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The Nerve: Inside the Music
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AIRING: Saturday September 6 at noon on CBC Radio Two and Sunday September 7 at 8pm on CBC Radio One -- We are wired for sound - any and all sound. But what is it that separates one electrical current from another, and makes it music? What exactly is it
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Where to download The Nerve and Age of Persuasion
http://www.danmisener.com/archives/398Shhhh… cbcpodcasts.wordpress.com says it’s “for the CBC shows that fall through the podcast cracks.” It liberates Jowi Taylor’s excellent series The Nerve from Windows Media hell. It lets you easily download Terry O’Reilly’s fantastic Age of Persuasion (which is not impossible via cbc.ca if you know how to click “View Source,” but it’s needlessly difficult). Plus, they have a couple of other CBC radio shows that didn’t get podcasts. Grab ‘em now before they’re gone.
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Today On Radio 2 11/08/08
http://www.cbc.ca/radio2/blog/2008/10/11/today_on_radio_2_11...Opera fans take note -- today on SATO Giuseppe Verdi's third opera, Nabucco featuring baritone Paolo Gavanelli as Nabucco, soprano Maria Guleghina as the king's presumed daughter, Abigaille, and Alexander Antonenko, tenor, as Ismaele. Paolo Carignani is the conductor in this production, which comes to you from the Bavarian State Opera. More on the opera a little later Saturday morning, and for now, here are today's show highlights: Radio 2 Morning (6 a.m.-10 a.m.) Molly features music from Natalie Merchant in Hr. 1, Autumn Leaves performed by Laila Biali in the second, the Canadian four-piece a capella group Cadence in Hr. 3, and a song calculated to inspire in the weekend before an election from God Made Me Funky to round things out in the final hour of the show. The Vinyl Café ( 10:00 a.m. 10:30 NT) Today, The Arthur Awards, honouring the importance of the unimportant. An important award, I'd say. Deep Roots (Saturday 11:00 a.m., 12:00 AT, 12:30 NT) The latest from country singer, Rae Spoon; a Scottish trad band often confused with a Canadian Hard Rock outfit, and some music from what Tom describes as "a fantastic instrumental group who just happen to share a name with a common Newfoundland expletive." (Oh frigg, what is the name of that band again?) Inside The Music Saturday Edition(12:00 p.m., 1:00 AT, 1:30 NT) Final episode of The Nerve, Sentimental Journey: Music And Emotion. [Please Also See Previous Radio 2 Blog Post] Saturday Afternoon At The Opera ( Saturday 1:00 p.m., 1:30 NT) [Please See Top Of Post] In Tune (Saturday 5:00 p.m., 5:30 NT) Breaking news! Montreal has taken over from Calgary as the Pipe Organ Capital of Canada. Katherine shares this (as well as many other stories and related music) today on the weekly wrap of what's making classical music news. Tonic (6 p.m.) A couple of birthdays are celebrated on tonight's show, from two jazz greats -- Art Blakey and Ray Brown. Canada Live (8 p.m.) Concerts from songwriter Nathan Lawr (with full band from the Black Sheep Inn) and twentyish singer Kyrie Kristmanson, already an opening act for the likes of Feist and Hawksley Workman, here in a concert of her own, and third up -- blueswoman Sue Foley. The Signal (10 p.m.) Pat spins new music from Jenny Lewis and Juana Molina, among other discs, and plays more work from this year’s International Rostrum of Composers.
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Gonna Take, A Sentimental Journey...
http://www.cbc.ca/radio2/blog/2008/10/10/gonna_take_a_sentim...The notion that music is inherently happy or sad is a highly debatable one -- although it would be interesting to find out how many people reading this had a music teacher at some point say, "if it's in a minor key it's sad music." This week the final episode of The Nerve explores the idea of whether or not music can inherently embody emotional qualities; the episode is called Sentimental Journey: Music And Emotion. There's no question that we respond emotionally to music, and that as individuals we feel that music creates a certain emotional response within each of us. We use music to shift moods, to set a mood, to retreat from an unwanted mood. And yet clearly what is moving to one is not necessarily to another. I recently had an intense first hand experience of this as a juror for the Polaris prize -- in a small group of music journalists, all of whom cared passionately about music, what moved one person to raptures could completely irritate another. (And the astonishment that someone else could not have a similar reaction to the same piece of music was at times acute.) So what are the components of music that create emotional responses? Is there any universality when it comes to music and the emotional responses we have to it? These are some of the questions The Nerve's guests discuss today. They include film composer Howard Shore (pictured here), probably best known for his scores for Lord Of The Rings and Silence Of The Lambs, though he also did the music for the recent opera based on David Cronenberg's The Fly, and Laura-Lee Balkwill from the Music Cognition Lab at Queen's University. You can hear The Nerve on Inside The Music Saturday Edition (12:00 p.m., 1:00 AT, 1:30 NT on Radio 2, with a repeat on Sunday on Radio 1 at 8 p.m., 9AT, 9:30 NT).
