Episode 137: Swans

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Music

• Sarah in Bath from Krysztof Komeda's score to the Fearless Vampire Killers. 

• Adagio for Glass Harmonica, K617a as performed by Vienna Glass Armonia Duo.

• Mr. Death Angel Flanders from John Barry's score to Boom!

• And a bit of Imaginary Building from Elana Katz-Cherwin and Tamara-Anna Cislowska

Notes

• There's a great American Heritage article on the history of Delmonico's.

• There's a nice write up on the Swan Dinner in American Phoenix: The Remarkable Story of William Skinner, by Sarah S. Kilborne 

• Society as I Have Found It, Ward McAllister's memoir of the Gilded Age is appropriately bonkers.