ラジオ英会話 Monday, January 13
So, Katie, what's the new situation going to be like?
Well, the boy is busy texting on his cellphone and the girl is getting inpatient.
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Let's choose a composer.
Okay.
(Sigh) Are you familiar with the works of Vivaldi?
Uh... That name doesn't ring a bell.
He was a baroque computer. His best-known work is The Four Seasons.
Uh-huh. Whatever.
Go online and .... Are you listening?
Yeah, go on. Go on.
Go online and find an easy version of the sheet music for guitars.
Oookay! So you are saying.... ?
Go online and fine an easy version of the sheet music for guitars and you can play it for the presentation.
That works for me!
Goooood!
Ohhh...
She was very frustrated, very impatient.
Well...
I can understand that.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Have you ever talked to someone who is texting all the time?
Yes.
It can get frustrating.
Yes.
It can get really frustrating, huh?
Hmm…
Well, time is up. We have to say good-bye.
Ohhh…
That works for us.
Okay.
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ラジオ英会話 Tuesday, January 14
So, Jeff, what's the new situation going to be like?
Well, speaking of the drowsy…
Uh-huh.
The male student is falling asleep.
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This is Mozart, right?
That's right.
I've heard that listening to Mozart improves your QI, I mean IQ.
Let's test it out --- maybe we’ll ace our exams.
Wasn't Mozart a child progity? … I mean prodigy?
Yes. By the age of five, he stared composing music. He spent much of his childhood on the road.
This music is pleasing to the eye, I mean ear.
It is.
I’m feeling drowsy.
Come on! We need to work on Jung.
Yes, we are the young and restless.
（The Young and the Restless = アメリカのTVドラマ American television soap opera created by William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell for CBS）
Ugh…. I hate it when he gets this way.
Yes, that music is really pleasing to the ear.
Hmm…
I'm going to have to listen to more Mozart though if it improves your IQ
It's a good idea.
That's a good idea. Maybe I will do that too.
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ラジオ英会話 Wednesday, January 15
So Katie, what's the new situation going to be like today?
Hmm hmm hmmm… Chopin is humming a tune during the interview.
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Would you mind answering a few questions?
Not at all.
How do you write so many beautiful compositions?
Composing music is second nature to me.
Do you have any advice for budding pianists?
Put all your soul into it, play the way you feel!
Who is your favorite composer?
It's a toss-up between Bach and Mozart.
Oh, thanks. Ah, the tune you're humming…. ?
Oh! That’s a piece half finished. At the moment, I call it "scrambled eggs."
Oh, it's the Minute Waltz. It's the Minute Waltz. （Minute Waltz = 子犬のワルツ）
That's a nice name. I like it. Thank you.
You are so welcome.
The Minute Waltz, you made my day.
I made your career.
Pardon me?
Nothing, you are so welcome.
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Scrambled Eggs…
You know, there is a story behind that name.
Really?
The Beatles uh, named the song "Yesterday,"…
Uh-huh.
… before they decided on that “Scrambled Eggs.”
No!
Really?
Yes. And uh… well, now it's "Yesterday."
Thank heaven.
Maybe the Beatles copied Chopin.
No.
Possibly.
A quick question…
Yes.
What is second nature to you?
Singing, I would think.
Yes, I think singing.
Singing, yes, same here.
Wow!
Oh!
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ラジオ英会話 Thursday, January 16
So, Jeff, what's the new situation going to be like this time?
This time, they are talking to the tune of the Suwanee River.
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Aiden, I'm off-key.
No, Kathy, you're not. You're in-key!
Thanks. Where is the Suwanee River?
In Georgia and Florida. It's actually called the Suwannee River.
Oh.
The song was written by Stephen Foster in 1851.
Way back then, huh?
Foster was America's first great composer of popular songs.
Well, what do you know!
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Well, I have a quick question here.
Yes.
Stephen Foster's songs, are they still popular?
Yes.
Umm… camping.
Yes, for camping.
When you are camping, you sign a lot of his songs.
Okay. All right.
And I think, in elementary school and junior high school, well, probably elementary school, kids still learn those songs.
Yes.
I see.
They may not know who wrote them but they learn them.
Oh, I see.
Yeah.
That's right. And then in the old towns, like uh… revival towns, ghost towns or you know…
Pioneer towns… whatever they call them.
Pioneer towns. They have melodrama theaters.
Oh!
And they dress up in period piece of costumes and then …. A lot of those theaters, they sometimes play those songs. （period piece = 時代物）
Yes.
Interesting.
If somebody says "I'm off-key," you say….
No, you are not.
Most of the time.
Jeff!! Jeff!!!!
