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Service95 Playlist: Hernan Diaz’s Writing Soundtracks For Trust
Service95 Playlist: Hernan Diaz’s Writing Soundtracks For Trust
Service95 Playlist: Hernan Diaz’s Writing Soundtracks For Trust
Service95 Playlist: Hernan Diaz’s Writing Soundtracks For Trust
Service95 Playlist: Hernan Diaz’s Writing Soundtracks For Trust
Service95 Playlist: Hernan Diaz’s Writing Soundtracks For Trust
Service95 Playlist: Hernan Diaz’s Writing Soundtracks For Trust
Service95 Playlist: Hernan Diaz’s Writing Soundtracks For Trust
Service95 Playlist: Hernan Diaz’s Writing Soundtracks For Trust
Service95 Playlist: Hernan Diaz’s Writing Soundtracks For Trust
Service95 Playlist: Hernan Diaz’s Writing Soundtracks For Trust
Service95 Playlist: Hernan Diaz’s Writing Soundtracks For Trust
Service95 Playlist: Hernan Diaz’s Writing Soundtracks For Trust
Service95 Playlist: Hernan Diaz’s Writing Soundtracks For Trust
Service95 Playlist: Hernan Diaz’s Writing Soundtracks For Trust
Service95 Playlist: Hernan Diaz’s Writing Soundtracks For Trust
Service95 Playlist: Hernan Diaz’s Writing Soundtracks For Trust
Service95 Playlist: Hernan Diaz’s Writing Soundtracks For Trust
Service95 Playlist: Hernan Diaz’s Writing Soundtracks For Trust
Service95 Playlist: Hernan Diaz’s Writing Soundtracks For Trust
Service95 Playlist: Hernan Diaz’s Writing Soundtracks For Trust
Service95 Playlist: Hernan Diaz’s Writing Soundtracks For Trust
Service95 Playlist: Hernan Diaz’s Writing Soundtracks For Trust
Service95 Playlist: Hernan Diaz’s Writing Soundtracks For Trust
Service95 Playlist: Hernan Diaz’s Writing Soundtracks For Trust
Service95 Playlist: Hernan Diaz’s Writing Soundtracks For Trust
Service95 Playlist: Hernan Diaz’s Writing Soundtracks For Trust
Service95 Playlist: Hernan Diaz’s Writing Soundtracks For Trust
Service95 Playlist: Hernan Diaz’s Writing Soundtracks For Trust
Service95 Playlist: Hernan Diaz’s Writing Soundtracks For Trust
Service95 Playlist: Hernan Diaz’s Writing Soundtracks For Trust
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Playlist: Hernan Diaz’s Writing Soundtracks For Trust

Hernan Diaz, the author of Trust – Service95 Book Club’s March Monthly Read – shares the music he listened to when writing the novel

Trust Playlist

“Trust is mainly about women’s voices, so this is a playlist featuring only women’s voices. In one way or another, all these songs question and defy the narrow, suffocating gender roles. In some cases, the challenge to misogyny is overt and in your face (The Slits, Chaka Khan, Bikini Kill, Sonic Youth, Kleenex, The Raincoats, ESG). In others, the tables are turned (Bette Davis, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Blondie). In some of the songs, a strong undertow of irony can be heard regarding fairy tale narratives (Donna Summer). In contrast, others double down in the exploration of loneliness, claustrophobia, and alienation (Portishead, Carpenters, Yoko Ono, My Bloody Valentine, Eurythmics, Angel Olsen). Some even relate to the book in uncannily close terms (The Fall, Yazoo, Roberta Flack, Broadcast, Neu!). Of course, greed and money are recurring themes (The B-52s, Kid Creole, The Flying Lizards), as is the experience of ambling about a sometimes-hostile New York City (Cat Power, Bush Tetras). I was so lucky to find so many songs that spoke directly to the novel by so many of my all-time favourite artists. I do love the variety of genres and moods in this playlist.”— Hernan Diaz

Over (Live)  –  Portishead

I’m A Woman – Rufus & Chaka Khan

Rumour Has It – Donna Summer

Typical Girls  – The Slits

Compared to What –  Roberta Flack

Rich – Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Manhattan Cat Power

Too Many Creeps Bush Tetras

Vixen – The Fall

Troubled Child Joni Mitchell

No One’s Eye Little Girl The Raincoats

Accidents Never Happen Blondie

A Simple Design The Juan Maclean

Politician Man – Betty Davis

Shoot Sonic Youth

The Masquerade – The Carpenters

All Mirrors Angel Olsen

Ain’t You Kleenex

Erase You ESG

DemiRep Bikini Kill

I’m Corrupt Kid Creole And The Coconuts

Legal Tender The B-52

Money The Flying Lizards

Nobody’s Diary Yazoo

Tender Buttons – Broadcast

Come in Alone my bloody valentine

Walking On Thin Ice – Yoko Ono, Jason Pierce

She’s Invisible Now Eurythmics, Annie Lennox, Dave Stewart

Gedenkminute (fuer A+K) NEU!

