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.

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.

The music, the story, the significance of Erik Satie in shaping modern harmony, contemporary style and today’s aesthetic.

A wide sampling of songs of April and springtime from the medieval to the present day.

An exploration of the finest celebration of spring, Aguas de Março, and the unparalleled artistry of Antonio Carlos Jobim.

Mardi Gras, and an hour of samba and Brazilian music in general. Get out your feathered headdress, it’s Carnival!

The turbulent story of the Köln Concert, a landmark in contemporary music that came within a hair’s breadth of not happening.

Music of Zbigniew Preisner, Alberto Iglesias, James Horner, and a tribute to the courage of Martin Luther King Jr.

As humans have since earliest times, we gather to pass the dark hours with stories, ballads and epic tales–Arachne, The Lady of Shallot, The Walrus and the Carpenter, with music throughout.

With the depths of winter approaching, a sampling of the music of Vasks, Pärt, Arnalds, and Silvestrov.

Music to bury the dying year in the west and birth the next rolling in from the east.

A brief foray into the arcana of the period and then a full array of music of the holidays and the sun.

Gratitude, especially for those very most basic things. “Because all that can be taken away in a second.”