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Introduction: A convocation of keen spirits and vivid voices / Scott Burnham -- One, two, three ... infinity / Richard Powers, writer -- The joy inside sorrow / Pico Iyer, writer -- Fidelio's echo / Gustavo Dudamel, musician -- Beethoven invents the species again / C.K. Williams, poet -- A winter drive / Edward Dusinberre, musician -- Work song / Jeff Dolven, poet -- Arvo Pärt's Tabula rasa / Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim, music critic -- On Chopin's Ballade no. 2, op. 38 / Jamie Barton, musician -- ["Pleyel" printed as mirror image] Pleyel / Susan Stewart, poet -- Jessye Norman sings "Die Nachtigall" by Alban Berg / Alicia Hall Moran, musician, and Jason Moran, musician -- "Wusuli boat song"/"Water is wide": history of a cross-cultural duet / Abigail Washburn, musician, and Wu Fei, musician -- "Loud dreaming": of mothers and sisters and lessons in listening / Daphne A. Brooks, scholar -- Interval/Notation / Maureen N. McLane, poet -- A change is gonna come / Carrie Mae Weems, visual artist -- See the music / Brian Seibert, dance critic -- Edward Elgar, Cello concerto in E minor, 1919 / Paul Muldoon, poet -- Opera is indivisible / Alexander Kluge, writer -- Music as a family affair / Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Supreme Court justice, and James Ginsburg, music producer ; interviewed by Nina Totenberg ; chronicled by Melissa Lane -- Your brother called / Susan Wheeler, poet -- Holy song of thanks / Elaine Pagels, scholar -- On Beethoven's String quartet in B-flat, op. 130, with the Grosse Fuge / Arnold Steinhardt, musician ; interviewed by Scott Burnham -- Adagio / Robert Pinsky, poet -- A long song log: ten entries on seriality, to the accompaniment of Charles Mingus's Black saint / Nathaniel Mackey, poet -- Ghazal for the end of time / Jane Hirshfield, poet -- Spaces for music / Frank Gehry, architect ; interviewed by Mark Swed -- Going spatial / Laurie Anderson, musician, and Edgar Choueiri, physicist. |
