<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">How absolutely great Phil. Yes when the organ joins in it adds a whole different flavor to the piece.<div><br></div><div>Kudos<br><br><div id="AppleMailSignature">Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br>On Sep 19, 2018, at 4:22 PM, Tom Henderson <<a href="mailto:thenderson@extremelabs.com">thenderson@extremelabs.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 09/19/2018 02:55 PM, Phil Shapiro
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<div>I was driving home from work last week, listening to the
local NPR radio station, WAMU 88.5 FM. At the end of a news
story, the interlude music starts playing.<br data-mce-bogus="1">
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<div> When I heard this music, my first response was: "That
music sounds very familiar. Where do I know that from?"<br data-mce-bogus="1">
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<div> My second response was: "Oh my gosh, this radio
station is playing music I composed."<br data-mce-bogus="1">
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<div> They played about 15 seconds of it. <br data-mce-bogus="1">
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<div> WAMU has a new initiative, Capital Soundtrack, where
they play only local musicians for their interlude music. I
had submitted some of my music to them last year -- and<br data-mce-bogus="1">
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<div>forgot completely about it.<br data-mce-bogus="1">
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<div> Truth be told, it would have been courteous for
them to send me an email alerting me that my music was being
used. (They don't use all the submitted music.)<br data-mce-bogus="1">
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<div data-marker="__SIG_POST__"> For those IPG'ers who
might be curious, here is the music of mine this radio station
was playing. It's an instrumental homage to Woody Guthrie --
titled Woody Speaks.<br>
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<div data-marker="__SIG_POST__">In this piece, I tried to
capture Woody Guthrie's optimism -- and I rather surprised
myself at what came out.<br>
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<div data-marker="__SIG_POST__"> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnqCxjofDk4" data-mce-href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnqCxjofDk4" moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnqCxjofDk4</a>
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<div data-marker="__SIG_POST__"> The co-author of this
piece is someone I need to track down. He is the uncle of a
former guitar student of mine. This student was late for a
guitar lesson, so I told the uncle, Rico Livingston,<br data-mce-bogus="1">
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<div data-marker="__SIG_POST__">about this musical piece I was
working on -- and he spontaneously joined in on the church
organ at their house. Totally unrehearsed, I recorded this
into my camcorder.</div>
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cannot describe what it feels like to hear your own music on
the radio -- even if they play just 15 seconds of it. IPG got
talent.<br data-mce-bogus="1">
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<div>--<br>
Phil Shapiro, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:pshapiro@his.com">pshapiro@his.com</a><br>
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"Wisdom begins with wonder." - Socrates<br>
"Learning happens thru gentleness."<br>
<div><span>"We must reinvent a future free of blinders so that
we can choose from real options." David Suzuki</span><br>
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