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[RADIO PERFORMANCE REVIEW] A Prairie Home Companion at Tanglewood

7.1.07
TANGLEWOOD
A Prairie Home Companion
The Shed
June 30, 2007

review by SETH ROGOVOY, editor-in-chief and critic-at-large, BERKSHIRE LIVING Magazine

(LENOX, Mass., June 30, 2007) -- Garrison Keillor's public radio program, A Prairie Home Companion, was amusing for several years when I first started listening to it back in the mid-1980s.

But for the last twenty years or so, every time it comes on the radio -- and over the weekend, it seems ALWAYS on the radio -- I rush to change the station or play a CD instead. It's grown tired and stale, and simply repeats itself week after week. For some, this may bring comfort. For me, it brings homicidal feelings.

All this is by way of saying that last night's live performance of the show at Tanglewood was magical. This in large part was due to Keillor's obvious love for the Berkshires and Tanglewood, and he went to great lengths to incorporate real and specific observations about the region into the program (such that one wonders what listeners around the country might have made of references, for example, to buffalo at Eastover).

Also, watching the program being performed and broadcast in real time was rejuvenating. There was a freewheeling quality to it, even though most of it had to be scripted down to the second.

And then, of course, there was the very special musical guest of the evening, the Berkshires' own James Taylor, who not only performed a half-dozen songs, mixing lesser-known tunes with fan favorites, but consenting to playing a role in a skit in which Keillor and others explored what's inside Taylor's brain. Taylor was a great sport, the skit was funny, and Keillor obviously knows JT, as the discovery that Taylor's secret fantasy is to hit a World Series-winning home run for the Boston Red Sox is indeed probably the thing that motivates Taylor the most.

Perhaps next time A Prairie Home Companion comes on the air, I might not run so fast to turn it off.





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