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  • Night Music on KWAX Cool Sounds for Sleep

    Night Music on KWAX Cool Sounds for Sleep

    This week on “Sweetness and Light,” we’ll be thinking cool and happy thoughts with an hour of night music – nocturnes, music reflective of the night sky, even sleep!

    I hope you’ll join me for selections by Alexander Borodin, Antonín Dvořák, Jacques Offenbach, Claude Debussy, Manuel Ponce, John Field, and light music masters Charles Ancliffe, Archibald Joyce, and Robert Farnon.

    Everything’s fine when the sun is asleep! I’ll be a fool for cool 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/

  • Bastille Day Music on Sweetness and Light

    Bastille Day Music on Sweetness and Light

    Admittedly, there’s not much “sweetness” or “light” in revolution. Nevertheless, I hope you’ll join me, as we anticipate Bastille Day this morning on “Sweetness and Light.”

    We’ll have music on French patriotic themes by Franz Liszt, Georges Bizet, and Hector Berlioz, a symphony by Revolutionary Era composer Etienne-Nicolas Méhul (also a favorite of Napoleon), and a selection from the collaborative ballet “The Wedding on the Eiffel Tower” – set at the iconic Paris landmark on July 14 (Bastille Day) – by Germaine Tailleferre.

    The playlist was thoughtfully curated in commemoration of the storming of the Bastille on July 14, 1789, a defining moment of the French Revolution that toppled the monarchy and abolished feudalism. But I’m a lover, not a fighter.

    Vive la sucrosité et la légèreté 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/

  • KWAX Classical Radio Home of Picture Perfect Sweetness and Light

    KWAX Classical Radio Home of Picture Perfect Sweetness and Light

    I receive a shout-out in this write-up about KWAX from 2013 (at the link). I hasten to emphasize, the article is 11 years old! Still, the station is much the same, even if some of the shows on its roster have changed. It’s rare that classical music hosts are allowed to choose their own music. All the more reason to cherish the station.

    https://northwestreverb.blogspot.com/2013/05/terry-ross-on-kwax-classical-radio.html

    This week’s “Picture Perfect” and “The Lost Chord” are ready to go. I’m in the process of recording my Saturday morning show, “Sweetness and Light,” right now. It’s a celebration of Bastille Day, so yes, lots of French music to come (and some Franz Liszt). The current air times for all three shows are posted below.

    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/

  • Elgar’s 1st Symphony KWAX Radio Joy

    Elgar’s 1st Symphony KWAX Radio Joy

    Enjoying Sir Edward Elgar’s Symphony No. 1 on KWAX, thanks to my new internet radio. I remember when you used to be able to hear a substantial, complete symphony like this in the middle of the day in the Trenton-Princeton area. No more. I venture to guess you won’t hear it on the Philadelphia station either. And certainly not on WQXR. You have my gratitude, KWAX!

  • Leonard Pennario Rediscovered Best-Selling LA Pianist

    Leonard Pennario Rediscovered Best-Selling LA Pianist

    At the age of 10, Buffalo-born Leonard Pennario moved with his family to Los Angeles. L.A. would remain his base of operations for the rest of his career. He made his first recordings for Capitol Records in 1950 (over 40 albums were pressed). By 1959, he was the best-selling American pianist.

    This week on “The Lost Chord,” we’ll anticipate the centenary of Pennario’s birth (on July 9) with highlights from his Capitol catalogue, remastered for a 4-CD set on the MSR label. Tune in to enjoy his superlative interpretations of Prokofiev’s “Visions fugitives,” Ravel’s “La valse,” and the rarely-heard Piano Sonata by Miklós Rózsa.

    I’d love to tell you more – about Pennario’s remarkable development and early triumphs, his professional relationships with top-tier musicians and personal ones with Hollywood glitterati, his ambivalent reception by the critics and his excellence at bridge – but it’s a holiday weekend, so I hope you’ll understand if I leave a little something for the show!

    I hope you’ll join me for “Go West, Young Man” – Leonard Pennario in Los Angeles – 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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