We have ADAGIO with host Drew Darling here on WERB RADIO 107.5. Take a new musical journey each week.
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ADAGIO
Adagio: a tempo marking, indicating that music is to be played slowly, or a composition intended to be played in this manner.
Drew’s approach to music is completely new, entirely novel. In a word he is unafraid to focus on any form, artist, genre to find music that moves us. To learn more visit RadioAdagio.
Adagio is a program of slowed-down bluesy music of all types. It’s primarily jazz and classical but all genres are welcome.
One week we explore the early works of Nina Simone. The next we might look into the rebellious life of that renegade J. S. Bach. The signature tinkling of Duke Ellington might lead to something similar by his mentor Claude Debussy. You may hear a pairing of Abbey Lincoln and Billy Holiday that makes clear the path the one pioneered and the other paved. Lester Young might follow up an aria of Vincenzo Bellini that makes it seem the one wrote for the other.
For added flavor, we might throw in a poem read by an actor, or a snippet of a lecture.
Selections draw primarily from North America and Europe, from the late 20th and 21st centuries. But the organizing principle of Adagio is neither genre, place nor time. It is depth of mood, and the magnetism of deep, slow, intentional music. It’s calming, spacious, and cinematic. It’s contemplative but not–god forbid–intellectual. Melody is paramount!
Derived from Italian ad agio, meaning to be at ease, Adagio is a respite from the race of modern times, one whose pace is closer to a resting heartbeat. And while tempo is crucial it’s not merely a matter of b/p/m. Selections are intended to captivate; to draw you in. And if you stop what you’re doing, tilt your head, and lean in a little closer, so much the better!
The program has its own website radioadagio.com featuring current and archived shows with photographs, playlists and references.
Go ahead. Check it out. It’s good. You’ll like it.
