The classic musical, which comes to the Lyric February 2-4, changed Ira Glass's life and became a template for a certain NPR show. Here's what the This American Life host told us in 2009...
I didn’t...
What piece of art changed your life? How did it affect you?
Well, the thing that most clearly changed my life is Controversy by Prince. But, I saw huge painting by Jean-Michel Basquiat leaning...
What piece of art changed your life? How did it affect you?
I was in the 5th grade and was instructed to do my very first book report. It was suggested we branch out and read something more "adult"...
What piece of art changed your life? How did it affect you?
The work by potter George Ohr in 1890s Biloxi, Mississippi. The incredible inspiration and creative variety that went into his work—...
What piece of art changed your life? How did it affect you?
In Junior High, I saw Goodfellas and loved the way wiseguys didn't live by the rules—these guys were smart! And they were RIGHT to live...
What piece of art changed your life? How did it affect you?
[Jean-Michel] Basquiat. A friend of mine from Brooklyn, my stylist, knew him. She was in New York when Basquiat was there, and they were...
What piece of art changed your life? How did it affect you?
For various reasons, I had a debilitating case of writers block. I thought my career was over and then my friend Adrian Arleo showed me...
What piece of art changed your life? How did it affect you?
The book that changed my life is The Game OF Life And How To Play It by Florence Scovel Shinn, and the film that was a revelation was The...
What piece of art changed your life? How did it affect you?
The first three notes of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata. Why does it make us feel that way? It has that spacious, poignant, happy, sad...
What piece of art changed your life? How did it affect you?
The Art that has changed my life recently was the Buddah statues that were destroyed by the Taliban in Afghanistan. In spite of their...
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