Monthly Archives: January 2022

The Light Programme

January 29, 2022   Programming

Sat­ur­day the 29th of Jan­u­ary, and today we make a for­ay into the world of Light Music, one of our sta­ple gen­res here on VCRadio.

We can think of Light Music as fill­ing a gap between out-and-out clas­si­cal music, and the excep­tion­al qual­i­ty music pro­duc­tion library and film music of the 1940s-50s — the lat­ter also fea­tur­ing from time to time on The Light Pro­gramme. It’s a con­tin­u­um with per­haps Sul­li­van at one end, and maybe Coates at the oth­er – though it’s dif­fi­cult to define bound­aries. In between are com­posers like Addin­sell, Alwyn, Ketel­bey, Tom­lin­son, Binge, Lane and oth­ers, and it’s their music that we’ll be fea­tur­ing today. What these pieces and com­posers have in com­mon, is a “clas­si­cal” approach to melod­ic music. Their work is full of great tunes, and it utilis­es orches­tral forces with as much aplomb as any clas­si­cal com­pos­er. But in gen­er­al (though not always), the music is a lit­tle lighter in tone and feel.

Mean­while, the lat­est edi­tion of our orig­i­nal series on things to do and places to vis­it across the Sec­ond Life Grid, “Where Have You Been?”, vis­its The Janus Gal­leries. The show airs at 12 noon and 4pm Pacific/SLT, that’s 8pm and mid­night in the UK, on Wednes­days and Sundays.

And don’t miss Engines of Our Inge­nu­ity from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Hous­ton that tells the sto­ry of how our cul­ture is formed by human cre­ativ­i­ty. Writ­ten and host­ed by John Lien­hard and oth­er con­trib­u­tors, it is pro­duced by Hous­ton Pub­lic Media. Catch it just after the hour every four hours from 4am Pacif­ic / 12:00 UTC.

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Moon Over Morocco: Episode 4

January 28, 2022   Programming

TODAY on Vir­tu­al Com­mu­ni­ty Radio — Fri­day, Jan­u­ary 28th, noon or 4pm Pacif­ic / 8pm and mid­night in the UK, the FOURTH install­ment of…

MOON OVER MOROCCO

Once in a far away land there exist­ed a knowl­edge of nat­ur­al mag­ic that has been lost to mod­ern man. Jack Flan­ders treks to Moroc­co, believ­ing that in this prim­i­tive coun­try, where mag­ic remains an inte­gral part of dai­ly life, he may find this knowl­edge. Jack dis­cov­ers far more than he expect­ed when he steps through the Gate of Pea­cocks, the entrance to that lost world. Jack has stepped out of mod­ern day Moroc­co and into the realm where the knowl­edge of mag­ic is a req­ui­site sur­vival skill. Here’s a cou­ple of tastes of this week’s episode…

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“Where Have You Been?” visits The Janus Galleries

January 26, 2022   Programming

The lat­est edi­tion of VCRa­dio’s orig­i­nal series on things to do and places to vis­it across the Sec­ond Life Grid, vis­its The Janus Gal­leries. The show pre­mieres on Jan­u­ary 26th and airs at 12 noon and 4pm Pacific/SLT, that’s 8pm and mid­night in the UK. It’ll run on Wednes­days and Sun­days at the same times for the next two weeks.

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A Burns Supper

January 26, 2022   Programming

Yes­ter­day, 25th Jan­u­ary, was the anniver­sary of the birth of Robert Burns, and today we’re bring­ing you a pro­gramme of tra­di­tion­al and mod­ern music from Scot­land (with plen­ty of bag­pipes of course), and then, at 12:30pm and 4:30pm Pacif­ic Time (8:30pm and 00:30 GMT) we are pre­sent­ing a com­plete Burns Sup­per, cour­tesy of the late-lament­ed Scots Inde­pen­dent News­pa­per. Yes, we’re a day late, but in fact a Burns Sup­per only needs to be more or less around the 25th — the Dundee branch of the Scot­tish Nation­al Par­ty, for exam­ple, is hav­ing theirs on-line on Feb­ru­ary 5th!

In addi­tion, today sees a new edi­tion of our orig­i­nal series, “Where Have You Been?”, where we dis­cuss things to do and places to see around the Sec­ond Life Grid, at 12 noon and 4pm Pacif­ic, 8pm and mid­night in the UK. In this episode, the sec­ond of our sec­ond series, we vis­it the Janus Gal­leries.

