Wait! Hang on to that seashell collection! Don’t get rid of that eraser! Before you take out the recyclables, think twice. Grab a flower pot, a soup can, or a Coke bottle, and pull up a chair. This week on “The Lost Chord,” we’ll be playing a lot of garbage.

So, what else is new?

Well, I’m afraid this week I mean it quite literally. We’ll hear a three-movement “Garbage Concerto” by Canadian composer Jan Järvlepp, selections from “Underground Overlays from the Cistern Chapel” – acoustical experiments employing various permutations of conch, trombone, and didgeridoo, inside a two-million-gallon water tank, no less – rendered by Stuart Dempster and friends, and a short piece for prepared piano (foreign objects inserted between the strings) by John Cage.

That’s “Ashcan Classics,” making music with found objects, on “The Lost Chord,” now in syndication on KWAX, the radio station of the University of Oregon!

Clip and save the start times for all three of my recorded shows:

PICTURE PERFECT, the movie music show – Friday at 8:00 PM EDT/5:00 PM PDT

SWEETNESS AND LIGHT, the light music program – Saturday at 11:00 AM EDT/8:00 AM PDT

THE LOST CHORD, unusual and neglected rep – Saturday at 7:00 PM EDT/4:00 PM PDT

Stream them, wherever you are, at the link!

https://kwax.uoregon.edu/

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