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Sufjan Stevens (born July 1, 1975) is an American singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist.[1]

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  1. 230 relations: A Beginner's Mind, A Sun Came, Academy Award for Best Original Song, Academy Awards, African-American art, Alanson, Michigan, Alec Duffy, Ali Forney Center, All Delighted People, AllMusic, Alternative rock, America (Sufjan Stevens song), American Alliance of Museums, Angelo De Augustine, Anglicanism, Anglo-Catholicism, Anticon, Aporia (Sufjan Stevens and Lowell Brams album), Asthmatic Kitty, Avant-garde music, Bandcamp, Banjo, Baroque pop, Beak & Claw, Billboard 200, Billboard charts, Bob Dylan, Bomb (magazine), Boxer (The National album), Brandon Stirling Baker, Brendan Gill, Brooklyn, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Bryce Dessner, Call Me by Your Name (film), Call Me by Your Name: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, Carl Sandburg, Carrie & Lowell, Casimir Pulaski Day, Castanets (band), Catskill Mountains, Chamber pop, Chicago (Sufjan Stevens song), Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Chinese zodiac, Christianity Today, Clare & the Reasons, CMJ, Consequence (publication), Contemporary Christian music, ... Expand index (180 more) »

  2. American indie folk musicians
  3. American oboists
  4. Asthmatic Kitty artists
  5. Baroque pop musicians
  6. Cor anglais players
  7. Folk musicians from Michigan
  8. LGBT Christians
  9. Rock oboists
  10. Sisyphus (hip hop group) members

A Beginner's Mind

A Beginner's Mind is a collaborative album by American musicians Sufjan Stevens and Angelo De Augustine.

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A Sun Came

A Sun Came is the debut studio album by American singer-songwriter Sufjan Stevens, released in 2000 on Asthmatic Kitty.

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Academy Award for Best Original Song

The Academy Award for Best Original Song is one of the awards given annually to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).

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Academy Awards

The Academy Awards of Merit, commonly known as the Oscars or Academy Awards, are awards for artistic and technical merit for the film industry.

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African-American art

African-American art is a broad term describing visual art created by African Americans.

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Alanson, Michigan

Alanson is a village in Emmet County in the U.S. state of Michigan.

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Alec Duffy

Alec Duffy (born 1975) is an Obie Award winning writer and director, and the Artistic Director of Hoi Polloi and JACK, a performing arts space in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn.

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Ali Forney Center

The Ali Forney Center (AFC), based in New York City, is the largest LGBT community center helping LGBTQ homeless youth in the United States.

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All Delighted People

All Delighted People is an EP by Sufjan Stevens, released online by Asthmatic Kitty Records on August 20, 2010.

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AllMusic

AllMusic (previously known as All-Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database.

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Alternative rock

Alternative rock (also known as alternative music, alt-rock or simply alternative) is a category of rock music that evolved from the independent music underground of the 1970s.

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America (Sufjan Stevens song)

"America" is a song by American singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Sufjan Stevens.

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American Alliance of Museums

The American Alliance of Museums (AAM), formerly the American Association of Museums, is a non-profit association whose goal is to bring museums together.

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Angelo De Augustine

Angelo De Augustine is an American musician residing in Thousand Oaks, California. Sufjan Stevens and Angelo De Augustine are Asthmatic Kitty artists.

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Anglicanism

Anglicanism is a Western Christian tradition which developed from the practices, liturgy, and identity of the Church of England following the English Reformation, in the context of the Protestant Reformation in Europe.

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Anglo-Catholicism

Anglo-Catholicism comprises beliefs and practices that emphasize the Catholic heritage and identity of the Church of England and various churches within the Anglican Communion.

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Anticon

Anticon (often styled as anticon.) was an independent record label based in Los Angeles, California.

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Aporia (Sufjan Stevens and Lowell Brams album)

Aporia is an album by American musician Sufjan Stevens and his stepfather, Lowell Brams.

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Asthmatic Kitty

Asthmatic Kitty Records is an American independent record label founded in 1999 by a community of musicians from Holland, Michigan led by Sufjan Stevens and his stepfather Lowell Brams.

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Avant-garde music

Avant-garde music is music that is considered to be at the forefront of innovation in its field, with the term "avant-garde" implying a critique of existing aesthetic conventions, rejection of the status quo in favor of unique or original elements, and the idea of deliberately challenging or alienating audiences.

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Bandcamp

Bandcamp is an American online audio distribution platform founded in 2007 by Oddpost co-founder Ethan Diamond and programmers Shawn Grunberger, Joe Holt and Neal Tucker, with headquarters in Oakland, California.

