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Music

• We hear Ferris Wheel by Gabor Szabo from one of his better late sixties records.
• Herman's Malt from Jeff Russo's score to Fargo Season 2.
• David Goes Hunting from Larry Groupe's score to Straw Dogs.
• Double Portrait by Double Edge from the album, U.S. Choice.
• A snippet of Idea of Order at Kyson Point from an album Brian Eno did with Tom Rogerson.
• Bicycles and Flasks by Dan Romer.
• A bit of Il Tamoure dei Bambini from Piero Umiliani's score to Le Isole Dell'amore
• A Naga Swaram-Snake Charmers Melody from Folk Music of India
• Finishes out on Completely Gone from Ludwig Goransson's score to Everything Everything.

The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia, from PRX.

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.

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

Music

• We hear Valentine My Funny by Nils Frahm and F.S. Blumm from the album Tag Eins Tag Zwei.

Notes

• This idea came to me a long time ago while researching an old episode. I read an extraordinary article from the 1890s that hung with me, particularly the notion of folks writing in to try to become sideshow attractions.

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

This special episode was originally made for a live episode of The West Wing Weekly. To hear a live version of this story (and the rest of a particularly delightful TWWW episode), visit thewestwingweekly.com. 

Music

• Moonbow by aAirial
• Two from scores by Marcelo Zavros: Wipe the Slate Clean, from The Beaver and Awkward Ride from his score to Please Give.
• Justine and Sami from Nathan Johnson's lovely score to The Day I Saw Your Heart.

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

Music

• 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.

Notes

• I found this article by Chelsea Lenhart particularly useful.
• As I did this one by Edward Lawler, Jr.
• And this one by Kathryn Gehred.
• As well as W.E.B. DuBois' The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study.
• Fritz Herschfield's George Washington and Slavery, A Documentary Study. 

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

Music

• We hit two sections from Bernard Herrmann's score to Tender is the Night: The Embrace and The Breakdown.
• A bit of Sambolero by Luiz Bonfa.
• Labyrinth II by Caitlin Aurelia Smith.
• Walter Meets the Beaver from Marcel Zavros' score to The Beaver.
• Two tracks, "1" & "2" from AAESPO's album, Layers.
• Maria Arvos' Last Days of Summer.
• And Time Times Three by Palm.

Notes

• The most comprehensive article I encountered on Doug Davis is here.
• I found this biographical essay on Otto Schnering particularly useful.
• The Oxford Companion to American Food & Drink, edited by Andrew F. Smith.

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

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 France 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.

 

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 sixth 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 Elizabeth Aubert. Its Executive Producer is Limor Tomer, General Manager Live Arts, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Special thanks to Jimmy LaValle and Mark Kozelek.

The Art Discussed

• Gallery 719, the Alexandria Ballroom.

Music 

• The piece features excerpts of two, instrumental outtakes from Ceiling Gazing from Mark Kozelek and Jimmy LaValle's album, Perils from the Sea.
• California Dawn and Mountain Path from WMD.
• An instrumental version of Retune by The Range.

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

Music

• Sad Seine by Lambert.
• Titan's Island by Ancient Ocean
• Flowering Jasmine as performed by Georgs Pelicis and Gidon Kremer
• Malpensa by Julia Kent

Notes

• I first came upon the Calhoun bit while re-reading Talking to the Dead: Kate and Maggie Fox and the Rise of Spiritualism by Barbara Weisberg.
• Which us, among other places to J.H. Fowler's New Testament "miracles" and Modern "miracles" 
• And to the delightfully named, The Ordeal of Life: Graphically Illustrated in the Experiences of Fifteen Hundred Individuals Promiscuously Drawn from All Nations, Religions, Classes, & Conditions of Men Alphabetically Arranged and Given Psychometrically, Through the Mediumship of John C. Grinnell, In the Presence of the Compiler, Thomas R. Hazard.