Category Archives: Programming
Genre Day: British Composers
It’s the middle of Winter here in the UK but hopefully you’re able to keep warm inside — and listen to today’s programme, which features music from British composers old and new. Edward German, Richard Harvey, Gerald Finzi, Sir Arthur Bliss, Jon Lord, Christopher Gunning, Vaughan Williams and many more.
Image, “Midwinter” by Lord Skully is licensed under CC BY-ND 2.0
Saturday At The Movies
Stuck at home like everyone? Pouring with rain or snow outside at the same time? Tune in to Virtual Community Radio for Saturday At The Movies, one of our collections of Genre Days, each featuring a different genre of music.
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.…
So… Grab the popcorn and settle down in front of the speakers in the best seat in the house — your own.
Photo by Krists Luhaers on Unsplash
Genre Day: Light Classical
Today on VCR, we’re pleased to present a programme of light classical music, in our first live playout broadcast.
The programme features a wide range of both artists and composers, some well-known and some, perhaps, who are seldom heard of. Listen out for the likes of Tomlinson, Ketelbey, Alwyn, Gunning and Addinsell, for example, to name but a few, and enjoy a day of tuneful, often relaxing orchestral music.
Photo: The Jalisco Philharmonic Orchestra, by
Coming Soon: The Black Mass
Coming shortly to Virtual Community Radio is the landmark radio drama series The Black Mass, created at the Pacifica radio station KPFA in Berkeley, CA, 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.
Realised with the minimum of audio equipment, the performances were quite remarkable and trod ground seldom covered by radio drama before — or since. Watch this space for details on when the shows will air. There are 30 episodes of up to 30 minutes each, and each weekly episode will be broadcast twice on the same day, once for UK/European listeners and the other for those in North America.
Test Transmissions
We are now preparing to go on the air, and in advance of our official launch at the start of the year, we’re carrying out test transmissions, primarily fine-tuning the playout system to give us the right mix of music and other content. As a result you may find that the stream is not always present.