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Banjo

The banjo is a stringed instrument with a thin membrane stretched over a frame or cavity to form a resonator.

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Baroque pop

Baroque pop (sometimes called baroque rock) is a fusion genre that combines rock music with particular elements of classical music.

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Beak & Claw

Beak & Claw is the debut EP by Sisyphus (released under the name S / S / S), a collaborative project between Serengeti, Sufjan Stevens, and Son Lux.

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Billboard 200

The Billboard 200 is a record chart ranking the 200 most popular music albums and EPs in the United States.

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Billboard charts

The Billboard charts tabulate the relative weekly popularity of songs and albums in the United States and elsewhere.

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Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan (legally Robert Dylan; born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter. Sufjan Stevens and bob Dylan are American folk guitarists, American folk rock musicians, American folk singers, American multi-instrumentalists and American rock songwriters.

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Bomb (magazine)

Bomb (stylized in all caps as BOMB) is an American arts magazine edited by artists and writers, published quarterly in print and daily online.

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Boxer (The National album)

Boxer is the fourth studio album by American indie rock band the National, released on May 22, 2007, on Beggars Banquet Records.

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Brandon Stirling Baker

Brandon Stirling Baker is an American lighting designer working internationally in ballet, opera and theatre.

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Brendan Gill

Brendan Gill (October 4, 1914 – December 27, 1997) was an American journalist.

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Brooklyn

Brooklyn is a borough of New York City.

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Brooklyn Academy of Music

The Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) is a multi-arts center in Brooklyn, New York City.

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Bryce Dessner

Bryce David Dessner (born April 23, 1976) is an American composer and guitarist based in Paris, and a member of the rock band the National. Sufjan Stevens and Bryce Dessner are American indie rock musicians.

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Call Me by Your Name (film)

Call Me by Your Name (Chiamami col tuo nome) is a 2017 coming-of-age romantic drama film directed by Luca Guadagnino.

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Call Me by Your Name: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

Call Me by Your Name: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is the soundtrack to the 2017 romantic drama film, Call Me by Your Name.

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Carl Sandburg

Carl August Sandburg (January 6, 1878 – July 22, 1967) was an American poet, biographer, journalist, and editor.

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Carrie & Lowell

Carrie & Lowell is the seventh studio album by American musician Sufjan Stevens.

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Casimir Pulaski Day

Casimir Pulaski Day is a local holiday officially observed in Illinois, on the first Monday of March in memory of Casimir Pulaski (March 6, 1745 – October 11, 1779), a Revolutionary War cavalry officer born in Poland as Kazimierz Pułaski.

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Castanets (band)

Castanets was the musical project of Ray Raposa, who had been signed to Asthmatic Kitty Records from 2004 until his death in 2022. Sufjan Stevens and Castanets (band) are Asthmatic Kitty artists.

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Catskill Mountains

The Catskill Mountains, also known as the Catskills, are a physiographic province and subrange of the larger Appalachian Mountains, located in southeastern New York.

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Chamber pop

Chamber pop (also called baroque pop and sometimes conflated with orchestral pop or symphonic pop) is a music genre that combines rock music with the intricate use of strings, horns, piano, and vocal harmonies, and other components drawn from the orchestral and lounge pop of the 1960s, with an emphasis on melody and texture.

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Chicago (Sufjan Stevens song)

"Chicago" ("Go! CHICAGO! Go! Yeah!" on the vinyl edition) is a track from Sufjan Stevens 2005 concept album Illinois, released on Asthmatic Kitty.

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Chicago Shakespeare Theater

Chicago Shakespeare Theater (CST) is a non-profit, professional theater company located at Navy Pier in Chicago, Illinois.

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Chinese zodiac

The Chinese zodiac is a traditional classification scheme based on the Chinese calendar that assigns an animal and its reputed attributes to each year in a repeating twelve-year cycle.

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Christianity Today

Christianity Today is an evangelical Christian media magazine founded in 1956 by Billy Graham.

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Clare & the Reasons

Clare and the Reasons are an American pop band led by singer-songwriter Clare Manchon (née Muldaur) and her husband, Olivier Manchon.

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CMJ

CMJ Holdings Corp. is a music events, online media company and a distributor of up and coming music CDs, originally founded in 1978, which ran a website, hosted an annual festival in New York City, and published two magazines, CMJ New Music Monthly and CMJ New Music Report.

