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July 21, 2019: Go By Train

July 21 at 5pm:

Hearing Voices and PRX present "Go By Train"

Musician Calvin Johnson  hosts train tales: An existential interaction with an automated Amtrak voice. The Kronos Quartet plays Steve Reich's "Different Trains." Singer Jules Shear recalls an on-board performance. A Sound Portrait of a Pullman Porter. A track-hopping hobo named Short Stop. Circus performer Little Jack Horton and poet Charles Bukowski stolen engine car. Segregated train-travel from StoryCorps. The world's largest model railroad. And Calvin's Great Aunt Grace's 1891 train trip. 

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