The Yarn on CBC

[vaneramos]

Several weeks ago Tempo, the daytime Classical music program on CBC Radio 2, started a new Friday feature called Music that rocks your world, inviting people to request music that had changed their lives. This inspired me to knit a story about Sibelius's Symphony No. 2 and send it in. Apparently my selection aired on the program today. Unfortunately Les and I were on a service call to Kitchener and Cambridge, so I did not hear it and was unaware.

An unfamiliar reader commented on The Yarn post today, and checking the stats I found it had received an unusually large number of hits. So I went to the Radio 2 website and found not only had they aired Sibelius's Second, they had also posted a link to my story on the program's blog.

Comments

[teddyb.livejournal.com]

How cool!

Congratulations on creating something that attracted so much interest, and congratulations on taking up the challenge posed by the CBC to interact with their programming.

Interesting all the way around.

Good for you, Van!

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

Hey, Bob, how's it going? Yeah, I thought this was pretty cool.

[djjo.livejournal.com]

Woohoo! Very cool. Hopefully they will have the audio on the site, so you can link to that as well.

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately they don't keep an archive of the programs, at least not on line. Too bad.

[songdogmi.livejournal.com]

That's very cool indeed. I will seek out Sibelius' 2nd symphony based on your recommendation. I already like some of his other works, so this should be well worth hearing.

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

It is the warmest and most Romantic of his seven symphonies. I love them all, but this one sticks as my favourite. Enjoy!