WFMU: Why Do We Only Listen to Dead People? with Carol Gimbel and Cullan Bryant: Playlist from November 10, 2024

Listener comments!
	6:02pm AskJoe: Hi Inman
	6:02pm BnowB (mobile): BNow B boy
	6:03pm Dave the Spazz: ↳ Song: "I Can" by "Nasir Jones (Nas)" This is amazing
	6:04pm tom tom the pipers son: may the necromancy begin....hello carol, cullan and sickos... y'know like "sick!"
	6:06pm Ken From Hyde Park: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:04 Haha, saying "sick" was the thing when I was in high school. Drove my dad nuts when I would say that at home.
	6:06pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Ken From Hyde Park @6:06 it has come back with a vengence
	6:07pm ViolaChica: Greetings everyone - I am so happy to be here tonight. I just finished a week of Americana concerts here in the Charleston. I'm tired and have been glued to the station all week. I thank heavens for you all and this community.
	6:08pm Ken From Hyde Park: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:06 Yeah! Dang kids driving me nuts saying that all the time!
	6:08pm Will thee SG OCNY: Hi everyone, that first track was rad!!!
	6:08pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Ken From Hyde Park @6:08 haha...
	6:09pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ ViolaChica @6:07 hi carol...
	6:09pm ViolaChica: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:09 hi hi hi!
	6:10pm p_glow: pronounced "Naaz"
	🎻 6:11pm chresti: Hi Cullan and Carol and dead people music show!
	6:12pm tom tom the pipers son: a good example of boundary busting music is the music of the sahel made by semi nomadic ethnic groups that overlap national borders
	🎻 6:12pm PaulRobeson1924: HELP ME CLAY
	🎻 6:14pm PaulRobeson1924: & good morninggggg
	6:14pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ ViolaChica @6:09 oh ...i added comments on your playlist from last week on monday or tuesday...had to correct /add to a couple of things i put on the board
	🎻 6:18pm PaulRobeson1924: Once I had a sweetheart That loved onlyy me There was nothing That she would not give. I was blind to her goodness & I could not see That a life without love Cannot live
	6:18pm tom tom the pipers son: did prokofieff score any soviet films?
	🎻 6:18pm PaulRobeson1924: Dinner time
	6:20pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:18 yes he did do eisenstein...thought so
	🎻 6:23pm chresti: ↳ PaulRobeson1924 @6:18 But you just said it's morning?
	6:23pm Dan 2: Love this!
	🎻 6:25pm PaulRobeson1924: ↳ chresti @6:23 & There is no up in the universe!
	🎻 6:26pm PaulRobeson1924: ↳ chresti @6:23 Buckwheat Pancakes with blueberries and 3 fried eggs
	6:27pm tom tom the pipers son: who are prokofieff's immediate antecedents...rachmoninoff? rimsky korsikov? or a non russian?
	6:31pm tom tom the pipers son: did prokofieff take tchaikofsky's(sp) late romantic style and push it back a bit and reclaim earlier romantic music?
	6:32pm Peter from Saranac Lake NY: Good evening Carol, Cullan, and fellow dead people fans.
	6:33pm Pianoman: Prokofieff considered a modernist in his day. Stalin wasn't always pleased. Prokofieff rejected the late romantic Russians like Rimsky and Tchaikovsky
	6:35pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Pianoman @6:33 thanks...nor stalin pleased with eisenstein
	6:36pm ViolaChica: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:14 Yes. I saw. I had to let that show go when I left town as the convo was really going (I was fielding calls and messages), so I didn't have a chance to respond. I did listen to part of the Julius Eastman link you sent.
	🎻 6:37pm PaulRobeson1924: ↳ PaulRobeson1924 @6:26 Please
	6:38pm tom tom the pipers son: did sviatoslav richter ever get teased by being called "fat old slav richter" as a child?
	6:38pm ViolaChica: ↳ Will thee SG OCNY @6:08 A friend online is conducting a concert in Kalamazoo and asked for recommendations on rap songs with classical samples. I fell in love with that one.
	6:39pm Pianoman: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:38 Omg lol
	6:39pm ViolaChica: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:38 That's a Pianoman question!
	6:39pm ViolaChica: This is SO gorgeous! A respite so needed.
	6:39pm Pianoman: As a child Richter was frail.