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Today On Radio 2 04/10/08
http://www.cbc.ca/radio2/blog/2008/10/04/today_on_radio_2_04...The broadcast day begins, logically enough, with Radio 2 Morning, Weekend Edition (Saturday 6 a.m. to 10 a.m. 6:30 NT; Sunday 6 a.m. to 8 a.m. 6:30 NT), hosted by Molly Johnson. (Who, by the way, I noticed is playing Massey Hall on October 25th, for those in T.O. or planning to visit.) But this morning she'll be in the radio studio, spinning music about raccoons (not Rocky. R.) from Canadian band Betty And The Bobs, and non-raccoon related music from the man sometimes known as "the Tiger Woods of the ukulele," James Hill from Langley, B.C. (Sadly no commensurate endorsements though.) In the third hour of the show, Molly features the great Cuban singer Ibrahim Ferrer, and in the final hour, Jesse Cook featuring Melissa McLelland, collaborating on a Bob Dylan song. As to the rest of the broadcast day, please keep reading: Radio 2 Morning, Weekend Edition( Saturday 6 a.m. to 10 a.m. 6:30 NT; Sunday 6 a.m. to 8 a.m. 6:30 NT) [Please See Top Of Post] The Vinyl Café ( 10:00 a.m. 10:30 NT) Stuart tries to show up the Scottish author Alexander McCaul Smith, and his efforts to do this involve the Royal Mail Service, live fiddle music and a chocolate zucchini cake. (I have no idea, really I don't. You'll just have to tune in.) Deep Roots (Saturday 11:00 a.m., 12:00 AT, 12:30 NT) Tom is Under The Influence, each and every Saturday, or at least his guests are, and this week it's Old Man Luedecke talking about his favourite ramblin’ cowboy, one who also goes by Jack, and Elliott. Plus, music from kalimba-wielding Laura Barrett, and a 15-year-old mandolin prodigy. Inside The Music Saturday Edition(12:00 p.m., 1:00 AT, 1:30 NT) Today on The Nerve, an episode about Music And Identity. Saturday Afternoon At The Opera ( Saturday 1:00 p.m., 1:30 NT) Monteverdi's Orfeo, presented by the Montreal Baroque Festival -- stay tuned to the Radio 2 Blog for more on the opera later this morning. In Tune (Saturday 5:00 p.m., 5:30 NT) Katherine covers the classical music news beat today with news about award-winning pianist Stephen Hough, the ever-versatile Placido Domingo and the MCO's trip to Carnegie Hall. Tonic (6 p.m.) Music from Cole Porter, Holly Cole, John Coltrane, Coleman Hawkins & Nat King Cole, plus, speaking of Carnegie Hall as we were in the last show listing -- some great music recorded live there... Canada Live (8 p.m.) Concerts feature songwriter Ben Sures, from the release party to his latest, Field Guide to Loneliness (ouch, there's a title) and Edmontonian songwriter Terry Morrison, who sings original material, and reworks jazz standards as well. The Signal (10 p.m.) And you thought The Field Gun To Loneliness was a good album title. (See Canada Live.) Try this on for a name: The Electric Nosehair Orchestra. As well as ENO, (heh), Pat also presents music from "Transmissions" — a Montreal based new music ensemble.
