[Ipg-smz] When you're listening to your own music on the radio

[Phil Shapiro]

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. 

When I heard this music, my first response was: "That music sounds very familiar. Where do I know that from?" 

My second response was: "Oh my gosh, this radio station is playing music I composed." 

They played about 15 seconds of it. 

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 
forgot completely about it. 

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.) 

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. 
In this piece, I tried to capture Woody Guthrie's optimism -- and I rather surprised myself at what came out. 

[ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnqCxjofDk4 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnqCxjofDk4 ] 

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, 
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. 

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. 

phil 

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"Wisdom begins with wonder." - Socrates 
"Learning happens thru gentleness." 
"We must reinvent a future free of blinders so that we can choose from real options." David Suzuki 
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