	6:40pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ ViolaChica @6:36 oh i haven't looked back at it since early in the week...how was the eastman?....did you listen to the pieces for four pianos?
	6:40pm AskJoe: Unbelievably beautiful playing.
	6:41pm ViolaChica: ↳ AskJoe @6:40 Agreed. Sublime.
	6:42pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Pianoman @6:39 ah.... that makes the epithet even crueler
	6:42pm ViolaChica: Lazar Berman...I have been a fan since my teenage years.
	6:43pm tom tom the pipers son: i guess i can hack ave maria on piano...but not violin
	6:43pm Pianoman: ↳ ViolaChica @6:42 I learned this Liszt transcription but was always too terrified to ever perform it.
	6:44pm ViolaChica: ↳ Pianoman @6:43 It is so delicate. Was that why?
	6:45pm ViolaChica: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:43 How about singing?
	6:45pm Pianoman: Delicate to the point of unreal difficulty
	6:45pm Pianoman: For the song to stay independent and phrased
	6:47pm tom tom the pipers son: correction: "fat old slob" richter....c'mon he can take it....he's a legend
	6:47pm ViolaChica: ↳ PaulRobeson1924 @6:18 All we need is love. And we have so much of it here at WFMU. Gratitude. So much gratitude. I feel you.
	6:48pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ ViolaChica @6:45 maybe mary j blige?
	6:48pm ViolaChica: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:48 That would be an Ave Maria I would listen to.
	6:53pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "Charles Ives: The Unanswered Question" by "Leonar... i don't think i'm retelling a story....but i was listening to ives symphony #4 on the front of staten island ferry and the nusic synced up to the movement/tempo of the boat and the illusory movement of the skyscrapers as we approached...it was quite the trippy experience
	6:55pm Pianoman: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:53 Cool!
	6:55pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "Charles Ives: The Unanswered Question" by "Leonar... ends in a very unanswered way
	6:55pm JB: ↳ Song: "Chopin: Nocturne in F, Op. 15 no. 1" by "Sviatosl... Cullan, your favorite pianist if I remember correctly, yeah? Beautiful show. Been driving and listening and thoroughly enjoying.
	6:59pm AskJoe: Very unlike you pianoman
	6:59pm Bobby: ↳ Song: "Grieg: Peer Gynt, Op. 23: Ase's Death" by "Esa-Pe... I’m dead!
	🎻 7:00pm Listener Robert: I'm chuckling at your remark this mic break.
	🎻 7:03pm Listener Robert: Yes, the "dare I speak".
	7:05pm Jeff Moore: ↳ Song: "Grieg: Peer Gynt, Op. 23: Ase's Death" by "Esa-Pe... There are some pieces you've heard so many times that you start to think that maybe you never need to listen to them again... but then, a few years pass, you're in a different context or you're hearing a performance new to you, and it's great to just sink back into the arms of a piece like this which earned its warhorse status entirely on the merits!
	7:05pm tom tom the pipers son: nordic composers like grieg, sibelius and later arvo paart(i think) create slabs of sound, maybe coming from wagner that bespeak the nordic landscape and conjure images of ice floes/bergs stukk like that...i liked thar grieg
	7:06pm JB: ↳ JB @6:55 Yeah baby, close enough! The memory ain't so bad.
	7:06pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:05 conjure stuff like that
	7:09pm tom tom the pipers son: nas from the queensbridge projects
	7:17pm Pianoman: ↳ AskJoe @6:40 Overwhelming yes Joe!
	7:18pm Pianoman: ↳ JB @6:55 Thanks JB! I love WFMU in the car too!
	🎻 7:18pm Listener Robert: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:05 I'll have to quote you to my friends who are into Nordic pagan culture, because I like the type of music you're describing, but I'd never have thought to put it in those terms, thanks.
