This very station once had, for its only announcer, an anonymous pre-recorded voice that would say simply, "Kiril Kondrashin conducts the Moscow Philharmonic in the Symphony Number Eight. By Dmitri Shostakovich. 1943." or something like that, and then they'd play it! All 65 minutes of it! And when it ended, the same announcement would be repeated in the past tense, there'd be a couple of sedate commercials and station IDs, and then they'd do another one!
Ah, those were the days.
To my mind, the drive home from Moraga is permanently associated with hearing Shostakovich's 8th this way on it, many years ago. A couple years ago as I set out on a grueling 70-minute drive from Chester to Stafford, I turned on the radio and the BBC was just about to launch into the tape of a recent Proms performance of Shostakovich's Eleventh, an equally long work. Perfect timing, and I couldn't have been happier.
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Ah, those were the days.
To my mind, the drive home from Moraga is permanently associated with hearing Shostakovich's 8th this way on it, many years ago. A couple years ago as I set out on a grueling 70-minute drive from Chester to Stafford, I turned on the radio and the BBC was just about to launch into the tape of a recent Proms performance of Shostakovich's Eleventh, an equally long work. Perfect timing, and I couldn't have been happier.