OPEN SOURCE: American Conversations with Andrew Bacevich & Vijay Iyer
From: Radio Open Source with Christopher Lydon
Series: Winter 2010: Featured Shows
Length: 58:59
This week we're talking with the soldier turned writer Andrew Bacevich, and then the jazz piano star Vijay Iyer. All they share is eloquent originality on American-ness in a changing world. Andrew Bacevich was an Army officer from West Point who writes now on the Washington Rules of American warfare... without end: the lessons we didn't learn from Vietnam, and probably won't learn from Iraq and Afghanistan. Then "a bit of grace in the midst of fire," as Vijay Iyer describes music. A child of Indian immigrants in Rochester, New York, Iyer pulls from American pop and takes Thelonious Monk as his model.
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This week we're talking with the soldier turned writer Andrew Bacevich, and then the jazz piano star Vijay Iyer. All they share is eloquent originality on American-ness in a changing world. Andrew Bacevich was an Army officer from West Point who writes now on the Washington Rules of American warfare... without end: the lessons we didn't learn from Vietnam, and probably won't learn from Iraq and Afghanistan. Then "a bit of grace in the midst of fire," as Vijay Iyer describes music. A child of Indian immigrants in Rochester, New York, Iyer pulls from American pop and takes Thelonious Monk as his model.
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| Title | Artist | Album | Label | Year | Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Human Nature (Michael Jackson cover) | Vijay Iyer | Solo. | 2010 | 00:00 |
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