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Garrison's weekly columns
Memories from Staff and Performers
BILL KLING, PRESIDENT EMERITUS OF MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AND AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA
The beginnings of a “live” Keillor show occurred at a.m. one weekday in the early s, broadcast on classical music hållplats KSJN. I remember waking up to somebody singing “Old Shep,” followed by the ear-piercing sound of a “glass harmonica” (someone rubbing wine glasses). Bad morning.
Garrison and I had talked about a time slot when the show might work ( a.m. wasn&#;t the answer). We settled on Saturdays at 5 p.m., allowing a live audience, already out and about, to komma and see it. It was also a time of the week when public radio had a very small listenership so there wouldn’t be an uproar if classical music was interrupted. And we further limited the damage by broadcasting only once a week.
I recall early regular broadcasts of what became A Prairie Home Companion, when the show performed in an abandoned (at least I think it was) sky
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Leading From the Front
The role of orchestral leader and its relationship with the conductor and fellow players.
Leading From the Front
The role of orchestral leader and its relationship with the conductor and fellow players.
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I’ve been cooking scratch Thanksgivings since the early oughts, when, as an editor for a Boston newspaper, I found myself on breaking news duty and therefore unable to fly home for the holiday. Somewhat to my surprise, the ritual of creating a scratch holiday meal in an otherwise empty apartment for myself was incredibly soothing, and the leftovers sustained me for days to come. I’ve been making Thanksgiving ever since, some years two or even three times over depending on how many Thanksgivings-in-February we’re celebrating and what the menu happens to be.
That said: not everyone is the sort of cooking masochist that I am, and not every year in conducive to the