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Today I will not be in world much because I am having a large RL party at my house. However, I am providing the musical entertainment for my guests via streaming audio on Radio Riel's event stream! So tune in at http://66.186.45.115:9012/live, it's sure to be a very eclectic mix.
Today rather than Baroque Blues, I am pleased to host the unveiling and reception for the Caledon Rose 2009. The rose is exclusive to Caledon and only 26 of them have been made. I will be playing Caledon's Favorite music: Celtic and Pipes both traditional and new. Please join me in world at Snook's Garden Centre, Morgaine for a fun filled time of dancing and celebration.
Sir Omicron Llewellyn made the Rose and Denver Hax will be hiding it through out Caledon for our Traditional and annual Rose Hunt. The first clue will be given at the party....
See you there...
Oh.. And By The Way... here is an exclusive.. a picture of the rose.
Today in Second Life, the world's most popular and successful metaverse, we celebrate the third anniversary of the Independent State of Caledon, a unique Steampunk Victorian region founded by The Guvnah, Desmond Shang, exactly three years ago today. It's also where Radio Riel was originally established.
This is how the Caledon Wiki describes it:
Caledon is a small, windswept forested country at a temperate latitude. Wild creatures, country estate life, sights and sounds that were common well over 100 years ago are the hallmark of the land.
Technology is approximately that of the 19th Century, though some astonishing breakthroughs have provided for incredible wonders. Ground vehicles, airships, and even a device known as a 'telehub' are made possible through the power of exotic material properties and the wonders of Steam Technology.
The government is an expansionist monarchy, supported by a strong aristocracy (i.e., residents).
As Caledon has grown, it has made contact with a number of other nations that share many of her values. Some of these nations now share direct sea passage and have formed a coalition known as the Realm of the Roses to promote their mutual interests.
Join us in today's celebrations either by visiting one of several events in-world or by tuning in to a programme of suitably Celtic music on Radio Riel's Main Stream.
From the Library is produced in conjunction with the Caledon Library; today's programme was produced by Elrik Merlin. You can listen to it on our Main Stream as follows:
If you want to have the Radio Riel Main Stream playing on your parcel, please set the media music URL to: http://217.112.91.221:9004/live
If you want to listen off-world, simply click here.
A few weeks ago, Otenth announced that he was going to be out of town this week, and he asked if any of us at Radio Riel would like to guest-host World Wednesday for today. I took one look at the calendar and jumped at the chance, because I knew *exactly* what I wanted to play...
Join me tonight, on the roof of Radio Riel Headquarters in Edison Hypatia (http://slurl.com/secondlife/Edison%20Hypatia/95/101/50) from 6-7pm SLT as I play the soundtrack from the movie "Slumdog Millionaire". I had a sneaking suspicion that "Slumdog" was going to win a lot of Oscars...which it did, including Best Picture, Best Song and Best Score.
So come dance on the roof at Radio Riel HQ with me to this fabulous music! If you can not join us, you can tune in at http://snow.slserver.com:9012/live .
Starting today, I encourage Staff and Listeners to come talk to me about Radio Riel during my weekly, open Office Hours.
All times are Second Life Time (SLT), which is also North American Pacific Standard Time
Tuesdays
12:00pm - 2:00pm SLT
Thursdays
7:00pm - 9:00pm SLT
Radio Riel Headquarters in Edison Hypatia
Today we continue the French influence but in a manner far distant from the music of Mardi Gras. Instead in today's programme we can feast our ears on the music of some of the most memorable of French composers.
We will be including works by Rameau, a personal favourite, as well as Debussy, Ravel, Poulenc, Fauré (another favourite), Satie, Berlioz and Chopin.
Most of the performances are traditional, but there will be some modern interpretations too, such as the music of Isao Tomita and some light jazz.
The picture shows one of Monet's many paintings of the Japanese Bridge in his garden at Giverny.
From the Library is produced in conjunction with the Caledon Library; today's programme was produced by Elrik Merlin. You can listen to it on our Main Stream as follows:
If you want to have the Radio Riel Main Stream playing on your parcel, please set the media music URL to: http://217.112.91.221:9004/live
If you want to listen off-world, simply click here.
Laissez les bons temps rouler!
Today, Radio Riel plays the music of Mardi Gras, focusing on the music of New Orleans.
Radio Riel produces this program in conjunction with the Caledon Library in Second Life. Today's music originates from the music library of Gabrielle Riel.
