Summary: 6 years ago producer Barbara Bernstein attended the 40th reunion of her sixth grade class. Not sure what to expect, she brought along a microphone and minidisc recorder.
Barbara Bernstein's exploration of a 40th anniversary of a sixth-grade class is reason enough for the slaves of broadcast clocks to break their chains and say, "Yes, here is a 20-minute reason why we are taking you from the known world."
But we all know that PDs are lazy -- "Where does this fit on the clock?" "Will I miss the news block?"
Still, as my grandmother would have said, "Really? Surely you have a job to do!"
Bernstein's piece is a kind of sweetness we don't feel too much these days. Summer lies before you programmers like a patient etherized upon a table -- this is infinitely engaging. If I had heard this driving home, I would have headed out of my way so the story would end before I reached home.
This is a well-done six-grade reunion story. Someone gets together their sixth grade class, most of them reunite and they are all surprised at how everyone turned out. In sixth grade, it's hard to really know how a person will be as an adulit. It's different than a 12th grader, who probably has been twice as shaped and molded into their 50 year old self as a 6th-grader.
I really like the narrator's voice and the editing pace; the audio of the other former students was used well, small stories, catching the accent or the rough quality to a voice that just admitted to a hard life of drugs and alcohol.
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4 comments
lars patenaude
Posted on October 01, 2008 at 06:33 AM | Permalink
Review of The Reunion
Great Autumn piece...Nostalgia!!!
Ronald Johnson
Posted on September 03, 2008 at 09:08 AM | Permalink
Review of The Reunion
I loved this piece. Listening to this story made me feel as if I was transported to that sixth grade classroom on Mass. standing next to the narrator.
Jackson Braider
Posted on July 09, 2007 at 06:44 PM | Permalink
Review of The Reunion
Barbara Bernstein's exploration of a 40th anniversary of a sixth-grade class is reason enough for the slaves of broadcast clocks to break their chains and say, "Yes, here is a 20-minute reason why we are taking you from the known world."
But we all know that PDs are lazy -- "Where does this fit on the clock?" "Will I miss the news block?"
Still, as my grandmother would have said, "Really? Surely you have a job to do!"
Bernstein's piece is a kind of sweetness we don't feel too much these days. Summer lies before you programmers like a patient etherized upon a table -- this is infinitely engaging. If I had heard this driving home, I would have headed out of my way so the story would end before I reached home.
Hans Anderson
Posted on July 09, 2007 at 05:55 AM | Permalink
Review of The Reunion
This is a well-done six-grade reunion story. Someone gets together their sixth grade class, most of them reunite and they are all surprised at how everyone turned out. In sixth grade, it's hard to really know how a person will be as an adulit. It's different than a 12th grader, who probably has been twice as shaped and molded into their 50 year old self as a 6th-grader.
I really like the narrator's voice and the editing pace; the audio of the other former students was used well, small stories, catching the accent or the rough quality to a voice that just admitted to a hard life of drugs and alcohol.