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'WKRP' Changes Its Tune
For years, legal issues prevented a DVD release of WKRP in Cincinnati. Today on Soundcheck, find out why a workaround solution has fans of the TV classic in an uproar. Plus, Israeli clarinetist and composer Anat Cohen talks about releasing two albums at once on her own label. And, a Scottish church featured in the bestselling novel The Da Vinci Code reveals a 600-year-old musical mystery.
Don't Touch That Dial
With DVD versions of classic TV shows invading the retail market, fans of the late 1970s show WKRP in Cincinnati wondered when they would get their due. But the real-life rock songs heard on the fictional radio station presented tricky music-licensing issues. Star Tribune reporter Randy Salas reveals how Twentieth Century Fox solved its dilemma and why some fans are tuning out.
Randy Salas' story on 'WKRP' DVD
List of changes in DVD release
Video compilation of deleted scenes and music
Anat Cohen
Israeli clarinetist and composer Anat Cohen is into traditional jazz, Brazilian choro, Argentinean tango and Middle Eastern music. She joins us to explain how she mixes them all in two different new albums, Noir and Poetica. She performs May 8 and 9 at the Jazz Standard.
More Mystery in 'Da Vinci Code' Chapel
A chapel featured in the bestselling novel The Da Vinci Code is the site of a remarkable musical discovery. Composer and pianist Stuart Mitchell tells how he and his father worked for 27 years to decode a musical score hidden in symbols carved in the chapel's arches.
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Sound Off
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Throughout May, Soundcheck presents “Sound Off” a Friday series on the many aspects of noise in music and our lives. The series -- which coincides with “Better Hearing and Speech Month” -- looks at issues like New York’s noisiest neighborhoods, the latest research on iPods and hearing loss, and what happens when noise becomes a musical ingredient.
