Today’s programme focuses on brass instruments, with genres that range from Early Music to contemporary pieces.
Thus the genres range from ancient and early music, through Baroque and classical, to Victorian brass bands, to ragtime, trad jazz, a touch of big band, right up to modern works including a marvellous suite of pieces for wind band inspired by the works of Shakespeare.
This will all lead to some remarkable juxtapositions — and a few surprises.
Join us on Friday at a little after 12 noon or 4pm Pacific time, 8pm or midnight in the UK , for another episode in the landmark radio drama series The Black Mass, created by the late Erik Bauersfeld and his colleagues at the Pacifica radio station KPFA in Berkeley, California, over fifty years ago. In 30 chilling tales of mystery, imagination and the human mind, The Black Mass brings you some of literature’s most haunting stories, by masters of the craft — many of whom are best-known in other fields.
Note that the programme will not begin until the track playing at the top of the hour has finished, so the actual start time of the episode will be a few minutes after the hour.
The Black Mass artwork was created by Terry Lightfoot.
Many thanks to John Whiting and the late Erik Bauersfeld for making these unique works available.
Today: A New Episode of Virtual Community Radio’s “Tarot @ Teatime”
Thursday, June 10th begins episode 8 of our twice-monthly series on the Tarot, Tarot @ Teatime, with Willow Moonfire and Honey Heart.
Episode 8 introduces the role of narrative in reading: the Tarot reader as storyteller.
We discuss the significance of narrative in a reading and how to create a narrative that is meaningful and clear.
Tune in at http://main.vcradio.org/
The episode goes out at Noon and 4pm Pacific today and again on June 13, 17, and 20.
If you missed the latest episodes of our two popular series, “Tarot @ Teatime” Episode 7 and “Where’ve You Been?” Episode 9, you can now catch them on MixCloud. You can pause playback at any point, or go back over something you need to hear again — ideal with programming like our Tarot series where there’s quite a lot of detail.
Please note that on occasion there can be a delay accessing episodes of “Where’ve You Been?” as Mixcloud has trouble with short programming and the episodes are sometimes disabled for a while.
Wednesday, June 9th sees the premiere of a brand new episode in our series “Where’ve You Been?”, where we look at things to do and places to see in and around the Second Life Grid.
In Episode 10 we visit the Limoncello Art Gallery — in an airship! The gallery has a heritage going right back to 2007 and was recently relaunched in a brand new meshed airship. The gallery is enormous and includes works by many well-known names in the Second Life art world.
Today we explore a little of the music written at the borders of the Classical and Romantic eras, focusing on the work of some well-known composers born in the last 30 years of the 18th Century. It’s also time for a new episode of our Second Life travel series, “Where’ve You Been?” — Episode 10, which visits the Gallery Airship Limoncello (see separate entry).
Historically, the term ‘classical music’ refers specifically to the musical period from 1750 to 1820. The transition from the classical period of Western art music, which lasted around 1750 to 1820, to Romantic music, which lasted around 1815 to 1910, took place in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Composers began transitioning their compositional and melodic techniques into a new musical form which became known as the Romantic Era or Romanticism due to the implementation of lyrical melodies as opposed to the linear compositional style of Classical music.
Today, Saturday June 5th, we explore, once again, the music of the Baroque era. We’ll be including the work of a wide range of composers. Many will be familiar; other perhaps less so; or they may have written pieces that we know well but have no idea of who composed them — for example English composer Thomas Arne, who wrote Rule Britannia but also a range of other pieces which deserve more interest than is usually paid to them.
Then at 12 noon and 4pm Pacific / 8pm or midnight UK time, there’s another chance to hear Episode 7 of “Where’ve You Been?”, our twice-monthly show on places to visit and things to do around the Second Life Grid. In this episode we visit the exciting Sau Motors Demo Track — an amazing multi-level racetrack and a fabulous collection of bikes and cars to test out on it — details here. And every four hours from 4am Pacific, tune in for “The Engines of Our Ingenuity”, from the University of Houston, about the machines that make our civilization run and the people whose ingenuity created them.
Join us on Friday at a little after 12 noon or 4pm Pacific time, 8pm or midnight in the UK , for another episode in the landmark radio drama series The Black Mass, created by the late Erik Bauersfeld and his colleagues at the Pacifica radio station KPFA in Berkeley, California, over fifty years ago. In 30 chilling tales of mystery, imagination and the human mind, The Black Mass brings you some of literature’s most haunting stories, by masters of the craft — many of whom are best-known in other fields.
Note that the programme will not begin until the track playing at the top of the hour has finished, so the actual start time of the episode will be a few minutes after the hour.
“The Rats in the Walls” was written in August–September 1923. It was first published in Weird Tales, March 1924
Tune in to Virtual Community Radio today, Saturday March 20, for a programme of Early Music – today featuring music of the High Renaissance, with contributions from France, Spain, England and Germany. There are also some modern interpretations thrown in for good measure.
Long ago, R. Dismantled swore an oath to write a 100 word story every day until the day he died. He’s not dead yet…
On Monday, May 31st, Virtual Community Radio joined R. Dismantled and the 100 Word Story Podcast as we celebrated 16 years of “keeping it brief”, in Seanchai Library’s Ceiluiradh Glen, with stories and interviews. Live in Second Life, and live here on Virtual Community Radio. We found out what “microfiction” and “Drabble” are, and how it’s done. We discovered R. Dismantled’s backstory. We celebrated the anniversary — and we heard some great, short, stories — all surprisingly deep and sometimes dark, too.
This special programme is now available on Mixcloud for those who missed it or would like to hear it again. Perhaps, as a result, you’ll try writing microfiction yourself! Check out the weekly challenge here.
