SassyBlonde

If you've never heard Garrison Keillor's Young Lutheran's Guide to the Orchestra, you've been missing out. It's given me a good laugh, and surprisingly, a lot of perspective on some of my colleagues ever since I heard it in high school. For those of you who've never experienced it, this site provides the text.

The above version is available on iTunes, but the alternate version is my favorite recording, made at the celebration fundraiser for the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, and is available on the Prairie Home Companion website. (The first version above provides commentary on the whole brass section, which the benefit recording doesn't, but the benefit recording has an especially appropriate analysis of the wind section.)

Enjoy!!