Category Archives: Programming

Saturday At The Movies

Today, join us for a pro­gramme of music from movie and TV sound­tracks — and now we’re includ­ing some gam­ing 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 Steam Dreamers of Inverness — Series 2

Tune in on Fri­day for the next episode of anoth­er excit­ing radio ser­i­al from our friends at ZBS Foun­da­tion: “Steam Dream­ers of Inver­ness — Series Two” - in which Jack Flan­ders and his friends con­tin­ue their excit­ing Steam­punk adventure!

The com­plete adven­ture con­sists of twelve half-hour episodes, in four series of four episodes each, broad­cast at noon and 4pm Pacific/SLT on Fri­days.

Cur­rent­ly we are broad­cast­ing the four episodes of the sec­ond series.

Now read on…

Celtic Moods

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.

A Musical Bestiary

Today we are fea­tur­ing pieces of music that relate to the ani­mal king­dom: a “Musi­cal Bes­tiary” after the idea of medi­ae­val man­u­scripts describ­ing var­i­ous wild beasts, both real and imag­i­nary. The result is an excep­tion­al­ly broad col­lec­tion of musi­cal styles and gen­res, from Flan­ders & Swann to The Great Ani­mal Orches­tra. Tune in at main.vcradio.org or “Play Vir­tu­al Com­mu­ni­ty Radio” on your smart speaker.

The Last Dance at The Dickens Project

On Sun­day Jan­u­ary 7th, Vir­tu­al Com­mu­ni­ty Radio’s DJs Elrik Mer­lin & Cale­do­nia Sky­tow­er host the “last dance” at the 2023 Edi­tion of The Dick­ens Project live on-the-air and at the Dick­ens Skat­ing Pond.

“We’ve got a new year, now what do we do with it?” — Rik and Cale spin no doubt very dif­fer­ent music inspired by the theme “opti­mistic inten­tions” for 2024.

Where Have You Been? — The Magical Mystery Tour

As lis­ten­ers may well know, “Where Have You Been?” is our pop­u­lar orig­i­nal series where your hosts, Cale­do­nia Sky­tow­er and Elrik Mer­lin, dis­cuss things to do and places to vis­it around the Sec­ond Life Grid.

The series is now on hia­tus, but while we busy our­selves find­ing new expe­ri­ences to high­light in Series Four, we’re going to broad­cast ran­dom shows from our third sea­son in the peri­od before we start a new sea­son lat­er in the year, as a kind of “Mag­i­cal Mys­tery Tour”.

Jack Flanders in Steam Dreamers of Inverness

Tune in on Fri­day for the next episode of anoth­er excit­ing radio ser­i­al from our friends at ZBS Foun­da­tion: “Steam Dream­ers of Inver­ness — Series One” - in which Jack Flan­ders and his friends have an excit­ing Steam­punk adventure!

The com­plete adven­ture con­sists of twelve half-hour episodes, in four series of four episodes each, broad­cast at noon and 4pm Pacific/SLT on Fri­days. Cur­rent­ly we are broad­cast­ing the four episodes of the first series.

Now read on…

Dickens Project Open Art Show 2023

Wednes­day, Decem­ber 27th: join us at 2pm SLT/Pacific for a pro­gramme of Smooth Jazz in cel­e­bra­tion of the Dick­ens Project Open Art Show 2023.

Tune in to main.vcradio.org, “Play Vir­tu­al Com­mu­ni­ty Radio” on your smart speak­er, or join us in-world!

Go to the Dick­ens Project Wel­come Cen­ter and fol­low the arrows — your car­riage awaits!

Addi­tion­al details at https://irelandslstory.blogspot.com/2023/12/wednesday-december-27th-at-dickens.html

Special Programming on December 23rd

Join us on Sat­ur­day, Decem­ber 23rd, on Vir­tu­al Com­mu­ni­ty Radio, for an after­noon of spe­cial sea­son­al pro­gram­ming. All times are SLT/Pacific, and all events will be on our Main Stream:

At 12:30pm and 4:30 pm SLT, don’t miss the drama­tised read­ing of Charles Dick­ens’ novel­la, “A Christ­mas Car­ol” fea­tur­ing Shan­don Lor­ing, Elrik Mer­lin, and Cale­do­nia Skytower.

At 2pm SLT, enjoy the Hol­i­day Edi­tion (and sea­son finale) of our orig­i­nal series, “The Mag­ic of The Musi­cal”, live from The Dick­ens Project in Sec­ond Life. Host Cale­do­nia Sky­tow­er explores the songs, sto­ries, and the lore of the musi­cal the­ater stage. This month “What The Dick­ens?” fea­tures the great author’s works as adapt­ed for musi­cals. At the Opera House in the Dick­ens Project. This pro­gramme is now avail­able on Mixcloud.

Also on the air at 12 noon and 4pm SLT, we will be broad­cast­ing the sea­son­al episode and sea­son finale of our orig­i­nal series, “Where Have You Been?” where we dis­cov­er things to do and places to see around the Sec­ond Life Grid, plus The Engines of Our Inge­nu­ity from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Hous­ton, every four hours from 4am SLT.

Hap­py Hol­i­days from Vir­tu­al Com­mu­ni­ty Radio!

Tune in at http://main.vcradio.org — or ask your Alexa-com­pat­i­ble smart speak­er to “Play Vir­tu­al Com­mu­ni­ty Radio!” (You may need to install the Vir­tu­al Com­mu­ni­ty Radio Skill first).

Oth­er ways to lis­ten are detailed here.

Saturnalia Ball: December 22

Today, Fri­day 22 Decem­ber, Elite Eques­tri­an and Vir­tu­al Com­mu­ni­ty Radio are host­ing a Sat­ur­na­lia Ball at 1pm SLT/Pacific Time at Win­ter Hol­low on the Wil­low Grove region.

Dress is For­mal and the music, pre­sent­ed by Elrik Mer­lin, will fea­ture clas­sic ball­room dance pieces by a num­ber of 19th and ear­ly 20th cen­tu­ry composers.

Please join us for this delight­ful event. Your car­riage awaits! http://slurl.com/secondlife/Willow%20Grove/203/74/2906