Music For A WhileMusic For A While on CKCU-FM 93.1 in Ottawa, Canadahttps://cod.ckcufm.com/images/ckcu.gifCopyright by Radio-Carleton, Inc.https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/602/index.html2024-03-25T15:00:00ZMusic For A While 2024-03-25: Chornobyl Requiemhttps://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/602/64515.html2024-03-25T15:00:00Z<a href="https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/602/64515.html"><img align=left src="https://cod.ckcufm.com/images/ondemand.png"></a>Слава Україні!<BR><BR>This broadcast featured Mykola Cholodyj, tenor; Oleksandr Bondarenko, bass; Frescoes of Kyiv Chamber Choir; Oleksandr Bondarenko, conductor, Frescoes of Kyiv Chamber Choir; Oleksandr Bondarenko, conductor, Paul Agnew Tenor; Stephen Varcoe, bass; King’s College Choir, Cambridge; The Brandenburg Consort; Sir Stephen Cleobury, conductor.David CavlovicComing up on Music For A While on Mon. Mar. 25https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/602/H2024-03-24T15:00:00ZSacred music by Roman Hurko and Johann Sebastian Bach.Music For A While Music For A While 2024-03-18: Life and A Shropshire Ladhttps://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/602/64422.html2024-03-18T15:00:00Z<a href="https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/602/64422.html"><img align=left src="https://cod.ckcufm.com/images/ondemand.png"></a>Think no more, lad; laugh, be jolly:
<BR>Why should men make haste to die?
<BR>--A. E. Housman<BR><BR>This broadcast featured Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Norman Del Mar, conductor, Brett Polegato, baritone; Iain Burnside, piano, Ingryd Thorson, piano; Julian Thurber, piano, National Symphony Orchestra; Howard Mitchell, conductor.David CavlovicComing up on Music For A While on Mon. Mar. 18https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/602/H2024-03-17T15:00:00ZMusic by Frederick Delius, George Butterworth, Antonín Dvořák, and Morton Gould, for the first week of Spring.Music For A While Music For A While 2024-03-11: Chamber Music Monday Morninghttps://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/602/64307.html2024-03-11T15:00:00Z<a href="https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/602/64307.html"><img align=left src="https://cod.ckcufm.com/images/ondemand.png"></a>It's been a sad week here in Ottawa. We need good music to soothe our souls.<BR><BR>This broadcast featured Viktória Herencsár, cimbalom; István Zsolnai, violin; Lajos Tóth, violin; Sándor Papp, viola; Enikő Szödényi Nagy, ‘cello; Zsolt Tibay, double bass, Thin Edge New Music Collective: Ilana Waniuk, violin; Aysel Taghi-Zada, viola; Dobrochna Zubek, ‘cello; Cheryl Duvall, piano, Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, piano, Stamic Quartet: Bohuslav Matoušek, violin; Josef Kekula, violin; Jan Pěruška, viola; Vladimír Leixner, ‘cello.David CavlovicComing up on Music For A While on Mon. Mar. 11https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/602/H2024-03-10T15:00:00ZChamber music compositions by Géza Allaga, Linda Catlin Smith, Fryderyk Frantisek Chopin, and Bohuslav Martinů.Music For A While Music For A While 2024-03-04: National Verdi, and Fletcher & Louishttps://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/602/64216.html2024-03-04T16:00:00Z<a href="https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/602/64216.html"><img align=left src="https://cod.ckcufm.com/images/ondemand.png"></a>It's like National Velvet, but it's Verdi....now don't go Sugarfoot Stompin' at me!<BR><BR>This broadcast featured Richard Margison, tenor; Canadian Opera Company Chorus and Orchestra; Richard Bradshaw, conductor, English String Orchestra; William Boughton, conductor, London Symphony Orchestra; Eduardo Mata, conductor, Fletcher Henderson & His Orchestra.David CavlovicComing up on Music For A While on Mon. Mar. 4https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/602/H2024-03-03T16:00:00ZCompositions by Giuseppe Verdi, Sir Edward Elgar, and Carlos Chavez, as well as early recordings of Louis Armstrong as a member of the Fletcher Henderson Orchestra.Music For A While Music For A While 2024-02-26: Legal Cannabichhttps://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/602/64123.html2024-02-26T16:00:00Z<a href="https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/602/64123.html"><img align=left src="https://cod.ckcufm.com/images/ondemand.png"></a>When in Greece I made sure the demotics were returned to my last name making it Čavlović. I did that for reasons....<BR><BR>This broadcast featured Lukas Consort; Viktor Lukas, conductor, Denise Lupien, violin; Louis-Philippe Pelletier, piano, London Symphony Orchestra; Eduardo Mata, conductor, Hildegard Behrens, soprano; Wiener Symphoniker; Francis Travis, conductor.David CavlovicComing up on Music For A While on Mon. Feb. 26https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/602/H2024-02-25T16:00:00ZStimulating music by Christian Cannabich, Jean Papineau-Couture, Carlos Chávez, and Maurice Ravel.Music For A While Music For A While 2024-02-19: Rebel with a Chaoshttps://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/602/64030.html2024-02-19T16:00:00Z<a href="https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/602/64030.html"><img align=left src="https://cod.ckcufm.com/images/ondemand.png"></a>For the first published edition of Jean-Féry Rebel's Les Elémens, the composer provides a written "warning" describing his approach to the work:
