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Favoriting January 17, 2021: Sunlit Peaks and Dark Valleys: Happy Birthday, Donald Erb
“It’s not a profession that’s on an even-keel. There are days when life rains on your parade. You really are making a living by scratching your own nerve-ends, and by challenging other people to think. " Composer Donald Erb at home in Cleveland Heights, with friend.

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Artist Track Album Comments Approx. start time
Donald Erb  Reconnaissance: movement 1   Favoriting Music for Instruments & Electronic Sounds  —Conductor – Donald Erb —Double Bass – Rand Forbes —Engineer [Recording] – John Haeny —Percussion – Kenneth Watson —Piano – Ralph Grierson —Producer – Bernard L. Krause* —Synthesizer [Moog Polyphonic Instrument] – Leonard Stein —Synthesizer [Moog] – Michael Tilson Thomas —Technician [Technical Assistant] – Paul Beaver —Violin – Bonnie Douglas. — Side one recorded at Elektra Sound Recorders, Los Angeles. - 1969  0:00:00 (Pop-up)
DJ Guten Tag        0:03:00 (Pop-up)
Donald Erb  Drawing Down the Moon   Favoriting Drawing Down the Moon  Percussion – Kirk Brundage ///Piccolo Flute – Jan Gippo. --- 1991  0:09:00 (Pop-up)
Donald Erb  Sonata for Harpsichord and String Quartet III Allegro   Favoriting Music of Donald Erb_The Devil's Quickstep_etc  Harpsichord - John White ///Koch String Quartet: Joseph Koch - Violin; Samuel Epstein - Violin; William Kirady - Viola; Donald White - Cello. -- written: 1962  0:24:08 (Pop-up)
Donald Erb  Concerto for Brass and Orchestra II =48-56   Favoriting Works By Donald Erb_St. Louis Symphony Orchestra - Leonard Slatkin  Orchestra – Saint Louis Symphony ///Conductor, Directed By [Music Director] – Leonard Slatkin./// Cello: Lynne Harrel --- Recorded April 1991, March 1992, and May 1992 at Powell Symphony Hall, St. Louis, Missouri.  0:27:14 (Pop-up)
Donald Erb  5 Red Hot Duets For 2 Contrabassoons - #3   Favoriting Donald Erb_Chamber Music_The Watchman's Fantasy, etc.  Contrabassoon – Bradford Buckley ///Gregg Henegar --- rec'd 1990  0:33:59 (Pop-up)
Donald Erb  Reconnaissance: movement 3   Favoriting Music for Instruments & Electronic Sounds  A Reconnaissance —Conductor – Donald Erb —Double Bass – Rand Forbes —Engineer [Recording] – John Haeny —Percussion – Kenneth Watson —Piano – Ralph Grierson —Producer – Bernard L. Krause* —Synthesizer [Moog Polyphonic Instrument] – Leonard Stein —Synthesizer [Moog] – Michael Tilson Thomas —Technician [Technical Assistant] – Paul Beaver —Violin – Bonnie Douglas. — Side one recorded at Elektra Sound Recorders, Los Angeles  0:00:00 (Pop-up)
DJ Erb'an Renewall*  *Shamelesslly pilfered from Doug Schulkind   Favoriting     0:38:44 (Pop-up)
Donald Erb  Remembrances, for 2 Trumpets (1994) IV. Plungermusic   Favoriting Sunlit Peaks and Dark Valleys etc. (Verdehr Trio et al.)  Trumpet – David Spencer , Ryan Anthony --- 1997  0:45:10 (Pop-up)
Donald Erb  Sunlit Peaks and Dark Valleys, for Violin, Clarinet & Piano (1995) I. Quarter note = 144   Favoriting Sunlit Peaks and Dark Valleys etc. (Verdehr Trio et al.)  Violin – Walter Verdehr ///Piano – Gary Kirkpatrick ///Clarinet – Elsa Ludewig-Verdehr --- 1997  0:47:22 (Pop-up)
Donald Erb  Reconnaissance: movement 5   Favoriting Music for Instruments & Electronic Sounds  A Reconnaissance —Conductor – Donald Erb —Double Bass – Rand Forbes —Engineer [Recording] – John Haeny —Percussion – Kenneth Watson —Piano – Ralph Grierson —Producer – Bernard L. Krause* —Synthesizer [Moog Polyphonic Instrument] – Leonard Stein —Synthesizer [Moog] – Michael Tilson Thomas —Technician [Technical Assistant] – Paul Beaver —Violin – Bonnie Douglas. — Side one recorded at Elektra Sound Recorders, Los Angeles  0:54:48 (Pop-up)
