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Music

• Pure (Ride the World) by (the extraordinary) Brendan Eder Ensemble
• Violette... from Philippe Sarde's score to Violette et Francois
• Merry-go-Round and People on Sunday by Domenique Dumont
• Dane by Nils Frahm
• Two different versions of Debussy's Passepied, the piano one is performed by Seong-Jin Cho, the synth one by Isao Tomita
• Love from Matthew Herbert
• Memorial Park from Bernard Herrmann's score to Obsession.
• Phantom Signals by Tvarvargen

Notes

• There's plenty written about Ken Allen, but I particularly appreciated Jason Hribal's book Fear of the Animal Planet: The Hidden History of Animal Resistance.

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Music

• Swiming by Explosions in the Sky
• Walking Song by Kevin Volans and the Netherlands Wind Ensemble
• I Walk on Guilded Splinters by Johnny Jenkins
• Seduction by the Balanescu Quartet
• Lunette by Les Baxter and Dr. Samuel J. Hoffman
• Running Around by Buddy Ross
• September by Giles Lamb

Notes

• This episode was pieced together from a ton of little fragments but I wanted to steer folks to a couple of resources in particular: this excellent article from a few years back in the Toronto Star by Katie Daubs, and this documentary from filmmaker, Amy Nicholson, that primarily uses the Zipper as a way to talk about changes at Coney Island but has some great details from Harold Chance and his sons.

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Notes

• Read about the change in policy here. And the article that helped prompt the policy change here.

Music

• Pipeline by H.Takahashi
• Sad Seine by Lambert
• Dance PM by Hiroshi Yoshimura

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This episode was originally released in 2016 in the days after the shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando. It is re-released every year on the anniversary of the incident.

A note on notes: We’d much rather you just went into each episode of The Memory Palace cold. And just let the story take you where it well. So, we don’t suggest looking into the show notes first.

Notes and Reading:
* Most of the specific history of the White Horse was learned from "Sanctuary: the Inside Story of the Nation's Second Oldest Gay Bar" by David Olson, reprinted in its entirety on the White Horse's website.
* "Gayola: Police Professionalization and the Politics of San Francisco's Gay Bars, 1950-1968," by Christopher Agee.
* June Thomas' series on the past, present, and future of the gay bar from Slate a few years back.
* Various articles written on the occasion of the White Horse's 80th anniversary, including this one from SFGATE.Com
* Michael Bronski's A Queer History of the United States.
* Radically Gay, a collection of Harry Hay's writing.
* Incidentally, I watched this interview with Harry Hay from 1996 about gay life in SF in the 30's multiple times because it's amazing.

Music
* We start with Water in Your Hands by Tommy Guerrero.
* Hit Anne Muller's Walzer fur Robert a couple of times.
* Gaussian Curve does Talk to the Church.
* We get a loop of Updraught from Zoe Keating.
* We finish on Transient Life in Twilight by James Blackshaw

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A Note on Notes:

I always prefer that the listener goes into each episode cold, not knowing what it's going to be about. So, you might want to tread carefully, as there are spoilers in the notes below.

Music

• L'espagne pour memoire by Michel Portal
• Find me Tomorrow from Christophe Beck's score to Charlie Countryman
• The old Soviet philharmonic plays some Shostakovich.
• The London Symphony Orchestra plays The Blue Danube Waltz.
• We hear Walt by Mother Falcon.
• Sombolero by Luiz Bonfa

Notes

• Like a lot of people below, say, 55, I first heard about Olga Fikotova-Connolly when reading her obituary in the New York Times.
• By far the best thing you can do if you want to know more about her is track down her out-of-print memoir, The Rings of Destiny, which, despite its rather puffed-up title, is so warm and detailed and intimate. It's a delight.
• You might also enjoy this late-in-life interview with Olga as well.

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Music

• Traffico from Carlo Rustichelli's score to Divorzio All'Italiana and Una Braveta, from his score to Amici Miei.
• Tema Grottesco from Giovanni Fusco's score to L'avventura.
• Gloving it from Moondog.
• Musica Bionda from the score to The Sweet Body of Deborah
• The Peter Thomas Sound Orchestra plays Natascha from the score to The Perfect Marriage.
• Waltz from the Brendan Eder Ensemble
• Christa Schonfeldinger plays Grieg's Smarthold - der Kobold, on the glass armonica.

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Music

• A synth stab from As if it Would Have a Universal and Memorable Ending by Shane Carruth's score to his film, Upstream Color, a movie I love deeply.
• Smoke Gets in Your Eyes by the Platters
• The Girl Who was Frightened of Ashtrays by Charlie Megira
• Sambolero by Luiz Bonfa.
• Water by So Percussion
• Divertimiento Fur Tenorsaxophon Und Kleines Ensemble (Part 4) from Carl Oesterhelt and Johannes Ender.
• Ball by Duval Timothy
• Piece 3 by the great Warren Ellis.
• Chora tua Tristeza from Lalo Schiffrin
• Growing Up from Ben Sollee's score to Maidentrip
• (Vibraphone, Marimbaphone, Malletted Wood, Two Synthesizers) and (Two Bells) by Josiah Steinbrick
• Main et lee from Michel Portal

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Music

• Momento Ritmico and Papete aru by Piero Umiliani
• Opus 13 from Sven Libaek's score to The Set
• French Doll by Larry Ashmore and David Francis
• The wonderful Sewentuwa by Hailu Meriga
• Wave I by Elor Saxl
• Green by Hiroshi Yoshimura

Notes

• I originally learned about the Elephantine Colossus years ago in David McCullough's Brooklyn... and How it Got That Way, which still holds up.