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Music And Identity
http://www.cbc.ca/radio2/blog/2008/10/03/music_and_identity_...A few years back when TV shows started popping up with titles like "My Music," and the concept of creating one's own playlists became as ubiquitous as the reality of having an MP3 player upon which to listen to them, the trend towards music as a marker of who you are was underscored as never before. Not that this was revolutionary -- people who have a strong attachment to music have always identified themselves by their musical choices. You might view this as cultural, political, a marker of economic status and education, regardless there's no denying the highly charged emotional connection people have to specific music -- and how they see that as a reflection of who they are. This weekend The Nerve tackles the subject, with the penultimate episode: myTunes: Music And Identity. Guests include David Harrington of the Kronos Quartet, throat singer Tagaq, tabla master Zakir Hussain and Bruce Cockburn (pictured here) among others -- a really interesting group of people to talk about this subject. You can hear The Nerve on Inside The Music Saturday Edition (12:00 p.m., 1:00 AT, 1:30 NT on Radio 2, with a repeat on Sunday Sept. 28 on Radio 1 at 8 p.m., 9AT, 9:30 NT).
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Today On Radio 2 27/09/08
http://www.cbc.ca/radio2/blog/2008/09/27/today_on_radio_2_27...A major programming note for this Saturday September 27th to note off the top. (Yikes, end of September already!) Canada Live (8 p.m.) and The Signal (10 p.m.) team up tonight to present live music from all ten Polaris Prize nominees. The Polaris, should you not be familiar with it, is for a Canadian album judged solely on artistic merit, not sales, essentially a best Canadian recording of the year prize, to the tune of $20,000 for the artist or band who wins -- the winner will be announced at a gala on Monday night. But tonight you can hear the contenders, in live performances recorded by CBC, featuring: Kathleen Edwards, The Weakerthans, Two Hours Traffic, Basia Bulat, Shad, Caribou, Holy F**k, Black Mountain, Plants & Animals and Stars. So tune in to R2 tonight at 8 p.m. across the country as hosts Alan Neal and Pat Carrabré present a special "Polaris Prize edition" of Canada Live and The Signal this evening. (And Monday night you may want to listen to Radio 3 if you want to catch the gala broadcast live at 8 p.m. as well.) And here are the rest of the broadcast day's highlights: Radio 2 Morning, Weekend Edition( Saturday 6 a.m. to 10 a.m. 6:30 NT; Sunday 6 a.m. to 8 a.m. 6:30 NT) Molly plays music exploring some interesting ideas this morning, interesting as in music that's about the evolution of a neighbourhood, music that takes a famous song about travelling and turns it into a song about staying inside, to cite two examples. And of course she gets funky with some of her own favourites too as always...for instance Earth, Wind and Fire's September. The Vinyl Café ( 10:00 a.m. 10:30 NT) A Morley and Dave tale from the days of being recently married and heading to a cottage in the Laurentians for their summer vacation. They have agreed to do some small fix-it jobs around the cottage in exchange for a rent-free stay. Things go terribly wrong, as they tend to do when agreeing to fix up other people's cottages. Particularly when they are not even the correct other people's cottages. Deep Roots (Saturday 11:00 a.m., 12:00 AT, 12:30 NT) You know, Tom has a lot of good music on today's show, from Beirut, The Great Lake Swimmers and others, but here's one that leaps out and demands attention, the band he says has made "the best roots record of 2008 so far," Fleet Foxes. That alone is reason to listen to today's show. Inside The Music Saturday Edition(12:00 p.m., 1:00 AT, 1:30 NT) The Nerve: Music & The Human Experience Episode 4 [Also See Last Post: Enchanted, Entranced (But Not Bewildered] Saturday Afternoon At The Opera ( Saturday 1:00 p.m., 1:30 NT) The opera competition Operalia -- more on that later today on the Radio 2 Blog. In Tune (Saturday 5:00 p.m., 5:30 NT) Beyond the tux -- Katherine takes a look at trends in classical music, and some of them are well, rather sensual, shall we say? As a recent headline put it, Take It Off, Brunhilde. Stay tuned to the Radio 2 Blog for more later today -- and tuneinto Intune. Tonic (6 p.m.) Tim stands firm by his statement that "there is no such thing as a grumpy ukelele player" -- quite a claim that. But on today's show he has uke music to prove it, from James Hill & Lyle Ritz among others. Tim -- did you happen to see that Warren Buffett is concertizing on the uke this weekend too? I would not make this up. Canada Live (8 p.m.) [Please See Top Of Post] The Signal (10 p.m.) [Ditto]
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Enchanted, Entranced (But Not Bewildered)
http://www.cbc.ca/radio2/blog/2008/09/26/enchanted_entranced...The episode title for this week's edition of The Nerve: Music & The Human Experience might start out sounding a tad like a Cole Porter song, but it's all in the parentheses: Enchanted, Entranced (Music & Spirituality). This weekend the show, (heard on Inside The Music Saturday Edition 12:00 p.m., 1:00 AT, 1:30 NT on Radio 2, with a repeat on Sunday Sept. 28 on Radio 1 at 8 p.m., 9AT, 9:30 NT) takes a look at music and religion. Holy big subject, if that's not being too irreverent. But seriously, the connections between music and religion -- music as a way of elevating the spirit, connecting with the divine, creating religious community -- are vast and varied. On Saturday's broadcast you'll hear range of opinions from people of various faiths about how music heightens or informs the religious experience -- as well as yes, enchants and entrances. Some of those guests include Canadian soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian (pictured here) whose own spiritual pilgrimage to Armenia is partly told through music in the film about that journey, A Long Journey Home, Daniel Lanois, Richard Dawkins, and others.
