Ben Folds - Extended Interview
Written by PBS NewsHour
Narrated by PBS NewsHour
()
About this audiobook
While it might not appear to be the case, musician Ben Folds concedes he wasn’t entirely comfortable playing the piano in front of an orchestra at first. That’s because growing up in North Carolina, playing percussion in orchestras, he never dreamed he’d be the headliner.
But several successful albums later, including this year’s Ben Folds Presents: University A Cappella, his latest tour includes a series of performances with some of the nation’s leading orchestras.
Folds spoke with Jeffrey Brown at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., at the start of the tour.
More audiobooks from Pbs News Hour
‘The Overstory' Author Richard Powers Answers Your Questions Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Geraldine Brooks: March Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Christopher Curtis: Bud, Not Buddy Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5James McBride: The Good Lord Bird Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Junot Diaz: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Jack Miles: God: A Biography Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Jeffrey Eugenides: Middlesex Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Author Elaine Pagels Explores Why Humans Rely On Religious Belief Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5John Lewis: Walking With The Wind Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Michael Lewis: The Big Short Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Childhood Trauma Impacts Millions Of Americans, And It's Having Devastating Consequences Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWhy Jimmy Carter May Be The Most Misunderstood President In American History Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsEdwidge Danticat: The Dew Breaker Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Debating Piketty’s Theory on How Wealth Begets Wealth, Widens the Economic Gap Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5How Rwanda became a global anti-AIDS leader: End of AIDS? Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWhat Ronan Farrow Discovered About The Systems That Cover Up Sexual Misconduct Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Kate DiCamillo: The Tale of Despereaux Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Isabel Allende's Newest Historical Novel Tells Familiar Story Of Refugee Life PBS NewsHour Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Richard Norton Smith: Lincoln's Influence Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMany College Students Struggle To Pass Remedial Math. Do They Need To? Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAs High Temperatures Hurt Sicily's Food Production, Rising Sea Levels Threaten Housing Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHow Norway's government made electric cars irresistible Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Rohingya Mother Remembers Her Rapists Every Time She Holds Her Baby Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDr. Siddhartha Mukherjee: The Emperor of all Maladies Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5David Brooks On Emerging From Loneliness To Find ‘Moral Renewal’ Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Ending AIDS in NY: The End of AIDS? Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGeorge Kennan: At A Century's Ending Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Why Black Women Face A Triple Threat From Breast Cancer Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Author Jia Tolentino On American Culture Through The Prism Of The Internet Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDaniel Yergin: Energy Costs Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Related to Ben Folds - Extended Interview
Related audiobooks
Listening for America: Inside the Great American Songbook from Gershwin to Sondheim Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Help!: The Beatles, Duke Ellington, and the Magic of Collaboration Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Woodstock Nation Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsYour Band Sucks: What I Saw at Indie Rock's Failed Revolution (But Can No Longer Hear) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGays on Broadway Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGary Gulman: Boyish Man Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5You Blew It!: An Awkward Look at the Many Ways in Which You've Already Ruined Your Life Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Coming to the Stage: Season 1 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Music and Mythocracy of Col. Bruce Hampton: A Basically True Biography Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Rock Stars on the Record: The Albums That Changed Their Lives Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Nose Down, Eyes Up: A Novel Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Your Van Is On Fire: The Miscellaneous Meanderings of a Musician Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5How Music Works: The Science and Psychology of Beautiful Sounds, from Beethoven to the Beatles and Beyond Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Taking Woodstock Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Beneath the Bonfire: Stories Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I'm Just Dead, I'm Not Gone Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5All These Things That I've Done: My Insane, Improbable Rock Life Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Bleeding Green: A History of the Hartford Whalers Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTom Arnold: Past & Present Imperfectly Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Why I Was Late Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Anthems We Love: 29 Iconic Artists on the Hit Songs That Shaped Our Lives Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGhost Light: A Memoir Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSara Schaefer: Chrysalis Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAnatomy of a Song: The Oral History of 45 Iconic Hits That Changed Rock, R&B and Pop Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Improv Nation: How We Made a Great American Art Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Better Days Will Come Again: The Life of Arthur Briggs, Jazz Genius of Harlem, Paris, and a Nazi Prison Camp Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I'm Dying Up Here: Heartbreak and High Times in Standup Comedy's Golden Era Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Language Arts & Discipline For You
Talk Like TED: The 9 Public-Speaking Secrets of the World's Top Minds Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Speed Reading: Learn to Read a 200+ Page Book in 1 Hour Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Mastering Logical Fallacies: The Definitive Guide to Flawless Rhetoric and Bulletproof Logic Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Elements of Eloquence: Secrets of the Perfect Turn of Phrase Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Fluent in 3 Months: How Anyone at Any Age Can Learn to Speak Any Language from Anywhere in the World Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5On Writing Well Audio Collection Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Win Your Case: How to Present, Persuade, and Prevail--Every Place, Every Time Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Storyteller: how to be an audio book narrator Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5How to Write Your First Novel: The Stress-Free Guide to Writing Fiction for Beginners Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5We Need to Talk: How to Have Conversations That Matter Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Six Cs of Effective Storytelling Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5How To Get Your Point Across In 30 Seconds Or Less Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Summary: Quiet by Susan Cain Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Rewrite Your Life: Discover Your Truth Through the Healing Power of Fiction Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5From Start to Finish: The Transformative Power of Story Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Saved: A War Reporter's Mission to Make It Home Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Write for Life: Creative Tools for Every Writer (A 6-Week Artist's Way Program) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Lincoln-Douglas Debates: The First Complete, Unexpurgated Text Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Alphabet Versus the Goddess: The Conflict Between Word and Image Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Life of One's Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Win Every Argument: The Art of Debating, Persuading, and Public Speaking Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Reviews for Ben Folds - Extended Interview
0 ratings0 reviews