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Saint Catherine's Monastery in Sinai, Egypt
was built in the year 550 by the Byzantian Empror Justinian to protect the ancient well of Moses and The Burning Bush.

For the past 17 centuries, the Monastery's monks have taken great care of its ancient manuscripts, art and icons. The Library of St. Catherine's is famous because it has one third of the world's ancient manuscripts that were written more than 1000 years ago. It's museum is equally famous, because only 2000 icons in the world have survived from the Byzantine times; half of them are at St. Catherine's Museum.

We were very privileged to interview two monks from the monastery: Father Justin talked to us about how he digitizes the library's ancient manuscripts and why Sinai is a place of Peace. Father Gregory talked to us about the monastery's ancient art, icons and mosaic art. Father Gregory shared with us his views on how art can save the world and his vision to establish a School for Mosaic Art in Sinai.

Sidney Bechet *
Fats Waller & His Rhythm *
Gene Krupa *
Coleman Hawkins *
Count Basie *
Nat King Cole *
Woody Herman *
Ella Fitzgerald *
Herb Alpert & Hugh Masekela *
Eubie Blake *
John Klemmer *
Rahsaan Roland Kirk *
Piano Connection

Seven decades of jazz!
Miles Davis (intro) *
Frankie Trumbauer * 1924 *
Bix Beiderbecke and The Wolverines * 1924 *
Duke Ellington * 1928 *
Lester Young * 1943 *
Doris Day/Les Brown * 1944 *
Thelonious Monk Quintet * 1951 *
Dave Brubeck and Paul Desmond * 1952 *
Joe Williams with Count Basie * 1958 *
Nancy Wilson * 1961 *
Cannonball Adderley * 1961 *
Paul Desmond * 1963 *
Paul Desmond * 1963 *
Eddie Jefferson * 1965 *
Cal Tjader/Carmen McRae * 1982 *
Manhattan Transfer * 1985 *
Jerry Garcia, David Grisman & Tony Rice * 1993 *

http://kdrt.org/node/7301

Hi there … and welcome to Mountain Mama’s Earth Music … and today a celebration of the desert

1) Horseback in my Dreams, Kelly Joe Phelps 4:21
2) One Morning, Gillian Welch 2:42

The readings today come from the book Desert Solitaire, A Season in the Wilderness; A celebration of the beauty of living in a harsh and hostile land by Edward Abbey

If a man knew enough he could write a whole book about the juniper tree. Not juniper trees in general, but that one particular juniper tree which grows from a ledge of naked sandstone near the old entrance to Arches National Monument

3) Trees, T Nile 4:46

When we think of rock we usually think of stones, broken rock, buried under soil and plant life, but here all is exposed and naked, dominated by the monolithic formations of sandstone, which stand above the surface of the ground and extend for miles, sometimes level sometimes tilted or warped by pressures from below, carved by erosion and weathering into an intricate maze of glens, grottoes, fissures, passageways and deep narrow canyons.

Benny Goodman *
Sidney Bechet *
Billie Holliday With Eddie Heywood And His Orchestra *
1944...
Charlie Barnet & His Orchestra *
The Mills Brothers *
Count Basie *
Carmen Cavallaro *
1960...
Lee Morgan *
Dave Brubeck & Louis Armstrong *
Ella Fitzgerald *
Freddie Hubbard, Curtis Fuller And Yusef Lateef *
Mose Allison, 1961 *
and beyond....
Mose Allison, 2001 *
Antonio Carlos Jobim *
Ramsey Lewis *
Leon Redbone *
Stanley Turrentine

All trumpeters tonight, from the 1920's to 2011:
Louis Armstrong *
Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong *
The Miles Davis Nonet *
Clifford Brown *
Lee Morgan *
Freddie Hubbard, Curtis Fuller And Yusef Lateef *
Horace Silver with Blue Mitchell *
Chet Baker *
Don Ellis *
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass *
Al Hirt *
Chuck Mangione *
Wynton Marsalis, Norah Jones, & Willie Nelson *
Chris Botti & Paula Cole

For a recent project I needed to record audio of a speaker over the phone, and wanted to record using Skype. This isn't as easy as one would think. For Windows users, apparently you can do this through Audacity, plain and simple. For Mac users, we aren't so lucky as I found out. You can watch a video here that does an okay job explaining what to do: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqfog_Ve5Rc Or, since I needed to outline it for myself, you can read below for the basics for recording WITHOUT an external microphone, and without recording YOUR vocals:

photo by Flickr user Danot

What you'll need besides Skype: 1. Garageband. This big application is a resource hog. Your computer will start to heat up. Oh well. 2. LineIn. A free application from Rogue Amoeba that allows you to "play input through output device" which apparently you used to be able to do on Mac OS 9- http://www.rogueamoeba.com/freebies/

Vivaldi: Le Quattro Stagioni, Op. 8/2, "Estate" - 3. Presto
Bach Brandenburg 5 D maj:I. Allegro
Bach Toccata and fugue
Mozart Flute Concerto (Allegro)
Mozart Sonata for Piano No. 16 KV 545: Allegro
Beethoven: Symphony #6 In F, Op. 68, "Pastoral" - 3. Allegro
Beethoven Fur Elise
Chopin: Polonaise #3 In A, Op. 40/1, "Military"
Wagner Ride of the Valkyries
Strauss Blue Danube Waltz
Dvorak New World Symphony
Grieg: Peer Gynt Suite #2, Op. 55 - 2. Arabian Dance
Debussy Arabesque No. 1
Khatchaturian Gayaneh: VII. Sabre Dance
Khatchaturian Gayaneh: III. Lezghinka

[img_assist|nid=7201|title=|desc=|link=none|align=left|width=100|height=67]All you early Saturday morning risers may want to check out our latest sounds. At the recent Davis Music Fest the Americana/Folk music of Misner & Smith were enjoyed at the Odd Fellows Hall. Cuts from their most recent CD can be heard from 7-7:30 am on KDRT and streaming at KDRT.org. For more, go to www.misnerandsmith.com

Hi there … and welcome to Mountain Mama’s Earth Music … and today for America

http://kdrt.org/node/7183

1) America, Simon and Garfunkel 3:33
2) America the Beautiful, Keb Mo 3:35

I Hear America Singing
By Walt Whitman 1819–1892 Walt Whitman
I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear,
Those of mechanics, each one singing his as it should be blithe and strong,
The carpenter singing his as he measures his plank or beam,
The mason singing his as he makes ready for work, or leaves off work,
The boatman singing what belongs to him in his boat, the deckhand singing on the steamboat deck,
The shoemaker singing as he sits on his bench, the hatter singing as he stands,
The wood-cutter’s song, the ploughboy’s on his way in the morning, or at noon intermission or at sundown,
The delicious singing of the mother, or of the young wife at work, or of the girl sewing or washing,
Each singing what belongs to him or her and to none else,
The day what belongs to the day—at night the party of young fellows, robust, friendly,
Singing with open mouths their strong melodious songs.

3) Midnight in Harlem, Tedeschi Trucks Band 5:53