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Post by dwarnold on Sept 16, 2023 12:53:31 GMT -5
We’re going to heat up the fall with a compilation of two earlier shows. These compilations almost feel like a new show so join us for a listen. One show was recorded in Chicago from the Gary Comer Youth Center back in Sept. 2006. Gary Comer is the founder of Land's End, a longtime friend to APHC, and one of our nation's great philanthropists. Featured on that show will be gospel singer Jearlyn Steele, award winning pianist Reginald Robinson, world music journeymen Radio Maqam, Chicago community builders The South Shore Drill Team, and our own Rich Dworksy and Fred Newman. The second show is one we did in Chicago in 2002 from the Auditorium Theater, featuring the great American author, historian, and broadcaster Studs Terkel, legendary jazz figure Franz Jackson, and the hero of the modern harmonica, Howard Levy. Highlights include Jearlyn belting out the classics “I’ll Take You There” and “Lean on Me,” a great fall stomp from Reginald Robinson called “The Maple “Leaf Rag,” the Gary Comer Center Youth Choir crooning “Oh Happy Day,” plus Howard Levy’s got his mojo back on the harmonica, a bit of cooking with Studs, talk about the end of the world, Ketchup, sound effects, and the latest News from Lake Wobegon. www.prairiehome.org/shows/57123.html
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Post by dwarnold on Sept 16, 2023 12:55:15 GMT -5
About the Performers
Jearlyn Steele
Growing up in Indiana, Jearlyn Steele sang with her siblings as The Steele Children. One by one, they moved to Minnesota and started singing together again. Now music is the family business. Jearlyn also hosts Steele Talkin’, a Sunday-night radio show that originates on WCCO in Minneapolis.
Howard Levy
Multi-instrumentalist Howard Levy is perhaps best known for developing a fully chromatic harmonica style on a standard 10-hole diatonic instrument. Anyone who’s ever picked up a little Hohner Marine Band can appreciate the feat. The musical adventures of this Chicago-based Grammy winner include journeys into jazz, pop, rock, Latin, classical, folk, blues, country, and more. He has appeared on hundreds of recordings. His latest album is Duets with Friends (Balkan Samba Records).
Studs Terkel
Studs Terkel called himself a "disc jockey," a reference to his role as host of the Peabody Award-winning talk show, The Studs Terkel Program, heard for 45 years in Chicago on WFMT. Before starting with WFMT in 1953, Terkel had starred in Studs’ Place, one of the programs that created the Chicago school of television. The show began airing in 1950, the year that Joseph McCarthy began claiming that he had a list of Communist Party members in the U.S. State Department. The popularity of Studs’ Place couldn't keep it on the air: the program was dropped by NBC when Terkel wouldn't reverse his “pro-Communist” positions in favor of price and rent controls and against the poll tax and Jim Crow laws. By the mid-’60s, Terkel’s interviews on WFMT began to be noticed outside of Chicago. In 1965, his first oral history was published, Division Street: America, about class differences in Chicago. Terkel called his writing “bottom-up history ... [interviews with] ordinary people who have something real to say about themselves.” He published 18 books and to compile each of these books, Terkel met with hundreds of “ordinary people” and then sifted through the hours upon hours of resulting tape until the interviews were distilled down to bare truth. He was honored with an induction into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, and a Pulitzer Prize.
Reginald Robinson
Chicago born and raised, Reginald Robinson is a pianist and composer whose music ranges from of semi-classical to ragtime, Latin American to early jazz and blues. Reginald has been consumed with music since early childhood. At home, his parents played records of classical music and R&B and everything in between, and Reginald and his brothers started making music together. But it was a junior-high assembly about ragtime that cinched it. A guest musician played the melody Reginald had heard coming from the ice cream truck every summer, but to hear “The Entertainer” played as a serious piano piece was utterly captivating. He read everything he could about ragtime and its most famous composer, Scott Joplin. That Christmas, Reginald was given a small electronic keyboard, and he started teaching himself to play. By studying school music books, he learned to read and write music. He pored over ragtime transcriptions, comparing them note for note with old piano roll recordings. The hard work of his youth paid off. He has recorded five CDs, including The Strongman, Songs in Silhouette, and Euphonic Sounds, all on the Delmark label, and he has performed across the U.S. and in Europe at venues such as the Chicago Jazz Festival, Ravinia and the Gilmore Keyboard Festival. In 2004, Reginald Robinson was honored as a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation fellow, the so-called “genius grant.”
