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Modern Classical Music

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Today’s Fea­tured Music is “Mod­ern Clas­si­cal Music” — but what does that mean, exact­ly?

Well, in the con­text of today’s pro­gramme, we’re talk­ing about pieces of music writ­ten between around the mid-20th Cen­tu­ry until the present day, that aren’t exact­ly “pop music”.

This is a tricky def­i­n­i­tion, how­ev­er. Mike Batt has remarked that there is no such dis­tinc­tion as “pop­u­lar music” and “seri­ous music” — there’s sim­ply “pop­u­lar” and “unpop­u­lar”, so the def­i­n­i­tion rather falls at the first fence.Con­tin­ue read­ing→

The Black Mass 30: Flies by Anthony Vercoe

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Join us on Fri­day, Sep­tem­ber 10th, at a lit­tle after 12 noon or 4pm Pacif­ic time / 8pm or mid­night in the UK,  for the final 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 has brought you some of literature’s most haunt­ing sto­ries, by mas­ters of the craft — many of whom are best-known in oth­er fields. Our thanks as always to John Whit­ing, pro­duc­er of many of these record­ings, and of course to Erik Bauers­feld him­self.

This land­mark radio dra­ma series draws to a close this week, with our final tale from The Black Mass. Next week at the same time, join us for an spe­cial intro­duc­tion to the radio dra­ma of ZBS Foun­da­tion, lead­ing off a sea­son of fab­u­lous, fan­tas­tic and mys­ti­cal radio dra­ma series from our friends at ZBS.

Note that the episode will not start 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.

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Pastorale

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As sum­mer begins to draw to a close in the North­ern hemi­sphere, tune in today, Weds Sep­tem­ber 8, for a pro­gramme of melod­ic, often orches­tral pieces as we fea­ture music that evokes the nat­ur­al world in all its glo­ry.

Main­ly, but not exclu­sive­ly, clas­si­cal in nature, we’ll hear music like Beethoven’s Pas­toral Sym­pho­ny and the beau­ti­ful but less­er known Sym­pho­ny No 3, Pas­toral, from Vaugh­an Williams. There’s The Lark Ascend­ing and many oth­er beau­ti­ful relax­ing clas­sics.

In addi­tion, you’ll hear some relax­ing ‘smooth jazz’ and New Age pieces, again with a coun­try air.

So kick back and enjoy var­ied sounds evoca­tive of the coun­try­side.
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Music of the Baroque

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Today, Sat­ur­day Sep­tem­ber 4th, 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 Episode 15 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 Art Korner SL, which focus­es on art and pho­tog­ra­phy show­cased in-world across many dif­fer­ent gen­res and forms. You can read more about it 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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The Black Mass 29: The Feeder by Carl Linder

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Join us on Fri­day, Sep­tem­ber 3rd, at a lit­tle after 12 noon or 4pm Pacif­ic time / 8pm or mid­night in the UK,  for the penul­ti­mate 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. Our thanks as always to John Whit­ing, pro­duc­er of many of these record­ings, and of course to Erik Bauers­feld him­self.

This land­mark radio dra­ma series draws to a close next week, with our final tale from The Black Mass.

Note that the episode will not start 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.

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Tarot @ Teatime: Episode 14 — The Cardinal Virtues

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Thurs­day, Sep­tem­ber 2nd sees the pre­miere of a new episode in our pop­u­lar twice-month­ly orig­i­nal series, “Tarot @ Teatime”. The show is repeat­ed on Sun­day and goes out at noon and 4pm Pacif­ic / 8pm and mid­night in the UK.

In Episode Four­teen Hon­ey and Wil­low dis­cuss the Four Car­di­nal Virtues and how they relate to both the Major and Minor Arcana of the Tarot. In addi­tion, the read­ing for this episode presents a tech­nique for choos­ing a good date for a project.

The episode ref­er­ences:

Caitlín Matthews, The Untold Tarot: The Lost Art of Read­ing Ancient Tarots,
Red Feath­er Mind, Body, Spir­it An imprint of Schif­fer Pub­lish­ing, Ltd., 2018, ISBN: 978–0‑7643–5561‑5

Rachel Pol­lack, Tarot Wis­dom: Spir­i­tu­al Teach­ings and Deep­er Mean­ings,
Llewellyn Pub­li­ca­tions, 2008, ISBN: 978–0738713090

Where’ve You Been? 15 visits Art Korner SL

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Wednes­day Sep­tem­ber 1st — and Episode 15 of our pop­u­lar twice-month­ly  orig­i­nal series about things to do and places to vis­it around the Sec­ond Life grid, “Where’ve You Been?”,  this time vis­its Art Korner SL.

Art Korner SL focus­es on art and pho­tog­ra­phy show­cased in-world across all dif­fer­ent gen­res and forms. They seek to cov­er art gal­leries, art projects, pho­to­genic regions and many oth­er activ­i­ties through con­tent which is orig­i­nal, infor­ma­tive and enter­tain­ing.

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New Shows on Mixcloud: Tarot @ Teatime 13 and Where’ve You Been 14

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It’s time to add two new pro­grammes to our Mix­cloud “Lis­ten Again” facil­i­ty. Lis­ten to them now at https://www.mixcloud.com/virtualcommunityradio/

In  Episode 14 of “Where’ve You Been”, we vis­it the Haunt­ed Man­sion trib­ute on Lythria. Owned by Nance Clowes, it is a trib­ute to the theme park attrac­tion first devel­oped by Walt Dis­ney Imag­i­neers for Dis­ney­land, and sub­se­quent­ly for oth­er Dis­ney des­ti­na­tions.

And in “Tarot @ Teatime” Episode 13, Hon­ey and Wil­low dis­cuss dif­fer­ent approach­es to study­ing the Major Arcana, and how to iden­ti­fy your Per­son­al­i­ty and Soul cards. (Please ignore the mis­lead­ing URL of the link! — it’s episode 13, not 12.)

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Saturday At The Movies

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Today, join us for a pro­gramme of music from the movies, today fea­tur­ing the music of Ennio Mor­ri­cone.

Movies are where most peo­ple today hear orches­tral music, and there will be plen­ty of that today. But movie music is a much broad­er field than that, and today you’ll hear music from the movies of many dif­fer­ent kinds, from the very start of the genre (with Camille Saint-Saens) to the lat­est block­busters; from orches­tral music to rock, to Fifties songs. There is a slight bias towards fan­ta­sy and SF movies, but nev­er mind, we all need a bit of an escape these days.…

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