Music Appreciation

mahatmakanejeeves

(61,606 posts) Fri Dec 13, 2024, 08:43 AM Dec 13

Totally recommended background music for today and for the next several days

What I am listening to:

I have a ten-year-old 5th generation Kindle Fire that is barely capable of running Radio Garden. Not the current version of Radio Garden, but a years-old Indian market version of Radio Garden.

Check the App Store or Google Play to find up to date versions of Radio Garden.

I take the output from the headphone jack and feed it into an AUX input on a late-70s or early-80s Technics SA-300 35 watt per channel receiver. The receiver is driving a pair of bookshelf speakers.

So what have I got on? WFMT, the commercial classical music station in Chicago.

https://www.wfmt.com/how-to-listen
https://www.wfmt.com/schedule/
https://www.wfmt.com/schedule/#7

Here's a recent selection (but with different performers):

I Wonder as I Wander by John Jacob Niles

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I Wonder as I Wander, composed by John Jacob Niles and recorded in May 2021 at Comber Hall, Church of the Little Flower in Miami, FL.

John Jacob Niles’ “I Wonder as I Wander” is a lasting testament to Niles’ dedication to the preservation and dissemination of Appalachian folk music. On a 1933 trip to Appalachia, Niles encountered a young girl in Murphy, North Carolina, who sang musical and textual fragments which Niles would later use as the inspiration for his original composition, “I Wonder as I Wander.”

It is a gem. Do tune in.

I am posting this instead of saying something, as I usually do, about today's birthday of {redacted}, who is so reviled at DU that the thread got yanked last year.

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Totally recommended background music for today and for the next several days (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Dec 13 OP

Thank you for this post! I did not know bronxiteforever Dec 13 #1

You see? I'm not all glam and the Bay City Rollers. mahatmakanejeeves Dec 13 #2

Haha! bronxiteforever Dec 13 #3

Thank you. That is lovely. niyad Dec 13 #4

Instead of the reviled one*, you could have mentioned Taylor Swift (35), niyad Dec 13 #5

I understand that (the guy) is a total jerk, but it's still his birthday. mahatmakanejeeves Dec 13 #6

It is the birthday of people far more worthy of notice (in my oh-so-humble niyad Dec 13 #7

Love Radio Garden! I listen to classical from Montana, pop from Gulfport, and current favorite is txwhitedove Dec 13 #8

bronxiteforever

(9,554 posts)

1. Thank you for this post! I did not know

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Fri Dec 13, 2024, 08:54 AM

Dec 13

the origins of the song and that it was partly from Appalachia. It is hauntingly beautiful.

mahatmakanejeeves

(61,606 posts)

2. You see? I'm not all glam and the Bay City Rollers.

Reply to bronxiteforever (Reply #1)

Fri Dec 13, 2024, 08:56 AM

Dec 13

And good morning.

bronxiteforever

(9,554 posts)

3. Haha!

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Reply #2)

Fri Dec 13, 2024, 08:58 AM

Dec 13

niyad

(120,662 posts)

4. Thank you. That is lovely.

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Fri Dec 13, 2024, 08:58 AM

Dec 13

niyad

(120,662 posts)

5. Instead of the reviled one*, you could have mentioned Taylor Swift (35),

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Fri Dec 13, 2024, 09:09 AM

Dec 13

or Dick Van Dyke (99).

*It took me a minute to figure that one out!

mahatmakanejeeves

(61,606 posts)

6. I understand that (the guy) is a total jerk, but it's still his birthday.

Reply to niyad (Reply #5)

Fri Dec 13, 2024, 09:12 AM

Dec 13

Back in, oh, let's say 1967 or so, he had a great tune that was on the radio all the time.

Whatever. It's forbidden.

niyad

(120,662 posts)

7. It is the birthday of people far more worthy of notice (in my oh-so-humble

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Reply #6)

Fri Dec 13, 2024, 09:21 AM

Dec 13

opinion!). Nonetheless, referencing the others is a very useful service, as it reminds me to refresh and update my poppets!

txwhitedove

(4,018 posts)

8. Love Radio Garden! I listen to classical from Montana, pop from Gulfport, and current favorite is

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Fri Dec 13, 2024, 09:59 AM

Dec 13

French lounge/cafe instrumentals from France, using the Prime internet on TV and it's free. When my son was traveling this summer in the 'Stan's, found a great Kazakhstan radio station.

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