Isabel Wilkerson
Michael Berkeley's guest is Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Isabel Wilkerson.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Isabel Wilkerson was born in Washington DC. Her parents moved there in the Great Migration 鈥� when six million African Americans left the rural south to escape poor economic conditions and discrimination. Isabel later wrote about this exodus in her bestselling and widely acclaimed book The Warmth of Other Suns, the product of 15 years of research and more than 1200 interviews.
She started out in newspapers as a reporter and feature writer, and in 1994 she became the first woman of African-American heritage to win the Pulitzer Prize for journalism, when she was Chicago bureau chief of the New York Times. More recently she published her second book Caste: the Origins of our Discontents, an examination of racial stratification. The New York Times described it as the 鈥渒eynote nonfiction book of the American century thus far鈥� and it also won praise from President Obama.
Isabel's choices include works by Camille Saint-Sa毛ns, John Coltrane, Philip Glass and Georg Philipp Telemann.
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Georg Philipp Telemann
Rosinante Galloping (Movement 6) from Burlesque de Don Quixotte
Ensemble: Apollo鈥檚 Fire. Conductor: Jeannette Sorrell.- Gift of The Angels - Holiday of Offerings.
- Avie.
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Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns
Organ Symphony No 3 in C minor, Op 78
Orchestra: Orchestre national de France. Performer: Olivier Latry. Conductor: Cristian M膬celaru. -
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Alfredo Catalani
Ebben? Ne Andr貌 Lontana" (from the opera La Wally)
Singer: Wilhelmenia Wiggins Fernandez. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Vladimir Cosma. -
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John Coltrane
Blue Train
Performer: John Coltrane.- Blue Train.
- Blue Note.
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Carlos Simon
Rays of Light (from Warmth from Other Suns)
Performer: Ivalas Quartet.- Light Migration Music Part 1 (Lara Downes and Friends).
- Rising Sun.
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Traditional (from Piae Cantiones)
Gaudete! 鈥� Performed in concert in 2016
Performer: Angel City Chorale of Los Angeles. Music Arranger: Michael Engelhardt. Conductor: Sue Fink. -
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Philip Glass
Final Movement of String Quartet No.5
Performer: Kronos Quartet.- Kronos Quartet perform Philip Glass.
- Nonesuch.
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Claude Debussy
Reverie
Performer: Alice Sara Ott.- Nightfall.
- Deutsche Grammophon.
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Georg Philipp Telemann
"Burlesque de Quixotte": VI. Le galope de Rosinante
Ensemble: Apollo鈥檚 Fire. Conductor: Jeannette Sorrell.- AVIE.
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Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns
Symphony No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 78 "Organ Symphony" Mvt II. Maestoso. Allegro
Conductor: Cristian M膬celaru. Orchestra: Orchestre national de France.- Saint-Sa毛ns: Complete Symphonies.
- Warner Classics.
- 20.
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Alfredo Catalani
Ebben? Ne Andr貌 Lontana (from La Wally)
Singer: Wilhelmenia Fernandez. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Vladimir Cosma.- Larghetto.
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John Coltrane
Blue Train
- Blue Train.
- Blue Note Records.
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Carlos Simon
Warmth from Other Suns
Ensemble: Ivalas Quartet.- LIGHT: Migration Music Part 1.
- Rising Sun Records.
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Trad.
Gaudete!
Director: Angel City Chorale. Director: Sue Fink. -
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Philip Glass
String Quartet No. 5: Mvt V.
Ensemble: Kronos Quartet.- Kronos Quartet Performs Philip Glass.
- Nonesuch.
- 5.
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Claude Debussy
R锚verie, L. 68
Performer: Alice Sara Ott.- Nightfall.
- Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
- 1.
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