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Today On Radio 2 20/09/08
http://www.cbc.ca/radio2/blog/2008/09/20/today_on_radio_2_20...You may have caught the first two episodes of the series The Nerve, if not, I'd like to steer you in that direction this morning. The series is about how music interacts with the human brain, and with our lives. Today's episode is about the use of music as intimidation, as propaganda, as a force to control people (something that's sparked much scrutiny in recent years by authors and bloggers, including Dial M For Musicology). A fascinating subject, and for more info on this week's episode, see the last post. But enough of dark early morning thoughts -- here is the rest of the broadcast day, beginning with the positive Ms. Molly Johnson and Radio 2 Morning and followed by The Vinyl Café, where music is never ever used to torture, only to soothe the savage breast, beast and whoever else got up on the wrong side of the bed. Radio 2 Morning (6 a.m.-10 a.m.) Speaking of light and joyful, Molly plays some music from Slim Gaillard this morning, and you can't get much more fun than that. Also music from big bands to singer songwriters to some throwback tracks...all part of the Molly mix. The Vinyl Café ( 10:00 a.m. 10:30 NT) Stuart celebrates the lost art of dawdling on today's show, which he believes is an underrated part of modern life. He's probably right about that, but before I can really form an opinion I think I'll just poke around my desk for a few minutes, maybe read the Saturday paper, clip a few paper clips together, hum a bit...whoah, back to work here. Deep Roots (Saturday 11:00 a.m., 12:00 AT, 12:30 NT) Tom debuts "Under The Influence" on this morning's show - - no, not a comment on his Friday night, but a bi-weekly feature with a musician talking about one of her/his biggest influences. This morning, Canadian banjo player Jayme Stone, talking about Bela Fleck -- and you can hear both influencer and influencee. Inside The Music Saturday Edition(12:00 p.m., 1:00 AT, 1:30 NT) [Please See Top Of Post] Saturday Afternoon At The Opera ( Saturday 1:00 p.m., 1:30 NT) Claude Debussy's only opera, Pelléas Et Mélisande, in a COC production starring Isabel Bayrakdarian and Russell Braun. Stay tuned to the R2 Blog for much more on the opera, later this morning. In Tune (Saturday 5:00 p.m., 5:30 NT) Today's classical music news includes a story about a musicologist at the University of Sydney, Australia who thinks he's found Beethoven's very last work for piano; a study that links musical preference with personality type, and music from Simone Dinnerstein, who came out of nowhere with her debut Telarc recording of the Goldberg Variations last year -- you'll hear some of her recently-released 2nd album. Tonic (6 p.m.) Tim plays All Canadian Music, All Weekend! [See Tonic Takes The Moose By The Antlers.] Canada Live (8 p.m.) Two concerts this evening, from the powerful bluesy voice of Ndidi Onukwulu, and from guitarist Alpha Yaya Diallo, who is well versed in west African guitar styles. The Signal (10 p.m.) All the world's a stage this evening as Pat plays music inspired by Shakespeare, including gamelan interpretations of the bard.
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