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A roadmap that reveals the highways, byways, ley lines and subterranean tunnels connecting rock, soul, pop, folk rock, R&B, garage, punk, funk, jazz, world music, and soundtracks from the twilight of the 1950s to the dawn of the 1970s. Larry Grogan is a DJ, writer, podcaster, collector, and the man behind Funky16Corners.

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Artist Track Album Label Year Format Approx. start time
Funky16Corners  Testify! Intro   Favoriting Best of Funky16Corners Volume One  Funky16Corners  2017  MP3  0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Radu Lupu  Beethoven Piano Sonata 8 In C Minor - Pathetique   Favoriting Beethoven Favorite Piano Sonatas  Decca  1973  CD  0:01:25 (Pop-up)
 
Lynn Harrell/James Levine/London Symphony  Dvorak Cello Concerto In B Minor Op104   Favoriting Dvorak/Schubert  RCA  1987  CD  0:27:58 (Pop-up)
 
Neville Marriner/Academy of St Martin in the Fields  Handel - Water Music Suite #2   Favoriting Handel - Fireworks and Water Music  Argo  1972  CD  1:14:55 (Pop-up)
 
Sheila Armstrong/Bernard Haitink/London Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir  Vaughan Williams: Sinfonia Antartica   Favoriting Vaughan Williams Complete Symphonies/Orchestra Works  EMI  1952  CD  1:30:08 (Pop-up)
 
Sir Thomas Beecham  Delius - Florida Suite - Daybreak/By the River/Sunset/At Night   Favoriting Delius Complete Symphonies  EMI  1960  CD  2:15:21 (Pop-up)
 
Aaron Copland/London Symphony  Appalachian Spring [Orchestral Suite]   Favoriting Copland Conducts Copland (Expanded Edition)  Columbia  1970  CD  2:54:56 (Pop-up)
 
Serge Baudo/Orchestra de Paris  Saint-Saens - Carnival of the Animals   Favoriting Saint-Saens Concertos  EMI  2004  CD  3:22:32 (Pop-up)
 
Thomas Schippers/NY Philharmonic  Samuel Barber - Medea's Meditation and Dance of Vengeance   Favoriting Heritage Barber  Sony Classical  1965  CD  3:44:56 (Pop-up)
 
Rex Garvin and the Mighty Cravers  I Gotta Go Now (Up On the Floor)   Favoriting 45RPM Single  Like  1966  45  3:58:25 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!

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Yvang:

Hi Larry! Ready to testify and let's get classical!
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Funky16Corners:

Hey Yvang!
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Phillippe:

howdy
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Andrew in Toronto:

Hi there Larry and all other listeners!
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Funky16Corners:

Phillippe! Andrew!
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Andrew in Toronto:

↳ Phillippe @3:01
Hi Phillippe!
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Andrew in Toronto:

↳ Yvang @3:00
Hi Yvang!
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Yvang:

↳ Andrew in Toronto @3:02
Andrew! Hi!
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Erica:

Hi Larry I made it
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Funky16Corners:

I'll go into it during the break, but this piece of music, especially the second section, has had a surprisingly long life.
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Erica @3:05
Hi Erica!
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WR:

↳ Song: "Beethoven Piano Sonata 8 In C Minor - Pathetique"...
Lovely but certainly unexpected.
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doctorjazz:

My, we're CLASSY today! (Not that you aren't otherwise...)
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Funky16Corners:

Hey WR! All classical today!
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Funky16Corners:

Hey Doc!
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Erica:

Not sure if I can handle 4 hours of classical music but I will try to hang in there.
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still b/p:

You know what Beethoven had? Family troubles! Heard a bit about that recently. Why is that the feature of life shared more widely among us than artistic genius, huh?
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doctorjazz:

↳ Funky16Corners @3:06
Doug out those Shady Dogs, Mercs, etc!
  3:07pm
Marie:

I am up for this, very intrigued. Hi Larry, hi all! Sometimes I really get into classical music
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Andrew in Toronto:

↳ doctorjazz @3:07
Hiya doc!
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Funky16Corners:

↳ still b/p @3:06
Hey sbp! I was reading biographical info on some of today's featured composers and learning some surprising things.
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Marie @3:07
Hi Marie!
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TDK60:

Larry! I dig the classics. Led Zep, Boston, that stuff.
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Funky16Corners:

↳ TDK60 @3:08
When Mozart's Levee Breaks, coming up next!
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doctorjazz:

Gives you more time to breath between recordings...
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Funky16Corners:

I shouldn't have been surprised, but when reading about this piece I discovered that Beethoven was also well-known as a skilled pianist, which he must have been to compose this (among other pieces)
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Mxter Baba:

Beethoven was such a drama queen! Hey, Larry and folx!
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Funky16Corners:

↳ doctorjazz @3:10
It's funny, I think the longest non-classical piece that I've played is a 23 minute Pink Floyd track, which seemed extremely long.
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Mxter Baba @3:11
Hey Baba!
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Phillippe:

hey Andrew!
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Andrew in Toronto:

↳ Mxter Baba @3:11
Hi baba!
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Mxter Baba:

↳ Andrew in Toronto @3:12
Hello there!
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Erica:

↳ Mxter Baba @3:11
Yeah Beethoven wasn't so great lol. Just don't tell Schroeder that
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Phillippe:

mxter!
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doctorjazz:

↳ Andrew in Toronto @3:07
Hi Andrew
  3:13pm
CupcakeJenny:

Hello Testifiers!
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Funky16Corners:

↳ CupcakeJenny @3:13
Hey Jenny!
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Erica:

↳ CupcakeJenny @3:13
Hi Jenny!
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Funky16Corners:

Though there are a few challenging pieces in today's program, this should provide an opportunity to chill out and let the music take you away.
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doctorjazz:

