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Hi Laurie: Try again. When I put those pieces in from my own collection, it can take a little longer for them to show up on our server than the pieces that are already programmed by our music director. If you click to buy and it doesn't show, give it a while, and if it doesn't show up within 24 hours, blast me!

Okay, I rechecked yesterday's playlist but it still doesn't appear, so I checked on Archiv Music and found 2 recordings listed. The first one is on Hyperion, Cat. 67543 with Polyphony, and released in 2006. The second one is on something called Cd Baby, Cat. 182445, released in 2008,
but the first one sounds like yours. Correct?

Strange, it shows when I search it:http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/Playlist?&source=KING&displayYear=2009&displayMonth=11&displayDay=06&time=4:48pm
You are correct, it's the first one with Polyphony. Everything on the CD is exquisite. And to think he got into choral music "because all the good-looking girls were singing in the choir." Ah, Lake Tahoe!

I love that! :-) Thanks for sharing!

Bryan Lowe
KING FM

HI Pepper. Sorry about that! I just checked in the Opera Studios, so to speak, and the computer had frozen. All is back now!
Bryan Lowe
KING FM

Thanks Bryan, I am all better now....

10:19 pm was a harp piece:

ALBENIZ: Spanish Suite No.1, Op.47/1: Granada (Serenata)
Kowalczuk, Sylvia, harp
HUNGAROTON: 31577 ... Read More

At 10:30 pm:

GIULIANI: La Rossiniana No.3, Op.121
Russell, David, guitar
TELARC: 80525

You can see all of this and CD links at KING.org's online music schedule too! =) Glad you enjoyed the pieces!

Thanks! I'll check out that schedule and those cds.

Mary Ann, why the Brits get to claim "light music" when Mozart's Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, or Grofé's Grand Canyon Suite could easily fit the description, goes simply to English BBC radio dominance in the middle of the twentieth century. Little seaside resorts in England (picture the potted palms and white filigree verandas) had for years installed chamber orchestras for the entertainment of their guests. Melody ruled. No counterpoint, no Bach-like fugues. Nothing "serious." I suppose the idea is that you can't enjoy the seaside if you're hearing a fugue, which only tells me they weren't listening to the right fugues, but that's another story ;-) Anyway, BBC radio capitalized on the genre in 1945, right after the war was over, and people were in a mood to celebrate. The BBC Light Programme turned Eric Coates into the "King of Light Music." The popularity of the genre lasted until about 1962.

Some ironies: when the style began to fall out of fashion, the "light" composers could only survive by writing more "serious" music for, get this, film! John Williams appreciated the orchestration talents of those light composers, and actually used two of them to help orchestrate his scores for Star Wars and E.T. Just as the phenomenon of the palm court orchestra was being replaced by piped in recorded music, the composer Ernest Tomlinson came to the rescue as the BBC was dumping its catalog of light music, and established his Library of Light Orchestral Music. In another irony, the BBC had to re-borrow from that collection when British Light Music saw a resurgence on Brian Kay's program, which I think was running until just recently. Here in the Northwest, there is even a Vancouver Island Palm Court Light Orchestra.

Today, a lot of filmmakers use those old recordings to create that sense of "instant nostalgia." It was, after all, a time of possibility.... Read More

If you want some names to associate with light music that are not English: Leroy Anderson, Ferde Grofé, George Gershwin, Johann Strauss II, Henry Mancini all come to mind. The presence of Gershwin among them, in my opinion, ensures that "light" music does not have to mean it's light on intellect.

Bill, I'm still in touch with all of them. Will let you know when exciting things develop!

Thank you, Maxine. I spend many an hour or more with these hosts, and appreciated their knowledge of the music I love. Let me know Thanks, Bill