GERM Project · 23. March 2022

Each Wednesdsy night at 7 PM on Zoom we RELAX, BREATH DEEPLY and LISTEN to MUSIC in DISTANT TIMES & SPACES on ANALOG LP records. (This program will be a partial repeat of last week’s GERM project that was distorted due to my incompetent ZOOM settings.) DUKE ELLINGTON lost not only a professional colleague, a much-loved younger friend, but also one-half of his MUSICAL SOUL when BILLY STRAYHORN died in 1967. We will play a few selections from the LP “. . . . AND HIS MOTHER CALLED HIM...

GERM Project · 16. March 2022

Each Wednesday at 7 PM we RELAX, BREATH DEEPLY and LISTEN to MUSIC in DISTANT TIMES & SPACES on ANALOG LP records. DUKE ELLINGTON lost not only a professional colleague, a much-loved younger friend, but also one-half of his MUSICAL SOUL when BILLY STRAYHORN died in 1967. Let's hear parts of the memorial album from 1968 “. . . . AND HIS MOTHER CALLED HIM BILL” We go back 10 more years to 1958 and the NEWPORT JAZZ FESTIVAL with the great Soul/Gospel singer MAHALIA JACKSON What music could...

GERM Project · 02. March 2022

Our Golden Era Recorded Music adventure for this Wednesday evening at 7 PM will lead us, once again, into amazing lost land! Two years ago at a LIVE GERM project STEVE introduced us to the superb music making of conductor ANDRE PREVIN in music of BENJAMIN BRITTEN. Tonight we return to PREVIN in 2 roles: the conductor of RACHMANINOFF'S 2nd SYMPHONY and The piano player for LEONTYNE PRICE in a program of AMERICAN SONGBOOK CLASSICS. Great music making! Two of the world's greatest pianists finish...

GERM Project · 16. February 2022

Join us at the GOLDEN ERA RECORDED MUSIC PROJECT every Wednesday at 7 PM, for an ongoing pursuit of MUSICAL GREATNESS on ANALOG LP RECORDS from 1948 to 1988! Our GERM adventure for this Wednesday evening will start with the lyrical JAZZ HARMONICA of TOOTS THIELEMANS and the sometimes lyrical jazz piano of BILL EVANS. A moment will be devoted to an EDISON RECORD of 1895 and the invention of the phonograph almost 150 years ago. The summer of 1899 produced a rich harvest for SIR EDWARD ELGAR in...

GERM Project · 02. February 2022

Join us at the GOLDEN ERA RECORDED MUSIC PROJECT every Wednesday at 7 PM, for an ongoing pursuit of MUSICAL GREATNESS on ANALOG LP RECORDS from 1948 to 1988! We have made a most astonishing discovery: SLY AND THE FAMILY STONE was inspired by BABATUNDE OLATUNGI. Hear it on CLASSIC VINYL tonight! BILL DIXON said a conductor is just a guy waving a stick in front of an orchestra. We will prove him wrong when we compare MONTEUX and KLEMPERER doing BEETHOVEN'S “SCENE BY THE BROOK.” FEBRUARY is...

GERM Project · 26. January 2022

Join us tonight at 7 PM on Zoom for the GOLDEN ERA RECORDED MUSIC PROJECT, our ceaseless JOURNEY OF AMAZEMENT into the vast vaults of ANALOG LP RECORDING from 1948 to 1988! I have come across an amazing LP of EARLY DAVE BRUBECK in concert at one of the foremost CLASSICAL musical conservatories in America: OBERLIN COLLEGE. His quartet is on fire, the crowd is ecstatic and we will hear side one in 1953 STEREO! A FIBHORN speaker customer recently introduced me to the 1970's rock group LITTLE FEAT....

GERM Project · 19. January 2022

Join us at the GOLDEN ERA RECORDED MUSIC PROJECT in our ceaseless JOURNEY OF AMAZEMENT into the vast vaults of ANALOG LP RECORDINGS from 1948 to 1988! Tonight we will hear the 4th and final movement of MAHLER'S SYMPHONY NO. 4. It is a song for girl singer and orchestra entitled “DAS HIMMLISCHE LEBEN (the HEAVENLY LIFE).” Mahler specifically instructed that it must be sung “absolutely without parody” and RERI GRIST does it perfectly. Two astonishing letters from ARNOLD SCHOENBERG to...

GERM Project · 05. January 2022

Happy New Year! Join us at this week's Golden Era Recorded Music Project in our neverending crossing of the frontier to the LAND of the GREATEST RECORDED MUSIC: ANALOG LPs from 1948 to 1988! Tonight we finally let go of the holiday music with perhaps the greatest LP heard over the last 4 weeks: DUKE ELLINGTON & Orchestra playing BILLY STRAYHORN'S version of the NUTCRACKER by TCHAIKOVSKY. Listen and marvel! We will play side 1 of the NUTCRACKER then hear the 2nd movement of the MAHLER FOURTH...

GERM Project · 15. December 2021

Happy Holidays to all! Tonight at the Golden Era Recorded Music Project, we celebrate with a program of MUSIC BOXES and a glittering, sumptuous suite by STRAUSS! But first we will hear the never-fail combination of MASON-FIEDLER and the BOSTON POPS in a seasonal favorite sure to tug at your heart. The RITA FORD collection of 19th century MUSIC BOXES in NEW YORK CITY is world renowned and we will hear seasonal music played on a sequence of these fabulous machines from the 18th century and...

GERM Project · 01. December 2021

The ANALOG LP era is celebrated every WEDNESDAY night at 7 PM on the Golden Era Recorded Musix project. Join our HOLIDAY Journey! To introduce our MESSIAH REVUE lets start with the 2nd CONCERTO FOR 2 ORCHESTRAS by Mr. Handel. Then on to KINGSWAY HALL, London, a few blocks from where Mr. Handel lived 200 years before. The great TED HEATH and his band absolutely on fire! VIDO MUSSO keeps the fire hot with SHERRY PINK. From the LYRIC THEATER: COLE PORTER and 3 numbers from ANYTHING GOES (Late...