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LibriVox Anniversary Program 2006 — LibriVox is One Year Old!

by The LibriVox Community (and MermaidMaddie and Starlite)

Happy Birthday to LibriVox, August 10, 2006 — the LV Community pipes up, as orchestrated by MermaidMaddie and Starlite, in about an hour of LibriVox voices telling the story of a community intent on the acoustical liberation of books in the public domain. A Listener’s Guide, below, provides credits for interviews and the sampler of readings — don’t miss the “bloopers”!
See also the special, anniversary poetry selection, Art and Heart!
Post birthday wishes to the anniversary thread.

(Summary by a.r.d.; Listener’s Guide by Maddie)

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Listener’s Guide to the LibriVox Anniversary 2006 Podcast/Program

Narration read by John Greenman, written by MermaidMaddie and Starlite

00:00 Segment 1: Interview With Hugh McGuire, founder of LibriVox (Interviewed by Paula Berinstein)

14:54 Segment 2: Commentary by LibriVox Volunteers
In order of appearance: Kristen, Kara (kayray), rfrancis, Squiddhartha, vee, BradBush, LibraryLady, thistlechick, johngon, Gesine, PeterWhy, ceastman, kri, JemmaBlythe, Henry, Harvey, a.r.dobbs, earthcalling, Westwinds 12, Starlite, Tina, MermaidMaddie, Breefolk, ezwa, Cloud Mountain

40:00 Segment 3: Bloopers and Noises Reel

43:07 Segment 4: Poetry Contest Winner
“Art and Heart” by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Read by Betsie Bush / thistlechick
(Hear all 38 readings of this poem)

45:28 Segment 5: Sampler of LibriVox recordings
This segment consists snippets from the books, poems and even some songs sung for LibriVox projects. In order of appearance, noting works in progress where applicable:
“More Goops and How Not to Be Them” read by Mark F. Smith
“‘Twas the Night Before Christmas” read by Grace
“The Velveteen Rabbit” read by Barbara Bear
“Cow” read by Fargo-Grace-Henry medley, weekly poem, by R.L. Stevenson
“Old Fashioned Roses” read by “Eugene Pinto”
“The Tyger” read by Gord Mackenzie
“Babby Burds” read by Jim Mowatt
“The Congo” read by Laura Fox
“The Railway Bridge of the Silvery Tay” read by Brett Shand
“Lament of the Irish Emigrant” read by Peter Yearsley
“Hamlet” read by Martin Clifton
“Where my Books Go” read by Peter Yearsley
“The Highwayman” read by Chip
Song from “Pirates of Penzance” (work-in-progress) sung by Henry, Peter Yearsley, and others
Song from “Ulysses” (chapter 15, section 6; work-in progress) sung by Kara, Shepherd, and Sethwood
Song from “The Wind in the Willows” (chapter 12) sung by Mark F. Smith
Song from “Ulysses” (15) sung by Catharine Eastman
Song from “Ulysses” (15) sung by Gesine
“The Golden Mean” (work-in progress) by various readers
“Ulysses” (15) read by Alex Foster, acoustics by Stephan
“The Importance of Being Earnest” (act 1; LibriVox’s first, just-completed play) by various readers
“Shakespeare’s Sonnets remixed” by various readers simultaneously
“Give Me Liberty or Give me Death” read by Mark F. Smith
“Duplicity of Hargraves” read by William Coon
“Springtime à la Carte” (from “The Four Million”) read by Marian Brown
“Daddy-Long-Legs” (part 9) read by Kymm Zuckert
“Northanger Abbey” (chapter 5) read by Inka
“Typee” (chapter 3) read by Michael Scherer
“Pigs is Pigs” read by Betsie Bush
“Black Beauty” (chapter 20) read by Cynthia Lyons
“Pygmalion” (act 1, work in progress) read by David Barnes
“Doctor Dolittle” (chapter 17) read by Stefan Schmelz
“Tom Sawyer” (chapter 2) read by John Greenman
“Doctor Dolittle” (chapter 17 again) read by Stefan Schmelz
“Heart of Darkness” (chapter 1, section 1) read by Kristin Luoma
“The Road to Oz” (chapter 2) read by Kara Shallenberg
“Anne of Green Gables” (chapter 6) read by Annie Coleman
“The Awful German Language” read by Rainer
(Old English) from “Caedmon’s Hymn” read by Kara Shallenberg
(Chinese) from “300 Tang Poems” (vol. 1, no. 6; work in progress) read by Mike / happyprince
(Hebrew) from “The Bible” (Book of Genesis) read by Israel Radvinsky
(Japanese) from “Oku no Hosomichi” (chapter 1-9) read by Kaseumin
(Russian) From “Childhood” (chapter 2) read by Yakovlev Valery
(French) from “Épigramme” read by ezwa
(German) “Der Fuchs und die Katze” read by Matthias Blazejak
(Latin) “Psalmi XXII,” read by Jim Cadwell
(Swedish) from “En Nyckfyll Kvinna” (work in progress) read by Cetz / Cecilia
(Italian) from “Le Avventure di Pinocchio” (work in progress) read by Simpa
(Finnish) from “Universal Declaration of Human Rights” (work in progress) read by Juho Fröjd
(Spanish) from Work in Progress “Don Quijote” (vol. 1, section 1; work in progress) read by Alex Khype
Closing by Jim Mowatt from “Babby Burds” and by “Eugene Pinto” from “Old Fashioned Roses”

54:17 Segment 6: Birthday Wishes and List of Names

Editing Credits
Segment 1 - Submitted by Hugh
Segments 2 and 5 - by MermaidMaddie
Segments 3 and 6 - by Starlite
General sound - by Cloud Mountain
“Piecing it all together” - by MermaidMaddie

Special thanks to: johng/John for being our narrator, Cloud Mountain/Alan for stepping up to help us edit all this, a.r.dobbs/Anita for her “gentle persuasion”(*wink*) for getting us to coordinate this (and for stepping in to MC), Hugh for starting LibriVox in the first place, and last but not least, to the folks who responded to our repeated pleas for content and ideas by providing help, suggestions, and/or files. Thanks. =)

(Note: we tried to get everyone in that contributed a name file, but not all files reached us in time. That’s why we made this “print version” program, to make sure that (hopefully) everyone who contributed gets credit. If you read for/contributed something to this audio program and don’t see your name, we apologize — please PM a.r.dobbs with additions/corrections. =)

Cataloged on August 11, 2006