This Saturday morning on “Sweetness and Light,” it’s April in Paris.
We’ll hear April-and-Paris themed songs by Charles Trenet (“En avril, à Paris”), Georges Bizet (“Chanson d’avril”) and, of course, Vernon Duke (“April in Paris”), alongside a symphony for wind instruments by Charles Gounod (first performed in Paris in April 1885), a love song by Erik Satie, a suite (“Paris”) by British light music master Haydn Wood, and a work by Darius Milhaud as good as spring itself.
It will be an hour of cafés and croissants, blossoms and bisous, on “Sweetness and Light,” this Saturday morning at 11:00 EDT/8:00 PST, exclusively on KWAX Classical Oregon!
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April in Paris on “Sweetness and Light”
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It’s a Light Music Easter Parade on “Sweetness and Light”
Bring down the hatboxes and polish up your shoes. It’s nearly time to take a stroll down the avenue!
I hope you’ll join me this morning on “Sweetness and Light” for a good old-fashioned Easter Parade. We’ll enjoy a veritable bouquet of graceful melodies, turned-out as boulevardiers, flirts, dandies, and dog walkers.
Gentlemen, tip your hats, and, ladies, model your bonnets, as we partake in a leisurely promenade on a lovely spring morning.
Start your day with a light music Easter Parade on “Sweetness and Light,” this Saturday morning at 11:00 EDT/8:00 PDT, exclusively on KWAX Classical Oregon!
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Put Your Hands Up for Renaissance Dances on “Sweetness and Light”
Spring is a time of rebirth – a renaissance, if you will – so I thought it might be fun this week on “Sweetness and Light” to round out Early Music Month with an hour of Renaissance dances.
Most of these will be reimagined by 20th century composers – though with a couple of notable exceptions – and in the case of Ralph Vaughan Williams, we’ll hear a wholly original work employing early instruments. (When’s the last time you heard RVW’s “Suite for Pipes?”)
It will be venison and peacock for breakfast. Put your hands up for a program of courtly and rustic dances on “Sweetness and Light,” this Saturday morning at 11:00 EDT/8:00 PDT, exclusively on KWAX Classical Oregon!
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March Madness on “Sweetness and Light”
Sir Edward Elgar completed five “Pomp and Circumstance” marches. Of course, the “Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1” is the most familiar. Anyone who’s ever attended a graduation ceremony knows it. No. 4 has also enjoyed some popularity. But I find, taken as a set, all five make for a satisfying emotional journey. Judge for yourself this morning on “Sweetness and Light,” as Elgar’s marches anchor an hour in 4/4 time. That’s right, it’s our annual “March Madness” show!
As I’m sure aware if you follow this page, I’m an ardent anglophile, so you won’t be surprised to learn that I’ll also be including marches by Percy Whitlock and John Ireland. In addition, we’ll hear works by Tchaikovsky, Johan Halvorsen, and Beethoven.
These boots are made for marching on “Sweetness and Light.” The madness begins this Saturday morning at 11:00 EDT/8:00 PDT, exclusively on KWAX Classical Oregon!
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Oscar Nostalgia on “Sweetness and Light”
And the winner is… us!
Regardless of how you may feel about the current state of the movies, the Academy Awards are always an excellent excuse to cast a nostalgic look back on Oscar history.
Time was when a good film score was expected to be both melodic and memorable. This morning on “Sweetness and Light,” with the Academy Awards coming up, we’ll take a nostalgic look back to some indelible themes from classic movies of yesteryear.
I don’t want to lay it all out in my Facebook teaser – in fact, during the course of the show, I won’t even identify the pieces until after each one of them is played, so that you can guess along at home – but trust that you’ll likely recognize most of them, all Best Original Score winners or nominees from highly-decorated films.
As a bonus, the show will open with a 90-second montage of introductory fanfares from the great studios of Hollywood’s Golden Age. So you’ll want to be there when the lights go down.
Celluloid memories will be stirred by reel music, on “Sweetness and Light,” this Saturday morning at 11:00 EDT/8:00 PDT, exclusively on KWAX Classical Oregon!
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