A mix of music for you on this The Western Skyline – from stompin’ yer feet, to ConTempo String Quartet. There’s news of community awards, and an update on KAVA and the renovation of the Courthouse arts venue. Plus info on some shows. There’s been a new appointment at NUI Galway at the Huston School of Film! And – was Chilean poet Pablo Neruda really murdered? The poem today is Neruda’s ‘Leave me a place underground’.
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The Western Skyline Podcast 07 October 2017
Hi guys!
Below is the podcast of my radio show from 7 October.
We had a Travelling Wilburys special on The Western Skyline in the week that saw the death of Tom Petty at the age of 66. Rather than play the best known tracks by Petty, I decided to put a playlist together that includes tracks from Petty & the Heartbreakers, but also by his fellow musicians in the Travelling Wilburys: George Harrison, Bob Dylan, Jeff Lynne, and Roy Orbison. Needless to say, the music is, in the words of George, ‘Fab’.
Also – I spoke to actor Oisin McDonagh and stage manager Elizabeth Jacob about a theatrical production of Crime & Punishment, the great 19th century Russian novel by Fydor Dostoevsky. The novel has been adapted for the stage by Philip McDonagh, and is directed by Luke Morgan, with music by Jake Morgan. The theatre company performed in Kinvara on the 14th, and are in the Mick Lally Theatre in Druid Lane, Galway until 28 October. Drop in if you’re nearby.
Gremlins mean we didn’t make it to ‘The End of the Line’. A good omen, perhaps!
The Western Skyline Podcast 26 August 2017
Another podcast from my show with Kinvara FM. And we’re live on air now at 92.4fm .
HUZZAH!
Tonii Kelly, the editor of Guaire Magazine in Gort joined us on The Western Skyline today to tell us about a new initiative to get the children of south Galway writing poetry and fiction. Tonii also spoke about the magazine, which celebrates Gort and the area around the town. Check out guaire.org for more details.
Music is from Ali Farka Toure & Ry Cooder, M People, Jambalaya Cajun Band, Youssou N’Dour, Andy Irvine & Paul Brady, Alan Stivell, De Dannan, Bruce Hornsby & The Range, and the Buena Vista Social Club.
There’s news of art exhibitions and a seaside installation. Don’t forget to contact kava@kinvara.com if you want to join the day trip to see the Vermeer Exhibition at the National Gallery.
We preview Muldoon’s Picnic, coming next Tuesday 29th to the Town Hall Theatre in Galway, and Moonfish Theatre Company’s production of Joseph O’Connor’s ‘Star of the Sea’ – also at the Town Hall Theatre on 1 & 2 September.
[Image c. Karen J McDonnell]
The Western Skyline Podcast 22 July 2017
HERE’S A LINK TO THE PODCAST OF THE WESTERN SKYLINE FROM 22 July 2017
Today’s show features an interview with local artist and author, Cathy Dunne, as well as news from the Galway International Arts Festival, and an important local fundraiser: Palestine Comes to Kinvara.
Music is from such greats as Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman & Peggy Lee, Jimmy Webb, Annie Lennox, Alison Moyet, CSN .
The Western Skyline Podcast 8 July 2017
HERE’S A LINK TO THE PODCAST OF THE WESTERN SKYLINE FROM 8 July 2017
An exploration of music from 1967 & the Summer of Love, with some arts roundups thrown in for good measure. Enjoy the vibes with songs from The Turtles, Procul Harem, The Stones, The Beatles, The Beach Boys, Scott McKenzie, The Spencer Davis Group and more …
Keep an eye out for BBC4 repeats of their 1967 special. Also SKY Arts are showing programmes about musicians connected to the movement that began in 1967.
Turn on, Tune In …. don’t Drop Out until you’ve listened to the show!
Groovy.
The Western Skyline Podcast 10 June 2017
Here’s a link to the podcast of The Western Skyline from 10 June 2017
Another line up of great music from some of Music’s best, including Johnny Cash, Dave Brubeck, Sandy Denny, The Doobie Brothers, Tracy Chapman…
Arts News focuses on art exhibitions & workshops, a drama production by children for children, W. B Yeats’s birthday and Bloomsday. And today’s poem is No Second Troy by Yeats.
Email requests & comments to me at kinvarafm@gmail.com – put The Western Skyline in the subject line.
Hope you enjoy the music!
New from The Western Skyline
I’m still working as a volunteer with Kinvara FM – about 10 km from home – in Kinvara, Co. Galway. The station hopes to be broadcasting on air in late summer when its 30 day licence is received from the BAI. Until then, there is a variety of shows going out every Saturday, and some on Sundays too. You can listen in live online, or catch the podcasts later.
I’ll be presenting The Western Skyline every fortnight. The next show is on 10 June. There will be Arts & Heritage news, interviews, and some poetry. Below are links to podcasts the two most recent shows. I hope you enjoy them!
