On a high note

Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen

PRX

Arts

4.6 • 675 Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2019

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

An episode about singers, alone and in harmony. The latest installment of This Woman’s Work, a series from Classic Album Sundays and Studio 360 highlighting classic albums by female artists, focuses on “Lady Sings the Blues” by Billie Holiday, whose role as an innovator we are still coming to grasp. Kurt Andersen talks with composer Eric Whitacre about how his virtual choir is changing the game of choral music. And Aimee Mann explains how she wrote “Easy to Die,” about a friend’s overdose, for The Silver Lake Chorus, which commissions indie rock artists to write songs for them.

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0:00.0	from PRX.
0:06.0	Today on Studio 360,
0:08.0	Good morning, honey.
0:09.7	She showed me that there was a way to feel pain and to transform it into art.
0:15.4	The brilliance and miseries of Billy Holiday.
0:18.7	You don't have to know anything about her life to feel the kind of pain and tragedy that
0:23.4	embodies her music.
0:25.3	Remembering the album, Lady Sings the Blues.
0:32.0	Plus, the composer Eric Whitaker has won Grammys and conducted all over the world,
0:40.4	but he says he'd give all that up to become a roadie.
0:44.5	I'm still frankly waiting for Depeche Mode to call me.
0:47.3	Even if they don't need a keyboard player, they've got to need somebody to carry their suitcases around.
0:51.2	I'm here.
0:51.5	A whole hour today about great singing, alone and in harmony, right after this. This is Studio 360. I'm Kurt Aniston, and I'm sitting on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
1:13.2	This first level of garden. This is Thomas Jefferson's vegetable dog. I'd like to have the roasted chicken paste. Very well done.
1:19.3	Editing is all about timing. I try to get a little bit away from the actual subject. You must get sick of your own voice, right?
1:26.1	Studio 360.
1:28.0	With Kurt Anderson.
1:30.8	I thank you, God,
1:35.7	if you ever sang in a choir, at church,
1:41.6	or even chanted at a football game,
1:44.0	you know how good it can feel to add your voice
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