Excellent listening from BBC Radio 3. This programme should be available for another few weeks. The piano concerto was performed on a period instrument, like those that Beethoven heard… while he could still hear.
Category: Music
Tripping Down the Lanes
Here’s a good comparison of groovy British vs. American sounds from 1967, with America having the harder edge.
Capitol Jay
This is a remembrance I have submitted for an obituary:
https://www.hochfuneralhome.com/obituaries/john-lemay-2
I have quite a few records that Capitol reissued into the early 80s. As I listened to them, I noticed that some had a consistently distinctive and appealing sound quality. It was full and smooth and, to my preference, not overly bright. In the run-out grooves, those records were all signed “Jay Lemay,” “J. Lemay,” or simply “Jay,” as seen in the photo. I always wanted to tell Lemay how much I appreciated his eminently listenable work as a mastering engineer.
Yeah, Yeah, Yeah
Johnny Carson, from when the Tonight Show was still in New York, talking about the forthcoming arrival to the city of the Fabulous Foursome.
Freak-Over-and-Out
With no formal, or even informal, announcement, Drew Carey’s Friday Night Freak-Out is no more. I hoped he was just taking a summer break, but Carey’s show is no longer listed on the SiriusXM schedule and his name doesn’t appear as a host.
Update:
Week #5
MIT Technology Review profiles Tom Scholz.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/08/27/1095835/not-just-another-band-from-boston/
This is the breakthrough album that made Scholz’s non-existent band, Boston, an overnight sensation.
I caught some of this BBC podcast today, and I’m sufficiently interested to start listening from the start.
So, how am I doing, on the home stretch of cancer treatments? It’s like he said in a galaxy far, far away.