Transcript for the Piece Audio version of Violinist Anna Schaad's Dream Within a Dream

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ON THE SURFACE, VIOLINIST ANNA SCHAAD MIGHT SEEM LIKE A NEW AGE ARTIST WITH LOREENA MCKENNITT ASPIRATIONS. HER FIRST THREE ALBUMS OFTEN FOUND HER IN RENAISSANCE GARB ON THE COVERS, WITH TITLES LIKE "RAVEN IN THE MEADOW," "ROLL IN THE HEATHER" AND "THE JOURNEY."

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GIVEN ALL THAT, WHAT'S HAPPENING ON A TRACK CALLED "FLYBOY."

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AS: Yes, there's, you're gonna hear the pilots up in the air talking, um, their navy talk in the background here. And a little bit of a, an F-16 or a ES6B Prowler. Which is a very loud jet that flies, flies the friendly skies above us.

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YOU'LL HAVE TO SEARCH LONG AND HARD TO FIND A NEW AGE OR EVEN MODERN INSTRUMENTAL ALBUM, THAT HAS IMAGERY BASED IN THE MILITARY. IT PROBABLY TAKES A MUSICIAN MARRIED TO A NAVY PILOT TO PULL THAT OFF. ANNA SCHAAD'S LATEST ALBUM, DREAM WITHIN A DREAM, IS A LOVE SONG TO HER HUSBAND OF 4 YEARS, LIEUTENANT COMMANDER JEFF MONTGOMERY.
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AS: .....It was written last year when my husband, who's a navy pilot, was away for seven months. And so there's a lot of, uh, I, I thought about him a lot and we'd, we'd had deployments before. I've been married to him now for four years. But seven months was the biggest, longest time we'd been apart. And when you're apart from someone, boy, that's a great time to especially as an artist. It fuels your... Nothing like a little angst to fuel you creative process. ......And so, yeah, a lot of the songs are kind of a tribute to him.

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HER FIRST THREE ALBUMS ARE HEAVILY CELTIC INFLUENCED BUT ANNA SCHAAD TOOK AN ELECTRONICA TURN ON DREAM WITHIN A DREAM. BUT THE VIOLIN REMAINS IN FRONT OF SONGS THAT SHE CONSIDERS STORIES, EVEN THOUGH THEY'RE INSTRUMENTALS.

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AS: .....violin, for me, is a story telling instrument. It's a, in fact I used to do a program called The Talking Fiddle. And I think that's kinda the, that's the gist of it really. It's a talking instrument. It's telling a story. You think, just because it doesn't have lyrics it doesn't have a story. But they do.

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PERHAPS APPRO OF THAT, HER ALBUM TITLE COMES FROM ONE OF THE GREATEST STORYTELLERS EVER, EDGAR ALLEN POE. YOU CAN HEAR ANNA SCHAAD'S STORIES ON HER LATEST cd, "DREAM WITHIN A DREAM." I'M JOHN DILIBERTO AND THIS HAS BEEN AN ECHO LOCATION, SOUNDINGS FOR NEW MUSIC.

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