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Marvin, thanks for the WFUV link. I used to listen to that station on business trips to northern New Jersey and had trouble remembering the name/location. Ironically 90.7 is our local access to Temple NPR, where I get Classic in the daytime and Jazz in the evening. It sounds as though you might also enjoy Bela Fleck, who has a CD out, "Live at the Quick", that includes his usual range of jazz, bluegrass and the like on the banjo, and also includes eastern Indian vocals and a Bach Violin Partita (on his banjo). How about that for eclectic.
I usually don't have visitors to my studio and don't plan on painting when I do. Short interruptions by family are not a problem and having worked and schooled in environments where ongoing discussion was the norm I sometimes find working alone disconcerting.
My companions are the folks at NPR and my ipod, where I have saved things distinctive and unique such as Bela Fleck, the Belgium Women's Chorus, classical harmonica and Rahsaan Rolan Kirk playing jazz on three saxophones at the same time. Willie Nelson and Frankie Yankovic's polkas are sometimes on the playlist as well.
Classical music seems to tighten me up and I find it impossible to listen to the Texaco Opera and paint and therefore painting stops on Saturday afternoons.
For you NPR people don't miss This American Life and Schickele Mix.
And sometimes I work in the full quiet of the studio without even realizing that "nothing is turned on". I can handle it.
Administrator's Note: ipod is Mac's MP3 player /recorder that will also allow you to store presentations, pictures, documents and digital movies.
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