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<BR>"The elements painted in dance and in music seemed to me susceptible of a pleasant variety, as much in relation to the different genres of music as in relation to the dancers. The introduction to this symphony was natural, It was Le cahos even, this confusion which reigned between the Elements before the moment when subjected to invariable laws they took the place which is prescribed to them in the order of nature. To designate, in this confusion, each element in particular I used the most popular conventions. The bass expresses the earth through notes linked together and which are played by jerks. The Flutes, by lines of song, which go up and down, imitate the course and the murmur of the water. The air is painted by outfits followed by cadences that form the small flutes. Finally, the violins, in lively and brilliant lines, represent the activity of fire. These distinctive characters are recognized, separated or confused, in whole or in part, in the various occasions, which I call by the name of Cahos and which mark the efforts which the Elemen make to get rid of each other. In the 7th cahos, these efforts decrease in proportion as the entire resourcefulness approaches. This first idea took me further. I dared to undertake to join to the idea of the confusion of the elements of Harmony. I hazarded to hear first all the sounds mixed together or rather all the notes of the Octave united in a single sound. These notes then develop while going up in Unison in the progression which is natural for them, and, after a Dissonance, one hears the perfect chord. I finally believed that this would make the Cahos of harmony even better, if by walking through the different Cahos on different strings, I could without shocking the ear, make the final tone indecisive, until he returned determined at the time of the final examination."<BR><BR>This broadcast featured Les musiciens du Louvre; Marc Minkowski, conductor, Afarin Mansouri, mezzo-soprano; Milad Bagheri, tenor; Thin Edge Music Collective, London Symphony Orchestra; Eduardo Mata, conductor, Altin Yildiz Orkestar.David CavlovicComing up on Music For A While on Mon. Feb. 19https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/602/H2024-02-18T16:00:00ZA ballet by Jean-Féry Rebel, an opera duet by Afarin Mansouri, a Symphony by Carlos Chávez, and some Balkan tunes.Music For A While Music For A While 2024-02-12: O Mistress Minehttps://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/602/63939.html2024-02-12T16:00:00Z<a href="https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/602/63939.html"><img align=left src="https://cod.ckcufm.com/images/ondemand.png"></a>Before he turned to a life of crime, Al Capone tried his hand in the cosmetics business. He was hoping to title his line the St. Valentine's Day Mascara, but he got mowed down.<BR><BR>This broadcast featured Frederick Urrey, tenor; Ronn McFarlane, lute, The Toronto Chamber Choir; David Fallis, conductor, Eve Egoyan, piano; Mauricio Pauly, electronics, London Symphony Orchestra; Eduardo Mata, conductor, Manuel Barrueco, guitar.David CavlovicComing up on Music For A While on Mon. Feb. 12https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/602/H2024-02-11T16:00:00ZHeart felt music by John Dowland, Thomas Morley, Yehezkel Braun; an improv by Eve Egoyan and Mauricio Pauly, the Third Symphony of Carlos Chavéz; and music by Isaac Albéniz. It's a busy show today.Music For A While Music For A While 2024-02-05: Everybody Talkin' About Heaven Ain't Gwine Therehttps://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/602/63819.html2024-02-05T16:00:00Z<a href="https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/602/63819.html"><img align=left src="https://cod.ckcufm.com/images/ondemand.png"></a>Finnish composer Jean Sibelius essentially stopped composing for the last thirty years of his life--with one notable exception: he composed and arranged songs for Marian Anderson. He felt the African-American singer truly understood the Nordic Spirit.<BR><BR>This broadcast featured Casa Loma Orchestra; Henry Biagini, leader, Ruiqi Wang, voice; Stephanie Urquhart, piano; Summer Kodama, bass; Mili Hong, drums; Craft Ensemble: Colleen Brennon, violin; Amy Sims, violin; Amelia Hollander, viola; Velleda Miragias, ‘cello, London Symphony Orchestra; Eduardo Mata, conductor, Marian Anderson, contralto; Franz Rupp, piano; *Kosti Vehanen, piano.David CavlovicComing up on Music For A While on Mon. Feb. 5https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/602/H2024-02-04T16:00:00ZStrutting music by Wingy Manone; a new Canadian jazz album by Ruiqi Wang, and the great African-American contralto Marian Anderson sings Spirituals.Music For A While Music For A While 2024-01-29: The Book of Mirrorshttps://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/602/63732.html2024-01-29T16:00:00Z<a href="https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/602/63732.html"><img align=left src="https://cod.ckcufm.com/images/ondemand.png"></a>“My library was dukedom large enough.”