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Consequence (publication)

Consequence (previously Consequence of Sound) is an independently owned New York–based online magazine featuring news, editorials, and reviews of music, movies, and television.

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Contemporary Christian music

Contemporary Christian music (CCM), also known as Christian pop, and occasionally inspirational music, is a genre of modern popular music, and an aspect of Christian media, which is lyrically focused on matters related to the Christian faith and stylistically rooted in Christian music.

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Convocations (album)

Convocations is the ninth studio album by American musician Sufjan Stevens, released through Asthmatic Kitty on May 6, 2021.

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Cream City Review

Cream City Review is a volunteer-based, non-profit literary magazine.

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Critics' Choice Movie Awards

The Critics' Choice Awards (formerly known as the Broadcast Film Critics Association Award) is an awards show presented annually by the American-Canadian Critics Choice Association (CCA) to honor the finest in cinematic achievement.

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Daniel Johnston

Daniel Dale Johnston (January 22, 1961 – September 11, 2019) was an American singer, musician and artist regarded as a significant figure in outsider, lo-fi, and alternative music scenes. Sufjan Stevens and Daniel Johnston are American indie rock musicians.

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Danielson

Danielson is an American rock band from Clarksboro, New Jersey, that plays indie pop gospel music.

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Dark Was the Night (album)

Dark Was the Night is the twentieth compilation release benefiting the Red Hot Organization, an international charity dedicated to raising funds and awareness for HIV and AIDS.

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David di Donatello

The David di Donatello Awards, named after Donatello's David, a symbolic statue of the Italian Renaissance, are film awards given out each year by the Accademia del Cinema Italiano (The Academy of Italian Cinema).

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David di Donatello for Best Original Song

The David di Donatello for Best Original Song (David di Donatello per la miglior canzone originale) is a film award presented annually by the Accademia del Cinema Italiano (ACI).

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David Garland (musician)

David Garland (born December 17, 1954) is a singer-songwriter, composer, instrument designer, illustrator, graphic designer, journalist, and former New York city radio personality.

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Decatur, Illinois

Decatur is the largest city in and the county seat of Macon County, Illinois, United States.

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Denison Witmer

Denison Witmer is an American singer-songwriter from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States. Sufjan Stevens and Denison Witmer are American indie folk musicians and Asthmatic Kitty artists.

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Detroit Waldorf School

The Detroit Waldorf School is a private PreK-8 Waldorf school located at 2555 Burns, Detroit, Michigan, United States, in an Albert Kahn-designed school in the historic Indian Village neighborhood.

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Disco

Disco is a genre of dance music and a subculture that emerged in the late 1960s from the United States' urban nightlife scene.

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Dorian Awards

The Dorian Awards are film, television and Broadway / Off-Broadway accolades given by GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics, founded in 2009 as the Gay and Lesbian Entertainment Critics Association.

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Drake (musician)

Aubrey Drake Graham (born October 24, 1986), known mononymously as Drake, is a Canadian rapper, singer, and actor.

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Driving Lessons

Driving Lessons is a 2006 British comedy-drama film written and directed by Jeremy Brock.

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Electronica

Electronica is both a broad group of electronic-based music styles intended for listening rather than strictly for dancing and a music scene that came to prominence in the early 1990s in the United Kingdom.

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End of the Road Festival

End of the Road Festival is an annual music festival in England which focuses on independent rock and folk music.

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Enjoy Your Rabbit

Enjoy Your Rabbit is a 2001 electronic music album by American musician Sufjan Stevens.

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Entertainment Weekly

Entertainment Weekly (sometimes abbreviated as EW) is an American digital-only entertainment magazine based in New York City, published by Dotdash Meredith, that covers film, television, music, Broadway theatre, books, and popular culture.

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Everywhere We Go (ballet)

Everywhere We Go is a ballet choreographed by Justin Peck and scored by Sufjan Stevens.

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Exclaim!

Exclaim! is a Canadian music and entertainment publisher based in Toronto, which features in-depth coverage of new music across all genres with a special focus on Canadian and emerging artists.

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Filter (magazine)

Filter (stylized as FILTER) was an entertainment magazine on American music that was founded in summer of 2002.

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Flint, Michigan

Flint is the largest city and seat of Genesee County, Michigan, United States.

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Folk music

Folk music is a music genre that includes traditional folk music and the contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk revival.

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Folk-pop

Folk-pop is a broad musical style that includes contemporary folk songs with pop arrangements, and pop songs with intimate, acoustic-based folk arrangements.

