It’s funny, when you’re a kid, there’s nothing more exciting than snow. You stay up half the night, waiting for the first flake, and then in the morning you’re out the door making snowballs and building forts until your mom calls you back for lunch (grilled cheese sandwiches and tomato soup), and your gloves are wet and your fingers are frozen and you’re half-blind as you knock the snow out of the wales of your corduroys, and Mom tells you to take off your boots and not get snow on the carpet.
When you’re an adult, you put away childish things, and freak out.
This week on “Sweetness and Light,” we’ll keep calm and carry on, with a program designed to boost your serotonin and minimize your chionophobia (snow anxiety). We’ll welcome what comes with a playlist of snow-inspired works by Ronald Binge, Frederick Delius, Georgy Sviridov, Sergei Prokofiev, Angela Morley, Edward Elgar, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, and Adam Saunders.
Tune in and drop out – in front of the fireplace with a hot beverage of your choice. There’s no music like snow music, on “Sweetness and Light,” this Saturday morning at 11:00 EST/8:00 PST, exclusively on KWAX Classical Oregon!
Stream it, wherever you are, at the link:
https://kwax.uoregon.edu/
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IMAGE: Princeton’s own Patrick McDonnell tells it like it is
Let It Snow on “Sweetness and Light”
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7 responses to “Let It Snow on “Sweetness and Light””
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“There’s no music like snow music.” 🤣 I love your way with words, Ross!
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John Kececioglu 🙂
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Embracing the snowflakes, so true.
Might the recordings you chose be posted ?
Thank you!-
Eliza Wall
RONALD BINGE – Dance of the Snowflakes (Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra/Ernest Tomlinson) MARCO POLOFREDERICK DELIUS – Sleigh-Ride (Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/Sir Thomas Beecham) EMI
GEORGY SVIRIDOV – The Snow Storm: Selections (USSR Television & Radio Large Symphony Orchestra/Vladimir Fedoseyev) MELODIYA
SERGEI PROKOFIEV – Lieutenant Kijé: Troika (Arnold Voketaitis, bass-baritone, Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra/Leonard Slatkin) VOX
ANGELA MORLEY – Snowride (RTE Concert Orchestra/Gavin Sutherland) NAXOS
EDWARD ELGAR – The Snow (Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir & Orchestra/Sir Charles Groves) EMI
NIKOLAI RIMSKY-KORSAKOV – The Snow Maiden: Suite (Scottish National Orchestra/Neeme Järvi) CHANDOS
ADAM SAUNDERS – Fairytale Sleighride (RTE Concert Orchestra/Gavin Sutherland) Naxos
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Thinking of you on Northampton St. hill.
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Brian M Davis I remember our exchange in the comments on this post from 2021:
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1769322663235016&set=a.883855802533484
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The snow is Dancing-Debussy
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