ROM10: The Music That Woke the Radio Station
In the record library at WSND-FM at the University of Notre Dame, it was simply ROM10.
Each morning, student announcer Paul would pull the record, cue the turntable, bring the station on the air, and let the brilliant brass of Johan Helmich Roman’s Drottningholmsmusiken begin. Then, over Ulf Björlin’s recording, came the familiar words:
“Welcome to another day of broadcasting from the University of Notre Dame…”
The record was Nonesuch H-71213, Music at Drottningholm. The music had been written for a Swedish royal wedding in 1744. Somehow, more than two centuries later, it had become the…
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