Tue, 8 December 2009 I posted my first podcast on July 18th 2006. For this forty ninth episode I would like to highlight two podcasts. The first is #8 or "The Morning After". Sung by the Oberon Junior High School. Viking Singers. The second is #10 aka "Pink Morning Mass". Mashing The Viking Singers, the Elgin High School Sr. A Capella Choir singing the "American Jazz Mass". "Pink Panther" played by the Euclid Jr. Hi Band. The inspired drum solo on "Milestones" performed by Green Mtn. Jazz Band Spectrum. All of it under the control of the Garage Band! These performances provided the most interesting sounds to play with. I was just starting to realize the full potential that this media has given me.
I want to expand this show. I'm not sure how, why or what form it should be. I would like to put on other people stories, noise, sounds or whatever too. I don't really have a format in mind other than freeform or the illusion of freeform. I featured a friend of mine and his poetry on the podcast. I enjoyed this process, if anyone has anything along the same lines please contact me. I edit it on to the show. I'm looking for anything between 3 to 15 mins. Anything longer would be posted over multiple episodes. Comments[0] |
Tue, 24 November 2009 Happy Thanksgiving! Here is the 1976-77 Longmont High School bands again
this time performing Richard Strauss' "Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks" arranged by Mark Hindsley. This is the same group that brought us "Scaramouch" on the same recording. It's one of the best performances of any high school group I've ever heard! An incredible flute solo along with some of the best ensemble playing between the brass, woodwinds and percussion, an era in Colorado public school music which seems long past. Thank goodness that the performance was recorded and pressed into vinyl for posterity. Comments[0] |
Wed, 11 November 2009 Welcome back Montana State University's Soprano, Jane Hevener singing Karl Flaster and Vittorio Giannini's "Tell Me, O Blue, Blue Sky" let's sing along:
"Tell Me, Oh Blue, Blue Sky?"
Words by Karl Flaster
Music by Vittorio Giannini
Summer has flown, the leaves are falling,
I hear a voice, Your voice, calling,
I see a face, Your face, pleading,
I feel a heart, Your heart, bleeding.
Tell me, Oh blue, blue sky,
Why did we part?
Tell me, Oh whispering wind, breathe on my heart.
Breathe on my lonely heart, that too has bled.
Tell what is left in life, since love has fled, since love has fled?
[Oh, no!]
Tell me, Tell me, Tell me, Oh blue, blue sky,
Tell me, Oh blue, blue sky! Comments[0] |
Wed, 28 October 2009 Fumbling. And just milking these sounds as far as they go without any effects. I'm still putting these things together intuitively, listening to dozens of "loops" trying to catch something. The nature of the process! You quickly find out that random sounds fall organized under the dictates of the loop. I want to restart this crazy thing. So after six months a new show!!
If you will allow me I will air check my microphone again. The University of Iowa Old Gold Singers are returning to sing the bed to a funk drummer with crazy brass and woodwinds accompanying.
I"m taking submissions for sounds, interviews, noise, rants and raves contact me via this site!!
Thank you. Comments[0] |
Mon, 25 May 2009 Welcome back here is one of the great high school jazz bands of the nineteen seventies!
Alameda High School Jazz Ensemble - 1970
Bob Montgomery, director
playing: "Aftermath" (Polyton Music, inc.)
Composed & Arranged by John Einarson Comments[1] |
Wed, 4 February 2009 I going to take a short break from posting some new items since right now I have no new items. I'll try to be back in March with new stuff and maybe a more crazy stuff!! Comments[1] |
Wed, 21 January 2009 Welcomes and Farewells by John Garraus from his book Poesia and All My Lovin' by Lennon and McCartney!! Something different until I can get more school material. Comments[1] |
Tue, 6 January 2009 begin the year by breathing out... Comments[0] |
Sat, 13 December 2008 Huh? Comments[0] |
Tue, 25 November 2008 I finally give thanks to this junior high school group from the late 70's. All is well. Comments[0] |

