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Program 05-12-04-B

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Film-maker David Lynch has been "diving within" through the Transcendental Meditation technique for more than 30 years. Now Lynch has created a foundation that wants to help students discover their full creative potential through T.M. In this hour of the Peabody Award-winning program To the Best of Our Knowledge, David Lynch talks about the power of T.M.

SEGMENT 1:

Composer and scholar Gunther Schuller talks with Steve Paulson about creativity and gives examples from both classical music and jazz. Schuller won the Pulitzer Prize for his compositions in 1994 and just turned 80. And we hear lots of musical examples.

SEGMENT 2:

John Geiger is the author of "Nothing is True Everything is Permitted: The Life of Brion Gysin." He tells Anne Strainchamps about the man he thinks is the most influential 20th century artist you've never heard of, and how he inspired everyone from William S. Burroughs to David Bowie. Also, Roald Hoffman won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry, but he's also a poet. He tells Jim Fleming he thinks the two disciplines have a lot in common, and reads a couple of poems.

SEGMENT 3:

Film-maker David Lynch is a long–time practitioner of Transcendental Meditation. He talks with Doug Gordon about how TM has influenced his creativity, and his films, which include "Mulholland Drive," and "Blue Velvet" and the TV series "Twin Peaks."

CD copies are available at 1-800-747-7444. Ask for program number 05-12-04-B.

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Books:

• John Geiger, Nothing is True Everything is Permitted: The Life of Brion Gysin (The Disinformation Company)
• Roald Hoffmann, Gaps and Verges: Poems (Contemporary Poetry Series) (University Press of Florida)
  
• Gunther Schuller, Musings: The Musical Worlds of Gunther Schuller: A Collection of His Writings (Da Capo Press)

Links:

• -- Gunther Schuller bio
  http://www.schirmer.com/composers/schuller_bio.html
  
• -- John Geiger
  http://www.johngeiger.ca/
  
• -- Roald Hoffmann Autobiography
  http://nobelprize.org/chemistry/laureates/1981/hoffmann-autobio.html
  
• -- Roald Hoffmann, Cornell
  http://www.chem.cornell.edu/faculty/index.asp?forprint=y&fac=32
  
• -- David Lynch Foundation for Consciousness-Based Education and World
  Peace
  http://www.davidlynchfoundation.com/
  
• -- David Lynch
  http://www.davidlynch.com/
  

Clips:

• -- Brion Gysin's poem, "I Am" (1960)
  You can hear this poem in its entirety and other Gysin
  poems at...
  http://www.ubu.com/sound/gysin.html
  
• -- "In Heaven (Lady in the Radiator Song)"
  from the CD, "Eraserhead: Original Soundtrack" (I.R.S.)

Music:

• -- Music used in Gunther Schuller mix:
  - "The Rite of Spring"/Igor Stravinsky
  Cleveland Orchestra Riccardo Chailly, conductor
  from the CD, "Stravinsky: Le Sacre du Printemps, Four
  Norwegian Moods"/Cleveland Orchestra, Riccardo
  Chailly (conductor) (London)
  - "Symphony No. 1 in C Major, Opus 21"/Ludwig van
  Beethoven
  New York Philharmonic Leonard Bernstein, conductor
  from the CD, "Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2"/
  Leonard Bernstein and New York Philharmonic
  (CBS Records)
  - "All About Rosie (3rd section)"/Bill Evans and the
  George Russell Orchestra
  from the CD, "Piano Player"/Bill Evans (Sony)
  - "Blue 7"/Sonny Rollins
  from the CD, "Saxophone Colossus" (Prestige/Original
  Jazz Classics)
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  -- "Of Reminiscences and Reflections"/Gunther Schuller
  Hannover Radio Philharmonic Gunther Schuller, conductor
  from the CD, "Of Reminiscences and Reflections"/Gunther
  Schuller (New World Records)
  -- "Cosmic Rays"/Charlie Parker Quartet
  from the box set, "The Beat Generation - Volume 2"
  (Rhino/Wordbeat)
  -- "Abzug"/Kraftwerk
  from the CD, "The Mix"/Kraftwerk (Elektra)
  http://www.kraftwerk.com/
  -- Music used in David Lynch mix:
  - "In Heaven (Lady in the Radiator Song)"
  from the CD, "Eraserhead: Original Soundtrack" (I.R.S.)
  - "Mulholland Drive"/Angelo Badalamenti
  from the CD, "David Lynch's Mulholland Drive (Original
  Soundtrack)" (Milan)
  http://www.milanrecords.com/
  -- "Twin Peaks Theme"/Angelo Badalamenti
  from the CD, "Soundtrack from Twin Peaks" (Warner Bros.)
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  -- "Dance of the Dream Man"/Angelo Badalamenti
  from the CD, "Soundtrack from Twin Peaks" (Warner Bros.)

Distribution dates:

week of 11/19/2006 - hour 2 week of 12/04/2005 - hour 2

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