Mildred’s Playlist

“Music is one of the book’s main protagonists – and Trust actually has a musical structure in several regards. Mildred, the main character, is immensely gifted but unable to pursue a musical career because of the suffocating gender expectations and rampant sexism of the age. This playlist gathers most of the composers and performers referenced throughout the novel, with emphasis on relatively unsung American female composers of the time. I’m really touched by Ruth Crawford Seeger’s music (maybe because I love Berg and Bartók, both of whom she met and whose influence is clear in her work). Amy Beach and Mary Howe were also among the composers I listened to as I wrote the book – about a third of this process took place at the MacDowell residency, to which Ruth Crawford, Amy Beach, and Marion Bauer were in different ways connected. It was inspiring to be steeped in that history. Bach is a massive presence in the novel – and in my life (I play his music on my headphones while I write every day). There are also a few recordings by transcendental performers from the time, some of which played at Mildred’s salon (Rosenthal, Kreisler, Schnabel). And, of course, pieces by modernist heroes, from Schönberg and Webern to Stravinsky and Varése. On the novel’s final page, Mildred quotes a poem by Mallarmé. I’ve included Ravel’s song based on it in Anne Sofie von Otter’s version, which brings me to tears every single time.”— Hernan Diaz

By The Still Waters, Op. 114 — Amy Beach, Isata Kanneh-Mason

Trio Sonata No. 1, Op. 40: II. Andante espressivo — Marion Bauer, Jonathan Snowden, Judith Herbert, Diana Ambache

Andante Mystico — Ruth Crawford, Sarah Cahill

Three Pieces After Emily Dickinson: II. “Birds, by The Snow” (Tra... — Mary Howe, Various Artists

Central Park in the Dark – Live — Charles Ives, New York Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein

Nocturne No. 2 in E-Flat, Op. 9, No. 2 – Recording: March 1935 — Frédéric Chopin, Moriz Rosenthal

Musical Offering, BWV 1079 (Orch. Anton Webern): Fuga (Ricer... — Johann Sebastian Bach, Berliner Philharmoniker, Pierre Boulez

Andante for Strings — Ruth Crawford Seeger, Schönberg Ensemble, Oliver Knussen

Piano Sonata No. 20 in A, D. 959 — Franz Schubert, Artur Schnabel

Lyric Suite for String Quartet (1926): II. Andante amoroso — Alban Berg, Emerson String Quartet

Berceuse — Amy Beach, Stephen Hough, Steven Isserlis

Violin Sonata No. 1 in G Minor, BWV 1001: I. Adagio — Johann Sebastian Bach, Fritz Kreisler

Six Pieces For Orchestra, Op. 6 – Original Version (1909): III. Zar... — Anton Webern, Berliner Philharmoniker, Pierre Boulez

Music for Small Orchestra (1926): 1. Slow, pensive — Ruth Crawford Seeger, Schönberg Ensemble, Oliver Knussen

Suite Italienne for Violin and Piano, Serenata: II. Larghetto — Igor Stravinsky, Bruno Monteiro, Joao Paulo Santos

Suite für Klavier, Op. 25: Ilc. Gavotte (da capo) — Arnold Schoenberg, Maurizio Pollini

Pines Of Rome, P. 141: 2. The Pines Near A Catacomb — Ottorino Respighi, Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan

Octandre – Rev. & Ed. Chou Wen-Chung 1980: 1. Assez lent — Edgard Varèse, Asko Ensemble, Riccardo Chailly

Sonatine, H. 42: II. Lent et soutenu — Arthur Honegger, Maximiliano Martín, Scott Mitchell

Sonate pour piano et violoncello: II. Adagio espressivo — Ernest Bloch, Raphael Walifisch, John York

Quiet City — Aaron Copland, Philip Smith, Thomas Stacy, New York Philharmonic, Leo...

VIII — Johanna Beyer, Sarah Cahill

Kleine Suite, Op. 13a: VI. Foxtrott — Ernst Krenek, Stanislav Khristenko

Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, BB 114 (Sz. 106): III. A... — Béla Bartók, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Pierre Boulez

3 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 16: No. 1. Prelude and Fugue in G Mi... — Clara Schumann, Jozef De Beenhouwer

Tosca: Act III: lo de’ sospiri — Giacomo Puccini, Zubin Mehta, David Pearl

Cello Suite No. 5 in C minor, BWV 1011: IV. Sarabande — Johann Sebastian Bach, Pablo Casals

Dichterliebe, Op. 48: X. Hör’ ich das Liedchen klingen — Robert Schumann, Fritz Wunderlich, Hubert Giesen

Preludes & Fugues, Op. 87: Prelude no.1 in C major. Moderato — Dmitri Shostakovich, Alexander Melnikov

Rückert-Lieder: Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen — Gustav Mahler, Kathleen Ferrier, Wiener Philharmoniker, Bruno Walter

Ricercar A 6– Ensemble (Bach) — Johann Sebastian Bach

Trois Poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé, M.64: 1. Soupir — Maurice Ravel, Anne Sofie von Otter, Andreas Alin, Peter Rydstroem, Lars Paulson, Bengt Forsberg, Nils-Erik Sparf, Ulf Forsberg, Matti Hirvikangas, Mats Lidström

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