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Here's a collection of recent "Your Story" segments from our program. To submit an idea for your "Your Story", visit this section.
My Piccolo
Friday, April 20 2007
MY PICCOLO
Mary as a student, with her piccolo
In March, Dick talked to Lloyd Pardue from Yadkin County, North Carolina about the army jacket Lloyd left at the dry cleaners in 1961, and had returned to him 45 years later.
That story led Mary Hakes of Minnesota to write to us:
I loved the story about he gentleman who got his army uniform back from the cleaners decades later. Here's my version of that story…
Mary
graduated from high school in 1976. But it wasn't saying good-bye to
classmates or moving away to college that got her teary-eyed. What made
Mary emotional was the moment she had to return a piccolo - the piccolo
she had carried and played all year long - to the high school band
director.
Mary and her piccolo, now
Mary moved away for college, married and had kids, even bought new instruments. But she never quite forgot the wooden piccolo she had left behind. More than 20 years later, when her father's death brought her and her sisters home, Mary was surprised by a reunion that she never expected. She shared her unlikely story with Dick on today's show.
Music heard in this story: Concerto for Piccolo, Strings and Basso Continuo in C Major, RV. 443: II. Largo by Leonard Bernstein, New York Philharmonic for the album Bernstein Century - Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 - Vivaldi: Piccolo Concerto
Your Story - Katarina Cerny
Friday, April 13 2007
Your Story - Katarina Cerny
Katarina Cerny
Dick recently talked to Tim Brooks
about his CD called "Lost Sounds: Blacks and the Birth of the Recording
Industry," which won a Grammy this year as Best Historical Album. Tim
pointed out that these recordings aren't simply archival. They had a
huge impact on the musical landscape of their own day, including on the
European composer, Antonin Dvorak.
That program inspired Katarina Cerny to e-mail The Story:
When I was a child growing up in the former Czechoslovakia in the 1950s and 60s, my father sang Negro spirituals every night to me and my sister. Even though I did not understand the words, I (like Dvorak) loved the melodies. I always wondered why my father, who trained as an opera singer, was so drawn to the spirituals…
-Katarina Cerny
Katarina's
father recorded himself singing some of his favorite spirituals before
he died of cancer. Katarina talks to Dick about how much it means to
her now to hear her father sing, and how the spirituals touched his
heart.
- See a photo of Katarina and her father
- Listen to Katarina's father sing "Ma Curly Headed Baby"
Remembering Joey
Thursday, April 12 2007
REMEMBERING JOEY
Karen Dalton is an artist who lives near Bynum, North Carolina. She recently wrote to The Story about someone she knew from her childhood in Newark, New Jersey, a boy named Joey.
Joey was a Downs Syndrome kid that lived on our block 4 houses from mine… Joey was not allowed out of the house. He lived on the second floor. [But] Joey spent his childhood playing with us from the windows in his house.
-Karen Dalton
Karen learned from her mother just this month that Joey passed away. He was 61. She talks to Dick about her poignant and fun memories of Joey's friendship.
What a Coincidence!
Wednesday, April 11 2007
What a coincidence!
Only
25 percent of women in science study astronomy. Dick talks with future
astronomers Jane Moran, Rachel Rosen and Maggie Eftamova. These
scientists find themselves turning to astrology to explain a very
strange coincidence. [click thumbnail left for larger image of the students being interviewed by Dick.]
Your Story - Bahaa Gizzi
Tuesday, April 10 2007
Your Story - Bahaa Gizzi
Beirut, Lebanon, 1976. Two teenage boys, friends, stopped to get gas and groceries. Though they had different religions, they shared an interest in girls and martial arts. Authorities asked for identification. They separated, and never saw one another again. Remembering the story, they each recall the power of friendship and the bravado of youth.
