Amazing, another great podcast. I like the band concerts as it reminds me when I used to play the cymbals in high school. Don't laugh, it was the only thing I could do...perform a cymbal crash every now and then. I enjoyed it immensely and got into more than my share of trouble with the band teacher. I loved it!

Effie Green
New Orleans, LA

All of these comments that I read from week to week, prove just how GOOD your podcasts really are! I feel this is a true success story in the making and I'm glad to be one of Sandy's thousands of happy listeners!

Dale Reeder
Long Island

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Sandy - LOVE, LOVE, LOVE your voice!

Sandy, I can see why you attract so many men...what a GREAT voice! I love your weekly podcasts as they have GREAT variety and I think next week's should prove to be one of your most interesting ones yet.

Therese York
Fort Worth, TX

Great podcast, yet again and if ever you are out in Southampton, stop on my the Boat Shed Hamble and I'll take you out for a great speed boat ride!

Randal Winters
Boat Shed Hamble
Universal Marina
Southampton, England

I can tell there is a lot of care put into each one of your podcasts. I love their constant production quality. Next week's podcast sounds interesting. You always manage to come up with something totally different each week, I never know what to expect!

Karin Bowen
Canada

I often replay my most popular podcasts of yours. Well, I guess I am trying to say that I listen to your podcasts constantly. You guys do GREAT work!

Trevor Frank
Las Vegas, NV

Sandy, Sandy, Sandy...sure she's absolutely great and wonderful...but let's hear it for Ken! I don't think there would be a podcast to listen to at all if it weren't for Sandy's great husband, Ken! You guys really make quite the pair. May your podcast rule forever!

Rose Browne
Boston, MA

What an enjoyable time I have each week listening to your new podcasts. Very entertaining from start to finish.

Angie Merrill
Vermont

Interesting concert this week. Certainly not flawless, but it sounds pretty good, great recording...sounds like you are in the middle of the band (when you have headphones on). Great job!

Juanita Oneal
Canada

Have your changed the way you create your podcasts? They sound quite a bit better overall than they did just a few weeks ago.

Brice Webb
Texas

Hey, I checked out those photos on your website of the Russian Ice carnival...wow!...those are amazing. I've never seen anything like that. I wouldn't mind traveling there to see it myself, but 40 below zero! Uh, no thanks.

Lessie Irving
Florida

I know you aren't one of the very largest podcasts, but I certainly can see that changing in the very near future. You guys have a hit and it is just a matter of time before everyone figures that out.

Tad Camacho
Canada

Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful! Keep them coming!

Kevin Szenes
North Carolina

Great quality from week to week! I am a happy, happy listener.

Jonas English
Washington D.C.

We recommend your podcasts to people here for a variety of reasons...all good reasons. Keep up the great work and we believe you are doing a great service for all!

Cindy Hess
Boston Medical
Boston, MA

Sandy, I just love your podcasts. Great music, great thoughts and ideas and of course, having a great voice doesn't hurt either.

Everett Weir
Rhode Island

Sandy, I know men around the world say how much they love the sound of your voice and I have to agree with them. I loved the Durufle, it was really relaxing to listen to after a rough day at work! I think you and Ken do a great job with your podcasts. Music can be a very powerful influence in someone's life and I'm glad your music is always of excellent quality.

Ronny Preston
Syosset, NY

Sandy, thanks for the great podcasts. The Durufle just bowled me over! I really enjoyed this week's podcast as well. I thought it was really funny that Dr. Stikney went to a school so he could take Civil War history classes and yet, never took a history class. It is very interesting that your interviews involve people that I will never meet and have never heard of before, but they are all interesting as Ken has them tell their own life story. Just goes to show, that everyone has their own interesting story to tell.

Vilma Greenwood
Ohio

Just waned to thank you for your weekly podcasts. I love their variety in performances and music, they are always interesting.

Kelli Webber
Manila, Philippines

I look forward to your weekly podcasts, original programs each week. Although most of your podcasts are localized to southern Utah, I am amazed by the amount of talent in your area. Thanks for giving us a glimpse into your world. What a feast!

