Transcript for the Piece Audio version of RN Documentary: A Christmas Edition of The Stars of Music with Gary Goldschneider and Dheera Sujan
Hello and Merry Christmas ? I?m Dheera Sujan with this special festive edition of The Stars of Music.
now before we proceed any further I want to present my credentials rightaway. I?m a lapsed Hindu who spent her childhood celebrating all the traditional Christmas rituals in sweltering Australia. With this kind of muzak plaguing my steps, I like everyone around me, did the usual rounds in shopping malls buying uneccesary gifts for family who never liked them. I partook of unsuitably heavy Christmas dinners consisting of fowl roasted in ovens only marginally hotter than the air we were breathing, and I strung cotton wool on the ever more spindly tinsel Christmas tree my mother stored in a mothball laden trunk for the rest of the year.
But here?s the crunch. I love Christmas. ? I love watching re runs of the Sound of Music and eating Christmas leftovers. I love opening presents in pyjamas on Christmas mornings ? but most of all, I love the moment in that Christmas party when someone will get to the piano and play. And every one of us down to the last Christmas sceptic will sing along to the carols that are engraved in our phsyche
There?s nothing that brings people together like music and if there?s one person who can tell us why, its pianist and astrologer Gary Goldschneider?who knows everything there is to know about Christmas carols.
GG intro 1?45 SLEIGH BELLS (NEED SFX) ? comes in at 1?32 when he stars with ting ting ting.
The tradition of the carol itself?. ?. You hear that
CD200081 ? perf: Bernard Haitink + Concertgebouw Orch Amsterdam. Comp: Mahler Symphony No 4. 412 119-2
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GG bells rhythm 1?52
The very opening of the Mahler symph is sleigh bells?.illustrate the point
CD - Barking Dogs Jingle Bells
Gg ? date 2?26
Terrible who thought of that.. so maybe you?ve hit on something LAUGS
MUISC?? Or just link them without
Gg classical 6?47 (watch levels)
We talked of the ancestry of xmas music ? connection with classical?.... like Handel
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CD 241 936 ?The Christmas Song? comp Mel Tourme Perf Bishop Caines start fading beg of song under last wds
Gg ? Schubert 2?22 (playing)
Now another carol that?s fun to look at?. But its there
CD209 632 Schubert B Flat sonata end or Oh Come All Ye Faithful ?40
Sonata in B Flat. 1?30 F Schubert perf Vladimir Sofronitzki HMX 1905169
Gg melodies limitless 1?19
It makes you wonder if there?s a finite pool of melodies..ready to try some new stuff
Gg Religion 3?32
So many cl composers were inspired by relig.. ?.modal feeling as well
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226504. ?White Christmas? Tr: God rest ye merry gentlemen. Perf: Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra. Comp Trad. SLAM 00900 1?00
Insert ?44
God rest ye ? to be added to other clip with that carol?..touched me the most
CD 241.936 Gospel Christmas ?Silent Night? trad perf Mahalia Jackson XST207
Gg ? silent night 2?51 (can shorten)
Silent night is almost the best ?. When we hear this melody?can?t forget it
Gg white xmas 1?44 (shorten) - sleigh bells sfx at end
What about new xmas music?.sleigh bells with xmas (POSS END)
CD 206175 Elvis Christmas Album. ?Here comes Santa Claus? Perf Elvis Presley
Comp Autry/Haldeman/Melka. 1?54
Elvis closing this special Christmas edition of The Stars of Music. In the next programme, Gary Goldschneider and Dheera Sujan have a date for Valentine?s Day when they talk about why music is indeed the food of love.
The Stars of Music is a Vox Humana production for Radio Netherlands Worldwide.
