What piece of art changed your life? How did it affect you?
I enjoy the work of Dali, Gaudi, Vermeer, Beethoven, Bach, but I have been most changed by Marzette Watts. He is a relatively unknown...
What piece of art changed your life? How did it affect you?
There are lots of pieces of art, particularly music and literature - that have influenced my life and development as a musician/artist....
What piece of art changed your life? How did it affect you?
Hearing Julius Hemphill's Dogon A.D. for the first time was a life-changing experience for me. It was the first so-called avant-garde jazz...
What piece of art changed your life? How did it affect you?
I’ll give you a Baltimore memory from my childhood. I used to put on an LP of Mussorgsky's Pictures At An Exhibition (the Ravel...
What piece of art changed your life? How did it affect you?
Bamboozled, the Spike Lee movie. It’s visually stimulating, musically rich—I love the Bruce Hornsby song (“Shadowlands”) at the end)—the...
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...
