-=> Quoting Maurice Kinal to Nancy Backus on 06-Dec-2018 00:00 <=-   
      
    NB>> Knowing the back story can make a difference...   
      
    MK> Perhaps, but in this case it was a totally random event given that I   
    MK> was only there for the chatter and had no expectations for any music   
    MK> that they were featuring.  Thus the line itself is what caught my ear   
      
   Have to admit, the line is the sort that would catch your attention...    
      
    MK> as they had already stated the song was the theme for "The Sopranos"   
    MK> and at that time there was no mention of the author or his slant on   
    MK> the song.  If anything I should have been prejudiced against it given   
    MK> that I have such a low opinion of TV and anything it might have to   
    MK> portray about New Jersey gangsters which I believe the show is about.    
      
   AIS, the theme song doesn't always have much if anything to do with the   
   TV show... or might be designed to put a different spin on what one   
   might have thought the show would be...   
      
    MK> It was much, much later and on a different show - Same radio station   
    MK> CBC Radio One - where I heard the interview and the real story behind   
    MK> "Woke Up This Morning".    
      
   After which you appreciated the song even more....  :)   
      
    NB>> wouldn't likely be running that sort of show   
      
    MK> Offhand I cannot think of a TV show with a classical music theme.    
    MK> Many movies but no TV shows.  What comes to mind were all the Disney   
    MK> animations done to symphonic compositions.    
      
   And not just Disney, but the other cartoon studios also used classical,   
   often from opera, musical selections....  But what I was saying was that   
   my radio station wouldn't usually be running a tribute show to some   
   group like Alabama 3, unless it was on Saturdays, when non-classical   
   music shows do happen...  like the one currently on, Fascinating Rhythm,   
   which showcases American Popular Song, using various themes to be   
   illustrated using songs of ragtime, musicals, tin pan alley, big band,   
   clubs, etc...  Before it was The Score, which uses music from movie   
   soundtracks, which can run the gambit.... Later tonight will be Echoes,   
   which is mostly new agey music... My mother used to cite those shows as   
   proof that her favorite station was NOT classical music 24/7, as the   
   announcers liked to claim, especially during pledge drives...  ;)    
      
    NB>> If I have the opportunity present   
      
    MK> Understood.  In my case it was totally random which is perhaps the   
    MK> best way. Also having everything going against it and it still made an   
    MK> impression might also be required to add additional meaning to the   
    MK> impression.    
      
   I'm sure that it would most likely also be totally random as well... and   
   most likely when I'm up at our camp, and listening to North Country   
   Public Radio, which is the only station up there that has any classical   
   music, but also has all the NPR news and some of their talk shows, along   
   with a wide variety of music genres featured in various shows...   
      
   ttyl      neb   
      
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