Caitlyn Shea is the Event and Media Director at the Walt Whitman Birthplace. Facebook: @CaitlynSheaPainter Instagram: @CaitlynArtist "The Nanny Reviews": @thenannyreviews (Instagram and Twitter) Show Notes: Compagnia De' Colombari: https://www.colombari.org/more-or-less-i-am Juan Felipe Herrera: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/juan-felipe-herrera "A Child Went Forth": https://whitmanarchive.org/published/LG/1891/poems/202 (The Whitman Archive)

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Emily's YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVs255F4L2jYlSyW5citKQw Emily's Website: https://www.emilysdomain.org/Recorderland/

Emily's Suggestion for Looking Up Music: https://imslp.org/wiki/Main_Page Side. (Music Credit: "Tant Que Vivray" and "Blackberry Blossom" (Emily O'Brien and Michael O'Brien, you can find these on Emily's album "Songs from Home"). (Adam's humorous note: Andrew totally gave me side-eye when I mentioned needing to sword-fight in order to do musical theater. So here’s a frigging list of musicals that contain sword-fights. There’s only about a half-a-dozen prominent ones, but they’re PRETTY prominent. So take that, Andrew: -Les Miserables -The Phantom of the Opera -The Three Musketeers (Lyrics by P.G. Wodehouse! Really!) -Camelot -The Three Musketeers -Aladdin.)

Emily O’Brien is a native of Washington, DC where she played recorder from a young age. She studied recorder and french horn at Boston University, and recorder and Baroque flute at the Hochschule für Musik in Karlsruhe, Germany. She performs in recorder ensembles and historical chamber music, as well as English Country Dance bands. As a teacher, she works with private students and ensembles in the Boston area as well as teaching at various summer workshop such as CDSS’s Early Music Week at Pinewoods and Amherst Early Music Festival. Emily’s solo album, “Fantasies for a Modern Recorder” explores the variety and possibilities over four centuries of repertoire offered by the Helder Harmonic Tenor recorder. In her spare time, she enjoys long distance cycling. https://www.emilysdomain.org/Recorderland/ @IvoryBoilerRoom

Matthew Aucoin is an American composer, conductor, writer, pianist, and a 2018 MacArthur Fellow. He is Artist in Residence at Los Angeles Opera, and has worked as a composer and conductor with the Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, the American Repertory Theater, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and Music Academy of the West. He is co-Artistic Director of the American Modern Opera Company. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Xph7m1z1Ssx3U_KNC2YII8ua_bVwg8-pSH-9nZQaYCI/edit?usp=sharing

Dr. Susan Scheckel's talk explores why readers are turning, now more than ever, to Whitman's poetry in the 21st century. And asks why does Whitman's Spirit feel so relevant right now in 2020? Dr. Scheckel's Bio: https://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/english/people/scheckel.php. The PowerPoint Presentation: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tVQnKm_K7Ym5LpemIHUFt5PfTptnJsHm/view?usp=drivesdk (A version of Dr. Scheckel's discussion of Whitman without music for people listening on a platform other than Spotify.)

We (Adam and Andrew) discuss the themes and interviews that happened in Season One. Think of this as our Cliffs Notes to Season One.

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(Part Two) We continue our discussion with Dr. Shi Huiwen as she describes balancing academics and motherhood while face to face with protests. https://hongkongfp.com/category/topics/politics-protest/ https://www.scmp.com/topics/hong-kong-protests

(Part One) We welcome Dr. Shi Huiwen to the Ivory Tower Boiler Room where we take a journey together through theory and discuss Seamus Heaney, Walter Benjamin, and the difficulties of writing a dissertation while pregnant. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1quOZ2kWPc2rrHfA7DMyalCUNQD8aLCQs963xjsXpfU4/edit?usp=sharing

Lisa Aamodt is the Limud Education Director at Congregation Tifereth Israel. In this episode, we discuss Lisa's innovative strategies for connecting the students at her Hebrew School during the pandemic. This is an important conversation about what we value as educators. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XZzFwJnukpHhOPCKQUX9bAPJMtWpEv4q3Sf8Qn_BjIg/edit?usp=sharing