High Summer
Portraits of summer by Ray Charles, Vivaldi, Gershwin, Janis Joplin, Luciano Pavarotti, Sting and a few others for an hour of superb music.
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Some of our recent programs:
Work Songs and Saturn
Saturn lore and songs for Labor Day.
Lahaina
Music and commentary in sympathy and solidarity with Lahaina.
Music of High Summer
The Best of High Summer in Song and Verse.
Two Moons!
Music, lore, song and poetry celebrating this month’s first and second full moon.
Come Away, O Human Child.
As we bid farewell to the beautiful month of June, we sample music drawn from literature.
The Glories of Summer’s Youngest Child, June.
The music of June and it’s most emblematic flower, lupines.
Methuselah
“Methuselah lived 900 years. But who calls that livin’ when no gal will give in, to no man what’s 900 years?”
The Magic Flute
Among other things, a review of Mozart’s Magic Flute with all its Masonic symbolism, as timely today as it when premiered 200 years ago.
May into June
Songs of Spring and the cautious approach of Summer’s tender child, June.
Tagore
A sampling of new and old from Paul Simon, and a musical appreciation of the Indian mystic Rabindranath Tagore.