Music and commentary meant to bring about vibrant health and high happiness with year-end wishes from Leonard Cohen.

A look at the Solstice through the eons and a selection of songs to bring the sun back to life.

Music various and sundry for the waning light of November fading into December.

Songs of Gratitude, and those expressing the exquisite beauty of this world of ours.

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.

Music for the heat of summer featuring the Tom Waits/Crystal Gayle soundtrack to Francis Ford Coppola’s film One From the Heart.

Damn everything but the circus, and this week’s collection of song and story telling from Ovid to The Boss.

In honor of the solstice, a sampling of Mark Hoffman’s film version of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

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.

More of what you’ve come to expect–music that celebrates the glorious month of June.

A tribute to the osprey, and to basking in the early morning red-spectrum sunlight for the boost of all the brain’s feel good chemicals.