From: owner-good-noise-digest@smoe.org (good-noise-digest) To: good-noise-digest@smoe.org Subject: good-noise-digest V3 #8 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 Tuesday, February 22 2000 Volume 03 : Number 008 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [FM] John Gorka - In An Unlikely Place ["Steve McGraw" Subject: Re: [FM] John Gorka - In An Unlikely Place Thanks, Chuck; great story and excellent observations! Steve - -----Original Message----- From: MVM To: GOOD-NOISE@smoe.org Date: Sunday, February 20, 2000 1:04 AM 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 #8 ******************************