Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the terminal show of our 2009 SDA Late Nite Radio Christmas Extravaganza. Tonight, for your delectation, here are Musica Amphion, featuring Remy Baudet, Sayuri Yamagata, Richte van der Meer, Hank Heyink, and Pietr-Jan Belder performing the sixth and seventh movements, Allegro and Pastorale, of Arcangelo Corelli‘s Baroque classic, the Christmas Concerto in G Minor, Op. 6, No. 8 (5:56).

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Thank you for your Christmas greetings and kind thoughts both here on the blog, and by email. I was going to write a Christmas post, but there’s not much I can do to top this one, so I’ll simply add my own Merry Christmas! to Vitruvius’ effort here, and wish all of you the best for 2010. I have a couple of posts scheduled for later to entertain those of you who are also spending a quiet holiday at home, house training 9 week old puppies. – Kate

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Welcome to the Wednesday (EBD) edition of Late Nite Radio. Tonight’s musical selection has a personal historic significance: when I first heard it, at the Edmonton Folk Festival, it was the only time in my life I’ve ever danced non-volitionally – as in, I didn’t even notice I was dancing until I was three feet in the air for the tenth time.
The twelve performers onstage in The Idan Raichel Project had been selected from a much larger group of seventy musicians, including Yemenis and Ethiopian Jews, brought together several years earlier by a brilliant young Israeli keyboardist named Idan Raichel for an ambitious recording project.
The brilliant contrapuntal energy – rhythmic and tonal – in the lower frequencies doesn’t come through in an online video, but hopefully the remarkable, electrifying spirit of the music will. Here then, without further ado, The Idan Raichel Project performs Back to Jerusalem.
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Here’s another a bit of good news: the 2009 SDA Late Nite Radio Christmas Extravaganza series has now moved from the design and development phases into the final editing and production phases. Beginning Friday evening, December 18, we will feature here, over a period of ten days, two dozen secular and sacred Christmas songs, carols, and related works. Mark your calendars 😉

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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here are Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce, and Ginger Baker, as Cream, performing Rollin’ and Tumblin’, from their Fresh Cream album, in 1966 (4:54). Interestingly, perhaps, I used to listen to this on my Astraltune while skiing the mogul field under the then Great Divide chair on Lookout Mountain (now marked as 64 and 65 on the map), way too fast, back in the early ’70s. The combination of the song, the speed, and the moguls sure put my The Ski skis, Burt bindings, and Humanic boots to good use 😉

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Welcome to the (day-early) EBD edition of Late Nite Radio. Tonight we feature some comedy gold in the form of a musical performance by Virginia O’Brien. Her unique singing style, according to IMDB, was created by accident during her show business debut:

On opening night, when time came for her solo number, Virginia became so paralyzed with fright that she sang her song with a wide-eyed motionless stare that sent the audience (which thought her performance a gag) into convulsions. Demoralized, Virginia left the stage only to soon find out that she was a sensation.

The following year a New York Times critic who reviewed her Broadway debut gave this apt description: “She convulses the audience by removing the ecstasy from high-pressure music.”
Here, in a brief but memorable appearance as a department store salesclerk in the 1941 Marx Brothers movie The Big Store, Virignia O’Brien – aka Miss Deadpan – performs a vaguely unsettling, riotously funny version of Rock-a-bye Baby. Absolutely priceless.
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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here are Aaron Thibeaux (T-Bone) Walker, Dizzy Gillespie, Teddy Wilson, Louis Bellson, Clark Terry, Coleman Hawkins, Zoot Sims, Jimmy Moody, Benny Carter, and Bob Cranshaw performing Woman, You Must Be Crazy and Goin’ To Chicago Blues ¤, in 1966 (8:11).

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