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Doc Severinsen’s best advice for music students

In this outtake from Never Too Late: The Doc Severinsen Story, the colorful bandleader of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson and master trumpeter shares his best advice with one of his music students. Stream the documentary now.
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Why did Oliver Sacks love the periodic table so much?

The renowned physician and writer Oliver Sacks was known for his amazing empathy for other people. But his first “friends” as a child, as he described, were not people but numbers, minerals, metals and plants.
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The New Yorker’s Hilton Als on Flannery O’Connor

Hilton Als explores the work of Flannery O’Connor in his 2013 essay “This Lonesome Place,” originally published in McSweeney’s. Stream Flannery now.
 
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Inside Twyla Tharp's studio: "What was happening was simply raw vigor"

“It wasn’t the first time I had seen Twyla at work with her dancers, but it was definitely the most memorable,” dance critic Laura Shapiro writes in this exclusive essay for our website.

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American Masters is an award-winning, signature PBS series, created by The WNET Group, the parent company of New York's PBS stations, and supported by the community we serve.    

Support for American Masters is provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, AARP, Rosalind P. Walter, Judith & Burton Resnick, The Cheryl & Philip Milstein family, Vital Projects Fund, Lillian Goldman Programming Endowment, The Blanche & Irving Laurie Foundation, Seton J. Melvin, Philip & Janice Levin Foundation, Ellen & James S. Marcus, The André and Elizabeth Kertész Foundation, The Ambrose Monell Foundation and public television viewers.

Major funding for Never Too Late: The Doc Severinsen Story is provided by National Endowment for the Arts.

Major funding for Flannery is provided by The Better Angels Society, National Endowment for the Humanities, The Joan and Bill Hank Center for the Catholic Intellectual Heritage, Virginia Wellington Cabot Foundation, Patrick and Becky Cipollone, Jesuit Community of Loyola University Chicago, and William and Maureen Runzel.

Major funding for Twyla Moves is provided by Jody and John Arnhold, and Susan Lacy.

Funding for Oliver Sacks: His Own Life was provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Simons Foundation, the Overbrook Foundation, Just Films/Ford Foundation, the Margaret and Daniel Loeb Foundation, the San Francisco Foundation, Wellcome Trust, The Oliver Sacks Foundation and the Sheena and Vijay Vaidyanathan Fund.


           
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