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Folktronica

Folktronica is a genre of music comprising various elements of folk music and electronica, often featuring uses of acoustic instruments – especially stringed instruments – and incorporating hip hop, electronic or dance rhythms, although it varies based on influences and choice of sounds.

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Free Man in Paris

"Free Man in Paris" is a song written by Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell.

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Georgia Film Critics Association

The Georgia Film Critics Association (GAFCA) is an organization of professional film critics from the U.S. state of Georgia.

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The Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media (including its previous names) is the Grammy Awards awarded to songs written for films, television, video games or other visual media.

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Grammy Awards

The Grammy Awards, stylized as GRAMMY, and often referred to as the Grammys, are awards presented by the Recording Academy of the United States to recognize outstanding achievements in the music industry.

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Guillain–Barré syndrome

Guillain–Barré syndrome (GBS) is a rapid-onset muscle weakness caused by the immune system damaging the peripheral nervous system.

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Guitalin

A guitalin is a Northern American folk instrument that is a part of the lute family, having four courses of strings.

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Half-handed Cloud

Half-handed Cloud is an American recording project, based in Helsinki, Finland since 2015. Sufjan Stevens and Half-handed Cloud are Asthmatic Kitty artists.

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Heatseekers charts

The Heatseekers charts are "Breaking and Entering" music charts issued weekly by ''Billboard'' magazine.

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High Violet

High Violet is the fifth studio album by The National, which was released on May 10, 2010, in Europe and on May 11, 2010, in North America via 4AD.

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Holland, Michigan

Holland is a city in Ottawa and Allegan Counties in the western region of the Lower Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan.

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Hope College

Hope College is a private Christian liberal arts college in Holland, Michigan.

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Hula hoop

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I, Tonya

I, Tonya is a 2017 American biographical sports mockumentary black comedy film directed by Craig Gillespie from a screenplay by Steven Rogers.

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Illinois

Illinois is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

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Illinois (Sufjan Stevens album)

Illinois (styled Sufjan Stevens Invites You to: Come on Feel the Illinoise on the cover; sometimes spelled as Illinoise) is a 2005 concept album by American singer-songwriter Sufjan Stevens.

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Illinoise

Illinoise is a 2023 dance revue musical with music and lyrics by Sufjan Stevens and an original story by Justin Peck and Jackie Sibblies Drury.

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IMDb

IMDb (an acronym for Internet Movie Database) is an online database of information related to films, television series, podcasts, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and personal biographies, plot summaries, trivia, ratings, and fan and critical reviews.

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Indie folk

Indie folk is a music genre that arose in the 1990s among musicians from indie rock scenes influenced by folk music.

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Indie pop

Indie pop (also typeset as indie-pop or indiepop) is a music genre and subculture that combines <!--- Source states "guitar pop" not "indie pop" or "pop rock"---->guitar pop with DIY ethic in opposition to the style and tone of mainstream pop music.

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Indie rock

Indie rock is a subgenre of rock music that originated in the United Kingdom, United States and New Zealand in the early to mid-1980s.

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Instagram

Instagram is a photo and video sharing social networking service owned by Meta Platforms.

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Interlochen Center for the Arts

Interlochen Center for the Arts (also known as I.C.A. or Inty) is a non-profit corporation which operates arts education institutions and performance venues.

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International Cinephile Society

The International Cinephile Society is an online organization of professional film critics and journalists worldwide.

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Interstate 278

Interstate 278 (I-278) is an auxiliary Interstate Highway in New Jersey and New York in the United States.

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Jackie Sibblies Drury

Jackie Sibblies Drury is an American playwright.

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Jacksonville, Illinois

Jacksonville is a city in Morgan County, Illinois, United States.

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Javelin (album)

Javelin is the tenth studio album by American musician Sufjan Stevens.

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John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (officially known as the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts, and commonly referred to as the Kennedy Center) is the United States National Cultural Center, located on the eastern bank of the Potomac River in Washington, D.C. It was named in 1964 as a memorial to assassinated President John F.

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John Fahey (musician)

John Aloysius Fahey (February 28, 1939 – February 22, 2001) was an American fingerstyle guitarist and composer who played the steel-string acoustic guitar as a solo instrument. Sufjan Stevens and John Fahey (musician) are American folk guitarists.

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John Wayne Gacy

John Wayne Gacy (March 17, 1942 – May 10, 1994) was an American serial killer and sex offender who raped, tortured, and murdered at least 33 young men and boys in Norwood Park Township, near Chicago, Illinois.

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Joni Mitchell

Roberta Joan "Joni" Mitchell (née Anderson; born November 7, 1943) is a Canadian-American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and painter.