↳ Song: "Beethoven Piano Sonata 8 In C Minor - Pathetique"...
Man, GORGEOUS!!!
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Mxter Baba:

↳ Erica @3:13
LOL!!!
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Mxter Baba:

↳ Phillippe @3:13
Phillippekins! I hope you are as well as can be!
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WR:

↳ Song: "Beethoven Piano Sonata 8 In C Minor - Pathetique"...
This Radu dude haz gotz sklzs.
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Funky16Corners:

↳ doctorjazz @3:14
This is one of those pieces that is genuinely moving.
  3:16pm
CupcakeJenny:

Hi Erica! How are you?
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Funky16Corners:

↳ WR @3:15
Wait'll he turns the piano over and sets it on fire...
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Mxter Baba:

↳ WR @3:15
OMX 😹
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WR:

↳ Mxter Baba @3:16
Mxter Babakins, right?
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TDK60:

There was a long-running public radio syndicated show "Adventures in Good Music" with Karl Haa, that used the segment of the last few moments for its theme music.
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WR:

↳ Funky16Corners @3:16
He's bringing 🔥 an inner burn to those who are receptive.
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TDK60:

↳ TDK60 @3:19
Sorry, Haas. It went from 1970 to 2007.
en.wikipedia.org...
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Mxter Baba:

↳ WR @3:19
O I thot wuz hot flash
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northguineahills:

↳ TDK60 @3:20
haa!
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WR:

↳ TDK60 @3:20
Yes, listened to Haas somewhat regularly sometime in the past.
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Sem:

Love, love, love all of this.
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Funky16Corners:

↳ northguineahills @3:26
Hey NGH!
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Sem @3:27
Hi Sem!
  3:28pm
Marie:

I think my first and almost only exposure to classical was in old movies (musicals) and in doctor's waiting rooms (and radio dial turning). Then I started listening to it when I studied in college (cuz it was the only music I could listen to while studying)
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northguineahills:

in the middle of a lab, so no instructor, so, i can listen...
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Marie @3:28
The extent to which most people encounter classical music as "background" cannot be underestimated.
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Funky16Corners:

↳ northguineahills @3:28
I think you could let today's program run in most spaces without objection.
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doctorjazz:

↳ WR @3:19
No LP's?
(No matter...)
  3:31pm
Marie:

I think they might use a lot classical in old Westerns too, where I think it is great
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Funky16Corners:

All the Czechs put your hands in the air!
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northguineahills:

↳ Marie @3:28
i literally can't study w/o music (my adhd gets the best of me). It can be any music, any genre (not distracted by lyrics, as i don't hear them anyways). it forms a constant aural background for my lateral portions of my brain to focus on, so I can study the work at hand...
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Funky16Corners:

↳ doctorjazz @3:31
The majority of my classical collection is on CD. I do have a bunch of modern stuff on LP that I should dig out for the next go round
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still b/p:

Always interesting when I get a closer encounter whether via a movie theater's sound system or better yet in the audience of a live orchestra, and the brain pays a fuller degree of attention and the whole body says, "Hey, daaaaaamn!"
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Andrew in Toronto:

Wayne Shorter R.I.P.
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Erica:

Yeah. Classical music is for those who study for exams and for people who really love music and want to learn how to play an instrument
  3:32pm
Marie:

↳ northguineahills @3:31
Very interesting. I bet a lot of people/students with ADHD could benefit from doing that too
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northguineahills:

↳ Funky16Corners @3:32
The majority of my classical is on LP (probably b/c I got it cheap used)
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Erica:

At least that is how I see it.
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Funky16Corners:

↳ still b/p @3:32
It's funny, one of those Facebook things about you best concerts was going around and all of my most recent live concerts have been classical events
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doctorjazz:

↳ northguineahills @3:31
I'm the same, have music on all thetime (to my wife's consternation, though I think she's adjusting, as long as it's not free jazz or similar...)
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northguineahills:

↳ Marie @3:32
then again, music is where my brain gets very ocd w/o me being conscious of it.
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Andrew in Toronto @3:32
I saw that. I think he was ill for a while. One of the great "young lions" who bridged hard bop right on into fusion
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northguineahills:

ocd is the wrong term, but very particular in obsessing over every detail...
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doctorjazz:

Have a bunch of RCA Shaded Dogs, Mercury Living Presence, and other LP's from the 60s (cause I'm an obsessive)
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WR:

A quote from NPR attributed to Shorter, "The six years I was with Miles we never talked about music," Shorter told NPR in 2013. "Miles, on his table, he had scores of Koussevitzky, the conductor ... and then he had another book on architecture and another book on law. Just sitting on the table. And then he'd talk about clothes and fashion."
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Funky16Corners:

Is there a more sonorous instrument than the cello?
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StringOFperils:

I think classical music is for everybody, and shouldn't put anyone off. Most of it's not really 'about' anything, so it's a kind of pure world of sound, that a listener can get lost in it and be taken somewhere if they allow it. It's full of all kinds of things for everyone.
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Funky16Corners:

↳ StringOFperils @3:35
Agree 100%
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northguineahills:

now keeping my physical musical media and books indexed very particularly, i am ocd...
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Sem:

↳ StringOFperils @3:35
Just so, well put.
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WLSClark:

↳ Funky16Corners @3:10
This comment just made Beethoven roll over! (laughing, that is)
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WR:

↳ Andrew in Toronto @3:32
Thank you for the headline, Andrew iT.
  3:38pm
Marie:

I'm lovin' this
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Funky16Corners:

↳ WLSClark @3:37
Hey Clark!
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Erica:

↳ StringOFperils @3:35
It should be for everyone but not everyone is interested in this kind of music.
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WLSClark:

↳ Funky16Corners @3:11
This is NOT funny. Beethoven's piece would be 10x as good as a 23 minute PF song ever would be.
And I'm not a classical music guy (except for Classical gas)
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still b/p:

One of the earliest face-full-of-classical-music encounters? Disney's "Fantasia" (the original) at the movies with 6th grade class. Of course had the Peter and the Wolf thing on record at home when younger than that.
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Erica @3:38
I think the point is they ought to be. People are programmed by various cultural forces to look at classical music as daunting, where they ought to be taught in school that it has everything to offer (aside from pulsing electronic bass) that all music does.
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Funky16Corners:

↳ still b/p @3:40
It's interesting how much kids of my generation (born in 1962) had classical music presented in many kid-friendly forms, like Peter and the Wolf, Fantasia etc
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WLSClark:

↳ Erica @3:38
To be honest, Erica, I am with you. Haven't even put sound on. it IS soothing, but just got up from a nap, so don't need more sleep right now. I guess he was "before my time." haha
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TDK60:

I listen to a lot of classical. Old LPs left by my dad. Newish stuff from the public library. I'm lucky to have the public library at Lincoln Center with tons of CDs. Radio, etc.
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doctorjazz:

↳ Andrew in Toronto @3:32
So sorry to hear that-another giant gone (glad I got to see him at NJPAC a few years back).
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timinoak:

Loving this show! Thank you.
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Funky16Corners:

We had a Mattel thing called a Show and Tell, that was kind of home filmstrip projector that had a turntable on top and a slide projector in the side. The cool thing for me was that all of the flipsides of the story records were classical pieces, that had been used in the stories as backing music
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Funky16Corners:

↳ timinoak @3:42
Thanks timinoak!
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WLSClark:

↳ WLSClark @3:42
I DO love some of PDQ Bach (like his "On the Air" LP!
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doctorjazz:

↳ doctorjazz @3:35
I also got most of them when people were dumping LP's for "perfect sound forever" cds at bargain prices (at least compared to today...)
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TDK60:

I tend to like the newer classical: early 20th Century up to the 21st. From Debussy and Stravinsky on up.
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Funky16Corners:

↳ doctorjazz @3:44
I've been able to add a tone of classical stuff to my collection buying used CDs on the cheap.
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Andrew in Toronto:

↳ WLSClark @3:44
Hi Clark!
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Funky16Corners:

↳ TDK60 @3:45
Big favorites of mine, too. You'll hear Vaughan Williams, Delius and Copland today. I have to get out my Milhaud and Stravinsky for the next time
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WLSClark:

↳ Andrew in Toronto @3:46
Hi Andrew.
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WLSClark:

I like Ennio Morricone western music. Would it be classical. ALSO, I DID by Tomita's Snowflakes are Dancing and Switched on Back when they came out.
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Funky16Corners:

Back in 2019 I did a show of pop/rock music based on classical themes. If I do that again there will def be some Tomita in it: wfmu.org...
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doctorjazz:

I haven't gone to much in the way of NY/NJ classical music concerts in a while, but i often vacation in The Berkshires during the sheet, love me some Classical Tanglewood, lie down on the lawn, heaven...
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WR:

Few months ago read a book about Dvorak's and some other leading composers and critics of the time expectation that African American and Native American cultures would be a major source of inspiration and direction of American culture but we ended up with Copeland and Bernstein instead. Covered the many composers that did the work but were shunned by the classical music "establishment " and how even Gershwin and Ives were not allowed into the standard repertoire the way Copeland was.
wwnorton.com...
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TDK60:

Larry, I really dig Vaughan Williams. A bit old-fashioned, but not his later symphonies. He really knew how to grab you.
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Funky16Corners:

↳ TDK60 @3:51
Wait'll you hear the piece I'm playing today.
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northguineahills:

↳ Funky16Corners @3:42
I have a lot of those pickwick recs
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still b/p:

How 'bout the whole Mozart for Babies thing, for stimulating brain development. Later the expert view was, "Well, mayyyybe, but not proven."
And speaking of brain effects, the Rite of Spring debut and the crowd gone into wild disturbance! (Provoked by music or choreography, or both? Disputed.) I heard some academic say the sounds were so alien to those brains that they could only pitch a fit in agitated response.
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Funky16Corners:

↳ WR @3:50
Ives is a big favorite of my father's. The man spent his life as an insurance actuary.
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WR:

↳ WLSClark @3:48
Yes, Clark, agreed, all good music to my ears too.
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StringOFperils:

This kind of music comes from older music that evolved out of everyday life and nature, and gradually became its own specialized pursuit. Probably because it remains in wholly abstract form, it isn't as broadly popular as something written in repetitive verses or stanzas that have lyrics that can be thought to be about something tangible. Sex and desire, most of the time. Or topical material like the news. That way a person can listen to music and still be thinking, instead not thinking (shocking!) and being purely transported, which takes a conscious choice, and some dedication. Like attentively reading a sprawling novel.
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Funky16Corners:

↳ still b/p @3:51
Apparently the reaction to Nijinsky's ballet of Debussy's Afternoon of a Faun evoked a similar negative reaction.
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doctorjazz:

↳ doctorjazz @3:50
*during the summer, ahem...
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Funky16Corners:

↳ StringOFperils @3:52
I was reading about Saint-Saen's Carnival of the Animals, and it's apparently filed with sample-like references to other music/composers, the vast majority of which I had no idea about
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doctorjazz:

↳ StringOFperils @3:52
It's a kind of meditation, to me...
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northguineahills:

↳ Funky16Corners @3:54
I read that too (see also Bartok in taking folk themes)
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Funky16Corners:

↳ northguineahills @3:56
Bartok, Smetana, Vaughan Williams, Copland and on and on
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WR:

From Wikipedia about the cellist: " Harrell seldom trusted his instruments to airline baggage handlers and in 2012 he achieved a certain amount of notoriety when Delta Air Lines kicked him out of its frequent-flier program for registering and traveling with his cello, which had been enrolled as “Mr. Cello Harrell.”
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Funky16Corners:

↳ WR @3:58
I like his style!
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TDK60:

I'm a fan of moderns like Henry Cowell, Lou Harrison.
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Funky16Corners:

I wouldn't trust them either. Those instruments are worth in the tens of thousands of dollars (if not more)
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Funky16Corners:

↳ TDK60 @4:00
I need to explore modern composers more
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WR:

↳ Funky16Corners @3:59
If he was buying a ticket for Mr Cello, Mr Cello should get the frequent flyer points, right.
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Brian in UK:

Hello Larry. Great idea especially for a long show.
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Brian in UK @4:01
Hi Brian!
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Funky16Corners:

↳ WR @4:01
The cello could take its own vacations
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Brian in UK:

Remember the first time I heard Bach's Cello Suites played by Pablo Casals. Mesmerising.
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David Shortell:

gocomics.com...
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StringOFperils:

↳ Funky16Corners @3:54
Composers throw in 'quotes' fairly often, and sometimes they hide other things. Little codes. Writing music IS a code.
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Brian in UK @4:02
I have a collection of Bach cello music by Janos Starker
  4:04pm
Marie:

Call me a square but I don't like the atonal and what I call maudlin classical music
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northguineahills:

↳ Marie @4:04
i picture you more of a rhombus...
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Funky16Corners:

↳ David Shortell @4:02
Hey David! That's great!
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StringOFperils:

There's a lot of regional folk music in these themes that Dvorak is using.
  4:06pm
Marie:

↳ northguineahills @4:04
hee hee hee--I'm actually like totally elliptical
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northguineahills:

↳ Marie @4:06
bi-axial, I can see that (due to school, all I can see right now is geometry)
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TDK60:

↳ Funky16Corners @4:00
Larry, those two were among the first Americans to look west across to Asia for inspiration. Also the Canadian Colin McPhee.
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still b/p:

Worked with friends in a stage piece several years ago that had spoken poetic text set to original music. Without experience or training or much close previous exposure, trying to get hold of any discernible countable beats in the modern-idiom music was STRAINingly tough for us who needed more standard graspable rhythm. I never did succeed at hearing it.
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David Shortell:

↳ Funky16Corners @3:41
Fantasia? I prefer Bob Clampett's answer film "A Corny Concerto".
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Brian in UK:

Larry, agree about the cello.
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Erica:

↳ David Shortell @4:10
I once saw Fantasia in music class as a kid. Not sure if was the censored version as it did have a racist scene in it
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Erica:

↳ Erica @4:13
I don't remember much of the film.
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Erica @4:14
It's a pretty spectacular piece of work, as is Fantasia 2000. There's a DVD set that contains both.
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Yvang:

↳ Song: "Handel - Water Music Suite #2" by "Neville Marrin...
That's a perfect piece of music to have in the earbuds while walking through the gardens of Versailles for example.
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TDK60:

Darnit, I have to leave the building. But definitely, I will come back to see what happened, in the archives. Thanks, Larry!
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Funky16Corners:

↳ TDK60 @4:19
Thanks TDK!
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Yvang @4:19
It's like CBS Sunday Morning!
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David Shortell:

↳ David Shortell @4:10
“You know, it is so sad. All your knowledge of high culture comes from Bugs Bunny cartoons.”
—Elaine Benes to Jerry Seinfeld.
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Funky16Corners:

↳ David Shortell @4:21
You could do worse...
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Little Danny:

hi larry, love your classy side!
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drowsy:

Nice switch-up Larry, thank you for the show!
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Little Danny @4:22
Hey Danny!
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Funky16Corners:

↳ drowsy @4:22
Hi drowsy!
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doctorjazz:

I just tried to connect with my office computer to The Drummer Stream-it's been blocked for years by the firewall, have to use my phone in a jerryrigged setup. But something went by the wayside in some upgrade or other, it's now allowing me to connect, view the web page, stream. Hmmmm, time to adjust strategies....
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StringOFperils:

I enjoy finding hours of composed art music interspersed with all the other WFMU offerings. Now and then there's a regular show devoted to it, but things come and go. I feel like there could always be at least one hard-core 'classical' program on the streams without tearing a hole in the fabric of the universe.
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Little Danny:

Classify :)
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WR:

↳ doctorjazz @4:24
shhhhh. I won't tell if you don't.
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Funky16Corners:

↳ doctorjazz @4:24
That's good news!
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Little Danny @4:25
I like that, Danny!
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dutchtheo:

Hey, Larry and classical testifiers. I missed only three songs...
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Funky16Corners:

↳ StringOFperils @4:25
You'd think an enterprise as vast and diverse as WFMU could do that.
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Funky16Corners:

↳ dutchtheo @4:31
Hey Theo!
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Marie:

One time, I was in Paris, in a beautiful famous, historic square/garden and a small band was playing 4 seasons and I couldn't help it, I started crying. It was so beautiful and moving. I''m stepping away for a bit--back soon.
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Funky16Corners:

Prepare yourself, there are sound effects in this piece, though the narration with which it is sometimes presented is absent
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Marie @4:32
That's wonderful, Marie.
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Little Danny:

↳ TDK60 @4:00
i really like lou harrison's pacifika rondo, Three pieces for gamelan w/soloists, jealousy of emer, i need to dig deeper into his catalog tho!
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Little Danny @4:33
That sounds interesting!
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Little Danny:

yeah as tdk mentioned, he did a lot with non-western instruments and modes, one of these rabbit holes i keep meaning to fall down!
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Little Danny:

larry what's your source for classical radio car listening?
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Funky16Corners:

I listen to the Sirius Classical channel. There used to be two on-air channels and an opera channel, but they cut it back to one in the car and two on the app, one a "pops" channel and the other for longer pieces. It's actually very well programmed.
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northguineahills:

I admit, I did start collecting classical cds before I even got into music (being a jr high french horn player). I believe Saint-Saens and Vivaldi were my first cds. My usual narrative, is the first music I bought was the Singles sndtk, followed by Dinosaur's Greenmind when I was 16, but I forgot about those two earlier classical cds...
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WR:

↳ StringOFperils @4:25
wfmu.org...

