Insofar as music is concerned, Canadian popular music draws on Irish, Scottish, English and French and indigenous traditions as well as styles and sounds from all over the world as a result of the country’s generous and welcoming society …
Choirs, singing groups, vocal ensembles, chorales, all of the above provided the music for Picture This 125, in which we offered compositions from Ennio Morricone, Burt Bacharach, Jonsi Birgisson and Alex Somers, Mel Brooks, James Newberry, Roomful of Teeth, Luniz and Michael Marshall, and the Hanna-Barbera Singers, to name a few…
A show in two acts, Act I featuring the timeless music of Kurt Weill from his days writing with Bertolt Brecht in Germany and progressing through his Broadway and Hollywood songbooks …Happy in the Act II to finally get to the work of Jerome Kern, who wrote some of Broadway’s and Hollywood’s most enduring melodies …
The theme of this show, specifically, is the career of the songwriting team of Lorenz Hart and Richard Rodgers, with an emphasis on Hart and Richard Linklater’s 2025 biopic about the night Hart experienced the beginning of the end of …
Everything, everywhere, all at once in this show as the Ides of March rolls around with Oscar Night, St, Patrick’s Day just two days away, and some long and beautiful careers in popular entertainment to observe and appreciate …
(This program was broadcast Sunday, March 8th, from 6 to 8 PM on WRIU, Kingston, 90.3 FM, also streaming at wriu.org) Note: The idea with this program was to focus on a kind of fiction within the fiction that sometimes …
(This program was broadcast Sunday, February 15th, from 6 to 8 PM on WRIU, Kingston, 90.3 FM, also streaming at wriu.org) First hour of Picture This begins at 01:02:20 (below) Second hour (below) Author’s Note: The first known hint …
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(This program was broadcast Sunday, February 8th, from 6 to 8 PM on WRIU, Kingston, 90.3 FM, also streaming at wriu.org) Author’s note by Wayne Cresser Before snowstorm related parking bans canceled live-in-the studio opps for a couple of weeks …
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This Sunday, I encourage listeners to think of my show as a possible soundtrack for Superbowl LX. It’s worth a shot maybe. Anyway, about Picture This 118: Out of the ether wherein John Lennon, Syd Barrett, Lewis Carroll and Bob …
