Music News University Seeks Grateful Dead Archivist November 11, 2009 • The University of California, Santa Cruz, is seeking an archivist for its collection of Grateful Dead materials. The job involves managing original documents, clippings, art, posters, recordings, publication and documentation of the band's famous network of fans, known as deadheads. University Seeks Grateful Dead Archivist Listen · 0:53 0:53 Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/120300317/120300281" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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Music Interviews Composer Introduces A 'Dead' Symphony July 26, 2008 • The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra performs work next week inspired by the music of the Grateful Dead. Composer Lee Johnson, who wrote Dead Symphony No. 6, discusses the piece's origins and talks about learning to become a "Deadhead." Composer Introduces A 'Dead' Symphony Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/92932316/92960508" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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Teaching Outside the Box Blues Song Is a Decades-Long Music Lesson December 29, 2006 • As part of our series about students and teachers, musicologist Bruce Nemerov describes the way that one song is recorded by several different musicians in different decades of the 20th century. The older musicians are teaching the younger musicians through the song "Sitting on Top of the World." We hear the song as recorded by Al Jolson, The Mississippi Sheiks, Howlin' Wolf, Eric Clapton, Bill Monroe and The Grateful Dead. Blues Song Is a Decades-Long Music Lesson Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/6697365/6697366" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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Music News Beethoven Manuscript Sells for Nearly $2 Million December 1, 2005 • A long-lost manuscript of composer Ludwig van Beethoven is auctioned by Sotheby's, bringing nearly $2 million. In a separate auction, a nonprofit group hopes to raise as much as $100,000 by offering home fixtures that once belonged to the Grateful Dead's late lead guitarist, Jerry Garcia. Beethoven Manuscript Sells for Nearly $2 Million Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/5033879/5033880" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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Studio Sessions Bob Weir Reviews His Long, Strange Trip August 14, 2004 • Bob Weir, a founding member of the Grateful Dead, has released a 2-CD career retrospective, Weir Here. The guitarist performs two songs and reflects on music and career with NPR's Scott Simon. Bob Weir Reviews His Long, Strange Trip Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/3848269/3851432" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">
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Music Interviews 'A Long Strange Trip' January 11, 2003 • The Grateful Dead began their musical journey in 1965, and continued to perform before sell-out crowds until their breakup in 1995. NPR's Scott Simon talks with the band's historian Dennis McNally about his book, A Long Strange Trip: The Inside History of the Grateful Dead. 'A Long Strange Trip' Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/908773/914568" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">
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Music News Persuading the Dead October 20, 2000 • The a cappella group The Persuasions decided to do an album of Grateful Dead songs. As "The Dead" have been icons of sub-culture since the mid 60's, and have inspired more than one generation of devotees (Deadheads), they knew that covering the harmonies would not suffice. They would have to rediscover AND reinvent the music - both for themselves, and the audience. Persuading the Dead Only Available in Archive Formats. Real Media
