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Author: marcia
Date: 2006-05-25 23:37
Recently a link was posted to the narration in this piece, written (I believe) and definitely narrated by Garrison Keilor. Does anyone know who wrote/arranged the music for this?
Marcia
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Author: marcia
Date: 2006-05-27 00:40
Just did a google search, and you believe correctly. Thank you.
Marcia
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Author: BTBob
Date: 2006-05-31 01:27
To quote the author (that's ok isn't it?)
"Many Lutherans start out playing clarinets in marching band and think of the clarinet as a Christian instrument, clear and strong and almost human.
But a symphonic clarinet is different from the band clarinet: it's sardonic, skeptical, and definitely worldly."
I don't know about the above, except to say that I have known many clarinetists who were skeptics, many others who were cynics, and quite a few who were almost human.
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Author: diz
Date: 2006-05-31 05:55
BTB - you're post made me laugh. I know this piece quite well, as I've heard it twice quite recently. It always makes me smile (though never laugh out loud).
If you like this work, then there is a British one called "Who pays the Piper?" that is absolutely brilliant (sadly out of print), anyone heard this??
Without music, the world would be grey, very grey.
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Author: Kel
Date: 2006-06-01 00:03
Where is the link? I had no luck with the search function.
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Author: marcia
Date: 2006-06-01 05:00
Thanks for re-posting the link I too had discovered that it had vanished--into cyberspace perchance?
It says "by Garrison Keilor". Does anyone know, did he actually write the narration? The Randall Davidson website stated that Garrison had commisioned it but I don't remember it stating that he actually wrote it.
For those who listen to CBC-some years ago there was an on air telephone conversation between Garrison Keilor and Jeurgen Goethe. VERY entertaining. I think Jeurgen would do almost as good a job as Garrison himself.
Marcia
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