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Joyful Noise Recordings

Joyful Noise Recordings is an independent record label with headquarters in Indianapolis, Indiana.

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Julie Walters

Dame Julia Mary Walters (born 22 February 1950), known professionally as Julie Walters, is an English actress.

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Justin Peck

Justin Peck (born September 8, 1987) is an American choreographer, director, and dancer associated with New York City Ballet, of which he was appointed Resident Choreographer in July 2014, being the second person in the history of the institution to hold this title.

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Late Show with David Letterman

The Late Show with David Letterman is an American late-night talk show hosted by David Letterman on CBS, the first iteration of the ''Late Show'' franchise.

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LGBT

is an initialism that stands for "lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender".

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LGBT pride

LGBT pride (also known as gay pride or simply pride) is the promotion of the self-affirmation, dignity, equality, and increased visibility of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people as a social group.

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Lo-fi music

Lo-fi (also typeset as lofi or low-fi; short for low fidelity) is a music or production quality in which elements usually regarded as imperfections in the context of a recording or performance are present, sometimes as a deliberate choice.

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Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a regional American daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California in 1881.

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Master of Fine Arts

A Master of Fine Arts (MFA or M.F.A.) is a terminal degree in fine arts, including visual arts, creative writing, graphic design, photography, filmmaking, dance, theatre, other performing arts and in some cases, theatre management or arts administration.

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Matt Berninger

Matthew Donald Berninger (born February 13, 1971) is an American singer, primarily known as the frontman and lyricist of indie rock band The National.

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Metacritic is a website that aggregates reviews of films, television shows, music albums, video games, and formerly books.

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Michigan (album)

Michigan (styled Sufjan Stevens Presents... Greetings from Michigan, the Great Lake State on the cover) is a concept album by American indie folk songwriter Sufjan Stevens, released on July 1, 2003, on Sounds Familyre, Asthmatic Kitty and Secretly Canadian in the US, and on Rough Trade in Europe.

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Montreal

Montreal is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest in Canada, and the tenth-largest in North America.

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MTV

MTV (originally an initialism of Music Television) is an American cable television channel.

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Multitrack recording

Multitrack recording (MTR), also known as multitracking, is a method of sound recording developed in 1955 that allows for the separate recording of multiple sound sources or of sound sources recorded at different times to create a cohesive whole.

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Mystery of Love

"Mystery of Love" is a song written and performed by American singer-songwriter Sufjan Stevens and produced by Thomas Bartlett.

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Nashville, Tennessee

Nashville, often known as Music City, is the capital and most populous city in the U.S. state of Tennessee and the county seat of Davidson County.

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Nettwerk Music Group

Nettwerk Music Group is an independent record label founded in 1984.

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New York (magazine)

New York is an American biweekly magazine concerned with life, culture, politics, and style generally, with a particular emphasis on New York City.

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Nico Muhly

Nico Asher Muhly (born August 26, 1981) is an American contemporary classical music composer and arranger who has worked and recorded with both classical and pop musicians.

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No Shade in the Shadow of the Cross

"No Shade in the Shadow of the Cross" is a song by American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Sufjan Stevens.

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Northern Michigan

Northern Michigan, also known as Northern Lower Michigan (known colloquially to residents of more southerly parts of the state and summer residents from cities such as Detroit as "Up North"), is a region of the U.S. state of Michigan.

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Now (newspaper)

Now (styled as NOW), also known as NOW Magazine is an online publication based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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NPR

National Public Radio (NPR, stylized as npr) is an American public broadcasting organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., with its NPR West headquarters in Culver City, California.

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Ogg

Ogg is a free, open container format maintained by the Xiph.Org Foundation.

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Oregon

Oregon is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States.

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Paste (magazine)

Paste is an American monthly music and entertainment digital magazine, headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, with studios in Atlanta and Manhattan, and owned by Paste Media Group.

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Penske Media Corporation (PMC) is an American mass media, publishing, and information services company based in Los Angeles and New York City.

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Phi Beta Kappa

The Phi Beta Kappa Society (ΦΒΚ) is the oldest academic honor society in the United States.

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Philadelphia

Philadelphia, colloquially referred to as Philly, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and the sixth-most populous city in the nation, with a population of 1,603,797 in the 2020 census.

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Pitchfork (website)

Pitchfork (formerly Pitchfork Media) is an American online music publication founded in 1996 by Ryan Schreiber in Minneapolis.