For more information on the Caledon Library, current exhibits and the work of Second Life reference libraries in general, please visit the Caledon Library Web site, or one of their locations in-world.
You can listen to the program now at http://music.radioriel.org, or simply visit any Caledon Library branch in-world and press Play on your embedded music player.
Todays From the Library features music of the early to mid 20th Century. A bit of this and that. Songs we know and songs we love.
From the Library is produced in conjunction with the Caledon Library; today's programme was produced by Soliel Snook. You can listen to it on our Main Stream as follows:
If you want to have the Radio Riel Main Stream playing on your parcel, please set the media music URL to: http://217.112.91.221:9004/live
If you want to listen off-world, links are provided at the bottom of the grey panel top left of this page, to the left of the Calendar. Alternatively, simply click here.
Laissez les bons temps rouler! It's time for Mardi Gras in New Toulouse! Please join the party with the New Toulouse community, today, February 22.
- 12:00pm SLT - Mardi Gras Parade in New Toulouse Sim (http://slurl.com/secondlife/New%20Toulouse/144/164/24) - come watch, dance, or particpate! Turn on your parcel music for info & instructions.
- 2:00pm SLT - Mardi Gras Masquerade at Miz Gabi's in New Toulouse Algiers (http://slurl.com/secondlife/New%20Toulouse%20Algiers/192/184/28) - dress as wildly and weirdly as you want - with or without masks, we welcome you to celebrate with us!
You can tune in to the festivities all day on Radio Riel - New Toulouse, http://saturn.slserver.com:8200/listen.pls.
Today on Radio Riel, I am featuring "music that I love". You will hear a variety of styles, genres and artists...all specifically selected and playlisted by me. Please enjoy the music that I love, as I celebrate my personal milestone of turning 40 in the actual world. Click here to launch your media player and tune in!
Thank you dear Riel Audiophiles, for making my dreams come true at 40.
In today's programme in our series From the Library, we present a day of Victorian-themed music and entertainment, with songs and ballads of the music-hall & the salon, and music from the opera-house and dance-hall.
Thus, dear listener, today we shall delight in popular songs, several of which may raise the heart while others bring a tear to the eye, and of which many have been performed by famous Artists with the Greatest Possible Success; we shall also enjoy extracts from several of the light operettas by Messrs Gilbert & Sullivan, which have received such acclaim in recent years, performed by the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company for whom they were written.
Pray take your seats, then, Lords, Ladies and Gentles, for a day of entertainment from days gone by, for your delectation & pleasure.
From the Library is produced in conjunction with the Caledon Library; today's programme was produced by Elrik Merlin. You can listen to it on our Main Stream as follows:
If you want to have the Radio Riel Main Stream playing on your parcel, please set the media music URL to: http://217.112.91.221:9004/live
If you want to listen off-world, links are provided at the bottom of the grey panel top left of this page, to the left of the Calendar. Alternatively, simply click here.
Riel Radio Theatre presents part seven of BBC Radio 4's dramatisation of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings - "The King of the Golden Hall".
Adapted for radio by Brian Sibley and Michael Bakewell.
Thursday 19th of February starting at 7:00 pm SLT
Join us at Radio Riel's HQ at Edison Hypatia to listen with the rest of us or tune your music player of choice to http://66.186.45.115:9012/live if you can't make it in person.
Elrik Merlin writes:
Having received a number of positive comments on the playlist yesterday, I decided to select some additional material from my library for today's show – thus the title.
So today we are featuring some more English folk artists, including the complete released works of Nick Drake (shown left), sadly lost after a career of just five years, from 1969 until his untimely death in 1974, who is now rightly regarded as a major influence on the British music scene and is much more popular than he was at the time. If you don't know him, read about him here. You'll also hear selected Fairport Convention, the deeply moving recordings of Kate Rusby (she consistently moves me to tears, and who could not be so moved, listening to a song like My Young Man?) and others such as the talented songwriter Tony Hazzard (whom I suppose can be classified as Folk Rock). I've also included a personal modern favourite, Caroline Lavelle, whom I strongly recommend.
I was asked yesterday why I didn't play anything from Karine Polwart – well of course she is Scottish, but I also love her music, so she is in the playlist today. I've also included Kathryn Tickell's Northumbrian pipes. And when I came along at midnight SLT to update the programme this morning, we were playing The Sea by Fotheringay – one of my favourite tracks of all time – and I was again reminded what a marvel it is, with Sandy Denny's soaring vocals and eerie lyrics. So I left the one and only Fotheringay album in the list.
