Zócalo Public SquareThat Time Mozart Jammed with Michael Jackson – Zócalo Public Square https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org Ideas Journalism With a Head and a Heart Mon, 21 Oct 2024 07:01:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 That Time Mozart Jammed with Michael Jackson https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/2014/08/11/that-time-mozart-jammed-with-michael-jackson/ideas/up-for-discussion/ https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/2014/08/11/that-time-mozart-jammed-with-michael-jackson/ideas/up-for-discussion/#respond Mon, 11 Aug 2014 07:01:17 +0000 Zocalo https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/?p=54954 Even as teenagers, John Lennon and Paul McCartney saw themselves as “the next great songwriting team.” Sitting in McCartney’s living room with their guitars, they jotted down ideas in a notebook and labeled each page “A Lennon-McCartney Original.” It might have been youthful hubris—but those lads in Liverpool had the right idea. There have been a handful of successful creative partnerships like theirs—spectacular ones that earned two people fame and linked their names forever: Marie and Pierre Curie. Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein. Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. What other sorts of collaborations might have happened? What if brilliant minds and artists throughout history had worked together rather than independently? In advance of Joshua Wolf Shenk’s visit to Zócalo, “Is Collaboration the Secret to Creativity?”, we asked writers: Imagine you have the power to bring together two creative greats (living or dead) to collaborate. Who would you choose and why?

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]]> Even as teenagers, John Lennon and Paul McCartney saw themselves as “the next great songwriting team.” Sitting in McCartney’s living room with their guitars, they jotted down ideas in a notebook and labeled each page “A Lennon-McCartney Original.” It might have been youthful hubris—but those lads in Liverpool had the right idea.

There have been a handful of successful creative partnerships like theirs—spectacular ones that earned two people fame and linked their names forever: Marie and Pierre Curie. Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein. Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak.

What other sorts of collaborations might have happened? What if brilliant minds and artists throughout history had worked together rather than independently? In advance of Joshua Wolf Shenk’s visit to Zócalo, “Is Collaboration the Secret to Creativity?”, we asked writers: Imagine you have the power to bring together two creative greats (living or dead) to collaborate. Who would you choose and why?

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