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Music

• Sincerely Yours by LLLL
• Across the Other Side by Infinite Scale
• Sunset by Resavoir
• Mammoth by Golden Brown
• Unassigned by Vernon Spring
• Swimming by Explosions in the Sky
• Pure (Ride the World) by The Brendan Eder Ensemble
• Le Tunnel by Sylvain Chauveau
• Floating Away by Lullatone

Notes

• There’s a ton written about Emma Rowena Gatewood but so much of it, including this story, owes a huge debt to Ben Montgomery’s book, Grandma Gatewood’s Walk, which excavated the story of her life with her husband. Besides that, it is wonderfully written. Totally recommend it. 

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A Note on Notes:

I always prefer that the listener goes into each episode cold, not knowing what it’s going to be about. So, you might want to tread carefully, as there are spoilers in the notes below. 

Music

• L’espagne pour memoire by Michel Portal
• Find me Tomorrow from Christophe Beck’s score to Charlie Countryman
• The old Soviet philharmonic plays some Shostakovich.
• The London Symphony Orchestra plays The Blue Danube Waltz.
• We hear Walt by Mother Falcon.
• Sombolero by Luiz Bonfa

Notes

• Like a lot of people below, say, 55, I first heard about Olga Fikotova-Connolly when reading her obituary in the New York Times.
• By far the best thing you can do if you want to know more about her is track down her out-of-print memoir, The Rings of Destiny, which, despite its rather puffed-up title, is so warm and detailed and intimate. It’s a delight. 
• You might also enjoy this late-in-life interview with Olga as well. 

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Music

• Dave Pajo/Aerial M does Plastic Energy Man
• Patricia Rossborough played To a Wild Rose
• Mal Waldron plays Warm Canto
• We hear Muff Gets a Share from Joel P. West’s score to Band of Robbers
• We hear another song I absolutely love, Turned Out I Was Everyone, by Sasami
• We finish on Popcorn and Life from Ben Sollee’s lovely score to Maidentrip.

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A note on notes: We’d much rather you just went into each episode of The Memory Palace cold. And just let the story take you where it well. So, we don’t suggest looking into the show notes first.

Music

• Pollen by H.Takahashi and, later, Photosynthese.
• The New York Herald Tribune by Martial Solal
• Trying Something Again, Again by Lullatone
• Wiffle Ball from Joel P. West’s score for Short Term 12
• The title theme to Cani Arrabbiati
• Increase by David Lang and Alarm Will Sound
• Nijuichi by Sylvain Chaveau
• Occam II for Violin by Eliane Radigue
• Drunken Aviator by the (great, truly) Ida.
• Eyes Closed and Travelling by Peter Broderick

Notes

• If you are looking to read more about Betty, I’d suggest Rosanne Montillo’s terrific book, Fire on the Track.

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A note on notes: We’d much rather you just went into each episode of The Memory Palace cold. And just let the story take you where it well. So, we don’t suggest looking into the show notes first.

Music

• Wiegenfield, S. 198 as played Khatia Buniastihivilli
• Van McCoy sings Mr. DJ
• Vier Stucke fur Xylophon
• Love is Blue by Jackie Mittoo
• Calvary by Quicksilver Messenger Service
• Tizita by Tijist Ejigu
• Violin Solo no. 1 by Peter Broderick
• Two Aquerelles 1. Slow
• The Hustle by Van McCoy
• Coffee Beans by Moondog
• Dogs of Straw from Larry Groupe’s score to Straw Dogs
• Flowering Jasmine by George Pelecis
• Visit Croatia by Alabaster DePlume
• Absence by Matti Bye

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• Adrift by Yameneko
• Lagrimas Negras by Antonio Maria Romeau
• Rainfall by Michael Jones and David Darling
• The Big Ocean by Ben Sollee

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• We start out with some of Pound for Pound from The Bad Plus
• Go to Waltz by Mother Falcon
• Into the Light by Marisa Anderson
• With Everything that Breathes by Greg Haines
• Day One Four by F.S. Blum and Nils Frahm
• Andrew Cyrille, Jimmy Lyons, and Jeanne Lee do Nuba
• And then Davis S. Ware does Mikuro’s Blues, which I’ve loved for a long time.

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Music
* First up is Solitude, from (delightfully named) Janis Crunch.
* Then we’ve got Like a Bell to a Southerly Wind, by Chequerboard.
* Modular Body #7 by Machinefabriek.
* After Catalunya by Ephemetry and Richard J. Birkin.
* Finishing up on The Old Favourite by The Gloaming.

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NOTES
* The classic text on Charlie Faust is Lawrence Ritter’s The Glory of Their Times:the Story of the Early Days of Baseball as Told by the Men Who Played It, one of the key texts of early baseball history, first published in 1966.
* The definitive resource on Faust is Gabriel Schecter, who’s written his biography for SABR, the Society for American Baseball Research, and a monograph called Victory Faust: The Rube Who Saved McGraw’s Giants.
* I also want to point you to Rob Neyer’s lovely piece on visiting Faust’s grave.

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