To leaven the mix in an historical direction, I've also included some traditional sea-chanteys and English songs down the ages from Greensleeves to Keep the Home Fires Burning.
Once again, I hope you enjoy today's show.
From the Library is produced in conjunction with the Caledon Library; today's programme was produced by Elrik Merlin. You can listen to it on our Main Stream as follows:
If you want to have the Radio Riel Main Stream playing on your parcel, please set the media music URL to: http://217.112.91.221:9004/live
If you want to listen off-world, links are provided at the bottom of the grey panel top left of this page, to the left of the Calendar. Alternatively, simply click here.
World Wednesdays, 6-7pm SLT at the Radio Riel Listening Room and Music Library on Wyre, or listen at http://66.186.45.115:9012/live. Tonight: an incomplete survey of African music.
Elrik Merlin writes:
When I heard Otenth playing Gillian Welch yesterday, it struck me that it's some time since I did a programme of folk music from my side of the Pond, and particularly from England (I do play quite a lot of Celtic music). So I started sorting through my library to build a good 24-hour playlist. I stopped when it got to 35, and then cut it back a bit - but it's still too long, so you'll hear some more on another occasion. There is plenty more where today's show came from.
So today, we'll hear some of the best of English folk, from the late Fifties onwards, primarily. Though there are bound to be some oddities. For example, I want you to hear June Tabor's moving version of Maggie Holland's A Proper Sort of Gardener, and on the same album is Di Nakht, a song in Yiddish written in New York in 1929 and also very moving in a very different way. Am I going to exclude it? Well, no. There are also a couple of compilation albums, such as Anthems in Eden, including artists who are by no means exclusively English. But the general thread is one that winds its way through the English folk scene over the past 40 years or so, from people like Ewan MacColl (pictured above with Peggy Seeger and others) to tracks from The Imagined Village, an album of modern re-workings of classic folk songs.
I do hope you enjoy it.
From the Library is produced in conjunction with the Caledon Library; today's programme was produced by Elrik Merlin. You can listen to it on our Main Stream as follows:
If you want to have the Radio Riel Main Stream playing on your parcel, please set the media music URL to: http://217.112.91.221:9004/live
If you want to listen off-world, links are provided at the bottom of the grey panel top left of this page, to the left of the Calendar. Alternatively, simply click here.
Fine old traditional tunes and modern stylings blend today in an offering of dance bands. Contra dance is an American form of set dancing, similar in many ways to English Country Dance. For leavening, several vocal artists have been included.
From the Library is produced by Radio Riel in conjunction with the Caledon Library in Second Life. Today's program was produced by Otenth Paderborn.
For more information on the Caledon Library, current exhibits and the work of Second Life reference libraries in general, please visit the Caledon Library Web site, or one of their locations in-world.
You can listen now by visiting any Caledon Library branch in-world and press Play on your embedded music player. (If you want to listen off-world, eg in Winamp or iTunes, click here.) If you'd like to set your parcel music stream, use http://66.186.45.115:9012/live.
Mon, Feb 16th, Storyteller Gilbert Sapwood, brings the most gruesome of the Grimm's tales to life. Hear what really happened to Cinderella's sisters, learn about the boy who was as red as blood and as white as snow, and discover the secret behind the evil reputation of mothers-in-law everywhere....
Join us on the rooftop of the New Toulouse Community Library (http://slurl.com/secondlife/New%20Toulouse/70/73/44) for a sunset storytelling of the most gruesome kind, or tune in at http://217.112.91.221:9004/live .
It's Magnatune Monday, and today's program features Magnatune's pianists. Please enjoy this mix of Classical and New Age pianists! We will hear works performed by the following Magnatune Artists:
We have just changed domain registrars, and as a result, until we re-establish aliases for our streams (which we use to provide easily-remembered short URLs for listeners and clients), the existing ones won't work. They will be re-set shortly, but in the meantime, here's how to hear Radio Riel in-world:
It's a busy afternoon and evening here at Radio Riel with both Valentine's Day and the second Grand Tour taking place during the day.
12 noon - 3pm: First of all, please join us at Noon for the launch of Maar Auer's amazing new Tango at Metaversal Arts (see separate entry below), with Soliel Snook presenting, at http://slurl.com/secondlife/Cherish/153/126/80 (Secondary).
