Podcast Review: Legend, The Joni Mitchell Story

Nancy Flynn Apostrophe Blog Archive, Arts & Culture, Book Report, Music

How do you survive an Arctic snow and ice and blowing wind and wind chill event in the normally benign climate of the Pacific Northwest? By listening to the new, awesome podcast, Legend: The Joni Mitchell Story on BBC 4 radio who has done it once it again in the realm of musical explorations. I absolutely adore their series…

 
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Porgy & Bess, Louis & Ella

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This week began with John leaving early on Sunday and me stumbling on a great Live from Lincoln Center program on KMHD hosted by the always-informative Wynton Marsalis. The show’s theme? George Gershwin. A very very very interesting fellow.

I listened to the opera, Porgy and Bess, over two days this week and now, in celebration of the return of summer…

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(Saturday) Morning Morgantown

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Joni Mitchell, vintage, the old stuff, stuff of my untoward youth, on the CD player, loud, so I can hear it over the water running in the shower I am about to take. I can sit here and think I’ve done nothing since waking but, in addition to writing in my morning pages book and on the blogs, I made and drank Illy coffee…

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