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Mediterranean Music Escape John McLaughlin on KWAX

It’s summer. It’s hot. This week on “The Lost Chord,” kick off your shoes, pour a glass of L’Orangerie, and settle in for John McLaughlin’s “Mediterranean Concerto.”

McLaughlin, who’s made his home in Monaco for the past 40 years, is better known as a jazz or jazz fusion artist. His infectious concerto, composed in 1985, is ambitious in scope, about twice the length of those ordinarily devoted to the guitar.

We’ll also hear a work by Malta’s national composer, Charles Camilleri – his “Mediterranean Dances” of 1961.

You don’t have to leave home for a taste of the Mediterranean. Join me for “Mediterranean Muse,” 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/

June 22, 2024
Lost Chord Mediterranean Muse Webcast

Since “The Lost Chord” aired one hour later than usual this week, due to the length of the WWFM “Sunday Opera” (Handel’s “Almira”), I figured I’d share a link to the webcast, just in case you were asleep by 11 pm. The subject matter, “Mediterranean Muse,” and the featured work, John McLaughlin’s “Mediterranean Concerto,” seem like they would sit well on a day like today. I don’t know about you, but my Mediterranean diet starts now!

August 30, 2022
Mediterranean Music Escape This Sunday

This Sunday night on “The Lost Chord,” leave all your troubles behind, as we take a musical vacation to the Mediterranean.

We’ll have a work by Charles Camilleri, Malta’s national composer – his “Mediterranean Dances” – and a guitar concerto by an apparently shoeless John McLaughlin. McLaughlin is better known as a jazz or jazz fusion artist. We’ll hear his infectious “Mediterranean Concerto,” a work of ambitious scope, about twice the length of your average guitar concerto. McLaughlin kept a home along the Mediterranean at the time of the work’s composition. We all should be so lucky! Thankfully, we can live vicariously through the music.

Join me for “Mediterranean Muse” – musical souvenirs of the Mediterranean basin – this Sunday night at 10 EDT; or listen to it later as a webcast at wwfm.org.

June 26, 2016
Mediterranean Music Escape This Weekend

I thought it might be refreshing to take a musical vacation to the Mediterranean this week. To this end, this Sunday night on “The Lost Chord,” we’ll have two works inspired by the Mediterranean and its cultures. The first is by Charles Camilleri, Malta’s national composer. We’ll hear his “Mediterranean Dances.”

We’ll also have a guitar concerto by John McLaughlin, a figure better known as a jazz or jazz fusion artist. We’ll hear his infectious “Mediterranean Concerto,” a work of ambitious scope, about twice the length of your average guitar concerto.

McLaughlin made his home along the Mediterranean at the time of the work’s composition. We all should be so lucky. Thankfully, we can live vicariously through the music!

Join me for “Mediterranean Muse” – musical souvenirs of the Mediterranean basin – tonight at 10 ET, with a repeat Friday morning at 3. Or you can catch the show later as a webcast at http://www.wwfm.org.

July 13, 2014

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