Tag Archives: Classical

La Musique Classique Française

April 26, 2023   Programming

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.

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Woodwinds

March 15, 2023   Programming

Today’s pro­gramme fea­tures mem­bers of the wood­wind fam­i­ly — oboe, clar­inet, flute, bas­soon, recorder and more, includ­ing the gamut of Ear­ly Music wood­winds like the shawn (the pre­de­ces­sor of the oboe), cur­tal (a pro­­to-bas­­soon) and crumhorn.

Of course, the major­i­ty of orches­tral music includes a wood­wind sec­tion, so the cri­te­ri­on for inclu­sion in today’s show was that a mem­ber of the wood­wind fam­i­ly is the lead instru­ment — a “wind band” is not suf­fi­cient (and they’re gen­er­al­ly usu­al­ly brass-heavy any­way), but a con­cer­to for bas­soon (yes there is at least one) counts.

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Sounding Brass

February 15, 2023   Programming

Today’s pro­gramme — Wednes­day Feb­ru­ary 15th — focus­es on brass instru­ments, with gen­res that range from Ear­ly Music to con­tem­po­rary pieces.

Thus the pieces you’ll hear today range from ancient and ear­ly music, through Baroque and clas­si­cal, to Vic­to­ri­an brass bands, to rag­time, trad jazz, a touch of big band, right up to mod­ern works includ­ing a mar­vel­lous suite of pieces for wind band inspired by the works of Shakespeare.

This will all lead to some remark­able jux­ta­po­si­tions — and a few sur­pris­es. Plus “Where Have You Been?” re-vis­its Svar­ga, and more!

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Classics On The Keys

January 18, 2023   Programming

Today, Wednes­day Jan­u­ary 18, we present a wealth of key­board pieces — pri­mar­i­ly on piano, harp­si­chord and organ, but you’ll hear some oth­er tra­di­tion­al key­board instru­ments too — both solo and with oth­er musi­cal forces back­ing them.

The main spread of the pro­gramme encom­pass­es the Baroque and Clas­si­cal peri­ods, but you’ll also hear some more mod­ern pieces includ­ing treat­ments of clas­si­cal pieces, and some engag­ing lit­tle 19th cen­tu­ry pieces that are less well-known. Most of the time, there is a clas­si­cal or baroque link in there some­where, even if it’s not imme­di­ate­ly obvious.

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Classical Landscapes

January 14, 2023   Programming

Sat­ur­day, Jan­u­ary 14th: Today’s pro­gramme, “Clas­si­cal Land­scapes”, con­sists of music from some of the Great Mas­ters of Clas­si­cal and Roman­tic music (and a few from the Baroque), includ­ing Mozart, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky and many more.

Sit back and enjoy some of the great­est music ever writ­ten, per­formed by the lead­ing orches­tras and solo per­form­ers of the world.

“Where Have You Been?”, where we sug­gest things to do and places to vis­it around the Sec­ond Life Grid, will be back for a new series in March. In the mean­time we’ll be re-broad­cast­ing a few pro­grammes from Series 2, start­ing with Seren­i­ty Val­ley (S02E08). While “WYB” includes quite a few time-relat­ed items like gallery exhi­bi­tions and places based around the time of year, there are some places we’ve vis­it­ed which are longer-term in scope and we’ll be revis­it­ing a few of them in the show’s reg­u­lar times­lots of 12 noon and 4pm Pacific/SLT, on Wednes­days and Saturdays.

You can also hear “Engines of Our Inge­nu­ity” at the usu­al time, every 4 hours from 4am Pacific.

“Orches­tra” by foil­man is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0

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SUNDAY 23rd at Haunted Hollow

October 23, 2022   Station News

The cel­e­bra­tion of the spir­its of autumn con­tin­ues this week, and Vir­tu­al Com­mu­ni­ty Radio is pleased to be there right along­side Tarot @ Teatime and Sean­chai Library to sup­port this event, pro­duced by Elite Equestrian.

Join us on Sun­day, Octo­ber 23rd, at Haunt­ed Hol­low on Chest­nut Hills in #Sec­ondlife for …

  • Sun­day, Octo­ber 23, 1:30pm — Ray Bradbury’s “The Hal­loween Tree” with Sean­chai Library — Part 2
  • fol­lowed at 2:30pm — Clas­si­cal Autumn Ball at the Ball­room over­look­ing the sea with DJ Cale­do­nia Skytower
  • PLUS Tarot @ Teatime at 12 noon and 4pm Pacific/SLT

And there’s still more hap­py haunt­ings to come.

