Fiona Does Fashion
February 08, 2008
Custom-Made Love Song
Corey Dargel takes commissions to write personalized love songs. Last year, we offered listeners a chance to win one of these indie pop compositions. Listeners’ love stories poured in, and the letter from Teresa Walsh, from Santa Rosa, California, was selected as the winner.
Teresa and Katie
Teresa Walsh wanted a song for her twin sister Katie, who’d gone away for college. Corey Dargel took the details from Teresa’s note and made them a song. Studio 360 was there when Teresa surprised Katie with the finished product. With production by Tania Ketenjian.
Bonus Track: "My Voice Is in Your Head"
Corey Dargel's "My Voice Is in Your Head (for Katie from Teresa)"
My Poet / My Novelist
What’s it like to practice the same line of work as your spouse? What if you’re both writers, but one is a novelist -- in love with plot and character -- and one is a poet -- obsessed with words? Novelist Naeem Murr wrote about that marriage for the Poetry Foundation. We brought him together with his wife, Averill Curdy, for both sides of the story. Produced by Pejk Malinovski.
Weigh in: Are you an artist living with an artist?
Ghazal
For hundreds of years, musicians from India and Pakistan have taken the poetry called ghazal and set it to music. The songs project such deep longing that you don’t need to know Urdu to feel the pain. Produced by Rob Weisberg.
