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Mother’s Day Music Sweetness and Light on KWAX

Get ready for the mother of all shows this week, on “Sweetness and Light.” It’s music for Mom for Mother’s Day!

Enjoy works on nursery themes by Grace Williams, Charles Williams, and Vaughan Williams (all unrelated). Also, Wolfgang Amadeus Williams – er, I mean Mozart.

Of course, Mom deserves more, so I’ve also enlisted Yo-Yo Ma (despite his name, not really a mother, though if said properly, guaranteed to get Mom’s attention) and Luciano Pavarotti (accompanied by Henry Mancini, no less).

Start your day with a musical candygram. It’s a suite of sweets for Mom 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/

May 11, 2024
April in Paris Sweetness and Light on KWAX

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, the radio station of the University of Oregon!

Stream it, wherever you are, at the link:

https://kwax.uoregon.edu/

April 27, 2024
Shakespeare’s Birthday Celebration on KWAX Radio

‘Tis true, we knoweth not f’r c’rtain at which hour Mr. Wm. Shakespeare wast b’rn, but baptiz’d wast he on April 26, 1564. Beest t so symmetry ev’ryone loves, his birthday is commonly obs’rv’d on the anniv’rsary of his lamentable death, which did occur on April 23, 1616. The party dost start early this m’rning, on “Sweetness and Light.”

I desire you’ll joineth me f’r some lightheart’d Shakespearean inspirations by Johan Wagenaar, Sir Arthur Sullivan, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Felix Mendelssohn (transcrib’d by S’rgei Rachmaninoff), Sir Thomas M’rley, and Erich Wolfgang K’rngold.

Get thy day off to a valorous starteth, this Saturday m’rning at 11:00 EDT/8:00 PDT. Partying is such sweet s’rrow on “Sweetness and Light, ” now exclusively on KWAX, the radio station of the Univ’rsity of ‘regon.

Stream t, wh’rev’r thou art, at the link.

https://kwax.uoregon.edu/

April 20, 2024
Easter Parade Music Sweetness and Light KWAX

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, the radio station of the University of Oregon!

Stream it, wherever you are, at the link:

https://kwax.uoregon.edu/

March 30, 2024
March Music Mania on KWAX Radio

An all-march hour on “Sweetness and Light?” That’s the fact, Jack!

I hope you’ll join me this morning on KWAX, when we’ll be seized with March madness.

This was always a popular theme when I explored it on other radio stations in past years. On one occasion I was able to take it to five hours! You need an expanse like that in order to get a true sense of the mania, and also the variety of marches available. Marches for band. Symphonic marches. Light music marches. Marches for piano. Marches for string quartet. Funeral marches. Coronation marches. Circus marches.

Of course, it was never all march-or-die, an incessant barrage of three-minute quick marches in 4/4 time. Some of the marches were embedded in larger works. Some of the works merely suggested marches.

Alas, in my current format, I only have an hour. Still time enough for a heart-pumping sampler of works by Sir Arthur Bliss, Marshall Ross, Mily Balakirev, Modest Mussorgsky, Richard Rodgers, John Philip Sousa, Ludwig van Beethoven, and Camille Saint-Saëns.

It’s a beautiful morning for a brisk March. Join me for a good stretch of the legs, when we sound off – left, left, left, right, left – 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, here:

https://kwax.uoregon.edu/

March 23, 2024

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