Reggie Bautista wrote:
>
> JDG posted:
> >Unbelievable: NPR's top of the hour theme is somber,
> >downbeat, with a few disconsolate snare drums - music
> >to lose by! Is it too much to ask of these people to
> >play something that doesn't sound like the music you'd
> >use for the sinking of a f--king aircraft carrier?
>
> Um, hello, does he want upbeat music for war coverage? What would he
> suggest, Shiny Happy People?
Maybe "The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonight" would be more appropriate. Or maybe
not.
"Swan Swan H"? Oh, wait, that's for after Baghdad is liberated, maybe.
> * We also kept a few CDs with longer somber pieces handy just in case of a
> major disaster to US and allied troops. In that kind of event, we were to
> put on one of these somber pieces and immediately call the Program Director,
> any time, day or night, for further instructions. I specifically remember
> the slow movement from Beethoven's Eroica Symphony and Barber's Adagio for
> Strings were two of the pieces we kept nearby; there were others as well
> that I don't remember.
Barber's Adagio for Strings is an incredible piece.
The Friday after 9/11, when a lot of US stations were carrying the concert
done by tons of different people (including a nice, IMO, rendition of
"America the Beautiful" done by Willie Nelson, or maybe I'm just a sucker
for Willie Nelson), BBC America was airing a concert from England,
something about the end of the Prom (or Proms?), and they did "Adagio for
Strings" in honor of the American tragedy. The conductor of the symphony
doing the concert was American, and he said that where people in England
or Britain would play "Nimrod", Americans would play "Adagio for
Strings". Ever since then, I've been curious about this piece "Nimrod".
Can someone help me out on it?
Oh, and at some point during the week of 9/11, instead of their usual
music at the end of NBC News ("The Mission" by John Williams?), they did
something very haunting that sounded familiar, but I couldn't place it.
Then quite awhile later, I think I remember hearing it when I caught a
little bit of "Born on the Fourth of July" while waiting for something
else to come on another channel (but not wanting to just park on that
channel for some reason, probably having to do with what was on there
being annoying to me). And I want to track *that* down, but that's
probably a relatively easy one on my own. (Find soundtrack to "Born on
the Fourth of July" and if the piece happens to have a sample at its page
on amazon.com, there I go, fairly painlessly....)
Julia
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