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Pitchfork Music Festival

The Pitchfork Music Festival is an annual music festival in Union Park in Chicago, Illinois, organized by the online magazine Pitchfork. Starting in 2011, the festival announced a branch staged in Paris at Grande halle de la Villette.

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Planetarium (album)

Planetarium is a collaborative album featuring Bryce Dessner of the indie rock band The National, drummer James McAlister, contemporary classical music composer and arranger Nico Muhly, and singer-songwriter Sufjan Stevens.

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PLUG Independent Music Awards

The PLUG Independent Music Awards, or just PLUG Awards, began in 2001 as a "cartel" of music lovers ranging from DJs and managers to indie retailers and fans.

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PopMatters

PopMatters is an international online magazine of cultural criticism that covers aspects of popular culture.

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Pride Month

Pride Month, sometimes specified as LGBT Pride Month, is a monthlong observance dedicated to the celebration of LGBT pride, commemorating the contributions of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) culture and community.

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Prince (musician)

Prince Rogers Nelson (June 7, 1958April 21, 2016) was an American singer, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, record producer, and actor. Sufjan Stevens and Prince (musician) are American multi-instrumentalists and American rock songwriters.

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Prospect Park (Brooklyn)

Prospect Park is a urban park in the New York City borough of Brooklyn.

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Record Store Day

Record Store Day is an annual event inaugurated in 2007 to "celebrate the culture of the independently owned record store".

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Red Hot Organization

Red Hot Organization (RHO) is a non-profit, 501(c) 3, international organization with goals to promote diversity through equal access to healthcare through pop culture.

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Reflections (Timo Andres, Conor Hanick, and Sufjan Stevens album)

Reflections is a 2023 ballet soundtrack by Timo Andres, Conor Hanick, and Sufjan Stevens.

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Review aggregator

A review aggregator is a system that collects reviews and ratings of products and services such as films, books, video games, music, software, hardware, and cars.

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Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone is an American monthly magazine that focuses on music, politics, and popular culture.

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Rosie Thomas (singer-songwriter)

Rosie Thomas is an American singer-songwriter and comedian, originally from Michigan. Sufjan Stevens and Rosie Thomas (singer-songwriter) are American indie folk musicians.

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Run Rabbit Run (album)

Run Rabbit Run is an album by the Osso String Quartet, which was released on October 6, 2009.

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Rupert Grint

Rupert Alexander Lloyd Grint (born 24 August 1988) is an English actor.

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Ruth Ellis Center

The Ruth Ellis Center (REC) is a Detroit area social services agency that serves the needs of runaway, homeless and at-risk lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) youth.

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Serena-Maneesh

Serena-Maneesh (previously spelled Serena Maneesh, sometimes shortened to S-M) is a Norwegian alternative rock band formed in Egersund in 1999.

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Serengeti (rapper)

David Cohn, better known by his stage name Serengeti, is an American rapper from Chicago, Illinois. Sufjan Stevens and Serengeti (rapper) are Sisyphus (hip hop group) members.

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Seven Swans

Seven Swans is an indie folk album by Sufjan Stevens, released on March 16, 2004 on Sounds Familyre Records.

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Sex Education (TV series)

Sex Education is a British teen sex comedy drama television series created by Laurie Nunn for Netflix.

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SF Weekly

SF Weekly is an online music publication and formerly alternative weekly newspaper founded in the 1970s in San Francisco, California.

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Shannon Stephens

Shannon Stephens is an American singer-songwriter from Seattle, Washington. Sufjan Stevens and Shannon Stephens are Asthmatic Kitty artists.

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Shortlist Music Prize

The Shortlist Music Prize, stylized as (shôrt–lĭst), was an annual music award for the best album released in the United States that had sold fewer than 500,000 copies at the time of nomination.

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Silver & Gold (Sufjan Stevens album)

Silver & Gold: Songs for Christmas, Vols.

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Sisyphus

In Greek mythology, Sisyphus or Sisyphos (Ancient Greek: Σίσυφος Sísyphos) was the founder and king of Ephyra (now known as Corinth).

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Sisyphus (album)

Sisyphus is the debut studio album by Sisyphus, a collaborative project between Serengeti, Son Lux, and Sufjan Stevens.

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Sisyphus (hip hop group)

Sisyphus (formerly S / S / S) is a collaborative project between Serengeti, Ryan Lott (under the moniker Son Lux) and Sufjan Stevens. Sufjan Stevens and Sisyphus (hip hop group) are Asthmatic Kitty artists.

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Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore

Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore is a U.S. national lakeshore in the northwestern Lower Peninsula of Michigan.