	7:20pm tom tom the pipers son: had a thought of comparing counterpoint in bach and beethoven and just what are the difference in movements btween classical(baroque) and romantic musics...in visual art history there's a theory of classical art say of the renaissance being more linear and baroque art, like rubens, being more tonal...i wonder if there's some analogy that could be applied to the formal structures of bach and beethoven
	7:21pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Listener Robert @7:18 i wish i knew paart better to include him in the thought
	7:22pm Paulo AD: Absolutely love this
	7:24pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:21 part...i don't even know to spell his name
	7:28pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Paulo AD @7:22 hey dood...howdy
	7:32pm Bobby: Beautiful show thank you
	7:33pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "Beethoven: String Quartet in A, Op. 132 complete"... so many tempo changes
	7:36pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:33 like a dialectic of tempo
	🎻 7:47pm chresti: ↳ Song: "Beethoven: String Quartet in A, Op. 132 complete"... This has been lovely with drinking coffee and fighting with my hair, thanks!
	7:48pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ chresti @7:47 beethoven often had bad hair days...
	🎻 7:50pm chresti: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:48 I feel for him!
	7:52pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ chresti @7:50 it inspired some of his best composing
	🎻 7:53pm chresti: I heard a little Danse Macabre for a sec
	7:57pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...so this is what Schroeder was so hyped about...
	7:59pm radioronan: Thanks so much, Cullen..cheers, y'all!
	7:59pm ViolaChica: Goodnight friends.
	🎻 8:00pm chresti: Thanks Cullan and Viola!
	8:00pm Bluesman: Hey y'all! Back from da not-too-deep south!

Why Do We Only Listen to Dead People? with Carol Gimbel and Cullan Bryant: Playlist from November 10, 2024

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From the most profound classical music recordings ever made, to genres and musical perspectives from around the globe, talk on music, art and recordings that changed our lives and the world around us. Tune-in as we explore why we only listen to "dead" people, and what is "alive" in music today. Special guests, call-ins welcome.

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November 10, 2024: Reflections

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Approx. start time
Nasir Jones (Nas)	I Can "I Can" by "Nasir Jones (Nas)"	God's Son	Columbia	2002	0:00:00 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Emerson String Quartet	Prokofieff: Quartet #2 in F, Op 92 mvt. II		Deutsche Grammophon	1991	0:09:48 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
David Oistrakh, Sviatoslav Richter	Prokofieff: Violin Sonata in F minor, Op. 80 mvt.III		video live	1972	0:17:00 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Vasa Prihoda, Otto Graef	Schubert/Prihoda: Litanei		Polydor	1935	0:24:19 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Sviatoslav Richter	Chopin: Nocturne in F, Op. 15 no. 1	Richter the Master Vol. 10	Decca	1966	0:28:45 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
David Oistrakh, Sviatoslav Richter	Beethoven: Violin Sonata in A, Op. 30 no. 1 mvt. II		Praga	1972	0:33:21 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Lazar Berman	Schubert/Liszt: Ave Maria		Deutsche Grammophon	1994	0:40:46 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Leonard Bernstein, New York Phil.	Charles Ives: The Unanswered Question		Deutsche Grammophon	1990	0:47:03 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Esa-Pekka Salonen, Oslo Phil.	Grieg: Peer Gynt, Op. 23: Ase's Death		CBS	1989	0:53:06 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Quartetto Italiano	Beethoven: String Quartet in A, Op. 132 complete		Decca	1968	1:09:35 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
The Reverend Horton Heat	Scott Joplin: The Entertainer	Liquor In the Front	Interscope Records	1994

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Listener comments!
	6:02pm AskJoe: Hi Inman
	6:02pm BnowB (mobile): BNow B boy
	6:03pm Dave the Spazz: ↳ Song: "I Can" by "Nasir Jones (Nas)" This is amazing
	6:04pm tom tom the pipers son: may the necromancy begin....hello carol, cullan and sickos... y'know like "sick!"
	6:06pm Ken From Hyde Park: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:04 Haha, saying "sick" was the thing when I was in high school. Drove my dad nuts when I would say that at home.
	6:06pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Ken From Hyde Park @6:06 it has come back with a vengence
	6:07pm ViolaChica: Greetings everyone - I am so happy to be here tonight. I just finished a week of Americana concerts here in the Charleston. I'm tired and have been glued to the station all week. I thank heavens for you all and this community.
	6:08pm Ken From Hyde Park: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:06 Yeah! Dang kids driving me nuts saying that all the time!
	6:08pm Will thee SG OCNY: Hi everyone, that first track was rad!!!
	6:08pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Ken From Hyde Park @6:08 haha...
	6:09pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ ViolaChica @6:07 hi carol...
