Show 213: Bethany's Music

Added later: As most of our listeners know, we upgraded the Station computers to Windows 10, and I believe that the station software was also upgraded, which threw everything off.  Our link from the Station to the Transmitter is also via the Internet, so WXPI has apparently been off the air for more than a week.

I have no actual information about whether last Saturday's program actually hit the airwaves, but I'm going to air the same program again, mostly because it would be a dirty trick to play on Bethany not to air her program at all; certainly a worse trick than airing her program twice, back to back!  We will have a seriously Christmassy program the following week, which will be Boxing Day.

I interviewed Bethany H. from Montgomery, and we talked about the sorts of music she likes, and her varied musical experiences.  Bethany is an alto (or contralto, as they call the voice type), and sings in the Lycoming Choir, and sang in her high school choir, and acted in at least one musical, namely Shreck, the Musical.  She has an enormous voice range, from low Alto, sneaking into the Tenor range, and all the way up the treble staff (and probably higher!)

They cut the Montgomery Area HS choir program, for lack of interest, and Bethany survived that tragedy.  It is such a tossup (unless one's parents are willing to actually move to a school district with a strong choir program) whether you're going to get the benefit of a good musical education as part of your school program.  Bethany is a math major, and both Bethany and Coral were in my class of Geometry students this last semester, and it was fun teaching them.  (I asked them all whether they'd like to be interviewed on Archie's Archives, but all except these two could not bring themselves to actually say they liked music, though they probably do.)

I'm getting these links up in a hurry, anticipating the worst with the Radio Station, and its unreliable website.  I'll expand the page after the show airs.

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Part C:

Part D:

Bach:	Fugue in A minor, BWV 543 – Introducing Bethany
Randall Thompson:	Alleluia
Felix Mendelssohn:	“Alles was Odem hat” from Lobgesang
Tschesnekov:	Salvation is Created [Dale Warland Singers]
Jason Howland:	Astonishing from Little Women, the Musical [Sutton Foster]
David Willcox:	Birthday Carol from the Bach Choir Family Carols
Jeanine Tesori:	Don’t let me Go from Shrek, the Musical [Brian D’Arcy James, Daniel Breaker]
Jeanine Tesori:	On My Way, from Violet [Sutton Foster]
John Rutter:	The Star Carol [The Bach Choir]
Leroy Anderson:	Sleigh Ride [Pinchas Zuckerman]
Felix Mendelssohn:	Ich harrete des Herrn, from Lobgesang [Rilling, Michaela Kaune,  Norine Burgess ]
G. C. Menotti	Olives and Quinces, from Amahl and the Night Visitors [Covent Garden]
Adolphe Adam:	Minuit Chretiens [Roberto Alagna]
Carlos Salzedo:	A short fantasy on Christmas Carols [Canadian Brass]
Hector Berlioz:	Shepherd’s Farewell from L’Infance du Christ [Colin Davis, London Symphony O.]
James Pierpont:	Christmas Cheer [Chanticleer]
Traditional:	God rest ye merry gentlemen [Canadian Brass]
Archie:	The twelve days of Christmas, Station Break [instrumental]
Johann Sebastian Bach:	Ehre sei dir, Gott, gesungen from Weihnachtsoratorium [Concerto Köln, Vokalensemble Frankfurt, Helmuth Rilling]
Johann Sebastian Bach:	Schlafe, mein Liebster from Weihnachtsoratorium [Concerto Köln, Monika Groop]
Peter Cornelius:	The Three Kings [King’s College, Cambridge]
Johann Sebastian Bach	Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern, from Cantata Number 1.