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

[David Needle]

How absolutely great Phil. Yes when the organ joins in it adds a whole different flavor to the piece.

Kudos

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> On Sep 19, 2018, at 4:22 PM, Tom Henderson <thenderson at extremelabs.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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