	6:09pm ViolaChica: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:09 hi hi hi!
	6:10pm p_glow: pronounced "Naaz"
	🎻 6:11pm chresti: Hi Cullan and Carol and dead people music show!
	6:12pm tom tom the pipers son: a good example of boundary busting music is the music of the sahel made by semi nomadic ethnic groups that overlap national borders
	🎻 6:12pm PaulRobeson1924: HELP ME CLAY
	🎻 6:14pm PaulRobeson1924: & good morninggggg
	6:14pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ ViolaChica @6:09 oh ...i added comments on your playlist from last week on monday or tuesday...had to correct /add to a couple of things i put on the board
	🎻 6:18pm PaulRobeson1924: Once I had a sweetheart That loved onlyy me There was nothing That she would not give. I was blind to her goodness & I could not see That a life without love Cannot live
	6:18pm tom tom the pipers son: did prokofieff score any soviet films?
	🎻 6:18pm PaulRobeson1924: Dinner time
	6:20pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:18 yes he did do eisenstein...thought so
	🎻 6:23pm chresti: ↳ PaulRobeson1924 @6:18 But you just said it's morning?
	6:23pm Dan 2: Love this!
	🎻 6:25pm PaulRobeson1924: ↳ chresti @6:23 & There is no up in the universe!
	🎻 6:26pm PaulRobeson1924: ↳ chresti @6:23 Buckwheat Pancakes with blueberries and 3 fried eggs
	6:27pm tom tom the pipers son: who are prokofieff's immediate antecedents...rachmoninoff? rimsky korsikov? or a non russian?
	6:31pm tom tom the pipers son: did prokofieff take tchaikofsky's(sp) late romantic style and push it back a bit and reclaim earlier romantic music?
	6:32pm Peter from Saranac Lake NY: Good evening Carol, Cullan, and fellow dead people fans.
	6:33pm Pianoman: Prokofieff considered a modernist in his day. Stalin wasn't always pleased. Prokofieff rejected the late romantic Russians like Rimsky and Tchaikovsky
	6:35pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Pianoman @6:33 thanks...nor stalin pleased with eisenstein
	6:36pm ViolaChica: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:14 Yes. I saw. I had to let that show go when I left town as the convo was really going (I was fielding calls and messages), so I didn't have a chance to respond. I did listen to part of the Julius Eastman link you sent.
	🎻 6:37pm PaulRobeson1924: ↳ PaulRobeson1924 @6:26 Please
	6:38pm tom tom the pipers son: did sviatoslav richter ever get teased by being called "fat old slav richter" as a child?
	6:38pm ViolaChica: ↳ Will thee SG OCNY @6:08 A friend online is conducting a concert in Kalamazoo and asked for recommendations on rap songs with classical samples. I fell in love with that one.
	6:39pm Pianoman: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:38 Omg lol
	6:39pm ViolaChica: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:38 That's a Pianoman question!
	6:39pm ViolaChica: This is SO gorgeous! A respite so needed.
	6:39pm Pianoman: As a child Richter was frail.
	6:40pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ ViolaChica @6:36 oh i haven't looked back at it since early in the week...how was the eastman?....did you listen to the pieces for four pianos?
	6:40pm AskJoe: Unbelievably beautiful playing.
	6:41pm ViolaChica: ↳ AskJoe @6:40 Agreed. Sublime.
	6:42pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Pianoman @6:39 ah.... that makes the epithet even crueler
	6:42pm ViolaChica: Lazar Berman...I have been a fan since my teenage years.
	6:43pm tom tom the pipers son: i guess i can hack ave maria on piano...but not violin
	6:43pm Pianoman: ↳ ViolaChica @6:42 I learned this Liszt transcription but was always too terrified to ever perform it.
	6:44pm ViolaChica: ↳ Pianoman @6:43 It is so delicate. Was that why?
	6:45pm ViolaChica: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:43 How about singing?
	6:45pm Pianoman: Delicate to the point of unreal difficulty
	6:45pm Pianoman: For the song to stay independent and phrased
	6:47pm tom tom the pipers son: correction: "fat old slob" richter....c'mon he can take it....he's a legend
	6:47pm ViolaChica: ↳ PaulRobeson1924 @6:18 All we need is love. And we have so much of it here at WFMU. Gratitude. So much gratitude. I feel you.