Donald Erb  ...and then toward the end...   Favoriting Drawing Down the Moon  Trombone and tape– Stuart Dempster ---Written: 1971  0:57:42 (Pop-up)
Donald Erb  The Last Quintet (1982) Mvmnt. V   Favoriting The Devil's Quickstep  The Voices of Change: Deborah Mashburn, Gayane Manasjan, Harvey Boatright, Jo Boatright, Maria Schleuning, Peter Steffens, Ronald Neal, Ross Powell. -- 1983  1:06:06 (Pop-up)
Donald Erb  Sonata for Harp (1995) III. Dirty Rotten Scherzo   Favoriting Sunlit Peaks and Dark Valleys etc. (Verdehr Trio et al.)  Harp – Yolanda Kondonassis ---1997  1:08:14 (Pop-up)
Donald Erb  Ritual Observances: Genesis Thunder   Favoriting Works By Donald Erb_St. Louis Symphony Orchestra - Leonard Slatkin  Orchestra – Saint Louis Symphony ///Conductor, Directed By [Music Director] – Leonard Slatkin. --- Recorded April 1991, March 1992, and May 1992 at Powell Symphony Hall, St. Louis, Missouri.  1:11:40 (Pop-up)
DJ Erb A. Licious        1:16:33 (Pop-up)
Donald Erb  Aura II   Favoriting Donald Erb_Chamber Music_The Watchman's Fantasy, etc.  Cello – Lynn Harrell + a small group of people playing in the audience - 1982  1:23:56 (Pop-up)
Donald Erb  In No Strange Land: movement 1   Favoriting Music for Instruments & Electronic Sounds  —Double Bass – Bertram Turetzky —Engineer [Recording] – James Campbell (2) —Technician [Technical Assistant] – Reynold Weidenaar, Rudolph Bubalo, William Hemsath —Trombone – Stuart Dempster. —— Side two recorded at University of California at San Diego; electronic sounds realized at the R. A. Moog Company, Trumansburg, New York.  1:33:34 (Pop-up)
Donald Erb  Concerto for Brass and Orchestra I =72-84   Favoriting Works By Donald Erb_St. Louis Symphony Orchestra - Leonard Slatkin  Orchestra – Saint Louis Symphony ///Conductor, Directed By [Music Director] – Leonard Slatkin./// Cello: Lynne Harrel --- Recorded April 1991, March 1992, and May 1992 at Powell Symphony Hall, St. Louis, Missouri.  1:38:31 (Pop-up)
Donald Erb  5 Red Hot Duets For 2 Contrabassoons - #1   Favoriting Donald Erb_Chamber Music_The Watchman's Fantasy, etc.  Contrabassoon – Bradford Buckley ///Gregg Henegar --- rec'd 1990  1:43:57 (Pop-up)
Donald Erb  The Devil's Quickstep   Favoriting The Devil's Quickstep  The Voices of Change: Deborah Mashburn, Gayane Manasjan, Harvey Boatright, Jo Boatright, Maria Schleuning, Peter Steffens, Ronald Neal, Ross Powell. -- 1983  1:45:34 (Pop-up)
DJ Blech!        1:54:05 (Pop-up)
Theo Bleckmann  Elegy   Favoriting Elegy  • Theo Bleckmann - voice • Ben Monder - guitar • Shai Maestro - piano • Chris Tordini - double bass • John Hollenbeck - drums -- Recorded January 2016 Avatar Atudios, New York  1:58:39 (Pop-up)
Perry Blake  Stop Breathing   Favoriting Still Life  ///Backing Vocals – Fiona McGeown ///Bass, Double Bass, Acoustic Guitar – Glenn Garrett ///Drums, Percussion, Timpani – Steve Jansen ///Guitar – Alan MacFeely ///Piano, Organ, Keyboards [Additional] – Jamie Wright ///Strings [Live] – The Wired Quartet ///Viola – Bruce White ///Violin – Everton Nelson, Lucy Wilkins ///Vocals, Backing Vocals, Keyboards – Perry Blake Recorded at The River and Westside Studios, London, The Production Suite, Dublin and Plus XXX Studios, Paris. --- 1999. ///In memory of Dermott Gallagher (1966-1999)  2:05:22 (Pop-up)
The Aluminum Group  Easy On Your Eyes   Favoriting Pedals  ///Bass, Double Bass – Eddie Carlson ///Drums – John Blaha ///Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Backing Vocals – John Ridenour ///Piano, Synthesizer [Moog], Harpsichord, Keyboards, Electric Piano – Liz Conant ///Vocals, Backing Vocals, Guitar – John Navin ///Vocals, Backing Vocals, Piano, Keyboards, Organ [Farfisa] – Frank Navin. --- 1999  2:10:27 (Pop-up)
