webcast info for March 31, 2018

We are out of town for the weekend, so today Unpopular Music will be presenting a rebroadcast of the April 1, 2017 episode. As I mentioned at the time, it's a typically diverse program - a bunch of white-guy jazz, a trans-century, multi-genre freeform set, and Fleetwood Mac.

As for the above,

Playlist for the Unpopular Music Webcast for March 24, 2018

Today's first hour kind of, but not completely jazzy, a little bit arbitrary, but none-the-less enjoyable. (I'm down on how it was put together, not how it came out) The second features some African influenced selections, followed by our traditional Stravinsky-channeling invocation of spring. The two halves of the second hour developed separately, and I was delighted while poking around the internet for Rite of Spring related material to find a track to join them.

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Playlist for the Unpopular Music Webcast for March 17, 2018

Happy Evacuation Day every one!! While celebrating the retreat of the British Army from Boston on March 17, 1776, we also mark the Ides of March and any other holidays that might be going on - when is Purim this year? (Tikva says it's come and gone already. Oh well), along with other non-holiday occasions with the usual slice of the infinite variety of music (a bit more poppy this week than usual) in unexpected combinations.

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(I think I made the assumption that you all know that Evacuation Day is a holiday in the city of Boston, created as making a saint's feast day a civic holiday goes against the US Constitution's first amendment prohibition against the government recognizing religion, a secular event occurring on March 17th has to be commemorated.)

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Playlist for the Unpopular Music Webcast for March 10, 2018

Today we present the Unpopular Music Fourth Anniversary Not-Very-Special.  Pretty much a typical show, songs from albums and artists I play too often. Apologies to anyone with vivid memories of the January 31, 2015 episode for the repeated song.

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Random You Tube find - Alfred Schnittke's Concerto for Electric Instruments

I love Schnittke, but I'd never heard of this piece until I saw it in the Elitist Classical subreddit. Composed in 1960, but apparently unfinished (and otherwise unrecorded), it's more or less a concerto for theremin with the other instruments imitating an orchestra, more imitation than original electronic sounds. Nonetheless, an interesting listen.

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Playlist for the Unpopular Music Webcast for March 3, 2018

After riding out the big storm yesterday, we celebrate the birthday's of your host and Robyn Hitchcock with a various yet jazzy selection of stimulating sounds.

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