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Helga

WNYC Studios and Brown Arts Institutewww.wnycstudios.org
Artist, performer, and host Helga Davis brings a soulful curiosity and love of people to the podcast Helga, where she talks about the intimate lives of creative people as they share the steps they’ve taken along their path. She draws listeners into these discussions with cultural change-makers, whether already famous or rising talents, whose sensibilities expand our imaginations as we explore what we think we know about each other. The new season of Helga is a co-production of WNYC Studios and the Brown Arts Institute at Brown University. WNYC Studios is a listener-supported producer of other leading podcasts including Radiolab, On the Media, and Death, Sex & Money. The Brown Arts Institute at Brown University is a new university-wide research enterprise and catalyst for the arts at Brown that creates new work and supports, amplifies, and adds new dimensions to the creative practices of Brown’s arts departments, faculty, students, and community.
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Episodes

Jennifer Koh

Violin soloist Jennifer Koh has never cancelled a gig. Even when she had pneumonia, bronchitis and strep throat... at the same time. That drive comes through in the intensity of her live performances and the fierceness of her determination. Davis speaks with her former colleague in Philip Glass and Robert Wilson's epic opera Einstein on the Beach about the toll her exacting performances take on the body, the empathy required for a truly transcendent live show, and trusting that your personal per...

Nov 28, 201639 minSeason 1Ep. 4

Henry Threadgill

Henry Threadgill wants to know how to build the house. Whether it Moby Dick or jazz composition, the 72-year-old jazz composer and multi-instrumentalist has spent his life figuring out what goes into building the greatest works of arts. Recently awarded the Pulitzer Prize, Threadgill talks with Helga about giving license to your imagination in order to create, the life energy that connects a performer to his creations, and pushing yourself to go beyond excellence to greatness. --- About the podc...

Nov 21, 201645 minSeason 1Ep. 3

Shara Nova

After moving to Detroit from New York and separating from her husband, My Brightest Diamond's Shara Worden decided to change her last name to Nova. The frontwoman for the indie-rock band, singer and composer talks to Helga about about her upcoming album and Southern roots, about leaning into vulnerability, and why being uncomfortable is crucial in art-making. She also talks about why it was important for her to escape the art scene and to rub shoulders with construction workers, and what it mean...

Nov 15, 201642 minSeason 1Ep. 2

Peter Sellars

Peter Sellars is one of the most all-around inspiring people you'll ever come across. The acclaimed, unconventional opera and theater director invites himself and audiences to embrace challenge and push their emotional and spiritual boundaries. “Let go and fall forward” is his credo. Helga and Peter talk about his work with the Flexn dancers and Bach's St. Matthew Passion, his sister who runs a dance machine arcade for teenagers in Las Vegas, and how he still isn't sure what he's been put here f...

Nov 14, 201658 minSeason 1Ep. 1

Sneak Peek: New Podcast 'Helga'

Get an advance listen today to Q2 Music's newest podcast, Helga, a show featuring conversations with diverse, uncompromising and socially conscious artists across the creative spectrum. Hear excerpts of upcoming conversations with opera director Peter Sellars, My Brighest Diamond's Shara Nova and jazz composer Henry Threadgill. --- About the podcast: HELGA with host Helga Davis features probing conversations with artists across the creative and performing arts that have a unique, uncompromising ...

Nov 10, 20164 min0
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