Music & Culture
Classical Music Posts
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Comedian Paula Poundstone talks the importance of librarians and how to ‘Get back to being human’
We heard a rumor that Paula Poundstone was heading to our neck of the woods, so NWPB’s Thom Kokenge caught up with her to find out what she’s up to.
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Reeder’s Movie Reviews: Barbie
You might not have imagined a connection between the new Barbie and the acclaimed 2001: A Space Odyssey. True enough, Barbie the toy character does have pilot and astronaut on her résumé. In this case, however, she makes her big screen appearance to the accompaniment of Also sprach Zarathustra by Richard Strauss, enhanced by the droll narration of Dame Helen Mirren. 2001’s director, Stanley Kubrick, would not have seen that coming.
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Variations on a Theme: Moon Music
Music to commemorate the lunar landing of Apollo 11, July 20th, 1969. Music about the moon and moon related things.
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Terry Buffington Foundation to celebrate anniversary of digital collection at Pullman events
Terry and Kwasi Buffington at NWPB. (Credit: Connor Henricksen / NWPB) Listen (Runtime 1:53) Read A cultural anthropologist who campaigned during the Civil Rights Movement now calls the Palouse home.
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Reeder’s Movie Reviews: Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
When Benji Dunn (Simon Pegg) laments to Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) that “you’re playing four-sided chess with an algorithm,” his character couldn’t possibly have appreciated the irony of his words. The seventh and latest installment in the Mission: Impossible franchise has burst onto theatrical screens just as the actor-members of SAG-AFTRA have gone on strike. The existential threat to their craft–and their jobs–posed by AI has emerged as one of the major issues in the negotiations between the union and the major film production and streaming companies.
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Variations on a Theme: Party Like It’s 1799
This Variations on a Theme excavates music from composers active in 1799, featuring a Napoleon favorite, Haydn, Beethoven, and a celebration of the discovery of the Rosetta stone!