Totally recommended background music for today and for the next several days

[mahatmakanejeeves]

What I am listening to:

I have a ten-year-old 5th generation Kindle Fire that is barely capable of running Radio Garden. Not the current version of Radio Garden, but a years-old Indian market version of Radio Garden.

Check the App Store or Google Play to find up to date versions of Radio Garden.

I take the output from the headphone jack and feed it into an AUX input on a late-70s or early-80s Technics SA-300 35 watt per channel receiver. The receiver is driving a pair of bookshelf speakers.

So what have I got on? WFMT, the commercial classical music station in Chicago.

https://www.wfmt.com/how-to-listen
https://www.wfmt.com/schedule/
https://www.wfmt.com/schedule/#7

Here's a recent selection (but with different performers):

I Wonder as I Wander by John Jacob Niles

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17,038 views Dec 3, 2021
I Wonder as I Wander, composed by John Jacob Niles and recorded in May 2021 at Comber Hall, Church of the Little Flower in Miami, FL.

John Jacob Niles’ “I Wonder as I Wander” is a lasting testament to Niles’ dedication to the preservation and dissemination of Appalachian folk music. On a 1933 trip to Appalachia, Niles encountered a young girl in Murphy, North Carolina, who sang musical and textual fragments which Niles would later use as the inspiration for his original composition, “I Wonder as I Wander.”

It is a gem. Do tune in.

I am posting this instead of saying something, as I usually do, about today's birthday of {redacted}, who is so reviled at DU that the thread got yanked last year.