{"id":1878,"date":"2009-11-18T22:08:21","date_gmt":"2009-11-19T06:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/?p=1878"},"modified":"2009-11-18T22:08:21","modified_gmt":"2009-11-19T06:08:21","slug":"correspondence_about_that_merc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2009\/11\/correspondence_about_that_merc\/","title":{"rendered":"Correspondence: That Mercer Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alan Broadbent&#8211;pianist, composer, arranger, conductor for Diana Krall  and Natalie Cole, among others&#8211;wrote in response to the <em>Fresh Air <\/em>program promoted in the previous exhibit.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Thanks for posting Dave and Rebecca&#8217;s <em>Fresh Air<\/em> show which I have just finished listening to and would have missed but for you.<br \/>\nLast week the TCM channel had a marathon of Mercer movies beginning in the late 30&#8217;s and I had to sit through hours of nonsense just to see him perform. Worth its wait in gold, though.<br \/>\nSpeaking of &#8220;P.S. I Love You&#8221;: I learned it as a kid from Johnny Mathis (I think it was the flip side on a 45 of &#8220;Chances Are&#8221;). When I conduct for Diana she occasionally sings it as a solo feature and I never fail to choke up. The first time I heard her do it I could hardly conduct the next number from weeping uncontrollably. The way she sings it, It&#8217;s the first time I really understood that the person writing has nothing in particular to say and that everything is said behind the words.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m feeling very sad about the loss of it all. I was born way after my time.<br \/>\nBut how can any of this compare to the new song my 9 year old son is learning from his guitar teacher, &#8220;Smells Like Teen Spirit&#8221;?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The <em>Fresh Air<\/em> Mercer program is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/rundowns\/rundown.php?prgId=13\">archived here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alan Broadbent&#8211;pianist, composer, arranger, conductor for Diana Krall and Natalie Cole, among others&#8211;wrote in response to the Fresh Air program promoted in the previous exhibit. Thanks for posting Dave and Rebecca&#8217;s Fresh Air show which I have just finished listening to and would have missed but for you. Last week the TCM channel had a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1878","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}