Tune in on Friday for the next episode of another exciting radio serial from our friends at ZBS Foundation: MIDNIGHT at the CASA LUNA - featuring the redoubtable Jack Flanders.
This adventure consists of four half-hour episodes, broadcast at noon and 4pm Pacific/SLT on Fridays. Now read on dot, dot, dot…
The Magic of The Musical is the monthly series, hosted by Caledonia Skytower with special guests, which looks at the history, lore and songs of the musical theatre. It’s broadcast from the Gold Hall at Angel Manor in Second Life before a live audience at 2pm SLT/Pacific Time, on the third Saturday in the month.
After the show has aired, we post it on our “Listen Again” service at Mixcloud, so you can catch any shows you missed, or to hear them again.
Join us today for a programme of French classical music from a wide variety of composers, primarily from the 18th and 19th centuries, including a nice collection of the works of Erik Satie that goes well beyond the Gymnopédies.
Most of the composers today are pretty well-known, but keep your ears open for things like the Eurovision theme — actually Extrait du Te Deum by Charpentier — and other goodies. There is some gorgeous music in today’s programme and we do hope you enjoy it.
MUSICAL THEATER FANS: Our second season of monthly shows, live from Angel Manor, began on April 15… but if you missed it, here’s your chance to catch up: Listen again on Mixcloud!
THIS EPISODE: “Musicals within Musicals”
Everything is “meta” these days, but just a few cultural revolutions ago a young and developing American musical theater discovered the value of self-referential storytelling. This episode looks at musicals which “break the fourth wall” by acknowledging the audience — and even include their own musicals!
Saturday, April 22nd: Today’s programme concerns itself with the “sense of place” or genius locii, 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 we feature a beautiful “Hidden Gem” on the Second Life Grid — details here. And catch “The Engines of Our Ingenuity” — a radio program that tells the story of how our culture is formed by human creativity, written and hosted by John Lienhard and other contributors, every four hours from 4am Pacific.
Today’s programme takes a look at the expansion of Celtic music and themes into several different genres of music.
Here we are featuring musicians and music that start from the Celtic tradition and take it forward into other realms, from Joanie Madden to Mendelssohn to Geraldo and his Orchestra; from thunderously spectacular orchestral arrangements (you’ll hear several of those today) in the wake of Riverdance, to inspiring music for a small Celtic ensemble and organ, played in the largest Gothic space in the world.
Often on “Where Have You Been?” we feature large-scale locations — art galleries, nature regions and so on. But in addition from time to time we’ve featured smaller, more intimate venues ideal for a quiet chat with a friend or a date night. “Where Have You Been?” is in a good position to feature destinations like these. So we are starting a special occasional series to focus on small destinations, in addition to continuing our coverage of larger venues, art shows, and events: “Hidden Gems — for date nights and special occasions.” And this episode is the first official Hidden Gems episode.
MUSICAL THEATER FANS: New Series begins April 15 at 2pm SLT!
Season 2 of Virtual Community Radio’s original series “The Magic of The Musical” starts this Saturday, April 15th, at 2pm SLT/Pacific Time, live from its new home in the Gold Hall at the elegant Angel Manor Estate.
Wednesday April 12th, and today we’re featuring music of the Baroque era, with a particularly extensive collection of music by J S Bach.
Plus it’s your last chance to hear the current episode of “Where Have You Been?”, where we report on interesting things to see and do across the Second Life Grid, at noon and 4pm Pacific/SLT, where we visit Armstrong Park in a virtual New Orleans; and don’t miss “Engines of Our Ingenuity” from the University of Houston, every four hours from 4am Pacific.
On Sunday April 9th at 11:30 am Pacific/SLT, we are pleased to be hosting a special event at the Sci-Fi Con in Second Life; a “ZBS Radio Hour” from our friends at ZBS Foundation, featuring the very first adventure of Ruby the Galactic Gumshoe, ZBS’s most popular creation, in: “Tired of the Green Menace?” The location will be the auditorium at New Atlantis 95/128/25
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