“…laugh about it, shout about it but when you’ve got to choose, every way you look at it you lose.”

A brief sketch of the life and music of America’s great lyricist Johnny Mercer.

Seasonal compositions showcased in their instrumental forms, and in their vocal renditions.

Joni Mitchell, Simone Kermes, Barbra Streisand, Patsy Cline… Music to soothe and settle, and fire your curiosity.

Music of a range of performers, songs of autumn that mimic the stillness of these autumn days.

Music of a wide range of sources, The Baltic, Eastern Europe, the US, and Argentina featuring Mercedes Sosa (above).

A brief selection of Nuria Rial, as a teaser of more to come in following weeks, and further works of late summer song.

More music to celebrate these glorious days of high summer, and the hope of Rejuvenation for one and all near and far.

A sampling of some magnificent contemporary music, and a brief sampling of a 200-year-old classic, Vincenzo Bellini’s La Sonnambula.

A sampling of the music by French composer Hugh de Courson, and a brief foray into unity consciousness and the fall from grace.

Portraits of summer by Ray Charles, Vivaldi, Gershwin, Janis Joplin, Luciano Pavarotti, Sting and a few others for an hour of superb music.