The Western Skyline – Woody Allen’s Music
The Western Skyline – Woody Allen’s Music
First broadcast on wildatlanticwaves.wordpress.com on 30 July 2015
Thanks to my friends and family, and to the listeners who contacted the show via Twitter, and Facebook. And thanks to Sinéad, Tom, Peadar, Gerry & Heather – the people who gave radioheads like me the chance to create, broadcast and podcast my shows. And to the GRETB radioheads … it’s been a blast guys!
Thank you all. X
So: the final show from this series of The Western Skyline on Wild Atlantic Waves Radio … … The music of Woody Allen’s films, plus a track from the man himself; no mean player of New Orleans jazz clarinet. Check out the documentary film about Allen, his films, and music: Wild Man Blues
You can listen to the podcast of the show here, and the playlist is below.
The Western Skyline: Woody Allen’s Music
First broadcast 10.30-11.30am on 30 July 2015
Track Name: Theme from the Purple Rose of Cairo
Complete Work Name: Same [Purple Rose of Cairo soundtrack]
Composer: Dick Hyman
Album Title: House of Pianos
Record Label: Arbors Records 2015
Duration: 02.09
Track Name: Dancing Cheek to Cheek
Complete Work Name: Same [Purple Rose of Cairo soundtrack]
Performer: Fred Astaire
Album Title: Songs from Woody Allen Films: compilation
Record Label: WNTS 2011 (Spotify)
Duration: 03.16
(Note Annie’s clothes!)
Track Name: Moonglow
Complete Work Name: Same [Annie Hall soundtrack]
Orchestra: Artie Shaw & his orchestra
Album Title: Songs from Woody Allen Films: compilation
Record Label: WNTS 2011 (Spotify)
Duration: 03.20
Track Name: Rhapsody in Blue
Complete Work Name: Opening scene of Manhattan/ Voicover by Woody Allen
Composer: George Gershwin
Orchestra: New York Philharmonic
Downloaded from YouTube
Duration: 03.42
Track Name: String quartet No.15. Excerpt from the 1st Movement Allegro Molto Moderato
Complete Work Name: String Quartet in G Major #15 D887 [Crimes & Misdemeanours]
Composer: Schubert
Orchestra: Artemis Quartet
Album Title: Schubert Quartets 13,14,15
Record Label: Virgin Classics
Duration: 04.21
Track Name: Gymnopedie #3
Complete Work Name: Les Gymnopedies [Another Woman soundtrack]
Composer: Eric Satie
Orchestr: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Pianist: Philippe Entremont
Album Title: Woody Allen Classics
Record Label:
Duration: 03.25
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Track Name: In the Mood
Complete Work Name: Same [Radio Days soundtrack]
Composer: Glenn Miller
Orchestra: The Glenn Miller Orchestra
Conductor: Glenn Miller
Album Title: Songs from Woody Allen Films
Record Label: WNTS 2011 (Spotify)
Duration: 03.29
Track Name: If I didn’t care
Complete Work Name: same [Radio Days soundtrack]
Orchestra: The Ink Spots
Album Title: Songs from Woody Allen Films
Record Label: WNTS 2011 (Spotify)
Duration: 02.56
Track Name: Largo (excerpt)
Complete Work Name: Concerto #5 in F Minor [Hannah & Her Sisters]
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
Orchestra: London Strings
Conductor: Sir Neville Marriner
Album Title:
Record Label: Sony BMG
Duration: 03.10
Track Name: La Conga Blicoti
Complete Work Name: same [Midnight in Paris]
Singer: Josephine Baker
Album Title: Songs from Woody Allen Films
Record Label: WNTS 2011 (Spotify)
Duration: 02.18
Track Name: Come On and Stomp Stomp Stomp
Complete Work Name: Same [Wild Man Blues documentary]
Orchestra: Woody Allen & Band incl. Eddy Davis
Album Title: Wild Man Blues
Record Label: BMG Entertainment 1998
Duration: 04.43
The Western Skyline – Classical Choruses (& Gremlins)
It’s not often one gets to co-host a show with gremlins. But on our penultimate day in the studio, it happened to me.
Today, the beginning of the show had lovely music, interspersed with …
… silence!
Direct sunlight on the presenter’s fade button meant that while it looked like everything was ticketty boo, in fact I was just talking to myself. Listeners could hear the music, however – which was the most important part of the programme.
Consequently, this show opens directly with the first track, Allegri’s Miserere Mei – all 11 minutes 52 seconds of it.
Sheet Music: Allegri’s Miserere
Here is a link to a documentary from Lyric FM about the Miserere. It won a bronze medal at this year’s New York Festival -Radio.
Yup, you’re not hearing things.The third track? It is the music from the Eurovision – but Charpentier preferred to call it Te Deum!
I pick up the narrative after the fourth track: Mozart’s Requiem is my Desert Island disc – especially this recording conducted by Herbert von Karajan.
Below is the podcast of the show and a full playlist. Feel free to leave comments!