3:30pm - 5pm: Love's Blossom Ball... with dancing amongst the falling petals. Prizes to be awarded every 15-20 minutes. Hosted by Fatima Ur, with music presented by Edward Pearse, this will feature contemporary music from the 70s onwards. The venue is the beautiful Fatima's Wonderland, http://slurl.com/secondlife/Fatimas%20Wonderland/88/250/32 (Secondary).
5pm: Giverny Grand Opening, with music by Soliel Snook. Dancing, Treasure Hunt and more.
Location: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Giverny/207/130/26. Hosted by Soliel Snook and Kaye Robbiani.
6pm - 8pm: Please join Gabrielle Riel for a Latin Ball in the beautiful surroundings of old Cuba, at the opening of the new sim, Metaversatility: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Metaversatility/116/119/26 (Main).
And finally:
9pm - 10:30pm: Jazz for Lovers Dance - Romantic Jazz standards in honour of Valentine's Day at Radio Riel's new speakeasy venue in New Toulouse - La Sorciere Blanche. http://slurl.com/secondlife/New%20Toulouse/104/101/23 (Main), with a relay on Radio New Toulouse (http://87.117.202.31:8200/).
How to Listen
You are cordially invited to the Release Party for Maar Auer's Argentinian-inspired Tango Pasión couples dance. Maar is known for her dances and this one is especially nice. Steamy, Passionate, gorgeous, and everything you would expect from a Tango.
Join us and Dance the Language of Love today at Metaversal Arts (http://slurl.com/secondlife/Cherish/144/196/60) where Madame Soliel Snook will play the hottest, steamiest tangoes you have heard. Noon to 3pm SLT today.
Tune in to http://66.186.45.115:9012/live in-world or click here to listen off-world in iTunes, Winamp, etc.
Join Fuschia Begonia, Alfonso Avalanche and Elrik Merlin for Bedknobs and Boomsticks (sic) - another of their absurd pun-tastic parties of total silliness set to music and special effects.
It's Friday 13th and it's the day before Valentine's day, so... obviously the theme has to be comic horror musicals with a bunch of Disney thrown in for good measure.... Flying bedsteads, the Evil Dead, the odd protoplasmic monster on the roof, you name it. You'll beWITCHED... you'll beDEADLED! Traguna, macoides, tracorum sadis dee...
The time is Noon to 3pm SLT and the location? Well, there's a light... over at the Fuschia's Frocks place... in Caledon Wellsian. http://slurl.com/secondlife/Caledon%20Wellsian/208/172/41 or ask any of the three of us for a TP.
Join us in person. Really. You must. It isn't as if you have any choice or anything. Unless you want your brains to be eaten by zombies. Oh, all right, you can listen in-world on http://66.186.45.115:9012/live - or off-world, click here. But we know where you live...
Riel Radio Theatre presents part six of BBC Radio 4's dramatisation of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings - "The Council Of Elrond" from "The Breaking of the Fellowship".
Adapted for radio by Brian Sibley and Michael Bakewell.
Thursday 12th of February starting at 7:00 pm SLT
Join us at Radio Riel's HQ at Edison Hypatia to listen with the rest of us or tune your music player of choice to http://66.186.45.115:9012/live if you can't make it in person.
Alliance Virtual Library, Alliance Library System, TAP Information Services and Radio Riel proudly present: RAYdio Bradbury, a four part series of programs focusing on four works by Ray Bradbury. Leading the discussions are Dr. Loren Logsdon professor of English at Eureka College and Bradbury scholar and Tom Peters, CEO of TAP Information Services.
Please join us in the Bradburyville Sim at http://slurl.com/secondlife/Bradburyville/38/19/24 or tune in at http://66.186.45.115:9012/live.
The RAYdio Bradbury Programs are scheduled at 6 pm SLT, 8 PM central, 9 PM Eastern on the second Thursday of each month: February 12, March 12, April 9, and May 14. Books for discussion are October Country, The Martian Chronicles, Something Wicked This Way Comes, and I Sing the Body Electric. Radio Riel will broadcast each program on the Internet. Programs are free and everyone is welcome to attend! For more information, please contact Lori Bell at the Alliance Library System at 309-694-9200 ext. 2128 or at lbell@alliancelibrarysystem.com.
