How now, spirit! Whither wander you?

June 23rd is St. John’s Eve, otherwise known as Midsummer Night. In anticipation of the occasion, I invite you to begin your Saturday on “Sweetness and Light” with an hour of fairy music, all of it tying in, in one way or another, with Oberon, king of the fairies, Titania, his queen, and his feeewheeling servant, Puck. Oh yes, and “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.”

We’ll enjoy selections by Carl Maria von Weber, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Walter Leigh, Henry Purcell, Montague Phillips, Erik Satie, and Ambroise Thomas.

Rather audacious of me, I know, but one thing we will NOT hear is the famous incidental music by Felix Mendelssohn! But we hear that all the time, anyway.

It will be as if Puck administered love-in-idleness nectar to your ears, when we’re lost in the musical enchantment of Midsummer Night, on “Sweetness and Light,” this Saturday morning at 11:00 EDT/8:00 PDT, exclusively on KWAX, the radio station of the University of Oregon!

Stream it, wherever you are, at the link:

https://kwax.uoregon.edu/