Composer and scholar Gunther Schuller talks with Steve Paulson about creativity and gives examples from both classical music and jazz.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Genesis P-Orridge is a conceptual artist who calls himself a cultural engineer. He was born male but is re-inventing himself as a "pandrogyne," or hermaphrodite by choice.
Although people have long been curious about the experience of death, the science of the question is still relatively young.
Dutch cardiologist Pim van Lommel is one of the leading near death experience researchers. He says all this time studying death has got him curious about his own end.
Gore Vidal talks about why he greatly admires the founding fathers and why we don’t have politicians like them today.
Harvey Sachs and Jim Fleming talk about Beethoven's political leanings and philosophical aspirations and how they're reflected in his last symphony.
In this uncut interview, George Saunders talks to Steve Paulson about his critically-acclaimed short story collection, “Tenth of December.”
45 years ago, long-haired hippies and flower children from across the Midwest converged on a small Wisconsin farm for a weekend of peace, love and music including a band people were just beginning to talk about at the time - The Grateful Dead. Historian Michael Edmonds tells the story.
A deck of "Oblique Strategies" cards has been used by artists to create music and write book.
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