the memory palace

The Memory Palace is a proud member of  Radiotopia , a collective of independently owned and operated podcasts. Music Duet for Ghosts  by Ed Harcourt tops and tails this one. We here the top of  Pomeriggio Zenzero  from Paulo Conte. Some of  Thankful  by Bill Frissell. And Ingo Metzmacher's  6th Study for Player Piano Notes The most comprehensive thing I read on George Melendez Wright is from this...

As on every year, here is an episode I released a few days after the murders at the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, Florida on June 12, 2016. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The Memory Palace is a proud member of  Radiotopia , a collective of independently owned and operated podcasts. Music We hear both Baracolle and Ice World from Saloli's album,  The Deep End . We hear Ensemble Recherche do Morton Feldman's  Something Wild in the City: Mary Ann's Theme.  As well as De Wolfe Music do  Moonbird . Harry Kalahiki does that Ukelele version of  Claire de Lune We get a sni...

The Memory Palace is a proud member of  Radiotopia , a collective of independently owned and operated podcasts. Music We hear  Concierto Para Piano Y Orquesta En Sol Mayor - Adagio Ass i as played by Martha Argerich. Notes Jacob S. Robinson's  Journal of the Santa Fe Expedition Under Colonel Doliphan in 1846 . Hampton Sides' fantastic  Blood and Thunder . Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx....

The Memory Palace is a proud member of  Radiotopia , a collective of independently owned and operated podcasts. Music We start off with a touch of  Hills in the Rain , by Simon Rackham. Go to a bit of  Narkopop 1  by Gas. Then gaze in wonder to Grofe's  Grand Canyon Suite: Sunrise , as performed by the Cincinatti Pops Orchestra We listen to two versions of  Trying Something Again, Again  by our fr...

The Memory Palace is a proud member of  Radiotopia , a collective of independently owned and operated podcasts. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The Memory Palace is a proud member of  Radiotopia , a collective of independently owned and operated podcasts. Music We start off with Chez Thomas, by Charles Delarue Go to The Graceful Ghost, one of William Bolcom's 3 Ghost Rags. Then Krzysztof Komeda's Ballet Edude II A touch of Ellington playing A Single Petal on a Rose. Then Concerto no. 5 en la minuer: Allegro ma non molto, as performed by W...

The Memory Palace is a proud member of  Radiotopia. Music First up is  Requiem  from Nico Muhly's score to How to Talk to Girls at Parties. November  by Colleen. Edward Hong's arrangement of  Sleep  from the Smoke and Mirrors Percussion Ensemble. The solo version of  Broad Channel  by Bing & Ruth Won't Be a Thing to Become  by Colin Stetson and Sarah Neufeld Notes Here's Shane Dubay and Carl F...

The Memory Palace is a proud member of  Radiotopia. Music Blink from Hiroshi Yoshimura Which comes in and out of Bjolukor Tonlisterakoli Reykjanesbaejar's version of Sigur Ros' Hoppipolla. Love Token by Elena Kats-Chernin, performed by Tamara Anna Cislowska And Joanna Brouk playing Maggi's Flute - Lifting Off Notes There's a ton out there about the sixty starlings, the most comprehensive comes fro...

On the 80th Anniversary of the night 20,000 Americans attended a Nazi Rally in the heart of Manhattan, the Memory Palace is teaming up with Radio Diaries. We’ll hear their new story about that rally after we listen back to a Memory Palace episode that took place on that same evening, in which some Nazis get punched. Learn more about this evening at www.radiodiaries.org. For info on the original Me...

The Memory Palace is a proud member of  Radiotopia. Music Sarah in Bath  from Krysztof Komeda's score to the Fearless Vampire Killers.  Adagio for Glass Harmonica, K617a  as performed by Vienna Glass Armonia Duo. Mr. Death Angel Flanders  from John Barry's score to Boom! And a bit of  Imaginary Building  from Elana Katz-Cherwin and Tamara-Anna Cislowska Notes There's a great American Heritage  art...

The Memory Palace is a proud member of  Radiotopia. Music Only in the Dark by Ben Lukas Boysen Dream House III: After Dust by Mary Ellen Childs and Ethel Cello Gonzalez by Chilly Gonzalez Notes A Brief History of Teratology to the Early 20th Century by Mark V. Barrow Environment and Birth Defects by James G. Wilson Six Principals of Teratology by James G. Wilson Learn about your ad choices: doveta...