Our first program, The October Country, according to Bradbury, is his purest work of fantasy. Halloween is his favorite time of the year, and the stories in this book take place in a country defined by its psychological state rather than its geography.
Hello and welcome to somewhat of a departure from the norm here on Radio Riel: a day of relaxing contemporary music from the smooth end of the jazz spectrum, with somewhat of a bias towards keyboards. If your week has been a bit hectic so far, then kick back and enjoy some smooth instrumental moods.
Well, mainly smooth, anyway – there are some tracks that kick up the tempo a bit to help you through the day. Almost exclusively instrumental, so if you need to focus, read, write, study, build… there are few lyrics to intrude. All in all, here's a soundtrack to your Second (or First) Life for a Thursday.
Artists include Suzanne Ciani, David Benoit, Exchange, Jim Chappell, Billy Barber, Ian Lynn, Acoustic Alchemy and many more.
From The Library is presented by Radio Riel in conjunction with the Caledon Library in Second Life, and today's programme was produced by Elrik Merlin. For more information on the Caledon Library, current exhibits and the work of Second Life reference libraries in general, please visit the Caledon Library Web site, or one of their locations in-world.
You can listen to the program in-world now at http://217.112.91.221:9004/live, or simply visit any Caledon Library branch in-world and press Play on your embedded music player.
To listen off-world now, with a regular music player such as iTunes or WinAmp, click the following link or paste http://minor.slserver.com:9004/live.m3u into the player.
How many stringed instruments can I fit into an hour? Come listen and find out!
World Wednesdays, 6-7pm SLT at the Radio Riel Listening Room and Music Library on Wyre, or listen on our Secondary Stream (which is at http://snow.slserver.com:9012 until we can get the music2.radioriel.org address working again).
To celebrate the launch of Radio Riel New Toulouse, we are pleased to present for you today on our Main Stream a selection of classical music from Britain and France in our series From the Library.
In fact the emphasis is somewhat more on the French. However, we will be hearing from a number of British composers such as Elgar, Vaughan Williams and of course Frederic Delius, who, while born in England, spent the latter part of his life across the Channel.
From the French side we will be featuring Poulenc, Fauré, Chopin (who was Polish born but became a French citizen) Debussy, Ravel and Berlioz, with performances both traditional and not so.
We also have a selection of cross-channel pieces in a somewhat lighter vein.
Today, we think of the Entente Cordiale ("Cordial Understanding") as simply some kind of vague "special relationship" between Britain and France, but the term originally commemorated the recognition of common interests between Britain and France in the mid-1840s and, in particular, King Louis-Philippe's efforts to build political bridges between France and other European powers who had largely ostracised the French.
A meeting between the French and English sovereigns was organised at the Château d’Eu in September 1843, with Louis-Philippe visiting Queen Victoria a year later in Windsor Castle. A third and last meeting was held in Eu in 1845. The picture above is one of a series by Provost-Dumarchais commemorating the event.
However the usual meaning of the term refers to the second Entente - a series of Anglo-French agreements signed on 8 April 1904 and resulting in the end of recurring conflict between the two and the beginning of the period of peaceful co-existence that has lasted to the present day.
From The Library is presented by Radio Riel in conjunction with the Caledon Library in Second Life, and today's programme was produced by Elrik Merlin. For more information on the Caledon Library, current exhibits and the work of Second Life reference libraries in general, please visit the Caledon Library Web site, or one of their locations in-world.
You can listen to the program in-world now at http://217.112.91.221:9004/live, or simply visit any Caledon Library branch in-world and press Play on your embedded music player.
To listen off-world now, with a regular music player such as iTunes or WinAmp, click the following link or paste http://minor.slserver.com:9004/live.m3u into the player.
I am pleased to announce that "Radio Riel - New Toulouse" is now on air! I have added a third stream to the Radio Riel lineup that plays nothing but Early Jazz, popular hits from 1900-1930, Ragtime and Early Blues 24 hours a day, 7 days a week!
I will be adding Cajun and Zydeco to the mix soon. You can listen to RR NT by setting http://87.117.202.31:8200 in your land or opening it in a media player. And in the near future (when GoDaddy moves on it) you will be able to access the stream at http://music3.radioriel.org . Enjoy!
Today's From the Library hopes to surprise and delight with an eclectic selection of music chosen for its use of drones or overtones. Of course that will include bagpipes, but also Tuvan singing, Swedish nyckelharpa, the hurdy-gurdy, and Indian ragas. You'll hardly know what is coming next!
