When Autumn Sings
Music of a range of performers, songs of autumn that mimic the stillness of these autumn days.
‘Tis Autumn
La di da di la di dum, ’tis autumn
Mercedes Sosa
Music of a wide range of sources, The Baltic, Eastern Europe, the US, and Argentina featuring Mercedes Sosa (above).
Salli Terri/Laurindo Almeida, Chavela Vargas
Music of Brazil and Mexico with brief sketches of Salli Terri, Laurindo Almeida and Chavela Vargas (above).
Heitor Villa-Lobos
A program of Brazilian music featuring Heitor Villa-Lobos and his second thoughts on his most widely known piece.
Nuria Rial
A brief selection of Nuria Rial, as a teaser of more to come in following weeks, and further works of late summer song.
Honor Every Calloused Hand
A brief over view of La Traviata, a sampling of Johann Johannsson and two 19th C. poems honoring working people.
Correspondence
Kathleen Turner performs Ariel Dorfman’s arresting poem Correspondence that will both chill and warm you. And in honor of their magnificent collaboration, a sampling of tangos.
Rejuvenation
More music to celebrate these glorious days of high summer, and the hope of Rejuvenation for one and all near and far.
’57, ’58, ’59
An all too brief sampling from the finest years in jazz, 1957 through 1959, featuring John Coltrane, Miles Davis and Duke Ellington.
La Sonnambula
A sampling of some magnificent contemporary music, and a brief sampling of a 200-year-old classic, Vincenzo Bellini’s La Sonnambula.
Babel
A sampling of the music by French composer Hugh de Courson, and a brief foray into unity consciousness and the fall from grace.
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.
Arethusa
Songs, ballads and poetry from Ovid to Tom Waits that tell stories for the long hot summer days and nights of July.
Etta Jones
Music of the little known Etta Jones with a mix of Huston Person her co-creator, and the artistry of recording engineer Rudy Van Gelder.
One from the Heart
Music for the heat of summer featuring the Tom Waits/Crystal Gayle soundtrack to Francis Ford Coppola’s film One From the Heart.
The Circus
Damn everything but the circus, and this week’s collection of song and story telling from Ovid to The Boss.
Midsummer
In honor of the solstice, a sampling of Mark Hoffman’s film version of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
The Magic Flute
A brief review of Mozart’s opera The Magic Flute with all its Masonic symbolism, as timely today as it was when premiered 200 years ago.
Alpha Waves
Join us for a walk down a shady lane and feel what it’s like when your brain shifts from human doing to human being.