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My work-study janitoring job at Brown University...

Posted by John Marks (M) on December 23, 2022 at 18:09:59

In Reply to: Spinning Right Now: Switched-On Bach posted by sisterray on December 23, 2022 at 13:30:09:

My work-study janitoring job at Brown University included emptying the wastebaskets and vacuuming the carpet in the Electronic Music Studio Wendy Carlos had donated to Brown. Vacuuming at the crack of dawn.

Years later, when I went to an NYC NARAS meeting to buttonhole people like Tony Randall (a NARAS Stalwart) about Nathaniel Rosen's Bach solo-cello suites on JMR CDs (we did get a Grammy nomination!) I ran into Wendy Carlos, and I told her that she and I had a cosmic connection.

When I explained what I meant, she had one of those "Is this person for real?" moments, and then she went with the flow, and we had a good laugh.

I told her that I was chosen for that job because they knew I was a music student with a technical inclination, and they trusted me not to monkey with the gear.

She then said something like, "And now... you are here!"

A priceless moment.

IIRC, "Switched on Bach" was the Billboard Classical Chart No. 1 for two solid years. We will never see that again.

john

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