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Music History Monday: Fake It ‘til You Make It
Music History Monday: Fake It ‘til You Make It
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Length:
24 minutes
Released:
Mar 18, 2024
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Podcast episode
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We mark the birth of the Russian composer Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov on March 18, 1844: 180 years ago today. Born in the Russian town of Tikhvin – roughly 120 miles east of St. Petersburg – Rimsky-Korsakov died at the age of 64, on June 21, 1908, on his estate near the Russian town of Luga, about 85 miles south of St. Petersburg Fake It ‘til You Make It Like most kids growing up, I had various assumptions about grownups (i.e. “adults”). As someone who has now – presumably – been an adult for very nearly a half of a century, I have learned that my assumptions – a few of which I’ve listed below – were all crazy wrong. Assumption one: at around 21, we cross the line into adulthood. Wrong. There are no such “lines”; we’re all changing, all the time. Assumption two: adults are emotionally mature. Wrong. Physically, yes, I’m pushing seventy. Emotionally? I’m roughly fifteen. On a good day. Assumption three: adults know what they’re doing. Really? Adults only “know” what they’re doing (if they ever learn what their “doing” at all) after they’ve been doing it for decades. Until then, they are apprentices, “learning on […]
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Released:
Mar 18, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode
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