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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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Michael Tilson Thomas
National Medal of Arts Recipient

Conductor Michael Tilson Thomas discusses his dual career as conductor and educator. [30:49]

transcript | download mp3   Posted February 1, 2013

Photo courtesy of the Arts and Democracy Project

Caron Atlas
Director, Arts and Democracy Project

Bread and Roses in a Brooklyn shelter: Caron Atlas demonstrates how the arts can be a critical component of disaster relief. [31:45]

transcript | download mp3   Posted January 24, 2013

Photo by J. Brough Schamp

Taylor Branch
Author

Taylor Branch discusses his trilogy of the Civil Rights Movement America in the King Years. [24:25]

transcript | download mp3   Posted January 17, 2013

Photo by by Jason Goodman

Eddie Palmieri
2013 NEA Jazz Master

Pianist, bandleader, composer and 2013 NEA Jazz Master, Eddie Palmieri talks about his innovative music which blends Afro-Cuban rhythms with jazz. [32:21]

transcript | download mp3   Posted October 3, 2013



 
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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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