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February 1st 2010 | 2
That nostalgic feeling
The Man in Chair exclaims, “I love playing my records - it’s as if the musicals come to life in my apartment” as he drops the needle onto The Drowsy Chaperone (on stage at the MTC.) The cast breaks into a rousing live musical number circa 1928 and I go… misty.
These are actual uncontrollable tears of joy coupled with the feeling. The sentimental feeling. The nostalgic feeling. The odd part is I’ve never experienced this song and dance number before. Why do I feel affected as much as if I grew up in the Jazz Age?
It could be because I am immensely addicted to CJNU 107.9 FM, Winnipeg’s nostalgia radio station. Tales of love and loss float over the airwaves. Themes that keep recurring over and over throughout history are set to jaunty pop songs and dramatic radio plays. I figured I had become immune to extreme fluctuations in emotion but the stories about human nature, joy and sometimes sadness they play on CJNU affect me to the point where I’m “ac-centuating the positive” in public and “foolishly rushing into love.”
Oh, here comes that feeling again. This time it comes from Claude Morrison, founding member of acappella group The Nylons, as he pops and locks his way around the stage in front of the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra. Claude is shaking with the feeling and singing the feeling in a beautiful falsetto. I can’t get enough of the feeling. I need more musicals, more classic songs, more…
Sadly the volunteer-run CJNU doesn’t broadcast for four days at the end of the each month. The Drowsy Chaperone finished its run on Saturday and The Nylons are off to Holland then to perform with the Kitchener/Waterloo Symphony Orchestra.
Discussion
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CJNU is my favorite radio staion and should be supported. It is run by a cooperative and if you like the music and want it to continue become a member of the coop. Just go to CJNU.CA and you can get the membership form. CJNU supports and helps local charities and community ventures by providing a publicity medium. It is a very valuable sommunity acitivity.
– Allan Cantor in Winnipeg | June 23rd 2011 at 10:39am | Link
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And you can thank the efforts of myself and others who brought the illegal antics of the previous licensee held that 107.9 frequency to the attention of the CRTC, which yanked the licence in 2008. Without it, I believe there was no room left on the spectrum for CJNU and their valuable work.
– marty gold | June 30th 2011 at 10:44am | Link
