the memory palace

episode 76: Mary Walker Would Wear what she Wanted

03.10.2023 - By Nate DiMeoPlay

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This episode was originally released in 2015.

Proceeds from this episode are being donated to the Transgender Law Center.

Music

*Under the credits is Harlaamstrat 74 off of John Dankworth’s Modesty Blaise score.

*The piece opens with Rainfall, by David Darling and Michael Jones.

*Her brief love story is scored by Nathan Johnson’s Penelope’s Theme from his score to The Brothers Bloom.

*When she lands her first gig, we start Garde a Vue, and roll into Le Roi de coeur, from Chantal Martineau.

* The vibraphone piece is “Opening” by Nathaniel Bartlett.

* The recurring violin piece is called Geometria del Universo by the one-named Colleen.

* It ends on Romain’s First Love, again by Georges Delarue, from his fantastic score to Promise at Dawn.

Notes

* I read a lot about Mary, but by far the most useful and most thorough works I came upon were: Sharon M. Harris’ Dr. Mary Walker: An American Radical and A Woman of Honor: Dr. Mary E. Walker and the Civil War, in which author Mercedes Graf does a great job walking the reader through Walker’s unpublished memoir.

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