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Post to the Host Send your own post to the host. To the host: I listen to your show almost every single week, but I cannot recall having EVER heard a barbershop quartet on your show. Since barbershop quartet singing is a uniquely American art form, and since you seem to enjoy harmonizing, I cannot imagine why you don't schedule them regularly. What gives? Robbie Brunger (a tenor) -- Good question, Robbie. We've had a couple of quartets on, but haven't had one for a long time. Maybe I got tired of hearing "Hard-hearted Hannah the Vamp of Savanna, G-A" and "Where is the fair in farewell, where is the good in goodbye." Or maybe it's that the music has sort of calcified and is more about technique and showiness and scoring points than it is about true feeling — it's more of an athletic event than esthetic... Continue reading» | Permalink» | Comments (2) » To the Host: But putting Stewart and Harry Smith together is rather good company. Blair T. -- You are right, and thanks for correcting us. Indiana, PA is about fifty miles northeast of Pittsburgh and that puts Jimmy Stewart well out of the midwest, though he played midwesterners well enough to be considered one. It was the self-effacement, don't you know. We consider that someone who gets all flustered and tongue-tied if anybody compliments him is for sure one of us... Continue reading» | Permalink» | Comments (3) » | | | |
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