Two thousand hours of Louis Armstrong
Post Reports
The Washington Post
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🗓️ 1 May 2020
⏱️ 30 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, this is Martín. Just a quick warning, there is some explicit language in today's show. |
| 0:05.4 | Okay, enjoy. |
| 0:09.6 | From the newsroom of the Washington Post. |
| 0:19.1 | It's Ellen Nakashima with Washington Post. |
| 0:20.7 | This is Post Reports. |
| 0:22.3 | I'm Martín Powers. |
| 0:25.9 | It's Friday, May 1st. |
| 0:30.4 | Today, how the arts are surviving even in a pandemic, a blues musician stuck at home, |
| 0:36.5 | and a new romcom that's challenging stereotypes. |
| 0:42.0 | With the coronavirus, the challenge that museums are facing right now is, I mean, it's obvious, |
| 0:48.2 | they aren't open. |
| 0:52.4 | Jeff Edgers is a National Arts Reporter for the Post. |
| 0:55.2 | You know, you can't see anything on the wall, you can't watch a performance, |
| 0:59.6 | all of their programming is on hold and shut down. |
| 1:03.2 | People are having to rethink how they do things and nowhere are we seeing that more than in the |
| 1:09.4 | world of arts and culture. We have been seeing a flood of material online. |
| 1:16.8 | You'll young, performing as the snow falls at his home. |
| 1:22.5 | What's so funny about Elvis Costello and what looks like his bedroom? |
| 1:30.1 | Jonathan Biss at the piano, all this stuff, it's, you almost don't have time to follow it. |
| 1:35.4 | But one particular project that caught my eye is this amazing audio project, |
| 1:40.5 | it's a Louis Armstrong House Museum, which is basically a complete diary of Louis Armstrong's |
| 1:47.8 | life in his own words. |
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