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  • Fall Back into Music Sweetness and Light on KWAX

    Fall Back into Music Sweetness and Light on KWAX

    If we have to change the clocks, this is the time-change we all look forward to, as at least we “fall back” to standard time. It’s the spring that really gets you (and I don’t mean a clock spring).

    As a gentle reminder to make the necessary adjustments before going to bed tonight, the focus of this week’s “Sweetness and Light” will be music about hours and minutes.

    We’ll have “timely” works by Amilcare Ponchielli, Sir Granville Bantock, Albert Ketelbey, Frederic Chopin, Franz Joseph Haydn, and of course Leroy Anderson.

    I hope you’ll join me, as it’s “About Time” on “Sweetness and Light,” this Saturday morning at 11:00 EDT/8:00 PDT, exclusively on KWAX, the radio of station of the University of Oregon!

    Stream it wherever you are at the link:

    https://kwax.uoregon.edu/

  • Halloween Music Radio Show

    Halloween Music Radio Show

    This week on “Sweetness and Light,” we’ll be cutting holes in Mom’s best sheets for a light music trick-or-treat. Join me for 13 ghostly premonitions of a holiday I am happy to say I never outgrew.

    We’ll enjoy Halloween songs, selections from Halloween film scores, Halloween piano miniatures, and Halloween light music classics about a haunted ballroom, an ostracized imp, and a devil’s ride, all lovingly curated by you-know-who. Nothing too terribly terrible. It’s all in good fun. There will be no cowering before this disarming parade of spirits, reanimated corpses, witches, bogeymen, demons, and necromancers!

    I’ve carefully examined all the candy for pins and razor blades, so you mustn’t hesitate to indulge. It will be Smarties® and peanut butter cups for breakfast, when you join me for “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/

    Aaah-OOOOOO!

  • Sweetness and Light Autumn Music Mix on KWAX

    This week on “Sweetness and Light,” with a nip in the air and color in the trees, it’s a light music autumn!

    Pick out a cozy sweater and join me for a fortifying brunch of hot cider and molasses cookies, as we listen to a fall sampler of works by Leo Sowerby, Cécile Chaminade, Archibald Joyce, Billy Mayerl, Virgil Thomson, Vernon Duke, Scott Joplin, Gheorghe Zamfir, and Alexander Glazunov.

    It’s the perfect preamble to your epic leaf-fight. The apples are tart, but the music is sweet, 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/

  • 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)

  • 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)

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