Le Monde Perdu — Luane’s World

March 22, 2023   Programming

Wednes­day, March 22nd, and today our Fea­tured Music is Smooth Jazz — pri­mar­i­ly instru­men­tal pieces from the jazz­i­er end of the New Age spectrum.

Then in the lat­est episode of our orig­i­nal series, “Where Have You Been?”, where we sug­gest things to do and places to see around the Sec­ond Life Grid, we vis­it Le Monde Per­du — Luane’s World — where Spring is in the air!  Tune in at 12 noon or 4pm Pacific/SLT.

The estate con­tains sev­en regions. Le Monde Per­du is the main region and you can explore both the roman­tic ground lev­el sea­son­al envi­ron­ment, or the mag­i­cal world in the sky.

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Music of Ireland

March 18, 2023   Programming

Yes­ter­day was March 17, St Patrick­’s Day, and in recog­ni­tion of that, today we have a pro­gramme of pri­mar­i­ly (but not exclu­sive­ly) tra­di­tion­al music for you from the Emer­ald Isle.

You can also catch the lat­est edi­tion of Where Have You Been? — our reg­u­lar fea­ture on things to do and places to see around the Sec­ond Life Grid. Tune in at 12 noon and 4pm Pacif­ic Time — this week, that’s 19:00 and 23:00 UTC. And this time we vis­it Le Monde Per­du — Luane’s World. For details, see the arti­cle here. You can also catch Engines of Our Inge­nu­ity, from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Hous­ton, every four hours from 4am Pacific.

“Ring of Ker­ry, Ire­land” by min­niemouse­aunt is licensed under CC BY 2.0

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Woodwinds

March 15, 2023   Programming

Today’s pro­gramme fea­tures mem­bers of the wood­wind fam­i­ly — oboe, clar­inet, flute, bas­soon, recorder and more, includ­ing the gamut of Ear­ly Music wood­winds like the shawn (the pre­de­ces­sor of the oboe), cur­tal (a pro­­to-bas­­soon) and crumhorn.

Of course, the major­i­ty of orches­tral music includes a wood­wind sec­tion, so the cri­te­ri­on for inclu­sion in today’s show was that a mem­ber of the wood­wind fam­i­ly is the lead instru­ment — a “wind band” is not suf­fi­cient (and they’re gen­er­al­ly usu­al­ly brass-heavy any­way), but a con­cer­to for bas­soon (yes there is at least one) counts.

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Le Monde Perdu — Luane’s World

March 14, 2023   Programming

In the lat­est episode of our orig­i­nal series, “Where Have You Been?”, where we sug­gest things to do and places to see around the Sec­ond Life Grid, we vis­it Le Monde Per­du — Luane’s World — where Spring is in the air!

The estate con­tains sev­en regions. Le Monde Per­du is the main region and you can explore both the roman­tic ground lev­el sea­son­al envi­ron­ment, or the mag­i­cal world in the sky.

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Music of England & Wales

March 11, 2023   Programming

Today, Sat­ur­day 11th March, we’re fea­tur­ing the music of Eng­land & Wales with an exten­sive col­lec­tion of clas­si­cal and oth­er pieces from the two countries.

In addi­tion, at 12 noon or 4pm Pacif­ic / SLT, tune in for the lat­est episode of our orig­i­nal series on things to do and places to vis­it around the Sec­ond Life Grid — “Where Have You Been?” This time we pay a vis­it to the “art incu­ba­tor” GBTH  and Mari­na Mün­ter’s “Non-Per­ish­able” exhib­it  — more details on both here.  Plus don’t miss “The Engines of Our Inge­nu­ity” every four hours from 4am Pacific.

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Music from the Grand Hotel

March 8, 2023   Programming

“And now we take you to the Palm Court of the Grand Hotel…” as the announc­er used to say, intro­duc­ing a pro­gramme of fine light clas­si­cal and dance music from the Grand Hotel in East­bourne, on Britain’s South Coast.

Today we take you back to the dance-halls of the ear­ly to mid­dle 20th Cen­tu­ry, from around the mid-20s to the 50s, char­ac­terised by the BBC radio series, Grand Hotel. We’ll also be hear­ing some clas­sic big-band record­ings and much more.

