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By DOUG MOE

Late in summer 1991, a 12-year-old Verona girl named Alisa Rose placed first in a fiddle competition held inside a red and white beer tent at the Middleton Good Neighbor competition. She won $35.

Sunday in Los Angeles, Rose, 30, will be in attendance when the Grammy Awards are presented at the Staples Center. Rose is a member of Quartet San Francisco and the group’s 2009 CD, “QSF Plays Brubeck,” is nominated for Best Classical Crossover Album.

FOND DU LAC, Wis. (AP) - Police responding to a complaint of loud noise have cited a Fond du Lac man for "rocking out" to the music of John Denver.

A police who responded to the man's apartment last week could hear Denver's music through the door.

The officer pounded on the door but the man didn't answer. Finally the officer found out the man's name from a neighbor and called to him, bringing the man to the door.

When asked why he had the music so loud, the man said he was "rocking out."

The 42-year-old was cited for unnecessary loud noise. The ticket could result in a fine of about $210.

The late singer is known for such hits as "Rocky Mountain High" and "Take Me Home, Country Roads."

Charles Steward Lunde, a classical music aficionado who for years sold recordings out of the basement of The Exclusive Co., died this week. He was 86. Craig Schreiner/Wisconsin State Journal

Charles Steward Lunde, a former State Street music seller with a legendary passion for classical music, has died. He was 86.

Lunde, known as "CS" to his close friends, died Sunday of a pulmonary embolism, according to a paid obituary this week in the State Journal.

He sold records and CDs for almost 60 years, most recently out of the basement of The Exclusive Co., 508 State St.

David Peters, manager of The Exclusive Co., said Lunde was a nice guy with a massive knowledge of classical music.

"He had his own way of doing things, but everybody liked him, and he was always in a good mood," Peters said.

Born in West Allis, Lunde played cello, organ, piano and oboe as a child, the obituary said. He served in New Guinea and Australia during World War II with the Navy Seabees construction battalions. When he returned to Wisconsin in 1946, Lunde entered UW-Madison and earned a degree in music education in 1950. He continued to work at or own five Madison music stores before he came to The Exclusive Co..

"He was always very trusting and very down to earth about a lot of things," said longtime friend David Martineau, who met Lunde when Martineau was a maitre d' at The Edgewater hotel where Lunde would frequently throw parties for Exclusive Co. employees and friends.

One amazing thing about Lunde, Martineau said, was his ability to recognize bars of music he heard people humming and then pick out the best recording of the song.

Lunde suffered dementia following a stroke in 2001, which prevented him from continuing work.

He is survived by three cousins and their families. Inurnment, at Arlington Cemetery in Milwaukee, will be held at a later date. Donations may be made in Lunde's name to the Wisconsin School of Music.

“Muskrat Love” may have been a hit in the 1970s, but “Cotton-Top Tamarin Affiliative” doesn’t have quite the same Top-40 potential -- unless you happen to a primate

The "song" -- part of a collaboration between a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor and a musician -- certainly got some Wisconsin-based Cotton-Tops, small monkeys normally found in the forests of northern Columbia, going.  The researchers described how music could influence the monkey's behavior in a study published in this week's Biology Letters journal.

They’re so good at it that humans can often interpret monkey’s calls even if they’ve never encountered a species before. When Charles Snowdon, a psychology professor, played some Cotton-Top calls for musician David Teie at the University of Maryland, Teie correctly identified the monkey’s emotional state just by hearing their "songs." He could tell when the animals were upset and when they were relaxed.

Then Teie, who also plays cello in the National Symphony Orchestra, set out to discover whether it would be possible to create music that did speak to monkeys, using their sense of sound rather than human notions.

For the five minutes after they heard “Threat” the monkeys showed symptoms of anxiety and moved around more. After hearing “Affiliative 2” they moved less and ate more, both signs of being calm.

In fact, says Snowdon, there may be deep evolutionary roots in the musical elements of speech. "The emotional components of music and animal calls might be very similar, and from an evolutionary perspective, we are finding that the note patterns, dissonance and timing are important for communicating affective states in both animals and people."

Go UW-Madison & Wisconsin Monkeys!

Kinda makes us wish we were in Milwaukee this week.