The Western Skyline – Classical Choruses – First broadcast on wildatlanticwaves.wordpress.com 10.30 -11.30am Wednesday 29 July 2015:
PLAYLIST
Track Name: Miserere Mei
Complete Work Name: Miserere Mei
Composer: Gregorio Allegri
Choir: The Sixteen
Orchestra: with the Gabrielli Consort & the choir of Kings College Cambridge
Conductor:
Album Title: Allegri Miserere: Tallis: Lamentation of Jeremiah, & other Renaissance Masterpieces
Record Label: Decca Virtuoso 2011
Duration: 11.52
Track Name: Fair Phyllis I Saw Sitting Alone
Complete Work Name: Same
Composer: John Farmer
Choir: The Kings Singers
Orchestra: The Consort of Musicke
Conductor:
Album Title: The Madrigal Mystery Tour
Record Label: EMI 1989
Duration: 01.11
Track Name: Te Deum , Laudamus, Te Aeternum Patrem
Complete Work Name: Te Deum
Composer: Marc Antoine Charpentier H146
Choir: Le Poeme Harmonique, Capella Claco Viensis
Soloist: Benoit Arnould
Conductor: Vincent Dumestre
Album Title: (Live recording) La Chappelle Royale du Chateau de Versailles
Record Label: Alpha Productions 2013
Duration: 06.20
Track Name: Communio, Lux Aeterna
Complete Work Name: Requiem in D Minor, K.626
Composer: W A Mozart ( completed by Franz Xaver Sussmeyer)
Soloists: Wiener Singeren & Anna Tomowa-Sintow
Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic
Conductor: Herbert von Karajan
Album Title: Mozart, Requiem
Record Label: Deutshe Grammophon GmBH 1976/1988
Duration: 06.03
Track Name: In Paradisum
Complete Work Name: Requiem in D Minor, Opus 48
Composer: Gabriel Fauré
Orchestra: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Choir: Choir of Kings College Cambridge
Conductor: Stephen Cleobury
Album Title: Fauré Requiem & Mese Basse
Record Label: Choir Kings College 2014
Duration: 03.10
Track Name: Thine Own of Thine Own
Complete Work Name: Liturgy of St John Chrysostem in C Major, Opus 41
Composer: Pytor Tchaikovsky
Choir & Orchestra: USSR Ministry & Culture State Chamber Choir (live recording)
Conductor: Valery Polyansky
Album Title: Liturgy of St John Chrysostem
Record Label: FSU ‘Firma Melodie’ 2011
Duration: 03.54
Track Name: I told my sweetheart
Complete Work Name: Ten Russian Folk Songs
Composer: Dmitri Shostakovich
Choir & Orchestra: Chorus of the Moscow Academy of Choral Art
Conductor: Victor Popov Piano: Tatyana Kravchenko
Album Title: Shostakovich: Choral Music
Record Label: Brillian Classics 2013 (1999 National Music Publishers, Russian Federation)
Recorded in the Small Hall, Moscow Conservatory Jan-Apr 1998
Duration: 04.08
Track Name: Song for Athene
Complete Work Name: Song for Athene
Composer: John Taverner
Choir: Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge
Conductor: Christopher Robinson
Album Title: Taverner: Song for Athene/Svyati
Record Label: Naxos 2000
Duration: 05.21
Track Name: Adhaan – The Muslim Call to Prayer
Complete Work Name: The Armed Man
Composer: Religious – traditional
Muzzein: Mohammed Gad
Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Karl Jenkins
Album Title: The Armed Man, A Mass for Peace
Record Label: Virgin Records 2001
Duration: 01.56
Track Name: L’Homme Armé
Complete Work Name: The Armed Man
Composer: Karl Jenkins
Choir: National Youth Choir of Great Britain
Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Karl Jenkins
Album Title: The Armed Man, A Mass for Peace
Record Label: Virgin Records 2001
Duration: 06.00
The Western Skyline – Let’s Play!
First broadcast on 23 July 2015 on wildatlanticwaves.wordpress.com #onlineradio
This solo hour was all about play – and playing some good music. I chose a selection from the 1960’s up: moving from soulful to music guaranteed to rock the soul. I defy you not to dance around the kitchen by the end of the show!
Here is the link to the podcast:
A show like this allows me the chance to play long songs, and songs that wouldn’t be heard much on mainstream radio. Who plays John Miles or Judie Tzuke these days?
Some of the tracks here came from re-masters or compilations. Below is the playlist:
New York Minute – Don Henley End of the Innocence (1989) 2009 Geffen Records
For You – Judie Tzuke Welcome to the Cruise (1979) 2010 Wrasse Records
Old Friends/Bookends Simon & Garfunkel Bookends 1968 Sony BMG
Dazzling Blue – Paul Simon So Beautiful, So What 2011 Star Con LLC Hear Music
If These Walls Could Speak – Jimmy Webb 10 Easy Pieces 1996 Capitol Records
Mac Arthur Park – Richard Harris (Written by Jimmy Webb, first recorded:1968) 1997 Geffen Records
Music – John Miles Rebel (1976) True Rock Compilation 2006 Spectrum Music
Gimme Some Lovin’ – Spencer Davis Group True Rock Compilation 2006 Spectrum Music
Sweet Home Alabama – Lynard Skynard True Rock Compilation 2006 Spectrum Music
Addicted to Love – Robert Palmer Riptide (1985) True Rock Compilation 2006
& The Girls!
Karen J McDonnell 