Join us for the lat­est episode in our Sec­ond Life trav­el­ogue series, “Where Have You Been?”. “WYB” airs every Wednes­day and Sat­ur­day at 12 noon and 4pm Pacif­ic / SLT, and each episode is broad­cast over a cou­ple of weeks. For details of the March 8th broad­cast, fol­low this link. And don’t miss “Engines of Our Inge­nu­ity” from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Hous­ton, every four hours from 4am Pacific.

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Where Have You Been? — A New Season

March 1, 2023   Programming

We’re pleased to announce the start of the third series of our orig­i­nal pro­gramme, “Where Have You Been?”, where we dis­cuss places to vis­it and things to do around the Sec­ond Life grid — and we try to ensure they’re usu­al­ly things and places that the major com­men­ta­tors miss.

“WYB” airs every Wednes­day and Sat­ur­day at 12 noon and 4pm Pacif­ic / SLT, and each episode is broad­cast over a cou­ple of weeks. And don’t miss “Engines of Our Inge­nu­ity” from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Hous­ton, every four hours from 4am Pacific.

Our des­ti­na­tions gen­er­al­ly fall into one of three cat­e­gories: Art, Explo­ration and Events. In the first episode of the new sea­son, it’s the first of those, as we take a trip over to GBTH, aka “Grab By The Horns”  — a vir­tu­al visu­al arts incu­ba­tor in Sec­ond Life, found­ed in Octo­ber 2017 by Mari­na Münter. 

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English & Scottish Country Dance

February 25, 2023   Programming

Our pro­gramme today, 25th Feb­ru­ary, focus­es, rather broad­ly, on Eng­lish Coun­try Dance – and in par­tic­u­lar on the work of John Play­ford (1623–1686/7) — and its cousin, Scot­tish Coun­try Dance, along with a range of oth­er tra­di­tion­al dance music such as Mor­ris dancing.

In addi­tion, tune in at noon or 4pm Pacific/SLT as “Where Have You Been?” re-vis­its the his­toric Sec­ond Life envi­ron­ment of Svar­ga. To learn more about Svar­ga, check out this arti­cle from last year. Plus “Engines of Our Inge­nu­ity” every four hours from 4am SLT/Pacific.

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The Magic of The Musical: The Tony Awards

February 18, 2023   Programming

Our new sea­son of The Mag­ic of The Musi­cal with Cale­do­nia Sky­tow­er begins in April, but in the run-up to that time, we’re repeat­ing some of last sea­son’s pro­grammes, so today, Sat­ur­day, Feb­ru­ary 18th at 2pm slt/pacific you can hear our show on the Tony Awards, orig­i­nal­ly broad­cast live from SL19B last year.

The Mag­ic of The Musi­cal explores the blend­ing of music and dra­ma — fea­tur­ing the songs, his­to­ry, and lore that make up the musi­cal the­ater canon. Learn more about some of your favorite shows and com­posers as we cue the orches­tra, and the over­ture begins.

In this, Episode 03: “Count­down to The Tony Awards” your host Cale­do­nia Sky­tow­er talks to guest Mor­rie Enders, the Exec­u­tive Direc­tor of Lin­coln Com­mu­ni­ty Play­house in Nebras­ka. Togeth­er they explore some “what ifs” and “might have been“s from var­i­ous Best Musi­cal races from the Amer­i­can The­ater Wing’s Tony Awards past.

In keep­ing with the show, “On Broad­way!” is our Fea­tured Music theme through the day. And don’t miss the episode of Where Have You Been? where we vis­it Svar­ga, and Engines of Our Inge­nu­ity every four hours from 4am Pacific.

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Sounding Brass

February 15, 2023   Programming

Today’s pro­gramme — Wednes­day Feb­ru­ary 15th — focus­es on brass instru­ments, with gen­res that range from Ear­ly Music to con­tem­po­rary pieces.

Thus the pieces you’ll hear today 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. Plus “Where Have You Been?” re-vis­its Svar­ga, and more!

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