Archie's Archives on WXPI Radio

Archie's Archives on WXPI Radio

The companion website for the radio program that formerly aired Saturdays 8-10 PM! The program no longer airs, but these posts are a nearly complete record.

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Saturday, December 14, 2024

Dancing In the Street

Just set the record straight, this song, Dancing in the Street, was sung by Martha Reeves and the Vandellas, and reportedly reached no. 4 o...

Thursday, December 5, 2024

The Beatles

OMFG: What is wrong with this country, that they have to figure out who is the best at something? I studied mathematics, and we have a sub...

The Greatest Guitarist

Guitarists seem to be judged based on playing electric guitars. And on playing melodies. I prefer to hear the picking sounds of Bob Dylan,...

Sunday, November 17, 2024

Beethoven's Fifth

Most everybody knows about Beethoven's 5th Symphony. I've heard a dozen recordings of it, including ones by Toscanini, von Karajan,...

Sunday, November 10, 2024

Tchaikovsky

I had always regarded Tchaikovsky as a good composer in his own way, but not to be compared with Mozart, and Schubert, and the composers I c...

Wednesday, October 23, 2024

Small Ensembles

Let's start from 19th Century, and work backward. The most common sort of small ensemble is probably the string quartet. It consists ...

Tuesday, October 8, 2024

Nutcracker Suite Item #2: March of the Toy Soldiers

As some of you might recall, I took up the Euphonium (actually just a Baritone, but Euphonium sounds so much more euphonious), and joined a ...

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