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The Magic of The Musical: “Musicals for the Win!”

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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.

This show is now avail­able on Mix­cloud

This mon­th’s episode fea­tures musi­cals that have been  hon­ored with the Pul­tiz­er Prize for Dra­ma.  The Dra­ma cat­e­go­ry of this pres­ti­gious award rec­og­nizes a dis­tin­guished play by an Amer­i­can author, prefer­ably orig­i­nal in its source and deal­ing with Amer­i­can life. It is an impres­sive list that includes every­thing from Gersh­win to Steven Sond­heim, to Lin-Manuel Miran­da.  The list fas­ci­nates as much for what is miss­ing from it as the shows that were hon­ored.

Today Host Cale­do­nia Sky­tow­er explores the list with a few side trips. Join us today: Sat­ur­day, Novem­ber 19th at 2pm pacif­ic at the Vir­tu­al Com­mu­ni­ty Radio The­ater on Chest­nut Hills, or tune in to lis­ten on-the-air, for The Mag­ic Of The Musi­cal:

SLURL: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Chestnut%20Hills/124/89/3804

This Weekend on Virtual Community Radio

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Here’s an out­line of our pro­gram­ming for the week­end of 19–20 Novem­ber. All times SLT/Pacific

In par­tic­u­lar, do join us Sat­ur­day 2pm at the Vir­tu­al Com­mu­ni­ty Radio The­ater on Chest­nut Hills for a new LIVE episode of our series The Mag­ic Of The Musi­cal:
SLURL: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Chestnut%20Hills/124/89/3804

Sat­ur­day, Novem­ber 19

Fea­tured Music: On Broad­way

  • Noon & 4pm — “Where Have You Been?” vis­its “Mon­sters, Demons, and Chess” — fol­low this link for more details.
  • Plus “The Engines of Our Inge­nu­ity” every four hours, begin­ning at 4am
  • 2pm The Mag­ic of The Musi­cal: “Musi­cals for the Win” — Musi­cals and the Pulitzer Prize for Dra­ma
    Join us live from the VCRa­dio The­ater on Chest­nut Hills or on-the-air

Sun­day, Novem­ber 20

  • Noon & 4pm — From the Tarot @ Teatime Archives — Episode 5, Part one of the sig­nif­i­cance of num­bers in the Minor Arcana. We present qual­i­ties and key­words asso­ci­at­ed with the num­bers one through five.

Monsters, Demons & Chess

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Join us on Wednes­days or Sat­ur­days, at noon or 4pm Pacific/SLT, 8pm or mid­night in the UK, for the lat­est episode of our series Where Have You Been? at 12 noon and 4pm Pacif­ic, where we sug­gest places to go and things to do around the Sec­ond Life Grid.

This time we take a dive into the pos­si­bil­i­ties of AI in art: there’s a gallery exhib­it this month com­posed com­plete­ly of AI Images at Kon­dor Art Cen­ter by artist Monique Beebe: “Mon­sters, Demons, & Chess” and that’s our fea­tured des­ti­na­tion for this episode. This edi­tion airs Novem­ber 16, 19, 23 and 26.

S02E22 —  “Mon­sters, Demons, & Chess” by Monique Beebe at Kon­dor Art Cen­ter
Owned by Her­mes Kon­dor

SLURLS/URLS:
The Kon­dor Art Cen­ter — Waka — Mod­er­ate

Arti­cle com­par­ing AI Image gen­er­a­tor pro­grams

Ancient Journeys

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Today, join us on a musi­cal jour­ney across the Ancient World, guid­ed by the ancient and mys­te­ri­ous Piri Reis Map; and look at the use of AI in art at 12 noon/4pm SLT. And tune in for Engines of Our Inge­nu­ity every four hours from 4am Pacif­ic.

On our musi­cal jour­ney, we vis­it Ancient Greece, Rome and beyond to encounter the Sev­en Won­ders of the Ancient World. We redis­cov­er lost Atlantis, the ancient civil­i­sa­tions of South Amer­i­ca, cross the Pacif­ic and even trav­el to Antarc­ti­ca and the Moon.
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Dreams of Bali — A Travels With Jack Adventure

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Tune in on Fri­day for the next episode of anoth­er excit­ing radio ser­i­al from our friends at ZBS Foun­da­tion: Dreams of Bali - anoth­er adven­ture from the Trav­els with Jack series.

This adven­ture con­sists  of four half-hour episodes, broad­cast at noon and 4pm Pacific/SLT on Fri­day Novem­ber 11, 18, 25 and Dec 2.

DREAMS OF BALI:
A TRAVELS WITH JACK  ADVENTURE

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Music of the Baroque

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Today, Wednes­day Novem­ber 9th, we explore the music of the Baroque era. We’ll be includ­ing the work of a wide range of com­posers, with a par­tic­u­lar empha­sis this time on the work of J S Bach..

