Re: [Harp-L] Tommy Reilly Plays Handel and Stevie Wonder?

[Joseph Leone <3n037@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

"I" ...would actually like to know the name of the interviewer.  Yes, I'm funny that way.

smo-joe

On Nov 14, 2014, at 1:21 PM, Gary Lehmann wrote:

> I thought it was great, even the part at the end.
> Thanks for sharing!
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> On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 9:28 AM, JON KIP <jon@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> A friend just pointed me here:
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>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_Fo38Ogc2o
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>> Tommy Reilly, my favorite "legit" chromatic player, dead or alive. Started
>> as  violin player, and then taught himself the chromatic, because he'd
>> heard that the chromatic harmonica players get all the groupies. (I made
>> part of that up)
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>> This is an interesting interview I'd not seen..
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>> some legit music at the front end, and, at the other end,  a really
>> strange trio interpretation of "I just called to say I love you", as only
>> classical players could play...
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>> The music at the beginning is so good that I didn't mind having listened
>> to the whole interview in spite of how it ended, because I had hope, and
>> hope is a good thing.
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>> jk
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>> The philosopher Socrates, discovered to his dismay that he was the
>> smartest person in Athens merely because he, and he alone, recognized how
>> ignorant he was.
>> http://jonkip.com
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> Gary