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Sofia Coppola

Sofia Carmina Coppola (born May 14, 1971) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, and former actress.

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Son Lux

Son Lux is an American experimental band. Sufjan Stevens and Son Lux are American experimental musicians.

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Song cycle

A song cycle (Liederkreis or Liederzyklus) is a group, or cycle, of individually complete songs designed to be performed in sequence, as a unit.

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Songs for Christmas (Sufjan Stevens album)

Songs for Christmas (stylized as Sufjan Stevens Presents Songs for Christmas on the cover) is a box set of five separate EPs of Christmas-related songs and carols recorded by independent musician Sufjan Stevens between 2001 and 2006.

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Sony Pictures Classics

Sony Pictures Classics Inc. is an American film production and distribution company that is a division of Sony Pictures.

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Soul-Junk

Soul-Junk is an experimental genre-hopping Christian rock and hip hop group from San Diego, California.

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Spin (magazine)

Spin (stylized in all caps as SPIN) is an American music magazine founded in 1985 by publisher Bob Guccione Jr. Now owned by Next Management Partners, the magazine is an online publication since it stopped issuing a print edition in 2012.

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St. James Theatre

The St.

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Stereogum

Stereogum is a daily Internet publication that focuses on music news, reviews, interviews, and commentary.

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Stranger Cat

Stranger Cat is the electronic music project of Cat Martino on the Indianapolis independent label, Joyful Noise Recordings. Sufjan Stevens and Stranger Cat are American multi-instrumentalists.

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Studio Museum in Harlem

The Studio Museum in Harlem is an American art museum devoted to the work of artists of African descent.

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Subud

Subud (pronounced) is an international, interfaith spiritual movement that began in Indonesia in the 1920s, founded by Muhammad Subuh Sumohadiwidjojo (1901&ndash;1987).

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Sufyan

Sufyan is an Arabic name.

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Super 8 film

Super 8 mm film is a motion-picture film format released in 1965 by Eastman Kodak as an improvement over the older "Double" or "Regular" 8 mm home movie format.

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Superman

Superman is a superhero who appears in American comic books published by DC Comics.

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Sydney Festival

Sydney Festival is a major arts festival in Australia's largest city, Sydney, that runs for three weeks every January since it was established in 1977.

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Tahquamenon Falls

The Tahquamenon Falls are a series of waterfalls on the Tahquamenon River, shortly before it empties into Lake Superior, in the northeastern Upper Peninsula of Michigan.

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The A.V. Club

The A.V. Club is an online newspaper and entertainment website featuring reviews, interviews, and other articles that examine films, music, television, books, games, and other elements of pop-culture media.

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The Age of Adz

The Age of Adz is the sixth studio album by American singer/songwriter Sufjan Stevens, released on October 12, 2010 by Asthmatic Kitty.

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The Ascension (Sufjan Stevens album)

The Ascension is the eighth studio album by American musician Sufjan Stevens.

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The Atlantic

The Atlantic is an American magazine and multi-platform publisher.

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The Avalanche (Sufjan Stevens album)

The Avalanche (styled The Avalanche: Outtakes and Extras from the Illinois Album! on the cover) is a 2006 compilation album by indie rock singer/songwriter Sufjan Stevens, consisting of outtakes and other recordings from the sessions for his album Illinois, released the previous year.

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The Beatles

The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960, comprising John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr.

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The BQE (soundtrack)

The BQE is a mixed-medium artistic exploration of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway by Sufjan Stevens.

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The Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph, known online and elsewhere as The Telegraph, is a British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed in the United Kingdom and internationally.

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The Decalogue (soundtrack)

The Decalogue is a 2017 soundtrack album to the Justin Peck ballet of the same name, by Timo Andres and Sufjan Stevens.

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The Fader

The Fader is a magazine established in 1999 as an outlet for Cornerstone Agency, a marketing and public relations firm established by Rob Stone and Jon Cohen.

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The Greatest Gift (mixtape)

The Greatest Gift (styled The Greatest Gift Mixtape – Outtakes, Remixes & Demos from Carrie & Lowell) is a mixtape by Sufjan Stevens consisting of outtakes and unreleased tracks from Stevens' 2015 release, Carrie & Lowell.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Innocence Mission

The Innocence Mission is an American indie folk band formed in Lancaster, Pennsylvania in 1986.

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The National (band)

The National is an American rock band from Cincinnati, Ohio, formed in Brooklyn, New York City, in 1999.

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The New School

The New School is a private research university in New York City.