Pearlie Gee
England

To be honest, I never really cared for the type of music you use for your podcasts. I listened to one of your podcasts several weeks ago (don't remember which) and I became interested in Sandy reading the comments. She has a very nice, pleasing voice and I probably thought a few things about here I shouldn't have. Then the Christmas music came and I started to get interested in the performances. The Messiah was a bit much to handle (no pun intended) but the others were more to my liking. Now I am hooked as I can't do without my "Sandy fix" each week. Now I find my musical tastes are starting to change and I appreciate your music much more. Thanks and keep on going Sandy!

Rico Bland
Los Angeles, CA

I'm glad I founnd your podcast series, they are top quality from start to finish.

Lucinda Barnett
Canada

Your Christmas podcast were a beautiful Christmas present to the world, I enjoyed them all very much. Please keep up the great weekly podcasts.

Kirby Hatcher
Illinois

OK, I tried out your podcasts on the advice of a well meaning friend and to be quite frank with you, I didn't expect much. I mean a podcast done by an community orchestra in a town in Utah that I've never heard of before! Well, was I certainly surprised! This is absolutely down to earth and first class! Sure the performances aren't perfect, but you don't pretend that they are. Sandy and Ken don't talk down to you, but to you as though you are a friend in their living room, how do they do that? You guys certainly have a new happy listener and ring that bell for me because I will be here every week!

Julie Maloney
New York, NY

My friend Amanda had me listen to your podcast all I can say is, if this is good enough for Amanda its good enough for me.

All kidding aside, this is excellent and I can see why all of your comments are so glowing!

Rena Joyce
Baltimore, MD

Ah, the Durufle was very relaxing, I enjoyed it tremendously...as I do ALL of your podcasts.

Lanny Ray
Boston, MA

I was just browsing through your comments while I am listening to your recent podcast and just wanted to add my 2 cents worth (and hopefully, Sandy will be the one to read this - LOVE her voice!). I think your podcasts (like another has said), is a success story in the making. At some point in time, someone is bound to discover the talent here and make something big out of you guys and I'm just glad to be a part of it now. I look forward to each week's podcast with great anticipation.

Faustino Fowler
New York, NY

Thanks to you guys, I have rediscovered classical music! Thanks for that great gift.

Carmine Irwin
Baltimore, MD

At first, I thought your podcasts would be completely inadequate but after listening, I found something else instead: good music and wonderful podcasts.

Gregorio Pope
Denmark

I can see why everyone is so very satisifed with your podcasts! You guys to a wonderful job.

Vernon Weeks
Boston, MA

I wouldn't miss one of your weekly episodes. I look foward to the each week.

Christy Aguirre
Denmark

Sandy, what a beautiful voice! I'd like to say that I listen to your podcasts for the concert, music and entertainment value, but actually, its just your voice. Anyway, you and Ken (who I am very jealous of) do a great job and I hope your podcasts lasts forever!

Buford Johnston
Tennessee

Sandy, the band podcast was pretty good and the commentary and interview were great. I really like how you and Ken handle your podcasts and make people feel at home with them. So many classical oriented podcasts just distance the listener from them as they try and sound too professional, too classy. You are truly down to earth and I just love it. I look foward to each of your weekly podcasts.

Irwin Lozan
Connecticut

I let your podcasts play in my house all day long and I just love 'em all. I know all the guys just swoon for Sandy, but Ken doesn't sound all that bad either. But truly, you guys make a great couple and I enjoy listening to both of you and of course, the wonderful concerts. The band one was OK, the Requiem was truly beautiful and the OSU concerts are wondrous!

Karen Johnson
Vermont

Just wanted to let you know that I am very satisfied with the quality of your podcasts. I've been listening for a few months now and I look forward to your podcasts each week. I love the variety of your music.

Maureen Chamberlain
New Mexico

I love to listen to your podcasts before and after playing a game of tennis, they are pretty soothing and help cut down on any tension.

Landon Barber
Oxford, England

When the hand of man falls and tests one faith in the world, I can always rely on your positive outlook to bring me back to my sanity. Bless you for all you do.

Julia
Paris, France

What a marvelous series of podcasts. I enjoy everything about them. Can't wait to see what you have in store for us next week.

