1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:14,610 [music: theme; Mozart, Symphony No. 24 (K 182), 2nd Mvt.; Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra of London/Leinsdorf] 2 00:00:14,610 --> 00:00:22,230 Hello there, I'm Peter Schickele, and this is Schickele Mix, a program dedicated to the proposition that all musics are created equal. 3 00:00:22,430 --> 00:00:26,670 Or as Duke Ellington put it, if it sounds good, it is good. 4 00:00:27,700 --> 00:00:37,000 Almost as good as the fact that our bills are paid by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, by the National Endowment for the Arts, and by this fine radio station. 5 00:00:37,320 --> 00:00:44,300 And after each program has been perpetrated, it gets sent out to the world at large by PRI, Public Radio International. 6 00:00:44,960 --> 00:00:55,500 And I'd also like to thank all the listeners out there who have put their money where their ears are, by becoming members, or even making contributions above and beyond the level of mere membership. 7 00:00:56,100 --> 00:00:59,640 Every dollar you send in helps keep Schickele Mix on the air. 8 00:01:00,300 --> 00:01:08,500 Unless you specifically check the box marked, Use this money for anything, anything at all, as long as it isn't Schickele Mix. 9 00:01:09,200 --> 00:01:12,020 If you want to check that box, go ahead, I won't be offended. 10 00:01:12,020 --> 00:01:26,020 If you really want your money going to the new program they're developing here, which consists of the soundtracks of wildlife films shown over the last 20 years on public television, minus the narration, go ahead and check the box. 11 00:01:26,660 --> 00:01:35,100 Or, if you want to support the other show they're working on called Nova Avon, New Breakthroughs in Cosmetics, check the box. 12 00:01:35,620 --> 00:01:40,820 Check the box if you want your money to go for fresh flowers in the station manager's office every morning. 13 00:01:40,820 --> 00:01:51,500 But whether you check the box or not, send in your money, because you are the largest single source, and also the largest married source of support for public radio. 14 00:01:52,060 --> 00:01:57,700 Now there is another source of support, smaller but much appreciated, and that's private foundations. 15 00:01:58,260 --> 00:02:03,200 And we're honored and delighted to have the heads of two foundations with us here today. 16 00:02:03,200 --> 00:02:13,840 Today, each of these foundations has made a valuable and unique contribution to Schickele Mix, or is contemplating doing so, and I'll tell you more about that later. 17 00:02:14,400 --> 00:02:16,240 It's a pleasure to have you here, gentlemen. 18 00:02:16,740 --> 00:02:26,780 Glad to be here. I'm afraid this is pretty much a one-man studio. There's only one mic, but there are a couple of extra chairs, so make yourselves at home while I introduce you. 19 00:02:26,780 --> 00:02:40,420 Walter Smith is the CEO of Vibrations Incorporated, which is a company that most members of the general public may never have heard of, but believe me, it's been around a long time. 20 00:02:41,150 --> 00:02:51,300 In fact, Mr. Smith is a direct descendant of the man who invented sound, which, as you can imagine, was a red-letter day for the recording industry. 21 00:02:51,860 --> 00:02:55,620 Mr. Smith, I know you live here, but did you grow up in this area? 22 00:02:55,620 --> 00:03:02,500 No, I didn't. I didn't think so. You know, I'm going to take a guess and say that you come from Canada. 23 00:03:02,720 --> 00:03:04,340 That's right, I do. How'd you know that? 24 00:03:04,560 --> 00:03:14,640 Well, I'm from North Dakota, so I know a Canadian accent when I hear it. In fact, okay, now, I'm usually pretty good at this. I'm going to say you're from Winnipeg. 25 00:03:15,760 --> 00:03:18,640 You're right again. And I'll bet you're from Grand Forks. 