From the Library is produced by Radio Riel in conjunction with the Caledon Library in Second Life. Today's program was produced by Otenth Paderborn.
For more information on the Caledon Library, current exhibits and the work of Second Life reference libraries in general, please visit the Caledon Library Web site, or one of their locations in-world.
You can listen now by clicking the link above or in the sidebar, or simply visit any Caledon Library branch in-world and press Play on your embedded music player. (If you want to listen off-world, eg in Winamp or iTunes, and the above address doesn't work for you, click here.)
If you have caught the news over the last few days, you'll know that there have been terrible bush fires raging in Victoria, Australia, that have left vast areas devastated. Almost 200 people are known to have lost their lives – the toll will doubtless rise as more bodies are discovered – and many homes have been destroyed. And it's not over yet. We also know that at least one Caledon resident has lost her RL farm in the fires.
If Radio Riel listeners and their friends would like to make a donation to support the emergency work in Victoria, here is a link to the official web site for donations. This appeal is a joint effort between the Red Cross and the Victorian Government:
https://www.redcross.org.au/Donations/onlineDonations.asp
There is a pop-up menu allowing you to select the Appeal - choose "Victorian Bushfire Appeal 2009".
For more information, read the message from the Premier of Victoria here.
Please forward the Donations URL to your friends. Our thoughts go out to the people of Victoria.
Today's "Magnatune Monday" program is Baroque Music from all Magnatune Artists. We hope you enjoy this wide selection of pieces from these groundbreaking musicians.
Radio Riel's music today is from the extensive library of Magnatune, an innovative record company on the cutting edge of internet-based content production and distribution. Magnatune, whose motto is "We are not evil", was launched by John Buckman in mid-2004 and today represents a remarkable collection of artists from all kinds of genres.
To find out more about Magnatune, read their information pages. But above all, listen to the music here on Radio Riel's Magnatune programs, and if you like what you hear, support them! Visit the site, and buy some of the music you've been listening to. There are lots of other listening options on the site too. For a more detailed study of Magnatune's business model, check out this Open Rights Group case study.
Radio Riel produces this program in conjunction with the Caledon Library in Second Life. Today's music originates from the music library of Gabrielle Riel.
For more information on the Caledon Library, current exhibits and the work of Second Life reference libraries in general, please visit the Caledon Library Web site, or one of their locations in-world.
You can listen to the program now, or simply visit any Caledon Library branch in-world and press Play on your embedded music player.
Radio Riel presents in today's Programme a showcasing of Sergei Prokofiev. Best known to most audiences for composing Peter and the Wolf in 1936. A Russian Composer best known for mastering several genres, he became one of the greatest composers in the early 20th century. A selection of his sonatas, ballets and symphonies will be played today.
As a treat, we have a copy of the premiere performance of Peter and the Wolf from 1939 for American audiences. Played by the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Narrated by Richard Hale.
You can listen now at http://music.radioriel.org - the ideal URL for you to use in your home parcel media address in-world - or simply visit any Caledon Library branch in-world and press Play on your embedded music player. If you're outside SL you can click here, and listen in Winamp, iTunes, or any standard media player.
From the Library is produced by Radio Riel in conjunction with the Caledon Library in Second Life. Today's program was produced by Mitsu Figaro.
Riel Radio Theatre presents part five of BBC Radio 4's dramatisation of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings - "The Mirror of Galadriel".
Adapted for radio by Brian Sibley and Michael Bakewell.
Thursday 5th of February starting at 7:00 pm SLT
Join us at Radio Riel's HQ at Edison Hypatia to listen with the rest of us or tune your music player of choice to http://music2.radioriel.org if you can't make it in person.
In today's Early Music Show, we feature music of the Renaissance from across Western Europe, from Britain, France, Germany, Spain and Italy.
You'll be hearing both "loud" and "soft" bands - the former including brass instruments such as the sackbutt (a proto-trombone), shawm (a wooden reed instrument that is the predecessor of the oboe, brought to Europe from the Arab lands), rauschpfeife (an astonishingly loud capped-reed instrument in which, like a bagpipe chanter, the reed is enclosed and never touches the lips, in contrast to the shawm) and various forms of percussion, usually heard outdoors – not to mention bagpipes; while the latter includes quieter indoor instruments like the crumhorn, recorders, various stringed instruments and occasional keyboards.