Alexandra Bower
Mississippi

Well, I guess I'm just one of thousands to enjoy your podcasts. You guys do a great job and who would have thought something so good would come out of such an obscure place? Count me in as one of your thousands of happy listeners and Sandy, I also really enjoy your sweet and sincere voice.

Chi Schmitz
Alabama

I am very satisfied with your podcasts. I listen to them each week.

Camille Marshall
Denmark

You guys have such passion! Its no wonder your concerts and podcasts are so very good. I love Sandy and Ken though. They talk to me as a person and not as an outsider as other classical oriented podcasts do. I feel like I am part of their family and I feel very welcome listening to them.

Eve Landry
Delaware

I love your podcasts each week. I let them play in my apartment when I am home. When I have visitors they always ask what I am listening to and I give them your podcast address. Not everyone can understand what you are saying, but they appreciate the music. Many french people do not think Americans are very friendly, but Sandy and Ken are both very friendly and I am glad to invite them into my home each day. Congatulations to Ken and his honors he received several weeks ago. If ever you come to France again, please let me know as I would love to meet you in person.

Chrestine Desmarais
Paris, France

I look forward to each week's new podcast to see what you have in store for me. I am never disappointed, you guys always come through. The band concert was quite good and the Requiem was truly amazing. I like all of the interviews and the reading of the comments is just plain fun. I can tell you two really enjoy each other's company, which is quite refreshing to hear! May your podcasts reign forever and I hope you can ring your bell for me as I am indeed, a very happy listener.

Rebecca Johnson
Omaha, Nebraska

I usually perform folk music on guitar here in England, but I enjoy our podcasts that a friend told me about. It really gives me a chance to listen to music I don't normally listen to. Also, I have to say how much I just love listening to Ken and Sandy, they should have their own talk show!

Lucy Quinn
Wallingford, England

I loved those photos of the Russian winter carnival! Those were absolutely amazing, I had no idea such a thing existed. Sandy and Ken, keep it up! Oh yes, can you ring your bell for me as well? I am a happy listener as well!

Joey McDowell
Ireland

Sandy is just an absolute sweetheart! She must be the nicest person. I love how she handles the comments and explanations. The concerts are great too and I love the variety. You guys sound very professional in quality without sounding like a snooty professional.

Mary Davis
Atlanta, GA

I was looking for some classical music, free of course, that I could listen to and I found your series of podcasts. I was quite surprised by just how well they are done. Love Sandy's voice and you have a new happy listener to boot!

Eddy Lujan
Stamford, CT

After listening to podcasts for few weeks now. Every say, oh Sandy, oh Sandy, she is great and wonderful, no? But Ken melt my heart. He seem very nice man. Look forward to new podcast each week.

Natalia Lovinosky
Obninsk, Russia

When I first found your podcasts, to be quite frank, I thought they would be cheap and of very low quality. However, on the first listen I found them to be absolutely brilliant! The concerts are mostly great and Sandy is the BEST podcast hostess imagineable. She invites me to listen to your podcast, like a siren of the sea calling to sailors, and as she beckons me, I follow. I find your podcasts professional and the final products is of a superior quality. Please ring you bell for me, for you have found a new happy listener and I will be there each and every week that Sandy is there to call me.

Victor Vera
Italy

Someone said that Sandy is the Queen of podcasting...they have all wrong! Sandy is the Goddess of podcasting! I can't believe what you guys are tackling. Sure there are the great concerts of a massive variety, but domestic problems, advice on raising children, how to start your own recital series, a short discussion on the theories of magnetic tape and then world peace!? Now you see why Sandy is a goddess! Who else would even attempt such a thing?

Wyatt Lawrence
Delaware

I searched all over for a great podcast like yours. Thanks for being there!!

Terry Willard
Ohio

Bravo! Bravo! Bravo! You guys are so GREAT!

Anne Gustafson
Maine

Good music fills hole in life and your music and speech is very important to me to fill hole. I listen each week.

Hazikawa
Japan

To you, make all success come. Your podcasts are welcome each week with great anticipation.

Tatiana
Russia

You know you are a major podcast and I appreciate all your efforts, I know this can't be easy to do each week.

Crystal Zimmerman
Denmark

There are many different music podcasts out there and yours is definitely the very best. The so calle professional ones are not very friendly or inviting. I truly feel at home with you guys.