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Post by dwarnold on Sept 16, 2023 17:01:06 GMT -5
OK the show is live !
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Post by doctork on Sept 16, 2023 17:02:24 GMT -5
I'm tuned in and listening. Thanks for posting the link dw.
How are things with you? We're having great early fall weather - cool (69 degrees) and sunny.
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Post by dwarnold on Sept 16, 2023 17:08:16 GMT -5
I'm tuned in and listening. Thanks for posting the link dw. How are things with you? We're having great early fall weather - cool (69 degrees) and sunny. Things are still warm in Florida. We had a mild exposure to a hurricane, but were without power for three days. We have cleaned up everything and I burned some tree debris this afternoon. My generator ensured that we were able to keep our fridge and freezer and some fans running so we were not too uncomfortable. Meanwhile, we await some cooler weather this week ahead.
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Post by doctork on Sept 16, 2023 17:16:29 GMT -5
My daughter's wedding is next Saturday in upstate New York so we're flying east on Wednesday. They are already married in a civil ceremony last year, but had always planned on the wedding celebration to be this month - external influence factors - so it's happening next weekend. Fairly low-key though for a big event like a wedding.
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Post by dwarnold on Sept 16, 2023 17:18:19 GMT -5
My daughter's wedding is next Saturday in upstate New York so we're flying east on Wednesday. They are already married in a civil ceremony last year, but had always planned on the wedding celebration to be this month - external influence factors - so it's happening next weekend. Fairly low-key though for a big event like a wedding. Have you figured out all of the logistics of traveling ... no separations this time?
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Post by doctork on Sept 16, 2023 17:27:53 GMT -5
My daughter's wedding is next Saturday in upstate New York so we're flying east on Wednesday. They are already married in a civil ceremony last year, but had always planned on the wedding celebration to be this month - external influence factors - so it's happening next weekend. Fairly low-key though for a big event like a wedding. Have you figured out all of the logistics of traveling ... no separations this time? Yes, DH and I flying back east on the same plane together, and on the return he is booked with the newlyweds as I am not sure when I shall head back Out West. Rather than two separate trips, I'd like to fly only one round trip back east and combine the wedding with the National Storytelling Festival, visit friends and family and our mountain cottage in VA and NC . Still a bit "up in the air" on details.
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Post by dwarnold on Sept 16, 2023 17:29:39 GMT -5
Have you figured out all of the logistics of traveling ... no separations this time? Yes, DH and I flying back east on the same plane together, and on the return he is booked with the newlyweds as I am not sure when I shall head back Out West. Rather than two separate trips, I'd like to fly only one round trip back east and combine the wedding with the National Storytelling Festival, visit friends and family and our mountain cottage in VA and NC . Still a bit "up in the air" on details. Sounds like you for sure!~
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Post by doctork on Sept 16, 2023 17:38:25 GMT -5
//Sounds like you for sure!~ //
Lately there hasn't been as much price difference between booking months in advance or only 1 - 2 weeks. OTOH change fees are substantial, there are many factors beyond my control determining when I need/prefer home so it's better not to commit too early.
I'm a free agent Frequent Flyer now with regard to particular airlines so no commitment to any one airline - pick the one with best combo of practicality, timing and price. I can usually find a reasonably priced airfare even with last minute changes.
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Post by dwarnold on Sept 16, 2023 17:50:59 GMT -5
do you have any secret suggestions on international flights? My daughter wants to come home from Seoul Korea for Christmas, but the airfares are twice as expensive as they have been in the past and she is panicking !
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Post by dwarnold on Sept 16, 2023 17:52:51 GMT -5
Marge has a nutmeg problem
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Post by jspnrvr on Sept 16, 2023 17:53:37 GMT -5
Good evenings, folks. I apologize for the late arrival.
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Post by dwarnold on Sept 16, 2023 17:57:43 GMT -5
Franz was born November 1, 1912, started playing jazz at age 13 and didn't stop until just months before his death in May, 2008 at the age of 95.
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Post by dwarnold on Sept 16, 2023 17:58:13 GMT -5
Good evenings, folks. I apologize for the late arrival. Welcome aboard Jay!
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Post by jspnrvr on Sept 16, 2023 18:03:49 GMT -5
It Sounds like, from reading above, that everyone is in decent shape.
