Category Archives: Programming

Jazz On The Keys

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Today, Sat­ur­day April 23rd, we’re pre­sent­ing a pro­gramme of key­boards-based Jazz. While many of the pieces we’re play­ing today fea­ture or include the piano, there are also some record­ings fea­tur­ing oth­er key­board instru­ments, includ­ing some inspir­ing pieces on syn­the­sis­er. Keep an ear out for Alan Haven’s Image, a late-night Radio Car­o­line clos­ing tune back in the day; Cam­bridge-based David Rees-Williams and his tri­o’s inter­pre­ta­tions of clas­si­cal works; two albums by Bil­ly Bar­ber, one (Shades of Grey) on piano and the oth­er (Light­house) on elec­tron­ic instru­ments; and some mar­vel­lous per­for­mances by Ian Lynn includ­ing his clas­sic album For­got­ten Sum­mer.

Don’t miss “Engines of Our Inge­nu­ity” every four hours from 4am Pacif­ic.

And check out our vis­it to the amaz­ing Seren­i­ty Val­ley in the lat­est episode of “Where Have You Been?”.

“Shai Mae­stro” by Nathan Bul­li­vant is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

“Man Of La Mancha” Now On Mixcloud

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We’re pleased to say that the first episode of our new orig­i­nal series, “The Mag­ic of The Musi­cal”, “Tilt­ing At Wind­mills: The Man Of La Man­cha” is now avail­able to hear on our “Lis­ten Again” facil­i­ty on Mix­cloud.

Man of La Man­cha pre­miered in 1965 with music by Mitch Leigh, and lyrics by Joe Dar­i­on. It is adapt­ed from Dale Wasserman’s non-musi­cal 1959 tele­play I, Don Quixote, which was in turn inspired by both Miguel de Cer­vantes life, and his 17th-cen­tu­ry nov­el Don Quixote — con­sid­ered by many to be among the great­est nov­els of all time. It tells the sto­ry of the “mad” knight Don Quixote as a play with­in a play, per­formed by Cer­vantes and his fel­low pris­on­ers as he awaits a hear­ing with the Span­ish Inqui­si­tion.


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Sounding Brass

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Today’s pro­gramme — Wednes­day April 20th — focus­es on brass instru­ments, with gen­res that range from Ear­ly Music to con­tem­po­rary pieces.

Thus the gen­res 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.

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We present… The Magic of The Musical!

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Sat­ur­day April 16th at 2pm Pacific/SLT, 10pm in the UK, sees the pre­miere of a new orig­i­nal series on Vir­tu­al Com­mu­ni­ty Radio: “The Mag­ic of The Musi­cal.” This month­ly pro­gram explores musi­cal the­atre: the shows, his­to­ry, and lore pre­sent­ed live on Vir­tu­al Com­mu­ni­ty Radio from the VCRa­dio The­ater on Chest­nut Hills, in Sec­ond Life. Every month, your host Cale­do­nia Sky­tow­er spot­lights a dif­fer­ent show or cre­ative per­son­al­i­ty from the musi­cal the­atre canon. The first episode, Tilt­ing At Wind­mills, high­lights Man of La Man­cha, with music from sev­er­al dif­fer­ent pro­duc­tions. You can tune into the show on the air or join the audi­ence in the VCRa­dio The­ater. Here’s a taste of what’s to come…

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Saturday 16th — A Busy Day!

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There’s a lot hap­pen­ing today on Vir­tu­al Com­mu­ni­ty Radio! Be a part of it by tun­ing in or attend­ing one of today’s events in Sec­ond Life…

Catch the lat­est edi­tion of Where Have You Been? at noon or 4pm Pacific/SLT, 8pm or mid­night in the UK, where we find things to do and places to see around the Sec­ond Life Grid. In this episode we vis­it Seren­i­ty Val­ley.

Then from 1 to 2pm SLT, get a per­son­al Tarot read­ing from Hon­ey Heart, co-host of our orig­i­nal series Tarot @ Teatime, in the Tarot tent in VCRa­dio Plaza. Read­ings are free of charge, total­ly con­fi­den­tial and for enter­tain­ment pur­pos­es only.

Today’s Fea­tured Music is… Musi­cals! In cel­e­bra­tion of the first of our new month­ly series pre­sent­ed by Cale­do­nia Sky­tow­er: The Mag­ic of The Musi­cal! which pre­mieres today at 2pm Pacific/SLT, 10pm in the UK. Tune in or be part of the stu­dio audi­ence at the VCRa­dio The­ater! (See sep­a­rate entry.)