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Two New Shows on Mixcloud

January 24, 2022   Programming

We’ve uploaded two more pro­grammes to our “Lis­ten Again” facil­i­ty on Mix­cloud: Tarot @ Teatime Episode 23, on the Druid­craft Tarot, and Where Have You Been? Series 2, Episode 1: For­ev­er Tourist.

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Music from the Grand Hotel

January 22, 2022   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 at noon or 4pm Pacif­ic, 8pm or mid­night in the UK, for the lat­est episode in our Sec­ond Life trav­el­ogue series, “Where Have You Been?”, where we fea­ture For­ev­er Tourist, A Sec­ond Life Explo­ration Game.
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Moon Over Morocco: Episode 3

January 21, 2022   Programming

TODAY on Vir­tu­al Com­mu­ni­ty Radio — Fri­day, Jan­u­ary 21st, noon or 4pm Pacif­ic / 8pm and mid­night in the UK, the THIRD install­ment of…

MOON OVER MOROCCO

Once in a far away land there exist­ed a knowl­edge of nat­ur­al mag­ic that has been lost to mod­ern man. Jack Flan­ders treks to Moroc­co, believ­ing that in this prim­i­tive coun­try, where mag­ic remains an inte­gral part of dai­ly life, he may find this knowl­edge. Jack dis­cov­ers far more than he expect­ed when he steps through the Gate of Pea­cocks, the entrance to that lost world. Jack has stepped out of mod­ern day Moroc­co and into the realm where the knowl­edge of mag­ic is a req­ui­site sur­vival skill. Here’s a cou­ple of tastes of this week’s episode…

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Tarot @ Teatime Episode 24: Completing the Major Arcana

January 20, 2022   Programming

Thurs­day, Jan­u­ary 20th, and we’re pleased to release the lat­est episode of our pop­u­lar orig­i­nal series on the Tarot: “Tarot @ Teatime”, on the air Thurs­days and Sun­days at noon and 4pm Pacif­ic Time/SLT, 8pm and mid­night in the UK.

In Episode 24, Hon­ey and Wil­low com­plete their jour­ney through the Major Arcana with a dis­cus­sion of cards XVII — The Star, XVIII — The Moon, XIX — The Sun, XX- Judge­ment, and XXI — The World. A sam­ple read­ing is also presented.

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A Sense Of Place

January 19, 2022   Programming

Today’s pro­gramme con­cerns itself with the “sense of place” or genius loci, as the Romans called it, that has informed much of West­ern art through the cen­turies. We’ll be attempt­ing to cap­ture the feel­ing of pres­ence that char­ac­teris­es many loca­tions, and to do so we’ll be vis­it­ing sites, cities and spots around the world.

So you’ll hear pieces from Respighi’s Foun­tains of Rome to Mitchel­l’s Stat­ue of Zeus at Olympia; Fin­gal’s Cave from Mendelssohn to Gersh­win’s An Amer­i­can In Paris, Hol­st’s The Plan­ets, Elgar­’s Cock­aigne (In Lon­don Town), and many more. Most of the music is in a clas­si­cal vein, but we’ll also be play­ing more recent com­po­si­tions, for exam­ple music by Sheri­dan Tongue for Pro­fes­sor Bri­an Cox’s BBC tele­vi­sion series Won­ders of the Uni­verse. Immerse your­self in the music and trav­el with us on our own, rather exten­sive and a lit­tle unusu­al, Grand Tour.

Join us at noon or 4pm Pacif­ic, 8pm or mid­night in the UK, for the lat­est episode in our Sec­ond Life trav­el­ogue series, “Where Have You Been?”, where, appro­pri­ate­ly enough, we fea­ture For­ev­er Tourist, A Sec­ond Life Explo­ration Game.

“The Sphinx and the Great Pyra­mid of Giza” by Sam and Ian is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0

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Live Tarot Readings — Monday January 17

January 17, 2022   Station News

TODAY! The hosts of Vir­tu­al Com­mu­ni­ty Radio’s pop­u­lar orig­i­nal series “Tarot At Teatime”, Wil­low Moon­fire and Hon­ey Heart, offer you a per­son­al Tarot read­ing, live and free of charge.

Join them on Mon­day, Jan­u­ary 17, 6 to 7pm Sec­ond Life Time, in the plaza out­side the Vir­tu­al Com­mu­ni­ty Radio The­atre on the Chest­nut Hills region in Sec­ond Life.

Read­ings are offered first come, first served, and are com­plete­ly free of charge. They are car­ried out pri­vate­ly in SL Voice and are strict­ly confidential.

All read­ings are for enter­tain­ment pur­pos­es only. http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Chestnut%20Hills/135/105/3802

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