Brian Ferry  River of Salt   Favoriting These Foolish Things  ///Drums – Paul Thompson (2) ///Guitar, Bass – John Porter ///Keyboards [Violin], Synthesizer – Eddie Jobson ///Piano – David Skinner (3) ///Vocals - Brian Ferry Written-By – Zachery, Brown*,Zachery. --- 1973  2:14:58 (Pop-up)
Roberta Flack  Sunday and Sister Jones   Favoriting Quiet Fire  ///Alto Saxophone, Flute – Joe Farrell ///Arranged By [Horns] – William Eaton ///Bassoon – Wally Kane ///Harmonica – Buddy Lucas ///Soprano Saxophone, Flute – Romeo Penque ///Tenor Saxophone – Seldon Powell. — Written-By – Eugene McDaniels. ---  2:16:40 (Pop-up)
The Dells  Please Don't Change Me Now   Favoriting There Is  Vocals – Charles Barksdale*, Johnny Carter, Marvin Junior, Michael McGill*, Verne Allison  2:21:30 (Pop-up)
Candi Staton  That's How Strong My Love Is   Favoriting I'm Just A Prisoner  Written-By – Roosevelt Jamison  2:25:00 (Pop-up)
DJ Ugh. Please!        2:28:24 (Pop-up)
Roxy Music  Grey Lagoons   Favoriting For Your Pleasure  ///Bass, Guest [Guest Artiste] – John Porter ///Drums – Paul Thompson (2) ///Guitar – Phil Manzanera ///Music By, Lyrics By, Voice, Keyboards – Bryan Ferry ///Oboe, Saxophone – Andrew Mackay ///Synthesizer, Tape – Eno ---- 1973  2:34:00 (Pop-up)
Os Mutantes  Preciso Urgentemente Encontrar Um Amigo   Favoriting A Divina Comedia Ou Ando Meio Desligado  • Arnaldo Baptista: vocals, keyboards and bass • Rita Lee: vocals percussion, theremin, autoharp, recorder • Sérgio Dias: vocals • Rogério Duprat: orchestral arrangements • Liminha: bass --- 1970  2:38:09 (Pop-up)
Agitation Free  In The Silence Of The Morning Sunrise   Favoriting 2nd  ///Bass – Michael Günther ///Drums, Percussion [Assorted], Voice, Mellotron – Burghard Rausch ///Guitar – Stefan Diez ///Guitar, Twelve-String Guitar, Bouzouki – Lutz Ulbrich ///Synthesizer, Keyboards – Michael Hoenig Recorded and mixed Studio 70, Munich, July 1973  2:41:56 (Pop-up)
Fifty Foot Hose  If Not This Time   Favoriting Cauldron... plus rare and unissued tracks  ///Bass – Terry Hansley ///Drums, Percussion – Kim Kimsey ///Electronics – Cork Marcheschi ///Guitar, Piano, Kalimba – David Blossom ///Vocals – Nancy Blossom ///Vocals, Guitar – Larry Evans ///Written-By – C. Marcheschi, D. Blossom  2:48:23 (Pop-up)
Achim Reichel & Machines  Vita a) cave explorers + birdmen   Favoriting A.R. IV  ///Achim Reichel: Guitar ///Helmuth Franke: Guitar ///Frank Wulf: Sitar ///Hans Hartmann: Double Bass (still active with live concerts every week in Berlin) ///Claus-Robert Kruse: Electric Piano ///Jochen Petersen: Soprano Saxophone, Flute ///Hans Boche: Drums ///Matti Klatt: Percussion ///Olaf Casalich: Percussion ///Conny Plank: Engineer. --- 1973  2:51:59 (Pop-up)
Günter Schickert  Leihst Du Mir Dein Ohr   Favoriting Kinder In Der Wildnis  Guitar, Vocals, Tape, Composed By, Arranged By, Producer, Recorded By, Performer – Günter Schickert --- Recorded 1983.  2:57:14 (Pop-up)
Funkadelic  I Wanna Know If It's Good To You   Favoriting Free Your Mind And Your Ass Will Follow  • George Clinton • Ray Davis – vocals • Calvin Simon – vocals • Grady Thomas – vocals • Eddie Hazel – guitar, • Bernie Worrell – Hammond organ, Vox organ, piano • Billy Nelson – bass guitar • Tiki Fulwood – drums. -- Originally released in 1970  3:02:33 (Pop-up)
The Grodeck Whipperjenny  Wonder If   Favoriting The Grodeck Whipperjenny  ///Bass – Michael Moore ///Drums – Jimmy Madison ///Guitar, Vocals – Kenny Poole ///Piano, Organ, Trombone – Dave Matthews (3) ///Vocals – Mary Ellen Bell Recorded at King studios —Cincinnati, OH, 1970  3:08:29 (Pop-up)
DJ Regrets Leaving        3:11:22 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