<BR>--Prospero
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<BR>My monthly quota of errors: The Kulhau Quintet is in A Major, not E Major.
<BR>Also, it's Antigona, not Antigonia......sigh...
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<BR>Now you know.<BR><BR>This broadcast featured Ensemble Capella Figuralis; Netherlands Bach Society; Jos van Veldhoven, conductor, Lark Popov, piano; George Vona, piano; Beverly Johnston, percussion, London Symphony Orchestra; Eduardo Mata, conductor, Jean-Pierre Rampal, flute; Julliard String Quartet: Earl Carlyss, violin; Robert Mann, viola; Samuel Rhodes, viola; Joel Krosnick, ‘cello.David CavlovicComing up on Music For A While on Mon. Jan. 29https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/602/H2024-01-28T16:00:00ZSpellbinding music by Alessandro Della Ciaia, Gary Kulesha, Carlos Chávez and Friedrich Kuhlau for a magical Monday morning.Music For A While Music For A While 2024-01-22: Fergusson's Auld Reikiehttps://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/602/63639.html2024-01-22T16:00:00Z<a href="https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/602/63639.html"><img align=left src="https://cod.ckcufm.com/images/ondemand.png"></a>Frae fields whare Spring her sweets has blawn
<BR>Wi caller verdure owr the lawn,
<BR>The gowdspink comes in new attire,
<BR>The brawest ‘mang the whistling choir,
<BR>That, ere the sun can clear his een,
<BR>Wi glib notes sain the simmer’s green.
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<BR>Sure Nature herried mony a tree,
<BR>For spraings and bonny spats to thee:
<BR>Nae mair the rainbow can impart
<BR>Sic glowing ferlies o’ her art,
<BR>Whase pencil wrought its freaks at will
<BR>On thee the sey-piece o’ her skill.
<BR>Nae mair thro’ straths in simmer dight
<BR>We seek the rose to bless our sight;
<BR>Or bid the bonny wa-flowers sprout
<BR>On yonder ruin’s lofty snout.
<BR>Thy shining garments far outstrip
<BR>The cherries upo’ Hebe’s lip,
<BR>And fool the tints that Nature chose
<BR>To busk and paint the crimson rose.
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<BR>‘Mang man, wae’s heart! We aften find
<BR>The brawest drest want peace of mind,
<BR>While he that gangs wi ragged coat
<BR>Is weel contentit wi his lot.
<BR>Whan wand wi glewy birdlime’s set,
<BR>To steal far aff your dautit mate,
<BR>Blyth wad ye change your cleething gay
<BR>In lieu of lav’rock’s sober grey.
<BR>In vain thro’ woods you sair may ban
<BR>Th’envious treachery of man,
<BR>That, wi your gowden glister taen,
<BR>Still hunts you on the simmer’s plain,
<BR>And traps you ‘mang the sudden fa’s
<BR>O’ winter’s dreary dreepin snaws.
<BR>Now steekit frae the gowany field,
<BR>Frae ilka fav’rite houff and bield,
<BR>But mergh, alas! To disengage
<BR>Your bonny bouk frae fettering cage,
<BR>Your free-born bosom beats in vain
<BR>For darling liberty again.
<BR>In window hung, how aft we see
<BR>Thee keek around at warblers free,
<BR>That carrol saft, and sweetly sing
<BR>Wi’ a the blythness of the spring?
<BR>Like Tantalus they hing you here,
<BR>To spy the glories o’ the year;
<BR>And tho’ you’re at the burnie’s brink,
<BR>They downa suffer you to drink.
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<BR>Ah, Liberty! thou bonny dame,
<BR>How wildly wanton is thy stream,
<BR>Round whilk the birdies a’ rejoice,
<BR>An’ hail you wi a grateful voice.
<BR>The gowdspink chatters joyous here,
<BR>And courts wi’ gleesome sangs his peer:
<BR>The mavis frae the new-bloom’d thorn
<BR>Begins his lauds at ear’est morn;
<BR>And herd loun louping owr the grass,
<BR>Need far less fleetching til his lass,
<BR>Than paughty damsels bred at courts,
<BR>Wha thraw their mou’s and take the dorts:
<BR>But, reft of thee, fient flee we care
<BR>For a’ that life ahint can spare.
