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Tim Riley, Author
Tim Riley, Author episodes
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- Hillbilly Bach
Mandolin savant Chris Thile performs Bach violin Sonatas and Partitas on a level beyond most fiddlers, and he's no slouch at back-country yawping.
27 min - Bach, as told by the Beatles, Paul Simon, and Francois Glorieux
A Baroque treatment of the Beatles inspires mutations, and more lofty adaptations.
27 min - When Chopin and Rachmaninoff buoyed 70s pop-rock...
Chopin and Rachmaninoff steer pop Barry Manilow and Eric Carmen hits from the 1970s, as the King outsells both.
27 min - Mussorgsky, Bartok, ELP
Emerson, Lake and Palmer turn Mussorgsky's piano warhorse into a power trio workout, and pile on with Bartok.
27 min - 28 min
- Boleros: James Gang, Jeff Beck, Emerson Lake Palmer
In the middle of "The Bomber," Joe Walsh quotes Ravel's Bolero (27.00)
27 min
About Tim Riley, Author
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Weekly Twitter SPACES chats with original thinkers and bowling heros. Starting with the Beatles GET BACK movie, Riley explores the connections between rock history and today's scene. Also, check out his Rock Critic's Guide to Classical episodes... @timrileyauthor
NPR CRITIC, EMERSON COLLEGE PROFESSOR and AUTHOR TIM RILEY reviews pop and classical music for NPR’s ON POINT and HERE AND NOW and COPPER magazine from PSAUDIO.com. His reviews appear widely in the NEW YORK TIMES, truthdig.com, the LA REVIEW OF BOOKS, the HUFFINGTON POST, THE WASHINGTON POST, SLATE.COM and SALON.COM. He earned degrees in classical piano from Oberlin and Eastman.
Since 2009, he has taught digital journalism at Emerson College in Boston. Brown University hosted Riley as Critic-In Residence in 2008, and his first book, Tell Me Why: A Beatles Commentary (Knopf/Vintage 1988), was hailed by the New York Times as bringing "new insight to the act we’ve known for all these years..." His television appearances include the PBS Newshour, CBS Morning and Evening News, MTV, and the History Channel.
Riley gave a keynote address at BEATLES 2000, the first international academic conference in Jyvaskyla, Finland. Since then, he’s given hundreds of lively multi-media lectures on "Censorship in the Arts," and "Rock History." His current projects include his Beatles multimedia textbook WHAT GOES ON (Oxford, 2019), and an interactive digital anthology of his criticism coming in 2022.
For a schedule of current appearances see http://timrileyauthor.com