Each year for the last three years, Nate picks his personal favorite. Here’s 2018. See you in 2019. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The Memory Palace is a proud member of  Radiotopia. Music We start off with an absolute banger from my old friends in Lightning Bolt, their track  King Kandy . Then an old favorite,  Blues to Elvin  from the unstoppable, Coltrane Plays the Blues. We move to Everything is an Illusion by Kaada Hear  Rolling  by Collectress And finish out on  The Dog  by Group Listening. Notes I read quite a bit for...

It’s time for the 2018 fundraiser. On this, the tenth anniversary of The Memory Palace, show your support for independent artists by making a donation at Radiotopia.fm . Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia, from PRX, a curated network of extraordinary, story-driven shows. Learn more and donate to help keep this show and the other Radiotopia shows thrive at  Radiotopia.fm Notes * There are a gajillion things that you can and should read about this period. I’m almost loathe to tell you where to begin. So: some of the details for this story were found i...

The Memory Palace is a proud member of  Radiotopia. A note: this here is a Halloween episode. They get creepy. Music We hear both  Easter and The Attachment  by Michael Price. Some of  DNA  by Akira Kosemura. Piano & Violoncello 1  by Irena and Voltech Havel. Zucht 2  by Machinefabriek The Walk  from the score to Tender is the Night. Rendez-vous  from Allesandro Cicognini's score to The Indisc...

The Memory Palace is a proud member of  Radiotopia. Music We start with the very English,  Voluntary No. 4 in b-flat Minor,  by Margaret Phillips. Hear  Nero's Nocturne  from Chilly Gonzales. Some of  The Stars vs. Creatures  by Colleen. Abide with Me from the Thelonious Monk Septet  off his Monk's Music album. Walzer fur Robert  by Anne Muller off of Erased Tapes Volume 5. Evening at Eight  by Ke...

The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia. Music We hear  Waltz  from the score to Angels & Insects. Movements IV and II  from David Liptak’s Serenade for Alto Sax and Strings. A bit of  Violin Solo no. 1  from Peter Broderick. Some of  Zucht 2  from Machienfabrik. A bit of  Origami Tulips  from Lullatone. Unseen Forces  from Justin Walter. Midnight Moon  from Annalisa Tornfelt and Gid...

The Memory Palace is a proud member of  Radiotopia. Music The music on this one comes from  High Aura'd , a project from my old friend, John Kolodij. The main drone piece is  All the Spirits that Dance . The beginning and end were composed specifically for this episode. Notes I read a lot of articles from a lot of sources on this one, but the linchpin here is Jeffrey Lockwood's  book  that, to my...

The Memory Palace is a proud member of  Radiotopia. Music We start with  Penguins  from Michael Hurley. Hit  Lullaby (the 1st)  by the legendary, Lauren Connors, twice. Hear Gentle Threat , from Chilly Gonzalez. Equality Under the Law  from John Williams' Lincoln score. Start talking Philadelphia with Sun Ra's Arkestra doing  The Lady with the Golden Stockings . Maggi's Flute - Lifting Off , by Jo...

Music * Under the credits is Harlaamstrat 74 off of John Dankworth’s Modesty Blaise score. * The opening loop is from  Mr. Knight  from  Coltrane Plays the Blues , which you should own. * The violin piece is  Occam II  for Violin, a piece by Silvia Tarozzi, played by Pauline Oliveros. * Next up is  Mikuro’s Blues  from the mighty David S. Ware’ mighty Go See the World. * The amazing orchestral pie...

The Memory Palace is a proud member of  Radiotopia. Music The Bundt Diaries  from Ludwig Goransson's score to Everything, Everything. Kola (Lighthouse Version)  by Amiina. Snow Canon  by Group Listening. The Morning After  by the Chico Hamilton Quintet. (Man, I just watched The Sweet Smell of Success recently; the Chico Hamilton Quintet makes the best, sustained appearance in a great, great movie)...

The Memory Palace is a proud member of  Radiotopia. Music Drunken Aviator by Ida. Back to Paris by Cyril Morin. Notes  There's a great resource of old ads and articles, including the one referenced in the piece  here . The definitive work on this subject is  Help Me to Find My People  by Heather Andrea Williams. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

This piece was originally released a few days after the shooting deaths of 49 people at the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, Florida. It is re-released here on the second anniversary of the event.  If you are so moved, please donate to any of these charities: Equality Florida . Human Rights Campaign. Everytown for Gun Safety .   Trans Lifeline Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices