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Comment from steve kaufman
Date: July 14, 2008, 7:59 pm

‘Wozzeck’ meets ‘Wicked’. The orchestral music - a little overblown, but interesting. The voice - a little painful, more than a little embarrassing. What is it about ’serious composers’ who spend so much time dealing with weighty aesthetic questions and yet suffer these huge lapses of taste?

(I liked the jazz ballad she sings at the end)

(well you asked)

As to your topic, well…it’s perfect for me. Working late (again) and as with many a night, I find your show stimulating and soothing at the same time. The work is a little bit of a drudge, but having a link to something on a higher plane - which is what art is about for me - always helps.

-thanks for that

Comment from david press
Date: July 14, 2008, 8:08 pm

I was just listening to your flute and guitar music on the way home - It had a Brazilian flavor, was well executed but the piece was too predictable. Try Henrique Cazes’ cd: Pixinguinha, Hermeto + CIA, Herbie Mann’s cd: Stone Flute or any number of Altamiro Carrilho’s Brazilian flute recordings. Or, try Dois Hermaos - one of the moodiest and best CDs ever to come out of Brazil (Raphael Rabello & Paulo Moura). Those CDs have a lot of the same flavor as what you played but they are 5-star recordings. The Cazes CD is stellar, the Rabello & Moura divine (Moura does also play on the Cazes CD).

Comment from Michael
Date: July 14, 2008, 9:04 pm

Mr. McKnight,
First, I enjoy your show. Not everything. At least I can say what I don’t like. But I do enjoy your approach. I didn’t think anyone could replace David Garland, but, I was wrong.
The other night you played several player piano pieces by CPE Bach(?) Can you tell me what they were and by who. Also you played a piece by someone who was a contemporary of Listz(?) I like to know that one also. Thank you
Michael

Comment from steve kaufman
Date: July 14, 2008, 9:33 pm

whoops….forgot to say, my cranky comments above were about the Heiner Goebbels piece, for which you were inviting comments…

Comment from marcia rogers
Date: July 14, 2008, 10:01 pm

Hello, Terrance ~ What was the name of the music that you played 2 songs ago? I was on the phone to my sister in CA when you announced and I missed it. I love listening to your program at night. I like the radio better than TV.

Comment from Ingram
Date: July 14, 2008, 10:02 pm

I was delighted to hear you play my “Holy Ghosts” this evening, but I am afraid your cutting it off before its time (the last section had just begun)had the effect of un-delighting me. It hows no respect for me and the music, nor for your listeners.

Comment from cyndee
Date: July 15, 2008, 12:20 am

We read on the porch at night - a screened-in porch in Queens, so deeply covered in trees, it feels like the Adirondacks. You played Ketih Jarrett’s Adagio for Oboe and String Orchestra, while we read by kerosene lamps. Amazing - thank you so much.

Comment from james doran
Date: July 15, 2008, 1:58 pm

Hi Terrance
ON Monday July 14th at about 7:30 you played a beautiful Mozart duet — I think from zauberflote — who was the soprano and what was the name of the song? I must acquire it. THe soprano melted my heart and soul to such an extent i almost drove off the belt parkway into sheepshead bay. I love the mix of music you play. You are one of a kind on the radio
all the best James, Brooklyn

Comment from Steve Berens
Date: July 15, 2008, 7:19 pm

waltz was by Fats Waller in style of Tatum but was one of 1000’s of Fats’ compositions. Better version by Earl Hines - less scales and more counter point

Comment from worst_1_yet
Date: July 15, 2008, 7:43 pm

Hey…what’s up? This is the blog, right? You say “blog” on air, and then I look for it, and end up back here, as best as I can recollect.
When you mentioned commenting on the blog, I thought that what that meant, and wondered if you missed the days of “Call me up and tell me what’s going on” that you used to hear radio announcers, maybe, say? It would seem that asking people to call you up would be asking for trouble, but I wondered what your take on it was. OK. Thanks Terrance. I love hanging out and listening to your show after work as the evening turns to night.

Comment from Ingram
Date: July 15, 2008, 9:19 pm

Hi Terrance, Thanks for getting back to me about the timing errors on the CD which resulted in your having to cut off the piece (”Holy Ghosts”) a bit early. Obviously it wasn’t intentional and I take back my comments about lack of respect for the music and listener.
I think allowing entire compositions to play out even if there is a time squeeze is the hallmark of a music station that really CARES, and that has been the case with NYC for many years!!
I think I was just surprised that you would do that and therefore got up my dander. Had it been another station, I would have shrugged it off.
Anyhow, keep up the good work and I’ll be sending you a little adhesive tag you can attach to the CD cover with the correct tracks listing.

with all due respect,
Ingram Marshall

Comment from Jennifer
Date: July 16, 2008, 7:19 pm

Hi. Just want to extend kudos to Mr. Marshall for his gracious comments above. It’s not every day that a composer of his caliber would make the effort to post, let alone follow up. It not only speaks to Mr. Marshall’s integrity but to how important WNYC is - one of the only places on free radio where we can hear music that doesn’t belong in a museum!

Comment from Dan Brown
Date: July 17, 2008, 3:46 pm

Hi Terrance,

Since you’ve been weaving Bach into the proceedings, thought you might be interested in an “online appreciation” I’ve cooked up. You can see and hear an exerpt at

http://whybach.crosstownbooks.com/excerpt_flash.html

If you have a look, hope you enjoy.

Comment from cbast
Date: July 17, 2008, 8:41 pm

7 |17 | 08
I just heard you query, where is the Concertgebouw? (I also heard you read/quote the comment from a listener on your culture literacy … good grief. Ignore it please … your music selections beg to differ!)
Anyway, yes, the one everybody knows/where most recordings are done is in Amsterdam. However, the concert hall in Bruges, Brussels is named the same. So I suspect it’s simply Dutch for Concert Hall … and since Europeans have yet to as egregiously brand everything with the name of vainglorious sponsors, I guess they’re willing to be somewhat generic in their naming. Not particularly “learned,” this response … but helpful a little, I suspect. Love your show …

Comment from Paul
Date: July 17, 2008, 8:52 pm

Terrance, it is the Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam.

Always enjoy Evening Music - I never know what I’m going to hear. Keep up the great work.

Comment from Richard Mitnick
Date: July 17, 2008, 9:30 pm

No kidding!! Is that eally thee Ingram Marshall? The “Orphic Memories” Ingram Marshall. That is beyond impressive.

And, Yo, #3 Michael, there is no “replacement” for David Garland. There are others, but no “replacement”. None for Steve Post, Sara Fishko (who remembers the noon-time “overlap”?), Stan David, Andre Gregory, or any of today’s people beyond David: George, Brad, The ever-towering John S., J.D.J. Everybody is unique. I miss Will Berger a lot, and Marsha Young also. but Terrance is his own man, as each of the above are their own personalities.

>>RSM

Comment from MCD
Date: July 21, 2008, 8:49 pm

I’m laughing a little about your comments concerning music in church-it will make for an interesting blog. Nowadays the music in church is so varied-sort of something for everybody if you will; it just depends on what Sunday it is–youth, young adult, senior, etc., etc.

Comment from Catherine Bromley
Date: July 22, 2008, 9:22 pm

To Terrance McKnight….
Today, Tuesday, July 22, I came back from a long walk and I sat down in my kitchen and I turned on the radio at 7:35pm. I listened to your choice of music…..Many different kinds of music were played and I could not move from the room for about 1 1/2 hours. I was mesmerized and I could not leave the room.
Thank you, Terrance.

Comment from Catherine
Date: July 22, 2008, 9:35 pm

Is there a way to find a list of what was put on the WNYC radio station… with dates and times so I can buy the music.
Catherine

Comment from Hermit
Date: July 23, 2008, 9:04 pm

Catherine - click the “Playlists” link - http://www.wnyc.org/music/playlists - in the upper grey box to the right on this page.

(WNYC does a fine job of maintaining the playlists by date and time, even though they don’t make them easy to find.)

Comment from mgduke
Date: July 23, 2008, 9:30 pm

give us a break.

earlier this evening, when you boasted that anyone listening for fifteen minutes would hear something he wouldn’t like, but that your “mission” is ‘to educate the mind, make the heart more tolerant, and make the spirit more joyful, and, speaking of joy’, you cued “porgi amor”, my martini went through my nose. joy?!! even worse, you started talking over the music. then when the aria was finished, you felt it was important to tell the audience that you ask yourself why Mozart is so beloved. no doubt.

well, to clear up one mystery, the thing educated listeners i know most dislike hearing on Evening Music is your inane, pompous, ignorant, preening chatter.

please get out of the way of the music. (which includes stopping the puerile game of jumping widely disparate musics, which is such shallow and jejune cleverness).

Comment from Richard Mitnick
Date: July 24, 2008, 7:23 pm

Terrance-

Fearless opening tonight. I though the first clarinet was Don byron and that the piece was a sort of semi-Jewish semi-rag.

Then, the piano roll, I was thinking Nancarrow, with glee.

Fearless.

So, I am going to email you a track only for the fearless. It is Copland’s Fanfare for the Common Man, an explosive version that absolutely stocks to the composer’s mission.

>>RSM

Comment from Tom, Cooper Sq.
Date: July 24, 2008, 7:47 pm

Agree fully with RSM #23. Marc-Andre Hamelin has such drive and insistent daring. The sleepwalkers all pour out through their doorways onto the starlit balcony when his hammers bite. Where is a rogue or demon to hide? He sets them all into aggressive flight! If we are listening, with the whole interrior, we are prepared for all these little shocks, twists, and they are keen invitations. Thanks for not taking the easy road, Terrance. Ciao, T

Comment from Tom, Cooper Sq.
Date: July 24, 2008, 8:12 pm

oh yes… and thanks for the sweet lavish Russky of Boris Gudinov sung unequalably by Paul Robeson… wow, so exact and so emotionally rich –positively trembling–! Intermix global MezhduNarodsky. The model for Mir (Dynamic Peace) Ochen xorosho, sposiba bolshoiye! Ciao again.

Comment from Nola Lopez
Date: July 24, 2008, 10:30 pm

Hi Terrance –

I find that sometimes a piece of music will return me to myself when I’ve lost my center. I may not even be aware that I am lost until I feel the effect of being returned. That’s exactly what Carlos Salzedo’s Sonata for Harp and Piano did for me when you played it this evening. I was feeling a bit frazzled and at loose ends but then I heard the first few notes of this beautiful piece – that’s all it took – and I immediately sat down and closed my eyes to listen and allow it to bring me back to myself. My heart felt it would be a restorative elixir and it was. Thank you.

Nola

Comment from Richard Mitnick
Date: July 24, 2008, 10:34 pm

Hey Tom Cooper-

Thank you very much. This is why we need a real forum. Nothing tells me to come back, like in a real forum.

>>RSM

Comment from Anne
Date: July 25, 2008, 11:49 am

Terrance,
I love listening to your show. Last night (7/24) was especially wonderful; I was painting a room and not feeling well. The varied and interesting selection of music continued to absorb my discomfort and keep me going. I love flute music of all genre, and you never let me down. Try anything by Felipe Salles, a Brazilian composer & sax player. His latest, South American Suites is exquisite. His link is http://www.sallesjazz.com. He has 2 other CDs as well. I love that you give Imani Winds air time. I disagree with the feedback about your comentary. Your air-personality is friendly, hip, and sophistocated. And I, too, recall the “mystery composer” from listening to the radio in my youth!

Comment from ellen
Date: August 7, 2008, 9:05 pm

hi there mgduke number 21–if using the word jejeune ain’t pompous, what’n hell is? You sound hostile and jealous. What’s the matter? How about you chill out w some Mozart slow movements, then reevaluate your outlook. Most of us appreciate Terrence McNight –he is entertaining, enlightening, and tho I don’t like all his musical selections, his voice and delivery makes even his commercials easy to take.