Kunal Jasty

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Gunther Schuller: A Life in Pursuit of Music & Beauty, Part I (36:26)
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Gunther Schuller is a composer, conductor, horn virtuoso, jazz historian and critic who had the nerve and the authority years ago to decree that “all musics are created ...
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Gunther Schuller: A Life in Pursuit of Music & Beauty, Part II (33:10)
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We're picking up the thread of a long conversation with Gunther Schuller. He’s the man who first mapped a Third Stream of “jazzical” music between classical and jazz ...
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Putin, Crimea, and Our Failure to Read the Russians (58:35)
From: Open Source

Thought experiment: given that many of our best insights into Russian character and temperament come to use from their literary geniuses, can we summon some collective ...
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Will We Ever Get Over 9.11? (58:34)
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Are we getting over 9.11? What is it doing to our character, our culture, our Constitution? We’ve been through the flags-everywhere stage, the foreign invasion response, the ...
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Stokely Carmichael and Black Power (59:14)
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Stokely Carmichael was a down-home organizer and radical off-beat visionary of racial equality in America 50 years ago, a quicksilver activist, theorist, street hero, ...