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...Bach...
...thanks today to Beverly, to Topsfield, to Rockport . . . And now let's get back to the music"). Fishermen flipping the dial pause to marvel at a plea for contributions by a local voice, so familiar and yet so strange; they often stay on to sample Mozart or Bach. Guy Wonson, a stonemason, started listening in 1968. He got a kick out of the commercials at first, but the music gradually insinuated itself. Now he sometimes listens while building walls...
...listen, there are these gems," says Kasimir Stachiewicz, a woodcarver on Main Street. Stachiewicz once called Geller to request a Bach partita. Then, not knowing whether Geller would play the request, or when, he decided to pay a visit. He climbed the stairs to the studio. Then he heard music: his request. Afraid to knock, he waited outside, hearing it faintly through the door...
...around Geller's peculiar character, which fascinates him. "We have one radio station," he says. "It could be anything -- it could be an ongoing bingo game. And what it is is music in its highest form. Geller is a dispenser of the sound of angels singing, the voice of Bach, Beethoven, Pachelbel. Whatever set of circumstances in his childhood made him come to sit in a darkened room and be such a misanthrope, there is a side to his soul that dances with the angels...
...among its target audience of young white professionals. It must be doing something right: Pianist George Winston, perhaps the best known of its largely faceless roster, has been on Billboard's Top 40 jazz chart a total of 184 weeks with his album December, a user-friendly amalgam of Bach, Satie and Jazzman Keith Jarrett...