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Music of the Baroque

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Today, Sat­ur­day Feb­ru­ary 12th, we explore 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 the lat­est episode of “Where Have You Been?”, our twice-month­ly show on places to vis­it and things to do around the Sec­ond Life Grid. Series 2 Episode 3 fea­tures two muse­ums that offer sim­i­lar, and con­trast­ing con­tent for res­i­dents to enjoy.  The show airs at 12 noon and 4pm Pacific/SLT, that’s 8pm and mid­night in the UK. It’ll run on Wednes­days and Sat­ur­days at the same times. Details are here.

And 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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Moon Over Morocco: Episode 6

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TODAY on Vir­tu­al Com­mu­ni­ty Radio — Fri­day, Feb­ru­ary 11th, noon or 4pm Pacif­ic / 8pm and mid­night in the UK, the SIXTH 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?”: Duelling Museums!

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The lat­est edi­tion of VCRa­dio’s orig­i­nal series on things to do and places to vis­it across the Sec­ond Life Grid, vis­its two muse­ums that offer sim­i­lar, and con­trast­ing con­tent for res­i­dents to enjoy.  The show pre­mieres on Feb­ru­ary 9th and airs at 12 noon and 4pm Pacific/SLT, that’s 8pm and mid­night in the UK. It’ll run on Wednes­days and Sat­ur­days at the same times for the next two weeks.

In this episode, #3 of our sec­ond sea­son, we dis­cuss two very dif­fer­ent muse­ums .
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New Shows on Mixcloud

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We’ve uploaded three more pro­grammes to our “Lis­ten Again” facil­i­ty on Mix­cloud: Tarot @ Teatime Episode 24, com­plet­ing a review of the Major Arcana; and Where Have You Been? Series 2, Episode 2: The Janus Gal­leries; and Episode 4 of The MOST — Music from the Orig­i­nal Sound Track.

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It’s the MOST — Music from the Original Sound Track — Episode 4

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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 Vir­tu­al Com­mu­ni­ty Radio, Sat­ur­day Feb­ru­ary 5th, at 12:30pm and 4:30pm Pacif­ic Time – that’s 8:30pm and half past mid­night in the UK – for the fourth show in our month­ly 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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Moon Over Morocco: Episode 5

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TODAY on Vir­tu­al Com­mu­ni­ty Radio — Fri­day, Feb­ru­ary 4th, noon or 4pm Pacif­ic / 8pm and mid­night in the UK, the FIFTH 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 25: Cards that Look Scary

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Begin­ning Feb­ru­ary 3rd, we’re pleased to re-broad­cast a live pre­sen­ta­tion from Octo­ber 2021 by the hosts of our orig­i­nal series: “Tarot @ Teatime” air­ing Thurs­days and Sun­days at noon and 4pm Pacif­ic Time/SLT, 8pm and mid­night in the UK. This pro­gramme was orig­i­nal­ly pre­sent­ed live and on-the-air in Octo­ber as part of The 2021 Haunt­ed Hol­low. This episode will also air on Feb­ru­ary 6th, 10th, and 13th.

Episode 25: Cards that look scary
Some cards in the Tarot have images that are poten­tial­ly off putting, scary, or creepy. We’ll con­sid­er why these cards may evoke a neg­a­tive response for some peo­ple, how to see them in a dif­fer­ent light, and how they can be inter­pret­ed in a Tarot read­ing.

Would live tarot read­ings add a some­thing unique to your in-world event or venue? Inquire to H0neyHeart Res­i­dent by note­card in-world, or email tarot@vcradio.org.

Missed any episodes? Catch them on our Mix­Cloud feed!

Celtic Music for Imbolc

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Wel­come to a Celtic Music (and more!) Fes­ti­val fea­tur­ing (among many oth­er things) music from around the Celtic Lands, along­side music inspired by or express­ing Celtic themes, in cel­e­bra­tion of Imbolc.

Today you’ll hear a wide vari­ety of Celtic and Celtic-influ­enced mate­r­i­al, with orches­tral works like Shaun Dav­ey’s Bren­dan Voy­age; a wide range of per­for­mances by tra­di­tion­al Celtic artists; and music inspired by the Celtic her­itage. There are also some large-scale per­for­mances from artists like Celtic Woman, Celtic Thun­der and even the Cincin­nati Pops! And lis­ten out for some of the Celtic/Goddess themed pieces from Nashville-based artist Lau­ra Pow­ers’ Leg­ends of the God­dess tril­o­gy, along with Rut­land Boughton’s sel­­dom-heard clas­sic, first per­formed in Glas­ton­bury between the wars, The Immor­tal Hour.

Then tune in at 12 noon or 4pm Pacif­ic Time/SLT, 8pm or mid­night in the UK, for anoth­er chance to hear the lat­est episode of our orig­i­nal series, “Where Have You Been?”, where we vis­it The Janus Gal­leries. And catch “Engines of Our Inge­nu­ity” from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Hous­ton every four hours from 4am Pacif­ic.

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The Light Programme

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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

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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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