SPECIAL GUEST

Michael Kurek

American composer and Tennessee Laureate

Author of Adventures in Great Music

Latest CD - Symphony No 2 - Tales from the Realm of Faerie 

HOST Catholic Adventures in GREAT Music - show aired only on the Crusade Channel

* Why doesn’t anyone know about these works?

* They have been suppressed b/c they went to Germany to take lessons then came back and composed.

* The people here claimed they didn’t learn it hear so it wasn’t American.

* George Whitefield Chadwick 

* John Knowles Paine

* Edward MacDowell

* Charles Tomlinson Griffes 

* Life of Washington book by Mike Church 

AUDIO/VIDEO: John Knowles Paine - Mass in D-minor 

* Glen Campbell - Jimmy Web song and the chords the remarkable harmonies that are so different than other country tunes.

* Sanctified Imagination

* Eagles - Seven Bridges Road

* Again I don’t want to sound like a know it all but - that is from in early American Sacred Harp Singing and the hymnody, like Amazing Grace, they were harmonized indifferently than Bach b/c if one goes up one must go up or downward. 

* This is called Naturally parallelism - together up or down but comes straight from American Hymnody. 

* Parallel Organdom sing in 5ths so it does ultimately come from Gregorian Chant.

* There is a heritage. 

* We have gotten worse in our craft and dumbed everything down.

* No one seems to be doing things like the Pieta or paint like Leonardo.

* We have sort of lost the beauty and true masters of their crafts. 

HEADLINE: Celebrated composer and Vanderbilt professor emeritus Michael Kurek named composer laureate of Tennessee by Vanderbilt University

* Johnny Williams - became John Williams

* Adam 12 TV show

* QUESTION: Is the theme of Jaws a rip off of anything?

* ANSWER: Yes if you listen to New World Symphony - Dvorak 

AUDIO/VIDEO: Dvorak - New World Symphony full 

* In America they are mostly modernist that do A-tonal music which means it doesn’t have a HOME note - 19th century.

* Crusade Max Exclusive - Classical Music for Beginners?