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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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23:28

Who Are You?

Celebrate Creativity ·

2025/11/21

Send us a text In this podcast episode, we’ll walk through where they came from, what shaped them, how they crashed into the United States—and then spend some real time inside Tommy: not just as an album, but as a story that refused to stay put, leaping from vinyl to concert halls, movie screens, and the Broadway stage. Imagine that it is Post war England and you are in West London Bomb sites are turning into parking lots and playgrounds. Teenagers caught between their parents’ memories of w...

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15:42

Riffs and Myth

Celebrate Creativity ·

2025/11/20

Send us a text In this series, we’ve been spending time with artists who didn’t just make hits—they changed the language of modern music. Today, we turn to a group that took blues, folk, volume, and mystery… and built a sound so iconic that entire genres still live in its echo. Led Zeppelin. Not just “loud.” Not just “wild.” Four musicians who fused session-honed precision, deep musical curiosity, and a taste for the epic into something that still feels massive generations later. Tonight,...

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23:00

Both Sides Singing

Celebrate Creativity ·

2025/11/19

Send us a text Today we meet an artist who doesn’t blow the doors off with volume or choreography, but with something quieter—and in many ways, just as radical. A woman alone with a guitar in an open tuning. A voice that can sound like a bell, a blade, or a diary you were never meant to read. A songwriter who refuses to keep her feelings, or her harmonies, inside the lines. But inwardly a mother with empty arms carrying shame that didn't belong to her and grief she poured into songs that peo...

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23:00

Supreme Intentions

Celebrate Creativity ·

2025/11/18

Send us a text Our story begins not with sequins but with a housing project. Mary Wilson and Florence Ballard both grew up in Detroit’s Brewster-Douglass projects, one of the first federally funded housing developments for Black families. Diana Ross, who grew up nearby, joined that same orbit. Detroit in the 1950s and early 60s was a complex place: Automobile money and factory work. Northern promise and stubborn segregation. Church choirs, street-corner harmonies, jazz clubs, rhythm & b...

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22:15

Feedback and Fire

Celebrate Creativity ·

2025/11/17

Send us a text Today, we turn to a musician whose care there were moves separations long stretches were Jimmy simply simply had to figure things out on his own no one was buying but whose shadow is so long that every electric guitarist since has had to walk through it. Jimi Hendrix. He didn’t just play louder. He didn’t just play faster. He changed what the electric guitar meant. He changed the expectations for sound, for performance, for what a song could hold. In this episode, I want to ...

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23:33

The Queen of Soul

Celebrate Creativity ·

2025/11/16

Send us a text Today we turn to a voice that has become a kind of measuring stick. A singer you can’t ignore, can’t casually imitate, and certainly can’t replace. Aretha Louise Franklin. You can line up all the adjectives: legendary, iconic, incomparable. But with Aretha, those words almost sound lazy. The real story is more interesting. It’s the story of how a shy, brilliant preacher’s daughter walked out of a Detroit church and, without surrendering where she came from, changed what mains...

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19:36

Dylan and the Fall

Celebrate Creativity ·

2025/11/15

Send us a text If you grew up in a certain era, his name isn’t just a performer on a poster. It’s a weather system. A shift in air pressure. A bulletin from the fault line where art, politics, faith, doubt, youth, age, and trouble all collided. And at the end of this episode, I’m going to tell you about one night—one Bob Dylan concert—that coincided with the most frightening turn my own life had taken up to that point, and how, in a way, it nudged me toward paying attention to people many ot...

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18:16

California Counterpoints

Celebrate Creativity ·

2025/11/14

Send us a text Today’s pairing may look odd until you start really listening: The Beach Boys and The Grateful Dead. Two California bands. Two American institutions. Two completely different ideas of what a band is for. One built pop cathedrals in the studio and spent decades trying to bring that sound to the stage. The other built a moving city on the road and treated the studio almost like a postcard from their real life’s work. Let’s spend some time with both—and with the very differen...

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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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