26 00:03:18,860 --> 00:03:21,300 Nope, Fargo. Sorry about that. 27 00:03:21,400 --> 00:03:21,900 So am I. 28 00:03:21,900 --> 00:03:26,920 Right down the road in Fargo. Close, but pas de cigare, as they say in Quebec. 29 00:03:27,760 --> 00:03:31,600 Mr. Smith is also the president of the Rockeford Foundation. 30 00:03:32,140 --> 00:03:37,420 And our other guest, Mr. Billiard Bryant, you're president of the Feller Foundation. 31 00:03:38,080 --> 00:03:41,760 That's right! Just me and a couple other fellers who like to give money to the arts. 32 00:03:42,120 --> 00:03:44,200 Where are you from, Mr. Bryant? 33 00:03:44,420 --> 00:03:48,640 I'm from Maine. Way up north in Maine. Little town called Washburn. 34 00:03:48,640 --> 00:03:51,880 Now, I never would have guessed that you're from Maine. 35 00:03:52,100 --> 00:03:54,740 Well, I'm not surprised. Nobody ever does. 36 00:03:55,320 --> 00:03:57,420 Everybody thinks I'm from down south. 37 00:03:57,420 --> 00:03:59,820 I mean, I get New Hampshire, I get Vermont. 38 00:04:00,220 --> 00:04:01,900 Nobody ever guesses Maine. 39 00:04:02,340 --> 00:04:04,180 Well, we're glad to have you both here. 40 00:04:04,320 --> 00:04:09,980 And, you know, it's not every day we've got the head of a foundation in our studio, much less two of them. 41 00:04:10,120 --> 00:04:12,340 And I've always said two heads are better than one. 42 00:04:12,540 --> 00:04:15,600 So I've lined up a little live entertainment for you. 43 00:04:15,600 --> 00:04:19,180 Starting in just a few minutes with the New York Philharmonic. 44 00:04:19,420 --> 00:04:22,560 They said they'd send over as many members as they could. 45 00:04:22,780 --> 00:04:27,460 I said, well, don't send the whole orchestra. I don't think we could get a hundred people in this room. 46 00:04:27,760 --> 00:04:29,100 At least with instruments. 47 00:04:29,520 --> 00:04:31,480 But we can do fifty, I'm sure. 48 00:04:32,340 --> 00:04:36,060 But first, I'd like to point out some of the features of our studio. 49 00:04:36,340 --> 00:04:37,580 We're pretty proud of it. 50 00:04:38,220 --> 00:04:42,160 Let's see. We've got the very old recording alert. 51 00:04:45,380 --> 00:04:57,200 Yeah, that's one I activate myself if I'm going to play, like, something off my Music of Africa series, No. 11, a 10-inch LP that was brand new in 1953. 52 00:04:57,920 --> 00:05:04,160 And then there's the sloppy thinking alarm. I'm proud to say that it doesn't go off very often. 53 00:05:04,880 --> 00:05:13,820 Let's see. How can I set it off? Well, let's try: you can lead a horse to water, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time. 54 00:05:15,830 --> 00:05:17,540 I'll be durned! 55 00:05:17,620 --> 00:05:18,220 There you go. 56 00:05:19,320 --> 00:05:30,120 Okay, then we have, well, I wouldn't demonstrate this one if I weren't so anxious to bestow upon you the complete tour. 57 00:05:30,740 --> 00:05:32,940 I'm talking about the pun punisher. 58 00:05:33,580 --> 00:05:35,060 Don't worry, it won't hurt you. 59 00:05:35,760 --> 00:05:43,540 But if I say, well, if I say something like, you can Telemann to go, but if he comes Bach, you can't Handel it. 60 00:05:43,800 --> 00:05:44,600 [sound: the pun punisher] 61 00:05:44,620 --> 00:05:49,980 Oh! Oh, man! Oh! Ouch! That smarts! Oh, man, it does! 62 00:05:50,280 --> 00:05:56,060 Fortunately, it's set pretty loose. It has to be pretty strong stuff to set the thing off. 63 00:05:56,620 --> 00:06:03,120 Ooh! Okay, now, that one up there on the wall, I'm afraid it does go off pretty often. 64 00:06:03,480 --> 00:06:10,320 That's the irrelevancy alarm. Sometimes it just sounds, and sometimes it also prints out an explanation. 65 00:06:12,300 --> 00:06:21,180 Okay, let's see. Man, it's gone off so many times when I didn't want it to. It's strange to try to make it go off, you know what I mean? Let's see. 66 00:06:21,820 --> 00:06:31,220 The harmonic difference between Mozart's later works and his earlier ones is because he didn't get to marry the woman he loved, so he married her sister. 