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Gabriel von Wayditch wrote 14 operas, some telling R-rated stories and one that's the longest in history. But hardly anyone's ever heard of him. Music curator Frank Oteri discovered von Wayditch back in the 1980s and has since been on a lifelong struggle to bring his music to the world.
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Gabriel von Wayditch wrote 14 operas, some telling R-rated stories and one that's the longest in history. But hardly anyone's ever heard of him. Music curator Frank Oteri discovered von Wayditch back in the 1980s and has since been on a lifelong struggle to bring his music to the world.
Broadcast History
Aired on Studio 360, August 13, 2010 (Public Radio International and WNYC)
Transcript
HERSHIPS 1
For this story we have to travel back in time. All the way back to 1985. We're at the Columbia University college radio station. Frank Oteri is a student there and his job is to clean the station and to DJ. So he comes up with this strategy where he would put on the longest record he could find, so he’d have time to clean, and and one day...
ACT OTERI 1
I chanced upon these LPs of an opera called The Caliph’s Magician by GVW. I’m like – oh, I’ve never heard of him. I’ll put this on and give myself an education in the process. So I put that on...
MUSIC FROM THE CALIPH'S MAGICIAN
ACT OTERI 2
And PAUSE I wasn't able to work at all. I was totally mesmerized by this music.
MUSIC MUSIC MUSIC
SECOND MUSIC CLIP FADES IN - FIRST CLIP FADES OUT. RUNS UNDER OTERI . CLIMAXES AND HANGS
ACT OTERI 3
This otherworldly, over the top, relentlessly climactic music that just kept, c...
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Intro and Outro
INTRO:Are there artists out there who make work just for work's sake? Gabriel Von Waydtich did. Ever heard of him? No? Well. You're not alone. Von Wayditch was a composer. Maybe the best composer you've never heard of. Producer Sally Herships is trying to track down exactly who this guy is. She started at the Metropolitan opera.
OUTRO:Musical Works
| Title | Artist | Album | Label | Year | Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Orchestral Introduction - Testetlen Kodvilag | Gabriel von Wayditch | The Caliph's Magician: Suh and Sah; Jesus Before Herod. | 00:00 | ||
| Suh Bus Lelke | Gabriel von Wayditch | The Caliph's Magician: Suh and Sah; Jesus Before Herod. | 00:00 | ||
| Milyen üDe Ismet Az Agg | Gabriel von Wayditch | The Caliph's Magician: Suh and Sah; Jesus Before Herod. | 00:00 | ||
| Sonata Sauvage: Snakes | George Antheil | Bad Boy of Music. | 00:00 |
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