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Comment from bruce gordon
Date: June 13, 2008, 7:54 pm

Dear Sir
What is the title of the music you began the program with this evening, Friday 13 ? Where can I find it? Do you, WNYC, provide a music download service? Discovered your program this evening and I’m enjoying myself. You have a new regular listener. Luck in your new digs.

Comment from Frank Kain
Date: June 14, 2008, 9:38 pm

Enjoyed the Piazzola. I may be one of only a few New Yorkers who can claim to have SUNG some of Piazzola’s work, not only here but in Venezuela. As a performing member of The Americas Vocal Ensemble I can state that we’ve even performed on WNYC, live.

I know what it’s like to move out of ‘traditional’ digs, even when the change is for the better. I’m not sure where the new location is, but i’ll bet it lacks the view from the old Green Room.

Best wishes for many fruitful years in modern facilities.

All best,
-Frank Kain

Comment from john johnson
Date: June 14, 2008, 11:07 pm

There are two Easley Blackwoods, father and son. The father is the contract bridge man, the son the composer. The son still teaches music composition at the University of Chicago as an emeritus professor and was probably the model for one of Saul Bellow’s characters, an eccentric academic composer.

Comment from David H.
Date: June 15, 2008, 10:54 pm

David, thank you for the amazing music this evening. It all seemed, by my reckoning, to have been inspired by the spirit of the amazing sounds of Werner Herzog’s seal recordings and the empty space you find yourself in. The vastness of their sound, does it match the vastness of the time and empty space that you find yourself in tonight? Vaguely haunting, but, some how beautiful and dear? All of this evening’s sounds are wonderful. Thanks!
I love your show! It is such a precious treasure! So many diamonds!

Best Wishes, Always, David!

David H.

Comment from Susan
Date: June 16, 2008, 12:03 pm

Hi David — I am living in New Hampshire for several months & can’t get anything from WNYC because we have only very slow dial-up here & no sound. You & John Schaefer are what I miss most from the city. We were back briefly & I was bitterly disapponited when on Fri June 6 your Evening Music & movie music, which I had been so looking forward to, were not on. Gloom!
How well I remember coming to the Muni Building for WNYC fund-raising phoneathons, back when ordinary listeners were trusted to do the work. I once looked around & figured that if the room disappeared that minute there wouldn’t be many old reds left in NYC.
Fondly, for you & the building, Susan

Comment from philip van tongeren
Date: June 20, 2008, 10:42 am

Hi, David,

From The Netherlands, good luck at the new premises. I still remember clearly a noisy helicopter putting (on a quiet Sunday morning) the freshly quilded statue on top of the Municipal Building. After the Flatiron Building (Springer-Verlag)and Municipal Building, your new location will give you new inspiration. Keep the great show going!! Philip

Comment from Pam
Date: June 20, 2008, 7:30 pm

David–Your show is the best one on the station.

Thanks for the Piers Adams. Took my kids to hear him last year in Bermuda. Amazing.

Comment from Dana
Date: June 21, 2008, 10:13 pm

Haven’t heard Nick Drake’s music in years, but I too was haunted by him, for a long time. Thanks for playing some tonight, and good luck with your move. Your show is the best.

Comment from AQuandary
Date: June 22, 2008, 10:39 pm

Thank you for that wonderful sound painting by Tony Schwartz. It made a special connection to me.

Thirty years ago I had just graduated from college and taken my first job–as a taxi driver in Chicago. That Christmas, a friend gave me a curious record album that he had picked up in a used record store–audio clips of “The New York Taxi Driver”, recorded by one Tony Schwartz!

I treasured the album, especially some of the quotes given in thick NY dialect (”The Bronx is like . . . China!”), but never until this hour had I ever made the connection that this was the same Tony Schwartz who produced the infamous “Daisy” ad for Lyndon Johnson–or that he had such a rich association with WNYC!

Paul Naprstek
Morningside Heights

Comment from NY Earthling
Date: June 22, 2008, 11:03 pm

Hi David,

Did you say “Lute Suite”? That was the Cello Suite #5! Enchanting on the lute … now I have to go buy it.

Comment from Joe V
Date: June 25, 2008, 8:02 pm

I’ve enjoyed all the music offered over the years on Evening Music and Spinning On Air. So with reciprocity in mind (and too bad you will be working David) I draw the collective attention of this audience to the performance on the night of 6/28/08 at Carnegie Recital Hall by Loreta Kovacic. Ms. Kovacic is a Croatian pianist based in Houston, TX. Trained in the Classical tradition, she has recently released a wonderful CD quirky enough I believe to find favor within this community of listeners. At her website, alchemistpiano.com you may even be able to hear a clip or two from the CD, Cantabile. Amongst others, there is a jaunty little paean to ‘Plywood’ on the collection She brings to my mind the likes of Dory Previn and Sarah Kernochan. JV

Comment from John Aiello
Date: June 26, 2008, 7:57 pm

Hi David,
Let me begin by saying I’m a big fan. I’ve made many musical discoveries thanks to you. I should also say, from the start, that my interests in music are wide ranging and include jazz, blues, pop, rock, funk, folk, serialism, world music, baroque, early music, romantic … pretty much the gamut. But, I must admit, what I liked most about WNYC was its billing and its follow through of: “Classical music all night.” I’m sad and disappointed that you are no longer at the helm monday-thursday. Why? And, despite my wide ranging taste, I’m peeved at the sudden “it’s all good” approach of Terrence Mcknight. I remember a few years back mourning the closing of the Tower classical music annex in paramus, NJ. Then mourning the closing of Tower altogther. Since then I’ve watched the classical section at Barnes & Nobel shrink by the week. WNYC, and your show, seemed to be the one place that wouldn’t cave. But now every time I switch on in the evening I’m hearing jazz, or blues, or pop, or show tunes. Sure, to be fair the classical music is still there. But just as elsewhere, classical is taking a back seat to more immediately entertaining forms of music. During WNYC pledge drives much is made of listener input/listener control, but this programming change seems to have been foisted on us. I’m 43 and aging quickly, and I sense there is an attempt here, as in concert halls and other commercial venues, to cater to a younger crowd. Perhaps this is why Terrence finds it appropriate, like a rock DJ, to talk over music and to do gear-grinding cross-fades.
…well, before this rant runs off the rails entirely, let me just say again, you and your programming are missed.
Please explain. Thanks, John A.

Comment from Linda Karten
Date: June 27, 2008, 7:45 pm

Hi David,
You and I worked together at the muni building way back when you first joined the station and started Spinning on Air. I was the magazine editor then, Wavelength, and took pictures on the side. I took your photo on the roof of the 25th? floor. It was a spectacular shoot. Your hair has gotten long! I will try to locate the photo and send it over. Speaking of pix, thanks for sharing yours. Loved seeing the building inside and out. I am sad that everyone has left (except you, for now). Can you stay put for a while longer so that I can slowly adjust to hearing my favorite station coming to me live from some modern new place a little uptown. Fondly remembering the good old days at WNYC.

Linda (Naklicki) Karten

Comment from SuzanneNYC
Date: June 28, 2008, 9:38 pm

As always — thanks for the Playford, David! (A nice change from all that Liszt — which was fun but OY!) In fact, I did dance a few rounds of Upon a Summer’s Day in my living room (me and 5 ghosts). And just imagined the other dances while enjoying the tunes. Anyway, to anyone else out there who found this music appealing — you can actually learn the dances that go with these tunes at Country Dance New York. Go to http://www.cdny.org to learn more about it. We’re on hiatus for the summer but start up again right after Labor Day. (CDNY was in WNYC’s STAR program this past April.)

Comment from eledryth
Date: June 29, 2008, 9:09 pm

the place may be moving, but i’m glad you aren’t. i enjoy your show a lot and come to see you when you play other places. keep up the good work. thanks……..eledryth PS what are the old studios going to be used for?