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The wizard of pop. From “Raindrops” to “Walk On By.” Burt Bacharach joins us with his new memoir of a life in music.
Comments [26]The genre-bending string quartet Brooklyn Rider performed live for On Point, and talked classical music’s future and the art of blending sounds from around the world.
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The end of big: does technology spell the end of big companies, big institutions, big politics? And is David the new Goliath?
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Music philosopher Greil Marcus listens back to The Doors and hears dread and light and Thomas Pynchon.
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Teenage stars, from Annette Funicello to Justin Bieber. What is their role in, for, society?
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Mongolia-born violinist Xiang Yu, on the future of classical performance and finding a voice in music.
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The Afro-Cuban All Stars bandleader Juan de Marcos Gonzalez joins us. We’ll get the latest hot sounds out of Havana.
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DJ and electronic composer Steven Ellison – aka Flying Lotus – the master beatmaker at work.
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Apple in the hot seat. Lawmakers say the company dodged billions in taxes on overseas profits. We’ll look at the world of off shore tax escapes.
After Oklahoma’s giant twister, does Tornado Alley need to change the way it builds and lives in the age of superstorms?
The controversial and brilliant Henry Ford and the world he invented.
New Yorker writer George Packer’s inside history of the great unwinding of America’s 20th century way of life and where we stand now.
