💜Michael Hedges 💫 Silent Anticipations🌪July 1982 🎻🥁Historic TV Special: The Music of Windham Hill

💫Amazing, Joyful🕊️ 💫Michael Hedges💫 introduces + performs Silent Anticipations🌪 🎻 ”i wanted to be a whole rock band on solo guitar” 🥁July 1982 💜Historic TV Special: The Music of Windham Hill 🌪FIRST DIGITAL STEREO TV / RADIO SIMULCAST
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FIRST DIGITAL STEREO TV / RADIO SIMULCAST
The Music of Windham Hill, an hour long television special and the nation’s first digital stereo TV / radio simulcast, aired in early July (1982) on San Francisco’s KQED. Produced by Emmy award winning Charlie Moran, the show featured Windham Hill recording artists George Winston, pianist; Will Ackerman, guitarist; Michael Hedges, guitarist; Darol Anger, violinist; and Barbara Higbie, pianist.

Use of the Sony Digital PCM 10 Transmission Encoder had been donated for the broadcast, and was made available to other stations to air the program at another date.
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🏆OUTSTANDING TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT- NorCal Emmy 1982🏆The Music of Windham Hill, John Hartwell, Technical Director (KQED)
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Silent Anticipations - "freedom v frustration" - MH
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"energy was in the air" - MH
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This next tune is one that i did write in Enid quite sometime ago (1973); and it was the first idea that i had to do a guitar solo. It’s quite raucous. It was kind of like sitting on the porch watching the tornado come our way into town so i call it “Silent Anticipations.”
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🌪"...even more percussive + involves a lot of harmonics" - Silent Anticipations - Master Class - National Guitar Workshop 8/4/87