<BR>The gowdspink, that sae lang has kend
<BR>Thy happy sweets (his wonted friend),
<BR>Her sad confinement ill can brook
<BR>In some dark chamber’s dowy nook;
<BR>Tho’ Mary’s hand his neb supplies,
<BR>Unkend to hunger’s painfu cries,
<BR>Ev’n beauty canna cheer the heart
<BR>Frae life, frae liberty apart;
<BR>For now we tyne its wonted lay,
<BR>Sae lightsome sweet, sae blythly gay.
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<BR>Thus Fortune aft a curse can gie,
<BR>To wyle us far frae liberty:
<BR>Then tent her siren smiles wha list,
<BR>I’ll ne’er envy your girnal’s grist;
<BR>For whan fair freedom smiles nae mair,
<BR>Care I for life? Shame fa’ the hair;
<BR>A field o’ergrown wi’ rankest stubble,
<BR>The essence of a paltry bubble.
<BR>--Robert Fergusson<BR><BR>This broadcast featured Ashley MacLeod, fiddle; Bobby Lalonde, mandolin, bass, acoustic guitar; Adam Lalonde, percussion, Billy Kay, narrator; Jock Tamson’s Bairns: Tony Cuffe, vocals, guitar; Rod Paterson, vocals, guitar; Norman Chalmers, concertina; Derek Hoy, fiddle, Puirt a Baroque: David Greenberg, violin; Stephanie Conn, voice, percussion; Terry McKenna, guitars, lute, mandolin; David Sandall, harpsichord; with Abby Newton, ‘cello; Curly Boy Stubbs, guitar; Kate Dunlay, violin; John Allan Cameron, backup vocals.David CavlovicComing up on Music For A While on Mon. Jan. 22https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/602/H2024-01-21T16:00:00ZAll things Scottish with the poetry of Robert Fergusson and traditional Scottish airs.Music For A While Music For A While 2024-01-15: "OK, smart guy, what would YOU put in the window?!?" (an old mohel joke)https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/602/63545.html2024-01-15T16:00:00Z<a href="https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/602/63545.html"><img align=left src="https://cod.ckcufm.com/images/ondemand.png"></a>"When you rub it, it transforms into a suitcase" (another old mohel joke)<BR><BR>This broadcast featured Gérard Lesne, counter-tenor; Jean-François Novelli, tenor; Ronan Nédélec, bass; Il Seminario Musicale; Gérard Lesne, director, Trio des Iscles: Pierre-Olivier Queyras, violin; Véronique Marin, cello; François Daudet, piano, The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra; Christopher Hogwood, conductor, Orchestre National de France; Jean Martinon, conductor.David CavlovicComing up on Music For A While on Mon. Jan. 15https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/602/H2024-01-14T16:00:00ZSensitive music by Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Chan Ka Nin, Charles Gounod and Claude Debussy. C'est ça.Music For A While Music For A While 2024-01-08: Royal Nexushttps://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/602/63450.html2024-01-08T16:00:00Z<a href="https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/602/63450.html"><img align=left src="https://cod.ckcufm.com/images/ondemand.png"></a>One of my favourite Sir Thomas Beecham quotes: "There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between."<BR><BR>This broadcast featured Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; André Previn, conductor, NEXUS: Bob Becker, percussion; William Cahn, percussion; Robin Engelman, percussion; Russell Hartenberger, percussion; John Wyre, percussion, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Erich Leinsdorf, conductor, The English Concert; Trevor Pinnock, director.David CavlovicComing up on Music For A While on Mon. Jan. 8https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/602/H2024-01-07T16:00:00ZTwo recordings of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, playing Ravel and W. A. Mozart. Nexus Plays Takemitsu. And in Part two, after the BBC News, the English Concert Plays J.S. Bach.Music For A While Music For A While 2024-01-01: New Year, New Tunes (and yes, old ones, too)https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/602/63369.html2024-01-01T16:00:00Z<a href="https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/602/63369.html"><img align=left src="https://cod.ckcufm.com/images/ondemand.png"></a>Happy New Year. Let's hope it's a good one.<BR><BR>This broadcast featured Edward Parmentier, harpsichord, Carol Gimbel, viola; Cullan Bryant, piano, Noémie Raymond-Friset, ‘cello, Oksana Sowiak, vocal; Anton Stingl, guitar, , Kurt Redel, flute; Orchester Pro Arte München.David CavlovicComing up on Music For A While on Mon. Jan. 1https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/602/H2023-12-31T16:00:00ZMusic by Jacques Champion de Chambonnières and David Jaeger, as well as some Polish folk music, make up the first part of the show today; and for the second part a Flute Concerto by Friedrich II, “Die Grosse”.Music For A While