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The New School for Social Research (NSSR), previously known as The University in Exile and The New School University, is a graduate-level educational institution that is one of the divisions of The New School in New York City, United States.

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The Quietus

The Quietus is a British online music and pop culture magazine founded by John Doran and Luke Turner.

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"The Star-Spangled Banner" is the national anthem of the United States.

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The Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) is a daily tabloid newspaper published in Sydney, Australia, and owned by Nine.

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The Village Voice

The Village Voice is an American news and culture publication based in Greenwich Village, New York City, known for being the country's first alternative newsweekly.

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The Washington Post

The Washington Post, locally known as "the Post" and, informally, WaPo or WP, is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital.

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The Welcome Wagon

The Welcome Wagon is a Gospel/indie pop band from Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York. Sufjan Stevens and The Welcome Wagon are Asthmatic Kitty artists.

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Them (website)

Them is an American online LGBT magazine launched in October 2017 by Phillip Picardi and owned by Condé Nast.

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These Friends of Mine (album)

These Friends of Mine is the fourth album by American singer-songwriter Rosie Thomas, released in 2006.

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Tim Buckley

Timothy Charles Buckley III (February 14, 1947 – June 29, 1975) was an American musician. Sufjan Stevens and Tim Buckley are American folk guitarists, American folk singers and American rock songwriters.

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Timo Andres

Timo Andres (born Timothy Andres in 1985 in Palo Alto, California) is an American composer and pianist.

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Tony Award for Best Choreography

The Tony Award for Best Choreography is awarded to acknowledge the contributions of choreographers in both musicals and plays.

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Tony Award for Best Lighting Design in a Musical

Tony Award for Best Lighting Design in a Musical is an award for outstanding Lighting design of a musical.

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Tony Award for Best Musical

The Tony Award for Best Musical is given annually to the best new Broadway musical, as determined by Tony Award voters.

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Tony Award for Best Orchestrations

The Tony Award for Best Orchestrations is awarded to acknowledge the contributions of musical orchestrators in both musicals and plays.

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Tonya Harding

Tonya Maxene Price (née Harding; born November 12, 1970) is an American former figure skater, retired boxer, and reality television personality.

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Upper Peninsula of Michigan

The Upper Peninsula of Michigan—also known as Upper Michigan or colloquially the U.P.—is the northern and more elevated of the two major landmasses that make up the U.S. state of Michigan; it is separated from the Lower Peninsula by the Straits of Mackinac.

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Upstate New York

Upstate New York is a geographic region of New York that lies north and northwest of the New York City metropolitan area of downstate New York.

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USA Today

USA Today (often stylized in all caps) is an American daily middle-market newspaper and news broadcasting company.

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Vanity Fair (magazine)

Vanity Fair is an American monthly magazine of popular culture, fashion, and current affairs published by Condé Nast in the United States.

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Vincent Moon

Vincent Moon (real name Mathieu Saura, born 25 August 1979) is an independent filmmaker, photographer, and sound artist from Paris.

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Vorbis

Vorbis is a free and open-source software project headed by the Xiph.Org Foundation.

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Vox (website)

Vox is an American news and opinion website owned by Vox Media.

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Welcome to The Welcome Wagon

Welcome to The Welcome Wagon is a folk rock music album by The Welcome Wagon, released in 2008.

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Will Stratton

Will Stratton (born April 10, 1987) is an American singer-songwriter and composer. Sufjan Stevens and Will Stratton are American folk singers.

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Woodwind instrument

Woodwind instruments are a family of musical instruments within the greater category of wind instruments.

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World's Columbian Exposition

The World's Columbian Exposition, also known as the Chicago World's Fair, was a world's fair held in Chicago from May 5 to October 31, 1893, to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the New World in 1492.

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Year of the Rabbit (ballet)

Year of the Rabbit is a ballet choreographed by Justin Peck to music from Sufjan Stevens's album, Enjoy Your Rabbit.

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1991 U.S. Figure Skating Championships

The 1991 U.S. Figure Skating Championships took place at the Target Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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77th Tony Awards

The 77th Tony Awards were held on June 16, 2024, to recognize achievement in Broadway productions during the 2023–24 season.

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90th Academy Awards

The 90th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best films of 2017, and took place at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California.

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See also

American indie folk musicians

American oboists

Asthmatic Kitty artists

Baroque pop musicians

Cor anglais players

Folk musicians from Michigan

LGBT Christians

Rock oboists

Sisyphus (hip hop group) members

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sufjan_Stevens

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