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Celebrate Creativity

This podcast is a deep dive into the world of creativity - from Edgar Allan Poe and Walt Whitman to understanding the use of basic AI principles in a fun and practical way.

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24:32

Tickets and Conscience

Celebrate Creativity ·

2025/11/13

Send us a text Today I want to put two names in the same frame—Joan Baez and Taylor Swift—not because they sound alike or have the same values but because they tell us how the culture around music, fandom, and accessibility to their shows have changed in less than one lifetime. Same art form. Very different worlds. This episode is about those two worlds. No boxing match. No “who’s better.” Just what it means that one night with Baez cost you five dollars, and one night with Swift might co...

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19:01

Enduring Stones

Celebrate Creativity ·

2025/11/12

Send us a text In a recent episode, we spent time with a man who changed popular culture and then became a warning about what fame, isolation, and addiction can do to a single human body—Elvis Presley. Brilliant, iconic, but ultimately tragic. Today… similar voltage. Very different story. This is about a band that came out of the same storm system of sex, drugs, and rock and roll… but somehow did not end as a cautionary tale on a bathroom floor. Instead, they turned danger into discipline, ...

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21:52

The Beatles Blueprint

Celebrate Creativity ·

2025/11/11

Send us a text I’d like to begin, not in Liverpool or Hamburg or Abbey Road, but in an American living room—mine, and millions of others—on a Sunday night in 1964. It’s February 9th. The television is a piece of furniture. The picture is black and white. Ed Sullivan is the gatekeeper of what “really matters.” We’ve heard rumors about four long-haired boys from England. Maybe we’ve seen a little newspaper photo. Maybe a DJ has spun “I Want to Hold Your Hand” and sounded half amused, half alar...

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23:15

The Elvis Trap

Celebrate Creativity ·

2025/11/10

Send us a text Today we’re stepping into complicated territory. Not a personal hero of mine. Not a composer whose scores I pore over, or a bandleader whose arrangements I quote with delight or a singer I enjoy listening to. We’ve just spent time with artists like Frank Sinatra, who turned phrasing into a method, and Chuck Berry, who wired rock’s circuitry with wit and precision. Both, in their own ways, were architects of how modern music sounds. Today’s subject is someone you simply cann...

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21:22

Rock’s Rough Architect

Celebrate Creativity ·

2025/11/09

Send us a text Before we talk about charts and riffs and influence, I want to begin with a memory. Years ago, I saw Chuck Berry live at the Paramount Theatre in Manhattan. I later learned that a few years after that, the Paramount Theater was completely shut down. Anyway, that night Chuck Berry was on a bill with The Animals and The Dixie Cups—a lineup that already told you how fast the musical world was changing. The British Invasion bands were arriving with their sharp su...

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31:00

Creative Inheritance

Celebrate Creativity ·

2025/11/08

Send us a text Birthdays - as well as the 500th episode of a podcast - are times that generally you might want to slow down and look at the past, the present, and the future. Using that logic, I'd like to touch on the past of this podcast by calling on none other then the ghost of Edgar Allan Poe. Ghost sound Well hello, Mr. Poe Greetings Mr. Bartley. Congratulations on your 500th episode. And I couldn't have done it without you, Mr. Poe. Certainly Mr. Bartley - you devoted t...

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30:16

West Side Stories

Celebrate Creativity ·

2025/11/07

Send us a text Leonard Bernstein played piano from age 10, and attended Boston Latin School and Harvard University. So he studied music theory before studying conducting and orchestration. In 1943, he was appointed assistant conductor of the New York Philharmonic. Then on November 14, 1943 he was summoned unexpectedly to substitute for the regular conductor Bruno Walter. His confidence and skill under such difficult circumstances and his overall talent marked the beginning of a new care...

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23:00

The Sinatra Method

Celebrate Creativity ·

2025/11/06

Send us a text Today, we’re going to begin in Hoboken, New Jersey, walk through the apprenticeship years, and then trace how partnerships, heartbreak, movies, and business instincts turned a talented singer into a blueprint many still follow. Frank Sinatra was born December 12, 1915, in Hoboken, New Jersey, to Dolly and Marty Sinatra, Sicilian immigrants. The home soundtrack mixed Italian song with the everyday music of labor, argument, and celebration. Outside the door, radio—that mid-centu...

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29:32

Multimedia Pioneer

Celebrate Creativity ·

2025/11/06

Send us a text Today's episode is the first in a look at several dozen musicians who lived after 1900, roughly in chronological order. And let me emphasize this is a extremely subjective look - it seems like every time I would look at my list, I f would find a new musician that just had to be on there - so I'm not presenting this in any way as an ideal selection of the most popular or talented or well known musician - just a deep dive into the lives and talents of some of the greatest s...

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17:45

Precision & Passion

Celebrate Creativity ·

2025/11/03

Send us a text Merci, Monsieur Bartley. I was born in 1875 in the little town of Ciboure, in the Basque country of southwestern France. My father was an inventive man, an engineer with a passion for mechanics. My mother was of Basque and Spanish descent, and it was from her that I inherited my love of Spanish rhythms and colors. Those two influences—precision and passion—shaped me from the beginning. That’s fascinating—the mechanical precision of your father and the Spanish warmth of your mot...

