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.

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!

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.

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

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!!

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.

begin the year by breathing out...

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