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Irish Coffee & Celtic Music for St Patricks Day

This morning on “Sweetness and Light,” I’ll be hoisting an Irish coffee for St. Patrick’s Day.

Join me for a stirabout of Celtic-inflected works by Henry Cowell, Ina Boyle, Ludwig van Beethoven, Peter Hope, Ignaz Moscheles, A.J. Potter, and Romeo Cascarino. I know, not all of these composers are Irish, but isn’t everyone Irish on St. Patrick’s Day?

Philadelphia composer Romeo Cascarino will be represented by a luscious arrangement of “Danny Boy,” recently released as a digital download, alongside his transporting song cycle “Pathways of Love.”

Your pot of gold is but a click away, on “Sweetness and Light,” this Saturday morning at 11:00 EDT/8:00 PDT on KWAX, the radio station of the University of Oregon!

Stream it, wherever you are, at the link.

https://kwax.uoregon.edu/

March 15, 2025
Irish Coffee Classical Music St Patricks Day

This morning on “Sweetness and Light,” I’ll be hoisting an Irish coffee on the eve of St. Patrick’s Day.

Join me for a stirabout of Celtic-inflected works by Henry Cowell, John Foulds, Ludwig van Beethoven, Peter Hope, Ignaz Moscheles, and A.J. Potter. I know, not all of these composers are Irish, but isn’t everyone Irish on St. Patrick’s Day?

Your pot of gold is but a click away, this Saturday morning at 11:00 EDT/8:00 PDT on KWAX, the radio station of the University of Oregon!

Stream it, wherever you are, at the link.

https://kwax.uoregon.edu/

March 16, 2024
Roy’s Sci-Fi: St. Patrick’s Day Hiatus

Roy’s Tie-Dye Sci-Fi Corner will not be seen tonight, in order that we may better commune with St. Patrick.

However, if you get all sentimental after a few glasses of stout, you can always call up this classic episode from 2021, about “Darby O’Gill and the Little People.” This is the one in which the viewers and I enjoy a private joke and get wasted at Roy’s expense (which is revealed only at the end of the show).

Sorry, I haven’t grown back the beard. I still look 20 years younger. But I’ll do my best to catch up with a night of hard living.

Later this weekend, be sure to join Roy and special guest, author and Starlog Magazine writer David Hirsch, as they discuss Professor Bernard Quatermass and his half-century of rescuing mankind from sinister alien forces, during the course of the various “Quatermass” adventures, on radio, television, and film.

The show will be livestreamed on Facebook, YouTube, etc., at a special time, THIS SUNDAY EVENING AT 7:00 EDT.

https://www.facebook.com/roystiedyescificorner

For now, remember to donnybrook responsibly. Roy and I will reconvene next Friday evening at 7:30 (provided somebody posts bail).

Sláinte!

March 17, 2023
Edward Collins Irish Echoes

“Oh! The praties they grow small over here…”

Edward Joseph Collins (1886-1951) was born to Irish-American parents in Joliet, Illinois. Though he studied abroad with Max Bruch and Engelbert Humperdinck, it was in Chicago that he made his career. Nearly a generation older than Copland and Gershwin, he too found inspiration in African-American spirituals, cowboy songs, and jazz.

Collins’ relationship to the Irish was a complex one. Nonetheless, he could not escape the pull of his heritage and its music. This week on “The Lost Chord,” the composer remembers the land of his forebears with three meditations on Irish folk song for St. Patrick’s Day. That’s “Irish Ties Are Smiling,” this Sunday night at 10:00 EDT, on WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org.

March 13, 2022
St Patrick’s Day Movie Music

This week on “Picture Perfect,” we’ll be seeing double for St. Patrick’s Day, with selections from two films scored by John Williams (“Angela’s Ashes” and “Far and Away”) and two directed by John Ford (“The Informer” and “The Quiet Man”), with music by Max Steiner and Victor Young, respectively.

“Far and Away” may be of additional interest for the participation on the film’s soundtrack of The Chieftains, whose founding member, Paddy Moloney, died in October.

Actor Victor McLaglen won an Academy Award for his performance as Gypo Nolan in “The Informer” in 1935. 17 years later, he traded blows with John Wayne in one of film’s great donnybrooks in “The Quiet Man.”

If you miss it, you’ll regret it to your dying day… if ever you live that long. It’s an airing of the green, on “Picture Perfect,” music for the movies, this Saturday evening at 6:00 EST, on WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org.

March 12, 2022

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