So Much to Do, So little Time

Hi!
Did you ever say, or even just think to yourself, "I don't know which end is up?" Despite my best efforts at organization and schedule management (and I'm usually good at this) stuff, important stuff, has been getting in the way of an orderly life this week both at work and at home. It's all important, it all has deadlines and the end of the world as we know it will happen if I don't get to it...yesterday. I got to the point running around to do it all this week where I think I forgot to breathe. And then---inspiration! The little voice inside whispered "Turn on 99.5 WCRB!" There it was... a lush and beautiful Ralph Vaughan Williams piece, followed by a dreamy Puccini, then a romantic Tchaikovsky....and as I listened all became right with the world again. Or at least....more manageable. You have told me this for years---that you need your friends Mozart, Chopin, Brahms and Company to relax, re-group, re-energize, and I've agreed. So how did I forget that the classical music cure was just a radio click away this week? I won't be forgetting again.
One person who is pulled in a million directions but somehow gets it all done is Boston Pops Conductor Keith Lockhart. I hope you get to hear him on "Keith's Classical Corner" every Monday through Friday at 8:30. Keith stops by and shares his "musical pick of the day." Sometimes he ties his musical selection to a holiday, composer's birthday, a theme his next Pops concert will be exploring, and sometimes---he chooses music "just because." He's always a font of musical knowledge and speaks in a way everyone can understand. He's always pleasant and fun, and always does our morning exchange with his coffee mug in hand, (black). Hope you'll invite "Keith" into your mornings! And remember, even though the spring Pops season is well underway you can still get tickets to his great concerts. Just visit www.bostonpops.org.
'Til next time,
Laura

Here comes the sun (& son)

Hi, Laura checking in with you!
Nice to see the sun finally. Don't get me wrong--- I really do appreciate the rain---but it's just that "Friday's and sunny" go together better in my mind. That...and the fact that my little one has his very first Little League game this afternoon. Anyway, the response to our first one last month was so good we're presenting another Classical Composer Marathon Weekend, starting this afternoon at 4! You'll hear 1, 2 and 3-hour blocks of music by your favorite composers right through Sunday.
And now, even more spring things for you: we need your votes to make our "Top 100 Countdown" weekend, next weekend, a big success! Just visit wcrb.com, click on the "Top 100" banner and list your 3 favorite classical music pieces. We'll tabulate the answers and then count down your picks starting Friday , May 22nd at 4. We love having you be a part of all we do---thanks for "being there!"
I'm back with you at 6 am tomorrow (Sat)...please join me then!

1st Blog Entry

Hi! and Welcome to my Very First Entry on my Very First Blog!

This has been quite the exciting day for me---I posted my first two tweets on Twitter, I joined Facebook (both through WCRB) and now---Look, Ma---I'm blogging! At the risk of dating myself (and a lady never tells her age!) I learned to type in high school on a manual typewriter. (Yes, Cheeky, electrics and Selectrics had been invented. It's just that my school believed that the manuals were better for learning). The only computer that I knew about in college was the huge, room-sized computer in the B.C. science library. That I've come into the 21th century today with all this electronic outreach is making my head spin. Someone, quick, administer chocolate.

It's so funny to me, really, considering that I can't even use the remote(s) for my TV (for that I've relied on my child ever since he turned 4a few years back), and yet daily I sit in front of and control a console here at the radio station with so many buttons to push that it looks like what the astronauts face in the Space Shuttle. I guess I've always been one to learn on a "need to know" basis when it comes to computer-electronic-thingies. Anyway, now that I'm plugged in I'll post regularly. Please join me on this journey. Hey...what's keeping that chocolate?

Laura