I think we can all use more light in our lives.
This week on “The Lost Chord,” British Light Music is a genre I think perfectly suited to the month August, when it is still summer, but the light begins to take on a more lambent quality.
Furthermore, the music is all very civilised [sic], conjuring a world of palm courts and spa orchestras, comfortable evenings spent around the radio, and carefree days by the sea.
Take a nostalgic journey with an hour of vintage recordings of works by Albert Ketèlbey, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Sir Edward Elgar, Richard Addinsell, George Scott-Wood, Haydn Wood, Billy Mayerl and Eric Coates.
You provide the tea and cucumber sandwiches; I’ll supply the sweetness and light. I hope you’ll join me for “Distant Light,” on “The Lost Chord,” now in syndication on KWAX, the radio station of the University of Oregon!
Keep in mind, KWAX is on the West Coast, so there’s a three-hour difference for the Trenton-Princeton area. Here are the respective air-times of my recorded shows (with East Coast conversions in parentheses):
PICTURE PERFECT, the movie music show – Friday on KWAX at 5:00 PACIFIC TIME (8:00 PM EDT)
THE LOST CHORD, unusual and neglected rep – Saturday on KWAX at 4:00 PACIFIC TIME (7:00 PM EDT)
Stream them here!
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