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  • Insect Music Celebrate Summer on Sweetness and Light

    Insect Music Celebrate Summer on Sweetness and Light

    This week on “Sweetness and Light,” celebrate the season of the cricket and the katydid! Put your legs together for an hour of insect “song.”

    We’ll enjoy works by Ralph Vaughan Williams, Paul Lincke, Ernest Bucalossi, Dmitri Shostakovich, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Frank Loesser, Billy Mayerl, Frederic Cowen, and Fred L. Moreland.

    Tune in for a wasps’ overture, a glow worm’s idyll, a grasshopper’s dance, a gadfly’s romance, a bumble-bee’s flight, an inchworm’s measure, some insect oddities, a butterfly’s ball, and a doodle-bugs’ parade.

    We’ll be buzzing from the start 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/

    IMAGE: Ernst Kreidolf, “Les petits habitants des fleurs” (1924)

  • Lazy Summer Music Sleepy Lagoon Sweetness and Light

    Lazy Summer Music Sleepy Lagoon Sweetness and Light

    This week on “Sweetness and Light,” I invite you to join me by the sleepy lagoon, for an hour of languid music for a lazy summer day.

    We’ll hear easygoing works by Eric Coates, Cyril Scott, Frederick Delius, Jerome Moross, Leroy Anderson, Sergei Prokofiev, and Claude Debussy.

    Kick back with a cool drink and no cares. It’s summertime, and the living is easy. We’ll be drowsing in a musical hammock, 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/

  • Olympic Music on KWAX Radio This Saturday

    Olympic Music on KWAX Radio This Saturday

    This morning on “Sweetness and Light,” we’ve got a case of Olympic fever – and the only prescription is more Olympic music!

    Tune in for uplifting selections written for the opening ceremonies, licensed for media coverage, and otherwise related to the Games. We’ll hear works by Leo Arnaud, Michael Torke, Josef Suk, Richard Strauss, Philip Glass, Vangelis, Antonio Vivaldi (!), Arthur Honegger, John Williams, and Spyridon Samaras.

    Join me for this radio relay as we bear the torch for Olympic music on “Sweetness and Light,” this Saturday morning at 11:00 EDT/8:00 EDT, exclusively on KWAX, the radio station of the University of Oregon!

    Stream it, wherever you are, at the link:

    https://kwax.uoregon.edu/

    IMAGE: LeRoy Neiman, “American Gold” (1984)

  • Olympic Music on Picture Perfect KWAX

    Olympic Music on Picture Perfect KWAX

    Citius! Altius! Fortius!

    This week on “Picture Perfect,” to coincide with the Summer Games in Paris, we’ll get the blood pumping, with selections from Olympic opening ceremonies and television broadcasts.

    Featured composers with include Leo Arnaud (a Ravel pupil, who worked on “The Wizard of Oz” and went on to write THE classic Olympic theme), Angelo Badalamenti (David Lynch’s composer of choice), Basil Poledouris (composer of “Conan the Barbarian” and “The Hunt for Red October”), and John Williams (‘nuff said).

    In addition, there will be a suite from the Olympic documentary “16 Days of Glory,” by Lee Holdridge (recipient of seven Emmys and a Grammy).

    We’ll be shoveling in the Wheaties and going for the gold, on “Picture Perfect,” music for the movies – or at the very least music by film composers – 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 – ALL NEW! – 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/

  • Armchair Travel Musical Vacation on The Lost Chord

    Armchair Travel Musical Vacation on The Lost Chord

    Armchair travelers, rejoice! This week on “The Lost Chord,” it’s an hour of musical impressions of composers on vacation.

    Tune in for “Postcard Greetings” by Jenö Takács, “Four Breton Sketches” by Anthony Hedges, and “En Vacances” (“On Vacation”) by Deodat de Severac (who was born on this date in 1872).

    No baggage! No fuss!

    Kick back and enjoy the music, on “Leisure Treasures,” 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 – ALL NEW! – 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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