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CBS News Sunday Morning with Jane PauleyPresident Joe Biden, James Baldwin at 100, Horseshoe Crabs in Florida
President Joe Biden sits down with CBS News chief election & campaign correspondent Robert Costa for his first interview since announcing his withdrawal from the presidential race; Plus Conor Knighton gazes upon the horseshoe crab; Kelefa Sanneh looks back at the life of legendary James Baldwin, a century after his birth in Harlem; Tracy Smith talks with Carol Burnett and Sutton Foster about the power of fairy tales – from the theatrical kind to real life; And Michelle Miller talks with Zoë Kravitz about her new film, the psychological thriller "Blink Twice," in which she directs her now-fiancé Channing Tatum; and abou...2024-08-1158 min
The Music ShowNovelists on music: Margaret Atwood, Andrea Goldsmith and Anna GoldsworthyThree authors on music from The Music Show archives.Margaret Atwood spoke to Andrew Ford back in 2003, after the transformation of her novel The Handmaid’s Tale into an opera by Danish composer Poul Ruders.Andrea Goldsmith joined Andy on stage for the 2013 Melbourne Writers’ Festival after her novel The Memory Trap invoked Beethoven amongst other composers. Live performance from Zoe Knighton and Amir Farid.And Anna Goldsworthy is a concert pianist as well as a writer. Her two lauded volumes of memoirs were followed up by her debut novel Melting Moments in 2020, when...2024-06-1554 min
CHANGE YOUR TUNEDESIGNING WITH EMPATHY with Joshua DemaJoshua Dema is Melbourne based Cellist and Digital Designer. By day he is a Digital Accessibility Consultant for a company called Intopia. By night he is a Cellist who can be heard playing music from Pachelbel to Piatti to Panic at the Disco and everything in between.QUOTES“I had this idea in mind of finding a backup career, but it needed to be something I was passionate about.”“The more auditions I took, the more I kept failing them. I enjoying it less and less… I was so locked into this mindset of if I d...2022-01-2348 min
House Lights Up6. The Performer's JobFrom the audience, to fellow performers, backstage colleagues, creators and the work itself, the performer's duty extends across and beyond the stage. In this episode we explore the purpose of the performer's role, including some of the key relationships that feed into their work. Our performing arts professionals share their insight and experiences. Musical theatre actor Matt Heyward and cellist Zoe Knighton consider the responsibility and support they feel when it comes to their peers, and operatic soprano and registered psychologist Greta Bradman explains the importance of being open to making genuine connections with fellow pe...2019-10-1531 minHouse Lights Up5. CompromiseHow many times have you heard someone say, “I’m a perfectionist”. It’s usually declared with pride – as a measure of how much that person cares about their work, and the level of quality to which they hold themselves. But say you hold the view, as many people do, that perfection is impossible. Perfection doesn’t exist. Does that mean the pursuit of perfection is pointless? Or worse, that it’s dangerous? Cellist Zoe Knighton shares her thoughts on how to move on from a less than perfect performance. Musical theatre actors Rachel Dunham and Matt H...2019-10-1426 minHouse Lights Up4. ValidationJudgement is something all performing artists must learn to navigate. And how a performer approaches judgement and criticism can have a lot to do with their ideas about validation and their individual definition of success. As social creatures with the need for approval and acceptance wired into our brains, the promise of external validation looms large in the minds of many. In this episode, we consider the dangers of this innate need for the performer. We look at varying sources of validation and ways of dealing with criticism, including what a performer can do if they're just n...2019-10-1335 minHouse Lights Up3. VulnerabilityIn this episode we consider some of the features of a career as a performer, as well as features of the industry in general, that make entertainment and performing arts workers a particularly vulnerable population when it comes to mental health and wellbeing challenges. "Artists create from the heart. When you create a piece of art, when you perform your craft, you're putting yourself out there to an audience who are sitting there with expectations of being entertained... And because you're in an industry that expects high performance consistently... When you're going out on stage, it feels...2019-10-1242 minHouse Lights Up2. The Mind On StageIn a perfect world, a performer is able to focus their mind on command, reliably and predictably, to the benefit of their work. In the real world, the mind can have other plans. It wanders, plays tricks on its owner. It can take control of the body in that crippling affliction, performance anxiety. In this episode, we consider these common experiences and ways in which they can be addressed.Hip hop artist Rob Tremlett, cellist Zoe Knighton and actor/singers Rachel Dunham and Matt Heyward share their personal experiences of performance anxiety and focus-related issues. Luke Hunter...2019-10-1138 min
Next Best Picture PodcastNext Best Series Podcast: "Big Little Lies" Season 2 Episodes 1-4THIS IS A PREVIEW PODCAST. NOT THE FULL REVIEW. Please check out the full review on our Patreon Page by subscribing over at - https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture
It's been 2 years since we last left the seaside town of Monterey California. Reese Witherspoon, Nicole Kidman, Laura Dern, Shailene Woodley, Zoë Kravitz and the rest of the cast are all back, this year being joined by the legendary Meryl Streep for a second season of HBO's "Big Little Lies." This is our first time podcasting about the show and here to help me discuss the second season's first 2 episodes are M...2019-07-0217 min