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 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.

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

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.