It took Meredith Willson six years from the day they asked him to write a musical, to the day it opened on Broadway. The show won five Tony awards.
Why did it take so long? He didn’t know the territory.
In this short memoir by Willson, he tells all about it. Every change of producer, change of lyrics, change of location. He even reveals where many of the characters can from, and how he fretted about getting his mother into the show.
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My latest WordPress widget is a simple text display. Currently a single widget lets you show text based on one or more conditions:
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In conjuction with the PODGrabber, which downloads the public affairs programs we play at WUMD, we needed a way to automatically get them loaded into the OMT iMediaTouch On Air database. PODGrabber requires a command line style program to trigger after the successful arrival of a POD. That’s where OMTAC comes into play. ↓ Read the rest of this article…
You should see it on the sidebar, the “On Air At WUMD” box. It displays what automation (OMT iMediaTouch) is reporting as “playing”, or if nothing is playing, it displays ‘Live DJ’.
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Every radio station should have a sound check. As an on air DJ, I like to occasionally record my show and listen to it later, to determine if there is anything I can do to improve or, heaven forbid, hear if I made any mistakes. I want the show to be the best it can be, and this extra feedback helps. I’m sure other DJs at WUMD like to do the same thing.
That’s why I wrote SoundCheck. It runs on a computer and records continuously, and saves the recording every so many minutes (default to 15). I have it set now to also encode the output to MP3. ↓ Read the rest of this article…
Stage City Show Tunes in the Afternoon
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