Waking up music...

JS · Post by JS » Fri Oct 06, 2006 9:48 am

Why is it that Labrador pups are hard-wired to start the day at 5:45? This is the fourth dog we've raised for Guiding Eyes, and they all have same attitude about early rising.

When I moved within radio range of Robert J's "Morning Pro Musica" one of my colleagues warned me not to set my alarm to that station, since between the quietness of those bird calls and the long pauses between sentences, there was a pretty good chance of not waking up at all.

Innocent Bystander · Post by **Innocent Bystander** » Fri Oct 06, 2006 1:27 pm

It's been a while since I could start the day with music, but it was BBC Radio 3 for me.

Yeah, Handel's "Arrival of the Queen of Sheba", or Liszt's "Symphonic Poem "Preludes" or "Zadok the Priest" or something.

It's been a few years now, and maybe they've cleaned up their act, but it used to make my day when the announcer would regularly make some monumental cock-up. I may have been expecting a bad day, but at least I didn't have my mistakes rehearsed in front of a National audience.

Joseph E. Smith · Post by **Joseph E. Smith** » Fri Oct 06, 2006 1:32 pm

Man, I have to have music playing to get started off on the rght foot. Prior to Peter Gabriel, it was W. A. Mozart's Piano Concertos, especially the latter ones #21 - 25. I am particularly fond of #24, a very moving piece.

cowtime · Post by **cowtime** » Fri Oct 06, 2006 8:51 pm

I get up at the last possible moment- so nothing is turned on but the shower downstairs-so I don't wake my husband- then out the door. NPR on the car radio for news the twenty minutes to work. When I get out on the route, at least a couple of hours later, it's classical music until noon, when the show goes off.