Avatar 11:54am
Stork:

Welcome all! We got the Erb tonight!! Everybody in the lotus position and bong-up!!
  11:59am
Dean:

You're going to play the contrabassoon duets, right?
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Fuzzy:

Inhale ...exhale...just got an ounce in the mail...
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coelacanth∅:

greetlings Stork and clublings
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spodiodi:

that Erb (quote) just blew my mind. cheers, Stork!
cheers, Patrons!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:04pm
Irene Trudel:

Stork, I like that idea a lot! We have a day with nothing planned, so time to dive in.
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coelacanth∅:

do i have to take my slacks off?
Avatar 12:04pm
Stork:

C'mon, Dean, are you kidding?
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StringOFperils:

It's the Camberwell Carrot!
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doctorjazz:

A Donald I won't mind hearing (for a change). Don't actually know his music, looking forward to learning a bit about it.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:05pm
Irene Trudel:

You mean you're actually wearing pants, coelacanth∅? I'm still in my jammies at noon.
  12:05pm
Dean:

Took me a while, but I finally got the "bong-up" joke.
Avatar 12:06pm
Stork:

Dean, Fuzzy, coel, Irene, spodiodi. -HELL YEAH!!!!!!
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coelacanth∅:

doctor you don't like Donald Byrd?
(tee hee)
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chresti:

Hello Storkganger and storkees!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:08pm
chresti:

It's morning o'clock here.
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coelacanth∅:

aw,Irene you busted me! -just thermal base layer so far.
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fred:

Phew, I managed to evade the cops and get in even as the curfew started.
What's this? To quote Juliana Hatfield (weird reference, I know), "took a hit and now I'm choking"
  12:09pm
Dean:

It's little known that Erb wrote the jingle for Special K. You know, cereal music.
Avatar 12:11pm
TDK60:

Hello, guten tag. Never heard of Erb, but this is WFMU, so..
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:12pm
fred:

@Dean: Cerealism is an underrated movement in contemporary music, sadly
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spodiodi:

i can't hear the Special K jingle atm, Dean. I keep trying but it turns into the Mr. Clean tune
  12:14pm
Linda Lee:

here! saved again! thank goodness!
Avatar 12:15pm
alanr:

I grew up in Cleveland, and it was a treat to be able to attend concerts of Erb's music at the Cleveland Institute of Music, where he taught. The performing students there are super talented.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:16pm
spodiodi:

just watched a few yt special k commercials too.. no real jingle or theme/music
Avatar 12:17pm
Stork:

StringOFperils, huzzah! doctorjazz: all pizzazz! Mean Dean with the serial/cereal jokes right outta !the box! (get it?) TDK60 - the spool on the hill! fred the head! And is that really you, Linda Lee?! I think I just got the vapors! alanr: unsere Held, sogar!
Avatar 12:18pm
Stork:

Wow, lucky you, alanr! So glad there's someone here who's even seen him in person!
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coelacanth∅:

yeah i don't remember special k having a jingle, and cereal theme songs are my special t.
Avatar 12:19pm
hyde:

this is great, i don't know Erb at all
Avatar 12:19pm
TDK60:

Hi Linda.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:19pm
doctorjazz:

Dean breast me to the cereal joke, he's got that snap, crackle, and pop!
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chresti:

Erb is new to me, also.
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doctorjazz:

*Dean beat me...
Avatar 12:20pm
TDK60:

Hey, here's chresti of California Alta.
  12:20pm
Linda Lee:

tis i, my dear.
hi TDK60! good to see you!
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chresti:

Hey TDK60!!\\ //
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coelacanth∅:

to me as well.
- are we going to hear some didgeridoo?
Avatar 12:21pm
Stork:

chresti most zesty!!
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Irene Trudel:

Drawing Down the Moon indeed! Just the right amount of soothing sounds for a Sunday afternoon.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:23pm
fred:

No note on Donald Erb in my workplace's database of contemporary composers. Not really surprised, but sometimes I'm pleasantly so, so I still check
  12:23pm
Dean:

Been digging Erb since '93. A recording of his music, including his Watchman Fantasy, was "want listed" by a Fanfare magazine reviewer who also listed Chailly's recording of Hindemith's Kammermusik and a collection of recitals by Youri Egorov. All great records.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:23pm
Jeff Golick:

Yo, @Stork! Sorry fer going a tad long today!
Avatar 12:23pm
Stork:

Lot's of gorgeous serenity today, Irene, as well as a few musical jokes, and some aural thundershowers. We're livin' the Erbal life! (without the pyramid scheme)
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chresti:

I hope so, coel.
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adamdoesit:

Hi Stork, storkers, storkettes, storkxes.
Avatar 12:25pm
Stork:

You were on the button, Jeff, you didn't go long one second! Perfect dismount! Don't know why the stream hung up on me, but all's well.
  12:25pm
Linda Lee:

y'all won't see me chat much today, but i'm all ears. so glad to hear right here. xx
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Uncle Michael:

Hello everyone.
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chresti:

Nice to see you LL!
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coelacanth∅:

i guess Mr.Erb's no longer amongst us.
(if you said that i didn't catch it)

rest in peace.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:28pm
WR:

'Ey mon, 'ey got 'erb for to go with this Erb music, mon.
Avatar 12:29pm
Stork:

Who's Uncle Michael? Just the guy who supplied us with some of the choicest Erb for today's show! Thank you good Uncle!!Servants! Twist up a fatty for our noble benefactor!!
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Irene Trudel:

Erb left us in 2008. www.nytimes.com...
Avatar 12:30pm
Stork:

WR! Good on ye!
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adamdoesit:

This is my first time doing Erb. I'm ready for a new experience.
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Uncle Michael:

I'm fatty-free, I'm afraid, but I appreciate the sediment.
  12:31pm
Dean:

Reviewer in Fanfare Sept./Oct. 1991 of the harpsichord sonata recording writes, "Because I attended performances of Donald Erb works in several cities, the composer once dubbed me 'the only Don Erb groupie.' What I love best about his music is the combination of a wild imagination for sonority with an omnipresent but often-hidden discipline which propels his music forward in almost-classical fashion. He links two disparate faces of American music, the eccentric originality of Partch and of two Erb idols, Ives and Varese, with a formal drive typical of the 'uptown' schools, which Erb may have inherited from his teachers, Nadia Boulanger and Bernard Heiden."
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chresti:

Erb looks like he liked the 'erb.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:32pm
coelacanth∅:

haha he does!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:33pm
Doug Schulkind:

Today's Stork Club: Erb'n renewal.
  12:33pm
Dean:

We lost Harrell just last year. He was a marvelous performer.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:33pm
Uncle Michael:

There's a story about how a friend of mine came to have a credit on Beaver & Krause' "Gandharva" album. The true story has almost nothing to do with the way he's credited, but everything to do with why he is if I understand correctly. Sadly, I'm not at liberty to go into greater detail.
  12:35pm
Dean:

Of this concerto, the same reviewer writes, "Outspoken and forthright, Erb says he dislikes listening to Beethoven's music because he feels he is getting a scolding; but in his own powerful scores, Erb is capable of shaking his musical fist at the heavens with a fury rivaling that of the German titan."
Avatar 12:38pm
Stork:

Thou art cruel, Uncle! Hold forth! Tell Us! Hey, I love that album! With Gerry Mulligan on bari sax.
Avatar 12:40pm
TDK60:

