Producer Ben Calhoun investigates a daily mystery—a daily musical mystery. (15 minutes)
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Act One: Music of the Night after Night after Night
The musicians in the orchestra for Phantom of the Opera tell reporter Jay Caspian Kang about what it’s like to play the exact same music every single night—for decades.
Act One: Voice Over
Sandy Allen tells the story of learning to play an instrument that suddenly sounds very different — his own voice.
Track One: Just Be Good to Me
As a kid, Nichole Perkins always liked a very specific type of song.
More by Ben Calhoun
Act One: Chief Lewis Adds It Up
The police chief in Muskegon conducts his own personal investigation into Officer Anderson’s interactions with Black people on the job.
Act One: Dead Ringer
A while ago, a farmer walked through a pork processing plant in Oklahoma with a friend who managed it.
Act Three: Louisiana
Ben Calhoun talks to a man in ICE detention in Louisiana about how he and people around him are following the election.