
Season 2, Episode 8: Sonia De Los Santos and Auguste Renoir’s “Young Spanish Woman with a Guitar”
Season 2, Episode 8: Sonia De Los Santos and Auguste Renoir’s “Young Spanish Woman with a Guitar”
Guitarist Sonia De Los Santos hails from Mexico, where as a child she was exposed to different musical influences. In Au... Read more
31 May 2022
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51mins

Season 2, Episode 7: Maria Schneider and George Bellows’s “The Lone Tenement”
Season 2, Episode 7: Maria Schneider and George Bellows’s “The Lone Tenement”
Maria Schneider composed “Bulería, Soleá y Rumba” in the wake of a cancer diagnosis. Inspired by American artists such a... Read more
17 May 2022
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51mins

Season 2: Episode 6: Delfeayo Marsalis and Hawkins Bolden’s “Untitled”
Season 2: Episode 6: Delfeayo Marsalis and Hawkins Bolden’s “Untitled”
This work reminds jazz trombonist Delfeayo Marsalis of the proud, hard-working generations that raised him. A history of... Read more
3 May 2022
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51mins

Season 2: Episode 5: Peter Sheppard Skærved and Hieronymus Bosch’s “Death and the Miser”
Season 2: Episode 5: Peter Sheppard Skærved and Hieronymus Bosch’s “Death and the Miser”
Violinist Peter Sheppard Skærved and National Gallery director Kaywin Feldman discuss Hieronymus Bosch’s “Death and the ... Read more
22 Apr 2022
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51mins

Season 2, Episode 3: Sa-Roc and Margaret Burroughs’s Sleeping Boy
Season 2, Episode 3: Sa-Roc and Margaret Burroughs’s Sleeping Boy
Rapper Sa-Roc’s music speaks to different aspects of Black experience, including the vulnerability of many Black kids—si... Read more
22 Apr 2022
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51mins

Season 2, Episode 4: Daniel Ho and Thomas Cole’s Voyage of Life series
Season 2, Episode 4: Daniel Ho and Thomas Cole’s Voyage of Life series
Musician Daniel Ho spent much of his childhood on the water, so he relates to Thomas Cole’s river paintings. Ho responds... Read more
5 Apr 2022
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51mins

Season 2: Episode 2: Jenny Scheinman and El Greco’s "Laocoön"
Season 2: Episode 2: Jenny Scheinman and El Greco’s "Laocoön"
In “Sand Dipper,” jazz violinist Jenny Scheinman creates an abstract and overwhelming world. This music, Scheinman says,... Read more
8 Mar 2022
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51mins

Season 2: Episode 1: Dom Flemons and Marc Chagall’s "Orphée"
Season 2: Episode 1: Dom Flemons and Marc Chagall’s "Orphée"
Orphée depicts many tragedies, but songwriter Dom Flemons finds the joy in it: it resolves in the beautiful scene of two... Read more
22 Feb 2022
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51mins

Bonus Episode: Episode 11: Celeste Headlee and James Van Der Zee’s “Couple, Harlem”
Bonus Episode: Episode 11: Celeste Headlee and James Van Der Zee’s “Couple, Harlem”
In this photograph, journalist and musician Celeste Headlee hears “Lenox Avenue,” a suite her grandfather William Grant ... Read more
23 Nov 2021
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27mins

Yumi Kurosawa, koto
Yumi Kurosawa, koto
In this program, award-winning koto player Yumi Kurosawa performs “Sakura” (Cherry Blossom) (traditional Japanese folk s... Read more
29 Aug 2021
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1hr 4mins