Arts at St. Ann's; Duplex Planet Radio Hour; "Music brings melody to the people"
- Series
- Arts at St. Ann's
- Program
- Duplex Planet Radio Hour
- Producing Organization
- WNYC (Radio station : New York, N.Y.)
- Contributing Organization
- WNYC (New York, New York)
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- cpb-aacip/80-365484r3
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- Duplex Planet Radio Hour Episode 2: "Music brings melody to the people" Monologues by David Greenberger Music by Terry Adams Terry Adams piano Marshall Allen saxophone Tom Ardolino drums Greg Cohen bass Dave Gordon trumpet Tyrone Hill trombone This performance and future episodes of The Duplex Planet Radio Hour are being recorded for later broadcast over WNYC-AM, New York Public Radio. Subscriptions to the Duplex Planet magazine are $12 for 6 issues. Please write to Post Office Box 1230, Saratoga Springs, NY 12866. JANUARY By Ernest Noyes Brookings (1898-1987) January first month of a year Contains dates of many natal births Frequently enjoy a toxic Milwaukee beer The Atlantic and all the oceans have a rolling surf While in a many patron coffee shop One male to female pal - would you like to dance? She - yes, together did a shimmy hop With a final snuggling tense prance At a family home around dinner table Mother to her children - did you attend school? Yes mother we all are really able And obey the old time golden rule At a refreshment stand at outdoor camp One pal to another - would you like a shot of gin? Yes, but hold on there's a hole in your pants And gin may result in a body spin. DAVID GREENBERGER In 1979,1 was working at the Duplex Nursing Home in Boston. I began asking the residents questions and writing down their responses. This became the basis of the Duplex Planet, a collection of interviews, conversations, anecdotes and photographs. I wanted the magazine to confront perceptions of the aging. We're used to thinking of nursing home residents, and the elderly in general, by what they have in common: that they're simply all old or infirm or in decline. I wanted to recast them as individuals, to show what makes them different from each other. Towards that end, I avoid asking for oral history, which tells more about an event or what someone used to do than who they are now. I quickly realized that the residents of the home had no interest whatever in the finished product, which mostly ended up being thrown away. I realized what I was doing could speak most eloquently to everyone but the people in it. 1 wanted to sketch these characters for an audience not normally in touch with them, to let people know them through their sense of humor, pathos, outrage and surprise the things that make us all individuals. TERRY ADAMS Born in Louisville, Kentucky, Terry Adams studied composition with Don Murray for two years, and then became a founding member of the New Rhythm & Blues Quartet, now known by its acronym, NRBQ. Over the band's 27-year history, they have recorded 17 albums and given an estimated 3000 live performances. Adams' compositions have been recorded by Bonnie Raitt, Dave Edmunds, David Sanbom and Paul Shaffer. He has had a parallel career as a record producer, working with the Cajun accordionist Boozoo Chavis, St. Louis pianist Johnnie Johnson (Grammy nomination for Best R&B Recording), The Shaggs (Rolling Stone Award for Best Comeback Album of 1987), and compiling previously unreleased material by the jazz composer and pianist Thelonious Monk for the 1980 release, "Always Know", which won the Pazz & Jop Poll Award for Best Historical Recording of 1980. He has recorded as a sideman with Carla Bley, Bob Dylan, and on several of Hal Willner's "tribute" albums - "That's the Way I Feel Now* for Thelonious Monk, and, with NRBQ, "Stay Awake", a skewed look at the music from Disney films. Also with NRBQ, he backed country singer Skeeter Davis on an album called "She Sings, They Play", which won the NAAIRD Award for Best Country Music Album of 1985. Last year, ESD released his collaboration with David Greenberger, The Duplex Planet Hour. More recently, NRBQ composed the Rabbit Ears video production of the children's story, "Stormalong", and Terry appeared as the pianist for the singer Annie Ross in the Robert Altman film, "Shortcuts". He is joined tonight by three of the hom players from the Sun Ra Arkestra Marshall Allen, Tyrone Hill and Dave Gordon bassist Greg Cohen (who plays with Tom Waits, among others, in addition to being a record producer), and NRBQ's drummer, Tom Ardolino. ARTS AT ST. ANN'S was founded by Susan Feldman in 1980 to provide an expanded use for