THE TENTH DAY OF CHRISTMAS

Ten lords a-leaping. I wish I could train them to do audio editing, thereby dividing my workload by 11.

I imagine, though, everything going horribly wrong, leading to some kind of Sorcerer’s Apprentice-style catastrophe, with ten manic lords clicking mice and pushing files around and destroying everything I’ve already worked so hard to accomplish. (Then again, I’ve already got Bill Zagorski for that, so I had better keep one ear open for what’s going on in Production 2.)

You may as well know, since the promo is already in rotation, I am doggedly at work on producing a memorial program for William H. Scheide, the Princeton philanthropist, humanitarian and Bach scholar, who died in November at the age of 100.

This Tuesday would have been Scheide’s 101st birthday. The plan is to honor his legacy with a two-hour program, for which I’ll have interviewed eight subjects – all people who knew him very well. These accounts will be interspersed with relevant musical examples, including many rare recordings of the Bach Aria Group, an ensemble Scheide founded and directed for over 30 years.

The memorial is slated to air Tuesday at noon, on http://www.wwfm.org. Which means I may as well sleep here tonight, since I’ll have to be here all day tomorrow if I’m to have a prayer of getting everything in shape by the end of Monday. I already look like Ben Gunn, and probably smell like him too. Anybody have any cheese?