Eliza Goss
England

Excellent! Love the music and love Sandy!

Rolland Ratliff
Australia

You guys are friendly and have maintain your dignity. The concerts are wonderful and always very interesting. Sandy, earlier you made comment about the Requiem that the choir was great and something about things were great in your life at that time. Care to elaborate on that statement?

Wendi Oneill
New York

Wow! I can't believe all the comments you are getting this week. But I would expect as much since your podcasts are so amazing.

Evangeline Ward
Alabama

I can see why you are so popular all over the world. You are so friendly and accommodating to others and speak of world peace and your music in inspiring. You are professional, but yet caring. Your music is played well, but with great feeling. Amazing!

Lucas Reyes
St. George, UT

I heard your music at Chrestine's apartment, who wrote earlier and now I play at my apartment. You are very nice Americans and I know you will help me learn some English. I enjoy all of your concerts very much.

Michelle Turandot
Paris, France

This is pretty cool, I'm at a boat dock right now, accessing your podcasts on my laptop, listening with my earbuds on while my husband, well, is doing whatever he needs to do. I enjoy your weekly podcast thoroughly. Sandy does an excellent job as the hostess, I can really relate to her. Anyway, I love the podcasts, the concerts and please ring your bell for me because I am definitely a very happy listener!

Maritza Hyde
South Carolina

Excellent podcasts! Can't wait to see what you have for me this week. Sandy, just wanted to say "Hi", I think you are the very best!

Kelly Shepard
North Carolina

So, I asked my friend, "Have you ever heard the OSU podcasts?" "Well listen to this" and they were hooked from the very start. I listen to you guys while I ride the bus to work each morning, too bad you can't do a daily show.

Noreen Harrell
Baltimore, MD

I enjoy all of your podcasts tremendously. You make me feel like you are talking directly to me as a friend and not down to me as other podcasts do that cater to classical music lovers. Why do they do that? Anyway, keep up the GREAT job! Sandy, I just LOVE your voice! You are really amazing!

Terry Vick
Long Island, New York

I just had to quit listening my other classical music podcast provider, I got to darn tired of their attitude (we are the best, blah, blah, blah). Fortunately I found you guys and just LOVE it! I feel really at home with you guys. You have a new happy listener, that's for sure!

Young Wilkerson
Dallas, TX

I searched the Internet and found your podcasts and thought I'd give it a try. I was hooked from the very first time I heard Sandy! Your concerts are great, your thoughts are sincere and meaningful and yet you know how to have a good time! Please, don't change a thing!

Stewart Chaney

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This may not sound very classy, but you guys rock! - in a classical way.

Love Sandy! You shine like a brilliant star!

Kurt Duffy
Atlanta, GA

I'm not to podcasting and I've been listening to many of them, just to get a feel for things. Anyway, I found all of the classical music oriented podcasts talk to you like someone from a different planet. Who talks like that? Anyway, you guys are down to earth and great! I will listening to your podcasts from now on.

Dionne Church
Delaware

When I read the description of your podcast and where you guys are from, I thought that I was going to get a good laugh out of this! I thought for sure that people laugh at your feeble attempts to be a serious music performer. Well after one listening, I must admit, I was horribly wrong and I'm not afraid to admit it. Your frankness, politeness and ability to make me feel right at home is absolutely charming. So, I thought I'd listen to other podcasts and found them overly chatty, or overly stuffed, or full of themselves and that really turned me off. So here I am, back for good. The concerts are good, some are fantastic and Sandy is just as charming as they come. I guess you can count me in as a new (sort of) happy listener!

Reva Schultz
Germany

Woa! I haven't listened to your podcasts in a very long time time and what an improvement! I still can't get over how much you guys have changed your format and Sandy is the BEST hostess! Great comments, great thought that promote only good things and even your listeners are sending in their own thoughts and from Russia yet! You guys really have something going on here.