the endangered National Landmark Church of St. Ann & the Holy Trinity, Arts at St. Ann's has since presented thirteen seasons of innovative events in the church's historic sanctuary. In addition, the building's multi-purpose loft rehearsal and support spaces allow ASA to provide artists with an increasingly rare opportunity to develop new work in a nurturing environment. ASA, often in partnership with others, has commissioned or premiered many new works of distinction, including Lou Reed and John Cale's Songs for 'Drella, Hilary Blecher's Frida, Lee Breuer's Peter Pan and Wendy, the first performances of David Byrne's orchestral work. The Forest, Marianne Faithfull's debut in Weill/Brecht's The Seven Deadly Sins, our own In the Time of the Comedian Harmonists featuring the debut of the Hudson Shad, and most recently. Bill FriseU Plays for Buster Keaton, John Cale's Life Underwater, and our first radio series, the Duplex Planet Radio Hour. Currently in development is a collaborative new music theater work about the People's Temple by writer Susan Yankowitz and composer Taj Mahal. The concert series, co-programmed with Janine Nichols, is noted for its "fearless booking policy" (Newsdav) and celebrates the great and panoramic traditions of American and world cultures, from the blues of Chicago, New Orleans and the Mississippi Delta to haunting musics of Eastern Europe, Asia and Africa. Incomparable, virtuosic performances have been given by singular artists such as Dr. John, Aaron Neville, David Byrne, Marion Williams, Richard Thompson, June Tabor, Jeff Buckley, Katie Webster, Marcus Roberts, Syd Straw, Robin Holcomb, Jimmy Scott and many others. RESTORATION PROGRAM The Church of St. Ann & the Holy Trinity was designed by Minard Lafever in 1844 to rival Manhattan's Trinity Church. A National Historic Landmark, St. Ann's houses the first figural stained glass windows made in America, designed by William Jay Bolton between 1844-48. The St. Ann Center for Restoration and the Arts, Inc. is leading a bold restoration program aimed at return- ing this priceless, though dangerously deteriorated, 19th century Gothic Revival treasure to its original, flamboyant glory. In 1988, The St. Ann Center, together with World Monuments Fund, established an in-house training program to bridge the gap between conservation science and practice. Last summer, 25 young people from New York City's Summer Youth Employment Program received hands-on experience in blacksmithing & sandstone, wood and stained glass conservation. St. Ann's houses a state-of-the-art stained glass conservation facility, under the direction of master conservator Melville Greenland. The Great Chancel Window is the crowning achievement of Bolton's masterpiece. Its brilliant expanse of light and color is the first sight to greet visitors as they enter the sanctuary, and provides an incomparable setting for Arts at St. Ann's performances. It too is in peril as a result of failing leads which cannot support the weight of the stained glass. Restoration of this magnificent window began in spring 1992 and will take three years to complete.
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- Performance
- Media type
- Sound
- Duration
- 01:00:46
- Credits
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Associate Producer: Delahunty, Eileen
Composer: Adams, Terry
Creator: Greenberger, David
Engineer: Haber, Edward
Engineer: DeMark, Michael
Narrator: Greenberger, David
Producing Organization: WNYC (Radio station : New York, N.Y.)
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WNYC-FM
Identifier: 68359.1 (WNYC Media Archive Label)
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WNYC-FM
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WNYC-FM
Identifier: 68359.3 (WNYC Media Archive Label)
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Duration: 01:00:46
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WNYC-FM
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- Citations
- Chicago: “Arts at St. Ann's; Duplex Planet Radio Hour; "Music brings melody to the people",” WNYC, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed June 28, 2024, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-80-365484r3.
- MLA: “Arts at St. Ann's; Duplex Planet Radio Hour; "Music brings melody to the people".” WNYC, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. June 28, 2024. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-80-365484r3>.
- APA: Arts at St. Ann's; Duplex Planet Radio Hour; "Music brings melody to the people". Boston, MA: WNYC, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-80-365484r3