Today in our Featured Music we look at the progression from folk into rock in the UK in the 1960s and 1970s. In addition, at 12 noon and 4pm Pacific/SLT, we present another edition of “Where Have You” Been?, where we discover things to do and places to see around the Second Life Grid. Plus “Engines of Our Ingenuity” every four hours from 4am Pacific.
Jack Flanders in Steam Dreamers of Inverness — Series 3
Tune in on Friday for the next episode of another exciting radio serial from our friends at ZBS Foundation: “Steam Dreamers of Inverness — Series Three” - in which Jack Flanders and his friends continue their exciting Steampunk adventure!
The complete adventure consists of 16 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 third series.
Now read on…
Laissez Les Bon Temps Rouler! Mardi Gras on VCRadio
It’s Mardi Gras time here on Virtual Community Radio, and our Featured Genre will be the music of Carnival and Mardi Gras, from New Orleans to Latin America and beyond, plus some old-time R&B and Trad Jazz.
In addition, you can hear an episode of our original series, Where Have You Been? where we discuss things to do and places to visit across the SL Grid: 12 noon and 4pm SLT/Pacific.
And don’t miss The Engines of Our Ingenuity from The University of Houston’s College of Engineering — a series about the machines that make our civilization run, and the people whose ingenuity created them — every four hours from 4am SLT/Pacific.
Main image: “Mardi Gras on Canal postcard by Hirschwitz” by Infrogmation is licensed under CC BY 2.0.
Early Music on Virtual Community Radio
Today, tune in to Virtual Community Radio via the link — or simply “Play Virtual Community Radio” on your Alexa smart speaker — for a programme of Early Music.
We’re 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.
“Where Have You Been?”, our original series on things to do and places to visit around the Second Life Grid, airs at 12 noon and 4pm SLT/Pacific Time — and don’t miss Engines of Our Ingenuity every 4 hours from 4am Pacific.
Celtic Music for Imbolc
Welcome to a Celtic Music (and more!) Festival featuring (among many other things) music from around the Celtic Lands, alongside music inspired by or expressing Celtic themes, in celebration of Imbolc.
Today you’ll hear a wide variety of Celtic and Celtic-influenced material, with orchestral works like Shaun Davey’s Brendan Voyage; a wide range of performances by traditional Celtic artists; and music inspired by the Celtic heritage. There are also some large-scale performances from artists like Celtic Woman, Celtic Thunder and even the Cincinnati Pops! And listen out for some of the Celtic/Goddess themed pieces from Nashville-based artist Laura Powers’ Legends of the Goddess trilogy, along with Rutland Boughton’s seldom-heard classic, first performed in Glastonbury between the wars, The Immortal Hour.
Then tune in at 12 noon or 4pm Pacific Time/SLT, 8pm or midnight in the UK, for episodes from our original series, “Where Have You Been?”, where we discuss things to do and places to visit across the Second Life Grid. And catch “Engines of Our Ingenuity” from the University of Houston every four hours from 4am Pacific.
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.
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.
