I don’t know what got into me. I knew it was Presidents Day weekend, and still somehow I went with the autocrats. Must have been a Freudian slip. Whatever the motivation, this week on “Sweetness and Light,” we don’t need ermine or orbs and sceptres to vicariously live like kings.

Not when we can enjoy regal music by Giuseppe Verdi, Léo Delibes, Sir Arthur Bliss, Percy Grainger, Emmanuel Chabrier, Adolphe Adam, and Henry VIII.

This country may have been founded on principles that rejected such things, but heavy is the head that bears the burden of coming up with a good theme.

I spare you the royal pain! Absolute power delights absolutely on “Sweetness and Light,” this Saturday morning at 11:00 EST/8:00 PST, exclusively on KWAX, the radio station of the University of Oregon!

Stream it, wherever you are, at the link:

https://kwax.uoregon.edu/