The music of Don Gillis III Program 9
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You're listening to music by Don give us.
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From the campus of Southern Methodist University in Dallas Texas and more specifically from the division of
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music in the School of the arts. And if you really want to pin me down the microphone
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is sitting here on my office desk. Well anyway here we are again. The national educational
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radio network and I with another 30 minute bundle of music by Don give us end this
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week on program number nine number nine. That's right number nine. How
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time does fly it seems only seven or eight weeks ago this whole thing began. Anyway
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on program number nine. We're going to hear brickwork band and explore lank valleys
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and we'll begin the whole thing with a band piece entitled The Pioneer Sunday symphonic
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suite called Saga of the pioneer.
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Hey.
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Hey. Hey. Hey.
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Hey.
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Hey.
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Hey. Hey.
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Hey. Hey. Hey.
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Hey. Hey.
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The plan here from the symphonic suite for band saga of the Pioneer has been the opening
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number on this week's edition of music by Don give us the music was played for us
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by Everett Kissinger conducting the University of Illinois regimental band.
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Next the ballet syndicate shindig as a satire almost the burlesque of the
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Western movies concept of the wild and woolly West. So in my story
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my bad man are very very bad with their black cats being very very black and
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the good men wear the shining bright hats that fairly gleam with a hint of ultimate triumph over the
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forces of evil. And naturally a bit of intrigue to thicken up the plot creeps and
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the stranger arrives wearing his six guns low and immediately he's a
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suspect killer. And from his very first entrance say no he's up to no good at
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all. But in the end of course he turns out to be the U.S. Marshal in
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disguise and the friendly drunk who keeps getting thrown out of the saloon Well
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he's also a U.S. marshal. There is naturally a love interest and naturally
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also there's a stagecoach hold up and of course there's a wedding and a shivery to
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all live happily ever afterward except the black headed villains naturally they're bundled
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off to the calaboose to await the immediate doom that comes to such people especially
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in ballets about movie concepts of the wild and woolly West. Now that you have the
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general story outline in mind why don't you join us as I conduct this performance by the
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NBC symphony orchestra and dance along with us as it were as we spin the
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yarn that we all hear told in notes and choreographic toto EPS shindig a
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ballet of the wild and woolly West.
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MORE ONE
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MORE THING.
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Why.
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Will.
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Law or law.
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Lord
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Lord.
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Why
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and why and
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why on.
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Earth why the
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oath.
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Why.
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I
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own.
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The
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why.
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Thanks.
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The music was a ballad of the wild and woolly West played by the NBC
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Symphony Orchestra conducted by the composer. Give us. Next
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week I'll be back with more of my music and we're planning to have Christmas around our house. And in
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order to get in the Christmas spirit I wish you would all now open up my newly published book The
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unfinished symphony conductor and we'll look together at the table of contents and
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see what we can find and appropriately written about Christmas. Chapter one I
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see is called From Triumph. And there is a chapter called.
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Care and selection of Teos final chapter here is called
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from here to posterity. Nothing about Christmas at all. Maybe
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we can find something from among the wonderful cartoons done by William fuller J.
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Nothing about Christians there either. Oh well I thought the book might be a good item to use for
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my Christmas show but I guess not and since I can't give it a plug on the show unless I use part of it I
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have not been able to mention the unfinished symphony conductor at all this week except in
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passing. Anyway I'll be back next week and since my
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contract calls for Christmas show I'll check the Sanity Clause and see what I can come
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up with. And then if you repeat after me this program comes to you through the
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facilities of the national educational radio network direct from the music division of the
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School of the arts on the campus of Southern Methodist University in Dallas Texas. I will
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say this is done give us saying so long until next week and this is
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done give us saying so long until next week on.
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This program. There it is.
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