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In about a week, you made me a big fan of weeknight radio again. I love your mix - you've introduced me to some, while playing some great pieces I know but rarely hear.

I had your show on in the kitchen this week while serving dinner to friends in the dining room. One fellow came out to ask what the station was - intrigued and charmed by what he heard. The second time he came out, he wrote it down!

So glad you're there - Welcome.

First--You are a breath of fresh air. I love the range of your offerings and your tastes.

Second--how do I get the name of the (previously unknown) composer, son of slaves, whose song you played this evening. Have just finished schlepping through WNYC site and nada. Will it show up in a few days?

Third? Listening to you this evening, I am reminded of a program I heard many years ago. Either NYC or QXR used to have a weekly evening program titled "My Music" that invited guest-hosts/esses to play their own musical choices. One night the opera singer, Sheril Milnes, hosted the program--he chose American songs from the '30s, the depression years. Clearly, it is a musical experience I still recall.

And fourth--music that touched me--I recall a period in my life when I wore out the "Balm in Gilead" band of two Paul Robeson 33 rpm records. Could you feature him some night? And let everyone know beforehand?

Finally, fifth--I think you're the best thing to hit metropolitan-area radio since Bob Sherman.

Thank you!

Terrence.
Whatever that piece was with the guy reading from the bible and yelling, with the free jazz back drop. It made me want to run outside and stab a pen in my eye.

Nice show otherwise.

Best

Andy

I usually mean these emails but usually don't get around to it. I don't normally listen to evening music but have thoroughly enjoyed the programs Monday and Tuesday (3/24,25). Found the piece written after the CA pro-gay veto really moving.
Thank you!
Good luck on the show. I'm looking forward to being surprised!

It was a treat to hear that Al Green earlier. "I'm Glad Your Mine" off the I'm Still in Love with You LP. One of hip hop's most prominent drum loops- Eric B & Rakim- "Mahogany", MC Lyte- "Paperthin", East Flatbush Project- "Tried By 12", Biggie- "Dead Wrong" and the list goes on.

Hey Terrance, Tolstoy's published critique of Rachmaninov's music was against it's turgid (thus soaring and "trite") emotionalism. What EXACTLY was the internal compass that enabled Rachmaninov to bridge back into his internal advocacy? (Recall also that the Russian church forbade his marriage.) How did his insight change, even against the headwind of his culture and hero's rash critique? His devolved depressive feelings were an effect, and he found a more potent cause in some therapeutic affirmation work. But HOW did THAT happen? Is there something for us to lean from his campaign? His recovery allowed him robust strength to create in long exile. Something to ponder, maybe. Ciao, T

Hello Terrance
Is the drum track from a Bill Withers song?

Use Me
or
Ain't No Sunshine

appreciative listener,
Jay Brady

AL Green...I'm so glad you're Mine

Yes, definitely "I'm Glad You're Mine" - nice!

3/25 The music you started off with sounds like Eric B. & Rakim's song called "Mahogany". But they may have gotten it from somewhere else but I don't know where.

Lovely to hear Glass at twilight on the brink of Spring -- and was that Al Green's "I'm Glad You're Mine"?

Welcome to Evening Music -- wonderful to have you!
Erin

The quick clip sounded like Al Green's "So Glad You're Mine" ?

I think the drum line you played was from Al Green's "Simply Beautiful". Eric B and Rakim also sampled it for one of their tracks, but the name escapes me right now.

Terrance,
Please include symphonic band music and brass chamber music. My exclusive interest is in such music and I don't hear it on the radio.

Terrance,

Wow! What a wonderful show. I am streaming and I've listened to a rebroadcaast of one of your Studio GPB sets this evening. NYC is in for treat. You're no longer in Atlanta, but you're just a few keystokes away.

All the best, Be well my friend.

Welcome Terrance!

I've been enjoying your programming -- when I'm home. Interesting mix! Even if an individual selection hasn't been exactly what I was in the mood for -- like Mark Twain says, just wait a few minutes (or words to that effect). One thing, could you mix in some early music? Very old and very new -- they go well together! Anyway, hope you're settling in to the Big A. There's much to explore here -- it can be daunting but it's never boring. As I'm sure you're finding out.

All best,
Suzanne / long time WNYC listener

Terrific set. My wife left your station on the radio. I am a recovering NPR-alohic who has been sober for four years. Almost no programming gets through. The news sucks.

So when I turned on the radio and heard that aggressive Kronos music, followed by some wonderful jazz and then Astor, boy you caught my ear! Wonderful touch with the young Gershwin.

Seems like you're off to a promising start in your new endeavor. Good luck.

DB

Tonight's show has kept me from leaving the house. I haven't been this effected by music since I saw Iron Maiden last Friday at the Meadowlands. Good job!

Salvatore [9]

From the WNYC website select "Quicklinks"-"Music Playlists"-you can find the entire playlist for the program with the time the selection was played.

Salvatore [9] Richard Danielpour Symphony #3, "Journey without Distance" It's out there in a websearch if you look. T

Salvatore [9] a followup... try Richard Danielpour, Symphony #3 "Journey without Distance" Seattle Symphony http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.natlib.ihas.200152708/default.html

Salvatore [9] Maybe you're looking for "Journey without Distance" I didn't catch the composer. Maybe run it down on the web. T

You played a stunning piece around 8:28 PM tonight (I heard it on FM 93.9) all I caught was a name sounding like 'Andreeson' and 'Howt'. What is listed on tonight's playlist at that time is "Four Elements" by Gavin Bryars... i don't think thats what i heard. Please can someone post the name/artist of that piece?

The astonishing radicalism of artistic search, because it is inherently seductive and subversive, presents opportunities for wild growth, personal and collective. To creat a new means, an authentic art demands impatience, impurity, ruthless deviance, risk and, inherently, mistakes. Non-conformity is where all new learning must go to root. Heart is what is open despite encountering the rough edges imho. Ciao, T

Hey Terrance, Agree with D Keller [post #4] Often we carelessly and instinctivly aspire to evaluate famous creatives as if ONLY the uplifing heroic figures will do (demanding conformity to notions, to social goodness). People aren't ideals. Despite this impulse, how can we so impulsively judge other's life-patterns? Tenderly, perhaps. Ideals are harsh. Life is messy. Whether by Miles Davis or Wagner, art is more than moral. It's awakenings don't rigidly source from the complete hows of every artist's life, errors and all.

Well, well, well! Alas, I've located you! I live in Atlanta and Studio GPB was a part of my nightly soundtrack. The signal of the station was rather weak intown, but used cable wire as an antennae and looped it. The station now comes in crystal clear.... When repeat broadcast of Studio GPB were being aired, I thought you were on vacation. I asked a friend who knows one of your former on air personalities (Masani), to find out what was going on with your show. He stated "There's no need to ask her, I can tell that, Terrance has taken a position a New York." It was at that point that I began to cherish those rebroadcast of Studio GPB. You're truly missed in this market. Thank you for the gift music that you've given. I'll be sure to tell my friends in the area about you and the show and I'll stream with you as much as I can. Be well old friend!

personally, I love both Davis AND Wagner. If we need to approve of the politics and personal life of every person involved in a performance of music, theatre or film, we should never be able to attend any of these again!
Another excellent show! You might just bring me back to WNYC after a long absence.

Just responding to your mention of Wagner/Miles Davis as being questionable human beings who made beautiful music. Do we throw the baby out with the bathwater? I'm not even sure if that's the right idiom, but my point is that I think you have to separate the art from the artist. Look at Sinatra. Horrible man-wonderful music. I'm not a fan of Woody Allen the man-a pedophile perhaps-but I've spent hours over the years laughing at his films (most of his latter efforts notwithstanding). No one is perfect. Most artists are broken; their expression, however, strives not to be. Flesh is ephemeral; art is forever.

What did I hear this wekend? A band that's only been around for about 30 years before I have taken the time to really listen to them; could be perhaps because their name....Einstuerzende Neubauten - Collapsing New Buildings...is a little tough if you, like me, tend to garble German.
Best wishes, warm regards!
Kelley

Thanks for that last song, "Get on Board." More gospel, more spirituals, please. Welcome to New York City and thanks for sharing your take and your takes. Good stuff. Keep it coming.

I like that advice--to combine the outlooks of a weathered grandparent and a 6-year-old, which I can only hope average out to a wise, curious thirtysomething that I am.

Good show. My heart hasn't lept yet - as it did
this a.m. at listening to a stunning recording
of Benjamin Brittens Serenade op 31 with Jerry
Hadley. On searching, I found him to be in the
stunning company of Christoph Pregardien, Anthony Rolfe-Johnson, Ian Bostridge, and Peter Pears.
I would love to listen to all of them. In one
evening!