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How Roberta Flack created soul with "getting-togetherness"
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Roberta Flack performed with all of that soulful "getting-toggetherness."
Roberta Flack was a child piano prodigy
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Growing up, Roberta Flack was known as a piano prodigy who "could play anything."
Clint Eastwood loved "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face"
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Clint Eastwood loved Roberta Flack's song "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face."
The origin of Flack's hit "Killing Me Softly With His Song"
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How Roberta Flack made "Killing Me Softly With His Song" her own.
Big Freedia on Little Richard, music and the queer community
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Artist Big Freedia reflects on the similarities between herself and Little Richard.
From the Director: The Making of Flannery
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Hear from director Elizabeth Coffman about the making of American Masters: Flannery.
What's it like choreographing a dance for Zoom?
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Tharp discovers a technical challenge that makes choreographing virtually even harder.
The time Twyla Tharp setup a performance in Central Park
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Archival footage shows one of Twyla Tharp's dances in Central Park amongst the public.
Twyla Tharp's very valuable college decision
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How Tharp directed her own education at Barnard College.
How does Twyla Tharp create new dances?
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Twyla Tharp's creative process is very physical.
The time Twyla Tharp pushed David Byrne to his limits
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In 1981, Twyla Tharp commissioned David Byrne of the Talking Heads to write music for her.
Tharp and Baryshnikov's "totally unexpected" collaboration
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The collaboration was "lightening in a bottle," according to Tharp.
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