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Post by dwarnold on Sept 16, 2023 18:07:39 GMT -5
It has started raining in Tally. Putting out my outdoor fire
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Post by jspnrvr on Sept 16, 2023 18:09:35 GMT -5
Yeah it's been a little rainy in the afternoons and evening here, lately. It seems like the ungodly heat is over with.
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Post by doctork on Sept 16, 2023 18:18:45 GMT -5
do you have any secret suggestions on international flights? My daughter wants to come home from Seoul Korea for Christmas, but the airfares are twice as expensive as they have been in the past and she is panicking ! I haven't been traveling internationally lately (Covid, then Howard became averse to air travel) so I am not up to date. For trans-pac I would be starting to check now for Christmas. I'd play with lots of combinations of airports and I'd check both Tallahassee and Orlando destinations, maybe Tampa or Miami or even Atlanta. Disney/Orlando is a very popular family destination so there may be more competition and lower fares. Within FL there may be very competitive rates that make flights to a major hub cheaper. Generally international airfares have been higher lately once delayed air travel opened up close to normal after Covid and Christmas travel will be heavy. Shop all the airlines, multiple flexible dates so try "fake booking" on each, look at FrequentFlyer websites for hints, Google "best airfares between Seoul and selected airports - Tallahassee and hubs. I suspect Friday the 22nd and Tues/Wed the 26/27th will be very heavy. Usually Christmas Day and New Years Day themselves are lighter traffic. Sometimes it's better to buy two round trip tickets, though be careful if they are not on the same PNR, that is, booked "on the same airline" - allowing for the big 3 alliances so the metal for international leg may be different from the domestic between partner airlines. If separate RT tix are booked for say INC-SEA and SEA-MCO leave plenty of connection time because the airlines do not have to accommodate you for misconnects.
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Post by doctork on Sept 16, 2023 18:19:14 GMT -5
Hi Jay!
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Post by doctork on Sept 16, 2023 18:21:14 GMT -5
Maybe I'll play and search online later for good ideas on best fares
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Post by jspnrvr on Sept 16, 2023 18:23:18 GMT -5
Hey, doc. Less than 3 weeks till Jonesborough. I'm taking the truck in for a little going over next week, finally scheduled time for an eye check-up. My brother in Indiana says it really starting to cool off up there, so maybe there's some hope for TN.
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Post by doctork on Sept 16, 2023 18:33:40 GMT -5
I haven't looked at the weather forecast for east TN yet, I'm still working on the upstate NY part of the trip. It's apt to be colder there but probably warmer in TN.
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Post by doctork on Sept 16, 2023 18:37:08 GMT -5
I'm studying the college football station as The Backyard Brawl (Pitt v WVU) is supposed to start now but ABC is still showing Bama v USF (10 - 3 late in the 4th Q). I'm not sure when the kickoff is but the schedule says show begins at 4:30
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Post by jspnrvr on Sept 16, 2023 18:43:37 GMT -5
College football has gotten pretty strange, not that I follow it. But I know last weekend our University of Central Florida Knights were playing in Boise, Idaho.
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Post by dwarnold on Sept 16, 2023 18:44:46 GMT -5
College football has gotten pretty strange, not that I follow it. But I know last weekend our University of Central Florida Knights were playing in Boise, Idaho. Some of the conferences are breaking up... gonna be strange in the future
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Post by doctork on Sept 16, 2023 18:51:22 GMT -5
I think this is the final year for the 103 year old tradition of Backyard Brawl, due to the re-alignments. It's not the only tradition that is being trashed.
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Post by doctork on Sept 16, 2023 18:52:52 GMT -5
The other BIG thing in our enthusiasm for college football is the Colorado Buffaloes, now that Deion Sanders is on board as coach they have been doing great.
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Post by dwarnold on Sept 16, 2023 18:55:26 GMT -5
The other BIG thing in our enthusiasm for college football is the Colorado Buffaloes, now that Deion Sanders is on board as coach they have been doing great. I read the ticket prices have jumped quite a lot
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Post by doctork on Sept 16, 2023 18:56:56 GMT -5
OK, WVU - Pitt is on ABC now, Alabama won 17 to 3 I think.
When WVU was playing at home, traffic was terrible, probably still is. Our neighbor got his corporate helicopter to take and bring him and guests to the game.
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