Bad People, Great Art

Soundcheck | May 3, 2010
Last week, the R&B singer Chris Brown was sentenced to five years of probation for his assault on the pop star Rihanna. The case raises a perennial question: whether it’s possible to separate the musician from their art. Today we ask Randy Cohen, author of “The Ethicist” column for The New York Times Magazine, about this question. Also: 400 years after Henry Hudson sailed the river of his name, we look at the musical legacy of the mighty river.

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