The Incredible Adventures of Jack Flanders — Part 5

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Tune in for the lat­est episode of our excit­ing radio ser­i­al from our friends at ZBS Foun­da­tion: The Incred­i­ble Adven­tures of Jack Flan­ders! There are 10 half-hour episodes, one every Fri­day at noon and 4pm Pacific/SLT.

THE INCREDIBLE ADVENTURES OF JACK FLANDERS

In the dead of night, a large ship­ping crate is deliv­ered to the home of our hero Jack Flan­ders. Open­ing the crate, Jack dis­cov­ers a green vel­vet over­stuffed chair. Each night at the stroke of mid­night, Jack sits in the soft, com­fort­able chair which comes alive, lur­ing him onto its vel­vety realm. Every­day real­i­ty fades away, and Jack finds him­self in a strange, oth­er-world of mag­ic, pirates, and sor­cery where huge puff­balls cling to ceil­ings and walls, mast­ed sail­ing ships with wings fly the skies and islands float in the air…

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Tarot @ Teatime — Episode 30: 3‑card spreads & layering

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In this episode, Hon­ey Heart and Elrik Mer­lin con­tin­ue their dis­cus­sion of 3‑card spreads by look­ing at the many ways in which this sim­ple but infor­ma­tive spread can be used, assign­ing dif­fer­ent inter­pre­ta­tions to the cards that appear in the three posi­tions of the read­ing, such as “Past/Present/Future” and “Mind/Body/Spirit”.

In our pre­vi­ous episode, we talked about the use of 1, 2 and 3‑card read­ings and why and when you’d choose one of these over the larg­er spreads. As we learned, even these small spreads can pack a lot of infor­ma­tion into just a few cards. Now in this episode, we dig a lit­tle deep­er into that work­horse of a spread, the 3‑card spread.

We’ll talk about how these spreads can be used effec­tive­ly to assist in per­son­al devel­op­ment, and we’ll talk about how to enhance these spreads by using the “lay­er­ing” tech­nique — adding cards from oth­er decks to a read­ing. We’ve men­tioned the lay­er­ing tech­nique before, but we’ll go into quite a lot more depth here.

Episode 30 pre­mieres on Thurs­day April 14th at 12 noon and 4pm /SLT Pacif­ic Time (8pm and mid­night in the UK) and is repeat­ed at the same times on Sun­days and Thurs­days until April 24th.

“Where Have You Been?” visits Serenity Valley

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At 12 noon and 4pm Pacif­ic Time on Wednes­day and Sat­ur­day from April 13th for two weeks, tune in for the lat­est edi­tion of “Where Have You Been?” where we take a look at places to vis­it and things to do around the Sec­ond Life Grid. Series 2, Episode 8 fea­tures an exquis­ite­ly detailed and exten­sive region with a wide vari­ety of places to hang out and explore above and below ground: Seren­i­ty Val­ley.

The SLURL for Seren­i­ty Val­ley is http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Windy/62/58/75 and note that the region is rat­ed Adult.

And every four hours from 4am Pacif­ic, catch Engines of Our Inge­nu­ity from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Hous­ton — a radio pro­gramme that tells the sto­ry of how our cul­ture is formed by human cre­ativ­i­ty.

“Tarot @ Teatime” — LIVE!

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Today, Sun­day 10th April, join Hon­ey Heart and Elrik Mer­lin, the hosts of our orig­i­nal series, “Tarot@Teatime”, for a live pre­sen­ta­tion at the pop­u­lar Pagan­Fest fes­ti­val at Coven­stead in Sec­ond Life. https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Covenstead/162/161/1471

The pre­sen­ta­tion starts at 1pm SLT/9pm in the UK and focus­es on “lay­er­ing” in Tarot read­ing — enhanc­ing your Tarot read­ing skills by using addi­tion­al decks in par­al­lel with your main one.

Whether you’re a pro­fes­sion­al Taro­mancer or just start­ing out, you should find this pre­sen­ta­tion of inter­est.

And don’t miss your last chance to hear the cur­rent edi­tion of “Tarot @ Teatime” at 12 noon or 4pm SLT.  In episode 29, Hon­ey and Elrik dis­cuss the use of 1, 2 and 3‑card read­ings — and why and when you’d choose one of these over the larg­er spreads. These are rel­a­tive­ly sim­ple spreads — but you don’t always need a grand tableau or even a 9‑card spread every time you read. And a 3‑card spread can pack a lot of infor­ma­tion into just those three cards. They also touch on Tarot Year and Birth cards.