Category Archives: Programming
The Early Music Show
Tune in to Virtual Community Radio today for a programme of Early Music – featuring music of the High Renaissance, with contributions from France, Spain, England and Germany. There are also some modern interpretations thrown in for good measure.
Don’t miss Engines of Our Ingenuity every four hours from midday UK time / 4am Pacific.
“Where Have You Been?” — our series on things to do and places to visit across the Second Life Grid, is currently on hiatus and returns shortly.
Hits In Hi-Fi
Today we’ll take a nostalgic journey back to the 1960s and beyond, when music was on vinyl and home stereo was new and excitingly futuristic… with Hits In Hi-Fi.
In the early days of stereo, a significant number of albums were released that were designed especially to show off the wonders of this new way of presenting musical entertainment. Sounds “ping-ponged” across the stereo soundstage; instruments appeared hard on one side and then hard on the other… and there were a lot of space references, bloops and bleeps starting and ending the pieces — and once the Moog Synthesiser became available, that was included in the mix too.
A selection of these albums forms the core of our music today. Often the tracks consist of instrumental arrangements of popular songs, but there are also plenty of original tunes too.
Modern Classical Music
Wednesday, 26th February: Today’s Featured Music is “Modern Classical Music” — but what does that mean, exactly? It’s not simply “modern orchestral music”: most people’s exposure to orchestral music is via movie soundtracks, and they have their own show.
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” (though they may tip a hat to it from time to time).
This is a tricky definition, however. Mike Batt (some of whose work is in the playlist for today: there’s a lot more to his compositions than the Wombles! ) 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.
Saturday At The Movies
Today, join us for a programme of music from movie and TV soundtracks — and now we’re including some computer game soundtracks, which have become as sophisticated as movie scores in recent years and include some of the same composers.
Movies are where most people hear orchestral music these days, and there will be plenty of that in this programme. 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.…
Jack Flanders in League of the Green Velvet Chairs
Tune in on Friday for the latest episode of our exciting 10-part radio serial from our friends at ZBS Foundation: “League of the Green Velvet Chairs” - at noon or 4pm Pacific/SLT every Friday! In which Jack and his friends are transported by a mysterious piece of furniture…
Now read on…
Where Have You Been? S04E14: MadPea Unlimited
We’re pleased to present the final episode in the fourth season of our original series, “Where Have You Been?”, where we discuss things to do and places to visit across the Second Life Grid.
Episodes are broadcast on Wednesdays and Saturdays at 12 noon and 4pm SLT/Pacific Time.
This time we look at an amazing deal that gives SL residents six-month privileged free access to a wealth of games and experiences — at “MadPea Unlimited”.
Christmas on the Musical Theater Stage
Saturday, December 21st sees the repeat of a seasonal episode of our original series, “The Magic Of The Musical” with your host Caledonia Skytower, at 2pm Pacific Time/SLT.
This month the theme is “Christmas on the Musical Theater Stage” and Caledonia’s special guest is Chris Serface, Managing Artistic Director of Tacoma Little Theatre and Past President of the American Association of Community Theatre.
Featured music for the day consists of a touch of nostalgia with an interleaving of seasonal tunes, and the latest edition of our Second Life exploration show goes out at noon and 4pm SLT.
Where Have You Been? S04E13: Gingerbread and the Woodies
We’re pleased to present the latest episode in our original series, “Where Have You Been?”, where we discuss things to do and places to visit across the Second Life Grid.
Episodes are broadcast on Wednesdays and Saturdays at 12 noon and 4pm SLT/Pacific Time.
In this episode we investigate a new installation at alpha tribe Island: “Gingerbread and the Woodies”.
Gingerbread and the Woodies on alpha tribe Island has been created by Alpha Auer and is exactly what it might sound like — a display of the season in wood and gingerbread. But what you’ll discover on alpha tribe Island is really much more. It’s full of delight, whimsy, and some mad-cool original mesh.
Sunday December 1st — Join us for a Winter Ball!
On Sunday, December 1st, at 1:30pm SLT/Pacific Time, join us at Honey Heart’s Winter Hollow Ballroom in the Notthund region of Second Life for a formal Winter Wonderland Ball! It’s Virtual Community Radio’s last formal ball of the year and we would love it if you can join us in the pixel in this wonderful seasonal environment — or if you can’t be here, do tune in for the live broadcast.
The event starts at 1:30pm SLT/Pacific and features music from DJ Elrik Merlin.
Don’t miss it! Here’s the SLURL: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Notthund/192/66/1503
Where Have You Been? S04E12: We Orange the World at Artsville
We’re pleased to present the latest episode in our original series, “Where Have You Been?”, where we discuss things to do and places to visit across the Second Life Grid.
Episodes are broadcast on Wednesdays and Saturdays at 12 noon and 4pm SLT/Pacific Time.
In this episode we discuss a new installation at Artsville: “We Orange The World”
Orange is the signature color of the United Nations women’s UNiTE campaign, and it represents a future free from gender-based violence. The installation “We Orange the World”, now open at Artsville galleries, embraces both the cheer of the color, and the menace of gender-based violence.
