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September 2, 2010
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Classical Music
With Mark Pennell

11:24
Joaquin Rodrigo: Fantasia para un gentilhombre (Orpheus Chamber Orchestra)


11:47
Peter Tchaikovsky: Album for the Young: Sweet Dreams (Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra)


11:51
George Frederich Handel: Concerto Grosso #3 in G (Handel and Haydn Society)



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Classical Music with Sylvia Docking

Join WKSU’s Sylvia Docking for the best in classical music.

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Fresh Air® with Terry Gross



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All Things Considered®



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On Point


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What’s Playing Now?

Classical Music
With Mark Pennell

11:24
Joaquin Rodrigo: Fantasia para un gentilhombre (Orpheus Chamber Orchestra)


11:47
Peter Tchaikovsky: Album for the Young: Sweet Dreams (Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra)


11:51
George Frederich Handel: Concerto Grosso #3 in G (Handel and Haydn Society)



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Classical Music with Mark Pennell
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Classical Music with Jeff Esworthy



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Classical Music with Sylvia Docking

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Classical Music with Julie Amacher



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Classical Music with Mindy Ratner



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WKSU presents "Holiday Stories from The Gundie Journal"


characters you meet bear a striking resemblance to members of your own family. WKSU presents “Holiday Stories from The Gundie Journal.”
– Joe Gunderman (“Gundie”)

Here’s a thought, if you told writers, “Create something about the Holidays to be presented on the radio. Any or all Holidays in December. That’s your only direction. Now, go.”
What would they come up with?
That’s what a literary magazine does. No themes, no editorial asking for specific plots or subject matters, just a space, a forum, where imagination can run in any direction.
The Gundie Weekly Journal, published as a ‘zine from 1984 thru 1995 and attracting well over 100 writers, poets and cartoonists, was such a forum. As the editor, I didn’t know what direction each issue would take until the writers sent me their creations. Then I worked with them to make it the best the writer could present.
And so, transfer this idea to radio.

After adding my directing, recording and editing experience, add two important elements: The best actors available, and good musicians, to make the writers’ ideas work in audio.
So what did they come up with? Sentiment or silliness? It turns out that Marc Jaffe, Angela Johnson, Laurel Winter, Doug Sutherland and Mike Derrick do like to laugh. Of course, there is meaning in their humor. So we have a funny hour of stories for you.
Ray McNiece is a poet, and he gives us vivid word pictures of the season, again augmented with wonderful sound played by his nephew and performance partner, Sean Kelly.
So come along for an hour of Holiday stories you’ve never heard before. You might find some of the                       .

Who is this Gundie person?



Listen to the Show Online (see Realplayer, pg. B3 or Windows Media, pg. B4)
What was The Gundie Weekly Journal? (see HISTORY, pg. A4)
Contact the Editor - Gundie himself! (see E-Mail, pg. A6)

Featured Segments: Show Rundown

A True Story (that I just made up (with a little help from my Conscience)) – by Laurel Winter
Cathrine Albers – storyteller
Paula Deusing - conscience
MUSIC by Michael Flohr and Nadia Tarnawsky

Some Kind Of Trick – by Doug Sutherland
Doug Sutherland – narrator
Paula Deusing – God
MUSIC by Bert Solis

Aunt Jill – by Angela Johnson
Bailey Varness – Jill (narrator), Mom
Andrea Williams – Aunt Jill
Christine Williams – Aunt Mirabelle, Aunt Doris
Joe Parnell – Dad, Leroy
Joe Gunderman – Security Guard
MUSIC by David Schmoll

Holy Water Fight – by Marc Jaffe
Marc Jaffe – Rowe, the Park Manager (narrator)
Jim Kisicki – Santa
Jean Zarzour - Maryam
Fred Gloor - Adnan
Jeannie Task - Lisa
Caleb Sekeres – Nate
Angeline Wynn – Chloe, Lifeguard, various characters
Tom Kondilas – Todd, and various characters
Nick Horton – various characters
Remy Halliday – Duncan, Lifeguard, various characters
Ryan Washabaugh – Sayeed, various characters
Sarah Jaffe – Danielle (and general screaming)
Jana Jaffe – little Jewish girl (and general screaming)
Joe Gunderman – Anton, Nat. Guard Commander
MUSIC by David Savord

The Santa Calls - by Mike Derrick
Natalie Derrick – Martha
MUSIC by Bert Solis

Song Always Beginning
and
Winter Solstice
- by Ray McNiece
MUSIC by Sean Kelly

Open, and Fossil Fools
  Doug Sutherland

Song Always Beginning
  Ray McNiece

The Santa Calls #1
   Mike Derrick

A True Story (That I Just Made Up)   Laurel Winter

The Santa Calls #2
   Mike Derrick

Some Kind Of Trick
   Doug Sutherland

Winter Solstice
   Ray McNiece

Aunt Jill
   Angela Johnson

The Santa Calls #3
   Mike Derrick

The Holy Water Fight
   Marc Jaffe

Close, and Elf Field
   Doug Sutherland

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