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Edvard Grieg: Peer Gynt Suite No. 2 (San Francisco Symphony)


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Francois Couperin: Mysterious Barricades (Alexandre Tharaud, piano)


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Classical Music
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8:41
Edvard Grieg: Peer Gynt Suite No. 2 (San Francisco Symphony)


9:01
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9:06
Francois Couperin: Mysterious Barricades (Alexandre Tharaud, piano)


9:08
Claudio Monteverdi: Cantate Domino (Odhecaton)


9:12
Alexander Glazunov: Ballet Scenes (Minnesota Orchestra)



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What was The Gundie Weekly Journal?


The final issue of The Gundie Weekly Journal, published Fall 1995.
It started on a photocopier, after being hand-typed on a manual typewriter. Sounds like the Stone Age, doesn’t it? In fact it was just twenty years ago (and the manual typewriter was replaced by an electric fairly quickly).

In 1984 I was making commercials at WSPD in Toledo. I had creative friends. At least one was a very gifted writer. When I asked, “Are you writing these days?” his answer was, “I have nothing to write for.” Aha! I thought, like Pat Paulsen used to say, “Sure, why not?” I’ll cajole several friends of mine to send me odd little bits of writing, I’ll even get a friend of mine who can draw to attempt comics, and I’ll type them all up, copy them, and send them around to about 25 of our group. As for the name, friends seem to naturally call me Gundie. I had named my high school English notebook The Gundie Weekly Journal simply because I liked the rhythm of the name The Akron Beacon Journal, as it was known then. The photocopied new ‘zine was a monthly, but, well, accuracy didn’t concern me. This was a purely creative forum. I didn’t give out ideas, I expected to just receive finished pieces. The first issues were about 4 pages.

A dozen years later, the then quarterly “circulation” was around 250, with a readership higher than that. Several copies were passed around offices. (I am a freelance voice actor, and I sent it around to some of my potential employers.) The issues were now 50 pages long, with 15 or so contributors each. They included professional writers, a Ph.D. candidate, poets, essayists, cartoonists, and folks who just had a clever idea. I, by necessity, had become an editor, and learned how rewarding it was to help someone polish their idea, not by rewriting for them, but by asking them questions so that they could think a little more about this detail or that.

By 1995, The Gundie Weekly Journal was professionally printed, and getting a larger reputation as a readable, fun, sometimes serious, well presented magazine. Each issue was proofread twice! It was also more than I could do alone. And so, after its baby steps had grown into adult strides, The Gundie Weekly Journal turned towards the sunset and we said good-bye.

And now, a radio show with the same editorial bent. So why not the same name? Okay, so I finally dropped the Weekly. …It’s not the same without it. Sigh.

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