How low can you go? This may be the lowest notes I ever heard.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:40pm
Irene Trudel:

Wallowing in the the mud with this one.
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coelacanth∅:

Dean i once referred to Beethoven's symphonies as "the gangsta rap of classical music". i got some harsh words over that, and i'm sure you like that analogy as well.
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chresti:

Contrabassoons, I swoon.
  12:43pm
Dean:

I do like it, @coelacanth∅. It's on the money. I'm awaiting the arrival of Jordi Savall's band's traversal of the first five symphonies, which is by many accounts among the best of all time.
  12:44pm
Dean:

Piccolo flute...reminds me of a Robin Harris joke.
  12:50pm
Dean:

Trumpet was Erb's instrument.
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coelacanth∅:

i've heard Jordi Savall, but i confess i don't understand the reference ... unless he actually is planning to do that, whatever that means?
  12:52pm
Dean:

He planned a cycle of all nine symphonies, but pandemic delayed the project, so they will issue only the first five for now. Band is Le Concert de Nations, a full orchestra.
  12:54pm
Dean:

Fanfare on the Savall set: "Only people such as Ludwig van Beethoven and Jordi Savall can save humanity from total annihilation, and every politician on the planet should be made to sit down and listen to this until they finally get it."
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coelacanth∅:

interesting. so it's not out yet...
  12:56pm
Dean:

Just out, I believe. I'm awaiting delivery. Same reviewer: "I have no doubt that some reading this, admittedly, complete rave-review, will disregard it as being just too over-the-top for words: surely nothing can be *that* good! At the risk of validating that potential criticism even further, however, I am going to double-down on the hyperbole and state the following: in my opinion, there has never been a finer recording made of any music, at any time, in any genre, then this recording of the first five Beethoven symphonies."
  12:57pm
Dean:

Obviously, the reviewer hasn't heard Metal Machine Music.
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adamdoesit:

Wow, Dean. Talk about fainting with damn praise.
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coelacanth∅:

- or gang of 4's first album... but then , i haven't heard the piece yet.
Avatar 12:58pm
TDK60:

This means I have to listen to Beethoven, again?
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coelacanth∅:

so, you think someone who's bored to tears by Beethoven's symphonies will like it?
  1:01pm
Dean:

Gang of Four tribute album due out in May. Heard an excerpt of "Natural's Not In It" featuring Tom Morello. Was okay.

Haven't heard the LVB yet, and I'm predisposed to like it, because I adore Savall's work and LVB's music. Recently acquired Rene Jacobs' recording of Leonore, the proto-Fidelio. Haven't heard it yet, either.
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coelacanth∅:

... i mean, i'll listen to it. i'm ever-open.
but my comparison to gangsta rap is the bombast, the predictability.
not my favorite properties in music.
but i'd like to check this thing out.
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doctorjazz:

Out of curiosity, googled that Beethoven set. It was released in CD, DVD, and digital downloads, but the DVD is out of stock almost everywhere. Seems to be a Classical "hit"!
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coelacanth∅:

(i do like some of Beethoven's solo piano works)
Avatar 1:03pm
Stork:

That Jacobs' thing sounds v interesting. Never heard that work.
Avatar 1:03pm
TDK60:

I'm not bored by Ludwig. It's just I hear him enough. I turn on the local classical radio station: Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms. repeat.
Avatar 1:05pm
Stork:

One thing about Erb I love is the sheer slapstick genius of some of it. Lotta hilarity with this one.
  1:05pm
Dean:

I took gangsta rap as unadulterated compliment! Beethoven, predictable? That I don't hear. But bombast, sure, when called for. I had a dream a few nights ago that we discovered a tenth symphony. First two movements were typical, but the third movement was a two-hour long episodic meander, followed by a one-hour fourth movement played excruciatingly slowly. Would like to hear it, actually.

