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::: dr. king lives on :::
First up today, a
conservation with local composer Jeff Haas. He’s the composer of
an intense, 50 minute, 7
movement jazz piece called the MLK Day Suite: Then and Now. Jeff wrote the
piece back in 2002 when the Traverse City Human Rights commission asked for
an original musical work for the 2003 MLK Day celebrations.
The piece will be performed again Sunday, January 14 at
Central United Methodist
Church
by a group of local high school students. As Radio Anyway producer Lou
Blouin watched the group rehearse, one of the things he noticed right away
was that after every movement, Jeff paused and asked the students for their
creative feedback. Lou started by asking Jeff what led him to adopt such a
democratic approach toward one of his own compositions.
::: veg out :::
Up next, Hughthir White has
a little more local flavor: the flavor of home-grown, homemade fermented
foods to be more specific. Pat and Nancy Curley first met in a garden 34
years ago and have planted one together every year since. Recently, their
devotion to each other and organic gardening has led them to start a local
foods business called 'Leelanau Cultured Veggies.' And together they are
engaging in a process Pat calls 'FARMENTATION.' Producer
Hughthir White helped Pat and Nancy
with the late fall harvest of cabbages, beets and carrots and collected this
story.
::: here birdie birdie... :::
Kate Trainer makes her
return to Radio Anyway next. While you might have been buying last minute
Christmas gifts or thinking ahead to the new year, Kate was braving the
elements along with a band of local birders. Every year, members of the U.S.
Audubon Society spend all of a day, and sometimes a night, counting birds
for the annual Christmas bird count. So why do they do it? Kate explains in
this next story.
::: piano miracle revisited :::
Before we go today, we
wanted to do a little follow up on a story from our recent holiday special.
It was produced by first timer Boone Scharpe and the story was about his
grandmother Blanche’s piano. Now if you didn’t hear the story, here’s the
short version: Blanche had bought the piano when she first married with
every bit of her teacher’s retirement savings, and that piano has followed
her through every move and decade since. Until a few years ago, when
Blanche, who’s now 95, moved into an assisted living facility in
Traverse City,
and the piano had to be left behind. But like any good story, the screw
turned, when Boone and the directors at the assisted living facility
conspired to unite Blanche with the piano. And the best part about it for us
audiophiles is that Boone sent out hundreds of CD copies of this story to
relatives and friends. We got so much feedback about people moved by the
story and crying over it that we wanted to check in with him and his grandma
to see what the impact was like for their family.
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