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22:32

Debussy’s Paris

Celebrate Creativity ·

2025/11/03

Send us a text Maestro, thank you for joining me. Before we dive into your music, I’d really like to hear about your beginnings. Could you tell us about your background? Of course. I was born in 1862, just outside Paris. My father was a baker—always kneading dough while humming—and my mother dabbled in piano. I remember sneaking into the living room to press the keys while she played. My first memories of music are not concerts or lessons, but the hum of the street, the ringing of church bel...

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22:35

Cosmic Composer

Celebrate Creativity ·

2025/11/01

Send us a text Welcome, Maestro Gustav Mahler. You’ve been called a composer of contradictions—cosmic in scope, but also obsessively detailed. If you could describe yourself in just a few words, how would you begin? Contradictions, yes—that is my very essence. I am a man who lived with one foot in heaven and the other in the street. My symphonies hold the singing of birds and the cries of the market, but also the silence of eternity. Your music often feels like it contains the whole world. Di...

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43:08

Spooky Music!

Celebrate Creativity ·

2025/10/31

Send us a text Now in a nutshell, the history of Halloween and how it developed can be described in a few sentences. You see, Halloween originated from the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain, which marked the end of summer and the harvest, and the beginning of the dark, cold winter. The Celts believed that on the night of October 31st, the boundary between the worlds of the living and the dead became blurred, allowing spirits to return to Earth. They would light bonfires and wear costum...

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30:45

From Morning to Mountain

Celebrate Creativity ·

2025/10/30

Send us a text I am most happy to be here today with you, Mr. Bartley. And we are glad that you're here, Maestro Greig Could you tell us about your early life. Ya, I was born in Bergen, Norway, on the 15th of June 1843. My father was a merchant and my mother was musical; she gave me my first piano lessons. From a young age, I loved the sound of Norwegian folk tunes, their rhythms, their melodies, their stories. I studied at the Leipzig Conservatory in Germany, where I learned the technique...

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33:42

Bohemian Voice

Celebrate Creativity ·

2025/10/29

Send us a text Maestro, could you begin by telling us a bit about your background? Ah, yes… I vas born in 1841, in a small village near Prague, in Bohemia. My father vas a butcher, my mother a simple, steadfast voman vith a love for folk songs. My family had little vealth, little expectation beyond the ordinary trades of life. Yet I felt Music as a calling — not for fame, but as a vay to capture the spirit of Bohemia itself. I vas not born a prodigy like some; I had to vork, to study, to list...

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50:25

Tenderness Interrupted

Celebrate Creativity ·

2025/10/28

Send us a text 2 Ghost sound I am most happy, to be here, and as a ghost, my heart carries the weight of a funeral march, even in moments of applause. Interesting analogy, Maestro Tchaikovsky, but could you tell us a bit about your earthly background? Ah, yes… earthly my background. I was born in 1840, in a small Russian town nestled in the Ural Mountains. My father was an engineer in the mines, my mother of French ancestry, gentle but distant. Music was not the profession expected ...

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39:39

Stern and Tender

Celebrate Creativity ·

2025/10/27

Send us a text Today I vant to talk vith the final Composer of the three Bs - this podcast has previously Broadcast episodes regarding Bach and Beethoven - and vill certainly have more regarding those musicians - but today I vant to talk about another composer vhose last name also begins vith B, and is also considered one of the greats. That composer is yo-HAH-nes Brahms. Unlike some composers of his era, he did not have any recorded middle names or additional given names—he vas vas alv...

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32:08

From Village to Glory

Celebrate Creativity ·

2025/10/25

Send us a text Well, a logical place to begin would be to ask the Maestro about his beginnings “Ah, señor Bartley, I am pleased to be here. You ask about my beginnings? wery well. I was born October 10, 1813, in Le Roncole, a small willage in the Duchy of Parma. My father, Carlo, ran our taern, and my mother, Luigia, kept the household in order. We were not rich, nor were we musicians by trade, yet music found me nonetheless. The hymns of the willage church, the organ, the singing of neighbo...

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43:35

Music and Majesty

Celebrate Creativity ·

2025/10/23

Send us a text Musical attributions at end of transcript Here the ghost - or if you will - the spirit of Richard Wagner - is reminiscing about his existence in 1864. A struggling genius. A lonely king. One shared dream that changed the sound of Western music forever. In Music and Majesty, Richard Wagner and King Ludwig of Bavaria revisit the passion, faith, and madness that forged a masterpiece. George We left you in the last episode, Maestro Wagner, with you rather down on your l...

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32:41

Valkrie Voices

Celebrate Creativity ·

2025/10/22

Send us a text Music attribution at bottom of transcript That was a portion of ride of the Valkyries by Richard Wagner - and if you're old enough, like me, you might remember hearing that from cartoons - especially porky pig dressed in a hunting outfit and singing kill the wabbit , kill the wabbit about Bugs Bunny - but I digress This is the first episode where I would like to explore the world of Richard Wagner. The reason I say that this is the first episode, is that the more...

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