Category Archives: Programming

From Classical to Romantic

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Today we explore a lit­tle of the music writ­ten at the bor­ders of the Clas­si­cal and Roman­tic eras, focus­ing on the work of some well-known com­posers born in the last 30 years of the 18th Cen­tu­ry. It’s also time for a new episode of our Sec­ond Life trav­el series, “Where Have You Been?” — Episode 18, which vis­its Snowy Riv­er Hal­loween — Pirate Vil­lage and Pine Val­ley Haunt­ed Cav­erns (see sep­a­rate entry).

His­tor­i­cal­ly, the term ‘clas­si­cal music’ refers specif­i­cal­ly to the musi­cal peri­od from 1750 to 1820. The tran­si­tion from the clas­si­cal peri­od of West­ern art music, which last­ed around 1750 to 1820, to Roman­tic music, which last­ed around 1815 to 1910, took place in the eigh­teenth and nine­teenth cen­turies. Com­posers began tran­si­tion­ing their com­po­si­tion­al and melod­ic tech­niques into a new musi­cal form which became known as the Roman­tic Era or Roman­ti­cism due to the imple­men­ta­tion of lyri­cal melodies as opposed to the lin­ear com­po­si­tion­al style of Clas­si­cal music.

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New shows added to Mixcloud

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We’ve just uploaded two addi­tion­al shows to our Mix­cloud pro­file, where you can “lis­ten again” to our orig­i­nal series episodes that you may have missed.

On this occa­sion, we’ve added Episode 17 of “Where Have You Been?”, our series on things to do and places to see in the Sec­ond Life vir­tu­al world, and Episode 16 of our pop­u­lar show on the Tarot, “Tarot @ Tea Time”.

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Frankenstein Part 1 Airs Today…

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Tune in today, Sat­ur­day Octo­ber 9th at 2pm SLT/Pacific, 10pm in the UK — for Part One of the Sean­chai Library full-cast adap­ta­tion of Mary Shel­ley’s clas­sic — Franken­stein!

Fea­tur­ing Shan­don Lor­ing, Zan­der Greene, Cor­wyn Allen, Da5id Abbot, Elrik Mer­lin and Cale­do­nia Sky­tow­er.

Today’s fea­tured genre is Film & TV themes — and tune in for the lat­est edi­tion of Where Have You Been? at noon or 2pm Pacif­ic, 8pm or mid­night in the UK, where we vis­it Embrace Aphrodite’s Dark­ness and Ghast­ly Manor.

The Fourth Tower of Inverness continues… Week 3

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“So that drag­on is Some­one We Know!”

TODAY on Vir­tu­al Com­mu­ni­ty Radio — Fri­day, Octo­ber 8th
The Fourth Tow­er of Inver­ness  con­tin­ues with Week 3 of this excit­ing mys­tery adven­ture. Will Jack and Lit­tle Frie­da escape the drag­on?

The Fourth Tow­er of Inver­ness is a 1972 radio dra­ma, pro­duced by the ZBS Foun­da­tion. It is the first of the Jack Flan­ders adven­ture series, and com­bines ele­ments of Amer­i­cana and Old-time radio, with meta­phys­i­cal con­cepts such as past life regres­sion, Sufi wis­dom, Tibetan Bud­dhism and shaman­is­tic com­mu­ni­ca­tion with the nat­ur­al world.

Airs just after the hour at Noon and 4pm SLT/Pacific Time / 8pm and mid­night in the UK.

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Tarot @ Teatime, Episode 16: Interviewing Your Deck

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It’s Thurs­day, Octo­ber 7th and anoth­er chance to catch Episode 16 of “Tarot @ Tea Time”, where Hon­ey and Wil­low explore how to get bet­ter acquaint­ed with your Tarot deck by inter­view­ing it. Using dif­fer­ent decks they each con­duct a sev­en ques­tion inter­view and dis­cuss the respons­es from the cards. Sam­ple read­ings for in-depth study of Major Arcana cards are also pre­sent­ed.

Resources men­tioned:

The Aquar­i­an Tarot
https://www.usgamesinc.com/Aquarian-tarot-deck.html

Smith-Waite Tarot Deck Cen­ten­ni­al Edi­tion
https://www.usgamesinc.com/Smith-Waite-Centennial-Tarot-Deck.html

Katey Flow­ers Deck inter­view video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKJ3gUAuA5c

Car­rie Mal­lon (The Spa­cious Tarot)
https://carriemallon.com

Rachel Pol­lack, Tarot Wis­dom: Spir­i­tu­al Teach­ings and Deep­er Mean­ings, Llewellyn Pub­li­ca­tions (2008), ISBN-13: 978–0738713090

 

Music of the Baroque

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Today, Wednes­day Octo­ber 6th, 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. And there is plen­ty of Bach in today’s pro­gramme!

Then at 12 noon and 4pm Pacif­ic / 8pm or mid­night UK time, there’s anoth­er chance to hear Episode 17 of “Where Have You Been?”, our twice-month­ly show on places to vis­it and things to do around the Sec­ond Life Grid. And in this sea­son­al episode, we vis­it Embrace Aphrodite’s Dark­ness and Ghast­ly Manor. Fea­tur­ing three attrac­tions, rang­ing from a scenic rail­road to an arcade ghost-train style ride, it’s a delight­ful­ly var­ied des­ti­na­tion for those who love Hallowe’en fun.

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.

In addi­tion, don’t for­get to catch our pre­sen­ta­tion of Franken­stein in two parts start­ing Sat­ur­day 9th.

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Frankenstein Is Coming! October 9 & 16

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Mark your Cal­en­dar: Sat­ur­day Octo­ber 9th and 16th at 2pm SLT/Pacific, 10pm in the UK — Parts One and Two (respec­tive­ly) of the Sean­chai Library adap­ta­tion of Mary Shel­ley’s clas­sic!

Fea­tur­ing Shan­don Lor­ing, Zan­der Greene, Cor­wyn Allen, Da5id Abbot, Elrik Mer­lin and Cale­do­nia Sky­tow­er.

The Fourth Tower of Inverness — Week 2

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Today, Fri­day Octo­ber 1st, we’re con­tin­u­ing the acclaimed and award-win­ning radio dra­ma series from ZBS Foun­da­tion, by kind per­mis­sion of Tom Lopez at ZBS. Tune in today for the sec­ond episode of The Fourth Tow­er of Inver­ness, the ZBS series that start­ed it all back in 1972.

This week: Will Meanie Eenie put an end to Jack Flan­ders with her meat cleaver? And what of the drag­on?

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