This special episode of from the 5th of May 2004 contains a single epic recitation; “The Phlogiston Variations” is a heavily-annotated history of Chlorine Winslow’s orchestral masterpiece, and has much to say about the bouffants of maestro conductors, the sonic possibilities of farming implements, and the the life of the greatest Alaskan composer of the last (and possibly next) five-hundred years.
