Uploaded November 2020 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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This week’s Spotify playlist: open.spotify.com/playlist/4YcIxCTEpU5FQu2ytlbVUN?si=W7u8y7PKRSK5IrRRFLcPyg

Composers discussed:
- Johannes Brahms
- Zbigniew Preisner


Books discussed or mentioned:
- Tracks, by Louise Erdrich
- Crow Dog: Four Generations of Sioux Medicine Men, by Leonard Crow Dog and Richard Erdoes
- John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights, by David S. Reynolds
- The Histories, by Herodotus (trans: Robin Waterfield)
- Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body, by Roxane Gay
- The Lute and the Scars, by Danilo Kiš
- The Oxford Anthology of African American Poetry (ed: Arnold Rampersad)
- The Lives of the Great Composers, by Harold Schonberg


Films discussed:
- The Double Life of Veronique (dir: Krzysztof Kieślowski)
- Mirror (dir: Andrei Tarkovsky)
- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (dir: Ang Lee)
- Glenn Gould, Hereafter (dir: Bruno Monsaingeon)









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