Our first episode of season 2 features violist Kalindi Bellach and alto Kay White, who let us in on perfectionism in performance, writing and reading about music, and the for-fun books that everyone needs.
Intro and outro music: "Your Love Hip Hop" courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay
Episode artwork: Photo Collage: Musician Playing Triangle, photo collage by Juan Pedro Chabalgoity (MET, 2017.68.15), cropped. CC0 1.0 image courtesy Wikimedia Commons.
Want to learn more about the books—and music!—we talked about on this episode? Check out the list below. You can also find us on LibraryThing, Goodreads, and Mastodon—and show your support at Liberapay!
David Abram
The Spell of the Sensuous
Woody Allen
Midnight in Paris
American Museum of Natural History
Sperm Whale and Giant Squid
Matthew Aucoin
"Alone in Paradise"
Johann Sebastian Bach
The Art of the Fugue
Muriel Barbery
The Elegance of the Hedgehog
Steven Beller
Antisemitism: A Very Short Introduction
Brené Brown
The Gifts of Imperfection
Judith Butler, Zeynep Gambetti,
and Leticia Sabsay
Vulnerability in Resistance
Camille T. Dungy
Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden
Epictetus
How to Be Free: An Ancient Guide to the Stoic Life
George Frideric Handel
Messiah
Paul Kingsnorth
Alexandria
Paul Kingsnorth
Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist
Paul Kingsnorth
The Wake
Anne McCaffrey
Dragonriders of Pern
Sarah J. Maas
A Court of Thorn and Roses
Olivier Messiaen
Quartet for the End of Time
David Mitchell
Cloud Atlas
Haruki Murakami
Sputnik Sweetheart
The Onion
"Mothership Accidentally Descends on Hootie Concert"
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
Stabat Mater
Meredith Ann Pierce
The Firebringer Triolgy
Richard Powers
Generosity: An Enhancement
Richard Powers
The Gold Bug Variations
Richard Powers
Orfeo
Richard Powers
The Overstory
Richard Powers
The Time of Our Singing
Marcel Proust
In Search of Lost Time
Emily Raboteau
"A New Environmental Canon"
Vikram Seth
An Equal Music
Samantha Shannon
The Priory of the Orange Tree
Gertrude Stein
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
Donna Tartt
The Goldfinch
Donna Tartt
The Little Friend
Donna Tartt
The Secret History
Hanya Yanagihara
A Little Life
Rebecca Yarros
Iron Flame
