December 17, 2022 -- Classic Rebroadcast

[dwarnold]

Spread the Christmas cheer — this classic PHC from December 6, 2014 is full of tinsel and ornaments you will fondly recall for years to come. This week, the ghost of Christmas past takes us back to The Town Hall with special guests, Greenwich Village poet Edward Field, pianist and writer Jeremy Denk, and singers Karan Casey and Christine DiGiallonardo. Plus, the Royal Academy of Radio Actors, multi-instrumentalists Sam Bush and Stuart Duncan sit in with pianist and musical director Rich Dworsky and The 43rd Street Band, and the latest News from Lake Wobegon.

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[dwarnold]

More about this week’s featured guests:

Jeremy Denk is one of America’s most thought-provoking, multifaceted, and compelling artists — “a pianist you want to hear no matter what he performs,” said the New York Times. Among other projects, he is an Artistic Partner of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. Also a respected writer, Denk’s articles have appeared in The New Yorker, The Guardian, the New York Times Book Review, and more. His recording J.S. Bach: Goldberg Variations (Nonesuch) reached No. 1 on Billboard’s Classical Chart.


The Los Angeles Times has called Karan Casey’s voice “as pure and clear as the crystal from County Waterford, where she was born.” She spent her childhood singing with her family, then studied voice and piano at the Royal Irish Academy of Music in Dublin. After courses in jazz at Long Island University-Brooklyn, she joined the celebrated Irish-American band Solas and later embarked on a solo career.

During a three-day train trip after his Army Air Corps basic training in World War II, a Red Cross worker handed Edward Field a paperback anthology of poetry. By the time the trip was over, the young soldier knew that he was going to be a poet. Field has published many volumes of fiction and nonfiction, in addition to poetry collections like Counting Myself Lucky, A Frieze for a Temple of Love, and After the Fall: Poems Old and New. The native New Yorker has been honored with the Lambda Literary Award and the W.H. Auden Award, among others.

New York-based vocalist Christine DiGiallonardo is at home singing in early-music chamber ensembles as well as jazz and rock bands. She performs solo and with her sisters, Daniela and Nadia, as The DiGiallonardo Sisters, and her voice can be heard on commercial jingles for Aquafresh, Mr. Clean, Playtex, and Febreze. Her theater credits include Carousel (Live From Lincoln Center), Lady, Be Good! (City Center Encores!), The Sound of Music (Carnegie Hall), and My Fair Lady (Avery Fisher Hall).

[dwarnold]

Last one from NYC for the year, then HOME YAY! It's been a long time since we've been home for Christmas… (original posting from Thomas)


Rundown REVISED-APHC-The Town Hall -141206
5:45 Warm Up
Band 1.Peacock Rag 2. My Little Pumpkin Pie
GK1. Have Yourself a Merry Little 2. White Christmas
6 pm APM Logo/ Tishomingo
GK Open–
GK/CD-Hush Little Baby 4:30
Script- Xmas1-4:40
Sam/Stuart -Silence or Tears 3
GK/Edward Field -1. New York 2:36
Jeremy Denk 1. Bach-Goldberg Var. 13 2:23
Edward Field -1. 2. Cataract Operation 3:20
6:30 pm Powdermilk in D /Christmas Time’s – SD/SB/RD/RK/GK
Script-Scene 2:55
Karan Casey 1. Lovely Annie-at piano 4:10
Gk talk to JD 2. Ives-The Alcotts from The Concord Sonata 4:26
Script- Xmas 2-5:20
Sam/Band- Same Old River 3:45
Triple FiddleMedley 3:30
7:00 Intermission – East Tenn Blues 3:30
Greetings-
GK/CD/SD/SB/RK-All Shook Up-2:30
Script- Xmas3-5:20
Karan Casey 1. The Comeragh Mountain-3:20
22 inGK-The News From Lake Wobegon 37 out
Jeremy Denk 1. Bach Goldberg Var. 1 – 2 right into
SD vox-Two Pictures- 3:45
GK/Edward Field-1. Envoi 1:50
Script- Xmas 4 - 6:20
Credits/Closer- GK/KC/CD/Aud-Silent Night :50 per time
into Auld Lang Syne/Good Night Ladies
7:59 Off Air –Post Show Medley
Float- EF- A Journey 2:23/ Script-Misc

[dwarnold]

I hope you all enjoy the show as I will be out with my darling wife for the evening. The week before Christmas is almost upon us and hope all your shopping is done!

[BoatBabe]

Have a lovely evening, DW and darling wife! Happy Holidays to you.


Ummm, I haven't even started shopping. Some years are like that.

[doctork]

Thanks for the link dw! I hope you and your dear wife are having a wonderful weekend.

I'm logged on here while multi-tasking.

[jspnrvr]

Anybody home? I'll be along in a bit.

[jspnrvr]

Oh, hello, doc. Se you in a minute or two.

[jspnrvr]

So, it's a slow go getting Christmas going here. Decoration, anyway. I have the tree up and am decorating the higher branches, in case my wife gets the spirit she can take the lower ones. But I had to quit; knee and shoulders pooped out, so we'll hit it again later. But the decorations are finite so we'll get them eventually.

[doctork]

We bought a tree that already has lights on it, with a choice of white, multicolored, or flashing off and on with either white lights or colored lights, or rotating through all the phases. We think it looks fine without any other decorations and at least for now I'm concentrating on setting up The Village.

[jspnrvr]

Yeah, I got a lit tree a few years ago, but we (I) still like our decorations.

Tell you what; I think I'll back out of here and leave you with your Village. Take care, have a good evening.