top of page
Projects
Audio: Listen. React.
All the Soundcloud Goodness
Lots of miscellaneous audio here from a long and checkered career. It's a mix of things I've produced and things I've liked. Write and ask me my role if you're curious.
AARP - Picking Up the Pieces - Brain Injuries in Vets
A radio documentary about veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan and the heroic families that nursed them toward health when they returned from battle with horrific injuries. Written and produced by Barry Yeoman and me. Sound designed and mixed by me.
Living Downstream on Spotify.
Both seasons. Every story. I'd love to talk about this with you.
Stagefright
When Edith Savitsky was a young girl in the Bronx, she showed enormous talent as a singer. Her family discouraged this path, believing a young Jewish girl had no future in classical music, and should work in an office, and then marry.
In addition, Edith was afraid of singing in public, so she abandoned her nascent career, and married her husband, Abe, in 1945. Fifty-five years later, life-threatening heart and stomach problems left Edith weakened and depressed. Her doctors and Abe convinced her to go to group therapy.
And Abe had a trick up his sleeve. He had saved an old recording of Edith's singing, and convinced her to share it with her therapy group. For the first time in her life, Edith's singing brought her pleasure, and it changed the tone of her group, giving hope and energy to the others as well.
Her family made the old recording into a CD. Listening to the CD, and to this radio feature, which first appeared on NPR's Performance Today in 2000, gave Edith untold moments of happiness in her last months.
Linda Ronstadt and Dave Bromberg / July 2006
Linda Ronstadt was 60 on July 15th, 2006. Rondstadt's voice was omnipresent in the 1970's and into the 80's. Her repertoire spanned folk, rock, American popular classics, and Mexican mariachi music as she restlessly explored every kind of sound and produced hit after hit.
But in the 1990's, she retired from music to raise two children in Tucson, Arizona. In 2006 she was back, touring with a vibrant and versatile band, doing her favorites from a rich catalogue of pop.
This piece is about collaboration and friendship. Ronstadt first met David Bromberg, who also had a great love of all kinds of American music, around 1970 in New York's Greenwich Village. He introduced her to her first big hit, and turned her on to several songs that became important in her career.
In the Fall of 2005, the two performers reconnected in San Francisco, and Bromberg invited Ronstadt to join him at a concert in his new home, Wilmington, Delaware, where he moved his violin shop, and had begun to play after a 20 year sabbatical from music. The piece begins at the end of their Wilmington concert in June - as they rock the house with an old Doc Pomus tune, "A World I Never Made."
write me - menschmedia at gmail.
bottom of page