Monday, May 1, 2017

Only in college XXX

In looking at my KCOU playlist for the 2-6 a.m. shift on May 1, 1992, I see that I chose to mix two seemingly disparate tracks together.  I'd forgotten that I'd played Shel Silverstein reading his poem, "The Peace Proposal," over an excerpt from the University Of Colorado Wind Ensemble's rendition of Igor Stravinsky's "Symphonies Of Wind Instruments."  Looking back, I think I see why I did that.  Stravinsky's piece underscores the turbulence of going to war.  I'm pretty sure that's what I intended.  That, or it was just such a novelty to have a Classical CD in the KCOU library that I was determined to find a way to use it...On a college radio station, in the middle of the night, either rationale could enter just about any DJ's mind.