Renée Fleming
& Yo-Yo Ma
Photo by Jimmy Asnes
December 13, 2008
This week on A Prairie Home Companion, live from the Town Hall in New York City, we welcome the world's most famous living cellist, and founder of the Silk Road Project Yo-Yo Ma. Plus, legendary lyric Soprano Renée Fleming, and California wild man of the modern mandolin Chris Thile. We've also got bass virtuoso Edgar Meyer, and top violaist Nicholas Cords. And as always, The Royal Academy of Radio Actors: Tim Russell, Sue Scott, and Fred Newman, The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band, and The News from Lake Wobegon.
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Garrison Keillor will be taking up a Sunday residence at Feinstein's in New York this December. He'll sing romantic songs, and maybe tell a New York
story or two. With pianist Richard Dworsky.
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Listen to The News from Lake Wobegon wherever and whenever you want. We're pleased to announce GK's signature monologue is now available as a free podcast, updated every Monday.
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Next week, A Prairie Home Companion's New York stint continues at The Town Hall on December 12, 13, 19, 20 and 27.
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Post to the Host:
I'm interested to know if you've ever written a song about Lake Wobegon. The closing line about strong women, good looking men, and above average children has the makings of a classic country tune. I'd love to hear the tune if there is one from older shows.
David M.
Ballston Spa, NY
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There have been a number, David. There's the "Lake Wobegon Hymn" ("Morning light, soft and bright, Wobegon reveals. Early frost all across farm and woods and fields") with music by Dvořák. Lake Wobegon High School has the Alma Mater. There's "One More Spring In
Minnesota (To Come Upon Lake Wobegon)" with music by Peter Ostroushko. "Sons of Knute Christmas Dance and Dinner" is one we still do every year. There's "Slow Days of Summer" and "Summer in Lake Wobegon" and "Song of the Exiles" and then there's a song about the "Lake Wobegon Trail" which wends
its way through Stearns County. A bike trail. Here are the links, if you're interested.
My Minnesota Home
Lake Wobegon Hymn (audio)
Alma Mater (audio in the News from Lake Wobegon)
One More Spring in Minnesota
Sons of Knute Christmas Dance and Dinner (audio)
Slow Days of Summer
Summer in Lake Wobegon
Song of the Exiles (audio in the News from Lake Wobegon)
Lake Wobegon Bike Trail
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Q: What do you get when a mosquito bites you on a beesting?
A: Sting along with Itch
This joke was sent in by Andy K. of Vacaville, CA. Thanks Andy!
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Lives of Radical Uniqueness
(12/08/2008)
Listened to the show Saturday and it was not bad. It had been one of those lovely December days where you try to fit it all in and you actually pull it off. Not only did I clean the house and bake a chocolate-cherry cake, but I made sesame beef for dinner, we put up and decorated the tree...
Tulsa Tonic
(11/18/2008)
A couple of highlights worth mention from the Mudcats Montana tour this last summer: We played in Butte where my brother Mick lives, at the Silver Dollar Saloon — he lives in the city but not at the saloon — on a Monday night...
The Perils of Public Passion
(12/02/2008)
I've been trying not to think about the man and woman from Iowa who had sex in the men's room at the Iowa-Minnesota football game in Minneapolis a week ago and to think about the environment instead, or the future of American fiction...
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Listener-submitted short stories or poems about their homes or lives — or whatever they fancy. Here are the latest:
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This independent feature-length documentary film by Peter Rosen goes behind the scenes at A Prairie Home Companion, and inside the imagination of the man who
created it.
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