	6:48pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ ViolaChica @6:45 maybe mary j blige?
	6:48pm ViolaChica: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:48 That would be an Ave Maria I would listen to.
	6:53pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "Charles Ives: The Unanswered Question" by "Leonar... i don't think i'm retelling a story....but i was listening to ives symphony #4 on the front of staten island ferry and the nusic synced up to the movement/tempo of the boat and the illusory movement of the skyscrapers as we approached...it was quite the trippy experience
	6:55pm Pianoman: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:53 Cool!
	6:55pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "Charles Ives: The Unanswered Question" by "Leonar... ends in a very unanswered way
	6:55pm JB: ↳ Song: "Chopin: Nocturne in F, Op. 15 no. 1" by "Sviatosl... Cullan, your favorite pianist if I remember correctly, yeah? Beautiful show. Been driving and listening and thoroughly enjoying.
	6:59pm AskJoe: Very unlike you pianoman
	6:59pm Bobby: ↳ Song: "Grieg: Peer Gynt, Op. 23: Ase's Death" by "Esa-Pe... I’m dead!
	🎻 7:00pm Listener Robert: I'm chuckling at your remark this mic break.
	🎻 7:03pm Listener Robert: Yes, the "dare I speak".
	7:05pm Jeff Moore: ↳ Song: "Grieg: Peer Gynt, Op. 23: Ase's Death" by "Esa-Pe... There are some pieces you've heard so many times that you start to think that maybe you never need to listen to them again... but then, a few years pass, you're in a different context or you're hearing a performance new to you, and it's great to just sink back into the arms of a piece like this which earned its warhorse status entirely on the merits!
	7:05pm tom tom the pipers son: nordic composers like grieg, sibelius and later arvo paart(i think) create slabs of sound, maybe coming from wagner that bespeak the nordic landscape and conjure images of ice floes/bergs stukk like that...i liked thar grieg
	7:06pm JB: ↳ JB @6:55 Yeah baby, close enough! The memory ain't so bad.
	7:06pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:05 conjure stuff like that
	7:09pm tom tom the pipers son: nas from the queensbridge projects
	7:17pm Pianoman: ↳ AskJoe @6:40 Overwhelming yes Joe!
	7:18pm Pianoman: ↳ JB @6:55 Thanks JB! I love WFMU in the car too!
	🎻 7:18pm Listener Robert: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:05 I'll have to quote you to my friends who are into Nordic pagan culture, because I like the type of music you're describing, but I'd never have thought to put it in those terms, thanks.
	7:20pm tom tom the pipers son: had a thought of comparing counterpoint in bach and beethoven and just what are the difference in movements btween classical(baroque) and romantic musics...in visual art history there's a theory of classical art say of the renaissance being more linear and baroque art, like rubens, being more tonal...i wonder if there's some analogy that could be applied to the formal structures of bach and beethoven
	7:21pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Listener Robert @7:18 i wish i knew paart better to include him in the thought
	7:22pm Paulo AD: Absolutely love this
	7:24pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:21 part...i don't even know to spell his name
	7:28pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Paulo AD @7:22 hey dood...howdy
	7:32pm Bobby: Beautiful show thank you
	7:33pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "Beethoven: String Quartet in A, Op. 132 complete"... so many tempo changes
	7:36pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:33 like a dialectic of tempo
	🎻 7:47pm chresti: ↳ Song: "Beethoven: String Quartet in A, Op. 132 complete"... This has been lovely with drinking coffee and fighting with my hair, thanks!
	7:48pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ chresti @7:47 beethoven often had bad hair days...
	🎻 7:50pm chresti: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:48 I feel for him!
	7:52pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ chresti @7:50 it inspired some of his best composing
	🎻 7:53pm chresti: I heard a little Danse Macabre for a sec
	7:57pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...so this is what Schroeder was so hyped about...
	7:59pm radioronan: Thanks so much, Cullen..cheers, y'all!
	7:59pm ViolaChica: Goodnight friends.
	🎻 8:00pm chresti: Thanks Cullan and Viola!
	8:00pm Bluesman: Hey y'all! Back from da not-too-deep south!

Why Do We Only Listen to Dead People? with Carol Gimbel and Cullan Bryant: Playlist from November 10, 2024

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