There was a regular and fantastic program on the broadcast stream on a weeknight for a while, A440, but the host decided she couldn't continue. She did a drummer stream Stork fill in last summer but demurred from becoming a regular. Bethany will always be welcome to come back. No one else has stepped up. I know Doug would welcome someone.
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Funky16Corners:

They playa lot of long form choral pieces and operas, too
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northguineahills:

and done w/ school...

waiting for my friend to pick me up from Gainesville to see his darkwave band play. First live music i'll have seen since I was hospitalized 1.5 years ago...
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Funky16Corners:

↳ WR @4:38
If I didn't have a wife and two kids and the need for food and sleep I'd volunteer to add it to my workload
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Funky16Corners:

↳ northguineahills @4:39
I cannot remember the last time I saw live music. It may have been the program at NJPAC where they played the Warner Brothers cartoons with a live orchestra
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Sem:

+++
Larry, thank you for all this.
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northguineahills:

↳ Funky16Corners @4:39
sleep? I'm living proof you don't need *thunk*"snoooooore"
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Sem @4:41
My pleasure, Sem!
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northguineahills:

↳ WR @4:38
back in the before before time, I did a benefit fundraiser w/ Bethany and others (this was before she djed at wfmu, and I was really young)
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northguineahills:

↳ Marie @4:32
i've cried on the subway platform before. Perfect music, perfect place, perfect timing for me...
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Funky16Corners:

↳ northguineahills @4:44
The first time I heard the Vaughan Williams Tallis piece I was moved to tears.
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northguineahills:

↳ Funky16Corners @4:18
It's still my favorite Disney film. I saw it first in the theaters when I was 8 (must have been a reprint)... all the movies since have been crap! (ok, I get a little tired of the mouse down here)>
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WR:

↳ Song: "Vaughan Williams: Sinfonia Antartica" by "Sheila ...
This used to be one of my goto recordings to listen to. Now gotta look up to see what recording I have, it was on Angel records, which could be this EMI recording, but I think it was more recent than 1952. Looking it up now.
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Funky16Corners:

↳ WR @4:46
It's a wild piece. Another one I heard on the radio first. I had some single VW discs, but this made me get the complete symphonies
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northguineahills:

↳ Song: "Vaughan Williams: Sinfonia Antartica" by "Sheila ...
you know what, I don't have this VW piece...
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doctorjazz:

Doug has said on his show he'd like to get more classical programming on.
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Funky16Corners:

↳ doctorjazz @4:50
Maybe I'll have to up the rotation.
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WR:

I found the one I have, released about 1971, Sir Adrian Boult conducting, Norma Burrowes featured soprano.
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Funky16Corners:

↳ WR @4:52
Does yours have the narration?
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doctorjazz:

Ok, light day at the officer, heading home, thanks Larry!
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Funky16Corners:

↳ doctorjazz @4:53
Bye Doc!
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WR:

↳ Funky16Corners @4:52
I recall vocals but not narration. The organ part (like we are hearing now) is particularly powerful.
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Funky16Corners:

Man, that gong, and then the pipe organ!?!?
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Funky16Corners:

↳ WR @4:55
There are apparently several recordings with the narration by they are in the minority: en.wikipedia.org...
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northguineahills:

↳ Funky16Corners @4:55
same thoughts!
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WR:

↳ Funky16Corners @4:51
I gots an idea. Find a time that works for you and Doug, and maybe can get Bethany to do once a month and then someone else to steps up or rotating guest host, Little Danny others, might seed some more programmers to come forward.
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Funky16Corners:

↳ WR @4:58
A classical show with rotating hosts is a great idea!
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northguineahills:

↳ Funky16Corners @4:59
some might say the idea is too contemporary....
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still b/p:

You may have mentioned this, too, but in addition to the cartoon, advertising and background general exposure, there are many interesting instances of popular songs involving adaptation, reimagining, sampling of classical pieces across several recent decades -- performed by Elvis, Manilow, Carmen, Gaga, Nas, Beatles -- many more.
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Erica:

Well I made it through the first half of the show. Only 2 more hours to go.
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WR:

↳ Funky16Corners @4:59
Can get some active listeners to program one here or there. Would like to hear what Dean would put together for his fellow listeners.
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Brian in UK:

Well you could always play the music backwards. Some numbnuts might say it sounds better that way!!
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Funky16Corners:

↳ still b/p @5:01
Upthread I posted a link to a show I did in 2019 composed of all adaptations of classical themes in pop/rock/jazz
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Erica @5:02
Well done. Erica! Hang in there!
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Erica:

↳ still b/p @5:01
And let's not forget about library production music. That is also used for the same reasons as classical and popular music.
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timinoak:

I'm very new to this program. But I love classical music, and appreciate learning more about it like this..
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northguineahills:

↳ still b/p @5:01
it's still your bd, bp?
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Brian in UK:

Larry, this is great but I don't hear a single.
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WR:

↳ Funky16Corners @4:57
Now the recordings with narration are on my want list, particularly both the John Gielgud and Ralph Richardson recordings.
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northguineahills:

↳ Erica @5:03
Flash Strap goes on deep dives into library music *counts on fingers* on Thursdays right after Larry!
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Brian in UK @5:05
I'm releasing it on a 42 minute 7-inch. Very tight grooves
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Funky16Corners:

↳ WR @5:05
I think the one I heard was Geilgud.
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Brian in UK:

DJ Georgy Girl's show Wednesday plays library music combined with readings.
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northguineahills:

i once saw a dj w/ 24" records. I believe they were originally used to be played for films at some point....(in fact, dj olive has a pic of himself w/ one on his fb page)
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Brian in UK:

Larry, notice that these are all CDs. Records do show up any clicks especially on quieter music.
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Erica:

↳ Brian in UK @5:07
Yesterday's show or next week' s show?
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WR:

↳ Erica @5:03
Yep, yep, Explorer's Room, Thursdays 7PM to 10PM ET, features production library music about every 6 weeks or so and has some sprinkled regularly into the free form episodes, and as Brian mentions, Hi-Waisted Modernist on the Sheena stream every Wednesday afternoon, and of course any time you want from the archive. Great literature with great variety of production library music.
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βrian:

↳ Song: "Vaughan Williams: Sinfonia Antartica" by "Sheila ...
Well, the power drill was an interesting effect.
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Brian in UK:

↳ Erica @5:12
Every week.
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Erica:

↳ Brian in UK @5:12
Need to check it out.
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Brian in UK:

↳ Erica @5:13
Georgy reads a good story.
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Brian in UK:

Freddy D is in the house.
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StringOFperils:

Dee-Lee Money
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northguineahills:

well, delius did spend two years in FL, before it went full derp...
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Funky16Corners:

Yes, this was written about his impressions of the area during his time (no kidding) managing an orange grove!
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Little Danny:

Hehe NGH was wondering if this was your Florida experience :)
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WR:

↳ Song: "Delius - Florida Suite - Daybreak/By the River/Su...
Don't remember hearing this before. Bright and sunny sounding, literally.
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northguineahills:

errr, 'managing' an orange grove (by all accounts, not too interested in managing)
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Funky16Corners:

↳ northguineahills @5:20
If your calling is composing music, I suspect that working with oranges isn't too inspiring
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Brian in UK:

There is certainly a case for a 'classical' music show that debugs the idea of it being all the same & stiff-shirted.
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northguineahills:

there's a plaque near the duval county/st johns county line near the st john's river commemorating where his house used to be. (now part of jacksonville, and very suburban, used to be semi-rural/suburban when I was growing up, been there).
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Funky16Corners:

↳ northguineahills @5:25
I expect that DeSantis will be uprooting it as soon as he can?
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northguineahills:

↳ Brian in UK @5:24
i prefer my shirts to remain well-starched and stiff, thank you very much!
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Brian in UK @5:24
Agreed
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Brian in UK:

↳ northguineahills @5:26
....and wing-collared?
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Marie:

Back. I like these kind of pastoral pieces. It's like you're slowly moving through a landscape
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northguineahills:

↳ Funky16Corners @5:26
seeing his attempt at erasing history that doesn't fit his narrative, who knows...
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northguineahills:

↳ Brian in UK @5:27
the flappy kind, naturally...
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Marie @5:27
It's amazing that a composer can elicit that kind of response just with a series of tones. You can feel it.
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Brian in UK:

To probably misquote Bowie. A frock coat & bibbity bobbity hat.
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Marie:

↳ Funky16Corners @5:28
Truly
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Marie:

I think I might have been trained to by certain movies but nonetheless it is so natural to me to feel it that way
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northguineahills:

i'll let marie dish out the polemics on death$antis. i....just... can't... anymore (i live w/it every day).
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Brian in UK:

Larry, love what you are playing but Delius, sorry Morpheus, is calling & I cannot resist the tune.
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Funky16Corners:

↳ northguineahills @5:30
I can't even imagine. We lived under Christie but he's a rank amateur in fascism compared to DeSantis.
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Brian in UK @5:31
Nighty nite, Brian!
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northguineahills:

↳ Brian in UK @5:31
gute nacht!
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Marie:

↳ northguineahills @5:30
Ha ha ha. I heard DeSantis is like Trump but totally dull (as a speaker, etc.). Not nearly the "entertainer" that Donald is/was
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Funky16Corners:

The repeated theme in this section reminds me of Beethoven, but also one of the songs from the musical 1776
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northguineahills:

↳ Funky16Corners @5:31
christie is a damn pinko in comparison...
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Marie:

@Larry--your governor seems so angry
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northguineahills:

↳ Marie @5:32
the problem is desantis is actually more competent (not very, but it doesn't take much to be effective w/ the GQP)
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Funky16Corners:

↳ northguineahills @5:33
Trump is a rabid carnival barker. DeSantis knows how to pull the levers of power and is doing some truly alarming things in Florida.
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Marie:

I'm just glad that a lot of these right wing freakazoid supporters are older and might not be around that much longer (not a nice sentiment, I know)
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Marie @5:33
He's not our governor any more, thank god. The guy we have now is a happy sort,
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Marie:

↳ Funky16Corners @5:35
You live in Texas, right?
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northguineahills:

i live in an economically depressed community of color. I'm at the shelter every day seeing how the GOPs policies effect real people every day. I'm developing empathy fatigue, and i feel guilty about that.
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Marie @5:35
New Jersey
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Funky16Corners:

↳ northguineahills @5:35
It's totally understandable, especially considering the glee the GOP takes in grinding people under their boots
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Marie:

↳ Funky16Corners @5:36
Oh, did you used to live in Texas? I like Governor Murphy--I like his policies
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northguineahills:

New Jersey, the Texas of New Jersey....
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Marie @5:36
Nope, lifelong NJ-ite
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Marie:

↳ northguineahills @5:35
It makes me sick how they treat people and have for many years. The southern states that rejected the expansion of Medicare (or was it Medicaid?)
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Funky16Corners:

↳ northguineahills @5:36
The part of NJ I live in is HEAVILY MAGA. Trucknuts and Confederate flags as far as the eye can see
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northguineahills:

a piney? (I have an aunt and uncle that live in Bridgetown)
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Marie:

I had a dentist who I loved and he said it's as if the Republicans like to take things away from people.
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Erica:

↳ Marie @5:36
What I don't like about Murphy is that he put a ban on plastic bags and foam cups/plates. I keep forgetting to bring a reusable bag in stores except for Walmart.
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Funky16Corners:

↳ northguineahills @5:38
In Ocean County, on the northern border of pineyland
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northguineahills:

↳ Marie @5:38
both. at no cost to themselves...(florida didn't touch medicare, can't w/ all of the retirees).
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Erica @5:39
It is a pain in the ass, but even I'm learning to carry reusable shopping bags
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Marie:

↳ Erica @5:39
Just stick one in your car trunk or backpack... I eventually did.
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Funky16Corners:

Though I was never not hate paper straws
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Marie @5:39
It's pure cruelty
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northguineahills:

People look at me like I have three heads when I show up at stores w/ reusable bags. Or, they make me leave them at the front to prevent shoplifting....(depends how I'm dressed that day)
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Erica:

↳ Funky16Corners @5:40
I used reuse plastic bags as waste bin bags to save money on trash bags but not anymore cause they're bad for the environment.
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Marie:

@Larry--there was a DJ on the drummer stream who broadcast from the area of Texas where LBJ grew up, the hill country... I thought it was you. I will have to figure that out
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Erica:

↳ Erica @5:41
That's why they're banned.
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Marie @5:41
Little Danny used to live down there, Kris Holmes does now
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Marie:

↳ Funky16Corners @5:42
Yes!!!! My apologies. Thank you for that
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northguineahills:

↳ Marie @5:41
Kris is in San Antonio. LC is in Marfa, as was LD, and Desert Fox (DF is in Austin and LD is in Philly)
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northguineahills:

↳ northguineahills @5:42
why yes, I do stalk all of the GTDS djs, why do you ask?
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Marie:

↳ Erica @5:41
You can get great reusable heavy weight plastic grocery bags for cheap at Trader Joes--get a few and throw em in your trunk--problem solved? @)
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Funky16Corners:

↳ northguineahills @5:43
We're so charismatic it's hard to resist...
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Marie @5:44
We have a bunch of TJs bags, and when we get out Peapod (grocery delivery) they bring everything in reusable bags. We keep a few and give the rest to the food pantry
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Erica:

↳ Marie @5:44
I don't live near Trader Joe's. Plus we get them at Walmart.
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Marie:

This is very soothing
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Marie:

↳ Erica @5:45
you get reusable bags at Walmart?
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Marie @5:45
Yes, a very relaxing piece
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Erica:

↳ Marie @5:46
Yes both trash bags and shopping bags.
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northguineahills:

thanks, Larry, been working on a problem for school for 2.5 days, and I just now fixed it....
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Funky16Corners:

↳ northguineahills @5:48
Glad I could help!
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Marie:

I don't know a lot about classical music but I know I like Saint Saens. And I got a great album a long time ago of Benny Goodman and band playing Mozart--heavy on the flute--I still love it
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northguineahills:

oh, fudruckers. they got the new servers and monitors in. Guess what I need to do at the shelter before i go out. Install a new security system, and test the servers and software......(still easier then what I used to do there).
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northguineahills:

Delius's family were in the wool business. Delius wanted no part in it. His father got him a job via connections to manage the orange grove. Delius saw as a way to get out of his father's hair...
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northguineahills:

↳ Marie @5:50
oh, hit me an email later, I need to leave...
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northguineahills:

camille saint saens, another continental composer not recognized at home but celebrated in Britain...
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Funky16Corners:

↳ northguineahills @5:52
Thanks, NGH!
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Funky16Corners:

↳ northguineahills @5:54
Saint-Saens coming up next!
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timinoak:

↳ Song: "Appalachian Spring [Orchestral Suite]" by "Aaron ...
Oh, life..
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northguineahills:

↳ Funky16Corners @5:55
I think i got into Saint-Saens when I went to Epcot when I was 8 and the France exhibit played his Symphony No. 3 organ it's surround image -pre-Imax film....
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Funky16Corners:

↳ timinoak @5:59
Copland hits me right in the feels.
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StringOFperils:

Copeland has all the great Richard Strauss orchestral textures, the writing for large orchestra with the giant string section. Very emotive and lofty
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doctorjazz:

Made it home, got you on again!
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Funky16Corners:

Welcome back!
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Funky16Corners:

And now the Shaker hymn...
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Funky16Corners:

↳ StringOFperils @6:08
Yes, and I love the way he uses brass, too
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StringOFperils:

And percussion!
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doctorjazz:

↳ Song: "Appalachian Spring [Orchestral Suite]" by "Aaron ...
This was great! (just caught up with comments)
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northguineahills:

at the top of my browser, all I saw was, "Suite]" by "Aaron ..."

and I thought, "I did what?"
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StringOFperils:

Crushing it at the piano
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Funky16Corners:

This is the tortoises dancing the can-can, very slowly
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northguineahills:

↳ Funky16Corners @6:26
...w/ the pointer sisters?
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Funky16Corners:

Elephants!
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Funky16Corners:

↳ northguineahills @6:27
They wish...
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doctorjazz:

From earlier, there was a question of whether Republican states were not providing medicare or medicaid. My understanding is that it's the expansion of Medicaid that Republican states have refused to do. It was part of the Affordable Care Act, and expanding Medicaid (covering more people, medical bills) is funded by the Federal Government, would benefit many in these states, and not cost them anything as the Feds would pay for it. Nonetheless, Red states have refused to do it, basically to avoid giving the Federal Government/Democrats any "bragging rights". Or, another way to look at it is, "if they're for it, we're against it"
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Funky16Corners:

↳ doctorjazz @6:28
Helluva way for a major political party to operate
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WR:

↳ Song: "Saint-Saens - Carnival of the Animals" by "Serge ...
Was not aware of Saint- Saens suppressing this piece. Wikipedia entry: "The work, about 25 minutes in duration, was written for private performance by two pianos and chamber ensemble; Saint-Saëns prohibited public performance of the work during his lifetime, feeling that its frivolity would damage his standing as a serious composer."
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StringOFperils:

Bowed bass vile. Junk in the trunk.
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Funky16Corners:

Kangaroos...
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Funky16Corners:

The fishies!
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Funky16Corners:

Also, isn't this in Harry Potter or something like that?
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Erica:

Ooh I feel like I'm at Hogwarts.
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StringOFperils:

This kind of musical effect has been reused in a million movies since when this was composed.
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Funky16Corners:

Animals with long ears...
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StringOFperils:

And this is like PSYCHO
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Funky16Corners:

The Cuckoo in the Depths of the Woods
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WR:

Larry, you could be doing the narration, introducing the beasties.
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Funky16Corners:

I'm waiting for Hans Conreid to come back
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Funky16Corners:

And now, the rest of the aviary...
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Funky16Corners:

The Pianists (making fun of pianists as "animals")
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Funky16Corners:

The Fossils...
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Funky16Corners:

The swan...
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WR:

Have been listening via headphones, and this recording, particularly the last section, is very stereo.
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Andrew in Toronto:

That was a truly great show!
Thanks Larry!
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Funky16Corners:

Here comes the finale!
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Andrew in Toronto @6:40
Thanks, Andrew! More to come!
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Funky16Corners:

Here's aWiki breaking down the allusions in the Carnival of the Animals: en.wikipedia.org...
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doctorjazz:

This Allegro is famous from some TV or Movie or something.
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Dean:

Damn, I've missed some great music! Lynn Harrell! Saw him live at the John Anson Ford Theater, an outdoor amphitheater, in LA. The Beecham Florida Suite is one of my favorite recordings of all time! Vaughan Williams...sigh. I have that Anatartica in a complete symphonies and orchestral works box with Haitink.
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Little Danny:

thank you larry :)
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Little Danny:

dean i almost texted you this week with a specific classical question but then i got too shy :/
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Dean:

My favorite Water Music might be the Delos recording with Gerard Schwarz conducting LA Chamber orchestra.
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Little Danny:

larry btw i walked up the endless hills of manayunk listening to you play delius :)
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Dean @6:43
Hey Dean! I think that's the Vaughan Williams set I have
  6:46pm
Dean:

Oh, shoot, I wish you had! But don't text me. I don't receive texts, by design. Call/email/postcard/semaphore/homing pigeon are all fine.
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Erica:

I heard that Fantasia 2000 flopped at the box office and it was what ended the Disney Renaissance.
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Little Danny @6:45
That is an image to be treasured!
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Flash Strap:

Hey there Larry! LD! everyone!
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Funky16Corners:

Hey Flash! Stay tuned for Explorers Room at 7PM ET: wfmu.org...
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Doug Schulkind:

What a treat, Larry. You really are incredible.
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Erica @6:46
It may well have. It's also fairly short, but I think well done
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Doug Schulkind @6:48
Hey Doug! Thanks very much!
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Dean:

This is the Delius box I have: https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/i84AAOSw1Dlghu0z/s-l640.jpg

But I have fond memories of checking out the Seraphim reissue of the album from my public library many, many years ago.
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doctorjazz:

Thanks, Larry, wonderful show!
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Funky16Corners:

↳ doctorjazz @6:49
Thanks Doc!
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Dean @6:49
My set looks different but I think it might be the same recordings
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Funky16Corners:

For all you Tyler Perry fans, this is about MEDEA, not MADEA...
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Funky16Corners:

Or, who knows, this is the part where she takes off her shoe and starts hitting someone
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Erica:

↳ Funky16Corners @6:51
Hahaha 😂
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Little Danny:

haha YES larry
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Funky16Corners:

Wow, I thought I had shorted things, but this is going to take us almost all the way to the end.
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Erica:

Nothing beats Telemann when I thought you were talking about Telemann the indie band lol
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Erica:

↳ Erica @6:53
Teleman with one n
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Funky16Corners:

This reminds me a little of the Planet of the Apes soundtrack
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Funky16Corners:

↳ Erica @6:53
Thanks for sticking around for the whole show, Erica!
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Dean:

Telemann?! Now you're talking. I have long adored Telemann, the dead German guy, and not least because Jim Svejda at KUSC in LA used to devote entire shows to his music. He despised Telemann's music pretty much for the same reasons I adore it: much of it is bland, and there's too much of it, but there's something to me that's comforting about a reliable source of pleasant music that often surprises with its inventiveness. I love playing Telemann on recorder. But the guy wrote more than Bach and Haendel combined!
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northguineahills:

back for 3 mins, can't miss Barber!
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Dean:

One of my favorite records is a beat-up used LP I acquired for $0.25, random Telemann chamber pieces. The cover features a painting by...Degas. WTF?!
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Flash Strap:

Great show Larry! catch me next door: wfmu.org...
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Yvang:

Really refreshing to hear some classical music once in a while. I want more classical and orchestral on WFMU. Thanks Larry!
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Erica:

That last hour went by fast. Great four hour show Larry. Gotta get my money ready for the marathon next week.
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Dean:

Seconded, Yvang!
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Funky16Corners:

Thank you all for listening and joining the discussion!
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WR:

Thank you! Larry!

Yes, a regular show, and can start with one with rotating hosts.
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