WFMU: Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlist from February 24, 2022

Listener comments!
	♥ 3:01pm Yvang: Hi Larry and testifyers. I brought my violin!
	♥ 3:01pm Funky16Corners: Yvang!
	♥ 3:01pm David Dichelle: More train music!
	♥ 3:02pm Funky16Corners: Hey David!
	♥ 3:02pm Yvang: Let's keep trippy!
	♥ 3:02pm Funky16Corners: I think you'll discover that much of today's music is good for your head.
	♥ 3:03pm doctorjazz: Hello Larry!
	♥ 3:03pm Michael 98145: Whoa - what have we here ?
	♥ 3:03pm Funky16Corners: Hey Doc!
	♥ 3:03pm Funky16Corners: Michael!
	♥ 3:05pm Michael 98145: snowpiercer
	3:06pm Erica: Hi Larry.
	♥ 3:06pm Funky16Corners: Is this used in Snowpiercer?
	♥ 3:06pm Funky16Corners: Hi Erica!
	♥ 3:07pm Michael 98145: no. just came to mind.
	♥ 3:07pm Funky16Corners: Ah, OK.
	♥ 3:07pm coelacanth∅: greetings Larry and all
	♥ 3:08pm Funky16Corners: Hey C!
	♥ 3:08pm coelacanth∅: how ya feeling these days Larry?
	♥ 3:08pm Funky16Corners: Feeling good!
	♥ 3:09pm coelacanth∅: Good news!
	♥ 3:10pm Funky16Corners: I like to think so! Every day on the right side of the dirt is a gem to be cherished (usually...)
	♥ 3:12pm Funky16Corners: The story behind this piece is fascinating. I'll go into it at the break.
	3:12pm Moog1 Radio: Thanks for this Larry, I am only familiar with the Electric Counterpoint "Little Fluffy Clouds" stuff. I never listened to this part!
	♥ 3:13pm Funky16Corners: Hey Kurt! I like that piece, too. I'll save it for the next such excursion.
	♥ 3:16pm Michael 98145: never heard this before now
	♥ 3:18pm Funky16Corners: I'm not really well versed in modern classical music. I'm trying to remedy that situation.
	♥ 3:20pm Michael 98145: This is fascinating
	3:21pm Erica: 80s classical music is more on the avant-garde side isn't it?
	♥ 3:22pm Funky16Corners: Most modern classical that I've heard, even going back to the teens and 20s is pushing the envelope with experimentation
	♥ 3:25pm zzz: hey DJ F16C! love this Reich piece, heavy stuff (not to mention the pat metheny electric counterpoint that is on the CD release)
	♥ 3:25pm Funky16Corners: Hey zzz!
	♥ 3:30pm StringOFperils: Hey there, Larry, and sojourners in long-hair land!
	♥ 3:33pm zzz: phil lesh from grateful dead was reich classmate at mills
	♥ 3:33pm Funky16Corners: Hey String!
	♥ 3:33pm Funky16Corners: @zzz - I did not know that!
	♥ 3:34pm Alex In Illinois: Steve Reich's music changed the way I hear the world. It changed the way I listen to sounds in the environments and everything
	♥ 3:34pm Michael 98145: Like how the cover art evokes train tracks ... www.discogs.com...
	♥ 3:35pm Funky16Corners: Hey Alex! His music, and the way it is composed really changes everything going forward.
	♥ 3:35pm Funky16Corners: @Michael, one side is train tracks, the other guitar fretboards (at least on the CD)
	♥ 3:36pm Funky16Corners: Barber composed this overture for a non-musical play that dates to the late 1700s
	♥ 3:40pm StringOFperils: Act I Scene I: Lady Sneerwell, a wealthy young widow, and her hireling Snake discuss her various scandal-spreading plots. ___The School for Scandal premiered 1777
	♥ 3:40pm Michael 98145: super-spreader
	♥ 3:43pm Funky16Corners: There's a great, jazz guitar version of this second prelude by Kenny Burrell
	♥ 3:49pm Funky16Corners: This is one of my favorite pieces of music, period, across all genres.
	♥ 3:51pm Michael 98145: Gershwin was quite amazing
	♥ 3:52pm Funky16Corners: Yes, indeed. I can't think of another composer who was so successful in the pop market, with his show tunes, and also in the classical realm, and he didn't even make it to 40, Can you imagine what he would have been capable of had he lived?
	♥ 3:53pm coelacanth∅: ^ mine as well. i put it in my main bedtime playlist, twice. once near the beginning and once ~2.3 way ( a few hours) in by a different orchestra & conductor.
	♥ 3:54pm coelacanth∅: (afternoon of a faun)
	♥ 3:54pm Funky16Corners: Two more Debussy pieces in today's show
	♥ 3:56pm Michael 98145: Beautiful
	♥ 3:56pm doctorjazz: Thick I have that Burrell record. I feel VERY CLASSY AND SOPHISTICATED today!
	♥ 3:56pm Funky16Corners: I hope everyone has their formal wear on...
	♥ 4:00pm Little Danny: hello larry hello all!
	♥ 4:00pm Funky16Corners: Hey Danny!
	4:01pm Erica: Hi Little Danny.
	♥ 4:02pm StringOFperils: Hey, LD!
	♥ 4:09pm Little Danny: hey y'all! :)
	♥ 4:14pm Little Danny: totally agree larry re: debussy and ravel's wide-ranging influences
	♥ 4:15pm Little Danny: oh man larry this piece
	♥ 4:16pm Funky16Corners: Yeah, this is a spectacular work. Composed for twin string orchestras, based on a 16th century hymn.
	♥ 4:16pm Little Danny: very strong associations with this, i had it on a cassette in my early '20s that i listened to on repeat for months
	♥ 4:16pm Funky16Corners: Used to great effect in the film Master and Commander
	♥ 4:17pm Funky16Corners: Previous to this, I only knew Vaughan Williams by The Lark Ascending and a few other things and this piece totally rewired the music centers of my brain.
	♥ 4:23pm Little Danny: just astounding beauty here
	♥ 4:23pm Funky16Corners: I can understand why they used this in Master and Commander. Vaughan Williams has the strings swell, ebb and flow like waves, but there are moments that are elegiac, as if they had been composed for a funeral.
	♥ 4:25pm StringOFperils: In a way, all standard romantic film scoring is lifted from composers like Vaughan-Willams, Elgar, smetana, Strauss, etc...no surprise that Hollywood mines this stuff. Actually that's where some of them went
	♥ 4:26pm Funky16Corners: Many of the great film composers created classical pieces as well.
	♥ 4:27pm StringOFperils: max steiner
	♥ 4:27pm dreamyandseedy: enjoying this immensely! thank you :) was just listening to the lark ascending earlier today, the only vaughan williams i had heard til now!
	♥ 4:27pm Funky16Corners: Hey Dreamy!
	♥ 4:28pm Little Danny: duke ellington also listened to debussy and ravel
	♥ 4:28pm Little Danny: dreamy!!
	♥ 4:31pm dreamyandseedy: hi little danny! how's the weather over your way? it snowed here today for about 5 mins.
	🥁 ♥ 4:36pm dutchtheo: Hey, Larry! Late to the classic party, I had a party...
	♥ 4:36pm coelacanth∅: gotta go Larry Thanks!
	♥ 4:36pm Funky16Corners: Hey Theo!
	4:36pm Iphone 11: hello, somewhat new to wfmu. I had not noticed this show before. Looks like yet another amazing wfmu show that I will have to spend some time with. I do like the Funky16corners soul cd.
	4:37pm WR: Different trains indeed.
	♥ 4:37pm Funky16Corners: Hey iPhone11 - Glad you stopped by, though I had nothing to do with the Funky16Corners comp. I borrowed the name for my webzine from the song by the Highlighters, before the comp.
	4:38pm Erica: Iphone11 Welcome.
	♥ 4:38pm Funky16Corners: Bye C! Hi WR!
	4:38pm Iphone 11: oh, haha, oops. well, the show still looks very interesting : )
	♥ 4:39pm Funky16Corners: Thanks!
	♥ 4:47pm Yvang: Satie! No one knew better how to express loneliness in music.
	♥ 4:48pm Funky16Corners: He was a very unusual person. Led a really unconventional life.
	♥ 4:49pm Little Danny: hi dreamy no snow here :( but the temperature and wind shifted two nights ago and the town was flooded with tumbleweeds
	♥ 4:49pm StringOFperils: This is one of my favourite pieces of 'modern' music
	♥ 4:50pm Funky16Corners: Make sure to stay tuned for Kip and Discothech Underground right after I finish at 5PM! wfmu.org...
	♥ 4:50pm Funky16Corners: @String - Clair de Lune? Mine, too.
	♥ 4:53pm doctorjazz: Thanks, Larry, lovely sounds! I feel educated, enlightened, suave, well rounded; most of all, an enjoyable listen session, thanks again!
	4:55pm Erica: Very lovely show Larry.
	♥ 4:55pm Michael 98145: Most appreciated.
	♥ 4:56pm Little Danny: what erica said, thank you larry! love hearing this music in the context of your show
	♥ 4:57pm dreamyandseedy: love the story about hearing the song for the first time! i will have to listen to this again in the archive, i tuned in late. thanks larry!
	♥ 4:57pm Yvang: Thanks Larry for this classy classic show. Not enough classic on wfmu!
	♥ 4:58pm Funky16Corners: Thank you all for listening!
	♥ 4:58pm StringOFperils: Thank you Larry. Happy to hear this music has a place on wfmu, amongst everything else!
	4:58pm Erica: Can't wait for the Magical Mystery Tour show next week. See y'all!
	🥁 ♥ 4:58pm dutchtheo: Thanks, Larry!
	♥ 4:59pm Funky16Corners: Thanks String! Theo!
	♥ 5:00pm WR: Thank you Larry!
	♥ 5:00pm Funky16Corners: Thanks WR!
	5:23pm TDK60: DJ Larry. You played Vaughan Williams' "Tallis" and I wasn't present. Shame on me.
	♥ 5:28pm Funky16Corners: Hey TDK60! Get thee to the archives!
	5:31pm TDK60: See ya soon, Larry. I love classical.

Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlist from February 24, 2022

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February 24, 2022: Testify! - A Trip Into the Concert Hall

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Format	Approx. start time
Funky16Corners	Testify! Intro "Testify! Intro" by "Funky16Corners"	Best of Funky16Corners Volume One	Funky16Corners	2017	MP3
Steve Reich and the Kronos Quartet	Different Trains 1 - America - Before the War	Different Trains / Electric Counterpoint	Elektra/Nonesuch	1988	CD	0:01:28 (Pop-up)
Steve Reich and the Kronos Quartet	Different Trains 2 - Europe - During the War	Different Trains / Electric Counterpoint	Elektra/Nonesuch	1988	CD	0:10:23 (Pop-up)
Steve Reich and the Kronos Quartet	Different Trains 3 - After the War	Different Trains / Electric Counterpoint	Elektra/Nonesuch	1988	CD	0:17:51 (Pop-up)

Thomas Schippers	Barber - Overture to The School For Scandal	Barber Heritage	Sony	1967	CD	0:33:33 (Pop-up)
Mario-Ratko Delorko	Gershwin Prelude 1 B Major	Gershwin Virtuoso Piano Music	Aurophon	1989	CD	0:41:04 (Pop-up)
Mario-Ratko Delorko	Gershwin Prelude 2 C Sharp Minor	Gershwin Virtuoso Piano Music	Aurophon	1989	CD	0:42:46 (Pop-up)
Mario-Ratko Delorko	Gershwin Prelude 3 G Major	Gershwin Virtuoso Piano Music	Aurophon	1989	CD	0:47:32 (Pop-up)
Leonard Slatkin	Debussy - Prelude A L'Apres Midi D'un Faune	Debussy La Mer	Telarc	1984	CD	0:48:51 (Pop-up)
Leonard Slatkin	Debussy - Danses Sacree et Profane	Debussy La Mer	Telarc	1984	CD	0:59:29 (Pop-up)

Bernard Haitink	Ralph Vaughan Williams - Fantastia On a Theme By Thomas Tallis	Vaughan Williams Complete Symphonies/Orchestra Works	Warner Classics	2004	CD	1:15:16 (Pop-up)
Simone Dinnerstein	Philip Glass Piano Concerto No 3Mvt 3 (For Arvo Part)	Circles - Piano Concertos by Bach and Glass	Orange Mountain Music	2017	CD	1:31:24 (Pop-up)
Håkon Austbø	Satie - Gnossiennes 1.Lent	Satie: Gymnopedies/Gnossiennes/Sarabandes	Brilliant Classics	2006	CD	1:45:17 (Pop-up)
Peter Schmalfuss	Debussy - Suite Begamasque 3 - Clair De Lune	Claude Debussy	VMK Globe	1989	CD	1:49:14 (Pop-up)

Rex Garvin and the Mighty Cravers	I Gotta Go Now (Up On the Floor)	45RPM Single	Like	1966	45	1:58:01 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	♥ 3:01pm Yvang: Hi Larry and testifyers. I brought my violin!
	♥ 3:01pm Funky16Corners: Yvang!
	♥ 3:01pm David Dichelle: More train music!
	♥ 3:02pm Funky16Corners: Hey David!
	♥ 3:02pm Yvang: Let's keep trippy!
	♥ 3:02pm Funky16Corners: I think you'll discover that much of today's music is good for your head.
	♥ 3:03pm doctorjazz: Hello Larry!
	♥ 3:03pm Michael 98145: Whoa - what have we here ?
	♥ 3:03pm Funky16Corners: Hey Doc!
	♥ 3:03pm Funky16Corners: Michael!
	♥ 3:05pm Michael 98145: snowpiercer
	3:06pm Erica: Hi Larry.
	♥ 3:06pm Funky16Corners: Is this used in Snowpiercer?
	♥ 3:06pm Funky16Corners: Hi Erica!
	♥ 3:07pm Michael 98145: no. just came to mind.
	♥ 3:07pm Funky16Corners: Ah, OK.
	♥ 3:07pm coelacanth∅: greetings Larry and all
	♥ 3:08pm Funky16Corners: Hey C!
	♥ 3:08pm coelacanth∅: how ya feeling these days Larry?
	♥ 3:08pm Funky16Corners: Feeling good!
	♥ 3:09pm coelacanth∅: Good news!
	♥ 3:10pm Funky16Corners: I like to think so! Every day on the right side of the dirt is a gem to be cherished (usually...)
	♥ 3:12pm Funky16Corners: The story behind this piece is fascinating. I'll go into it at the break.
	3:12pm Moog1 Radio: Thanks for this Larry, I am only familiar with the Electric Counterpoint "Little Fluffy Clouds" stuff. I never listened to this part!
	♥ 3:13pm Funky16Corners: Hey Kurt! I like that piece, too. I'll save it for the next such excursion.
	♥ 3:16pm Michael 98145: never heard this before now
	♥ 3:18pm Funky16Corners: I'm not really well versed in modern classical music. I'm trying to remedy that situation.
	♥ 3:20pm Michael 98145: This is fascinating
	3:21pm Erica: 80s classical music is more on the avant-garde side isn't it?
	♥ 3:22pm Funky16Corners: Most modern classical that I've heard, even going back to the teens and 20s is pushing the envelope with experimentation
	♥ 3:25pm zzz: hey DJ F16C! love this Reich piece, heavy stuff (not to mention the pat metheny electric counterpoint that is on the CD release)
	♥ 3:25pm Funky16Corners: Hey zzz!
	♥ 3:30pm StringOFperils: Hey there, Larry, and sojourners in long-hair land!
	♥ 3:33pm zzz: phil lesh from grateful dead was reich classmate at mills
	♥ 3:33pm Funky16Corners: Hey String!
	♥ 3:33pm Funky16Corners: @zzz - I did not know that!
	♥ 3:34pm Alex In Illinois: Steve Reich's music changed the way I hear the world. It changed the way I listen to sounds in the environments and everything
	♥ 3:34pm Michael 98145: Like how the cover art evokes train tracks ... www.discogs.com...
	♥ 3:35pm Funky16Corners: Hey Alex! His music, and the way it is composed really changes everything going forward.
	♥ 3:35pm Funky16Corners: @Michael, one side is train tracks, the other guitar fretboards (at least on the CD)
	♥ 3:36pm Funky16Corners: Barber composed this overture for a non-musical play that dates to the late 1700s
	♥ 3:40pm StringOFperils: Act I Scene I: Lady Sneerwell, a wealthy young widow, and her hireling Snake discuss her various scandal-spreading plots. ___The School for Scandal premiered 1777
	♥ 3:40pm Michael 98145: super-spreader
	♥ 3:43pm Funky16Corners: There's a great, jazz guitar version of this second prelude by Kenny Burrell
	♥ 3:49pm Funky16Corners: This is one of my favorite pieces of music, period, across all genres.
	♥ 3:51pm Michael 98145: Gershwin was quite amazing
	♥ 3:52pm Funky16Corners: Yes, indeed. I can't think of another composer who was so successful in the pop market, with his show tunes, and also in the classical realm, and he didn't even make it to 40, Can you imagine what he would have been capable of had he lived?
	♥ 3:53pm coelacanth∅: ^ mine as well. i put it in my main bedtime playlist, twice. once near the beginning and once ~2.3 way ( a few hours) in by a different orchestra & conductor.
	♥ 3:54pm coelacanth∅: (afternoon of a faun)
	♥ 3:54pm Funky16Corners: Two more Debussy pieces in today's show
	♥ 3:56pm Michael 98145: Beautiful
	♥ 3:56pm doctorjazz: Thick I have that Burrell record. I feel VERY CLASSY AND SOPHISTICATED today!
	♥ 3:56pm Funky16Corners: I hope everyone has their formal wear on...
	♥ 4:00pm Little Danny: hello larry hello all!
	♥ 4:00pm Funky16Corners: Hey Danny!
	4:01pm Erica: Hi Little Danny.
	♥ 4:02pm StringOFperils: Hey, LD!
	♥ 4:09pm Little Danny: hey y'all! :)
	♥ 4:14pm Little Danny: totally agree larry re: debussy and ravel's wide-ranging influences
	♥ 4:15pm Little Danny: oh man larry this piece
	♥ 4:16pm Funky16Corners: Yeah, this is a spectacular work. Composed for twin string orchestras, based on a 16th century hymn.
	♥ 4:16pm Little Danny: very strong associations with this, i had it on a cassette in my early '20s that i listened to on repeat for months
	♥ 4:16pm Funky16Corners: Used to great effect in the film Master and Commander
	♥ 4:17pm Funky16Corners: Previous to this, I only knew Vaughan Williams by The Lark Ascending and a few other things and this piece totally rewired the music centers of my brain.
	♥ 4:23pm Little Danny: just astounding beauty here
	♥ 4:23pm Funky16Corners: I can understand why they used this in Master and Commander. Vaughan Williams has the strings swell, ebb and flow like waves, but there are moments that are elegiac, as if they had been composed for a funeral.
	♥ 4:25pm StringOFperils: In a way, all standard romantic film scoring is lifted from composers like Vaughan-Willams, Elgar, smetana, Strauss, etc...no surprise that Hollywood mines this stuff. Actually that's where some of them went
	♥ 4:26pm Funky16Corners: Many of the great film composers created classical pieces as well.
	♥ 4:27pm StringOFperils: max steiner
	♥ 4:27pm dreamyandseedy: enjoying this immensely! thank you :) was just listening to the lark ascending earlier today, the only vaughan williams i had heard til now!
	♥ 4:27pm Funky16Corners: Hey Dreamy!
	♥ 4:28pm Little Danny: duke ellington also listened to debussy and ravel
	♥ 4:28pm Little Danny: dreamy!!
	♥ 4:31pm dreamyandseedy: hi little danny! how's the weather over your way? it snowed here today for about 5 mins.
	🥁 ♥ 4:36pm dutchtheo: Hey, Larry! Late to the classic party, I had a party...
	♥ 4:36pm coelacanth∅: gotta go Larry Thanks!
	♥ 4:36pm Funky16Corners: Hey Theo!
	4:36pm Iphone 11: hello, somewhat new to wfmu. I had not noticed this show before. Looks like yet another amazing wfmu show that I will have to spend some time with. I do like the Funky16corners soul cd.
	4:37pm WR: Different trains indeed.
	♥ 4:37pm Funky16Corners: Hey iPhone11 - Glad you stopped by, though I had nothing to do with the Funky16Corners comp. I borrowed the name for my webzine from the song by the Highlighters, before the comp.
	4:38pm Erica: Iphone11 Welcome.
	♥ 4:38pm Funky16Corners: Bye C! Hi WR!
	4:38pm Iphone 11: oh, haha, oops. well, the show still looks very interesting : )
	♥ 4:39pm Funky16Corners: Thanks!
	♥ 4:47pm Yvang: Satie! No one knew better how to express loneliness in music.
	♥ 4:48pm Funky16Corners: He was a very unusual person. Led a really unconventional life.
	♥ 4:49pm Little Danny: hi dreamy no snow here :( but the temperature and wind shifted two nights ago and the town was flooded with tumbleweeds
	♥ 4:49pm StringOFperils: This is one of my favourite pieces of 'modern' music
	♥ 4:50pm Funky16Corners: Make sure to stay tuned for Kip and Discothech Underground right after I finish at 5PM! wfmu.org...
	♥ 4:50pm Funky16Corners: @String - Clair de Lune? Mine, too.
	♥ 4:53pm doctorjazz: Thanks, Larry, lovely sounds! I feel educated, enlightened, suave, well rounded; most of all, an enjoyable listen session, thanks again!
	4:55pm Erica: Very lovely show Larry.
	♥ 4:55pm Michael 98145: Most appreciated.
	♥ 4:56pm Little Danny: what erica said, thank you larry! love hearing this music in the context of your show
	♥ 4:57pm dreamyandseedy: love the story about hearing the song for the first time! i will have to listen to this again in the archive, i tuned in late. thanks larry!
	♥ 4:57pm Yvang: Thanks Larry for this classy classic show. Not enough classic on wfmu!
	♥ 4:58pm Funky16Corners: Thank you all for listening!
	♥ 4:58pm StringOFperils: Thank you Larry. Happy to hear this music has a place on wfmu, amongst everything else!
	4:58pm Erica: Can't wait for the Magical Mystery Tour show next week. See y'all!
	🥁 ♥ 4:58pm dutchtheo: Thanks, Larry!
	♥ 4:59pm Funky16Corners: Thanks String! Theo!
	♥ 5:00pm WR: Thank you Larry!
	♥ 5:00pm Funky16Corners: Thanks WR!
	5:23pm TDK60: DJ Larry. You played Vaughan Williams' "Tallis" and I wasn't present. Shame on me.
	♥ 5:28pm Funky16Corners: Hey TDK60! Get thee to the archives!
	5:31pm TDK60: See ya soon, Larry. I love classical.

Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlist from February 24, 2022

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