In this programme we will be focusing on renditions of Early Music by some of the masters of the field, such as the late David Munrow, Ulsamer Collegium and Musica Reservata, covering both sacred and secular music (though with an emphasis on the latter).
• From The Library is presented by Radio Riel in conjunction with the Caledon Library in Second Life, and today's programme was produced by Elrik Merlin. For more information on the Caledon Library, current exhibits and the work of Second Life reference libraries in general, please visit the Caledon Library Web site, or one of their locations in-world.
• You can listen to the program now at http://music.radioriel.org, or simply visit any Caledon Library branch in-world and press Play on your embedded music player.
I'll be playing Romani- and gypsy-inspired music tonight for my World Wednesdays show, 6-7pm SLT. Come on over to the Radio Riel Listening Room and Music Library on Wyre or listen at http://music2.radioriel.org.
Today's programme features a collection of traditional dance tunes, some of which go back many centuries. Revived today in the form of Morris dancing and related genres such as English Country Dance (ECD), many of the tunes are familiar and popular today once again, as they were in the 16th century when the dances that became ECD were developed among the gentry, influenced by the folk dances of the time.
We will be featuring some of the work of modern popularisers of these genres, notably Ashley Hutchings, including his Compleat Dancing Master and other albums such as excerpts from the Morris On series, which often interleave (somewhat modernised) renditions of the pieces with readings from contemporary writings illustrating the attitudes of those in authority down the centuries to the popular pastime of dancing – many of which were downright hostile. We also couldn't resist throwing in Richard Thompson and Philip Pickett's lively album The Bones Of All Men, which essentially does for Renaissance dance music what Ashley Hutchings does for ECD – namely, rock it up.
In addition we include our fine collection of English country dance music performed by the renowned American ECD Instrumental Quartet, Bare Necessities, and kindly donated to Radio Riel by the Caledon Library.
Click here to learn more about the recordings produced by Bare Necessities and here to learn more about their "English Country Dance" recordings produced for the CDS Boston Centre series.
You will also hear performances by such artists as Maggie Sansone, Paul O'Dette and others, including some beautiful folk/dance contributions from Jennifer Cutting and The New St. George, and a collection of English National Songs from the Broadside Band.
• This programme is produced by Radio Riel in conjunction with the Caledon Library in Second Life, and presented by Elrik Merlin. For more information on the Caledon Library, current exhibits and the work of Second Life reference libraries in general, please visit the Caledon Library Web site, or one of their locations in-world.
• You can listen now at http://music.radioriel.org/ - the ideal URL for you to plug into your home parcel media address in-world - or simply visit any Caledon Library branch in-world and press Play on your embedded music player. (If you want to listen off-world, eg in Winamp or iTunes, and the above address doesn't work for you, click here.)
Today's From the Library highlights the worldwide range of Celtic music, including Brittany and Cape Breton.
From the Library is produced by Radio Riel in conjunction with the Caledon Library in Second Life. Today's program was produced by Otenth Paderborn.
For more information on the Caledon Library, current exhibits and the work of Second Life reference libraries in general, please visit the Caledon Library Web site, or one of their locations in-world.
You can listen now at http://music.radioriel.org - the ideal URL for you to use in your home parcel media address in-world - or simply visit any Caledon Library branch in-world and press Play on your embedded music player. (If you want to listen off-world, eg in Winamp or iTunes, and the above address doesn't work for you, click here.)
Today, Radio Riel is presenting a special program in honor of the newest part of the Riel Communities: New Toulouse! Last week the sims of New Toulouse and New Toulouse Algiers transferred into the ownership of Gabrielle Riel. We are pleased to bring the New Taloosters into the family, along with the Riel Audiophiles and the Edisonians.
New Toulouse is based on New Orleans at the beginning of the 20th Century, roughly from 1900 - 1920, and one of the most special parts of New Orleans (from *any* era) is its music. The addition of New Toulouse will enable Radio Riel to play more early Jazz and Cajun music in the future.
Today, you will hear Ragtime, Dixieland Jazz, Early New Orleans Style Jazz and Blues from artists such as Louis Armstrong, Bessie Smith, James P. Johnson, Tommy Johnson, Scott Joplin and Jelly Roll Morton.
Today's program originates from the music library of Gabrielle Riel. You can listen to the program now by clicking here.
