Galapagos Rap: 3.5* ’til infinity…

Stan­ford stu­dents head to the Gala­pa­gos Islands, then rap about what they’ve learned. Evo­lu­tion­ary rap. What a con­cept…

Mean­while, the pro­fes­sor whose voice you hear at the out­set, Bill Durham, taught a course in Stan­ford Con­tin­u­ing Stud­ies (my day job) last year, and we have made it avail­able as a free pod­cast. It’s called Dar­win’s Lega­cy, and it brought togeth­er some of the world’s lead­ing Dar­win schol­ars for the 200th anniver­sary of Darwin’s birth. You access and learn more about the course here.

via Stan­ford’s Face­book page

U2 to Webcast Sunday’s Rose Bowl Concert

Accord­ing to the LA Times, U2 will live stream its con­cert this com­ing Sun­day night on YouTube. Some 95,000 peo­ple have tick­ets for the Rose Bowl show in LA. If you’re not one of them, then you can watch the YouTube stream start­ing at 8:30 pm Pacif­ic time. The footage will also be archived for any­one who miss­es it. More details here and here.

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John Coltrane’s “Giant Steps” Animated

This clip of Coltrane’s 1960 clas­sic comes to us via @hughmcguire.

Relat­ed Con­tent:

Beethoven’s Fifth: The Ani­mat­ed Score

How a Bach Canon Works. More Bril­liant Ani­ma­tion

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Free Beethoven No. 9 Courtesy of Dudamel

Gus­ta­vo Dudamel, the new music direc­tor of the Los Ange­les Phil­har­mon­ic, kicked off his tenure last Sat­ur­day with a free per­for­mance of Beethoven’s Sym­pho­ny No. 9 at the Hol­ly­wood Bowl. 18,000 peo­ple were in atten­dance. You can lis­ten to the con­cert in its entire­ty here, and read a review of Dudamel’s maid­en voy­age with the LA Phil here.

via @ooble

John Lennon and Yoko Ono on the Dick Cavett Show

A lit­tle birth­day present. John Lennon would have been 69 years old today. This mem­o­rable inter­view, record­ed in 1971, fea­tures John and Yoko in a can­did, relaxed and wide-rang­ing con­ver­sa­tion with one of Amer­i­ca’s lead­ing talk show hosts at the time. To watch the full inter­view, see  Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, and Part 6. These inter­views, and oth­er Lennon inter­views with Cavett, are all part of a DVD that you pur­chase at Ama­zon.

Relat­ed Con­tent:

The Bea­t­les Remas­tered: An Inside Look

What New York­ers Heard on the Radio the Night John Lennon was Shot

The Bea­t­les: Pod­casts from Yes­ter­day

The Grey Video: Mix­ing the Bea­t­les with Jay‑Z

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Bob Dylan Christmas Preview

Here’s a sneak pre­view of Bob Dylan’s forth­com­ing Christ­mas album. It will hit the streets in Octo­ber, and you can pre-order now. A safe assump­tion: this will be a “love it” or “hate it” album.

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The Beatles Remastered: An Inside Look

bremasterOn Sep­tem­ber 9th, EMI released a remas­tered ver­sion of the entire Bea­t­les cat­a­logue — the first remix since 1987. And now the Bea­t­les are once again back on top of the charts. If you’re won­der­ing whether to buy the remas­tered ver­sions at all, or whether to buy the stereo or mono box sets (or some com­bi­na­tion of the two), or if you’re sim­ply won­der­ing what goes into remas­ter­ing the Fab Four’s com­plete body of work, then you will be inter­est­ed in this inter­view with Bea­t­les his­to­ri­an Kevin Howlett, who helped write the lin­er notes for the new releas­es. In this con­ver­sa­tion with NPR’s All Songs Con­sid­ered (MP3 — iTunes — RSS Feed), Howlett describes what the remas­ter­ing involved, and then com­pares the old ver­sions to the new ver­sions (both mono and stereo). When you’re done lis­ten­ing to this 20+ minute inter­view, you’ll have a much bet­ter sense of what this long-await­ed remas­ter­ing deliv­ers. You can lis­ten with the play­er below, or via the links post­ed above.

Relat­ed Con­tent:

What New York­ers Heard on the Radio the Night John Lennon was Shot

The Bea­t­les: Pod­casts from Yes­ter­day

The Grey Video: Mix­ing the Bea­t­les with Jay‑Z

Something for Mary

RIP

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