Review the full sched­ule of events between now and All Hal­lows Eve.

Stay Tuned to VCRadio.org for fea­tured music Wednes­days and Sat­ur­days, our pro­grams Where Have You Been? and Tarot @ Teatime, and ZBS Radio Dra­ma Fri­days all on-the-air.

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THIS WEEK at Haunted Hollow – October 19–23

October 19, 2022   Station News

The cel­e­bra­tion of the spir­its of autumn con­tin­ues this week, and Vir­tu­al Com­mu­ni­ty Radio is pleased to be there right along­side Tarot @ Teatime and Sean­chai Library to sup­port this event, pro­duced by Elite Eques­tri­an. Come and explore the many inter­ac­tive fea­tures of this year’s Hol­low. Have you found the drag­on’s hoard yet?

 

Join us at Haunt­ed Hol­low on Chest­nut Hills in #Sec­ondlife this week for …

  • Wednes­day, Octo­ber 19, 1 pm — Live Tarot Read­ings with Hon­ey Heart of Tarot @ Teatime
  • Sun­day, Octo­ber 23, 1:30pm — Ray Bradbury’s “The Hal­loween Tree” with Sean­chai Library — Part 2
  • fol­lowed at 2:30pm — Clas­si­cal Autumn Ball at the Ball­room over­look­ing the sea with DJ Cale­do­nia Skytower

And there’s still more hap­py haunt­ings to come.

Review the full sched­ule of events between now and All Hal­lows Eve.

Stay Tuned to VCRadio.org for fea­tured music Wednes­day and Sat­ur­day, our pro­grams Where Have You Been? and Tarot @ Teatime, and ZBS Radio Dra­ma Fri­days all on-the-air.

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Classical Landscapes

August 13, 2022   Programming

Sat­ur­day, August 13th: Today’s pro­gramme con­sists of music from some of the Great Mas­ters of Clas­si­cal and Roman­tic music (and a few from the Baroque), includ­ing Mozart, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky and many more.

Sit back and enjoy some of the great­est music ever writ­ten, per­formed by the lead­ing orches­tras and solo per­form­ers of the world.

Then at noon and 4pm Pacific/SLT, 8pm and mid­night UK time, tune in for the lat­est edi­tion of our orig­i­nal series, “Where Have You Been?”, where we vis­it The Nature Col­lec­tive. More details here.

You can also hear “Engines of Our Inge­nu­ity” at the usu­al time, every 4 hours from 4am Pacific.

“Orches­tra” by foil­man is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0

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From Classical to Romantic

June 11, 2022   Programming

Today, Sat­ur­day 11th June, 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. And at 12 noon and 4pm Pacific/Second Life Time, tune in for the lat­est episode of our orig­i­nal series on things to do and places to vis­it around the Sec­ond Life Grid — “Where Have You Been?” This time we pay a vis­it to The Elven For­est and have a dis­cus­sion on Role­play. Plus don’t miss “The Engines of Our Inge­nu­ity” every four hours from 4am Pacific.

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British Composers

May 18, 2022   Programming

Today’s pro­gramme fea­tures music from British com­posers old and new, pri­mar­i­ly focus­ing on clas­si­cal styles, but cov­er­ing a wide range. The playlist includes Edward Ger­man, Richard Har­vey, Ger­ald Finzi, Sir Arthur Bliss, Jon Lord, Christo­pher Gun­ning, Vaugh­an Williams, Haver­gal Bri­an and many more.

Then tune in at 12 noon or 4pm Pacif­ic Time / 8pm or mid­night in the UK, for anoth­er chance to hear the lat­est episode of “Where Have You Been?”. In this episode, #10 of our sec­ond sea­son, we vis­it the “May The Art Be With You” Star Wars trib­ute exhi­bi­tion at Elven Falls Art Col­lec­tive. Details can be found here.

And don’t miss the lat­est episode of “Engines of Our Inge­nu­ity” from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Hous­ton, every four hours from 4am Pacific.

Image, “bal­loon — british coun­try­side” by Mikee Show­biz is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0  

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