Comments for Stranger in Paradise

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This piece belongs to the series "A Sense of Place: Third Season"

Produced by Helen Borten

Other pieces by Helen Borten

Summary: The strange life and haunting work of outside artist Achilles Rizzoli.
 

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Review of Stranger in Paradise

This well-produced piece about an eccentric artist that was discovered only after his death has two major distinctions: 1) it achieves something that is a real challenge on radio, namely, make the listener see something visual and - by the end - be extremely intrigued by it and 2) it delivers a kind of elegance that would blend very nicely on any station with arts and cultural programming, especially those bastions of serious classical or modern compositional music - but not only those stations - and the text is interesting and poetic. It calls for quiet, rational listening - like lots of good stuff does.