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Updoc 31: How Russian Is It?: 1/30/09

Posted by Rafi Zabor on January 31, 2009 @ 4:33 am | Post a comment

Opening theme: Orthodox Choir of the Moscow Academy: Psalm 103;
Chants et choeurs Orthodoxes, Vol. 3 (7 Productions)

1.    Igor Stravinsky/Leonard Bernstein/NY Philharmonic: Petrouchka; The Rite of Spring, Petrouchka (Sony)
2.    Modest Moussorgsky/André Cluytens/Chorus of the National Opera of Sofia/Orchestre de la Societé des Concerts du Conservatoire/Christoff: Prelude; Boris Godunov (EMI)
3.    Sergei Prokofiev/André Previn/LA Philharmonic/Christine Cairns: The Field of the Dead; Alexander Nevsky, Lieutenant Kije (Telarc)
4.    Dmitri Shostakovich/Yevgeny Yevtushenko/Okko Kamu/City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Chorus/Nikita Storojev: Babi Yar; Symphony No. 13 (Chandos)
5.    Alfred Schnittke/Stefan Parkman/National Danish Radio Choir: Choir Concerto ‘O Master of All Living’; Minnesang, Choir Concerto (Chandos)

Out theme: Shostakovich/Borodin String Quartet: String Quartet No. 8, first mvt; Piano Quintet, String Quartets No. 7 & 8 (EMI)

taint town live - 01/31/2009

Posted by Bob Rogers on January 31, 2009 @ 12:00 am | Post a comment

It’s Friday night! Time to get loaded and eat peanut butter like there’s no tomorrow.

Live broadcast from Papa Mojo’s Roadhouse on Sun Feb 1 3pm EST

Posted by Dave Tilley on January 30, 2009 @ 1:25 pm | 1 Comment

A tip for harpo’s listeners

Posted by Bob Rogers on January 30, 2009 @ 4:38 am | Post a comment

When you’re listening to harpo, be sure to click on the Home page after you’ve clicked to listen.  harpo has arranged for the screen to display whatever is playing.  If you hear something you want to add to your own collection, just click on the song and that takes you directly to that page at Amazon.com.  If you then purchase the music from Amazon, a portion of what you pay automatically goes to taintradio.  Pretty cool!  harpo never does anything stupid.

taint town live - 01/30/2009

Posted by Bob Rogers on January 30, 2009 @ 12:00 am | Post a comment

Life is better when you can work in your underwear.

Songs on Toast - 01/30/2009

Posted by Brian Cullman on January 30, 2009 @ 12:00 am

taint town live - 01/28/2009

Posted by Bob Rogers on January 28, 2009 @ 12:00 am | Post a comment

OPTIMAL LISTENING INSTRUCTIONS FOR ALL-RUSSIAN UPDOC 1/30

Posted by Rafi Zabor on January 26, 2009 @ 11:06 am | 1 Comment

For optimal listening conditions for next week’s all-Russian-music show, “How Russian Is It?”, prepare the Agrin/Zaborovsky family recipe for Odessa Cabbage Borscht (enormous pot everlasting version; timid people should make a half-recipe):

3 lbs. beef short ribs or flanken (same thing cut differently; flanken, cut in strips across the ribs, is traditional, but don’t worry about it)
1 large green cabbage
2  28-ounce cans of whole tomatoes
2  medium large onions
salt, lemon, water
(Since the ingredients are simple and yield an improbably rich, extraordinary result, quality of ingredients is important; taintradio recommends organic constituents when possible.)

Here’s what you do for best hi-fi result:
1.    Slice cabbage thin but not surgically fine.
2.    Coarsely chop onions.
3.    With a sharp knife de-fat the ribs the best you can, then scald them with boiling water, in a colander or pot.
4.    Place beef in bottom of pot, add water to cover, bring back to boil, skim off what comes to the top.
5.    Add cabbage, onions. Crush or slice up the tomatoes and add them.
6.    Add water to cover, and salt to approximate taste. Cook for one hour.
7.    Add juice of half a freshly squeezed lemon.
8.    Cook for one more hour, contrapuntally adding lemon juice and, if need be, salt, to bring a light tartness to the soup as it sweetens with cooking. You’ll understand what’s wanted as the taste develops, and will wonder how it can possibly taste this good.
9.    It’s done in two hours, but you can keep going if you like. It will only get better—up to a point, of course.

Serving suggestion: have a large bowl of soup, perhaps adding a grind of black pepper. When you’ve had enough of that, have some beef, with horse radish as a garnish, along with a side of plain boiled potato, buckwheat kasha (this is how Konstantin Levin prefers it in an early chapter of Anna Karenina), or potato laktes or kugel (family recipes for these available only on request).
Have another bowl of soup. Wipe your brow. Marvel at, by now, Moussorgsky, Shostakovich, and at the extraordinary largesse of the Russian soul under repression or otherwise. Although I don’t want to encourage excessive drinking, Vodka will aid you in this exercise. Help yourself from that bottle in the freezer. Is it Chopin, Ketel One, Iceberg, or humble Svedka? I can’t see from here, and don’t know what you can afford.

taint town live - 01/26/2009

Posted by Bob Rogers on January 26, 2009 @ 12:00 am | Post a comment

Closing down Guantanamo? Send’em to Dallas. What’s the problem?

Cruisin’ With Abdul - 01/26/2009

Posted by Mitchell Feldman on January 26, 2009 @ 12:00 am

Cruisin’ With Abdul Program 200902 - 1/26/09