67 00:06:33,110 --> 00:06:38,690 Huh, I would have thought, I guess the machine thinks that's relevant. Maybe I should look into that. 68 00:06:39,940 --> 00:06:41,000 Okay, let's try this. 69 00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:44,940 From what I've heard about the station manager's love life, 70 00:06:46,400 --> 00:06:51,400 That did it. I thought, oh, wait a minute, it's printing out. 71 00:06:52,200 --> 00:06:55,200 Man, I hope I'm not fired. Let's see. 72 00:06:56,800 --> 00:07:00,920 Okay, it says, uh, you don't know the half of it. 73 00:07:01,160 --> 00:07:03,060 Ooh, how about that? 74 00:07:03,360 --> 00:07:04,860 Well, I'm sure I don't. 75 00:07:05,060 --> 00:07:10,140 Then, of course, we've got the echo chamber here. I love this. Let me turn this on. 76 00:07:10,810 --> 00:07:21,600 [sung: "Indian Love Call", through the echo chamber, holding the last note] 77 00:07:21,760 --> 00:07:24,360 Isn't that great? I love the echo chamber. 78 00:07:24,820 --> 00:07:26,820 Okay, what else is there? 79 00:07:26,940 --> 00:07:31,680 Oh, this is one of those little round things you need to play 45 RPM records. 80 00:07:32,320 --> 00:07:33,780 And I guess... 81 00:07:33,780 --> 00:07:35,340 Oh, how could I forget? 82 00:07:35,580 --> 00:07:37,500 This is the authentic instrument. 83 00:07:37,660 --> 00:07:38,760 It's not a reconstruction. 84 00:07:39,200 --> 00:07:43,500 It's an actual early 1990s Casio tone bank. 85 00:07:43,880 --> 00:07:45,820 And when I'm illustrating things, 86 00:07:46,020 --> 00:07:49,920 I usually select the Black & Decker Concert Grand Piano, 87 00:07:49,920 --> 00:07:51,380 which sounds like... 88 00:07:51,400 --> 00:07:53,300 [sound: phone rings] 89 00:07:53,400 --> 00:07:59,430 You know, that's one of the things that, one of the few things that isn't exactly state-of-the-art here. 90 00:07:59,890 --> 00:08:07,750 The rotary dial telephone, excuse me. Hello? Oh, okay, hold on, I'll be right out. 91 00:08:08,600 --> 00:08:14,900 Alright everybody, the New York Philharmonic is here. I told you, they were going to send over a slightly reduced orchestra, 92 00:08:14,900 --> 00:08:24,940 I'm going to put on a PSA here, oh, that's a public service announcement, while we move the furniture around a bit and get them in here. We'll be right back. 93 00:08:28,520 --> 00:08:35,120 You don't have to travel to Japan to experience one of the oldest theatrical traditions in the world. 94 00:08:35,720 --> 00:08:45,500 The ancient art of the Japanese no-drama is coming to the Roxy Theatre for one performance only, this Saturday night at 8 p.m. 95 00:08:45,500 --> 00:08:54,660 Tickets available at the box office, or call Tix by Phone, 747-6333. That's R-I-P-O-F-F-F. 96 00:08:56,820 --> 00:09:04,060 Remember, if someone asks you, what's your favorite kind of Japanese drama, just say no. 97 00:09:08,390 --> 00:09:16,110 And we're back with the New York Philharmonic. Not the full orchestra, but as many of them as we could fit in the studio. 98 00:09:16,110 --> 00:09:22,730 And here they are, under the baton of Pierre Boulez, performing the music of George Philip Telemann. 99 00:09:23,080 --> 00:10:42,820 [music: Telemann, Canonic Sonata No. 1 in G; Gary Schocker & Marco Granados, flutes] 100 00:14:12,180 --> 00:14:14,200 Bravo! Bravo! 101 00:14:14,300 --> 00:14:21,450 The New York Philharmonic, conducted by Pierre Boulez, playing Telemann's Canonic Sonata No. 1. 102 00:14:21,630 --> 00:14:28,970 Now ladies and gentlemen, treats, and I think you'll agree that was a treat, treats like that don't come cheap. 103 00:14:29,470 --> 00:14:38,450 We desperately need the support of listeners like yourselves, so we can continue the tradition of high quality performances like the one you just heard. 104 00:14:38,590 --> 00:14:51,410 Remember you are our biggest source of support. Please become a member now or if you already are a member consider increasing your contribution. Here's someone to tell you how to do that.