Interesting posts, you guys (I should haul out TG4 listings more often!)

Don, did you ever hear Joan singing the Villa-Lobos Bachianas Brasileiras No.5 (complete with the 8 cellos)? She makes a fine job of it, and gets that high Bb (? I think it's a Bb) with the effortlessness of a swan floating on a mill pond. It's on an early album, cover photo of her outdoors in the Monterey/Carmel area, standing by a historic tree. I think that was about her 3rd or 4th LP.

I liked (still like) Richard Dyer-Bennet too, and learned a lot from following his songs and their origins. In high school that sort of thing was definitely infra-dig, but then so was I. It was great to have a whole secret-world alternative to the law of the teen jungle, which is what my music and books were to me. So I'll always be grateful to the old folk "troubadours'.