Committing Shenandoah
Somebody once claimed to have invented the eight-day work week. The only problem with it was that there were only six nights in it. In that spirit, I'm announcing the Willa Cather week is two days long. I've run out of things to say about her for now. Meanwhile, there's too much good stuff to post, to wit:
My good friend Alan alerted me to Garrison Keillor's take on the Khoir Kultur of Minnesota. If you can, skip the transcript and go straight to the sound file.
[T]here ought to be a law against the singing of "Shenandoah" by any choir, and the penalty ought to be prison time. No probation. The singing of "Shenandoah" is a main cause of the unpopularity of choral singing today. Somewhere in America about once every four minutes, a choir commits "Shenandoah"....Meanwhile, Garrison Keillor's wounded inner old fart is exposed in this threat of legal action against a blogger with a few T-shirts to sell. (Hat tip Instapundit.)
Umie the Umlaut says, "ask your doctor about the Fredösphere!"
2 Comments:
awe, its sad to hear about Garrison Keillor. You wouldnt expect that from him. And Lake Wobegon sounded like such a nice place.
As the submitter of the Keillor/Shenandoah link I must add that in my senior year in HS (1977) I was the tenor soloist in the Salli Terri arrangement of Shenandoah. I would not mention this except we made a recording that year and I can be heard "Committing Shenandoah" on side 2.
Alan
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