On the Fly
Hey hey everyone - this is Uncle Dave running through airport terminal kinda OJ Simpson like with my suitcase and big grin reminding you all that my radio show is on tomorrow morning at 6am EST at
www.wcbn.org click on "Listen Live"
Timings elsewhere
5am Central
4am Mountain
3am Pacific
12pm noon in Europe
6pm Friday in Taiwan
Of course if you are in the Ann Arbor area you may listen on your radio at 88.3 FM
The featured work is a long one - a complete performance of the thirteenth-century pageant "Le Jeu de Robin et Marion" by troubadour Adam de la Halle perforemd by French Canadian group Ensemble Anonymus, plus works by Beethoven, Donizetti, Hans Neusidler, Gesualdo, Verdi and Vivaldi. In the "pop" section we will hear Paul Whiteman, Joe Venuti, Muggsy Sapnier. Stuff Smith and Esquivel.
This show has been planned for so long I almost forgot the airdate was nigh! This week I absolutely promise to get on a piece by Bruce Palmer, who lately died. Also, I've had to change the morning march, as word came that Fred Fennell died Tuesday at age 87 Tuesday. Fred's recordings of various marches have served us well over the years, and we are sorry to see the man go, but nonetheless thank him for all those great recordings.
Hey Man! Gotta run! The mrs. won't wait!
Greetings to Myrna
I can't beleive it, but today I got an email from Myrna Marcarian, onetime member of the Human Switchboard.
Sometime ago, when I was writing better on this blog than I do now (brain doesn't work as well I guess, but July 2003 to be exact) I wrote a piece here on the feelings which welled up inside when I heard a Human Switchboard song. Well Myrna found it, read it, and updated me some. She's in a new group called Ruby on the Vine:
http://www.rubyonthevine.com
where she is joined by some of her old pals from the Switchboard and some newer ones as well. Looking forward to this music, and to the promise of the reissue of some old Switchboard stuff on CD due early next year. Awsome!
Incidentally I note the Hildegard art on the front cover of Myrna's website. She was in the "Human Switchboard" which I understood was taken from a line Dorothy Lamour spoke in some Bob Hope movie. My band was "11,000 Switches" which took its name from "Les onze mille verges," a porno novel by Guilliame Apollinaire. To Apollinaire, "verges" (switches) was a pun on "vierges" (virgins), a reference to the 11,000 virgins in the order of St. Ursula to whom Hildegard addressed much of her work. Both our bands were founded in Ohio in the late 1970s. Geez, I guess what goes around comes around.
Rubbin' Elbows with Will Soderburg
If you're local to Southeast Michigan and have nothing to do Sunday night, Will Soderburg is playing and I'm supposed to join in somehow. I'll bring my guitar or something, and hopefully will have a place to plug in. That's at the Elbow Room, 6 South Washington St. in Ypsilanti, Sunday at 10 or so.
Uncle Dave Lewis
udtv@yahoo.com