Listen to a classic - Tanglewood 2005 with Gillian Welch We loved playing shows at Tanglewood in Lenox, Massachusetts, so much so that it was almost always our final LIVE show for each broadcast season for more than a decade. So we’re thrilled to be able to take you back to 2005 for the coming Fourth of July weekend, for a Saturday show at the Koussevitzky Music Shed. And what a group of musical guests! We’ll welcome Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, Professor Peter Schickele with David Dusing, and Inga Swearingen. Plus, violinist Andy Stein, vocalist Prudence Johnson, our Royal Academy of Radio Acting, and more. The link will post on our Facebook page at 5 p.m. CT on Saturday (but if you simply cannot wait you can use the one below).
Highlights include talk about Lake Wobegon and potato salad, a fine duet of “Attics of my Life” with Prudence Johnson, “Make Me a Pallet” and “Dear Someone” by Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, “If Love is Real” by Peter Schickele, “The Independence Rag” by the Guy’s All-Star Shoe Band, plus talk about the Fourth of July, a sing-along to the “Star-Spangled Banner,” and “Palms of Victory” and more, including the latest News from Lake Wobegon. Listen to the show >>>
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Gillian Welch and David Rawlings
She may have grown up in West Los Angeles in the ’70s, but Gillian Welch draws on the roots of rural Appalachia for her sound. She began a successful duo act with fellow Berklee School of Music student David Rawlings; they now live in Nashville and tour the world.
Listen to “The Way It Will Be” >>> Peter Schickele
Peter Schickele is a composer, musician, author, and satirist. He is widely recognized as one of the most versatile artists in the field of music. He was born in Ames, Iowa, and brought up in Washington, D.C., and Fargo, North Dakota. By the time he graduated from Swarthmore, he had already composed and conducted four orchestral works, a great deal of chamber music, and some songs. He went on to study composition at the Juilliard School of Music. As a composer, Peter’s commissions are numerous and varied — including works for the Saint Louis Symphony, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Audubon String Quartet, the Minnesota Orchestral Association, and many other such organizations. And as a satirist, he is well known as perpetrator of the oeuvre of the now-classic P.D.Q. Bach. Listen to “Peter Schickele and P.D.Q. Bach”>>> Inga Swearingen
Inga Swearingenwon the Shure Jazz Voice Competition at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland in 2003. And while her style was rooted in jazz, she also dipped into her folk and classical influences and to create a sound all of her own. Inga earned a master’s degree in Choral Conducting from Florida State University in Tallahassee. Among her recordings is 2016’s Let Me Call This Home. “Sometimes home is a place, other times it’s a person. You can long for it, or want to leave it. And songs can take you home or take you far away,” she says. Listen to “Here is What” >>> Prudence Johnson
Prudence Johnson’s multi-decade career in music has taken her from honky-tonks to Carnegie Hall, from the theater stage to the Silver Screen (Robert Redford’s A River Runs Through It), from the Midwest to the Middle East. Her album releases include Little Dreamer, a collection of international lullabies, Moon Country, which features the music of Hoagy Carmichael, and ’S Gershwin, a collaboration with pianist Dan Chouinard. She collaborated with four Minnesota composers to create A Girl Named Vincent, a presentation of the poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay set to music. Here are a few questions from our recent guest interview:
Do you have a favorite duet to sing with Garrison?
I do! We sing one lately by Ann Reed called “If You Were Mine.” And one I hope we revive someday is “If I Needed You” by Townes Van Zandt. Both are sweet wistful love songs and sort of hypnotic to sing.
Since you are a teacher, any prescient advice for someone who wants to pursue a career in music? Not all jobs require the integration of physical skills, intellect, and the heart — some only require one of those — so it’s a rare gift to make one’s living doing something so spiritually gratifying. Offer your music with love and it will have an impact. And no matter how you weather the ups and downs of the music “business,” it will feed your soul. As a singer, I think of myself foremost as a storyteller, and I encourage young singers, when they are tempted to get frilly and fancy, to concentrate on telling the story. Listen to “Early” with Garrison >>>
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