Ivy Booker
New Orleans, LA

I just wanted to thank everyone who is responsible for producing these podcasts: Sandy (she's incredible), Ken, Sara and especially all of the performers there in Utah, especially Cedar City. What a marvelous place for musicians to be. I love the tone of the podcasts that you produce, they are pleasant and inviting. Like others have said, I feel like Sandy and Ken invite me into their home each week, we sit down, talk, listen to a marvelous concert and share cups of hot chocolate (of course). I listen to your podcasts daily and I just can't see starting a day without them. Thanks for everything! I'm a great fan!

Tracey Bodeman
Illinois

I have physical problems that keep me away from many concerts. I have a syndrome that effects my nervous system and I find it is impossible to keep myself still or quiet, I'm sure you probably know what this is. However, I do adore classical music and I love to go to concerts, there is nothing like hearing a live performance. This is why I love the recordings Ken does. They still have that "live" sound to it and the way you do your podcasts, makes each performance sound live, even though they are not. Take the Durufle Requiem, although you made it sound like you were actually there at the concert, I know you could not have been there, unless you had a time machine. I thought that was very cleverly done. So anyway, please forgive me going off topic, your podcasts allow me to be in the concert without actually being there. I can pause the concert, when needed, and resume after my situation has calmed down enough to listen again. Sandy makes an excellent podcast hostess and I love her soothe and calming voice. I never get a seizure when she is talking. I don't know what it is, but her sweet angelic voice keeps me calm. The music is great and Ken's recordings are the very best. I don't know how in the world he maintains that "live concert" feel in his recordings, but, great job Ken! I especially loved the last SUU band concert because I truly felt like I was in the middle of it, I could picture myself up on the podium conducting the band and I can hear every nuance, every tap of the foot, every breath, everything.
So thank you Sandy, Ken and those at OSU and SUU that support them, for bringing the concert hall to one who can no longer go to a concert hall. You have absolutely no idea how important your weekly podcasts are to me and probably others around the country like myself. I hope you guys podcast forever and a special thank you to Sandy for her sweet calming voice. I really appreciate that to no end.

Terry Horner
Idaho

Hello Carol, I made it over to the OSU Podcasts and thanks ever so much for pointing me here. You are so right, what a great group! Sandy and Ken, thanks for making me sound at home with your podcasts. The last 2 podcasts have been absolutely great, but I still like the Dvorak performance the best, even though it was a bit flawed by missed notes. I look foward to your next podcast!

Wallace Simon
South Carolina

Sara, just wanted to thank you for your ideas for recitals. I had my first one here in Savannah, Georgia last night. We had a small wind ensemble, a couple of vocalists and a trumpet player perform to a group of about 30 people. Our recital was held at a local church and even though the 30 were swallowed up by the size of the church, it was an enjoyable evening and everyone there told me how much they really enjoyed themselves. One elderly lady told me she hadn't been to a concert in over 20 years because they are too expensive and she was glad I started this up so she could go. I teared up when she told me, you should have been there to see the sincerity in her face when she told me. I have my 2nd recital scheduled for Feb. 16th and we have a small group from a dinner theater coming over to put on a little abbreviated version of their show for us. When they heard that I was putting on recitals here in Savannah, they called me! I know it is to entice people to come to their dinner theater, but it should be a fun evening anyway. I asked them to keep their "commercials" limited to handing out fliers at the end of the recital and they agreed. Oh, I also tell everyone at the end of the recital to listen to your podcasts, so hopefully, you will be getting more "happy listeners" from Georgia!

Geraldine Thorpe
Savannah, GA

Sandy, after listening to your podcasts for many weeks, I feel like you have become that "special someone" in my life - sorry, I couldn't resist, I'm only kidding. After reading this week's many, many comments I sometimes wonder how you put up with so many lonely men out there.
But honestly, you do have a wonderful voice that just keeps me coming back week after week. I know you stumble over your words from time-to-time, but that only makes your podcast seem more real, more honest and frankly, who really cares? I love the message of kindness that you deliver with each podcast in your thoughts. I thought Sulinda's thought was absolutely great and hope we can all be more tolerant towards each other. I wish, in the middle East, they could learn that lesson. Instead of harboring bad feelings from generation to generation, why don't they just forgive and forget? Frankly, I don't understand it. I hope your message catches on. Maybe we should pack up all the militants and fly them to Harbin, Russia for awhile and maybe the -40 temperature would cool them off and they could better understand Sulinda's message of toler