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February 16, 2008
This week on A Prairie Home Companion, we'll visit the Indiana University Auditorium in beautiful Bloomington (a.k.a. Tree City) for a rapid radio immersion into the many young talents in and around the distinguished Jacobs School of Music. With special guests, the Indiana University Violin Virtuosi, a unique collection of fifteen gifted violinists between the ages of 11 and 18, performing as soloists and a violin ensemble, and directed by Professor Mimi Zweig. We'll also have baritone Aleksey Bogdanov, violinist Esther Kim, Pianist Ignasi Cambra, and a colorful student pit orchestra ready to bravely play, while gummi bears and soda pop are spilled steadily onto their heads, from the seats high above. Also with us, the Royal Academy of Radio Actors: Tim Russell, Sue Scott, and Fred Newman, The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band with old soft shoe Andy Stein, and The News From Lake Wobegon. Join us this week for an all-new broadcast of A Prairie Home Companion!
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| Segment 1 |
| 00:00 | Logo |
| 00:13 | "Tishomingo Blues" |
| 03:11 | GK opens, talks about Valentine's Day, Presidents Day |
| 03:55 | Travelogue script |
| 07:16 | "The Hard Way" - Pat Donohue, Shoe Band, Jacobs strings |
| 11:15 | "Coffee Jingle" - GK/ Shoes/ Jacobs strings |
| 12:36 | GK intros Violin Virtuosi |
| 13:29 | "Praeludium and Allegro" (Kreisler)- Violin Virtuosi |
| 17:47 | GK intros Ren and Zoe Martin-Doike |
| 18:58 | "Toccatina Ala Turk" (Arad)- Ren and Zoe Martin-Doike |
| 22:17 | Trombone script |
| 28:23 | Powdermilk Biscuit Break |
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| Segment 2 |
| 31:13 | GK intros Ignasi Cambra |
| 33:59 | "Fantasie Impromptu" and "Revolutionary Etude" (Chopin)- Ignasi Cambra |
| 42:49 | Guy Noir script |
| 55:36 | GK intros Esther Kim |
| 56:20 | "Zapateado" (Sarasate)- Esther Kim |
| 1:00:22 | Extreme Haydn script |
| 1:05:02 | Intermission- "I Found a New Baby" |
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| Segment 3 |
| 1:08:25 | Greetings into Sonnets |
| 1:16:32 | GK talks about Bloomington, Indiana University |
| 1:20:33 | "Can't Get Indiana Off My Mind" - The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band |
| 1:22:04 | GK intros Aleksey Bogdanov |
| 1:23:15 | "Credo in un Dio Crudel" (Verdi)- Aleksey Bogdanov |
| 1:27:50 | "None But the Lonely Heart" (Tchaikovsky)- Aleksey Bogdanov |
| 1:31:12 | "It Ain't Necessarily So" (Gershwin/ Heyward)- Esther Kim |
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| Segment 4 |
| 01:34:39 | The News from Lake Wobegon (Download MP3) |
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| Segment 5 |
| 1:49:50 | "Hungarian Dance" (Brahms)- Violin Virtuosi |
| 1:53:30 | Credits, "The Next Time I'm in Town" |
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| Quickly dashing off the "B section" lyrics for Tishomingo Blues, Garrison asks the audience, "What rhymes with Hoosier?" |
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Pat performs a beautifully orchestrated tune he calls, "The Hard Way." |
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| Sisters Ren and Zoe Martin-Doike with "Toccatina Ala Turk" — a composition by Indiana University professor Atar Arad. |
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Ignasi Cambra dazzles the crowd with Chopin's "Fantasie Impromptu." |
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| Members of the Jacobs School of Music Chamber Strings. |
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Garrison introduces baritone Aleksey Bogdanov. |
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From Garrison Keillor:
“When I was 16, Helen Fleischman assigned me to memorize Shakespeare’s Sonnet No. 29, ‘When in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state’ for English class, and fifty years later, that poem is still in my head. Algebra got washed away, and geometry and most of biology, but those lines about the redemptive power of love in the face of shame are still here behind my eyeballs, more permanent than my own teeth. The sonnet is a durable good. These 77 of mine include sonnets of praise, some erotic, some lamentations, some street sonnets and a 12-sonnet cycle of months. If anything here offends, I beg your pardon, I come in peace, I depart in gratitude.”
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