Settlers, unsettled

Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen

PRX

Arts

4.6 • 675 Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2018

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Kurt Andersen talks with Missy Mazzoli and Karen Russell about Mazzoli’s new opera, “Proving Up,” based on a short story by Russell about a family’s bleak prospects in post-Civil War Nebraska. Buffalo Tom singer Bill Janovitz talks about how, when the band scaled back its touring and recording, he found a less hip — and yet surprisingly satisfying — career in the Boston suburbs. More from Beantown as Kurt talks with Kelly Horan about the podcast she co-hosts, “Last Seen,” which is about biggest art heist ever — at Boston’s Gardner Museum. And conceptual artist Rutherford Chang’s delightfully obsessive art project — buying as many original copies of the Beatles’ “White Album” as he can get his hands on.

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0:00.0	from PRX
0:03.4	This is Studio 360.
0:09.8	I'm Karenis.
0:10.5	And I'm sitting on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
0:12.8	This first level of gardens.
0:14.2	This is Thomas Jefferson's vegetable garden.
0:16.0	I like to have the roasted chicken base.
0:17.7	Very well done.
0:18.9	Editing is all about timing.
0:20.6	I try to get a little bit away from the actual subject.
0:23.2	You must get sick of your own voice, right?
0:25.6	Studio 360.
0:27.6	It's cut Anderson.
0:31.0	What's the matter, Lucy?
0:32.1	Don't you like it?
0:34.2	I can't believe it's real.
0:37.3	After all we've been through.
0:39.3	Like this family in the 1939 film Frontier Horizon,
0:43.5	my ancestors left their homes in Tennessee and Pennsylvania and Denmark in the 1800s
0:48.9	to try to make it in the wide open west in Nebraska.
0:53.4	Think what it means.
0:56.1	New land.
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