From: owner-good-noise-digest@smoe.org (good-noise-digest) To: good-noise-digest@smoe.org Subject: good-noise-digest V3 #7 Reply-To: good-noise@smoe.org Sender: owner-good-noise-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-good-noise-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk good-noise-digest Sunday, February 20 2000 Volume 03 : Number 007 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Fw: [FM] John Gorka - In An Unlikely Place ["MVM" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 01:03:39 -0500 From: "MVM" Subject: Fw: [FM] John Gorka - In An Unlikely Place Stolen shamelessly from the folkmusic list: - ----- Original Message ----- From: "chuck hall" To: Sent: February 8, 2000 1:00 PM Subject: [FM] John Gorka - In An Unlikely Place > Hi Folks, > Great to have the list back! > > So this morning I climb into my cube, strap on my computer, and turn on the > Real Audio to CBC 2, and get set to start typing the day away, and all of a > sudden, "The cows in the moo yard are making their plans..." I think to > myself, "I've heard this, and I'm absolutely certain it shouldn't be on CBC > Radio 2, on a classical show." So the announcer comes on and proclaims that > he is in the middle of a set of compositions about winter on the plains. > He'd started with "The Plow That Broke The Plains", by a composer I didn't > write down, the John Gorka song, and followed it up with Verdi's MacBeth > Overture (I think). He made the connection, he said, between Gorka's "cold > winter hands" and MacBeth's "milk of human kindness". I had to laugh. And > wonder what any of my former radio employers might have done had I followed > "Grand Canyon Suite" by Groffe with Steve Goodman's "Grand Canyon Song". > (You know, "...see what this river has done....") > I've been chuckling to myself all day because of it. A great radio moment, > by an announcer who obviously has great taste and a sense of humor. Made my > day, it did, so I thought I'd share. > > Thanks for listening! > > Chuck Hall > Cape Ann, Massachusetts > mrchuckhall@bigfoot.com > > > _______________________________________________ > folkmusic mailing list > folkmusic@grassyhill.org > http://grassyhill.org/mailman/listinfo/folkmusic ------------------------------ End of good-noise-digest V3 #7 ******************************