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

[Tom Henderson]

Congrats!


On 09/19/2018 02:55 PM, Phil Shapiro wrote:
>
> 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
>
>            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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