the memory palace

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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. .

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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.

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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 .

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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.

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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.