<html><body><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div><br></div><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"></div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><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"></div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div> My second response was: "Oh my gosh, this radio station is playing music I composed."<br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div> They played about 15 seconds of it. <br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><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"></div><div>forgot completely about it.<br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><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"></div><div><br></div><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></div><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></div><div data-marker="__SIG_POST__"><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div data-marker="__SIG_POST__"> <!--StartFragment--> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnqCxjofDk4" data-mce-href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnqCxjofDk4">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnqCxjofDk4</a><!--EndFragment--> </div><div data-marker="__SIG_POST__"><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><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"></div><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><div data-marker="__SIG_POST__"><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div data-marker="__SIG_POST__"> Words 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"></div><div data-marker="__SIG_POST__"><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div data-marker="__SIG_POST__"> phil<br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div data-marker="__SIG_POST__"><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>--<br>Phil Shapiro, pshapiro@his.com<br>http://www.his.com/pshapiro/briefbio.html<br>http://www.twitter.com/philshapiro<br>http://www.his.com/pshapiro/stories.menu.html<br><br>"Wisdom begins with wonder." - Socrates<br>"Learning happens thru gentleness."<br><div><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"We must reinvent a future free of blinders so that we can choose from real options." David Suzuki</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></div></div></div></body></html>