And at 12 noon and 4pm Pacif­ic Time/SLT, tune in for the lat­est episode of “Where Have You Been?”, where this time we vis­it the Ter­ry­gold Art Gallery

Plus, every four hours from 4am Pacific/noon in the UK, 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.

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Tarot @ Teatime — Episode 4

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Here’s an oppor­tu­ni­ty for a sec­ond chance to hear Episode 4 of our orig­i­nal series on the Tarot, “Tarot @ Teatime”, with Wil­low Moon­fire and Hon­ey Heart. The show airs on Thurs­days and Sun­days at 12 noon and 4pm Pacif­ic Time, and this episode goes out on Oct 30, Nov 3, 6 and 10.

Episode 4 cov­ers Part Two of The Four Ele­ments.  We present qual­i­ties and key­words asso­ci­at­ed the ele­ments of Air and Earth, which are rep­re­sent­ed by the suits of Swords and the suit of Pen­ta­cles.

The pri­ma­ry resource men­tioned is the Rid­er Waite Smith Tarot deck.  It is avail­able from the pub­lish­er, US Games Sys­tems, Inc. and numer­ous book­stores and online book sell­ers.

It’s the MOST — Music from the Original Sound Track — Episode 13

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This episode is now avail­able on Mix­cloud.

Plan­ning a heist? How about a mur­der? Attend­ing a love-in? Or is your bik­er gang plan­ning an out­ing? Have we got the show for you!

Join your host Susan­nah, on Sat­ur­day Novem­ber 5th, at 12:30pm or 4:30pm Pacific/SLT for the final show in our series, The MOST – Music from the Orig­i­nal Sound Track. Ded­i­cat­ed to crime, spy, sus­pense, exploita­tion, and psy­che­del­ic movie and tele­vi­sion sound­tracks from the 50s, the 60s and beyond, The MOST is the best accom­pa­ni­ment for all your police-blot­ter high-jinks.
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The Terrygold Art Gallery

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The lat­est episode of our orig­i­nal series, “Where Have You Been?”, which takes a look at things to do and places to vis­it around the Sec­ond Life Grid, this time vis­its The Ter­ry­gold Art Gallery on Peace­ful Land.

Ter­ry­gold Resident’s gallery fea­tures her work, and guest artists in three indi­vid­ual gallery spaces, acces­si­ble from the lob­by via a tele­porter.  Terrygold’s work is rather inter­est­ing, in that she com­bines two dimen­sion­al images that she cre­ates with mean­der­ing envi­ron­ments that fol­low a reflec­tive nar­ra­tive of her own. We focus par­tic­u­lar­ly on two of the instal­la­tions.

“Where Have You Been?” is broad­cast on Wednes­days and Sat­ur­days, at 12 noon and 4pm SLT/Pacific Time, and a new episode is released every two weeks.

The region Peace­ful Land is rat­ed Adult.

October 27–31st at Haunted Hollow

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The cel­e­bra­tion of the spir­its of autumn con­tin­ues this week, and Vir­tu­al Com­mu­ni­ty Radio is pleased to be there right along­side Tarot @ Teatime and Sean­chai Library to sup­port this event, pro­duced by Elite Eques­tri­an.

Join us on between Thurs­day, Octo­ber 27th and Hal­lowe’en itself, Mon­day, Octo­ber 31st, at Haunt­ed Hol­low on Chest­nut Hills in #Sec­ondlife for the fol­low­ing events — all times SLT/Pacific …

  • Thurs­day, Octo­ber 27, 6–7pm - Live Tarot Read­ings with Tarot @ Teatime’s Hon­ey Heart
  • Thurs­day, Octo­ber 27, 7–9pm - Free­bird Live Trick Or Treat
  • Fri­day, Octo­ber 28, 11am-1pm - Free­bird Live Trick Or Treat
  • Sat­ur­day, Octo­ber 28, 7–9pm - Free­bird Live Trick Or Treat with DJ Cale on-the ‑air
  • Sun­day, Octo­ber 30th, 1:30pm — Ray Bradbury’s “The Hal­loween Tree” live read­ing with Sean­chai Library — Con­clu­sion
    fol­lowed at 2:30pm approx to mid­night — A Samhain Ball at The Peak over­look­ing the entire region, with DJ Elrik Mer­lin
  • Mon­day, Octo­ber 31st at 2pm — Tarot Talk — The Scary Cards where the hosts of Vir­tu­al Com­mu­ni­ty Radio’s “Tarot @ Teatime” give a live pre­sen­ta­tion on why they’re not so scary at all.
    fol­lowed at 3pm - Wash­ing­ton Irv­ing’s “The Leg­end of Sleepy Hol­low” pre­sent­ed by Sean­chai Library’s Cale­do­nia Sky­tow­er

Stay Tuned to staging.vcradio.org/ for fea­tured music Wednes­days and Sat­ur­days, our pro­grams Where Have You Been? (Weds/Sat) and Tarot @ Teatime (Thurs/Sun), and ZBS Radio Dra­ma Fri­days all on-the-air.