Music and Words: Kalindi Bellach and Kay White

Our first episode of season 2 features violist Kalindi Bellach and alto Kay White, who let us in on perfectionism in performance, writing and reading about music, and the for-fun books that everyone needs. Intro and outro music: "Your Love Hip Hop" courtesy Music_Unlimited on Pixabay Episode artwork: Photo Collage: Musician Playing Triangle, photo collage by Juan Pedro Chabalgoity (MET, 2017.68.15), cropped. CC0 1.0 image courtesy Wikimedia Commons. Want to learn more about the books—and music!—we talked about on this episode? Check out the list below. You can also find us on LibraryThing, Goodreads, and Mastodon—and show your support at Liberapay!   David Abram                                               The Spell of the Sensuous André Aciman Woody Allen                                              Midnight in Paris American Museum of Natural History      Sperm Whale and Giant Squid Matthew Aucoin                                         "Alone in Paradise" W. H. Auden Johann Sebastian Bach                             The Art of the Fugue Muriel Barbery                                           The Elegance of the Hedgehog Neal Barnard Steven Beller                                                 Antisemitism: A Very Short Introduction Wendell Berry Benjamin Britten   Brené Brown                                                The Gifts of Imperfection   Judith Butler, Zeynep Gambetti,       and Leticia Sabsay                                 Vulnerability in Resistance    Camille T. Dungy                                        Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden    Epictetus                                                    How to Be Free: An Ancient Guide to the Stoic Life   Gabriel Fauré   Mark Fisher   George Frideric Handel                              Messiah   Harlem Renaissance   Paul Kingsnorth                                             Alexandria   Paul Kingsnorth                                             Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist   Paul Kingsnorth                                             The Wake   Anne McCaffrey                                            Dragonriders of Pern   Sarah J. Maas                                                  A Court of Thorn and Roses   Maurice Merleau-Ponty   Olivier Messiaen                                            Quartet for the End of Time   David Mitchell                                                Cloud Atlas   Haruki Murakami                                           Sputnik Sweetheart   The Onion                                                        "Mothership Accidentally Descends on Hootie Concert"   Giovanni Battista Pergolesi                           Stabat Mater   Meredith Ann Pierce                                      The Firebringer Triolgy   Richard Powers                                           Generosity: An Enhancement   Richard Powers                                           The Gold Bug Variations   Richard Powers                                             Orfeo   Richard Powers                                           The Overstory   Richard Powers                                           The Time of Our Singing   Marcel Proust                                                In Search of Lost Time   Emily Raboteau                                             "A New Environmental Canon"   Damien Rice   Alex Ross   Vikram Seth                                                    An Equal Music   Samantha Shannon                                       The Priory of the Orange Tree   Gertrude Stein                                               The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas   Donna Tartt                                                  The Goldfinch   Donna Tartt                                                    The Little Friend   Donna Tartt                                                    The Secret History   Donald Francis Tovey   Hanya Yanagihara                                       A Little Life   Rebecca Yarros                                             Iron Flame