Kevin Strauss from the Zumbro Watershed Partnership says when he listens to Dvorak he can imagine floating down the river - through small rapids during the fast parts and on the low, wide river curves during the slow parts.
Reid McLean is an Associate Director of Major Gifts at Macalester College and he's been chomping at the bit to share some pieces on-air that we just don't play nearly enough!
Theater director/producer, writer and retired teacher Joan Potter recently traveled to Peru to hike to Machu Pichu and experienced an awe-inspiring sight when the clouds way below her started to rise up the mountains. The scene brought some of the most soulful music into her mind.
Erik Hare is a writer, political consultant and blogger. He sees us entering a 'new romantic era' where the internet has brought together a fresh medium for intimate story telling - and he tells great stories around his playlist!
Writer and comedienne extraodinaire Lorna Landvik kind of faked it to get through flute lessons when she was a kid, but it was all good since it led her naturally into a life as an improvisational actor. She really takes over the mic, even doing a perfect imitation of Alison Young's laconic radio voice!
Sam Hiti is an amazing cartoonist. His playlist is like a story-board that tells a musical narrative of winter.
Visual designer and web developer David Simmer is a tri-athlete and in his last race he says he heard Elgar's Nimrod in his head. "Intensity isn't solely the domain of electric guitars and distortion pedals, for sure!"
Patricia Hampl is celebrated as one of the best in the genre of memoir or personal essay. She's teaches in the MFA program at the University of Minnesota and is one of the founders of the Loft Literary Center. She calls herself "a failed piano major" finding herself in the English Department with Garrison Keillor by her sophomore year at the U. But the piano continues to be a character in many of her stories and poems.
Tuckaghrie Hollingsworth joins Alison Young. He takes some of the most sumptuous photos of landscapes at night lit only by ambient light. The work is colorful, intense and moody and is complimented by the classical music playlist he listens to while working.
Barbara Mraz joins Alison Young this week. She is a deacon at St. John the Evangelist in Saint Paul and a life-long movie fan. She brings faith, theology and movies together in a course she has created, so her playlist is filled with some of the best movie scores ever written.
