WCRS Podcast - Night Tunes

Larry Kensington - Nightmix 01-08-10 Part One

Submitted by Night Tunes on Wed, 01/06/2010 - 7:47pm

58:48 minutes (53.83 MB)

Fiddler Jay Ungar and guitarist Molly Mason are not just husband and wife--they're the undisputed first couple of American roots music. In the first hour of this week's program, they play a couple of their trademark waltzes as well as a couple of swing tunes from the 1930s. You'll also hear two outstanding Canadian groups that give fresh perspective to older music--the Susie Arioli Band from Montreal and the Nova Scotian group Great Big Sea.

Larry Kensington - Nightmix 01-08-10 Part Two

Submitted by Night Tunes on Wed, 01/06/2010 - 7:41pm

58:33 minutes (53.6 MB)

For close to 40 years, Vangelis has been one of the most consistently original voices in ambient and new age music. Tonight's second hour features some of his best from the 1970s and 1990s.

Larry Kensington - Nightmix 01-01-10 Part Two

Submitted by Night Tunes on Tue, 12/29/2009 - 1:44pm

58:35 minutes (53.64 MB)

The music called "new grass" is best described as bluegrass with a postmodern attitude, and one of its finest groups, the Greencards, starts things off in the second hour of this week's "Nightmix." Other music includes some of the traditional country and jazz sounds that have influenced new grass.

Larry Kensington - Nightmix 01-01-10 Part One

Submitted by Night Tunes on Tue, 12/29/2009 - 1:36pm

58:39 minutes (53.7 MB)

The first hour of the first Nightmix of 2010 imparts the lesson that great virtuosity is about much more than playing a lot of notes at blazing speed. Classical pianist Lang Lang plays Chinese folk melodies. Guitarists Adrian Legg and Jimi Hendrix show their great ability to play pretty. And a very good Eastern European orchestra plays movie music inspired by the most popular wizard since Merlin.

Larry Kensington - Nightmix 12-25-09 Part One

Submitted by Night Tunes on Sat, 12/26/2009 - 6:13pm

58:33 minutes (53.61 MB)

Thsi week's program is a straightforward celebration of Christmas, with appropriate music and a couple of poems.

Larry Kensington - Nightmix 12-25-09 Part Two

Submitted by Night Tunes on Mon, 12/21/2009 - 4:47pm

58:27 minutes (53.52 MB)

This week's Nightmix is a straightforward celebration of Christmas. Familiar carols are combined with modern songs and certain oddball but festive selections.