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Title: Studio 360: Umberto Eco & Harold ONeal
Author: Kurt Andersen
Narrator: Kurt Andersen
Format: Original Recording
Length: 51 mins
Language: English
Release date: 12-03-11
Publisher: WNYC New York and Public Radio International
Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews
Publisher's Summary:
This year saw a record number of sequels, reboots, and spin-offs: of the ten highest grossing movies, only one, Bridesmaids, was entirely original. Kurt Andersen talks with Sharon Waxman, editor of Hollywood business site The Wrap, about why 2011 ended up being a mediocre year for films.
Then, Umberto Eco is not your typical best-selling author. Hes a medieval scholar, a semiotics professor, and he packs his complicated fiction with philosophy, history, even passages in Latin. Yet his 1980 book The Name of the Rose is one of the most widely read modern novels.
After that, The centennial of Romare Beardens birth is being celebrated by a number of museums this year and early in 2012. Probably the most famous African-American visual artist of the 20th century, Bearden was best known for a singular approach to collage art that incorporated scraps of wallpaper, glossy magazines, and fabric into a kind of patchwork cubism.
And finally, A few hundred years ago, classical pianists would impress audiences by improvising cadenzas in the middle of a concerto riffing, we would say today. Now improvisation is firmly in the realm of jazz. But a new record called Marvelous Fantasy explores the connection between jazz and classical improvisation. Its by the 30-year-old jazz pianist Harold ONeal. [Broadcast Date: December 3, 2011]