing his first opera in his 60s. [32:30]

transcript | download mp3   Posted October 21, 2010

Photo c. Peter M. Van Hattem

Jennifer Egan
Author

Novelist Jennifer Egan talks about her National Book Critics Circle Award-Winning book, A Visit from the Goon Squad. [29:24]

transcript | download mp3   Posted March 24, 2011

Photo William P. Gottlieb

Duke Ellington
Jazz Musician, Composer, Bandleader

A look at the Washington, DC roots of Duke Ellington and their impact on his development as a musician and composer.  [8:40]

transcript | download mp3   Posted July 15, 2010



 
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Phoebe Jacobs, former Executive Director of the Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation, discusses hearing the inimitable Louis Armstrong for the first time. [2:05]

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Musician Neko Case reads and comments on “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd” by Sir Walter Raleigh. [2:00]

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2009 Poetry Out Loud National Champion Will Farley recites “The Flea” by John Donne [2:06] 

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