Jacobs claims the original version is superior to what we know as Fidelio, contrary to the performance tradition.
  1:05pm
Dean:

Yep. Erb has a piece called "Dirty Rotten Scherzo." Can't not love that.
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coelacanth∅:

there's a (mostly?) classical station i'd pick up commuting into connecticut in the afternoons that played mostly stuff i'd never heard, sometimes by folks i'd never heard of.
Avatar 1:06pm
Stork:

Dean: we just might get to that one ;)
  1:08pm
Dean:

Anagrams: No bladder, Olden bard, A bold nerd... Lotsa good ones.
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Ike:

Hi. Thought my cats were having an unusually serious squabble for a sec there, then I realized it was this piece.
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doctorjazz:

This does make me smile.
Avatar 1:10pm
Stork:

Hiya, Ike!
Avatar 1:11pm
Stork:

Keep em comin, Dean!
  1:11pm
Dean:

Another Donald, now gone, whose music is worth this kind of attention: Donald Martino.
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alanr:

Beethoven suggestion: find his late works for string quartet as well as solo piano...very "contemporary." My favorite period of his writing.
  1:15pm
Dean:

The middle quartets, too. Try the recordings by Arianna SQ.
  1:19pm
Dean:

Bored land
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coelacanth∅:

alanr Thank you. i've meant to check out the string quartets...thanks for reminding me again
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coelacanth∅:

- and Dean
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coelacanth∅:

(... i'm very unlikely to ever change my feelings about his symphonies though!
- it's not that i haven't given them several listens)
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chresti:

What would be an informal name for Ludwig, Lu? Wiggy?
  1:28pm
Dean:

According to -pedia, "Nicknames are Ludva, Ludia, Luděk, Viky."

I've always assumed it was Camper.
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coelacanth∅:

i knew someone named Ludwig and some people called him Wig
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coelacanth∅:

(i called him "Ludwig")
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Stork:

@chresti: it would be "Ludi" - and because he was so tiny, it might have been kleine Ludi. Just spitballin in German over here!
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coelacanth∅:

was Beethoven of a small stature?
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Stork:

Yeah, he was tiny, and kind of congenitally unattractive, is what the books say. Poor guy pined after many women, and none would have him. He was very messy. That couldn't have helped.
  1:34pm
Dean:

Maynard Solomon wrote that Beethoven "was powerfully built, with broad shoulders, strong hands overgrown with hair, and short, thick fingers."
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Stork:

Oh, yeah and Erb told Lynne Harrell to sing as well. That really makes this piece, nicht wahr?
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adamdoesit:

Ludi cross 'cos Ludi gross.

Walking the dog just now, I was thinking about whether or when I'd listen to him again. The symphonies and the quartets were an important part of my life, at a time. I'd have to find a way to make them new for myself again. Sometimes a new recording can do that.
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fred:

If only those women had known they could have had their own Wikipedia entry... Though that probably wouldn't have made sense to them
  1:40pm
Dean:

'wigipedia
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Stork:

If this music don't scramble yer chromosomes, aint nuttin will!
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adamdoesit:

Pretty sure this is what it sounds like inside a cat's brain.
  1:42pm
Dean:

My 9YO daughter is studying trombone. Will have to play Dempster for her.
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TDK60:

I have an electronic sampler LP with a Reynold Weidenaar piece, real goofy. One of the tech asst. on 'In No Strange.'
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doctorjazz:

This sounds like it could be a free jazz improv (In No Strange Land). I assume it's written out
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fred:

@doctorjazz: I no longer assume much. I was told by people who worked with (well, for) Stockhausen that not as much as I thought was written out beforehand
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chresti:

Haha 'wigapedia.
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TDK60:

I have to leave the building. Danke, Stork. Great to learn about Erb.
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chresti:

See ya TDK60 \\ //
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coelacanth∅:

@134 the poor guy. no wonder his music was so intense - if not angry
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doctorjazz:

Later, TDK60
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Stork:

TDK60: thanks for bein'!
Be next week?
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chresti:

He was an incel, I guess.
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fred:

I need to clarify there: the score was written down, but the electronics were not so much, not even afterwards
  1:53pm
Dean:

In German that would be unZö, chresti.
  1:55pm
Dean:

I'm tempted to make a crude pun of Beethoven's last name.
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fred:

@chresti: You could have an angle there: "don't be the next anonymous droogie, be the next Ludwig Van!"
  2:03pm
Dean:

Bleckmann might have been the last or next to last live show I attended. Can't quite recall.
  2:10pm
Dean:

Is the Steve Jansen here one of the founding members of Japan? Sylvian's brother?
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Listener Gregory:

15 min ago I came back home and turned on the radio where I thought the current song was The Devil's QuikStop. This makes perfect sense, as most convenience stores are obviously run by the devil.
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doctorjazz:

Pretty set, nice to hear Ferry.
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coelacanth∅:

always good to hear Ms.Roberta. just listened to her album with Donny Hathaway last week...on the anniversary of Donny's untimely destruction of his body.
  2:24pm
Dean:

Additional personnel on the Flack track: Chuck Rainey, Bernard Purdie, Hugh McCracken, Ralph McDonald
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Stork:

Thank you, Dean! Will fix.
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coelacanth∅:

and that's just the tip of the iceberg for that album
  2:33pm
Dean:

Gosh darn!
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coelacanth∅:

the god of damns at work here
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chresti:

Goddamn great show goddamnit!
  2:34pm
Dean:

How can anybody be contra-bassoon?
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coelacanth∅:

(late '71 on the Flack album)
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coelacanth∅:

it's tea time in ... here
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Stork:

thanks chresit! Day? Made!
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watchpocket:

Lovin' the sounds, Stork.
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Stork:

watchpocket: a rusty, hale and hearty one tee yee!
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StringOFperils:

Genius.
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doctorjazz:

More Ferry, this is great!
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chresti:

It's tea time whenever it's not coffee time, here.
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doctorjazz:

Not familiar with Agitation Free (now that's optimistic), like the slight dissonance of the chording.
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doctorjazz:

Overtime?
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spodiodi:

thanks, Stork!
enjoyed the Erb ✌️
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chresti:

spodi!\\//
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Stork:

Guten Apetit, coel! Anything to bite with that tea?
  3:03pm
Jeff B Cali:

This song is wild!
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watchpocket:

Agitation Free is a truly great '70s Krautrock band.
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Stork:

A couple more tunes, methinks, doctorjazz.
  3:05pm
Jeff B Cali:

@Dean love Steve Jansen, and Sylvian...
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fred:

Thanks Stork. Now to get back home eluding the curfew police. Where's my invisibility cloak? I swear I checked it in at the cloakroom
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coelacanth∅:

maybe an espresso chocolate truffle, Stork 'want one?
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coelacanth∅:

it's there fred you just can't see it
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chresti:

I want one, coel,
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coelacanth∅:

espresso truffles all around!
...and lyon's green box, brewed strong
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fred:

@coel: Fatal flaw, as Andy/Ken would call it
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watchpocket:

Sir Stork, you go above and beyond the call by writing out all that personnel every week. Thank you for a super swell show.
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doctorjazz:

German Rock, have the sprawling box set Brain compilation, listened a bit (can induce anxiety/shpilchas)
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Stork:

Thanks, watchpocket! I like to hear that people are getting some benefit from the lists - they are time consuming but worth it, i think!
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doctorjazz:

The Funkadelic fits right in with the Krautrock...
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StringOFperils:

Well, my Brain is Agitation Free so thanks for all the cosmic music von Storkenheimer.
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doctorjazz:

Love the personnel lists (as an obsessive).
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watchpocket:

It's very and unusually informative. Thanks for putting in the effort.
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coelacanth∅:

yes i'm with watchpocket in my appreciation of the info; just not as on-the-ball in expressing it
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Stork:

Thanks, Clubbers all! It will be too long till next time!! So sweet! Glad so many people liked The Erb! He gets me high, too! See you all at the door next week?
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chresti:

Thank you Stork! I be here next time!
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doctorjazz:

The sound of Charlie Christian means we're done. Thanks, Stork, great show!
  3:15pm
Jeff B Cali:

Mary Ellen Bell had her some VIBRATO!
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WR:

thank you Stork!
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Sem:

OK, delivery of three gross of Whippets and what appears to be a can of ether for some guy here, Storch, it looks like. Wasn't Larry Storch on F Troop? What's he doing here? Anyway, somebody gotta sign for this...
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fred:

I'll hopefully be there next week. Just don't put my invisibility cloak over the Guinness cask next time
  3:18pm
Jeff B Cali:

Gesundheit!
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chresti:

The G. Whipperjenny for $324.99
  3:18pm
Jeff B Cali:

Nice work Stork
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coelacanth∅:

Thanks Wolfie!
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StringOFperils:

All this discussion around invisibility. I just don't see it.
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coelacanth∅:

haha
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Stork:

Thanks again., y'alls! good one, fred!! Visible beer kegs, forever!
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Stork:

sem: I'll sign!
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