Curved Air presents:
Der Ring Des Nibelungen von Richard Wagner, mit Wolfgang Windgassen und Birgit Nilsson
DJbob Curved Air October 31st, 2023
Posted In: Fund Drive, Music, Music Shows, Website
Tags: birgit nilsson, der ring des nibelungen, die walkure, richard wagner, ride of the valkyries, wagner's ring, wolfgang windgassen
POP Goes The World! presents:
Trick Or Treat!
Throw us a couple of bucks, and we’ll give you the best damn little radio station in the country!
We have two days left in our fund drive and we’re $10,000 away from our $40,000 goal.
So, it’s crunch time!
I’m shakin’ the can, and playing my favorite halloween tracks.
Get in the halloween groove, and, if you can, throw us a few bucks by clicking the donate button.
enzo POP Goes The World! October 27th, 2023
Posted In: Fund Drive, Music, Music Shows
Higher Consciousness presents:
Higher Consciousness 666 (Fundraiser-ween)
Another Thursday to be alive in this wild wild world. How do we do it every week? I don’t know but you did it and congratulations! It’s also a few days till Halloween, known as Samhain(Sah-win). The celebration of the end of the harvest season, the welcoming of winter, and a few other things about the veil between worlds being thinner than usual. So I put together some fun and silly remixes for the holiday season. Dance if you want to, and enjoy yourself. Find what makes you happy around this season. Take some time to find the little things that make you smile, as long as there’s no harm to others then go for it.
Alicia Higher Consciousness October 26th, 2023
Posted In: Fund Drive, Music
Tags: Music and tarot, WRIR
Curved Air presents:
Fall Fund Drive Fever feat. “LA STUPENDA”: The Voice of Joan Sutherland [1926-2010]
Dame Joan Sutherland was an Australian coloratura soprano who specialized in the bel canto operatic repertoire. Today we listen to scenes and arias from Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor, Bellini’s Norma, and Offenbach’s Tales of Hoffmann and more. Click here for NPR’s 2010 tribute.
From The Charlie Rose Show in 1998:
From The Dinah Shore Show in 1963, with Ella Fitzgerald:
DJbob Curved Air October 24th, 2023
Posted In: Fund Drive, Music, Music Shows, Website
Tags: anna moffo, joan sutherland, maria callas
Curved Air presents:
The Music of Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924), feat. Joan Sutherland, Anna Moffo, and Renata Scotto
Including the complete Act II from a 1938 La Scala performance of La bohème, featuring Benjamin Gigli, Licia Albanese, and Tatiana Menotti. Also, scenes and arias from Tosca, Turandot, and Madama Butterfly.
[Above: Giacomo Puccini in 1908; Below: Renata Scotto in 1967.]
DJbob Curved Air October 17th, 2023
Posted In: Blogging, Fund Drive, Music, Music Shows, Website
Curved Air presents:
The Music of Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924)
…featuring harpist Maria Graf…
…and pianist Vlado Perlemuter…
DJbob Curved Air May 30th, 2023
Posted In: Fund Drive, Music, Music Shows, Volunteering, Website
Curved Air presents:
EXPLORING STRING QUARTETS cont’d….Music by Eleanor Hovda, George Crumb, György Ligeti &c, feat. Arditti String Quartet
[Ruth Crawford Seeger, early 1920’s]
“Ich bin ein funke nur vom heiligen feuerIch bin ein dröhnen nur der heiligen stimme.”
[Charles Ives portrait by Clara Sipprell – National Portrait Gallery, NPG.82.185, CC0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=113256504]
DJbob Curved Air May 16th, 2023
Posted In: Blogging, Fund Drive, Music, Music Shows, Volunteering, Website
Curved Air presents:
PIANO LOCO: Modern Music from Berio, Boulez & others, feat. Shannon Wettstein and Carol Rosenberger
[Glenn Gould’s chair]
…and maybe some good old Beethoven and Chopin deep cuts.
DJbob Curved Air May 2nd, 2023
Posted In: Fund Drive, Music, Music Shows, Website
FREQUENCY presents:
FREQUENCY #956: JOANNA O + JUNGLE JESSI (DC)
TONIGHT! Girls rule the airwaves on Frequency!!! We welcome back to the airwaves from Washington DC – Jungle Jessi!!
JOANNA O. (Me) up at 9 PM, followed by the one and only JUNGLE JESSI at 10 PM. Don’t miss this incredible night of dnb music. Also, to find out more about Jungle Jessi, be sure to check out the interview with Joanna & Jungle Jessi over on the Turnstyle site: https: //turnstyleonline.com/…/features-jungle-jessi…/
The Spring Pledge drive at the station is wrapping up, so if you still want to support your local community radio, there are some cool swag items up for grabs, like the fun new tee from Silly Genius! Big love to all the listeners!
JoannaO FREQUENCY April 29th, 2023
Posted In: Fund Drive, Music, Music Shows
Tags: 2023, frequency, joanna o., jungle jessi
Cause and Effect presents:
Cause and Effect: Pirate Radio with DJ Miss Kitty
No, we’re not talking about the Pittsburgh pirates or the swashbuckling sort, today’s Cause & Effect episode takes a look at the Pirate Radio movement.
In 1964, there was nowhere easy for British youth to listen to rock ‘n’ rollers like The Beatles, The Who and The Rolling Stones. Commercial radio wasn’t yet an option, and the guardians of the publicly-owned British Broadcasting Corporation considered such music immoral, antisocial and unfit for public broadcast. Yet just three years later, on Sept. 30, 1967 — the BBC switched on the transmitters of Radio 1, the country’s first dedicated popular music station. What happened to change their minds? The answer to that question — and the story of how pop music came to the FM dial in the U.K. — involves illegal offshore broadcasters AKA PIRATE RADIO.
Drive around some parts of London today and you’re still liable to hear mainstream radio broadcasts drowned out by fleeting bursts of unfamiliar music. Pirate radio stations have been illegally hijacking the FM dial since the 1990s, but while the pirate scene is far smaller than it was in its heyday, the influence of pirate radio has endured and the movement is still thriving on a local scale, and a vibrant array of online-only stations are inspired by the energy and spirit of the pirates.
Carrie Thornbrugh Cause and Effect April 29th, 2023
Posted In: Fund Drive, Music, Music Shows
Tags: #wrir #localmusic, Electronic, music, Music show, obscure, variety, WRIR